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id: 79407w64d35
author: Alexander John Buoye
title: Capitalizing on the Extra Curriculum: Participation, Peer Influence, and Academic Achievement
date: 2004
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summary:
  This study utilizes hierarchical regression techniques to examine the effect of extracurricular participation on social capital and academic achievement. Membership in an academically oriented peer group is revealed to act as a significant mediator of participation effects and demonstrates a positive effect on mathematics achievement among male students.


id: sj13902265k
author: Daniel James Bates
title: Theory and Applications in Numerical Algebraic Geometry
date: 2008
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flesch: 41
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  The first algorithm is a way to increase precision as needed during homotopy continuation path tracking in order to decrease the computational cost of using high precision. The third method is a new way to approximate all solutions of a certain class of two-point boundary value problems based on homotopy continuation.


id: p2676t07h62
author: Bretton Rodriguez
title: Narratives of Power: Royal History and the Language of Legitimacy in Medieval Castile
date: 1904
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  In addition, I illuminate the progression of the role of royal historians from anonymous scribes to prominent literary figures, and I claim that the increased importance and sophistication of royal histories led to the professionalization of writing history in medieval Castile. Narratives of Power: Royal History and the Language of Legitimacy in Medieval Castile offers an interdisciplinary analysis – utilizing the skills of both literary criticism and historical inquiry – of the evolution of royal history and historians in medieval Castile between the reign of Alfonso X and that of the Catholic Monarchs.


id: dz010p12g2f
author: Bradley Rebeiro
title: Natural Rights (Re)Construction: Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Abolitionism
date: 2022
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  Indeed, Douglass helped constitutional abolitionists popularize a natural rights theory of interpretation that excised slavery from the Constitution. Douglass's constitutional thought uniquely answered the question: What was the Constitution's posture toward slavery?


id: db78tb11p47
author: Eric William Hagedorn
title: The Language of Scientia: Ockham's Mental Language as the Subject Matter of Aristotelian Science
date: 2012
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  William of Ockham's theory of mental language is among the most studied aspects of his thought; yet, surprisingly, there is little scholarly consensus on just what it is supposed to be a theory of. In this dissertation, I first raise a series of objections to this interpretation, both philosophical and textual: Ockham refrains from endorsing the key doctrines this interpretation attributes to him, and his actual discussions of mental language seem disconnected from the theory of cognition he does indeed hold.


id: 3j333200j15
author: Theresa Smart
title: Navigating a Non-Ideal World: Political Prudence as a Civic Virtue in Aquinas
date: 1904
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  Aquinas' virtue of political prudence offers a valuable model for defending commitment to existing regimes while correcting for their inevitable deficiencies. The task of integrating civic loyalties into a unified life falls to citizens and their exercise of political prudence on a case-by-case basis.


id: rf55z606446
author: Felix Vietmeyer
title: Optical Properties of CdSe Nanowires &#8212; Experiment and Theory
date: 2014
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  It, in turn, allows identifying signatures that belong to photogenerated charges that exist as coulombically bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) and distinguish them from free charges. CdSe nanowires are one-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures with unique properties.


id: jq085h7733n
author: Connor Mullen
title: Combining Hydrology with Data Science and Economics to Address Modern Water Resources Challenges
date: 2022
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  In that context, modern hydrology faces a range of fundamental and well-established challenges, three of which are addressed in this dissertation: (i) data scarcity, with only a few hydrological systems having in situ data globally, (ii) heterogeneity of hydrologic processes and variables and the need to provide high-resolution hydrologic information and data at local scales, while also generating consistent information and data at landscape scale, and (iii) feedback within water resource systems and determining cause and effect in observational data (e.g. feedback loops between human and natural systems). In the second study, I address the challenge of modelling wetlandscape processes, both hydrological and ecological, without full landscape in situ data.


id: v405s754p8h
author: Virgil Petrisor Andronache
title: APOC and ADE: Theory And Practice in the Design Of Architectures for Behavior-Based Agents
date: 2005
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flesch: 51
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summary:
  We describe APOC, an architecture framework intended for the analysis and implementation of complex agent architectures. We then show how APOC can be used to implement agent architectures in various architectural design paradigms and how these designs can be analyzed in APOC.


id: bg257d30f3p
author: Karina Andrea Soto Rivas
title: Multiscale Analysis of Flows Past Marine Hydrokinetic Devices Using Numerical Simulations
date: 2021
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flesch: 36
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  In Chapter II , we used the hybrid turbulence model DES coupled with the actuator disk approach to simulate staggered turbine configurations with different separations between devices and channel depths on an idealized domain. We adopted a multi-scale approach to study the flow at the turbine scales and propose a parameterization for representing a group of turbines in the mesoscale.


id: sq87br88r81
author: Ryan James Hooper
date: 2004
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title:
  A Search for Large Extra Spatial Dimensions and Z' Bosons in the Dimuon Final State in sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV ppbar Collisions at D0

summary:
  In the search for LED agreement between Standard Model backgrounds and data is shown in the dimuon mass versus ct spectrums. Both of these searches are performed on $170pm11$ ipb of data collected at Fermilab's upgraded DO detector which studies ppbar interactions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Although no LED or P signals are seen, 95\% confidence level limits are found in both cases.


id: gb19f47785d
author: Paul Tran
title: Oxidative Stabilization of Mesophase Pitch: Permeabiltity Measurements and Kinetics
date: 2007
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  Experimental permeability values are used to develop a semi-empirical mathematical model analyzing the diffusion and kinetics process of isothermal oxidative stabilization of solid mesophase pitch carbon composite matrices. Mesophase pitch is a precursor material for both high quality carbon spun fibers, as well as the matrix in high temperature carbon composites.


id: 1544bp0187c
author: Nameera Fatima Baig
date: 1904
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title:
  Molecular Imaging of Bacterial Communities of the Opportunistic Human Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

summary:
  Furthermore, Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) imaging is used to explore the strain and nutrient dependent secretion of the virulence factor pyocyanin in biofilms of P. aeruginosa laboratory and CF isolate strains cultured in media supplemented with either glucose or glutamate as the source of carbon. Biofilm communities of P. aeruginosa are associated with severe and persistent infections in patients afflicted with maladies such as cystic fibrosis (CF) and severe burn wounds.


id: 6q182j65t8j
author: Hannah Helena McGarraugh
title: Supramolecular Probes for Imaging, Therapy, and Diagnostics
date: 2021
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  Chapter 3 describes the application of squaraine dyes in pre-assembly as fluorescent molecular probes for biological targeting. Chapter 4 describes the application of croconaine dyes as photothermal agents for use in targeted cell heating.


id: br86b27968f
author: Rajkumar Sankaralingam
title: High-Speed Photodetectors and Receivers for Long-Haul Communication Systems
date: 2005
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  This design is shown to achieve improved responsivity-bandwidth product compared to conventional designs. For long-haul fiber-optic communication systems, the development of efficient high-speed photodiodes and transistors compatible with each other is essential for monolithic integration.


id: 7p88cf97j5x
author: John S. Zintsmaster
date: 2010
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flesch: 42
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  Probing the Evolutionary Dynamics Of WW Domains Using the Gaussian Network Model and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

summary:
  In an effort to understand the evolutionary pressures governing the specific functional dynamics conserved in proteins, perturbations are introduced in the form of single to multiple residue mutations. This application constitutes new method for predicting the effects of mutations on protein dynamics.


id: ft848p60t90
author: Ryan Joseph Downey
title: Maw Maw
date: 2010
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flesch: 62
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  Interstates sprawl and inner states ball up into metastisizing knots of tumor. In particular, this work juxtaposes notions of the Southern Gothic and the grotesque with the glittering edifices of the New South.


id: zk51vd70k1w
author: Ilia M. Pavlovetc
title: Super-Resolution Photothermal Infrared Imaging and Its Applications in Materials Science
date: 2021
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flesch: 22
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summary:
  It provides an overview of the different near field microscopy techniques developed to address the problem of chemically imaging specimens in the mid-infrared fingerprint region of the spectrum with high spatial resolution. This PhD thesis highlights recent advances in super-resolution, mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy.


id: ht24wh2753h
author: Ya Su
title: Money, Work, Norms, and Love: Reexamining Determinants of Divorce
date: 1904
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flesch: 37
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  Using longitudinal data and multinomial logistic regression, this study revisits three well-known perspectives of divorce: the economic independence perspective, the financial strain perspective, and the gendered institution perspective. The author discusses that studies of divorce require a gender lens to analyze the asymmetric gender change in recent years.


id: gm80ht2731s
author: Alec Pawling
title: Data Stream Summarization for Machine Learning
date: 2011
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words: 143
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flesch: 25
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summary:
  Our results indicate that while summarization based on equalwidth binning performs very well on data streams with a stationarydistribution,performance degrades on certain non-stationary distributions. The other two are based on approximate quantiles,one of which allows us to make information entropy computations within specified errorbounds with high probability.


id: 9p29086346c
author: Punit Bandi
title: Design of Crashworthy Structures with Controlled Behavior in HCA Framework
date: 2012
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  In addition, a new methodology for controlling the behavior of a structure under multiple crash load scenarios by adaptively changing the contributions from individual load cases is developed. The ability of compliant mechanisms to efficiently transfer force and/or motion from points of application of input loads to desired points within the structure is used to design solid and tubular components that exhibit controlled deformation and collapse behavior under crash loads.


id: ms35t724t77
author: Daniel Govinda Rinzler
date: 2010
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title:
  Design and Implementation of an FPGA-Based Image Processor: Exploring a Distributed Data Multi-Core Co-Processor Architecture

summary:
  The hybrid system uses a general purpose processor (GPP) in conjunction with an FPGA-based Image Processor (FIMP) to improve performance for image processing applications. This thesis explores using a hybrid processing approach for doing application specific memory intensive processing.


id: h989r211258
author: Morgan E. Smith
title: Data-Driven Modelling of Vector-Borne Macroparasitic Disease Transmission and Elimination
date: 2019
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  In this dissertation, I aim to leverage advances in computational science and data-driven mathematical modelling approaches to discover new knowledge about transmission heterogeneities and the dynamics of disease control to ultimately guide LF and onchocerciasis elimination programs. It is thus becoming clear that in order to design effective parasite management programs, there is a critical need to improve current understanding of how the complex and nonlinear characteristics of these biological systems influence transmission and elimination.


id: 73666398x20
author: Nicholas E. Bonneau
title: Unspeakable Loss: New England's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735-1775
date: 2020
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  This dissertation corrects that assumption and provides a method for examining epidemics similar to post-colonial techniques of recovering lost voices. While the mysterious throat distempers never achieved the notoriety of other diseases in the colonial era, no single epidemic of the period proved more deadly to European settlers.


id: ww72b853r0x
author: Sharon Irene Gundersen
date: 2007
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title:
  Conjugation of Methoxypolyethylene Glycol to Bovine Red Blood Cells as a Potential Universal Oxygen Therapeutic

summary:
  The overall oxygen binding affinity of PEGylated bRBCs was moderately increased with greater initial SPA-mPEG concentrations when reacted with bRBCs. Oxygen transport simulations modeling the O2 distribution within the capillary and tissue space were conducted to insure that PEGylated bRBCs were capable of delivering O2 to tissues.


id: wh246q21s5p
author: Jiachen Zhang
title: Spatial-Temporal Methods and Models for Climate Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification
date: 2023
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summary:
  Future winds abundance will be determined for Saudi Arabia, a country with a recently established plan to develop a portfolio of up to 16 GW of wind energy. In the case of wind, there is a fundamental question related to the resilience, and hence profitability, of future wind farms to a changing climate, given that current wind turbines have lifespans of up to thirty years.


id: np19377562z
author: Etika Agarwal
date: 2019
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title:
  Compositional Control of Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems Using Hybrid Models and Dissipativity Theory

summary:
  In the concluding chapters of this dissertation, we propose a solution to the open problem of making the synthesis of distributed subsystem-level controllers compositional for networked systems with no restrictions on interconnection topology. Modern-day infrastructure systems such as smart transportation, power grid and renewable energy, a fleet of industrial robots, and smart cities, are some examples of CPS, where the network of dynamical systems is capable of expansion, contraction, and reconfiguration.


id: w3763487g99
author: Sally Brooke Cameron
title: Bonds Between Women: Gender and Economics in Late-Victorian Literature
date: 2008
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summary:
  By thinking about gender and women's relationships with one another, all four fin-de-si cle authors overcome the split between classical political economy and new theories of neoclassical economics and consumption. My first and second chapters look at representations of female bonds in New Woman fiction, a genre that most critics align with political economy and productive bodies.


id: tq57np21k06
author: Matthew J. Smith
title: Publishing as the Critical Practice of Graphic Design
date: 2014
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flesch: 40
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summary:
  Writing, editing, design, production, and distribution roles are restricted so as to be minimally influenced by outside concerns. As a result, the form and content of the books and pamphlets published by Are Not Books & Publications can be critically and self-reflexively about the practice of design and publishing.


id: pk02c823x53
author: Peter Sutcliffe
title: Neural Network Feedforward Control of a Closed-Circuit Wind Tunnel
date: 1904
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flesch: 20
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  Accurate control of wind-tunnel test conditions can be dramatically enhanced using feedforward control architectures which allow operating conditions to be maintained at a desired setpoint through the use of mathematical models as the primary source of prediction. A novel neural network database generation method, developed through the use of fractional factorial arrays, was employed such that a neural network can accurately predict wind-tunnel parameters across a wide range of operating conditions whilst trained upon a highly efficient database.


id: vx021c20x51
author: Brad D. Weldon
title: Behavior, Design, and Analysis of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Coupling Beams
date: 2010
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summary:
  Using these models, the effects of several structural properties (such as beam length) on the behavior of unbonded post-tensioned precast coupling beams is analytically investigated to expand the results from the experiments. The results from eight half-scale experiments of unbonded post-tensioned precast coupling beams under reversed-cyclic lateral loading are presented.


id: 5138jd48z75
author: Katherine Butler
title: Clock Line Fabrication and Analysis for Nanomagnet Logic
date: 2014
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summary:
  The process has proven to be reproducible and result in a high yield of reliable clock line chips. The simulations demonstrate that not only can the isolated clock lines can be used to clock NML circuits, but that we can build adjacent clock lines for data pipelining.


id: 9g54xg96m82
author: Matthew K. Linford
title: Explaining Attitudes of Political Contention in Yemen: Legitimacy, Protest, and Political Violence
date: 1904
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summary:
  In the second essay, I explore the micro-level mechanisms that relate to both attitudes regarding the validity of protest as a tactic of contention and participation in protest in Yemen. Specifically, my results show that for women in Yemen, religious networks are an important free space that predicts both attitudes about the validity of protest as a tactic of contention and the likelihood of engaging in this tactic.


id: mg74qj74z4n
author: Wuming Luo
date: 2014
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words: 149
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flesch: 59
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title:
  Searching for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top-Quark Pair in PP Collisions at the LHC

summary:
  Selected events are divided into different categories based on the number of jets and the number of b-tagged jets. A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top quark pair is presented.


id: pz50gt57041
author: Joshua David Cameron
title: Stall Inception in a High-Speed Axial Compressor
date: 2008
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flesch: 34
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summary:
  The spatial correlation technique was then applied to the analysis of stall inception data from experiments with asymmetric tip clearance. In addition, over rotor casing surface streak measurements were performed to investigate the time-averaged end-wall flow near the rotor at operating points near stall.


id: 3b59183387t
author: Esther Braselmann
title: Investigating the secretion and folding mechanism of a beta-sheet rich virulence protein
date: 2014
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summary:
  The translocator domain is required for OM secretion of the central passenger domain. Previous studies indicate that the AT passenger domain is secreted from C- to N-terminus across the OM, and that, once outside of the cell, vectorial folding of the passenger could drive OM secretion.


id: 4t64gm83b19
author: Ting Cho Lau
title: The Reasons Management Framework
date: 2019
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summary:
  To be specific, I motivate the following two theses from Lord (2018): Possessed Reasons: What we ought to do is determined by our possessed reasons Possession: What it is for agent A to possess reason R to φ provided by fact F is for A to be in a position to manifest knowledge about how to use R to φ. I make the case that RMF allows us to adopt a broadly realist view of normativity that is familiar to us: it (a) acknowledges the existence of objective reasons and values, but also (b) gives agents flexibility in deciding which objective reasons and values will play a role in determining what they ought to do.


id: q811kh06t3p
author: Jacquilyn Weeks
title: Fairies, Fairy Tales, and the Development of British Poetics
date: 2011
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summary:
  Finally, by transcending traditional chronological and movement-based categorizations of British poetry, it facilitates fresh engagements with twentieth-century British poetry, inviting scholars to robustly reevaluate critically neglected fairy tale poems in the oeuvres of canonical poets (Wilfred Owen, Denise Levertov), substantiate the recovery of long-neglected fairy tale poets (Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham), draw new attention to constantly reprinted but rarely analyzed fairy tale poets (A.A. Milne, Alfred Noyes), interpret the nationalist and colonial implications of fairy tale poems written in response to canonical British fairy tales (Jackie Kay, John Agard), and reinterpret key terms like &quot;fairy tale&quot; and &quot;myth&quot; in parallel poetic movements like mythopoesis (T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound). Second, it argues that the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary theory is heavily indebted to theorizations of fairy tales and that recognizing the politicized use of fairy tales in theory can both contextualize and illuminate the political implications of apparently innocuous and apolitical fairy tale poems.


id: 70795714j9x
author: Camila Escallon
title: Droog Design: Sense and Experience
date: 2010
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flesch: 56
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summary:
  Like the experiences and designs of Droog, the life and work of Sottsass in his Memphis years is now treated as paradigmatic of postmodernism in design by historians and critics. Another type of publication where Droog is prominent is in books of Dutch design.


id: df65v694x6w
author: Mark Hamilton Ross
title: Radiated Sound Generated By Airfoils in a Single Stream Shear Layer
date: 2010
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flesch: 41
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summary:
  Detailed velocity measurements were obtained for a single stream shear layer, a flow known to be anisotropic at large turbulence length scales. It was observed that sound predictions using either the model correlation length scale or the measured correlation length scale did not match the measured acoustics unless the attenuation of sound due to airfoil thickness was accounted for by applying an appropriate correction to Sears' gust response function.


id: r781wd39n2z
author: Meghan K. Cain
title: Time and Other Considerations in Mediation Design
date: 1904
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flesch: 33
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summary:
  Models were evaluated using power and type I error rates in detecting a significant indirect path, from which cross-sectional and sequential mediation analysis were found to have the best performance. The cross-sectional mediation model, which has been shown to be biased when the mediation is happening over time (Maxwell &amp; Cole, 2007; Maxwell, Cole, &amp; Mitchell, 2011) is compared to longitudinal models: sequential, dynamic, and cross-lagged panel.


id: 3r074t67d7r
author: Jay David Miller
title: Quaker Literary Agrarianism in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800
date: 2020
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flesch: 37
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summary:
  I recover Quaker jeremiad and show how its theological character helped it to formulate an incisive critique of agrarian capitalism. While the agrarianism of writers from the early American republic such as J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Thomas Jefferson has been well-studied, the tradition of Quaker jeremiad found in pamphlets, promotional writing, journals, diaries, natural history, and novels, is little known.


id: 73666397x63
author: Karrie Fuller
title: Repurposing Piers Plowman: Literary Geography and the Codicological Remaking of Langland's Work
date: 1904
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words: 283
sentence: 9
flesch: 22
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summary:
  In particular, studies of single manuscripts and their scribal versions reveal individual audiences and responses as the scribes of each copy tailor their editions and revisions to specific audiences, whether or not their copies end up with the same intended and actual readers. Thus, these scribes adapt their copies of Piers to the local, global, or even cosmological scope they adopt as they adjust their compilations to the demands of individual reading communities situated in urban, intellectual, and religious centers throughout England.


id: mw22v40840g
author: Robin Andrew Joyce
title: A System to Demonstrate the Bistability of Molecules for Application in a Molecular QCA Cell
date: 2008
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words: 347
sentence: 16
flesch: 51
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summary:
  QCA provides this new architecture by encoding binary information in the bistable charge configuration of quantum-dot cells and by using the Coulomb interaction to couple neighboring cells. The two principle requirements for molecules used in a QCA cell are bistability and ability to couple to neighboring cells [3].


id: d217qn61v0n
author: Marlene Leydy Daut
date: 2008
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words: 389
sentence: 8
flesch: 31
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title:
  Science of Desire: Race and Representations of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1865

summary:
  In chapter three I analyze the trope of the tragic mulatto/a in French abolitionist Alphonse de Lamartine's verse drama Toussaint L'Ouverture (1850); the Louisiana born Victor S jour's short story, The Mulatto (1837); and Haitian author Em ric Bergeaud's Stella (1859). This dissertation reads representations of the Haitian Revolution with and against the popular historical understanding of the events as the result of the influence of enlightenment philosophy or the Declaration of the Rights of Man on Toussaint L'Ouverture; or what I have called a literacy narrative.


id: xk81jh37r85
author: Elizabeth H. Trudeau
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 431
sentence: 17
flesch: 39
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txt: txt/xk81jh37r85.txt
title:
  The Anatomy of a Social Justice Field: The Growth, Collaboration, and Dissonance of the Modern U.S. Anti-Trafficking Movement

summary:
  This research contributes to our understandings of social fields, and moral problems. I describe a particular type of organization, a scaffolding organization, which explains how the loose, diverse, and disperse field of anti-human trafficking operates.


id: c247dr29145
author: Courtney Ryan Gwaltney
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 425
sentence: 19
flesch: 27
cache: cache/c247dr29145.txt
txt: txt/c247dr29145.txt
title:
  Reliable Location of Equilibrium States and Bifurcations in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Applications in Food Web Modeling and Chemical Engineering

summary:
  Complete knowledge of the location and nature of all solutions to a set of nonlinear equations is necessary to reliably analyze model systems. Modeling food chains and food webs is the application of particular interest here because ecosystem models aid the proactive assessment and management of environmental risks.


id: k930bv75n3d
author: Robert Thomas Davis
title: Assessing the role of constructed floodplains on the biogeochemistry of agricultural streams
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 151
sentence: 6
flesch: 44
cache: cache/k930bv75n3d.txt
txt: txt/k930bv75n3d.txt
summary:
  My thesis quantifies the effect of the two-stage ditch, which constructs 'mini-floodplains' adjacent to channelized streams to 1) retain nutrients and sediment, and 2) enhance ecosystem function. Constructed floodplains can improve water quality in agricultural streams, but is most likely to be successful when 'stacked' with other best management practices within a watershed.


id: t148ff39h4k
author: Sudip Vhaduri
title: Reliable Discovery of Places of Importance and Behavioral Patterns from Mobile Crowdsensed Datasets
date: 2019
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mime: text/plain
words: 371
sentence: 9
flesch: 25
cache: cache/t148ff39h4k.txt
txt: txt/t148ff39h4k.txt
summary:
  However, instead of geographic locations, it is often more important to determine a locale that is relevant to the user, e.g., the place of work, home, homes of family and friends, social gathering places, etc. This work proposes a novel segmentation approach that opportunistically fills gaps in a user's location trace by either borrowing location data from other co-located users utilizing the power of mobile crowd sensing and computing (MCSC) paradigm or by utilizing a user's personal data obtained from multiple sensor sources and devices such as the battery recharge behavior (measured on smartphones), step counts, and sleep patterns (measured by wearables).


id: zp38w953t28
author: Dianna Tran
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 178
sentence: 8
flesch: 24
cache: cache/zp38w953t28.txt
txt: txt/zp38w953t28.txt
title:
  Effects of Parenting Efficacy, Partner Support, Parents' and Other Kin's Child Care Support on Child Problem Behaviors within African American and Latino/Hispanic Families

summary:
  Using García Coll's (1996) integrative model of minority children's development, we investigate how child care support from parents and other kin, maternal partner support, and maternal perceived parenting competence impacts child socioemotional development of African American and Latino/Hispanic families. In many minority families, relying on extended kin for child care support is embedded within cultural values of familism.


id: rr171v5718w
author: Natalia Salamanca Balen
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 151
sentence: 9
flesch: 44
cache: cache/rr171v5718w.txt
txt: txt/rr171v5718w.txt
title:
  The Effectiveness of Hope-Fostering Interventions in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

summary:
  Conclusions: The evidence suggested that interventions can be effective in increasing hope in palliative care patients. Selection criteria: The studies chosen were RCTs, quasi-experimental studies, and single pre-post studies that included interventions delivered to palliative care patients that measured hope/hopelessness as an outcome.


id: kd17cr58x8g
author: Bin Wu
title: InAs-on-SOI MOSFETs with Extreme Lattice Mismatch
date: 2009
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words: 275
sentence: 11
flesch: 59
cache: cache/kd17cr58x8g.txt
txt: txt/kd17cr58x8g.txt
summary:
  MOCVD growth of InAs also generates single grain structures on Si islands when the size is reduced to 100 ÌÄ' 100 nm2. Despite 11.6% lattice mismatch, planar InAs structures have been observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) when nucleating using MBE on patterned submicron Si-on-insulator (SOI) islands.


id: 5x21td98h63
author: Christina G. McDonnell
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 250
sentence: 11
flesch: 29
cache: cache/5x21td98h63.txt
txt: txt/5x21td98h63.txt
title:
  Mother-Child Reminiscing At-Risk: Maternal Attachment, Elaboration, and Child Autobiographical Memory Specificity

summary:
  Moreover, maternal attachment moderated associations between elaboration and child memory, such that emotional elaboration, primarily for stressful event discussions, negatively predicted child specificity at high levels of attachment avoidance and anxiety, a profile associated with fearful avoidance or disorganized attachment. Results indicated a significant interaction between structural and emotional elaboration predicting child memory specificity, wherein emotional elaboration predicted less specific memory at low levels of structural support.


id: c534fn12b3p
author: Jason Eton Scott
title: What's a Good Grade? Student Performance Standards and the Black-White Achievement Gap
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 72
sentence: 4
flesch: 26
cache: cache/c534fn12b3p.txt
txt: txt/c534fn12b3p.txt
summary:
  My research then explores potential linkages between students' performance standards, effort, and academic performance. Based on statistical analyses, I find that African American students are, on average, significantly more likely to positively appraise lower letter grades as 'good.'


id: w9504x5427n
author: Travis Charles Douville
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 158
sentence: 5
flesch: 43
cache: cache/w9504x5427n.txt
txt: txt/w9504x5427n.txt
title:
  The Effect of Gap Size and Reynolds Number on Turbine Blade Flat and Suction-Side Squealer Tip Flowfields

summary:
  Blade surface and tip endwall static pressure, total pressure loss, and wake vorticity measurements were taken to document the effects of upstream axial Reynolds number, 100000 < Re2 < 500000, and tip gap height, 0.015 < Interaction of tip leakage and passage vortices proved critical, and an inverse relationship was observed between the two structures in terms of streamwise vorticity, core total pressure loss, and the vortex size denoted by the -Ì_åÈ2 criterion.


id: m900ns08h2t
author: Rebecca Anne Morrissey
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 357
sentence: 8
flesch: 15
cache: cache/m900ns08h2t.txt
txt: txt/m900ns08h2t.txt
title:
  Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Bulimic-Symptom Expression in Adolescent Girls: Examining Contingencies of the Restraint Pathway

summary:
  On one hand, the mediational sequence from body dissatisfaction through dieting to bulimia — often referred to as the restraint pathway — has been empirically validated across numerous methodologies and samples of adolescent girls; on the other hand, the prevalence rate of bulimic pathology in adolescent girls pales in comparison to rates of body dissatisfaction and dieting. Our results simultaneously contribute to (i.e., for late-adolescent girls) and undermine (i.e., for early- and mid-adolescent girls) the specificity of the restraint pathway— a paradox around which theoretical, empirical, and practical implications are discussed.


id: 0z708w35m2s
author: Veronica B. Hubble
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 364
sentence: 11
flesch: 6
cache: cache/0z708w35m2s.txt
txt: txt/0z708w35m2s.txt
title:
  Novel Adjuvant Approaches for Disarming Antibiotic Resistance in Clinically Relevant Bacterial Pathogens

summary:
  As a response to the rising emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, President Barack H. Obama administered a National Action Plan in 2015 as incentive to raise awareness and re-invest in antibiotic development and alternative methods to fight bacterial infections. We identified a class of adjuvants that dramatically enhance sensitivity of P. aeruginosa to the macrolide antibiotic azithromycin, with reductions in the minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) as high as 1024-fold and activity observed across a variety of clinical isolates from cystic fibrosis patients.


id: vq27zk55263
author: Han Du
title: Testing Variance Components in Linear Mixed Modeling Using Permutation
date: 1904
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mime: text/plain
words: 227
sentence: 9
flesch: 32
cache: cache/vq27zk55263.txt
txt: txt/vq27zk55263.txt
summary:
  The permutation tests with different settings (i.e., constrained estimation vs. unconstrained estimation, specific test vs. generalized test, different ways of calculating p -values, and different ways of permutation) were examined with both normal data and nonnormal data. In addition, the permutation tests were compared with the likelihood ratio test with mixtures of chi-squared distributions as reference distributions.


id: 2514nk33w7w
author: Gifford Andrew Grobien
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 354
sentence: 13
flesch: 34
cache: cache/2514nk33w7w.txt
txt: txt/2514nk33w7w.txt
title:
  'Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Minds': Christian Worship as the Root of Righteousness and Ethical Formation

summary:
  Considering Louis-Marie Chauvet's symbolic order and Bernd Wannenwetsch's understanding of worship as Christianity's unique form of life, this dissertation argues that worship practices are the foundational and determinative context in which grace is offered and in which the distinctively Christian ethos develops virtues consistent with Christian character. Yet Biermann's model does not adequately treat the conceptual roots of the question: that Christian righteousness is both imputed and imparted, and that a Christian receives and works with righteousness through Christian worship.


id: b8515m62t70
author: Melissa Renee Gillette
title: Rho GTPase Signaling in Epithelial-Stromal Interactions in the Developing Mammary Glad
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 293
sentence: 9
flesch: 9
cache: cache/b8515m62t70.txt
txt: txt/b8515m62t70.txt
summary:
  Stromal activation characterized by increased extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition and remodeling in the p190B overexpressing mammary glands appears to be due in part to altered mechanical signaling between the epithelial and stromal compartments and increased paracrine TGF&#946; singaling from the p190B overexpressing mammary epithelial cells (MECs). Interestingly, Cdc42 overexpressing mammary glands were found to contain more senescent MECs and an altered secretory profile that appears to be contributing to the pro-inflammatory activation of the adjacent stroma.


id: nv935140x5v
author: Stephen Morgan
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 302
sentence: 11
flesch: 30
cache: cache/nv935140x5v.txt
txt: txt/nv935140x5v.txt
title:
  Shepherds of a Dying Flock: The Rhenish Mission, the Herero, and German Colonial Conquest in South-West Africa

summary:
  At times contesting, at other times cooperating with the colonial regime, the missionaries attempted first to regulate Herero contact with colonialism, and then, in aftermath of war, to integrate them into the colonial order. It begins with a biological catastrophe that decimated Herero herds, impoverishing the Herero and forcing them to sell land to settlers, which threatened the basis for Herero economic and political autonomy.


id: 37720c5050m
author: Gongchen Sun
title: Nonlinear Ionic Circuits and Ionic Memristors for Integrated Liquid Biopsy Chips
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 452
sentence: 16
flesch: 34
cache: cache/37720c5050m.txt
txt: txt/37720c5050m.txt
summary:
  To solve this problem, we urgently need microfluidic tools to rapidly detect and quantify multiple molecular biomarkers within a minimum amount of clinical sample --- and do so at high throughput so many samples can be processed. However, most molecular diagnostic techniques are disease/biomarker specific and cannot be used for point-of-care (POC) pan-disease screening of a multitude of molecular biomarkers.


id: rj430290902
author: Anthony R. Rosales
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 253
sentence: 14
flesch: 33
cache: cache/rj430290902.txt
txt: txt/rj430290902.txt
title:
  Development of Force Field Parameters for Predictions in Asymmetric Catalysis and a Foray into Mechanism Elucidation

summary:
  A theoretical comparative DFT study of Ru, Rh, and Ir complexes suggest a TSFF can be developed describing reactions of all three metals. The quantum-guided molecular mechanics (Q2MM) method allows the development of transition state force field (TSFF) parameters which can be used to realize this goal of predicting stereoisomer ratios.


id: mp48sb41h55
author: Sameer Vijay
date: 2004
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 348
sentence: 17
flesch: 40
cache: cache/mp48sb41h55.txt
txt: txt/mp48sb41h55.txt
title:
  Synthesis, Characterization and Isomerization Activity Studies for Modified Sulfated Zirconia Catalysts

summary:
  A 3-step method consisting of calcining a sulfated zirconium hydroxide at high temperature prior to adding platinum, reduction of platinum followed by additional pretreatments is presented. Sulfated zirconia (SZ) is an attractive alternative for use in industrial processes because of its good alkane activation potential as well as being a non-toxic replacement for liquid acid catalysts currently in use.


id: 3484zg66q5t
author: Sean Padraic Branagan
title: Nanoporous Metallic Films In Micro-nanofluidic Structures
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 316
sentence: 14
flesch: 24
cache: cache/3484zg66q5t.txt
txt: txt/3484zg66q5t.txt
summary:
  Miniaturized chemical analysis systems have the potential to become ubiquitous in everyday life, accelerating our access to chemical information in much the same way that integrated electronic circuits have improved our ability to communicate. In this work, several types of microanofluidic structures are fabricated, and a diverse set of experimental tests are performed which quantify the ways in which nanoporous metal films can enhance the performance of the device in many unique ways.


id: 05741r68b34
author: Xiangning Li
title: Radiative Heat Transfer through Fibrous Materials
date: 2007
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mime: text/plain
words: 364
sentence: 19
flesch: 37
cache: cache/05741r68b34.txt
txt: txt/05741r68b34.txt
summary:
  Single scattering results for the fiber beds include analytical estimates of the effective emissivity with rigorous error bounds for different porosities, and local fiber surface emissivities. Knudsen diffusion occurs under low pressures, high temperatures, or in microporous film at normal pressures and temperatures.


id: pk02c823w1d
author: Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
title: Ministers of Christ: Benedictine Women Religious in Central Medieval England
date: 2015
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words: 344
sentence: 9
flesch: 16
cache: cache/pk02c823w1d.txt
txt: txt/pk02c823w1d.txt
summary:
  But most innovative and central to this study are the close paleographical and codicological analyses of the surviving liturgical manuscripts that were produced by and for houses of Benedictine women religious in central medieval England. This study shows that far from becoming wholly dependent on such care, many women religious in central medieval England continued to exercise prominent liturgical and pastoral roles in their communities, much like those assumed by their earlier Anglo-Saxon foremothers and by their contemporary Benedictine brothers.


id: cj82k645f66
author: Joseph Stephen Ribaudo
title: Probing Circumgalactic Gas with Lyman Limit Systems
date: 2011
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mime: text/plain
words: 583
sentence: 25
flesch: 60
cache: cache/cj82k645f66.txt
txt: txt/cj82k645f66.txt
summary:
  Additional galaxy field imaging and spectroscopy was obtained from the LBC on the Large Binocular Telescope and LRIS on the Keck II telescope, respectively. For the 12 LLSs considered, we find all strong H I absorbers can be associated with nearby star forming galaxies.


id: bn999595z2b
author: Hyunju Kim
title: On Two Fundamental Problems in Statistical and Functional Modeling of Complex Networks
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 132
sentence: 3
flesch: 18
cache: cache/bn999595z2b.txt
txt: txt/bn999595z2b.txt
summary:
  Applications include all problem areas where network topology generators are needed, for e.g., the construction and enumeration of structural isomers of alkenes in chemistry, the construction and sampling of unbiased contact graphs for modeling the spread of diseases in human interaction networks, peer-to-peer communication networks and construction and enumeration of small functional building blocks of biological interaction networks. In the first part of the thesis we solve a fundamental problem that researchers face when modeling networked systems based on limited data, in particular degree-based data.


id: zw12z31997h
author: Carolyn Anna Heitzmann
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 142
sentence: 6
flesch: 45
cache: cache/zw12z31997h.txt
txt: txt/zw12z31997h.txt
title:
  An Item Response Theory Approach to the Examination of the Construct of Self-efficacy for Coping for African American and White Persons with Cancer

summary:
  This project provides a modern methodological approach to validating health related constructs and allows for the interpretation of differences between the two groups as, not an artifact of DIF, but true difference. DIF was tested across groups of African Americans (N = 245) and Whites (N = 407) with cancer.


id: 2227mp51g4t
author: Christopher L. Ebsch
title: Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance, Imbalance, and Amplification in Cortical Network Models
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 170
sentence: 6
flesch: 18
cache: cache/2227mp51g4t.txt
txt: txt/2227mp51g4t.txt
summary:
  Dense recurrent connectivity in local cortical circuits can lead to counterintuitive response properties, raising the question of whether there are simple arithmetical rules for relating circuits' connectivity structure to their response properties. This amplification, which can be quantified by a linear correction to the classical mean field theory of balanced networks, explains several response properties observed in cortical recordings and provides fundamental insights into the relationship between connectivity structure and neural responses in cortical circuits.


id: kw52j675c41
author: Tara C. Weigand
title: Performance-Based Habitability Design and Assessment of Tall Buildings Using Full-Scale Data
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 149
sentence: 6
flesch: 24
cache: cache/kw52j675c41.txt
txt: txt/kw52j675c41.txt
summary:
  In addition, a robust performance-based habitability design method is proposed that enables engineers and owners to define performance objectives specific to the project, with an accompanying assessment framework to support design validation and automated performance feedback through continuous monitoring. This evaluation demonstrated a significant overestimation of predicted damping and a non-negligible contribution from higher modes, in contrast with typical design assumptions.


id: x346d22163h
author: Jacob Thomas Schepers
title: Making Do: Towards a Poetics of Limit through Technological and Embodied Means
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 253
sentence: 6
flesch: 15
cache: cache/x346d22163h.txt
txt: txt/x346d22163h.txt
summary:
  The basic premise of Making Do supposes that this interrelated network of aesthetic experience operates roughly in the following way: As poets seek to incorporate new writing technologies and technological concepts into their poetics, they encounter the inescapable influence of their own embodiment as they make use of (and at times struggled with) these technologies that grow increasingly multi-mediated and thus enable new conceptions of poetic materiality and representation but, in doing so, highlight the limitations present in diverse embodied experiences. Stated otherwise, writers of the last seventy years have broadened their use of poetic media and, in so doing, ran up against the primary medium of—and the state of being materially situated within, and thus limited through—their own bodies.


id: 0k225b01h9m
author: Adam R. Hickman
title: The Transition from Rotating Stall to Surge in an Axial Compressor
date: 2016
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 262
sentence: 15
flesch: 56
cache: cache/0k225b01h9m.txt
txt: txt/0k225b01h9m.txt
summary:
  A stalled compressor rotor can be considered to contain three main regions: stalled passages, recovering passages, and over-pressured passages. Over-pressured passages exhibit turning and pressure rise greater than pre-stall values.


id: 2514nk33x3t
author: Wei Zhang
title: Data Mining for Biological Data Learning: Algorithm and Application
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 325
sentence: 17
flesch: 35
cache: cache/2514nk33x3t.txt
txt: txt/2514nk33x3t.txt
summary:
  Then, we demonstrate a machine learning framework for trait based microbial ecology using whole genome sequence data. With more and different sources of data accumulating every day, it requires sophisticated computational analyses and data mining.


id: hq37vm43451
author: Jacob William Johnson
title: The Enlightenment In Praxis: An Experiment in Unifying Theories of American Political Development
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 409
sentence: 15
flesch: 45
cache: cache/hq37vm43451.txt
txt: txt/hq37vm43451.txt
summary:
  What I do is give a richer and more accurate picture of the deep complexity of American liberalism: I demonstrate how America's three most influential philosophers intermingled four very different visions of liberalism, thereby setting America on a multifaceted, tortured, and convoluted developmental path. The trouble is that these two approaches cannot integrate each other's findings, and they maintain -- internally -- differing and opposing schools of thought about what exactly drives the evolution of America's politics.


id: qv33rv06h0f
author: Hui Fang
title: Control of Distributed Systems with Interconnection Constraints
date: 2007
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 527
sentence: 22
flesch: 30
cache: cache/qv33rv06h0f.txt
txt: txt/qv33rv06h0f.txt
summary:
  From quantization systems for networked control systems (NCS) to fundamental limitations of control systems under information constraints, and from consensus problems to formation control and sensing and coverage problems, researchers have been interested in distributed control algorithms that achieve global objectives with minimum communication requirements. For distributed systems, a distributed stability condition to guarantee global quadratic performance under various communication constraints is presented.


id: qr46qz2497p
author: Leonor Marietta Taiano Campoverde
title: Alabanzas sopechosas: Máscaras imperiales y posturas novohispanas en la corte de Gaspar de la Cerda
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 416
sentence: 9
flesch: 21
cache: cache/qr46qz2497p.txt
txt: txt/qr46qz2497p.txt
summary:
  In this dissertation I allude to the work of several authors, among which we find the well-known Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the less studied Francisco de Ayerra, Alonso Ramírez de Vargas, Antonio de Peralta, Francisco Acevedo, Gaspar de Guevara, Antonio Morales Pastrana, Juan Millán de Poblete, and Thomás de Escalante, among others. Alabanzas sopechosas: Máscaras imperiales y posturas novohispanas en la corte de Gaspar de la Cerda examines the relationship between the imperial mask of Gaspar de la Cerda and the Novohispanic posture of the writers who benefited from de la Cerda's protection.


