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1. 00000001r2s
   • author: Stacey S Tiberio
   • title: The Effects of Misspecified Measurement Interval in Multivariate Latent Differential Equation Models
   • date: 2011
   • words: 213
   • flesch: 30
   • summary: The amount of bias incurred in both the frequency and damping parameter due to the incorrect parameterization of time, however, does not appear to be substantial. For exponential processes, relative to the MLDE model curvature parameter estimates from equally spaced data, the misspecification of irregularly spaced data has little to no effect on the bias but does decrease the precision of the curvature parameter estimates.
   • keywords: data; mlde; model; parameter
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2. 00000001r4g
   • author: Michael Paul Davis
   • title: Experimental Investigation of the Cavitation of Aviation Fuel in a Converging-Diverging Nozzle
   • date: 2008
   • words: 206
   • flesch: 55
   • summary: High-speed video showed an abrupt region of bubble collapse (a bubbly shock) in the diffuser section of the nozzle for water cases. In fuel cases, bubbles persisted through the entire length of the nozzle with no obvious collapse region.
   • keywords: flow; fuel; nozzle; water
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3. 00000001r5t
   • author: Carolyn Ann Dehner
   • title: Insights into iron acquistion from mineral sources by pseudomonads
   • date: 2011
   • words: 348
   • flesch: 37
   • summary: However, the long-held assumption that siderophores alone deliver mineral Fe to microbes at a rate sufficient to support microbial growth has recently been called into question by abiotic measurements of siderophore-promoted dissolution. In studies with the common environmental aerobe P. mendocina, it was found that the contribution of siderophores to Fe acquisition from hematite depended strongly on the presence and concentration of other organic ligands common in the soil.
   • keywords: acquisition; ferritin; iron; mendocina; mineral; siderophores
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4. 00000001s0d
   • author: Ryan Dee Ross
   • title: Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles as Damage-Specific X-ray Computed Tomography Contrast Agents in Bone Tissue
   • date: 2011
   • words: 247
   • flesch: 31
   • summary: In summary, the ability to utilize functionalized gold nanoparticles as targeted X-ray contrast agents for microdamage in bone tissue was found be to feasible with improved X-ray imaging techniques. Bisphosphonate functionalized Au NPs of varying particle diameter were also prepared to investigate nanoparticle size effects on X-ray attenuation and deliverability.
   • keywords: bone; contrast; gold; ray
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5. 00000001s1r
   • author: Jeremy Thurston Newkirk
   • title: Dynamic Performance Analysis of a Robotic System Using Reliability-Based Design Optimization
   • date: 2007
   • words: 159
   • flesch: 33
   • summary: Here the DCE are used in conjunction with a reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) strategy in order to obtain designs with robust dynamic performance with respect to the end-effector reference point and additionally with respect to changing configurations with a fixed operational point. The workspace is characterized to determine the actuator inputs required to achieve a desired level of performance over a chosen percentage of configurations.
   • keywords: design; dynamic; performance
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6. 00000001s3f
   • author: Ryan Christopher Kennedy
   • title: Identification and Annotation of Transposable Elements and Agent- and GIS-based Modeling of Pathogen Transmission
   • date: 2011
   • words: 168
   • flesch: 41
   • summary: This dissertation presents a GIS aware agent-based model of pathogen transmission as well as methods and recommendations for incorporating GIS data into a simulation. The work presented here has two primary components: 1) the identification and annotation of transposable elements (TEs) and 2) a spatially-aware agent-based model of pathogen transmission.
   • keywords: agent; tes; transmission
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7. 00000001s4s
   • author: Julieann Ulin
   • title: The Stranger in the House: Domestic Invasion in Twentieth-Century Irish and American Literature
   • date: 2008
   • words: 364
   • flesch: 30
   • summary: Chapter 2 focuses on the boarding house as a site of competing constructions of Irish nationhood in James Joyce's Ì¢åÛåÏThe Boarding HouseÌ¢åÛå and Ulysses and Brian Moore's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (a version of this chapter is forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly in 2007). Chapter 3 focuses on political responses toward and literary depictions of Irish immigrants in the U.S. through journalist Alvan F. Sanborn's sketches and the fiction of Maeve Brennan.
   • keywords: century; chapter; domestic; house; irish; servant; stranger; trope; twentieth
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8. 00000001v32
   • author: Ryan Woodbury
   • title: The Moral Self-Identity Q Sort
   • date: 2016
   • words: 152
   • flesch: 27
   • summary: Cognitive developmental theory's claims about the fundamental role of moral judgments on moral functioning lack empirical evidence. This paper discusses an alternative theory for understanding moral functioning—moral self-identity—and its three claims: judgments of responsibility, the moral self, and self-consistency.
   • keywords: methodology; moral; self
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9. 00000001x72
   • author: Chris Muravez
   • title: The Body Full of Hell
   • date: 1904
   • words: 83
   • flesch: 49
   • summary: The themes and content are drawn from autobiographical material, dream sequences, and existing texts such as Zelda Fitzgerald's correspondance with F. Scott Fitzgerald. The style and form can loosely be described as an obscene post-modern surrealist verse play.
   • keywords: fitzgerald; play; relationships
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10. 00000002p3s
    • author: Yurii Morozov
    • title: Semiconductor Nanostructures with High Photoluminescence Quantum Efficiency and Their Application for Laser Cooling
    • date: 2019
    • words: 257
    • flesch: 33
    • summary: During anti-Stokes PL, the energy of the incoming laser photons is lower than the band gap energy, and necessary energy deficiency is supplied by thermal energy. Despite the simplicity of the underlying principle, actual realization requires remarkably high external PL quantum efficiency (near unity).This entails very high internal PL quantum efficiency and PL extraction efficiency.
    • keywords: cooling; efficiency; energy; photons; stokes
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11. 00000002v4p
    • author: Eleanor K. Choi
    • title: New World Order? Thucydides' Speeches and the Breakdown of Greek Interstate Relations
    • date: 2021
    • words: 230
    • flesch: 19
    • 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.
    • keywords: interstate; relations; speeches; thucydides; war
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12. 00000002v82
    • author: Roger Sargent Cadena Jr.
    • title: #HispanicsforTrump: Ethnoracialization, Identity, and the Paradox of Hispanic Republicans?
    • date: 2021
    • words: 149
    • flesch: 17
    • summary: When challenged as sellouts, Latinx Republicans reinterpret the meanings of the group and the political party system by adopting ethnoracial frames that align Latinx identity with the Republican Party. I find Latinx Republicans interpret their identities relationally based on experiences of discrimination, socioeconomic mobility, ethnoracial boundary crossing with white Americans, and drawing boundaries between themselves and poor, urban, and undocumented immigrant Latinx and Black people.
    • keywords: ethnoracial; latinx; party; republicans
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13. 00000002w1z
    • author: Michael Rotolo
    • title: Seeking the Good Life: The Moral Development of Young People in America
    • date: 2022
    • words: 347
    • flesch: 25
    • 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.
    • keywords: different; essay; moral; political; religious; respondents; views; way
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14. 02870v8507t
    • author: Dori C. Woods
    • title: Cellular mechanisms regulating follicle selection and granulosa cell differentiation in avian ovarian follicles
    • date: 2007
    • words: 377
    • flesch: 24
    • summary: The hen provides an excellent model to study granulosa cell differentiation based on large follicle size and easy access to pure populations of granulosa cells from all stages of follicle development. In summary, these data support the hypothesis that alleviation from inhibitory signaling is required for granulosa cell differentiation.
    • keywords: cells; differentiation; erk; follicle; granulosa; results; signaling
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15. 02870v85085
    • author: Claudia Kunze
    • title: Acoustic and Velocity Measurements in the Flow Past an Airfoil Trailing Edge
    • date: 2004
    • words: 180
    • flesch: 50
    • summary: In the second part, far field acoustic measurements and correlation measurements between x-wire probes and the micro- phones were made to investigate possible correlation between the flow physics and the far field acoustics. Therefore the flow around and inside a defined control volume was investigated using hot-wire probes (single and x-wire measurements) and pressure measurements.
    • keywords: measurements; probes; wire
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16. 02870v8509h
    • author: Peter Svoisky
    • title: Search for Mssm Higgs Boson Production in Ppbar Collisions at Sqrt(S)=1.96 Tev, With a Higgs Decaying Into Taus
    • date: 2008
    • words: 112
    • flesch: 51
    • summary: The cross section for this process is enhanced in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM), such as in its Minimal Supersymmetric extension (MSSM) at large tan $eta$. We present a search for the production of neutral Higgs bosons in association with bottom quarks in $p ar p$ collisions at $sqrt s = 1.96$ TeV.
    • keywords: cross; mssm; section
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17. 02870v8510q
    • author: Sheng Li
    • title: An Integrated Power, Area, and Timing Modeling Framework for the Design of Multithreaded and Multi/Manycore Architectures
    • date: 2010
    • words: 411
    • flesch: 38
    • 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.
    • keywords: architecture; area; chip; lcmt; mcpat; new; order; performance; processors
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18. 02870v8512d
    • author: Muhammad Owais Iqbal
    • title: Coherent Structure in a Turbulent Axisymmetric Jet via a Vector Implementation of the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
    • date: 2006
    • words: 268
    • flesch: 36
    • summary: Results show a rapid energy convergence with POD mode number. The streamwise evolution of the eigenvalue spectra is characterized by a remarkable variation in the azimuthal mode number energy distribution leading to the dominance of azimuthal mode m
    • keywords: azimuthal; jet; mode; number; pod; streamwise; structure
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19. 02870v85143
    • author: Elizabeth A. McNicholas
    • title: Human Flourishing in the American City: A New Plan for Detroit's Underserved Population
    • date: 2006
    • words: 150
    • flesch: 52
    • summary: By using the city of Detroit as a case study, this thesis aims to discover what physical elements are essential to the health and success of the metropolis as a whole, and to give clearer definition to the terms health and success as they apply to a city. Given that the purpose of a city is to be the physical framework within which people live, success is necessarily achieved when it provides its citizens with the support required in order to live their lives well.
    • keywords: purpose; study
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20. 02870v85174
    • author: Ralf Matthias Bendlin
    • title: Intercell Interference Coordination Without Base Station Cooperation for Wireless Cellular Networks
    • date: 2011
    • words: 367
    • flesch: 43
    • 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.
    • keywords: base; csi; femto; layer; phase; power; scheduling; stations
    • versions: original; plain text
21. 02870v8518g
    • author: Shannon Noelle Gayk
    • title: 'Sensible Signes': Mediating Images in Late Medieval Literature
    • date: 2006
    • words: 356
    • flesch: 24
    • summary: The final chapter considers Reginald Pecock's program for the production and circulation of vernacular religious texts in light of his extended defense of religious images. The second chapter argues that John Lydgate's insistence on reading images through the lenses of history and theological exegesis suggests both his unease with unmediated visual experience and his desire to promote an altogether different devotional model for the laityÌ¢ â an application of the practice of monastic lectio to religious images.
    • keywords: century; chapter; images; medieval; religious; texts; vernacular; visual
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22. 02870v8519t
    • author: Joel Michael Dodson
    • title: 'Some newer name than Christian': Confessionalization in Early Modern English Literature, Spenser to Donne
    • date: 2011
    • words: 496
    • flesch: 26
    • summary: The present study demonstrates the fragility of those ideals in the 1580s and 90s by providing a detailed analysis of the politics and ecclesiology of the divided Church in late Tudor poetics, and the impact of confessions of faith on English conceptions of literary form. It argues that the division of creeds and churches in the late Reformation precipitated a crisis in Elizabethan poetics, and that the creation of a poetry able to articulate to the pressures of doctrinal profession marked an important pre-condition for the emergence of a professional authorship in early modern England.
    • keywords: church; donne; elizabethan; english; literary; marlowe; poetic; profession; spenser
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23. 02870v85201
    • author: Myriam Patricia Roy
    • title: Structure-Activity Relationship of the Myriaporones and Biosynthetic Study of Tedanolide
    • date: 2008
    • words: 428
    • flesch: 37
    • summary: Several analogues were designed to lock either of the two conformations in an attempt to find the biological active one; however, all of them exhibited a significant decrease in biological activity. Again, all of the analogues synthesized exhibited a significant decrease in biological activity.
    • keywords: activity; analogues; biological; group; myriaporone; synthesis; tedanolide
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24. 02870v85232
    • author: Susan M Skube
    • title: The Regulation of CLIP-170-Microtubule Binding
    • date: 2010
    • words: 303
    • flesch: 54
    • summary: Initially identified as a linker between membranes and the microtubule cytoskeleton (Pierre et al., 1992), more recently CLIP-170 has been shown to dynamically track the growing end (plus-end) of MTs in vivo (Perez et al., 1999) and enhance MT polymerization both in vitro and in vivo (Diamantopoulos et al., 1999). These sites were mutated and analyzed with several mutants showing altered MT binding- H1 S195A, H1 S204E and H1 6E. Taken as a whole, these results imply a plus-end tracking mechanism where CLIP-170 binds the MT plus end in a phosphorylated state and subsequent phosphorylations cause it to fall off the MT.
    • keywords: clip-170; end; plus
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25. 02870v85263
    • author: Kelly A. Warmuth
    • title: Parent–Child Attachment Stability and Trajectories of Externalizing Behavior
    • date: 1904
    • words: 351
    • flesch: 14
    • summary: Previous research has identified insecure parent–child attachments as a risk factor; however, additional research is necessary to understand not only how secure attachments buffer externalizing behavior, but also which insecure classifications (i.e., avoidant, ambivalent, or disorganized)—and to which parent—have the worst long-term prognoses. First, stability of mother–child and father–child attachments from Time 1 to Time 6 was assessed using a variety of attachment measures.
    • keywords: attachment; child; children; externalizing; father; mother; time
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26. 02870v85294
    • author: Tanya Salyers
    • title: Network Based Modeling in Social Sciences and Biology
    • date: 2012
    • words: 518
    • flesch: 30
    • summary: Here we present a dynamic agent-based model of social network evolution that offers an explanation of the observed positive degree assortativity in social networks in terms of a simple mechanism of preference for reciprocity in communication flows: agents drop relationships in which they invest more than their partners and attempt to search and keep relationships in which they invest as much or less. In particular, social networks have the empirically observed property of assortativity by degree: a given individual is more likely to be connected to another individual with a similar number of contacts than expected by a uniformly random distribution of the connections.
    • keywords: cyclic; delays; dll; formation; mesp2; model; networks; notch; pathway; social
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27. 02870v8534q
    • author: Kevin B Phaup
    • title: Rebuilding Nepal: Applying Design Thinking to Sheltering in the Wake of Natural Disasters
    • date: 1904
    • words: 297
    • flesch: 29
    • summary: This radically different approach to disaster relief distributes a system for building transitional shelters, rather than the costly and wasteful distribution of numerous tents and prefabricated temporary shelters. In conjunction with building efforts, I conducted innovative and novel research in the field in the immediate aftermath, focused on the challenges of delivering and deploying shelters in low-resourced environments.
    • keywords: construction; design; disaster; relief; research; shelters; system
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28. 02870v85681
    • author: John P. Slattery
    • title: Old Science, New Problems: A Theological Analysis of John Zahm's Attempt to Bridge Evolution and Roman Catholicism
    • date: 1904
    • words: 107
    • flesch: 34
    • summary: In arguing so, the dissertation intends to exemplify the value of investigating the philosophical approach to science in historical theological discussions. In 1898, the Vatican issued a censure to John Zahm, a North American priest and scientist, for publishing the book Evolution and Dogma.
    • keywords: censure; zahm
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29. 02870v85r5z
    • author: Brandy Sky Martinez
    • title: Emotion Regulation as a Proximal Bio-Behavioral Mechanism Linking Religion/Spirituality and Mindfulness to Positive Health Outcomes
    • date: 1904
    • words: 284
    • flesch: 49
    • summary: The current study examined whether Religion/Spirituality (R/S) or mindfulness-based interventions attenuate negative emotional experiences and concomitant physiological responses via emotion regulation. Paired T-tests constrained to the Control group indicated that negative picture blocks were rated higher on average arousal (t(27)
    • keywords: negative
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30. 02870v85w4v
    • author: Elise Estelle Wright
    • title: Lagrangian Methods to Study Mixing and Reactions in Flows through Heterogeneous Porous Media
    • date: 2019
    • words: 290
    • flesch: 39
    • summary: Many existing models inadequately assume perfect mixing, leading to the overprediction of reaction rates in laboratory and field observations. Non-uniform flows are generally expected to enhance mixing relative to a homogeneous one, which will impact reactions.
    • keywords: flows; heterogeneous; mixing; reactions; reactive; transport
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31. 02870v85x6v
    • author: Joshua Mark Pauls
    • title: Self-Propagating High-Temperature Reactions in Heterogeneous Reactive Nanocomposites
    • date: 2019
    • words: 320
    • flesch: 18
    • summary: TiN/B belongs to a subset of combustion reactions, known as solid flame systems, where the adiabatic combustion temperature does not exceed any phase transition temperature or eutectic point of the reactants, intermediates, or products, but for which no ternary phases or substantial solid solutions form. The development of mechanical processing methods for fabricating nanostructured composites presents an opportunity to prepare novel reactive mixtures from systems for which thermodynamic calculations indicate substantial heats of formation but were not previously identified as feasible due to solid-solid diffusion limitations.
    • keywords: composites; high; reaction; solid; systems; temperature; tin
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32. 02870v8624p
    • author: Nozomu Kato
    • title: Flow Phenomena under a Backpressure in an Axisymmetric Scramjet Model
    • date: 2019
    • words: 590
    • flesch: 56
    • summary: The wall pressure measurement showed that there were pressure gradients in the isolator imposed by the incident shock wave for α = 6 and 9, whereas minor pressure gradients were present for α Flow visualizations and wall pressure measurements provided qualitative and quantitative results.
    • keywords: flame; flow; pressure; pseudoshock; shock; unstart; wall; wave
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33. 02870v8633n
    • author: Jude Galbraith
    • title: Researcher Responsibilities in Climate Engineering: Values, Ethics, and Environmentally Disruptive Technology Innovation
    • date: 2020
    • words: 336
    • flesch: 18
    • summary: It is the responsibility of scientists, therefore, to ensure the values they use in climate engineering research are morally and politically legitimate. In the second half of dissertation, I turn to a framework that provides alternative theoretical resources for legitimating scientific values in innovative climate engineering research.
    • keywords: climate; communities; engineering; research; scientific; values
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34. 02870v86418
    • author: Ethan Fridmanski
    • title: Crypto-Capital: The Political Economy of Cryptocurrencies
    • date: 2021
    • words: 192
    • flesch: 27
    • summary: Cryptocurrency systems and their technical details are complex as well as unintuitive. Features and protocols underlying cryptocurrencies obscure and obfuscate an individual entity's transaction behavior and real life identity.
    • keywords: cryptocurrencies; historical; networks; systems; technology
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35. 02870v86507
    • author: Jiale Shi
    • title: Computing Free Energy Landscapes for Materials Design
    • date: 2022
    • words: 183
    • flesch: 8
    • summary: This dissertation explores computational free energy calculations in different simulation scales, including lattice models, atomistic models, coarse-grained models, quantum models, via different molecular simulation methods, including Monte Carlo simulations, classical molecular dynamics simulations, and first principle molecular dynamics simulations to illustrate the inside mechanisms. Next, we explore the confirmation free energy in gold clusters via first principle molecular dynamics simulations.
    • keywords: dynamics; energy; free; models; molecular; simulations
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36. 02870v86538
    • author: Jeffrey T. DuBose
    • title: Excited State Properties of Metal Halide Perovskites: Insights for Photocatalysis and Photovoltaics
    • date: 2022
    • words: 131
    • flesch: 27
    • summary: Metal halide perovskites are an attractive material for a wide variety of optoelectronic applications, from solar cells (photovoltaics) to radiation detection. These same properties make metal halide perovskites attractive for photocatalytic applications as well.
    • keywords: context; halide; metal; perovskites
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37. 02870v8654m
    • author: Nicholas Joseph Estes
    • title: Passive Gbps Envelope Detectors for Use in Compact, Low Resolution, Energy Efficient Wireless Communication Systems
    • date: 2022
    • words: 216
    • flesch: 47
    • summary: An efficiency and noise model is presented and verified, and the implications for system design are discussed. This thesis demonstrates that nonlinear, nonstandard detector-based receivers can simultaneously achieve both high data rate and low power consumption over the air in a commercial millimeter wave band.
    • keywords: design; detectors; gbps; keying; low; receivers
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38. 02870v8669n
    • author: Tee Chuanromanee
    • title: Designing the Trans Experience: Technology and Common Gender Transition Narratives
    • date: 2023
    • words: 352
    • flesch: 51
    • summary: In conducting these studies, this dissertation weaves together concepts of trans technology, storytelling, transition tracking, trans care, and community-based design to produce artifacts and learnings that can benefit those (both in and outside of the trans community) who wish to use technology to support gender transition. HCI researchers have only recently examined trans technologies, and there is a need for greater understanding of the role that technology plays in gender transition.
    • keywords: community; gender; technology; trans; transition
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39. 02870v86716
    • author: Bingyue Su
    • title: Methods and Applications of Differential Privacy in Statistical Problems
    • date: 2023
    • words: 332
    • flesch: 29
    • summary: Firstly, I investigate the utility of differentially private hypothesis testing, developing new methods and providing results for commonly used tests such as z-test, t-test, and chi-squared test in the settings of one-sample mean tests, two-sample tests, variance tests, goodness-of-fit tests, and independence tests and evaluate the utility of the tests in terms of statistical power while maitaining Type-I error rate. In the era of big data, ensuring data privacy during statistical analysis has become increasingly important, necessitating a rigorous definition of privacy.
    • keywords: analysis; data; privacy; real; statistical; synthetic; tests; utility
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40. 05741r68945
    • author: Katherine Erin Cunningham
    • title: With God on Their Side
    • date: 2010
    • words: 51
    • flesch: 38
    • 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.
    • keywords: project
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41. 05741r6896v
    • author: Delores (Lora) Anne Smitham
    • title: Evaluating an Intuitive Eating Program for Binge Eating Disorder: A Benchmarking Study
    • date: 2010
    • words: 205
    • flesch: 35
    • summary: This study of Intuitive Eating (Tribole & Resch, 2003) employed an eight-week group treatment for binge eating disorder that encompassed components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Studies suggest that the prevalence of binge eating disorder in the obese population ranges between 30 and 55 percent (Munsch et al., 2007; Wilfley, Agras, Telch, Rossiter, Schneider, Cole, et al., 1993).
    • keywords: binge; eating; significant; study; therapy
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42. 05741r68976
    • author: Theresa O'Byrne
    • title: Dublin's Hoccleve: James Yonge, Scribe, Author, and Bureaucrat, and the Literary World of Late Medieval Dublin
    • date: 2012
    • words: 353
    • flesch: 45
    • summary: Yonge uses the narrative to market Ireland as a pilgrimage destination and frames his work as part literary text and part notarial instrument, pitching it to a pan-European audience. This thesis augments the canon of late medieval Anglo-Irish authors and texts by demonstrating that several texts once considered English were written in the Dublin area by Yonge's student Nicholas Bellewe.
    • keywords: anglo; circle; english; ireland; literary; purgatory; translation; yonge; yonge's
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43. 05741r6899w
    • author: Margaret Nicola Abruzzo
    • title: Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate
    • date: 2006
    • words: 352
    • flesch: 39
    • 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:
    • keywords: antislavery; cruelty; debate; moral; pain; proand; role; slavery
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44. 05741r68b2s
    • author: Andrea M Dunn
    • title: Air and LNAPL Entrapment in the Partially Saturated Fringe: Laboratory and Numerical Investigations
    • date: 2006
    • words: 328
    • flesch: 37
    • summary: Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations were used to investigate air and LNAPL entrapment in the Partially Saturated Fringe (PSF) at the local scale of a heterogeneous groundwater system. Laboratory and numerical investigations focused on imbibition within simple heterogeneous systems.
    • keywords: air; entrapment; influence; lnapl; system
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45. 05741r68b34
    • author: Xiangning Li
    • title: Radiative Heat Transfer through Fibrous Materials
    • date: 2007
    • words: 364
    • flesch: 37
    • 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.
    • keywords: beds; bounds; effective; emissivity; fiber; matrix; parallel; surface
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46. 05741r68b5t
    • author: James W. Clancy
    • title: ARF6 Regulated Tumor Progression: Glandular Disruption and Cell Invasion
    • date: 2014
    • words: 373
    • flesch: 28
    • summary: Finally, upon release, ARF6, MT1-MMP and VAMP3 positive microvesicles can be isolated from ascites and serum of ovarian cancer patients. In addition to glandular disruption, ARF6 activation has profound effects on cell invasion, in particular the shedding of invasive microvesicles.
    • keywords: arf6; cells; disruption; epithelial; glandular; microvesicles; mmp; mt1; results; vamp3
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47. 05741r68b65
    • author: LaReine-Marie Veronica Mosely
    • title: Salvation Despite the Death of Jesus? The Cross in the Later Soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx: African American Christian Female Perspectives
    • date: 2008
    • words: 450
    • flesch: 35
    • summary: The cross in the Christian tradition has been a contested image and symbol since ancient groups began using the cross as a means of execution and terror and especially since a little known Jewish teacher, Jesus of Nazareth died on one around the year 4 C.E. The cross of Jesus, who came to be known as the Christ, and the metaphors used to talk about the mystery of salvation have engaged the Christian community for centuries. To that end, the first chapter offers a broad survey of the diverse ways that the meaning of the death of Jesus has been interpreted in the scriptures and the larger Christian tradition.
    • keywords: african; american; chapter; christian; cross; death; jesus; schillebeeckx
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48. 05741r6909c
    • author: Saurabh Nagrecha
    • title: Operationalizing Classification in Applied Machine Learning
    • date: 1904
    • words: 214
    • flesch: 45
    • summary: The state of the art in domain-driven data mining, Actionable Knowledge Discovery, merely acts as a wrapper to transform domain data to feature matrices and class labels. Through this paradigm, we now have a formalized framework for structuring data and pipelines, time-censoring, Net Present Value considerations, interpretability and regulation compliance --- all using domain driven insights.
    • keywords: classification; data; diverse; domain; paradigm; problem
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49. 05741r69170
    • author: Elizabeth R. Louden
    • title: Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Metastable Vortex Lattice States in MgB2
    • date: 1904
    • words: 269
    • flesch: 41
    • summary: For the supercooled vortex lattice, the metastable to equilibrium state transition can be analyzed with an activated behavior, and can be described in terms of a single parameter based on the AC amplitude. The distribution of vortex lattice domain orientations was examined using spatially-resolved SANS, and an upper limit of 100 μm was found for the domain size.
    • keywords: lattice; magnetic; metastable; state; transition; vortex
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50. 05741r69368
    • author: Judith Biesen
    • title: Using Communal Activation to Increase Relationship Enhancing Behaviors and Attitudes and Decrease Vulnerable and Grandiose Narcissistic Tendencies
    • date: 2019
    • words: 328
    • flesch: 6
    • summary: The current study examined a) whether a CA manipulation in the context of viewing psychoeducational videos about healthy relationships could link narcissism and desirable interpersonal behaviors/attitudes, and unlink narcissism and undesirable interpersonal behaviors/attitudes, and b) whether the degree to which CA links and unlinks narcissism and interpersonal behaviors/attitudes is different for vulnerable versus grandiose narcissism. Furthermore, although recent advancements in the definition and diagnostic criteria for narcissism in the DSM-5, Section III have improved our understanding of narcissism, these criteria heavily favor grandiose over vulnerable traits, despite substantial evidence that documents the distinct natures of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism.
    • keywords: grandiose; interpersonal; narcissism; narcissistic; people; traits; vulnerable
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51. 05741r69c2c
    • author: Rose E. Donohue
    • title: Socio-Ecological Complexity and the Control of Helminthic Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • date: 2020
    • words: 475
    • flesch: 14
    • summary: The overall aim of this dissertation is to apply a socio-ecological lens to comprehensively improve our understanding of helminthic NTDs and provide evidence-based policy recommendations to achieve sustainable helminthic NTD control. Overall, this work demonstrates the importance of accounting for socio-ecological complexity in understanding helminthic NTD transmission and sustainably controlling helminthic NTDs.
    • keywords: complexity; control; determinants; ecological; helminthic; ntds; programs; socio
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52. 05741r69d62
    • author: Navid Shervani-Tabar
    • title: Predictive Molecular Latent Space Discovery with Graph Variational Autoencoder
    • date: 2021
    • words: 131
    • flesch: 22
    • summary: A Bayesian formalism is considered to capture uncertainties in the predictive estimates of molecular properties. The model's performance is evaluated by generating molecules with desired target properties.
    • keywords: design; generative; model; molecular
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53. 08612n51j94
    • author: Georgiana Young Kramer
    • title: On the Petrogenesis and Distribution of the High-Alumina Mare Basalts: An Integrated Approach Using Geochemical and Remote Sensing Data
    • date: 2008
    • words: 300
    • flesch: 55
    • summary: The second part of the doctoral research used compositional remote sensing data to search the whole Moon for exposures of HA mare basalts, or areas where the regolith consists mainly of material derived from HA basaltic flows. They represent the oldest sampled mare basalts, and the return of HA basalt samples from four locations, separated by 2400 km, implies they may be widespread on the Moon.
    • keywords: basaltic; basalts; lunar; mare; moon; search
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54. 08612n51k0b
    • author: Daniel Earl Saros
    • title: The Progressive Era Regulationist Institutional Structure: A Case Study of the American Iron and Steel Industry
    • date: 2004
    • words: 337
    • flesch: 21
    • summary: The industrial case study provides support for the hypothesis that regulated periods tend to increase the rates of profit, output growth, and capital accumulation relative to free market periods. A modified version of social structure of accumulation (SSA) analysis is employed to demonstrate how different periods in American history may be construed as being governed predominantly by free market or regulatory mechanisms.
    • keywords: case; industry; iron; program; ssa; steel; structure; study
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55. 08612n51k21
    • author: Robert Jess Lavolette
    • title: The Perils of Escapism
    • date: 2011
    • words: 5
    • flesch: 35
    • summary: Creative thesis. No abstract available.
    • keywords: creative
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56. 08612n51k4q
    • author: Xiaowen Liu
    • title: Performance Analysis and Topology Control of Large Wireless Networks With Fading
    • date: 2008
    • words: 359
    • flesch: 39
    • summary: For random networks with nodes distributed according to a two-dimensional Poisson point process, the average throughput is analytically characterized and numerically evaluated. Uniformly random or Poisson distributions are widely accepted models for the location of the nodes in wireless sensor networks if nodes are deployed in large quantities and there is little control over where they are dropped.
    • keywords: energy; fading; networks; nodes; random; regular; throughput; wireless
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57. 08612n51k6d
    • author: Matthew T. McNicholas
    • title: The Relevance and Transcendence of Ornament: A New Public High School for the South Side of Chicago
    • date: 2006
    • words: 159
    • flesch: 41
    • summary: The new century needs to reconnect with this language, which speaks to us of such concepts as function, space and symbolism, but also performs such work as direction, the designation of metaphysical transition and expression of movement, among other roles. Ornamented architecture will return enchantment and pleasure to the public realm while simultaneously educating and connecting humans with their past accomplishments and future endeavors.
    • keywords: architecture; building; ornament
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58. 08612n51k9f
    • author: Anne Elizabeth Baker
    • title: The Electoral Causes of Party Polarization in Congress
    • date: 2011
    • words: 217
    • flesch: 30
    • summary: I find party leaders helped make congressional caucuses more ideologically homogeneous over time by providing party support to ideological challengers and open-seat contestants and thereby significantly improving their likelihood of gaining seats; by targeting resources toward races against moderate incumbents of the opposite party with great success; and by providing party monies to protect their own moderate incumbents at the expense of making those incumbents more vulnerable to seat-challenges and targeting by the other party. In response to this lacuna, in this dissertation I present evidence that over the past thirty years party leaders have helped bring about party polarization in Congress in the way they have distributed party campaign funds to candidates.
    • keywords: congress; incumbents; party; time
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59. 08612n51m10
    • author: Ryan Russell Hemme
    • title: Population Dynamics of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
    • date: 2011
    • words: 296
    • flesch: 32
    • 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.
    • keywords: aegypti; aim; area; denv-2; mosquitoes; susceptibility; transmission; water
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60. 08612n51m2b
    • author: Rendy Kartika
    • title: Programs Towards Tetrahydropyran Containing Small Macrolides of Cyanobacterial Origins: Synthetic Methodology Development and Total Synthesis
    • date: 2008
    • words: 355
    • flesch: 18
    • summary: This dissertation comprises two major components that sequentially describe literature reviews pertinent to tetrahydropyran-containing small macrolides of cyanobacterial origins and research in the field of synthetic organic chemistry that demonstrates synthetic methodology development directed for stereoselective production of highly functionalized oxacycles and their applications in complex molecule synthesis. More importantly, it was free of discreet installation steps for protecting groups, thus representing a rare example in complex polyketide synthesis.
    • keywords: ether; functionalization; macrolide; production; reaction; research; steps; strategy; synthesis; synthetic; transfer
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61. 08612n51m5c
    • author: Rebecca Anne Morrissey
    • title: Change in Democratic Parenting during the Transition to Adolescence: The Role of Young Adolescents' Noncompliance and Mothers' Perceived Influence
    • date: 2010
    • words: 171
    • flesch: 29
    • summary: In addition, the total effect was mediated by mothers' perceived influence, such that adolescents' regulated noncompliance at time one was associated with greater perceptions of influence at time two, which, in turn, was associated with greater maternal democracy at time three. Three years of self-report data were gathered from 166 mothers and their firstborn children (55% female), ages 9 - 11 years at time one.
    • keywords: adolescents; influence; mothers
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62. 08612n51m8d
    • author: B. W. Benapfl
    • title: Investigation of Resistive Losses in Type II Superconductors
    • date: 1904
    • words: 543
    • flesch: 41
    • summary: This effect can be identified by measurements of the resistivity as a function of temperature, magnetic field strength, angle of field with respect to the crystal axis as well as with respect to an induced current density. Measurements were taken as a function of applied magnetic field, temperature, rf field intensity, and angle of the applied field with respect to the rf-induced current.
    • keywords: applied; dependent; field; model; signal; superconducting; temperature; transition
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63. 08612n51m9r
    • author: Michael Francis
    • title: Borderline Bad: Philo of Alexandria on the Distinction between Voluntary and Involuntary Sin
    • date: 1904
    • words: 444
    • flesch: 29
    • summary: Voluntary sin is, then, by its nature a very serious thing, a denial of the creator's claim on the creature and the mark of a thoroughly reprehensible soul. In contrast, involuntary sin is simply an unfortunate entailment of created human existence, an inevitability of life in the corporeal realm for those who cannot escape the non-rational within and without, even exemplary souls still in the process of striving for virtue.
    • keywords: concern; dissertation; distinction; involuntary sin; philo; scripture; sin; voluntary
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64. 08612n51n19
    • author: Javier Osorio
    • title: Hobbes on Drugs: Understanding Drug Violence in Mexico
    • date: 1904
    • words: 341
    • flesch: 30
    • summary: Based on a game theoretic model, the central argument indicates that democratization erodes the peaceful configurations between the state and criminal organizations and motivates authorities to fight crime, thus triggering a wave of violence between the state and organized criminals and among rival criminal groups fighting to control strategic territories. The statistical assessment relies on quasi-experimental identification strategies and time-series analysis to overcome problems of causal inference associated with analyzing the distinct ‒yet overlapping- processes of violence between government authorities and organized criminals and among rival criminal groups.
    • keywords: criminal; drugs; groups; rival; state; violence; war
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65. 08612n5286w
    • author: Michael J. Accurso
    • title: Baroque Grandeur in the Hands of the Classical Genius: A Study of George Frideric Handel's Messiah as Arranged by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • date: 1904
    • words: 207
    • flesch: 40
    • summary: In 1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was contracted by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, prefect of the Imperial Library in Vienna, and distinguished patron of composers, to oversee a series of concerts of sacred works, especially those of Handel and Bach. The thesis concludes with a reconsideration of transcribed works within a conductor's repertoire, programming options and educational strategies.
    • keywords: baron; changes; composers; handel; works
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66. 08612n52g5d
    • author: Suzanna Krivulskaya
    • title: Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, 1832-1988
    • date: 2019
    • words: 302
    • flesch: 29
    • summary: Second, whereas other studies have mostly focused on single instances of scandal's reach, this dissertation traces long-term trajectories of pastoral sex scandal coverage, thereby presenting a more comprehensive picture of how scandal shaped American religion. This dissertation illuminates how sex scandal coverage has changed religion in the United States.
    • keywords: coverage; ministers; project; public; religion; scandal; sex
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67. 08612n52m60
    • author: Joshua H. Lim
    • title: Vidimus eum plenum gratiae et veritatis: Thomas Aquinas on the Co-Assumed Perfections: Christ's Grace and Knowledge
    • date: 2019
    • words: 271
    • flesch: 44
    • summary: My dissertation highlights the central importance that the humanity of Christ plays in Thomas's understanding of the salvation and the communication of grace. For Thomas, Christ's perfection in grace and knowledge must be understood first and foremost with respect to the grace of headship.
    • keywords: christ; development; grace; thomas
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68. 08612n52n38
    • author: Kostiantyn Timchenko
    • title: Characteristic Cycles for K-Orbits on Grassmannians
    • date: 2020
    • words: 18
    • flesch: 33
    • summary: In this dissertation we compute characteristic cycles of the IC-sheaves associated to the K-orbits on Grassmannians.
    • keywords: grassmannians
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69. 08612n52n5z
    • author: Devin Whitten
    • title: Observational Constraints on Milky Way Halo Formation
    • date: 2020
    • words: 73
    • flesch: 30
    • 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.
    • keywords: formation; stellar
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70. 08612n52n9b
    • author: Kathryn Burton Mulholland
    • title: Generalized Cluster Structures Compatible with the Cremmer-Gervais Poisson Bracket on Rectangular Matrices
    • date: 2020
    • words: 108
    • flesch: 37
    • summary: This dissertation continues the study of cluster structures in the rings of regular functions on the affine space of rectangular matrices that are compatible with Poisson structures. According to the conjecture given by Gekhtman-Shapiro-Vainshtein, each class in the Belavin-Drinfeld classification of Poisson-Lie structures on a semisimple complex group G corresponds to a cluster structure in O(G).
    • keywords: cluster; compatible; poisson
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71. 08612n52q47
    • author: Lindy M. Sherman
    • title: Analyte Detection Schemes Using Functionalized Nanomaterials and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
    • date: 2022
    • words: 412
    • flesch: 32
    • summary: In addition, we introduce a targeted analysis approach which could be employed in the future to handle large data sets for SERS studies. Thiol ligands are the current standard for functionalizing metal nanoparticle surfaces, particularly silver and gold.
    • keywords: addition; conditions; gold; ligands; nanoparticle; nhc; section; sers; studies; surface; systems; thiol
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72. 08612n52s1t
    • author: Chinedu Madukoma
    • title: Examining the Role of Type IV Pili in Surface Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    • date: 2023
    • words: 332
    • flesch: 38
    • summary: While investigating cluster development and TFP motility, I probed a lack of TFP activity in a rhlI mutant named (PDO100). Prior to my work, there was a discrepancy in the literature regarding TFP motility for this PDO100 strain.
    • keywords: aeruginosa; agar; motility; pdo100; tfp; vol
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73. 0c483j34v42
    • author: Florencia Foxley
    • title: Models of Motherhood? Alcestis and Medea as Hero Figures
    • date: 2015
    • words: 150
    • flesch: 58
    • 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.
    • keywords: alcestis; early; euripides
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74. 0c483j34v6r
    • author: Jarrett Haley
    • title: We Americans
    • date: 2008
    • words: 4
    • flesch: 54
    • summary: American Life, in essence.
    • keywords: american
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75. 0c483j34v8f
    • author: Satyaki Ganguly
    • title: High Performance III-Nitride Heterostructure Devices Exploiting Polarization, Isotope Physics and Integrating with Silicon
    • date: 2014
    • words: 451
    • flesch: 43
    • summary: High-performance GaN HEMTs on silicon by RF-plasma MBE growth, with low-resistance MBE-regrown ohmic contacts is demonstrated. The role of isotope and disorder engineering is demonstrated as a fundamentally new method to boost the speed of GaN HEMTs.
    • keywords: electron; gan; hemts; high; leakage; low; mbe; nitride; polarization; transistors
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76. 0c483j34v9s
    • author: Jian Lin
    • title: New Insights into Lanthanide and Actinide Tellurite Chemistry
    • date: 2014
    • words: 440
    • flesch: 31
    • 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.
    • keywords: block; chapter; chemistry; compounds; elements; materials; properties; structural; tellurite
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77. 0c483j34w1b
    • author: Xiaolong Li
    • title: Improving Packet Caching Scalability Through the Concept of an Explicit End of Data Marker
    • date: 2010
    • words: 164
    • flesch: 35
    • summary: Although past work has addressed mechanisms for detecting redundancy despite dynamic content, the scalability of such techniques is limited. While traditional web caching techniques work well when redundancy occurs on an object-level basis (page, image, etc.), the use of dynamic content presents unique challenges.
    • keywords: content; dynamic; eeod; web
    • versions: original; plain text
78. 0c483j34w4c
    • author: Drew Gorman-Lewis
    • title: The Adsorption of Chemical Contaminants onto Environmental Surfaces With Special Consideration of the Bacterial Surface
    • date: 2006
    • words: 358
    • flesch: 32
    • summary: Chapter 3 focuses specifically on the reactivity of the bacterial surface using the new technique of combining titration calorimetry with surface complexation modeling to produce site-specific enthalpies and entropies of proton and Cd adsorption. These studies investigate a variety of adsorption reactions and provide parameters to quantify adsorption that may aid in integration of these reactions into geochemical models to predict contaminant transport in the subsurface.
    • keywords: adsorption; bacterial; ionic; reactions; subsurface; surface
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79. 0c483j34w5q
    • author: YingYuan Zhou
    • title: Ferromagnetic Resonance Study of Spin Dynamics in GaMnAs Films
    • date: 2010
    • words: 322
    • flesch: 39
    • summary: In our study of magnetic anisotropy of GaMnAs we find that the magnetic anisotropy fields of samples grown on high-index GaAs can be resolved into a cubic magnetic anisotropy field oriented along the crystallographic <001> axes and effective uniaxial magnetic anisotropy fields along higher-index directions (e.g., [110] or The data were fitted in detail to obtain the value of magnetic anisotropy parameters and to contrast the properties of II-PLM GaMnAs to the more widely studied behavior of GaMnAs grown by MBE.
    • keywords: anisotropy; different; gamnas; magnetic; plm; samples; spin
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80. 0c483j34w7d
    • author: Mary Caitlin Sherman
    • title: Nonadiabatic Dynamics and Path Sampling Methods: A New Perspective on the Simulation of Charge Transfer Reactions in the Condensed Phase
    • date: 2015
    • words: 332
    • flesch: 33
    • summary: NAPS will enhance our understanding of charge transfer reactions in the condensed phase by modeling reaction timescales currently beyond the scope of molecular simulation, and identifying specific molecular motions that influence or control the mechanisms and kinetics of charge transfer reactions. Condensed phase charge transfer reactions present an additional challenge as these complex reactions are governed by explicit quantum mechanical phenomena.
    • keywords: charge; condensed; energy; phase; reactions; states; tps; transfer
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81. 0c483j34w8r
    • author: Claire Therese Reising
    • title: «C'était une grande victoire. Écrivez ça.»: Le nationalisme français et algérien et la réception des films autour de la guerre d'Algérie
    • date: 2015
    • words: 148
    • flesch: 52
    • summary: *Days of Glory* (Bouchareb, 2006) portrays Algerians fighting for France during World War II, and *Of Gods and Men* (Xavier Beauvois, 2010) depicts French monks who are killed during the Algerian Civil War. My thesis analyzes the reception of four films that contributed to French national discussion on the Algerian War of Independence and colonization of Algeria.
    • keywords: algerian; french; war
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82. 0c483j34z29
    • author: Marcelo Aybar Lagos
    • title: Mechanisms of Gas Transfer and Biofilm Development in Membrane Aerated Biofilms
    • date: 1904
    • words: 268
    • flesch: 30
    • summary: My research addressed a novel type of environmental treatment technology known as the membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR), or the membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR). The presented results provided some details of critical factors that must be addressed in future studies and also opened new areas of biofilm research.
    • keywords: biofilm; membrane; processes; reactor; research; technologies; treatment
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83. 0c483j34z71
    • author: Hao Lu
    • title: Development of Nanometer Ion Conductor for 2D-Crystal Memory and Universal Tunnel Transistor SPICE Model
    • date: 2016
    • words: 360
    • flesch: 41
    • 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.
    • keywords: circuit; cocrpc; electrolyte; gate; memory; model; program; spice; tfet
    • versions: original; plain text
84. 0c483j35215
    • author: Melinda Varga
    • title: Continuous-Time Dynamical Systems Approach to Hard Constraint Satisfaction Problems
    • date: 1904
    • words: 363
    • flesch: 44
    • summary: We briefly present a proposal for a modular and programmable design for an analog hardware SAT-solver, which solves hard problems more than 10,000 times faster than state-of-the-art algorithms (MiniSAT) run on digital computers. This problem appears in many real-world applications, and it has a key role in the theory of computational complexity and in particular NP-completeness: if one would find an efficient (polynomial-time) algorithm to solve k-SAT (for k&gt;2), then we would be able to generate solutions efficiently to all problems from the NP class (Cook-Levin theorem), i.e., to a very large number of hard problems.
    • keywords: analog; dynamical; problems; sat; system; time
    • versions: original; plain text
85. 0c483j35k1t
    • author: Cory M. Ayres
    • title: Investigation of the Differential Dynamics of T Cell Receptors and Their Ligands: The Role of Dynamics in Immunological Recognition
    • date: 1904
    • words: 330
    • flesch: 41
    • summary: This process is facilitated through the interactions between the T lymphocyte cell surface receptor, or T-cell receptor, and a major histocompatibility complex, or MHC, presenting a peptide on the surface of antigen presenting cells. Amazingly, while a single TCR can recognize over a million peptide-MHC ligands, it is still able to discriminate between peptides sourced from normal and aberrant expression.
    • keywords: dynamics; mhc; molecules; peptide; tcr
    • versions: original; plain text
86. 0c483j35q6s
    • author: Zachary J Hanson
    • title: Integrated Surface Water and Groundwater Modeling of Inland Lakes and Wetlands in a Changing Climate
    • date: 2019
    • words: 299
    • flesch: 31
    • summary: Chapter 3 then investigates the response of the NHLD under scenarios of future climate change and highlights the variability not only in the projected future climate, but also in the responses across different lake types. Both studies address the responses of these inland waterbodies to changes in projected future climate over the Midwest for the late 21st century.
    • keywords: chapter; climate; future; lakes; modeling; nhld
    • versions: original; plain text
87. 0c483j35z79
    • author: Xiaozhi Zhu
    • title: Fast Sparse Grid Simulations of Fifth Order WENO Scheme for High Dimensional Hyperbolic PDEs
    • date: 2021
    • words: 319
    • flesch: 35
    • summary: In this paper, we extend the approach to higher order WENO simulations specifically the fifth order WENO scheme. It leads to large amount of operations and computational costs in the numerical simulations by using nonlinear high order accuracy WENO schemes such as a fifth order WENO scheme.
    • keywords: fifth; grid; high; order; schemes; simulations; sparse; weno
    • versions: original; plain text
88. 0c483j35z8n
    • author: Louis Daudet
    • title: Development of Speech-Based Neurological Assessment Tools and Biomarkers
    • date: 2021
    • words: 436
    • flesch: 46
    • summary: In this work, we present two different approaches, one to detect mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBI), and another to detect two neurodegenerative conditions: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson's. With these models, we are able to reach an accuracy ≥80\% in classifying the participants in each of our three classifications (Control vs ALS, Control vs Parkinson's, and Parkinson's vs ALS).
    • keywords: als; approaches; conditions; mtbi; parkinson; samples; speech; tests
    • versions: original; plain text
89. 0c483j3609k
    • author: Philip-Neri Reese, O.P.
    • title: Thomas Aquinas and the Demonstrative Character of Metaphysics
    • date: 2022
    • words: 294
    • flesch: 47
    • summary: In the Aristotelian tradition to which Aquinas belonged, the highest sort of knowledge was demonstrative knowledge (episteme or scientia), in which the knower grasps—on the basis of universal and necessary principles—both that and why some subject necessarily has some property. The purpose of this dissertation is to show that Thomas Aquinas was among those who thought that metaphysics is a legitimate discipline that is in the business of produce knowledge of the highest sort, and that he had good reason to do so—at least by his own lights.
    • keywords: aquinas; knowledge; metaphysics
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90. 0g354f1841c
    • author: Jie Su
    • title: A Lateral-Drive Method to Address Pull-in Failure in MEMS
    • date: 2008
    • words: 238
    • flesch: 40
    • summary: Lateral gap less than a critical value are still susceptible to the pull-in problem. A laterally-driven test structure consisting of a fixed-fixed aluminum beam and two lateral substrate electrodes is designed and fabricated, with etched substrate underneath.
    • keywords: gap; lateral; method; performance; substrate
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91. 0g354f1842q
    • author: Jennifer Gorsky
    • title: On the Cauchy Problem for a KdV-Type Equation on the Circle
    • date: 2004
    • words: 228
    • flesch: 52
    • summary: We begin by proving well-posedness in Bourgain spaces for sufficiently small size initial data in the Sobolev space $H^s(mathbb{T})$, $s=1/2$, by using appropriate bilinear estimates. In the second part of this work we show that the periodic Cauchy problem for the mCH equation with analytic initial data is analytic in the space variable $x$ for time near zero.
    • keywords: cauchy; estimates; space
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92. 0g354f18432
    • author: Wenlong Zhang
    • title: Acoustics and Hydrodynamics of Fluid-Structure Interaction in a Submerged Elastic Duct
    • date: 2010
    • words: 406
    • flesch: 56
    • summary: First, a benchmark problem is studied wherein the sound radiation from an infinite plate with or without ribs is examined for different excitations sources: normal single force, monopole, dipole, and vortex excitations. For stiffened ducts, the magnitude of the acoustic response as well as the directivity vary strongly and show large peaks near the stiffened duct free modes.
    • keywords: acoustic; duct; elastic; modes; propeller; radiation; sound; stiffened
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93. 0g354f1844d
    • author: Alejandro Guajardo Cuéllar
    • title: A heat conduction study at non-continuum scales
    • date: 2011
    • words: 411
    • flesch: 45
    • summary: For macro-scale it is known that diffusive behavior is presented in heat conduction; here models that show different behavior than diffusive such as wave-like are presented. An extensive and detailed description of heat conduction at the micro- and nano-scale is presented.
    • keywords: energy; heat; nano; potential; scale; thermal; transport
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94. 0g354f18463
    • author: Scott Thompson Smith
    • title: Writing Land in Anglo-Saxon England
    • date: 2008
    • words: 339
    • flesch: 24
    • summary: Anglo-Saxon legal texts designed to control the ownership, use, and transmission of property produced a pervasive discourse for land possession with its own terminology and concepts. Land tenure practices were originally an instrument of ecclesiastical institutions, and tenurial texts, originally written in Latin, were heavily inflected with religious language.
    • keywords: anglo; land; latin; possession; saxon; texts; writing
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95. 0g354f1848s
    • author: Stephen Karla
    • title: A Meditation on Artistic Intent
    • date: 2006
    • words: 85
    • flesch: 50
    • summary: I intend my artwork to present a critical view on humanity's use of its gift of creation in our own self-manifested race for progress. Our technological ingenuities have proven our abundance of applied scientific knowledge, while simulantaneously exposing our lack of the wisdom of restraint.
    • keywords: creation; species
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96. 0g354f1851p
    • author: Charles Adam Bee
    • title: Three Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Government Spending and Regulatory Programs
    • date: 2011
    • words: 360
    • flesch: 43
    • summary: The total cost of replacing this hydroelectricity is less than a third of the additional surplus generated by a natural flood regime's impact on fisheries production, implying changes in dam operation to provide environmental flows can be a cost-effective means of improving the material well-being of subsistence fishermen. Chapter 1 assesses the impact of household car ownership on individual labor supply.
    • keywords: car; chapter; cost; employment; fisheries; labor; production; supply; total; years
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97. 0g354f1857r
    • author: Bipasha Deb
    • title: Study of Sequence Dynamics Relationship with Binding Affinity of Pin1-WW Domain
    • date: 2010
    • words: 539
    • flesch: 49
    • summary: The binding affinity for the wild-type [1] and WW mutants has been calculated (by Tao Peng) and the Kd value for wild-type (wt) is observed to be much less than its mutants for the substrate cdc25. The model system used for this study is WW domain of Pin1.
    • keywords: affinity; binding; domain; dynamic; loop; mutants; parameters; pin1; protein
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98. 0g354f18610
    • author: Joungeun Lee
    • title: Anger in Thomas Aquinas and Han-full Anger
    • date: 2015
    • words: 135
    • flesch: 32
    • summary: The study of han-full anger offers Aquinas's normative language of anger a chance to encounter the etymological and phenomenological reality of embodied anger and further the life of its bearer living in a marginalized life. Aquinas' ontological cognitivist theory of passion and anger in particular provides a useful hermeneutical tool to analyze and articulate the inner structure of han-full anger and its moral character.
    • keywords: anger; aquinas; han
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99. 0g354f18t80
    • author: Jordan M. Sannito
    • title: Religious Disaffiliation and Mental Well-Being
    • date: 1904
    • words: 141
    • flesch: 40
    • summary: I also note some potential avenues future research might take in order to expand our current understanding of the relationship between religious disaffiliation and mental well-being. Research has just begun to investigate the role that religious disaffiliation plays in general well-being.
    • keywords: disaffiliation; religious
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100. 0g354f18v4x
     • author: Amanda L. Nowak
     • title: Social Support Moderates the Relation between Childhood Trauma and Prenatal Depressive Symptoms in Teen Mothers
     • date: 1904
     • words: 116
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: We tested the degree to which childhood trauma predicted prenatal depressive symptoms and whether this relation was moderated by social support as well as risk status of the mother in 682 pregnant adults and teens. Using multigroup moderation analyses, however, moderation effects were significant for teens but not adults.
     • keywords: adults; prenatal; trauma
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101. 0g354f18w6x
     • author: Nishant Kumar Singh
     • title: Structural Drivers of Antigen Specificity in T Cell Receptors
     • date: 2018
     • words: 173
     • flesch: 27
     • 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.
     • keywords: antigen; loops; specificity; tcr
     • versions: original; plain text
102. 0g354f1908t
     • author: Tangqiumei Song
     • title: Gas Solubility in Ionic Liquids: Applications for Carbon Capture and Energy Storage
     • date: 2019
     • words: 173
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: The main objective of this research is to elucidate different gases dissolution mechanism by studying the phase behavior of the ionic liquids and the gases. Other gases like O2, NO, or noble gases (Ar, Kr, Xe), which are the focus of this work, have not been widely studied.
     • keywords: different; gases; ionic; liquids
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103. 0g354f1917s
     • author: Andrea E. O'Rear
     • title: Memory Performance and Event Structure
     • date: 2019
     • words: 350
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: Theories of event cognition, cue overload, and priming make competing predictions about how different patterns of event structure will influence memory performance. These results further identify how event structure can improve or impair memory performance in multiple conditions by clarifying the boundaries of event cognition, cue overload, and priming theories of memory.
     • keywords: cue; event; memory; performance; prospective
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104. 0g354f1920p
     • author: Mourad Takawi
     • title: The Interreligious Context of Quran Interpretation: Early Arabic Christian and Muslim Exegesis of the Qurān, 8th-10th Centuries CE
     • date: 2019
     • words: 252
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: In each case study I employ a two-tiered comparative structure: first, comparing early theological Muslim and Arabophone Christian approaches, and then comparing the interpretative approaches and priorities in these theological texts to those presented in select works of early classical Tafsīr. To this end, I investigate four key qurʾānic passages—Q 112; 4:171; 3:45-51; and 5:116-120—which are among the loci of Arabophone Christian and Muslim debates in the early centuries, and are therefore frequently cited and studied in theological writings early on.
     • keywords: centuries; christian; early; muslim; qurʾān
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105. 0g354f1925d
     • author: Elizabeth E. Clemmons
     • title: Social Elements and the Meaning of the Nuptial Union in the Song of Songs
     • date: 2019
     • words: 350
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: In chapter 4 the question of the structure of the Song is treated, with the function of social features in view. The relationship of content and form in the Song arises out of the integration of social features and the moves of love, as unpacked in the chapter.
     • keywords: chapter; content; features; social; song; structure
     • versions: original; plain text
106. 0g354f1967b
     • author: David Eliaona Lyimo
     • title: The Quest for Christ in Africa: Reimagining and Reconstructing African Christology
     • date: 2020
     • words: 254
     • flesch: 24
     • 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.
     • keywords: african; christology; contemporary; cultural; new; social
     • versions: original; plain text
107. 0g354f19780
     • author: Amy Kryston
     • title: Improving Climate-Robustness of Transboundary River Treaties: A Pareto-Optimization Approach
     • date: 2022
     • words: 247
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Climate change will alter the flow availability and expected water allocations in international river treaties, many of which were designed using historical flow records. This task is complicated by the fact that specific outcomes associated with each party's priorities are not necessarily public information, and the direction, amplitude and effect of long term changes in hydro-climatic drivers can be highly uncertain.
     • keywords: changes; climate; flow; outcomes; priorities; treaty
     • versions: original; plain text
108. 0g354f19858
     • author: Andrew A. Oliva
     • title: Internal Flow Modeling and Compressor Inlet Distortion
     • date: 2022
     • words: 490
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: This research focuses on two aspects of internal flows: analytical solutions for steady flow and an experimental investigation of unsteady flow. For example, consider internal flow through a component in which the upstream stagnation pressure varies periodically in time.
     • keywords: flow; inlet; internal; performance; pressure; problem; rotor; solutions; stagnation; steady
     • versions: original; plain text
109. 0g354f1987z
     • author: Qi Li
     • title: New Network Biology Approaches Towards Advancement of Understanding Aging and Malaria From -Omics Data
     • date: 2022
     • words: 442
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: This dissertation proposes novel computational approaches for both tasks -- network inference and network analysis -- in the context of studying two important biological processes -- human aging and malaria. The above two limitations emphasize the need for an important task in network biology -- that of network inference.
     • keywords: -omics; aging; biological; computational; data; interactions; network; specific
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110. 0g354f19916
     • author: Chris Campbell
     • title: Improving the Accuracy and Precision of Frequency Domain and Hybrid Broadband Diffuse Optical Imaging
     • date: 2022
     • words: 246
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Implementations of the technology materialize in diverse areas of medicine, including pulse oximetry for measuring tissue oxygen saturation, functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) for studying brain activity, and Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) for safely monitoring how tumors respond to chemotherapy. Lastly, we evaluate a new technique called Structured Interrogation, which is based on the use of multiple in-phase modulated optical sources, to improve 3D localization and characterization of tissue heterogeneities.
     • keywords: broadband; diffuse; dos; light; optical; tissue
     • versions: original; plain text
111. 0k225b01d6n
     • author: Allison Olivia Evans
     • title: Between Something and Nothing: Phenomenological Light Studies
     • date: 2015
     • words: 42
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Influenced by phenomenology, the study of how first person experience structures consciousness, this work examines how the body navigates, and is impacted by, everyday interactions of light and space. This thesis is an exploration of the relationships between light, space, and perception.
     • keywords: space
     • versions: original; plain text
112. 0k225b01d8b
     • author: Lisa Marie DeBeer-Schmitt
     • title: Aspects of Vortex Physics in CeCoIn5
     • date: 2008
     • words: 517
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: This is caused by the fact that the field at the center of the vortex must display cylindrical symmetry as it does at low fields. In contrast, CeCoIn5's form factor remains constant at low fields but rapidly starts to increase as the field is increased.
     • keywords: cecoin5; critical; factor; field; form; low; symmetry; transitions; vortex
     • versions: original; plain text
113. 0k225b01f0w
     • author: Gregory Phillip Brooks
     • title: A Karhunen-Lo&#232;ve Least-Squares Technique for Optimization of Geometry of a Blunt Body in Supersonic Flow
     • date: 2003
     • words: 449
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Nevertheless, the accuracy of the response surface is strongly dependent on the problem, whereas the KL method achieves a consistently low level of error for both the heat conduction and supersonic blunt body problems considered. Single variable design problems are solved for both the heat conduction problem and the supersonic blunt body problem using the pseudospectral solver and the KL model; in both problems, the KL model optimal design predictions are within the expected level of accuracy of the KL models.
     • keywords: accuracy; design; method; model; problem; pseudospectral
     • versions: original; plain text
114. 0k225b01f17
     • author: Beth Claire Isaksen
     • title: Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
     • date: 2003
     • words: 107
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: We compare the results of calculations using several different levels of theory. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is an approach to computing which eliminates the need for transistors by representing binary digits as charge configurations rather than current levels.
     • keywords: device; molecular; qca
     • versions: original; plain text
115. 0k225b01f3x
     • author: Jody Samantha Nicholson
     • title: Precursors to Paternal Identity: Antecedents and Consequences of Metaparenting
     • date: 2010
     • words: 123
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: The present study explored the antecedents and consequences of metaparenting, or a mental plan for parenting, in a diverse sample of fathers (n = 66). In turn, metaparenting influenced parenting effectiveness.
     • keywords: fathers; metaparenting; models; parenting
     • versions: original; plain text
116. 0k225b01f48
     • author: Allison Ann Penner Regier
     • title: A Flexible Comparative Genomics Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Sequence Data
     • date: 2011
     • words: 184
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Genome sequencing technologies have revolutionized biology in the past two decades, yet data analysis has lagged behind data production. FlexReseq allows researchers to easily customize resequencing analyses using a simple configuration file to define positions of interest.
     • keywords: analysis; data; framework; resequencing
     • versions: original; plain text
117. 0k225b01f5m
     • author: Pauline Bourbon
     • title: Development of potential Niemann-Pick type C therapeutics and the synthesis of caged nicotinamide and cholesterol to gain a better understanding of cholesterol biosynthesis and trafficking
     • date: 2012
     • words: 285
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Also, as a tool to study cholesterol trafficking different caged cholesterol were made. The most potent compound was LBH-589 with an EC50 of less than 5 nM. The third project was to develop tools to gain a better understanding of cholesterol biosynthesis and trafficking.
     • keywords: agents; caged; cholesterol; different; disease; nicotinamide; storage
     • versions: original; plain text
118. 0k225b01f6z
     • author: Jason Kistler Keller
     • title: Controls of Microbial Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands
     • date: 2006
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 26
     • 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.
