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- Effect of vicarious punishment on sharing behavior in children.
- Sharing. Child psychology.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Affective decision-making in rhesus monkeys : reward order risk and the roles of the anterior insula and premotor cortex / by Eric R. Xu.
- From deciding what to eat first or what stock to invest in, the order in which we prefer to experience events and the amount of risk we are willing to undertake are factors that influence our choices. However, the mechanisms underlying order and...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Contributions of retrosplenial cortex to associative learning and memory.
- Cerebral cortex -- Psychophysiology. Learning.
- Neuroanatomical studies have defined two relatively separate corticohippocampal processing streams that contribute substantially to medial temporal lobe function. Among the cortical regions providing significant input to these processing streams is...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- A conditioning-expectancy theory of vicarious emotional experience: tests of a model.
- Emotions.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- An analysis of the locomotive stimulant and the ECoG effects of L-DOPA.
- L-dihydroxphelylalanine. ; Amphetamines.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Children's interpretations of observed noncontingent reward: effects of sharing behavior.
- Child psychology. ; Sharing.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- State representation for agent-based reinforcement learning.
- Agent-based policy learning in complex and uncertain environments is challenged by escalating computational complexity with the size of the task space (action choices and environmental states) as well as the number of agents. Nonetheless, there is...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Microstructure and mechanical properties of Fe55Mn19Al26 and Fe30Ni20Mn35Al15 / by Yifeng Liao.
- Iron alloys -- Mechanical properties.;""Iron alloys -- Microstructure -- Iron alloys -- Thermomechanical properties -- Intermetallic compounds -- Mechanical properties -- Intermetallic compounds -- Microstructure -- Intermetallic compounds --...
- Two alloys, Fe 55 Mn 19 Al 26 and Fe 30 Ni 20 Mn 35 Al 15 , were studied in this research project. The yield stress anomaly (YSA) of Fe 55 Mn 19 Al 26 single crystal was observed with a yield stress peak at 700 K. In situ TEM straining revealed...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Combining biological and statistical learning principles for minimally supervised object recognition / by Ashok Chandrashekar.
- Despite great progress in object recognition techniques, there is a mismatch between traditional approaches and the characteristics of real world vision tasks. We highlight in particular, three closely related areas of mismatch: i) recognition...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Phosphoproteomic strategies to identify aberrant kinase signaling in lung cancer / by Devin Karl Schweppe
- Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the USA and worldwide causing 160,000 and 1.5 million deaths per year, respectively. Due to the late stage of diagnosis, poor efficacy of chemotherapies (targeted and pleiotropic), and...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- A framework of computational opinions / by Fei Yu.
- We have a limited understanding of how an opinion is originated, how an opinion and information supporting and explaining it gets conveyed, and how the communicated opinion is perceived and processed by others. One direction of current research...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The evolution of mate recognition in Oecanthus tree crickets / by Laurel Symes.
- Many organisms recognize and respond to categories: predator, prey, rival, or juvenile. Organisms recognize these ecologically-important categories by assessing diverse sensory stimuli. A primary focus of my research has been understanding how...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The problems of perception and regulation in the relationship between activities and mood.
- Mood (Psychology)
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Performance decrement following insolvable problems: learned helplessness or failure anxiety?
- Failure (Psychology);Helplessness (Psychology)
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Excitatory and inhibitory properties of human facial expressions of emotion.
- Facial expression. Emotions.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- In vivo degradation in modern orthopaedic UHMWPE bearings and structural characterization of a novel alternative UHMWPE material / by Steven D. Reinitz.
- Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) remains the most common bearing material for total joint arthroplasty. Advances in radiation cross-linking and other post-consolidation treatments have led to a rapid differentiation of polyethylene...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Opinion dynamics in social networks / by Qi Gu.
- Opinion dynamics is a complex procedure that entails a cognitive process when it deals with how a person integrates influential opinions to form revised opinion. Early research on opinion formation and social influence can be traced back to the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The RNA binding landscape of the histone stem-loop binding protein / by Lionel (Lee) Brooks 3rd.