id: 0p096685d0x
author: Ian M. Gerdon
title: Love in the Evagrian Tradition to Maximus the Confessor
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 347
sentence: 9
flesch: 31
cache: cache/0p096685d0x.txt
txt: txt/0p096685d0x.txt
summary:
  Finally, in chapter five, I argue that, contrary to scholarly assessment, Maximus's Ascetic Dialogue is a text that fits well into the preceding Evagrian tradition, especially that of Palestine, while the Chapters on Love signal an innovative attempt in the tradition to recover Evagrian cosmology and separate it from Origenist implications, thus beginning the work that culminated in his more famous revision of Origenism in his Ambigua ad Johannem. In order to do so, I argue that the proper context for understanding these works is the Evagrian monastic tradition that Maximus inherited as an early seventh century monk, rather than the fully-worked-out vision of his later corpus, as has commonly been done in scholarship.


id: v118rb72g8b
author: Mitsugu Hasegawa
title: Micro-Fiber Coatings for Bluff Body Flow Control
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 483
sentence: 21
flesch: 51
cache: cache/v118rb72g8b.txt
txt: txt/v118rb72g8b.txt
summary:
  The separation point of the cylinder with added micro-fiber coating is delayed compared to that of the baseline. The dominant wake-frequency and the Strouhal number of the cylinder with added micro-fiber coating is higher than that of the baseline.


id: 7m01bk15c0w
author: Liling Ko
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 229
sentence: 10
flesch: 60
cache: cache/7m01bk15c0w.txt
txt: txt/7m01bk15c0w.txt
title:
  Towards Finding a Lattice That Characterizes the &gt;ω2-Fickle Recursively Enumerable Turing Degrees

summary:
  The important characterizations known are of the L7 and M3 lattices, where the lattices are bounded below d if and only if d contains sets of fickleness &gt;ω and ≥ωω respectively. We introduced a lattice-theoretic property called 3-directness to describe lattices that are no wider or taller than L7 and M3 .


id: 3x816m32w7f
author: Jennifer Lynn Yonkoski
date: 2005
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 188
sentence: 7
flesch: 46
cache: cache/3x816m32w7f.txt
txt: txt/3x816m32w7f.txt
title:
  Drunk Driving: Examining the Effects of Deterrence and Self-Control on Intention to Commit Future DUI

summary:
  Building on the work of Grasmic and Bursik (1990) who propose an extended general model of deterrence, and the work of Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) who propose that self-control is of central importance when considering the causes of crime, I combine these factors to develop a more comprehensive model to predict projected drunk driving. hey are likely to experience if they are caught has an important impact on intention to commit the offense in the future.


id: 0c483j34z71
author: Hao Lu
date: 2016
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 360
sentence: 13
flesch: 41
cache: cache/0c483j34z71.txt
txt: txt/0c483j34z71.txt
title:
  Development of Nanometer Ion Conductor for 2D-Crystal Memory and Universal Tunnel Transistor SPICE Model

summary:
  Based on the Kane-Sze formula for tunneling, this model captures the distinctive features of TFETs such as steep slope, superlinear onset, ambipolar conduction, and negative differential resistance. The model has been implemented in SPICE simulators using Verilog-A and implemented into native AIM-Spice, available on Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS.Besides steep slope transistor models a further focus of this dissertation has been the exploration of new memory concepts.


id: 2227mp50m4s
author: Xiaowei Jin
title: LDPC codes on fading channels: receiver design, performance analysis and code design
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 262
sentence: 18
flesch: 44
cache: cache/2227mp50m4s.txt
txt: txt/2227mp50m4s.txt
summary:
  This thesis considered the design of receivers for systems employing LDPC codes for fading channels. A decision feedback based successive decoding receiver is then introduced and it is shown that this successive receiver is asymptotically optimal.


id: r781wd39r8z
author: Lisa Weaver Swartz
title: Gendered Gospel, Ungendered Mission: Identity Construction at Two Evangelical Seminaries
date: 1904
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words: 322
sentence: 18
flesch: 32
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summary:
  This project explores the construction of gender ideology at two evangelical seminaries. Understandings of evangelical gender ideologies cannot be limited to their function as symbolic boundaries.


id: v118rb71f7d
author: Alanna Elizabeth Sedgwick
title: Cellular Mechanisms of Tumor Cell Invasion
date: 2013
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words: 357
sentence: 13
flesch: 25
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summary:
  This vector has demonstrated very effective knockdown of ARF6 levels, however, additional work will be necessary to address off-target effects of the virus before it can be utilized for studies of tumor cell invasion. Robust motility is also integral for tumor cell invasion, and we describe how signaling of the small GTPase ARF6 coordinates these activities.


id: 7d278s47p25
author: Dixie Dillon Lane
title: Skipping School: Homeschooling in Los Angeles County, 1950-2010
date: 2015
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words: 346
sentence: 12
flesch: 48
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summary:
  In a country famous for its early establishment of free schooling, American schools have historically provided foundational shared experiences for children, socializing them into American cultures and economies while also preparing them for intellectual adulthood. Yet in the 1950s, a small number of American parents began to reject normative schooling in favor of teaching their children themselves, an approach that had been out of favor for decades.


id: 1831cj84d8r
author: Max Deardorff
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 358
sentence: 12
flesch: 26
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title:
  A Tale of Two Granadas: Tridentine Reform, Rebellion, and the Formulation of Christian Citizenship in Southern Spain and the Andes, 1563-1614

summary:
  After the 1560s, membership in Castilian society's institutions became contingent upon the demonstration of policía cristiana (Christian citizenship).This manuscript illustrates how Christianity and policía became central to the common identity of members of the Spanish kingdoms, while re-examining questions of race, ethnicity, and belonging in Spain and Latin America. The sixteenth-century Spanish Empire encompassed a wide array of ethnic peoples, with differing legal identities that provided them distinct avenues to political enfranchisement.


id: 3n203x8384b
author: Audra White
title: Genetic Analysis of Retinoic Acid Signaling in Pronephros Development
date: 1904
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words: 149
sentence: 8
flesch: 48
cache: cache/3n203x8384b.txt
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summary:
  These functions protect the body form metabolite and waste buildup, which has been linked to developmental defects, cancer, and renal failure (DeBerardinis et al., 2012; Blaine et al., 2015). While some developmental effects of RA are known, others such as how mutations in RA regulation impact kidney segmentation are not.


id: cn69m328q56
author: Andrea J. Fowler
date: 2010
extension: .txt
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words: 301
sentence: 10
flesch: 32
cache: cache/cn69m328q56.txt
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title:
  Linking Policy and Ecology in the Management of Aquatic Ecosystems: Stream Restoration and Invasive Species Legislation

summary:
  While restoration of streams by the addition of large wood is a common management technique designed to increase populations of native fishes, the functions of the current, relatively low volumes of large wood on habitat use by brook trout, stream invertebrate drift, and brook trout diet remain understudied in midwestern streams. My thesis begins by investigating the role of current volumes of large wood in determining the location and diet of brook trout, and the content of stream drift.


id: wp988g8745d
author: Angela Wentz Faulconer
title: Civic Excellence: Citizen Virtue and Contemporary Liberal Democratic Community
date: 2004
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words: 343
sentence: 18
flesch: 52
cache: cache/wp988g8745d.txt
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summary:
  To better understand civic virtue, we must explore specific citizen virtues. To fulfill this aim, we require a citizen virtue catalog structured by an explanatory framework that is anchored in the role-based nature of citizen virtue.


id: 3484zg67c9c
author: Nicole H. Scheidler
title: Olfactory Signals and Reception in a Pest Fly, Drosophila suzukii
date: 1904
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words: 333
sentence: 12
flesch: 16
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summary:
  In contrast to D. melanogaster and the vast majority of saprophytic drosophilids which feed and oviposit on rotten fruits, D. suzukii lays eggs in ripening fruits, causing significant damage to invaded fruit-crops. This presents an opportunity to investigate olfactory signals and reception associated with D. suzukii's novel niche exploitation in relation to other drosophilids.


id: mp48sb41j0r
author: Eva Van Leemput
title: Essays on Macroeconomic Development and International Trade
date: 2015
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words: 434
sentence: 19
flesch: 41
cache: cache/mp48sb41j0r.txt
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summary:
  I find that: (1) state-wise price data predict internal trade flows well; (2) internal trade barriers make up 30% of the total trade cost on average, but vary substantially by state depending on the distance to the closest port; and (3) the welfare impacts of domestic integration are substantial; reducing trade costs across states to the U.S. level increases welfare by 15% compared to a welfare gain of 7% when fully eliminating international import barriers. The first chapter quantifies the size of intra-country versus inter-country trade barriers and assesses the impact on patterns of trade and welfare.


id: 0c483j34v9s
author: Jian Lin
title: New Insights into Lanthanide and Actinide Tellurite Chemistry
date: 2014
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words: 440
sentence: 20
flesch: 31
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summary:
  For actinides, the electronic configurations and magnetic properties are difficult to ascertain particularly because of orbital hybridization, relativistic effects, and narrow bandwidths. Structure-property correlations of lanthanide-containing materials are being heavily investigated owing in part to their potentially useful applications in magnetism, ion exchange, fluorescence, and optical properties.


id: f1881j94n34
author: Keefe Roedersheimer
title: A Study of the Impact of Multi-Leaf Collimator Rotation
date: 2010
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words: 262
sentence: 13
flesch: 53
cache: cache/f1881j94n34.txt
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summary:
  Because tumor geometry is often irregular, it is useful to shape the beams to match the geometry of the tumor. The treatment planning problem in radiosurgery is the selection of a number of beams and the orientations of those beams, such that at their intersection they deliver a lethal dose to the tumor without exceeding the tolerance of any critical structure in their path.


id: vd66vx0580w
author: Sam VandenHeuvel
title: Exploring Reaction Versatility of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters
date: 1904
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words: 65
sentence: 2
flesch: 42
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summary:
  Contained in this dissertation are reaction pathways of the nine-atom germanium cluster with (i) a series of homo- and hetero-substituted alkynes, (ii) simple organic groups by suspension, and (iii) common nucleophilic reagents in the presence of partially oxidized cluster. The potential of organo-Zintl chemistry has been known for several decades and the aim of this work is to expand on this groundwork.


id: hx11xd10t4t
author: Aaron Tyrrell
title: Renormalized Volume and Area
date: 2021
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words: 67
sentence: 4
flesch: 45
cache: cache/hx11xd10t4t.txt
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summary:
  This is followed by an investigation into renormalized area in the Singular Yamabe setting. In this dissertation we look at some problems on renormalized volume and area.


id: pc289g5785j
author: Andrew J Peterson
title: Understanding Election Violence in Burundi
date: 2011
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words: 141
sentence: 6
flesch: 44
cache: cache/pc289g5785j.txt
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summary:
  Then, a brief historical overview of violence in Burundi provides context for recent events. This study conducts an analysis of the temporal and geographic distribution of violence linked to the 2010 communal elections in Burundi, including its forms, actors and targets to test alternative explanations for this violence.


id: c821gh95k6p
author: Zhi Liang
title: Towards Precursor-Directed Biosynthesis and Synthesis of Myriaporone-Tedanolide Analogues
date: 2011
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words: 165
sentence: 7
flesch: 30
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summary:
  With the recent completion of the total synthesis of the cytotoxic natural products myriaporones 1, 3 and 4 in our group, our focus has switched to prepare analogues of myriaporones, including more structurally complex myriaporone-tedanolide hybrids. This thesis details the synthetic progress towards the preparation of myriaporone-tedanolide analogues through novel precursor-directed biosynthesis as well as general organic synthesis.


id: dv13zs2842v
author: Kasey J Clear
title: Molecular Probes for Biomembrane Recognition
date: 1904
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words: 321
sentence: 13
flesch: 36
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summary:
  The second study (Chapter 3) compares the cell death targeting ability of two new phenoxide-bridged Zn2BDPA deep-red fluorescent probes in cells and two animal models of cell death. Zn2BDPA coordination complexes are known to selectively recognize PS-rich membranes and act as cell death molecular imaging agents.


id: 3x816m32x52
author: Veronica Eileen Roberts
date: 2014
extension: .txt
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words: 260
sentence: 8
flesch: 42
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title:
  Romanitas Recast: Augustine's Reeducation of the Romans Against Idolatry and Towards Good Citizenship

summary:
  In this dissertation, I argue that the City of God provides a helpful framework for concerned citizens to understand the dynamics that destroy political community. Together, he shows, these constitute the dynamic of the earthly city that undermines genuine political community.


id: 2r36tx33k9c
author: Bhargava Kumar Narayana
title: Three-Dimensional Optical Measurements in an Ethylene Fuelled Model Scramjet Engine
date: 2014
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words: 351
sentence: 18
flesch: 44
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summary:
  Visualizing flow structures in a transient combustion system is a key to establish stable operational regimes. Prior to understanding the turbulent flame dynamics due to ethylene combustion in the model scramjet, it is necessary to reveal the role played by turbulent structures in a combustion free environment.


id: d791sf28d63
author: Alan Anthony Arico
date: 2010
extension: .txt
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words: 232
sentence: 6
flesch: 41
cache: cache/d791sf28d63.txt
txt: txt/d791sf28d63.txt
title:
  A Tribological Investigation of Carbon Carbon Composites and the Affect of Roughness and Waviness Parameters on Friction Performance

summary:
  For waviness profiles, the comparison shows for an increase in torque and effectiveness, and a decrease in stop time, with a 90% confidence there is a 55% decrease in skewness (Rsk), 29% increase in high spot count (RHSC), a 31% increase in maximum valley depth (Rv), a 26% increase in mean spacing of local peak (RS), and a 4% increase in mean arithmetic wavelength (Rla). The comparison shows for an increase in torque and effectiveness, and a decrease in stop time, with a 90% confidence there is a 29% decrease in skewness (Rsk), 150% decrease in high spot count (RHSC), an 18% increase in maximum valley depth (Rv), a 38% increase in mean spacing of local peaks (RS), and a 20% increase in mean arithmetic wavelength (Rla) with an increase in torque when roughness is analyzed.


id: 4x51hh65q5d
author: Laura Marie Grimes
title: Theology as Conversation: Gertrud of Helfta and Her Sisters as Readers of Augustine
date: 2005
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words: 259
sentence: 11
flesch: 44
cache: cache/4x51hh65q5d.txt
txt: txt/4x51hh65q5d.txt
summary:
  In Book I her sisters advocate a model of female holiness as converted scholarship, comparing Gertrud to Augustine as an inspired theological teacher formed by a holy community. This dissertation analyzes the use of Augustine's life and thought, especially as recorded in his Confessions, in the Herald of Divine Love.


id: 2514nk33w9k
author: Karen P. Hollingsworth
title: Increased Use of Available Image Data Decreases Errors in Iris Biometrics
date: 2010
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words: 253
sentence: 13
flesch: 44
cache: cache/2514nk33w9k.txt
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summary:
  However, we additionally show that there is texture information in the iris that is not encoded by traditional iris biometrics systems. However, governments interested in using iris biometrics have still found difficulties using it on large populations.


id: z890rr19n1r
author: Weiming Li
title: Micromorphic Theory of Multiphase Mixtures
date: 2010
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words: 339
sentence: 17
flesch: 36
cache: cache/z890rr19n1r.txt
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summary:
  We subsequently derive the balance equations of micromorphic mixtures of grade one where only first order microdeformations are considered. To demonstrate the generality of the results, we apply our theory to a two-phase model of micromorphic bubbly mixtures.


id: 5425k933c5t
author: Jelena Jankovic Rankovic
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 435
sentence: 14
flesch: 25
cache: cache/5425k933c5t.txt
txt: txt/5425k933c5t.txt
title:
  Nonlinearity and Convergent Modalities of Human Migration: A Biocultural Study of Quotidian Imperatives among Refugees in Transitional Settlements

summary:
  Those who manage to cross multi-national borders routinely end up contained within the walls of temporary settlements, such as asylum centers. Once they leave their homeland, fleeing individuals face numerous constraints that significantly impede unauthorized movements across international borders.


id: j6731259k5c
author: Nicol ás M. Somma
title: When the Powerful Rebel: Armed Insurgency in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
date: 2011
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words: 354
sentence: 19
flesch: 43
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txt: txt/j6731259k5c.txt
summary:
  Therefore, I compare two countries with high insurgency (Colombia and Uruguay) and two with low insurgency (Chile and Costa Rica) during the century after independence (ca. 1820-1920). When most insurgencies come 'from above', why do insurgency levels vary across countries?


id: vt150g37p33
author: Syed Tariq Ahmad
date: 2006
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 385
sentence: 19
flesch: 31
cache: cache/vt150g37p33.txt
txt: txt/vt150g37p33.txt
title:
  Molecular and Genetic Studies Characterizing the Role of ninaG in Chromophore Biogenesis, Role of Rhodopsin in Maintenance of Photoreceptor Cell Structure, and Genome-Wide Transcript Changes during norpA Retinal Degeneration in Drosophila

summary:
  norpA; sun double-mutants showed faster retinal degeneration rate than single-mutants, suggesting that downregulation of sun transcript in norpA mutants contributes towards the attainment of retinal degeneration. (4) Genome-wide transcript analysis during norpA retinal degeneration.


id: 6969z031n1r
author: Xiang Li
title: Electrical properties and device applications of InAlP native oxide/GaAs MOS structures
date: 2007
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mime: text/plain
words: 367
sentence: 15
flesch: 33
cache: cache/6969z031n1r.txt
txt: txt/6969z031n1r.txt
summary:
  The measured MOSFET performance has been compared to theoretical expectations based on simplified, idealized device models. InAlP native oxide/GaAs MOS capacitors have been fabricated for use as diagnostic devices, and the electrical properties of InAlP native oxide/GaAs MOS structures have been determined from electrical measurements of these devices.


id: j3860576c06
author: Kyle William Beam
title: Future Primitive: The Politics of Militant Ecology
date: 1904
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words: 348
sentence: 13
flesch: 27
cache: cache/j3860576c06.txt
txt: txt/j3860576c06.txt
summary:
  Comparisons with other schools of contemporary green political thought show that, despite its unsystematic nature, militant ecology offers the most consistent articulation of an ecocentric political theory. This study is the first to depict militant ecology as an intellectual as well as political movement, one with its own theorists and philosophical antecedents, which expresses a coherent and compelling alternative to the philosophical and political outlook of modernity.


id: s7526973772
author: Enrico Speri
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 348
sentence: 16
flesch: 33
cache: cache/s7526973772.txt
txt: txt/s7526973772.txt
title:
  Synthesis and Biological Studies of New Classes of Antibiotic and Antibiotic Potentiators for Resistant Bacteria

summary:
  Only vancomycin, linezolid, ceftaroline, and daptomycin are left against S. aureus infections and resistant strains against these antibiotics have already been reported. Only two years later, in 1961, a new variant of resistant S. aureus appeared, which became known as methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA).


id: 02870v8510q
author: Sheng Li
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 411
sentence: 17
flesch: 38
cache: cache/02870v8510q.txt
txt: txt/02870v8510q.txt
title:
  An Integrated Power, Area, and Timing Modeling Framework for the Design of Multithreaded and Multi/Manycore Architectures

summary:
  We also explore the interconnect options of future manycore processors by varying the degree of clustering over generations of process technologies. We study the scaling trends of a multithreaded chip multiprocessor across technology generations from 90nm to 22nm.


id: 8p58pc30b3v
author: Bhoopesh Mishra
title: Molecular Binding Mechanisms of Aqueous Cd and Pb to Siderophores, Bacteria and Mineral Surfaces
date: 2006
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words: 423
sentence: 17
flesch: 44
cache: cache/8p58pc30b3v.txt
txt: txt/8p58pc30b3v.txt
summary:
  Two completely different consortia of bacteria (obtained from natural river water, and soil system with severe organic contamination) were successfully modeled in the pH range 3.4 - 7.8 using the EXAFS models developed for single species systems. In this study, XAFS has been used to resolve whether binding sites determined for single species systems are responsible for adsorption in more complex natural bacterial assemblages.


id: f1881j94k87
author: Jeffrey Thomas Wickes
title: Out of Books, A World: The Scriptural Poetics of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Faith
date: 2013
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words: 242
sentence: 6
flesch: 36
cache: cache/f1881j94k87.txt
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summary:
  Chapter two analyzes Ephrem's understanding of Scripture's poetics (how Scripture itself works, and how it has come to be) and then chapters three through five trace three metaphors which Ephrem uses Scripture to refashion: metaphors of the self (chapter three), of others (chapter four), and of Christ (chapter five). This argument is pursued in chapters two through five.


id: 5138jd49p3k
author: Jill Wharton
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 271
sentence: 8
flesch: 22
cache: cache/5138jd49p3k.txt
txt: txt/5138jd49p3k.txt
title:
  Dislocated Modernities: The Paradox of the Plantation in Twentieth-Century Irish and American Fiction

summary:
  Dislocated Modernities assembles a transatlantic archive concerning the anachronistic plantation complex to pursue two primary and interlocking aims: first, to dissect the critical feminization of big house literature, and then to foreground comparison of these traditions to unlock questions of disciplinary periodization and of postlapsarian modernism. Elizabeth Bowen, Eudora Welty, and Molly Keane have seldom been considered as writers invested in transforming planter fiction from within and on their own terms; each author struggled with vitriolic reviews and discouragement from publication when her handling of big house culture did not accord with rhetoric defining a masculinist literary renaissance.


id: th83kw5507d
author: Dan Liu
title: Genomic exploration of bacterial habitat adaptation
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 142
sentence: 6
flesch: 18
cache: cache/th83kw5507d.txt
txt: txt/th83kw5507d.txt
summary:
  In contrast, soil and marine bacterial genomes had relatively high functional diversity and possessed abundant pathways for energy production, stress response, and response to a variable environment. Many of the discriminating genetic markers for a given environment mapped well onto environmental characteristics of that environment.


id: sx61dj55c45
author: Asako Melody Yamamuro
date: 2005
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 147
sentence: 7
flesch: 36
cache: cache/sx61dj55c45.txt
txt: txt/sx61dj55c45.txt
title:
  Relationships Between Benthic Organic Matter and Invertebrates in Sand Substrates of Northern Michigan Streams

summary:
  Relationships between benthic organic matter (BOM) and macroinvertebrates have been well studied in streams with coarse substrates, but such relationships have been little studied in sand habitats, despite the abundance of sand in many streams. BOM content of sand habitats likely represents one factor, among many components of this dynamic habitat, which shapes overall macroinvertebrate communities.


id: jq085h75x7x
author: Erik L. Peterson
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 399
sentence: 16
flesch: 36
cache: cache/jq085h75x7x.txt
txt: txt/jq085h75x7x.txt
title:
  Finding Mind, Form, Organism, and Person in a Reductionist Age: The Challenge of Gregory Bateson and C. H. Waddington to Biological and Anthropological Orthodoxy, 1924-1980

summary:
  Through their relationship, Bateson and Waddington found personal and intellectual support for continued work on their organismic evolutionary theory in the life and social sciences. Both were trained when a fascination with 'organicism' motivated work in British life sciences.


id: 4q77fq99502
author: Anthony Robert Strathman
title: Application of Statistical Mechanical Methods to the Modeling of Social Networks
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 208
sentence: 9
flesch: 41
cache: cache/4q77fq99502.txt
txt: txt/4q77fq99502.txt
summary:
  We introduce an agent-based model of social behavior, designed to model the formation and dissolution of social ties. With the recent availability of large-scale social data sets, social networks have become open to quantitative analysis via the methods of statistical physics.


id: 4m90dv15w07
author: Xiaorong Xiang
title: Service-oriented architecture for integration of bioinformatic data and applications
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 139
sentence: 8
flesch: 30
cache: cache/4m90dv15w07.txt
txt: txt/4m90dv15w07.txt
summary:
  We present a practical experiment of building a service-oriented system for data integration and analysis using current web services technologies and bioinformatics middleware. Since their introduction, semantic web and web services technologies are increasingly gaining interest in the implementation of e-Science infrastructures.


id: dn39x061h6c
author: Carl Ross Berntsen
title: The Remote Microphone Probe for Unsteady Surface Pressure Measurement
date: 2014
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words: 227
sentence: 8
flesch: 37
cache: cache/dn39x061h6c.txt
txt: txt/dn39x061h6c.txt
summary:
  Analytical and experimental transfer function methods in the frequency domain are provided to correct for tubing distortions resulting from viscous attenuation and acoustic impedance changes. The probe achieved a center-to-center tap distance of 0.81mm and a frequency response up to 15kHz, thereby facilitating discrete point surface measurements with high-spatial resolution and high-frequency response.


id: 2j62s467634
author: Aaron D. Sanders
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 255
sentence: 7
flesch: 32
cache: cache/2j62s467634.txt
txt: txt/2j62s467634.txt
title:
  Potestas Indirecta: The Relationship between Temporal and Spiritual Authority in the Thought of St. Robert Bellarmine

summary:
  After one chapter introducing Bellarmine and his modern interpreters, chapters 2 and 3 make use of Bellarmine's Controversies to establish his teaching regarding the temporal power of political rulers and the spiritual power of ecclesiastical rulers, respectively. This dissertation addresses a trend in modern scholarship to portray the political theology of St. Robert Bellarmine as an attempt to maintain and even strengthen papal domination of political affairs.


id: 2z10wq00t9g
author: Raquael J. Joiner
date: 2018
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 255
sentence: 10
flesch: 32
cache: cache/2z10wq00t9g.txt
txt: txt/2z10wq00t9g.txt
title:
  Support Dynamics in the Stress-Negative Affect Link: Within Individuals, within Dyadic Pairs, and across Dyads

summary:
  The results of the present study suggest that visible support transactions are an integral component in the regulation of emotional responses to daily stress within married couples, and that wives and husbands may draw on different aspects of visible support to modulate their negative emotional responses to daily stressors. Sixty-four cohabitating, married dyads were recruited from the Notre Dame Study of Health &amp; Well-being.


id: bz60cv46x8q
author: Max Smith
title: Machiavelli's Conflictual Republic
date: 2023
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words: 151
sentence: 6
flesch: 27
cache: cache/bz60cv46x8q.txt
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summary:
  I argue that his theory offers a uniquely valuable set of tools for thinking about conflict in democratic political life. Specifically, his distinction between productive public conflicts and destructive private partisan conflicts alongside his account of the causes and consequences of both can help us think through our own preoccupations with questions of difference, disagreement, and partisanship in democratic political life.


id: 8c97kp81m6v
author: Brant Gates
title: Cell Surface Decoration with Multivalent Host-Guest Dendrimers for Localized Drug Capture
date: 2022
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words: 170
sentence: 5
flesch: 25
cache: cache/8c97kp81m6v.txt
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summary:
  A combination of confocal imaging and flow cytometry presents results indicating clear cell membrane incorporation and retention of a single cholesterol moiety conjugated to a fully CB[7]-functionalized PAMAM dendrimer that can bind and capture administered Fc-N-Cy5 at cell surfaces over the course of 3 days in vitro. Dendrimer-modified cells administered with Fc-N-Cy5 showed nearly a two-order of magnitude increase in fluorescence intensity after 24 hours compared to unmodified cells washed with Fc-N-Cy5 under the same protocol.


id: kh04dn43c4r
author: Jason Christopher Carley
title: Low-Impact Production with Bioplastic Composites
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 308
sentence: 14
flesch: 47
cache: cache/kh04dn43c4r.txt
txt: txt/kh04dn43c4r.txt
summary:
  Switching more of our products and packaging to biodegradable alternatives gives us a chance to clean our bodies, streams, beaches, and wildlife habitats. A combination of factors has fed the proliferation of plastics, hidden the consequences of their use, and stifled competition and systemic change.


id: 8w32r496w67
author: James Upton DeFrancis
title: My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His: Self-Knowledge in the Theology of Bernard of Clairvaux
date: 2012
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sentence: 10
flesch: 43
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summary:
  Chapters 2 and 3 trace respectively his parallel accounts of the soul's descent into self-deception by way of pride and self-will and its ascent to self-knowledge by way of humility and love. Previous scholarship on Bernard's doctrine of self-knowledge has correctly emphasized the significance he attaches to humbling self-knowledge, or the soul's honest self-recognition as a disfigured image of God, in the soul's first conversion and the initial stages of its return to God.


id: nc580k25p40
author: David Pirchio
title: Advancements in the Design of Pultruded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Structures
date: 2023
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flesch: 10
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summary:
  The primary research goals can be summarized as follows: The derivation of strength reduction factors and reliability of the LRFD equations for connection design; The measurement of the tensile behavior of pultruded FRP composites and derivation of an equation for the tensile strength and elastic modulus at varying angles of loading relative to the pultrusion; The measurement of the flexural modulus of pultruded FRP profiles and the contribution of shear deformation to flexural rigidity; The development and testing of a novel lapped, adhered semi-rigid connection to promote the implementation of more versatile structural framing solutions; and The proposal and reliability analysis of novel predictive models for the design of lapped, adhered semi-rigid connections within the boundaries of the LRFD methodology. The publication of the Pre-Standard for the for Load &amp; Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) of Pultruded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Structures, hereafter referred to as the Pre-Standard, established the standardization of the design of structures in pultruded FRP composite.


id: 6969z031n6g
author: Joseph Arthur Hagmann
title: Magnetotransport Investigation of Bismuth Chalcogenide Topological Insulators
date: 2014
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flesch: 22
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summary:
  V2VI3 materials Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 with tetradymite rhombohedral layered structures consisting of repeating layers of Se(Te)-Bi-Se(Te)-Bi-Se(Te) are in a class of electronic materials called topological insulators (TIs) exhibiting a bulk band gap and band-crossing surface states supported by the non-trivial band topology of the TI. This research is part of the significant effort in perfecting techniques for producing high quality TI materials and studying the structural, electronic, and other characteristics of these novel quantum materials.


id: dn39x061j29
author: Marcia E Braun
title: Sleep and Emotions in Midlife: The Value of Restorative Sleep
date: 2010
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sentence: 19
flesch: 45
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summary:
  In separate analyses, however, variability in one's sleep time predicting negative and positive mood was predicated on an individual's level of global sleep quality, in which poorer global sleep quality was related to increased daily negative mood, and decreased daily positive mood. Although sleep quality begins to decline in early adulthood, sleep characteristics become more stable by old age, and the greatest changes are observed when comparing sleep between young and old adults.


id: b5644q80n0q
author: James (Jay) Martin, Jr.
title: Žižek and the Death of God: Hegel or Lacan?
date: 2021
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flesch: 20
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summary:
  The typological approach, however, is perhaps less procedurally straightforward insofar as it attempts to contour Žižek as a particular type of religiosity, one constitutively theological while remaining atheistic, demonstrating the possibility of being religious in the quagmire of post-secularism. For Žižek, such ideological commitments (or the atheism they seem to imply) are neither necessary nor sufficient to discount the importance of the theological, and moreover, should not disqualify even the most militant of fighting atheists[1] from self-identifying as Christians, whatever the requisite caveats.


id: xw42n586g9r
author: Dale Lee Kling
title: Conformationally Constrained Aminoglycosides: Ribosomal Binding Probes and Potential Antibiotics
date: 2006
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sentence: 2
flesch: 26
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summary:
  Conformational constraints were placed on derivatives of neamine, a subclass of aminoglycosides, via an N3-N6' linkage in order to investigate the relevance of conformational states in binding the bacterial ribosome. Additionally, an understanding of how this new class of compounds behaves in the presence of aminoglycoside modifying enzymes was sought.


id: cz30pr78h8x
author: Amy M McHenry
title: Immunological characterization of the P. vivax DBP
date: 2009
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sentence: 15
flesch: 39
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summary:
  Clinical symptoms of malaria are caused by the blood stage of the disease in which the parasites invade red blood cells, replicate inside them and then are released into the circulation to invade new red blood cells. This process results in the destruction of large numbers of red blood cells causing fever and chills and severe anemia among other symptoms.


id: pz50gt5821w
author: Janel M. Dempsey
title: Noncovalent Assembly Using a New Class of Tetralactam Macrocycles
date: 2021
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words: 622
sentence: 20
flesch: 26
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summary:
  The use of a cationic tetralactam with an anionic squaraine provides a new host-guest pair with nanomolar affinity in water, leading to an additional method of modulating threading affinity. For in situ capture applications, squaraine affinity for this new macrocycle is increased to nanomolar through the supramolecular paradigm of guest back-folding.


id: dv13zs28227
author: Shashank V Maiya
title: Spectral Efficiency and Its Relation to Routing Strategies in Simple Communication Networks
date: 2010
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words: 137
sentence: 4
flesch: 39
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summary:
  This thesis compares one-hop routing and two-hop routing in simple networks consisting of two mobile nodes and a single destination (base) node. The networks under consideration use time division multiple access (wherein the nodes co-operate only in that they do not try to access the channel simultaneously) for multi-hop transmission to mitigate interference and include a linear network (with unequal spacing) and a simple two-dimensional network.


id: sn009w05h02
author: Jin Xu
title: Mining and Modeling the Open Source Software Community
date: 2007
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words: 677
sentence: 33
flesch: 43
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summary:
  Our goal is to find intrinsic mechanisms that lie in OSS networks to explain some OSS specific features such as roles of developers, communication, and reliability of the OSS community. We compare properties of social networks such as degree distribution, diameter and clustering coefficient to dock Repast and Swarm simulations of four social network models.


id: 2n49t150c4c
author: Matthew R. Bailey
date: 1904
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sentence: 6
flesch: 16
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title:
  Sheath-Flow Microfluidic Approach for Combined Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Electrochemical Detection

summary:
  The platform has also been used to investigate the role of surface adsorption in the SERS and electrochemical detection of neurotransmitters, as well as examine reversible changes in spectral features of riboflavin based on applied potential. This combination of SERS and amperometry in a single device provides an improved method to identify and quantify electroactive analytes over either technique independently.


id: qz20sq89s43
author: Kyong Chang
title: New Multi-Biometric Approaches for Improved Person Identification
date: 2005
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words: 348
sentence: 15
flesch: 41
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summary:
  The proposed method outperforms 3D eigenfaces when 3D face scans were acquired in different times without expression changes and also with expression changes. Also, a new algorithm for 3D face recognition is proposed for handling expression variation.


id: jw827943j9c
author: Kristina Hook
date: 2020
extension: .txt
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words: 364
sentence: 10
flesch: 13
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title:
  When the Ukrainian World Was Destroyed: Genocidal Narrative Convergence and Stakeholder Interactions during National Crises

summary:
  Since Ukraine's 1991 independence, narratives regarding the Holodomor have grown from a diffuse set of suppressed memories into an officially-sanctioned charter story for Ukrainian national identity as nuances decreased and stakeholder narratives converged during a series of escalating national crises. Contextualizing this argument through 2.5 years of ethnographic fieldwork and participant-observation in Ukraine, I explore Holodomor narrative functions—including reclamation, resistance, absolution, and camouflage—and demonstrate the salience of this event and its legacy in understanding contemporary Ukraine.


id: xk81jh36n8z
author: Lisa E Cole
date: 2015
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sentence: 11
flesch: 30
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title:
  Bisphosphonate-functionalized gold nanoparticles as a targeted X-ray contrast agent for breast microcalcifications

summary:
  However, the detection of breast microcalcifications and correct diagnosis of breast cancer are limited by the sensitivity and specificity of mammography, especially in women with radiographically dense breasts. Early detection is considered the best option for reducing morbidity and mammography is the current gold standard for early detection of breast cancer.


id: 00000002w1z
author: Michael Rotolo
title: Seeking the Good Life: The Moral Development of Young People in America
date: 2022
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words: 347
sentence: 14
flesch: 25
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summary:
  Its analysis identifies distinct traumatic upbringing experiences among respondents, which condition heightened threat-sensitive emotions, giving Christian nationalists an enduring sense that their way of life is under attack and motivating reactionary sociological attitudes. The first essay proposes a new approach for studying religious engagement, which involves considering the moral orders that shape people's religious understandings.


id: jd472v2642b
author: Jennifer Newsome Martin
title: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Press of Speculative Russian Religious Philosophy
date: 2012
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sentence: 7
flesch: 2
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summary:
  It is the burden of this study to demonstrate, as evidenced by his critical excavation of the Russians, that Balthasar's own theological method can' contravening the opinion of some of his critics' be characterized as quintessentially non-nostalgic, structurally hospitable to non-theological categories, non-canonic sources, and modes of speculative thinking which probe, but do not exceed the elastic boundaries of tradition. Thematic, theological, and methodological affinities between Balthasar and the Russians include a shared broad-mindedness toward navigating between the ancient Christian tradition and modern philosophical developments, a variously critical reception of German Idealism and Romanticism, and in focused treatment of the relation of God and world, immanence and transcendence, freedom and necessity, as well as kenoticism, eschatology, Trinity, history, pneumatology, cosmology, and aesthetics.


id: mc87pn92r4g
author: Brittany Williams
title: Unthought Known
date: 2021
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words: 77
sentence: 3
flesch: 28
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summary:
  I construct spaces and non-narratives through illusion and figuration in order to reflect trauma's resistance to representation and acknowledgement. Unthought Known is a multimedia photographic series that investigates the psychological and physiological lived experience of traumatic memory.


id: hd76rx94596
author: Thomas C. Samper
title: Separation Control in 2-D Closed Channel Bends
date: 2019
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words: 305
sentence: 15
flesch: 43
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summary:
  Flow separation control by both passive and active means are investigated. Experiments were conducted over a range of pressures and Mach numbers to determine applicability of flow control techniques.


id: zk51vd70m0v
author: Kevin G. Sanchez
title: Transcriptional Regulation of the Mycobacterial Weapons System
date: 2022
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words: 260
sentence: 14
flesch: 34
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summary:
  We discovered a role for the ESX-1 system in regulating gene expression. Finally, we identified several specific residues necessary for EspM multimerization and EspM function.


id: tb09j388f51
author: Eric Stefan
date: 2013
extension: .txt
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words: 325
sentence: 11
flesch: 24
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title:
  Novel Access to Methyl Substituted Polyketide Structural Units Through 1,5-Hydride Shift and Ether Transfer: Application to the Syntheses of Diospongins A and B and Towards Lyngbyaloside C

summary:
  This dissertation comprises three major components that sequentially describe the development of three methodologies for the formation of novel methyl substituted polyketide structural units and their application in complex molecule synthesis. Starting from 1,1-disubstituted alkenes, this transformation enabled us to stereoselectively access tertiary ethers.


id: r781wd40f7k
author: Ek Raj Adhikari
title: Electrical and Biochemical Performances of a Plasma Jet at Atmospheric Pressure
date: 2019
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words: 348
sentence: 13
flesch: 40
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summary:
  This dissertation starts with a study of the correlation between the plasma parameters (e.g., flow rate, voltage) and DNA damage level induced due to plasma irradiation. To measure the total yield of reactive species formed during plasma irradiation, an acidified ferrous sulfate solution was employed.


id: 5138jd4900b
author: John Holmes
title: The Cauchy Problem for Several Nonlinear Evolution Equations
date: 2015
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words: 564
sentence: 26
flesch: 50
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summary:
  This thesis begins with a introduction to heat equations, by studying the historical advances leading up to Fourier and several advances and applications of his ideas. There are many interesting phenomenon which can be modeled by nonlinear diffusion equations.


id: cc08hd79z5w
author: Justin Donald DeBenedetto
title: Multiset and DAG Automata for Abstract Meaning Representation
date: 2021
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words: 537
sentence: 20
flesch: 44
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summary:
  Specifically, we: Define a new translation from weighted multiset regular expressions to weighted multiset automata more direct and compact than previous work as well as a new composable representation of partial runs of multiset automata more efficient than previous work Show that the Transformer's sinusoidal positional encodings can be viewed as a multiset automaton Prove that complex-weighted multiset automata with only self-loops can approximate real-weighted multiset automata and extend DeepSets to compute the forward weights of complex-weighted multiset automata enabling it to handle a new task Modify and implement an extended DAG recognition algorithm to use complex diagonalized multiset automata in place of positional encodings in a Transformer network for AMR-to-text generation Demonstrate that these improvements now allow such a system to train on a GPU, opening new opportunities for future systems based on DAG and multiset automata These methods build upon existing work, utilizing in particular multiset automata and directed acyclic graph (DAG) processing algorithms.


id: tx31qf8840t
author: Robert Eugene Brenneman
title: Faith and the Foreigner: Exploring the Impact of Religion on Immigration Attitudes
date: 2005
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words: 139
sentence: 7
flesch: 30
cache: cache/tx31qf8840t.txt
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summary:
  This study uses data from the General Social Survey to determine whether religious affiliation or attendance affect attitudes about immigrants and immigration policy. Ordered logistic regression of data at the national level shows that Jews and the non-religious are the most likely to hold tolerant attitudes toward immigrants followed by Catholics even after controlling for a variety of socio-demographic controls.


id: z316pz53351
author: Goal Auzeen Saedi
date: 2009
extension: .txt
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words: 149
sentence: 9
flesch: 32
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title:
  Loss of Face as a Mediator Between Acculturation and Trust in Mental Health Researchers and Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services in Iranian Americans

summary:
  It was hypothesized that loss of face mediates the relationship between acculturation and both trust in mental health researchers and attitudes toward seeking mental health services. Given the small body of Iranian mental health literature, an examination of issues related to lack of participation in mental health studies is needed.