     • keywords: anaerobic; carbon; ch4; fen; microbial; mineralization; peat; peatland
     • versions: original; plain text
119. 0k225b01f79
     • author: Brian P Dunn
     • title: Overhead in Communication Systems as the Cost of Constraints
     • date: 2010
     • words: 194
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: For multi-access communication systems, we compute constrained capacity regions for two binary additive channels with feedback and develop inner and outer bounds on the capacity region of the packet collision channel with feedback that appear to be tight numerically. Finally, we study information-theoretic security in timing channels and show that non-zero secrecy rates can be achieved over the wiretap timing channel using a deterministic encoder.
     • keywords: bounds; channel; information; overhead; system
     • versions: original; plain text
120. 0k225b01f90
     • author: Colleen Therese Cole
     • title: Differential Targeting of Cytoplasmic Dynein During Mitosis by Site Specific Phosphorylation
     • date: 2011
     • words: 369
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: These results suggest a model in which specific proteins at spindle poles are necessary for dynein function, whereas other spindle pole proteins are required for dynein recruitment. The motor protein cytoplasmic dynein has been implicated in mitotic functions that require dynein localization to specific cellular locations.
     • keywords: assembly; checkpoint; dynein; kinetochore; poles; py130; spindle; targeting
     • versions: original; plain text
121. 0k225b01g2w
     • author: Caroline L. Wilky
     • title: Chronicling Creation: Nature and History Writing, c. 1150–1240
     • date: 1904
     • words: 466
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: This dissertation examines a group of innovative historical texts produced at the turn of the thirteenth century that incorporated information about the material world, namely descriptions of animals, plants, stones, and geographical features, into their narratives of human history. The first two introductory chapters chart the ethics of history writing and the study of natural particulars during the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
     • keywords: creation; dissertation; ethical; historians; history; study; texts; world
     • versions: original; plain text
122. 0k225b01h9m
     • author: Adam R. Hickman
     • title: The Transition from Rotating Stall to Surge in an Axial Compressor
     • date: 2016
     • words: 262
     • flesch: 56
     • 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.
     • keywords: cell; inception; stall; surge; system
     • versions: original; plain text
123. 0k225b01m3g
     • author: Kurt Edward Milberger
     • title: The Beasts' Progress: Animals in the British Religious Imagination, 1640-1800
     • date: 1904
     • words: 321
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Preserved in Christian songs, poems, fables, allegories, and artworks resides the work of thinkers who employed biblical teaching and religious tradition to argue on behalf of animals, and their work must complicate the scholarly view of religious history and its relationship to the ecological crisis. In fact, beginning with the animal soul controversy in the seventeenth century, these writers always thought about animals and humanity's relationship with them in the context of religious beliefs, traditions, and communities.
     • keywords: animals; century; christian; christianity; literature; period; religious
     • versions: original; plain text
124. 0k225b0243d
     • author: Jerry Scott Fisher
     • title: Linear Forgetting
     • date: 1904
     • words: 152
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: The possibility that this is due to a standard forgetting process involving multiple event components, partial matching or reconstruction at retrieval, and the passage of time is discussed, along with proposals for further studies. This pattern, commonly fit to a power function, has been observed across a variety of stimuli, tasks, and retention lengths.
     • keywords: function; pattern; rate; retention
     • versions: original; plain text
125. 0k225b02573
     • author: Benjamin M. Rose
     • title: Type Ia Supernovae: Testing the Cosmological Principle and Improving Distance Measurements with Implications for the Hubble Constant
     • date: 2018
     • words: 727
     • flesch: 59
     • summary: Thus, even if it exists, a dark flow is not detectable at large redshifts with current SN Ia data sets. The second part of this dissertation focuses on improving the standardization of SN Ia. Since the mid 1990s, SN Ia have been corrected for light curve decline rate and photometric color.
     • keywords: age; dark; data; distance; flow; host; hubble; large; local; mass; stellar
     • versions: original; plain text
126. 0k225b02b69
     • author: Mehdi Golestanian
     • title: Investigation of Range-Based and Range-Free Radio Frequency-Based Localization Techniques
     • date: 2019
     • words: 794
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: The simulation results confirm the improvement of localization accuracy compared with popular range-free methods such as DV-hop, ZBLM, and EZBLM. For the parametric approach, we also studied different parameters such as beacon configuration having direct impact on localization accuracy.
     • keywords: accuracy; algorithm; approach; beacons; different; diversity; fading; learning; localization; multipath; parametric; range; ranging; time
     • versions: original; plain text
127. 0k225b02b9b
     • author: Yide Zhang
     • title: Super-Sensitivity and Super-Resolution Quantitative Multiphoton Microscopy
     • date: 2019
     • words: 540
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: To improve the speed of image analysis, a novel and unbiased approach to segment FLIM images automatically by K-means clustering of FLIM phasors is presented. With SOS and DeSOS, super-resolution images can be generated in intact animals.
     • keywords: flim; images; imaging; microscopy; mpm; resolution; snr; sos; super; technique
     • versions: original; plain text
128. 0k225b02g6j
     • author: Tatsunori Hayashi
     • title: Differential Luminescent Imaging Method
     • date: 2020
     • words: 298
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: In aerodynamic research, point measurements of a given quantity over the surface of a test article are widely utilized as the most straightforward and conventional approach. Although point measurements have several advantages such as sensitivity, linearity, and mechanical robustness, the invasiveness of many transducers creates additional disturbances in the observed flow.
     • keywords: fluctuations; imaging; luminescent; measurement; method; point; resolution
     • versions: original; plain text
129. 0p096684p35
     • author: Brian Bucher
     • title: On the Production of the Light Heavy-Elements (A~90)
     • date: 2014
     • words: 326
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: The elements heavier than iron are believed to be synthesized through a combination of rapid (r) and slow (s) neutron capture processes. This work focuses on two independent aspects of LHE production, 1) neutron production in massive stars for the weak s-process and 2) the nuclear structure present in the LHEs.
     • keywords: elements; neutron; new; process; reaction; results; significant; stars; weak
     • versions: original; plain text
130. 0p096684p4h
     • author: Patrick Joseph Donoghue
     • title: Computational Modeling of Metal Catalyzed Reactions for the Prediction and Improvement of Enantioselectivity
     • date: 2008
     • words: 336
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: The rhodium catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of enamides to generate amino acid products and derivatives is a widely used method to generate unnatural amino acids. As before, new MM3* parameters were developed to describe the transition state and subsequent screening of a selection of chiral ligands against a common, symmetric aminodiyne.
     • keywords: calculated; chiral; important; ligand; method; new; parameters; screening; substrate
     • versions: original; plain text
131. 0p096684p5v
     • author: Mary Catherine Wagner Fuhs
     • title: A Latent Variable Approach to Examining Executive Functioning Development and Emerging Mathematics Skills in Preschoolers at Head Start
     • date: 2011
     • words: 186
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: To interpret the finding that fall executive functioning and fall mathematics were highly correlated, theoretical models of cognitive dissociation and specialization are discussed. These relationships did not hold after controlling for fall scores on executive functioning and mathematics.
     • keywords: executive; fall; functioning; mathematics; skills
     • versions: original; plain text
132. 0p096684p66
     • author: Clinton Waterman
     • title: I Blew Up A Regional Airport
     • date: 2011
     • words: 4
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: A collection of poems
     • keywords: poems
     • versions: original; plain text
133. 0p096684p8w
     • author: Jeffrey Howard Green
     • title: Work for a New Theory of Modality
     • date: 2008
     • words: 311
     • flesch: 61
     • summary: Second, UMS introduces the concepts of explicit and implicit truth at a state of affairs while OMS relies merely on truth at a state of affairs. UMS evaluates modal claims not with respect to possible worlds but with respect to less than maximal states of affairs.
     • keywords: chapter; modal; ums; worlds
     • versions: original; plain text
134. 0p096684q0f
     • author: Gwendolyn Anne Oxenham
     • title: Essence Game
     • date: 2011
     • words: 5
     • flesch: 100
     • summary: A Short Life in Soccer
     • keywords: soccer
     • versions: original; plain text
135. 0p096684q3g
     • author: Jay Peter Giblin
     • title: Optical Properties of Single Cadmium Selenide Nanowires: Breaking Through the Limitations of Ensemble Measurements
     • date: 2011
     • words: 432
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: Specifically, single CdSe wire excitation polarization anisotropies (Ì exc) were studied as a function of NW radius, excitation wavelength, and dielectric environment. The sizable absorption cross section extracted from our PHI measurements ultimately suggested that direct single NW absorption studies were possible.
     • keywords: absorption; cdse; cross; dielectric; exc; excitation; single; values; wavelength
     • versions: original; plain text
136. 0p096684q9j
     • author: Christine Marie Steeger
     • title: Predictors of Maternal Psychological Control: Adolescent Behavioral Antecedents and the Mediating Role of Mother-Adolescent Conflict
     • date: 2010
     • words: 133
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: This study examined the direction of indirect effects for mother-adolescent conflict as a mediator between specific adolescent problem behaviors (i.e., aggression and depressive symptoms) and maternal psychological control over the transition to adolescence. This research corroborates other recent studies finding support for child effects on parenting behaviors during early adolescence.
     • keywords: adolescent; effects; indirect
     • versions: original; plain text
137. 0p096685d0x
     • author: Ian M. Gerdon
     • title: Love in the Evagrian Tradition to Maximus the Confessor
     • date: 1904
     • words: 347
     • flesch: 31
     • 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.
     • keywords: ascetic; chapters; evagrian; evagrius; love; maximus
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138. 0p096685d49
     • author: Maria Gibbs
     • title: A Framework for the Prediction and Mitigation of Flutter in Suspension Footbridges: A Human-Centered Approach
     • date: 1904
     • words: 371
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: In contrast to current flutter prediction and mitigation efforts, the framework leverages data from multiple standard footbridges to eliminate the burden of detailed bridge by bridge analysis. The framework offers a comprehensive approach for the prediction and mitigation of flutter in standardized footbridge designs.
     • keywords: analysis; approach; constraints; design; flutter; footbridges; framework; mitigation; specialized; suspension
     • versions: original; plain text
139. 0p096685f80
     • author: Cecilia Pe Lero
     • title: Social Movements in New Democracies: Specialization and Ownership
     • date: 2018
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: This dissertation seeks to add to our understanding about these processes by answering two questions: How have social movements navigated the new democratic space? First, social movement organizations working on a given issue carve out specialized niches for themselves in terms of skills, target sector, areas of influence, and political ideology.
     • keywords: democratic; movement; organizations; processes; social; state
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140. 0p096685t10
     • author: Reid Comstock
     • title: Aristotle's Ēthikoi Logoi: On the Pedagogical Purpose of the Ethical Treatises
     • date: 2021
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 59
     • summary: This dissertation takes a new stab at an old question in Aristotle interpretation. My basic proposal is that Aristotle's method is to teach his students through simulated inquiry, and the method he follows in such inquiry is the same method that he characterizes at length in APo II.
     • keywords: aristotle; point; process; rational
     • versions: original; plain text
141. 0p096685t5c
     • author: Katherine Lindsley
     • title: Instabilities in Concave Surfaces
     • date: 2021
     • words: 233
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: The results from our simulations represent similar instability characteristics between flat, convex, and concave geometries which presents progress for the hope to find a unifying theory of instability between varying geometries under similar conditions. The brain is a highly complex organ that contains folds due to material instability.
     • keywords: concave; convex; models; stiffness
     • versions: original; plain text
142. 0p096685t72
     • author: Katherine E. O'Reilly
     • title: Environmental Change in Great Lakes Coastal Ecosystems
     • date: 2022
     • words: 399
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: Although much of this research took place in Lake Michigan, my dissertation has broad relevance to the Laurentian Great Lakes and large lakes globally because coastal ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors due to their transitional location on the landscape. I then investigate differences in heavy metal accumulation between two sportfish species that use coastal ecosystems (Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, and walleye, Sander vitreus) and assess if otolith (ear stone) microchemistry can complement traditional contaminant monitoring approaches (i.e., using muscle tissue).
     • keywords: approaches; coastal; complex; connectivity; dissertation; ecosystems; habitats; lake; large; services; structure; use
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143. 0p096685w08
     • author: Kendall A. Ryan
     • title: Membrane Digestion for Rapid Identification of Proteins Separated Using Capillary or Gel Electrophoresis
     • date: 2023
     • words: 239
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Digestion of proteins occurs after their separation and just prior to mass spectrometry (MS). The conductivity of the membranes improves mass accuracy in MS, and the polyelectrolytes enhance capture efficiency.
     • keywords: capture; gel; mass; membrane; proteins
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144. 0p096685w50
     • author: Cynthia Mene
     • title: Pathways to Financial Inclusion: Understanding Financial Well-Being in Middle- and Low-Income Countries in the Age of COVID-19
     • date: 2023
     • words: 253
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: In particular, digital payments have revolutionized the way financial services are provided and have the potential to expand financial inclusion for all. The results are expected to contribute to the larger discussion on the role of digital financial services in promoting financial inclusion and financial well-being for all, particularly during times of economic uncertainty.
     • keywords: covid-19; digital; financial; inclusion; services
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145. 0r967367z8x
     • author: Deqiang Chen
     • title: Noncoherent Communication Theory for Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks
     • date: 2004
     • words: 185
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Given the same spectral e ciency, simulation results suggest that cooperative diversity can perform better than non-cooperative single-hop in the block fading channel given both schemes use ML detectors designed for the i.i.d. fading channel. Analysis based on the Bhattacharyya upper bound suggests cooperative diversity with decoding relays does not achieve full diversity order.
     • keywords: approximation; cooperative; diversity
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146. 0r96736800r
     • author: Margaret E. Uttke
     • title: New Directions in Editing Renaissance Drama: Reading, Performance, and the Digital Age
     • date: 2011
     • words: 153
     • flesch: 16
     • 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.
     • keywords: editions; editorial; new; shakespeare
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147. 0r96736802f
     • author: Cassi Elizabeth Shelly
     • title: Effects of Fusion Mass Density and Fusion Location on the Strength of a Lumbar Interbody Fusion
     • date: 2005
     • words: 179
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: As the fusion was laterally displaced, failure load decreased, and as the fusion was posteriorly displaced, the failure load increased. The location and elastic modulus of a fusion mass are important factors for clinical assessment of the adequacy of interbody fusion.
     • keywords: failure; fusion; load; vertebral
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148. 0r96736803s
     • author: Weiyu Liu
     • title: Development of Gradient-Enhanced Kriging Approximations for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
     • date: 2003
     • words: 336
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Numerical simulation on selected problems shows that this approach possesses the capability to develop improved response surface approximations compared to the non-gradient neural network training approach. An approach to develop response surface approximations based upon artificial neural networks trained using both state and sensitivity information is developed.
     • keywords: approach; approximations; database; gradient; imse; information; research
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149. 0r96736805g
     • author: Brent Spanjersberg Mitchell
     • title: A Nonlinear Constitutive Model to Predict the Stress Strain Behavior of Small Intestinal Submucosa
     • date: 2006
     • words: 221
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: As the ultimate tensile strength of this scaffold is lower than that of most tendons and ligaments, a polydiaxanone (PDS) mesh was incorporated into the 20-layer scaffold, which showed an increase in applied load with a decrease in ultimate tensile strength. In conclusion, a nonlinear constitutive model was developed to predict the nonlinear stress-strain response of a 20-layer multilaminate SIS scaffold which can serve as a building block to future development of a load-bearing bioresorbable scaffold.
     • keywords: material; nonlinear; response; scaffold; sis; strain
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150. 0r96736806t
     • author: Paul Carl Stey
     • title: The Moral Faculty in Adolescents: Investigating Age Differences in the Application and Justification of Three Principles of Harm
     • date: 2011
     • words: 153
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: More recently, researchers have proposed that moral judgments may be the product of certain implicit principles. The study of moral cognition has been dominated by Kohlberg's stage theory, which emphasizes conscious deliberation as the source of moral judgments.
     • keywords: harm; judgments; principles
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151. 0r967368075
     • author: James Thomas Fetter
     • title: The Great Man in Politics: Magnanimity in the History of Western Political Thought
     • date: 2012
     • words: 171
     • flesch: 17
     • 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.
     • keywords: magnanimous; statesmanship; tradition
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152. 0r96736808h
     • author: Brian D. Fisher
     • title: Surface-Functionalized Fish Bone to Stabilize Arsenic and Tungsten Removal from Groundwater
     • date: 2009
     • words: 129
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: Bench-scale experiments demonstrated the ability of surface-functionalization using ferrous and ferric iron chloride amendments to modify Apatite IIÌ¢_å¢ and catfish bone, which resulted in significant improvement in arsenate and arsenite removal efficiency in a simulated groundwater. The effectiveness of surface-functionalization, or modification, using iron-amendments on a super cleaned (boiled, bubbled (density separation), bleached (H2O2), and baked) commercial biogenic fishbone product (Apatite IIÌ¢_å¢) and raw catfish head were examined.
     • keywords: catfish; functionalization; natural; surface
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153. 0r96736809v
     • author: Christopher Jason Patrick
     • title: The Causes and Consequences of Between-Stream Variation in Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Stream Networks
     • date: 2011
     • words: 342
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: I found that the spatial arrangement of shredding invertebrates in an artificial stream had a significant impact on FPOM export when shredders were eating senesced leaves, but not green leaves. These results are one of the first times that a link between spatial arrangement of species and an ecosystem process, here FPOM production, has been experimentally demonstrated.
     • keywords: arrangement; communities; fpom; production; spatial; species; stream
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154. 0r96736811d
     • author: Jason Ronald Bader
     • title: Regulation of Kinetochore Dynein Timing, Interactions, and Functions by Phosphorylation
     • date: 2010
     • words: 348
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: This is consistent with dynein's proposed role in stripping checkpoint proteins from metaphase kinetochores. During mitosis dynein function is critical at the cell cortex, spindle poles, and kinetochores.
     • keywords: cell; dynactin; dynein; function; kinetochores; novel; role
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155. 0r96736812r
     • author: Marina Christina Trejo
     • title: A Model for Sustainable Growth and Alterative to Sprawl in Danbury, Connecticut
     • date: 2006
     • words: 264
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: The intent of this thesis is to explore the relationship between a sense of place and the means to its restoration after its long negation by contemporary planning conventions. The new mono-functional zoned districts ignore all senses of public realm, human scale and local tradition.
     • keywords: commercial; danbury; new; place; region; site
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156. 0r96736814f
     • author: Haipeng Cai
     • title: Cost-Effective Dependency Analysis for Reliable Software Evolution
     • date: 1904
     • words: 205
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: In addition, current techniques have little utility when applied to distributed systems consisting of decoupled components. However, existing such approaches suffer from difficult cost-effectiveness balancing: Fine-grained analyses offer detailed but large results at prohibitive costs, whereas coarser analyses achieve better efficiency at the cost of great imprecision.
     • keywords: analysis; cost; dependency; impact; level; prediction
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157. 0r967368222
     • author: William A. O'Brien
     • title: Toward Direct Bandgap Germanium Optoelectronics
     • date: 1904
     • words: 372
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: In the second case, carbon sitting on Ge lattice sites induces strong local perturbations leading to an effect called band anticrossing, which strongly repels the Γ valley downward, again potentially yielding a direct bandgap. Ge has since been supplanted by silicon (Si), which has superior electronic and chemical attributes, and gallium arsenide (GaAs), which possesses superior properties for light-matter interaction (optoelectronics).
     • keywords: bandgap; direct; key; light; superior; valley
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158. 0r96736826f
     • author: Elizabeth Anne Klein
     • title: Augustine on Angels
     • date: 1904
     • words: 261
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: In this dissertation, I pursue four main topics of discussion in order to illuminate the theological and pastoral implications of Augustine's understanding of angels: angels and creation (chapter one), angelic community (chapter two), angels and salvation history (chapter three) and spiritual warfare (chapter four). I argue that the chief theological import of Augustine's view of the angels is that they demonstrate his commitment to the idea of the goodness of created communion.
     • keywords: angels; augustine; chapter; creation
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159. 0r967368v1v
     • author: Meiling Zhang
     • title: Understanding the Thermostability and Interdomain Communications of Human Pin1
     • date: 2019
     • words: 293
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: The cooperative conformational changes of Pin1 WW in response to Q33E coincided with its allosteric role. Previous studies suggest Pin1 WW regulates the activity of the catalytic domain by strengthening or weakening the interdomain contact upon various substrate binding.
     • keywords: atomic; interdomain; pin1; protein; surface
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160. 0r96736958b
     • author: Mary Margaret Ryland
     • title: Significant Other(ness): Deconstruction of the Other in Apollonius' Lemnian Episode
     • date: 2023
     • words: 563
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Building on the work of Thalmann (2011) and Clauss (1993), I argue that the Catalogue of Heroes (1.23-233) construes the Argonauts as quintessentially Greek figures who represent Hellenistic cultural identity to foreign peoples. This deconstruction has implications for Apollonius' Ptolemaic context since it exalts cultural nuance and diplomacy rather than the perpetuation of the Greek/Other binary which demands that Greekness be preferred.
     • keywords: apollonius; binary; cultural; episode; greek; hellenistic; implications; lemnian; women
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161. 0v83805175q
     • author: Michael J. Bowler
     • title: The Philosophical Context of Heidegger's Reappropriation of Aristotle
     • date: 2005
     • words: 370
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: This reappropriation is hermeneutic insofar as it develops within a context in which the theoretical (objectifying) interpretation of the very nature of philosophy has gained pre-eminence but has also become questionable. Standing in the considerable shadow cast by Kant's critical project, these philosophers struggled to articulate a conception of philosophy that was scientifically adequate.
     • keywords: aristotle; context; heidegger; philosophy; reappropriation
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162. 0v838051762
     • author: Daniel Anthony Duffin
     • title: Feed-Forward Adaptive-Optic Correction of a Weakly-Compressible High-Subsonic Shear Layer
     • date: 2010
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: With newer airborne laser systems using wavelengths nearer 1 Ì_å_m, this same turbulent flow now reduces system performance by more than 95%. Development of airborne laser systems began in the 1970s with the Airborne Laser Laboratory, a KC135 aircraft with a CO2 laser projected from a beam director mounted atop the aircraft as a hemispherical turret encased in a fairing.
     • keywords: adaptive; airborne; laser; optic; system; turbulent
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163. 0v83805177d
     • author: Sarah Elizabeth Morice Brubaker
     • title: The Place of the Spirit: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Location
     • date: 2011
     • words: 302
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Bringing these architects of classical trinitarian thought into dialogue with modern placial theorists, the author finds a similar tendency to understand place as having to do with meaning-making, navigation, and the symbolic structuring of a world. Secondly, the author considers contemporary trinitarian soundings Ì¢ â and particularly, those conducted in ways sympathetic to the classical tradition and to continental philosophy.
     • keywords: author; place; placial; theological; trinitarian
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164. 0v83805178r
     • author: Joseph Small
     • title: Imagining Whiteness in Art
     • date: 2011
     • words: 143
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: Many non-white artists who examine whiteness through art are marginalized. The inability to distinguish between skin color and culture, nationality and race, and the personal and the political, often makes finding whiteness in art difficult and furthers society's inability to examine whiteness.
     • keywords: artists; inability; whiteness
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165. 0v838051809
     • author: Michael John Donovan
     • title: Evaluation of the Host-Parasite Interphase: Understanding the Impact of Vector-Host Interaction on Plasmodium Development and Innate Immunity in Parasitic Diseases
     • date: 2010
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: In the case of Leishmania infection, the IDO protein is active and inhibits a mixed lymphocyte reaction. Both Leishmania and Plasmodium are transmitted by the bite of an infected female hematophagus insect; Leishmania by sand flies, while Plasmodium by Anopheline mosquitoes.
     • keywords: cells; dendritic; ido; infected; infection; leishmania; plasmodium; saliva
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166. 0v838051820
     • author: Timothy M Dale
     • title: Toward a Post-Subjectivist Politics?: Reflections on Benhabib, Young, and Mouffe
     • date: 2011
     • words: 162
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: This dissertation evaluates the post-subjective political theories of Seyla Benhabib, Iris Marion Young, and Chantal Mouffe, with specific interest in the way political identity, accountability, and agency are conceived. Over the last century some philosophers and political thinkers have begun to question the subject-centered conceptions of political existence that has largely characterized modern political thought.
     • keywords: accountability; political; subjective
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167. 0v838051851
     • author: Chad Patton Kiewiet de Jonge
     • title: Political Learning and Democratic Commitment in New Democracies
     • date: 2013
     • words: 350
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: defined as an abstract preference for democracy over non-democratic regimes and the rejection of non-democratic alternatives in the face of crisis ? The extent to which political contexts provoke pro-democratic political learning is determined by factors including socioeconomic modernization, governmental performance, international diffusion of democratic norms, and the occurrence of events such as mass protests that provide information about the desirability of different regimes.
     • keywords: commitment; contexts; countries; democracy; democratic; learning; political; subgroups
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168. 0v838051971
     • author: Patrick T. Kelly
     • title: The Influence of Resource Quality and Lake Physics on Zooplankton
     • date: 1904
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: There is an extensive history assessing how different ecological variables impact zooplankton productivity in lakes; however, there is still uncertainty as to the relative control of resources, predators, and lake physics in regulating zooplankton biomass in natural lakes. Results from my dissertation also support the potential for a positive relationship between resource quality and DOC due to changes in the light-to-nutrient ratio within the lake.
     • keywords: dissertation; lake; physics; productivity; quality; resource; zooplankton
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169. 0v838051b2m
     • author: Victoria L Smith
     • title: Characterizing Exosome Biogenesis and Function in Stimulating the Immune Response during a Mycobacterium Infection
     • date: 1904
     • words: 131
     • flesch: 35
     • 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.
     • keywords: exosomes; host; immune
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170. 0v838051b60
     • author: Sneha Polisetti Couvillion
     • title: Raman Spectroscopy Based Toolkit for Mapping Bacterial Social Interactions Relevant to Human and Plant Health
     • date: 1904
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: The work described in this thesis develops a toolkit of analytical techniques centered around Raman microspectroscopy and imaging representing a powerful approach to non-invasively investigate bacterial communities, yielding molecular information at the sub-micrometer length scale. In combination with PCA, this allowed for non-invasive spatial mapping of bacterial communities and revealed differences between strains and nutrients in the secretion of virulence factor pyocyanin.
     • keywords: bacterial; biofilms; cells; communities; microspectroscopy; non; organisms; pca; pigmented; raman
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171. 0v838051c2x
     • author: Nicholas Giovanni De Lucca
     • title: Studies of the Pressure Field and Related Beam Jitter for Hemisphere-on-Cylinder Turrets
     • date: 2016
     • words: 195
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: For airborne directed energy systems that feature turrets, the high speed flow around the aircraft introduces jitter into the system. Beam jitter is highly dependent on the specific geometry and construction of a directed energy turret as surface geometry changes will modify the flow field over the turret and interior construction changes will alter the vibrational modes.
     • keywords: beam; energy; flow; jitter; turret
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172. 0v838051f47
     • author: Jessica M. Blaxton
     • title: Interindividual Differences and Intraindividual Change in the Intraindividual Relationship between Stress and Negative Affect: Age, Resilience, and Stress Influences
     • date: 1904
     • words: 346
     • flesch: 6
     • summary: Three-level multi- level models were used to analyze the data, and ultimately depicted how cross-sectional age, within-person age changes, dispositional resilience differences, within-person fluctuations in dispositional resilience, and global stress differences impact the daily stress-NA relationship. Examining the stress-NA relationship with multiple time scales and multi-level modeling, therefore, illustrates how the day-to-day relationship between stress and NA changes over time as well as how global characteristics, such as overall stress levels, dispositional resilience, and age relate to differences in the way in which the stress-NA relationship changes.
     • keywords: changes; daily; differences; relationship; resilience; stress
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173. 0v838051z88
     • author: Syed M. Mahmudur Rahman
     • title: Advanced Terahertz Detectors and Focal-Plane Arrays Based on Sb-Heterostructure Backward Diodes
     • date: 1904
     • words: 443
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: To develop high performance detectors and FPAs, HBDs with submicron-scale device areas are preferred for their high detector bandwidth. Since submicron scale HBDs have high device impedances at terahertz frequencies, lens-coupled planar folded dipole antennas (FDAs) which have a wide range impedance tuning capacity at THz frequencies are adopted in the detector design to achieve conjugate impedance matching for maximum detector sensitivities without additional matching networks.
     • keywords: applications; design; detector; fpas; ghz; hbds; high; pw/√hz; thz
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174. 0v838052034
     • author: Ge Jiang
     • title: Ridge Methods for Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Ordinal Variables
     • date: 1904
     • words: 200
     • flesch: 8
     • summary: This dissertation has three major aims: (1) obtain a better formula for the optimal tuning parameters in rGLS methods; (2) correct the performance of sandwich-type standard errors to make them closer to empirical standard errors; and (3) improve the Type I error control of corresponding test statistics by rescaling their means to the degrees of freedom of their nominal chi-square distributions. The idea of the empirical modeling approach is to first conduct a simulation study in a wide variety of conditions, and collect parameter estimates/test statistics/standard errors for every condition; then compare these empirical results with their theoretical counterparts (e.g., compare parameter estimates with the population values used in the simulation study, compare sandwich-type standard errors with the empirical ones, and refer test statistics to their nominal chi-square distributions); if these statistics do not perform as expected in this simulation study, the empirical modeling approach can be employed to correct their behavior based on simulation results.
     • keywords: empirical; errors; standard; statistics
     • versions: original; plain text
175. 0v838052510
     • author: Sara Y. Kim
     • title: The Role of Sleep Spindles, Slow Oscillations, and Slow Oscillation-Spindle Coupling in Episodic Memory Consolidation
     • date: 2019
     • words: 245
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep is known to play a critical role in episodic memory consolidation. Although these findings suggest that a daytime nap may affect episodic memory consolidation via SWS-specific mechanisms, further research is needed to understand the role of spindles, slow oscillations, and their cooccurrence for episodic memory consolidation.
     • keywords: memory; slow; spindles; sws
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176. 0v83805259r
     • author: Mengyu (Miranda) Gao
     • title: Typologies of Daily Relationship Quality in Marital and Parent–Child Subsystems: Implications for Child Adjustment
     • date: 2019
     • words: 233
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: My dissertation project aimed to: (1) understand the within-family variability in the MR–PCR dynamics; (2) identify typologies based on families' emotional dynamics; and (3) test the associations between family typologies and child adjustment. Different daily MR–PCR typologies were found for fathers and mothers: while the cohesive, fluctuating-cohesive, middle-of-the-road, and spillover type were the four typologies emerged most consistently for fathers and mothers, a compensatory typology was only identified for mothers in this study.
     • keywords: child; family; pcr; typologies
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177. 0v83805292k
     • author: Yinhao Zhu
     • title: Data-Driven and Physics-Constrained Deep Learning for Surrogate Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Physical Systems
     • date: 2019
     • words: 218
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: Surrogate modeling is computationally attractive for problems that require repetitive yet expensive simulations of PDEs, such as uncertainty propagation, deterministic design or inverse problems, where the main challenges are curse of dimensionality, data efficiency, uncertainty quantification and generalization, especially for problems with high dimensional input. A conditional flow-based generative model with reverse KL-divergence loss without labeled data is trained to capture the predictive uncertainty.
     • keywords: data; flow; models; problems; surrogate; uncertainty
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178. 0v838052b06
     • author: Lina Cao
     • title: GaN-Based Impact-Ionization Avalanche Transit-Time (IMPATT) Diodes and Low-Loss Interconnects for Microwave and Millimeter Wave Applications
     • date: 2020
     • words: 522
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: To further enhance the capabilities of GaN-based electronics, work in two main directions has been pursued: low-loss interconnects for GaN-on-Si monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) and GaN IMPATT diodes as novel high power microwave and mm-wave sources. In terms of future work, the demonstration of functional GaN IMPATT diodes and oscillators based on them is proposed.
     • keywords: diodes; gan; generation; ghz; high; impatt; ionization; loss; low; noise; power
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179. 0v838052b1j
     • author: Arnaud Zimmern
     • title: Promising Panaceas in Early Modern English Literature
     • date: 2020
     • words: 201
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: Through case studies of Francis Bacon's Essays Civil and Morall and Margaret Cavendish's Observations and Blazing World, I contend that panaceas in philosophical literature expose in new ways the role of boldness, hyperbole, and nuanced optimism in the healing arts, while in works such as William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 and John Milton's Paradise Lost, panaceas serve to reimagine the internal conflicts and motives of characters in otherwise familiar narratives about the rise of Henry V and the fall of Adam and Eve. Promising Panaceas is the first literary study to examine how pervasively panaceas were represented during the seventeenth century, a period of dramatic medical development in England during which panaceas became metaphors for fool's errands even as the pursuit of prolonged life and the cure of all diseases persisted unabated.
     • keywords: henry; literature; medical; panaceas; science; works
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180. 0v838052b99
     • author: Cassandra Schifano
     • title: Things That Slip Through My Fingers - House of Breath
     • date: 2021
     • words: 97
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: I use fabric as a connective medium because it naturally suggests memory as it is embedded with domestic significance and is connected to place and body. My thesis work examines the complexity of memory.
     • keywords: fabric; memory
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181. 0v838052c26
     • author: Kisung You
     • title: Topics in Geometric and Topological Data Analysis
     • date: 2021
     • words: 205
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: Geometric and topological data analysis have recently attained much interests from the statistics community for their capabilities to perform inferential tasks on types of data that traditional statistical disciplines had not been able to handle and for their utility that enables to capture certain aspects of the data that had not been observed. On the topological domain, I first proposed a systematic approach to compare multiple latent space embeddings for networks of potentially varying size and invariant under label permutation in light of deriving inferential insights on how shapes of networks differ via clustering and hypothesis testing procedures.
     • keywords: aspects; data; disciplines; geometric; topological
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182. 0v838052d15
     • author: Luyi Shen
     • title: Some Advancements in Statistical Modeling of Complex Networks
     • date: 2022
     • words: 532
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Among various learning tasks with network data, community detection, which divides nodes into clusters or `communities', and change-point detection, which detects possible change points among multiple networks, have arguably received the most attention in the scientific community. The increasing prevalence of network data in a vast variety of fields and the need to extract useful information out of them have spurred fast developments in models and algorithms for the inference of networks.
     • keywords: community; covariates; data; detection; model; networks; prior; structure
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183. 0z708w34j06
     • author: Michael Thomas Rusnell
     • title: Morphing UAV Pareto Curve Shift for Enhanced Performance
     • date: 2004
     • words: 219
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: Historically, UAVs were designed to maximize endurance and range, but demands in UAV designs have changed in recent years. In addition to the traditional demands for endurance and range, today customer demands include maneuverability.
     • keywords: buckle; endurance; range; uav; uavs; wing
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184. 0z708w34j2w
     • author: Jusong Wang
     • title: Non-Selective Oxidation of Aluminum Gallium Arsenide Heterostructures for High Performance Curved Waveguide Semiconductor Lasers
     • date: 2010
     • words: 408
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: The use of a HIC structure is absolutely critical to the realization of low bend loss curved waveguides and laser resonators. In particular, a 4 mm wide QD laser fabricated with this deep dry etch plus non-selective oxidation process shows a 1.8 times lower threshold current density Jth than similar HIC lasers passivated with deposited SiO2, and 6.5 times lower than conventional (shallow etched) index guided lasers.
     • keywords: bend; hic; laser; loss; non; oxidation; radius; ring; selective
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185. 0z708w34j4k
     • author: Kyle E. Jones
     • title: Percolation Mechanism in Orthopedic Implants
     • date: 2010
     • words: 286
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Percolation effects can be divided into surface transport effects and volume transport effects. This research tests the uses of surface transport to improve the tribological performance of artificial hips, and the uses of volume transport in developing a new biomaterial for cartilage replacement.
     • keywords: friction; lubricant; metal; surface; transport; wear
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186. 0z708w34j5x
     • author: Shanta Sarfare
     • title: Mapping, Molecular Identification and Characterization of Ninag Affecting Rhodopsin Content in Drosophila Photoreceptors
     • date: 2004
     • words: 155
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: Sequencing analysis of all fifteen genes within this region identified a stop codon in CG6728 gene in ninaGP330 mutant. To confirm this identification, I rescued the ninaG phenotype with a genomic fragment containing CG6728 ORF.
     • keywords: drosophila; ninag; rhodopsin
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187. 0z708w34j7m
     • author: Kamthorn Chailuek
     • title: An Extension of Bergman Spaces and their Toeplitz Operators
     • date: 2008
     • words: 108
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: We define new spaces,HL2(Bd,eta), which are the same as Bergman spaces if eta>-1 but non-zero for eta>-(d+1). We define Toeplitz operators associated with polynomials to the spaces HL2(Bd,eta) when -(d+1)<eta =< -1.
     • keywords: hl2(bd; spaces
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188. 0z708w34j8z
     • author: Shannon Drysdale Walsh
     • title: Engendering State Institutions: State Response to Violence Against Women in Latin America
     • date: 2011
     • words: 302
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Constructing state institutions in order to address violence against women is an important component to building a democratic state. When are countries, in varying degrees of development, likely to construct state institutions, and transform their practices, in order to implement norms that protect women from violence?
     • keywords: donors; institutions; state; violence; women
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189. 0z708w34j99
     • author: Ryan Thomas Haws
     • title: Computation of Nitrile Vibrations as a Probe of the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter Systems
     • date: 2012
     • words: 192
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: The nitrile functional group is an interesting candidate for use as a vibrational probe because it has a good infrared absorption coefficient, can be used to monitor hydrogen bonding environments and local electric fields, and it absorbs in an uncluttered region of the infrared spectrum. The nitrile stretch infrared absorption line shape was calculated for dilute acetonitrile in water and methanol using a novel optimized quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (OQM/MM) methodology.
     • keywords: acetonitrile; infrared; methanol; nitrile; vibrational
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190. 0z708w34k0h
     • author: Amy Jonason
     • title: The Elusive, Inclusive 'We': Inclusion and Contradiction in a Prefigurative Social Movement Group
     • date: 2011
     • words: 132
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: In this paper I apply Pierre Bourdieus theory of practice to the study of internal movement culture in a prefigurative social movement organization, using data from an ethnographic study of a nascent food cooperative. Organizers of the cooperative, who were white and highly educated, attempted to promote an inclusive movement culture and organizational structure that would facilitate cross-class and cross-race alliances with neighborhood residents.
     • keywords: cooperative; food; movement; social
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191. 0z708w34k1v
     • author: Pius Ojo Adelani
     • title: Syntheses, Structure Elucidation, and Properties of Novel Actinide Diphosphonates and Carboxyphosphonates
     • date: 2011
     • words: 368
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Two elliptical uranyl nanotubules were isolated along with other series of framework materials with voids that are filled with alkali metal cations and organic templates respectively. Uranyl cations display a high propensity for phosphonates over the carboxylate moieties of the bifunctional ligands examined in agreement with the hard-soft acid-base prediction.
     • keywords: actinide; alkali; area; carboxyphenylphosphonate; cations; ligands; material; metal; uranyl; work
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192. 0z708w34k3j
     • author: Matthew Leming
     • title: Light-Dark and Circadian Effects on the Visual Response of Aedes aegypti
     • date: 2015
     • words: 312
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: This revealed that the circadian regulation of visual gene expression is conserved between both Ae. aegypti and An. gambiae mosquitoes but not in Drosophila. This allows for heightened sensitivity during the morning peak activity when the mosquitoes are under low light conditions.
     • keywords: aegypti; chapter; circadian; expression; light; mosquitoes; visual
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193. 0z708w34k4w
     • author: Trunojoyo Anggara
     • title: First-Principles Study of NO Oxidation on Cu-exchanged SSZ-13 Zeolite Catalysts
     • date: 2015
     • words: 477
     • flesch: 56
     • summary: Further molecular investigation on paired Cu sites is recommended for future work. This analysis frame the discussion of site activities, variation of Si/Al ratio, Cu loadings, and reaction conditions in the zeolites.
     • keywords: dry; no2; oxidation; ppm; reaction; sites; species
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194. 0z708w34k6k
     • author: Ethan Fridmanski
     • title: Online Communities: A Case Study of Religion and Politics
     • date: 1904
     • words: 164
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Even though the nonreligious have been documented to be less politically and civically engaged, this group's identity has been created partly in reaction to developments in American politics and religion during the 20th century they will display some form of political activism. However, given their limited access to mainstream opportunities for political communication, I expect them to take their political activism online.
     • keywords: american; nonreligious; political
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195. 0z708w34k7x
     • author: Justus T. Ghormley
     • title: Inspired Scribes: The Formation of the Book of Jeremiah and the Vocation of Ancient Jewish Scribal Scholars
     • date: 1904
     • words: 318
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: This dissertation examines the variant manuscripts of the book of Jeremiah in light of the practice of ancient Near Eastern, scholarly scribes who were responsible for transcribing and transmitting prophetic oracles. Both groups of scribes were authorized, inspired conduits of divine revelation.
     • keywords: book; divination; jeremiah; scribes; textual
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196. 0z708w34n04
     • author: Nathan Kellams
     • title: Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson in the Mu Tau Hadronic Channel
     • date: 1904
     • words: 148
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: A slight excess of signal events is observed in multiple categories with a combined significance of 2.4 $\sigma$ corresponding to a best fit branching fraction of $B(H \ o \mu \ au) The branching fraction limit is transformed to a limit on Yukawa couplings $\sqrt{|Y_{\mu \ au}|^{2}+|Y_{\ au \mu}|^{2}} &lt; 3.6 \ imes 10^{-3}$.
     • keywords: branching; fraction; search
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197. 0z708w35d38
     • author: Steven Lemke
     • title: Deconstructed Paradise
     • date: 2019
     • words: 179
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Within the history of contemporary sculpture, most responses to this topic tend to focus upon individual relationships to specific places through acts such as documentation, preservation, or performance. This thesis examines the complex relationship between art and place in an age of translocality, hypermobility, and widespread displacement.
     • keywords: art; relationship; research; thesis
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198. 0z708w35m2s
     • author: Veronica B. Hubble
     • title: Novel Adjuvant Approaches for Disarming Antibiotic Resistance in Clinically Relevant Bacterial Pathogens
     • date: 2020
     • words: 364
     • flesch: 6
     • 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.
     • keywords: activity; adjuvants; antibiotic; bacteria; baumannii; development; efforts; gram; negative; resistant
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199. 0z708w35p2d
     • author: Kathleen Quinn
     • title: Agnès Varda et Nathalie Sarraute : une amitié qui nourrissait des grandes œuvres
     • date: 2022
     • words: 364
     • flesch: 60
     • summary: En observant les chefs-d'œuvre qui ont émergé grâce au carrefour entre la littérature et le cinéma pendant mes études, il y avait un exemple en particulière qui m'a frappée comme extraordinaire : l'amitié entre la cinéaste Agnès Varda et l'auteur Nathalie Sarraute. The haunting opening of French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda's 1985 film Vagabond makes a point of dedicating the film to Nathalie Sarraute, a leading author of the New Novel movement.
     • keywords: mouvement; nathalie; new; sarraute; varda
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200. 0z708w35p5f
     • author: Ethan Lane Addison
     • title: Generalizing Kähler Metrics of Poincaré Type
     • date: 2022
     • words: 212
     • flesch: 1
     • summary: To relate the gnarling construction to the extremal setting, we prove a local perturbation result showing the existence of cscK gnarled metrics in Kähler classes near to that of a standard product metric on N \ X, providing a significant step towards developing more general openness properties for extremal gnarled metrics. We define and explore various properties of a generalization of Poincaré-type Kähler metrics defined on the complement of a complex hypersurface X embedded in an ambient Kähler manifold N. After motivating interest in a generalization, especially from the viewpoint of extremal Kähler geometry, we construct a distortion potential ψτ V christened the gnarl associated to the vector field V due to its simulation of flowing along level sets of τ in the direction of V upon approaching X. Key subexponential estimates are derived to relate the gnarled metric to a starting Poincaré-type metric, allowing us to prove statements about the volume and integrals of the curvatures of the gnarled metric.
     • keywords: extremal; gnarled; kähler; metrics
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201. 0z708w35q8s
     • author: Sarah G. Pate
     • title: Characterization of Amine-Functionalized Facilitated Transport Membranes for CO2 Separation
     • date: 2023
     • words: 372
     • flesch: 26
     • 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.
     • keywords: amine; co2; mechanisms; membranes; permeation; transport; water
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202. 12579s17s7p
     • author: Ted Alan Bryant
     • title: Symbolic Control of Visual Attention: Indirect Cues
     • date: 2005
     • words: 191
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Part 1 (Experiments 1-4) provides experiments that challenge the claim of involuntary made by previous studies (Eimer, 1997; Gibson & Bryant, in press; Hommel et al., 2001; Ristic et al., 2002, Tipples, 2002). Part 2 (Experiments 5-8) includes experiments that determine if previous findings in this line of research actually do reflect attentional orienting or if they follow an alternative location compatibility account.
     • keywords: attentional; cues; experiments; orienting
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203. 12579s17s81
     • author: Bradley Charles Gregory
     • title: 'Like an Everlasting Signet Ring': Generosity in the Book of Sirach
     • date: 2010
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: Through an exegesis of Sir 14:3-19 it is argued that, unlike other Hellenistic works, Ben Sira integrates the topic of generosity into the motif of carpe diem. Ben Sira displays an innovative approach to surety.
     • keywords: ben; chapter; generosity; god; sira; tension
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204. 12579s17s9c
     • author: Andrew Johnson
     • title: Computational Studies of Natural and Nonnatural Nucleic Acids: Formation and Repair of Thymine Dimers and Structure/Dynamics of GNA
     • date: 2011
     • words: 507
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: Thermodynamic analysis shows that GNA duplex formation is entropically less penalizing than the same process in DNA and RNA. In contrast to the mechanism of CPD repair, little is known about mechanism employed by (6-4) photolyase.
     • keywords: bases; capable; cpd; dna; gna; mechanism; nucleic; photolyase; repair; study
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205. 12579s17t0k
     • author: Jacqueline G Garrison
     • title: The Relative Importance of Stress State, Microarchitecture, and Damage Burden in the Failure Behavior of Trabecular Bone
     • date: 2011
     • words: 505
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: In both bovine and ovariectomized ovine trabecular bone, small increases in volume fraction resulted in substantial increases in mechanical competence compared to increased damage accumulation. To elucidate the role of both damage burden and architecture on the mechanical behavior of trabecular bone, the microarchitecture and volume fraction was quantified and the compressive and shear mechanical properties were determined in both damaged and undamaged young bovine trabecular bone.
     • keywords: accumulation; bone; changes; damage; fraction; mechanical; microarchitecture; microdamage; trabecular; volume
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206. 12579s17t28
     • author: Christopher Stockdon Seibert
     • title: High-Index-Contrast AlGaAs Waveguide Scattering Loss Reduction via Oxidation Smoothing of Sidewall Roughness
     • date: 2010
     • words: 223
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Through optimized processing to reduce the initial sidewall roughness before oxidation, further loss reductions should be achievable for HIC structures, as well as possible loss reduction in more conventional low-index-contrast structures commonly used in many photonic devices Traditionally, the drawback of such HIC devices is their greater susceptibility to scattering losses from etch-induced sidewall roughness (s) and the greater index step (dn), losses which scale with at least s2 and dn2.
     • keywords: devices; hic; index; loss; structures
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207. 12579s17t4z
     • author: Michael Anthony May
     • title: Experimental Evaluation of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Hybrid Coupled Wall Subassembalges
     • date: 2011
     • words: 317
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: This thesis describes an experimental research program on the nonlinear behavior of coupling beam subassemblages in a new type of hybrid coupled wall system for seismic regions. Different from conventional hybrid coupled wall systems, the coupling beams of the new system are not embedded into the walls.
     • keywords: beam; coupling; nonlinear; post; steel; wall
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208. 12579s17t70
     • author: Aaron J. W. Dingler
     • title: Nanomagnet Logic: From Devices to Architectures
     • date: 2013
     • words: 321
     • flesch: 46
     • 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.
     • keywords: architecture; device; energy; levels; nml; order; work
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209. 12579s17v3x
     • author: Loren K. Higbee
     • title: The Poetics of Fragmentation: Shared Modernity in Petrarch, Eliot, and Pound
     • date: 2014
     • words: 177
     • flesch: 40
     • 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.
     • keywords: literature; lyric; petrarch; poets; pound
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210. 12579s17w99
     • author: Semyon Khokhlov
     • title: Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Loss of Autonomy
     • date: 1904
     • words: 286
     • flesch: 34
     • 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.
     • keywords: autonomy; duchamp; modernist; stein; works
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211. 12579s18m5q
     • author: Andrew Bartolini
     • title: Advancements in Full-Scale Monitoring Hardware for Improved Modeling of Tall Buildings: A System Behavior Perspective
     • date: 2019
     • words: 530
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: While these models are used to predict the structure's performance and thereby dictate the structural design of the building, the accuracy of the modeling techniques used in the design of tall buildings are rarely every verified despite the tremendous life safety and economic implications of these signature structures. The scale, cost and complexity of tall buildings prohibits the use of full-scale validation tests employed by other engineering disciplines.
     • keywords: buildings; degree; design; model; monitoring; performance; scale; structure; tall; use
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212. 12579s18r1k
     • author: Jin Dai
     • title: Formal Synthesis of Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Resilience and Security
     • date: 2019
     • words: 570
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: The ubiquitous development of information technology (IT) infrastructures has greatly enhanced the technological evolution from automated to autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as networked mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, flexible manufacturing systems and so on. Apart from the high-level performances, we take the dynamics of the robots into consideration and study the path planning problem with application to robotic systems.
     • keywords: algorithm; autonomous; control; coordination; cpss; cyber; faults; learning; local; robots; sensor; study; systems
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213. 12579s18w1t
     • author: Nazli Koca
     • title: My Heart My Room My Name
     • date: 2020
     • words: 57
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: My thesis My Heart My Room My Name consists of two sections: an excerpt from my novel-in-progress; A Cleaner's Diary and one separate, complete short story; Zurückbleiben Bitte. While these two works of fiction are set in the same neighborhood, they are not to be read as part of the same story or world.
     • keywords: story
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214. 12579s18w7w
     • author: Junyeol Kim
     • title: Lab- and Field-Scale Studies on the Fate and Transport of Nanoparticles in Streams: Influence of Nanoparticle Characteristics, Macromolecules, and Environmental Parameters
     • date: 2020
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: Nevertheless, lab-scale studies are limited in incorporating all the environmental factors simultaneously, including mimicking seasonal variations (e.g., biofilms) and hydraulic factors (e.g., stream bed size and material), thus there exists a need to better understand the NPs behavior in realistic streams. The primary research originality of this dissertation were to (1) elucidate the interaction of NPs with environmental macromolecules (e.g., proteins and natural organic matter) under realistic lab-scale conditions, (2) evaluate the effect of physicochemical properties of NPs (hydrodynamic size and zeta potential) and environmental parameters (pH, ionic strength, and ionic species) on the fate of NPs at the lab-scale, (3) monitor the transport of NPs in field-scale streams under hydraulically controlled conditions, (4) evaluate the effect of natural organic matter, biofilms, and streambed substrate size on the transport of NPs in field-scale streams, and (5) develop a one-dimensional stochastic model to predict the transport of NPs in streams.
     • keywords: environmental; fate; lab; nps; scale; streams; transport
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215. 12579s18x14
     • author: Anjan Goswami
     • title: Experimental Demonstration of Hyperbolic Dispersion in Metasurfaces at Visible Wavelengths
     • date: 2021
     • words: 163
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: Metamaterials are engineered nanostructured materials having exotic properties which are beyond those observed in conventional materials. Hyperbolic metamaterials, a special class of metamaterials showing hyperbolic dispersion, exhibit some unique optical properties which make them exceptionally suitable for super-resolution imaging using structured illumination microscopy.
     • keywords: experimental; hyperbolic; metamaterials; samples
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216. 12579s18z2s
     • author: Zihan Huang
     • title: Microporous Iptycene-Based Polymers with Heterocyclic Rings for High Performance Gas Separation Membranes
     • date: 2022
     • words: 445
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: A large body of polymers containing rigid heterocyclic ring structures have demonstrated promising gas separation performances, attributed to high fractional free volume owing to disrupted chain packing. Recently, macromolecular design strategies through the use of hierarchical triptycene moieties have emerged, which generated various microporous polymers with high gas separation performances that redefined the upper bound limits along with good resistance to physical aging and plasticization.
     • keywords: chain; free; gas; high; pentiptycene; permeability; polymers; selectivity; separation; triptycene; volume
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217. 1544bp01323
     • author: Mark Byrne
     • title: Phenomenological Studies in Supersymmetric and Higher Dimensional Extensions to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
     • date: 2004
     • words: 331
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: This methodology of cosmic ray production of weak-scale massive charged particles is extended and applied to ``universal extra dimensions, orbifold extra dimensional models in which all the SM fields have KK excitations, the lightest of which is stable. Using the shape, rather than the radial moduli of the compactification manifold, it is possible to radiatively induce a change in the fine-structure constant from the KK modes of the SM sector confined to a thick brane.
     • keywords: cosmic; extra; lightest; model; mssm; standard
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218. 1544bp0134s
     • author: Peter J. Baker
     • title: The Politics of Taxation and State Building in Ukraine, 882-2004
     • date: 2010
     • words: 433
     • flesch: -1
     • 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.
     • keywords: communist; development; dissertation; economic; fiscal; period; policy; state; system; ukraine; ukrainian
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219. 1544bp0136g
     • author: Sundaram Vanka
     • title: Signal Superposition Strategies in Wireless Networks: Theory and Experiments
     • date: 2012
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Furthermore, we use this prototype to show that the coding gain (rather than the spectral efficiency gain) from superposition codes significantly improves link reliability without the need to increase transmit power or bandwidth, opening up the possibility of novel medium access protocols that can leverage superposition codes. These techniques stand in contrast to more traditional orthogonal schemes that are designed specifically to avoid such interference.
     • keywords: access; broadcast; interference; multiple; signal; superposition; techniques; wireless
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220. 1544bp0137t
     • author: Denise Ann Bruesewitz
     • title: The Effects of Invasive Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on Nitrogen Cycling in Freshwater Ecosystems of the Midwestern United States
     • date: 2008
     • words: 388
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The activities of zebra mussels may directly or indirectly affect substrate availability and oxidationÌ¢ âÂreduction (redox) potential, but this remains an understudied area linking invasion biology with ecosystem ecology. My dissertation investigates the interactions between changing nitrogen (N) biogeochemistry and the presence of a prevalent invasive species, zebra mussels.
     • keywords: cycling; ecosystems; effects; mussels; seasonal; spatial; zebra
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221. 1544bp0139h
     • author: Teresa Huffman Traver
     • title: 'I have not a home': Catholic Conversion and English Identity
     • date: 2008
     • words: 361
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: At the same time, as recent critics have shown, religious identity was an essential part of English national identity, and anti-Catholic literature used Roman Catholicism as an Other against which to construct a Protestant and domestic English identity. Throughout the nineteenth century, religious identity, national identity, and domesticity converge in the depiction of broken homes, foreign invaders, and homeless converts which abound in anti-Catholic literature.
     • keywords: anti; catholic; domesticity; english; identity; literature; national
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222. 1544bp0140q
     • author: Michael Stephen Crocker
     • title: Design, Fault Studies, and Performance Analysis for Nanomagnet Logic PLAS and Other Nanomagnet Logic Architectures
     • date: 2011
     • words: 301
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: We present a fault model for NML PLAs, and provide an improved technique for mapping logic to the NML PLA. We present area, energy, and delay estimates for the NML PLA, compare the area of NML PLAs to other reprogrammable nanotechnologies, and analyze how architectural-level redundancy will affect performance and defect tolerance in NML PLAs.
     • keywords: energy; logic; nml; performance; pla; possible; systems
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223. 1544bp01412
     • author: Michael Tate Cochran
     • title: Two-Dimensional Viscous Compaction in Compressible Granular Materials
     • date: 2006
     • words: 158
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: One dimensional limits, such as shock tubes and piston-driven problems compare favorably to analytical solutions and experimental data of Sandusky, etal cite{sandlid}, respectively. The equations are then solved using simple two-dimensional extensions of these cases, and the results are compared to the one-dimensional data, with good agreement.
     • keywords: dimensional; energy; equations; model
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224. 1544bp0142d
     • author: Todd Alexander Major
     • title: Acoustic Vibrations of Single Suspended Gold Nanostructures
     • date: 2014
     • words: 345
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: The acoustic vibrations for gold nanowires over the trench in air last typically for several nanoseconds, whereas gold nanowires in water are damped more quickly. Transient absorption measurements for single suspended gold nanowires were initially completed in air and water environments.
     • keywords: absorption; acoustic; gold; nanowires; plates; transient; vibrations
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225. 1544bp0143r
     • author: Melinda D. Grimsley-Smith
     • title: Politics, Professionalization, and Poverty: Lunatic Asylums for the Poor in Ireland, 1817-1920
     • date: 2011
     • words: 229
     • flesch: 26
     • 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.
     • keywords: asylum; irish; lunatic; poor; system
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226. 1544bp0145f
     • author: Katia Pansa
     • title: Psychoanalytic Studies in the Tarry Easty of James Joyce
     • date: 2011
     • words: 169
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: The latter is a prose poem, a visualogue, made of fifty fragments, written with Joyce's best calligraphy in English, Italian, Triestine dialect and German. In the eleven years that Joyce spent in Trieste he matured as a man and as a writer too.
     • keywords: joyce; trieste; writer
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227. 1544bp0146s
     • author: Mallary Claire Greenlee-Wacker
     • title: CD93 regulates acute inflammation and innate immunity
     • date: 2011
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Interestingly, CD93-/- mice have a defect in clearance of apoptotic cells, a phenotype associated with dysregulated inflammation; therefore, an investigation was undertaken that tested the hypothesis that CD93 regulated inflammation. CD93 belongs to the group XIV family of transmembrane glycoproteins, implicated in regulating inflammation and innate immunity.
     • keywords: c1q; cd93; cells; hematopoietic; inflammation; wildtype
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228. 1544bp0187c
     • author: Nameera Fatima Baig
     • title: Molecular Imaging of Bacterial Communities of the Opportunistic Human Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
     • date: 1904
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 20
     • 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.
     • keywords: aeruginosa; approach; aqs; bacterial; biofilm; communities; imaging; raman
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229. 1544bp01892
     • author: Luis Lopez-Maldonado
     • title: Gay Poetics of the Passion or Proof Hangs on the Marble Walls
     • date: 1904
     • words: 100
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: Some of the themes discussed in the manuscript include, but are not limited to: America, whiteness, racism, sexism, cannibalism, terrorism, migration, immigration, displacement, violence, silence, abuse, rape, love, queerness, gender, sex, and sexuality, among many others. Contemporary themes are threaded through the work, offering a new perspective to traditional views on Catholicism, and verse poetry.
     • keywords: fill; manuscript; themes
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230. 1544bp01q5q
     • author: Samuel Rostad
     • title: Heirs of Augustine of Canterbury: Benedictine Popular Preaching in Late Medieval England, c. 1350-1500
     • date: 1904
     • words: 319
     • flesch: 37
     • 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.
     • keywords: benedictine; england; laity; monks; preaching; sermons
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231. 1544bp01s71
     • author: Michelle A. Pillers
     • title: Nanostructures as Dopant Sources: Maskless Nanoscale Patterning of Silicon Using Shape and Size Controlled Nanomaterials
     • date: 1904
     • words: 244
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: My thesis research investigates the use of DNA origami, a designable, self-assembled nanostructure, as a chemical and dopant source for patterning silicon substrates. Utilizing this new understanding of DNA origami, I developed a process called burn-in to complete maskless patterning of embedded silicon carbide (SiC) replicas on silicon substrates.
     • keywords: burn; dna; origami; patterning; process; silicon
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232. 1544bp01t18
     • author: Miriam Susan Moore
     • title: Approaching Design in Food Pantries: Influencing Food Choices and Meal Planning
     • date: 1904
     • words: 371
     • flesch: 58
     • summary: This paper details the research and design solution that 1) Give food pantry shoppers the tools to make healthy meals out of food pantry options, and 2) Encourage healthier, fresher food donations to food pantries through a donation campaign to support the success of the first goal. To support healthy meal planning for clients of food pantries I designed a system that includes: providing food pantry shoppers flexible, nutritious, recipes that are simple to cook and understand, signage to call out and navigate shoppers to healthier food items within the pantry store, and tools for pantry workers to change and share recipes quickly to accommodate for food available in the food pantry space.
     • keywords: food; indiana; items; pantries; pantry; programs
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233. 1544bp01t7b
     • author: Matthew H. Hartman
     • title: Strauss and Gadamer: Political Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Historicism
     • date: 1904
     • words: 263
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Fortunately, Gadamer argues that through hermeneutics we can properly interpret truth as an endless conversation that—while always changing—represents a real set of understandings that enable discourse. Although` Gadamer and Strauss have many serious disagreements about the nature of historicism, they both agree that interpretive discourse is the one thing needful for approaching the political problems that undermine the possibility of practicing philosophy.
     • keywords: gadamer; historicism; philosophy; strauss
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234. 1544bp02253
     • author: Natalie Sargent
     • title: Peculiar Positions of Power: Laywomen as Good Americans and Good Catholics, 1854-1907
     • date: 2019
     • words: 249
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: This dissertation explores laywomen's contributions in four key areas of U.S. Catholic history during the nineteenth century. Second, by featuring laywomen as protagonists, the project demonstrates that the transnational turn in U.S. Catholic history need not be defined by clergy, religious orders, or the longstanding immigrant paradigm long dominant in the field.
     • keywords: catholic; century; history; laywomen; u.s
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235. 1544bp0290j
     • author: Lauren K. Callahan
     • title: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry with the MONICA Detector at the Argonne Gas-Filled Analyzer and Ultra-Sensitive Detection of 39,42Ar
     • date: 2023
     • words: 261
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: A feasibility test to see if AGFA could be used to conduct AMS measurements occurred in November, 2019, and succeeded in separating the stable isobars 92Zr and 92Mo. MONICA was then successfully commissioned to be used with AGFA for AMS measurements through a study of 92Nb utilizing a newly-developed set-up.
     • keywords: agfa; ams; heavy; mass; measurements; monica
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236. 1831cj84b9g
     • author: Belinda Sue McSwain
     • title: Molecular Investigation of Aerobic Granule Sludge Formation
     • date: 2005
     • words: 365
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Kinetics, species selection, and short settling times are the determinant factors of aerobic granule formation. In recent years, the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) has been used to form even more compact sludge structures, in the form of aerobic granules.
     • keywords: aerobic; form; formation; granules; microbial; reactor; selection; settling; sludge
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237. 1831cj84c2c
     • author: Ivan Murgu
     • title: Studies Of Xanthone Rotaxanes and Squaraine Rotaxane Endoperoxides
     • date: 2011
     • words: 158
     • flesch: 29
     • 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.