- RNA binding proteins are fundamental components of crucial biological processes in all domains of life. The development of techniques to study RNA binding protein complexes is, therefore, broadly impactful. I employed multiple genome-wide...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Exercise and the brain : impacts on cognition neural function and mental health / by Andrea M. Robinson.
- It has been well established that physical exercise has broad impacts across the lifespan, including improved cognition, brain function, and mental health. Studies investigating the mechanism underlying the cognitive enhancing effect of exercise...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Sexual selection and sexual conflict in Anolis lizards : from molecules to populations / by M. Catherine Duryea.
- Sexual selection is a driver of biodiversity and creates spectacular forms of variation. However, only recently have we begun to understand how this variation operates on the postcopulatory level and how cryptic mechanisms affect male-male...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The cognitive dynamics underlying decision-making : interactions between attention memory and reward in action control / by Kanghoon Jung.
- A fundamental question in decision neuroscience is how cognitive processes underlying decision-making give rise to efficient decisions, especially in complex situations with multiple choice options, and each option consisting of multiple attributes...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Molecularly imprinted polymer and applications in nicotine sensing / by Yuan Liu.
- Chemical sensing and separation is a constant challenge intriguing many scientists. Through numerous efforts, revolutionary techniques and innovative materials have been successfully developed to solve this old problem. However, a practical but...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of mediator in white-opaque switching / by Anda Zhang.
- The multisubunit eukaryotic Mediator complex integrates diverse positive and negative gene regulatory signals and transmits them to the core transcription machinery. It is also involved in chromatin structure related epigenetic silencing through...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Shared decision making for people with severe mental illness.
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Decision making. Mental illness -- Treatment -- Decision making. Mental health services -- Decision making. Mental health -- Information services. Medical informatics. Mental Disorders -- drug therapy.
- Objective. We explored preferences and perceptions about treatment decision-making roles among persons with severe mental illness and evaluated two computer-based medication values clarification tools. Methods. In this study we conducted a pilot...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- On the nature mechanisms and neural correlates of visual feature conjunction learning / by Eric Andrew Reavis.
- Visual searches for a conjunction of features (e.g., a particular combination of color and shape) are ordinarily slow and difficult. However, search efficiency for a particular conjunction can improve dramatically within a few hundred practice...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of attributions, affect, and expectancies in effort.
- Motivation (Psychology). Attribution (Social psychology). Affect (Psychology). Expectation (Psychology).
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Self/other perception of the intensity of facial expressiveness : do we know what we show?
- Facial expression.; Emotions. ; Self-perception.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Nocturnality and defense in the rat: selective association of light and aversive stimulation.
- Rats -- Behavior. Nocturnal animals. Defensiveness (Psychology). Aversive stimuli.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Neural and behavioral correlates of auditory-object processing.
- Auditory perception. Temporal lobes -- Physiology. Prefrontal cortex -- Physiology. Neurophysiology.
- The neurophysiological examination of auditory-object representations has focused on how early auditory cortical areas code for the spectral and temporal features of auditory objects. The goals of this dissertation was to investigate how auditory...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Behavioral treatment of chronic pain.
- Pain.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- On-line metasearch, pooling and system evaluation.
- Information retrieval -- Mathematical models. ; Electronic information resource searching. ; Computer algorithms. ; Decision making -- Data processing. ; Mathematical optimization.
- This thesis presents a unified method for simultaneous solution of three problems in Information Retrieval--metasearch (the fusion of ranked lists returned by retrieval systems to elicit improved performance), efficient system evaluation (the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The effects of social and health consequences on the drinking cognitions and behavior of young people /
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Facial expressions and identity as social cues for biologically relevant learning
- Facial expression.; Threat (Psychology) ; Amygdaloid body -- Psychophysiology. ; Learning Psychology of. ; Memory. ; Attention.