id: 6395w666674
author: Samantha Slaubaugh
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 317
sentence: 12
flesch: 38
cache: cache/6395w666674.txt
txt: txt/6395w666674.txt
title:
  Liturgy and Ecstasy among the Beguines of Roubaud: Douceline of Digne's Vida as Liturgical Commentary and Customary

summary:
  The community's hagiography about their founder wove Douceline's raptures into the community's liturgical and sacramental life by interpreting her ecstatic body as performing liturgical commentary and as promoting liturgical ideals. Chapter five concludes the dissertation with its summary findings and the import and relevance of this work to the fields of liturgical studies and medieval and church history.


id: h128nc60x08
author: Samantha F. Anderson
title: Missing Data in Randomized Pretest Posttest Studies: A Growth Curve Perspective
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 356
sentence: 12
flesch: 34
cache: cache/h128nc60x08.txt
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summary:
  Although missing data handling has seen advances over the past several decades, effective and practical solutions for handling missing data in RPP designs are lacking. However, missing data at posttest is a ubiquitous occurrence with this type of design.


id: xk81jh36q15
author: Allison Janette Cross
title: Catalyst Design for Hydrogen Production from Ethanol
date: 2015
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words: 276
sentence: 12
flesch: 36
cache: cache/xk81jh36q15.txt
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summary:
  Ni catalysts prepared by ISCS are also supported on ceria and silica powders (Chapter 5) to determine the effect of supports on the activity and selectivity of the catalysts. It was determined that the mechanism of metal formation in the combustion front is due to reduction by gases released during the combustion reaction when producing bulk Ni catalysts.


id: d217qn61t4q
author: Xiangyi Liu
date: 2008
extension: .txt
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words: 354
sentence: 18
flesch: 36
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title:
  Application of Mechano-Regulatory Tissue Differentiation Theory in Tendon Attachment Scaffold Design - A Finite Element Study

summary:
  The formation of different tissues from an initial population of stem cells after injury is referred to as tissue differentiation. First, tissue differentiation pathways observed in vivo were enforced.


id: r781wd39k72
author: Jason M. Bray
date: 2013
extension: .txt
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words: 349
sentence: 14
flesch: 23
cache: cache/r781wd39k72.txt
txt: txt/r781wd39k72.txt
title:
  Adsorbate Coverage Dependence in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Kinetics of Oxygen Adsorption on Platinum Surfaces from First Principles

summary:
  Quantum-based computational methods play an important role in this discovery by allowing accelerated screening of new materials and providing a deeper, molecular-level understanding of how chemistry happens at catalyst surfaces. In this work, we combine DFT calculations with cluster expansion and Monte Carlo techniques to model reactivity at catalyst surfaces completely from first principles.


id: gb19f47789s
author: Emily Stetler
title: Poured Out Like an Offering: Toward an Anthropology of Kenosis
date: 2012
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words: 157
sentence: 8
flesch: 43
cache: cache/gb19f47789s.txt
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summary:
  This dissertation considers current theological discussions about kenotic aspects of humanity and goes beyond them, imagining a theological anthropology in which kenosis is humanity's defining characteristic. The dissertation, thus, seeks to define kenosis in a way that makes it applicable to more than an act, but to a whole existential orientation.


id: nc580k24h6v
author: Kelly Ann McEnerney
title: Observations and Dynamics of Low Salinity Cold Pools in the Bay of Bengal
date: 2015
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words: 380
sentence: 12
flesch: 42
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summary:
  These observations were made in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), on board the Research Vessel Roger Revelle, operating out of Colombo, Sri Lanka. An interesting feature observed during the first scientific cruise of the Air Sea Interactions in the Northern Indian Ocean (ASIRI) Research Initiative of the Office of Naval Research (2013-2017) was intermittently distributed Low Salinity Cold Water Pools (LSCWP) at the ocean surface.


id: ws859c70d7n
author: Paul Giesting
title: Uranyl Complexes with Organic Ligands: Classification, Crystal Structures, and Applications
date: 2006
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words: 294
sentence: 17
flesch: 41
cache: cache/ws859c70d7n.txt
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summary:
  Hundreds of crystal structures of uranyl complexes with organic ligands have been published. These compounds all display hydroxyl bridging between uranyl ions, leading to highly polymeric complexes.


id: 4f16c250c79
author: Ashley Nicole Edewaard
title: Food as Medicine of Body and Soul: Clement of Alexandria's Dietary Prescriptions in the Paedagogus
date: 2020
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words: 342
sentence: 13
flesch: 39
cache: cache/4f16c250c79.txt
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summary:
  Clement's belief in the interdependence of body and soul demonstrates that the Paedagogus, in its attention to bodily behaviors, is no less grounded in philosophical commitments than Clement's more obviously philosophical treatises. Clement devotes significant attention to diet in the Paedagogus because he believes that the body and soul coexist in a symbiotic relationship.


id: k0698625s1d
author: Michael Joseph Keane
title: Political Equality and the Empirical Analysis of Deliberation
date: 2010
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words: 342
sentence: 12
flesch: 23
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summary:
  I argue that these results should guide further empirical analysis of political equality within deliberation, can advise practitioners in constructing deliberative bodies, and suggest that traditionally disempowered groups can be successfully integrated into democratic deliberation without the aid of 'enclaves.' I find that members of these groups are more likely to find deliberation useful in helping them clarify issue attitudes, and that African Americans are more likely than other racial groups to feel efficacious within small groups.


id: gt54kk93m9b
author: Elizabeth A. Covay
title: The Emergence and Persistence of the Black-White Achievement Gap
date: 2010
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words: 314
sentence: 14
flesch: 48
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summary:
  However, black students benefit less from advanced math course taking and leave high school with a lower level of math skills despite advanced course taking compared to white students. When children enter kindergarten, black students receive biased estimates of ability from teachers at the beginning of the year, but this is reduced as teachers have more time to observe student ability.


id: sf268339m9m
author: Michael J. Lubben
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 308
sentence: 13
flesch: 36
cache: cache/sf268339m9m.txt
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title:
  Ionic Liquids for Separation of Aromatics and Aliphatics: Extraction and Solvent Regeneration Using CO2

summary:
  Due to several drawbacks from the current industrial processes for this separation, ionic liquids (ILs) have drawn interest as potential solvents for this separation. In the production of aromatic compounds, it is necessary to separate aromatic products from aliphatic compounds.


id: 8k71ng4839p
author: Dani Green
title: Postal Forms in the Nineteenth-Century British Naturalist Novel
date: 2020
extension: .txt
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words: 343
sentence: 7
flesch: 10
cache: cache/8k71ng4839p.txt
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summary:
  The naturalist novel's impersonal orientation toward its content is a formalism it shares with the reformed post office's modes of handling personal content, and I examine three specific types of postal forms—enveloped subjectivity, postal postures, and juxtaposition—not to define or prop up British naturalism, but to observe habits among three naturalist writers. This dissertation explores how the British post office and the British naturalist novel handle the circulation of personal objects—letters and characters—in impersonal ways, with the postal system functioning as a useful analogy for understanding the narrative habits of British naturalism.


id: zp38w952r5d
author: Daniel John Robertson
title: New Measurements for the Astrophysically Important 40Ca(&#945;,&#947;)44Ti Reaction
date: 2010
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words: 219
sentence: 9
flesch: 42
cache: cache/zp38w952r5d.txt
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summary:
  The new reaction rates derived in this work results in an increased expected yield of 44Ti in proposed supernova environments (for example Cassiopeia A) by ~ 40 %, when compared to 1D supernova models using reaction rates based on previous prompt &gamma;-ray studies . Production in the Ì_å±-rich freeze-out zone of a core-collapse supernova makes 44Ti an important nuclide in the understanding of nucleosynthesis in explosive stellar environments.


id: ft848p61w3t
author: Jeremy Mann
title: Applications of Factorization Homology to Riemannian Field Theories
date: 2019
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words: 134
sentence: 7
flesch: 33
cache: cache/ft848p61w3t.txt
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summary:
  We begin by defining an abstract setting in which to model the local observables of field theories depending on a Riemannian structure. In this thesis, we relate geometric field theories with classical, homotopical invariants of algebraic objects.


id: wp988g8748f
author: Daniel Dominique Leger
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 546
sentence: 15
flesch: 26
cache: cache/wp988g8748f.txt
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title:
  The Third Way of Neoconservatism: An Analysis of the Political, Strategic, Moral, Philosophical and Epistemological Basis to Neoconservatism

summary:
  On matters ranging from the importance of morality in foreign policy to the relevance of common sense as the standard for judging the effectiveness of public policy, the gulf between neoconservatism and the more mainstream traditions is very wide. The two lines are married by Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and others into a unified approach to foreign policy.


id: q811kh07981
author: Courtney Smotherman
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 356
sentence: 12
flesch: 40
cache: cache/q811kh07981.txt
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title:
  Io ho deliberato di scrivere: The Personalization of Humanistic Historiography during the Italian Wars (1494-1559)

summary:
  These authors used their own experience in and knowledge of the Wars to modify the traditional form of humanistic history to something that could narrate and explain the traumatic events between 1494 and 1559. In my final chapter, I look at the post-War work of Angelo di Costanzo to demonstrate that these personalization techniques were also put to use by post-War historians to write humanistic histories of their own.


id: tb09j388g0m
author: Matthew Ryan Wilson
date: 2015
extension: .txt
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words: 352
sentence: 14
flesch: 25
cache: cache/tb09j388g0m.txt
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title:
  Synthesis, Conformational Analysis, and Biological Evaluation of the Potent Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents, (&#8211;)-Zampanolide and (&#8211;)-Dactylolide

summary:
  Zampanolide, a 20-membered marine polyketide, exhibits low nanomolar cytotoxicity (0.25 &#8211; 3 ng/mL) against multiple human cancer cell lines and induces apoptosis through microtubule bundle formation. A detailed knowledge of zampanolide and dactylolide's solution conformational preferences not only helped identify its bioactive conformation but also significantly aided in the development of simplified analogues.


id: kp78gf08r7b
author: Jessica Elizabeth Hornick
title: Mitotic Spindle Assembly: Microtubules and the Role of the Centrosome
date: 2009
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words: 419
sentence: 22
flesch: 41
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summary:
  Venous egg extracts and laser ablation of centrosomes have demonstrated that bipolar spindles can form in the absence of centrosomes. When centrosomes are surgically removed from the cell, we find that while bipolar spindles can form in the absence of centrosomes, mistakes happen a significant amount of times.


id: 5x21td98h7f
author: Owen Michael Phelan
title: The Formation of Christian Europe: Baptism under the Carolingians
date: 2008
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words: 221
sentence: 8
flesch: 31
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summary:
  I study the religious metaphors and theological concepts which underlie the political and social ideas common to a variety of early medieval texts including law codes, theological treatises, land charters, ethical instruction, ritual commentaries, chronicles and other narrative sources. Careful study of early medieval books, especially how early medieval writers juxtaposed different genres of literature structured to privilege the implications of baptism, strengthen my argument and ground my study in the material culture of the early Middle Ages.


id: k0698626z3x
author: Whitney M. Conard
title: Integration of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems of the Great Lakes Region
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 349
sentence: 14
flesch: 29
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txt: txt/k0698626z3x.txt
summary:
  Finally, I adapt and optimize a rapid method for measuring total fluorine as a proxy for PFAS using Particle-Induced Gamma-ray Emission (PIGE) spectroscopy, which will increase sample through-put and reduce cost for processing PFAS samples when compared to Liquid Chromatography with tandem Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS). I also determine that an iteroparous species (steelhead trout) had higher total body burdens of PFAS compared to semelparous species (Chinook and coho salmon), suggesting that repeat spawners have more opportunities for PFAS exposure and acquisition.


id: cz30pr79d4w
author: Charles C. Yost
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 381
sentence: 11
flesch: 26
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txt: txt/cz30pr79d4w.txt
title:
  The Thought and Ministry of a "Unionist Priest" (ἑνωτικὸς ἱερεύς): John Plousiadenos (†1500), the Council of Florence, and the Tradition of Byzantine Unionism

summary:
  This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the unionists: medieval Greek Christians who were united to the Roman Church and urged their countrymen to do likewise through the lens provided by the life and writings of the still poorly-known Cretan polymath and priest John Plousiadenos (c. 1426-1500), a theologian, pastor, and defender of the union between the Greek and Latin Churches proclaimed at the Council of Florence (1439).Because of his unionist convictions, John was reviled by his own countrymen as a Λατινόφρων (Latin-minded). This dissertation strives to understand the unionist perspective on its own terms—rather than those of its contemporary or modern critics—through the investigation of the pastoral and polemical theology of John Plousiadenos: one of the final, and most outstanding, representatives of the Byzantine tradition of unionism.


id: b2773t9679r
author: Timothy Schoenharl
title: Creating, Updating and Validating Simulations in a Dynamic, Data-Driven Application System
date: 2008
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mime: text/plain
words: 301
sentence: 14
flesch: 34
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txt: txt/b2773t9679r.txt
summary:
  We present a thorough evaluation of the simulation in terms of model validation, simulation design and runtime characteristics. We introduce an aggregate method for online creation and updating of ABM simulations and evaluate the approach against alternatives.


id: 9k41zc80w66
author: Sabrina Yve Strauss
title: Conversion Electrons in 154,156Gd
date: 2020
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mime: text/plain
words: 326
sentence: 16
flesch: 62
cache: cache/9k41zc80w66.txt
txt: txt/9k41zc80w66.txt
summary:
  The transitions between two 0+ states can only be seen via E0 transitions, which are forbidden via γ-rays. Probing the 0+ states in nuclei requires spectroscopy of the 0+ states with respect to other states.


id: 3n203x84509
author: Jermaine Marshall
title: Foodpollo: Driving Reliable Food Recommendations from a Massive Online Food Portal
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 321
sentence: 12
flesch: 43
cache: cache/3n203x84509.txt
txt: txt/3n203x84509.txt
summary:
  Utilizing relationships between recipe ingredient information would enable us to solve this problem and allow us to accurately recommend healthy and preferable meals to consumers. The need to provide reliable information in healthy food recommendations to consumers has become more imperative as misinformation continues to spread and obesity rates continue to rise.


id: d217qn62z78
author: Maria Cristina Miranda Vergara
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 453
sentence: 21
flesch: 38
cache: cache/d217qn62z78.txt
txt: txt/d217qn62z78.txt
title:
  Microenvironmental Changes by Stromal MMP3 Regulate Primary Tumor Growth and Lung Metastasis in Breast Cancer

summary:
  In initial experiments, tumor burden increased in MMP3 KO mice, suggesting an inhibitory role for stromal MMP3. Together, this study suggests that stromal MMP3 has both protective and tumor promoting roles during breast cancer and highlights the context-specific functions of MMP3 during breast cancer.


id: cz30pr79n3q
author: Pitambar Sapkota
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 226
sentence: 9
flesch: 32
cache: cache/cz30pr79n3q.txt
txt: txt/cz30pr79n3q.txt
title:
  Photoelectron Spectroscopic Studies of Energy Converting Semiconductor Materials and Their Interfaces with Molecular Gases

summary:
  For a long time, people have been trying to find more efficient ways to convert other forms of energies such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy to electrical energy. In the last few decades, III-V semiconductors, halide perovskites, and metal oxides are being studied as promising energy converting materials in devices like solar and fuel cells.


id: g158bg27d60
author: Kyle Pettijohn
title: Causality and Expectedness in Establishing Event Boundaries
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 225
sentence: 11
flesch: 48
cache: cache/g158bg27d60.txt
txt: txt/g158bg27d60.txt
summary:
  That is, to what degree do the processing differences observed with event boundaries reflect model updating and to what degree do they reflect an unexpected causal break in the flow of narrative action? The results of Experiment 1 revealed that readers do not expect event shifts, but providing prior knowledge of a shift eliminates the difference in expectedness.


id: f1881j94m2g
author: Stephen L Erwin
title: Extraction of Full-Scale Dynamic Properties from Short Duration Records
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 457
sentence: 15
flesch: 23
cache: cache/f1881j94m2g.txt
txt: txt/f1881j94m2g.txt
summary:
  Once the reliability of the extracted dynamic properties was established, this thesis explored the influence of characteristics such as height, aspect ratio and structural system on the dynamic properties, demonstrating how damping and frequency characteristics for structural systems dominated by cantilever effects are more appropriately parameterized by variables such as height or slenderness, while those from systems dominated by frame action are more reliant on floor plate aspect ratio. While this database encompasses a number of structural systems and materials, the buildings were only instrumented for short periods of time under ambient vibration levels, making the extraction of parameters like damping quite difficult.


id: ms35t725h20
author: Adam Papp
title: Spin-Wave-Based Computing
date: 1904
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words: 232
sentence: 8
flesch: 42
cache: cache/ms35t725h20.txt
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summary:
  We borrowed ideas from the already well established optical computing theory, but instead of using optical waves, we redesigned these concepts for spin waves. Our approach is to directly use spin waves for wave-computing algorithms as opposed to designing novel logic gates using spin-wave signals -- which has been the more typical approach recently.


id: rb68x92423x
author: Gozde Basara
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 641
sentence: 18
flesch: 23
cache: cache/rb68x92423x.txt
txt: txt/rb68x92423x.txt
title:
  Development of Novel Bioinks and 3D Printing Methodologies for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications

summary:
  Overall, in this dissertation I develop new bioinks and methods to utilize 3D bioprinting in various cardiac tissue engineering applications, such as post-MI tissue models and cardiac patches, which can be used as a guide for developing new models and treatment strategies. Three dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing technology allowing accurate spatial deposition of the biological materials and active cells in a pre-designed pattern and is thus considered a promising technique for fabricating biomimetic cardiac tissue models in vitro.


id: q811kh0802f
author: Karen Angeles
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 579
sentence: 15
flesch: 10
cache: cache/q811kh0802f.txt
txt: txt/q811kh0802f.txt
title:
  Advancing Multi-Hazard Performance Assessments from Parcel to Regional Scale: A Data-Driven Approach to Wind Hazards Impacts on Commercial Buildings

summary:
  In response, this dissertation capitalizes on this newfound, open-data landscape to formalize methodologies that (1) deepen the capacity for high fidelity loss assessments of actual constructed buildings under multiple hazards through an integrated life-cycle assessment (iLCA) framework, (2) establish computationally-efficient, data-driven frameworks for hurricane regional loss assessments that (i) harness the modern open building data landscape, (ii) support the myriad of geometries and material assemblies found in today's building stock, and (iii) facilitate seamless scale up from parcel to regional scale, and then (3) implement these frameworks using actual constructed buildings/building inventories to demonstrate how open data can be leveraged to advance various modules of existing end-to-end open-source hurricane regional loss assessment workflows. These capabilities are exercised on individual buildings and then scaled up through the replication and extension of existing open-source workflows for hurricane regional loss assessment.


id: ws859c7193m
author: Kevin X. Rodriguez
title: Carbenoid Strategies for the Development of Fully Substituted Carbon Centers
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 145
sentence: 5
flesch: 27
cache: cache/ws859c7193m.txt
txt: txt/ws859c7193m.txt
summary:
  Albeit nontrivial, the long withstanding challenge of developing new chemical space for natural products of biological importance depends heavily on the development of new synthetic methods. With the increase in drug-resistance today, the expansion of chemical knowledge within the realm of natural products continues to play a vital role in biomedical research.


id: kw52j675b52
author: Ian M Sander
title: Protein Folding is Modulated by the Translating Ribosome
date: 2012
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mime: text/plain
words: 231
sentence: 11
flesch: 39
cache: cache/kw52j675b52.txt
txt: txt/kw52j675b52.txt
summary:
  The results presented in this thesis show that the coupling of protein folding to the process of translation is critical part of how nascent proteins reach their native structures in vivo. This co-translational folding represents an important restriction on the conformational ensemble populated by nascent proteins in vivo.


id: h702q526s68
author: Reanna A. Ursin
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 243
sentence: 7
flesch: 20
cache: cache/h702q526s68.txt
txt: txt/h702q526s68.txt
title:
  Slavery as a Site of Memory: Interracial Intersubjectivity in the Historical Novels of Sherley Anne Williams, Caryl Phillips and Edward P. Jones

summary:
  Analyzing their narratives in relation to Toni Morrison's assertion that slavery necessitated the dehumanization of both blacks and whites, I assert that Williams, Phillips, and Jones challenge articulations of slavery's legacy that employ the divisive rhetoric of blame, but also resist the liberal humanist impulse to relegate slavery's significance to the past. Depicting an intersubjective experience of slavery through the foregrounding of mutually constitutive relationships, these novels critique the way contemporary social, cultural and political debates are invested in one-dimensional models of racial interaction.


id: df65v694x8k
author: Jooyoung Cha
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 339
sentence: 19
flesch: 45
cache: cache/df65v694x8k.txt
txt: txt/df65v694x8k.txt
title:
  Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Pathogens: Characterizations of Catalytic Properties in Antibiotic Resistance

summary:
  The C-terminal domain of BlaR1 (BlaRS) is related to class D §-lactamases. BlaRS differs from class D §-lactamases by exhibiting barrierless N§-decarboxylation inthe event of acylation, which traps acyl-enzyme complex.


id: z890rr19n0d
author: Todd Russell Hanneken
title: The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses
date: 2008
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words: 264
sentence: 15
flesch: 43
cache: cache/z890rr19n0d.txt
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summary:
  The Book of Jubilees uses the genre 'apocalypse' to express a worldview that differs significantly from the cluster of ideas typically expressed by contemporary apocalypses. Although the apocalypses express great variety in worldview, they form a cluster of compatible views around these issues inherent in the use of the genre.


id: g158bg27d49
author: Angela Nardoni Laws
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 348
sentence: 21
flesch: 42
cache: cache/g158bg27d49.txt
txt: txt/g158bg27d49.txt
title:
  Effects of abiotic conditions and herbivore density on tritrophic interactions in an old field food chain

summary:
  2) How do grasshopper performance traits (survival, fecundity, body mass) respond to variation in temperature, and can grasshopper density modify these responses? Food chain length, grasshopper density, and temperature were manipulated in field enclosures.


id: 05741r6899w
author: Margaret Nicola Abruzzo
title: Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate
date: 2006
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 352
sentence: 18
flesch: 39
cache: cache/05741r6899w.txt
txt: txt/05741r6899w.txt
summary:
  This dissertation studies the role of slave pain in shaping moral evaluations of slavery. Criticisms of slaveholding cruelty emerged from two distinct sources, both concerned more with white morality than black pain:


id: c534fn12921
author: Brandon Fogel
title: Epistemology of a Theory of Everything
date: 2009
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 295
sentence: 8
flesch: 35
cache: cache/c534fn12921.txt
txt: txt/c534fn12921.txt
summary:
  They both argue that, in a fully-developed theory, the behavior of measuring devices should not be taken as given but rather derived from first principles; i.e., as composite objects able to determine the properties of more basic entities, rigid rulers and regular clocks should arise as particular solutions of the fundamental equations. I argue that this requirement, though important for explaining how theories can make claims about the world that are capable of test through observation, leaves the task half-finished.


id: p5547p91t7r
author: Bethany Wentz
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 151
sentence: 7
flesch: 5
cache: cache/p5547p91t7r.txt
txt: txt/p5547p91t7r.txt
title:
  Impact of Outgroup Attitude and Emotional Security on Youth Engagement in Sectarian Anti-Social Behavior

summary:
  Hypotheses state that emotional security mediates the relationship between mother and adolescent outgroup attitudes, and adolescent outgroup attitude impacts adolescent engagement in sectarian antisocial behavior. Results indicate mother and adolescent outgroup attitudes are correlated at all time points and that emotional security does not mediate the relationship between mother and adolescent outgroup attitude.


id: n870zp42b6k
author: Maria A. Videtta
title: The Accidental Citizens of Bedford: The Representation of Italian Immigrants in Britain
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 151
sentence: 5
flesch: 47
cache: cache/n870zp42b6k.txt
txt: txt/n870zp42b6k.txt
summary:
  This thesis looks at the history of the Italian community in Bedford and how it has been documented in two films currently held in the University of East Anglia film archive. The present thesis looks specifically at how the films address issues regarding integration and argues that Italian integration in Britain has not been as successful or as straightforward as the scholarship suggests.


id: 9593tt47v13
author: Natalie Bourman-Karns
title: Gun Violence: Emotional Reactions and a Willingness to Mobilize
date: 2021
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mime: text/plain
words: 179
sentence: 5
flesch: 37
cache: cache/9593tt47v13.txt
txt: txt/9593tt47v13.txt
summary:
  This study uses data from an original experimental survey to analyze three issues: the variation in emotional reactions to different forms of gun violence, the variation in a willingness to mobilize for gun-related issues, and the effects of racial identity on these potential patterns of variation. I find evidence that any form of gun violence will evoke strong emotional reactions but there is no significant difference across treatment groups; the willingness to mobilize is largely unaffected by the type of gun violence; and that there are suggestive differences in how white people compared to Black people react to gun violence that warrant further investigation.


id: j6731260n63
author: Anh P. Ha
title: Acculturation, Family Conflict, and Mental Health in Immigrants in Norway
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 185
sentence: 5
flesch: 0
cache: cache/j6731260n63.txt
txt: txt/j6731260n63.txt
summary:
  Given the vast ethnic backgrounds and cultural differences expected in the immigration population, it is important to understand how psychological acculturation influences mental health outcomes in immigrant communities to identify specific challenges facing a particular community. Previous studies have found that acculturation affects different immigrant groups differentially, such that gender, context of emigration, and family conflicts are hypothesized to moderate the relation between psychological acculturation and adjustment outcomes.


id: 08612n51m10
author: Ryan Russell Hemme
title: Population Dynamics of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 296
sentence: 16
flesch: 32
cache: cache/08612n51m10.txt
txt: txt/08612n51m10.txt
summary:
  However, there was a difference in water drum infestation when maximum water temperatures climbed over 32Ìâå¡ Celsius. However, a thorough understanding of mosquito vector dynamics is needed to increase the success of these interventions which is applied to interrupt pathogen transmission.


id: 44558c99h59
author: George M Kennedy
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 230
sentence: 10
flesch: 27
cache: cache/44558c99h59.txt
txt: txt/44558c99h59.txt
title:
  Identification and characterization of novel loci required for ESX-1 protein secretion in Mycobacterium marinum

summary:
  In summary, these studies identified two major genetic loci required for ESX-1 function and provide novel insights into the working model of ESX-1 secretion in pathogenic mycobacteria. We report here the identification and characterization of two mutant M. marinum strains that are deficient for ESX-1 function and attenuated in infection models.


id: nk322b91z7c
author: Caleb Hamman
title: From Homer to Hemingway: The Place of the Soldier in Political Life
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 187
sentence: 9
flesch: 50
cache: cache/nk322b91z7c.txt
txt: txt/nk322b91z7c.txt
summary:
  The reciprocity established between soldier and city in the classical polis—a reciprocity I find in Thucydides—does not obtain for the soldier in the modern world. The unity of soldierly practices and meanings encountered in Homer—around honor and glory, and wounding and healing—collapses, I suggest, for the soldier in modern society.


id: 0r96736800r
author: Margaret E. Uttke
title: New Directions in Editing Renaissance Drama: Reading, Performance, and the Digital Age
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 153
sentence: 5
flesch: 16
cache: cache/0r96736800r.txt
txt: txt/0r96736800r.txt
summary:
  While Renaissance dramatists like Middleton have long stood in the shadow of Shakespeare's modern editorial presence, new critical spotlights have focused on the dearth of editions and neglected editorial consideration for Shakespeare's contemporaries, spurred by projects like the recently released Oxford Thomas Middleton. In this thesis, I examine current editorial trends and interpretations informing critical editions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, acknowledging the continued impact of Shakespearean editing on the larger field of textual criticism.


id: wd375t3796b
author: Yueh-Ju Lin
title: Connected sum construction of constant Q-curvature manifolds in higher dimensions
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 99
sentence: 3
flesch: 29
cache: cache/wd375t3796b.txt
txt: txt/wd375t3796b.txt
summary:
  For a compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g_2)$ of dimension $ngeq 6$ with constant $Q$-curvature satisfying a nondegeneracy condition, we show that one can construct many other examples of constant $Q$-curvature manifolds by a gluing construction. In particular, we prove the existence of solutions of a fourth-order partial differential equation, which implies the existence of a smooth metric with constant $Q$-curvature on the connected sum $N#M$.


id: fn106w9487f
author: Zhanwei Sun
title: Design and Implementation of Sequence Detection Algorithms for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 198
sentence: 8
flesch: 40
cache: cache/fn106w9487f.txt
txt: txt/fn106w9487f.txt
summary:
  Although existing research has demonstrated the utility of a Markov chain for modeling the spectrum access pattern of primary users over time, little effort has been directed toward spectrum sensing based upon such models. Spectrum sensing is a critical function for enabling dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in a cognitive radio system.


id: g445cc10p4v
author: Mohammad Abu Jafar Siddiq
title: Clock Line and Field-Coupled Input for Nanomagnet Logic
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 230
sentence: 11
flesch: 44
cache: cache/g445cc10p4v.txt
txt: txt/g445cc10p4v.txt
summary:
  The generated field magnitudes estimated from magnetostatic simulations were related to the switching fields of nanomagnets using relevant experiments. The programmability of such inputs allows us to test the same NML device for all possible input combinations.


id: 2z10wq0182c
author: Wayde Z.C. Marsh
title: The Politics of Trauma: Mass Tragedies in Polarized America
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 244
sentence: 8
flesch: 24
cache: cache/2z10wq0182c.txt
txt: txt/2z10wq0182c.txt
summary:
  Using original survey experimental data, aggregate disaster response data, local-level panel data, and time-series cross-sectional data, the dissertation measures three major aspects of the politics of trauma: the effects of individual traumatic experiences on political behavior, public opinion regarding party response, and the polarizing impact of party elite response. In particular, mass exposure to traumatic events through expanded access to and supply of media in various mediums have made traumatic events more political in that Americans expect a governmental response.


id: mk61rf58849
author: Sara Melissa Stasik
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 365
sentence: 15
flesch: 31
cache: cache/mk61rf58849.txt
txt: txt/mk61rf58849.txt
title:
  Nosological Placement of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: A Comprehensive Structural Analaysis

summary:
  In DSM-5, OCD is newly classified in the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCRDs) chapter, along with body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding disorder, hair pulling disorder, and skin picking disorder. Because these disorders have not been included in previous structural models, OCD's relative relation to the OCRDs, psychoticism/oddity symptoms, and anxiety disorder symptoms is unknown.


id: 1544bp0143r
author: Melinda D. Grimsley-Smith
title: Politics, Professionalization, and Poverty: Lunatic Asylums for the Poor in Ireland, 1817-1920
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 229
sentence: 8
flesch: 26
cache: cache/1544bp0143r.txt
txt: txt/1544bp0143r.txt
summary:
  In spite of their protests and efforts to the contrary, and because of the nature of the population they served, these physicians ultimately functioned more as managers of medical poor relief than independent practitioners of medicine. This dissertation examines the bureaucracy created to administer one of the largest institutional structures in nineteenth-century Ireland, the system of district asylums for the lunatic poor.


id: k930bv75m5s
author: Jaime W Guaman
title: Empirical Ground Motion Relationships for Maximum Incremental Velocity
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 121
sentence: 4
flesch: 24
cache: cache/k930bv75m5s.txt
txt: txt/k930bv75m5s.txt
summary:
  The proposed attenuation relationship can be used to estimate the MIV at a given site, similar to currently available models for other ground motion intensity parameters such as the peak ground acceleration (PGA) and velocity (PGV), as well as spectral acceleration (SA) and velocity (SV). This thesis presents basic attenuation relationships for the maximum incremental velocity,MIV, of earthquake ground motion records.


id: m326m041z0w
author: Robinson Murphy
title: Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Literature
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 266
sentence: 7
flesch: 21
cache: cache/m326m041z0w.txt
txt: txt/m326m041z0w.txt
summary:
  In addition to providing a novel optic through which to read a diversity of text-types, castration desire provides analytical tools for responding to the current apocalyptic track over which the globalized logic of normative masculine individualism otherwise operates. In place of masculine egoism, Anglophone writers such as Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, South African-Australian J.M. Coetzee, Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro, Chinese-American David Henry Hwang, and Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue offer prototypes in their characters for generating the less-is-more ethos of castration desire.


id: m039k359q3z
author: Justin Easa
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 203
sentence: 8
flesch: 21
cache: cache/m039k359q3z.txt
txt: txt/m039k359q3z.txt
title:
  Surface Science Analysis of Catalytic Thin Films: Pd-Based H2 Separation Membranes and Pyridine-Assisted Cycloaddition of CO2

summary:
  For the thin metallic membranes I investigate common catalytic poisons, C3H6 and CO, on the activity of Pd during H2 separation at relevant permeation conditions. Many applications investigate catalytic materials far from reaction conditions with model systems.


id: rx913n23p3p
author: Alexander LeClair
title: Neural Models of Automated Documentation Generation for Source Code
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 342
sentence: 18
flesch: 52
cache: cache/rx913n23p3p.txt
txt: txt/rx913n23p3p.txt
summary:
  Source code summarization is the task of writing a short natural language summary for a section of source code. The research frontier is in improving these models through more comprehensive representations of source code in the encoder.


id: 6q182j64s1j
author: Jeffrey Michael Baumes
title: The Chemistry of Anthracene-Containing Squaraine Rotaxanes
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 344
sentence: 19
flesch: 35
cache: cache/6q182j64s1j.txt
txt: txt/6q182j64s1j.txt
summary:
  The results in this thesis suggest that squaraine rotaxanes and their corresponding endoperoxides have potential utility in a wide-array of scientific areas; from molecular machines to molecular imaging probes. This thesis also describes the effect of metal cations on the cycloreversion rates of squaraine rotaxane endoperoxides that have been designed with metal binding pockets.


id: tx31qf8842h
author: Jordan Leslie Scott
title: A Biochemical Investigation of Mechanisms of Peripheral Phosphoinositide-Binding Proteins
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 291
sentence: 10
flesch: 29
cache: cache/tx31qf8842h.txt
txt: txt/tx31qf8842h.txt
summary:
  Several conserved protein families dock at cellular membranes in order to target catalytic domains to membrane-localized substrates, to metabolize lipids, and to spatially re-organize or deform membranes. As these Nedd4 ubiquitin ligases have been shown to regulate important cellular processes such as membrane receptor endocytosis, growth factor signaling, epithelial to mesenchymal transition in cancer cells, and viral egress, this work provides a platform on which to understand how these proteins regulate cellular substrates via their localization to membranes.


id: t435gb21x12
author: William David Haynes
title: Reliable Asymmetric Phase Stabilty Computations using Interval Analysis
date: 2005
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mime: text/plain
words: 418
sentence: 17
flesch: 35
cache: cache/t435gb21x12.txt
txt: txt/t435gb21x12.txt
summary:
  The calculation of phase equilibrium is a fundamental and reoccurring problem in modeling of chemical engineering phenomena. That is, phase stability analysis serves as a global optimality test in solving the global optimization problem that determines phase equilibrium at constant temperature and pressure.


id: ft848p60v68
author: Changjun Zhou
title: The Effect of Additives and Processing Conditions on Properties of Sintered Mesocarbon Microbeads
date: 2008
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words: 373
sentence: 19
flesch: 43
cache: cache/ft848p60v68.txt
txt: txt/ft848p60v68.txt
summary:
  At low TiB2 loading, liquid phase sintering leads to a homogeneous distribution of TiB2 particles in the carbon matrix of much smaller size and increased fracture properties. Mesocarbon microbeads are an excellent precursor for high performance carbon materials because of their ability to self-sinter.


id: dj52w378w9g
author: Brandon S. Gerig
title: Controls of Contaminant Biotransport by Pacific Salmon to Great Lakes Tributaries
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 495
sentence: 19
flesch: 29
cache: cache/dj52w378w9g.txt
txt: txt/dj52w378w9g.txt
summary:
  The experimental approaches described in CHAPTERS 4 and 5 provide strong inference that egg consumption results in elevated POP concentrations, consumption of salmon tissue leads to increased Hg concentrations, and that consumption of salmon eggs but not salmon tissue enhances the growth of resident fish. Moreover, because salmon eggs are enriched in POPs, but depleted in Hg, widespread consumption of eggs may be the primary pathway for biouptake of salmon-derived contaminants by resident fish.


id: hd76rx93c73
author: Matthew D. Mosby
title: High Performance Multi-scale Modeling of Heterogeneous Interfaces
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 505
sentence: 22
flesch: 29
cache: cache/hd76rx93c73.txt
txt: txt/hd76rx93c73.txt
summary:
  Furthermore, they can illuminate aspects of the complex coupling between macro-scale phenomena and micro-scale failure. Two metrics are proposed that describe the extent and character of micro-scale failure and its evolution.


id: b2773t96741
author: Heather Rachelle Parrish
title: Homing: An Ontological Investigation into the Nature of Inhabitation, Phenomenology
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 60
sentence: 2
flesch: 4
cache: cache/b2773t96741.txt
txt: txt/b2773t96741.txt
summary:
  Drawing on concepts from cognitive science and phenomenology, this paper takes an integrative look at the mutually creative relationship between inhabitant and environment, and the on-going effort necessary for establishing a sense of belonging. An exploration of the complex nature of inhabitation through bringing into question the boundaries between interior and exterior, material and ephemeral, and rational and emotional.


id: t148ff39b9r
author: Scott Martin Hanson
title: Cold Hardiness of Aedes Albopictus Eggs
date: 1904
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words: 64
sentence: 5
flesch: 44
cache: cache/t148ff39b9r.txt
txt: txt/t148ff39b9r.txt
summary:
  Cold acclimation and diapause enhance cold hardiness of only temperate strains. Eggs of temperate strains are more cold hardy than those of tropical strains.


id: 2227mp50p5r
author: Lesley Grace Sullivan
title: Textual Polyphony in Mozart's Don Giovanni
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 196
sentence: 8
flesch: 43
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txt: txt/2227mp50p5r.txt
summary:
  This linear reading informs the widely shared interpretation that over the whole opera, from overture to finale, looms the sinner's refusal to repent and inevitable condemnation to eternal punishment. The resulting interpretation descends from a literary tradition originating in counter-Reformation texts, starting with de Molina's El Burlador and continuing with such acclaimed comedies as the commedia-dell'arte L'ateista fulminato, to Goldoni's and Moliere's Dons.


id: 5q47rn3216c
author: Katharine S. Mahon
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 97
sentence: 3
flesch: 31
cache: cache/5q47rn3216c.txt
txt: txt/5q47rn3216c.txt
title:
  Teach Us to Pray: The Lord's Prayer in the Sixteenth-Century Re-Ritualizations of Christian Formation

summary:
  It examines the reformers' alterations to ritual aspects of Christian formation in the areas of catechesis, liturgical participation, and private prayer in the traditions of the Lutheran churches, the Church of England, and the Roman Catholic Church. It utilizes the Lord's Prayer, the ritual key to the Church's formation of laypeople for participation in the worship life of the Church, as a lens by which the sixteenth-century reforms of the medieval ritual system can be outlined and examined.


id: j386057746c
author: Justin Van Ness
title: A Cognitive Ethnography of Meaning-Making and Social Interaction
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 140
sentence: 6
flesch: 10
cache: cache/j386057746c.txt
txt: txt/j386057746c.txt
summary:
  In chapter two, I integrate the dual process framework and microsociological theories of interaction to develop a heuristic of signal transmission in interaction. In chapter one, I introduce the field of cognitive social science to sociologists interested in collective behavior, and I argue that a cognitive framework enables sociologists to reclaim classical collective behavior theories, bolster contemporary frameworks, and provide new directions for analyses.


id: xw42n586h8q
author: Juan Camilo Medina
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 320
sentence: 14
flesch: 11
cache: cache/xw42n586h8q.txt
txt: txt/xw42n586h8q.txt
title:
  Optimization under Uncertainty: Adaptive Variance Reduction, Adaptive Metamodeling, and Investigation of Robustness Measures

summary:
  The third advancement extends to a different application and considers the assessment of the appropriateness of different candidate robust designs. A novel implementation is considered, establishing a metamodel with respect to both the uncertain model parameters as well as the design variables, offering significant computational savings.


id: b5644q79h12
author: Ying Jin
title: Processing and Characterization of Secondary Solid-State Li-Ion Batteries
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 329
sentence: 18
flesch: 46
cache: cache/b5644q79h12.txt
txt: txt/b5644q79h12.txt
summary:
  To build a bulk solid-state battery, highly conductive garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) solid electrolyte was synthesized first. The intent was for the porous structure to greatly increase the contact area between solid electrolyte and electrode.


id: st74cn7248s
author: Cole Carnesecca
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 236
sentence: 9
flesch: 22
cache: cache/st74cn7248s.txt
txt: txt/st74cn7248s.txt
title:
  Fate of the Gods: State Formation, Secularization and the Emergence of Religious Modernities in China and Japan

summary:
  During the process of state formation, states must contend with the symbolic and institutional power of religious organizations and traditions. Out of this process, a variety of approaches toward religion's role in public life can take shape based on the extent to which religion's symbolic and ideological resources are both adopted by new states and able to penetrate the revolutionary process.