     • keywords: chapter; macrocycle; pyridine; rotaxanes
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238. 1831cj84c42
     • author: Brian Matthew Babie
     • title: An Experimental and Analytical Study of the Stability of Counter-Rotating Vortex Pairs with Applications for Aircraft Wake Turbulence Control
     • date: 2010
     • words: 294
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: A compilation of flow visualization results shows a design space of counter-rotating wake configurations, defined by the circulation and span ratios, where rapidly amplifying instabilities are consistently seen to exist. Having identified two bending instability modes in the experimental wake, it was possible to suggest a strategy by which these modes could be exploited for the control of aircraft wakes.
     • keywords: aircraft; flight; hazard; instability; modes; wake
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239. 1831cj84c6r
     • author: Pedro Berges
     • title: Rebound, Compliance, and Configuration in the Modeling and Analysis of Discrete Impacts in Legged Locomotion
     • date: 2010
     • words: 323
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: This thesis presents a novel method for analyzing impact for legged robots as well as any other rigid body. The first part of the approach resembles traditional impact analysis.
     • keywords: coefficient; dimensional; impact; rebound; restitution
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240. 1831cj84c9s
     • author: Stephen Reid Case
     • title: Making Stars Physical: John Herschel's Stellar Astronomy, 1816-71
     • date: 2014
     • words: 362
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: His investigations and publications on double stars, nebulae, variable stars, and constellation reform extended throughout his career and form an important chapter in sidereal astronomy prior to the advent of astrophysics. After a survey of historical ideas regarding the physical nature of the stars, the study examines Herschel's relationship with nineteenth-century positional astronomy and argues that Herschel viewed star catalogues as a means of obtaining information on the physical nature of stars.
     • keywords: astronomy; century; herschel; nineteenth; science; stars; stellar; work
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241. 1831cj84d5q
     • author: Matthew Paul Mischke
     • title: Wavelength Dependence of the Photoresponse of a Yttrium-Barium-Copper-Oxide Thin Film
     • date: 2004
     • words: 108
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: The bolometric portion of the photoresponse is then accounted for, and the residual non-bolometric response is compared to that found in other doping regimes and time scales. The observed wavelength dependence of the excess conductance is most likely caused by excitations into the conduction band from the filled copper bands in the CuO2 plane layer of the crystal.
     • keywords: photoresponse; transition; wavelength
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242. 1831cj84d8r
     • author: Max Deardorff
     • title: A Tale of Two Granadas: Tridentine Reform, Rebellion, and the Formulation of Christian Citizenship in Southern Spain and the Andes, 1563-1614
     • date: 1904
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 26
     • 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.
     • keywords: christian; empire; ethnic; law; legal; political; royal; society; spanish
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243. 1831cj84f09
     • author: Tua Agustinus Tamba
     • title: Forecasting Regime Shifts in Nonlinear Dynamical Processes
     • date: 1904
     • words: 356
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Such shifts occur because the system has alternative stable states and external disturbances force the system's operating point to shift from one stable state to another. We show that by using techniques from algebraic geometry and polynomial optimization, the computation of this quantity in a class of nonnegative systems with kinetic realizations can be simplified.
     • keywords: optimization; polynomial; regime; shifts; stable; system
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244. 1831cj84k0j
     • author: Xin Liu
     • title: Evaluation of Therapeutics in Three Dimensional Cell Culture Systems Using Mass Spectrometry
     • date: 1904
     • words: 207
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures have served as an important model system and have contributed to valuable assays in drug discovery studies. However, limited methodologies result in incomplete evaluation of the distribution of many anticancer drugs and their metabolites.
     • keywords: distribution; drug; metabolites; penetration; spectrometry
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245. 1831cj85267
     • author: Fatemeh Elahi
     • title: Dark Matter Beyond WIMP Era
     • date: 1904
     • words: 309
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: One of the key ingredients of the standard model of Cosmology is dark matter. The existence of dark matter has been established from numerous astrophysical and cosmological observations, but its interaction nature still remains enigmatic.
     • keywords: dark; matter; model; relic; standard; thermal
     • versions: original; plain text
246. 1831cj8530g
     • author: Sarah E. Peters
     • title: Promoting Sustainable Peace and Development after Civil War: Rebels, States, and Security Sector Reform
     • date: 1904
     • words: 291
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: In particular, I show that some types of security sector reforms reduce political violence against civilians, leading to both a reduction in the likelihood of conflict recurrence, and an increase in the level of post-conflict human development growth. After ending civil war in 1992, El Salvador implemented security sector reforms, saw an important reduction in politically motivated violence, and achieved reasonable improvement in health and educa- tion levels.
     • keywords: civilians; political; reduction; reforms; violence; war
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247. 1831cj85325
     • author: Thomas A.D. Cornell
     • title: Object/Memory
     • date: 1904
     • words: 278
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: It also examines my role as object maker and installation artist. My current body of work includes: steel, resin, wood, glass, and numerous found objects.
     • keywords: formal; installations; objects; paper; thesis
     • versions: original; plain text
248. 1831cj85f59
     • author: Zhiyu Liu
     • title: Knowledge Representation and Automated Task Planning for Intelligent Robots through Spatial Temporal Logic and Learning
     • date: 2020
     • words: 317
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Second, we develop automatic task planning with an interactive proposer and verifier for intelligent robots based on the domain theory in spatial temporal logic. The development of intelligent robots with the ability to independently solve a new task is an important yet challenging research problem.
     • keywords: intelligent; logic; planning; robots; spatial; task; temporal
     • versions: original; plain text
249. 1831cj85h1j
     • author: Michael J. Quevillon
     • title: Using Molecular Simulations as an Integral Tool for Modeling Ionic Liquid Crystals and Colloidal Clusters
     • date: 2021
     • words: 210
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Here, we focus on the application of ionic liquid crystals as electrolytic materials, for battery applications or in dye-sensitized solar cells. Many investigations into these materials have not been able to yield information at the atomic level, with the focus being on bulk materials properties.
     • keywords: applications; crystals; ionic; liquid; materials
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250. 1831cj85h4k
     • author: Ben Craigie
     • title: What Shadow Does Your Investment Leave?
     • date: 2022
     • words: 23
     • flesch: 66
     • summary: This is a Master in Fine Arts thesis discussing the personal history and working sculpturual practice of the artist and author Ben Craigie.
     • keywords: craigie
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251. 1831cj85h5x
     • author: Shannon Stoffel
     • title: Dynamics of Molecular Machines
     • date: 2022
     • words: 305
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Historically used for biological molecular machines, we used these experiments to study artificial molecular machines. A deep understanding of how components govern the motions of molecular machines can aid in their design process.
     • keywords: axle; components; machines; molecular; rotaxanes
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252. 1831cj85j6k
     • author: Xiuyu Jin
     • title: Polymer Grafting for Inorganic Nanoparticles Surface Functionalization and Stabilization
     • date: 2023
     • words: 215
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: This dissertation describes the development of polymer ligation for inorganic nanoparticle surface modification and stabilization. The applications of prepared magnetic nanoparticles in protein separation and water treatment were described in detail in the following Chapter 6.
     • keywords: chapter; inorganic; nanoparticles; perovskite; polymer; surface
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253. 1c18df67n1c
     • author: Charles Christopher Camosy
     • title: Treatment of Imperiled Newborns: The Social Quality of Life Model in Light of Catholic Social Teaching
     • date: 2009
     • words: 187
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Though more research is needed on treatment outcomes and their long-term costs before most specific reforms could be prudently enacted, the dissertation argues that certain neonatal treatments are disproportionate with the common good and ought to be foregone. If one takes seriously the intrinsically social nature of persons, a preferential option for the poor, the universal destination of goods, and other like principles, the central thesis of the dissertation becomes clear: though all newly born human infants are full moral persons, what kind of treatments are beneficial or burdensome cannot be seen apart from complex social questions with regard to distribution of resources.
     • keywords: newborns; persons; quality; social
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254. 1c18df67n2q
     • author: David Robert Baker
     • title: On the Advancement of Quantum Dot Solar Cell Performance through Enhanced Charge Carrier Dynamics
     • date: 2011
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: Anodically etched TiO2 nanotubes yield photocurrents 20% greater than TiO2 nanoparticles because of longer electron diffusion lengths. Peak incident photon to charge carrier efficiencies of TiO2 nanotube samples show a doubling of photocurrent in the visible region compared to nanoparticles.
     • keywords: electrode; electron; mpa; nanotubes; sites; surface; tio2; trap
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255. 1c18df67n4d
     • author: Maria Audelia Kiskowski
     • title: Discrete Stochastic Models for Morphological Pattern Formation in Biology
     • date: 2004
     • words: 199
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: The formation of fruiting bodies in myxobacteria is a complex morphological process that requires the organized, collective effort of tens of thousands of cells. This thesis focuses on three stochastic lattice gas models for pattern formation in limb and myxobacteria fruiting body morphogenesis.
     • keywords: cell; formation; lattice; morphogenesis; pattern
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256. 1c18df67n63
     • author: Derek Andrew Webb
     • title: Paving the Rights Infrastructure: Civic Education in the Presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt
     • date: 2009
     • words: 345
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: The reasons they believed character formation was necessary, I contend, were largely Tocquevillian in character, reflecting their concern about the effects individualism, antinomianism, and the industrial aristocracy can have upon the character of citizens and ultimately their various freedoms. These presidents, then, were attempting to pave the rights infrastructure, encouraging the formation of certain character traits they believed particularly necessary to vindicate America's culture of rights from some of its own potential cultural contradictions.
     • keywords: character; citizens; common; formation; good; political; rights
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257. 1c18df67n8s
     • author: Yuan Liu
     • title: WENO Computations and Pattern Stability
     • date: 2012
     • words: 339
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: A major difficulty for unstructured WENO is how to design a robust WENO reconstruction procedure to deal with distorted local mesh geometries or degenerate cases when the mesh quality varies for complex domain geometry. We combine two different WENO reconstruction approaches to achieve a robust unstructured finite volume WENO reconstruction on complex mesh geometries.
     • keywords: cell; numerical; robust; solutions; state; steady; system; unstructured; weno
     • versions: original; plain text
258. 1c18df67n94
     • author: Daniele Puccinelli
     • title: Arbutus: Reliable and Energy-Efficient Data Collection in Large-Scale Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks
     • date: 2008
     • words: 316
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: There exists a complex interplay among routing performance (reliability, goodput, energy-efficiency), congestion control, and load balancing. While goodput degradation is contained at low levels of offered load, at relatively high offered load points Arbutus typically provides a significant goodput gain, as it exploits the inter-dependencies between reliability, routing and congestion control.
     • keywords: arbutus; collection; energy; goodput; load; network; reliability
     • versions: original; plain text
259. 1c18df67p1p
     • author: Leilani Arthurs
     • title: Towards a more quantitative understanding of the complex interactions between natural organic matter, heavy metals, and goethite
     • date: 2008
     • words: 359
     • flesch: 36
     • 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.
     • keywords: adsorption; cadmium; heavy; metals; mineral; nom; presence
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260. 1c18df67p21
     • author: Anne Catherine McGowan
     • title: In Search of the Spirit: The Epiclesis in Early Eucharistic Praying and Contemporary Western Liturgical Reforms
     • date: 2011
     • words: 292
     • flesch: 0
     • summary: This study explores the theological and textual connections among ancient and modern epicleses, primarily through analysis of a selection of epicletic texts in contemporary Western eucharistic prayers and the theological principles that shaped themÌ¢ â principles derived in part from perceptions of the role played by the Spirit inherited from traditions ancient and modern. Although the location and language of the epicleses incorporated into Western eucharistic prayers during the last half century have varied, many of these pneumatic invocations were influenced at some stage of their development by early models (and often early Eastern models) of eucharistic praying.
     • keywords: church; contemporary; eucharistic; prayers; western; worship
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261. 1c18df67p3c
     • author: Jesse David Davenport
     • title: A Numerical Approach to Modeling the Geochemical Evolution of the Lunar Magma Ocean
     • date: 2013
     • words: 188
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: These conditions, among others, are the bulk composition, lunar magma ocean (LMO) crystallization (fractional vs. equilibrium), depth of the LMO, and time for LMO solidification (effects of tidal heating mechanisms, insulating crustal lid, etc.). Lunar magma ocean theory has undergone extensive analysis and discussion throughout the past 40 years, ranging from observations by numerical modeling, lunar petrology and geochronology, to laboratory experiments.
     • keywords: lmo; lunar; magma; ocean
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262. 1c18df67p52
     • author: Sean Patrick Lynch
     • title: Search for Standard Model and Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons Decaying to Pairs of Tau Leptons At 7 TeV
     • date: 2012
     • words: 138
     • flesch: 57
     • summary: This search considers the final state in which one of the tau leptons decays to a muon and neutrinos, and in which the second tau lepton decays into mesons and a single neutrino. A search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into two tau leptons is presented.
     • keywords: higgs; neutral; search; tau
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263. 1c18df67p7r
     • author: Jaqunda N. Patton
     • title: Hydrogel Based Oxygen Carriers
     • date: 2006
     • words: 255
     • flesch: 12
     • summary: Hydrogel based oxygen carriers are introduced as a novel type of hemoglobin based oxygen carrier that addresses the issues and challenges associated with the development of artificial blood substitutes, which are designed to replace loss volumes of blood and restore tissue oxygenation to normal. Finally, numerical simulations of oxygen transport to the hamster retractor muscle are used to assess the efficacy of oxygen delivery and tissue oxygenation with hydrogel based oxygen carriers compared to current hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers under development.
     • keywords: blood; carriers; hemoglobin; hydrogel; oxygen; polymer
     • versions: original; plain text
264. 1c18df67p83
     • author: Bryan Joseph Cassone
     • title: Ecological Adaptations and Trancriptome Evolution of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae
     • date: 2011
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: Chapter 7 focuses on the ecological segregation between M and S. Specifically, the divergence in larval breeding habitats in southern Cameroon, where M occupies polluted urbanized habitats. Anopheles gambiae has adapted to flourish in spatially diverse ecological conditions, from the humid rainforests to arid Sahel savannas.
     • keywords: adaptive; chapter; chromosomal; gambiae; habitats; inversion; polymorphisms; speciation; time; transcriptome
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265. 1c18df67q0n
     • author: Christina Marie Arisio
     • title: Self-assembled Monolayers on III-V Semiconductor and Silicon Surfaces
     • date: 1904
     • words: 321
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Developing new sensors for the analytical detection of biological analytes involves creating devices that are either better than current testing methods or provide novel analyte detection. The goal of the research presented in this dissertation is to develop new electrical biosensors through the direct chemical functionalization of semiconductor surfaces with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs).The monolayers serve as a linker that attracts a target analyte, connecting biology with technology.
     • keywords: aptes; aqueous; functionalization; goal; monolayers; new; self; solutions
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266. 1c18df67r2n
     • author: Timur Kupaev
     • title: Multi-Scale Simulation Study of the Effect of Fiber Alignment and Bending and Stress–Strain Relation on Fibrin Networks
     • date: 1904
     • words: 223
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: The novelty of the approach is in combining study of the mechanical properties of individual fibers and fibrin network, such as rigidity, bending, stiffness and elasticity, with the study of the structural properties of the network, such as fiber degree distribution, length distribution and density. Structural and mechanical properties of fibrin networks are essential factors determining growth and stability of blood clots.
     • keywords: blood; clot; fibers; fibrin; network; properties
     • versions: original; plain text
267. 1c18df67t9p
     • author: Neil T. Berkel
     • title: Force Field Development for Ferrocene and the Prediction of Enantioselectivity
     • date: 1904
     • words: 151
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: To accomplish this feat, force field parameters for ferrocene were optimized using Q2MM. Experimentalists commonly explore the use of ferrocene-based chiral ligands in enantioselective catalysis.
     • keywords: field; force
     • versions: original; plain text
268. 1c18df68c15
     • author: Ryan C. McGowan
     • title: The Pulsed-DC Plasma Actuator: Characteristics and Stall Control in Axial Compressors and Fans
     • date: 1904
     • words: 321
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: The instrumentation allows for the measurement of rotating pressure disturbances (traveling stall cells) in this tip gap region as well as fan performance characteristics including pressure rise and flow rate. A new means of powering dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuators that utilizes a pulsed-DC waveform is proposed for preventing or delaying stall inception in axial compressors and fans.
     • keywords: actuator; fan; plasma; source; stall; voltage
     • versions: original; plain text
269. 1c18df68m7d
     • author: Farbod Salahi
     • title: Attempts towards Total Synthesis of Photocaged Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) and Its Analogues
     • date: 2019
     • words: 146
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: The synthesis of the NMN moiety of 4-alkyl NAD+ was successfully developed by chemoselective addition of organozinc reagents. Finally, palladium catalyzes the asymmetric conjugation addition to cyclic enones for generating quaternary carbon centers using novel chiral pyridine-oxazolines ligands, which were explored to experimentally test computational predictions of stereoselectivity.
     • keywords: addition; nad+; reagents; synthesis
     • versions: original; plain text
270. 1c18df68q60
     • author: Samantha Murray
     • title: Romantic Attachment and Conflict Behavior: An Evaluation of a Mediating Model for Infant Behavioral Outcomes
     • date: 2020
     • words: 202
     • flesch: 8
     • summary: Results indicate that more secure attachment leads to better conflict behaviors, and more secure attachment leads to better behavioral outcomes; however, conflict behavior does not significantly predict behavioral outcomes for infants at 16 months. The current study, alternatively, considers first the broader romantic context between parents and assesses conflict behavior as a mechanism of action for the modeling of partnership to children and consequential behavioral development.
     • keywords: attachment; behavior; children; conflict; development
     • versions: original; plain text
271. 1c18df68s27
     • author: James Hentig
     • title: Development of a Novel Blunt-Force TBI Model in the Adult Zebrafish to Explore TBI Sequelae and Injury-Induced Regeneration
     • date: 2021
     • words: 223
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Finally, this study describes the mechanism by which Shh signaling pathway can be leveraged as a prophylactic treatment increasing Eaat2a expression and reducing TBI-sequelae by regulating glutamate excitotoxicity. Nevertheless, humans therefore have the potential for regenerative recovery, although little is known about human progenitor abundance or capacity to produce a diverse neural linage.
     • keywords: adult; regenerative; study; tbi; zebrafish
     • versions: original; plain text
272. 1c18df68s4x
     • author: Soumyadip Ghosh
     • title: Event-Triggered Communication in High Performance Computing
     • date: 2022
     • words: 216
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: High Performance Computing has enabled breakthroughs in computational science and engineering by allowing simulations on parallel computing platforms. One of the major challenges in developing parallel algorithms for these platforms is that the arithmetic performance, measured in terms of the number of floating point operations per second (flops), is typically better than the communication performance, measured in terms of how fast data can be communicated between processors.
     • keywords: algorithms; communication; parallel; performance
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273. 1g05fb50x1x
     • author: Antonios Kontos
     • title: Direct Capture in Nuclear Astrophysics: The Cases of 17O(&rho;, &gamma;)18F and 4He(3He, &gamma;)7Be
     • date: 2012
     • words: 325
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: The present thesis studies two such reactions, 17O(&rho;, &gamma;)18F and 3He(&alpha;, &gamma;)7Be. 17O(&rho;, &gamma;)18F influences hydrogen-burning nucleosynthesis in several stellar sites, such as red giants, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, massive stars and classical novae. In the absence of strong resonance inside the Gamow window, direct capture can be the dominant contribution to astrophysically important reaction rates.
     • keywords: capture; direct; energy; kev; present; range; reaction; resonances
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274. 1g05fb50x4z
     • author: Olena Korovnichenko
     • title: Generalizations of Three-Term Relations in Solvable Models of Mathematical Physics
     • date: 2011
     • words: 145
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: We study various aspects of three-term relations and their generalizations in solvable problem of mathematical physics. Continuing this approach we introduce Leonard triples and describe an algorithm which leads to a chain of Leonard triples.
     • keywords: leonard; pairs; problem; relations
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275. 1g05fb50x6n
     • author: Xiuquan Sun
     • title: Algorithms for Modeling the Dynamics and Phase Transitions of Lipid Bilayers
     • date: 2010
     • words: 123
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: Secondly, to obtain the dynamical properties of the ripple phase of lipid membranes, molecular dynamics simulations were performed on a more realistic molecular-scale lipid model. This phase typically exhibits surface buckling with wavelengths of 100 Ì¢è ' 250 angstroms and amplitudes of 10 Ì¢è ' 50 angstroms.
     • keywords: lipid; phase; ripple
     • versions: original; plain text
276. 1g05fb50x8b
     • author: Shaun Horsman Yurcaba
     • title: Timeless Architecture: A New Courthouse and Town Square, Embracing Tradition for the Good of the City
     • date: 2006
     • words: 137
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: In order to embrace tradition and maintain a sense of place, cities must find ways to maintain their historic center, keeping important civic functions at the core and clearly defining the city edge. All too often cities are making choices, due to tremendous growth, to abandon the historic center and hastily disperse the community beyond its periphery.
     • keywords: cities; civic; study
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277. 1g05fb50z17
     • author: Julie Torborg
     • title: The Charge Asymmetry in W Bosons Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energy 1.96 TeV
     • date: 2005
     • words: 159
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: This thesis presents the first measurement at DZero of the charge asymmetry of the W boson production cross section as measured in W -> electron + neutrino decays in 0.3 fb^-1 of proton-antiproton collisions collected with the DZero Detector. The primary mode of production of W+ bosons in a proton-antiproton collider is u + anti-d -> W+.
     • keywords: anti; production; proton
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278. 1g05fb50z79
     • author: William Scott Kinman
     • title: Textural and Microanalysis of Igneous Rocks: Tools for Understanding Igneous Processes
     • date: 2008
     • words: 353
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: During crustal processing of magmas, crystal populations may be recycled between geochemical reservoirs such as end-members involved in magma mixing, assimilated country rock, or from variably evolved zones of a solidifying magma body. Textural and microanalytical approaches differ from whole-rock approaches, because they provide a way to dissect crystal populations to reveal their chemical evolution as well as physical details of their nucleation and growth.
     • keywords: compositions; crystal; evolution; magma; mixing; plateau; populations; rock; use
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279. 1g05fb51v5z
     • author: Jeremy Steeger
     • title: Quantum Probabilism: New Foundations for Subjective Quantum Probabilities
     • date: 2019
     • words: 204
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: At the intersection of the foundations of statistics and the foundations of quantum theory, one comes across a hotly-debated question: what are the probabilities in quantum theories? I generalize the Deutsch-Wallace argument to defend the objective probabilities in a host of realist approaches to measurement, and I modify the accuracy-dominance argument for probabilism to defend the subjective probabilities in these approaches.
     • keywords: foundations; objective; probabilities; quantum
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280. 1g05fb51z8x
     • author: Alexander J. Arndt
     • title: Control of Stationary and Traveling Cross-Flow Modes in a Mach 6 Boundary Layer Using Passive Patterned Roughness and Unsteady Plasma Excitation
     • date: 2019
     • words: 338
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: Spanwise-periodic roughness that was designed to excite selected wavelengths of stationary cross-flow modes was investigated in a 3-D boundary layer at Mach 6. Passive surface roughness, consisting of indentations (dimples) was evenly spaced around the cone at an axial location that was just upstream of the linear stability neutral growth branch for stationary cross-flow modes.
     • keywords: amplified; cone; cross; flow; modes; roughness; stationary
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281. 1g05fb52195
     • author: Niloofar Adnani
     • title: Coloniality of the Maximum Pressure Campaign: Re-reading the Imposition of Economic Sanctions against Iran
     • date: 2021
     • words: 189
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: By shifting the locus of enunciation from the rogue Iranian state to that of human suffering and re-reading the pivotal historical moments of the imposition of economic sanctions against Iran, I argue that violent sanctions policies against one country are, in fact, the continuation of colonial projects. Through my research, I aim to challenge the categorization of economic sanctions as peaceful and shed light on the coloniality of the unilateral US economic sanctions policies against Iran – also known as the Maximum Pressure Campaign.
     • keywords: economic; maximum; peaceful; sanctions; state
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282. 1g05fb5227s
     • author: Derrick N. Poe
     • title: Modeling Deep Eutectic Solvents: Linking Macroscopic Behavior and Molecular Level Features
     • date: 2022
     • words: 327
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: The secondary focus is on utilizing quantum mechanical density functional theory methods to understand and predict redox molecule stability in an alcohol-based DES. This is the primary focus of this work, using CMD to study in depth (i) glycerol-choline chloride DES mixtures of varied concentrations to explain DES-unique characteristics and (ii) phenolic-derivative HBDs mixed with choline chloride to derive an understanding of how HBD molecular structure influences DES bulk behavior.
     • keywords: applications; deep; des; dess; eutectic; hydrogen; molecular; properties; redox; useful
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283. 1g05fb5230p
     • author: Atul Kedia
     • title: Relativistic Matter in Neutron Star Mergers and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
     • date: 2022
     • words: 162
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: In this dissertation I discuss my work on understanding the interactions of relativistic fluids and nuclear matter in two extreme environments: 1) the merger of two neutron stars and the subsequent collapse of the postmerger hypermassive neutron star to a black hole; and 2) the first few moments of cosmic expansion in the big bang. In the first part I will describe my investigation of the role of the high-density nuclear equation of state in the emergent gravitational radiation from the collapse to a black hole during neutron star mergers.
     • keywords: matter; neutron; nuclear; relativistic
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284. 1j92g73463x
     • author: Matthew Philip Prygoski
     • title: Development and Analysis of a High Speed Bone Fracture Fixation Technology
     • date: 2012
     • words: 290
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: In the proposed method, bone fractures are stabilized using multiple bioresorbable metallic or polymer dartsails that are inserted into bone at high velocity and which are subsequently incorporated/absorbed by the body so that removal is unnecessary. This dissertation investigates bone fracture fixation.
     • keywords: bone; dart; design; dissertation; fracture; models; numerical
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285. 1j92g734648
     • author: Thidapat Chantem
     • title: Real-Time System Design Under Physical and Resource Constraints
     • date: 2011
     • words: 289
     • flesch: 37
     • 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.
     • keywords: important; network; overloads; real; system; temperature; time
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286. 1j92g73466z
     • author: Xiaolei Yin
     • title: Study of Effect of Cable Yielding in Cable-Driven Robotic System
     • date: 2004
     • words: 159
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: In effect the limitations on dynamic performance caused by cable yielding were added to the limitations caused by the bounds on actuator torque capacity, in order to give a more comprehensive description of the capabilities of the cable-driven system. This method involved a model of the cable tensions based on a rigid-body model of the system, where the tensions are considered as reaction forces.
     • keywords: cable; mechanism; model
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287. 1j92g73468n
     • author: Jenny L. Vaydich
     • title: The Influence of Emotion Regulation on Aggressive Behavior in the Face of Provocation
     • date: 2011
     • words: 120
     • flesch: 23
     • 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.
     • keywords: emotion; regulation
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288. 1j92g734706
     • author: Qiang Ling
     • title: Stability and performance of control systems with limited feedback information
     • date: 2005
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: This thesis analyzes the effect of dropout and quantization on stability and performance of control systems and develops synthesis methods that improve system performance in the face of such limited information. Based on the performance result, we propose a method to design the optimal dropout policy which minimizes the degradation of system performance under the given dropout rate constraint.
     • keywords: control; dropout; optimal; performance; quantization; system
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289. 1j92g73471j
     • author: Andrew Alexander Forbes
     • title: Sequential radiation of the parasitoid wasp Diachasma alloeum.
     • date: 2008
     • words: 450
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Wasps were also assayed for host odor discrimination behavior using a y-tube olfactometer. Its host, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) is one of the preeminent examples of incipient sympatric speciation via host shifting; flies shifted from their ancestral hawthorn host into introduced European apples ~160 years ago.
     • keywords: alloeum; apple; blueberry; hawthorn; host; isolation; origin; speciation; sympatric
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290. 1j92g734737
     • author: Pascal R. Deboeck
     • title: Smoothing-Independent Estimation of a Linear Differential Equation Model
     • date: 2010
     • words: 181
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Currently several methods can estimate derivatives for time series with measurement error. Although these methods can produce unbiased derivative estimates, parameters of differential equation models fit to univariate time series are frequently biased.
     • keywords: equation; error; series; time
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291. 1j92g73474k
     • author: Carlos Gervasoni
     • title: A Rentier Theory of Subnational Democracy: The Politically Regressive Effects of Fiscal Federalism in Argentina
     • date: 2011
     • words: 383
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Intergovernmental revenue-sharing rules that produce large vertical fiscal imbalances and favor the economically smaller districts provide their incumbents with generous fiscal federalism rents that allow them to restrict democratic contestation and weaken checks and balances. At the level of explanation, I propose a rentier theory of subnational democracy, which shifts the focus of the rentier-state literature up by climbing Sartori's ladder of abstraction from the concept of resource rents to that of fiscal rents.
     • keywords: alternative; democracy; democratic; fiscal; provinces; regimes; rentier; rents; subnational
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292. 1j92g734768
     • author: Qiang Wang
     • title: Chemical Engineering of Nanoshell Chemical Reactors
     • date: 2004
     • words: 196
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The interdependence of shell formation and model compound encapsulation efficiency was characterized using a variety of colloidal and microscopic methods such as dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and steady-state and time resolved fluorescence. Based on these results, the effect of nanoshell encapsulation on the kinetics of chemical reactions and their potential for future applications of these materials are evaluated.
     • keywords: chemical; materials; methods; nanoshell; objective; synthesis
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293. 1j92g73477m
     • author: Andrew Nugent Balhoff
     • title: Compressed Air Energy Storage for Vehicle Start-Stop and Launch Assist
     • date: 2012
     • words: 138
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: In an effort to provide a low cost and environmentally friendly system, compressed air energy storage (CAES) was pursued as an alternative to current hybrid systems. Engine start-stop (ESS) and launch assist (LA) were considered as two potential methods for energy reintroduction.
     • keywords: caes; energy; system; vehicle
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294. 1j92g734799
     • author: Pamela Marguerite Schaal
     • title: Fiscal Federalism: The Effects of Divided versus Unified Government on Federal Grant-in-Aid Spending
     • date: 2009
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 5
     • summary: It suggests that an increase in veto players through political parties will reduce the discretionary authority of the political branches, especially the Executive through the decrease in non-formulaic monies thereby facilitating more formulaic spending and hence greater genuine checks and balances between the branches. During divided government, there will also be more bi-partisan deliberation and negotiation regarding substantive policy making and hence less partisanship and particularistic tendencies that are typical of unified government.
     • keywords: divided; formulaic; government; particularistic; partisan; players; veto
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295. 1j92g73480h
     • author: Yue Li
     • title: Textured Surfaces for Orthopedic Implants
     • date: 2008
     • words: 255
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: Combined with human walking biomechanics, the textured surfaces had the benefits of encouraging lubricant entrainment under high load and restricting lubricant escape from the surfaces under low load. The textured surfaces were the most effective for alumina-cup implants, with an over 300% increase of lubricant film thickness.
     • keywords: dimple; implants; lubricant; surfaces; textured; thickness
     • versions: original; plain text
296. 1j92g734d13
     • author: Indranil Palit
     • title: Design and Evaluation of Circuits and Architectures Based on Beyond-CMOS Device Technologies
     • date: 1904
     • words: 677
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Case studies are performed by using these models, for a tactile sensing problem, and a pattern recognition problem to compare power and performance between tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) based non-linear CNN and conventional linear resistor based CNN.Traditional, CMOS based, von Neumann architectures face daunting challenges in performing complex computational tasks at high speed and with low power on spatio-temporal data, e.g., image processing, pattern recognition, etc. This work also proposes analytical models to estimate CNN power and performance.
     • keywords: approach; binary; cmos; cnn; cnns; conventional; design; device; field; nml; non; power; tfet; work
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297. 1j92g734z12
     • author: Paul Blaschko
     • title: Theoretical Deliberation as Intentional Belief Formation: An Essay on the Voluntarist Grounds of Epistemic Responsibility
     • date: 1904
     • words: 229
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Secondly, however, I argue that locating such control in the doxastic case is far from straightforward: we do not have direct voluntary control over our belief formation, and the kinds of indirect voluntary control we most obviously have is unsuited to the task of grounding epistemic responsibility. In giving an account of these processes, then, we explain the possibility of epistemic responsibility by accounting for its grounds, and greatly clarify a number of issues regarding the role of the will in cognition and its evaluation.
     • keywords: control; responsibility; voluntary
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298. 1j92g73588j
     • author: Oyekola Oyekole
     • title: Development and Numerical Analysis of Partitioned Algorithms for Fluid-Elastic / Poroelastic Structure Interaction Problems
     • date: 2020
     • words: 228
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: This work introduces novel, loosely-coupled and easy-to-implement partitioned algorithms for Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) and Fluid-Poroelastic Structure Interaction, based on spatial discretization using the standard Galerkin Finite Element Method, and applying finite difference approximations in time. We prove its stability and second-order convergence properties, and then demonstrate its applicability to blood flow modeling under physiological conditions.
     • keywords: fluid; interaction; method; new; partitioned
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299. 1j92g73592s
     • author: Alberto Roman Afanador
     • title: Embedded Semi-Analytical Modeling of Small Scales in Simulations of Multiphase Flows
     • date: 2020
     • words: 172
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: Multi-scale models provide the capacity to simulate complex flow problems without requiring high resolutions. Several multi-scale multiphase flow problems have been studied including two-dimensional and three-dimensional flow with topology changes.
     • keywords: dimensional; multiphase; scale; simulations
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300. 1j92g735c0q
     • author: Xiao Liu
     • title: Causal Mediation Analysis with the Latent Growth Curve Mediation Model
     • date: 2022
     • words: 305
     • flesch: 27
     • 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.
     • keywords: intercept; lgcmm; mediation; mediator; slope
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301. 1j92g735c2d
     • author: Alejandro Garciadiego Del Rio
     • title: Multi-Scale Modeling for Ionic Liquid Enabled Separation Systems
     • date: 2022
     • words: 227
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: This thesis explores methods to aid the search for novel materials integrating data science and process systems engineering tools to find property targets for separation agents and contemplate which data is more valuable to screen these separation agents. There exists ample opportunity for reducing and replacing high-energy separation processes with innovative separation agents.
     • keywords: agents; data; energy; framework; separation
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302. 1n79h417g38
     • author: Larry Ricardo Gibson
     • title: Rapid Detection of Lipid Biomarkers in Three-Dimensional Hybrid Microfluidicanofluidic Devices
     • date: 2014
     • words: 361
     • flesch: 3
     • summary: Current biomarker measurements using benchtop analytical systems strongly suggest that real-time monitoring of the concentration of specific lipids and/or their derivatives in patient biofluids would enable physicians to more accurately track disease progression and swiftly administer therapeutic treatments. This dissertation introduces a three-dimensional hybrid microfluidicanofluidic device that performs electrophoretic separations of lipid biomarkers and discusses the development of this technology into a promising alternative to current analytical methods using benchtop CE separation units.
     • keywords: analysis; benchtop; current; diagnostic; disease; lipid; methods; real; systems; time
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303. 1n79h417g69
     • author: Jeffrey William Pavlik
     • title: Investigations of Diatomic Heme Ligands. Part I: Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy of Nitrosyl Iron Porphyrinates. Part II: The Characterization of Hydrosulfido Heme Models
     • date: 2011
     • words: 273
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: Prior related single-crystal NRVS was conducted in two porphyrin defined directions, parallel to the porphyrin plane (in-plane but non-specific axis) and perpendicular to the porphyrin plane (out-of-plane or z-direction). Crystals of [Fe(OEP)(NO)] and [Fe(DPIX-DME)(NO)] were analyzed by NRVS along specific in-plane axes, along (x-direction) or normal to (y-direction) the Fe-N-O defined direction.
     • keywords: crystal; direction; nrvs; plane; porphyrin; single
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304. 1n79h417g80
     • author: Marcia Eileen Braun
     • title: Do Individual Differences in Global Social Support Affect How Daily Support Buffers Daily Stress?
     • date: 2010
     • words: 279
     • flesch: 34
     • 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.
     • keywords: daily; social; stress; support
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305. 1n79h417h0j
     • author: Eldon Franklin Coffman
     • title: An Essay on the Logic of Warrant
     • date: 2008
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: Second, Foundationalism about knowledge and warrant should be reconceived in terms of justification. Warrant is whatever distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief.
     • keywords: argument; chapter; infallibilism; knowledge; ndash; second; warrant
     • versions: original; plain text
306. 1n79h417h6m
     • author: S. M. Niaz Arifin
     • title: A Spatial Agent-Based Model and a Multi-Dimensional Data Warehouse for Malaria Research
     • date: 2013
     • words: 168
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Using the spatial ABM, we demonstrate the effects of spatial heterogeneity, investigate the impact of vector control interventions, and describe an example application by integrating the ABM with a geographic information system (GIS). Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is a powerful tool for representing complex biological systems.
     • keywords: abm; data; malaria; spatial; vector
     • versions: original; plain text
307. 1n79h417h9n
     • author: Shannon Valenzuela
     • title: Mnemosyne's Son: Chaucer, Translation, and the Creation of English Textual Memory
     • date: 2007
     • words: 333
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Chaucer's use of translation as a means of rhetorical invention is deeply connected to medieval technologies of memory; Chaucer's poetry not only explores the theoretical possibilities of these activities, but also offers different perspectives on the relationship between right reading and right action. This dissertation considers the various ways in which Chaucer explores three distinct, though related, theoretical issues posed by the development of English as a literary vernacular: namely, the nature of translation, the construction of textual memory, and the relationship between reading and ethics.
     • keywords: chaucer; memory; relationship; textual; theoretical; translation
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308. 1n79h418d79
     • author: Douglas Duhaime
     • title: Copyright and the Early English Book Market: An Algorithmic Study
     • date: 2019
     • words: 295
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: In short, while book historians and legal scholars have written copious amounts of scholarship on the relationship between early copyright law and the eighteenth-century publishing industry, these studies have tended to focus on a small handful of pivotal writers and legal cases. This dissertation's focus on the relationship between copyright law and the eighteenth-century book market is motivated by the fact that English courts of the period revolutionized copyright law in ways that continue to influence contemporary legal thought.
     • keywords: book; century; copyright; english; law; legal; market
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309. 1n79h418j7j
     • author: Andrew Jahan Khajavipour (Jahan Khajavi)
     • title: Jahan Jahan
     • date: 2020
     • words: 37
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: A manuscript of original poetry to meet the requirements of a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. This collection is defined by uniform formal elements adapted from tradition Iranian poetry met with queer eroticism &amp; politics.
     • keywords: poetry
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310. 1n79h418m13
     • author: Daniella Rebouças-Ju
     • title: Explanatory Item Response Time Modeling
     • date: 2021
     • words: 168
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: On the person's side, familiarity with online environments may largely predict response times. On the item's side, item type and number of words in item stem may account for a substantial variability in response times.
     • keywords: item; response; times; variability
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311. 1n79h418m8h
     • author: August Gula
     • title: An Alternative 3α Process: The 2H(α,γ) 6Li(α,γ) 10B(α,d) 12C Reaction in Primordial Stars
     • date: 2022
     • words: 175
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: The 10B + α reactions were studied using silicon surface barrier detectors in close geometry, whereas the 6Li + α reaction used a combination of Cerium Tribromide and High-Purity Germanium detectors. The recent discovery of very old Carbon Enhanced Metal Poor (CEMP) stars has left questions as to their origins, in particular with respect to the origin of CNO element production in the early universe.
     • keywords: 10b; 6li; reaction
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312. 1n79h418m9v
     • author: Ashley G. Walker
     • title: Using, Refusing, and Becoming Exempla: Debating Exemplarity in Heroides 5 and 16-17
     • date: 2022
     • words: 266
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: It argues that the letters of Oenone, Paris, and Helen participate in a debate about the use of exempla in elegiac rhetoric and even question exemplarity, the conventional elegiac strategy of reliance on exempla. Chapter 2 shows that Oenone (Her. 5), although struggling to insert herself into Paris and Helen's discourse, still engages with exempla more critically in her attempt to correct Paris's poorly chosen exempla.
     • keywords: elegiac; exempla; helen; paris
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313. 1n79h418n2r
     • author: Hansheng Ye
     • title: III-Nitride Based High Electron Mobility Transistors for RF Applications
     • date: 2022
     • words: 264
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: III-nitride based high electron mobility transistors are ideal candidates for such systems due to their wide/ultra-wide bandgaps, high carrier concentrations, as well as high carrier velocities. Rapid development of wireless communication systems, including the deployment of 5G networks, calls for robust electronic components that can efficiently support the transmission of increasingly high data rates with wider bandwidths and at higher frequencies.
     • keywords: algan; carrier; channel; gan; high; mobility
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314. 1r66j100r5h
     • author: Michael William Handlogten
     • title: Design of a Heterobivalent Inhibitor of Allergy and More Physiologically Relevant Allergy Models
     • date: 2013
     • words: 348
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Using this model we demonstrated the significance of low affinity epitopes and that selective inhibition of only the low affinity hapten, of an allergen made up of high and low affinity hatpens, was sufficient to prevent mast cell degranulation. The HtTA allergy model allowed an integrative approach to study mast cell degranulation by presenting 2 haptens each with a valency of 2 and requiring both hapten specific IgEs to be present on the mast cell surface to stimulate degranulation.
     • keywords: affinity; allergy; cell; degranulation; low; mast; model
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315. 1r66j100r6v
     • author: Alexander Grant White
     • title: Selective Recognition of Bacteria Utilizing Zinc(II)-Dipicolylamine Conjugated Far-Red Fluorescent Probes
     • date: 2012
     • words: 443
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Planar fluorescence optical imaging proves that these Zn-DPA probes bind leg infections of Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus or Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium in living mice. In addition, the delivery of microparticles to the lungs can be monitored via whole animal optical imaging.
     • keywords: dpa; fluorescent; gram; imaging; leg; mice; probes; rotaxane; squaraine
     • versions: original; plain text
316. 1r66j100r8j
     • author: Peng Sun
     • title: Xps Study of Neutral Mixed Valence Ru Dimer: [(acac)2Ru]2(Bpz4) and Afm Study of Water Meniscus Between an Afm Tip and Nacl Substrate
     • date: 2004
     • words: 216
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: Contact angle, ellipsometry and XPS measurements suggested that the Ru dimer molecules form self-limiting monolayers on hydrophilic surfaces and not bind detectably to hydrophobic surface. XPS study of the a powder sample of the Ru dimer indicated only one group of Ru signals with binding energies close to those of RuIII in Creutz-Taube-type complexes, which suggested that the Ru dimer used was possibly oxidized RuIII/RuIII during the experiment.
     • keywords: dimer; meniscus; water; xps
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317. 1r66j100s03
     • author: Steven Barbachyn
     • title: Analytical Evaluation of Diagonally-Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams Under Lateral Loads
     • date: 2011
     • words: 158
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Most of these previous experiments were conducted on coupling beams free to displace axially, ignoring the axial restraining forces that develop in a coupled wall structure. To isolate the primary load-resisting components inside the beams, a two-dimensional nonlinear strut-and-tie analytical model is developed based on comparisons with measured coupling beam behavior from previous research.
     • keywords: beams; coupling; strut; wall
     • versions: original; plain text
318. 1r66j100s2s
     • author: Arun Francis Rodrigues
     • title: Programming Future Architectures: Dusty Decks, Memory Walls, and the Speed of Light
     • date: 2006
     • words: 272
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: To that end, this work presents four contributions: - An implementation of MPI which uses features of LWP to substantially improve message processing throughput - A technique leveraging extended memory semantics to improve message passing by overlapping computation and communication - An OpenMP library modified to allow efficient partitioning of threads between a conventional CPU and LWPs - greatly improving cost / performance. LWP is an innovative technique which combines Processing-In-Memory, short vector computation, multithreading, and extended memory semantics.
     • keywords: computation; lwp; memory; performance; processing; speed
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319. 1r66j100s34
     • author: Irfan A Khawaja
     • title: Foundationalism and the Foundations of Ethics
     • date: 2008
     • words: 150
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: The basic aims of this study are to defend a particular conception of the problem; to offer the sketch of a solution; and to offer an extended critique of one attempted solution, namely, Christine Korsgaard's in The Sources of Normativity. It is also, despite its currency, a remarkably obscure and multifarious problem: it's rarely clear in the literature what the problem is, what the solutions are, and indeed, what counts as an instance of either problem or solution.
     • keywords: literature; problem; solution
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320. 1r66j100s5t
     • author: Yury Pogorelov
     • title: A Search for the Associated Higgs Production in the Tau Channel
     • date: 2008
     • words: 152
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: The cross section for this process is enhanced in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM), such as in its Minimal Supersymmetric extension (MSSM) at large tanß. This cross section limit is comparable with the one obtained previously using the decay of the Higgs into two b-quarks, despite the 1:9 branching ratio of the tau-tau to bb decay modes.
     • keywords: cross; higgs; tau
     • versions: original; plain text
321. 1r66j100s65
     • author: Zhi Zhai
     • title: Technology-Facilitated Crowdsourcing Systems
     • date: 2013
     • words: 151
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: While crowdsourcing system designs have progressed substantially through engineering breakthroughs, some challenges in the crowdsourcing model however remain unanswered, such as (1)System Design: in various crowdsourcing systems, what roles can crowds play and what contributions can they make? When presenting research observations and results, we discuss a variety of technological and organizational considerations in crowdsourcing system designs.
     • keywords: crowdsourcing; human; intelligence; systems
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322. 1r66j100s8v
     • author: Angel Eduardo Alvarez
     • title: Political Funding Regulations in Latin America: Uncertainty, Equity and Transparency
     • date: 2011
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Form this point of view, campaign and party funding rules would be always aimed at providing financial advantages for majority parties and to hinder financial activities of minority parties. Why do self-interested legislators regulate their own finances, allocate public money to minority parties and candidates, impose disclosure rules on politicians' financial accounts, and establish penalties for violations of financial regulations?
     • keywords: financial; funding; money; parties; political; politicians
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323. 1r66j100s96
     • author: Patrick Howard Donohue
     • title: Origin and Evolution of High-Titanium Mare Basalts
     • date: 2013
     • words: 333
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: Finally, I investigate two rocklets found in the lunar highlands that were recently classified as basalts. I confirm their basaltic nature, extending the mare CSD database to include picritic basalt and Luna 24-type basalt.
     • keywords: basaltic; basalts; crystal; early; evolution; high; lunar; system
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324. 1r66j100t1r
     • author: Damon McGraw
     • title: Apocalyptic Thought in John Henry Newman: Discerning Antichrist in Modernity
     • date: 2014
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: As such it fills lacunae in the fields of Newman scholarship and apocalyptic studies simply by showing that there is a significant amount of apocalyptic thought to be found in Newman's writings and that he deserves to be recognized as an important figure in this Christian theological tradition. To Christian thinkers interested in the criticism of modernity this dissertation shows how Newman's practice of apocalyptic thought yielded his interpretation and critique of the 'liberalism' that he identified in the modern Western reduction of religion to private sentiment and its attendant assertion of 'secular reason' as sovereign over all inherited authorities and traditions.
     • keywords: apocalyptic; christian; dissertation; narrative; newman; protestant; thought
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325. 1r66j100t23
     • author: Leonard James DeLorenzo
     • title: Those Who Hear Will Live: A Theological Explication of the Communion of Saints
     • date: 2014
     • words: 315
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: Furthermore, this dissertation shows how the denial of the seriousness of death correlatively diminishes the apprehension of God's absolute gift of creatio ex nihilo and the separate though corresponding gift of new life in the resurrection of the dead. This work aims to present the communio sanctorum as an article of faith that is properly christological in that it concerns the complete action of the Incarnation, pneumatological in that it pertains to the Spirit's work of forming community in the bonds of charity, and ultimately trinitarian in that it fundamentally entails the graced participation in the divine life of persons-in-communion.
     • keywords: christian; communication; communion; death; faith; life
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326. 1r66j100t4s
     • author: Timothy Ferdinands
     • title: Groupoids with root systems in real vector spaces
     • date: 1904
     • words: 213
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: The main purpose of this thesis is to discuss realizations of root systems of signed groupoid sets in real vector spaces. Compressed signed groupoid sets, for which the dominance preorder is a partial order, are particularly important and we give a construction attaching a compressed realized signed groupoid set to an uncompressed one under certain hypotheses.
     • keywords: compressed; groupoid; root; sets
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327. 1r66j100v5f
     • author: Yuriy Hulovatyy
     • title: Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications
     • date: 1904
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: For example, whereas traditional network data has been static, because it has become easier to record system evolution, more of dynamic network data is becoming available. Finally, we introduce a new approach for studying dynamic networks from the intermediate perspective, which deals with the problem of segment community detection.
     • keywords: analysis; data; dynamic; local; network; new; novel; perspective
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328. 1r66j100v6s
     • author: Margaret B. Owensby
     • title: Quantifying the Uncertainty of Vegetation-Induced Wave Dissipation
     • date: 1904
     • words: 147
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Some recent efforts to mitigate coastal damage caused by flooding and surge during storm events have focused on the use of coastal vegetation as a means of inducing wave energy dissipation. Numerous sets of test runs were conducted to estimate the amount of wave dissipation caused by coastal vegetation, and the uncertainty and accuracy of the methods and results are analyzed.
     • keywords: coastal; vegetation; wave
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329. 1r66j100z3p
     • author: Ruiwen Zhen
     • title: Aided Blind Deblurring Image Degraded by Motion Blur
     • date: 1904
     • words: 524
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: As a third contribution, a dynamic scene deblurring method, which handles both camera shake blur and object motion blur, is developed by augmenting the previous framework with a layered blur model. The short-exposed images provide necessary constraints for initial depth map inference and a MRF framework is formulated to further refine the depth map by exploiting both stereo cues and motion blur cues.
     • keywords: blur; camera; deblurring; estimation; exposure; framework; image; inertial; kernel; motion
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330. 1r66j101t11
     • author: Nabarun Dev
     • title: Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of Standard Model Higgs and Neutral Heavy Higgs Bosons to a Muon and an Electronically Decaying Tau Lepton
     • date: 2019
     • words: 178
     • flesch: 66
     • summary: This dissertation presents searches for Lepton Flavor Violating decay of the Standard Model Higgs Boson (h) as well as neutral Heavy Higgs Bosons (H) into a muon and an electronically decaying tau lepton. Observed (expected) upper limits on product of H cross-section and branching ratio of decay into a muon and a tau lepton range from 51.9 (57.4) pb to 1.6 (2.1) pb, at 95 % CL, for H masses in the range between 200 and 900 GeV.
     • keywords: lepton; limits
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331. 1r66j101v00
     • author: Geoffrey Hall
     • title: The Algebraic Structure of Propositions
     • date: 2020
     • words: 420
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Given our best theories of indefinite extensibility, even if contingent truth turns out to be indefinitely extensible, the principle of sufficient reason still entails that all truths are necessary, given plausible background principles. The principle of Distribution turns out to be surprisingly strong: for many theories of propositional fineness of grain, conjoining that theory with Distribution has implausible consequences.
     • keywords: distribution; grain; principle; propositional; theories; theory
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332. 1r66j101v4c
     • author: Monica C. Perez
     • title: Maternal Self-Compassion as a Moderator of the Relation between Adolescent Aggression and Parenting Stress
     • date: 2020
     • words: 210
     • flesch: 7
     • summary: Results indicated that when dysfunctional parenting was included in the model, maternal self-compassion continued to moderate the relations between adolescent aggression and parenting stress. The present study examined whether maternal self-compassion moderated the relationship between adolescent aggression and maternal parenting stress.
     • keywords: aggression; parenting; stress
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333. 1r66j101w7q
     • author: Hao Zheng
     • title: Data-Efficient and Robust Deep Learning Based Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation and Related Problems
     • date: 2022
     • words: 341
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: In this dissertation, I develop new deep learning methods to save annotation efforts, improve model efficacy, and generalize well to different biomedical image segmentation tasks. However, it is not straightforward to apply known semantic segmentation algorithms directly to biomedical images due to different imaging techniques and special application scenarios (e.g., volumetric images, multi-modal data, small amounts of annotated data, domain knowledge from experts).
     • keywords: annotation; images; learning; methods; model; new; performance; segmentation; tasks
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334. 1r66j101z60
     • author: Adrian Navarro Hernandez
     • title: Mathematical Problems in the Inference of Source Location with Applications to Cellular Directional Sensing
     • date: 2023
     • words: 266
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: We identify several homogenization limits in which complex target configurations can be replaced by simpler ones while retaining overall capture characteristics. We consider the inverse problem of determining the source location of unbiased random walkers to complex target configurations in two and three dimensions.
     • keywords: kmc; location; method; problem; source; surface; transform
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335. 1v53jw8415w
     • author: Zijun Ke
     • title: An Empirical Comparison of Three Methods to Establish Directional Relationships Using Multivariate Time Series: Effective Connectivity Analysis with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies
     • date: 2014
     • words: 195
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Statistical methods for modeling causal relations among brain regions in neuroscience are referred to as effective connectivity (EC) methods. Researchers in a variety of disciplines are interested in methods to establish causal links among several constructs.
     • keywords: causal; connectivity; dcm; methods; modeling
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336. 1v53jw8418x
     • author: Francisco A Noria
     • title: Physiological Implications for Murine Deficiencies of Key Proteins of the Coagulation Cascade
     • date: 2011
     • words: 498
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Potential implications of the contact system in the regulation of inflammation are observed by exacerbated counts of granulocytes in the blood of FXI and FXII double deficient mice. In our studies, these models allow us to study the implications of factor XI (FXI)-/-, factor XII (FXII)-/-, FXI-/-/ FXII-/-, very low-expressing factor VII (FVIItTA/tTA), fibrinogen (Fg)-/-, and protein C (PC)+/- mice in biological systems other than coagulation.
     • keywords: challenge; coagulation; copper; deficiencies; factor; impact; mice; models; murine; oxidative
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337. 1v53jw8420g
     • author: Michael Stephen Crocker
     • title: Study of Spacings and Defects in Molecular QCA and Design of a QCA-based Programmable Logic Array
     • date: 2010
     • words: 164
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: The research contained in this thesis includes an investigation into the physical spacings of QCA devices and the harmful effects of defects and faults on basic QCA circuit elements. Because of the higher defect rates expected at the nanoscale, steps have been taken to design reprogrammable logic from QCA devices.
     • keywords: computing; qca; research; trends
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338. 1v53jw84225
     • author: Bryan M Morales
     • title: Company Towns Revisited: Historic Typologies as a Model for Stability and Growth in Developing Countries
     • date: 2006
     • words: 77
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: This thesis represents a design solution for what is commonly known as a company town, a community built around a single industry or company, and to develop urban planning and architectural solutions that could realistically be implemented to improve the lives and conditions of people in developing countries. In order to accomplish this goal I have prepared the following chapters to explain both the current problems and potential solutions involving Haiti, company towns, urban planning, and architecture.
     • keywords: company; urban
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339. 1v53jw84256
     • author: Xiangdong Qin
     • title: Reaction of Hyperthermal Oxygen Ions with Self-Assembled Monolayers and Silicon Oxide Thin Films
     • date: 2006
     • words: 313
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: To learn about the site-specificity to hydrogen abstraction in this system, SAM layers are grown for which the hydrogen atoms located on the C-12, C-11, or C-10 positions of 1-dodcanethiol are substituted with deuterium atoms. In order to understand the degradation pathways suffered by protective coatings and polymeric satellite materials in the low-earth orbit (LEO) space environment, reactions of hyperthermal oxygen ions with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and silicon oxide thin films are studied under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions.
     • keywords: atoms; channels; hyperthermal; ions; layer; oxygen; reaction; sam
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340. 1v53jw84287
     • author: Darrell Paul Duffek
     • title: Effects of Combined Thermal and Mechanical Loading on the Fatigue of Solder Joints
     • date: 2004
     • words: 174
     • flesch: 55
     • summary: However, to have confidence in these models, they must closely match real world test results, including time to failure and failure mode. Electrical continuity and resistance in the solder joints is monitored, and the specimens are tested until failure criteria, usually based on detection of an open circuit, are met.
     • keywords: failure; models; test; thermal
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341. 1v53jw84314
     • author: Vesela Yordanova Ugrinova
     • title: Synthesis and Chemistry of Titanium(IV) Complexes with Triamido-Amine, Triaryloxo-Amine, Beta-Diketonate/Phenoxide and Bis(Beta-Diketonate) Ligands
     • date: 2007
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: The prepared acyl sulfonamides N(CH2CONHSO2R)3 gave complex mixtures of products with Ti(OtBu)4 and Ti(NMe2)4, and the tris(trifluoromethanesulfonamide) N(CH2CH2NHSO2CF3)3 was inert towards Ti(OtBu)4, and formed multiple products with Ti(NMe2)4. Titanium(IV) It is an active catalyst for sulfide oxidation, but it did not activate peroxides for alkene's epoxidation or catalyze the retro aldol reaction of diacetone alcohol.
     • keywords: beta; complexes; diketonate; ligand; prepared; products; synthesis; titanium
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342. 1v53jw84345
     • author: Matthew P. McDonald
     • title: Absorption and emission spectroscopy of individual semiconductor nanostructures
     • date: 1904
     • words: 347
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Thus, this thesis seeks to show the delicate interplay between quantum confinement and dielectric screening effects in single CdSe nanostructures. Most notably, confining the physical dimension of the nanostructure to a size below its Bohr radius (aB) results in quantum confinement effects that increase its optical energy gap.
     • keywords: cdse; dependent; effects; nws; optical; shape; single; size
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343. 1v53jw8435h
     • author: Everaldo Aguiar
     • title: Identifying Students at Risk and Beyond: A Machine Learning Approach
     • date: 1904
     • words: 241
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: To stem the tide of student attrition, these institutions continue to invest increasing amounts of resources to foster the early identification of students who may drop out. We compare the performance of such methods to that of more traditional approaches, discuss what specific student-level data features can be used to measure student risk, and delineate strategies that can be followed by academic institutions that wish to deploy and evaluate these predictive models.
     • keywords: challenge; institutions; level; secondary; students
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344. 1v53jw8442s
     • author: Andi Noakes
     • title: Population Dynamics of Fraxinus pennsylvanica
     • date: 1904
     • words: 342
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: In addition, I ascertain fundamental characteristics of genetic variation and population differentiation across the range of green ash, including a broad and fine-scale analysis of genetic structure. Although spatial factors did not estimate differentiation well, mean temperature of the driest quarter was the best single predictor of population differentiation.
     • keywords: ash; differentiation; fraxinus; genetic; green; north; pollen; population; range; species
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345. 1v53jw84763
     • author: Amy E. Jonason
     • title: Growing the Good Food Revolution: Strategies of Sustainable Community in Two Urban Alternative Food Projects
     • date: 1904
     • words: 292
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: These future projections, and the strategies that activists initially utilized to pursue them, were informed by dominant narratives about the lack of Good Food in urban neighborhoods, as well as activists' skills and prior knowledge. Ultimately, these findings explain why groups struggle to establish patterns of action that create viable economic opportunities and durable social relationships in inner-city neighborhoods.
     • keywords: action; activists; food; groups; social; study
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346. 1v53jw84r73
     • author: Finola Prendergast
     • title: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Moral Philosophy in Contemporary U.S. Literature
     • date: 1904
     • words: 312
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: My dissertation explores the relationship between science fiction (SF)/fantasy and moral discourse in contemporary U.S. fiction. My dissertation analyzes iterations of this dynamic between SF/fantasy and high-literary novels to argue that borrowing from the genre tradition currently serves to enable moral discourse in contemporary U.S. fiction.
     • keywords: contemporary; discourse; dissertation; fantasy; literature; moral
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347. 1v53jw84r8f
     • author: Joshua Noble
     • title: Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42–47 and 4:32–35
     • date: 1904
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: While Roman poets credit Augustus, Nero, and a host of other emperors with bringing about a new Golden Age, Luke implies that it is Christ, not Caesar, who has truly restored human harmony and reconciled humanity with God. By the time that Luke was writing, the Golden Age myth had become strongly associated with the figure of the Roman emperor, giving Luke's use of the myth potentially an empire-critical significance.
     • keywords: acts; age; golden; luke; myth; roman
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348. 1v53jw85453
     • author: Katheryn J. Klukow Kelley
     • title: Dysfunctional Individuation, Spiritual Struggle and Identity in Emerging Adults: A Developmental Approach
     • date: 2020
     • words: 285
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: Path models linking dysfunctional individuation, religious and spiritual struggle, spirituality and religious identity indicate that individuation may still be an important component of religious identity development. These developmental tasks can result in spiritual growth even while religious participation declines, as the emerging adult shifts from a religious identity assigned in childhood by parental socialization to one chosen as an individuated adult.
     • keywords: adults; identity; individuation; religious; spiritual; spirituality
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349. 1v53jw8561b
     • author: Yang Zhang
     • title: Towards Multimodal, Sparse, and Uncertainty-Aware Artificial Intelligence in Smart Urban Sensing
     • date: 2022
     • words: 615
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: 2) AI models are capable of judiciously analyzing the vast amount of structured and unstructured sensing data, which significantly improves the heterogeneity and efficiency of ASUS applications. Compared to traditional urban sensing applications, ASUS is advantageous in several aspects: 1) unlike the traditional urban sensing solutions, AI models are often data-driven and tend to be more intelligent and flexible in understanding the complex and multimodal sensing measurements in ASUS.
     • keywords: analytic; applications; asus; data; intelligence; models; sensing; sensors; set; smart; thesis; uncertainty; urban
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350. 1v53jw8579d
     • author: Aurel Holzschuh
     • title: Understanding Residual Plasmodium falciparum Transmission through Targeted Amplicon Deep Sequencing
     • date: 2023
     • words: 564
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: Using AmpSeq data from 290 P. falciparum infections, I observed strong fine-scale spatial and temporal structure of local parasite populations, despite high genetic diversity, providing evidence for ongoing local transmission. Parasite genetic data can inform malaria elimination strategies by helping to identify factors that contribute to residual transmission.
     • keywords: data; elimination; falciparum; high; local; malaria; parasite; resistance; structure; transmission; zanzibar
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351. 1z40ks6797n
     • author: Andrew James Steward
     • title: The Chondrogenic Response of Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Mechanical Loading
     • date: 2014
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: To test whether the response of MSCs to HP depends on cell-matrix interactions, MSCs were seeded into either agarose or fibrin hydrogels and exposed to cyclic HP. This study demonstrates that a complex relationship between cell-matrix interactions and HP mechanotransduction plays a key role in regulating the chondrogenic differentiation of MSCs.
