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- The role of nongeometric information in spatial language.
- Space and time in language. ; Space perception. ; Figure-ground perception. ; Psycholinguistics.
- Across languages, there exists a relatively small number of spatial prepositions. These terms are used to express the infinite number of possible spatial locations of an unlimited number of different entities in the environment. Previous research...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Mapping the junction of action perception and production.
- Perceptual-motor learning -- Physiological aspects. ; Language acquisition -- Physiological aspects. ; Motor ability -- Physiological aspects. ; Knots and splices.
- The studies presented in this dissertation explore several points of intersection between action perception and production within the human brain. One's ability to use perceptual information about another individual's actions to guide and inform...
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- Nonstigmatized individuals' reactions to the acknowledgment and valuation of a stigma by overweight individuals and physically disabled individuals.
- Overweight persons -- Attitudes. ; People with disabilities -- Attitudes. ; Obesity -- Public opinion. ; Stigma (Social psychology). ; Self-presentation.
- In the last few years, a new perspective on the management of obesity has emerged. Instead of focusing on dieting and weight loss efforts, the new approach focuses on size acceptance. The concept of positively accepting one's deviant features has...
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- The cognitive structure of the self-concept: implications for psychological well-being.
- Self-perception. ; Cognitive psychology.
- The present work examines the cognitive structure of the self-concept. Improving upon established measures of self-complexity (H -statistic), cognitive complexity of the self-concept is measured in terms of the number of self-aspects and the...
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- Peer education in eating disorder prevention: a large scale longitudinal analysis of program effectiveness.
- Eating disorders -- Prevention -- Longitudinal studies. ; Eating disorders -- Treatment. ; Peer counseling of students.
- Eating disorders are a persistent problem for women on college campuses across the country, and peer education programs are one method that colleges have employed to address these concerns. A previous study found that peer education is actually...
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- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Laying a solid foundation for Manhattan : 'setting the functional basis for the post-GWAS era' / by Xiaoyang Zhang
- Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 8,900 genetic variants, mainly single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), associated with hundreds of human traits and diseases, which define risk-associated loci (Hindorff et al., 2012 ...
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- Utilization and health outcomes in a spatial model of the US health care system / by Laura C. Yasaitis.
- Objectives: This dissertation comprises three essays on geographic variations in healthcare, and the association between utilization and health outcomes. I first explore associations between outpatient visits and Medicare beneficiaries'...
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- Security-policy analysis with eXtended unix tools / by Gabriel A. Weaver.
- During our fieldwork with real-world organizations---including those in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), network configuration management, and the electrical power grid---we repeatedly noticed that security policies and related security artifacts...
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- Physical disability and the attribution dilemma : perceiving the causes of behavior in social interaction
- People with disabilities -- Psychology; Social perception
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- Effects of mesencephalic reticular formation and mesencephalic auditory pathway lesions on long- and short-term habituation processes in the rat.
- Habituation (Neuropsychology) Mesencephalon. Rats as laboratory animals.
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- The problems of perception and regulation in the relationship between activities and mood.
- Mood (Psychology)
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- Access control in and for the real world / by Sara Sinclair.
- Access control is a core component of any information-security strategy. Researchers have spent tremendous energy over the past forty years defining abstract access-control models and proving various properties about them. However, surprisingly...
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- SirT1 regulates vascular smooth muscle cell plasticity : implications for age-related cardiovascular disease / by Anne Marie Thompson.
- Loss of vascular smooth muscle cell function is a hallmark of vascular disease. Vascular smooth muscle cells become increasingly resistant to phenotypic modulation, apoptotic and senescent. Sirtuin 1 (SirT1) is a deactylase that regulates...
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- Leptin DNA methylation and maternal and infant pregnancy outcomes in the Rhode Island child health study / by Corina Lesseur Perez.
- In utero exposure to maternal malnutrition is associated with increase offspring susceptibility to cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disease. Epigenetic mechanisms mediate, at least in part, fetal adaptations to adverse in utero environments...