id: d791sf28d8s
author: Gavin Maxwell Foster
title: The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 326
sentence: 9
flesch: 40
cache: cache/d791sf28d8s.txt
txt: txt/d791sf28d8s.txt
summary:
  These fraught politics of respectability were shaped both by long term social cleavages and by the country's awkward transition from revolutionary upheaval to post-revolutionary ÌÄå¢Ì¢åâåÂÌÜåÏnormality.' It argues that though the thorny political dilemma provoked by the controversial Anglo-Irish Treaty was the initial cause of the disastrous rupture in the Sinn FÌ©in movement, the political differences between the pro- and anti-Treaty camps reflected, drew upon, and became increasingly entwined with their divergent social outlooks, mentalities and material interests.


id: dn39x061p5k
author: Christina N. Cheng
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 346
sentence: 11
flesch: 35
cache: cache/dn39x061p5k.txt
txt: txt/dn39x061p5k.txt
title:
  Analysis of the Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms That Regulate Renal Progenitor Cell Fate Specification

summary:
  Even so, regardless of the developmental or post-natal origins of kidney disease, the commonality of these debilitating states is dysfunction of the nephrons, which are the functional units of the kidney (McCampbell and Wingert, 2012). Consequently, our overarching goal is to delineate the genetic and molecular mechanisms that regulate the specification of these renal epithelial cells as a means to better understand how these pathways can go awry and result in kidney disease.


id: dz010p11c1w
author: Martina Cucchiara
title: 'Bitter Times:' The Poor School Sisters of Notre Dame in Hitler's Germany, 1933 to 1945
date: 2011
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mime: text/plain
words: 739
sentence: 29
flesch: 46
cache: cache/dz010p11c1w.txt
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summary:
  These age-old tensions between the social and sexual demands placed on women and women's continued insistence on religious vocations reached a zenith in Nazi Germany. Catholic religious vocations in fact offered countless women an alternative to marriage, a higher education, and the chance to enter a profession at a time when opportunities for women contracted in the secular realm.


id: vh53ws88q74
author: Yingying Chen
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 514
sentence: 16
flesch: 43
cache: cache/vh53ws88q74.txt
txt: txt/vh53ws88q74.txt
title:
  Study of High Energy Levels of 26Mg through the (d,p) Reaction and Its Implications for the Neutron Source in Nuclear Astrophysics

summary:
  In order to improve the study of 22Ne+α reaction rates, in this work the levels of 26Mg in the astrophysical relevant energy range have been populated indirectly by 25Mg(d,p)26Mg reaction at Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka, Japan using the Grand Raiden Spectrometer to achieve the high resolution. In terms of the astrophysical importance of the 22Ne + α system as a neutron source in the astrophysical region of interest, the reaction rates of the 22Ne(α,n)25Mg and 22Ne(α,γ)26Mg reactions, as well as their ratio were calculated in a different approach compared to the previous work of Talwar et al..


id: 9g54xg97n5m
author: Hongyu Guo
title: Modeling and Mining on High-Dimensional Biological Data
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 616
sentence: 24
flesch: 42
cache: cache/9g54xg97n5m.txt
txt: txt/9g54xg97n5m.txt
summary:
  A reference dataset is not always available especially for newly studied problems, and even it is, the transferability of the classifier from reference dataset to target dataset may be questionable when there are differences in experimental procedures used to generate these datasets. Note that this information about input features is ``qualitative'' instead of ``quantitative''.


id: b8515m62s7p
author: Sajeewani Upeka Samarakoon
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 608
sentence: 21
flesch: 28
cache: cache/b8515m62s7p.txt
txt: txt/b8515m62s7p.txt
title:
  Role of recombination in genetic linkage and genome variation in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

summary:
  This study was the first to sequence progeny clones to capture high resolution information on COs, NCOs and genetic variation in malaria parasites. These studies are fundamental contributions to establishing a framework for ongoing studies of recombination and the mechanisms of genome structural variation in malaria parasites.


id: jd472v2654b
author: Ryan T. Kelly
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 223
sentence: 8
flesch: 30
cache: cache/jd472v2654b.txt
txt: txt/jd472v2654b.txt
title:
  Numerical Prediction of the Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of the Aero-Optical Disturbance Produced by a Helicopter in Hover

summary:
  During hover the shed rotor-tip vortices and engine effluence convect with the rotor wake encircling the airframe and subsequently a helicopter mounted optical system. For helicopter platforms the sources of aberration originate from the high subsonic flow-field near the rotor blade tips in the form of rotor-tip vortices and from the high temperatures of the engine effluence.


id: 00000002v4p
author: Eleanor K. Choi
title: New World Order? Thucydides' Speeches and the Breakdown of Greek Interstate Relations
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 230
sentence: 5
flesch: 19
cache: cache/00000002v4p.txt
txt: txt/00000002v4p.txt
summary:
  This thesis examines the historiographical treatment of interstate relations in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and seeks to apply this treatment of diplomatic rhetoric to a historical understanding of fifth-century Greek perceptions of their inter-poleis condition. After investigating a passage from the preface, in order to demonstrate how Thucydides views his speeches as both crucial and unclear when attempting to understand the War's αἴτιαι (1.23.6), I examine the speeches in light of how Thucydidean rhetorical strategies highlight Athenian and Spartan rejection of moral aspects of negotiation of interstate relations, namely the values of justice and reciprocity, balancing power, and restraint.


id: w9504x5421k
author: Ardea Caviggiola Russo
title: Behind the Heavenly Door: Earthly Liturgy and Heavenly Worship in the Apocalypse of John
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 357
sentence: 9
flesch: 40
cache: cache/w9504x5421k.txt
txt: txt/w9504x5421k.txt
summary:
  This theory helps to explain some parts of these passages better then others, but most problematic is the fact that our evidence for worship practices in the first centuries remains incomplete, and we cannot be sure that liturgical dialogues were a part of Christian liturgy at this early date. Many previous treatments of this subject have overstated the conclusions that can be drawn from our evidence for Christian liturgical practice in the late-first century CE.


id: 7p88cf97j4k
author: Matthew P. Larner
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 351
sentence: 14
flesch: 39
cache: cache/7p88cf97j4k.txt
txt: txt/7p88cf97j4k.txt
title:
  The American Worker in Transition: Insecurity, the Individualization of Work, and Job Values in the 1990's

summary:
  This study expands the scope of research related to job values by including a consideration of the numerous factors that ultimately determine how economic changes are translated into attitudinal shifts and value changes for different groups of workers. Overall, the non-uniformity of work value change suggests a divergent experience of the 1990's labor market depending on occupation.


id: pk02c824d00
author: Peter E. Feist
title: Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Intractable Samples
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 296
sentence: 15
flesch: 29
cache: cache/pk02c824d00.txt
txt: txt/pk02c824d00.txt
summary:
  There are several challenges in proteomic sample preparation and mass spectrometry analysis. This document demonstrates my focus on sample preparation strategies for bottom-up mass spectrometry-based proteomics.


id: cn69m329d30
author: Chao Luo
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 467
sentence: 18
flesch: 33
cache: cache/cn69m329d30.txt
txt: txt/cn69m329d30.txt
title:
  Engineering and Economic Analysis for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure — Placement, Pricing, and Market Design

summary:
  In the presence of renewable energy integration and energy storage system, EV charging service providers must deal with a number of uncertainties, e.g., charging demand volatility, inherent intermittency of renewable energy generation, and wholesale electricity price fluctuation. As for the problem of pricing and energy management of EV charging stations, we provide guidelines for charging service providers to determine charging price and manage electricity reserve to balance the competing objectives of improving profitability, enhancing customer satisfaction, and reducing impact on the power system.


id: gh93gx43s45
author: Kevin David Neuman
title: The Health Effects of Retirement: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
date: 2004
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 339
sentence: 14
flesch: 42
cache: cache/gh93gx43s45.txt
txt: txt/gh93gx43s45.txt
summary:
  The study develops a model of health investment where individuals maximize lifetime utility derived from consumption goods, leisure and healthy time and produce health using leisure and medical goods. Solving the model generates an equilibrium condition for health investment.


id: nk322b9123x
author: Beth Anne McNally
title: Use of Synthetic Transporters to Facilitate Anion Transport across Vesicle and Cell Membranes
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 295
sentence: 12
flesch: 29
cache: cache/nk322b9123x.txt
txt: txt/nk322b9123x.txt
summary:
  This dissertation describes three classes of synthetic anion transporters which facilitate chloride transport across vesicle and cell membranes. As a general trend, the better anion binder is the better transporter and that the combination of a lipophilic backbone with a preorganized binding pocket produces excellent chloride transporters with high anion binding affinity and high transport at low cholate concentration.


id: 0v838051b2m
author: Victoria L Smith
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 131
sentence: 6
flesch: 35
cache: cache/0v838051b2m.txt
txt: txt/0v838051b2m.txt
title:
  Characterizing Exosome Biogenesis and Function in Stimulating the Immune Response during a Mycobacterium Infection

summary:
  While much of our published work has characterized host cell responses to antigen-loaded exosomes, we know little about the mechanism by which exosomes are generated. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of TB, is an intracellular pathogen that primarily infects macrophages.


id: 4q77fq9948h
author: James Cooper
title: Combinatorial Screening of Fuel Cell Catalysts
date: 2007
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 412
sentence: 18
flesch: 50
cache: cache/4q77fq9948h.txt
txt: txt/4q77fq9948h.txt
summary:
  Systems that did not contain Pt (Pd-Cr-Co and Co-Cr-Cu) showed no activity for either methanol oxidation or oxygen reduction. Cycling the potential at 60 å¡C conditioned the libraries and altered the performance of most compositions.


id: h989r211316
author: Devon Mason
title: Transcriptional Control of Cytoskeletal Remodeling, Mechanotransduction, and Cell Motility
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 297
sentence: 14
flesch: 14
cache: cache/h989r211316.txt
txt: txt/h989r211316.txt
summary:
  Motile arrest as a consequence of cytoskeletal maturation, after YAP/TAZ ablation, is partially rescued by depletion of the YAP/TAZ-dependent myosin phosphatase regulator, NUAK2, or by inhibition of Rho-ROCK-myosin II. We found that global inhibition of transcription or translation does not impair initial spreading, polarization, or migration initiation, but causes eventual migratory arrest through excessive cytoskeletal tension and over-maturation of focal adhesions, tethering cells to their matrix.


id: 70795714m0f
author: Reuben Peter Keller
title: Ecological and Bioeconomic Risk Assessment for Invasive Species
date: 2006
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 350
sentence: 14
flesch: 35
cache: cache/70795714m0f.txt
txt: txt/70795714m0f.txt
summary:
  Although ecological predictions of future impacts from invasive species are rarely used in management, they have great potential to guide risk reduction efforts. This is true for both preventing new invaders, and for preventing the spread of established invasive species.


id: qz20sq90x3r
author: Sharif Rahmy
title: Overcoming Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 188
sentence: 6
flesch: 15
cache: cache/qz20sq90x3r.txt
txt: txt/qz20sq90x3r.txt
summary:
  Here we show evidence that by altering epigenetic regulation using a histone deacetylase inhibitor we can simultaneously increase MHC-I expression on tumor cells and change the differentiation of infiltrating immune cells from immunosuppressive macrophages towards immunostimulatory antigen presenting cells (APCs). ICB therapy is based on reactivating exhausted T-cells (PD-1) and increasing T-cell activation (CTLA-4), one major mechanism of resistance is mediated through downregulation of the Major Histocompatibility Complex I (MHC-I) on cancer cells, as the MHC complex is responsible for presenting antigen to T-cells, and thereby crucial for facilitating T-cell mediated killing.


id: n583xs57x2v
author: Andrea Lynn Christensen
title: Characteristics of Effective Teacher Leadership in School-based Learning Communities
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 332
sentence: 15
flesch: 36
cache: cache/n583xs57x2v.txt
txt: txt/n583xs57x2v.txt
summary:
  Without it, teacher interaction and practice may not change. Decades of research has also demonstrated that in order to bring about teacher change, teachers must have opportunities to engage in serious conversation with each other about practice, evidence, and alternatives.


id: 7p88cf97j99
author: Garnett Brendan Cross
date: 2009
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 333
sentence: 10
flesch: 37
cache: cache/7p88cf97j99.txt
txt: txt/7p88cf97j99.txt
title:
  Investigation of a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spark as a Near Field Guide Star for Aero-Optic Measurements

summary:
  The study of the optical aberrations produced by compressible nearfield turbulent flows is called 'aero-optics.' Topics addressed in the thesis include compensation of anisoplanatic differences between the spark beam and the outgoing laser beam, characterization of the optical behavior of the spark, and investigation of flow effects on the spark.


id: vt150g38t28
author: Carissa DiPietro
title: The Interactive Effects of Sleep and Retrieval on Retention
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 302
sentence: 12
flesch: 44
cache: cache/vt150g38t28.txt
txt: txt/vt150g38t28.txt
summary:
  Engaging in retrieval practice enhances memory relative to restudying (i.e., the testing effect) and a night of sleep after learning enhances memory relative to a day of wake. In the retrieval study phases, participants answered multiple choice items with (retrieval practice plus feedback phase) or without (retrieval practice phase) corrective feedback, while in the re-read study phase, participants read-read passages.


id: z316pz5340m
author: Roberto Iván Canales Muñoz
title: Liquid-liquid Separation of Aromatics from Ionic Liquids Using CO2
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 340
sentence: 15
flesch: 36
cache: cache/z316pz5340m.txt
txt: txt/z316pz5340m.txt
summary:
  Since ionic liquids present a wide thermal stability, several authors propose the recovery of the solvent from the extract with simple distillation or stripping, but binary mixtures of aromatic + ionic liquid are barely studied in order to determine an optimal separation procedure. Then, solubility of CO2 in the homogeneous phase of toluene + ionic liquid is determined until a phase split is observed or the highest pressure allowed by the experimental apparatus is reached, i.e. about 8 MPa.


id: f4752f77w47
author: Catherine Rastovski
title: Metastable Vortex Lattice Dynamics in MgB2 Studied by Small Angle Neutron Scattering
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 209
sentence: 6
flesch: 40
cache: cache/f4752f77w47.txt
txt: txt/f4752f77w47.txt
summary:
  Our measurements showed that metastable VL domains persist in the presence of substantial vortex motion and thus provide definitive evidence that the metastability cannot be attributed to the pinning of vortices to defects in the crystal. The transition to the ground state showed two distinct power-law behaviors which indicates a novel kind of vortex motion.


id: gh93gx44x3b
author: Mauna Dasari
title: Age and Early Life Adversity in the Wild Baboon Gut Microbiome
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 361
sentence: 14
flesch: 31
cache: cache/gh93gx44x3b.txt
txt: txt/gh93gx44x3b.txt
summary:
  My dissertation objective was to characterize how the gut microbiome changes in response to early life experiences and age across the lifespan, understand what host and environmental factors predict these changes, and determine whether microbial changes are linked to host maturation and survival. Using a subset of these data, I have shown that the gut microbiome changes predictably with age and found that individuals who were socially low-ranked exhibit faster rates of microbial aging relative to high-ranked peers.


id: 7w62f76444s
author: Joshua Morton Robinson
title: Nicholas of Methone's Refutation of Proclus: Theology and Neoplatonism in 12th-century Byzantium
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 312
sentence: 12
flesch: 42
cache: cache/7w62f76444s.txt
txt: txt/7w62f76444s.txt
summary:
  This dissertation is a study of Nicholas of Methone's Refutation (&#7944;&#957;&#940;&#960;&#965;&#958;&#953;&#962;) of the neoplatonist Proclus' Elements of Theology. Chapter 2 then sets the stage for Nicholas' Refutation by tracing the Christian reception of Proclus from Dionysius the Areopagite until Nicholas' time.


id: bg257d29c4n
author: Yingxin Jiang
title: Edge-Based QoS for Scalable Networks/Systems
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 342
sentence: 11
flesch: 37
cache: cache/bg257d29c4n.txt
txt: txt/bg257d29c4n.txt
summary:
  This dissertation studies several schemes in the DiffServ environment to provide predictable QoS for scalable networks/systems. E3AC, an approach to make significant strides in practical end-to-end QoS, provides a framework for catalyzing QoS amongst end ISPs while dramatically reducing the setup latency for QoS negotiations.


id: 3r074t67j6n
author: Daniel E. Schwandt
title: A Responsibility to God and Man: The Life and Organ Works of David N. Johnson (1922–1987)
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 231
sentence: 11
flesch: 35
cache: cache/3r074t67j6n.txt
txt: txt/3r074t67j6n.txt
summary:
  Formed by his early training at the Curtis Institute of Music, Trinity University, and Syracuse University, Johnson went on to teaching positions at Alfred University, St. Olaf College, Syracuse University, and Arizona State University. Working during an era of significant change and artistic experimentation, Johnson also sought to bring various experimental compositional practices to church music.


id: rv042r39829
author: James Matthew Wilson
title: Catholic Modernism and the Irish 'Avant-Garde'
date: 2006
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 355
sentence: 12
flesch: 21
cache: cache/rv042r39829.txt
txt: txt/rv042r39829.txt
summary:
  The results were a variety of critical and poetic works simultaneously representative of modernist practices in general (particularly in the development of denaturalized, deracinated literary language and forms that absorbed but spoke above locale dialects), and yet shaped by Catholic cultural traditions and, more than that, the developments of Catholic theological modernism and neo-Thomist philosophy and theology. Each writer found ways to harness the ironic, ontological and mystical languages of literary modernism for explicitly Catholic ends, but the novelty of their efforts emerges most clearly in their success at making modernism itself appear as an adjunct of Catholicism.


id: np193774c3k
author: Lauren Linn Whitnah
title: Patrons of That Place: The Cults of Anglo-Saxon Saints in Twelfth-Century Northumbria
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 326
sentence: 12
flesch: 53
cache: cache/np193774c3k.txt
txt: txt/np193774c3k.txt
summary:
  The saints who were most explicitly linked with specific places in the region, who were connected with other saints, and who had a local tradition for holiness were most likely to be venerated. There is a wide variety of evidence that reveals diversity of belief and practice in the veneration of saints.


id: nz805x2457d
author: Diane Marie Lickenbrock
title: The Effects of Parenting and Marital Functioning on Affect in Early Infancy
date: 2008
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mime: text/plain
words: 160
sentence: 6
flesch: 21
cache: cache/nz805x2457d.txt
txt: txt/nz805x2457d.txt
summary:
  Structural equation modeling results indicated that for fathers, marital functioning related both directly and indirectly to changes in infant affect during the Still-Face; parenting also mediated relations between marital quality and infant affect. This longitudinal study examined associations between marital functioning, parenting, and infant affect over time for infant-mother and infant-father dyads during the Still-Face Paradigm (Tronick, Als, Adamson, Wise, & Brazelton, 1978).


id: 2r36tx34933
author: Agung Santoso
title: Equivalence Testing for Anchor Selection in Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Detection
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 369
sentence: 15
flesch: 49
cache: cache/2r36tx34933.txt
txt: txt/2r36tx34933.txt
summary:
  Therefore many methods of anchor selection procedure have been proposed, many of which utilizes Null Hypothesis Test (NHT) to select anchor items. The second problem is the dependency of anchor selection procedure using NHT on sample size: with sufficiently small sample size, items with large magnitudes of DIF can be identified as DIF-free items, while with sufficiently large sample size, items with negligible DIF magnitudes can be excluded from the anchor set.


id: cj82k645d6w
author: Adam Benjamin Fung
title: Wake
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 136
sentence: 5
flesch: 47
cache: cache/cj82k645d6w.txt
txt: txt/cj82k645d6w.txt
summary:
  In the end, I ask viewers to question the potential of landscape, their navigation of landscape images and to confront the sense of loss that results from encountering this unstable, fractured scene. The icy landscape lacks human markings or other indicators of scale, as a result, we are doubtful we belong in these places and the potentiality of landscape is diminished by our exclusion.


id: 4j03cz32m2w
author: Brenda Daily
title: Nitrous Oxide Formation and Consumption by Denitrifying Bacteria in Wastewater Treatment
date: 2011
extension: .txt
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words: 243
sentence: 12
flesch: 41
cache: cache/4j03cz32m2w.txt
txt: txt/4j03cz32m2w.txt
summary:
  When all the processes were combined in the biofilm model, a complex trend emerged revealing the interplay between oxygen concentration and microbial community composition. The modeling work predicted N2O formation due autotrophic nitrifying bacteria and heterotrophic denitrification bacteria under varying oxygen concentrations.


id: w3763487h4w
author: Yong Li
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 532
sentence: 25
flesch: 37
cache: cache/w3763487h4w.txt
txt: txt/w3763487h4w.txt
title:
  Multimodal Image Registration through Iteratively Searching Correspondences of Keypoints and Line Segments

summary:
  This work addresses the problem of multimodal image registration. The iterative framework is also applied to keypoint mappings.


id: n009w092g55
author: Valentina Geri
title: Primo Levi and the Anglophone World: An Intertextual Itinerary
date: 2021
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mime: text/plain
words: 124
sentence: 4
flesch: 33
cache: cache/n009w092g55.txt
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summary:
  The aim of this dissertation is to shed light on the presence and meaning of Anglophone authors in Primo Levi's works through an intertextual itinerary that collects and organizes different Anglophone writers in three metaphorical temporal dimensions: the past, the future, and the present of Levi's writing. The main sections of the dissertation analyze how Levi re-elaborates, interprets, and inserts other authors' words in his writing.


id: h989r210t1f
author: Cheyenne Caci Tait
date: 2018
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 352
sentence: 12
flesch: 28
cache: cache/h989r210t1f.txt
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title:
  Mechanisms of Ecological Divergence and Speciation: Genetic and Neurophysiological Bases for Fruit Volatile Discrimination Behavior in the Apple Maggot Fly (Rhagoletis pomonella)

summary:
  In Chapter 4, I attempted to resolve the genetic architecture of host fruit odor discrimination based on a genome wide association (GWA) study. I discuss whether host fruit odor discrimination is polygenic or due to large effect loci not detected in the GWA due to issues in phenotyping or marker coverage.


id: 5h73pv65f46
author: Yue Wang
title: Assessing Elemental Sulfur Based Denitrification as a Biofilm Process
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 280
sentence: 14
flesch: 29
cache: cache/5h73pv65f46.txt
txt: txt/5h73pv65f46.txt
summary:
  It was found that biofilm development affects the relationship between denitrification fluxes and bulk nitrogen species (NO3-, NO2-) concentrations. Batch studies were used in order to estimate kinetic parameters for denitrification intermediate steps.


id: 2f75r784v3f
author: Baotong Zhu
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 291
sentence: 9
flesch: 9
cache: cache/2f75r784v3f.txt
txt: txt/2f75r784v3f.txt
title:
  Constructing Innovative Engineered Enzyme Biocatalysts for Treatment of Emerging Environmental Contaminants

summary:
  In order to address the aforementioned challenges, the primary focus of my Ph.D. study is to engineer yeast and bacterial microbial systems using advanced molecular biology and synthetic biology techniques to develop innovative enzyme biocatalysts for treatment of emerging environmental contaminants. However, it is not appropriate to use free enzymes in practical scenarios due to their short lifetimes, non-reusability, and laborious enzyme purification processes.


id: pn89d50735r
author: Kathryn L Wagner
title: Essays in Medicaid Crowd-out for the Disabled
date: 2015
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words: 359
sentence: 13
flesch: 41
cache: cache/pn89d50735r.txt
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summary:
  The two essays included in this dissertation investigate issues related to the crowd-out of private health insurance resulting from Medicaid expansions among the working age disabled. The first essay estimates the take-up and crowd-out rates that resulted from Medicaid expansions that began in the late 1990s among working age individuals with disabilities.


id: dr26xw44r79
author: Sarah Elizabeth Hepinstall
title: Comparison of the Effects of Hydroxamate Siderophores on Lead and Cadmium Adsorption to Kaolinite
date: 2004
extension: .txt
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words: 162
sentence: 5
flesch: 43
cache: cache/dr26xw44r79.txt
txt: txt/dr26xw44r79.txt
summary:
  These ligands also inhibited Cd adsorption at pH > 8, but had no effect at low pH. Modeling the systems with PHREEQC suggested that the siderophores in solution out-competed the kaolinite surface for the metal cations, thus causing decreased adsorption at high pH. At pH > 6, all of the ligands inhibited Pb adsorption with inhibition increasing in the order aHA < DFO-D1 < DFO-B < DFO-E. At lower pH, the presence of DFO-B slightly enhanced Pb adsorption.


id: b8515m62s08
author: Amy Loren Roberts
title: Investigating Proton Pairing in 76SE with Two-Proton Transfer onto 74GE
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 213
sentence: 8
flesch: 48
cache: cache/b8515m62s08.txt
txt: txt/b8515m62s08.txt
summary:
  However, understanding the ground-state pairing of neutrons in 76Ge and protons in 76Se is also crucial because 0&#957;&#946;&#946; converts correlated neutron pairs to correlated proton pairs. It is found that proton pairs transfer predominantly to the ground state of 76Se.


id: 4q77fq9966f
author: Samuel C.R. Bruce
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 154
sentence: 7
flesch: 34
cache: cache/4q77fq9966f.txt
txt: txt/4q77fq9966f.txt
title:
  Effect of Floc Size on Selection of Phosphate-Accumulating Organisms (PAO) in Wastewater Treatment Systems Without a Strictly Anaerobic Zone

summary:
  This thesis explores the question can large flocs enhance selection for PAOs under non-ideal conditions, both in conventional activated sludge (CAS) and EBPR systems? Selection for PAOs in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is typically obtained by providing strict cyclic anaerobic/aerobic conditions in order to give PAOs a metabolic advantage over ordinary heterotrophic organisms (OHOs).


id: 41687h1664c
author: Scott S Hampton
title: An Analysis of Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo Methods
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 337
sentence: 16
flesch: 45
cache: cache/41687h1664c.txt
txt: txt/41687h1664c.txt
summary:
  In this dissertation, I discuss the development of an analytical framework for the analysis of shadow hybrid Monte Carlo methods. The Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo (SHMC) method was previously introduced to overcome this performance degradation by sampling from the shadow Hamiltonian in lieu of the actual Hamiltonian.


id: bk128913b6c
author: Mary Kate Blake
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 608
sentence: 20
flesch: 42
cache: cache/bk128913b6c.txt
txt: txt/bk128913b6c.txt
title:
  An Organizational Analysis of the School Counseling Profession: Implications for Students, Counselors, and Schools

summary:
  Unfortunately, there is much evidence to suggest that school counselors are not living up to their potential. Yet what the focus on the overworked nature of school counselors fails to consider is how deeply embedded the conflict between their counseling and non-counseling roles is within the structure of the profession and the schools as the organizations in which they work.


id: 2v23vt16w5c
author: Yanlin Guo
title: Nonstationary System Identification Techniques
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 435
sentence: 15
flesch: 24
cache: cache/2v23vt16w5c.txt
txt: txt/2v23vt16w5c.txt
summary:
  In addition, a web-enabled real-time hybrid SI framework is proposed, in order to track changes in structural characteristics to provide quick decision-making support regarding post-event rescue and structural retrofitting. The SI techniques developed in this research add significantly to the applicability of SHM systems towards assessing the structural performance under nonstationary/transient loadings and can ultimately support quick decision-making regarding structural operation.


id: pz50gt5709r
author: Joseph Anthony Giambrone
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 362
sentence: 17
flesch: 43
cache: cache/pz50gt5709r.txt
txt: txt/pz50gt5709r.txt
title:
  The One Who Did Mercy: Sacramental Charity, Creditor Christology, and the Economy of Salvation in Luke's Gospel

summary:
  To expose the Jewish character of Luke's charity theology, each probe centers upon a key Old Testament text and line of Second Temple reception linked to Luke (i.e. Isa 61:1-2 and 11Q13; This plotting of Luke within a Wirkungsgeschichte also includes attention to later rabbinic and patristic traditions; while the approach to Luke's parables investigates Christological allegory as a narrative device (metalepsis).The first probe demonstrates Luke's engagement with the pervasive Second Temple sin as debt metaphor.


id: h415p843f9m
author: Patrick Ormande Bowles
title: Wind Tunnel Experiments on the Effect of Compressibility on the Attributes of Dynamic Stall
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 474
sentence: 21
flesch: 43
cache: cache/h415p843f9m.txt
txt: txt/h415p843f9m.txt
summary:
  This work focuses on three distinct problems in regard to dynamic stall and the influence of Mach number, as follows:The stall vortex convection properties: The low pressure signature of the stall vortex's travel aft over the chord is tracked through deep dynamic stall conditions and moderate to high reduced frequencies. The surface pressures and surface pressure gradients found at low-speed as the stall vortex migrates over the chord are shown to be substantially altered following shock-induced dynamic stall.


id: t722h705513
author: Callan Maire Driscoll
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 420
sentence: 20
flesch: 36
cache: cache/t722h705513.txt
txt: txt/t722h705513.txt
title:
  The Characterization of the Influence of Cations on the Surface Motility of P. aeruginosa and the Utilization of Novel Imaging Techniques.

summary:
  The influence of these cations upon TFP motility at the community level as determined using standard twitch and chemotactic twitch assays was unclear, suggesting that the effect of cations on TFP motility are complicated and dependent upon multiple factors. Low levels of calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, or sodium stimulated an increase in P. aeruginosa TFP surface motility at the single cell level.


id: ht24wh27g4n
author: Weiping Gan
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 113
sentence: 5
flesch: 23
cache: cache/ht24wh27g4n.txt
txt: txt/ht24wh27g4n.txt
title:
  Construction of Branched Polymers with Different Topologies by Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Click Reaction and the Application in Catalysis

summary:
  The CuAAC reaction was applied to construct branched polymers with different topologies including molecular brushes, star polymers and hyperbranched polymers in this body of research. In this thesis, I developed the polymerization method by utilizing the self-accelerating CuAAC reaction with easy experimental setup, fast reaction rate, tunable external ligands addition.


id: 73666397v4s
author: Yao Zhao
title: Rigorous Methods for Dynamic Optimization
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 355
sentence: 17
flesch: 33
cache: cache/73666397v4s.txt
txt: txt/73666397v4s.txt
summary:
  This approach provides guaranteed-feasible decision variable regions for robust design problems and locates an &#949; -global optimum over a confirmed feasible region for robust optimization problems. Solving dynamic optimization problems with a rigorous approach can be computationally challenging.


id: kw52j675c3p
author: Victoria Colleen Tomiczek Johnson
title: Wave and Surge Vulnerability of Coastal Residences
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 350
sentence: 14
flesch: 29
cache: cache/kw52j675c3p.txt
txt: txt/kw52j675c3p.txt
summary:
  Wave conditions in which waves broke on or just before a specimen caused maximum impulsive pressures. When arrays of obstacles were added to simulate urban macro-roughness, shielded structures exposed to breaking waves experienced pressure reductions of 40-70% compared with unobstructed measurements.


id: zg64th87873
author: Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 201
sentence: 8
flesch: 36
cache: cache/zg64th87873.txt
txt: txt/zg64th87873.txt
title:
  Log Discovery, Log Custody, and the Web Inspired Approach for Open Distributed Systems Troubleshooting

summary:
  Through the lens of TLQ, this work presents a data model for debug output, a comparison of multiple querying approaches, a distributed querying architecture for open distributed systems troubleshooting, and considerations for more effective debug log design. This is exacerbated in open distributed systems where membership of resources within the system is transient, placement of computations to resources is not known before runtime, and resources can be shared across multiple administrative jurisdictions (i.e. multiple independent clusters, clouds, or grids).


id: v405s754q02
author: Jacob Morley Carson
title: Computational Complexity of Automatic Structures
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 204
sentence: 9
flesch: 35
cache: cache/v405s754q02.txt
txt: txt/v405s754q02.txt
summary:
  It goes on to produce an automatic nested equivalence structure for which the set of isomorphic structures is more complicated than any set of isomorphic equivalence structures. The fourth section defines a generalization of equivalence structures, called nested equivalence structures.


id: jq085h7603f
author: Lori Molinari
title: The Ancient Republics and the Mixed Regime in Montesquieu's Political Thought
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 130
sentence: 4
flesch: 41
cache: cache/jq085h7603f.txt
txt: txt/jq085h7603f.txt
summary:
  It discusses what Montesquieu and his sources reveal about the class structure of each regime and what laws and institutions each had in place to either eradicate inequality or manage/minimize the tensions it generated. This dissertation concludes by showing why and how Montesquieu thought that the English government represented a far more durable design for a mixed regime, and it argues that Montesquieu understood the English system to be a republic, despite the fact that a (hereditary) king and nobility were essential features of it.


id: h989r21144j
author: Catlin N. Schalk
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 559
sentence: 18
flesch: 35
cache: cache/h989r21144j.txt
txt: txt/h989r21144j.txt
title:
  Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigations of Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayer Surface Structure with Exposure to Atomic Hydrogen

summary:
  Chain length dependence on reaction time and reaction pathway was found, with longer chain thiols reacting more slowly through a series of reactions, compared to the quick hydrogenation reaction for shorter chain thiols. Though it is likely that surface defect structure does cause acceleration of these reactions, the results presented here make a case for the larger role that surface phase transitions play in the mechanisms for alkanethiolate monolayer degradation.


id: 3j333199s7v
author: David Wai Kui Lam
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 108
sentence: 8
flesch: 81
cache: cache/3j333199s7v.txt
txt: txt/3j333199s7v.txt
title:
  Measurement of Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel in sqrt(s) = 1.96TeV, $par{p}$ Collisions at D0

summary:
  A measeurement of the top quark mass in proton-antiproton collisions at $sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ using $1040 fb^{-1}$ of data collected in D0 detector at Fermilab is presented. This analysis focuses on the all-hadronic decay mode of the top quark and therefore only events with six or more calorimeter jets in the final state are considered.


id: t722h70634s
author: Clair E Mesick
title: Paul and the "Interlopers": Apostleship and Antagonism in the Corinthian Correspondence
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 351
sentence: 9
flesch: 42
cache: cache/t722h70634s.txt
txt: txt/t722h70634s.txt
summary:
  In short, apostles who valued Judaism and relied on community support would have ample reason, simply from 1 Corinthians, to react against Paul: against his claims of unique authority and spiritual exemplarity; against his promotion of financial abstention over Christ's command that preachers of the gospel receive support for their work; and against his brief but dismissive statements about Jewish ethics and Jewish identity. Paul's Corinthian correspondence is both one of the richest resources for early Christianity and a set of texts still rife with historical and literary problems.


id: 9s161546h20
author: Dana Townsend
title: Political Violence in the Macrosystem: A Thematic Analysis of Northern Irish Newspapers
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 157
sentence: 7
flesch: 29
cache: cache/9s161546h20.txt
txt: txt/9s161546h20.txt
summary:
  By identifying the most salient features of political violence in the macrosystem, this study may inform future research on the processes through which macro-level factors influence individual development. Assessing individual development in contexts of political violence requires a systematic macro-level measurement.


id: 8g84mk63s9r
author: Jade Avelis
title: Religion and Ideal Age of Marriage Among Young Emerging Adults
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 210
sentence: 7
flesch: 33
cache: cache/8g84mk63s9r.txt
txt: txt/8g84mk63s9r.txt
summary:
  Stating that faith is important to one's daily life, being female, supporting the male breadwinner model in marriage, and remaining sexually abstinent before marriage also help explain some of the relationship between religious tradition and ideal age of marriage. Using data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), various religious and demographic factors are used to examine how religious emerging adults differ from their non-religious peers on the measure of ideal age of marriage.


id: 8910js9769k
author: Michael Alan Tomko
date: 2005
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 357
sentence: 7
flesch: 0
cache: cache/8910js9769k.txt
txt: txt/8910js9769k.txt
title:
  The Catholic Question in British Romantic Literature: National Identity, History, and Religious Politics, 1778-1829

summary:
  This dissertation argues that the political campaign to extend civil rights to Catholics (often known as the 'Catholic Question' or Catholic emancipation) generated a protracted, contentious debate about Britain's national and religious identity that precipitated conflicts in romantic era literary politics, troubled the sense of history among romantic writers, and haunted the period's construction of its own progressive 'Spirit of the Age.' The broad investigation of this complex religious, literary, and political context also focuses on how genre, poetic form, and narrative structure register and redirect political and cultural transformations in readings of Walter Scott's historical novel Ivanhoe, Elizabeth Inchbald's English Catholic proto-national tale A Simple Story, and William Wordsworth's The Excursion, Essays on Epitaphs, and Ecclesiastical Sketches.


id: pr76f190h2q
author: Karen A. Bailey
title: Multiplex Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Correlation Spectroscopy and Imaging
date: 2016
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 360
sentence: 16
flesch: 29
cache: cache/pr76f190h2q.txt
txt: txt/pr76f190h2q.txt
summary:
  Importantly, the CARS signals from cellular sheddings from OvCa429 and SKOV3ip cells with LPA treatment are consistent with cleavage of microvilli and proteins originally present. Dark-field SPT detects scattering from peptide-conjugated gold nanoparticles interacting with integrin receptors immobilized on glass surfaces and in intact cells to characterize ligand-receptor binding.


id: 8910js9775h
author: Chelse M. Prather
title: Invertebrate Consumer Influences on Ecosystem Processes in a Rainforest Understory
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 343
sentence: 19
flesch: 26
cache: cache/8910js9775h.txt
txt: txt/8910js9775h.txt
summary:
  Herbivores increased plant growth and nutrient availability, but decreased litter decomposition rates by driving a shift to a slower decomposing plant community. Detritivores reduced plant growth and nutrient availability, but did not affect decomposition rates.


id: wm117m04263
author: Genevieve Vigil
title: Label-Free and Super-Resolution Multiphoton Microscopy
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 563
sentence: 23
flesch: 34
cache: cache/wm117m04263.txt
txt: txt/wm117m04263.txt
summary:
  Finally, presented here is a super resolved multiphoton microscopy technique resulting from modulated and saturated MPM excitation. Imaging of intrinsic two photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) is performed on humanized SCD mouse model splenic tissue.


id: 5h73pv65d7x
author: Jinyang Li
title: Antireflection Coating Application of Gallium Arsenide Native Oxide
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 138
sentence: 4
flesch: 36
cache: cache/5h73pv65d7x.txt
txt: txt/5h73pv65d7x.txt
summary:
  The thicknesses and optical constants of the GaAs native oxide and the GaAs substrate used in the AR coating design have been determined by Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry measurements within the visible light wavelength range at room temperature. In this thesis, the development of high surface quality, broad bandwidth, low cost antireflection coatings using the low optical index GaAs native oxide processed by a new oxygen-enhanced wet thermal oxidation method is demonstrated.


id: v692t43812c
author: Carmen J. Burlingame
title: Reexamining Young Americans' Political Participation: An Optimistic Outlook for America's Future
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 222
sentence: 7
flesch: 43
cache: cache/v692t43812c.txt
txt: txt/v692t43812c.txt
summary:
  This thesis will demonstrate through examining rates of young people's political participation in 1964, 1976, 1988, and 2000 that the current generation of young people is no less apt to vote than their ancestors and are actually more likely to participate in atypical forms of participation than individuals in their age range in previous decades. Young people (ages 18-29) historically vote at lower rates than older individuals.


id: zs25x636r58
author: Ryan P. Egan
date: 2018
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 148
sentence: 5
flesch: 25
cache: cache/zs25x636r58.txt
txt: txt/zs25x636r58.txt
title:
  Does Rumination Have Adverse Interpersonal Consequences? A Test of an Emotion-Dysregulation Extension to Stress-Generation Theory in Depression

summary:
  In a sample of 135 pairs of same-sex friends, I conducted an experimental test of two predictions: first, that individuals induced to ruminate will be rated poorer in interpersonal functioning during a discussion with a friend than individuals induced to distract themselves; and second, that friends will ruminate more during discussions with individuals induced to ruminate versus distract themselves. The present study proposes an extension to the existing stress-generation framework to include emotion dysregulation as a precursor to interpersonal stress.


id: b8515m63x5h
author: Katherine C Crank
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 383
sentence: 15
flesch: 26
cache: cache/b8515m63x5h.txt
txt: txt/b8515m63x5h.txt
title:
  Developing and Refining Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Using Molecular Viral Fecal Indicators

summary:
  Molecular human viral fecal indicators have great potential to reduce the burden of gastrointestinal disease in the United States and worldwide. Relating measurements of human viral fecal indicators to health outcomes can be conducted with Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments (QMRA).


id: j9601z42t12
author: Alexis Michelle Chambers
title: The Effect of Sleep on the Consolidation of Positive Emotional Memories
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 137
sentence: 6
flesch: 47
cache: cache/j9601z42t12.txt
txt: txt/j9601z42t12.txt
summary:
  Results revealed that the sleep group had better memory than the wake group, especially for positive components of scenes. However, while previous investigations have only investigated negative scenes, the current study examined this effect for positive scenes.


id: q524jm23h9c
author: Pavithra C Tiruppathi
title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquid Nanodroplets in Electric Fields
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 162
sentence: 8
flesch: 36
cache: cache/q524jm23h9c.txt
txt: txt/q524jm23h9c.txt
summary:
  The technique of molecular simulation allows for the study of ionic liquid nanodroplets in atomic detail which is a limitation in mass spectrometric experiments. The ratio of the single ions to large clusters emitted from the droplet are observed and compared with experiment.


id: cf95j96359f
author: Tyler E. Curtis
title: Material Decomposition Using Photon-Counting Spectral Computed Tomography
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 411
sentence: 14
flesch: 11
cache: cache/cf95j96359f.txt
txt: txt/cf95j96359f.txt
summary:
  Multiple discrete contrast agent compositions were able to be simultaneously evaluated with quantitative accuracy (RMSE) that was comparable to results for a single contrast agent and were able to be identified even against highly attenuating bone tissue. Image-based material decomposition was also able to identify contrast agents within murine models at an image acquisition time suitable for in vivo preclinical imaging.