     • keywords: ca++; matrix; mechanotransduction; mscs; response
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352. 1z40ks67980
     • author: Chadwick C. Curtis
     • title: Essays on the Macroeconomics of China
     • date: 2012
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 59
     • summary: Finally, the third chapter investigates the extent that economic reforms that removed barriers to entry by private businesses in 1992 can quantitatively account for China's growth in total factor productivity (TFP). Specifically, it asks if the tools used to study business cycles in developed countries can also be used to study China.
     • keywords: chapter; china; economic; population; private; saving; world
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353. 1z40ks67b0j
     • author: Yogesh B Wakchaure
     • title: Low-Resistance Ohmic Contacts to P-Inas for High-Speed Device Applications
     • date: 2005
     • words: 180
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: Contrary to simple contact models, this process resulted in increased contact resistance. Contact resistance was measured using the transmission line method (TLM) with a Kelvin probe connection to minimize measurement error.
     • keywords: contact; resistance
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354. 1z40ks67b27
     • author: Michaela Bucchianeri
     • title: Can Working Memory Interference Explain Need for Cognitive Closure Effects in the Perception of Discrimination?
     • date: 2011
     • words: 258
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: In particular, the purpose of the studies presented here was to test whether a more basic and parsimonious explanation, situational interference with working memory, may account for previous studies' results regarding prototype use in the perception of discrimination. Study 2 did not support the hypothesized exacerbation of the prototype effect by interference with working memory, but provided preliminary evidence in support of this effect via a near-significant prototype main effect within the working memory interference condition.
     • keywords: discrimination; memory; prototype; support; working
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355. 1z40ks67b4x
     • author: Po Wu
     • title: Symmetry and Dissipativity in the Design of Large-Scale Complex Control Systems
     • date: 2013
     • words: 259
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: In order to recognize the important role of symmetry in dynamical systems, background is first given on general definitions of symmetry for geometric control systems in Chapter 2. Overall, this dissertation provides new approaches in analyzing and synthesizing large-scale dynamical control systems with regard to energy and input-output relationships, where symmetry property provides interesting results for system analysis and control design.
     • keywords: chapter; control; dynamical; passivity; symmetry; systems
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356. 1z40ks67b58
     • author: Nathan L. King
     • title: The Epistemology of Disagreement: Puzzles, Solutions, and Applications
     • date: 2009
     • words: 600
     • flesch: 58
     • 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.
     • keywords: acknowledged; belief; chapter; disagreement; epistemic; peer
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357. 1z40ks67b7z
     • author: Diane M Lickenbrock
     • title: Examining Infant Attachment Security with Mothers and Fathers: An Ecological Systems Perspective
     • date: 2010
     • words: 223
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: For example, socioeconomic status is generally considered a more distal factor but has been found to be related to maternal warmth and child aggression. The current study aimed to examine the role of various ecological systems in early infancy Ì¢ â parental resources, marital functioning, and parental sensitivity and involvement-on later infant attachment security with mothers and fathers.
     • keywords: attachment; child; infants; security
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358. 1z40ks67c0v
     • author: Laura Kinnaman
     • title: Structural, dynamic, and spectroscopic properties of self-consistent charge density functional tight binding water models
     • date: 2011
     • words: 235
     • flesch: 34
     • 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.
     • keywords: density; models; order; properties; systems; water
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359. 1z40ks67c16
     • author: Quinn Nathaniel Lathrop
     • title: The Impact of Within-Template Systematic Variation on Response Models
     • date: 2013
     • words: 81
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: First, explaining and removing non-random error may improve ability and item parameter estimates. With item response data, systematic variation within nested groups of generated items may negatively impact the estimation of item and person parameters.
     • keywords: item; systematic
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360. 1z40ks67c3w
     • author: Julia M Harris
     • title: Dodge & Burn
     • date: 2015
     • words: 1
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Poetry.
     • keywords: poetry
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361. 1z40ks67c47
     • author: Heather Leigh Eisler
     • title: Genomic Study of Female Hybrid Sterility in D. simulans/D. melanogaster Hybrid Females with Differing Levels of Oogenic Development
     • date: 2010
     • words: 316
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Using whole genome microarrays, expression profiles for D. simulans/D. melanogaster hybrid females exhibiting different levels of oogenic development were examined. Additionally, reduced inviaibilty rescue was seen with over-expression of oaf in the larval stage and adult expression of Hmr like D. melanogaster and Lhr like D. simulans, consistent with the Dobzhansky-Muller model.
     • keywords: expression; females; hmr; hybrid; like; melanogaster
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362. 1z40ks67c78
     • author: Patrick X. Gardner
     • title: Modern Pentecost: Henri de Lubac on Atheism and the Spiritual Posterity of Joachim of Fiore
     • date: 1904
     • words: 229
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: His judgment is that the theology of Joachim of Fiore and the spiritual movements he inspired lay the foundations for atheistic reinterpretations of Christian doctrine. I argue that de Lubac's confrontations with Joachimism allowed him to re-present his positions from earlier writings (on the Trinity, exegesis, the Church, and the eschaton) as always already providing an alternative to Joachim's teachings, as well as a response to his atheist interlocutors.
     • keywords: joachim; lubac; theology
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363. 1z40ks67c8m
     • author: Stephen M. Mattingly
     • title: The Impact of Stress and Cortisol on the Emotional Memory Trade-Off Effect
     • date: 2015
     • words: 114
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: These findings suggest that neutral memories that were consolidated in the presence of elevated cortisol are processed similarly to emotional memory, and that cortisol may be an important post encoding memory tag to preserve neutral memory. While both groups had better emotional object memory compared to background memory, the stress group had additional competition effects for neutral objects and associated backgrounds over 24 and 48 hour delays.
     • keywords: cortisol; memory; neutral
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364. 1z40ks67d8x
     • author: Renee Bouley
     • title: Discovery of New Antibacterial Agents for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphyloccocus aureus
     • date: 1904
     • words: 284
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Two lead quinazolinones were identified that demonstrated good pharmacokinetic properties and thus achieved efficacy in mouse models of infections. Additionally, the quinazolinones were tested for synergy with several classes of antibiotics including β-lactams.
     • keywords: activity; antibiotics; pbp2a; quinazolinones; site
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365. 1z40ks67h8v
     • author: Li Tang
     • title: Performance and Energy Aware Workload Partitioning on Heterogeneous Platforms
     • date: 1904
     • words: 363
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: By running different WPs of DA on a broad range of heterogeneous hardware platforms, we examine the performance and energy impacts of workload partitioning on heterogeneous platforms. One reason is that a straightforward division of the workload of an application among the processors usually cannot efficiently utilize the distinct processors of heterogeneous platforms.
     • keywords: energy; heterogeneous; partitioning; peapaw; performance; platforms; workload
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366. 1z40ks6817f
     • author: Kate Finley
     • title: Perception, Cognition, and Prediction
     • date: 1904
     • words: 341
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: In this dissertation, I address theories in cognitive science which have recently challenged traditional understandings of our perceptual and cognitive systems. In my first chapter, I address Cognitive Penetration, which challenges traditional understandings of perception.
     • keywords: chapter; cognitive; theories; traditional; understandings
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367. 1z40ks68194
     • author: Jeremy A. Eberle
     • title: Development of Novel Magnesium, Zinc, and Aluminum Organometallic Catalysts for the Copolymerization of CO2 and Epoxides
     • date: 1904
     • words: 165
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: Also included is a mechanistic discussion leading to the development of dinuclear metal complexes as catalysts. Chapter 4 focuses on the synthesis and characterization of heterobimetallic dinuclear macrocyclic metal complexes containing lithium and magnesium, or lithium and zinc centers.
     • keywords: magnesium; metal; zinc
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368. 1z40ks6863m
     • author: Francisco A. Herrera Gallegos
     • title: Fundamental Studies on the Effects of Catalyst on Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas for Ammonia Production
     • date: 2019
     • words: 345
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: The literature has extensively reported plasma-catalysis manifests in an improvement of the performance of reaction kinetics when plasma and catalyst work together. These interactions between plasma and catalyst can be interpreted from two perspectives: the effects of plasma on the catalyst and the effects of catalyst on the plasma.
     • keywords: ammonia; applications; catalysis; catalyst; plasma; production; synthesis; work
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369. 1z40ks68f0r
     • author: Shannon L. Speir
     • title: Controls on Retention, Transformation, and Export of Dissolved Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Agricultural Streams across Spatial and Temporal Scales
     • date: 2021
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: The overarching goal of my dissertation is to identify controls on retention, transformation, and export of dissolved N and P in agricultural streams using both monitoring and experimental approaches. I also found that increasing temperature and carbon availability enhanced the production of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, from stream sediments, due to incomplete denitrification.
     • keywords: agricultural; availability; increase; nitrate; removal; streams; use
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370. 1z40ks68g5s
     • author: Cho Rok Christiana Oh
     • title: Electrochemical Biosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Whole Human Fluids
     • date: 2022
     • words: 843
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: Specifically, we investigate multiple strategies to enable effective POC testing in whole human fluid samples. Ideally, POC diagnostic devices should follow the ASSURED criteria: Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid/Robust, Equipment-free and Deliverable.
     • keywords: biorecognition; biosensors; blood; csf; detection; devices; diagnostic; electrochemical; electrode; fluid; human; il-6; poc; redox; response; selectivity; sensor; serum; surface; testing
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371. 1z40ks68h22
     • author: Daniel E. Hammers
     • title: Finding a Match: The Role of Ion Transporters in Streptolysin S-Mediated Group A Streptococcal Infection
     • date: 2022
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: GAS is a versatile pathogen that utilizes several virulence factors to contribute to disease, and their effects include lysing host cells, manipulating host immune responses and coagulation, and enabling GAS to adhere to host components. Recent evidence has suggested that SLS targets the membrane-associated ion transporter Band 3 to lyse erythrocytes, challenging the traditional hypothesis that SLS lyses host cells by disrupting cell membranes.
     • keywords: cells; effects; gas; host; human; infections; keratinocytes; sls
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372. 1z40ks68h84
     • author: Jennifer Thorup Birkett
     • title: Early Modern Drama and Terms of Endearment
     • date: 2023
     • words: 209
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: In this dissertation I look to terms of endearment shared by couples in plays by William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, and Margaret Cavendish to explore the performative function of pet names and its relationship with early modern notions of marriage, desire, and gender hierarchy. In this sense, this dissertation rescues terms of endearment from obscurity, revealing them as consequential not only for the negotiation of power hierarchies and the establishment of mutuality, but for modern theatrical and editorial practice.
     • keywords: dissertation; early; endearment; modern; pet; terms
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373. 2227mp50k7h
     • author: Bradley Rettler
     • title: Grounding Truthmaking
     • date: 2014
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 62
     • summary: Generally, truthmaker theorists have accepted truthmaker necessitarianism, which has led them to reify states of affairs, facts, or tropes. The received view was that the language of the ontology room is English: words mean the same thing when doing ontology as they do at the fireworks show.
     • keywords: alternative; chapter; grounding; ontology
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374. 2227mp50m23
     • author: Andrew Koldewey Henrick
     • title: Shock-Fitted Numerical Solutions of One- and Two-Dimensional Detonation
     • date: 2011
     • words: 168
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: The one-dimensional Zel'dovich-von Neumann-Doering pulsating detonation problem is solved at a high order of accuracy, and the results compare favorably with those of linear stability theory. Two-dimensional detonation solutions are found and agree well with results from linear stability theory.
     • keywords: detonation; dimensional; order; shock
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375. 2227mp50m4s
     • author: Xiaowei Jin
     • title: LDPC codes on fading channels: receiver design, performance analysis and code design
     • date: 2008
     • words: 262
     • flesch: 44
     • 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.
     • keywords: codes; iterative; ldpc; receiver; successive
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376. 2227mp50m7t
     • author: Chrystyna D. Kouros
     • title: Children's Responses to Everyday Marital Conflict: The Influence of Marital Aggression
     • date: 2008
     • words: 151
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: Results suggested couples with a history of marital aggression use less constructive, more destructive conflict tactics, and display less positive and more negative emotions during everyday marital disagreements. This study examined parents' past marital aggression as a moderator of children's immediate responses to everyday marital conflict.
     • keywords: conflict; marital; parents
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377. 2227mp50n0q
     • author: Shaddy Abado
     • title: An Approach to Spatial and Temporal Frequencies for Aero-Optics Correction
     • date: 2012
     • words: 373
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: The research described in this dissertation explores new analysis techniques for analyzing and manipulating in-flight measured wavefronts that begin with determining the convective speed and direction of the aberration as functions of aperture location, azimuth and elevation, and flight conditions. Until recently, the only available experimental wavefront measurements of aero-optical disturbances around airborne turrets have come from wind-tunnel experiments and numerical simulations.
     • keywords: aberrations; adaptive; aero; airborne; field; flight; optics
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378. 2227mp50n3r
     • author: Jonathan Davis-Secord
     • title: Theodcwidas: Compound Words, Language, and Social Context in Early English Literature
     • date: 2007
     • words: 216
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: This dissertation explores the ways that Old and early Middle English texts use compound words within their linguistic and social contexts, combining a detailed study of linguistic and rhetorical phenomena with an informed approach to culture and language based on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theories of language. These texts are chosen in order to explore the characteristics of compound words in texts of different time periods as well as in different discourses.
     • keywords: dissertation; english; linguistic; old; texts
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379. 2227mp50p4d
     • author: Katy Cousino
     • title: THE GIRDLES: An Autobiology
     • date: 1904
     • words: 14
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: THE GIRDLES is a satirical B-horror verse-play about American fatphobia and sizeism.
     • keywords: sizeism
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380. 2227mp50p5r
     • author: Lesley Grace Sullivan
     • title: Textual Polyphony in Mozart's Don Giovanni
     • date: 1904
     • words: 196
     • flesch: 43
     • 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.
     • keywords: don; interpretation; mozart; texts
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381. 2227mp50s8q
     • author: Emily Marie Meixner
     • title: The Sixth Organ Symphony of Louis Vierne (1870-1937): An Analysis
     • date: 1904
     • words: 174
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Detailed analysis of the work will reveal this style to consist of a synthesis of aspects of impressionism, dodecaphony, traditional elements such as sonata form, and nineteenth century methods such as cyclic treatment and thematic transformation. Louis Vierne, organist at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris from 1900 until his death, composed six organ symphonies over the course of his career, and it is primarily for these works that he is remembered.
     • keywords: organ; symphonies; symphony; vierne
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382. 2227mp5183m
     • author: Michael R. Brandes
     • title: Service and Ultimate Load Behavior of Precast-Prestressed Concrete Structures Using Recycled Concrete Aggregates
     • date: 1904
     • words: 154
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: RCA made from rejected/discarded precast concrete can especially result in high-quality materials, also reducing transportation costs. Since most precast concrete applications use prestressing, this research specifically investigates the effects of RCA on: (1) rate of concrete strength and stiffness gain; (2) strand bond strength; (3) prestress losses; and (4) service load and ultimate load behavior of precast-prestressed concrete beams.
     • keywords: applications; concrete; precast; rca
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383. 2227mp51c26
     • author: Jony Gregory
     • title: The Role of Comprehensible Input in Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language: Applications for Instructing Bengali English Language Learners
     • date: 2018
     • words: 156
     • flesch: 39
     • 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.
     • keywords: english; language
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384. 2227mp51g4t
     • author: Christopher L. Ebsch
     • title: Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance, Imbalance, and Amplification in Cortical Network Models
     • date: 2019
     • words: 170
     • flesch: 18
     • 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.
     • keywords: balanced; circuits; connectivity; cortical
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385. 2227mp51h3s
     • author: Kyuhyun Byun
     • title: A Comprehensive Framework for Projecting Regional Climate Change Impacts and Analyzing Non-Stationary Statistics of Hydrologic Extremes over the Midwest and Great Lakes Region
     • date: 2019
     • words: 379
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: The study in Chapter 3 analyzes hydrologic impacts based on physically-based hydrologic simulations coupled with historical and downscaled future climate projections for the 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s, especially focusing on the changes in intensity, timing, and frequency of hydrologic extremes in 20 large watersheds throughout the region. The overarching objective of this dissertation is to develop a comprehensive framework for analyzing regional-scale climate change impacts and quantifying non-stationary risk of hydrologic extremes over the Midwest and Great Lakes region under a changing environment.
     • keywords: chapter; climate; extremes; future; hydrologic; impacts; region; statistical; summer
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386. 2227mp51p1n
     • author: Melody Wauke
     • title: Siblings in Sophocles' Antigone
     • date: 2020
     • words: 171
     • flesch: 60
     • summary: In the first chapter, I provide a philological analysis of the words different characters use to discuss siblings in the tragedy. Here, I identify how Antigone and Ismene emphasize their status as overly-connected siblings by means of the sibling vocabulary they use.
     • keywords: antigone; chapter; sibling
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387. 2227mp51r18
     • author: Shawn Gu
     • title: Novel Computational Approaches for Multi-network Analysis to Improve Protein Function Prediction
     • date: 2022
     • words: 361
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Such structures have been modeled using protein structure networks (PSNs), where nodes are amino acids and edges join those that are close in the 3D crystal structure, to great success. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network (PPIN), in which nodes are proteins and edges are PPIs, is a popular type of biological network.
     • keywords: biological; data; functional; networks; nodes; ppin; protein
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388. 2227mp51r3z
     • author: Agust Olafsson
     • title: Electron Beam Characterization of Infrared Plasmons
     • date: 2022
     • words: 526
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: We interrogate these interactions with nanometer-scale precision using scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) coupled with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). This work illustrates how STEM instrumentation can experimentally observe nanoscale plasmonic responses that were previously the domain only of higher resolution infrared spectroscopies.
     • keywords: coupling; eels; electron; energy; individual; infrared; modeling; nanocrystals; nanostructures; near; plasmonic; responses; stem; theoretical
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389. 2514nk33v98
     • author: Jason Robert Tomko
     • title: Fluid-Loaded Vibration of Thin Structures Due to Turbulent Excitation
     • date: 2014
     • words: 301
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: It was shown through a discretized string model that these results can be attributed to the increased damping induced by fluid loading. The resulting vibration field appears similar to the field examined earlier due to fluid loading, with a decrease in the coherent vibration magnitude for increasing spatial separation from the reference location.
     • keywords: field; flow; fluid; rotor; vibration
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390. 2514nk33w0g
     • author: Matthew Aaron Meixner
     • title: Supernovae Simulations and the Equation of State
     • date: 2013
     • words: 201
     • flesch: 34
     • 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.
     • keywords: density; eos; improved; nuclear; simulations
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391. 2514nk33w25
     • author: Shyamkumar Thoziyoor
     • title: Pim Lite: Vlsi Prototype of a Multithreaded Processor-In-Memory Chip
     • date: 2004
     • words: 124
     • flesch: 67
     • summary: We give details about the RTL VHDL model, the floorplanning of the chip, design of its clock and power distribution networks and the deep-submicron DRC that was employed like antenna rule checking and minimum density rule checking. We describe the VLSI implementation of PIM Lite, a prototype of the first multithreaded PIM chip.
     • keywords: chip; deep; submicron
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392. 2514nk33w4v
     • author: Shawn Thomas O'Neil
     • title: Non-Model Transcriptomics: Applications, Assessments, and Algorithms
     • date: 2012
     • words: 346
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: In particular, transcriptome assembly presents unique challenges, and it is not yet clear how to quantitatively evaluate assemblies. We use these techniques to answer an important ecological question: How will species react to climate change?
     • keywords: climate; genes; genome; sequences; sequencing; species; transcriptome
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393. 2514nk33w6j
     • author: Matthew W. Bates
     • title: Paul and the Hermeneutics of the Apostolic Kerygma: Reassessing Paul's Scriptural Interpretation in Light of His Hermeneutical Statements and His Prosopological Exegesis
     • date: 2010
     • words: 361
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Paul's interpretative statements are examined and two apostolic, kerygmatic pre-Pauline protocreeds are found to be especially vital: 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 and Romans 1:3-4. Other proposed hermeneutical centers --called typology (Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-11) and allegory (Galatians 4:21-31)--are determined not to be foundational generative techniques for Paul, but rather post hoc rhetorical tropes describing mimesis between text and world via the apostolic kerygma.
     • keywords: apostolic; christ; corinthians; exegesis; hermeneutical; paul; prosopological; romans
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394. 2514nk33w7w
     • author: Gifford Andrew Grobien
     • title: 'Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Minds': Christian Worship as the Root of Righteousness and Ethical Formation
     • date: 2011
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 34
     • 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.
     • keywords: character; christ; christian; dissertation; ethical; new; righteousness
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395. 2514nk33w9k
     • author: Karen P. Hollingsworth
     • title: Increased Use of Available Image Data Decreases Errors in Iris Biometrics
     • date: 2010
     • words: 253
     • flesch: 44
     • 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.
     • keywords: biometrics; experiments; information; iris; periocular; twins
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396. 2514nk33x0s
     • author: Alexis Nicole Thompson
     • title: Event Boundaries and Memory
     • date: 2013
     • words: 168
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: The results of this work show there is improved memory overall for the narrative as a whole, which has implications for theories of event cognition, as well as for theories of memory more generally. According to theories of event cognition, people parse information into event models, and this parsing can have meaningful influences on cognition.
     • keywords: event; memory; parsing
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397. 2514nk33x2g
     • author: Lee Allen Mayo
     • title: Simulation without Replication: How Some Digital Computer Simulations Serve as Scientific Experiments
     • date: 2011
     • words: 286
     • flesch: 22
     • 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.
     • keywords: computer; dissertation; scientific; simulation; theory
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398. 2514nk33x3t
     • author: Wei Zhang
     • title: Data Mining for Biological Data Learning: Algorithm and Application
     • date: 2013
     • words: 325
     • flesch: 35
     • 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.
     • keywords: bioinformatics; data; framework; functional; genes; mining; stage; technology; traits
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399. 2514nk33x5h
     • author: Justin Farrell
     • title: The Young and the Restless? The Liberalization of Young Evangelicals
     • date: 2011
     • words: 124
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: This study examines popular and scholarly perceptions that young American evangelicals are becoming more liberal than older evangelicals. Examining a range of hot-button issues relating to sexuality and family, I find that young evangelicals are significantly more likely to have more liberal attitudes on same-sex marriage, pre-marital sex, cohabitating, pornography, and to a lesser extent, abortion.
     • keywords: evangelicals; liberal; sex; young
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400. 2514nk33x6v
     • author: Paul C. Avey
     • title: Tempting Fate: Interests, Escalation, and Conflict in Nuclear Primacy
     • date: 2013
     • words: 319
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: However, conflict in these asymmetric nuclear balances, what I call nuclear primacy, occurs very frequently. I argue that such conflict occurs because nuclear primacy creates the opportunity for the inferior side to use limited force to redress political grievances.
     • keywords: conflict; inferior; nuclear; opportunity; primacy
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401. 2514nk33x76
     • author: Soul Park
     • title: Deciding on Defeat: The Strategic Approach to War Termination
     • date: 1904
     • words: 275
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Ultimately and contrary to the established literature on war termination, the factors that impact the probability of continued resistance during wars serve as the major determinant in understanding war termination. Despite the wide variation in how wars end and the significance that variation holds to the making of post-war peace, International Relations (IR) scholars have generally neglected this key wartime behavior of states.
     • keywords: case; end; states; surrender; war; world
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402. 2514nk33z03
     • author: Rachael A. Purta
     • title: Longitudinal Audio Data Collection and Emotional Analysis in the SCALE System Framework
     • date: 1904
     • words: 182
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: This growth has allowed the rise of research that uses the smartphone to measure various aspects of daily life, including social aspects like emotion in spoken communication. The system involves both a mobile client for the smartphone and a back-end server and analysis process meant for analyzing and storing the audio features essential to emotion recognition.
     • keywords: emotion; number; smartphone; system
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403. 2514nk3400p
     • author: Nathan Sawatzky
     • title: Building Cities, Turning Souls: Necessity in the "City in Speech" of Plato's Republic
     • date: 1904
     • words: 137
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: By distinguishing the elements of a true, healthy city discovered by a philosopher from those demanded by ambitious, courageous young men, I argue that Socrates's vision of just city requires institutions that respect, coordinate, and otherwise respond helpfully to individuals' needs and aptitudes, including those of women, and that Plato's Republic is primarily a response to the problem of courageous manliness in politics and private life. In this dissertation, I argue that paying close attention to whom Plato portrays speaking in the dialogue allows us to distinguish, as Socrates and his interlocutors construct the famous city in speech, the elements of the city Socrates endorses from those, all demanded by Glaucon and Adeimantus, that Socrates does not endorse.
     • keywords: city; socrates
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404. 2514nk34r57
     • author: Georges Massinelli
     • title: For Your Sake He Became Poor: Ideology and Practice of Gift Exchange between Early Christian Groups
     • date: 2019
     • words: 334
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: This examination demonstrates that intergroup support was a widespread phenomenon in early Christianity, involving churches from most of the Mediterranean Basin and known even outside of Christian circles. Exchange of financial support between geographically distant groups was a characteristic practice in early Christianity.
     • keywords: collection; financial; groups; intergroup; jerusalem; pauline; support
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405. 2514nk34r7x
     • author: Cristobal Alessandri
     • title: Ferroelectric Memory and Architecture for Deep Neural Network Training in Resistive Crossbar Arrays
     • date: 2019
     • words: 325
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: For this reason, it has been proposed to use resistive crossbar arrays to minimize data movement and perform matrix-vector multiplications in the analog domain. An accurate scheme for parallel weight update in resistive crossbar arrays is proposed and evaluated.
     • keywords: arrays; crossbar; deep; dnn; limited; matrix; multiplication; resistive
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406. 2514nk34x5s
     • author: Jillian P. Plummer
     • title: Saving Latin America: Catholic Sisters, the Cold War, and Liberation Theology, 1946-1985
     • date: 2019
     • words: 238
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: While current scholarship on liberation theology emphasizes the importance of male authors and priests, my dissertation shows how women participated in the liberation theology movement and also implemented its theological praxis across the United States, even though their formal roles in the group remained restricted because of their status as women. I argue that Catholic sisters' encounter with the Peruvian critiques of development—especially those distilled in liberation theology—provided missionary sisters with the language to criticize their own charitable aid efforts in Peru.
     • keywords: catholic; liberation; peru; theology; women
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407. 2514nk34z4r
     • author: Joseph M. Chambers
     • title: Increasing Our Understanding of Kidney Development and Disease: The Role of Ppargc1a in Segmentation and Ciliopathies
     • date: 2020
     • words: 449
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: A better understanding of kidney development and disease is necessary to improve the lives of those suffering from renal ailments. One tool that can be used to gain a better understanding of the molecular events resulting in kidney development and disease is the embryonic zebrafish.
     • keywords: better; development; disease; genetic; kidney; molecular; novel; ppargc1a; pronephros; understanding; zebrafish
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408. 2514nk3502n
     • author: Audrey Seah
     • title: Signs of Hope: Narratives, Eschatology, and Liturgical Inculturation in Deaf Catholic Worship
     • date: 2021
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: To this end, a study of American Deaf Catholic churches, whose congregations and liturgical practices exhibit postmodern traits which naturally critique the dominant method and theology of liturgical inculturation, is used as an empirical case study. Co-creation accents the relational aspect of inculturation, consequently requiring the consideration of social dynamics such as power inequities between and within cultural groups; eschatological signs of hope brings attention to the ethical dimensions of liturgical inculturation.
     • keywords: culture; definition; eschatological; inculturation; liturgical; postmodern; theology
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409. 2514nk3504b
     • author: Juan Diego Pozo
     • title: Guidelines for Numerical Seismic Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Axial-Flexural Elements
     • date: 2021
     • words: 287
     • flesch: -6
     • summary: Results obtained in this dissertation include: 1) modeling recommendations to simulate the cyclic global lateral force-displacement (F-D) behavior of slender and squat RC walls, including a consistent mesh-sensitivity investigation; 2) a new metric to quantitatively evaluate simulated hysteretic F-D curves as compared with measured curves; 3) plastic hinge integration models that use material regularization (i.e., regularized plastic hinge models) to accurately simulate and obtain objective (i.e., mesh-independent) global and local (i.e., material strains and section curvatures) behaviors of slender planar RC walls and square columns; 4) a new confined concrete crushing energy equation for regularized constitutive models to simulate RC columns through failure; and 5) quantification of variability in simulated dynamic seismic performance of RC wall structures from different distributed plasticity models. In this dissertation, the capability of different distributed plasticity numerical models to simulate the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) axial-flexural elements, namely planar walls and square columns, is evaluated based on previous experimental results of isolated wall and column test specimens as a well as a 7-story wall building subassembly.
     • keywords: behavior; columns; concrete; models; results; seismic; walls
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410. 2514nk35139
     • author: Katelyn Vendrely Brenneman
     • title: Exploring the Genetic Basis of Fitness in Drug Resistant Malaria Parasites
     • date: 2022
     • words: 353
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: The fitness cost of resistance mutations and the compensatory mutations that accompany resistance mutations play a role in determining whether resistance will spread in a population. Knowledge of the molecular basis of the cost of resistance is important for understanding how resistance mutations arise and stabilize in populations.
     • keywords: assays; fitness; growth; mutations; parasites; resistance; spread
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     • author: Bridget Ritz
     • title: Peircean Pragmatism, Critical Realism, and Cultural Sociology
     • date: 2022
     • words: 210
     • flesch: 13
     • summary: The third chapter, Revisiting the Peircean Foundations for Theorizing Action and Personal Cultural Change, thematizes the concept of potentiality, integral to Peirce's realism and critical realism alike, as central to Peirce's theories of action and inquiry, while reading the latter as together implying a theory of personal cultural change. The second chapter, Continuities between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth, argues that Peirce's realism about causation anticipated contemporary neo-Aristotelian approaches to causation, of which critical realism is a major representative, and highlights additional points of continuity between Peirce's thought and critical realism with respect to ontology and truth.
     • keywords: chapter; critical; peirce; realism
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     • author: Kristyn Garza
     • title: Venas de Oro
     • date: 2023
     • words: 321
     • flesch: 50
     • 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.
     • keywords: documents; existence; origin; self; work
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413. 2801pg1749m
     • author: Jamie Lee Serrano
     • title: Adult Alcohol Use Problems: Types of Childhood Maltreatment as Risk Factors, and the Mediating Effect of Age of Initial Alcohol Use
     • date: 2015
     • words: 165
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: This study examined the contributions of different types of childhood maltreatment on adult alcohol use problems; examined the indirect effects of age of initial alcohol use and depressive symptoms on the relation between childhood maltreatment and alcohol use problems; and examined sex differences in these relations. Excessive alcohol consumption is among the leading causes of death in the U.S. Childhood maltreatment, early initiation of alcohol use, and depressive symptoms are all associated with problematic alcohol use in adulthood.
     • keywords: alcohol; maltreatment; problems; use
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414. 2801pg1752h
     • author: Clifton T Harris
     • title: Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes Of Semiconductor Quantum Dots In Confined Media
     • date: 2011
     • words: 362
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: Reverse micelles were employed both as templates for particle growth and as nano-sized reaction chambers in order to produce monodisperse, transparent colloidal solutions of CdSe without the use of surface capping agents. Ultrafast events such as electron-hole recombination, as well as electron and hole transfer were monitored by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy.
     • keywords: cdse; electron; events; hole; mv&#8314;&#183; results; surface; time
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415. 2801pg17546
     • author: Walter William Whitehouse
     • title: The Musical Prelude to Vatican II: Plainchant, Participation, and Pius X
     • date: 2011
     • words: 286
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: The liturgical reforms of Vatican II have issued in two signal developments in modern American Catholic worship: the rise of more fully active participation by the lay faithful, and the virtual disappearance of the historic body of western church music, Gregorian chant. That history began with the promulgation of the motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini in 1903 by Pope Pius X, which tied Gregorian chant and the active participation of the laity together.
     • keywords: active; century; history; liturgical; music; participation; twentieth
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416. 2801pg1756w
     • author: Sejin Park
     • title: The Festival of Weeks and Sinai
     • date: 2007
     • words: 318
     • flesch: 55
     • summary: However, by the rabbinic period, the rabbis commonly associate the Festival of Weeks with the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai. There are already indications that the Festival of Weeks was associated with covenant renewal (2 Chr 15:10), but this association is at best muted.
     • keywords: covenant; festival; month; sinai; weeks
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417. 2801pg1759x
     • author: Daniel Matthew Custance Lawson
     • title: The Effect of Wage Discrimination on Privileged Groups
     • date: 2006
     • words: 343
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: These results, taken together, suggest that while a model of manager taste discrimination may explain some of wage discrimination based on sex, race wage discrimination needs another explanation, perhaps statistical discrimination. This study explores the effect of wage discrimination on the wages of managers and coworkers not targeted for discrimination.
     • keywords: discrimination; effect; managers; model; wage
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418. 2801pg1762t
     • author: Ashley Kate Baldridge
     • title: Invasive Rusty Crayfish (Orconectes rusticus): Community Impacts and Potential for Recovery
     • date: 2013
     • words: 406
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Together, these results support our field observations on why O. rusticus and M. dolomieu can coexist in abundance in north temperate lakes. I studied aspects of intraguild predation between O. rusticus and smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) that were previously unknown using a combination of field surveys, video surveillance, diet reconstructions, and a controlled feeding experiment.
     • keywords: bass; crayfish; economic; influence; interactions; invasive; recovery; rusticus; species
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419. 2801pg1765v
     • author: Heng Yang
     • title: Design and Fabrication of a Tunable Fabry-Perot Interferometer/Photodiode Microspectral Image Sensor
     • date: 2007
     • words: 261
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: The result showed that for an FPI with 2.94 µ m original effective cavity length, 10 V of applied bias voltage can tune the FPI over a 0.4 µ m change in effective cavity length. The tuning of the FPI at different bias voltages was demonstrated by measuring the reflectance spectrum of the FPI.
     • keywords: fpi; image; photodiode; sensor; silicon
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420. 2801pg1768w
     • author: Bryan Ostdiek
     • title: Searching for Electroweakino Dark Matter at a Hadron Collider
     • date: 1904
     • words: 439
     • flesch: 60
     • 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.
     • keywords: abundance; collider; dark; mass; matter; method; relic; signal
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421. 2801pg17c0p
     • author: Noah Rankins
     • title: Diplomacy, Proselytization, and Criticism in the Western Encounter: Japanese Religious Groups in the World's Parliament of Religions
     • date: 1904
     • words: 152
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: Using speeches presented by Japanese delegates to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions, this paper investigates how non-Western religious organizations were capable of responding to the Western encounter. For religious groups who did not have a means of legitimacy within the Western Christian academic environment—such as a mastery of Western discursive techniques or affiliation with Christianity—their efforts were focused on establishing the legitimacy of their religious organization.
     • keywords: legitimacy; religious; western
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422. 2801pg17w0b
     • author: Giselle N. Jacobson
     • title: Effects of Translation Rate Changes on Protein Production, Folding and Fragmentation
     • date: 1904
     • words: 343
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: Translation rate can be slower than the formation of stable secondary and tertiary structure, meaning that altering translation rate could potentially influence the folding pathway and even the final, folded structure of a protein. In this thesis, I show that non-synonymous mutations known to affect translation rate can predictably alter the folded state of a protein biosensor.
     • keywords: gfp; nascent; protein; rate; ribosome; structure; translation
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423. 2801pg17x41
     • author: Theresa C Aragon
     • title: Type III Grouted Ductile Reinforcing Bar Connections for Precast Concrete Structures
     • date: 2018
     • words: 366
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: This dissertation presents experimental and analytical investigations of a high-performance (Type III) grouted connection for ductile energy-dissipating (ED) deformed steel reinforcing bars across gap-opening joints in seismic precast concrete structures. Although tapered sleeves produced desirable results, straight sleeves with adequate corrugations also allowed large cyclic ED bar stresses and strains to be reached.
     • keywords: bar; bars; bond; connection; diameter; length; low; sleeves
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424. 2801pg18832
     • author: Sam Thomas
     • title: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Christianity: Perceptions, Approaches and Prescriptions
     • date: 2021
     • words: 364
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: This dissertation seeks to understand Hindu nationalist perceptions regarding Indian Christianity, their approaches towards the same, and the prescriptions made to contain Christianity in India. This dissertation thus makes a significant contribution to the study of Hindu nationalism in general and the study of Hindu nationalist perceptions, approaches, and recommendations towards containment of Indian Christianity in particular.
     • keywords: approaches; christianity; hindu; history; indian; nationalist
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425. 2801pg18b41
     • author: Tiernan B. Kane
     • title: Reevaluating Legal Liberty of Conscience
     • date: 2022
     • words: 167
     • flesch: 17
     • 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.
     • keywords: conscience; legal; protections; special
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426. 2b88qc00f1z
     • author: Sean Borman
     • title: Topics in Multiframe Superresolution Restoration
     • date: 2004
     • words: 309
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: These methods extend classical single frame image restoration methods by simultaneously utilizing information from multiple observed images to achieve restoration at resolutions higher than that of the original data. Stemming from the work conducted on multiframe superresolution restoration, the equivalence between two mathematical models describing a pinhole camera used in the computer graphics and computer vision communities is proved.
     • keywords: image; methods; multiframe; observed; restoration; superresolution
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427. 2b88qc00f29
     • author: Christine M. Wallace
     • title: Solution and Aggregation Behavior of the U60 Nanocluster and Post-Detonation Nuclear Forensic Analysis of Trinitite
     • date: 2013
     • words: 263
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Subsequently, complementary dynamic light scattering (DLS), electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and ultra-small angle X-ray scattering (USAXS) studies have been conducted to examine the solution and aggregation behavior of the U60 nanocluster. This dissertation examines two areas of active research: 1) solution and aggregation behavior of uranyl peroxide nanosclusters, and 2) post-detonation nuclear forensic analysis of trinitite.
     • keywords: aggregation; detonation; nuclear; post; scattering; solution; trinitite; uranyl
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428. 2b88qc00f40
     • author: Jessica Ziembroski
     • title: Socioeconomic Status, Race-Ethnicity, and the Health of Retirement-Age Women: The Paradox of Social Relationships
     • date: 2004
     • words: 211
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: I investigate whether lower levels of income and minority status moderates the influence of social capital (measured as social networks, integration, and support) on depression, mobility limitations, and number of health conditions on a sample of American women age 55-65 in the Health and Retirement Study. Often, women who experience socioeconomic disadvantage are particularly deeply immersed within their social networks, and minority women have been shown to be most involved in social networks.
     • keywords: health; networks; social; socioeconomic; women
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429. 2b88qc00f6p
     • author: Becky Akiko Miller
     • title: Detection and biological assessment of genome structural variation in Plasmodium falciparum
     • date: 2012
     • words: 535
     • flesch: 34
     • 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.
     • keywords: cnv; copy; culture; drug; falciparum; malaria; number; parasite; rearrangements; resistance; variation
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430. 2b88qc00f9q
     • author: Nathan Gerth
     • title: A Model Town: Tver', the Classical Imperial Order, and the Rise of Civic Society in the Russian Provinces, 1763-1861
     • date: 2014
     • words: 364
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: The state's decision to expand local educational institutions and the arrival of both cholera and Russia's first railroad changed this situation, galvanizing civic awareness among the city's elite. By the 1860s the tensions created by these extra-institutional networks pushed state authorities to create a new political system as part of the Great Reforms.
     • keywords: city; civic; great; institutions; provinces; state; tver
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431. 2b88qc00g2m
     • author: Richard Charles Kurker, Jr.
     • title: Beyond O2: Biochemistry of Chlorite Dismutases from Klebsiella and Staphylococcus
     • date: 2015
     • words: 507
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: In order to explore Cld diversity, Cld homolog proteins from the Gram-positive Firmicutes Staphylococcus aureus (Sa) and the Gram-negative Proteobacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp), two very different types of bacteria, were functionally characterized. Bioinformatic, biochemical, and genetic studies showed that SaCld, or SaHemQ, lacks Cld activity, instead playing a critical role in the heme biosynthesis pathway, particularly in the final few steps.
     • keywords: bacteria; chlorite; cld; dacld; family; functional; gene; heme; kpcld; pathway; protein; reaction
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432. 2b88qc00g49
     • author: Hilary Elizabeth Fox
     • title: Mind, Body, Soul, and Self in the Alfredian Translations
     • date: 2011
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: This language articulates relationships between mind, soul, and body that have ramifications for our own understanding of the constitution of different forms of identity and a developing notion of a self; the language and metaphors employed by the translators allow us access to the various methods by which the Anglo-Saxons conceptualized a complex set of interactions that were not always described or thought of in specific, unchangeable ways. In Chapter Four, I explore how two terms, ingeÌ¡anc and inneweard mod, associate the mind with interior space, and how the metaphor MIND AS HOUSE articulates the construction of that interiority.
     • keywords: alfredian; body; mind; self; texts; translations
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433. 2b88qc00g5n
     • author: Stefanie Celeste Wellons
     • title: The Variable Effects of Perceived Discrimination: A Longitudinal Analysis of Latino Heterogeneity in American Identity
     • date: 2013
     • words: 184
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: However, little is known about the variable relationship between perceived discrimination and American identity as youth transition from early to late adolescence and into adulthood. To fill this void, this analysis employs data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) to examine the extent to which unequal perceptions of discrimination explain Latino variation in American identity as well as the changing effects of perceived discrimination over the life course.
     • keywords: adolescence; american; discrimination; latino
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434. 2b88qc00g7b
     • author: Belkys Torres
     • title: Serial Storytelling, Female Audiences and Telenovelas: Television's Influence on Contemporary Latina/o Fiction
     • date: 2013
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The motivation behind this investigation lies primarily in the tensions between the increasing presence of telenovelas in contemporary U.S. Latina/o literature and the adamant criticism of scholars directed at fiction writers who incorporate serialized narrative content and other melodramatic forms in their works. preoccupations with the most underappreciated Latin American mass-mediated product adds a level of complexity to a set of narratives already rich in representations of Latina/o heterogeneous subjectivity and discussions of transnationalism.
     • keywords: american; cultural; latina; literature; telenovelas; u.s; writers
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435. 2b88qc00g8p
     • author: Andrew Peter Michel
     • title: Population Genetic Structure of the Malaria Vector Anopheles Funestus
     • date: 2006
     • words: 311
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: This dissertation analyzes the population genetics of A. funestus at three geographical scales, as well as estimating an important parameter for population genetic studiesÌ¢åÛåÓthe effective population size. Effective population estimates were large for both forms; however, there was a substantial difference in current effective population size between the two forms which may contribute to population differentiation.
     • keywords: chromosomal; differentiation; effective; forms; funestus; genetic; population; size
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436. 2b88qc00j27
     • author: Fazle Elahi Faisal
     • title: New Network Analysis Approaches and Their Computational Biology Applications, with Focus on Dynamic Network Analysis and Network Comparison
     • date: 1904
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: However, several challenges exist in biological network research: 1) Biological network data are heterogeneous due to availability of various data types. 3) Since current biological network data are noisy, we computationally de-noise the data to improve the prediction quality.
     • keywords: biological; computational; data; dynamic; framework; network; types
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437. 2b88qc0136v
     • author: Nevin Climenhaga
     • title: Knowledge and Certainty
     • date: 1904
     • words: 214
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: This is because infallibilism entails or makes plausible various intuitive claims about knowledge, such as that knowledge is evidence and that knowledge can be extended by deduction, whereas fallibilism is either inconsistent with these claims or has a much harder time explaining why they are true. I argue that infallibilists need not be skeptical of all claims to knowledge – some propositions really are certain for us – and they can give plausible error theories for why we often take ourselves to know propositions that are not really certain for us.
     • keywords: chapters; infallibilism; knowledge
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438. 2b88qc01643
     • author: Nishanth Sasankan
     • title: Constraints on the Early Universe and Dark Energy from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
     • date: 2018
     • words: 189
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: In the second part of my thesis I constrain the free parameters of many dark energy models by modeling the evolution of dark energy density from a time before BBN till present time. The allowed values of dark energy density today and during BBN can be used to constrain dark energy models.
     • keywords: bbn; dark; energy; models
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439. 2b88qc01b61
     • author: Eric A. Lewis
     • title: Antagonistic Reading: Metalepsis and the Intrusive Reader
     • date: 2019
     • words: 290
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: In Antagonistic Reading: Metalepsis and the Intrusive Reader, I argue that such antagonistic relationships between readers and characters typify the novel-reading experience. However, further consideration of this last novel demonstrates the potential usefulness of such antagonistic reading for representing contested truths, specifically, in this case, a revised, more inclusive account of the history of South African apartheid.
     • keywords: antagonistic; characters; novel; readers; reading; relationships
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440. 2b88qc01j0t
     • author: Raquel Montañez-González
     • title: Molecular Karyotyping of Chromosomal Inversions in the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae
     • date: 2020
     • words: 378
     • flesch: 43
     • 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.
     • keywords: africa; anopheles; assays; burden; gambiae; inversion; malaria; polymorphisms; species
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441. 2b88qc01j46
     • author: Jake Coen
     • title: Tyrannus Rex: Tyranny, History, and Carolingian Propaganda
     • date: 2021
     • words: 329
     • flesch: 4
     • summary: As a result, this dissertation offers three significant contributions to discussions of medieval ideas about tyranny and Carolingian political history: firstly, that early medieval thinkers did not simply parrot earlier ideas about tyranny but rather creatively reshaped this concept for persuasive purposes in their specific sociopolitical contexts; secondly, that the manipulation of concepts and terminology like tyrannus in texts composed in support of the Carolingian dynasty constitutes an important dynastic power practice in keeping with others—capitularies, charters, shows of force, etc.—discussed more broadly by scholars of Carolingian history; and, finally, that the involvement of members and allies of the dynasty in the production and dissemination of persuasive, pro-dynastic representations of tyranny constitutes a kind of propaganda that served to advance or to reinforce the dynasty's claims to authority over a polity which they had usurped. The present dissertation aims to rewrite the history of ideas about the ancient notion of tyranny in the early medieval Frankish world.
     • keywords: carolingian; dynasty; early; ideas; medieval; texts; tyranny
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442. 2b88qc01j8k
     • author: Andrew Wightman
     • title: Probing Effective Field Theory Models Using Associated Top Quark Production in Multiple Lepton Final States at 13 TeV
     • date: 2021
     • words: 117
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Events containing one or more top quarks produced with additional prompt leptons are used to search for new physics within the framework of an effective field theory (EFT). Limits are placed on 16 dimension-six operators by performing a simultaneous fit to the data of the corresponding Wilson Coefficients (WCs) that parameterize the effects of the EFT operators.
     • keywords: eft; proton; wcs
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443. 2b88qc01k66
     • author: Sarah Hoegler
     • title: Evaluation of a Family-Based Conflict Intervention through the Lens of the Fathering Vulnerability Hypothesis
     • date: 2022
     • words: 178
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Prior evaluation studies have suggested that fathering and the father-child relationship may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of destructive conflict, and, as such, most amenable to interventions targeted toward reducing destructiveness and toward improving fathering and the father-child relationship. The results of the father model revealed that those in the PA condition had significantly higher attachment to fathers at posttest than the control.
     • keywords: child; father; fathering
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444. 2b88qc01k97
     • author: Kenneth Tyler Wilcox
     • title: Jointly Modeling Participant-Level Data and Summary Statistics for Treatment Differences
     • date: 2022
     • words: 384
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: While adaptation of IDA continues to grow within psychology, MA remains the prevalent method of joint data analysis. The integration of both IPD and AD, however, remains virtually unexplored in the psychology literature despite recent methodological developments and applications in the medical literature (e.g., Jackson et al., 2006; Riley, Lambert, et al., 2008; Riley et al., 2007).
     • keywords: analysis; chapter; data; ida; ipd; joint; studies
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445. 2b88qc01n2f
     • author: Charles Sox
     • title: The Struggle Is Real?
     • date: 2023
     • words: 270
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: My chosen medium and processes deeply inform my concept of struggle and tension in everyday life. Throughout my thesis work, I define struggle as the spectrum of challenging human experiences, and our responses to these situations.
     • keywords: material; self; struggle; tension; work
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446. 2f75r783q17
     • author: Mitchell Kajzer
     • title: Memorability of Computer Security Posters as Affected by Message Type
     • date: 2015
     • words: 151
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: 50 participants analyzed five themes of computer security messages in an attempt to determine which theme(s) were the most effective in encouraging end-users to make sound security decisions and adopt safe security practices. Finally, deterrent and feedback messages performed well in terms of influencing change, with feedback messages unexpectedly performing the best.
     • keywords: feedback; messages; security
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447. 2f75r783q8n
     • author: Cosimo Carmelo Stephen Fuda
     • title: The antibiotic resistance of penicillin-binding protein 2a of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
     • date: 2008
     • words: 350
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Our incremental understanding of the interactions of PBP 2a with &#946;-lactams and cell wall was used to elucidate the mechanism of action for three cephaloporins active against MRSA and VRSA. Both factors are believed to work in concert to prevent enzyme acylation by antibiotics in vivo.
     • keywords: antibiotics; aureus; meca; mrsa; pbp; wall
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448. 2f75r783q90
     • author: Keke Lai
     • title: Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for Targeted Effects in Structural Equation Modeling: Sample Size Planning for Narrow Confidence Intervals
     • date: 2010
     • words: 169
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Given a model with a good overall fit, it is entirely possible for the targeted effects of interest to have very wide confidence intervals, thus giving little information about the magnitude of the population targeted effects. With the goal to obtain sufficiently narrow confidence intervals for the model parameters of interest, sample size planning methods for SEM are developed from the accuracy in parameter estimation approach.
     • keywords: confidence; interest; model; parameters
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449. 2f75r783r1j
     • author: Lei Fang
     • title: Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Information Flow Constraints
     • date: 2010
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: We examine the stability properties of the closed loop system using cascaded systems theory and nonlinear synchronization theory. The last part of the dissertation is dedicated to switched systems, which are natural mathematical models for time-varying topologies among agents and are of theoretical interest on their own.
     • keywords: consensus; control; formation; problems; stability; systems; time; tracking
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450. 2f75r783r4k
     • author: Brian James Belliveau
     • title: An Analysis of Rhodopsin Trafficking in the Secretory Pathway
     • date: 2008
     • words: 462
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: Tet was determined to play a role in Rh1 maturation as the gene disruption in Tet resulted in an overall reduction in Rh1 production. In addition, the location and role of two proteins, Arf72, a small GTPase and the Drosophila tetracycline transporter known to affect Rh1 trafficking were probed.
     • keywords: arf72; expression; golgi; localization; markers; rh1; rhabdomere; rhodopsin
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451. 2f75r783r7m
     • author: Lei Xiao
     • title: Cooperative Relaying Strategies for Wireless Communication Systems
     • date: 2009
     • words: 303
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Cooperative diversity relaying is a viable strategy to gain transmit spatial diversity with single antenna transceivers. A union bound analysis is derived for the error performance of signal superposition coded cooperative diversity schemes.
     • keywords: cooperative; diversity; hop; mobile; network; relaying; relays; signal
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452. 2f75r783t8k
     • author: Wenjun Li
     • title: Gallium Nitride Field-Effect Transistors for Low-Power Applications
     • date: 2016
     • words: 384
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: By combining these features with the intrinsic material properties of GaN, such as high electron mobility and wide band gap, GaN nanowire MOSFETs appear promising for the low-power high-speed applications and sensors. To improve the process controllability and enable ultra-dense integration, vertical GaN nanowire MOSFETs may be preferred, a fabrication process flow for which is presented.
     • keywords: applications; gan; high; low; mosfets; nanowire; power; promising; tfets
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453. 2f75r784m1k
     • author: Dr. Warren B. Chatwin
     • title: Application and Development of Genomic Techniques in Forest Trees
     • date: 2019
     • words: 494
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: Juglans species exhibit a high degree of collinearity, so a well-constructed map in Juglans nigra will be useful in Juglans regia and other species. Most chestnut species are able form fertile hybrids with each other.
     • keywords: chestnut; data; drought; genetic; hybrids; juglans; markers; species
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454. 2f75r784v3f
     • author: Baotong Zhu
     • title: Constructing Innovative Engineered Enzyme Biocatalysts for Treatment of Emerging Environmental Contaminants
     • date: 2021
     • words: 291
     • flesch: 9
     • 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.
     • keywords: biocatalysts; challenges; chemical; contaminants; ecs; environmental; enzyme; immobilization; processes
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455. 2f75r784v6g
     • author: Obaidullah Rahman
     • title: Low Signal Algorithms in X-ray Computed Tomography
     • date: 2022
     • words: 455
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: However, simply lowering the radiation dose will introduce low signal artifacts and severely degrade the image quality and diagnostic capabilities. To reduce low signal artifacts while retaining the relevant anatomical details in CT images, low signal algorithms are heavily relied upon.
     • keywords: artifacts; data; dose; low; metal; noise; ray; signal
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456. 2f75r784w6s
     • author: Arman Kazemi
     • title: Cross-Layer Design with Emerging Devices for Machine Learning Applications
     • date: 2022
     • words: 301
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: With PIM, computation happens in the memory which avoids expensive data movement associated with the von Neumann architecture. Modern-day computers heavily rely on the von Neumann architecture where the data is moved from memory to processing units for computation which is commonly referred to as the von Neumann bottleneck.
     • keywords: computation; data; neumann; non; pim; von
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457. 2f75r784x4d
     • author: Jack Oster
     • title: Greek Past, Roman Present
     • date: 2023
     • words: 301
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: This thesis investigates the writings of three Greek-speaking Roman citizens, Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and the emperor Julian, to determine how they negotiate between the inheritance of Classical Hellenism and their present circumstances living in the Roman Empire. By analyzing these three men and their ideologies, I show that the strict distinction between Greek and Roman found in Plutarch's writing was dissolving by the time of Dio and Julian, and a new set of markers were developing and new identities were emerging.
     • keywords: dio; greek; julian; plutarch; roman
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458. 2j62s467038
     • author: Belinda M. Byrne
     • title: Signaling Mechanisms of Vitamin D3 Mediated Apoptosis in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells
     • date: 2008
     • words: 227
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Characterization of MCF-7DR cells revealed lower expression and activity of VDR which probably underlies resistance of these cells to 1,25D. Disruption of redox balance and ROS generation is characteristic of 1,25D induced apoptosis in MCF-7 cells. The purpose of these studies was to further investigate the signaling pathways impacted by 1,25D in MCF-7 cells and a 1,25D resistant variant, MCF-7DR.
     • keywords: apoptosis; cells; grim19; protein
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459. 2j62s46704m
     • author: Matthew Bowers
     • title: A study of 36Cl production in the early Solar System
     • date: 2013
     • words: 328
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: From the experimental measurement and a study of the other reactions' contributions to 36Cl production, 36Cl could have been produced close to the protoSun by reactions on CA target using the x-wind model, or in a late-stage irradiation event on a volatile-rich reservoir by 3He and alpha reactions on S targets. Short-lived radionuclides (SLRs) with lifetimes t < 100 Ma are known to have been extant when the Solar System formed 4.568 billion years ago from meteoritic studies of their decay products.
     • keywords: 36cl; origins; production; reactions; slrs; solar; system
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460. 2j62s467069
     • author: Nathaniel Charles Crain
     • title: Redesign and Refurbishment of a III-V Compound Semiconductor Wet Oxidation System
     • date: 2004
     • words: 46
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: The III-V compound semiconductoir wet oxidation system for the Nanofabrication Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame has undergone an extensive redesign and rebuild. Improvements to the various subsystems are described in detail followed by processing techniques and concluded with a set of standard oxidations.
     • keywords: improvements
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461. 2j62s46707n
     • author: Kristen Eliason
     • title: Treatise on Drowning
     • date: 2010
     • words: 19
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: An elegy written primarily in linked haiku and cultural surrealism based primarily on the author's experiences in Japan.
     • keywords: japan
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462. 2j62s467080
     • author: Michael David Jones
     • title: Essays on the Economics of Education
     • date: 2012
     • words: 466
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: In chapter 1, I investigate teacher performance under performance pay incentives. Performance pay also decreases participation in unpaid cooperative school activities, while there is suggestive evidence that teacher turnover decreases.
     • keywords: chapter; incentives; pay; performance; school; teachers; tenure; time; university; use
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463. 2j62s46711w
     • author: Christina Ann Progess
     • title: Effects of Photoirradiation on the Adsorption of Dissolved Organic Matter to Goethite
     • date: 2003
     • words: 162
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: The coupled decrease in UV light absorbance upon irradiation and adsorption may have dilatory environmental ramifications if water which was exposed to sunlight interacts with mineral surfaces and is then flushed into streams or lakes. Our results show that the decrease in molecular weight and UV light absorbance of adsorbed irradiated DOM, as well as the percent adsorption of irradiated DOM was greater than from either irradiation or adsorption alone.
     • keywords: dom; light
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464. 2j62s46713k
     • author: Jacob Edward Montgomery
     • title: Investigation of M&#252;ller Glial Responses to Retinal Injury in Zebrafish
     • date: 2010
     • words: 385
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Supporting conclusions drawn from regeneration in the ouabain model of inner retinal neuronal cell death, metronidazole-induced ablation of amacrine and horizontal cells suggested that photoreceptor cell death was not necessary to induce regeneration of lost retinal neurons. Further, recent studies suggested that rod cell death alone can not induce the M&#252;ller glia to enter a regenerative program.
     • keywords: cell; glia; lines; m&#252;ller; neuronal; regeneration; retinal; rod
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465. 2j62s46714x
     • author: Marion Christina Rohrleitner
     • title: Intimate Geographies: Romance and the Rhetoric of Female Desire in Contemporary Historical Fiction by Caribbean American Women Writers
     • date: 2007
     • words: 208
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: I analyze the depiction of female desire in three contemporary English-language novels by US authors with origins in the hispano- and francophone Caribbean: Haitian American Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones (1998), Dominican American Julia Alvarez's In the Name of Salom (2000), and Cuban American Ana Men ndez's Loving Che (2003). In this dissertation I argue that by focusing on different forms of female desire contemporary Caribbean American women writers reinvent the literary genres of the romance and the historical novel and, in doing so, extend notions of what constitutes US-American literature and history.
     • keywords: american; caribbean; desire; female; historical; women
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466. 2j62s46716m
     • author: Yingbo Zhao
     • title: Fundamental Limitations in Networked Control Systems
     • date: 2014
     • words: 549
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: In networked control systems, multiple components (e.g. plants, sensors and controllers) exchange information and cooperate to achieve a joint goal. On the other hand, controllers designed while ignoring the communication constraint cannot provide good performance or even stability.
     • keywords: communication; controller; information; loop; networked; performance; plant; systems; time; vehicles
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467. 2j62s46717z
     • author: Ashley Marie Nettleman
     • title: Symmetry Analysis Applied to Multi-Agent Systems
     • date: 2014
     • words: 145
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Since the formation control law does not specify the location and orientation of the formation in planar space, continuous symmetries arise. The multi-agent system of interest is a planar formation control problem, where each agent references a pre-specified number of agents.
     • keywords: formation; symmetries; system
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468. 2j62s46719n
     • author: Justin Farrell
     • title: The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
     • date: 2014
     • words: 521
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: I reorient our attention to the sorts of whys' that make life meaningful for different cultures, and propel them forward toward particular ends, and not other ends. Put more specifically, I argue that any sociological account of this conflict should be built upon a more empirically accurate and philosophically sophisticated model of human persons and cultures, that does not presuppose narrow or deterministic motivational frameworks, but understands that the why, in the end, is a question of morality - perhaps even spirituality - stemming from our lived experiences as part of human cultures, shaped by narratives and moral orders that tell us most fundamentally who we are, why we are, what we should do, and why it all matters.
     • keywords: argument; conflict; cultural; deeper; efforts; legal; moral; scientific; spiritual; yellowstone
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469. 2j62s46720v
     • author: Alexander Dukalskis
     • title: Ideology and Authoritarian Persistence: Shaping the Public Sphere in North Korea and Burma
     • date: 2013
     • words: 196
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: This dissertation examines how circumscription and manipulation of the public sphere contributes to the persistence of authoritarian regimes. The dissertation illustrates how the ideologies of the DPRK and the Burmese junta worked to forestall critiques about authoritarian rule &#8212; even if many citizens were dissatisfied with the state's authoritarian practices &#8212; by limiting and manipulating discussion in the political public sphere.
     • keywords: authoritarian; public; regimes; sphere
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470. 2j62s467216
     • author: Christopher J. Lane
     • title: The Diversity of Vocations: Choosing a State of Life in Early Modern France
     • date: 1904
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: This advice on choosing a state of life illustrates the peculiar modernity of early modern Catholicism, which focused on the individual without jettisoning corporate identity, which held in tension the subjective good for the individual and an objective spiritual hierarchy, and which promoted a religiously-oriented individual liberty in the face of entrenched social and legal norms. The main source bases are works of spiritual advice and pastoral care from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, along with religious biographical sources and ecclesiatical records.
     • keywords: advice; catholic; century; early; life; seventeenth; state; vocation
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471. 2j62s467634
     • author: Aaron D. Sanders
     • title: Potestas Indirecta: The Relationship between Temporal and Spiritual Authority in the Thought of St. Robert Bellarmine
     • date: 1904
     • words: 255
     • flesch: 32
     • 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.
     • keywords: bellarmine; chapter; dissertation; political; power
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472. 2j62s467w82
     • author: Taras I. Karaulshchikov
     • title: A History of Georgian Scientific Intelligentsia: The Case of the Nikoladze Family 1860-1981
     • date: 2019
     • words: 311
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: It argues that under the Soviet regime, the memory of prerevolutionary lifestyle became the major self-identification criterion for the Nikoladze and many other old intelligentsia families, contributing to the development of a distinct identity that combined loyalty to the regime with emotional and intellectual attachment to the prerevolutionary traditions. This family of professionals played a visible role in the industrial and cultural transformation of Georgia during a long period encompassing late Imperial Russia, Georgia's independence in 1918-1921, and the Soviet era.
     • keywords: cultural; family; intellectual; intelligentsia; late; nikoladze; soviet
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473. 2j62s46819x
     • author: Rene Celis Cordova
     • title: Reversible Computing: The Design of an Adiabatic Microprocessor
     • date: 2019
     • words: 321
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Reversible computing is a viable alternative to traditional circuit implementations since it reduces heat generation by avoiding unnecessary dissipation. Modern microprocessors are limited by heat dissipation.
     • keywords: adiabatic; generation; heat; logic; microprocessor; power; reversible
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474. 2j62s468266
     • author: Kaitlin C. Rasmussen
     • title: Galactic Archaeology with Metal-Poor Stars
     • date: 2020
     • words: 728
     • flesch: 56
     • summary: To achieve this, we have conducted a large-scale search for transits of metal-poor stars in TESS light curves and discovered 47 previously unknown planet candidates around host stars in the metallicity range -2.28 &lt; [Fe/H] &lt; -0.5, eight of which have lower [Fe/H] than any known transiting planet hosts. Using this information we find that strongly-enriched r-I (+0.70 &lt; [Eu/Fe] &lt; +1.0) and r-II stars ([Eu/Fe] &gt; +1.0) likely form exclusively in small stellar systems, while stars of lower [Eu/Fe] abundance can form in a system of any size.