- The experiments comprising this thesis aimed to characterize the neural and behavioral correlates of learning about and responding to the predictive information conveyed by social cues. Facial expressions are cues that convey critical information...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Allosteric modulation of GABAa receptors by anabolic-androgenic steroids.
- GABA -- Receptors. Allosteric regulation. ; Anabolic steroids -- Physiological effect. ; Androgens -- Physiological effect. ; Receptors
- Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are synthetic derivatives of the gonadal hormone, testosterone. Despite their many untoward side effects, AAS are wildly abused for their ergogenic properties. AAS have numerous effects on many organ systems,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Temperature dependence of the optical constants of the noble metals.
- Precious metals -- Optical properties.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Forebrain mechanisms of conditional hypoalgesia: involvement of the amygdala.
- Analgesia. ; Amygdaloid body.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The effects of lesions of the cerebellar vermis and cerebellar hemispheres on conditioned and unconditioned heart-rate responses in restrained and unrestrained rats.
- Cerebellum -- Experiments. ; Rats -- Behavior. ; Heart beat.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Restraint and disinhibition in the brain.
- Self-control -- Physiological aspects. Nucleus accumbens -- Psychophysiology. Reducing diets -- Psychological aspects. Eating disorders -- Psychological aspects. Promiscuity -- Psychological aspects.
- As humans we create goals and strive toward ideals, engaging in a constant endeavor to better ourselves or maintain our success. Whether goals are distant hopes for the future, or small steps of change, success requires some control over...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The contribution of vaginocervical input on the reinforcing aspects of mating in female rats.
- Rats -- Behavior. Sexual behavior in animals. Vagina -- Psychophysiology. Cervix uteri -- Psychophysiology.
- The present dissertation examined the contributions of vaginal and cervical stimulation to sexual motivation and reward in female rats. New, more complex behavioral methods such as the display of paced mating behavior and the induction of a...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The functional importance of the head direction signal for homing behavior / by William Nelson Butler
- The rat limbic system contains head direction (HD) cells that fire according to heading in the horizontal plane. These HD cells are thought to provide animals with an internal compass to guide navigation. Previous work has found that HD cell tuning...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Relating behavioral control and brain development : insights from adolescence / by Heidi Catherine Meyer
- Across mammalian species, adolescence is characterized by a unique combination of cognitive, behavioral and neurobiological changes. Behavioral tendencies observed during this period promote a variety of flexible interactions with the surrounding...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Uncovering the mechanisms controlling metal micronutrient homeostasis in plants / by Amanda L. Socha
- As the human population increases, it is imperative that we develop strategies to improve agricultural productivity to meet the growing demand for food, fuel and fiber. More than 2 billion people suffer from "hidden hunger" (a lack of essential...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The wear resistance mechanism of particulate fillers in polytetrafluoroethylene-based polymer composites.
- Polytef. ; Mechanical wear. ; Fillers (Materials).
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Bethanechol and central respiratory control.
- Bethanechol. ; Anesthetics.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Effects of anabolic androgenic steroids on GABAA receptor function and expression.
- Anabolic steroids -- Physiological effect. ; Androgens -- Physiological effect. ; GABA -- Receptors. ; GABA -- Physiological effect. ; Neurotransmitter receptors. ; Brain -- Physiology. ; Receptors GABA-A -- drug effects.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Sex- and region-specific differences in GABA[subscript A] receptor function in neurons of the hypothalamus and forebrain.
- GABA -- Receptors. ; GABA -- Physiological effect. ; Sexual behavior in animals. ; Hypothalamus -- Physiology.
- The overall goal of this research has been to investigate sex-specific and region-specific differences in the function of the γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA[subscript A]) receptor in two regions of the brain which are essential for the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Fluorescence in situ hybridization studies of shared human chromosome 17 synteny in the Canidae.
- Canidae -- Genome mapping. ; Human gene mapping. ; DNA probes. ; Hybridization. ; Linkage (Genetics).
- Dartmouth Dissertations

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