id: mw22v408s7s
author: Diana L. La Torre
title: Innate Immunology and Microbial Invasion in a Spontaneous Model of Colitis
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 410
sentence: 17
flesch: 30
cache: cache/mw22v408s7s.txt
txt: txt/mw22v408s7s.txt
summary:
  To assess the role of TNFAIP3 on innate immune system driven colitis, we crossed RAG-1-/- mice, immunocompromised mice lacking T and B cells, and villin-TNFAIP3 transgenic mice, which overexpress TNFAIP3 in IEC, these mice hereafter are referred to as TRAG mice. The ILCs further propagate the inflammation with secreting on inflammatory cytokines and increasing inflammatory cells, thus, leading to the spontaneous chronic inflammation displayed by our model.


id: 0g354f1967b
author: David Eliaona Lyimo
title: The Quest for Christ in Africa: Reimagining and Reconstructing African Christology
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 254
sentence: 11
flesch: 24
cache: cache/0g354f1967b.txt
txt: txt/0g354f1967b.txt
summary:
  New cultural realities in turn reshape African communities and worldviews, so that religious beliefs also undergo transformation. Much African theology, including reflection on Christ in Africa — that is, Christology — has long reflected traditional African cultural values.


id: 1544bp0134s
author: Peter J. Baker
title: The Politics of Taxation and State Building in Ukraine, 882-2004
date: 2010
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flesch: -1
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summary:
  This dissertation utilizes an historical-institutionalist framework to expose deep historical continuities and critical junctures in the development of the Ukrainian state through the lens of fiscal policy. The analysis shows that the multiple veto gates generated by Ukraine's electoral system and constitutional system of separation and balance of powers--thereby leading to the emergence of numerous smaller political parties unable to form stable parliamentary majorities, weak party discipline in the policy-making process, and the strong pull of special interests and narrow geographic constituencies--restricted the state executive's ability to centralize fiscal policy making in ways that promote more coherent fiscal policy.


id: 8s45q813k70
author: Dayu Lv
title: Construction, Analysis and Validation of a Mathematical Model of Human Metabolism
date: 2011
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words: 330
sentence: 18
flesch: 29
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summary:
  The sub-model of glucose transport in skeletal muscle is also refined to incorporate more physiological information. The forms of these equations are primarily based on qualitative understanding of the relevant physiological process and the related chemical reactions and experimental data.


id: 2514nk33w0g
author: Matthew Aaron Meixner
title: Supernovae Simulations and the Equation of State
date: 2013
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words: 201
sentence: 6
flesch: 34
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txt: txt/2514nk33w0g.txt
summary:
  Among them are: a reformulation in the context of density functional theory; the possibility of the formation of material with a net proton excess (Ye > 0.5); an improved treatment of the nuclear statistical equilibrium and the transition to heavy nuclei as the density approaches nuclear matter density; an improved treatment of the effects of pions in the regime above nuclear matter density; the effects of 3-body nuclear forces at high densities; and a first order or crossover transition to a QCD chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement phase at densities above nuclear matter density. This EoS is based upon a framework originally developed by Bowers & Wilson, but there are numerous changes.


id: bk128913r4d
author: Ryan Karl
title: Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations into Trusted Execution Environments
date: 2021
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words: 157
sentence: 6
flesch: 23
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summary:
  This suggests that TEEs are much more viable for performance intensive applications than was previously thought. The results of this investigation indicate that under normal conditions, TEEs offer performance that can be an order of magnitude faster than HE for general computational tasks.


id: 3r074t66c5g
author: John Spencer Thiede
title: The Reality of Martyrdom in the Christology of Jon Sobrino
date: 2012
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words: 333
sentence: 17
flesch: 52
cache: cache/3r074t66c5g.txt
txt: txt/3r074t66c5g.txt
summary:
  Sobrino deliberately expands the concept of martyrdom beyond the traditional definition. This dissertation shows how Sobrino expands the concept of martyrdom.


id: pv63fx74v2h
author: Joseph Zepeda
title: The Search and Study of CEMP Stars
date: 2022
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words: 214
sentence: 9
flesch: 48
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summary:
  Using high resolution (R ~ 40,000) spectroscopic observations taken at the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) of over 100 metal-poor stars we measured elemental abundances and then used these measurements to assign stars to a variety of chemically peculiar stellar classifications. Of particular interest were CEMP stars and classifications based on n-capture abundances.


id: 47429882r6w
author: Justin David Poche
title: Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938-1970
date: 2007
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words: 175
sentence: 5
flesch: 19
cache: cache/47429882r6w.txt
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summary:
  Into these confrontations, Louisiana Catholics wove intense religious struggles over the nature of religious authority, spiritual fulfillment, and social liberation. A close study of their experience reveals in important ways both the complexity and the intensity of the larger struggle over the meaning of race in twentieth century America.


id: nv935140w2h
author: Ryne A Gorsuch
date: 2015
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words: 418
sentence: 19
flesch: 31
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title:
  Sox2 is necessary and sufficient to induce M&uuml;ller glia reprogramming and proliferation in the regenerating zebrafish retina.

summary:
  While &#946;-catenin 2, but not &#946;-catenin 1, was required for M&uuml;ller glia proliferation, neither &#946;-catenin paralog was required for sox2 expression following retinal damage. We found that Sox2 expression is maintained in the M&uuml;ller glia and a subset of amacrine cells in the undamaged adult zebrafish retina, recapitulating that of other well-studied vertebrates.


id: jd472v2769n
author: Ruimin Ma
title: Polymer Design via Data-Driven Approaches
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 473
sentence: 20
flesch: 34
cache: cache/jd472v2769n.txt
txt: txt/jd472v2769n.txt
summary:
  While PI1M is powerful as a benchmark database for polymer informatics, it does not contain polymer properties, i.e., labels, about which researchers care most. Currently, the core of polymer informatics research is to quantify structure-property relationships via data-driven approaches, where representing polymers is the first and foremost thing to do, as those data-driven approaches require numerical inputs.


id: s4655d8941q
author: Daniel Robert Jackson
title: Birational maps of surfaces with invariant curves.
date: 2007
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words: 164
sentence: 7
flesch: 59
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txt: txt/s4655d8941q.txt
summary:
  We show that if X is a minimal rational surface and f is an algebraically stable (AS) map with first dynamical degree larger than one, then any invariant curve for f has arithmetic genus at most 1. By studying the induced real maps of the real projective plane we find a class of maps exhibiting maximal entropy in its real dynamics.


id: hd76rx93b84
author: Christopher B Harrison
title: Models and Mechanisms of DNA Damage Repair
date: 2007
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mime: text/plain
words: 385
sentence: 17
flesch: 26
cache: cache/hd76rx93b84.txt
txt: txt/hd76rx93b84.txt
summary:
  In bacteria and archaea kingdoms, CPD and PP are repaired via CPD photolyase and (6-4) photolyase. After successfully demonstrating the function of the ar tificial photolyase in the repair of CPD models under physiological conditions, the reductive artificial photolyase was shown to successfully repair CPD with a phosphate backbone under physiological conditions.


id: q524jm24n6v
author: Feiyang Geng
title: Approaches for CO2 Utilization and CO2 Efficient Processes
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 305
sentence: 14
flesch: 44
cache: cache/q524jm24n6v.txt
txt: txt/q524jm24n6v.txt
summary:
  However, the feasibility of this process is limited by the low product selectivity and low catalyst stability when using the state-of-the-art catalyst. The main approach is to develop steam methane reforming (SMR) at low temperature where thermal catalytic approaches are limited by low thermal equilibrium conversion.


id: jq085h75x6k
author: Timothy Everett Wright
title: Privacy and Integrity in Collaborative, Virtual Environments
date: 2010
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mime: text/plain
words: 171
sentence: 9
flesch: 29
cache: cache/jq085h75x6k.txt
txt: txt/jq085h75x6k.txt
summary:
  As immersive, multimedia-oriented systems, CVEs typically represent participants as avatars and operate in a variety of areas including, but not limited to: entertainment, commerce, education, and research. Finally, we carry out a realistic demonstration of Wonderland/WonderDAC with a small number of human participants.


id: 7h149p3103n
author: James Chenkuo Tung
title: Towards the synthesis of the cornexistins
date: 2008
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words: 265
sentence: 13
flesch: 35
cache: cache/7h149p3103n.txt
txt: txt/7h149p3103n.txt
summary:
  We targeted a retro-aldol precursor through a series of aldol reactions. Utilizing a Johnson-Claisen rearrangement and an enantioselective Evans-type aldol to generate the starting fragments, a series of reactions was performed to find the appropriate conditions for a key bond-forming ester enolate aldol.


id: fj236111169
author: Joseph Bartholomew Gianino
title: Development of Titanocene-Catalyzed Multicomponent Coupling Reactions
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 156
sentence: 7
flesch: 18
cache: cache/fj236111169.txt
txt: txt/fj236111169.txt
summary:
  Additional investigation into the catalytic metalation capability of titanocene provides novel entries to chalcones from &#945;-halo ketones and aldehydes, and homopropargyl alcohols from propargylic acetates and aldehydes. Using catalytic titanocene, phosphine, and zinc dust, zinc acetylides can be generated from the corresponding iodoalkynes to affect sequential nucleophilic additions to aromatic aldehydes.


id: nc580k25k9s
author: Joseph Farris
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 341
sentence: 13
flesch: 44
cache: cache/nc580k25k9s.txt
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title:
  Genotype-Phenotype Predictions in Rare Genetic Diseases: The Relationship between Glycine Decarboxylase Mutations and Non-Ketotic Hyperglycinemia Severity

summary:
  The hundreds of mutations in GLDC that give rise to NKH disease, present a unique system to investigate how these mutations underlie NKH, as well as provide models for a broader understanding of functional annotation of mutations in hundreds of monogenic disorders at cellular and organismal levels. Monogenic defects that alter metabolism may cause complex pathological states including neurological diseases that show a wide range of symptoms such as, seizures, epilepsy, neuropathy, cerebral defects and movement disorders.


id: cf95j96248h
author: Mamadou Brahima Coulibaly
date: 2011
extension: .txt
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words: 142
sentence: 8
flesch: 60
cache: cache/cf95j96248h.txt
txt: txt/cf95j96248h.txt
title:
  Cloning and Characterizing the 2RJ Inversion Breakpoints in the Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae S.S.

summary:
  A BAC clone already known to map to the vicinity of the proximal breakpoints the 2Rj+ (standard) was used as a starting material to identify the 2Rj (inverted) breakpoints in Bamako chromosomal form. A 14.6 kb insertion at each breakpoint but opposite orientation has been identified.


id: n583xs58n0z
author: David J. Pattillo
title: Reference and Ontology: How Can We Refer to Abstract Objects?
date: 1904
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words: 294
sentence: 11
flesch: 55
cache: cache/n583xs58n0z.txt
txt: txt/n583xs58n0z.txt
summary:
  In chapter 3 I argue that once we distinguish truth or instantiation in a world or time from truth or instantiation at a world or time, we can see that there is nothing absurd about abstract objects being contingent or temporal (since we will still be able to say all the same true things about other worlds and times). This dissertation asks and discusses answers to the question: how can we refer to abstract objects?


id: gf06g161m8w
author: Shih-Kai Chiu
title: On Calabi-Yau Manifolds with Maximal Volume Growth
date: 2021
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words: 257
sentence: 11
flesch: 45
cache: cache/gf06g161m8w.txt
txt: txt/gf06g161m8w.txt
summary:
  Next, we show that if a ddbar-exact Calabi-Yau manifold with maximal volume growth has tangent cone at infinity which splits an Euclidean factor, then the metric is unique under subquadratic perturbation of the Kähler potential. As a first step toward understanding this picture, we construct new Calabi-Yau metrics on C^3 with tangent cone at infinity given by C x A_2, and we show that these metrics are inequivalent in the sense that they are not related by isometries and scalings.


id: d217qn61t83
author: Michael Thomas Hartney
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 357
sentence: 10
flesch: 20
cache: cache/d217qn61t83.txt
txt: txt/d217qn61t83.txt
title:
  Turning Out Teachers: The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Political Activism in the Postwar United States

summary:
  It begins by investigating a puzzle that has had important and enduring implications for both American K-12 education and U.S. electoral politics more generally: the transformation of rank-and-file teachers into an active and powerful political constituency organized by influential teachers union interest groups. Namely, if teachers and their unions are as dominant a force in education politics as the conventional wisdom portends they are, why is the quantitative research literature on teacher unions effects so inconclusive at establishing those effects?


id: gq67jq1128h
author: Kathryn M. Lance
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 352
sentence: 13
flesch: 24
cache: cache/gq67jq1128h.txt
txt: txt/gq67jq1128h.txt
title:
  To Conceal or Reveal? Predictors of Adolescent Self-Disclosure to Mothers and the Mediating Role of Trust

summary:
  Studies have consistently revealed adolescent disclosure as the strongest predictor of parental knowledge about adolescents' companions, whereabouts, and behaviors. It therefore becomes important to understand what promotes adolescent disclosure to parents.


id: g732d79515n
author: Carson L Running
title: Global Measurements of Axisymmetric Hypersonic Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions
date: 2020
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mime: text/plain
words: 465
sentence: 19
flesch: 42
cache: cache/g732d79515n.txt
txt: txt/g732d79515n.txt
summary:
  The mean and fluctuating components of the surface pressure were used to provide multiple mean and instantaneous metrics of the locations of boundary-layer separation and reattachment shock feet. The classical scaling analyses of Souverein et al. and Hung &amp; Barnett for separation length and peak heating, respectively, have been extended for the use of axisymmetric cone/flare shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions.


id: 1j92g73468n
author: Jenny L. Vaydich
title: The Influence of Emotion Regulation on Aggressive Behavior in the Face of Provocation
date: 2011
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words: 120
sentence: 7
flesch: 23
cache: cache/1j92g73468n.txt
txt: txt/1j92g73468n.txt
summary:
  The current study tested the effect of manipulating emotion regulation strategies on aggressive behavior after being provoked, which has rarely been done in laboratory studies. Although provocation produced feelings of anger in all conditions, emotion regulation strategies were not related to differences in aggressive behavior among conditions.


id: 9880vq3017s
author: Shavkat Karimovich Kasymov
title: Water Disputes in Central Asia and the World: Assessing the Prospect of Conflict and Cooperation
date: 2010
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mime: text/plain
words: 140
sentence: 5
flesch: 47
cache: cache/9880vq3017s.txt
txt: txt/9880vq3017s.txt
summary:
  Using the examples of the Jordan River Basin, the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin and the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin, the author illustrates the circumstances under which cooperation and military conflict are likely to develop in different contexts. The purpose of this thesis is to assess the potential for conflict and cooperation over water resources in Central Asia and the world.


id: pg15bc4139q
author: Mengyu (Miranda) Gao
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 250
sentence: 10
flesch: 34
cache: cache/pg15bc4139q.txt
txt: txt/pg15bc4139q.txt
title:
  The Link between Marital and Parent-Child Relationship Quality: Test for the Spillover and Compensatory Hypotheses with a Daily Diary Design

summary:
  When the cross-person association was examined, evidence was found supporting the compensatory hypothesis for mothers: poorer average marital relationship quality of fathers was related to increased level of mothers' daily relationship quality with the child. The findings illustrated the interdependent, changing, and dynamic patterns of family relationships and underscored the importance of differentiating the father-child and mother-child relationship.


id: k356931081c
author: Vanessa E. Rubio Ramos
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 328
sentence: 15
flesch: 30
cache: cache/k356931081c.txt
txt: txt/k356931081c.txt
title:
  The Role of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes During the Assembly of Tropical Plant Communities through the Lens of Functional Groups

summary:
  However, the integration of functional groups into forest dynamics has not been well explored. In the third chapter, I run process-based simulations to understand the relative role of neutrality, functional groups, and conspecific negative density dependence in predicting forest dynamics.


id: 7p88cf97k1v
author: Mary Katherine Lattari
title: All of the Everything
date: 2013
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mime: text/plain
words: 262
sentence: 8
flesch: 50
cache: cache/7p88cf97k1v.txt
txt: txt/7p88cf97k1v.txt
summary:
  Jagger?s deep, spiraling, and synesthetic consciousness creates porcelain plate curios out of the men in her life, turns guttering street lamps into photon death rattles, renders music a sensory phantasmagoria able to prime the body and consciousness for any number of possible outcomes, probabilities, or actions. All of the Everything, a novel, explores one night in the life of Tynan Jagger, a twenty-five year-old musician in the fictitious New England city of Port Harbor.


id: tx31qf8845j
author: Xiaoyi Zhang
title: 'Il Sommo piacere' - The Crescendo of Love in the Commedia
date: 2015
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mime: text/plain
words: 48
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
cache: cache/tx31qf8845j.txt
txt: txt/tx31qf8845j.txt
summary:
  My thesis explores the use of 'piacere' in the Commedia, and argues that there are the crescendo of 'piacere', the imitatio amoris, and the increase of the nuptial imagery which reflect the development of Italian lyric poetry and the importance of the Song of Songs to the Commedia.


id: x633dz03k5r
author: Yingjie Li
title: Analysis of Ion-Enhanced Field Emission and Field Emission-Driven Microdischarges
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 332
sentence: 15
flesch: 43
cache: cache/x633dz03k5r.txt
txt: txt/x633dz03k5r.txt
summary:
  A current-driven PIC/MCC mode is introduced to simulate microscale glow discharges, and the effect of field emission on the discharge is discussed. As recent research reveals, this difference is caused by ion-enhanced field emission, which refers to field emission that is activated by the uniquely high electric fields at the microscale and enhanced by ions generated from the discharge.


id: cf95j963792
author: Taylor Nutter
title: A Self Forgetful of Itself: Augustine and the Modern Oblivion of the Erotic Mind
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 459
sentence: 21
flesch: 37
cache: cache/cf95j963792.txt
txt: txt/cf95j963792.txt
summary:
  For Augustine, then, objectivity is not the result of a dispassionate view from nowhere, but of ordinate desire. As that which allows the mind to grow into ordinate desire, faith is therefore a condition of the development of the mind toward wisdom.


id: v979v121z6g
author: Jason M. Grant
title: Analysis of Crowd Behavior Based on Optical Flow: Detection, Classification, and Clustering
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 318
sentence: 16
flesch: 44
cache: cache/v979v121z6g.txt
txt: txt/v979v121z6g.txt
summary:
  Crowd behavior analysis, a subdomain of human activity recognition, is a broad topic in computer vision that includes crowd management, public space design, virtual environments, visual surveillance, and intelligent environments. Lastly, we present a method for video clustering of crowd motion based upon optical flow.


id: hd76rx9395s
author: Joan Frances Arbery
title: Remembering Purgatory: Contemporary Incarnations in Paris, London, and Dublin
date: 2010
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words: 412
sentence: 19
flesch: 54
cache: cache/hd76rx9395s.txt
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summary:
  While my dissertation focuses on Western cities with Christian underpinnings, I ultimately posit that even in a secular or non-Christian world, the idea of the purgatorial, of a restorative union to a more complete version of the city, exists in all cities. From these readings on Purgatory and the city, I address contemporary Paris, London, and Dublin as purgatorial spaces.


id: p2676t07g2c
author: Joseph Allen Van Nausdle
title: Effects of Hydroxyapatite Morphology on MC3T3-E1 Osteoblast-Like Cells
date: 2005
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mime: text/plain
words: 196
sentence: 9
flesch: 45
cache: cache/p2676t07g2c.txt
txt: txt/p2676t07g2c.txt
summary:
  Therefore, the overall objective of this study was to investigate the initial attachment, proliferation and differentiation of MC3T3-E1 osteoblast-like cells plated on HA powder and whisker substrates. No difference was observed in the proliferation rate of cells on HA whisker vs. powder substrates.


id: j3860577c25
author: Matteo Bianchetti
title: Geometric Representations in Mathematical Problem-Solving: Intuition and Creativity
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 173
sentence: 9
flesch: 8
cache: cache/j3860577c25.txt
txt: txt/j3860577c25.txt
summary:
  Keywords: geometric representation, problem-solving, intuition, creativity, mathematical investigation, analogy, competence transfer, epistemic efficiency, Aleksandr D. Aleksandrov, Jean Dieudonné, Otto Stolz, Giuseppe Veronese, Hans Hahn. I consider Hans Hahn's objections against geometric intuition and, more briefly, other objections concerning contrasts within intuition itself.


id: n870zp4165q
author: Li Zeng
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 299
sentence: 11
flesch: 30
cache: cache/n870zp4165q.txt
txt: txt/n870zp4165q.txt
title:
  Energy and Charge Transfer of Hyperthermal-Energy Heavy Ions Scattering on Target Surfaces with Low Atomic Mass

summary:
  The results indicate that for the heavy projectile/light surface atom combination the interaction between surface atoms plays a key role in the energy transfer process. The variation of the distributions with initial kinetic energy reveals unexpected and complicated scattering dynamics which can not be properly described by simple models such as parallel momentum conservation or binary collision models.


id: sf268339w00
author: Yenan Cao
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 433
sentence: 11
flesch: 18
cache: cache/sf268339w00.txt
txt: txt/sf268339w00.txt
title:
  Characterization and Simulation of Near-Fault Ground Strains and Rotations, and Effects on Engineering Structures

summary:
  Finally, the contribution of synthetic low-frequency rocking components of ground motion to the seismic response of single-degree-of-freedom systems is investigated by generating coupled rocking and translational response spectra. Despite the growing interest in seismic ground strains and rotations within the seismological and engineering communities, the scarce number of direct measurements or indirect estimations of these motions in the near-fault region of strong earthquakes has hindered their thorough investigation.


id: d504rj45509
author: Matthew J. Meagher
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 273
sentence: 10
flesch: 11
cache: cache/d504rj45509.txt
txt: txt/d504rj45509.txt
title:
  Engineering Synthetic Bone Graft Substitutes with Improved Mechanical Properties, Enhanced Bioactivity, and On-Demand Growth Factor Delivery

summary:
  In a subsequent study using an orthotopic critical-size femoral defect model in rats, collagen scaffolds did not exhibit bone formation, while HA-collagen scaffolds exhibited bone formation but did not result in mechanically competent union, confirming the need to augment scaffolds with exogenous growth factors for functional bone regeneration. HA promoted angiogenesis and osteogenesis in collagen scaffolds that did not otherwise exhibit angiogenesis and osteogenesis, and the effect was dose dependent.


id: 1n79h417g80
author: Marcia Eileen Braun
title: Do Individual Differences in Global Social Support Affect How Daily Support Buffers Daily Stress?
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 279
sentence: 9
flesch: 34
cache: cache/1n79h417g80.txt
txt: txt/1n79h417g80.txt
summary:
  The Level-1 within-person analyses include the buffering role of daily social support perceived as cooperative (nondirective) support and that perceived as intrusive (directive) on the stress-negative affect relationship. Level-2 findings include the moderation of daily directive support-stress relationship for those endorsing more global social control; however, receiving greater daily directive support accentuates the stress-negative affect slope.


id: 0k225b01f6z
author: Jason Kistler Keller
title: Controls of Microbial Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands
date: 2006
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mime: text/plain
words: 349
sentence: 12
flesch: 26
cache: cache/0k225b01f6z.txt
txt: txt/0k225b01f6z.txt
summary:
  This dissertation focuses on the controls of anaerobic carbon mineralization and aerobic CH4 oxidation in peatland ecosystems. For example, in peatlands from northern Michigan, anaerobic carbon mineralization in bog peat was consistently inhibited by increased phosphorus availability, but similar phosphorus additions had few effects in peat from an intermediate fen and stimulated CH4 production in rich fen peat.


id: ks65h99209r
author: Craig Richard Powers
title: Monte Carlo Simulation of Adsorption and Ion Exchange in Nanoporous Materials
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 465
sentence: 17
flesch: 31
cache: cache/ks65h99209r.txt
txt: txt/ks65h99209r.txt
summary:
  The results from the simulations are analyzed to obtain insight into the behavior of the materials and an understanding of how ion exchange simulations may be conducted moreeffectively in the future. In the final phase of this study, a new statistical mechanical ensemble is developed,denoted the ion exchange ensemble, and the corresponding move acceptance probabilities for Monte Carlo simulation in this ensemble.


id: fx719k4576t
author: John R. Hoffman
title: Designing Multi-Functional Copolymer Nanofiltration Membranes
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 361
sentence: 14
flesch: 27
cache: cache/fx719k4576t.txt
txt: txt/fx719k4576t.txt
summary:
  This dissertation takes the approach of post-fabrication functionalization as a viable method to develop multi-functional membranes, by investigating the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction. Multi-functional membranes with surface anti-fouling chemistry and underlying charged chemistry were made which exhibited equivalent ion rejection performance compared to fully charged membranes, but with a much lower propensity for fouling.


id: jq085h76n82
author: Michael Tze-Sung Longenecker
title: The Contingently Non-Concrete: Uses and Nature
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 127
sentence: 5
flesch: 53
cache: cache/jq085h76n82.txt
txt: txt/jq085h76n82.txt
summary:
  They can be used to develop new views of possible worlds, material objects, the nature of the past, and God's creation of the world that help us avoid some problems concerning these issues. One forceful objection to the existence of non-concreta is that their modal properties aren't grounded in their non-modal properties.


id: m613mw2547j
author: Erez Abittan
title: A Model-Based Approach for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
date: 2006
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 229
sentence: 9
flesch: 46
cache: cache/m613mw2547j.txt
txt: txt/m613mw2547j.txt
summary:
  The goal has been to combine ideas from many fields in order to set the foundation for an approach in damage-detection using wireless sensors networks. The wireless network adds many constraints in the algorithm used, and this work focuses on low energy consumption, low computational power and wireless sensors which may have unsynchronized clocks.


id: h128nc61d0w
author: Santain Tavella
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 349
sentence: 9
flesch: 37
cache: cache/h128nc61d0w.txt
txt: txt/h128nc61d0w.txt
title:
  Lost in Translation: Technical Aspects and Challenges in the Italian Dubbing of Miracle at St. Anna and Fargo

summary:
  In the field of audiovisual translation, doubts and questions about the reliability of dubbing as a means of language transfer have increased, resulting in a split in public opinion between those who still appreciate dubbed film products and those who claim that this type of translation intervention inevitably changes the original product with often negative results. In the next part, through the analysis of selected scenes from both films, I show how in a multilingual film such as Miracle at St. Anna the dubbing did not consider this a fundamental aspect of the film and did not limit itself to language transfer but rewrote entire scenes depriving the target audience of the essence of the film product.


id: g732d79524m
author: Kayla D. R. Pierce
title: Status, Influence, and Emotions: Emotional Contagion in Status Hierarchies
date: 2021
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mime: text/plain
words: 342
sentence: 14
flesch: 40
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summary:
  I find that the emotions of high status people are more contagious than those of low status people, and that anger is especially contagious. I find that, while low status people generally have little influence, they have significantly less influence when they express anger than when they express no emotion at all.


id: 2b88qc01j0t
author: Raquel Montañez-González
title: Molecular Karyotyping of Chromosomal Inversions in the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae
date: 2020
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mime: text/plain
words: 378
sentence: 19
flesch: 43
cache: cache/2b88qc01j0t.txt
txt: txt/2b88qc01j0t.txt
summary:
  Understanding the presence of inversion polymorphism in the complex will not only facilitate characterization of these species but will advance the understanding of malaria transmission. These complexes are characterized by the presence of inversion polymorphisms, a phenomenon where a chromosomal segment breaks and reattaches in reverse orientation.


id: t435gb21x0q
author: Xochitl Bada
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 354
sentence: 11
flesch: 16
cache: cache/t435gb21x0q.txt
txt: txt/t435gb21x0q.txt
title:
  Sociopolitical Remittances, Rural Development, and Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations: The Shifting Nature of Transnational and Trans-Local Connections in the Chicago-Michoacan Corridor

summary:
  Using archival research, in depth interviews with key players, and participant observation, this work demonstrates that new patterns of binational civic participation in sending and receiving societies have made a modest contribution to more democratic and accountable socio-political environments in high expulsion regions in rural Mexico. In terms of organizational capacity, the evidence suggests that Michoacano migrant organizations in the United States are transplanted adaptations of rural village organizing systems, and not necessarily the result of an increased exposure to American democratic and philanthropic values during the adaptation process to the host society.


id: mc87pn92v8s
author: Maria Caterina Gargano
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 341
sentence: 13
flesch: 28
cache: cache/mc87pn92v8s.txt
txt: txt/mc87pn92v8s.txt
title:
  Migration Experiences and Women's Perceived Impact of Migration on Their Community in Lima, Perú: Associations with Violence and Mental Health

summary:
  Limited research has investigated migration and the perceived impact of migration on communities in contexts with high numbers of community members who have migrated within their country of origin (here, internal migration). The thematic analysis of migration experiences revealed trends in challenges, motivations, and adjustments for women who migrated to Lima, some of which (crime, nature differences, enjoyment, and being forced to migrate) significantly predicted mental health outcomes.


id: c247dr2934s
author: SM Moududul Islam
title: Ultra-Thin Quantum Structures for Deep Ultraviolet Photonic Devices
date: 1904
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mime: text/plain
words: 430
sentence: 18
flesch: 43
cache: cache/c247dr2934s.txt
txt: txt/c247dr2934s.txt
summary:
  Though optical devices in the entire UV spectral window have been demonstrated by using III-N semiconductors and their alloys, the overall efficiency of such deep UV emitters is still well below 10%. Necessary conditions for defect free crystal growth by MBE has been identified and 150% efficiency enhancement was achieved with bulk substrates for 280 nm emission.


id: bn999595z0n
author: Kevin Anthony Estep
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 109
sentence: 4
flesch: 41
cache: cache/bn999595z0n.txt
txt: txt/bn999595z0n.txt
title:
  Constructing a Language Problem: Paternalism, Power Devaluation, and the Legitimation of Nativism in the English-only Movement

summary:
  I find support for the status-based power devaluation perspective &#8212; an alternative to the dominant theories of symbolic politics &#8212; and for a 'new nativism' grounded in fiscal conservatism. Between 1984 and 2010, the 'English-only' movement successfully lobbied for legislation to make English the official language of 24 states and to restrict bilingual public education in three others.


id: t435gb21w4s
author: Clare Brogan
title: The Leuktra Tropaion: A Case Study in Ancient Greek Victory Monuments
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 36
sentence: 2
flesch: 61
cache: cache/t435gb21w4s.txt
txt: txt/t435gb21w4s.txt
summary:
  This is a an analysis of the political, cultural, and art historical precedents set by the Thebans in their construction of a permanent victory trophy after their victory over the Spartans at Leuktra in 371 B.C.


id: zg64th86854
author: Robert W. Mowry
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 185
sentence: 7
flesch: 14
cache: cache/zg64th86854.txt
txt: txt/zg64th86854.txt
title:
  The Embodiment of Protest: How Gender Moderates the Individual-Level Effects of Demonstration Participation

summary:
  Women protesters, however, exhibit mixed results, with boosts in empowerment on the measure of internal political efficacy, but not external political efficacy. This suggests that institutional barriers to political participation and the relatively high risk-potential of protest—even when legal and routine—continue to affect women and men differently.


id: v979v12178n
author: Susan M Gundersen
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 293
sentence: 8
flesch: 35
cache: cache/v979v12178n.txt
txt: txt/v979v12178n.txt
title:
  How Do Word Meanings in One's First Language Influence Learning of Similar Words in a Second Language?

summary:
  Results from both Experiments 1 and 2 confirm predictions of the Competition Model (2008) concerning the relative difficulty of differentiation versus unitization, and the effects of word frequency on L2 learning. This dissertation outlines two experiments aimed at investigating how adults learn words in a second language (L2) that do not have one exact equivalent in the first language (L1).


id: n583xs57x98
author: Patrick Lawrence Hill
title: Defining Salience During Reference Object Selection
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 149
sentence: 6
flesch: 30
cache: cache/n583xs57x98.txt
txt: txt/n583xs57x98.txt
summary:
  These candidates were manipulated along conceptual, perceptual, and spatial dimensions to determine which are computed by speakers during reference object selection, and the relative importance of each type. Of interest to the current research is determining which salience dimensions speakers attend to during the process of reference object selection.


id: 7h149p32090
author: Shawn Andrew Kern
title: We're the Real Activists: Repression and the Dissident Republican Identity
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 143
sentence: 7
flesch: 33
cache: cache/7h149p32090.txt
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summary:
  This paper contributes a process of identity, repression, and resources that sustains activist identity and movement participation in the long-term without movement success, hinting that movements can be reliant upon state repression. Social movements literature views repression as a barrier to movement mobilization and success.


id: hx11xd09p7v
author: Daniel Kraus Van Ness II
date: 2009
extension: .txt
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words: 316
sentence: 13
flesch: 48
cache: cache/hx11xd09p7v.txt
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title:
  A Study Of Tip Clearance Flow Loss Mitigation In A Linear Turbine Cascade Using Active And Passive Flow Control

summary:
  These were carried out in order to understand the receptivity of the tip clearance flow to various types of flow control and the applicable range over which the flow control was effective. To improve on these methods, various active flow control methods were designed and tested.


id: fb494744h72
author: Linlin Liu
title: Essays on Asset Returns and Portfolio Allocation
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 332
sentence: 13
flesch: 38
cache: cache/fb494744h72.txt
txt: txt/fb494744h72.txt
summary:
  The optimal portfolio weight on stock depends on the relative magnitude of the correlation between aggregate stock return and equity risk premium, and the correlation between aggregate stock return and labor income. With the risk factors constructed from the asset return data and macroeconomic data, the model is able to generate considerably small pricing errors for aggregate stock return and Treasury yields.


id: 12579s17t70
author: Aaron J. W. Dingler
title: Nanomagnet Logic: From Devices to Architectures
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 321
sentence: 13
flesch: 46
cache: cache/12579s17t70.txt
txt: txt/12579s17t70.txt
summary:
  Next, this work considers the interaction between NML circuits and the clock required to re-evaluate the circuits. Specifically considered is how to model a proposed clock structure to determine its effects on NML circuit logical correctness, power, and energy requirements.


id: 2v23vt17z7z
author: Ke Feng
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 322
sentence: 15
flesch: 40
cache: cache/2v23vt17z7z.txt
txt: txt/2v23vt17z7z.txt
title:
  Spatial Analysis of Cellular Networks: Meta Distributions, Cooperation, and Joint Geometric Modeling

summary:
  An important example is the success probability, defined through the distribution of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). The SINR is subject to randomness both temporally and spatially, including the small-scale fading and the large-scale propagation loss.


id: qj72p556m8h
author: Brian T Hayden
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 382
sentence: 13
flesch: 41
cache: cache/qj72p556m8h.txt
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title:
  Better Understanding Type Ia Supernovae With the Goal of Making Them More Reliable Distance Indicators

summary:
  This thesis presents research into the nature of SN Ia explosions and their environments, and discusses ongoing efforts to understand systematic errors in SN Ia distance measurements. While accurate measurements of the rise time do not significantly improve cosmological results, they do improve the estimate of 56-Ni yield, which is an important constraint in theoretical modeling of SN Ia explosions.


id: jq085h75x57
author: Jeremiah J. Gassensmith
title: The Supramolecular Chemistry of Squaraine Dyes and Anthracene Macrocycles
date: 2009
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words: 275
sentence: 10
flesch: 34
cache: cache/jq085h75x57.txt
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summary:
  Also presented are synthetic methods for functionalizing the rotaxane with different ``stopper group' in quantitive coupling reactions. As a rotaxanated structure, the dyes encapsulated by the anthracene macrocycle show interesting strain mediated reactivity with singlet molecular oxygen and an interesting fluorescent molecular shuttle that uses an aniline derived tetralactam macrocycle which responds to chloride is presented.


id: cj82k646g5f
author: Wei Qian
title: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
date: 2020
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words: 324
sentence: 13
flesch: 44
cache: cache/cj82k646g5f.txt
txt: txt/cj82k646g5f.txt
summary:
  Exploiting this information treatment as an exogenous source of variation in house price expectations, I show that a one percentage point increase in nationwide house price expectations over the next 12 months leads to about a 0.4 percentage point increase in intended total household spending growth over the same period. In chapter one, I examine the causal effect of house price expectations on individuals' spending decisions using a survey-based experiment.


id: 9g54xg96k4c
author: Anthony S. Lee
date: 2011
extension: .txt
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words: 360
sentence: 11
flesch: 36
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title:
  From Sacrament of Salvation to Sign that Interrupts: the Evolution in Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of the Relationship between the Church and the World 

summary:
  In conclusion, the value of the evolution of Schillebeeckx's view is assessed, and the strength of his developed thought reaffirmed, while some ambiguity and the need for further development are exposed in terms of the precise shape of the church's indirect but concrete involvement in the world of politics. To highlight continuity, this dissertation examines his multiple shifts, roughly divided into three periods: the period of his first major work, that of Vatican II, and that of his engagement with hermeneutics and critical theory.


id: ww72b853q0m
author: Shaoping Shen
title: Optical and Transport Studies of Magnetic Semiconductor
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 366
sentence: 16
flesch: 49
cache: cache/ww72b853q0m.txt
txt: txt/ww72b853q0m.txt
summary:
  The magneo-transport study involved the investigation of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in (Ga,Mn)As epilayers with low Mn concentration, grown in ultra-high vacuum molecular beam epitaxy (UHV MBE) chamber. In all samples, a strong MCD signal was found at about 2.9 eV due to a large Zeeman splitting of the exciton confined in the nano-ribbon.


id: 2b88qc00f6p
author: Becky Akiko Miller
title: Detection and biological assessment of genome structural variation in Plasmodium falciparum
date: 2012
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words: 535
sentence: 20
flesch: 34
cache: cache/2b88qc00f6p.txt
txt: txt/2b88qc00f6p.txt
summary:
  Using comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), copy number fluctuation of parasite isolates adapted to in vitro culture was assessed and show little copy number fluctuation during the course of adaptation. A novel microarray (the CNV-SNP Array) with an optimized probe design for copy number variation and SNP genotyping in the P. falciparum genome is presented that demonstrates variable length and isothermal probes are superior to static length probes.


id: sx61dj56h9d
author: Abigail Jorgensen
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 376
sentence: 14
flesch: 27
cache: cache/sx61dj56h9d.txt
txt: txt/sx61dj56h9d.txt
title:
  Epistemologies of Motherhood: Investigations of Political Behavior, Visual Productive Methods, and Anticipatory Identity

summary:
  Further, I demonstrate that anticipatory motherhood carried with it an aspect of precarity regarding an individual's ability to claim the social identity of motherhood. In the third chapter, I theorize a category of motherhood that exists beyond current understandings of women as mother and non-mother: anticipatory mother.


id: 2z10wq0047k
author: Christina Lynn Brinks Rea
title: The Thematic, Stylistic, and Verbal Similarities Between Isaiah 40-55 and the Book of Job
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 530
sentence: 20
flesch: 47
cache: cache/2z10wq0047k.txt
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summary:
  This dissertation examines the evidence for a dependent literary relationship between Isaiah 40-55, commonly called 2 Isaiah, and the book of Job. Chapter 3 lists as systematically and comprehensively as possible the specific similarities between 2 Isaiah and Job in categories of thematic, stylistic, and verbal parallels, and similarities related to the idea of an innocent suffering servant.


id: 8336h130n5r
author: Regan Deonanan
title: Empirical Essays on the Macroeconomics of Developing Countries
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 352
sentence: 20
flesch: 45
cache: cache/8336h130n5r.txt
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summary:
  Chapter 1 investigates the effect of workers' remittances on real per capita output growth in developing countries. First, remittances cause significant positive growth in developing countries.


id: 5x21td98h01
author: Scott Christley
title: Modeling and Simulation of Vertebrate Limb Chondrogenesis and Algorithms for Comparative Genomics
date: 2010
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words: 111
sentence: 4
flesch: 2
cache: cache/5x21td98h01.txt
txt: txt/5x21td98h01.txt
summary:
  Modeling and simulation serves to provide tests of the plausibility and robustness of proposed biological mechanisms, and they can suggest previously unknown but experimentally testable hypotheses from known biological interactions. This dissertation addresses the challenge of both approaches through modeling and simulation of limb chondrogenesis and novel algorithms and computational tools for multiple organism comparative genomics.


id: f1881j95p0p
author: Sarah Wright
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 170
sentence: 6
flesch: 35
cache: cache/f1881j95p0p.txt
txt: txt/f1881j95p0p.txt
title:
  Battling the Backlog: A Novel Bioanalytical Technology for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence

summary:
  The separated components were deposited into individual wells of a microtiter plate using a computer-controlled fraction collector, and quantitative PCR was used to verify the collection of sperm cells by targeted amplification of male DNA. The technology was verified with simulated sexual assault samples that were aged for up to 18 months, as well as vaginal swabs from authentic forensic kits, demonstrating a clean separation and collection of sperm cells for downstream analysis.


id: zg64th86c21
author: Han Xia
title: Thermal Analysis and Thermal Hazard Analysis of Ionic Liquids
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 339
sentence: 15
flesch: 41
cache: cache/zg64th86c21.txt
txt: txt/zg64th86c21.txt
summary:
  In this work, these properties were measured using thermal analysis tools Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC).ILs are often described as thermally stable based on their relatively high decomposition onset temperatures from TGA with open sample crucibles. Thermal stability is an important factor in many potential applications of ILs, such as heat transfer fluids, electrolytes in batteries, and high-temperature lubricants.