     • keywords: abundance; chemical; elements; large; metal; poor; process; stars; stellar; systems
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475. 2j62s46830f
     • author: Xihaier Luo
     • title: Machine Learning-Based Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Dynamic Systems
     • date: 2020
     • words: 170
     • flesch: 8
     • summary: In civil engineering, applications of data-enabled modeling, analysis, and control of complex structural systems can be found across multiple areas such as design optimization, reliability analysis, structural health monitoring, and multi-hazard modeling and prediction. This dissertation focuses on two directions of developing and deploying efficient algorithms for data-driven modeling, identification, and discovery of features embedded in complex engineering systems.
     • keywords: data; direction; engineering; modeling; systems
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476. 2j62s468324
     • author: James W. Haring
     • title: God and the Quest for Authenticity in Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant
     • date: 2020
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Though personal authenticity is an organizing ideal of late-modern Western societies, it also is a site of some of our most contentious disagreements, lacks coherence in many of its formulations, is not fully understood in all of its implications, and is often unidentified in its function as a marker of social distinction. There is a need for conceptual clarification and deeper historical understanding of the ideal of authenticity.
     • keywords: authenticity; autonomy; distinction; ideal; kant; mendelssohn; religious
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477. 2j62s468355
     • author: Yuanhao Niu
     • title: Essays on Firm Dynamics and Macroeconomics
     • date: 2021
     • words: 190
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: We find that a moderate counter-cyclical financial repression rule helps the government ``earn' reputation and brings welfare improvements. Empirical evidence suggests that the government may pressure the domestic agents to purchase their sovereign debt during turbulent times.
     • keywords: advertising; chapter; crisis; dynamics; firm
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478. 2j62s46836h
     • author: Emily Spencer
     • title: In Defense of Our Better Angels: On Empathy's Role in Ethics
     • date: 2021
     • words: 346
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: After I have established my basic argument for empathy's role in moral perception and performance, I argue that because empathy plays this unique and important role, improving our empathic abilities leads to bettering our ability to both know when action is called for as well as understand what action is called for. My analysis takes the form of a descriptive reconstruction of moral performance, emphasizing the relation between moral perception and judgment in particular on the interplay between cognitive and emotional faculties in moral perception.
     • keywords: empathic; empathy; identity; moral; particular; perception
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479. 2j62s46840r
     • author: Kay Malte Bischof
     • title: Engaging Spinoza and Spinozism
     • date: 2021
     • words: 208
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: These engagements with Spinozism take three different forms: a kind of constructive/historical engagement (essay 1), a kind of internal consistency examination (essay 2), and a kind of methodological investigation (essay 3) – each making its own case for or against Spinozism. The recent popularity of arguments identifying pressures in theistic philosophy to become Spinozistic has ignited a new interest in a question that is also for the author of this dissertation of great (personal) significance: Should I be a Spinozist or theist?
     • keywords: essay; kind; question; spinozism
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480. 2j62s46851d
     • author: A. McGee
     • title: Some Secret Aspects of the Modernist Novel
     • date: 2022
     • words: 4
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Early twentieth-century fiction.
     • keywords: early
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481. 2n49t150833
     • author: Julie L Chaney
     • title: Selection for Synonymous Codon Usage
     • date: 2015
     • words: 341
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Rare codons have been shown to have functional significance in specific protein coding sequences, but there is still no consensus on how widespread such mechanisms are or how to identify functional rare codon clusters. Here we report that rare codon clusters are enriched at predicted domain boundaries, at a genome-wide level, in both human and E. coli.
     • keywords: clusters; codon; functional; rare; sequences; translational; usage
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482. 2n49t150864
     • author: Rachel Elizabeth Bashor
     • title: Dynamics of Wind Sensitive Structures
     • date: 2011
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: Through the investigation of full-scale measurements, it is the goal of this study focused on examining the uncertainty associated with defining the response of structures under habitability, serviceability, and survivability wind events to ensure human comfort, design strength, and robust building envelopes under service and extreme wind events. Globalization of the construction industry and the development of unified international codes and standards emphasize the need to better understand the underlying differences between international wind loading standards.
     • keywords: buildings; design; events; performance; scale; standards; tall; wind
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483. 2n49t15090c
     • author: Teng Li
     • title: The Design and Analysis of Successive Decoding for Channels With Memory
     • date: 2008
     • words: 292
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: These results allow us to characterize accurately the binary-input capacity of correlated fading channels and to operate within 1.1 dB to the binary-input capacity using AWGN channel optimized LDPC codes. Many communication systems have to cope with channels with unknown and time-varying state, including fading, inter-symbol interference, and more general finite-state Markov channels.
     • keywords: channels; decoding; information; input; rate; successive
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484. 2n49t15091q
     • author: Geliang Song
     • title: The Sorption Mechanisms of Metal Ions (Cadmium and Lead) to Bacterial Biomass, Siderophores and Minerals
     • date: 2013
     • words: 601
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: Therefore to quantify the capacity and mechanism of metal sorption by bacterial biomass, it is essential to understand the fate of metals in the environment. Comparable metal sorption capacities and similar behaviors were found for both planktonic and biofilm biomass when pH and metal concentrations changed in the solutions.
     • keywords: biomass; complex; dfo; fate; lead; metals; siderophores; sorption; sphere
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485. 2n49t15093d
     • author: Brian Scott Bodnar
     • title: The Synthesis of Mycobactin Analogs and Heterocyclic Scaffolds From Acylnitroso Hetero-Diels-Alder Cycloadducts
     • date: 2008
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: In chapter 3, the synthesis of mycobactin analog fragments is described from amino acids and acylnitroso HDA cycloadducts. Chapter 6 described the development of the addition of azides to acylnitroso HDA cycloadducts and the effect of alkene strain on reactivity.
     • keywords: acylnitroso; analogs; chapter; hda; mycobactin; synthesis
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486. 2n49t15096f
     • author: Elizabeth S Halpin
     • title: Characterization of the early events of centrosome duplication in mammalian cells and the roles of tektin in centrosome duplication, midbody formation and cytokinesis.
     • date: 2008
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: To determine the role of tektin in centrosome duplication, siRNA of tektin 1 or 3 in S-phase arrested CHO cells was shown to prevent centrosome reduplication, indicating that that these proteins are required for the centrosome to duplicate. While centriole number determines the number of centrosomes, it remains unclear whether or not centrosomes can duplicate in the absence of centriole elongation.
     • keywords: cells; centrioles; centrosome; duplication; number; phase
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487. 2n49t15099g
     • author: Tamara Jo Van Dyken
     • title: Singing the Gospel: Evangelical Hymnody, Popular Religion, and American Culture; 1870-1940
     • date: 2010
     • words: 209
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: This work traces the importance of gospel hymnody in shaping popular theology and influencing American culture. Understanding how gospel hymns were being utilized by the interdenominational evangelicals also helps delineate the parameters of evangelical culture and its relationship to broader American culture.
     • keywords: american; culture; evangelicals; gospel; hymns
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488. 2n49t150c4c
     • author: Matthew R. Bailey
     • title: Sheath-Flow Microfluidic Approach for Combined Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Electrochemical Detection
     • date: 1904
     • words: 169
     • flesch: 16
     • 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.
     • keywords: approach; detection; sers; surface
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489. 2n49t15106x
     • author: Patrick B. Louden
     • title: Discovering the Molecular Origins of Solid-Liquid Friction at Ice-Ih / Water Interfaces
     • date: 1904
     • words: 436
     • flesch: 46
     • 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.
     • keywords: friction; ice; interface; liquid; observed; shear; solid; surface; water
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490. 2n49t151d0k
     • author: Paige Ambord
     • title: How Buildings Become Problems
     • date: 2021
     • words: 280
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: This paper asks: when does historic value insulate buildings from being perceived as problem properties?The third paper demonstrates how residents perceive buildings as social problems. Building upon critiques of the Broken Windows hypothesis which argue that not all physical disorder stands out to residents as disorder, this paper argues that buildings that violate expectations that residents hold about buildings as private property become seen as out of place, and therefore as disorder.
     • keywords: buildings; mobilization; paper; residents; vacant
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491. 2n49t151d9p
     • author: Nicholas Kempf
     • title: Novel Methods for Thermal and Thermoelectric Material Measurement and the Effect of Irradiation on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials
     • date: 2022
     • words: 389
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: Meanwhile, the irradiation studies provide new insight on the performance of advanced thermoelectric devices in the extreme environment of a nuclear reactor core, which in turn guides the design and development of thermoelectric materials for use in radioactive environments. This dissertation focuses on novel methods for the characterization of thermal and thermoelectric transport properties and their applications to investigate advanced thermoelectric materials.
     • keywords: materials; measurement; performance; phase; probe; reactor; thermal; thermoelectric
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492. 2n49t151g06
     • author: Aidan Boyd
     • title: Human-Machine Teaming to Improve Computer Vision
     • date: 2023
     • words: 267
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: While this idea could theoretically be applied to any domain in which humans can provide meaningful input, for this talk it will be focused on computer vision applications, specifically post-mortem iris recognition, fake iris detection, synthetic face detection and physiological abnormality detection based on chest X-ray scans Human-machine teaming is the idea that humans and machines can provide complementary information in solving a given task such that their combination results in better performance than either individually.
     • keywords: human; models; supervision; task
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493. 2r36tx33j5p
     • author: Michael Louis Dimino
     • title: Synthesis, characterization, and modeling of novel bovine hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers
     • date: 2007
     • words: 470
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Second generation hemoglobin-based O2 carriers (HBOCs) are being developed with high O2 affinity (low P50) in order to suppress vasoconstriction elicited by over-oxygenating tissues, a problem associated with low O2 affinity first generation HBOCs. Furthermore, bHBOCs synthesized with 2-CEFP created Mw species centered at 63.6 and 96 kDa, correlating to intact tetrameric bHb and tetrameric bHb bound to a bHb dimer, respectively.
     • keywords: affinity; bhb; cefp; cross; hbocs; molar; ogp; ring
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494. 2r36tx33j61
     • author: Carolyn M Rodak
     • title: Observations on the Analysis of Time-dependent Health Risks from Groundwater Contamination and the Utility of RRV and NCP as Measures
     • date: 2013
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: Estimation of health risks from exposure to contaminated groundwater traditionally focuses on the maximum risk. The RRV measures serve to estimate the probability of an acceptable health risk, probability of system recovery, expected maximum health risk, and average exceedance of a prescribed health risk threshold.
     • keywords: dependent; groundwater; health; maximum; measures; risk; time
     • versions: original; plain text
495. 2r36tx33j8q
     • author: Kenji Yoshida
     • title: VLSI Implementation of Algebraically-Structured Low Density Parity Check Codes
     • date: 2004
     • words: 110
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: By using this model, we find that these codes are well- suited especially for high code rate applications. In this thesis, we focus on algebraically constructed LDPC codes, especially quasi-cyclic LDPC codes that were first presented by Tanner.
     • keywords: codes; ldpc; parity
     • versions: original; plain text
496. 2r36tx33j92
     • author: Allison Ann Muscolino
     • title: Negotiating the Gendered Margins of Modernity: Tamara de Lempicka and Her Iconic Female Forms
     • date: 2010
     • words: 196
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Working within and around this framework of constructed spaces, I argue for an appreciation of Tamara de Lempicka as a successful modern artist who, through both her images of modern women and her life as a bisexual public figure, contributed significantly to the discourse of gender in modernity. In this role, Lempicka independently maneuvered through a variety of public spaces in modern Paris to stage her own melodrama full of intrigue, sex, and complete excess.
     • keywords: gender; lempicka; modern; spaces; years
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497. 2r36tx33k08
     • author: Cole Carnesecca
     • title: 'Out for a Stroll' to 'Test the Waters': Opportunity Perception and Political Opportunity Structures in Four Chinese NIMBYs
     • date: 2012
     • words: 149
     • flesch: 19
     • 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.
     • keywords: movement; opportunities; opportunity; specific
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498. 2r36tx33k39
     • author: Dhanesh Padmanabhan
     • title: Reliability-Based Optimization for Multidisciplinary System Design
     • date: 2003
     • words: 368
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The reliability constraints are typically constraints on the probabilities of failure due to component failure events or a system failure event. In this work the class of design problems which are considered, are designs characterized by a minimum merit function and that satisfy certain reliability constraints.
     • keywords: analysis; design; mcs; methodologies; problems; rbo; reliability
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499. 2r36tx33k50
     • author: Deonna D. Neal
     • title: Be Who You Are: Karl Barth's Ethics of Creation
     • date: 2010
     • words: 510
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Barth grounds the goodness of creation not in its own independent reality, but in the goodness of Jesus Christ, who, as Barth works out in CD II.2, is the concrete form of the command of God and fulfillment of the covenant between God and humanity. In this chapter we see that to be human is to be a creature who can transcend her nature and limits in an encounter with the other, yet such an encounter with the transcendent other allows the creature to exist more fully and properly as a covenant partner with God in creation and not outside of it.
     • keywords: barth; chapter; covenant; creation; god; goodness
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500. 2r36tx33k6b
     • author: James David Pirnia
     • title: Full-Scale Dynamic Characteristics of Tall Buildings and Impacts on Occupant Comfort
     • date: 2010
     • words: 204
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: Finally a framework is developed to investigate occupant comfort directly from full-scale accelerations using existing motion simulator studies to project the likely number of occupants adversely affected by tall building motion when considering the effects of waveform, duration, and frequency of oscillation. With every decade, the average height of tall buildings has increased and with the near completion of Burj Dubai, tall buildings are now reaching unprecedented heights where the governing limit state has transitioned to occupant comfort.
     • keywords: buildings; comfort; framework; occupant; tall
     • versions: original; plain text
501. 2r36tx33k81
     • author: Wenjun Li
     • title: InGaAs/InP Modified Uni-Travelling-Carrier Photodiode with a Cliff Layer
     • date: 2014
     • words: 260
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Due to the exceptional transmission property of optical fiber and the development of high-performance optoelectronic components, microwave photonic links have been used in many applications, including radio-over-fiber systems, optical beam forming and optical signal processing. An InGaAs/InP MUTC-PD epitaxial structure grown by MOCVD has also been processed into a frontside-illuminated photodiode by using optical lithography, wet and dry etch processes, dielectric planarization and metallization.
     • keywords: charge; effect; high; mutc; optical; space
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502. 2r36tx33k9c
     • author: Bhargava Kumar Narayana
     • title: Three-Dimensional Optical Measurements in an Ethylene Fuelled Model Scramjet Engine
     • date: 2014
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 44
     • 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.
     • keywords: combustion; dimensional; flame; flow; laser; structures; study; techniques; turbulent
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503. 2r36tx33m1x
     • author: Bin Xu
     • title: New Algorithms for Spatial Data Clustering Problems
     • date: 2008
     • words: 215
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: In this dissertation, we study a number of spatial data clustering problems such as density-based data clustering, density-based data clustering with secondary memory management for lower dimensions, agglomerative hierarchical data clustering, and constrained 1-D K-means data clustering. Due to the huge sizes and large number of attributes of the input data nowadays, achieving computational efficiency has become a primary objective and a big challenge to data clustering algorithms.
     • keywords: algorithms; applications; clustering; data; large; spatial
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504. 2r36tx33n8n
     • author: Joel Duncan
     • title: The Song in the Machine: Organic Forms of American Poetry
     • date: 1904
     • words: 359
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: This dissertation argues that their innovations, rather than mere freaks of fancy, have harnessed the machinery of capitalist development toward poetic ends. Chapter One considers Whitman's confrontation with industrial capitalism and slavery, elaborating how the hum produced by his loafer in the grass transforms the abstract equality inherent in wage labor toward poetic song.
     • keywords: aesthetic; capitalist; chapter; forms; free; poetic; social; verse; williams
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505. 2r36tx33r5j
     • author: Zhongming Li
     • title: Absorption-Based Spectroscopy and Microscopy on Nanostructures
     • date: 1904
     • words: 324
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: MIR-PHI might find its potential in stain-free histology, as well as other biomedical applications. Since absorption effect scales with volume while scattering effect scales with volume squared, for particles with sizes in the nanometer range, absorption is usually stronger than scattering.
     • keywords: absorption; effect; imaging; mid; mir; phi; signal
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506. 2r36tx3482f
     • author: Aleksandra Hernandez
     • title: Patterns of Experience: Pragmatism, Perception, and Cultural Cognition in Modern American Literature
     • date: 1904
     • words: 179
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: From Melville's depiction of machine-mediated modes of perception in European navigational practices, to Hurston's pragmatist epistemology in which her subjective, participatory engagement with Haitian and Jamaican culture is a source of narrative authority and objectivity, Patterns of Experience suggests that how we think is not a transparent process in which ideas get transferred directly from world to body to mind. Patterns of Experience: Pragmatism, Perception, and Cultural Cognition in Modern American Literature, tracks experience-based forms of mimesis in the writing of Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston.
     • keywords: cognition; experience; hurston; patterns; perception
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507. 2r36tx3485g
     • author: Ashley R. Gans-Forrest
     • title: The Design, Construction and Use of a Low-Temperature, Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope for Reaction Studies
     • date: 1904
     • words: 163
     • flesch: 39
     • 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.
     • keywords: reaction; surface
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508. 2r36tx34933
     • author: Agung Santoso
     • title: Equivalence Testing for Anchor Selection in Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Detection
     • date: 1904
     • words: 369
     • flesch: 49
     • 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.
     • keywords: anchor; dif; items; procedure; selection
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509. 2r36tx34n2v
     • author: Rachel Jayne Oidtman
     • title: Understanding and Forecasting Spatiotemporal Variation in Emerging Arboviruses
     • date: 2020
     • words: 438
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: In conclusion, my research demonstrates that both specific knowledge of spatiotemporal variation in emerging arboviruses and general knowledge about phenomena affecting emerging infectious diseases are necessary for mitigating uncertainty in forecasts of emerging infectious diseases. Third, to test the effect of alternative model assumptions on forecasts of incidence and spread of emerging infectious diseases, I designed an ensemble of forecasting models in the context of the 2015-2016 Zika epidemic in Colombia.
     • keywords: arboviruses; data; dengue; epidemic; incidence; model; time; variation; zika
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510. 2r36tx34q3t
     • author: Joaquin Pablo Moris Barra
     • title: Wave and Debris Loading in Developed Coastal Regions
     • date: 2022
     • words: 374
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Results show that both the debris collision probability and the collision impulse magnitude are significantly reduced as the number of sheltering rows increases. The presence of structures in developed coastal regions has a significant effect on the water flow, affecting wave hydrodynamics, wave loading, and debris impacts on buildings.
     • keywords: array; building; debris; developed; effect; impact; loading; tsunami
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511. 2v23vt16t5r
     • author: Stephen J Schuyten
     • title: Activity and In-Situ Xas Studies of Promoted Copper and Zinc Oxide Catalysts for Hydrogen Production by Methanol Partial Oxidation
     • date: 2008
     • words: 334
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: However, promoter materials do not influence the methanol decomposition and water gas shift activation energies because of the similarity of catalyst state at high reaction temperatures regardless of promoter materials. An exploration of preparing structured catalysts by hydrothermal synthesis methods showed that intimate contact of copper with certain oxide phases is required for high activity.
     • keywords: activity; catalysts; copper; high; palladium; promoter; reaction; zirconia
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512. 2v23vt16t8s
     • author: Danielle DuBois Gottwig
     • title: Before the Culture Wars: Conservative Protestants and the Family, 1920-1980
     • date: 2011
     • words: 360
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: In the 1970s Dr. James Dobson and Tim and Beverley LaHaye, all leaders in the emerging New Christian Right, established themselves as psychologists, counselors, and teachers invested in improving family life. It focuses on how members of five conservative Protestant groups - the fundamentalist movement, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Assemblies of God, and the neo-evangelical movement - responded to sweeping changes in American family life and social thought during the middle decades of the twentieth century.
     • keywords: christian; conservative; evangelical; family; marriage; middle; protestant; religious; self; social
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513. 2v23vt16v21
     • author: Zhong Wang
     • title: Software Partitioning and Scheduling for Improving Performance and Energy Consumption
     • date: 2008
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Another target architecture is multi-bank memory architecture, which brings the scheduling complexity and difficulty of variable partitioning. The first targeted architecture is a system with memory hierarchy and processor comprising multiple processing and memory units.
     • keywords: applications; architecture; cluster; compiler; hardware; memory; multiple; parallelism; scheduling
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514. 2v23vt16v3c
     • author: Mingming Cai
     • title: Design and Implementation of a Distributed Spectrum Access System
     • date: 2014
     • words: 180
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Competitive distributive spectrum access radios provide a solution to deal with malicious radios using the same spectrum. Cooperative distributed spectrum access radios provide a way to share the spectrum without prior knowledge of other radios' spectrum occupancy.
     • keywords: access; radios; spectrum; system
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515. 2v23vt16v83
     • author: Corey Ladd Barnes
     • title: Christ's Two Wills in Scholastic Theology: Thirteenth-Century Debates and the Christology of Thomas Aquinas
     • date: 2006
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: The dominant concern of thirteenth-century theologians was to affirm the fullness of Christ's humanity while denying contrariety of wills in Christ. The thirteenth century witnessed developments in the affirmation of Christ's full humanity and in strategies for denying contrariety of wills in Christ.
     • keywords: century; christ; human; thirteenth; thomas; wills
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516. 2v23vt16w10
     • author: Austin David Choi-Fitzpatrick
     • title: Democracy, Ideology, and Congenital Inequality in Social Movement Organizations
     • date: 2010
     • words: 168
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Resolving tension in this way has the unintended effect of stifling the actual process of democratic participation, effectively excluding new and potentially valuable resources and mobilizing strategies. The congenitally undemocratic nature of social movement groups, and the strategies deployed to cover the subsequent democratic deficit deserve further investigation.
     • keywords: democratic; leaders; movement; social
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517. 2v23vt16w5c
     • author: Yanlin Guo
     • title: Nonstationary System Identification Techniques
     • date: 1904
     • words: 435
     • flesch: 24
     • 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.
     • keywords: data; earthquakes; frequency; identification; loadings; nonstationary; structural; system; techniques; time
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518. 2v23vt16x2n
     • author: Shiyan Wang
     • title: Transport and Mixing Induced by Swimming Organisms and Settling/Rising Particles
     • date: 1904
     • words: 454
     • flesch: 39
     • 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.
     • keywords: bubbles; carbon; interface; marine; mixing; organisms; particles; snow; surface; swimming; transport; unsteady
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519. 2v23vt16x7c
     • author: Ronald J. Nowling
     • title: Replacing Domain-Specific Methods in Bioinformatics with Machine Learning Techniques
     • date: 1904
     • words: 123
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: We demonstrate how traditional domain-specific bioinformatics methods can be improved and replaced by machine learning techniques through studies of two problems (gene annotation and population genetics) arising from insect vector genomics. Challenges from debugging complex algorithms are compounded by the use of low-level languages and parallel processing to achieve optimal performance and scale to large data sets.
     • keywords: algorithms; high; learning; machine
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520. 2v23vt17j8k
     • author: Christopher M. Jasinski
     • title: Experimental Fluid Mechanic Evaluation of Liner Drag and Acoustic-Drag Interaction
     • date: 1904
     • words: 338
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Lastly the coupling of acoustic excitation and liner drag will be explored as measured drag increases when in the presence of high levels of tonal noise. This dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive report on a new method for evaluating liner drag, analyze a database of velocity profile measurements, and describe a proposal for a reduced drag concept utilizing known capabilities for smooth walls.
     • keywords: acoustic; aerodynamic; aircraft; commercial; drag; engine; liners; noise; research
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521. 2v23vt17q22
     • author: Raphael Mary Salzillo, OP
     • title: The Soul as a Part in Aquinas
     • date: 2019
     • words: 163
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: I begin by setting out Aquinas's understanding of parthood and then proceed to look critically at the features Aquinas attributes to the soul that are particularly relevant to its parthood. I clarify and critically examine Aquinas's claim that the human soul is a part of the human substance, arguing that the claim that the soul is a part is the key to understanding his ontology of the human being.
     • keywords: human; soul
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522. 2v23vt17r3q
     • author: Adam Moreno
     • title: Alexandrov Geometry of Leaf Spaces and Applications
     • date: 2019
     • words: 120
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: We develop a number of tools to analyze the geometry and topology of leaf spaces - quotients of singular Riemannian foliations with closed leaves. When applied to a given leaf space, these tools not only help describe the geometry/topology of the quotient, but can also reveal information about the leaves of the singular Riemannian foliation and the manifolds which admit such foliations.
     • keywords: foliations; singular
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523. 2v23vt17r9s
     • author: Joel Robert Gray Brogan
     • title: Advancing Biometrics and Image Forensics through Vision and Learning Systems
     • date: 2019
     • words: 427
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: 3) In the Image Forensics and retrieval chapters (Ch. 4, 5, and 6), we focus on building novel image retrieval algorithms that can retrieve and trace modified images back to their origins. We propose multiple new frameworks for image retrieval that model object-level regions, allowing for fine-grained object level retrieval results.
     • keywords: algorithms; approaches; body; facial; image; new; pose; reid; retrieval
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524. 2v23vt17x9b
     • author: Sehrazat G. Mart
     • title: Public Service in the Absence of Accountability: Street-Level Bureaucrats' Occupational Ideology and Responsiveness to Citizens
     • date: 2021
     • words: 133
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: Because the social reality is much more complex than what written policies can cover, bureaucratic discretion is a fundamental component of policy implementation. By drawing from interviews conducted with municipal and ministry officials that implement large-scale urban transformation projects that target informal settlement neighborhoods in two cities of Turkey (Istanbul and Bursa), this thesis shows that, in the absence of accountability, occupational ideology becomes crucial in shaping how bureaucrats approach implementation and how they treat citizens.
     • keywords: bureaucrats; public; responsive; service
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525. 2v23vt17z7z
     • author: Ke Feng
     • title: Spatial Analysis of Cellular Networks: Meta Distributions, Cooperation, and Joint Geometric Modeling
     • date: 2021
     • words: 322
     • flesch: 40
     • 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.
     • keywords: analysis; large; performance; propagation; scale; sinr; spatial
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526. 2v23vt18186
     • author: Colin Denzel
     • title: A Physics Informed Stochastic Model for the Behavior of Particles in Rayleigh–Bénard Turbulence
     • date: 2023
     • words: 210
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: A simple conceptual picture underlies the stochastic model, namely that the particles take repeated trips between the top and bottom boundaries, driven by the convective cells that occur in Rayleigh-Benard turbulence, and that their residence times are determined by the time it takes to complete one of these trips, which varies from one trip to another, and the probability of falling out to the bottom boundary after each trip. Despite the simplicity of the model, it yields quantitatively accurate predictions of the distribution of the particle residence times in the flow.
     • keywords: flow; particles; residence; times
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527. 2z10wq00378
     • author: Xuyang He
     • title: Enolization reactions mediated by s-block metal amide reagents
     • date: 2008
     • words: 456
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: A combination of NMR spectroscopy, kinetic studies, crystallographic analyses and theoretical investigations has been used to elucidate the mechanism for ketone enolization. The reactivities of magnesium bis(hexamethyldisilazide) Mg(HMDS)2, KHMDS, Ca(HMDS)2, several mixed-metal K/Ca amide combinations in enolization reactions are reported.
     • keywords: ca(hmds)2; complexes; enolate; enolization; metal; mixed; potassium; section; studies
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528. 2z10wq0038m
     • author: Richard William Maass
     • title: To Conquer Land or People: Democracy and the Domestic Political Costs of Annexationism
     • date: 2013
     • words: 268
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: In short, I argue that state leaders consider domestic political consequences in addition to material benefits and military costs when determining the desirability of annexationism, and reject opportunities to annex territory where they fear it impairing their domestic influence (even where annexation would be materially profitable). After laying out my theory of annexation?s domestic political consequences, I test its causal logic against the conventional wisdom by process-tracing the decision making of US leaders facing major opportunities to expand into Canada and Mexico between 1774 and 1871.
     • keywords: annexation; annexationism; domestic; opportunities; political
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529. 2z10wq00405
     • author: Jerry Z Park
     • title: The Ethnic and Religious Identities of Young Asian Americans
     • date: 2004
     • words: 180
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: The evidence based on these samples suggests that traditional identities are a constructive effort or a form of personal agency. I show that not only do these public narratives produce different interpretations of ethnicity or religion when considered separately, but they also interact and inform one another in complex ways.
     • keywords: american; asian; identities; public
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530. 2z10wq0041h
     • author: Sara L Method
     • title: Hybridity, Fragmentation, and Translation in the Embroidered Sculptural Works of Ghada Amer
     • date: 2010
     • words: 249
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: In both visual and textual terms, Amer's work thus addresses language's instability, while her method of layering various sign systems on top of one another creates a multi-vocality that speaks to issues of cultural hybridity and the unpredictable processes of assimilation and acculturation. For instance, Amer converts written text from the page into embroidered text on cloth, from ink to thread, and from book to fabric structure.
     • keywords: amer; process; role; text
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531. 2z10wq0042v
     • author: Kalsea Jo Koss
     • title: Patterns of Adolescent Regulatory Processes: Links to Family Risk and Protective Factors and Mental Health Trajectories
     • date: 2012
     • words: 271
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: While security in the parent-child relationship and about the marital relationship have been found to be important mechanisms linking family risk to maladjustment in children and adolescents, little is known about how individual differences in security processes about the larger family context may impact adolescent regulation and psychopathology. The present study sought to identify distinct patterns of adolescent regulatory processes important to relations between family risk and adolescents' mental health trajectories.
     • keywords: adolescents; family; higher; patterns; risk; subjective; trajectories
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532. 2z10wq0045w
     • author: Sharon Lynn Hermes
     • title: Essays on Elderly Labor Force Participation, Pension Structure, and Partial Retirement
     • date: 2005
     • words: 364
     • flesch: 43
     • 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.
     • keywords: older; partial; retirees; retirement; work; workers
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533. 2z10wq00467
     • author: Cesar A Hidalgo
     • title: Three empirical studies on the aggregate dynamics of humanly driven complex systems
     • date: 2011
     • words: 214
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Different aspects of human society can be described as a complex system, as large numbers of people aggregate into a host of complex structures. Complex systems are characterized by having emergent properties that cannot be explained from their large number of interacting and heterogeneous components.
     • keywords: complex; mobile; phone; systems
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534. 2z10wq0047k
     • author: Christina Lynn Brinks Rea
     • title: The Thematic, Stylistic, and Verbal Similarities Between Isaiah 40-55 and the Book of Job
     • date: 2010
     • words: 530
     • flesch: 47
     • 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.
     • keywords: chapter; dependent; isaiah; job; relationship; similarities; works
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535. 2z10wq0048x
     • author: David M. Choate
     • title: Cougar-induced behavioral plasticity: ungulate behavior under the risk of predation on the National Bison Range
     • date: 2010
     • words: 365
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Risk-induced changes in prey behavior have many important effects in predator-prey communities; however, fitness consequences of predation risk to prey remain unclear. One challenge for ecologists is to link individual foraging behavior to population dynamics, while integrating the effects of predation risk.
     • keywords: behavior; effects; foraging; predation; predator; prey; risk; time
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536. 2z10wq0050g
     • author: Sherri Sue Smith
     • title: Molecular Evolution, Localization, and Functional Analysis of Toxoplasma Gondii Coated Vesicle (Copi) Beta Subunit
     • date: 2008
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: During parasite endodyogeny, TgÌ¢COP staining closely follows the contours of elongating apicoplasts and encircles the Golgi during Golgi duplication and segregation into new daughter cells. Protein secretion from three unique secretory organelles; the micronemes, rhoptries and dense granules, is pivotal for T. gondii infection and survival within host cells.
     • keywords: cells; golgi; gondii; mammalian; protein; studies; tgì¢cop
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537. 2z10wq0051t
     • author: Abigail A Weaver
     • title: The Development of Field Friendly Tools for Pharmaceutical Analysis
     • date: 2014
     • words: 317
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Chemical test cards combine twelve different colorimetric tests arranged in lanes to produce unique color bar codes for several pharmaceuticals, including beta lactam antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis medications. Medicines with reduced active ingredients can encourage antimicrobial resistance and can increase the likelihood of transmission for communicable diseases.
     • keywords: cards; chemical; diseases; health; medicines; pharmaceuticals; problem; test
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538. 2z10wq0053h
     • author: Meredith Chase Whitnah
     • title: Faith and the Fragility of Justice: Religious Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
     • date: 2015
     • words: 418
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: I show here that the organizations' responses to GBV, an issue that emerged in broad public awareness in the context of the transition to democracy in South Africa, are rooted in their historical patterns of discourse. While they share important similarities, the organizations vary in how they perceive gender-based violence (GBV) to pertain to broader questions of justice.
     • keywords: cultural; discourse; gbv; organizations; responses; schemas
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539. 2z10wq00556
     • author: Alexis Michelle Chambers
     • title: The Effect of Mood and Emotional States on Memory Consolidation
     • date: 1904
     • words: 173
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Although happy and fear emotion inductions similarly resulted in the mere suppression of neutral word recognition, sad emotion induction following learning resulted in a mood congruent memory bias for sad words. Emotion induction did not impact word recall or picture recognition.
     • keywords: consolidation; emotion; emotional; memory
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540. 2z10wq00t7s
     • author: Marjorie Harrington
     • title: Bilingual Form: Paired Translations of Latin and Vernacular Poetry, c. 1250-1350
     • date: 1904
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: Medieval languages existed in a state of constant contact and interaction with other languages. In this project, I argue that thirteenth- and fourteenth- century English trilingual manuscripts show the coalescing of distinctive approaches to the literary and pragmatic possibilities of multilingual clusters of texts.
     • keywords: english; instruction; languages; medieval; performance; texts; translations
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541. 2z10wq00t9g
     • author: Raquael J. Joiner
     • title: Support Dynamics in the Stress-Negative Affect Link: Within Individuals, within Dyadic Pairs, and across Dyads
     • date: 2018
     • words: 255
     • flesch: 32
     • 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.
     • keywords: negative; stress; support; visible
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542. 2z10wq01602
     • author: Maxime Berclaz
     • title: Nosophoros
     • date: 2020
     • words: 4
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: A collection of poems
     • keywords: poems
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543. 2z10wq01695
     • author: Nicole A. DiBlasi
     • title: Plutonium Interactions with Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid: Solubility, Redox Behavior, and the Influence of Aqueous Calcium and Iron Oxide Minerals
     • date: 2021
     • words: 184
     • flesch: 7
     • summary: The second area of research highlights the role of aqueous Ca(II) and iron oxide minerals within Pu-EDTA systems through the use of undersaturation solubility studies, advanced spectroscopic techniques, theoretical modeling efforts, and ternary sorption studies. The first area of research utilized undersaturation solubility studies, spectrophotometry, and advanced spectroscopic methods as a function of pH and time to investigate the speciation, solubility, and redox reactions in binary Pu-EDTA systems.
     • keywords: edta; interactions; plutonium; research; studies
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544. 2z10wq01784
     • author: Jacob Landgraf
     • title: Spaces of Spheres and the Torelli Subgroup of Out(Fn)
     • date: 2021
     • words: 95
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: Using ideas from 3-manifolds, Hatcher--Wahl defined a notion of automorphism groups of free groups with boundary. We study their Torelli subgroups, adapting ideas introduced by Putman for surface mapping class groups.
     • keywords: groups; ideas
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545. 2z10wq0182c
     • author: Wayde Z.C. Marsh
     • title: The Politics of Trauma: Mass Tragedies in Polarized America
     • date: 2022
     • words: 244
     • flesch: 24
     • 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.
     • keywords: data; events; mass; politics; response; traumatic
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546. 2z10wq01842
     • author: Hugh Michael O'Donnell
     • title: Mission and Communion: The Catholic Integration of Biblical Faith, Greek Inquiry, and World Cultures in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger
     • date: 2022
     • words: 348
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Today this inquiry is being raised once more in light of two realities: the experience of cultural pluralism within the universal Church and the necessity of cultural incarnation for the particular churches. Based upon the conviction that all theology is contextual, and therefore particular, contingent, and relative, these theologians claim that the purified Hellenic aspect of the early Church serves as but one example of cultural incarnation and accordingly ought no longer to be enduring or normative for Christianity today.
     • keywords: christian; church; cultural; engagement; faith; theology
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547. 2z10wq0198r
     • author: Natalie M. Ehret
     • title: Direct and Indirect Relations between Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Social Impairment: The Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Aggression
     • date: 2023
     • words: 156
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: The first model examined peer impairment, whereas the second model examined family impairment as the outcome variable. There was an overall indirect effect for each model such that ADHD symptoms were associated with greater ER difficulties, which were associated with greater aggression, which in turn was associated with greater social-relational impairments.
     • keywords: adhd; relational; social; symptoms
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548. 3197xk83c7t
     • author: Ashraf N Al-Khateeb
     • title: Fine Scale Phenomena in Reacting Systems: Identification and Analysis for Their Reduction
     • date: 2010
     • words: 158
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: The required temporal scales to assure accuracy in modeling reactive systems and the required spatial discretization to formally capture all detailed continuum physics in the reaction zone are calculated. All the physical scales, spatial and temporal, inherent in reacting systems are accurately identified via eigenvalue analysis.
     • keywords: analysis; reactive; scales; systems
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549. 3197xk83d0q
     • author: Brighid Corcoran
     • title: Self Assembly of Air-Stable Cationic Lipid Bilayers on Mica and Silicon
     • date: 2013
     • words: 522
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: Although air stable bilayers would be useful in biosensors and other bioelectronic devices, there are only a few supported lipid bilayers in the literature that are air stable enough to permit structural characterization, and they often show heights that are not really consistent with bilayer structure. Although the original patterning goal did not prove feasible, Ethyl PC did form air stable bilayers on mica and silicon.
     • keywords: afm; air; bilayers; cationic; cell; lipid; ots; silicon; stable; study
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550. 3197xk83d5f
     • author: Angela J Krumm
     • title: 'I'm Not Prejudiced, But ....': Moral Credentials and Perceptions of Discrimination
     • date: 2006
     • words: 156
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: Additionally, the relationship between participant status (majority group members v. stigmatized individuals) and perceptions of scenarios presenting moral credentials was mediated by participants' identification with their ingroup. In Study 1, I generated examples of statements and behaviors that individuals believe establish moral credentials.
     • keywords: credentials; moral
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551. 3197xk83f01
     • author: Lauren Theresa Wendell
     • title: Synthesis and Characterization of Heterobimetallic Alkaline Earth Metal Amides
     • date: 2005
     • words: 289
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: This change in the bonding causes interesting solution behavior, where charge separated species are often seen in donating solvents. The change in the bonding and solution behavior compared to the homodimers suggests that these compounds will have interesting reactivity with organic substrates.
     • keywords: bonding; charge; complex; metal; solution; solvents; structures
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552. 3197xk83f32
     • author: Jeffrey A. Bean
     • title: Thermal Infrared Detection Using Antenna-Coupled Metal-Oxide-Metal Diodes
     • date: 2010
     • words: 332
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: The measured performance of fabricated ACMOMDs is presented, including responsivity, noise performance, signal-to-noise ratio, noise-equivalent power, and normalized detectivity. These detectors are patterned using electron beam lithography and fabricated with shadow evaporation metal deposition.
     • keywords: acmomds; antenna; detection; detectors; infrared; metal; radiation; range
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553. 3197xk83f5r
     • author: Chao Wang
     • title: New Algorithms for Treatment Planning and Delivery Problems in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
     • date: 2008
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: Our main ideas are to exploit the underlying geometric and combinatorial properties of the problems and transform them into graph problems such as shortest paths, optimal matchings, maximum flows, multicommodity demand flows, or linear programming problems. In this thesis, we study a set of combinatorial and geometric problems that arise in IMRT planning and delivery: (1) the 3-D static leaf sequencing (SLS) problem, whose goal is to deliver the prescribed IMs in the minimum amount of time; (2) the 3-D static leaf sequencing with error control problem, which aims to deliver the prescribed IMs in the minimum amount of time subject to the constraint that no unnecessary machine delivery error is introduced; (3) the field splitting problems, which seek to split a large width, undeliverable IM into several deliverable sub-IMs of widths no larger than a given threshold value such that the total beam-on time during delivery is minimized; (4) the shape rectangularization problems, which are useful in simplifying a complicated continuous dose distribution into a deliverable discrete IM; (5) the coupled path planning problems, which are directly related to dynamic leaf sequencing and single-arc dose painting, an emerging IMRT delivery technique.
     • keywords: algorithms; delivery; dose; imrt; planning; prescribed; problems; radiation
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554. 3197xk83g21
     • author: Alissa J. Schunter
     • title: Quantitative Phosphoproteomics of Colon Cancer Initiation and Progression
     • date: 1904
     • words: 305
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: This dissertation compared two popular phosphoproteomics enrichment methods, immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) and titanium dioxide (TiO2)-based metal oxide affinity chromatography (MOAC). In the second study, a single-step TiO2 enrichment allowed characterization of signaling networks affected by low dose and high dose ionizing radiation in non-malignant breast cell line MCF10A.
     • keywords: cell; chromatography; dose; enrichment; high; imac; line; phosphoproteomics; tio2
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555. 3197xk83k81
     • author: Tong Wu
     • title: Study on the Dispersion Quantification, Multi-body Coalescence Behavior and Application in Oil Water Separation of Pickering Emulsions
     • date: 1904
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: This thesis describes the investigation into three aspects of droplet size in Pickering emulsions—the quantification of size dispersion, the understanding of the unusual droplet size distribution caused by multi-body coalescence, and the study of droplet size effects in the oil-water separation using magnetic carbon nanotubes (MCNTs).To quantify size dispersion, researchers have proposed four different uniformity indices. Pickering emulsions have been developed into many applications.
     • keywords: body; coalescence; distribution; droplet; emulsions; multi; size
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556. 3197xk83k9c
     • author: Edwin Mathews
     • title: Numerical and Theoretical Analysis of Aero-Optics with Application to an Optical Turret
     • date: 1904
     • words: 442
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Topics important to the design of aero-optical mitigation strategies, such as steady lensing, beam jitter and the connection between optical distortions and turret pressure fluctuations, are discussed and quantified. Regions of the field-of-regard where the lookback angle alone is not sufficient to relate viewing angle to optical distortion are those strongly affected by the horn vortices in the turret wake.
     • keywords: aero; angle; density; distortions; flow; fluctuations; optical; pressure; temperature; turbulent; turret
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557. 3197xk84844
     • author: Qinfeng Wu
     • title: Integrative Analysis of Cell Communication and Morphogenesis in a Multicellular System
     • date: 2019
     • words: 385
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Finally, future trends in how the advance in analytical tools will propel the study of cell communication and morphogenesis are discussed in the concluding chapter (Chapter 6). I reviewed the most up-to-date advances of technology that is used to reverse-engineer multicellular systems (Chapter 1).
     • keywords: ca2; cells; chapter; communication; development; drosophila; dynamics; tissue
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558. 3197xk8497g
     • author: M. Tahir Kilavuz
     • title: Authoritarian Persistence and Regime Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Autocrats, Opposition, and Coalitions
     • date: 2019
     • words: 616
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: I further draw on more than 120 interviews with key actors such as a former president, several prime ministers, ministers and party leaders to validate the argument about the importance of opposition coalition building on transition process. Using fieldwork and experimental data and relying on qualitative and quantitative analysis, the study distinguishes between the triggers of authoritarian breakdowns and the reasons behind democratic transitions.
     • keywords: authoritarian; breakdowns; democracy; factors; mena; process; regime; region; transition; variation
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559. 3197xk84b1q
     • author: Xunzhao Yin
     • title: Cross-Layer Integrated Designs for Energy Efficient Computing
     • date: 2019
     • words: 637
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Our work paved the way to building pure emerging device based systems and emerging technology based hardware security primitives. Moreover, FeFETs offer advantages over other emerging technologies, including its three-terminal structure, voltage-driven write mechanism, high ON current, high on-off ratios, etc.
     • keywords: applications; architectures; circuits; cmos; computing; conventional; designs; devices; energy; novel; paradigms; performance; problem; sat; technologies
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560. 3197xk84g1z
     • author: Arian Ahmadi
     • title: Parameter Estimation and Energy Optimization in Connected Electric Vehicles
     • date: 2020
     • words: 448
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: It has been shown that, energy savings up to 80% are achievable if the information about traffic flow and vehicle parameter set is known. Mainly, the effect of the powertrain efficiency map on energy optimal speed trajectories is investigated.
     • keywords: approach; conditions; energy; environmental; filtering; parameters; speed; vehicles
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561. 3197xk84g5b
     • author: Brooke Chambers
     • title: Decoding Kidney Development in Zebrafish: TFAP2A-KCTD15 Genetic Network Regulates Distal Nephron Differentiation
     • date: 2021
     • words: 530
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Lastly, we identified two discrete roles for the GRHL2 paralogs, grhl2a and grhl2b, in solute transporter program activation and epithelial maturation during distal nephron development. By employing CRISPR-Cas9 and knockdown strategies, we determined kctd15a/b loss primes nephron cells to adopt a DE/TAL cell signature.
     • keywords: cell; development; differentiation; distal; genetic; grhl2a; kctd15a; kidney; nephron; network; segments; solute; tfap2a; transcription; transporter
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562. 3197xk84g71
     • author: Katherine Barrett
     • title: Microbialite Communities and Food Web Linkages in Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
     • date: 2020
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Over the course of its recorded history, GSL water levels have fluctuated in response to climate patterns and human interventions, which affect abiotic conditions and food web components. Three objectives guide this research: 1) Characterize microbialite primary producer and diversity responses to changing abiotic conditions; 2) Determine the effects of physical and biotic factors on food web components and how future climate changes may affect GSL; and 3) Provide an initial assessment of benthic-pelagic linkage and herbivore population responses to changing food availability and abiotic conditions.
     • keywords: abiotic; benthic; brine; food; gsl; pelagic; primary; responses
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563. 3197xk84k4x
     • author: Preethi Susan Mathew
     • title: Ion Migration in Lead Halide Perovskites: Thermal and Photostability Insights
     • date: 2023
     • words: 405
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: We have demonstrated that iodine expulsion can be used to (1) quantify ion migration in mixed halide perovskites with various A-site cations and (2) to compare ion migration at different electrochemical biases. By using 2D mixed halide perovskites, a spacer cation dependence of ion migration was discussed.
     • keywords: halide; iodine; ion; light; migration; mixed; perovskites
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564. 3484zg66n9k
     • author: Shawn Thomas O'Neil
     • title: Expert Advice and the Newsvendor Problem
     • date: 2010
     • words: 152
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: Finally, in a separate problem related to distributed computing, we discuss a new model and theoretical results for minimizing the time to distribute a file throughout a network using simple tools. Bounds of this type show that the approach will perform well in easy distributional demand situations while simultaneously giving guarantees for all situations.
     • keywords: algorithms; bounds; problem
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565. 3484zg66p0s
     • author: Brandon Edward Haines
     • title: Computational Studies on the Mechanism of HMG-CoA Reductase and the Grignard SRN1 Reaction
     • date: 2014
     • words: 377
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: The enzyme is of considerable biomedical relevance because of the public health impact of its inhibitors called statins that are prescribed to control cholesterol levels and reduce the risks associated with coronary heart disease. The reaction involves a single electron transfer and was originally classified as a nucleophilic radical substitution (SRN1) reaction until radical clock experiments suggested that there is no radical intermediate.
     • keywords: coa; hmg; mechanism; models; radical; reaction; transition
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566. 3484zg66p2g
     • author: Vishwanath Joshi
     • title: Implementation of Locos (Local Oxidation of Silicon) Isolation Scheme in IC Fabrication
     • date: 2004
     • words: 204
     • flesch: 59
     • summary: The processing procedure is broken down into key steps namely, nitride deposition, dry etching of the nitride and nitride removal. Suprem3 software has been used to simulate the fabrication process and find the optimal parameters for different fabrication steps.
     • keywords: contact; devices; nitride; threshold; voltages
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567. 3484zg66p3t
     • author: John T Conroy, Jr.
     • title: The Wages of Sin Is Death:' The Death of the Soul in Greek, Second Temple Jewish, and Early Christian Authors
     • date: 2010
     • words: 681
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: Hence, he must have meant some kind of death other than physical death. The Wages of Sin is Death: The Death of the Soul in Greek, Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Authors.
     • keywords: chapter; death; life; person; philo; repentance; soul
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568. 3484zg66p76
     • author: Daniel Aaron Machiela
     • title: The Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20): A Reevaluation of its Text, Interpretive Character, and Relationship to the Book of Jubilees
     • date: 2007
     • words: 366
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: The background of the division of the earth includes the Table of Nations from Genesis 10 (and other biblical passages), the Ionian world map, the broader geographic setting of the Genesis Apocryphon, and Noah's arboreal dream-vision (GenAp 13-15). A comparison of the earth's division in Jubilees and the Apocryphon shows that the latter is shorter, simpler, and employs a different ordering scheme.
     • keywords: apocryphon; division; earth; genesis; jubilees; new; noah
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569. 3484zg66p8j
     • author: William Felix Acosta Negrin
     • title: Improving Search in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems
     • date: 2008
     • words: 515
     • flesch: 55
     • summary: Optimizing the overlays or the search mechanisms itself was unlikely to resolve the mismatch between query terms and file annotations. The challenge was to choose query terms without analyzing user intent or performing semantic analysis of the queries and objects.
     • keywords: gnutella; objects; p2p; peers; queries; query; systems
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570. 3484zg66p9w
     • author: Errol J. Philip
     • title: The 6th Vital Sign in Medicine: Evaluation of a Comprehensive Model of Distress in Cancer Care
     • date: 2011
     • words: 338
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: A substantial minority of cancer patients experience clinically significant symptoms of psychological distress, which can be associated with a wide range of negative health outcomes. Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in America and has a profound impact upon individuals, families, health care providers, and society at large.
     • keywords: cancer; current; distress; dss; majority; screening; significant; study
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571. 3484zg66q03
     • author: Katherine Leigh Hull
     • title: Advances in Geminal Organodimetallics: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Reactivity
     • date: 2010
     • words: 633
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: 1H NMR rate studies of the [L2Li3]-[Li(thf)4]+ to LLi2(thf)n equilibration process were performed (DHÌ¢ âÂåÁ = 12.6 Ìâå± 0.5 kcal/mol, DSÌ¢ âÂåÁ = -33.6 Ìâå± 1.8 kcal/molÌ¢è  ã¢K). 1H NMR rate studies could be directly performed on the reaction between LLi2(thf)n and (Me3Si)2NH by performing experiments in the temperature range of -75 to -45 Ìâå¼C. The observed rates for LLi2(thf)n from measurements between -75 and -45 Ìâå¼C were extrapolated to 25 Ìâå¼C. Comparison of the reaction rates of LLi2(thf)n and [L2Li3]-[Li(thf)4]+ provide a reactivity ratio on the order of 8x105!!!
     • keywords: complexes; form; l2li3]-[li(thf)4]+; l2li4; ligand; lli2(thf)n; me3si)2nh; metals; nmr; rate; solution; structures; studies
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572. 3484zg66q2s
     • author: Srinivas Sridharan
     • title: Compiler and Runtime Techniques for Software Transactional Memory in Partitioned Global Address Space Languages and Runtime Libraries
     • date: 2010
     • words: 313
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: This dissertation makes the following contributions: First, we showcase the programmability benefits of providing language support for atomic transactions over lock-based approaches. STM mechanisms primarily guarantee that transactions, i.e. code sequences that access shared state, either execute as a single atomic operation or retry their operation in case such guarantees cannot be provided.
     • keywords: address; manner; mechanisms; memory; pgas; stm; threads
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573. 3484zg66q34
     • author: Levente Borv&aacute;k
     • title: Direct Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Measurements of Transition Strengths in Cesium
     • date: 2014
     • words: 118
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Our motivation for constructing this apparatus is to perform high precision measurements of transition strengths and ratios important to the interpretation of parity nonconservation measurements and for testing electronic structure calculations in atomic cesium. 7p2P3/2 to the 6s2S1/2 &#8594; 7p2P1/2 transition strength ratio in atomic cesium along with the individual electric dipole matrix elements for both of those transitions.
     • keywords: 6s2s1/2; transition
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574. 3484zg66q5t
     • author: Sean Padraic Branagan
     • title: Nanoporous Metallic Films In Micro-nanofluidic Structures
     • date: 2012
     • words: 316
     • flesch: 24
     • 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.
     • keywords: circuits; electrochemical; electronic; films; nanoporous; sensing; transport
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575. 3484zg66q8v
     • author: Amy Rose Klegarth
     • title: Landscape Genetic Structure, Ranging Patterns, and Management of Urban Primates
     • date: 1904
     • words: 361
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Here, I examine three populations of urban macaques: long-tailed macaques from Bali, Indonesia, and Singapore, and Barbary macaques from Gibraltar. Population genetic analyses identified major differences in population structure between the two islands largely related to differential access to human food resources.
     • keywords: anthropogenic; approach; genetic; human; long; macaques; populations; specific; urban
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576. 3484zg66r54
     • author: Beatriz Carrillo
     • title: The Medicalization of Chilean Politics; An Analytical Catalogue of Physicians from the 1920s to the 1970s
     • date: 1904
     • words: 69
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: During the early twentieth century Chilean doctors took a different approach to the relation between medicine and politics; they did not only publicly claim for the need of a Ministry of Health but they got involved in legislation. Doctors in Chile took the medical expertise they had learned while practicing their trade and moved it into the congress, helping promote and create new laws that would help socialize medicine.
     • keywords: doctors
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577. 3484zg66s0q
     • author: Adam Asher Duker
     • title: Providence under Pressure: Israelite Identity and Religious War in Early Modern France, 1550–1575
     • date: 1904
     • words: 465
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: It is a cross confessional and comparative study that examines dozens of eyewitness siege accounts and other sources born of the awful crucible of siege warfare, exploring how contemporary Christians understood their relationship to God, to each other, and to the distant past in the midst of chaos and trauma. This dissertation is composed of three large and moving blocks of material: a narrative of key siege campaigns in the French religious wars; a treatment of the written narratives which came out of those campaigns, and a thematic exploration and analysis of the place of ancient texts—particularly the Hebrew Bible—in informing and structuring the combatants' sense of themselves and their enemies.
     • keywords: catholic; chapter; city; civil; experiences; french; hebrew; religious; sense; siege
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578. 3484zg67c9c
     • author: Nicole H. Scheidler
     • title: Olfactory Signals and Reception in a Pest Fly, Drosophila suzukii
     • date: 1904
     • words: 333
     • flesch: 16
     • 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.
     • keywords: conspecific; drosophila; drosophilids; melanogaster; novel; olfaction; olfactory; suzukii
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579. 3484zg67d0k
     • author: Scott K. Shaw
     • title: Near-Infrared Molecular Probes for Biomembrane Recognition
     • date: 1904
     • words: 136
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: This thesis describes the efforts toward developing new molecular probes which can target and report on biological membranes. These probes employ sophisticated fluorescence or photothermal reporting group, and one or more high affinity ligands for receptors of biological importance.
     • keywords: biological; far; probes; red
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580. 3484zg67r11
     • author: Daniel Contreras
     • title: Primum cognitum: Bonaventure and Aquinas on the Foundations of Knowledge
     • date: 2020
     • words: 557
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: The resolution of knowledge into its most basic components ultimately arrives at the knowledge of something whose own intelligibility is presupposed by, and included in, the intelligibility of everything else, but that does not presuppose anything beyond itself. This dissertation contributes towards reconstructing the origins and early stages of the development of this debate by closely examining Bonaventure and Aquinas's accounts of what is first known.
     • keywords: aquinas; bonaventure; cognitum; dissertation; issues; knowledge; philosophical; primum; problem
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581. 3484zg67t09
     • author: Justin Greaves
     • title: Fate and Transport of Emerging Viral Pathogens and Fecal Indicators in Environmental Waters
     • date: 2021
     • words: 180
     • flesch: 10
     • summary: The four main objectives addressed in this dissertation were to (1) understand the persistence of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), viral indicators and pathogens in model freshwater systems, (2) characterize the particle associations of promising molecular fecal pollution indicators, (3) determine the transport characteristics of bacterial and viral indicators in flowing waters, and (4) determine the persistence of infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in wastewater and water. The results of these investigations will help develop promising viral fecal indicators for water quality monitoring purposes where they can improve upon the traditionally used fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and other proposed bacterial indicators.
     • keywords: fecal; indicators; wastewater; water
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582. 3484zg67t3b
     • author: Emily Mae Work
     • title: Synergy of Computation and Experiment in the Development of Luminescent Steroids and Chiral Ligands
     • date: 2022
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Molecular design of chemical tools has a broad range of applications, from the development of probes for use in chemical and cell biology to the development of chiral catalysts for use in enantioselective chemical synthesis. It also describes a new application of Q2MM and TSFFs in the in silico design of novel ligand classes, enabling a user to virtually screen new ligand designs prior to synthesis.
     • keywords: chemical; chiral; cholesterol; computational; design; experimental; interplay; synthesis
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583. 3484zg67v5b
     • author: Michael P. Maloney
     • title: Computational Investigations of Transition Metal Catalyzed Reaction Mechanisms and the Verification of Q2MM Predictions
     • date: 2023
     • words: 289
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: The second study focused on the mechanistic differences between the underlying vinyl cyclopropane rearrangement in vinyl isocyanates and vinyl ketenes. This method relies on understanding the stereodetermining step for the reaction of interest and allows one to quickly screen chiral ligand libraries, identifying the highest performing ligand for the transformation.
     • keywords: development; ligand; predictions; reaction; step; study; understanding; vinyl
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584. 37720c49x9s
     • author: Kristi Lynn Pellegrini
     • title: Solid State and Aqueous Behavior of Uranyl Peroxide Cage Clusters
     • date: 2015
     • words: 386
     • flesch: 33
     • 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.
     • keywords: aqueous; clusters; ray; solid; state; systems; u24pp12; uranyl
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585. 37720c49z2p
     • author: Yi Wei
     • title: Monitoring, Configuration and Resource Management of Service Workflows in Virtualized Clusters and Clouds
     • date: 2013
     • words: 214
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Several algorithms are proposed throughout the dissertation, each focusing on a different aspect of the larger problem, from monitoring individual services, to placing a new service workflow in the cloud, to dynamically reallocating resources across different services to satisfy demands and reduce costs. This dissertation explores the monitoring, configuration and dynamic resource management of service workflows in a cloud environment.
     • keywords: cloud; management; new; service; workflows
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586. 37720c49z62
     • author: Daniel Paul Fogarty
     • title: The investigation of hyperthermal gas collisions on heterogeneous surfaces using an in situ scanning tunneling microscope
     • date: 2008
     • words: 252
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: The number of nearest-neighbor molecules (within the 5 å¡A lattice distance) is stongly predictive of molecular stability with respect to rare-gas bombardment, and the overall dependence of stability on nearest neighbors is well fit by a simple exponential curve for molecules with 0&ndash;5 nearest neighbors. In contrast, gas-surface collisions do induce structural changes in the alkanethiol film near defects, domain boundaries, and disordered regions, with relatively larger changes observed for xenon-atom bombardment.
     • keywords: beam; bombardment; changes; gas; molecular; rare
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587. 37720c5002r
     • author: Aaron Wesley Buckner
     • title: Optical Aberrations in a Subsonic, Compressible, Turbulent Boundary Layer
     • date: 2005
     • words: 140
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: X-wire, surface pressure, and optical data were collected to document the coherence lengths of coherent flow structures in all three coordinate directions in a turbulent boundary layer. These coherence lengths were measured to be on the order of the boundary layer displacement thickness, and together with the high convective speed of the coherent structures indicated that optically aberrating structures were located in the outer portion of the boundary layer.
     • keywords: boundary; coherent; layer
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588. 37720c5005s
     • author: Gregory Edward Snowden
     • title: Population Level Variation in Growth of the C3 Salt Marsh Sedge, Schoenoplectus americanus, and Its Potential Effects on Ecosystem Function
     • date: 2010
     • words: 151
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Evolutionary variation could affect ecosystem processes like decomposition and marsh soil accretion as genotypes shift in abundance and distribution. Differences in growth among populations and genotypes resulted in differences in soil organic matter loss when examined in a heuristic model.
     • keywords: americanus; growth; processes
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589. 37720c5007g
     • author: Yuqian Zhang
     • title: Generation and Characterization of Stable HEK293 Tet-on Advanced Cell Line Inducibly Expressing Rat NR1b NMDA Receptor Subunit
     • date: 2010
     • words: 186
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors (NMDARs) are ligand-gated ion channels belonging to the family of ionotropic glutamate receptors. The establishment of this cell line provided the possibility of stably expressing different combinations of NMDAR subunits using Tet-On expression system for NMDAR related study in the future.
     • keywords: advanced; cell; expression; hek293; inducible
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590. 37720c5050m
     • author: Gongchen Sun
     • title: Nonlinear Ionic Circuits and Ionic Memristors for Integrated Liquid Biopsy Chips
     • date: 1904
     • words: 452
     • flesch: 34
     • 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.
     • keywords: biomarkers; biopsy; chapter; chip; circuit; current; high; integrated; ionic; liquid; molecular
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591. 37720c50p2z
     • author: Kevin Leyden
     • title: System Monitoring by Tracking Fractional Order
     • date: 1904
     • words: 322
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: In analyzing simulated systems representing multi-robot vehicle formations, shifts in fractional order are evident in response to changes in both the severity and the location of damage. These results support the primary goal of this research: a monitoring method that can diagnose damage without complete sensor coverage, instead measuring fractional order to infer operational changes.
     • keywords: complex; derivative; fractional; mechanical; order; research; systems
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592. 37720c50p6b
     • author: Heather M. DuBois
     • title: To Be More Fully Alive: John of the Cross and Judith Butler on Transformation of the Self
     • date: 1904
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: 'Re-scripting' combines insights from Tomkins' theory about personal patterns and Butler's theory about social norms to offer an understanding of intentional transformation of the self as activity at the nexus of the personal and the social. With this theory about the transforming self, I argue for a set of dispositions and practices that can foster positive transformation in and through ambivalent socio-material ecosystems.
     • keywords: butler; john; practices; praxis; self; sensibility; theory; transformation
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593. 37720c50t6k
     • author: Meagan K. Simpson
     • title: Fictionalizing Adam and Eve in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
     • date: 2019
     • words: 258
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: By annexing Adam and Eve into fictional texts, nineteenth-century writers suggest that referentiality need not be conceptualized as an either/or scheme, but rather allows for more complicated configuration in which any given referent can be nonliteral and still deeply meaningful. In its place, scientific empiricism offers an alternative interpretation, one which holds any referent, including Adam and Eve, can either be literally real and therefore incapable of conferring such grand cosmological meaning or else purely mythical and therefore only valuable within the closed system of its text.
