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(2013-09-28)In this project I study the history of the American penal system. By studying the history of both the structure and ideology behind the penitentiary, I hope to come to a greater understanding of how we have arrived at our ...
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(2011-08-08)Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer prize-winning novel Gilead is preoccupied with religious epistemology. Protagonist John Ames, an aging and ill Congregationalist preacher in 1950s small town Iowa, maintains his Christian ...
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(2010-07-14)Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women with approximately 40,000 patient deaths each year. Theranostics is an emerging area of cancer research in which chemically synthesized molecules are used ...
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Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a type of radiation therapy that tries to minimize the radiation dose to healthy tissue through the use of various types of collimators that shapes the radiation beam to the ...
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(2014-10-03)Positron Emission Tomography (PET) allows physicians and researchers to visualize metabolic data in the human body and is widely used in cancer and neurological imaging. Traditional PET scanners consist of a thin ring of ...
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(2015-09-21)We address the problem of controlling continuum manipulators and evaluate Reinforcement Learning to produce a control policy for a robotic platform. Our approach discretizes the state and action spaces to reduce the training ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The normal environment of a sheep uterus is hostile and does not favor embryo growth. Through embryo transfer studies, it has been shown that the steroid hormones estrogen and progesterone allow the uterus to support and ...
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(2014-08-22)When operating aberrantly, enzymes contribute to the mechanisms of many different diseases, and as such, have proven to be promising targets for the discovery of new drugs. Proteases catalyze the hydrolysis of peptide bonds ...
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(2018-05-01)Nanocomposites have many useful and functional properties, yet additive manufacturing has only recently begun to take advantage of many of these properties. This work details a nanomaterial ink coati ng method for 3D printer ...
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(2019-04-23)For multi-lamp high flux solar simulators (HFSS), it is often difficult to obtain a required flux distribution by manipulating the lamp position of multiple lamps at once. Each lamp has three degree of freedom. Thus manual ...
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(2011-01-11)Deficits in transferring generalized information of past learning to new problems are related to mild hippocampal atrophy in the elderly and appear to be an early marker of age-related cognitive decline. This inability to ...
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(2007-08-22)Circumferential distension of the arterial wall during the cardiac cycle regulates endothelial cell (EC) morphology and function. We have previously shown that cyclic stretching of ECs leads to activation of signaling ...
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(2018-04-30)Betacoronaviruses are a subgroup of viruses in the family Coronaviradae known to cause an array of diseases in humans and animals. In this study, we aim to determine the RNA secondary structures of Mouse Hepatitis Virus, ...
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(2013-09-27)Microbial mats are layered, surface-attached communities of microorganism that live under stagnant or moving bodies of water. Active precipitations of minerals often occur around these spatially arranged communities, forming ...
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(1977)A numerical model of a convective storm is used to generate conditions in which the study of the growth and trajectories of hailstones is made. The model consists of a one-dimensional, time-dependent system in which adiabatic ...
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The ocean is currently an extremely large and under-developed source of renewable energy. The recent interest in the Blue Economy has led the scientific community to increase investigations in sustainable oceanic energy ...
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(2021-04-26)Can a virtual reality training simulator enhance a nurse's ability to learn basic screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) skills better than traditional training programs? Based on SBIRT’s universal ...
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(2010-07-14)The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of various degrees of doneness on the nutrient content of beef. Ten steaks were obtained from each of five USDA Prime, five USDA Choice, and five USDA Select strip ...
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(1994)Much research has been done concerning the effectiveness of self-management for diabetic patients. In comparison, information on how effective education techniques are in improving self-management of non insulin dependent ...