id: 6682x349c6x
author: Ricardo Romero-Moreno
title: Role of the CXCL5/CXCR2 Axis in Breast Cancer Metastasis to Bone and Initiation of Colonization
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 323
sentence: 14
flesch: 48
cache: cache/6682x349c6x.txt
txt: txt/6682x349c6x.txt
summary:
  I discovered that bone co-cultures of cancer cells with cancer-primed bone induce cancer colonization and secrete higher levels of CXCL5 into the culture media when compared to co-cultures using healthy bones. A major challenge in the study of breast cancer metastasis to bone is the lack of experimental models that target the last steps of the metastatic cascade in the context of the bone microenvironment.


id: db78tb12t0c
author: Giovanni Vedovotto
title: The Poet, the Saint, and the Friars: Dante, Francis, and Franciscanism
date: 2022
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words: 247
sentence: 10
flesch: 52
cache: cache/db78tb12t0c.txt
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summary:
  On the contrary, most Franciscans of Dante's time are not the rightful heirs of Francis, as they either are hypocrites who do not really care about renunciation, or they believe that poverty is an end in itself without understanding the spiritual principle of perfect renunciation which lies behind poverty. As Francis is the true standard-bearer of renunciation, Dante represents him as the rightful heir of Christ, a prophet sent by God to redeem Christianity.


id: t148ff39r7s
author: Jake McGinnis
title: Disturbance Ecologies: Antebellum U.S. Travel Writing and Environmental Thinking
date: 2022
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mime: text/plain
words: 274
sentence: 7
flesch: 20
cache: cache/t148ff39r7s.txt
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summary:
  This dissertation examines American literary travel writing published from 1835-1862, a period during which changing environmental and social conditions began to reshape traditional narrative forms. While the modern tourism industry began to emerge, ushering in a proliferation of travel writing in books, periodicals, and guidebooks, some authors considered the more disturbing or unsettling elements of travel, experimenting with digressions, fragmentation, shifts in genre, and surprising breaks in readers' expectations in order to depict and to enact a disturbance to one's more established sense of the world.


id: cc08hd8002x
author: Jacob Piland
title: Network-Based Approaches to Understanding Protein Structure and Folding Process
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 300
sentence: 17
flesch: 49
cache: cache/cc08hd8002x.txt
txt: txt/cc08hd8002x.txt
summary:
  As protein function is closely related to protein structure, in this thesis we describe two novel, network-based approaches for capturing, describing, and understanding protein structure. In the long run the work discussed in this thesis may contribute to understanding of how protein structure is folded.


id: 9c67wm13z71
author: Xu Han
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 362
sentence: 15
flesch: 35
cache: cache/9c67wm13z71.txt
txt: txt/9c67wm13z71.txt
title:
  Characterization and Interactions of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets (APPJ) with DNA and Human Cells

summary:
  The effective area is found enlarged with longer plasma exposures with high DNA damage levels for cancer cells but not for normal cells. Liquid-phase reactive species formed after plasma treatment are quantified mainly by a chemical dosimetry method.


id: 37720c49x9s
author: Kristi Lynn Pellegrini
title: Solid State and Aqueous Behavior of Uranyl Peroxide Cage Clusters
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 386
sentence: 14
flesch: 33
cache: cache/37720c49x9s.txt
txt: txt/37720c49x9s.txt
summary:
  In this thesis, I examine the aqueous behavior of U24Pp12, as well as aqueous cluster systems with added mono-, di-, and trivalent cations. Solid state analyses are used to probe the complicated bonding environments between U24Pp12 and crystallized counterions, giving further insight into the importance of cluster protonation and counterions in uranyl cluster systems.


id: tb09j389k3v
author: Bingyu Shen
title: New Approaches in Data for AI-Driven Forensics Applications
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 366
sentence: 18
flesch: 50
cache: cache/tb09j389k3v.txt
txt: txt/tb09j389k3v.txt
summary:
  The training process is benefited from generating synthetic texts with spelling errors. Development in deep learning algorithms significantly boosts the performance of digital forensics applications, such as media phylogeny, optical character recognition(OCR), face recognition, and scene text spotting.


id: vx021c21n5t
author: Michael David Planer
title: Measurement of the Higgs Boson Cross-Section and Couplings in the Two Photon Decay Channel
date: 1904
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words: 119
sentence: 5
flesch: 39
cache: cache/vx021c21n5t.txt
txt: txt/vx021c21n5t.txt
summary:
  Events were classified to maximize signal efficiency and to study gluon fusion,vector boson fusion, vector boson associated production, and top fusion Higgs boson production modes. Signal strengths for the different Higgs boson production modes, coupling modifiers to bosons and fermions, and effective couplings to photons and gluons are also presented.


id: z890rr19m65
author: Lai Wei
title: Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes and Cooperative Communication
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 645
sentence: 19
flesch: 31
cache: cache/z890rr19m65.txt
txt: txt/z890rr19m65.txt
summary:
  In this dissertation we focus on three topics in wireless communication: 1) design of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes over GF(q) for windowed decoding (WD), 2) cooperative communication in the context of bandwidth-efficient modulation, and 3) the use of rate-compatible SC-LDPC codes in binary coded cooperation. Finally, for the third topic, we investigate the use of rate-compatible SC-LDPC codes for binary coded cooperation.


id: d504rj46439
author: Nancy Aguillón Díaz
title: White Stars and Stripes: The Effect of Race on Flag Displays at U.S. Protest Events
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 118
sentence: 4
flesch: 39
cache: cache/d504rj46439.txt
txt: txt/d504rj46439.txt
summary:
  A critical analysis of the racist, colonialist, and exclusionary creation of the U.S. flag, theories on insider and outsider dynamics, as well as the racial formation process, demonstrate how the U.S. flag has been largely coopted by majority white protest groups, and majority non-white protest groups are less likely to use the flag in their claims making efforts. Protest participation speaks to group and individual civic engagement patterns, and collective identity mechanisms.


id: ht24wh2748x
author: Dahyeon Kim
title: Imagery, Valence, and Working Memory in Depression
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 221
sentence: 9
flesch: 23
cache: cache/ht24wh2748x.txt
txt: txt/ht24wh2748x.txt
summary:
  Positive imagery was more vivid and longer maintained than negative imagery, reflecting the presence of an adaptive bias in the healthy population. Partially consistent with the hypotheses, however, with higher levels of depressive symptoms, positive imagery generated with a concurrent task was significantly less emotionally intense than positive imagery generated alone.


id: jm214m92q14
author: Jacob Riyeff
title: Making the Divine Economy: Imagination, Performance, and the Old English Poetry of Prayer
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 353
sentence: 12
flesch: 37
cache: cache/jm214m92q14.txt
txt: txt/jm214m92q14.txt
summary:
  By weaving together focused analyses of aspects of the Anglo-Saxon Christian world and detailed readings of how a wide variety of Old English poems imagine this world, I provide a more fully articulated picture of how Anglo-Saxon Christians understood themselves, the world around them, and their role within it. This dissertation investigates the ways that Anglo-Saxon poets used the poetry of prayer to imagine and fashion a world for their early medieval audiences.


id: 73666397v54
author: Andrew Tayanjana Namanja
title: Molecular Basis for Signal Transduction in the Bimodular Cell-Cycle Enzyme Pin1
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 703
sentence: 27
flesch: 35
cache: cache/73666397v54.txt
txt: txt/73666397v54.txt
summary:
  This suggests that the dynamic conduit links ligand binding activity at the PPIase active site and the interaction of the WW domain at the domain interface on Pin1-PPIase. It has become more evident that many proteins experience activity regulation via binding of small molecules or other proteins to sites that are distal from the active site.


id: xp68kd19z6x
author: Louisa Catharina Schneider
title: Fabrication of Single Electron Transistors using Atomic Layer Deposition
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 128
sentence: 5
flesch: 47
cache: cache/xp68kd19z6x.txt
txt: txt/xp68kd19z6x.txt
summary:
  Currently, the choice of SET material is limited to metals that can be thermally oxidized, which has its limitations in terms of thickness control for ultra-thin tunnel barrier oxides. Our goal is to establish a fabrication process that uses alumina as tunnel barriers sandwiched between two platinum electrodes.


id: xp68kd2131g
author: Jonathan W. L. Kusnerek
title: Nature of Longing
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 110
sentence: 4
flesch: 36
cache: cache/xp68kd2131g.txt
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summary:
  I engage with theoretical concepts relating to affect, queer theory, and merging theoretical positions on medieval concepts with material feminist ideas of object agency as conceptual underpinnings behind my work. These ideas manifest in work that draws on references to folklore, sacred objects, and various codes of iconography as a lens to express narratives from personal experiences as a queer person.


id: 5712m615j2n
author: Anca Ostace
title: Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Inertia on the Hydrodynamic Interaction of Microorganisms
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 154
sentence: 6
flesch: 26
cache: cache/5712m615j2n.txt
txt: txt/5712m615j2n.txt
summary:
  We examine the effects of inertia on the interaction of a pair of model microorganisms in the small to intermediate Reynolds number regime, by means of direct numerical simulations. This causes a significant change in the contact time and dispersion dynamics of microswimmers, with potential important consequences on the collective behavior of microorganisms, as well as on decisive biophysical interactions such as same-species and predator-prey interactions.


id: 6t053f4826m
author: Andrew S. Clement
title: Action-Based Compression of Spatial Memory for Multiple Nested Environments
date: 1904
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words: 150
sentence: 10
flesch: 37
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summary:
  To address this issue, I examined whether action-based compression could extend to surrounding objects or environments. By marking the boundary between regions, I also assessed whether interaction compresses memory for other environments.


id: 9880vq3016f
author: Corey John Zwikstra
title: The Psychology of Wisdom in Old English Poetry
date: 2009
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mime: text/plain
words: 299
sentence: 11
flesch: 40
cache: cache/9880vq3016f.txt
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summary:
  On the levels of characterization, narrative, and theme, wisdom performs often essential functions in a variety of Old English texts, most intensely in poetry and frequently in texts outside the approved canon of Old English wisdom literature. This dissertation challenges conventional wisdom by means of a lexical approach that clarifies the definition of wisdom in Old English, gives us a way to access an Anglo-Saxon understanding of literature about wisdom, and accordingly alters and revitalizes the canon of Old English wisdom literature.


id: 6h440r9982k
author: Mengyu Xu
title: Syntheses, Structures, and Solution Behavior of Organic-Functionalized Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters
date: 2020
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words: 270
sentence: 13
flesch: 41
cache: cache/6h440r9982k.txt
txt: txt/6h440r9982k.txt
summary:
  Given that functionalized-clusters can be converted into other cluster species in water, uranyl peroxide clusters have been used as precursors to obtain other cluster species through their transformations in water. In this thesis, uranyl peroxide clusters are studied in the form of organic-inorganic hybrid complexes.


id: 8049g447d0s
author: Shannon Lawson Flynn
title: Environmental Behavior of Metals and Radionuclides
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 298
sentence: 11
flesch: 27
cache: cache/8049g447d0s.txt
txt: txt/8049g447d0s.txt
summary:
  Chapter 4 examines the aqueous behavior of a second isolated uranyl peroxide nanocluster, U24Py, to determine the effect of nanocluster size, composition and morphology on nanocluster aqueous behavior. These findings provide a better understanding of the thermodynamic stability and behavior of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters in aqueous systems, which can be used to estimate the dissociation behavior of nanoclusters under a range of aqueous conditions.


id: gx41mg77m34
author: Jacob B. Hoffman
title: Utilizing Quantum Dot Assemblies for Light Harvesting Applications
date: 1904
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words: 318
sentence: 16
flesch: 43
cache: cache/gx41mg77m34.txt
txt: txt/gx41mg77m34.txt
summary:
  First, energy transfer was studied between a squaraine dye used as a linker molecule in liquid junction solar cells and CdSe quantum dots as a function of quantum dot size. Second, the impact of surface chemistry on resonance energy transfer was investigated in quantum dot films.


id: v979v122945
author: John William Nelson
title: The Geography to Command a Continent: Native Peoples, Europeans, and the Chicago Portage
date: 2020
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words: 367
sentence: 12
flesch: 28
cache: cache/v979v122945.txt
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summary:
  This study focuses on one five-mile stretch of muddy ground connecting the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers, in order to explore the continued importance of environmental factors and local geographies within the wider history of indigenous-European relations on the North American continent. They adopted indigenous techniques of canoeing and relied on Native knowledge of local portage environments to extend maritime networks deep within the continent.


id: 6395w665299
author: Rebecca Lynn Stangl
title: A Principled Sensibility: Rules and the Life of Virtue
date: 2007
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words: 354
sentence: 12
flesch: 36
cache: cache/6395w665299.txt
txt: txt/6395w665299.txt
summary:
  Turning to the constructive task of giving a virtue-theoretic account of moral rules, I propose a novel analysis of non-trivial absolute moral prohibitions which articulates their importance without reducing the virtuous agent's moral deliberations to a mechanical application of rules. Ethical reflection in general, and about the role of moral rules in particular, not only begins, but also ends, with the aim of making sense of my life as whole.


id: h702q527m7b
author: Elvin E. Morales
date: 2019
extension: .txt
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words: 346
sentence: 11
flesch: 34
cache: cache/h702q527m7b.txt
txt: txt/h702q527m7b.txt
title:
  Analysis of Renal Development: Genetic Mechanisms of Distal Nephron Cell Fate Specification Involving Emx Genes

summary:
  Our overarching goal is to further our understanding of renal ontogeny by elucidating the molecular and genetic mechanisms of nephron tubule segment formation. In general, we observed that emx1 controls distal segment cell fate by promoting the distal late segment while inhibiting formation of the distal early.


id: vt150g37n2f
author: Stephen A. Luke
title: A New Approach for Modeling Gravitational Radiation from the Inspiral of Two Neutron Stars
date: 2008
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words: 353
sentence: 14
flesch: 38
cache: cache/vt150g37n2f.txt
txt: txt/vt150g37n2f.txt
summary:
  The two polarizations of gravitational radiation can then be computed at that point in terms of the linearized correction to the metric. From this simple numerical analysis, the correct general trend of gravitational radiation is recovered.


id: tb09j388h49
author: Kelsey Blomeke
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 358
sentence: 11
flesch: 21
cache: cache/tb09j388h49.txt
txt: txt/tb09j388h49.txt
title:
  Identification of Facial Expressions in Depression: Identifying Emotions of Strangers and Romantic Partners

summary:
  However, depressed people have also been shown to have general deficits or biases with other emotions, although these have been less thoroughly studied (for a review see Bistricky, Ingram, &amp; Atchley, 2011). As hypothesized, expressions by unfamiliar posers were processed similarly to expressions by significant others, though there were some differences.


id: cf95j962502
author: Paul V Hickner
title: Enhancement of Genome Investigations and Analysis of Diapause Induction in Culex pipiens Mosquitoes
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 371
sentence: 24
flesch: 44
cache: cache/cf95j962502.txt
txt: txt/cf95j962502.txt
summary:
  pipiens complex: Cx. quinquefasciatus (Say), the southern house mosquito, which occupies tropical to warm temperate regions; and Cx. My first aim was to develop tools to enhance genomic studies in Cx.


id: th83kw55182
author: Emma Cohen de Lara
title: The Lawgiver and the Physician: Medical Imagery in Plato's Laws
date: 2010
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words: 196
sentence: 8
flesch: 61
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summary:
  Whereas the philosopher aims to purge the soul of false opinions in order to create space for reflection, the lawgiver aims to train the emotions and instill correct opinions which would benefit life in the city. Moreover, the lawgiver suggests that the city itself is healthy when there is a balanced distribution of power.


id: fq977s77j52
author: Yue Li
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 169
sentence: 7
flesch: 23
cache: cache/fq977s77j52.txt
txt: txt/fq977s77j52.txt
title:
  Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Renal Progenitor Patterning During Zebrafish Nephrogenesis

summary:
  The zebrafish pronephros arises from renal progenitors that are segmented into distinct epithelial regions including proximal and distal tubule domains, which consist of transporting epithelial cells and intercalated multiciliated cells (MCCs). Meanwhile, I have also discovered Notch signaling as a conserved factor in both zebrafish and mammalian nephron patterning that promotes proximal fates and restricts distal domains.


id: fj236111049
author: Pedro Sztybel
date: 2015
extension: .txt
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words: 163
sentence: 8
flesch: 30
cache: cache/fj236111049.txt
txt: txt/fj236111049.txt
title:
  Automatic Shifts of Spatial Attention to Symbolic Cues that Convey Information About Direction and Distance

summary:
  Results showed that observers have greater expertise using direction symbols than distance symbols to guide attention. The present study sought further evidence in favor of direction expertise by examining the extent to which symbolic information about direction and distance are characterized by automatic attentional processing.


id: r494vh56b6z
author: Alison Leah Dekoschak
title: Active and Passive Flow Control of a High Reynolds Number Axisymmetric Jet
date: 2005
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words: 176
sentence: 8
flesch: 59
cache: cache/r494vh56b6z.txt
txt: txt/r494vh56b6z.txt
summary:
  Several investigations have discussed ways of controlling the flow in order to enhance mixing by using tabs and other similar devices. The goal is to implement these flow control devices to perturb the flow structure dynamics, which is believed to be the source of noise production.


id: f1881j94s9f
author: Sean Myers
title: The Contribution of Michael Mathis, C.S.C., to the Liturgical Movement in the United States
date: 1904
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words: 183
sentence: 5
flesch: 24
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summary:
  First, it treats Mathis' work with liturgical education, examining the origins and development of the graduate program in liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and considering related projects before comparing Mathis' work with similar liturgical education programs. Finally, it examines Mathis' contributions to the Liturgical Conference and the translation of the Collectio Rituum, as well as his work preparing American Catholics for the new rites of Holy Week in 1956 and organizing the American delegation for the First International Congress of Pastoral Liturgy in 1956.


id: f7623b61w7m
author: Moonseok Choi
title: Excessive Juice
date: 1904
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words: 280
sentence: 8
flesch: 37
cache: cache/f7623b61w7m.txt
txt: txt/f7623b61w7m.txt
summary:
  Wading through racism and sexism, the speaker's foreign, Korean body acts as a canvas for tattooing dialogue between different selves, imaginary and processed but no less real. Food and digestion serves not as comfort or nourishment, but as a primary method for (mis)communication and contamination in exchanges that weigh the speaker against what the president represents or compare the realities of queerphobia and misogyny between the US and Korea, raising a question towards American exceptionalism and Korean nationalism.


id: mg74qj7508m
author: Jian Mu
title: New Algorithms for Biomedical Image Processing and Computer Vision Problems
date: 2014
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mime: text/plain
words: 287
sentence: 11
flesch: 40
cache: cache/mg74qj7508m.txt
txt: txt/mg74qj7508m.txt
summary:
  For the biomedical image processing problems, unlike traditional image processing approaches that are based on signal processing techniques, we design algorithms based on the geometric features of target objects (e.g., blood clots, bones, vessels, etc.), and apply graph algorithms, as well as other algorithms in computational geometry to solve the problems. In our new approaches, we extensively apply graph algorithms, optimization techniques and other algorithms in computational geometry, and achieve better performance than traditional methods.


id: w6634171g3k
author: Felicia Moralez
title: From Immigrants to Citizens: Mexicans and Settlement Houses in Gary, Indiana, 1919-1965
date: 1904
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words: 302
sentence: 13
flesch: 36
cache: cache/w6634171g3k.txt
txt: txt/w6634171g3k.txt
summary:
  For settlement houses, the path to Mexicans' acceptance in public life was performing ethnic traditions and religious worship. Public acceptance of Mexicans meant being visible in a physical sense: in the streets, engaging in folk dances or festivals, and collective religious worship.


id: fn106w9490b
author: Jogender Singh
title: Role of the ARF6 GTPase in Epithelial Gland Morphogenesis
date: 2007
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words: 361
sentence: 17
flesch: 22
cache: cache/fn106w9490b.txt
txt: txt/fn106w9490b.txt
summary:
  Morphogenesis and differentiation of internal epithelial organs is dependent on various processes including cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, cell polarity and the interplay of cell survival and cell death pathways. Thus, the studies described in this research dissertation have identified a signaling apparatus downstream of ARF6 activation that regulates epithelial morphogenesis and could potentially contribute to epithelial cancer initiation and progression.


id: dr26xw44r6z
author: Pu Wan
title: Event-triggered Distributed Algorithms for Network Optimization
date: 2010
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mime: text/plain
words: 354
sentence: 18
flesch: 47
cache: cache/dr26xw44r6z.txt
txt: txt/dr26xw44r6z.txt
summary:
  Simulations show that all proposed algorithms reduce the number of message exchanges by up to two orders of magnitude when compared to existing dual decomposition algorithms, and are scale-free with respect to two measures of network size. Many existing distributed algorithms for network optimization problems often rely on the fact that, if the communications between subsystems are frequent enough, then the state of the network will converge to its optimum asymptotically.


id: zw12z32004f
author: Jonathan M. Kaltenbach
title: Christ the Priest in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
date: 1904
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words: 346
sentence: 10
flesch: 36
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txt: txt/zw12z32004f.txt
summary:
  Finally, Chapter 6 argues that a profound development on this topic is discernible from some of Thomas' earliest works (Commentary on the Sentences; De veritate), through the middle of his career (Summa contra Gentiles; Compendium theologiae; Commentary on Hebrews), to his more mature work (De perfectione; Summa theologiae). This dissertation explores Thomas Aquinas' complex teaching on Jesus Christ as priest through close readings of the primary texts, attentiveness to the numerous ways he structures this teaching, and persistent investigation into its development over the course of his career.


id: 2z10wq0045w
author: Sharon Lynn Hermes
title: Essays on Elderly Labor Force Participation, Pension Structure, and Partial Retirement
date: 2005
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words: 364
sentence: 13
flesch: 43
cache: cache/2z10wq0045w.txt
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summary:
  Defined contribution pension growth makes retirement wealth increasingly tied to financial markets, implying that older workers need to postpone retirement in recessions, precisely when jobs are scarce. As men and women work longer, partial retirement has become an important option for older workers.


id: 9k41zc79v64
author: Dmitriy Mikhailovich Orlov
title: Modelling and Simulation of Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators
date: 2006
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words: 188
sentence: 12
flesch: 49
cache: cache/9k41zc79v64.txt
txt: txt/9k41zc79v64.txt
summary:
  Improvement in the airfoil characteristics was observed in numerical simulations at high angles of attack in cases with plasma actuation. Plasma characteristics were obtained and analyzed for a range of applied voltage amplitudes and a.c. frequencies.


id: gt54kk93n6m
author: Jody S Nicholson
title: Get the Lead Out: Reducing Lead Exposure for Children in Poverty
date: 2010
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words: 153
sentence: 6
flesch: 37
cache: cache/gt54kk93n6m.txt
txt: txt/gt54kk93n6m.txt
summary:
  The current intervention aimed to decrease blood lead levels (BLL) for children from low-income families identified as having subthreshold levels of exposure (i.e., below 10 Ì_å_g/dl) through a factorial design using educational brochures, cleaning kits, and home risk assessments as intervention components. The project was one of the first preventative interventions to approach the issue of subthreshold lead exposure.


id: j098z89453x
author: Jack Consolini
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 257
sentence: 10
flesch: 36
cache: cache/j098z89453x.txt
txt: txt/j098z89453x.txt
title:
  In Silico Model for Determination of In Vivo Pre-Stretch in Neonatal and Adult Murine Cranial Dura Mater

summary:
  Considering the importance and lacking characterization of dural pre-stretch, this study aimed to create a robust in silico model for determination of in vivo pre-stretch in neonatal and adult murine cranial dura mater. Differences in neonatal and adult pre-stretch provided further insight into the age-dependency of murine cranial dura mater pre-stretch.


id: f4752f77x8x
author: Nathaniel R. Myers
title: Death Matters: Lyric, Affect, and Ethics in British and Irish Elegy, 1960-2012
date: 1904
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words: 327
sentence: 7
flesch: 21
cache: cache/f4752f77x8x.txt
txt: txt/f4752f77x8x.txt
summary:
  The scholarly turn to affect has begun to collapse distinctions between cultural networks of affect and the human bodies they influence; my analysis focuses on the lyric as one particular linguistic site in which to discern this intersection of the cultural and the somatic, attending specifically to what Mutlu Konuk Blasing refers to as the affective materials of language: its affectively charged sounds and rhythms, and the poetic techniques that harness these affective charges through prosody, form, and poetic convention. In the ethical concerns voiced by the poets – which range from the aestheticization of death and violence to the potential profit motives (artistic, commercial) of writing elegy – as well as in the formal techniques that can either mitigate these ethical concerns or, in some cases, generate them, these elegies betray the inextricability of private and cultural modes of grief.


id: 7d278s47q45
author: John D Young
title: Neighbors, Partners, Enemies: Jews and the Monasteries of Germany in the High Middle Ages
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 324
sentence: 14
flesch: 39
cache: cache/7d278s47q45.txt
txt: txt/7d278s47q45.txt
summary:
  It explores both the social/economic and the cultural aspect of contact between monks and Jews. Part one, comprising the first three chapters, examines the political context wherein Jews and monks interacted before investigating evidence of contact between Jews and monks in the social and economic spheres.


id: z316pz5319s
author: Yongqin Gao
title: Computational discovery in evolving complex networks
date: 2008
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words: 219
sentence: 9
flesch: 26
cache: cache/z316pz5319s.txt
txt: txt/z316pz5319s.txt
summary:
  To demonstrate the methodology, we applied this methodology in the study of Open Source Software movement, in particular, a study of the SourceForge.net development community. The field of study in evolving complex networks has more and more researchers working using various methods.


id: gf06g161685
author: Filippo Gianferrari
title: Dante and Thirteenth-Century Latin Education: Reading the Auctores Minores
date: 1904
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words: 140
sentence: 5
flesch: 35
cache: cache/gf06g161685.txt
txt: txt/gf06g161685.txt
summary:
  The study analyzes six Latin school texts—the Ilias latina, the Latin Aesop, the Disticha Catonis, the Ecloga Theoduli, Statius's Achilleid, and Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae—and integrates an analysis of selected medieval school books, their commentaries, and glosses to reconstruct these texts' medieval readership. As this study shows, these school authors offered a particular type of classical reception that provided a Christianizing access to the ancient authors and had a major impact on Dante's poetics.


id: 2r36tx33k08
author: Cole Carnesecca
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 149
sentence: 5
flesch: 19
cache: cache/2r36tx33k08.txt
txt: txt/2r36tx33k08.txt
title:
  'Out for a Stroll' to 'Test the Waters': Opportunity Perception and Political Opportunity Structures in Four Chinese NIMBYs

summary:
  Yet these movements, in interaction with both local and national state actors, were able to test out the extent to which movement opportunities existed and turn generalized opportunities into movement specific ones. This paper argues that as movements engage with institutions and state actors that vague structural opportunity contexts are concretized as specific opportunities for framing and acting.


id: 7w62f765818
author: Tyler Finamore
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 381
sentence: 17
flesch: 14
cache: cache/7w62f765818.txt
txt: txt/7w62f765818.txt
title:
  Gold Nanoparticles as Radiographic Contrast Agents for Noninvasive Monitoring of Scaffold Degradation and Detection of Breast Microcalcifications

summary:
  In breast cancer, microcalcifications are important biomarkers but radiographic detection is often masked by dense breast tissue. However, BP-Au NPs did not exhibit an inhibitory effect for HA whiskers, HA nanoparticles, and nanoporous HA.Therefore, further research is required to confirm a relationship between HA microcalcifications and mitogenesis, and possible inhibition by BP-Au NPs.


id: 6m311n81g6m
author: Marcus P. Meuwese
date: 2003
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 355
sentence: 17
flesch: 41
cache: cache/6m311n81g6m.txt
txt: txt/6m311n81g6m.txt
title:
  'For the Peace and Well-Being of the Country': Intercultural Mediators and Dutch-Indian Relations in New Netherland and Dutch Brazil, 1600-1664

summary:
  Finally, this study of mediators in two different colonies demonstrates that the go-betweens did not bring the Indians and Dutch colonists closer together. One important aspect that has been largely neglected in this wider geographical approach is that of Dutch interactions with native peoples.


id: tb09j388f82
author: Michael J. McCourt
title: Dissipativity Theory for Hybrid Systems with Applications to Networked Control Systems
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 341
sentence: 19
flesch: 41
cache: cache/tb09j388f82.txt
txt: txt/tb09j388f82.txt
summary:
  This includes an original definition of passivity indices for switched systems in Chapter 4 and notions of supervisory control using passivity indices in Chapter 6. Chapter 10 covers computational methods of demonstrating passivity for switched systems.


id: 1j92g734648
author: Thidapat Chantem
title: Real-Time System Design Under Physical and Resource Constraints
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 289
sentence: 13
flesch: 37
cache: cache/1j92g734648.txt
txt: txt/1j92g734648.txt
summary:
  Finally, as device sizes continue to shrink, physical constraints such as system temperature have become a main concern. Due to cost constraints, as well as our inability to foresee worst-case operating scenarios, many systems are designed based on average-case scenarios and must provide graceful performance degradation during occasional system overloads.


id: j098z893095
author: Daniel Joseph Dentinger
title: ITEAMS - An Intelligent Teaching Environment with Assessment Modules for Self-Study
date: 2010
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mime: text/plain
words: 199
sentence: 5
flesch: 20
cache: cache/j098z893095.txt
txt: txt/j098z893095.txt
summary:
  Intelligent Tutoring Systems allow students to progress at their own pace through a single subject matter while receiving individually tailored content for their knowledge level but are either specific to a subject matter or limited to a small number of courses. ITEAMS incorporates key features such as (1) the infrastructure to organize lecture materials, (2) the ablity to track and assess a student's performance, (3) the abilty to dynamically select lecture materials based on the student's inferred knowledge level, (4) the automatic grading of quizzes and assignments, and (5) an interface to external applications through a unique 'plugin' system.


id: 4j03cz32m68
author: Robert E. Brenneman
title: From Homie to Hermano: Conversion and Gang Exit in Central America
date: 2009
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mime: text/plain
words: 339
sentence: 11
flesch: 28
cache: cache/4j03cz32m68.txt
txt: txt/4j03cz32m68.txt
summary:
  Using semi-structured interviews with more than sixty former members of transnational gangs in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador as well as field notes and interviews with gang exit promoters, this dissertation examines why many ex-gang members consider joining an evangelical-Pentecostal church a safe and effective means of leaving the gang despite the gangs' claim of lifetime membership. I conclude that conversion to evangelical-Pentecostal religion provides former gang members with new access to social and symbolic resources crucial for keeping safe, building trust, and finding work after leaving the gang.


id: vh53ws87t84
author: Christian Wolfgang Koller
title: Analysis and Design of Asymptotically Good Concatenated Coding Schemes
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 525
sentence: 16
flesch: 37
cache: cache/vh53ws87t84.txt
txt: txt/vh53ws87t84.txt
summary:
  By decreasing mu, a similar tuning behavior can be achieved for higher rate code ensembles, thereby allowing a system designer to trade off between code rate, iterative decoding convergence behavior, and error floor performance without changing the encoder structure. We introduce the concept of tuned turbo codes, a family of asymptotically good hybrid concatenated code ensembles, where asymptotic minimum distance growth rates, convergence thresholds, and code rates can be traded-off using two tuning parameters, lambda and mu.


id: zg64th87215
author: Kathryn S. Van de Loo
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 326
sentence: 13
flesch: 59
cache: cache/zg64th87215.txt
txt: txt/zg64th87215.txt
title:
  Practice What You Preach: A Consideration of Augustine's Rhetorical Style in Enarrationes in Psalmos 69

summary:
  Chapter two considers one specific aspect of style, prose rhythm, to determine how Augustine uses it as he preaches, and whether it helps him achieve his goals in preaching. Each of these inquiries sheds light on the question of how well Augustine's practice of preaching adheres to his ideas as outlined in de Doctrina Christiana.


id: 12579s17w99
author: Semyon Khokhlov
title: Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Loss of Autonomy
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 286
sentence: 8
flesch: 34
cache: cache/12579s17w99.txt
txt: txt/12579s17w99.txt
summary:
  The loss of autonomy that emerged, again and again, out of this contradictory position resulted in works of art and literature in which the qualities commonly associated with the aesthetics of modernist autonomy are embattled and transformed. Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Loss of Autonomy proposes a new understanding of modernist autonomy and the ways in which it conditioned the features of modernist texts and works of art.


id: cz30pr79q3b
author: Timothy Tetrault
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 355
sentence: 15
flesch: 32
cache: cache/cz30pr79q3b.txt
txt: txt/cz30pr79q3b.txt
title:
  Solution and Solid-State NMR Studies to Advance the Application of MA'AT Analysis for Structural and Conformational Analysis of Saccharides

summary:
  The method relies on redundant NMR J-values and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to probability distributions of molecular torsion angles in aqueous environments and circular standard deviations (CSDs) to evaluate librational motions about these torsion angles. Both chapters are connected in reaffirming each other's findings that while DFT quantitatively predicts J-values within reasonable error, DFT functionals and basis sets need further development to properly capitulate 1J values for use in MA'AT analysis.


id: 1c18df67p1p
author: Leilani Arthurs
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 359
sentence: 13
flesch: 36
cache: cache/1c18df67p1p.txt
txt: txt/1c18df67p1p.txt
title:
  Towards a more quantitative understanding of the complex interactions between natural organic matter, heavy metals, and goethite

summary:
  To better understand the interactions between NOM, heavy metals, and mineral surfaces, this research (1) evaluated a bulk property approach to study NOM and potential aqueous complexation between NOM and heavy metals, (2) studied the mutual effects of NOM and cadmium on their sorption to goethite, and (3) began to develop a web-based computer simulator to model NOM adsorption at the mineral-water interface. The results showed that the presence of cadmium increased NOM adsorption and that the presence of NOM increased cadmium adsorption.


id: q524jm24n8j
author: Julian Chike
title: Mari and the Bible: A Link to the Past? The Case of Šāpiṭum and Šōpēṭ Reconsidered
date: 2022
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words: 388
sentence: 18
flesch: 47
cache: cache/q524jm24n8j.txt
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summary:
  The following chapter traces the survival of šāpiṭum leadership after Mari's destruction (mid-18th c. BCE) until the late-13th c. BCE. Concomitantly, the study investigates the degree to which second millennium BCE sources from the ancient Near East help us evaluate the biblical traditions that describe the world of early Israel.


id: nk322b9141v
author: Brad Vermurlen
date: 1904
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words: 325
sentence: 10
flesch: 21
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title:
  Reformed Resurgence: A Field-Theoretic Analysis of Religious Strength (and Weakness) in Advanced Modernity

summary:
  This field-theoretic model of religious strength thus also implies a new vision of secularization as cultural entropy, in which religious meanings and coherence fall apart. Working at the intersection of the sociology of culture, religion, organizations, and movements—and highlighting issues related to power, conflict, ideologies, strategy, gender, and more—this project develops a new, field-theoretic model of institutional religious strength.


id: z029p269s21
author: Yang Yang
title: Network Dynamics: A Social Influence Perspective
date: 2015
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words: 212
sentence: 10
flesch: 35
cache: cache/z029p269s21.txt
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summary:
  Social influence is believed to drive both off-line and on-line human behavior, however it has not been considered as a driver of social network evolution. At microscopic level, we test whether or not the dynamics of individuals embedded in social networks can be attributed to the effects of social influence.


id: g158bg27f4m
author: Jonathan Juilfs
date: 2010
extension: .txt
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words: 360
sentence: 7
flesch: 3
cache: cache/g158bg27f4m.txt
txt: txt/g158bg27f4m.txt
title:
  Creative and Daring Spaces in Speculative Theology: Literary Strategies for Doctrinal Self-Authorization in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love and Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls

summary:
  In the cases of the two remarkable late-medieval women who are the primary subjects of this dissertation, Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete, I have sought to understand more comprehensively both where the Bible appears in their texts, whether by direct citation or less overt allusion, and what larger impact biblical texts may have on the larger organization and structural features of their texts. Such a rare opportunity for comparative investigation of two very sophisticated texts ultimately renders various insights into how two clever, female interpreters of Scripture in the later Middle Ages elaborated on and challenged popular orthodoxies currently circulating among both the laity and the clergy of the late-medieval Church.


id: vx021c21m45
author: Patrick E. Rothstein
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 224
sentence: 7
flesch: 20
cache: cache/vx021c21m45.txt
txt: txt/vx021c21m45.txt
title:
  Nucleophilic Palladium Carbenes Utilizing Metal-Ligand Cooperativity Towards Small Molecule Activations

summary:
  Our efforts are to isolate various elusive carbene complexes, similar to those thought to be involved in important palladium catalytic processes, and to broaden the horizons of reactivity invoked by transition-metal carbenes. The reactivity studies focused on inert small molecule activations essential for more sustainable and renewable energy sources, continued improvements to chemical feedstock production methods and employment of feedstocks in the synthesis of higher value chemicals.


id: jm214m92p3h
author: Susan Ranee Dahlheimer
date: 2010
extension: .txt
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words: 156
sentence: 6
flesch: 45
cache: cache/jm214m92p3h.txt
txt: txt/jm214m92p3h.txt
title:
  Potential Siderophore-Enhanced Platinum-Group Element Mobility: The Rold of Siderophores on the Fate of Catalytic Converter Emissions

summary:
  Automobile catalytic converters (CCs) use platinum-group elements (PGEs) to reduce the emission of harmful gasses; however, these devices concurrently emit particles containing Pt, Pd, and Rh. This research focused on the effect of a siderophore, desferrioxamine-B (DFO-B), on the dissolution of catalytic converter metals.


id: mc87pn91q88
author: Shishir K. Rai
title: Zinc Diffusion in GaAsSb from Spin-on Glass Dopant Sources
date: 2004
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 406
sentence: 17
flesch: 50
cache: cache/mc87pn91q88.txt
txt: txt/mc87pn91q88.txt
summary:
  Zn distribution profiles measured by SIMS were modeled and a mechanism for Zn diffusion in undoped GaAs 0.51Sb0.49 is proposed. Shallow diffusion profiles suitable for aggressively-scaled heterojunction devices and good electronic transport properties in the doped films have been observed.


id: kh04dn42580
author: Dinesh Rajan Pandiarajan
title: Principles for the Design and Operation of Elastic Scientific Applications on Distributed Systems
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 213
sentence: 10
flesch: 33
cache: cache/kh04dn42580.txt
txt: txt/kh04dn42580.txt
summary:
  To improve performance at scale, the partitions are operated in parallel on large pools of resources in distributed computing systems, such as clouds, clusters, and grids. In this work, I build and demonstrate elastic applications to provide the desired characteristics for operation on distributed computing systems.


id: 2801pg1768w
author: Bryan Ostdiek
title: Searching for Electroweakino Dark Matter at a Hadron Collider
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 439
sentence: 17
flesch: 60
cache: cache/2801pg1768w.txt
txt: txt/2801pg1768w.txt
summary:
  This allows for the triplet scalars to be light which opens the possibility of resonant s-channel funnels to set the observed relic abundance of dark matter. The first strategy is based on final states with missing transverse energy, a photon, and a dilepton pair, $\slashed{E}_T + \gamma + \ell^+\ell^-$. This search method performs best when the mass splitting between the heavier neutralinos and the lightest neutralino is less than the $Z$ mass, which is when traditional search strategies break down.


id: gh93gx44v0p
author: Richard Fahey
title: Enigmatic Design and Psychomachic Monstrosity in Beowulf
date: 2019
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words: 313
sentence: 9
flesch: 25
cache: cache/gh93gx44v0p.txt
txt: txt/gh93gx44v0p.txt
summary:
  The dissertation concludes that the Psychomachia may be regarded as an analogue to Beowulf, and that both poems share concerns about warrior ethics within the context of Christian morality. This project considers especially the Old English Riddles located in the Exeter Book and suggests that rhetorical strategies featured in Anglo-Saxon riddles (and enigmata) may operate also in Beowulf and constitute an enigmatic design in the poem.


id: ms35t725z1p
author: Ann Franchesca Laguna
title: Accelerating Memory Intensive Algorithms and Applications using In-Memory Computing
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 367
sentence: 21
flesch: 36
cache: cache/ms35t725z1p.txt
txt: txt/ms35t725z1p.txt
summary:
  However, memory and compute bottlenecks prevent transformer networks from scaling to long sequences due to their high execution time and energy consumption. We propose an in-memory transformer network accelerator (iMTransformer) that uses a combination of crossbars and CAMs to accelerate transformer networks.


id: q237hq4194g
author: Michael C. Brennan
title: Lead Halide Perovskites: Size-Dependent Properties and Photostability
date: 2020
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words: 161
sentence: 6
flesch: 20
cache: cache/q237hq4194g.txt
txt: txt/q237hq4194g.txt
summary:
  Only by developing a truly comprehensive understanding of their fundamental properties and photostability can lead halide perovskites be successfully implemented into working devices. In particular, the origin of universally observed size-dependent Stokes shifts in perovskite NCs and the precise crystal structure assumed by CsPbBr3 NCs remain of fundamental interest.


id: bg257d3069k
author: Stephanie Ellickson-Larew
title: Elucidating the Construct of Dissociation through Scale Development
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 312
sentence: 11
flesch: 37
cache: cache/bg257d3069k.txt
txt: txt/bg257d3069k.txt
summary:
  Overall, the MODE showed good structural validity as evidenced by a robust and stable structure, good content validity as evidenced by the item pool comprehensively including all potential constructs of dissociation, and good convergent and discriminant validity. This phase also established preliminary convergent and discriminant validity.