     • keywords: adam; eve; fiction; referent; theology
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594. 37720c50v9x
     • author: Vinod Bruno Shah
     • title: Disciplining Theology: Critically Retrieving Xavier Zubiri's Fundamental Theology of Experience
     • date: 2019
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: To show furthermore the purchase of Zubirian thought, two other critical comparisons are made—with John Zizioulas, an influential dialogue partner for Western theology, and his relational ontology; and with Maurice Blondel, a major inspiration behind the changes in conciliar era theology, and his actional account of the infinite. Human reality is constitutively the problem of God, and the experience of such is rationally probative.
     • keywords: experience; fundamental; human; reality; spanish; theology; western; zubiri
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595. 37720c51350
     • author: Karlyn K. Harrod
     • title: A Non-Invasive Patient-Specific Modeling Approach for Predicting Group II Pulmonary Hypertension as a Clinical Indicator of Diastolic Heart Failure for Patients with Uncertain Clinical Data
     • date: 2022
     • words: 600
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Therefore, elevated pulmonary pressures are an important clinical indicator of diastolic heart failure and significantly correlate with associated mortality. This thesis uses the hemodynamic consistency of a differential-algebraic circulation model to predict pulmonary pressures in adult patients from other, possibly non-invasive, clinical data.
     • keywords: chapter; data; diastolic; failure; heart; hypertension; model; parameters; pressures; pulmonary; questions
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596. 37720c51381
     • author: Kathryn Trentadue
     • title: Investigating the Biosynthesis of the Ambruticins: Total Synthesis and Epoxidation of Intermediate Ambruticin J
     • date: 2022
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: We have completed a total synthesis of this molecule, providing access to ambruticin J for epoxidation-cyclization studies and synthetically confirming the proposed structure. Finally, chapter four discusses the development of epoxidation-cyclization conditions for ambruticin J and their application to ambruticin J model systems.
     • keywords: ambruticin; chapter; cyclization; epoxidation; pks; ring
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597. 3b59183371f
     • author: Henry Clay Conner
     • title: The Role of Notch Signaling During Retinal Regeneration in Zebrafish
     • date: 2014
     • words: 362
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: At 14 and 28 days post injection, the number of M&#252;ller glia were significantly reduced in GSI-treated retinas relative to controls, while both UV and blue single cones were increased, suggesting that Notch signaling is required for M&#252;ller glia redifferentiation and plays a role in balancing cell fate choice of progenitor cells. The mechanisms regulating dedifferentiation and proliferation of M&#252;ller glia, the formation and amplification of progenitor cells, and their subsequent differentiation to photoreceptors remain unknown.
     • keywords: cells; differentiation; m&#252;ller; notch; pcna; positive; signaling
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598. 3b59183374g
     • author: Jorge Gabriel Ganopolsky
     • title: Inflammation in Protein C and Factor XI deficient mice
     • date: 2004
     • words: 1053
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Arterial inflammation was more prominent in mice with a heterozygous PC deficiency after copper-silicone cuff placement around the left carotid artery. Recently, mice with PC deficiencies were generated by targeted complete gene deletion and replacement by a neomycin resistant cassette.
     • keywords: animals; arterial; arteries; coagulation; coagulopathies; cuff; days; deficiency; different; elevated; fxi^{-/-}$; inflammation; inflammatory; mice; sepsis; severe
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599. 3b59183375t
     • author: Keven Robert Johnson
     • title: The Role Of The Natriuretic Peptide System In Cardiovascular Homeostasis In The Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
     • date: 2010
     • words: 368
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Following acute volume loading cardiac NP mRNA levels were significantly elevated over control, while acute volume depletion typically resulted in a reduction of cardiac NP mRNA. Following adaptation to a freshwater high-salt diet (FW-HSD), cardiac NP transcription and pro-peptide levels were significantly elevated over levels in freshwater (FW) and saltwater (SW) adapted fish.
     • keywords: cardiac; cardioprotective; system; trout; volume
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600. 3b591833765
     • author: Rosanne E. Frederick
     • title: Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases Involved in Biosynthetic Pathways
     • date: 2012
     • words: 360
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Two homologous flavin-dependent enzymes described in this work, ornithine monooxygenase (OMO) from Aspergillus fumigatus and lysine monooxygenase (LMO) from Klebsiella pneumoniae, initiate hydroxamate siderophore biosynthesis in their respective pathogens. Altogether these findings define the behavior of a new subclass of flavin-dependent monooxygenases that are involved in important biosynthetic processes.
     • keywords: biosynthetic; class; dependent; flavin; monooxygenase; omo; siderophore; substrate
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601. 3b59183378v
     • author: Stephen Jacod Tueller
     • title: Post-Hoc Comparisons and Classification Accuracy in the Factor Mixture Model and Taxometric Procedures
     • date: 2010
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Users of both the FMM and taxometric procedures frequently assign subjects to latent classes and then perform post-hoc comparisons to estimate class covariate effects. Results show that the FMM can detect classes better than taxometric procedures, and that parameter estimates for post-hoc procedures can be quite biased, especially in conditions where assignment accuracy is poor.
     • keywords: accuracy; class; fmm; hoc; post; procedures
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602. 3b591833796
     • author: Brian Elliot Gloor
     • title: Understanding the Local Backbone Dynamics of the pMHC and Kinetics of the TCR/pMHC Binding Interaction
     • date: 2012
     • words: 420
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: MHC proteins are expressed on the surface of cells and display fragments of molecules from invading microbes or dysfunctional cells to the TCR. Here, through the utilization of fluorescence anisotropy, we investigate MHC flexibility when different peptides are bound.
     • keywords: anisotropy; cells; fluorescence; mhc; pmhc; surface; tcr
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603. 3b59183380d
     • author: Michael J. Strand
     • title: Field Theory and Professional Transformation: American Psychiatry, 1945-1980
     • date: 2008
     • words: 151
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: I also draw links between field theory and more general accounts of institutions and institutional change. I illustrate these concepts with an account of the transformation of psychiatry, and I conclude by critiquing the systems approach to institutional change in the professions developed by Andrew Abbott.
     • keywords: account; field; psychiatry
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604. 3b59183381r
     • author: Xinguang Cheng
     • title: Nonlinear Interfacial Dynamics at Nanoscale
     • date: 2011
     • words: 368
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: As the hybridization of the target ssDNA or biomarker docking onto a nanocolloid can increase its surface charge and particle size significantly. This thesis addresses two interfacial phenomena at nanoscale: the Taylor cone of electrospray and stick-slip dynamics of confined liquid.
     • keywords: biomarker; cone; dynamics; electrospray; harmonics; liquid; nanocolloid; size; slip; stick
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605. 3b591833823
     • author: Paul Michael Schneeberger Jr.
     • title: The Functionalization and Reactivity of Germanium Clusters
     • date: 2010
     • words: 106
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: This work contains three sections: (i) functionalization of the Ge9 monomer cluster by various organic functional groups, (ii) potential synthesis of a tri-substituted cluster, and (iii) synthesis of cluster oligomers and studies of their functionalization and reactivity by mass spectrometry. The work herein furthers the understanding of Ge9 clusters, as well as provides new insights into the functionalization that the cluster undergoes.
     • keywords: cluster; functionalization
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606. 3b59183384s
     • author: Zhiqing Zhu
     • title: Probing Interactions Between Eb1, Microtubules and Actin
     • date: 2010
     • words: 579
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: The dynamic behavior of MTs and actin are separately regulated by two groups of proteins: MT binding proteins (MTBPs) and actin binding proteins (ABPs). To resolve this issue and define the native EB1 activity, we developed a de novo purification strategy for EB1 proteins and successfully purified several native (untagged) EB1 constructs.
     • keywords: actin; activity; binding; eb1; interaction; mts; proteins
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607. 3b591833854
     • author: Bridget E. McCollam
     • title: Zippeites: Chemical Characterization and Powder X-ray Diffraction Studies of Synthetic and Natural Samples
     • date: 2004
     • words: 149
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Although progress has been made toward understanding the crystal structure and chemistry of these minerals by studying synthetic analogues, very little work has been done with natural samples due to their small grain size and tendency to grow as mixtures with other minerals. This study compared natural samples to synthetic crystals using X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe techniques while conducting the first comprehensive study of the crystal chemistry of these minerals.
     • keywords: crystal; minerals; samples; structure
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608. 3b59183387t
     • author: Esther Braselmann
     • title: Investigating the secretion and folding mechanism of a beta-sheet rich virulence protein
     • date: 2014
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 37
     • 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.
     • keywords: domain; folding; passenger; secretion; system; translocator; vectorial
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609. 3b59183389h
     • author: Charles J. Fagan
     • title: Smothering the Baby in the Cradle? Reacting to the Rise of New Great Powers
     • date: 1904
     • words: 333
     • flesch: 59
     • summary: How do we explain great power behavior towards emerging great powers? Great powers can either try to stop the emergence of new great powers or they can try to help their rise, either passively by doing nothing to stop them or by actively helping them gain power.
     • keywords: great; means; power; threat
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610. 3b59183390q
     • author: Andrew Brinkerhoff
     • title: Observation of Top Quark Pairs Produced in Association with a W or Z Boson in PP Collisions at the LHC
     • date: 1904
     • words: 139
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: The ttW cross section is measured to be 382+117−102 fb, yielding evidence for ttW production with a significance of 4.8 standard deviations from the background-only hypothesis. The ttZ process is observed for the first time, with a significance of 6.4 σ, and a measured cross section of 242+65−55 fb.
     • keywords: cross; ttw; ttz
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611. 3b591833x9d
     • author: Sherwood Benavides
     • title: Studies on Solute Recovery in Facilitated Transport and Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes
     • date: 1904
     • words: 373
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: This model expresses the performance (e.g., recovery rate and separation factors) in terms of operating conditions (e.g., the flow rates and concentrations of the inlet solutions) and membrane transport properties (e.g., the hydraulic and solute permeability coefficients).FD processes could enhance the extraction of deleterious dilute contaminants from water supplies; in these processes, membranes separate molecules based on chemical factors, rather than physical factors. A three-pronged approach is pursued to assist in the design of these two systems: an analytical model describes performance as a function of membrane properties and operating parameters; numerical solutions of the governing equations corroborate the model; and bench-scale experimental modules demonstrate the ability of the model to predict performance.
     • keywords: analytical; membrane; model; operating; performance; processes; solute
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612. 3b591833z1z
     • author: Cara Jean Aspesi
     • title: The Breviary of Lucca, Biblioteca Arcivescovile, MS 5: The Use of the Cathedral of Tyre
     • date: 1904
     • words: 371
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: Instead, by excluding other major churches of Jerusalem for various reasons as the breviary's probable point of origin, this study argues that the breviary of Lucca, Bib. No obvious feature of the breviary connects it to the Crusader Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, but painstaking comparative study of the breviary's contents show that its liturgy was drawn from diverse European sources; this points to the breviary's composition outside of Europe.
     • keywords: breviary; liturgy; lucca; study
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613. 3b591834b09
     • author: Yunsong Pang
     • title: Applications of Graphene in Improving Mechanical and Energy Conversion Materials
     • date: 2020
     • words: 340
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: The related experiments show that such an improvement is a surface effect mainly attributed to the more hydrophilic feature of functionalized graphene, which influences the water meniscus profile at the vapor-liquid interface due to capillary effect. Exfoliation increases the specific area of the graphene fillers in contact with PE matrix molecules.
     • keywords: efficiency; films; graphene; hydrophilic; material; mechanical; properties
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614. 3b591834b4p
     • author: Sarah Kathleen Johnson
     • title: Occasional Religious Practice: An Ethnographic Theology of Christian Worship in a Changing Religious Landscape
     • date: 2021
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 14
     • summary: Privileging the perspectives of occasional practitioners centers materiality, emotion, and relationship, although occasional practitioners also speak of God, tradition, and ethics. Sociologically, I argue occasional religious practice is a consistent yet underdeveloped theme in research on religious change in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
     • keywords: liturgical; occasional; practice; practitioners; religion; religious; ritual
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615. 3b591834c1z
     • author: Kenya Lee
     • title: The Criminalization and Remedialization of "Misfit" Students: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Inequalities in Alternative Education Program Placements
     • date: 2021
     • words: 122
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: I find that Black students and emphatically Black girls have higher odds of behavioral placement than White schoolmates, but Latinx students do not. Using longitudinal data on students and program placements, I analyze the relationship between race, race-gender, and students' odds of being placed into AEPs for academic remediation (remedialization) or behavior (criminalization).
     • keywords: black; odds; students
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616. 3b591834d7b
     • author: Megan Vahsen
     • title: Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Coastal Marshes in Response to Environmental Change
     • date: 2023
     • words: 533
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: My dissertation provides novel insights to the magnitude and consequences of evolutionary trait change on ecosystem processes. I find that the utility of proxy measurements of plants traits varies by species and that process variance can dominate forecasts of ecosystem change.
     • keywords: accretion; accumulation; carbon; change; ecosystem; evolution; level; marsh; trait; variation
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617. 3b591834f2x
     • author: Katheryn J. K. Kelley
     • title: Deconstruction and Identity Construction: The Role of Spirituality and Community in Religious Identity Development
     • date: 2023
     • words: 374
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Latent growth curve models failed to find support for the covariance of religious and spiritual struggle and identity exploration, but latent change score models found that changes in spirituality predicted changes in religious identity. This paper proposes a model of religious identity development by integrating multiple streams of identity development research to make sense of the puzzling religious trends seen in emerging adulthood.
     • keywords: development; exploration; identity; religious; spiritual; struggle
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618. 3f462516h1h
     • author: Arvind Sridharan
     • title: Design and Analysis of LDPC Convolutional Codes
     • date: 2005
     • words: 348
     • flesch: 37
     • 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.
     • keywords: block; codes; convolutional; decoding; distance; ldpc
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619. 3f462516h36
     • author: James Gregory Radich
     • title: Reduced Graphene Oxide-Based Nanoassemblies for Energy Storage Applications
     • date: 2014
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: Graphene oxide serves as a versatile precursor to reduced graphene oxide by offering unique opportunities to anchor nanostructured materials onto its surface and serve as a 2-D conductive support. The high surface area and excellent conductivity of reduced graphene oxide provide a suitable foundation for shuttling charges to redox-active materials such as those used in lithium ion batteries while maximizing the interfacial contact between the conductor (reduced graphene oxide) and redox-active nanomaterial.
     • keywords: active; characteristics; electrode; graphene; oxide; solution; surface; use
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620. 3f462516h4j
     • author: Kari Marie Hojara
     • title: Running in Culture and Running into Culture: A Cultural Sociological Account of Why Meanings Matter
     • date: 2014
     • words: 322
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Also, what is the relationship between internal group cultures and external macro cultures? I use the cases of running groups to make contributions to the field of cultural sociology by employing a variety of research methods including textual analysis of online chatboard interactions and content analysis of popular running publications.
     • keywords: groups; meaning; processes; running; study
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621. 3f462516h8x
     • author: Stephanie M. Arnett
     • title: National Variation in the Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Student Learning: Inequality and Stratification in Comparative Perspective
     • date: 2008
     • words: 331
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: In many cases, low socioeconomic status students have a disadvantage that cannot be overcome by schools, and family socioeconomic status, not merit, often determines student academic success. Specifically, I find that countries with educational policies which aim to provide equal learning opportunities to all students have a weaker link between student socioeconomic status and learning outcomes, as do countries with more liberal social welfare policies.
     • keywords: achievement; learning; nations; social; socioeconomic; status; student
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622. 3f462516j4v
     • author: Qi Liao
     • title: Improving Network Insight Through Local Context Gathering and Analysis
     • date: 2007
     • words: 259
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: By combining the full visibility at the end hosts (through such simple tools as netstat, ps, and lsof) and the global aggregate view at the central management server, it is demonstrated how local context improves network insight, and can be used for security auditing, finer network management and better policy mapping without costly deployment overhead. To that end, this work proposes a distributed network data collection and analysis system, eXpsicor, that pro-actively gathers the missing characteristics (local context) for the purpose of enterprise network management.
     • keywords: context; data; local; management; network; system
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623. 3f462516j7w
     • author: Tanya Heather Peters
     • title: Effects of Segmentation Routine and Acquisition Environment on Iris Recognition
     • date: 2009
     • words: 162
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Additional work was done to improve the segmentation process, both to handle the introduction of images captured with the LG 4000 and to improve iris segmentation and eyelid masking. Furthermore, we study the relative biometric performance of images captured with the LG 2200 based on which of three illuminants were used to light the eye in each image, and determine the same- and cross-sensor performance of the LG 2200 compared with the LG 4000.
     • keywords: images; iris
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624. 3f462516j9k
     • author: Lideth Ortega-Villalobos
     • title: Confirmation of the Structure and Validity of the Multicultural Supervision Inventory
     • date: 2007
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 12
     • summary: Convergent validity tests confirmed the hypothesized theoretical relationships, demonstrating significant positive relationships between MSI scores and multicultural counseling competence scores, supervisory working alliance scores, the amount of time and quality of discussions addressing cultural variables in supervision, supervisors' intentionality, direct guidance, and perceived importance given to multicultural issues in supervision, and multicultural training and experience. This study presents the refinement of the Multicultural Supervision Inventory (MSI; Pope-Davis, Toporek, Ortega, 1999), a measure of multicultural competence in supervision developed for use by both supervisors and supervisees.
     • keywords: competence; davis; msi; multicultural; ortega; pope; supervision; toporek; validity
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625. 3f462516k8j
     • author: Dominic C. Babbini
     • title: Multidentate PCsp3P-type Ligands with Engineered Avenues for Metal-ligand Cooperation and Their Iridium Complexes
     • date: 1904
     • words: 230
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: Phosphine-chelated iridium complexes have been long known to exhibit unique reactivity with respect to bond activation and molecular manipulation. Our attempt is to engineer phosphine-chelated iridium catalytic systems which allow for heightened reactivity and specific selectivity with a focus on bond activation allowing for the functionalization of small molecules.
     • keywords: activation; complexes; iridium; phosphine; reactivity; unique
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626. 3f462516q32
     • author: Adrien Niyongabo
     • title: Refugee Needs: Physiological, Psychological, Psychosocial, or Spiritual? Dignity Approach to Refugee Assistance in Kakuma Refugee Camp
     • date: 1904
     • words: 391
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Based on my findings, I suggest that relief providers understand that psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs are as important as bio-physical needs. I argue that Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory presents needs in a static progression, as if the satisfaction of needs was linearly determined, and furthermore ignores the value of psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs as basic human needs inherent to human dignity.
     • keywords: approach; assistance; needs; psychological; psychosocial; refugees; spiritual
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627. 3f46251774b
     • author: Kathryn Del Vecchio
     • title: Biophysical Analysis of Phosphatidylserine-Binding Proteins Lactadherin C2 and the Ebola Virus Matrix Protein VP40
     • date: 2018
     • words: 317
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Mutagenesis studies of VP40 implicate a highly conserved C-terminal domain that is necessary for proper membrane binding and function within cells. Prior work on VP40-lipid interactions demonstrated the necessity of PS for proper VP40 cellular function, but had not further characterized this biophysical interaction.
     • keywords: ebola; interactions; lactc2; membrane; protein; virus; vp40
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628. 3f462517f15
     • author: Monika Yadav
     • title: Labor and Litigation: Effect of Unions
     • date: 2019
     • words: 164
     • flesch: 50
     • 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.
     • keywords: labor; union; workers
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629. 3f462517k8t
     • author: Jamee Elder
     • title: The Epistemology of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics
     • date: 2020
     • words: 182
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: The second concerns the use of gravitational waves to observe binary black hole mergers. This field was launched in 2015 by the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first direct observation of a binary black hole merger by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration.
     • keywords: direct; dissertation; gravitational; waves
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630. 3f462517k95
     • author: Baksun Kim
     • title: Design of Optimized Peptide-Targeted Nanoparticles for Accomplishment of Selective Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells and Development of Inhibitors for Food Allergic Reactions
     • date: 2020
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: The 1st part of this dissertation will describe the design, synthesis, characterization, and optimization of peptide-targeted liposomal nanoparticles that show enhanced selectivity to cancer cells including HER2+ breast cancer, CD22+ blood cancer, GRP78+ metastatic breast cancer, and multiple myeloma. Multiple nanoparticle design parameters were both in vitro and in vivo optimized to accomplish enhanced target cancer cell selectivity in order to improve tumor growth inhibition efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents with minimal toxicity.
     • keywords: allergic; cancer; dissertation; epitope; high; multiple; nanoparticle; reactions; targeted
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631. 3j333199s3g
     • author: Haoyun Feng
     • title: Ensemble methods for flux calculation
     • date: 2015
     • words: 502
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Numerical results on alanine dipeptide show significant improvement on efficiency of AWE using metastable states partition over AWE using Voronoi bins partition, especially when setting small number of states for underlying partition. To further accelerate AWE, I worked on improving efficiency of the algorithm for discovering metastable states from MD trajectories.
     • keywords: algorithms; awe; computing; ensemble; macro; metastable; numerical; partition; reaction; states
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632. 3j333199s6h
     • author: Ling Zhou
     • title: Design and Fabrication of Nanomagnet Input and Output Structures
     • date: 2005
     • words: 140
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Input structures write a particular state to magnet dots, and output structures read out the state. Magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) is a new kind of unconventional computation structure that uses solitons or domain walls propagating in field coupled magnet dots to implement signal propagation.
     • keywords: input; mqca; output; structures
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633. 3j333199s7v
     • author: David Wai Kui Lam
     • title: Measurement of Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel in sqrt(s) = 1.96TeV, $par{p}$ Collisions at D0
     • date: 2008
     • words: 108
     • flesch: 81
     • 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.
     • keywords: mbox{(stat
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634. 3j333199s86
     • author: Beatrice Blanc
     • title: Relationship between active site structure and chemistry in dioxygen producing chlorite dismutases
     • date: 2012
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: We mutated this residue, which has an alkylguanidinium side chain, to lysine (primary amine), glutamine (alkylamide), and alanine (methyl), and studied both the native (wild type, WT) and modified forms. We mutated three conserved tryptophan residues in DaCld's active site in order to attempt to block off radical migration and stabilize Compound I.
     • keywords: active; chlorite; dacld; heme; residue; site; structure
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635. 3j333199t0r
     • author: Han-luen Kantzer Komline
     • title: From Division to Delight: Augustine and the Will
     • date: 2015
     • words: 326
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: Augustine depicts four different kinds of human will: the created will, which he describes as a hinge (cardo); the fallen will, a link in a chain (ansula catenae) that binds human beings to sin; the redeemed will, which is a root (radix) of love; and the fully free will to be enjoyed in the next life when perfection is made complete. Augustine's thinking on will, it demonstrates, deserves more than just a page in the story of the history of western thought.
     • keywords: augustine; conception; human; page; story; thinking
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636. 3j333199t13
     • author: Santosh Kandel
     • title: Examples of Riemannian Functorial Quantum Field Theory
     • date: 2014
     • words: 130
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Following Atiyah, Segal, Kontsevich and others, a $d$-dimensional Riemannian Functorial Quantum Field Theory $E$ assigns to a closed $d-1$ dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold a Hilbert space $E(Y)$ and to a bordism $Sigma$ from $Y_1$ to $Y_2$(which is a compact oriented Riemannian manifold with $partialSigma=Y_2sqcup overline{Y_1}$) a Hilbert-Schmidt operator $E(Sigma):E(Y_1) If we forget the Riemannian structure on the $Y$'s and the bordisms, then there are many examples which are known has Topological Quantum Field Theories.
     • keywords: examples; riemannian; theory
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637. 3j333199t2f
     • author: Jennifer Cycon
     • title: Design and Validation of a Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring System Interfacing Through a Local Area Network
     • date: 2008
     • words: 458
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Furthermore, the system is more reliable and sustainable than wireless systems, drawing both its power and communications paths from the existing infrastructure of the building. This project offers an alternative form of data acquisition for buildings using existing local area networks to offer much of the flexibility of the wireless system without the packet loss, synchronization and power issues.
     • keywords: acquisition; data; digital; monitoring; network; sensing; shm; system; virtual; wireless
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638. 3j333199t3s
     • author: Sundeep Venkatraman
     • title: Information Rates and Capacity for Multi-Antenna Cellular Systems with Fading
     • date: 2011
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: The results show that spatial modulators offer a simple elegant design for Multi-antenna systems which performs better than conventional space-time codes in terms of achievable information rates. The demand for high throughput cellular communications has motivated the need for new approaches aimed at maximizing achievable rates over the wireless channel.
     • keywords: achievable; dissertation; downlink; new; rates; uplink
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639. 3j333199t44
     • author: Rhodora E. Beaton
     • title: The Sacramentality of the Word: Contributions of Karl Rahner and Louis-Marie Chauvet to a Roman Catholic Theology of the Word
     • date: 2010
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: The fourth chapter examines Rahner's efforts to demonstrate the relationship between word and sacrament by contextualizing them within an understanding of an already graced world in which language is the privileged place of the self-expression of God. It suggests that the principle of sacramentality is a necessary consideration for Roman Catholic theologies of the word.
     • keywords: catholic; chapter; roman; sacramental; theology; word; work
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640. 3j333199t6t
     • author: Jamie Lee Serrano
     • title: Daughters' Body Dissatisfaction Partially Mediates the Relationship between Mother-Daughter Fat Talk and Daughters' Dieting
     • date: 2011
     • words: 135
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: There are multiple variables related to negative body- and eating-related attitudes and behaviors in adolescent girls, including maternal weight-related comments, body dissatisfaction, and dieting behaviors. Disordered eating is one of the most common and problematic psychiatric issues among girls and young women.
     • keywords: behaviors; daughters; talk
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641. 3j333199t75
     • author: John Emory McRaven
     • title: Theoretical Considerations for the Performance of Antenna-Coupled Metal-Oxide-Metal Diodes
     • date: 2008
     • words: 114
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Code was written based upon this method, and its results are compared to existing infrared antennas from other research groups. The Finite-Difference Time-Domain method for analyzing antenna structures is also presented.
     • keywords: antenna; metal
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642. 3j333199t9v
     • author: AnnaMaria Cardinalli-Padilla
     • title: El Llanto: A Liturgiological Journey into the Identity and Theology of the Northern New Mexican Penitentes and Their Spiritual Siblings
     • date: 2004
     • words: 335
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: One of the largest gaps in current scholarship lies in investigation of the medieval roots of Penitente devotion, another in the documentation and examination of their unique tradition of musical worship (the alabados), and a third in the role of women in Penitente society and spirituality. Further, work is still necessary to explore the theology expressed in Penitente art, ritual, and daily living.
     • keywords: medieval; new; northern; penitente; relationship; roots; unique
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643. 3j333200h1v
     • author: Monica B. Bykowski
     • title: The Prince, the Bailiff, and the Mir: Power, Politics, and Agency on a Russian Serf Estate, 1810-1858
     • date: 1904
     • words: 435
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: Consequently, they relied on local institutions – namely the mir, or peasant commune, and estate bailiff – to fulfil their directives and inform them of estate affairs. This agency was possible, despite serfs' legal status as the property of others and place in the soslovie, social estate, hierarchy, because of local social dynamics.
     • keywords: agency; bailiff; estate; mir; prince; serfs; social
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644. 3j333200j15
     • author: Theresa Smart
     • title: Navigating a Non-Ideal World: Political Prudence as a Civic Virtue in Aquinas
     • date: 1904
     • words: 360
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: 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.
     • keywords: civic; commitment; ethical; good; justification; political; regime
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645. 3j333200q9g
     • author: Kelly Ann Heilman
     • title: Vegetation Responses to Long-Term Environmental Changes at a Savanna Forest Boundary
     • date: 2019
     • words: 467
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Ongoing anthropogenic changes, such as land-use change, climate changes, and direct effects of CO2, can alter vegetation structure, composition, and growth rates. Positive effects of increases CO2 on plant water use efficiency (WUE) could aid forest resilience to future drought conditions, but may be complicated by climate changes.
     • keywords: changes; climate; closed; co2; forest; land; long; past; use; vegetation; wue
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646. 3j333200t9d
     • author: Masoome Otarinia
     • title: Absorbing Sets and Error Floor Performance of the 5G New Radio Code
     • date: 2019
     • words: 226
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: LDPC codes are generally decoded using iterative message passing algorithms that yield performance that is close to capacity. Low density parity check (LDPC) codes are a class of error correction codes.
     • keywords: codes; error; ldpc; performance; sets
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647. 3j333200w2m
     • author: Christopher Scott Temple
     • title: Fostering Elite Science at an American Catholic University: The Rise of a Research Culture at the University of Notre Dame, 1842-1967
     • date: 2020
     • words: 323
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: By fostering research in science, Notre Dame aspired to be ranked among the nation's leading research universities and most prestigious academic institutions in American higher education. In the early Cold War, the University's administration attempted to build its research momentum in atomic physics and bacteriology and sought funding to establish other steeples of excellence in research.
     • keywords: catholic; dame; notre; research; science; university; war; world
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648. 3j333200w5n
     • author: Meena Said
     • title: Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Solid-State Actinide Materials
     • date: 2021
     • words: 140
     • flesch: 7
     • summary: The work presented herein studies solid-state actinide materials relevant to the nuclear fuel cycle, primarily actinide oxides in either powder or pellet form, using electron microscopy, digital microscopy, optical profilometry, vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction techniques to identify trends and potential signatures. This dissertation provides a glimpse into the complexities of solid-state actinide materials by using microscopic and spectroscopic techniques to probe chemical and physical properties, such as surface roughness, morphology, and susceptibility to aging and alteration.
     • keywords: actinide; cycle; nuclear; solid
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649. 3j33320104h
     • author: Wern Yeen Yeong
     • title: Algebraic Hyperbolicity of Very General Hypersurfaces and Their Complements
     • date: 2023
     • words: 317
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: More precisely, this circle of conjectures predicts that a variety of general type is hyperbolic outside of a proper subvariety called an exceptional locus, which may be empty if its canonical bundle has enough positivity. Assuming an additional hypothesis on the associated line map, we show that algebraic hyperbolicity holds for such varieties outside of a proper exceptional locus when n is at least 2.
     • keywords: algebraic; conjectures; general; hyperbolicity; line; variety
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650. 3n203x83234
     • author: James P. Larentzos
     • title: Molecular Modeling of Cation and Water Adsorption in Crystalline Titanosilicate and Polyoxoniobate Materials
     • date: 2006
     • words: 367
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: Once a suitable potential model is obtained, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations are applied to predict preferred sorbent sites for cations and water molecules in various cation exchanged structures to supplement experimental x-ray diffraction studies. In particular, this study focuses on understanding the interplay between cations and water molecules in these ion exchangers.
     • keywords: cations; exchangers; field; force; intermolecular; materials; model; molecular; potential; simulations
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651. 3n203x8325t
     • author: Gaofeng Jia
     • title: Kernel and Metamodel Based Methods for Analysis and Optimization of Systems under Uncertainty
     • date: 2014
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 0
     • summary: The implementation and optimization of metamodels for efficient probabilistic performance assessment is studied, focusing on systems with very high dimensional output (something that becomes increasingly relevant with the trend of increasing complexity and scale of modern engineering problems), on the explicit incorporation of the metamodel prediction error in the performance predictions, and on real-time implementation that can support development of standalone applets. In this setting, the analysis and optimization of engineering systems involves a high computational demand, considered prohibitive for complex applications, despite recent advances in computer/computational science.
     • keywords: analysis; computational; development; engineering; kde; optimization; probabilistic; sensitivity; stochastic
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652. 3n203x83265
     • author: chunlei li
     • title: Computational Modeling of Microtubule Dynamic Instability
     • date: 2014
     • words: 421
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: First, the microtubules display shallower cracks in growth state than in shortening state. One important feature of microtubules is the abrupt transition between polymerization and depolymerization, which is called dynamic instability.
     • keywords: cracks; dynamic; growth; instability; microtubules; model; subunits
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653. 3n203x8330d
     • author: Stephanie Louise Morrison
     • title: Relativistic Recoil: A Study of Highly Ionized Atoms
     • date: 2008
     • words: 83
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Recoil corrections, contributions to the energies of atoms and ions that are inversely proportional to the mass of the nucleus, are treated using a three-dimensional form of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for hydrogenic ions. The importance of these calculations for the interpretation of a number of high accuracy experiments on highly charged ions is shown, and directions for future research involving mass-polarization, a many-electron recoil correction, are discussed.
     • keywords: ions; recoil
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654. 3n203x8336g
     • author: Brandyce Savannah St. Laurent
     • title: Molecular and Behavioral Characterization of Anopheline Species in Indonesia and the Western Kenyan Highlands
     • date: 2012
     • words: 369
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Overall, this work demonstrates that anopheline species diversity and behavior have important implications for malaria control. In areas where there are several different anopheline species, this diversity can sustain malaria transmission through seasons and intensive malaria control interventions.
     • keywords: areas; control; different; malaria; molecular; mosquito; species; work
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655. 3n203x8339h
     • author: Alexandri Gregor Zavodny
     • title: Analysis of Large-Scale Unstructured Urban Range Scan Data
     • date: 2009
     • words: 163
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Efficient 3D scanning technology has led to acquisition of very large datasets for application areas as diverse as terrain and urban modeling, but relatively few techniques exist to automatically extract meaningful regions from this data, and the largest datasets examined in the literature rarely exceed millions of points in size. In this thesis, we present an efficient algorithm for identification of locally planar regions in large-scale GPS-registered scan data containing hundreds of millions of points.
     • keywords: algorithm; datasets; points
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656. 3n203x83412
     • author: Joel Zachary Schmidt
     • title: A Mediating Discourse: Congar's Pneumatology and Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Imagination in the Sacramentality of Preaching
     • date: 2011
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: Drawing on a great range of Paul Ricoeur's published works, I identify the role of the productive imagination in preaching in a variety of ways including, but not limited to: the split-level reference of poetic and religious language; the configuration of the preached word; epochÌÄåãÌ¢åÛåÏ, free variation, and metaphoric transfer in prophetic utopian projections; and the representation of the past. As a result, the basic agenda of this dissertation will be the following: to explore the sacramentality of preaching, construed in terms of an encounter with Jesus Christ, from the angle of its creativity through the coordinated contributions of the Holy Spirit and human imagination.
     • keywords: chapters; dissertation; imagination; preaching; role; sacramentality; spirit
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657. 3n203x8343r
     • author: Kara Lee Donnelly
     • title: The Booker Prize: Literature, Britain, and the World, 1968-1999
     • date: 1904
     • words: 186
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: On the other, England has been displaced from the center of Anglophone literary culture as works identified as commonwealth, postcolonial, multicultural, and now global literature in English have become centrally important. Two issues define the contours of late 20th century and early 21st century literary culture in Britain.
     • keywords: booker; culture; literature; prize
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658. 3n203x8345f
     • author: Juan Orlando Gonzalez-Lopez
     • title: Regional and Coastal Hydrodynamics of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean Sea
     • date: 1904
     • words: 284
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Water level errors decreased with the inclusion of atmospheric forcing, and high- and low-frequency were generated by the model. These oscillations are also present in observations, meaning that the inclusion of the atmospheric forcing resulted not only in more accurate water levels, but in a more accurate representation of the hydrodynamic processes such as seiches.
     • keywords: currents; forcing; model; tidal; water
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659. 3n203x8360b
     • author: Alexander Stern
     • title: Fallen Names: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on the Aesthetics of Meaning
     • date: 2016
     • words: 386
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: The two are read as complementary to one another, sharing, among other things, comparable critiques of empiricism and comparable accounts of concept use, linguistic understanding, and the relation between experience and language. I argue that Benjamin's theory of language can productively address some unresolved issues in Wittgenstein's understanding of meaning.
     • keywords: benjamin; century; german; language; meaning; theory; wittgenstein
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660. 3n203x8384b
     • author: Audra White
     • title: Genetic Analysis of Retinoic Acid Signaling in Pronephros Development
     • date: 1904
     • words: 149
     • flesch: 48
     • 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.
     • keywords: kidney; waste
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661. 3n203x83s1z
     • author: Mousa Mohammadian
     • title: Theoretical Virtues in Science and Metaphysics
     • date: 1904
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: Theoretical virtues of scientific theories, also known as epistemic values or cognitive values, are taken by many philosophers of science as crucial factors in theory choice. In Chapter 1, I argue that in the context of scientific theory choice, there is no algorithm, no set of rules, for choosing the theory that best exemplifies theoretical virtues over its rivals.
     • keywords: best; choice; scientific; theoretical; theory; virtues
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662. 3n203x83s5b
     • author: Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo
     • title: Essays on Social Relationships and the Making of Religious Tolerance
     • date: 1904
     • words: 398
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: Pertaining to religious tolerance, I propose an explanation for why scholars have found a lower level of religious tolerance in Muslim than in non-Muslim countries. I also provide experimental evidence for the relationship by analyzing an original survey experiment that I conducted in the world's largest Muslim-majority country Indonesia (Chapter 3).In the next chapters I demonstrate that social relationships also influence Americans' tolerance toward Muslims and political behavior in general.
     • keywords: bridging; countries; lower; muslim; political; relationships; social; tolerance
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663. 3n203x83s6p
     • author: Paige Rodeghero
     • title: Behavior-Informed Algorithms for Automatic Documentation Generation
     • date: 1904
     • words: 214
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: I discuss my eye tracking research with professional programmers and the areas of source code that are important to read for source code comprehension. Programmers are notorious for neglecting to write software documentation, even while demanding high quality documentation for themselves.
     • keywords: code; comprehension; programmers; source
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664. 3n203x83z05
     • author: Jen Dwyer
     • title: A World of Her Own
     • date: 2019
     • words: 322
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: An Artist's job is to point at things - Miranda JulyIn the aftermath of the 2016 election, my practice shifted in response to contemporary gender politics. The female gaze was coined by Jill Soloway in response to Laura Mulvey's theory of the Male Gaze, where cinematic depictions of women are seen as the objects of male pleasure.
     • keywords: contemporary; feeling; female; gaze; gender; response; work
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665. 3n203x8403s
     • author: Mark Brockway
     • title: Secular Activism in Party Politics
     • date: 2019
     • words: 431
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Secular activists are also ideologically extreme, which suggests secular activists may push the Democratic to take more liberal policy positions. And can the Democratic Party benefit from the involvement of seculars in the Party?
     • keywords: activists; democratic; individuals; party; political; religious; secular
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666. 3n203x84509
     • author: Jermaine Marshall
     • title: Foodpollo: Driving Reliable Food Recommendations from a Massive Online Food Portal
     • date: 2021
     • words: 321
     • flesch: 43
     • 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.
     • keywords: consumers; healthy; information; nutritional; recipes
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667. 3n203x8465b
     • author: Jeya Pradha Jeyaraj
     • title: Spatial Modeling and Analysis of Vehicular Networks
     • date: 2021
     • words: 376
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Due to the mission-critical nature of safety applications, high reliability is a key requirement of V2V systems. Having the binned SIR MD as the performance metric, we compare different stochastic geometry models to system-level simulations.
     • keywords: communication; data; models; rate; reliability; sir; v2v
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668. 3r074t66b55
     • author: Rebecca Weber
     • title: A definable relation between c.e. sets and ideals
     • date: 2004
     • words: 147
     • flesch: 53
     • summary: [N, 2^omega] for N nonprincipal, and a quotient structure of G, denoted G^diamond and thought of as G modulo principal classes disjoint from N. Using the setting of computably enumerable ideals, we present basic results for G and G^diamond and show that G^diamond is isomorphic to E*, the lattice of computably enumerable sets modulo finite difference. Related to the study of properties of individual classes is the study of the lattice of all Pi-0-1 classes, denoted E_Pi.
     • keywords: classes; e_pi
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669. 3r074t66b86
     • author: Ravi Kummamuru
     • title: Experimental studies on Quantum-dot Cellular Automata Devices
     • date: 2005
     • words: 456
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: We demonstrate clocking in QCA devices using a half cell containing three dots (triple-dot), with inputs applied to the top and bottom dots and clock applied to the middle dot. Finally a circuit for microwave frequency measurements of QCA devices using an RFSET is discussed.
     • keywords: cell; devices; dots; latch; power; qca; register; shift
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670. 3r074t66b9j
     • author: Chelsea M. Weaver
     • title: A Longitudinal Study of Parenting Self-Efficacy in First-Time Mothers
     • date: 2010
     • words: 289
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Analyses of maternal risk factors revealed that early childbearing (i.e., teenager at first birth) had a negative effect on prenatal efficacy in the abilities to be a good role model, provide material needs, and effectively parent. The present study investigates (1) how PSE among first-time mothers changes over children's first two years of life, (2) how these patterns of change are associated with early maternal risk factors, and (3) how trajectories of PSE are related to children's cognitive development at age 2 among a racially diverse sample of 684 first-time mothers ranging in age from 15 to 35 years.
     • keywords: analyses; children; development; maternal; pse; risk
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671. 3r074t66c0r
     • author: Heath W. Carter
     • title: Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago
     • date: 2012
     • words: 347
     • flesch: 53
     • summary: A select subset of the working classes &ndash; namely, white, skilled, native-born men &ndash; wielded disproportionate influence in this process, as the churches were especially intent upon retaining their loyalty. The second thesis is that working people played an integral role in the eventual mainstreaming of social Christianities.
     • keywords: century; churches; class; gospel; leaders; ndash; social; working
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672. 3r074t66c2f
     • author: Shashank V Maiya
     • title: Cooperation and Latency in Channel Coding for Wireless Communications
     • date: 2011
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: The decoding algorithms considered are the Viterbi algorithm and stack sequential decoding for convolutional codes and iterative message passing for LDPC codes. It is shown that, at very low latencies, convolutional codes with Viterbi decoding offer the best performance, whereas for high latencies LDPC codes dominate -- and sequential decoding of convolutional codes offers the best performance over a range of intermediate latency values.
     • keywords: codes; convolutional; data; decoding; destination; end; hop
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673. 3r074t66c3s
     • author: Yao Zhang
     • title: Boussinesq-Green-Naghdi Rotational Water Wave Theory
     • date: 2014
     • words: 722
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: The one-equation k-l turbulent kinetic energy equation coupled with rotational wave models are adopted to describe the eddy viscosity. Different boundary conditions may be applied such as no normal flow and free tangential slip; periodic boundary; moving shoreline boundary; changing water surface atmosphere pressure; air-water stress; bottom frictional stress.
     • keywords: accurate; boundary; boussinesq; breaking; depth; different; functions; models; normal; order; rotational; shoreline; stress; system; velocity; water; wave
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674. 3r074t66c44
     • author: Patrick Mahaney Clark
     • title: For the Greater Glory: Courage, Death and Virtue in Aquinas and His Philosophical Inheritance
     • date: 2010
     • words: 163
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: This project ultimately intends to show the extent to which Aquinas' conception of virtue depends upon a theological, and specifically Christological, understanding of the relation between death and human perfection. Thomas Aquinas, on the other hand, considers the publicly shameful death of the martyr to be not only the highest exemplification of the virtue of courage, but also the greatest proof of moral perfection more generally.
     • keywords: aquinas; death; thomas; virtue
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675. 3r074t66c5g
     • author: John Spencer Thiede
     • title: The Reality of Martyrdom in the Christology of Jon Sobrino
     • date: 2012
     • words: 333
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: Sobrino deliberately expands the concept of martyrdom beyond the traditional definition. This dissertation shows how Sobrino expands the concept of martyrdom.
     • keywords: chapter; christology; concept; liberator; martyrdom; sobrino
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676. 3r074t66c6t
     • author: Kaitlin R Peckham
     • title: Diversification of the Squaraine Rotaxane Core
     • date: 2010
     • words: 132
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: The first section deals with the design and synthesis of squaraine rotaxanes that were functionalized with a glucose derivative so that it might be used to target tumor cells. Squaraine rotaxanes have been developed previously, but here I present work toward creating a squaraine rotaxane core that can easily be functionalized using click chemistry, which has been shown to form products quickly and in high yields.
     • keywords: rotaxane; squaraine
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677. 3r074t66c8h
     • author: Shengyan Hong
     • title: Real-Time Scheduling in Cyber-Physical System
     • date: 2014
     • words: 406
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: Such variations can come from a number of sources including task preemptions, variations in task workloads and perturbations in the physical environment. Lower transmission rates can greatly reduce transmission energy.
     • keywords: cps; deadlines; end; energy; real; system; time; variations
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678. 3r074t66c9v
     • author: Joseph James Foy
     • title: Applying the New Federalism of 1996: Governors and Welfare Reform
     • date: 2007
     • words: 214
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Using a variety of measures of gubernatorial power, results of quantitative tests relating to a number of key policy choices, and the ability of states to achieve identified goals relating to these policy options, indicate that the state executive power does play a significant role in determining policy formulation and implementation in the states. A number of explanations have been offered to account for this variation, but few have focused on the impact of the state itself and the institutions and individuals that govern state action.
     • keywords: americans; policy; power; state; welfare
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679. 3r074t66d1d
     • author: Andrea Lynn Christensen
     • title: Motivation and achievement in classrooms:A comparison of relationships for high, average, and low achievers
     • date: 2010
     • words: 144
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: Implications for goal theory and for classroom instruction that might help break the cycle of low motivation and low achievement are discussed. Perceptions of a mastery goal structure and self-efficacy beliefs were significantly related to improved achievement of low achievers.
     • keywords: achievers; low; students
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680. 3r074t66d33
     • author: Daniel John Sportiello
     • title: The Primacy of the Practical in the History of Philosophy
     • date: 1904
     • words: 300
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: This is the tension at the heart of philosophy; the point of this dissertation is less to resolve this tension than to explore it—specifically, by recovering insights from Plato, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alasdair MacIntyre. For we are situated within the world that our philosophical theories describe—and so those theories must describe a world in which we arrive at justified theories.
     • keywords: perspectives; philosophy
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681. 3r074t66h2p
     • author: Yimeng Zhao
     • title: Top-Down Proteomics Using Sheath-Flow Capillary Electrophoresis Coupled to Mass Spectrometry
     • date: 1904
     • words: 150
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Capillary zone electrophoresis lends good resolving power to proteoforms with minor sequence variations or PTMs, which often have similar hydrophobicities but different charges. While liquid chromatography dominates in the separation stage of proteomics studies, capillary electrophoresis is a valuable alternative and provides an orthogonal separation mode.
     • keywords: cze; esi; proteomics
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682. 3r074t6727n
     • author: Bo Hong
     • title: Process and Material Design of Aprotic N-Heterocyclic Anion Ionic Liquids for Carbon Capture
     • date: 1904
     • words: 72
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: In this thesis, we addressed this material design problem by developing simultaneous process and material optimization frameworks for post-combustion and pre-combustion carbon capture processes to identify the optimal properties of AHAs for achieving the best process performance. The results will provide a system level insight for material scientists at the early stage of solvent design.
     • keywords: material; process
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683. 3r074t67327
     • author: Leanne A. MacDonald
     • title: Transcending Boundaries: Non-Binary Gender in Old and Middle English Saints' Lives
     • date: 1904
     • words: 367
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Furthermore, I show that non-binary gender as it develops in these narratives adds nuance to our understanding of gender diversity as well as the intersectional relationships between gender, language, spirituality, and culture in medieval Britain. The Vernon Manuscript, which has not yet been studied for its inclusion of several gender non-binary saints' lives, presents these texts alongside other representations of gender in religious life, prompting its likely audience of women religious to consider the complexity of their own gender identities in relation to their spiritual occupations.
     • keywords: binary; english; gender; lives; medieval; non; saints; spiritual
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684. 3r074t67714
     • author: Tracie Lynn McGinnity
     • title: Novel Nanoparticle Imaging Probes for Immunotargeting Cancer Cells and Maximizing X-Ray Contrast in Computed Tomography
     • date: 2019
     • words: 516
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: In summary, immunotargeted Au@SiO2-anti-HER2 NPs and HfO2 NPs exhibited advantageous properties for potential use as novel X-ray contrast agents in diagnostic imaging. Therefore, the overall objective of this research was to investigate novel NP imaging probes for immunotargeting cancer cells and maximizing X-ray contrast in CT.
     • keywords: agents; concentration; contrast; her2; hfo2; imaging; infrared; mid; nps; ray
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685. 3r074t67d7r
     • author: Jay David Miller
     • title: Quaker Literary Agrarianism in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800
     • date: 2020
     • words: 299
     • flesch: 37
     • 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.
     • keywords: agrarian; american; capitalism; century; chapter; jeremiad; quaker
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686. 3r074t67g19
     • author: Trevor Anderson
     • title: Socrates, Knower
     • date: 2021
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 55
     • summary: My third chapter responds to three separate charges to the effect that Socrates either fundamentally misunderstands the nature of human knowledge, or does not sufficiently attend to the way knowledge functions in human living, or both. I use Socrates' exchanges with Polus and Callicles in the Gorgias as evidence to argue that, while Socrates does destroy false self-conceptions and highlight inconsistency of beliefs, he also facilitates his interlocutors' awareness of their own acts of understanding, and encourages them to embrace the deliverances of those acts.
     • keywords: chapter; conception; method; self; socrates
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687. 3r074t67g30
     • author: Deniz Enverova
     • title: Social Complexity at the Time of Urbanization: A 'Grave' Perspective — Late Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia (6400-2000 BCE)
     • date: 2021
     • words: 306
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: In order to contextualize my findings, I model North/South Mesopotamian interactions, North Mesopotamian social organization, and elite power as a heterarchical system. This work focuses on the transition from the Late Pottery Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Mesopotamia (6400-200 BCE), with a particular emphasis on North Mesopotamian developments.
     • keywords: mesopotamian; mortuary; north; order; people; social; use
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688. 3r074t67g61
     • author: Andrea C. Peña-Vasquez
     • title: Between the Patrón and the Padrón: How Municipalities Shape Access to Legal Status in Spain
     • date: 2021
     • words: 272
     • flesch: 2
     • summary: Spain's Social Settlement regularization program is a prima facie inclusive policy that allows irregular immigrants to acquire residence permits after 3 years of continuous residence. Each municipality is enabled to designate its own housing requirements for registry on its census, which disproportionately impact racialized irregular immigrants.
     • keywords: census; immigrants; irregular; municipal; opportunities; regularization; residence
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689. 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
     • words: 231
     • flesch: 35
     • 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.
     • keywords: church; johnson; music; organ; organist; university
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690. 3t945q49m56
     • author: Mo Liu
     • title: Robustness and power dissipation in quantum-dot cellular automata
     • date: 2006
     • words: 146
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: Experimental and theoretical research on the switching of molecular QCA cells has been underway. The power dissipation and power flow in clocked molecular QCA circuits are explored.
     • keywords: circuits; computation; power; qca
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691. 3t945q49m7w
     • author: Michael Anthony Cruz Abril
     • title: The Beginning of the End: Original Sin and Apocalypse in View of Karl Rahner and Ren&eacute; Girard
     • date: 2015
     • words: 343
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: They show not only that the universality of original sin is grounded upon the fact that sin happened at the beginning of human history, but also that the concrete historical effects of our decisions continue to have a deleterious influence upon the exercise of human freedom, such that all of our decisions are codetermined by a prior history of guilt and distorted desire. At the same time, from within human history the truth of the Gospel struggles against the escalation of sin and works to bring human history out of the meaninglessness of evil and toward realizing and revealing the deeper meaning of the world in view of the eschatological future.
     • keywords: apocalyptic; deeper; history; human; original; sin; world
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692. 3t945q49m87
     • author: Han Liu
     • title: A Plane Rational Map with Chebyshev-like Dynamics
     • date: 2014
     • words: 59
     • flesch: 53
     • summary: The goal is to obtain a complete description of the dynamics of the map, something that is rarely possible for such examples and then go on to study dynamics of some nearby perturbations. This paper concerns a specific rational map of two complex variables whose dynamics are closely related to those of the well known one variable Chebyshev map.
     • keywords: map
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693. 3t945q49n8j
     • author: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
     • title: The Forgotten Woman's Bible: Katharine Bushnell, Lee Anna Starr, Madeline Southard, and the Construction of a Woman-Centered Protestantism in America, 1870-1930
     • date: 2004
     • words: 293
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: As participants in social reform movements particularly in temperance work and in the social purity movement they had become convinced that faulty religious teachings were at the root of modern social problems, and they turned to theology to expose and subvert what they perceived as the centuries-long manipulation of the faith by male translators and theologians. In their woman-centered theological reflections, Bushnell, Starr, and Southard rejected Victorian social arrangements, conventional views of women's virtue, traditional marriage relationships, and the cultural and religious idealization of motherhood.
     • keywords: american; centuries; modern; protestant; social; theologies; twentieth; woman
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694. 3t945q49p1f
     • author: Ebrahim MolavianJazi
     • title: Secure Communications over Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels
     • date: 2009
     • words: 205
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: We study this model for traditional wiretap codes and randomized wiretap codes, and develop insights about the corresponding secrecy capacity and randomized-code secrecy capacity, respectively. For this purpose, we introduce the arbitrarily varying wire-tap channel (AVWTC) model consisting of a family of wiretap channels indexed by some state that is selected by the jammer in an arbitrary and time-varying manner.
     • keywords: capacity; code; randomized; secrecy
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695. 3t945q49p34
     • author: Joseph Workman
     • title: When Sharing Hurts: Sibship Size, Resource Dilution, and Education
     • date: 2014
     • words: 158
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: The study of the relationship between sibship and education provides insight on the processes by which family resources are mobilized to support children?s education. An extensive literature has documented that individuals raised with more siblings perform less well in school and complete fewer years of education.
     • keywords: education; family; sibship
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696. 3t945q49p7h
     • author: Mark W. Majewski
     • title: Syntheses and Biological Evaluations of Hydroxamate Containing and N-Methylthiolated β-Lactams as Potential Therapeutic Agents
     • date: 1904
     • words: 274
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Described herein are the syntheses of sets of hydroxamate containing monobactams, bicyclic β-lactams, and cephalosporins in addition to their biological evaluations. Lastly, Chapter 8 discusses the design, syntheses, and anti-tuberculosis activities for a number of cephalosproin-pBTZ conjugates.
     • keywords: activity; chapter; hydroxamate; lactam; syntheses
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697. 3t945q50b75
     • author: Amber Shoaib
     • title: Talk Baby to Me: Is Infant-Directed Speech Related to Vocabulary Size and Online Lexical Processing Skills?
     • date: 1904
     • words: 289
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: For example, the exaggerated differences between speech sounds and attention-getting properties of IDS may support LPE; however, little is known about how experience with IDS impacts language development. However, little is known about what qualities of speech are strong indicators of language development.
     • keywords: ids; lpe; months; speech; vocabulary
     • versions: original; plain text
698. 3t945q50p8m
     • author: Nathan W. O'Halloran, SJ
     • title: Soteriology in a Future Register: Expanding the Doctrine of Purgatory as a Process of Healing and Transformation for Victims
     • date: 2020
     • words: 273
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: In its full doctrinal articulations at Lyons II, Florence, and Trent purgatory as a doctrine is concerned with personal sin. These sources are significant touchstones for us and guide us in our long journey through the history and doctrinal development of the doctrine of purgatory, as well as through our soteriological reflections on the salvation and healing of victims.
     • keywords: eschatological; healing; purgatory; victims
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699. 3t945q50q98
     • author: Elise Houcek
     • title: TRACTATUS
     • date: 2021
     • words: 10
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Part philosophical treatise, part Bildungsroman, and part Girl's Diary.
     • keywords: diary
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700. 3t945q50s14
     • author: Rachael Alvir
     • title: Scott Analysis of Countable Structures
     • date: 2022
     • words: 237
     • flesch: 58
     • summary: Finally, we consider the case when the Scott complexity of a structure is d − Σα or Σα. In this logic, we can describe countable structures - such as the natural numbers - up to isomorphism among countable structures via a single sentence φ known as the Scott sentence of that structure.
     • keywords: complexity; scott; sentence; structure
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701. 3t945q50t96
     • author: Nicolas Chavarria
     • title: Some Results in Continuous Logic
     • date: 2023
     • words: 177
     • flesch: 53
     • summary: Finally, we consider a double extension of the classical result of positive primitive elimination in modules, first to abelian groups with length functions, and then to abelian groups with length functions and homomorphisms to compact groups. This is described in the context of the dualities that underpin the logic and it is obtained through the use of maps to compact metrizable structures.
     • keywords: context; continuous; groups; logic
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702. 3x816m32w7f
     • author: Jennifer Lynn Yonkoski
     • title: Drunk Driving: Examining the Effects of Deterrence and Self-Control on Intention to Commit Future DUI
     • date: 2005
     • words: 188
     • flesch: 46
     • 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.
     • keywords: dui; future; self
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703. 3x816m32x0b
     • author: Sebastian Velez
     • title: Biogeographic and Genetic Approaches to the Natural History of the Bioluminescent Jamaican Click Beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
     • date: 2010
     • words: 445
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Previous studies have established the genetics of bioluminescent color variation in this beetle species to the level of the nucleotide base pair in the target gene luciferase. These newly developed markers will be useful in understanding the population structure of click beetles on Jamaica and in identifying possible selective factors responsible for bioluminescent color variation.
     • keywords: alleles; beetle; bioluminescent; click; color; gene; jamaica; plagiophthalamus; variation; vor
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704. 3x816m32x1p
     • author: Joseph B Herzog
     • title: Infrared Reflectivity Spectroscopy of Short Period AlGaN/GaN Superlattice Optical Phonons
     • date: 2010
     • words: 167
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: Phonon characteristics were additionally measured as a function of temperature, confirming the expectation that phonon energies decrease with increasing temperature. Through the examination of different AlGaN/GaN superlattice combinations, characterization of phonon energies versus material composition were obtained.
     • keywords: algan; gan; phonon; superlattices
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705. 3x816m32x21
     • author: Christine Hinz Lenzen
     • title: (Re)Collections: Photography, Memory, and Forgetting
     • date: 2012
     • words: 77
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: The work in Re:Collections draws from personal family history, thoughts on the photograph and the family album as mnemonic devices, and research on traditional and counter memorials to explore the dichotomy of remembering and forgetting. The installation is comprised of several individual pieces that when shown together reveal themselves as distinctive steps of an ongoing process which becomes a physical manifestation of the constant struggle between the desire to forget and the human propensity to remember.
     • keywords: family; work
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706. 3x816m32x4q
     • author: Liam Murphy Monahan
     • title: Meeting Anscombe's Demand: Toward a Moral Psychology of Character
     • date: 2004
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: An agent-based account of right action claims that evaluations of human action are derived from the motivation or behavior of a virtuous agent. I argue that no normative account of the existence of objectively appropriate reasons for action can be derived from an agent-based account of right action.
     • keywords: account; agent; moral; theory; virtue; virtuous
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707. 3x816m32x52
     • author: Veronica Eileen Roberts
     • title: Romanitas Recast: Augustine's Reeducation of the Romans Against Idolatry and Towards Good Citizenship
     • date: 2014
     • words: 260
     • flesch: 42
     • 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.
     • keywords: augustine; idolatry; political; self
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708. 3x816m32x6d
     • author: Xuwen Yu
     • title: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Behavior of Wireless Group Communication Systems
     • date: 2010
     • words: 531
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: I show that wireless users are available for shorter durations and are unavailable for longer periods than was observed for wired users. In this dissertation, I expand on our understanding of the behavior of group communication systems to include wireless users.
     • keywords: availability; communication; group; mechanisms; number; performance; systems; users; wired; wireless
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709. 3x816m32x7r
     • author: Diane Macready
     • title: Effects of Self versus Other Blame on the Benefits of Expressive Writing
     • date: 2012
     • words: 285
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: Although the literature has clearly established the health benefits of expressive writing, the mechanisms that cause those benefits are still under debate. Expressive writing has been established over the last several decades as an effective way to cope with distressing life events.
     • keywords: blame; expressive; group; writing
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710. 3x816m32x83
     • author: Joseph A. Valerioti
     • title: Pressure Dependence of Plasma Actuated Flow Control
     • date: 2010
     • words: 157
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Recurring trends in the experimental thrust were evaluated against simulations from the Space-Time Lumped Element Model, which was designed strictly for atmospheric pressure. An experimental setup is used to determine how Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge (SDBD) plasma actuators perform under variable ambient pressure.
     • keywords: actuators; model; plasma; pressure
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711. 3x816m32z0n
     • author: Joanna Ho
     • title: Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Wall Suction on Cross-Flow Absolute Instability in a Rotating Disk Boundary Layer
     • date: 2014
     • words: 280
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: The experiment will document the mean flow and cross-flow instability characteristics with wall suction. The proposed research is intended to investigate if wall suction in the boundary layer over a rotating disk will transform the absolute instability cross-flow mode into a global mode as postulated by Davies and Carpenter (2003).
     • keywords: absolute; disk; flow; instability
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712. 3x816m32z10
     • author: James H. Larson
     • title: Interactions between dissolved organic matter sources and effects in stream ecosystems
     • date: 2007
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: My objectives were to determine (1) if watershed characteristics relate to DOM processing and production in aquatic ecosystems, (2) if DOM properties related to watershed characteristics influence DOM processing and interactions with stream biota, and (3) whether DOM alters the toxicity of anthropogenic pollutants. Because most DOM in streams is terrestrial in origin, DOM properties are often related to terrestrial sources and processing of DOM at the watershed scale.
     • keywords: aquatic; dom; pollutants; processing; properties; streams; watershed
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713. 3x816m32z3p
     • author: Michael Valente
     • title: What Lies Inside Us
     • date: 2010
     • words: 12
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: A fictional explanation of what happens in a twisted and distorted world.
     • keywords: world
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714. 3x816m32z6q
     • author: Sarah E. Baechle
     • title: Latin Glossing, Medieval Literary Theory, and the Cross-Channel Readers of Chaucer
     • date: 2015
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: Under this hermeneutic rubric, medieval readers would seek moral instruction in their poetry; fictional narrative and literary style were integumenta concealing an ethical truth which was to be identified and clearly explicated. Reading Chaucer's poetry as it was circulated in medieval England, accompanied by its marginal apparatus, significantly reshapes modern critical approaches to Chaucer's poetry in particular and to medieval critical practices in general.
     • keywords: chaucer; glosses; literature; medieval; readers; reading; study
     • versions: original; plain text
715. 3x816m33s3d
     • author: Tia S. Jarvis
     • title: Supramolecular Chemistry Using Fluorescent Unsymmetric Squaraine Dyes
     • date: 2019
     • words: 489
     • flesch: 38
     • 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.
     • keywords: biological; chapter; dyes; fluorescent; imaging; macrocycle; probe; squaraine; substituent; threading; zndpa
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716. 3x816m33t6r
     • author: Joseph Crawford
     • title: Discovering Important Patterns across and within Networks via Network Alignment and Clustering
     • date: 2019
     • words: 340
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: This dissertation aims to advance two of the most popular computational strategies for network analysis: network alignment (NA) and network clustering (NC).First, the focus is on NA, which aims to find a node mapping (i.e., alignment) between compared networks that identifies network regions of topological or functional similarity. Thus, heuristics known as NA methods are needed.