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- Cognitive and neural mechanisms of social motivation / by Katherine E. Powers.
- The need for social connection is a pervasive and powerful human drive. When this fundamental need is not fulfilled, people place greater emphasis on forming social bonds and are motivated to behave in ways consistent with accomplishing these...
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- Secure collaboration in an open environment.
- Internet -- Security measures. Public key infrastructure (Computer security). Digital signatures. Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) -- Security measures.
- The Internet has become a virtual place where people not only operate in isolation but also interact with other Internet users. Collaborative systems are becoming more popular. Applications now being introduced could provide better remote education...
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- Novel dimensions in a fluid genome : an integrative risk analysis for cancers of the bladder and breast / by Asaf Wyszynski.
- The present thesis is focused on developing a better understanding of factors driving disease biology and overall risk using cancers of the bladder and breast as model systems. As no single approach was likely to unravel the complexities of these...
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- Self/other perception of the intensity of facial expressiveness : do we know what we show?
- Facial expression.; Emotions. ; Self-perception.
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- Physiological and neural mechanisms of anxiety, negativity, and threat.
- Anxiety -- Physiological aspects. Threat (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects. Amygdaloid body -- Psychophysiology. Brain -- Psychophysiology.
- The objective of this thesis was to examine the neural and physiological substrates underlying the processing of aversive information, and how individual differences in anxiety influence these responses. In a series of experiments, we utilized skin...
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- A conditioning-expectancy theory of vicarious emotional experience: tests of a model.
- Emotions.
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- The impact of prenatal and postnatal home visiting on utilization of care.
- Home care services -- Utilization -- New Hampshire. Home care services -- New Hampshire -- Evaluation. Maternal health services -- Utilization -- New Hampshire. Infant health services -- Utilization -- New Hampshire. Prenatal care -- Utilization --...
- Research objective . Research suggests that home visiting services can have a significant impact on pregnancy outcomes, child health and development, parenting and maternal life course. The effect of home visiting on utilization of health services...
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- The effects of social and health consequences on the drinking cognitions and behavior of young people /
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- Anticipated emotion in health decision making : an extension of the prototype-willingness model
- Health behavior -- Decision making. ; Emotions.
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- Solar: building a context fusion network for pervasive computing.
- Solar (Computer architecture). ; Ubiquitous computing. Sensor networks. ; Detectors. ; User interfaces (Computer systems).
- The complexity of developing context-aware pervasive-computing applications calls for distributed software infrastructures that assist applications to collect, aggregate, and disseminate contextual data. In this dissertation, we present a Context...
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- The use and transfer of learning strategies in the classroom.
- Learning, Psychology of. ; Cognitive styles.
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- A descriptive examination of situation constraints on expressive behavior.
- Emotions.
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- The role of government in encouraging the market penetration of newly-emerging energy technologies: a parabolic trough case study.
- Solar energy industries -- United States.; Solar collectors -- United States. ; Subsidies -- United States.
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- A study of neutral amino acid and drug transport in slices from human and rabbit placentae.
- Placenta; Maternal-fetal exchange.
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- High-throughput analysis of antigen-specific antibody effector function from polyclonal Ig / by Eric Brown
- Antibodies are known to be a primary correlate of protection in almost all current vaccines, and thus evaluating the antibody response is of critical importance in attempting to predict the efficacy of novel vaccine candidates. Historically...
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- Characterization of cancer risk and response to immunotherapy through pathway-based genomic analyses / by David C. Qian
- For most cancers, the genetic mechanisms that predispose normal cells to neoplastic transformation and tumor cells to therapeutic eradication are poorly understood. High throughput genotyping technologies have allowed the rapid discovery of...
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- Quantitative analysis of EEG for the detection and localization of seizures in patients with medically refractory epilepsy.
- Electroencephalography -- Data processing. ; Epilepsy -- Diagnosis. ; Signal processing -- Mathematics. ; Time-series analysis. ; Wavelets (Mathematics).