id: nc580k25n09
author: Meng (Simona) Jia
title: The Novel Roles of the Hippo Pathway in Regulating Retinal Regeneration in Adult Zebrafish
date: 2022
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words: 309
sentence: 12
flesch: 37
cache: cache/nc580k25n09.txt
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summary:
  I further analyzed the single-cell data sets and identified the Hippo-Adam10-Notch-Notch3 ICD axis in regulating Müller glia proliferation. Recently, the Hippo pathway effector Yap has been identified play roles in regulating the proliferation Müller glia in mice.


id: m613mw25r5f
author: Karen Tang
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 333
sentence: 11
flesch: 22
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title:
  Great Expectations: The Influence of Parent Expectancies on Therapeutic Improvements in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

summary:
  Previous work has demonstrated that greater parent outcome expectancies lead to improved treatment attendance and adherence, which in turn subsequently leads to greater therapeutic improvements for the child; however, this relationship has yet to be examined in interventions for children with ASD.Participants were 19 children with ASD and their parents, who were part of a larger project evaluating the utility of a modified applied behavioral analysis type intervention. The first objective of this study was to examine the influence of parent outcome expectancies on in-lab treatment outcomes, in-home treatment outcomes, and overall social functioning of their child.


id: hx11xd09q13
author: Marie Claire Keultjes
title: Children's Understanding of Approximate Addition Depends on Problem Format
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 160
sentence: 8
flesch: 54
cache: cache/hx11xd09q13.txt
txt: txt/hx11xd09q13.txt
summary:
  Recently, it was shown that preschool children have an advantage for canonical problems (i.e., arithmetic operations presented on the left-hand side of space). Children (M age = 7.93 years) viewed events that required them to add and compare large symbolic numbers, which disappeared quickly in order to get children to estimate.


id: 0g354f18w6x
author: Nishant Kumar Singh
title: Structural Drivers of Antigen Specificity in T Cell Receptors
date: 2018
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words: 173
sentence: 6
flesch: 27
cache: cache/0g354f18w6x.txt
txt: txt/0g354f18w6x.txt
summary:
  Overall, our results show that the positions on the CDR loops associated with antigen specificity are broadly distributed among the germline and hypervariable loops, and include interactions with both the peptide and MHC protein, with significant implication for engineering TCRs with novel binding properties. I, in conjunction with our collaborators at University of Illinois and Loyola University, combined structural and functional analysis with deep mutational scanning to gain insight into the encoding of TCR specificity.


id: tq57np21m3j
author: Jean-Baptiste Thibault
title: Iterative Image Reconstruction for Multi-Slice X-Ray Computed Tomography
date: 2007
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words: 196
sentence: 7
flesch: 20
cache: cache/tq57np21m3j.txt
txt: txt/tq57np21m3j.txt
summary:
  The final objective of this research is to improve the imaging capabilities of CT scanners with advanced reconstruction methods, and ultimately re-define acceptable diagnostic image quality in clinical x-ray CT. These techniques are applicable to a far broader class of problems than conventional convolution back-projection, and offer significant opportunities for image quality improvement, although at the cost of greater computational load.


id: j3860576928
author: Amanda Jean Sgroi
title: An Analysis of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors for Iris Biometric Systems
date: 2012
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words: 166
sentence: 7
flesch: 42
cache: cache/j3860576928.txt
txt: txt/j3860576928.txt
summary:
  Current research in iris biometrics works to enhance iris sensors, improve matching algorithms, and accommodate more characteristics of the human iris. Our experiments suggests that eye dominance does affect iris recognition performance, whereas variations in the use of the LG TD 100 does not.


id: pr76f190d65
author: Philip Alan Wingert
title: Nanoencapsulation of Luminol-Hematin-H2O2 Chemiluminescence in Calcium Phosphate Nanoshells
date: 2008
extension: .txt
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words: 384
sentence: 14
flesch: 25
cache: cache/pr76f190d65.txt
txt: txt/pr76f190d65.txt
summary:
  The effects of viscous additives and fluorophore sensitizers on luminol reactions in solution and inside nanoshells will be examined in CHAPTER 3. Luminol-hematin-H2O2 chemiluminescence was chosen for nanoshell encapsulation because 1) mechanisms for luminol chemiluminescence are well known, and 2) oxidation by H2O2 in aqueous alkaline solution leads to strong chemiluminescence when catalyzed by hematin, a biofriendly catalyst (CHAPTER 2).


id: cv43nv95765
author: Maxwell Edward Agnew
title: Surge and Wave Propagation over Wetlands with Respect to Storm Forward Speed
date: 2012
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words: 512
sentence: 22
flesch: 48
cache: cache/cv43nv95765.txt
txt: txt/cv43nv95765.txt
summary:
  The second body of work focuses on surge and wave attenuation over wetlands in Southern Louisiana, with a sensitivity study of timing of wind-forcing, canopy coefficients, and bottom friction coefficients. Finally, a sensitivity analysis is provided to determine the impact on surge levels with increased canopy coverage in the marshes, which effectively removes windstress from the governing equations.


id: np193775112
author: Vince Bagnulo
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 298
sentence: 10
flesch: 36
cache: cache/np193775112.txt
txt: txt/np193775112.txt
title:
  Liberalism, Democracy, and Character: Mill, Nietzsche, Tocqueville and the Problem of Democratic Character

summary:
  Against claims that concern for character has no place in liberalism, I contend that the liberal tradition does and always has recognized the importance of citizens' character and, further, recognizes that there is a problem of character in liberalism. Recent scholarship has increasingly recognized the importance of character to the liberal tradition from its inception, however, I argue that the problem of character in liberalism has drastically changed since this inception and this change has been neglected.


id: dr26xw45x3r
author: Emma Rosenberg
title: Rally around the Steeple: Religious Rhetoric and Nativist Parties in Central Europe
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 278
sentence: 10
flesch: 27
cache: cache/dr26xw45x3r.txt
txt: txt/dr26xw45x3r.txt
summary:
  Why do nativist parties employ religious rhetoric when religious attendance and affiliation is declining? This project generated four main takeaways: First, interviews with German AfD officials revealed that for nativist parties seeking to promote ethno-nationalist agendas, religious rhetoric allows them to sidestep the historical baggage of Nazism and fascism.


id: d504rj45s5m
author: Lorraine V. Cuddeback
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 275
sentence: 8
flesch: 33
cache: cache/d504rj45s5m.txt
txt: txt/d504rj45s5m.txt
title:
  Liberation, Resistance, and Agency in Intellectual Disability: An Ethnographic Study for Christian Ethics

summary:
  The primary thesis of this dissertation is that in order to shape an adequate and inclusive response to disability, the Church must listen to the voices and experiences of those with disabilities — especially people with intellectual disabilities. Ethnography serves as a tool for accessing — albeit imperfectly, and mediated through myself as the researcher — the standpoint of people with intellectual disabilities (the epistemic privilege of the poor).


id: 05741r68945
author: Katherine Erin Cunningham
title: With God on Their Side
date: 2010
extension: .txt
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words: 51
sentence: 2
flesch: 38
cache: cache/05741r68945.txt
txt: txt/05741r68945.txt
summary:
  The project is attempt at deconstructing the visual structure utilized by monotheistic fundamentalist groups to mythologize and promote their faith, while also seeking to understand the seduction of ideology on the individual, mainly the female. An outline of the major issues in my visual thesis project, With God on Their Side.


id: bg257d29b2n
author: Erin Wilson
title: Phosphorus Mediated Reactions Toward the Advancement of C-N and C-C Bond Formations
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 455
sentence: 19
flesch: 26
cache: cache/bg257d29b2n.txt
txt: txt/bg257d29b2n.txt
summary:
  Overall, we have exhibited numerous methods showcasing the power of phosphorus to mediate or enhance reactivity for the synthesis of highly important functional groups such as amides, amidines, spirocyclopropane oxindoles, and propargyl alcohols. The first of which is a Staudinger ligation method, which allows for ready access to a diverse assortment of amides through the direct functionalization of carboxylic acids and azides using a chlorophosphite as a dual activating agent.


id: 8k71ng47w9j
author: Lucia Tiscornia
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 1052
sentence: 40
flesch: 27
cache: cache/8k71ng47w9j.txt
txt: txt/8k71ng47w9j.txt
title:
  Who Calls the Shots? Police Reform and Organized Criminal Violence in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict

summary:
  In anticipation of the possibility of police violence, criminal groups will tend to arm up and recruit more members. At high levels of militarization in particular, accountability has no effect on police violence, suggesting that it operates to reinforce militarization.


id: f1881j95b1x
author: Daniel Uncapher
title: Cityplace
date: 1904
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words: 153
sentence: 6
flesch: 43
cache: cache/f1881j95b1x.txt
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summary:
  A paranoid situation where the full explanation remains out of reach, Cityplace waits between two apocalypses, an ideology that only understands social contract in the language of social conspiracy, the production of truth as capital, and mediation—image, body and sound—as a transformational (disfiguring) process. Cityplace is the enduring tension between identity and self, history and the end of the world—presentness as impasse between past and future, positioned in the ontological space between the mirror and the source where reflection crosses back over itself.


id: rn300z72p6p
author: Renato G. Bettiol
title: On different notions of positivity of curvature
date: 2015
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words: 182
sentence: 8
flesch: 40
cache: cache/rn300z72p6p.txt
txt: txt/rn300z72p6p.txt
summary:
  First, we discuss two notions of weakly positive curvature, defined in terms of averages of pairs of sectional curvatures. We study interactions between the geometry and topology of Riemannian manifolds that satisfy curvature positivity conditions closely related to positive sectional curvature (sec>0).


id: p8418k7563n
author: Monica C. Perez
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 239
sentence: 9
flesch: 14
cache: cache/p8418k7563n.txt
txt: txt/p8418k7563n.txt
title:
  Material Hardship and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing: Mediating and Moderating Roles of Mothers' Parenting Stress and Fathers' Social Support

summary:
  According to the family stress model (Conger, 1994; Conger et al., 1990), experiencing material hardship such as food insecurity or housing instability may negatively affect adolescents directly and indirectly by undermining parents' psychological resources. Further, the study examined whether the indirect effect of food insecurity and housing instability varied as a function of two forms of paternal social support, coparenting support and father engagement.


id: 2514nk33x2g
author: Lee Allen Mayo
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 286
sentence: 10
flesch: 22
cache: cache/2514nk33x2g.txt
txt: txt/2514nk33x2g.txt
title:
  Simulation without Replication: How Some Digital Computer Simulations Serve as Scientific Experiments

summary:
  One common argument that has emerged in the literature is that computer simulations cannot count as experiments because (1) empirical theory testing cannot be performed with a computer simulation since it must assume the very theory that is supposedly being tested and (2) empirical theory testing is the only form of theory guided experimentation. Philosophers and historians of science have only recently begun to think about issues involving the use of computer simulations in scientific practice.


id: 8k71ng47262
author: Natalia Baeza
title: Contradiction, Critique, and Dialectic in Adorno
date: 2012
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mime: text/plain
words: 355
sentence: 19
flesch: 41
cache: cache/8k71ng47262.txt
txt: txt/8k71ng47262.txt
summary:
  This dissertation argues that it is ultimately the logic of paranoid projection that makes contradiction determinate in negative dialectics, and that makes dialectical development possible. An account of how 'contradiction' is determinate in negative dialectics must thus go beyond Hegel.


id: 70795714m1s
author: Melissa Dawn Moore
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 153
sentence: 4
flesch: -5
cache: cache/70795714m1s.txt
txt: txt/70795714m1s.txt
title:
  Unpacking Heterogeneity: The Effect of Segregated Communities and Majority Group Status on Voluntary Association Participation

summary:
  Findings generally support the hypotheses, underlining the need to take seriously segregation's interactive nature, group differences in the effects of segregation and heterogeneity, and more generally, the effect of context on voluntary association participation and community cohesion. Using a multilevel framework, it is argued that individuals' sense of attachment to their local community facilitates voluntary association participation, and that contextual factors which facilitate or impede community cohesionÌ¢ âÂ' namely the combination of heterogeneity and segregationÌ¢ âÂ' will also impact individual levels of participation.


id: sb397655n30
author: Joseph E. Lammersfeld
title: Implementing Four-Dimensional Triangulations in CGAL
date: 2011
extension: .txt
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words: 130
sentence: 8
flesch: 31
cache: cache/sb397655n30.txt
txt: txt/sb397655n30.txt
summary:
  Computation of both basic triangulations of point sets and regular triangulations of weighted point sets using an incremental insertion algorithm is presented. The regular triangulation is the dual of the power diagram, which is the Voronoi diagram of weighted points under the power distance.


id: cc08hd78w50
author: Satyaki Ganguly
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 400
sentence: 14
flesch: 41
cache: cache/cc08hd78w50.txt
txt: txt/cc08hd78w50.txt
title:
  Electrical Characterization of ALD Al2O3/AlN/GaN HEMTs and Integration with Microano Magnets for Novel Device Application

summary:
  There is a strong recent interest in studying the effect of magnetic interaction of various ferromagnetic structures leading the pathway for nanomagnet logic operation (NML). However, there is a very little effort so far to identify the potential effect of high current density of III-Nitride heterostructure on microanomagnetic structures High-current drive nitride devices can potentially eliminate the need for auxiliary arrangements of switching and may enable the integration of logic and memory in the same device.


id: 3x816m33s3d
author: Tia S. Jarvis
title: Supramolecular Chemistry Using Fluorescent Unsymmetric Squaraine Dyes
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 489
sentence: 19
flesch: 38
cache: cache/3x816m33s3d.txt
txt: txt/3x816m33s3d.txt
summary:
  In contrast, macrocycle threading in water produces ~80 nm red-shift in absorption wavelength, indicating a large change in polarity surrounding the solvatochromic squaraine as it transfers from bulk water solution to the relatively non-polar macrocycle interior and a very large 70-fold enhancement of squaraine fluorescence. Chapter 1 of this thesis provides an overview of the photophysical and supramolecular chemistry of squaraine dyes.


id: bn999595x9f
author: Guangle Zhou
title: III-V Vertical Tunnel Field Effect Transistors with Tunneling Aligned with the Gate Field
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 286
sentence: 11
flesch: 47
cache: cache/bn999595x9f.txt
txt: txt/bn999595x9f.txt
summary:
  To achieve high on current (ION) and steep SS in TFETs, TFETs based on III-V semiconductors with small effective mass and favorable band alignment have been investigated by several groups. The focus of this dissertation is on the design, fabrication and characterization of such TFETs.


id: z029p269t5c
author: Guowang Li
title: Nitride Channels on Aluminum Nitride: Materials and Devices
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 480
sentence: 19
flesch: 50
cache: cache/z029p269t5c.txt
txt: txt/z029p269t5c.txt
summary:
  Nitride devices on AlN platform stand also to benefit from the symmetry of electronic polarization: high density hole gases can be generated in much the same way as the high density 2DEG in GaN HEMTs, thus enabling p-channel FETs (pFETs) on the same material platform as nFETs in a logical manner. Various channels (InGaN, AlGaN etc.) could be explored in the future to improve carrier mobility, induce higher carrier density or enhance breakdown characteristics.


id: tb09j389m7j
author: Michael VandenBerg
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 582
sentence: 19
flesch: 39
cache: cache/tb09j389m7j.txt
txt: txt/tb09j389m7j.txt
title:
  Supramolecular Engineering of Self-Assembled Biomaterials: Hierarchical Biomimetic Systems and the Controlled Delivery of Insulin for Type 1 Diabetes

summary:
  Herein lies and examination and careful study of observable phenomena in molecular material systems, and the extraction and purposing of that knowledge toward the generation of novel, useful platforms. It also implicitly asks the questions can we understand these concepts at a foundational level?, can we use our understanding to design new materials with specific features or functions?, and finally do our designed materials, when applied to a problem, accomplish a solution?.


id: 2r36tx3485g
author: Ashley R. Gans-Forrest
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 163
sentence: 6
flesch: 39
cache: cache/2r36tx3485g.txt
txt: txt/2r36tx3485g.txt
title:
  The Design, Construction and Use of a Low-Temperature, Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope for Reaction Studies

summary:
  However, thermal impacts on the surface do not allow for the direct observation of reactions as they proceed. Previous experiments with hydrogen atoms show that surface morphology plays a large roll in how the reaction proceeds.


id: d217qn62x1w
author: Nicholas P. Roberts
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 272
sentence: 8
flesch: 42
cache: cache/d217qn62x1w.txt
txt: txt/d217qn62x1w.txt
title:
  A Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Saʿid bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace

summary:
  Most broadly, I aim to show how the makings of the modern world lie as much in places like East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as in places like England or New England. I use the reign of Oman's longest serving ruler, Saʿid bin Sultan (1804/6-1856), as a lens for highlighting the formative role the Omani Empire played in uniting the Atlantic and Indian Oceans into a shared oceanic marketplace, a crucial step in the emergence of modern global capitalism.


id: k6439z93d2k
author: Nathan P. Chase
title: Rethinking Anaphoral Development in Light of the Barcelona Papyrus
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 330
sentence: 15
flesch: 46
cache: cache/k6439z93d2k.txt
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summary:
  This anaphora requires scholars to rethink questions concerning the construction, geographical provenance, and structural patterns of early anaphoras and their units. However, a close analysis of this anaphora can reshape liturgical historians' understanding of a number of classical anaphoras, and thus their approach to anaphoral development more broadly.


id: bv73bz62g8t
author: Andrew David Thrasher
title: Leveraging Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Massive Biological Datasets
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 107
sentence: 6
flesch: 46
cache: cache/bv73bz62g8t.txt
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summary:
  Developers must also take advantage of these systems and build tools and applications which are highly portable and have low overheads while being capable of running on a large variety of resources. The tremendous increase in available data in bioinformatics necessitates computational approaches which leverage a wide variety of computing resources.


id: w3763488d3w
author: Isaac Kimmel
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 172
sentence: 6
flesch: 31
cache: cache/w3763488d3w.txt
txt: txt/w3763488d3w.txt
title:
  Rah Rah Ritual: Emotional Energy, Symbolic Salience, and Collective Identity in High School Athletics

summary:
  Engagement in high school basketball creates emotional energy as enumerated by Randall Collins, which is then invested into symbols akin to Durkheim's totems. This is a grounded theory study attempting to answer the question of why high school sports are appealing to individuals without direct personal connections to contesting teams, incorporating observations from 16 high school basketball games that took place at 7 different gyms in Indiana over the course of the 2018-19 season.


id: jm214m92p1t
author: Chuanxin Lian
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 160
sentence: 8
flesch: 52
cache: cache/jm214m92p1t.txt
txt: txt/jm214m92p1t.txt
title:
  Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopic Study of Ni-(Al)GaN and Heterogeneous Integration of GaAs/GaN by Wafer Fusion

summary:
  Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy was applied for the surface potential (SP) measurements across lateral Ni-(Al)GaN Schottky junctions. The bare surface barrier heights of unintentionally doped Al0.22Ga0.78N and n-GaN in air were estimated by comparing the SP of (Al)GaN and Ni.


id: cn69m328q4v
author: Irena Lanc
title: Novel Methods for Assembly Validation and Improvement
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 185
sentence: 9
flesch: 32
cache: cache/cn69m328q4v.txt
txt: txt/cn69m328q4v.txt
summary:
  The data gathered during validation is then exploited in a second application designed for assembly correction. The work presented here aims to facilitate both the validation and the correction of assemblies.


id: qf85n874198
author: Junye Wang
title: Computation of Rotor Noise Generation in Turbulent Flow Using Large-Eddy Simulation
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 397
sentence: 17
flesch: 45
cache: cache/qf85n874198.txt
txt: txt/qf85n874198.txt
summary:
  The noise of rotor ingesting a turbulent cylinder wake is studied at several advance ratios and wake striking positions. The centerline and 75% oﬀ-center wake striking position cases produce similar sound pressure levels, which are slightly higher than those of the 100% oﬀ-center case.


id: j098z89313d
author: Rumana Reaz Arifin
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 208
sentence: 8
flesch: 53
cache: cache/j098z89313d.txt
txt: txt/j098z89313d.txt
title:
  Evolution of Large Scale Three Dimensional Coastal Features During Hurricanes Using Bathymetric Lidar

summary:
  We performed the analysis at four conditions: before the hurricane Ivan landfall (April-May, 2004), after hurricane Ivan (November-December, 2004), after hurricane Dennis (July, 2005) and finally after hurricane Katrina (November-December, 2005). Before hurricane Ivan at our study area we observed large scaled well developed rhythmic bar formations.


id: 1544bp01q5q
author: Samuel Rostad
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 319
sentence: 12
flesch: 37
cache: cache/1544bp01q5q.txt
txt: txt/1544bp01q5q.txt
title:
  Heirs of Augustine of Canterbury: Benedictine Popular Preaching in Late Medieval England, c. 1350-1500

summary:
  In this study I set out to examine Benedictine preaching, especially through their sermons to or about the laity, and what it reveals about their place in the religious landscape of late medieval England. This dissertation examines the preaching activities and sermons of Benedictine monks in England in the roughly two centuries before the Reformation.


id: kw52j676c5n
author: Kang Gao
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 302
sentence: 10
flesch: 33
cache: cache/kw52j676c5n.txt
txt: txt/kw52j676c5n.txt
title:
  Computation of Mutual Information with Training and Its Applications in Quantized Large-Scale Systems

summary:
  In the second part, we show that a quantized large-scale system with unknown parameters and training signals can be analyzed by examining an equivalent system with known parameters by modifying the signal power and noise variance in a prescribed manner. In wireless communications, we show that the number of training signals can be significantly smaller than the number of transmitting elements.


id: v692t43804r
author: Zachary Zikoski
title: A Parallel Adaptive Wavelet Method for Multidimensional Simulations of Hypersonic Propulsion
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 287
sentence: 13
flesch: 41
cache: cache/v692t43804r.txt
txt: txt/v692t43804r.txt
summary:
  The Wavelet Adaptive Multiresolution Representation (WAMR) method provides a robust method for controlling spatial grid adaption --- fine grid spacing in regions of a solution requiring high resolution (i.e. near steep gradients, singularities, or near-singularities) and using much coarser grid spacing where the solution is slowly varying. The method is applied to the solution of the unsteady, compressible, reactive Navier-Stokes equations and includes detailed diffusive transport and chemical kinetics models.


id: hd76rx94g17
author: Ankit Agrawal
title: Human-Drone Collaborations in Human-on-the-Loop Emergency Response Systems
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 488
sentence: 20
flesch: 35
cache: cache/hd76rx94g17.txt
txt: txt/hd76rx94g17.txt
summary:
  Second, We examined Human-to-UAV interactions in five different emergency response situations, which included River Search-and-Rescue, Defibrillator Delivery, Traffic Accident Surveillance, Water Sampling for hazardous chemicals, and Man Overboard to identify patterns of human interventions in the UAV autonomy. First, we presented a human multi-UAV intervention model that formalizes human intervention in the autonomy of the UAV.


id: x059c537q6v
author: Cristal R. Thompson
title: Deciphering the Role of N-Terminal Acetylation in Pathogenic Mycobacteria
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 406
sentence: 19
flesch: 33
cache: cache/x059c537q6v.txt
txt: txt/x059c537q6v.txt
summary:
  However, the biological mechanisms for targeting of NTA on mycobacterial proteins are not known. Next, we developed a novel workflow for the enrichment of mycobacterial protein N-termini.


id: kk91fj25g0k
author: Daniel J. Hicks
title: Scientific Practices and their Social Context
date: 2012
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mime: text/plain
words: 455
sentence: 17
flesch: 35
cache: cache/kk91fj25g0k.txt
txt: txt/kk91fj25g0k.txt
summary:
  In the words of the title, the debate concerns the relationship between scientific practices and their social context. In the first few chapters, I develop a general conception of such practices, developing the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and drawing on John Dewey and work in philosophy of science of the past thirty years.


id: v405s754q1d
author: Thomas Ethan Klepach
title: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Saccharide Structure
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 305
sentence: 13
flesch: 14
cache: cache/v405s754q1d.txt
txt: txt/v405s754q1d.txt
summary:
  A large component of this work involved developing experimental and theoretical tools for the conformational analysis of carbohydrates, specifically parameterizing the conformational dependence of NMR spin-spin couplings for the interpretation of experimental couplings in structural terms. The natural bonding orbital (NBO) method is used to dissect spin-spin coupling mechanisms based upon discreet through space and through bond orbital interactions.


id: gb19f47771q
author: Joseph William Thompson
title: Iris Perturbation Methods for Improved Recognition
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 112
sentence: 5
flesch: 45
cache: cache/gb19f47771q.txt
txt: txt/gb19f47771q.txt
summary:
  Using ROC analysis of the true accept rate (TAR)at a given false accept rate of 0.001, many methods are discovered that performmuch better than the original algorithm, approximate the performance of usingevery perturbation to less than 0.2%, and require between 500 to 1000 times lesstime to verify a single image. As a result, various methods of finding and selecting perturbations to beused are empirically examined.


id: 2801pg18b41
author: Tiernan B. Kane
title: Reevaluating Legal Liberty of Conscience
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 167
sentence: 5
flesch: 17
cache: cache/2801pg18b41.txt
txt: txt/2801pg18b41.txt
summary:
  In all, this project seeks to show unsoundness in categorical objections to protections for religion and conscience, suggesting that debate on such protections is best undertaken on a case-by-case basis, weighing empirical effects of such protections against the presumptive reasonableness of promoting these basic human goods. Second, it argues that special legal protections for religion, including when they exceed special legal protections for conscience, are defensible as promoting an intrinsic aspect of human flourishing that is cognizable to human reason and human government.


id: 6d56zw15m8j
author: Haiyan Liu
title: Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 269
sentence: 16
flesch: 48
cache: cache/6d56zw15m8j.txt
txt: txt/6d56zw15m8j.txt
summary:
  A primary focus of social network analysis (SNA) is to understand actor attributes from social structures in a network. As a generalization of the first model, the second model focuses on social networks with ordinal relations among actors.


id: 4t64gm8392b
author: Kristina Krasich
title: The Effects of Mind Wandering on Gaze Control
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 185
sentence: 7
flesch: 29
cache: cache/4t64gm8392b.txt
txt: txt/4t64gm8392b.txt
summary:
  Together, the current research indicates which gaze parameters are reliable, real-time indicators of MW in a scene viewing task and offers insight into the complex—less understood—relationship between MW and the spatial aspects of gaze control. These findings demonstrate that gaze parameters typically considered to reflect greater engagement with scene processing (e.g., longer fixations) can also indicate MW.


id: fx719k4455k
author: Erik A. Koenke
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 358
sentence: 9
flesch: 26
cache: cache/fx719k4455k.txt
txt: txt/fx719k4455k.txt
title:
  Paul's Divided Patrimony: How Early Christian Commentators on Galatians Shaped The Reformation Debate Over Justification By Faith Alone

summary:
  I document these disagreements among Western commentators from Late Antiquity and the sixteenth century from passages containing Paul's affirmations of justification by faith (2:16, 3:10-13) and Paul's statements about the moral law and eternal life (Gal 5:6, 5:21 6:8). Most Roman Catholic commentators after Luther, however, used the arguments of the majority view from the same eras to provide theological qualification to Paul's aforementioned denial of justification by the works of the law.


id: qj72p556r1b
author: Vaibhav Katewa
title: Analysis and Design of Multi-Agent Systems under Communication and Privacy Constraints
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 457
sentence: 20
flesch: 44
cache: cache/qj72p556r1b.txt
txt: txt/qj72p556r1b.txt
summary:
  We study another related privacy problem for a scenario where multiple agents cooperatively solve a quadratic optimization problem. The notion of cooperation level models the trust of an agent towards the information received from neighboring agents.


id: 44558c99h70
author: Ryan S. Kemp
title: On the Possibility of Radical Ethical Transformation: Med stadigt Hensyn til Kierkegaard
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 99
sentence: 4
flesch: 38
cache: cache/44558c99h70.txt
txt: txt/44558c99h70.txt
summary:
  In this dissertation, I argue for three related theses: (1) that radical ethical transformation cannot be self-enacted, (2) that Søren Kierkegaard — against popular interpretations — agrees, and (3) that our inability to radically self-transform has implications for the way we relate to our received values. The second part of the dissertation visits questions of interpretation in Kierkegaard.


id: 5d86nz8364q
author: Craig Iffland
title: Following and Not Following the Divine Law: Aquinas on Law, Morality, and Obligation
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 360
sentence: 7
flesch: 17
cache: cache/5d86nz8364q.txt
txt: txt/5d86nz8364q.txt
summary:
  This dissertation explores Thomas Aquinas's understanding of the concept of obligation, and its relationship to law and the morality of human acts, in order to sketch Aquinas's account of moral obligation. This investigation proceeds through exegesis of central texts in Aquinas's corpus that illuminate his understanding of obligation and its relationship to law and morality of human acts as well as its contrast with the understanding of that same relationship provided by his contemporaries, later interpreters, and future moral philosophers and theologians.


id: n870zp4297m
author: Julia L Paulson
title: Patterns and Predictors of Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Latent Transition Analysis
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 272
sentence: 11
flesch: 42
cache: cache/n870zp4297m.txt
txt: txt/n870zp4297m.txt
summary:
  Four latent classes of PTSS emerged: High PTSS class, Flight response class, Fight response class, and Low PTSS class. Childhood adversity, prenatal depression, and psychological IPV were associated with membership in higher severity PTSS classes.


id: db78tb11n27
author: Kari Marie Christoffersen
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 138
sentence: 7
flesch: 45
cache: cache/db78tb11n27.txt
txt: txt/db78tb11n27.txt
title:
  From a Model of the Nation to Models for Citizens: Religious References in U.S. Presidential Addresses

summary:
  The evidence suggests that religious references have not changed much in quantity but have shifted significantly in purpose. This paper finds three important shifts in religious references.


id: hm50tq59w57
author: Xueying Wang
title: Gregory of Nyssa on the Corporate Nature of the Human Body
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 358
sentence: 13
flesch: 47
cache: cache/hm50tq59w57.txt
txt: txt/hm50tq59w57.txt
summary:
  An overemphasis on this aspect of Gregory's teaching has, however, somewhat obscured the fact that the bishop of Nyssa genuinely appreciates the value of embodiment'in particular, he emphasizes that the body constitutes an indispensable medium through which an individual person is connected to other human beings, including Christ, the God incarnate. Chapter 3 demonstrates that the body of Christ constitutes the crucial medium through which the salvation of Christ is transmitted to other human beings.


id: dv13zs28169
author: David Karapetyan
title: On the well-posedness of the hyperelastic rod equation
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 124
sentence: 4
flesch: 48
cache: cache/dv13zs28169.txt
txt: txt/dv13zs28169.txt
summary:
  It is shown that the data-to-solution map for the hyperelastic rod equation is not uniformly continuous on bounded sets of Sobolev spaces with exponent greater than 3/2 in the periodic case and non-periodic cases. The proof is based on energy estimates coupled with a delicate commutator estimate and multiplier estimate.


id: 4f16c24991v
author: Brendan Joseph McGann
date: 2015
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 229
sentence: 8
flesch: 35
cache: cache/4f16c24991v.txt
txt: txt/4f16c24991v.txt
title:
  Simultaneous Species Concentration and Temperature Measurements Using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy with Direct Spectrum Matching

summary:
  Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is used to simultaneously measure hydrocarbon fuel concentration and temperature in high temperature, high speed, compressible, and reacting flows, a regime in which LIBS has not been done previously. Measurements are taken in the model supersonic combustion and the ignition process is shown to be highly dependent on fuel concentration and gas density as well as combustion surface temperature, concentration gradient, and flow field.


id: j098z894470
author: Amaryst Parks-King
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 137
sentence: 5
flesch: 36
cache: cache/j098z894470.txt
txt: txt/j098z894470.txt
title:
  Demanding the Impossible: Abolition, Black Educational Spaces, and the Disruptive Agency of Black Imagination

summary:
  Through leveraging in-depth interviews and productive methods (where participants produce drawings, poetry, etc.), I am asking young Black people in Chicago high schools to reimagine educational contexts. This project is interested in how schools are implicated in anti-Blackness, and how young Black people are affected by and reproduce/transform/interact with anti-Blackness in narrating their experiences and imagining learning communities otherwise.


id: 3f462517f15
author: Monika Yadav
title: Labor and Litigation: Effect of Unions
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 164
sentence: 6
flesch: 50
cache: cache/3f462517f15.txt
txt: txt/3f462517f15.txt
summary:
  The finding is of particular importance as hostility towards unions grows and as labor movement seeks its revitalization through creative forms of union activism. Exploiting variation in state union density during the same period, I find that an increased union density positively affects the number of cases filed by nonunion workers.


id: 2227mp51c26
author: Jony Gregory
date: 2018
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 156
sentence: 4
flesch: 39
cache: cache/2227mp51c26.txt
txt: txt/2227mp51c26.txt
title:
  The Role of Comprehensible Input in Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language: Applications for Instructing Bengali English Language Learners

summary:
  In order to fulfill this language demand, native as well as non-native English speaking countries are constantly innovating techniques and strategies to enhance their English language instruction which will better help English language learners (ELLs) learn the language and thus, propel them into a global market. While focusing on the CI as one key piece in foreign and second language development, this paper will explore and explain the common techniques and strategies of creating CI as well as try to find new ways of creating CI in teaching English, especially outside the classroom.


id: j3860576b5m
author: Paul W. McBurney
title: Improving Program Comprehension via Automatic Documentation Generation
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 160
sentence: 10
flesch: 35
cache: cache/j3860576b5m.txt
txt: txt/j3860576b5m.txt
summary:
  Second, I present a novel approach to automatically generate documentation from Java source code method context. This study found that authors often document Java methods using language from outside of the source code.


id: f4752f78002
author: Jiazhuo Wang
title: New Approaches for Biological Structures Identification in Histology Tissue Images
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 232
sentence: 9
flesch: 26
cache: cache/f4752f78002.txt
txt: txt/f4752f78002.txt
summary:
  As a result, the proposed algorithms not only provide useful tools for automatic identification of biological structures (which greatly releases the burden of visual examination of histology tissue images from pathologists), but also introduce an opportunity for quantitative analysis of the diseases (which substantially reduces the degree of subjectiveness of disease analysis, and provides novel insights into the diseases). However, the process of disease characterization by visual examination of histology tissue images is often labor intensive and requires expert knowledge.


id: hm50tq59w26
author: Rita George Tvrtkovic
title: The Ambivalence of Interreligious Experience: Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Theology of Islam
date: 2007
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 318
sentence: 13
flesch: 33
cache: cache/hm50tq59w26.txt
txt: txt/hm50tq59w26.txt
summary:
  Chapter One discusses the desirability of linking medieval and contemporary Christian views of other religions and defines three key terms: interreligious experience, theological authority, and theology of religions. Chapter Four focuses on Riccoldo's four major writings, all of different genres, and highlights the unique aspects of his theology of Islam, most notably his use of 'interreligious experience.'


id: h702q526s2w
author: Luma A Khudher
title: Micah 4-5 and the Message of Salvation of the Eighth Century Prophet
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 360
sentence: 18
flesch: 67
cache: cache/h702q526s2w.txt
txt: txt/h702q526s2w.txt
summary:
  However, shifting to oracles of salvation in ch. 4 does not inevitably contradict the earlier oracles of judgment in chs. Many claim that these chapters present a conflict in understanding the book in terms of a situation current in 8th century B.C.E. Jerusalem.


id: 6w924b31975
author: Vladimir Sokolov
title: Macroeconomic Volatility and Exchange Rate Regimes: Is 'fear of floating' a stabilizing policy?
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 442
sentence: 15
flesch: 45
cache: cache/6w924b31975.txt
txt: txt/6w924b31975.txt
summary:
  Using a panel data set of 180 countries spanning from 1971 to 2000, I find evidence that exchange rate policy affects economic growth not directly but through its effect on macroeconomic volatility. I consider two measures of economic performance: i) per capita GDP growth and ii) the volatility of per capita GDP growth and investigate the nature of their dependence on two alternative characterizations of exchange rate policy.


id: 9c67wm14b51
author: Aaron Roeder
date: 2020
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 324
sentence: 12
flesch: 38
cache: cache/9c67wm14b51.txt
txt: txt/9c67wm14b51.txt
title:
  An Experimental Investigation of the Wake Response Downstream of a Spanwise-Oscillating Hemispherical Turret

summary:
  The suppressive effects of the turret oscillations on the wake dynamics were found to become more robust at higher freestream Mach numbers, and the normalized wake response frequency was found to be higher than the normalized resonant frequency of turret oscillations. The oscillating turret consisted of a turret shell, mounted on an aluminum rectangular plate.


id: 5h73pv6635q
author: Siyuan Jiang
title: Improving Program Comprehension Using Neural Machine Translation
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 335
sentence: 20
flesch: 45
cache: cache/5h73pv6635q.txt
txt: txt/5h73pv6635q.txt
summary:
  This project demonstrates that NMT can also be used in translating from diff (results of text differencing techniques) to English text. My project uses NMT to translate topics represented by lists of words to English text.


id: jm214m92p4v
author: Austin David Choi-Fitzpatrick
title: Letting Go: Resignation and Resistance Among Contemporary Slaveholders
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 213
sentence: 8
flesch: 32
cache: cache/jm214m92p4v.txt
txt: txt/jm214m92p4v.txt
summary:
  When movement efforts combine with macro-economic forces to challenge this exploitative status quo, human rights violators must scramble to find new ideational and practical responses. Within the literature on social movements this lacuna manifests itself in an overemphasis on challengers, with less attention paid to those targeted by movements, or on tactical interactions between movements and their adversaries.


id: bg257d29f3x
author: Nathaniel Huston
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 349
sentence: 11
flesch: 30
cache: cache/bg257d29f3x.txt
txt: txt/bg257d29f3x.txt
title:
  Silver Bullets, Subjugation, and Adaptation: Why Some Militaries Thrive and Others Falter in the Face of Technological Change

summary:
  By examining the development of air power between World War I and the end of World War II, this work seeks to answer the following questions: Under what conditions can technological change contribute to a disruption in military affairs, and how and why do militaries fall short of achieving them? I argue, by contrast, that militaries vary systematically in how they process change and how they perceive and interact with technology, and that these variations help explain how and why some militaries are able to exploit technological discontinuities while others struggle.


id: qr46qz23664
author: Angelina Maria Copeland
title: The Interaction of Goal and Temporal Shifts in Situation Models
date: 2006
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 151
sentence: 7
flesch: 25
cache: cache/qr46qz23664.txt
txt: txt/qr46qz23664.txt
summary:
  Several components of a situation model (including space, time, causality, entities, and information and protagonists) are updated into the situation model. Although goal and time information are typically related to one another in a narrative (given that goals take time to complete), no work has investigated how changes along these dimensions interact within the situation model.


id: h989r210119
author: Scott Hampton
title: Improved Sampling of Configuration Space of Biomolecules Using Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo
date: 2004
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 151
sentence: 6
flesch: 43
cache: cache/h989r210119.txt
txt: txt/h989r210119.txt
summary:
  This thesis introduces shadow hybrid Monte Carlo (SHMC), a propagator through phase space that enhances the scaling of sampling with space dimensionality. We present the derivation of SHMC, along with: proof that it preserves microscopic reversibility; analysis of the asymptotic speedup of SHMC over HMC, which is shown to be $O(N^{1/4})$ when using Verlet integrators; and results evaluating correctness and efficiency.


id: 8910js97776
author: Courtney McDermott
title: The Bird and the Mountain
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40
sentence: 3
flesch: 70
cache: cache/8910js97776.txt
txt: txt/8910js97776.txt
summary:
  I worked as a secondary school teacher for year, where I faced the horrors of HIV, embezzlement, warped gender relations and extreme isolation, while forging lifelong friendships. This is a memoir about serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho.


id: r494vh57h2d
author: Richard A. P. Birkett
title: Algebraic Stability and Skew Products on the Berkovich Projective Line
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 389
sentence: 20
flesch: 60
cache: cache/r494vh57h2d.txt
txt: txt/r494vh57h2d.txt
summary:
  The dynamics of a rational surface map φ: X ⇢ X are easier to analyse when φ is 'algebraically stable'. Any product φ: X ⇢ X of this kind induces one φ\_\*: ℙ¹(𝕂) ⇢ ℙ¹(𝕂) on the Berkovich projective line over the field 𝕂 of Puiseux series; this φ\_\* describes φ on the completion of a fibre of Xb.


id: gq67jq10b61
author: Quan Zhou
date: 2004
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 107
sentence: 4
flesch: 34
cache: cache/gq67jq10b61.txt
txt: txt/gq67jq10b61.txt
title:
  Achievement differences between Chinese and Non-Chinese Asians in America: Linking Parental Involvement with Student Academic Achievement by Race-Ethnicity

summary:
  This study explores whether there are between-group differences between Chinese Americans and Non-Chinese Asian Americans in linking parental involvement with student academic achievement. The Asian population is heterogeneous, yet many researchers continue to treat Asian American students as if they were a homogeneous ethnic category and overlook the differences within Asian ethnic category.


id: h415p843h2t
author: Allison A.P. Regier
title: Challenges in working with draft genomes
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 211
sentence: 10
flesch: 54
cache: cache/h415p843h2t.txt
txt: txt/h415p843h2t.txt
summary:
  Whether draft or finished, the output of a genome sequence project serves as the input to a host of analysis tools such as gene finding or variation analysis. In this thesis we discuss specific challenges in working with draft genomes and show how methods can be adapted to be more effective in draft genomes.