     • keywords: clustering; dissertation; network; problem
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717. 3x816m3418k
     • author: Jessica K. Kim
     • title: Unworlded Empires: Homotopic Narration and the Modernist Racial Unconscious
     • date: 2021
     • words: 422
     • flesch: 0
     • summary: Through a special study of the common concerns about the historical and personal development of human worlding across these thinkers' philosophies of human being, my project introduces the mathematically-borrowed concept of homotopia, or the change in valence that an entity accrues as it moves from one symbolic domain to another, as a formal heuristic within modernist texts. I argue that modernist form opens a melancholically dynamic space in which to re-investigate the factical aspects of human being.
     • keywords: aspects; existential; fiction; ford; form; homotopia; human; mathematical; modernist; nature; project
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718. 3x816m3421g
     • author: Abbas Termos
     • title: Spectrum Occupancy Mapping with Minimal Assumptions and Simple Sensors
     • date: 2022
     • words: 536
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: This dissertation considers using a neural network-based system to tackle the problem of estimating occupancy maps with minimal assumptions. The emitting sources at the given frequency have unknown number, locations, and powers.
     • keywords: accuracy; map; neural; number; occupancy; power; sensors; spectrum; system
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719. 3x816m34386
     • author: Paolo Giani
     • title: Coupling Turbulence-Resolving and Diagnostic Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer with Large Scale Dynamics
     • date: 2023
     • words: 179
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: We demonstrate that coupling large scale dynamics with turbulence-resolving and diagnostic simulations is a promising tool for atmospheric problems in complex scenarios. The benefit of coupling microscale models with large scale dynamics is to improve the characterization of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in complex and realistic scenarios where canonical representations of the ABL are not valid, for instance when unsteadiness, advection, baroclinicity, subsidence and complex terrain phenomena are not negligible.
     • keywords: challenges; complex; coupling; diagnostic; large
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720. 41687h16573
     • author: Stephanie M. Schmidt
     • title: Shearing Oscillatory Interstitial Fluid Flows affect Solute Transport and Osteogenesis in Cortical Bone
     • date: 2006
     • words: 363
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The objective of this research was to: 1) propose a theoretical model for enhanced mass transport in cortical bone due to shearing oscillatory fluid flow dependent on molecular size, strain magnitude, and frequency; 2) demonstrate experimentally that oscillating fluid flows affect the mass transport of particles in sheep cortical bone; 3) prove that increased nutrient levels influence bone cell osteogenesis and metabolism in-vitro; 4) develop calcium phosphate nano-carriers for nutrients and drugs deliverable through the new mechanism. In addition, in-vitro experiments showed that bone cell osteogenesis was affected by core-shell and mesoporous calcium phosphate nano-carriers.
     • keywords: bone; carriers; cortical; mass; model; nano; nutrient; transport
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721. 41687h1659s
     • author: Morgen Elizabeth Anyan
     • title: Physical and Environmental Factors Affecting the Swarm Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
     • date: 2015
     • words: 322
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: While previous studies have shown surface-attached bacterial biofilms to be highly resistant to heavy metal toxicity, little is known about the influence of heavy metals upon surface motile bacteria and developing biofilms. Metal resistance was shown to vary with motility mode (swimming vs. swarming), but did not correlate with rhamnolipid production, as was originally hypothesized; while cell products such as rhamnolipid were shown to bind heavy metals (as expected) and should limit metal bioavailability, the results suggest at least one additional mechanism (as yet undetermined) that promotes cell survival during swarming in the presence of these heavy metals.
     • keywords: aeruginosa; heavy; metals; motility; surface; swarming; tfp
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722. 41687h16600
     • author: Manuela Fernandez Pinto
     • title: Learning from Ignorance: Agnotology's Challenge to Philosophy of Science
     • date: 2014
     • words: 306
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The recent commercialization and privatization of scientific research has reconfigured the organization of science worldwide, fostering new scientific practices and new political tools to manage scientific research. In particular, agnotology has made evident the need for a well-articulated normative approach capable of identifying and evaluating the epistemic concerns raised by the private funding and performance of science.
     • keywords: agnotology; philosophy; research; science; scientific; social
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723. 41687h1664c
     • author: Scott S Hampton
     • title: An Analysis of Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo Methods
     • date: 2010
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 45
     • 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.
     • keywords: carlo; hamiltonian; method; monte; shadow; shmc
     • versions: original; plain text
724. 41687h16709
     • author: Erzs bet Ravasz
     • title: Evolution, Hierarchy and Modular Organization in Complex Networks
     • date: 2004
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: In hierarchical networks the clustering coefficient follows a strict scaling law, which can be used to identify the presence of a hierarchical organization in real networks. Large systems in nature and civilization share some important organizing principles uncovered in the framework of complex network research.
     • keywords: free; hierarchical; metabolic; nature; networks; real; scale; systems
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725. 41687h1673b
     • author: Timothy Alan Kreps
     • title: Scaling Up: Long-Term, Large-Scale Impacts of the Invasion of Lakes by the Invasive Rusty Crayfish (Orconectes rusticus)
     • date: 2009
     • words: 356
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Patterns of O. rusticus abundance were more variable than previously believed. Samples from two lakes that experienced large declines in O. rusticus abundance indicated little ecosystem recovery.
     • keywords: abundance; crayfish; ecosystem; food; lakes; long; rusticus; term
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726. 41687h16751
     • author: Peter Choi
     • title: George Whitefield, the Imperial Itinerant: Religion, Economics, and Politics in the Era of the Great Awakening
     • date: 2014
     • words: 267
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: By focusing on this prominent priest who declared the whole world his parish, the dissertation argues that the evangelical revivals became absorbed into larger processes of British imperial state formation over the course of the eighteenth century. If a study of Whitefield must work out the complex puzzles presented by his peripatetic life, there is also the prospect of rich insights to be gleaned from a grand globetrotting life that held the attention of British subjects everywhere captive across three decades.
     • keywords: british; century; eighteenth; life; whitefield; world
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727. 41687h16949
     • author: Christopher Quiroz
     • title: The Masculine Paradox: Decoupling Masculinity from Heterosexuality in the Firehouse
     • date: 1904
     • words: 110
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: The relationship between hyper-masculine organizations and individual actions that violate heterosexual norms is explored in a study of the El Dorado Fire Department, a rural, wildland firefighting organization. The firefighters working at the station were able to engage in non-orthodox gender behavior because their masculinity stemmed from their status as firefighters rather than their individual actions.
     • keywords: actions; firefighters; norms
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728. 41687h16c89
     • author: Zhiqian Chang
     • title: Statistical Reconstruction and Simultaneous Parameter Estimation for Iterative X-ray Computed Tomography
     • date: 1904
     • words: 452
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Statistical iterative image reconstruction methods for X-ray computed tomography (CT) have, over the past few years, shown promise in maintaining diagnostic image quality across a wider range of dosage than has been routinely practical with standard deterministic methods. To combat the challenge of increased sampling non-uniformity, we propose a joint system parameter estimation with image reconstruction algorithm.
     • keywords: artifacts; beam; cone; high; image; iterative; low; methods; noise; non; photon; reconstruction
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729. 41687h16x4w
     • author: Allison Reinsvold Hall
     • title: Search for Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
     • date: 1904
     • words: 201
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: The neutralino can decay to a photon and a gravitino, leading to final state signatures with one or more photons and significant missing transverse momentum. This dissertation describes a search for new physics in final states with two photons and missing transverse momentum.
     • keywords: gmsb; model; particle; standard
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730. 41687h1780w
     • author: Nathaniel Rupprecht
     • title: Prediction and Retrodiction in Statistical Mechanical Systems Out of Equilibrium
     • date: 2020
     • words: 286
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: We test this procedure on several Markov systems: an ensemble of random transition matrices, and a semi-classical quantum system, showing that we are in fact able to get moderate changes in predictability from small changes to the transition matrix. Statistical mechanics attempts to describe the collective behavior of systems composed of many small interacting parts.
     • keywords: behavior; future; retrodiction; systems
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731. 41687h1783x
     • author: Munira Syed
     • title: Learning and Inferring User Characteristics from Online Behavior and Content
     • date: 2020
     • words: 112
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Product and service-providers strive to improve user experience through personalization of services, recommendations, and understanding user interests. For this purpose, inferring user characteristics, such as demographic information, from their behavior, would help understand their preferences.
     • keywords: content; experience
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732. 41687h17c2h
     • author: Adam S. Braegelman
     • title: Biomaterials Using Cucurbit[7]uril: Fundamental Supramolecular Dynamics and Therapeutic Applications
     • date: 2022
     • words: 404
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: Specific and tunable interactions at network crosslinks can be achieved by supramolecular host-guest complexation. My final investigation of fundamental phenomena focuses on effects of bulk material properties arising from differences in guest orientation within crosslinks, leveraging asymmetric guest topology to underscore a key aspect of host-guest system design considerations previously unaddressed.
     • keywords: affinity; binding; cb[7; delivery; drug; guest; host; hydrogel; network; properties; supramolecular
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733. 44558c99f92
     • author: Nathan James Silvernail
     • title: Understanding the Structural and Vibrational Features of Heme Diatomics
     • date: 2008
     • words: 194
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: These systems have been extensively studied using X-ray crystallography, M&ouml;ssbauer spectroscopy, infrared absorption spectroscopy, resonance Raman spectroscopy, and Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy (NRVS), thereby providing new information regarding structural and vibrational characteristics of hemes coordinated with diatomic molecules. This dissertation concerns itself with the interaction of diatomic molecules with heme.
     • keywords: diatomic; heme; molecules; spectroscopy; vibrational
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734. 44558c99g2z
     • author: Paul John Schramm
     • title: Interaction of Heavy Metals with Aerobic Soil Bacteria
     • date: 2010
     • words: 150
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: TEM showed the formation of cell-associated precipitates that redissolved by death phase, while EXAFS indicated a cadmium-sulfide bonding character that increased over time and was not present in washed cells. Cadmium was found to delay the onset of exponential growth phase and decrease maximum population size.
     • keywords: bacteria; cadmium; mendocina; metals
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735. 44558c99g4n
     • author: Gianluca Puliti
     • title: Properties of Gold-Water Nanofluids Using Molecular Dynamics
     • date: 2012
     • words: 360
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: In order to understand more fundamental physical phenomena at the gold-water interface, water confined between gold nanolayers is also studied at different plate separations. Our results of computed thermodymamic properties indicate that values are between 10% and 400% different than ideal mixture predictions.
     • keywords: different; gold; interactions; nanofluids; properties; transport; use; water
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736. 44558c99g6b
     • author: Julie H Eike
     • title: High Oxygen Affinity Polymerized Bovine Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers as Potential Artificial Blood Substitutes
     • date: 2005
     • words: 361
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: In contrast, very low P50 (such as 6 or 13 mmHg) oxygen carriers specifically target oxygen delivery to tissues with low oxygen tensions, which are observed clinically in cases of severe hypoxia. The type and concentration of cross-linker and quenching agent, as well as reaction time, were all manipulated to yield oxygen carriers with various molecular weight distributions and oxygen binding properties.
     • keywords: carriers; cross; dispersions; low; oxygen; polyhb
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737. 44558c99g7p
     • author: Fengqiao Luo
     • title: Can Nuclear Structure Be Revealed in a Reduced Model Space
     • date: 2014
     • words: 329
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Meanwhile, the Sp-NCSM offers a different approach to modeling light nuclei without the need to assume the presence of an inert core. Numerical evidence shows an important role of the symplectic Sp(3,R) symmetry in the ab initio no-core shell model results for light nuclei.
     • keywords: basis; gssm; model; nuclear; nuclei; shell; symmetry
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738. 44558c99g81
     • author: Christopher John Patrick Schmitt
     • title: Equilibrium Charge State Distributions of Low-Z Ions Incident on Thin Self-Supporting Foils
     • date: 2010
     • words: 183
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: Equilibrium charge fractions have been measured for 3 - 7 MeV lithium, boron,and carbon ions passing through thin carbon foils. The charge fractions for lithium, boron and carbon ions passing through thin foils of carbon, aluminum, copper, silver, and gold are compared with the mean charge of the projectile, the functional form of the charge distribution, and the distribution width.
     • keywords: carbon; charge; equilibrium; ions
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739. 44558c99g9c
     • author: Jing Zhao
     • title: Single Molecule Enzyme Dynamics and Spectroelectrochemistry in Gold-Based Zero-Mode Waveguides
     • date: 2013
     • words: 433
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Zero-mode waveguides (ZMWs) strongly confine optical fields to zeptoliter volumes and are coupled with fluorescence microscopy to study the dynamics of single enzyme molecules, due to their excellent optical confinement, precise positioning, and massive parallelism. In contrast to its behavior in flavoenzymes, where the transitions are coupled to chemical redox events, the research presented here studies single FAD molecules that are chemically immobilized to the Au region of a ZMW array through a pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) linker.
     • keywords: eeq; enzyme; fad; molecules; msox; optical; potential; single; zmw
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740. 44558c99h0k
     • author: Brooke Elizabeth Underwood Fischer
     • title: To Drink or Not To Drink: The Role of Religion and Family in Drinking Patterns Among Emerging Adults
     • date: 2010
     • words: 325
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: Specifically, religious affiliation, organizational religious participation, and non-organizational religious participation each affect consumption to differing degrees. Using data from all three waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), which is a comprehensive investigation into the religious lives of American youth, I argue that religious belief and participation contributes something unique to the lives of young adults that shapes the way they behave in positive ways.
     • keywords: alcohol; behavior; consumption; context; religion; religious; results
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741. 44558c99h28
     • author: Danielle Lee Cisler
     • title: Modal Assignment and Post Hoc Testing in Factor Mixture Models: Effects of Incorrect Assignment on Power
     • date: 2007
     • words: 169
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: After obtaining class membership, a researcher may be interested in seeing how classes of people differ on a background variable or covariate. The first aim of the study was to understand the extent to which incorrect class assignment decreases the power of detecting a significant post hoc effect.
     • keywords: class; mixture; populations; study
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742. 44558c99h3m
     • author: Biao Zhang
     • title: Three-Dimensional Laser-Assisted Image Analysis for Robotic Surface Operation with Camera-Space Manipulation
     • date: 2007
     • words: 158
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: The first, peg-in-hole assembly, is a challenging robotics application in industry today, one that requires high precision and robustness of five-component positioning. Two fundamental experiments -- thickness-reduction-gauging and five-component positioning -- prove experimentally that the high precision, robustness, and workspace-extent versatility of CSM can be extended to general robot operations.
     • keywords: high; positioning; precision; robustness
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743. 44558c99h59
     • author: George M Kennedy
     • title: Identification and characterization of novel loci required for ESX-1 protein secretion in Mycobacterium marinum
     • date: 2015
     • words: 230
     • flesch: 27
     • 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.
     • keywords: genetic; infection; secretion; tuberculosis; virulence
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744. 44558c99h70
     • author: Ryan S. Kemp
     • title: On the Possibility of Radical Ethical Transformation: Med stadigt Hensyn til Kierkegaard
     • date: 1904
     • words: 99
     • flesch: 38
     • 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.
     • keywords: dissertation; kierkegaard
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745. 44558c99p04
     • author: Quintin Ross Sheridan
     • title: Simulation Study of CO2-Reactive Aprotic Heterocyclic Anion Ionic Liquids: Water Interactions, Liquid Structure, and CO2 Solubility
     • date: 1904
     • words: 228
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: The methods used in this dissertation provide a means to compare different ILs within the same family, and to select ILs with promising properties prior to synthesis. The fact that the liquid structure functions do not change appreciably upon reaction with CO2 is used to explain why viscosities of AHA ILs do not change much upon reaction with CO2.
     • keywords: co2; ils; structure; water
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746. 44558d0057f
     • author: Megan J. Austin
     • title: High School Curricular Intensity: Inequalities in Access and Returns over Three Cohorts
     • date: 1904
     • words: 327
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: In Chapter 3, I find that despite increased curricular intensity between 1982 and 2004, income- and education-based gaps did not narrow, and the association between higher levels of parental education and higher curricular intensity increased across cohorts. In Chapter 4, I find that students with higher curricular intensity were consistently more likely to enter postsecondary education and less likely to delay postsecondary entry in each cohort.
     • keywords: course; curricular; education; higher; intensity; students
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747. 44558d00594
     • author: Timothy P. Riley
     • title: Structure Guided Design and Computational Screening in Cellular Immunity
     • date: 1904
     • words: 193
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: Here, we address these hallmarks of TCR recognition, emphasizing the use of computational models and structure guided design to examine the fine details of TCR interfaces. With broad implications to T cell based immunotherapies, we highlight how the 'imperfect' interfaces of TCRs bound to their ligands influences aspects of TCR design, T cell specificity, and epitope recognition of the immune system.
     • keywords: affinity; design; specificity; tcr; tcrs
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748. 44558d0061p
     • author: Ameer Armaly
     • title: Complexity Reduction in Feature Analysis
     • date: 1904
     • words: 427
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: My work addresses three aspects of feature analysis: effort estimation, feature reuse, and comprehension of the underlying code by blind programmers. The problem with feature reuse is that it requires the programmer to comprehend and copy the dependencies of a feature.
     • keywords: algorithms; blind; code; complexity; feature; programmers; work
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749. 44558d00j4t
     • author: Christopher Ángel
     • title: Ritual and Identity at the California Missions
     • date: 2020
     • words: 108
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: This work has implications for the global, multicultural church of the present, providing historical evidence for modern theological tools such as multiple religious participation and liturgical inculturation. This dissertation examines the interaction between Franciscan missionaries and the indigenous people of California at the Franciscan missions (1769-1833).
     • keywords: california; franciscan; religious
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750. 44558d00j55
     • author: Ryan P. Egan
     • title: Development and Validation of the Instrumental Support Inventory for Spouses
     • date: 2021
     • words: 252
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: However, research on instrumental support, a domain of social support, has yielded inconsistent results, which may be attributable to shortcomings in extant instrumental-support measures, including insufficient content coverage and confounding with personality and cognitive variables. Competing hypotheses for the associations between instrumental support and depressive symptoms were also tested, but neither hypothesis was supported due to nonsignificant relations.
     • keywords: instrumental; inventory; isi; sample; support; validity
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751. 47429882q9m
     • author: Aaron Michael Stuckey
     • title: X-Ray Studies of Mn Doped Iii-V Materials
     • date: 2005
     • words: 362
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: X-ray reflectivity was used to characterize the structure of InMnAs heterostructures and InAlP oxide films. This improvement can then be used to improve the growth parameters in order to create materials upon which device development may be undertaken.
     • keywords: environment; local; materials
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752. 47429882r15
     • author: Anthony A. Battaglia
     • title: Conversion Coefficient Measurements of 176Lu Using ICEBall
     • date: 2015
     • words: 315
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: The s-process is responsible for the creation of 50\% of the heavy elements and 15-20 nuclei in the s-process are s-process branching points. The branching point $^{176}$Lu is only produced via the s-process only and has both a long-lived ground state ($K=7^{-}$) of 37.6 Gy and a short-lived isomeric state ($K=0^{-}$) at 3.6 h. There is no direct decay to both the isomer and ground state due to selection rules.
     • keywords: ^{176}$lu; band; ground; process; state
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753. 47429882r2h
     • author: Feng Zhu
     • title: Passivity Analysis and Passivation in the Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
     • date: 2014
     • words: 298
     • flesch: 23
     • summary: Later, it is shown that the proposed methods can address the issues in the design of CPS, by considering hybrid systems and networked control systems (NCS), respectively. Overall, this dissertation provides new approaches to passivity analysis and passivation of CPS with the focus being on hybrid systems and networked control systems.
     • keywords: analysis; control; cps; passivation; passivity; systems
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754. 47429882r6w
     • author: Justin David Poche
     • title: Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938-1970
     • date: 2007
     • words: 175
     • flesch: 19
     • 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.
     • keywords: century; louisiana; religious; social; struggle
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755. 47429882s2t
     • author: Utsaw Kumar
     • title: Feedback Coding Schemes for Control Over Gaussian Networks
     • date: 2012
     • words: 372
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: This dissertation looks at communication scenarios, in which there are feedback channels available for enhancing communication and control performance over noisy forward links. Moreover, transmission schemes with feedback can be used to stabilize unstable plants over communication channels, where a sensor transmits the plant state information to a remotely placed controller.
     • keywords: channel; conditions; feedback; gaussian; product; relay; schemes
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756. 47429882s5v
     • author: Donald Wittich
     • title: Subsonic Flow over Open and Partially Covered, Rectangular Cavities
     • date: 2009
     • words: 184
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Additionally, the acquisition of time-resolved schlieren images of the shear layer allowed the development of a novel form of schlieren velocimetry, which revealed that coherent optical structures in the shear layer traverse the length of the cavity at speeds lower than those presupposed by the Rossiter or long-path formulations. A new long-path frequency prediction formula was developed in order to estimate these lower frequencies in a manner similar to the Rossiter formula.
     • keywords: cavity; layer; rossiter; shear
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757. 47429882s7j
     • author: Patrick Gillen
     • title: The Two Tablets: The Intellectual Origins and Original Understanding of the Religious Liberty Provisions
     • date: 2006
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The author argues that the Americans who ratified the First Amendment conceived of liberty of conscience and understood the religious liberty provisions primarily in terms of a set of beliefs and concepts expressed in terms of a religious strain of discourse, and based on a new understanding of scripture that had been worked out over hundreds of years prior to the Revolution. The convergence of these two strains of discourse around the shared concept of liberty of conscience made possible the consensus principle that the religious liberty provisions were understood to embody by the Americans who ratified them.
     • keywords: author; conscience; liberty; provisions; religious
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758. 47429882t1s
     • author: Megan Trucano
     • title: Boredom and Challenge: Emotional Correlates and Developmental Differences
     • date: 1904
     • words: 161
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Challenging classroom experiences were found to be related to positive emotions, and students reported that challenging classroom experiences are related to feeling that the teacher cares about students' thoughtful and effortful work. Differences between students' negative responses to an item using the word 'challenge' and the positive associations with challenging classroom experiences indicate that middle school students perceive 'challenge' and challenging classroom experiences differently.
     • keywords: challenge; classroom; students
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759. 47429883g29
     • author: Michael J Vaclav
     • title: Acting Shakespearean
     • date: 1904
     • words: 148
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Drawing on Jeffery Masten's evaluation of collaborative works as a separate authorial category, I argue that, given the assertion that Theobald's play is based on the lost History of Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher, Double Falsehood should thematically resemble the two established collaborative works by Shakespeare and Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen and King Henry VIII. This thesis examines the patterns of character agency in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and in both the collaborative and individual works of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.
     • keywords: fletcher; shakespeare; works
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760. 47429883h3z
     • author: Anne E. Mattingly
     • title: Environmental Impacts on Regulation of Swarming Motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
     • date: 2018
     • words: 359
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Additionally, it is not related to any other obvious biochemical agent potentially used to promote swarm motility. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a prevalent, Gram-negative bacterium and opportunistic pathogen that employs several different methods of motility to colonize surfaces, including swarming.
     • keywords: aeruginosa; independent; motility; rhamnolipid; ris; surface; swarming
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761. 47429883t3r
     • author: s.c.bostwick (Sebastian C. Bostwick)
     • title: places we might find her body
     • date: 2020
     • words: 94
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: places we might find her body is a book about memory, nature, addiction, place, transition, personhood, and, most of all, home. Whether that place is real, imagined, or no longer accessible, the speaker within these poems experiences home as both a yearning as well as a site of trauma.
     • keywords: place
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762. 47429883t43
     • author: Tianchen Wang
     • title: Statistical Neural Networks: Concepts, Frameworks and Applications
     • date: 2020
     • words: 369
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Although a large body of works exists in neural network parallelization, most of them focus on the training phase only or distributing a batch of instances to multiple computation cores. Various techniques have been explored to address this challenge, such as network compression and quantization, lightweight networks targeting resource-constrained platforms, dynamic computation graphs providing efficient early exits, and, on top of all these techniques, network parallelization.
     • keywords: computation; image; inference; network; neural; parallelization; scnn; speedup
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763. 47429883v32
     • author: Haley Kodak
     • title: Estimating Genetically Based Phenotypic Variation and Local Adaptation in the Foundational Plant Species, Schoenoplectus americanus
     • date: 2021
     • words: 273
     • flesch: 30
     • 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.
     • keywords: coastal; ecosystem; genetic; heritable; marsh; trait; variation
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764. 47429883w4q
     • author: Cody Robert Work
     • title: Advances in the Chemistry of Group 10 Transition Metal Carbenes: Synthetic Routes, Decomposition Pathways, Structure, Reactivity, and Reversible Access via η2-Olefin Complexes
     • date: 2022
     • words: 421
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Since the time of their discovery in the 1960s, transition metal carbenes have fascinated chemists and been the subject of much research interest. However, many examples of transition metal carbenes fall outside of these classical descriptions and chemists have discovered that the electronics and reactivity of the M à C interaction depend on many different factors including choice of metal, substituents at the carbene carbon, oxidation state, coordination number, and the nature of the supporting ligands.
     • keywords: carbenes; chemists; different; ligand; metal; oxidation; states; substituents; transition
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765. 47429883z19
     • author: Anila Shree
     • title: Patchwork Fictions: Addressing Disruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction
     • date: 2023
     • words: 350
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Patchwork Fictions: Addressing Disruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century British and French Women's Fiction revisits works of English women authors such as Jane Barker and Eliza Haywood alongside the prose-fiction of influential French predecessors such as Madeleine de Scudéry and Charlotte de la Force. In considering this lesser-feted dialogue, Patchwork Fictions demands a renewed historiography of women's writing that acknowledges the longer history of prose fiction.
     • keywords: barker; fabric; fictions; galesia; patchwork; prose; women; writing
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766. 4b29b56614t
     • author: Colby Galen Davis
     • title: Cartography
     • date: 2010
     • words: 4
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: A collection on poetry.
     • keywords: poetry
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767. 4b29b566155
     • author: Daniel D. Acorn
     • title: The Function of Cultural Student Clubs in Student Adjustment to College
     • date: 2010
     • words: 143
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Students use cultural student clubs to aid them in maintaining cultural identity and utilize different strategies for balancing club responsibilities with academic responsibilities. The students in my study seek to maintain cultural identity in order to aid them in their transition to the college context.
     • keywords: cultural; identity; students
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768. 4b29b56616h
     • author: Troy William Raeder
     • title: Evaluating and Maintaining Classification Algorithms
     • date: 2012
     • words: 214
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: That is to say, some measurement of the classifier's performance on past data is used as an estimate of its performance on future data. Additionally, misclassification costs are rarely known at model-selection time and the characteristics of the population from which data are drawn may change over time.
     • keywords: classifier; data; estimate; time
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769. 4b29b566186
     • author: Marcin Sikora
     • title: Reduced-Complexity Algorithms for Decoding and Equalization
     • date: 2008
     • words: 278
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: The detection problem for FSMs, termed decoding in the context of convolutional codes and equalization for frequency-selective channels, involve either finding the most likely input sequence given noisy observations of the output sequence (hard-output decoding), or determining a posteriori probabilty of individual information bits (soft-output decoding). For decoding of convolutional codes, two novel supercode heuristics are proposed to guide the search procedure, reducing the average number of visited incorrect nodes.
     • keywords: bits; codes; convolutional; decoding; output; search; soft
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770. 4b29b56619j
     • author: Walfre Franco
     • title: Hydrodynamics and Control in Thermal-Fluid Networks
     • date: 2003
     • words: 347
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: In addition the control properties of the network hydrodynamics are investigated using valves and pumps as control elements to manipulate branch flow rates and nodal pressures. The change in operating conditions and the output reachabilities of the control system are used as criteria to compare the relative merits of different configurations.
     • keywords: control; flow; hardware; hydraulic; load; networks; pumps; theoretical; thermal
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771. 4b29b56620r
     • author: Carrie S Miller
     • title: Carbon-Deuterium Vibrational Probes of Gas- and Condensed-Phase Amino Acid Structure and Protonation State
     • date: 2010
     • words: 584
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Vibrational spectroscopy of proteins labeled with site-specific carbon-deuterium (CD) bonds is emerging as a powerful experimental technique for investigating protein structure, dynamics, and function. The protonation state of titratable amino acid residues has profound effects on protein stability and function.
     • keywords: acid; alpha; cmì¢è; frequencies; protein; protonation; spectrum; state; stretch; vibrational
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772. 4b29b566213
     • author: John Charles Goetz
     • title: Analysis and Optimization of Multi-Layered Cellular Systems for Pulse Loading
     • date: 2013
     • words: 345
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: These results indicate a significant leap in the understanding of multi-layer cellular materials subject to pulse loads. Two methods and models are presented to solve the nonlinear wave equation with shock formation using mass, momentum, and energy conservation in multi-layer one-dimensional rods made of cellular material.
     • keywords: cellular; layer; material; model; shock; stress; systems
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773. 4b29b56622f
     • author: Snehashish Bhattacharya
     • title: Non/Capital, Class, and Development: The Case of Informal Manufacturing in India
     • date: 2010
     • words: 334
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: I develop a framework to account for processes of production, appropriation, and distribution of surplus labor in informal enterprises, and apply this framework to analyze the disaggregated, unit-level data from National Sample Survey (62nd round, 2005-06). Thus, the capitalist and noncapitalist spaces within informal manufacturing sector can be clearly delineated in terms of their capacity for realization and accumulation of surplus.
     • keywords: enterprises; informal; noncapitalist; processes; sector; surplus
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774. 4b29b566244
     • author: Cristina Ricardo Carter
     • title: Host-Pathogen Interactions: Evaluating the Role of Complement Receptor 3 in Immune Bias and Macrophage Cell Signaling Modulation During Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
     • date: 2008
     • words: 465
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: These two extremes in response to infection have been best characterized in mouse models and lead to the control and elimination of pathology in case of Th1 and in uncontrolled infection and tissue damage in the case of Th2. Chapter 5 draws on our research and the extensive body of literature that dissects Leishmania-host immune interactions to attempt to build a framework wherein we can begin to unravel the often contradictory mechanisms involved in Leishmania infection.
     • keywords: cell; chapter; cr3; host; infection; leishmania; parasite; people; research; th1
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775. 4b29b56625g
     • author: Catherine A. Borck
     • title: Becoming Friends in Speech and Deed: Socratic Friendship in the Platonic Dialogues
     • date: 2010
     • words: 235
     • flesch: 32
     • 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.
     • keywords: friendship; philia; philosophical; political; socratic
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776. 4b29b566275
     • author: Iogann Tolbatov
     • title: Electronic Structure Studies of Electron- and X-Ray-Irradiated Molecules
     • date: 2015
     • words: 314
     • flesch: 13
     • summary: The observed ionic species resulting from the electron irradiation, their chemical structures and binding energies are computed and analyzed with an emphasis on the heterogeneous structure formation, particularly on molecules containing CN bonds important in understanding the synthesis and nature of organic species' formation in Titan's atmosphere. The process of monocarbon ionic cluster formation under low-energy electron irradiation in cold helium nanodroplets doped with nitrogen/methane mixtures is studied computationally.
     • keywords: density; electron; energies; experimental; formation; irradiation; methods; structure
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777. 4b29b56740n
     • author: Claire D. Scott-Bacon
     • title: An Exploration of Item Level Responses on Popular Psychopathy Measures Using Exploratory Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory Methods
     • date: 2020
     • words: 284
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: The current study examined possible sex differences in measurement in three popular self-report psychopathy measures—the Short Dark Triad 3 Psychopathy (SD3: psychopathy), the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP), and the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM)—in a non-incarcerated community sample in a with high levels of psychopathology, and a undergraduate student sample with low levels of psychopathology. Using exploratory factor analyses (EFA), graded response modeling (GRM), and differential item function (DIF) methods based on item response theory, the study searched for statistical and visual evidence of sex differences in structure, category responses, item, test, and differential item functioning.
     • keywords: differences; evidence; item; levels; measures; psychopathy; sex
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778. 4b29b567441
     • author: Beth A. Facchine
     • title: Proteolytic Cleavage of ZNF217 Generates Small Proteins That Promote Breast Cancer Tumors and Metastasis to the Lung
     • date: 2021
     • words: 225
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: To investigate the function of smaller ZNF217 proteins, I overexpressed ZNF217 truncation mutants in human breast cancer cells. I discovered that breast tumors and cell lines express both full length and smaller ZNF217 proteins generated by a protease-dependent mechanism.
     • keywords: breast; proteins; smaller; tumors; znf217
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779. 4f16c24991v
     • author: Brendan Joseph McGann
     • title: Simultaneous Species Concentration and Temperature Measurements Using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy with Direct Spectrum Matching
     • date: 2015
     • words: 229
     • flesch: 35
     • 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.
     • keywords: concentration; high; laser; libs; measurements; temperature
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780. 4f16c24993j
     • author: Vaidyanathan Subramanian
     • title: Photoelectorochemical and Photocatalytic Aspects of Semiconductor-Metal Nanocomposites
     • date: 2004
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 24
     • 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.
     • keywords: composite; fermi; level; metal; properties; semiconductor; tio2
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781. 4f16c24994w
     • author: Ailbhe Darcy
     • title: Lyric Strategies for the Secular Republic: Poetry and Religion in the New Ireland
     • date: 2015
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Their poems challenge the narrative in which Catholic Ireland is simply dead and gone, inviting us to think deeply about the legacy of organized religion in Ireland, and about the possibility, or otherwise, of moving imaginatively beyond that legacy into some different future. The work of these poets suggests that if we move on from Catholic Ireland too blithely, we risk losing something, too.
     • keywords: catholic; ireland; legacy; lyric; molloy; religious; strategies
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782. 4f16c249988
     • author: Chaunce R. Windle
     • title: Husbands' Gender Role Conflict and Withdrawal During Marital Interaction
     • date: 2010
     • words: 124
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Two aspects of gender role conflict -- restricted emotionality and restricted affectionate behavior between men -- were associated with husbands' withdrawal. Husbands' withdrawal also moderated the association between gender role conflict and wives' marital adjustment.
     • keywords: adjustment; husbands
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783. 4f16c249b46
     • author: Richard Paul Noffke
     • title: An Experimental Study of the Wake Behind a Ten-Bladed Propeller With and Without Ingested Turbulence
     • date: 2003
     • words: 182
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: A wake half width was calculated from the mean streamwise velocity component and the Karhunen-Lo$grave{e}$ve decomposition was used to separate blade wakes and turbulent velocity fluctuations with promising results. Plots of the mean and RMS velocities for each of the three directional components at all downstream locations have been created for comparison with computational results.
     • keywords: blade; downstream; present; propeller; wake
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784. 4f16c249b77
     • author: Sajid Kabeer
     • title: Indium-Gallium-Arsenide and Germanium Tunnel Junctions
     • date: 2009
     • words: 249
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: High current density tunnel junctions are demonstrated as evidenced by forward bias peak current densities in the range 0.06 to 0.94 mA/Ì_å_m2, the latter comparable to the best reported results for In0.53Ga0.47As junctions. In the rapid melt regrown junctions, negative differential resistance characteristic was obtained with peak current density of up to 0.27 mA/Ì_å_m2 and peak to valley ratios of 1.1 1.23.
     • keywords: current; junctions; tunnel; type
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785. 4f16c249b9x
     • author: Sean Patrick Walsh
     • title: Modern Moral Theory and the Indeterminacy Objection to Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
     • date: 2008
     • words: 197
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: Many such philosophers believe that modern moral theories, such as Kantian and consequentialist theories, can meet this determinacy criterion while Aristotelian moral theory cannot. This charge of indeterminacy has become a standard objection to Aristotelian moral theory.
     • keywords: moral; philosophers; theory
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786. 4f16c249c04
     • author: Dallin G. Lewis
     • title: The Plantation Aesthetic: Political Economy and Literary Form in the British Atlantic World
     • date: 1904
     • words: 347
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The plantation's particular combination of slave labor, intensive agriculture, and financial capital transformed Britain's imperial project and upended ideals Britons held about their nation. Beginning in the early seventeenth century with the tobacco farms of Virginia and the sugar estates of Barbados, the plantation complex quickly emerged as the primary engine of Britain's colonial economy in the Western hemisphere and transformed the social, political, and economic spheres of the West Indies and southern American colonies.
     • keywords: british; century; colonies; complex; eighteenth; literary; plantation; system; writers
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787. 4f16c25007w
     • author: Justin J. Buol
     • title: Bishop Martyrs: Authority and Suffering in the Second Century CE
     • date: 1904
     • words: 347
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: Although studies of early Christian martyrs have blossomed in recent decades, surprisingly there exists no comprehensive study of bishop martyrs, despite the large number of martyrs who occupied positions of leadership within the church. These effective deaths include, among others, the Roman devotio ritual, the Greek φαρμακός ritual and myth, the Jewish martyrs of 2 and 4 Maccabees, Jesus's death, and Paul's suffering and anticipated death.
     • keywords: authority; bishop; deaths; dissertation; martyrs; memorializations
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788. 4f16c250c79
     • author: Ashley Nicole Edewaard
     • title: Food as Medicine of Body and Soul: Clement of Alexandria's Dietary Prescriptions in the Paedagogus
     • date: 2020
     • words: 342
     • flesch: 39
     • 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.
     • keywords: attention; body; clement; diet; philosophical; soul
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789. 4f16c250d5x
     • author: Brian Pulverenti
     • title: Posthumanism in Odysseus' Apologoi
     • date: 2021
     • words: 65
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: By acknowledging these ambiguities, I suggest that the poem repeatedly presents similarities between Odysseus and those he encounters rather than stark dichotomies. I argue that, in contrast to the rigid hierarchy suggested by colonial readings of the narrative, the animal/man dichotomy is presented as imprecise and blurred.
     • keywords: book
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790. 4f16c250f0h
     • author: Shuang Zhang
     • title: Deep Image Deblurring Networks Aided by Auxiliary Information
     • date: 2021
     • words: 670
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: Recent progress in deep learning has inspired a variety of image deblurring networks. This work explores the possibility of using auxiliary information in image deblurring networks to improve deblurring performance.
     • keywords: auxiliary; blurry; camera; data; deblurring; exposure; image; information; network; time
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791. 4f16c250f3j
     • author: Ying Wu
     • title: Engineering Bioactive Materials for Pollutant Removal and Microbial Control in Water Reclamation
     • date: 2021
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 14
     • summary: The result of our study demonstrated the effectiveness and potential of engineered cell systems in advancing water treatment towards environmental sustainability. Coupled with the drive to minimize the energy and environmental footprints of cities, there is an urgent need to develop efficient and environmental benign technology for decentralized water treatment and reclamation.
     • keywords: antimicrobial; biosensor; cell; environmental; health; pathogens; surface; treatment; wastewater; water
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792. 4f16c250f9m
     • author: Bhavana Palakurthi
     • title: Maximizing the Anti-Tumor Potential of Immune Checkpoint Blockade through Modulation of Myeloid-Specific CXCL16 and STAT1 Signaling
     • date: 2022
     • words: 165
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Our study leveraged single-cell analyses to dissect the dynamics of breast cancer TIME and provides a pre-clinical rationale to translate the anti-STAT1 plus anti-PD-1 combinatorial immunotherapy regimen to maximize ICB's efficacy. Inhibiting STAT1 signaling in MCT-primed breast cancer relieved T cell exhaustion and significantly enhanced the efficacy of anti-PD-1 ICB treatment.
     • keywords: cell; chemotherapy; efficacy; icb
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793. 4f16c250h35
     • author: Brynne Volpe
     • title: We're just like everybody else, only more so: On Queering Myth and Returning to the Present
     • date: 2023
     • words: 220
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: This thesis places Andrea Lawlor's novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl in conversation with Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony to explore how the fairytales of Paul offer new, queered refashionings of familiar fairytales that exemplify refusal's relationship to the present. Using Matthew Spellberg's understanding of the function of myth, Maria Tatar's approach to fairytales, and Heather Love and Mari Ruti's conceptions of queer refusal as frameworks, this thesis examines the ways in which the repetition of mythic stories primes readers for each novel's culminating moments of refusal and rejection.
     • keywords: fairytales; novel; paul; present; refusal
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794. 4j03cz32k3x
     • author: Michael Patrick Whitehouse
     • title: Manus Impositio: The Initiatory Rite of Handlaying in the Churches of Early Western Christianity
     • date: 2008
     • words: 330
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: By assessing the evidence from a critical historical perspective and with the aid of the principles of comparative liturgy, the picture of early Christian initiatory practice appears less clear than prior assumptions have stated it to be, yet does undoubtedly demonstrate the great deal of diversity present among early Christian communities in their ecclesial structures, theologies, and liturgical practices. Following a critical analysis of the New Testament accounts of initiatory handlaying, the evidence of this rite in patristic writings and liturgical sources is evaluated chronologically and regionally, thus providing a clear and straightforward means to speak of the commonalities and differences concerning this initiatory practice over time and from one place to another.
     • keywords: early; evidence; handlaying; initiatory; liturgical; practice; rite
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795. 4j03cz32k6z
     • author: Samuel Isaac Thomas
     • title: The 'Mysteries' of the Qumran Community: The RAZ-Concept in Second Temple Judaism and in the Dead Sea Scrolls
     • date: 2008
     • words: 226
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: It characterizes the raz-concept as one that arises out of Israel's prophetic and sapiential traditions, is an important feature of Jewish apocalyptic literature of the mid-late Second Temple period and becomes a central theological and cosmological reference point for the Yahad associated with the manuscript discoveries of Khirbet Qumran. As seen in compositions such as the Community Rule, Pesher Habakkuk, the Hodayot, the War Rule, the Mysteries texts, the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and related works, the content of such knowledge included aspects of both the cosmological structure of the created order and the unfolding of historical (eschatological) time, and such knowledge was evidently guarded by the Yahad as necessary for guiding its communal rationale, structure and praxis.
     • keywords: concept; knowledge; literature; qumran; raz
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796. 4j03cz32k79
     • author: Steven Mark Schroeder
     • title: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954
     • date: 2010
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: During the decade between the collapse of the Nazi Empire and the end of Allied occupation of West Germany, a wide variety of individuals and groups in all four occupation zones began processes of reconciliation between Germans and their wartime enemies and victims. Rather than addressing exclusively the statist concerns that drove Allied policies, NGOs prioritized attempts at reconciliation between individuals and communities, provided a crucial link between Germans and the outside world, and fostered dialogue in ways that governments and military personnel did not.
     • keywords: allied; germany; nazi; occupation; reconciliation; republic; victims
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797. 4j03cz32k8n
     • author: Chun-Ting Lee
     • title: An empirical evaluation of three procedures of confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data
     • date: 2013
     • words: 399
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: To examine the performances of different approaches under misspecified CFA models, different levels of model error are introduced into population covariance matrices. The levels of model error are controlled to have RMSEA index with 0, .05, and .08, which falls in the range from perfect fit, close fit and fair fit.
     • keywords: approach; cfa; fit; manifest; model; normal; ordinal; theory; variables
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798. 4j03cz32m06
     • author: James C. Kriesel
     • title: Favole, Parabole, Istorie: The Genealogy of Boccaccio's Theory of Allegory
     • date: 2008
     • words: 366
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Boccaccio either composed allegorical fictions such as the Ameto, Amorosa visione, or Buccolicum carmen, or he theorized allegory's role in literature's semiotics, for example in his Trattatello on Dante and in the Genealogie deorum gentilium. Traditionally, scholars have considered Boccaccio to be the first Italian realist author, who criticized simplistic notions of God, theology, and medieval allegory.
     • keywords: allegorical; allegory; boccaccio; literary; literature; medieval; theory
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799. 4j03cz32m1j
     • author: David Richard Parker
     • title: The Social Effects of Ability-based School Integration
     • date: 2003
     • words: 212
     • flesch: 7
     • summary: Contact Theory (Allport, 1954) was used as foundation to develop an Educational Experience Questionnaire (EEQ), which was designed to operationalize the tenets of Contact Theory based on the perceptions of nondisabled students who experienced intergroup contact with students who have disabilities in primary and secondary schools, as a predictor of attitudes toward persons who have disabilities. Correlational analyses found a strong relationship between the quality of intergroup contact in ability-integrated educational environments and long-term attitudes toward persons who have disabilities.
     • keywords: attitudes; contact; disabilities; eeq; persons
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800. 4j03cz32m2w
     • author: Brenda Daily
     • title: Nitrous Oxide Formation and Consumption by Denitrifying Bacteria in Wastewater Treatment
     • date: 2011
     • words: 243
     • flesch: 41
     • 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.
     • keywords: bacteria; biofilm; culture; formation; n2o
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801. 4j03cz32m37
     • author: Graham Edward Leach-Krouse
     • title: Conceptions of Absolute Provability
     • date: 2013
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: I propose an alternative &quot;top-down&quot; approach to absolute provability, on which we devise a proof concept satisfying certain essential properties of proof. In the philosophical portion of this dissertation, I develop an account of absolute provability as this notion was understood by G&ouml;del, Post, Tarski, and other twentieth century logicians.
     • keywords: absolute; chapter; conceptions; proof; provability
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802. 4j03cz32m4k
     • author: Alexey Vitalyevich Kozlov
     • title: Plasma Actuators for Bluff Body Flow Control
     • date: 2010
     • words: 545
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: In this study the results of flow control experiments utilizing single dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators to control flow separation and unsteady vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in cross-flow are reported. The minimization of the unsteady flow separation from the models and associated large-scale wake vorticity by using actuators reduces the radiated aerodynamic noise.
     • keywords: actuation; actuators; body; control; dielectric; flow; force; noise; plasma; study; unsteady
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803. 4j03cz32m68
     • author: Robert E. Brenneman
     • title: From Homie to Hermano: Conversion and Gang Exit in Central America
     • date: 2009
     • words: 339
     • flesch: 28
     • 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.
     • keywords: central; conversion; evangelical; gang; interviews; members; pentecostal; shame
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804. 4j03cz32m7m
     • author: Natalie Adriana Griffiths
     • title: Quantifying the impact of row-crop agriculture on carbon dynamics in Midwestern streams
     • date: 2010
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: My dissertation research quantifies organic carbon cycling in Midwestern agricultural streams, and examines the fate of Bt maize detritus in these systems. In addition, understanding the fate of transgenic maize detritus and associated Cry proteins in agricultural streams provides a necessary first step in investigating whether Bt maize may affect aquatic organisms and ecosystem processes.
     • keywords: agricultural; carbon; cry; detritus; maize; proteins; streams
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805. 4j03cz32n4w
     • author: Jun Chen
     • title: Energy Efficiency Analysis of Packet-Based MIMO Communications Systems over Space and Polarization Radio Channels
     • date: 1904
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: The analysis considers MIMO systems with space diversity, polarization diversity, and combined space-polarization diversities. Anticipating the need for energy-efficient, spectrally-efficient, and interference-tolerant MIMO systems, this dissertation analyzes the energy efficiency (EE) and SE of full-multiplexed MIMO systems and adaptive MIMO systems under diverse channel and interference conditions.
     • keywords: channel; efficient; energy; interference; mimo; polarization; space; systems
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806. 4j03cz32p9x
     • author: Dallas Jesse Rensel
     • title: Bimetallic Iron Molybdenum Phosphide Catalysts for Selective C-O Bond Cleavage of Lignocellulosic Biomass Model Compounds
     • date: 1904
     • words: 308
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: A natural material to help meet this growing need is lignin, a biomass waste-product containing an abundance of aromatic compounds. Converting lignin into useable aromatic hydrocarbons is difficult due to the high bond energy of the CAROMATIC-O bond in the polymer.
     • keywords: bond; caromatic; catalysts; femop; hydrocarbon; lignin; selective
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807. 4j03cz3395d
     • author: W. J. Stover
     • title: Making Pyrrhus: Contrasts and Consolidations in Epirote Identity
     • date: 1904
     • words: 20
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: A Thesis examining the ambiguity of Epirote cultural identity, and the use of ethnic identity for political purposes by Pyrrhus.
     • keywords: identity
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808. 4j03cz33n6v
     • author: Matias Sur
     • title: The Spiritualization of Human Beings: Leopardi's Tristano
     • date: 2020
     • words: 303
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: In Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico, the final dialogue of Giacomo Leopardi's second edition of the Operette morali (1834), the main character, Tristano, comments on how human beings in modernity value more the spirit over the body. Tristano's declaration formulates an important distinction found throughout Leopardi's works: human beings of antiquity were more concerned with the care of the physical body and human beings of modernity were more concerned with the care of the immaterial spirit.
     • keywords: beings; human; leopardi; modernity; spiritualization; tristano
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809. 4j03cz33p2s
     • author: Robert D. Devine
     • title: Prefabricated High-Strength Headed Steel Reinforcement with High-Strength Concrete for Accelerated Construction of Shear Walls in Nuclear Structures
     • date: 2020
     • words: 373
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: From an industry survey and full-scale laboratory evaluation, it was found that prefabricated rebar assemblies can reduce on-site construction times of nuclear walls by 70-80% and that the bars engaged in assembly movement are most susceptible to spacing changes exceeding construction tolerances. These experiments demonstrated that: 1) HSR and HSC perform best when combined, providing improved lateral strength and deformation capacity; 2) using HSR with HSC, a wall with significantly reduced provided reinforcement (less than half) can achieve similar peak lateral strength as a state-of-practice wall; 3) state-of-practice methods are effective for the design of reduced volumes of HSR as trim reinforcement around wall web penetrations; 4) squat rectangular walls with increased normalized base moment-to-shear ratio can be susceptible to flexure failure, contrary to current code commentaries; and 5) intersecting end walls can significantly increase the flexural stiffness and flexural strength of squat walls and should be more accurately incorporated in design.
     • keywords: concrete; design; hsc; hsr; lateral; nuclear; squat; strength; walls
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810. 4j03cz33p65
     • author: Suwen Lin
     • title: Personalizing Temporal Multi-Modal Sensory Data Mining
     • date: 2021
     • words: 353
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: These sensed multi-modal streams are often chronologically ordered (e.g. time series of heart rate measurements), which we refer to as temporal multi-modal sensory data in this thesis. However, temporal multi-modal sensory data poses its unique challenges.
     • keywords: data; mining; modal; multi; personal; research; sensory; temporal
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811. 4j03cz33p96
     • author: Matthew Rhodes
     • title: Investigating the Polyketide Metabolite GEX1A: A Splicing Inhibitor with Implications for Niemann-Pick Type C Disease
     • date: 2021
     • words: 294
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: This thesis will focus on the biological activity relevant to acute myeloid leukemia and Niemann-Pick type C. Chapter four focuses on the development of structural analogs of GEX1A to study the effects of the 'turn' conformation observed in GEX1A and its relation to observed biological activity. Accessory domains and post polyketide synthesis tailoring install many oxidative and stereochemically relevant elements necessary for biological activity.
     • keywords: activity; analogs; biological; conformational; gex1a; natural; polyketide
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812. 4j03cz33r9t
     • author: Ziwei Dai
     • title: Crosslinked Polymer Membranes with Model Network Structure for Gas Separation Applications
     • date: 2023
     • words: 443
     • flesch: 12
     • summary: Several important challenges exist for polymer gas separation membranes. Moreover, current crosslinking approaches are essentially random crosslinking, resulting in very complex crosslinked structures with extremely limited structure tunability that prevents fundamental structure-property relationship studies for crosslinked gas separation membranes.
     • keywords: crosslinking; gas; membranes; new; permeability; polymeric; selectivity; separation; structure; upper
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813. 4m90dv15v3z
     • author: Jung-Jae Lee
     • title: Supramolecular Enhancement of the Menshutkin Reaction
     • date: 2009
     • words: 290
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: In additon, the free energy of activation is selectively decreased for organohalides having smaller and more charge dense leaving groups. This dissertation describes an acceleration of the Menshutkin reaction, a distortion of halide leaving group order, and fluorescence sensing of chloroalkanes.
     • keywords: amine; chloride; group; haloalkanes; macrocyclic; order; reaction
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814. 4m90dv15v5n
     • author: Laurie Elizabeth Kellogg
     • title: Phosphorus and Nitrogen Dynamics Across an Ombrotrophic-Minerotrophic Peatland Gradient in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA
     • date: 2004
     • words: 350
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: In initial studies, available, microbial, and root P at 10-20 cm depth did not differ across the gradient, although total soil and aboveground vegetation P content increased from bog to rich fen. The P pool size in the vegetation and recalcitrant soil fractions increased from bog to rich fen.
     • keywords: fens; gradient; retention; rich; soil
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815. 4m90dv15v60
     • author: Rashi Talwar
     • title: Stellar Neutron Sources and s-Process in Massive Stars
     • date: 2015
     • words: 529
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: The Ex = 11167 keV had the most appreciable impact on the (&alpha,&gamma) rate increasing it by 2 orders of magnitude above Longland et al. and Bisterzo et al. rates and by a factor of 3 above NACRE rate. However, these resonances have remained elusive during direct alpha capture measurements owing to the high Coulomb barrier and background from cosmic rays and beam induced reactions.
     • keywords: alpha; capture; kev; neutron; process; rates; reaction; stars
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816. 4m90dv15w07
     • author: Xiaorong Xiang
     • title: Service-oriented architecture for integration of bioinformatic data and applications
     • date: 2008
     • words: 139
     • flesch: 30
     • 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.
     • keywords: services; soa; web
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817. 4m90dv15w69
     • author: John Karim Kamel Ibrahim
     • title: Chemical Vapor Deposition/Chemical Vapor Infiltration of Pyrocarbon in Porous Carbon
     • date: 2007
     • words: 237
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Moreover, such solution is beyond the capability of present computers for unsteady and multidimensional problems that include, multi-species, gas phase as well as surface chemical reactions, and surface to surface radiation. In addition we use a symmetric Strang operator-splitting algorithm to overcome stiffness that arises from chemical reactions.
     • keywords: algorithm; chemical; reaction; solution; step; surface
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818. 4m90dv15w9b
     • author: Robert Anthony Perera
     • title: Bias and Precision of Parameter Estimates in Structural Equation Modeling and Multiple Regression
     • date: 2009
     • words: 148
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: This decrease in bias does not come without cost as SEM suffers from decreased precision of parameter estimates as compared to multiple regression. This paper examines the bias, precision, accuracy, and confidence interval coverage of parameter estimates in SEM and multiple regression.
     • keywords: estimates; multiple; regression
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819. 4m90dv15x1w
     • author: Faisal R Baluch
     • title: Machiavelli on Liberty, Empire, and Necessity
     • date: 2013
     • words: 404
     • flesch: 56
     • summary: Machiavelli's recommendations do not only put liberty in danger at home. The author associated with such maxims as the ends justify the means and it is better to be feared than loved, has been turned in recent interpretations into a theorist of liberty and a populist.
     • keywords: conflict; liberty; machiavelli; people; reading
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820. 4m90dv15x27
     • author: Kai Xiao
     • title: GPU Based Acceleration Techniques: Algorithms, Implementations, and Applications
     • date: 1904
     • words: 320
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Finally, we propose a series of techniques to accelerate nearest neighbor search algorithm on GPU, including a GPU-cache efficient data structure (k-pack tree), a coherent parallel search algorithm, and a cost model based performance optimization method. Our techniques can be implemented in various parallel programming models, such as CUDA and OpenCL, and applicable on many modern GPU architectures, including NVIDIA Kepler/Maxwell, AMD GCN, and Intel Xeon Phi.
     • keywords: algorithm; applications; architectures; calculation; core; data; gpu; ray; search
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821. 4m90dv1624f
     • author: Victoria R. Zellmer
     • title: Tumor-Induced Mammary Niche Alterations Stimulate Upregulation of Stromal STAT1 and Promote Tumorigenesis
     • date: 1904
     • words: 243
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: Furthermore, depletion of STAT1 in CAFs significantly reduced periductal reactive fibrosis and delayed early breast cancer progression in vivo. The tumor microenvironment (TME) – the dynamic tissue space in which the tumor exists – plays a significant role in tumor initiation and is a key contributor in cancer progression; however, little is known about tumor-induced changes in the adjacent tissue stroma.
     • keywords: breast; cancer; progression; stat1; tags; tissue; tumor
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822. 4m90dv16r08
     • author: Melonie-Auburn Mulkey
     • title: Interiors
     • date: 2019
     • words: 91
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: The psychology of space is defined by light, color, and transitions in architecture, and through the genre of constructed photography and the use of the miniature, I aim to bring an emotional and reflective experience to the viewer. By analyzing the architectural, metaphorical, and psychological conditions of place as it relates to the human psyche, I construct detailed diorama sets illustrating fictional worlds that represent altered perceptions of inhabitable spaces.
     • keywords: interiors; spaces
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823. 4m90dv1702d
     • author: Hemanta Bhattarai
     • title: Polarizable Potentials for Metals and Metal Oxides: Structural, Elastic, and Thermal Transport Properties
     • date: 2021
     • words: 428
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Vibrational densities of states on both sides of the interface exhibit interesting frequency modulation close to the surface, but no obvious differences due to metal polarizability. DR-EAM also captures some of the behavior of metals in the presence of uniform electric fields, predicting surface charging and shielding internal to the metal.
     • keywords: atom; density; dynamics; eam; metal; simulations; surface; thermal; water
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824. 4m90dv17043
     • author: Maxwell Hong
     • title: The Psychometric Properties of Text
     • date: 2021
     • words: 226
     • flesch: 56
     • summary: LDA is topic model that can summarize a group of documents with a set of topics. With that in mind, the validity of scores from text needs to be evaluated in order to make sound scientific claims.
     • keywords: chapter; lda; model; scores; text
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825. 4m90dv1705f
     • author: John Arndt Hanson
     • title: Descartes on Representation, Presentation, and the Real Natures
     • date: 2021
     • words: 352
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: In the third chapter, I take up the objective sense, and the widespread interpretation of this sense of ideas as concerning current presentational or phenomenological content. In the first chapter, I take up the material sense, and argue against those interpretations which see it as a category for the contentless ontology of ideas.
     • keywords: descartes; idea; material; objective; sense
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826. 4m90dv1708g
     • author: Brendan Brown
     • title: Plasmon Dephasing and Heat Dissipation in Gold Nanostructures
     • date: 2022
     • words: 801
     • flesch: 54
     • 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.
     • keywords: beam; diffusion; effect; experiments; frequency; gold; heat; leaky; microscopy; mode; nanostripes; phi; pspp; pump
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827. 4m90dv17252
     • author: Thanh Binh Le
     • title: The Impact of Birth Plannedness on Educational Outcome: A Cultural Approach
     • date: 2023
     • words: 131
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: The thesis also unfolds the impacts of some Vietnam-customized patterns on educational achievements, such as geographical context and gender discrimination. This thesis uses the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey data to answer this question in the context of Vietnam.
     • keywords: birth; vietnam; wantedness
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828. 4q77fq9945g
     • author: Kaifeng Liu
     • title: Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Biphasic Viscoelastic Gels
     • date: 2010
     • words: 539
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: The moduli measured via indentation are one order lower than those from creep tests. Injection molded PVA hydrogels have shown good mechanical strength compared to traditional freeze/thaw processing.
     • keywords: creep; eval; hydrogels; increase; mechanical; polymer; pva; pvp; tests
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829. 4q77fq9948h
     • author: James Cooper
     • title: Combinatorial Screening of Fuel Cell Catalysts
     • date: 2007
     • words: 412
     • flesch: 50
     • 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.
     • keywords: compositions; methanol; oxygen
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830. 4q77fq9949v
     • author: Xia Lin
     • title: Expression of Insect (Dendroides Canadensis) Antifreeze Proteins In Drosophila Melanogaster and Arabidopsis Thaliana
     • date: 2010
     • words: 437
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: This difference between melting point and freezing point has been termed thermal hysteresis (TH). Southern blots demonstrated multiple insertions of transgenes in transgenic A. thaliana.
     • keywords: dafp-4; freezing; ice; line; point; thaliana; transgenic
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831. 4q77fq99502
     • author: Anthony Robert Strathman
     • title: Application of Statistical Mechanical Methods to the Modeling of Social Networks
     • date: 2013
     • words: 208
     • flesch: 41
     • 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.
     • keywords: model; network; scale; social; statistical
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832. 4q77fq9952r
     • author: Alexis Nicole Thompson
     • title: Event Boundaries, Inconsistency Detection, and Anaphoric Reference
     • date: 2014
     • words: 201
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: The results of four experiments revealed that narrative event boundaries did impede anaphor resolution, but not inconsistency detection, and reading interruption impeded both inconsistency resolution and anaphor resolution. In the current experiments, people were given sets of stories to read in which the presence of event boundaries was explicitly manipulated and inconsistent sentences or anaphors were separated by either an boundary or not.
     • keywords: event; information; narrative; resolution
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833. 4q77fq99533
     • author: Qun Ma
     • title: Novel Multiscale Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics
     • date: 2003
     • words: 240
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: In post-genomic computational biology and bioinformatics, long simulations of the dynamics of molecular systems, particularly biological molecules such as proteins and DNA, require advances in time stepping computational methods. The objective of this dissertation is to present original work in constructing multiscale multiple time stepping (MTS) algorithms for molecular dynamics (MD) that allow large time steps.
     • keywords: integrator; multiscale; simulations; time
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834. 4q77fq9954f
     • author: Daniel Lynwood Smith
     • title: The Rhetorical Function of Interrupted Speech in Luke-Acts
     • date: 2011
     • words: 282
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: This dissertation argues that Luke uses interruption rhetorically to underscore his twin theological emphases on the resurrection of the Christ and the mission to the Gentiles. This dissertation demonstrates that Luke uses interruption as a literary device both in Acts and in the Gospel according to Luke.
     • keywords: acts; dissertation; gentiles; interrupted; interruption; luke
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835. 4q77fq9955s
     • author: Jeffrey Michael Seymour
     • title: Moving Beyond Consistency In 'Pro-Life' Attitudes: Frames and Typologies of Varying Life Ethics
     • date: 2013
     • words: 341
     • flesch: 25
     • summary: Second, how do individuals structure attitudes related to life issues? I conduct latent class analysis, examining the structures of attitudes related to life issues from 1977 to 2012 with nationally representative survey data.
     • keywords: analysis; attitudes; discourse; garment; ideological; issues; life; seamless
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836. 4q77fq99564
     • author: Oleg Kim
     • title: The In-Flight Breakup of Drops Subjected to Electric and Ionic Fields of DC Corona Discharge
     • date: 2010
     • words: 318
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: The results of experiments on the break-up of electrically charged parent drops into progeny drops are described. The break-up of charged drops that is exploited in IFES also occurs (sometimes unwantedly) in conventional electrospraying, electrospinning, and electrospray mass spectrometry.