- Visual interpretation of the EEG associated with an epileptic seizure (ictal EEG) can be cumbersome and sometimes misleading, due to rapid seizure spread, limited spatial resolution and the fact that signals of interest are often obscured by...
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- Discovering MII1 regulated pathways in hematopoietic stem cells.
- Hematopoietic stem cells. ; Hematopoietic stem cell disorders -- Genetic aspects. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Leukemia -- Genetic aspects. ; Cell proliferation. ; Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein -- genetics.
- Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) balance self-renewal with the continuous production of the suitable numbers of lineage-restricted progenitor cells. In this work we demonstrate that the Mixed lineage leukemia 1 (Mll1) gene is essential for this...
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- Neuroimmune and behavioral responses to peripheral nerve injury in the rat.
- Nerves. ; Peripheral -- Pathophysiology. ; Nervous system -- Diseases -- Immunological aspects. ; Spinal cord -- Pathophysiology. ; Pain -- Physiological aspects. ; Rats -- Nervous system -- Diseases -- Immunological aspects. ; Rats -- Behavior.
- The pain that follows nerve injury is chronic and consistently refractory to available analgesics. Neuropathic pain syndromes include deafferentation pain, diabetic, cancer and ischemic neuropathies, phantom limb pain, trigeminal neuralgia,...
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- On the scattering of beam electrons in a beam-plasma interaction.
- Plasma diffusion. ; Electron beams. ; Scattering (Physics).
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- A social psychological perspective on the structure of personality: impression formation and the five factor model.
- Personality. ; Social perception. ; Social interaction.
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- Variability of the Maine Coastal Current under spring conditions.
- Ocean currents -- Maine, Gulf of -- Mathematical models. ; Ocean currents -- Atlantic Ocean -- Mathematical models.
- The Maine Coastal Current (MCC) flows south-westward along the New England coast in the Gulf of Maine. Red tides, river-borne pollutants, and biological species are hypothesized to be transported by the MCC. The transport pathways, and their...
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- Forming, operating, and improving micro-systems of health care.
- Clinical medicine -- Practice. ; Medicine -- Practice. ; Group medical practice.
- Health care micro-systems are small, organized groups of clinicians and staff working together with a shared clinical purpose to provide care for a defined set of patients. The size of individual micro-systems vary--a micro-system must be large...
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- A study of neutral amino acid and drug transport.
- Placenta. ; Maternal-fetal exchange.
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- Odor hedonics : psychophysical, respiratory, and facial measures.
- Odors. ; Psychophysics.
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- The effect of movie smoking on smoking attitudes and behavior.
- Smoking in motion pictures. ; Mass media and teenagers -- United States. ; Mass media and young adults -- United States. ; Teenagers -- United States -- Attitudes. ; Young adults -- United States -- Attitudes. ; Motion picture actors and actresses...
- Thousands of adolescents try their first cigarette each day, and many of these adolescents go on to become adult smokers who will die from smoking-related causes. This thesis examines the role of movie portrayals of smoking as a predictor of...
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- The function of perceived gaze direction in emotion and person perception.
- Gaze -- Psychological aspects. ; Facial expression. ; Body language.
- The primary goal of the current research was to examine the effect of perceived gaze direction on the perception and processing of facially communicated emotion. There is good reason to believe that gaze direction and facial displays of emotion...
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- On facial mimicry and facial feedback.
- Imitation. ; Facial expression. ; Smiling. ; Laughter.
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- Travelling ionospheric disturbances.
- Ionospheric radio wave propagation. ; Radio waves -- Scattering.
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- Stratigraphy and structure of the Kennebago Lake quadrangle of central western Maine.
- Geology, Stratigraphic. ; Geology -- Maine -- Kennebago Lake.
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- How littoral macrophyte growth form influences foraging ecology of pumpkinseed sunfish.
- Pumpkinseed (Fish) -- Feeding and feeds. ; Pumpkinseed (Fish) -- Ecology. ; Lake plants. ; Scirpus. ; Potamogeton.
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