id: g732d794p27
author: Kun Yao
title: Neural Network Model Chemistries
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 199
sentence: 8
flesch: 30
cache: cache/g732d794p27.txt
txt: txt/g732d794p27.txt
summary:
  Several dierent approaches of applying neural networks have been tried in this thesis, such as constructing neural network based kinetic energy functional, combining neural networks with the many-body expansion, defining bond energies and developing a neural network based molecular simulation package TensorMol. Each approach has addressed certain aspects of the problem of building neural network model chemistries.


id: rj430289d80
author: Paolo Pellecchia
title: The Inescapable Importance of the Subject in 'Le Cosmicomiche' and 'Ti con Zero' by Italo Calvino
date: 2013
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words: 145
sentence: 6
flesch: 51
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summary:
  The study of the dialogue between literature and science has been a subject of increasing interest in recent years. My work addresses this conjunction by exploring Italo Calvino's two collections of short stories, 'Le Cosmicomiche' and 'Ti con Zero.'


id: k930bv75n9g
author: Jiao Wang
title: System and Image Modeling in Statistical Iterative Reconstruction for Multi-Slice CT
date: 2012
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words: 304
sentence: 15
flesch: 30
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summary:
  Inverse problem involves estimating parameters or data from inadequate observations. Our preliminary experimental results show potential liability of such low-frequency operators as the blob when high frequency boosting is desired.


id: qj72p556n1d
author: Charles Laurin
title: Lasso Meta-Regression and Its Application to Psychiatric Genomics
date: 2014
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words: 211
sentence: 11
flesch: 45
cache: cache/qj72p556n1d.txt
txt: txt/qj72p556n1d.txt
summary:
  We found that precision was highly dependent on the number of study level covariates included, the number of studies included, and the relative sizes of the included studies. When many studies were included, a bootstrapped version of the Lasso was able to select covariates with adequate precision.


id: mp48sb41j13
author: Madagama Gamage Buddika Sumanasena
title: A Multidimensional Systems Approach to Grid Sensor NetworksNETWORKS
date: 2012
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words: 374
sentence: 20
flesch: 43
cache: cache/mp48sb41j13.txt
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summary:
  Realization algorithms to derive state space models of the desired form given an admissible transfer function are also presented. Stability of the system is analyzed with special consideration given to the influence of inter-node communication on system dynamics.


id: 1z40ks67b58
author: Nathan L. King
title: The Epistemology of Disagreement: Puzzles, Solutions, and Applications
date: 2009
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words: 600
sentence: 34
flesch: 58
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summary:
  In chapter 5, the discussion turns from the topic of rational belief to the topic of disagreement and knowledge - in particular, moral knowledge. There I consider four disagreement-based arguments for skepticism about moral knowledge.


id: bk128912n2h
author: Michael W Hull
title: The Foundations of Organo-Zintl Chemistry
date: 2010
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words: 915
sentence: 37
flesch: 41
cache: cache/bk128912n2h.txt
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summary:
  Zintl clusters in general are only soluble in a limited number of non-traditional solvents such as ethylenediamine and liquid ammonia, and occasionally dimethylformamide. Chapter 6 further develops the nucleophilic reactivity of Zintl clusters.


id: v979v12184k
author: John Dana Rothlisberger
title: Human-mediated dispersal of aquatic nonindigenous species: impacts and interventions
date: 2009
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words: 629
sentence: 23
flesch: 37
cache: cache/v979v12184k.txt
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summary:
  I first investigate the pathways by which aquatic NIS are introduced to the GL to learn if introduction pathway is related to where species originate and how likely they are to have spread beyond the GL basin. Given the importance of ballast water release in bringing novel species to the GL, I use a novel technique to estimate the economic impacts in the region of ecological changes caused by populations of aquatic NIS introduced by this pathway.


id: qr46qz2370c
author: Hector Guillen Ahlers
title: Sulindac Treatment and Fas Deletion: Effects on a Colon Cancer Mouse Model
date: 2009
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mime: text/plain
words: 525
sentence: 23
flesch: 44
cache: cache/qr46qz2370c.txt
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summary:
  In this study, ApcMin/+ mice were treated with sulindac, a NSAID that functions as a cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor. Mmp7 was found in 'hot spot' areas within the tumors of ApcMin/+ mice treated with the vehicle, but was greatly diminished in those treated with sulindac.


id: 4t64gm83g68
author: Corey Dethier
title: Multiple Models, Robustness, and the Epistemology of Climate Science
date: 2020
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words: 200
sentence: 9
flesch: 53
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summary:
  First, that the use of multiple models is essential to the epistemology of climate science; agreement across such models is an interesting special case, but not the whole story. Third, that we can understand robustness in terms of agreement across sources of evidence that vary with regards to the conditions under which they are reliable--and that, in general, such agreement will tend to confirm the agreed-on result.


id: jh343r10g65
author: Yuliya Fedorovych
title: The Holodomor: Expressing the Inexpressible
date: 2021
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words: 149
sentence: 7
flesch: 50
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summary:
  Moreover, there is a general lack of knowledge about genocide among broad audiences in the U.S., leading many Americans to believe that genocides are uncommon in the modern world. Therefore, it is necessary to stimulate awareness, discussion, and empathy around the theme of genocide.


id: p5547p90x1b
author: Kristi Donaldson
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 386
sentence: 11
flesch: 32
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title:
  The Implementation of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program: Equity, Access, and Effectively Maintained Inequality

summary:
  Previous work in this area has largely taken place at the student level, focusing on student achievement and the sorting of students as a function of prior test scores, teacher evaluations, and socio- demographics. I then analyze the extent to which the program contributes to racialized tracking with second-generation segregation in the U.S., finding that schools in districts under desegregation orders have a higher predicted probability of racially tracking students in IBDP, hyper-segregating White students in, and Black students from, the program.


id: tq57np21j8n
author: Katherine Cole Young
title: Utilization of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Substrates by Bacteria
date: 2005
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words: 355
sentence: 13
flesch: 35
cache: cache/tq57np21j8n.txt
txt: txt/tq57np21j8n.txt
summary:
  This work also compares bacterial growth with total initial Fe in a variety of NOM samples. Though previous studies have shown a strong and predictive correlation between NOM molecular weight and molar absorptivity in isolates, this study shows that a strong correlation does not exist for RFW samples, thus emphasizing that any comparison of isolates and RFW samples must take into account their inherent differences.


id: 4x51hh65q8f
author: Brigid Eileen Brown
date: 2010
extension: .txt
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words: 156
sentence: 5
flesch: 26
cache: cache/4x51hh65q8f.txt
txt: txt/4x51hh65q8f.txt
title:
  Metal-Binding Properties of Conus Parius Conantokin Variants and Their Inhibitory Effect on the NMDA Receptor

summary:
  Synthesized variants of the wild-type conantokin Conus Parius 2 were tested by isothermal titration calorimetry, circular dichroism, and electrophysiology experiments to explore the variation's effect on structure and function. Little is known of the structure and function of conantokins from the species Conus parius.


id: ft848p60x8k
author: Emma Vanhoozer
title: Problems in Poetics: Robert Creeley in Theory and in Practice
date: 1904
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words: 188
sentence: 6
flesch: 25
cache: cache/ft848p60x8k.txt
txt: txt/ft848p60x8k.txt
summary:
  Each chapter offers a close reading of a particular figure developed in Creeley's work, and asks how this figure both updates a paradigmatically modernist poetics and avoids the poststructuralist poetics soon to be developed in Language writing. Given the revisionist reading, I offer Creeley as an example of a poet whose work, although both under-theorized and underappreciated, might prove serviceable to conceptual problems arising in disciplines as apparently distinct as theology.


id: qz20sq90w7t
author: Daniel Flynn
title: The Hidden Rank: Civilian Education and Military Leadership
date: 2022
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words: 438
sentence: 20
flesch: 37
cache: cache/qz20sq90w7t.txt
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summary:
  Unlike physicians, lawyers, and the clergy, military leaders do not depend on civilian education for their professional development or prospects for success. I argue that civilian education limits the career prospects of military leaders.


id: rr171v5604x
author: Kimberly Dawn Burham
title: 401(k)s as Strategic Compensation: Align Pay with Productivity and Enable Optimal Separation
date: 2003
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 147
sentence: 8
flesch: 39
cache: cache/rr171v5604x.txt
txt: txt/rr171v5604x.txt
summary:
  Furthermore, additional tests show that 401(k)s increase workforce productivity by inducing less productive workers to leave their jobs in order to access 401(k) lump sum distributions. Other forms of compensation, including defined benefit (DB) pensions, are thought to affect employee behavior and improve workforce productivity.


id: 4m90dv1708g
author: Brendan Brown
title: Plasmon Dephasing and Heat Dissipation in Gold Nanostructures
date: 2022
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words: 801
sentence: 34
flesch: 54
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summary:
  This thesis examines two topics, energy loss mechanisms for surface plasmon modes in metal nanostripes, and heat diffusion in photothermal experiments on gold particles and how it affects microscopy images. With the onset of Infrared PHI, there has been an expansion of materials studied to include biological tissues as well as large polymer beads.


id: 3f462516h1h
author: Arvind Sridharan
title: Design and Analysis of LDPC Convolutional Codes
date: 2005
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words: 348
sentence: 18
flesch: 37
cache: cache/3f462516h1h.txt
txt: txt/3f462516h1h.txt
summary:
  LDPC convolutional codes are the convolutional counterparts of LDPC block codes. This dissertation describes techniques for the design of LDPC convolutional codes, and analyzes their distance properties and iterative decoding convergence thresholds.


id: z029p270p4j
author: Angela J. Lederach
title: Feel the Grass Grow: The Practices and Politics of Slow Peace in Colombia
date: 2019
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words: 331
sentence: 11
flesch: 28
cache: cache/z029p270p4j.txt
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summary:
  Drawing on twenty-two months of ethnographic research, 103 interviews, and twelve focus group sessions with grassroots peace activists, youth, (I)NGO workers, state bureaucrats, private sector actors, and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), I analyze peacebuilding as a site of contestation where universalized notions of 'peace' are negotiated, reworked, and recast within a particular locale. This ethnographic study traces the historical and political processes that shape how grassroots actors build peace in Montes de María, Colombia.


id: 8k71ng47x0r
author: Kathryn J. Ralph
title: Understanding Individual Differences in Attention Mechanisms, Lapses, and Complex Cognition
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 355
sentence: 15
flesch: 40
cache: cache/8k71ng47x0r.txt
txt: txt/8k71ng47x0r.txt
summary:
  Structural equation modeling revealed that phasic alertness (i.e., mean task evoked pupil diameters) predicted lapses (i.e., reaction time variability and errors) during attention demanding tasks. Exploratory factor analyses were used to determine the construct validity of tonic alertness, phasic alertness, and lapse constructs.


id: 9593tt46r27
author: Brenda R. Jackson
title: Daily Spiritual Experiences: A Buffer Against the Effects of Daily Perceived Stress on Daily Mood
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 150
sentence: 6
flesch: 41
cache: cache/9593tt46r27.txt
txt: txt/9593tt46r27.txt
summary:
  The present project examines the daily associations between Perceived Stress (PSS), Daily Spiritual Experiences (DSE), and Mood (Positive and Negative Affect; PAA), as well as how these associations are impacted by global levels of Religious Practices, Religious Belief, and Daily Spiritual Experiences. Participants were 244 older adults (aged 55-92) who filled out yearly questionnaires and daily assessments.


id: qj72p556m6t
author: Seemit Praharaj
title: Particle Migration in Confined Shear Flows
date: 2015
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words: 391
sentence: 15
flesch: 46
cache: cache/qj72p556m6t.txt
txt: txt/qj72p556m6t.txt
summary:
  The presence of inertial secondary currents due to the higher gap widths and rotation rates employed for these experiments gives rise to a range of intriguing dynamics depending on the degree of counter-rotation. In Chapter 3, the migration of red blood cells is examined using the same approach and compared to various drop, vesicle and actual blood cell models.


id: rb68x922w14
author: Gregory James Davis
title: Modeling the Symbolic Control of Visual Attention
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 139
sentence: 7
flesch: 35
cache: cache/rb68x922w14.txt
txt: txt/rb68x922w14.txt
summary:
  Much of the research investigating the orienting of attention, however, has focused on the form of attentional control these symbols elicit. The present study attempted to address this gap in knowledge by first developing three computational models of voluntary attentional control.


id: nk322b9134k
author: Andrew P. Baumann
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 392
sentence: 18
flesch: 17
cache: cache/nk322b9134k.txt
txt: txt/nk322b9134k.txt
title:
  The Relative Influence of Material and Architectural Properties on the Mechanical Behavior of Bone Tissue

summary:
  This dissertation investigated the relative contributions of material and architectural properties on the mechanical behavior of bone tissue using combined numerical and experimental techniques. A micromechanical model and finite element analyses were used to decouple the relative influences of apatite crystal orientations and intracortical porosity (Ct.Po) on the elastic anisotropy of human cortical bone.


id: 4b29b56625g
author: Catherine A. Borck
title: Becoming Friends in Speech and Deed: Socratic Friendship in the Platonic Dialogues
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 235
sentence: 8
flesch: 32
cache: cache/4b29b56625g.txt
txt: txt/4b29b56625g.txt
summary:
  Thus philosophical friendship necessarily situates itself in a tense relation to political friendship. The dissertation offers three arguments about Socratic friendship in the Platonic dialogues: a) Socratic friendship solicits, enables, and sustains philosophic dialogue and rewards the search for wisdom; b) Socratic friendship moderates the eros of the potential tyrant by offering a good both noble and pleasurable; and c) Socratic friendship sets the conditions for inverting the ethical matrix of the friend/enemy dichotomy dominant in ancient Greek political life.


id: g445cc10q2g
author: Firat Demir
date: 2005
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 328
sentence: 11
flesch: 20
cache: cache/g445cc10q2g.txt
txt: txt/g445cc10q2g.txt
title:
  Three Essays on Financial Liberalization, Country Risk and Low Growth Traps in Argentina, Mexico and Turkey

summary:
  The second essay, by employing micro level company panel data, analyzes the impacts of domestic and external financial liberalization on real investment behavior of private sector firms under capital market imperfections, volatile macro-prices and changing country risk levels. Depending on the opportunity cost of fixed investments, profits from financial assets may as well be used for financing new financial investments.


id: 0c483j34v42
author: Florencia Foxley
title: Models of Motherhood? Alcestis and Medea as Hero Figures
date: 2015
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words: 150
sentence: 7
flesch: 58
cache: cache/0c483j34v42.txt
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summary:
  Alcestis portrays an ideal wife and mother, revered by her slaves, children, in-laws, and husband, who dies for that husband in order to ensure his life and the security of her children. In this thesis, I will investigate the qualities of Euripides' early portrayals of tragic mothers.


id: 9306sx64m32
author: Dean Edun
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 351
sentence: 13
flesch: 30
cache: cache/9306sx64m32.txt
txt: txt/9306sx64m32.txt
title:
  Investigating the Structure of Macromolecular Protein Assemblies Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy Techniques

summary:
  Methods of collecting spectral information through microscopy such as hyperspectral microscopy are hindered at IR wavelengths because protein macromolecular structures are typically at or smaller than the mid-IR light used to characterize protein structure. Topics in this dissertation include discussion and development of various IR spectroscopic techniques useful for studying protein structure within large, supramolecular protein structures, and application of these techniques to systems such as phase separating proteins and a novel fibril structure.


id: w9504x54r24
author: Jennifer L. Meloche
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 429
sentence: 18
flesch: 20
cache: cache/w9504x54r24.txt
txt: txt/w9504x54r24.txt
title:
  Development of New C-C/C-N Bonds: Formation of Highly Substituted Centers in Diarylheptanoids and Indole Alkaloids

summary:
  Containing all-carbon quaternary spirocenters, 3,3'-pyrrolidinyl-spirooxindole cores are found in many spirooxindole products and exhibits a range of biological activity. Containing all-carbon tertiary centers, calyxins are a subclass of diarylheptanoid natural products.


id: 2n49t15106x
author: Patrick B. Louden
title: Discovering the Molecular Origins of Solid-Liquid Friction at Ice-Ih / Water Interfaces
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 436
sentence: 19
flesch: 46
cache: cache/2n49t15106x.txt
txt: txt/2n49t15106x.txt
summary:
  A friction coefficient appropriate for negative slip boundary conditions is presented, and crystal facet dependent friction is observed. A momentum transmission model is proposed, which relates the observed friction with the density of solid to liquid hydrogen bonds, the shear viscosity of the liquid, and the width of the interface.


id: 0r967368075
author: James Thomas Fetter
title: The Great Man in Politics: Magnanimity in the History of Western Political Thought
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 171
sentence: 4
flesch: 17
cache: cache/0r967368075.txt
txt: txt/0r967368075.txt
summary:
  I conclude that Cicero had a far greater influence on both Aquinas's and Machiavelli's understandings of this virtue and, more broadly, on statesmanship than generally thought, and I further conclude that Ciceronian magnanimity offers liberal democracies a useful model of magnanimous statesmanship apart from any commitment to virtue ethics or teleology. In this dissertation, I contend that the growing disenchantment with public institutions in Western democracies and the popular desire for leaders perceived to be of good moral character both justifies and calls for an investigation of the Western tradition of political philosophy to determine which, if any, models of virtuous statesmanship in that tradition may serve as a useful model of virtuous leadership for our own time.


id: 12579s17v3x
author: Loren K. Higbee
title: The Poetics of Fragmentation: Shared Modernity in Petrarch, Eliot, and Pound
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 177
sentence: 5
flesch: 40
cache: cache/12579s17v3x.txt
txt: txt/12579s17v3x.txt
summary:
  Relying on close readings of their works, principally the lyric poems of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta or Canzoniere, Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land, and Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and the Cantos, I describe and analyze a fascination with the literary fragment, which includes their heavy reliance on allusion, their emphasis on repetition and the passage of time, their fascination with personae and masks, and their frequent images of internal rupture and dissolution. Petrarch, a poet who pioneered a lyric subjectivity that would heavily influence subsequent European literature and a scholar who sought to bridge the gap between the ancients and his own generation, has often been called the first modern man.


id: 6395w66545j
author: Sydney J Blevins
title: Analysis of T Cell Receptor Structure and Dynamics and Their Role in Antigen Recognition
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 414
sentence: 22
flesch: 44
cache: cache/6395w66545j.txt
txt: txt/6395w66545j.txt
summary:
  [1], the existence of coreceptor-independent TCR-pMHC interactions muddles their role in imparting MHC bias for proper signaling [2]. While TCRs display a level of cross reactivity to ensure adequate coverage of peptide/MHC (pMHC), they are also restricted to recognizing epitopes within the context of an MHC.


id: 2v23vt16x2n
author: Shiyan Wang
title: Transport and Mixing Induced by Swimming Organisms and Settling/Rising Particles
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 454
sentence: 24
flesch: 39
cache: cache/2v23vt16x2n.txt
txt: txt/2v23vt16x2n.txt
summary:
  In order to understand corresponding mixing and transport phenomena, this study employs both analytical and numerical approaches, aided by experiments, to perceive the fundamental physics of transport of marine organisms, marine snow particles, and gas bubbles. Rising/settling dynamics of particles (e.g. marine snow sediments, streaming gas bubbles) are also considered.


id: d504rj4532c
author: Brian Scott Dudley
title: Flavor Physics Effect on Beyond the Standard Model Physics
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 498
sentence: 20
flesch: 56
cache: cache/d504rj4532c.txt
txt: txt/d504rj4532c.txt
summary:
  A charged Higgs below $150$~GeV is allowed in both these scenarios, though for different ranges of $ aneta$.Finally, I will examine how quark flavor physics affects the lepton sector, particularly its effect on neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. After taking account that these operators themselves can induce neutrino masses, I find that there are only four neutrinoless double beta operators exist which both pass neutrino mass bounds and can be probed by both the LHC and current neutrinoless double beta decay experiments.


id: 1831cj84c2c
author: Ivan Murgu
title: Studies Of Xanthone Rotaxanes and Squaraine Rotaxane Endoperoxides
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 158
sentence: 8
flesch: 29
cache: cache/1831cj84c2c.txt
txt: txt/1831cj84c2c.txt
summary:
  The macrocycle pirouetting motion in xanthone rotaxanes was studied using variable temperature NMR. Rotaxanes with macrocycle containing 2,6-pyridine dicarboxamide bridges exhibited higher rotational barriers due to a cavity contraction effect which disfavors macrocycle breathing.


id: s1784j05v46
author: Charles Leslie Penninger
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 351
sentence: 15
flesch: 25
cache: cache/s1784j05v46.txt
txt: txt/s1784j05v46.txt
title:
  An Investigation in the Cellular Mechanisms of Bone Remodeling using a Hybrid Cellular Automaton Approach

summary:
  Furthermore, these results provide unique insights regarding key parameters that influence cellular level remodeling activity. This framework uniquely combines established phenomenological remodeling paradigms with cellular mechanisms to predict remodeling activity for a damaged site in bone.


id: rr171v5603k
author: Michelle L Lute
title: Demography and Behavior in Macaca fascicularis in the Anthropogenic Landscapes of Singapore
date: 2010
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 223
sentence: 9
flesch: 30
cache: cache/rr171v5603k.txt
txt: txt/rr171v5603k.txt
summary:
  The costs of high density, intense resource competition and stress, may be outweighed by anthropogenic benefits of increased food sources to supplement forest resources. To explore primate dispersal dynamics, and investigate whether aggression and peripherilization are important predictors of dispersal, I conducted a behavioral and demographic study of two long-tailed macaque (M. fascicularis) groups was in Singapore for two groups, one located at the MacRitchie Reservoir which experiences much more pedestrian traffic than the other group located in an area of the Upper Seletar Nature Reserve predominantly visited by motorists.


id: 4f16c24993j
author: Vaidyanathan Subramanian
title: Photoelectorochemical and Photocatalytic Aspects of Semiconductor-Metal Nanocomposites
date: 2004
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 355
sentence: 18
flesch: 24
cache: cache/4f16c24993j.txt
txt: txt/4f16c24993j.txt
summary:
  Photoelectrochemical performance Deposition of metals on semiconductor films leads to increased light to energy conversion efficiency and demonstrates beneficial photoelectrochemical properties such as higher photocurrent and photovoltage compared to plain semiconductor. The presence of metal facilitates electron transfer from photoexcited semiconductor to the surroundings and decreases recombination rate between the electrons-holes in the semiconductor.


id: kd17cr58w4s
author: Wenjie Chen
title: Deep Level Defects in Indium Phosphide PIN Diodes
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 271
sentence: 8
flesch: 46
cache: cache/kd17cr58w4s.txt
txt: txt/kd17cr58w4s.txt
summary:
  The first is located 0.11 eV above the valence band edge, and is localized near the edge of the depletion region in the p+ region. The other two centers at 0.20 eV and 0.25 eV have also been previously reported as electron traps, but the origins are as yet unclear.


id: k6439z92b8r
author: Brian Joseph Seger
date: 2009
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 438
sentence: 23
flesch: 45
cache: cache/k6439z92b8r.txt
txt: txt/k6439z92b8r.txt
title:
  Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrocatalytic Aspects of Proton Exchange Membrane Based Nanostructured Assemblies

summary:
  It was shown that borohydride reduction is a more efficient method than the sonolytic deposition method for platinum reduction in terms of fuel cell activity. Activity of electrocatalyst/support systems were analyzed in regards to proton exchange membrane fuel cells.


id: 9019s180v6k
author: Megan C. Rogers
title: Faiths and Fortune: Religion and the Professional Middle Class in Urban China
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 351
sentence: 9
flesch: 21
cache: cache/9019s180v6k.txt
txt: txt/9019s180v6k.txt
summary:
  My research examines how one portion of the Chinese population—the growing professional middle class—is engaging with religious practices and asks how they are using these practices to make sense of their success and their place in both their country and global society. Drawing on critiques of the standard sociological theories and ways of conceptualizing and measuring of religion, this project uses the lens of religious practice, based on the theoretical work of Martin Riesebrodt (2010) and Adam Yuet Chau (2011a), to demonstrate how educated professionals' social position orients them towards religion in a distinctly rationalized and individualistic way that transcends established religious lines.


id: 47429883v32
author: Haley Kodak
date: 2021
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 273
sentence: 9
flesch: 30
cache: cache/47429883v32.txt
txt: txt/47429883v32.txt
title:
  Estimating Genetically Based Phenotypic Variation and Local Adaptation in the Foundational Plant Species, Schoenoplectus americanus

summary:
  Coastal marsh ecosystems provide a valuable system to explore the role of heritable trait variation on higher level processes by studying the variation in functional traits of coastal plants that contribute to marsh sediment accretion, a process that enables coastal marshes to keep pace with sea level rise and relates to carbon sequestration. Reproductive isolation due to flowering phenology could be a functional mechanism that enforces population genetic structure and heritable trait variation by altering rates of gene flow.


id: pc289g5789x
author: Paul Stey
title: Bayesian Analysis of Children?s Moral Judgments on the Trolley Cases
date: 2014
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words: 241
sentence: 10
flesch: 50
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summary:
  We also extended the research of Pellizzoni, Siegal, and Surian (2010), who utilized a sample of young children in an attempt to test Greene's theory that moral judgments are driven by differences in the directness of harm. Specifically, this project tested aspects of Greene's dual-process model (Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley, & Cohen, 2001) and Mikhail's (2000) theory of universal moral grammar.


id: c821gh95m5n
author: Joshua Tepley
title: Being in Heidegger's Being and Time
date: 2012
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words: 350
sentence: 12
flesch: 40
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summary:
  Heidegger divides the being of entities into two fundamental kinds: our kind of being, which he calls 'care' (Sorge), and the kinds of being possessed by every other kind of entity. Our kind of being, care, is just the flipside of this: care is the conjunction of engaging in human activities, finding things intelligible, and finding things significant.


id: 70795714j8k
author: Taylor Richardson Murphy
title: Investigation of Phosphatidylinositol Synthase in the Zebrafish Larval Lens and Photoreceptors
date: 2011
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words: 354
sentence: 13
flesch: 26
cache: cache/70795714j8k.txt
txt: txt/70795714j8k.txt
summary:
  Anti-zebrafish PI synthase polyclonal antiserum localized the protein throughout the developing wild-type eye, including the photoreceptor layer and lens cortical secondary fiber cells, but the protein was reduced in both the cdiptlop/lop and cdipthi559/hi559 mutants. The zebrafish lens opaque (lop) mutant was identified in a mutagenesis screen for eye morphological phenotypes, and exhibits lens opacity at 7 days post fertilization due to unregulated lens epithelial cell proliferation and fiber cell degeneration.


id: fn106w9491p
author: Qingmin Liu
title: Tunnel Diode/Transistor Integrated Circuits
date: 2008
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words: 332
sentence: 17
flesch: 36
cache: cache/fn106w9491p.txt
txt: txt/fn106w9491p.txt
summary:
  In this work, aphysics-based small-signal equivalent circuit model for theresonant tunneling diode (RTD) has been developed, which unifiesprevious models by Brown et al. for quantum inductance andby Lake and Yang for quantum capacitance, and provides analyticexpressions for both the quantum inductance and quantumcapacitance. Circuit design requires accurate device models.


id: 02870v85174
author: Ralf Matthias Bendlin
title: Intercell Interference Coordination Without Base Station Cooperation for Wireless Cellular Networks
date: 2011
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mime: text/plain
words: 367
sentence: 14
flesch: 43
cache: cache/02870v85174.txt
txt: txt/02870v85174.txt
summary:
  In reality, the temporal granularity of the scheduler does not allow for timely distribution of CSI among base stations. If the scheduling is synchronized among base stations, additional infrastructure is not required and base stations operate independently.


id: 6q182j65f3d
author: Nur Mustafaoglu
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 386
sentence: 10
flesch: 8
cache: cache/6q182j65f3d.txt
txt: txt/6q182j65f3d.txt
title:
  Design of Antibody-Based Diagnostics and Affinity Chromatography Systems Utilizing the Nucleotide Binding Site (NBS)

summary:
  An underutilized, highly conserved binding domain located on the antibody variable fragment, known as the nucleotide binding site (NBS) was implemented for site-specific functionalization of antibodies and antibody Fab fragments, as well as developing antibody purification systems. This dissertation focuses on developing advanced diagnostic systems, efficient antibody purification techniques, and novel antibody-drug conjugation methods while aiming to improve availability of antibody-based technologies to end-users.


id: 7079571595n
author: Nicole Winsor
date: 1904
extension: .txt
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words: 379
sentence: 9
flesch: 7
cache: cache/7079571595n.txt
txt: txt/7079571595n.txt
title:
  In the Wake of Revival and Revolution, 1915-2005: Postcolonial Modernist Theatre and Performance in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand

summary:
  By tracing the aftereffects of cultural, social, and political movements within postcolonial modernity as they intersect with theatre and performance practices in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, I offer an account of how postcolonial modernist theatre and performance becomes a simultaneously funereal and celebratory vigil over the vicissitudes of modern life in newly reconfigured postcolonial nation-states. By comparing the lived experiences of subjects within these postcolonial modernities as well as the dramatic forms which such a milieu produces in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, my work shows that while the narrative content of these modernisms differ, the various forms of aesthetic responses to these instances of postcolonial modernity have strong affinities which go beyond the particularities of each country's geohistorical context.


id: hx11xd09p9j
author: Nancy Elaine Roback
title: Crystal Chemistry of Uranyl Sulfates and Oxalates and Perrhenate Incorporation into Uranyl Phases
date: 2010
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words: 499
sentence: 24
flesch: 46
cache: cache/hx11xd09p9j.txt
txt: txt/hx11xd09p9j.txt
summary:
  The uranyl mineral analogues, uranophane, Ca[(UO2)(SiO3OH)]2Ì¢ âÂå¢5H2O, sodium boltwoodite, Na(UO2)(SiO3OH)Ì¢ âÂå¢1.5H2O, and soddyite, (UO2)2(SiO4)Ì¢ âÂå¢2H2O, are known to form from spent nuclear fuel and are expected to form in a geologic repository (Finch and Ewing, 1992; Wronkiewicz et al., 1996). Technetium-99 is an important dose contributor in a geological repository (Burns et al., 1997a; Chen et al., 2000).


id: 6108v981s90
author: Joshua Lioi
title: Advancements in the Multiscale Modeling of Blood Clot Formation
date: 2013
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words: 240
sentence: 12
flesch: 41
cache: cache/6108v981s90.txt
txt: txt/6108v981s90.txt
summary:
  Blood clotting is a remarkably complex process that includes a number of different aspects, including chemical reactions, cellular morphological changes, and the binding and aggregation of a variety of molecules. To try and compensate for this, a multiscale approach is used that combines several submodels, each focused on different aspects of the clotting process.


id: q524jm23h81
author: Sarah Elizabeth Spengeman
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 269
sentence: 9
flesch: 39
cache: cache/q524jm23h81.txt
txt: txt/q524jm23h81.txt
title:
  Saint Augustine and Hannah Arendt on Love of the World: An Investigation Into Arendt's Reliance on and Refutation of Augustinian Philosophy

summary:
  Finally, this dissertation agrees with Arendt that Augustine's thought does not provide adequate resources for understanding the significance of human plurality, but also argues that Arendt discounts the great value an ethic of love can provide as a guide for political action. Arendt's concern for human plurality guided her inquiry into the origins of totalitarianism, namely anti-Semitism and imperialism, as well as her analysis of totalitarianism in power.


id: 2514nk3530w
author: Kristyn Garza
title: Venas de Oro
date: 2023
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 321
sentence: 12
flesch: 50
cache: cache/2514nk3530w.txt
txt: txt/2514nk3530w.txt
summary:
  Through this, memory and, therefore, connections exist always and are to be kept sacred within the body, the self understood as origin. This work considers the very real existence of having to piece one's origin together, having to compile the self in order to gain any semblance of grounding.


id: d791sf2937x
author: Alyssa C. Lesko
date: 2018
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 318
sentence: 13
flesch: 29
cache: cache/d791sf2937x.txt
txt: txt/d791sf2937x.txt
title:
  Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Regulates Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 to Mediate 3D Morphogenesis and Apical-Basal Polarity

summary:
  Through microarray analysis we made the novel observation that APC loss increased Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 (EMP2) expression. We previously demonstrated that APC knockdown (APCKD) in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells altered cyst size and inverted polarity in 3D culture.


id: m900ns08f3j
author: Jos&eacute; E Lugo
title: Integrating Product form Preference into Engineering Design
date: 2014
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 330
sentence: 13
flesch: 40
cache: cache/m900ns08f3j.txt
txt: txt/m900ns08f3j.txt
summary:
  Subject ratings of preference and other perceptual dimensions yielded linear models that were appropriate for product form preference prediction, with the Gestalt model most suitable for design purposes. This can enable groups of designers to develop products design for form and function.


id: pk02c823v8h
author: Benjamin Patrick Roope
title: Analysis of Elevated Uranium and Impact of the Cotton Industry on Groundwaters in Benin, Africa
date: 2004
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words: 377
sentence: 16
flesch: 32
cache: cache/pk02c823v8h.txt
txt: txt/pk02c823v8h.txt
summary:
  By detailing characteristics of groundwater in Benin through elemental signatures, the previous phase of this research sought to better understand the hydrogeology and spatial distribution of groundwater quality in Benin. Conclusions were drawn about the characteristics of groundwater samples based on a full statistical perspective gained for each of the data sets.


id: 08612n52n5z
author: Devin Whitten
title: Observational Constraints on Milky Way Halo Formation
date: 2020
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words: 73
sentence: 3
flesch: 30
cache: cache/08612n52n5z.txt
txt: txt/08612n52n5z.txt
summary:
  Implications of the chemical abundance, spatial, and age distributions determined for a number of stellar populations in the stellar halo are discussed, along with the utility of such determinations for current- and next-generation simulations of Milky Way structure formation and chemical evolution. The formation of the Milky Way stellar halo is explored through the application of large-scale astronomical sky surveys.


id: s4655d90911
author: Amelia Mendelsohn
title: Gone Home
date: 2023
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words: 86
sentence: 3
flesch: 23
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summary:
  My work depicts the subtle tension that exists within domestic spaces when destructive familial conflict and inherited gender roles are buried beneath familiarity. I draw on conceptualizations of the domestic sphere, memory, and feminist understandings of the uncanny to visualize the psychological unease that exists within the home.


id: 6w924b3249k
author: Maria del Pilar Giannini Bravo
date: 2019
extension: .txt
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words: 162
sentence: 8
flesch: 34
cache: cache/6w924b3249k.txt
txt: txt/6w924b3249k.txt
title:
  Electoral Mobilization: Assessing the Importance of Individual, Institutional, and Party System Characteristics on Campaign Strategies

summary:
  Are certain individuals more likely to be targeted by political parties?My work aims to contribute to the literature of comparative politics including the importance of social context in explain mobilization strategies. By investigating how the socio-political context influences the behavior of political elites, my research sheds light on an important phenomenon of campaigns and democracy


id: zw12z31998v
author: Charles Raymond Anthony
title: Effects of Fe on the Absorbance, Fluorescence, and Molecular Weight of Natural Organic Matter
date: 2010
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words: 181
sentence: 9
flesch: 48
cache: cache/zw12z31998v.txt
txt: txt/zw12z31998v.txt
summary:
  It was found that addition of Fe caused an increase in visible absorbance, a decrease in fluorescence, and a shift from intermediate molecular weight components to higher molecular weight components. Comparison of XAD-8 and XAD-4 isolates showed similar changes in absorbance and fluorescence, but the XAD-4 showed little change in molecular weight distribution.


id: th83kw5514p
author: Melissa Ann Mitchell
title: Precision of testing the indirect effect for mediation studies
date: 2012
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 162
sentence: 8
flesch: 58
cache: cache/th83kw5514p.txt
txt: txt/th83kw5514p.txt
summary:
  This work focuses on the latter view on sample size planning for mediation studies (how large must a sample be to have an accurate estimate of the indirect effect). Coverage rates vary between methods in the models but it appears that the percentile bootstrap has the best coverage rates.


id: 1z40ks67c0v
author: Laura Kinnaman
date: 2011
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 235
sentence: 11
flesch: 34
cache: cache/1z40ks67c0v.txt
txt: txt/1z40ks67c0v.txt
title:
  Structural, dynamic, and spectroscopic properties of self-consistent charge density functional tight binding water models

summary:
  Ab initio models can accurately reproduce water properties, including reactions, but are limited to small systems. A wide range of empirical models which accurately reproduce bulk water have been developed, but are limited to nonreactive systems.


id: n296ww74q6s
author: Alethea Magdalena Tusher
title: A Mad Lush Alter
date: 1904
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 20
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/n296ww74q6s.txt
txt: txt/n296ww74q6s.txt
summary:
  A collection of poetry that takes the quotidian and makes it weird by excavating the inherent violence in domestic spaces.


id: pc289g5848m
author: Maria Glenski
title: Social News Consumption in Systems with Crowd-Sourced Curation
date: 2019
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 223
sentence: 7
flesch: 32
cache: cache/pc289g5848m.txt
txt: txt/pc289g5848m.txt
summary:
  Here, I describe several analyses and predictive models of user-behavior in social news platforms such as: user-interactions that rely on or influence the aggregate, anonymous crowd-ratings used to identify news-worthy content and user-interactions with news sources of varied credibility in particular. People frequently supplement or have replaced their consumption of news from traditional print, radio, or television news sources with social news consumption from online social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit.


id: 9306sx63f68
author: Matthew Joseph Polinski
date: 2013
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 356
sentence: 13
flesch: 44
cache: cache/9306sx63f68.txt
txt: txt/9306sx63f68.txt
title:
  Syntheses, Characterization, and Fundamental Studies of Novel Trivalent Lanthanide and Actinide Borates

summary:
  While there are several advancements of more applied applications gained from this work, the most important academic and fundamental insight is that the chemistries of the later actinides and lanthanides can be vastly different and care must be taken when making assumptions about these highly underexplored actinides based on the chemistry of either the lanthanides or other actinides. The use of molten boric acid as a reactive flux in the synthesis of trivalent actinide borates has been explored and developed over the past several years.


id: 5712m615k2z
author: Lindsay Leigh Sweet
date: 2008
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 367
sentence: 15
flesch: 41
cache: cache/5712m615k2z.txt
txt: txt/5712m615k2z.txt
title:
  Modulation of Macrophage Activation and Phagosome Maturation by Mycobacterium avium Glycopeptidolipids

summary:
  Interestingly, the serovar 1 and 2 GPLs activated macrophages in a MyD88- and TLR2-dependent manner, while non-specific GPLs (nsGPLs) and the serovar 4 GPL were non-stimulatory. M. avium and M. intracellulare, which comprise this complex, are slow-growing mycobacteria noted for producing disseminated infections in persons with an advanced stage of AIDS, and pulmonary infections in non-AIDS patients.


id: 1j92g735c0q
author: Xiao Liu
title: Causal Mediation Analysis with the Latent Growth Curve Mediation Model
date: 2022
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 305
sentence: 12
flesch: 27
cache: cache/1j92g735c0q.txt
txt: txt/1j92g735c0q.txt
summary:
  For effect estimation, I proposed the interaction LGCMM, which incorporates interactions among treatment, mediator intercept, and mediator slope and allows the residual covariance of mediator intercept and slope to differ between treatment vs. control groups. Simulation results showed that the Bayesian approach yielded satisfactory estimates and inferences of the interventional direct and indirect effects in the interaction LGCMM with N ≥ 400 when T ≥ 6 or with N ≥ 200 when T ≥ 12.


id: rx913n22j04
author: Parveen Kumar Chandila
title: Strategy for Global Optimization and Post-Optimality Using Local Kriging Approximations
date: 2004
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words: 167
sentence: 11
flesch: 28
cache: cache/rx913n22j04.txt
txt: txt/rx913n22j04.txt
summary:
  The non-linear response of the system is captured through local approximations. The global design space is divided into local regions.


id: dn39x061g4c
author: Lionel Nicolas
title: Structural Revision, Stereochemical Assignment and Total Synthesis of Gephyronic Acid
date: 2011
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words: 342
sentence: 16
flesch: 37
cache: cache/dn39x061g4c.txt
txt: txt/dn39x061g4c.txt
summary:
  The newly proposed structure of gephyronic acid provides further insights on the structural relation between these related inhibitors of eukaryotic protein synthesis. Spectroscopic analysis, confirmed by fragment synthesis, showed that the original structure of gephyronic acid was misassigned.


id: 0z708w35q8s
author: Sarah G. Pate
title: Characterization of Amine-Functionalized Facilitated Transport Membranes for CO2 Separation
date: 2023
extension: .txt
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words: 372
sentence: 10
flesch: 26
cache: cache/0z708w35q8s.txt
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summary:
  These investigations allow us to clarify the effect of amine structure and the role of water for CO2 transport through amine-functionalized membranes, which ultimately allows us to propose new CO2 transport mechanisms based on the direct observation of intermediate species. To further probe the fundamental issues of CO2 permeation, we will study the effect of water-enhanced CO2 permeation on poly(N-methyl-N-vinylamine) (PMVAm), poly(N,N-dimethyl-N-vinylamine) (PDVAm), polyvinylpyridine, and quaternized polyvinylpyridine materials to investigate the effect of amine structure on CO2 transport through membranes.