     • keywords: break; charge; drops; electric; parent; sized
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837. 4q77fq9958t
     • author: Christopher Paul Nicholson
     • title: A Complete Program Toward Polyketide Natural Products: Methodology, Synthesis, and Conformational Analysis
     • date: 2010
     • words: 379
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: The systems of particular interest to this research are polyketides synthase derived natural products and, in particular, the epothilones and peloruside A. Toward the design of novel methodologies, this project has focused on development of 1,3-diols and their related monoethers with high diastereoselectivity. The synthesis of natural product analogues has also been addressed in the course of this research.
     • keywords: analogues; conformation; high; methyl; natural; oxygen; products; research; synthesis
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838. 4q77fq99595
     • author: Katie Marie O'Sullivan
     • title: Petrogenesis of Planetary Basalts Using Crystal Stratigraphy
     • date: 2012
     • words: 281
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Using the crystal stratigraphy approach, the complete crystallization history from the onset of pyroxene crystallization to the final dregs of crystallization are determined for the Martian meteorite Shergotty. This study finds that Shergotty formed from 2 discrete batches of magma, both with pyroxene on the liquidus, which then mixed with continued pyroxene crystallization.
     • keywords: crystallization; liquids; lunar; pyroxene; stratigraphy
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839. 4q77fq9961q
     • author: Jeffrey Church
     • title: Divided Individualism: On the Political Individual in Hegel and Nietzsche
     • date: 2010
     • words: 317
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: After Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche argue that nature does not produce individuals, but rather individuals are human products. Since Socrates' trial and execution in Athens, reconciling the conflict between individual and community has remained a persistent and vital concern in politics.
     • keywords: conflict; hegel; individual; nietzsche; political
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840. 4q77fq9966f
     • author: Samuel C.R. Bruce
     • title: Effect of Floc Size on Selection of Phosphate-Accumulating Organisms (PAO) in Wastewater Treatment Systems Without a Strictly Anaerobic Zone
     • date: 1904
     • words: 154
     • flesch: 34
     • 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).
     • keywords: anaerobic; conditions; paos; selection
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841. 4q77fq9976r
     • author: Kathryn M. G. Boehlefeld
     • title: The Professions of Soldiers: A Critical Examination of the Assignment of Military Tasks Since World War II
     • date: 1904
     • words: 175
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: The literature on private security companies examines the role of civilians in military operations, while the literature on military professionalism examines the role of soldiers in military operations. In this dissertation, I bridge the gap between these two literatures by considering civilian and military professions on equal terms: I suggest civilian professionals compete with one another over military tasks to be recognized as expert authorities on these tasks.
     • keywords: civilians; military; operations; tasks
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842. 4q77fq9981b
     • author: Dimitris Apostolopoulos
     • title: Logos and Phenomenon: A Reappraisal of Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Language
     • date: 1904
     • words: 340
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: In addition to demonstrating that central concepts of Merleau-Ponty's work originate in and depend on research in the phenomenology of language, among them, the concept of 'form,' the account of the phenomenological cogito, key elements that make up the concept of 'the flesh,' and his unique understanding of philosophical ontology, the findings of this study also reveal that one of his lasting contributions is to have given us the first systematic understanding of phenomenology that gives as much primacy to language as it does to vision or intuition. Already in The Structure of Behavior (1938/1942), Merleau-Ponty struggles to define the role of language in phenomenology.
     • keywords: language; merleau; phenomenology; ponty; work
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843. 4q77fq99b5b
     • author: Hanyu Ma
     • title: Size-Effect of Metallic Nanoparticles in Environmental Heterogeneous Catalysis
     • date: 1904
     • words: 358
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: A variety of catalysts have been investigated to improve the reactivity of the reactions; however, little attention has been given to the possible influence of size-effect on catalyst design. In summary, size-effect is crucial for the design of environmental catalysts.
     • keywords: activation; catalysts; energy; hydrogen; nanoparticles; size
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844. 4q77fq99b6p
     • author: Himadri S. Dey
     • title: Experimental Study of Exchange-Coupled Nanomagnets
     • date: 1904
     • words: 340
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: Extending the nanomagnet logic (NML) concept, which is based on dipole coupling between neighboring nanomagnets, we attempt to use inter-layer exchange coupling as an additional coupling mechanism between two laterally adjacent nanomagnets. The joint effects of shape anisotropy, exchange, and dipole coupling between the multilayers have been explained by micromagnetic simulations, and transverse magnetization metrology (TMM) was used for the first time to study the switching behavior of such systems.
     • keywords: coupling; dipole; exchange; nanomagnets; simulations; spin; switching; system
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845. 4q77fq99v08
     • author: Ji Eun Kim
     • title: Good and Bad Apologies: Determinants of Successful State Apologies
     • date: 1904
     • words: 167
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: In order to close the gaps between theory and practice regarding the efficacy of state apology, I identify and test four causal factors that can affect victims' reception of state apologies. By assessing whether and how certain features of an apology affect its reception, this research aims to introduce cross-case empirical analyses and a new dataset on state apologies that could be shared and used for future research on apology and reconciliation.
     • keywords: apologies; apology; research; state
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846. 4q77fr0077n
     • author: Nayara Aguiar
     • title: Flexibility-Based Market Design and Analysis to Increase Renewable Integration in the Power Grid
     • date: 2021
     • words: 365
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: In this context, we propose the design of a new market structure which seeks to properly compensate flexible energy sources that can modify their production quickly to counterbalance renewable variability. Through the proposed market, renewable generators can hedge against their own production uncertainty by having contracts with flexible energy sources that can set aside some reserve to be used in case of renewable shortages.
     • keywords: electricity; energy; grid; market; power; renewable; sources
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847. 4q77fr00780
     • author: Kaitlin Fondren
     • title: Internal State Language in the Context of Maltreatment and Maternal Depression: Predictors and Pathways Related to the Development of Child Psychopathology
     • date: 2021
     • words: 214
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: There was not a significant association between maltreatment status and maternal ISL use, nor a significant indirect effect when considering child ISL use. Exploratory analyses suggested that mother and child use of cognition/perception ISL terms may be driving the effects between maternal depressive symptoms (and maltreatment) and ISL use.
     • keywords: child; isl; maternal; use
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848. 4q77fr0081w
     • author: Shubin Zhang
     • title: Laser Cooling of Semiconductor Nanomaterials
     • date: 2021
     • words: 204
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: The results in this thesis suggest that semiconductor nanostructures are promising cooling media for solid phase optical cooling. Two critical parameters for optical cooling (emission quantum yield and upconversion efficiency) are discussed in detail.
     • keywords: cooling; low; optical; phase; temperature
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849. 4q77fr0099z
     • author: Yini Zhu
     • title: Targeting the Cancer-Cell-Intrinsic Mechanisms to Reverse the Immunosuppressive Landscape and Enhance Immunotherapy in Prostate Cancer
     • date: 2022
     • words: 493
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Here, we (1) discovered chromatin effector Pygo2, as a driver of PCa and have a significant amplification in PCa patients, induced the de novo resistance to immunotherapy through suppressing cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) infiltration in the tumor area, and (2) uncovered Speckle-type POZ protein (SPOP) and chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 1(CHD1) which frequently mutated and deleted respectively in PCa synergistically protected prostate epithelial cells from DNA damage and implied that the PCa patients with SPOP mutation and CHD1 deletion might be susceptible to poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors(PARPi) or DNA-damaging agents and immunotherapy because of the potential higher neoantigen expression. Our results indicated that SPOP and CHD1 could synergistically promote the repair of DNA damage in prostate epithelial cells.
     • keywords: cancer; cells; chd1; dna; immunotherapy; knockout; pca; prostate; pygo2; resistance; spop; tme
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850. 4q77fr00b67
     • author: C. Bruce Mousseau
     • title: The Methodological Proteome: Developing Novel Methods for Bottom-Up Proteomics
     • date: 2023
     • words: 289
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: While the technology for mass spectrometry has been evolving, so too are the methods for preparing protein samples prior to MS analysis. In this thesis, I highlight how protein filters for bottom-up proteomics studies have greatly advanced the field and describe novel approaches and design new methods for protein preparation, isolation, long-term storage, and modify existing protocols to detect novel 'dark proteome' proteins.
     • keywords: filter; peptides; preparations; proteins; proteomics; sample
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851. 4q77fr00b8x
     • author: Alex C. J. Neroth van Vogelpoel
     • title: Known in the Baking of the Bread: The Preparation of the Eucharistic Gifts in the East Syriac Tradition
     • date: 2023
     • words: 349
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Lastly, the dissertation explores how liturgical commentators in the East Syriac tradition (ancient and modern) have interpreted the Rites of Preparation, as well as making a few points of mystagogical interpretation. This dissertation explores the structure, origins, and theological meaning of the rites of preparing the Eucharistic gifts of bread and wine in the East Syriac tradition.
     • keywords: dissertation; east; liturgical; rites; syriac; tradition
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852. 4t64gm82d51
     • author: Damiano Benvegnu
     • title: Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal: Suffering, Techne, Creation.
     • date: 2014
     • words: 293
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: In this dissertation, I investigate the mysterious presence of animal representations and references to animality in Levi's books in order to achieve a better comprehension of what aesthetic and ethical questions he left us. This dissertation concludes noticing how the animal representations displayed by Levi transform his whole oeuvre into a testimony about the possible limitrophy between human and non-human animals.
     • keywords: animal; auschwitz; ethical; human; levi; suffering
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853. 4t64gm82d7q
     • author: John Matthew Drake
     • title: Risk Analysis for Biological Invasions of the Laurentian Great Lakes and Inland Aquatic Ecosystems
     • date: 2004
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: My approach is to develop relevant aspects of theoretical population biology and quantitative biogeography for representative species, while focusing on features that can be generalized. I contribute to two areas of active research: population dynamics in (1) fluctuating environments and (2) open populations.
     • keywords: ballast; biological; introductions; invasions; model; population; species; water
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854. 4t64gm82d82
     • author: Alexander Joseph Reisinger
     • title: Assessing the role of the water column in nutrient dynamics of lotic ecosystems
     • date: 2015
     • words: 343
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: I found that water column nutrient uptake occurs across a variety of streams and rivers. Nutrient dynamics in streams are controlled by benthic (i.e., bottom) processes, whereas water column processes are ignored in all but the largest rivers.
     • keywords: column; dynamics; nutrient; rivers; streams; water
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855. 4t64gm82f29
     • author: Daniel W Shannon
     • title: Flow Field and Acoustic Measurements of a Blunt Trailing Edge
     • date: 2008
     • words: 156
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Beamforming methods were utilized in conjunction with a pair of 40 microphone arrays to isolate trailing edge noise from unwanted tunnel noise. The objective of the present research was to experimentally measure flow field and acoustic variables in order to develop an understanding of the mechanisms that generate trailing edge noise in incompressible, high Reynolds number flows.
     • keywords: edge; field; noise; pressure; velocity
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856. 4t64gm82f8c
     • author: Luling Yang
     • title: Shear Stiffness Modeling of Cemented Sand and Cemented Clay
     • date: 2008
     • words: 356
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: New shear stiffness models, Simsoil-CS for cemented sand and Simsoil-CC for cemented clay, based on the model Simsoil by Pestana and Salvati, 2006 are proposed to represent dynamic properties such as maximum shear modulus, modulus and damping variation with the shear strain of the cemented sand and cemented clay. This research advances the understanding of cemented sand and cemented clay by providing a database of test results, and creation of models which can be used to predict the response of cemented soils to dynamic loads.
     • keywords: cemented; clay; models; modulus; sand; shear; simsoil
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857. 4t64gm82g18
     • author: Andrew Vincent Rosato
     • title: Duns Scotus on the Redemptive Work of Christ
     • date: 2009
     • words: 249
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Unlike his Franciscan predecessors, Scotus claims that the hypostatic union does not necessarily confer grace on Christ's soul or augment its capacity for grace. In this study, I examine Scotus's account of Christ's redemptive work in light of his Christology and in light of thirteenth-century Franciscan theology.
     • keywords: anselm; christ; scotus; soteriology
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858. 4t64gm82g3z
     • author: Lance Roy Wescher
     • title: Tax Rates and Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Who Responds and How?
     • date: 2008
     • words: 364
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: In this paper I estimate the impact of the tax-preferred treatment of health insurance on the level of health insurance coverage. In addition to the responses to changes in tax rates, I find that the earnings distribution of workers within a firm is one of the strongest determinants of whether firms offer health insurance, the number of workers that decline coverage and the level of spending per participant.
     • keywords: coverage; firms; health; insurance; tax; workers
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859. 4t64gm82g49
     • author: Si Mou
     • title: Advances in Protein Phosphorylation Analysis by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis with Online Microreactor Coupled with Mass Spectrometry
     • date: 1904
     • words: 137
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: In the work, I demonstrate diagonal capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry for characterization of protein phosphorylation, the accurate determination of this stoichiometry and applied this technique in the study of kinase activities. By online dephosphorylation in the capillary, there is no bias in ionization efficiency, and phosphorylation stoichiometry can be determined by the ratio of the signal of the two forms.
     • keywords: capillary; measurement; phosphorylation; stoichiometry
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860. 4t64gm82h1k
     • author: Andrew C. Helms
     • title: Duns Scotus on Common Natures and Carving at the Joints of Reality
     • date: 1904
     • words: 336
     • flesch: 58
     • summary: Then, I will discuss the rule or criterion by which Scotus posits common natures to account for certain cases of univocal predication – as opposed to cases of univocal predication for which he doesn't posit common natures. Despite the puzzles of interpretation it engenders, John Duns Scotus's theory of common natures is widely cited as an example of scholastic realism.
     • keywords: common; natures; scotus; subject
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861. 4t64gm8348v
     • author: Robbin D. Forsyth
     • title: Mandala System: Design as a Response to the Struggles of Poverty
     • date: 2021
     • words: 360
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: Ultimately the research has revealed that a combination of technology as a trainer to build the structure needed for behavioral change, as well as community support, could be a highly effective combination for behavioral change. The growth of access to more and more powerful devices in addition to ever cheaper data connections have created a unique opportunity to engage people of all demographics through mobile technology efficiently.
     • keywords: focus; poverty; research; single; system; technology; user
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862. 4t64gm8354s
     • author: Andrey Kuehlkamp
     • title: Advancing Iris Recognition through Search Performance, Presentation Attack Detection and Soft Biometrics
     • date: 1904
     • words: 205
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: Recent works show that the ability to identify artifacts in cross-domain scenarios is still limited. Evaluation shows the new approach outperforms the current state of the art in cross-domain PAD.
     • keywords: domain; evaluation; iris; pad; results
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863. 4t64gm8392b
     • author: Kristina Krasich
     • title: The Effects of Mind Wandering on Gaze Control
     • date: 2019
     • words: 185
     • flesch: 29
     • 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.
     • keywords: gaze; scene; visual
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864. 4t64gm83b19
     • author: Ting Cho Lau
     • title: The Reasons Management Framework
     • date: 2019
     • words: 274
     • flesch: 44
     • 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.
     • keywords: dissertation; reasons; rmf; values
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865. 4t64gm83g68
     • author: Corey Dethier
     • title: Multiple Models, Robustness, and the Epistemology of Climate Science
     • date: 2020
     • words: 200
     • flesch: 53
     • 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.
     • keywords: agreement; climate; models
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866. 4t64gm83g99
     • author: Eve C. Wolynes
     • title: Migrant Mentalities: Reconstructing the Community, Identity and World of Venetian Merchants in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
     • date: 2020
     • words: 326
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Merchant manuals of comparing weights, measures, exchange rates and common goods sold between regions, organized geographically, and the crusade propaganda letters of Marino Sanudo Torsello. As a result of that participation, they adopted new relations to communication and information that in turn informed a wide variety of attitudes: they focused on the value of connections between regions and shifted their perspectives of the Mediterranean to look at the way different cities tied to one another; their use of merchant manuals to spread information also predicated spreading shared senses of space and imaginary geographies.
     • keywords: distance; information; long; merchants; networks; trade
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867. 4t64gm83h1v
     • author: Anna Gabur
     • title: We Know Your Pain. Cultural Dimensions of Pain and Suffering
     • date: 2020
     • words: 118
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: Sociologists have studied pain as an individual experience, mostly through the lens of medical sociology, leaving the social aspect understudied. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, I examine the ways in which people talk about the pain of others as well as their own, and I apply the grounded theory method to uncover the patterns that structure the ways in which culture informs our concepts of pain severity.
     • keywords: pain; ways
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868. 4t64gm83h57
     • author: Sarah E. Dietz
     • title: Constraining the Formation History of the Galactic Disk and Halo Systems through Kinematic Studies of Metal-Poor Stars
     • date: 2020
     • words: 206
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: In particular, I use metal-poor stars, and their close associates, carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, throughout my analyses as tracer populations (or stellar fossils) to map features of interest. The analyses presented in this work all fall under the umbrella term Galactic archaeology, the sub-field of astronomy dedicated to reconstructing the assembly and chemical-evolution history of the Galaxy.
     • keywords: disk; halo; history; metal; stellar
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869. 4t64gm83k04
     • author: Amirhosein Begmohammadi
     • title: Storm Surge Prediction Using Subgrid Model
     • date: 2022
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 48
     • summary: Two categories of storm surge models exist: (i) low resolution and (ii) high resolution, and these models are distinguished by run times and accuracy. This work highlights how subgrid corrections can improve the accuracy of storm surge models with minimum additional computational cost.
     • keywords: accuracy; corrections; low; models; resolution; storm; subgrid; surge
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870. 4t64gm83k35
     • author: Joseph N. Laski
     • title: Value Violations and Satisfactions in Intimate Relationships: The Value-Consistent Action Measure
     • date: 2022
     • words: 157
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: How closely Partner A's actions align with Partner B's values likely affects the emotions and relationship quality of Partner B, with greater alignment predicting better scores in both outcomes for Partner B. Behaviors that conflict with the interpreting partner's values are considered value violations, and behaviors aligned with the interpreting partner's values are considered value satisfactions. Results from this study demonstrated that fewer value violations and more value satisfactions are associated with better emotional experiences and relationship quality in the interpreting partner.
     • keywords: partner; quality; value
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871. 4x51hh65p7s
     • author: Daria E. Spezzano
     • title: The Grace of the Holy Spirit, the Virtue of Charity, and the Gift of Wisdom: Deification in Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae
     • date: 2011
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Thomas' theology of deification in the Summa theologiae demonstrates his mature vision of God's loving and sapiential ordering of predestined human persons to communion with himself, by a progressive participation in the divine likeness and activity, which accounts for both the primacy of divine causality in all its modes, and the fullness of graced human freedom. The deification of adopted sons reveals God's glory, by fully manifesting God's gracious plan to share the divine life with rational creatures.
     • keywords: deification; divine; god; grace; summa; thomas
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872. 4x51hh65q0p
     • author: Kristy Marie DiVittorio
     • title: Phospholipid Flip-Flop and Molecular Transport Across Biomembranes
     • date: 2008
     • words: 328
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: The first motivation for exploring these transport molecules was to better understand the minimal supramolecular requirements to achieve membrane transport. This research has lead to the development of compounds that can alter or sense the phospholipid asymmetry and composition of plasma membranes for use as biological sensors.
     • keywords: anions; classes; membrane; molecules; small; synthetic; transport
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873. 4x51hh65q11
     • author: Brendan Michael Dunn
     • title: The Original Functional Constitution: Democratic Means in the Service of Substantive Ends
     • date: 2009
     • words: 346
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: Moral constitutionalists understand the Constitution in light of its substantive ends, diminishing the importance of constitutional procedures. And contemporary originalists too often elevate constitutional procedures at the expense of the Constitution's moral principles.
     • keywords: constitution; contemporary; functional; original; procedures; substantive
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874. 4x51hh65q2c
     • author: David Michael Morse
     • title: A Search for New Physics in Events with Two Photons and Missing Transverse Energy in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV
     • date: 2013
     • words: 192
     • flesch: 53
     • summary: The search makes use of an integrated luminosity &#8747;L=19.5/fb of data taken during the 2012 proton-proton collisions at center of mass energy sqrt(s)=8 TeV produced by the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. The search has been performed on events with two photons, jets, and missing transverse energy.
     • keywords: gauge; like; search; supersymmetry
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875. 4x51hh65q42
     • author: Manuel Euripides Ruiz Sandoval
     • title: 'Smart' Sensors for Civil Infrastructure Systems
     • date: 2005
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: Following a brief introduction to smart sensor technology, a literature review of the devices developed to date is presented. An agent-based paradigm is proposed that supports implementation of SHM/C algorithms on networks of smart sensors.
     • keywords: civil; infrastructure; research; sensor; shm; smart; systems
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876. 4x51hh65q5d
     • author: Laura Marie Grimes
     • title: Theology as Conversation: Gertrud of Helfta and Her Sisters as Readers of Augustine
     • date: 2005
     • words: 259
     • flesch: 44
     • 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.
     • keywords: augustine; book; chapter; gertrud; history
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877. 4x51hh65q6r
     • author: Pinaki Das
     • title: Vortex Lattice Studies in Novel Superconductors Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering
     • date: 2012
     • words: 474
     • flesch: 55
     • summary: The VL form factor shows strong Pauli paramagnetic effects similar to what have previously been reported for H // At low temperatures, our results show that competition between the parallel alignment of electron spins in the vortex cores and the antiparallel alignment demanded by d-wave pairing give rise to magnetized cores, which give the increase in form factor with H (Pauli paramagnetic effects).
     • keywords: anisotropy; factor; field; form; hexagonal; square; transition
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878. 4x51hh65q73
     • author: Andrea Kay Tamplin
     • title: Interference from Emotional Items Within and Across Events
     • date: 2013
     • words: 156
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: This research examines retroactive and proactive influences on memory for neutral information during language comprehension in the presence of emotional, distinctive and event boundary information. Findings suggest that an interaction between these two influences causes target information to be remembered better when emotional or distinctive information occurs without an event boundary (within the same event), but not when the emotional or distinctive information occurs across an event boundary, even though there is an overall benefit of the event boundary itself.
     • keywords: emotional; event; information
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879. 4x51hh65q8f
     • author: Brigid Eileen Brown
     • title: Metal-Binding Properties of Conus Parius Conantokin Variants and Their Inhibitory Effect on the NMDA Receptor
     • date: 2010
     • words: 156
     • flesch: 26
     • 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.
     • keywords: conantokins; conus; parius; structure
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880. 4x51hh65r00
     • author: Andrew Charles Blaich
     • title: Enhancing End-Hosts to Improve Computer Security and Wireless Performance for Networked Environments
     • date: 2010
     • words: 492
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: This paucity of wireless devices made it acceptable for these devices to locally optimize their own performance without consideration for the performance of other devices around them. However, as the number of wireless devices increases, the decisions made by one device can have a detrimental effect on the performance of other devices.
     • keywords: context; devices; network; number; order; performance; security; wireless
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881. 4x51hh65r1b
     • author: Nachiket Kamatkar
     • title: Rhamnolipid Independent Swarming of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
     • date: 2012
     • words: 156
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: This is unexpected, as no previous rhamnolipid-deficient swarming has been documented for P. aerguinosa. Secondly, it was found that a rhamnolipid-deficient P. aeruginosa strain swarmed upon the addition of the carbon source glutamate.
     • keywords: glutamate; rhamnolipid; surface; swarming
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882. 4x51hh65r31
     • author: David Wayne Williams
     • title: Determination of Phosphorylation and Kinetics of Nucleosides and Nucleoside Analogs in Isolated Mitochondria from the Rat Brain
     • date: 2010
     • words: 343
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Deoxyuridine is phosphorylated to the monophosphate form in brain mitochondria which has also been shown in heart mitochondria, but not in perfused heart. The goal of the project presented here is to expand these studies to brain mitochondria, a tissue relatively resistant to NRTI toxicity.
     • keywords: brain; heart; mitochondria; nrtis; phosphorylation; pmol
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883. 4x51hh65r8r
     • author: Andrew D. Hoyt
     • title: Linking Context and College: High School Hyper-Segregation, Social Capital, and Latino Postsecondary Transitions
     • date: 1904
     • words: 133
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Upon high school graduation, Latinos disproportionately attend two-year colleges and lag behind other groups in college completion. This study analyzes how hyper-segregation in high school influences college transitions for Latinos and how these contexts may occlude or dilute access to social capital, especially college-linking resources and normative, college-going behaviors and attitudes.
     • keywords: college; high; latinos
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884. 4x51hh65t3n
     • author: Andrew Schmudlach
     • title: Bottom-Up Proteomic Analysis of the Secretome of Murine Islets of Langerhans
     • date: 1904
     • words: 125
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Dysregulation or damage of islets can cause diabetes, a metabolic disease characterized by persistent high blood glucose levels. Islets of Langerhans are critical for the homeostasis of blood glucose levels.
     • keywords: blood; glucose; islets
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885. 4x51hh66233
     • author: Paige Ambord
     • title: Legislation as Anti-Hero: Determinants of Community Antidiscrimination Opposition
     • date: 1904
     • words: 142
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: The recent spate of antidiscrimination ordinances, also known as bathroom bills, represents a new facet of American anti-LGBT policy. Using a unique data set, this paper finds support for the association between a neighborhood's normative traditional family structure or conservative religious environment and opposition to HERO, while finding that the presence of LGBT-friendly businesses and organizations is associated with support for antidiscrimination ordinances.
     • keywords: antidiscrimination; lgbt; paper
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886. 4x51hh66t0w
     • author: Sasha Padilla-Coley
     • title: Supramolecular Enhancement of Cell Permeation and Intracellular Targeting
     • date: 2021
     • words: 301
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: While the framework for cytosolic delivery has been well established, there is a need to develop new ways to enhance cell permeation and intracellular targeting of drugs and imaging agents. This thesis investigates different supramolecular methods to deliver fluorescent payloads into the cell including the use of nanoparticle delivery systems and small molecule imaging agents.
     • keywords: cell; chapter; delivery; fluorescent; imaging; new; probes; supramolecular
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887. 4x51hh66t3x
     • author: Anna Fett
     • title: Peace Education for the World: People-to-People Programs, American Youth, and U.S. Power, 1939-1961
     • date: 2021
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Policymakers found that people-to-people exchanges did not automatically influence foreign audiences to want to follow the, purported, American way of 'democratic living' or to accept U.S. foreign policy objectives. This dissertation surveys how American social scientists, especially social psychologists, produced knowledge about the nature of 'child development' as well as 'intergroup contact' from the interwar period through the early Cold War years.
     • keywords: dissertation; education; peace; people; programs; u.s; world
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888. 4x51hh66v1j
     • author: Mary Chang Leverett
     • title: Effects of Hormonal and Social Factors Impacting Mating Behavior in Anurans: Lab, Field, and Computational Modeling Approaches
     • date: 2022
     • words: 409
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: I then used the design and findings from this to create another model, in which male position decisions and interactions, particularly competition and aggression, were primarily driven by pulse number. I also administered leptin to calling gray tree frogs, Hyla versicolor, in the field, and observed a significant effect on call effort.
     • keywords: behavior; clusters; goal; interactions; leptin; male; number; social
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889. 4x51hh66v5x
     • author: Benjamin Sehnert
     • title: The Common Life: Lebenswelt and Individual in the Political Thought of Arendt and Heidegger
     • date: 2022
     • words: 195
     • flesch: 9
     • summary: I therefore argue that the work of these two authors can be best understood when seen in the light of philosophical movements such as Lebensphilosophie, phenomenology, and German Existenzphilosophie as well as alongside authors such as Wilhelm Dilthey, George Simmel, Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and Karl Jaspers. Through this historical-contextual approach, one can see the systematicity of both Arendt and Heidegger's political thought with greater clarity: both see politics as the practice of properly integrating an authentic individual into a common world of shared social meanings (defined similarly by both).Moreover, once the internal logic of their argument is clarified, I propose that the difference in Heideggerian and Arendtian political thought is primarily due to their different understandings of what constitutes an individual's 'selfhood' or 'personhood'.
     • keywords: arendt; heidegger; individual; political
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890. 4x51hh66w88
     • author: Hui Xu
     • title: CO2 Capture and Conversion Based on Polymeric Membranes
     • date: 2023
     • words: 316
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: By integrating CO2 capture and conversion into a single system, the energy consumption and costs associated with CO2 transport and storage can be reduced. To integrate CO2 capture and conversion using a membrane-based system, our first step was to investigate the transport intermediates and kinetics of CO2 in a typical facilitated transport membrane (PVAm membrane) using an operando surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) platform and mathematical model.
     • keywords: capture; co2; conversion; energy; membrane; system; transport
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891. 5138jd48z75
     • author: Katherine Butler
     • title: Clock Line Fabrication and Analysis for Nanomagnet Logic
     • date: 2014
     • words: 158
     • flesch: 50
     • 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.
     • keywords: clock; lines; nml; process
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892. 5138jd48z9v
     • author: Brian Douglas Han Gregg
     • title: The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q
     • date: 2005
     • words: 242
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: The next section, an analysis of the characteristics of the final judgment in late second temple Judaism, will seek to establish the cultural and conceptual contexts of Q's final judgment sayings. THE HISTORICAL JESUS AND THE FINAL JUDGMENT SAYINGS IN Q Abstract By Brian Han Gregg This dissertation explores the twelve final judgment sayings found in Q in light of the historical Jesus.
     • keywords: final; historical; jesus; judgment
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893. 5138jd4900b
     • author: John Holmes
     • title: The Cauchy Problem for Several Nonlinear Evolution Equations
     • date: 2015
     • words: 564
     • flesch: 50
     • 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.
     • keywords: diffusion; equation; heat; nonlinear; solutions; techniques; thesis; type
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894. 5138jd4910n
     • author: Jared Edgar Peterson
     • title: Ionic Liquid / CO2 Co-Fluid Refrigeration: CO2 Solubility Modeling and Life Cycle Analysis
     • date: 2013
     • words: 226
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: From these synthesis routes, and from an estimation of the refrigeration systems theoretical efficiencies, environmental impacts can be determined and analyzed. In this work properties of various ionic liquids are modeled using the SAFT equation of state.
     • keywords: co2; environmental; ionic; liquid; refrigeration
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895. 5138jd4913p
     • author: Xiaosong Hu
     • title: Structural Studies of Oligosaccharides Using NMR Methods and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
     • date: 2009
     • words: 385
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: In relevant cases, comparisons were made to analogous coupling pathways found in proteins to evaluate the effects of peptide vs saccharide pathway structure on coupling magnitude. Eight new Karplus relationships have been determined for use in conformational studies of saccharide N-acetyl side-chains in solution by NMR spectroscopy.
     • keywords: cis; couplings; deoxy-2; disaccharides; linkage; methyl; trans
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896. 5138jd4915c
     • author: Robert Dean Van Horn
     • title: The Origins and Rise of Chicago Law and Economics
     • date: 2008
     • words: 328
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: Chapter four focuses on the development of Chicago law and economics in the field of antitrust law in the 1960s and 1970s. This thesis will explore the institutional and intellectual origins of Chicago law and economics and examine how these factors played a crucial role in the rise of Chicago law and economics.
     • keywords: antitrust; chapter; chicago; economics; law
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897. 5138jd4916q
     • author: Ioannis Gidaris
     • title: Risk Assessment and Optimal Design of Seismic Protective Systems Through Surrogate and Reduced Order Modeling
     • date: 1904
     • words: 384
     • flesch: -4
     • summary: In the last decade probabilistic seismic risk assessment, performance based earthquake engineering and reliability or life-cycle cost based optimal design have emerged as powerful tools to guide risk-informed decisions, especially for advanced protective systems whose cost/benefit needs to be explicitly considered for widespread adoption. This goal is achieved through numerous advances: by (i) providing a framework for the calibration/selection of parsimonious hysteretic structural models; by (ii) developing an efficient stochastic search technique within the context of a simulation-based seismic risk assessment framework to support life-cycle cost based optimal design of seismic protective devices under different design scenarios; by (iii) formulating a kriging surrogate modeling framework for seismic risk assessment when the earthquake hazard is described through stochastic ground motion models; by (iv) leveraging the remarkable computational efficiency of the latter framework to formulate a versatile approach for the multi-criteria design of seismic protective systems, adopting risk quantifications that can facilitate enhanced decision support for the various stakeholders.
     • keywords: cost; design; framework; models; protective; risk; seismic; simulation; systems
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898. 5138jd4958n
     • author: Gabrielle M. Pawlowski
     • title: Development of a Reactor for the Testing of Diesel Particulate Filters
     • date: 1904
     • words: 296
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: The use of diesel particulate filters (DPFs) has become a standard in diesel systems, since they can eliminate up to 99% of soot from diesel exhaust. To address the environmental and health dangers of soot, emissions standards for diesel engines have been implemented, and are becoming more stringent, worldwide.
     • keywords: catalyst; diesel; engines; environment; glass; soot
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899. 5138jd49p3k
     • author: Jill Wharton
     • title: Dislocated Modernities: The Paradox of the Plantation in Twentieth-Century Irish and American Fiction
     • date: 1904
     • words: 271
     • flesch: 22
     • 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.
     • keywords: big; fiction; irish; literary; literature; plantation; terms
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900. 5138jd49w3f
     • author: Xi Tan
     • title: Fundamental Studies on Ion-Enhanced Field Emission-Driven Microdischarges for Tuning Engineering Systems
     • date: 2019
     • words: 447
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: The work first investigates the resonant tunneling behavior in ion-enhanced field emission by solving the one-dimensional time-independent Schrödinger's equation in the presence of an ion, and evaluates the enhancement in field emission due to resonant processes. Further, when the energy level for resonant emission coincides with the Fermi level of a metallic cathode, the current density is particularly enhanced.
     • keywords: cathode; eed; emission; field; microplasmas; microscale; non; resonant; work
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901. 5138jd5037f
     • author: Olivia Cracchiolo
     • title: Structure and Dynamics of Biophysical Systems via 2DIR of the Amide-I
     • date: 2021
     • words: 289
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: In addition to playing a vital role in biology, it has been shown that ions are able to modulate the stability of proteins. The Hofmeister series was discovered in 1880 to classify ions based on the strength of their interactions with proteins.
     • keywords: amyloid; binding; calcium; cross; fibrils; ions; proteins
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902. 5138jd50452
     • author: Paul David Wheatley
     • title: Mark the Mystagogue: Ritual Narrative, Identity Formation, and Baptism in the Gospel According to Mark
     • date: 2022
     • words: 398
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Jesus's figurative reference to baptism in Mark 10:38–39 provides impetus for comparing the baptism of Jesus in Mark 1:9–11 with other baptism-like events in the Gospel, including sea crossings (Mark 4:35–41; 6:45–52; 8:13–21) and healings of sense perception (Mark 8:22–26; 9:14–29; 10:46–52), akin to Jesus's illuminating reception of the Spirit (1:10). This discourse presents who Jesus is and Jesus's call to discipleship in analogy to the baptismal ritual, shown in the Markan narrator's description of Jesus's baptism (Mark 1:9–11), figurative reference to baptism (Mark 10:38–39), as well as figural representations of baptism in the narrative structure of the Gospel.
     • keywords: 1:9–11; baptism; gospel; jesus; mark; reference
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903. 5425k93282k
     • author: Lynne Yu-Ling Chien
     • title: The Making
     • date: 2010
     • words: 2
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: original poems.
     • keywords: original
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904. 5425k93283x
     • author: Chuan He
     • title: Plasma Slats and Flaps: An Application of Plasma Actuators for Hingeless Aerodynamic Control
     • date: 2010
     • words: 676
     • flesch: 51
     • summary: The results suggests that the application of plasma actuators on a swept UCAV planform can alter the flowfield of the leading-edge vortex in a manner that allows control without the use of hinged control surfaces. Currently a great deal of interest within the community is to utilize the emerging flow control technology to design revolutionary air vehicles without moving control surfaces while still maintaining controlled flight.
     • keywords: actuators; angles; attack; control; edge; flow; leading; plasma; separation; trailing; wing
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905. 5425k932848
     • author: Berardi Sensale Rodriguez
     • title: Novel Terahertz Devices Based on Tunable 2DEG Systems
     • date: 2013
     • words: 366
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Although in the infrared/visible range the optical absorption of graphene is only a few percent and scarcely controllable, its optical conductivity dramatically increases at THz leading to the possibility of electrical control of THz absorption. By employing graphene, an intrinsically 2D semiconductor as the active material, device design with unprecedented degrees of freedom, low-cost, and ease of fabrication is possible thus leading to a substantial improvement with respect to the existing art in terms of controllability of THz waves.
     • keywords: absorption; active; devices; electron; graphene; range; systems; thz; waves
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906. 5425k93285m
     • author: Jagadish Venkataraman
     • title: A Practical Design Methodology for an All-Digital Transmitter Architecture via Binary Sequence Search and a Look-Up Table Approach to Modulation
     • date: 2008
     • words: 529
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: This is because when the output clock speed approaches the intrinsic bandwidth of the DAC, even a 1-bit DAC which intrinsically avoids static nonlinearities exhibits dynamic nonlinearity that causes past output symbols to interact in a nonlinear fashion with the present symbol. When this all-digital transmitter structure is used in high-speed applications like Radar synthesizers, however, the output contains significant spurious signals that considerably degrade the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) at the DAC output.
     • keywords: binary; bit; dac; digital; dsp; dynamic; range; spurious; thesis; transmitter
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907. 5425k93286z
     • author: Nancy Elizabeth Johnson
     • title: Living Death: Baptism and the Christian Life in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa
     • date: 2008
     • words: 354
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: Rather than seeking to explain how the Cappadocians fit into that shift, this dissertation focuses on how the death imagery of Romans 6 serves the theological purpose of linking baptism to the Christian life as a whole. The names used for baptism, descriptions of the rite, accounts of the effects of baptism, and a consideration of the importance of Romans 6 (and John 3) theology are given particular attention.
     • keywords: baptism; life; philosophical; romans; theological; theology
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908. 5425k932879
     • author: Ye Lu
     • title: Finding all real solutions of polynomial systems
     • date: 2006
     • words: 205
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Recently in cite{SVW1,SVW2,SVW3}, new techniques have been successfully developed to numerically decompose complex algebraic sets into irreducible components. For the components of multiplicity at least two, we use the technique of deflation to make them into reduced components in a higher dimensional space.
     • keywords: components; dimensional; real; solutions
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909. 5425k93288n
     • author: Emmanuel Adu Gyamfi
     • title: Molecular Architecture of Ebola Virus Assembly
     • date: 2013
     • words: 573
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: A number of in vitro and cellular methods have been employed to understand factors important for membrane targeting of Ebola virus proteins. Since there are no prescribed vaccines or therapeutic treatment, Ebola virus remains a viable candidate for biological warfare.
     • keywords: actin; assembly; cell; ebola; membrane; methods; particles; plasma; study; surface; virus; vlps; vp40
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910. 5425k932890
     • author: Kenneth Ardrey Boyce
     • title: Towards a Fictionalist Nominalism
     • date: 2013
     • words: 340
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: Neo-Quinean objectors to nominalism argue (to a first approximation) that we seem antecedently committed to endorsing various sentences that can be shown to imply that abstract objects exist. It follows, they claim, that we are (on pain of logical inconsistency) 'committed' to the existence of abstract objects.
     • keywords: abstract; chapter; committed; neo; objects
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911. 5425k932906
     • author: Chunlei Li
     • title: Computational Studies of Beetle Anti-Freeze Protein Binding to Ice Ih
     • date: 2010
     • words: 151
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: In this thesis, I will present my research results on a computational study of beetle anti-freeze protein, specifically Dendroides Canadensis AFP (DAFP). Anti-freeze proteins (AFPs) can either prevent freezing by lowering the freezing point of internal fluids or (in combination with ice-nucleation proteins) reduce the damage by inhibiting recrystallization and stabilizing the cell membrane.
     • keywords: anti; dafp; freeze; ice; proteins
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912. 5425k93292w
     • author: Tessa Jae Pearson
     • title: Top Pair Differential Cross Section Measurement in the Muon+Jets Channel at &radic;s=8 TeV with the Compact Muon Solenoid
     • date: 2013
     • words: 102
     • flesch: 52
     • summary: The following dissertation describes the measurement of the top pair differential cross section in the semi-leptonic, &mu;+jets, channel taken with respect to the invariant mass of the top pair system. The top pair differential cross section with respect to the invariant mass was found, within uncertainties, to agree well with the leading theoretical models.
     • keywords: mass; pair
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913. 5425k932937
     • author: Shenyu Kuang
     • title: Atomistic Simulations of Nanoscale Transport Phenomena
     • date: 2012
     • words: 216
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: We expect these methods can be used for more advanced applications in complex systems such as coupled transport properties. Our results demonstrate that these algorithms can provide reasonable estimates of transport coefficients as well as retaining desirable features of previous NEMD methods, while fixing defects in these previous methods.
     • keywords: methods; nemd; previous; simulations; transport
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914. 5425k93295x
     • author: Jenica Moore
     • title: Carsomnia
     • date: 2014
     • words: 2
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Poetry Thesis
     • keywords: poetry
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915. 5425k932999
     • author: Anthony J. Pagliarini
     • title: A Memory of Future Israel: Ezekiel 40-48 and the Potential for Warranted Reception
     • date: 1904
     • words: 348
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: It examines the way the Book of Ezekiel prepares its own reception among latter audiences such that later readings might be judged not merely as happenstance reapplications of the text but as instances of authentic exegesis concerning what is in fact conveyed in the book. The aim is not to anticipate and privilege any one moment of reception but only to show, formally, the shape which any and all moments of warranted reception will take.
     • keywords: book; chapter; ezekiel; history; reception
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916. 5425k932b0h
     • author: Stephen Gaetano
     • title: Fides Quae Per Charitatem Operatur: A Study and Translation of Domingo de Soto's De natura et gratia
     • date: 1904
     • words: 242
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: The first chapter thus also considers Soto's explicit interaction with the Council of Trent's decrees concerning original sin (Fifth Session) and justification (Sixth Session). Along with the translation (Appendix B), the dissertation also provides a Latin text of *De natura et gratia* (Appendix A), a comparison of significant differences between the first printing of the treatise and two subsequent printings (Appendix C), and an introduction to the treatise (Chapters 1-3).
     • keywords: council; soto; state; treatise
     • versions: original; plain text
917. 5425k932c5j
     • author: Can Shao
     • title: Aberrant Response Detection Using Change-point Analysis
     • date: 1904
     • words: 432
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: After the detection of speeded examinees as well as their corresponding speeding point (the point at which an examinee starts to speed), a cleansing procedure based upon the detected speeding point is proposed to help improve item parameter estimation. Having aberrant responses may bias item parameter estimates and threaten test validity.
     • keywords: aberrant; cpa; detection; item; point; responses; speededness; study
     • versions: original; plain text
918. 5425k933011
     • author: Liuxian Zhao
     • title: Structural Tailoring for Tomographic Damage Detection, Vibration Control, and Energy Harvesting
     • date: 1904
     • words: 512
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: The performance of ABH structures was numerically and experimentally evaluated under both transient and steady state excitation conditions. In the context of vibration based energy harvesting, this work presents the idea of ABH-based structural tailoring to enhance vibration-based energy harvesting.
     • keywords: abh; context; control; energy; fss; harvesting; periodic; results; structural; tailoring; vibration
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919. 5425k933b45
     • author: Meyer Levy
     • title: The American Upvoter: The Internet and Political Participation
     • date: 2020
     • words: 368
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: The second study, Live, Laugh, Lurk finds that, on Reddit, political knowledge is unrelated to the rate at which individuals contribute political content, and that political interest is primarily involved with an initial political post rather than the motivation of further political posts. Additionally, I find that free time and civic skills, core components of the civic voluntarism model of political participation, are unrelated to posting political content.
     • keywords: content; internet; laugh; political; post; study; time
     • versions: original; plain text
920. 5425k933b6v
     • author: Liu Yang
     • title: Membrane Modification for Ion Separations and Drug-target Identification
     • date: 2020
     • words: 302
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: Selective elution of captured protein, tryptic digestion, tandem mass spectrometry analysis, and label-free quantification (LFQ) identify CAII as the dominant AEBSA target in diluted serum or cell lysate Global proteomics shows that the spiked CAII is the only protein with a log2 ratio (sample/control intensity) consistently &gt;2, and the detection limit for CAII identification is 0.004 wt% of the total protein in 1:4 diluted human serum or 0.024 wt% of the total protein from breast cancer cell lysates. Comparison of affinity capture using membranes, Affi-Gel 10 resin or M-270 Dynabeads derivatized with AEBSA suggests that only membranes allow identification of low-abundance CAII as a target.
     • keywords: aebsa; caii; cation; exchange; membranes; pems; protein; selectivity; studies
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921. 5425k933c2s
     • author: Jasmine Ortiz
     • title: The Stories They Gave Me
     • date: 2021
     • words: 13
     • flesch: 50
     • summary: A collection of stories about family, and culture, and the living Mexican landscape.
     • keywords: landscape
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922. 5425k933c5t
     • author: Jelena Jankovic Rankovic
     • title: Nonlinearity and Convergent Modalities of Human Migration: A Biocultural Study of Quotidian Imperatives among Refugees in Transitional Settlements
     • date: 2021
     • words: 435
     • flesch: 25
     • 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.
     • keywords: conditions; health; journeys; life; ongoing; practices; refugee; rsps; social; spaces; stress
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923. 5425k933g01
     • author: Adam M. Clark
     • title: Detection of Trace Actinide Isotopes in Uranium-Rich Materials via Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
     • date: 2023
     • words: 291
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: To both establish and characterize these capabilities, several uranium ores and NBS standard materials were measured to demonstrate agreement when compared to other AMS laboratories and provide measurements of ore material that, to our knowledge, have not been measured or reported in literature. Additionally, since this measurement technique may be applicable to a large range of actinide isotopes, we explored other rare isotopes present within the sample material to search for other possible characterizing signatures that may assist providing unique fingerprints of these materials.
     • keywords: actinide; capabilities; detection; isotopes; material; nuclear; sensitive
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924. 5712m615h9r
     • author: Ellen Susanna Childs
     • title: Maladapted to Change: How Routinized Practice Is Killing the United Methodist Church
     • date: 2014
     • words: 108
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: Using data from interviews of pastors in the United Methodist Church of Indiana, along with observational and interview data from two congregations in a mid-sized, Midwestern City, I outline the ways in which the strength of laity within the United Methodist System, developed over years of shifting pastoral leadership, undermines the strength of pastoral leadership. Finally, I discuss ways in which the lack of leadership within congregations leads to a gap in vision within the congregations.
     • keywords: methodist; united
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925. 5712m615j0z
     • author: Adam James Plaunt
     • title: Modified Zinc(II)-Bis(Dipicolylamine) Coordination Complexes for Enhanced Recognition of Phosphatidylserine
     • date: 2014
     • words: 307
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: Selective release of contents from liposomes is induced using a non-toxic Zn-BDPA chemical trigger that associates with a PS targeting molecule embedded in the liposome surface and causes membrane disruption. A necessary step towards eventual clinical imaging applications is the development of next-generation Zn-BDPA complexes with enhanced affinity for the cell death membrane biomarker, phosphatidylserine (PS).
     • keywords: bdpa; chapter; death; development; generation; imaging
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926. 5712m615j19
     • author: Amber Marie Grundy
     • title: Parental Awareness as a Mediator of the Relation Between Marital Conflict and Adolescent Behavior Conduct Competence
     • date: 2005
     • words: 140
     • flesch: 14
     • summary: Marital conflict, maternal awareness, maternal behavior control, and adolescent behavior conduct competence were assessed at all four time points in order to apply a recent methodology for assessing longitudinal mediating patterns. The results suggested that maternal awareness, but not maternal behavior control, mediated the relation between marital conflict and adolescent behavior conduct competence.
     • keywords: adolescent; behavior; maternal
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927. 5712m615j2n
     • author: Anca Ostace
     • title: Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Inertia on the Hydrodynamic Interaction of Microorganisms
     • date: 2015
     • words: 154
     • flesch: 26
     • 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.
     • keywords: inertia; interaction; microorganisms; studies
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928. 5712m615k2z
     • author: Lindsay Leigh Sweet
     • title: Modulation of Macrophage Activation and Phagosome Maturation by Mycobacterium avium Glycopeptidolipids
     • date: 2008
     • words: 367
     • flesch: 41
     • 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.
     • keywords: avium; gpls; macrophages; non; serovar; specific; tlr2
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929. 5712m615k50
     • author: Amy M. Donaldson
     • title: Explicit References to New Testament Variant Readings among Greek and Latin Church Fathers
     • date: 2009
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: After a general assessment of New Testament textual scholarship by the early church (including recensional and scribal activity), patristic textual criticism is compared to modern practice to assess to what extent the church fathers engaged in textual criticism and what insights we can gain from them today. In his introduction to New Testament textual criticism, Eberhard Nestle stated a desideratum, later repeated by Bruce Metzger, for a collection, arranged according to time and locality, of all passages in which the church fathers appeal to New Testament manuscript evidence.
     • keywords: explicit; new; references; testament; textual; variants
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930. 5712m615k7p
     • author: Kathryn Nicole Camarata
     • title: The Relationship between Alternative Teacher Certification and Achievement in Kindergarten
     • date: 2011
     • words: 82
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: This study adds important empirical knowledge to the existing body of research on teacher effects, achievement, and school sector. Net of all factors, alternative teacher certification is not shown to significantly affect student achievement.
     • keywords: achievement; certification
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931. 5712m615k81
     • author: Gregory P. Siems
     • title: It Happened Here: Electoral Strategies of Municipal Socialist Parties in the United States
     • date: 1904
     • words: 91
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: It concludes that, given an often hostile electoral environment, socialist parties and candidates must adopt a degree of flexibility in order to win office. This thesis demonstrates that, at least at the municipal level, socialists managed to be successful in many respects.
     • keywords: socialists; thesis
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932. 5712m615m1x
     • author: Lauren Arta Assour
     • title: Species Divergence: Computational Methods to Explore and Resolve Biological Questions Related to the Evolution of Species
     • date: 1904
     • words: 211
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: From RAD sequencing to explore Rhagoletis divergence, to ancestral reconstruction to examine the history of Anophelines, to using ancestral gene blocks to improve Anopheles genomes for better analysis, this work provides biological researchers with tools they need to answer questions about species divergence in many stages. Species divergence is the formation of a new species by the accumulation of changes in the DNA between different populations of the same species.
     • keywords: changes; divergence; formation; new; species
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933. 5712m615m59
     • author: Xumin Jiang
     • title: Boundary Expansions for Minimal Graphs in the Hyperbolic Space
     • date: 1904
     • words: 55
     • flesch: 17
     • summary: With such a characterization, we establish optimal asymptotic expansions of solutions with boundary values of finite regularity and demonstrate a slight loss of regularity for nonlocal coefficients. We study expansions near the boundary of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for minimal graphs in the hyperbolic space and characterize remainders of the expansions by multiple integrals.
     • keywords: boundary; expansions
     • versions: original; plain text
934. 5712m616755
     • author: Maryam Moosaei
     • title: Using Facially Expressive Robots to Increase Realism in Patient Simulation
     • date: 1904
     • words: 1081
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: We found that participants were able to distinguish pain from commonly conflated expressions (anger and disgust), and showed that patient-driven pain synthesis can be a valuable alternative to laborious key-frame animation techniques,This was one of the first attempts to perform automatic synthesis of patient driven expressions on avatars without the need of an animation expert. Automatic patient driven facial expression synthesis will reduce the time and cost needed for operators of RPS systems.
     • keywords: avatars; clinical; different; expressions; expressive; face; facial; model; new; pain; patient; robots; rpss; synthesis; virtual
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935. 5712m616c6r
     • author: Luke R. Sadergaski
     • title: The Behavior of Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters at the Mineral-Water Interface
     • date: 2019
     • words: 375
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: This dissertation pioneers the macroscopic characterization of uranyl peroxide nanocluster interactions with different mineral surfaces. These results demonstrate that the rate of uptake of particular uranium nanoclusters may be largely dependent on the charge density of the clusters as well as the functionality of the linkages connecting uranyl peroxide polyhedral units.
     • keywords: goethite; hematite; interactions; mineral; peroxide; sorption; u60; uranyl
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936. 5712m616n2v
     • author: Zeyu Liu
     • title: Thermal Transport in Solid State: From First-Principles Simulation to Machine Learning
     • date: 2021
     • words: 596
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Besides the electrical transport properties, thermal transport properties also play significant roles in various applications, such as thermoelectrics and electronics thermal management, where thermal transport properties can affect both performance and reliability of the devices. With more data available on thermal transport properties, using machine learning techniques can help us understand and utilize the relations between thermal transport properties and materials structures without complex analytical expressions.
     • keywords: conductivity; electron; materials; metals; phonon; properties; semiconductors; techniques; thermal; transport
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937. 5712m616p4v
     • author: John Michael Templeton
     • title: Towards a Comprehensive Mobile-Based Neurocognitive Digital Health Assessment System (NDHAS)
     • date: 2022
     • words: 283
     • flesch: 5
     • summary: As mobile technology becomes increasingly accepted in healthcare among both users and clinicians, the ability to use device capabilities (e.g., device positional data and screen interactions) for subject monitoring also increases. Staging methods and clinical assessments including the Hoehn and Yahr Scale (H&amp;Y), MDS - Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS), Dean - Woodcock Neuropsychological Assessment System (DWNAS), and the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI) are among the current gold standards for doctors and clinicians in the preliminary assessment and monitoring of individuals with neurodegenerative diseases.
     • keywords: assessment; capabilities; clinical; device; implementation; individuals; mobile; objective
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938. 5712m616p56
     • author: Ukachi Irobereachi
     • title: Bounding the Plotline: The Development of Hope Out of Popular Dystopia
     • date: 2022
     • words: 116
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: In examining the interwoven meaning of dystopia and utopia I argue that America's slave past forms a hidden backdrop that challenges the desire to evade what I call the contemporary trend toward dystopia, which, because of its popularization as a result of commercialization, has blocked the exercise of utopic possibility. By analyzing this problem in the vector of America's problematic past, my project asserts that despite the trend toward dystopia, utopic possibility is still to be found nevertheless, hiding deep within dystopia itself.
     • keywords: dystopia; utopic
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939. 5712m616p7w
     • author: Raymond Lawrence Drause
     • title: In Word and Deed: Exiled Siberian Decembrists as Servants of the Russian Empire, 1826 - 1860
     • date: 2022
     • words: 237
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Through their production of knowledge about Siberia, the Decembrists raised interest among readers in the European Russian metropole and allowed them to imagine the distant region and its people as part of the Russian Empire. European empires had long used the practice of criminal transportation to remove undesirables from their metropoles and to populate their colonies with a labor force for resource extraction.
     • keywords: decembrists; exile; russian; siberian
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940. 5712m616r1f
     • author: Erik Hoberg
     • title: Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Flow Characterization, Condensation Detection, and Valve Modifications
     • date: 2023
     • words: 549
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: Modifications to the fast-acting valve in ANDLM6QT have led to operability of the facility in noisy conditions, and steps are being taken to achieve quiet flow conditions. In ANDLM6QT, a pitot probe, pitot rake, static pressure probe, and laser Rayleigh scattering were deployed.
     • keywords: condensation; conditions; facility; flow; laser; pitot; pressure; probe; rayleigh; scattering; static
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941. 5999n298t4v
     • author: Michael Perdriel
     • title: Social Design: Challenges, Promises, Models, and Alternatives
     • date: 2010
     • words: 226
     • flesch: 27
     • summary: I begin by situating my approach to design theoretically, as an amalgamation and synthesis of insights from social and design philosophers like E. F. Schumacher, Nicolas JÌÄå©quier, Victor Papanek, William McDonough & Michael Braungart, and the group Superflex. Then, drawing on my field work in Nepal as a case study, I describe the valuable insights into the necessary functions, features, materials, and method of manufacture of products that I gained by living and working directly with the people who will eventually make and use the products I am designing.
     • keywords: design; insights; products; social; thesis
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942. 5999n298t56
     • author: Andrea Kay Tamplin
     • title: Emotional intensity and causal connectivity's influence on memory for narratives
     • date: 2010
     • words: 109
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Using a text comprehension paradigm, memories for events that varied in terms of their causal connectivity and emotional intensity were examined for influence on memory performance. Memories for events have been found to increase when the number of causal connections increases, and when emotional intensity increases.
     • keywords: emotional; intensity
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943. 5999n298t6j
     • author: Paul Timothy Kroeger
     • title: Identification and analysis of factors that regulate the plasmatocyte lineage during Drosophila hematopoiesis
     • date: 2013
     • words: 417
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: Understanding Drosophila blood cell development may elucidate genes and pathways that function in hematopoiesis of higher organisms, such as mammals. This approach identified a critical gene, Eip78C, which caused a three-fold decrease in cell number when compared to control.
     • keywords: cell; double; drosophila; gene; knockdown; nucleus; parked; scf
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944. 5999n298t7w
     • author: Christopher M Moretti
     • title: Flexible Object Based Filesystems for Scientific Computing
     • date: 2010
     • words: 149
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: The layer of indirection allows for filesystems larger than any single disk, permits multiple filesystems to share common objects, and enables users to create and manage private namespaces. Experimentally, this work demonstrates that the overhead of indirection is low, a single client can write faster than disk speed, and multiple clients can harness aggregate disk throughput.
     • keywords: disk; filesystem; objects; storage
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945. 5999n298t87
     • author: Paul Youngbin Kim
     • title: The Moderating Role of Social Support on the Stress-Distress Relation Among Asian International Students: A Test of the Matching Hypothesis
     • date: 2010
     • words: 178
     • flesch: 22
     • summary: It was hypothesized that international and co-national support would moderate the relation between unique stressors and psychological distress, and that college support would moderate the relation between college stressors and psychological distress. Although the results were not consistent with the original hypotheses, results from the post-hoc analyses indicated that college support interacted with college stressors to exacerbate the relation between stressors and anxiety and phobic anxiety symptoms, respectively.
     • keywords: college; stressors; students; support
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946. 5999n298t9k
     • author: Adams Tong
     • title: Fabrication of Deep-Submicron Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices
     • date: 2010
     • words: 163
     • flesch: 43
     • summary: Through scaled size-reduction, CMOS devices can run at higher speed, consume less power and attain higher packing density. The aim of the thesis is to design the fabrication process for building CMOS devices with 0.25&#956;m gate length and Quilt- Packaging protruding metal nodules.
     • keywords: cmos; device; fabrication; process
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947. 5999n298v0s
     • author: Jeffrey Richard Paone
     • title: Liberating the Biometric Menagerie Through Score Normalization Improvements
     • date: 2013
     • words: 160
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: Several experiments show the biometric menagerie to be an unstable classification system where subjects frequently change class labels. These tendencies may include matching their own signatures poorly or matching other subjects?
     • keywords: biometric; menagerie; normalization
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948. 5999n298v14
     • author: Jaime L. Shapiro
     • title: A Multi-method Approach to Understanding the Role of Psychosocial Functioning in the Context of DSM-5 Personality Disorder Diagnosis
     • date: 2013
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: Furthermore, PD diagnosis can be improved when we better understand the empirical overlap of personality traits, personality functioning, and their consequences. Although the constructs of traits, personality functioning, and functional consequences are conceptually distinct, results indicate the difficulty in making empirical distinctions in many cases, especially through self-report.
     • keywords: difficulties; functional; functioning; personality; self; traits
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949. 5999n298v2g
     • author: Christyn L Fertenbaugh
     • title: Chemical Measures to Characterize Coastal Groundwater: A Case Study in Benin, West Africa
     • date: 2010
     • words: 355
     • flesch: 11
     • summary: These data also demonstrated the high level of 'preliminary' field characterization that is possible using a carefully planned combination of the field sampling design, water quality chemical analysis, and geostatistical analysis. In this study, Benin, West Africa, was used as a case study to show how a field measureable and relatively simple water quality analysis of shallow groundwater samples can be used to identify different hydrological zones for further study.
     • keywords: analysis; characterization; chemical; coastal; data; field; quality; study; water
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950. 5999n298v45
     • author: Sue A Rozeboom
     • title: The Provenance of John Calvin's Emphasis on the Role of the Holy Spirit Regarding the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
     • date: 2010
     • words: 275
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Such pneumatological emphasis does not appear in Calvin's first doctrinal exposition on the sacrament, that is, in his 1536 Institutio, but emerges soon after: first, in 1536 in the midst of the Lausanne Disputation, when he speaks of the Spirit as the bond between believers and the ascended Christ; then, shortly after, in his first catechism for Geneva; and then again, more robustly, with patristic and biblical reference, in the 1539 revision of his Institutio. In his doctrine of the Lord's Supper, John Calvin emphasizes that Christ truly nourishes the souls of believers with his body and blood.
     • keywords: calvin; christ; emphasis; spirit
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951. 5999n298v5h
     • author: Thomas H. Q. Powell
     • title: Ecological Divergence, Host Race Formation, and Speciation: Host Plant Adaptation as a Driver of Insect Diversification
     • date: 2012
     • words: 365
     • flesch: 26
     • summary: I addressed these questions by investigating two components of the R. pomonella species complex: 1) populations of R. pomonella infesting an array of hawthorn species in the southeastern U.S. and (2) the flowering dogwood fly, the sister species to R. pomonella. I found that southern populations of R. pomonella are differentiated both phenotypically and genetically and represent partially-isolated host races.
     • keywords: ecological; genetic; host; pomonella; speciation; species
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952. 5999n298v76
     • author: Brian Matthew Kakas
     • title: Dimensional Transitions
     • date: 2010
     • words: 506
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Upon examination, these formal qualities of ceramic objects exhibit many technical questions and challenges. The culmination of this work should produce visually satisfying objects pleasing, in and of them selves, that also explore the conceptual issues of the object.
     • keywords: author; ceramic; construction; contemporary; form; new; object; questions; set; space
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953. 5999n298x7t
     • author: Megan McCullough Hart
     • title: Data-Driven Models: From Data to Knowledge for Extreme Events
     • date: 1904
     • words: 469
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: Specific areas of focus include: Develop improved methods for the detection of key features in datasets, such as non-stationarity, using the method of surrogates; Assess current analysis procedures utilized for both stationary and non-stationary wind datasets and introduce more flexible averaging interval schemes for the proper determination of turbulence characteristics in non-stationary wind; Develop an efficient multivariate non-Gaussian simulation approach that considers non-Gaussianity of the joint probability density function in addition to considering non-Gaussianity of the marginal distributions; Improve upon existing non-stationary simulation approaches by also allowing for consideration of non-Gaussianity; and Develop a more flexible and robust approach for the detection and analysis of nonlinear coupling between two processes related to hazard loading/response or within the same process between two different modes. In the area of dynamic load effects, advanced analysis, modeling, and simulation tools are becoming increasingly important in order to address the non-stationarity, non-Gaussianity, and nonlinearity inherent in hazard related events and their associated structural response.
     • keywords: consideration; events; gaussianity; hazard; non; response; stationarity; structural; tools
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954. 5999n29911z
     • author: Nicole M Schiavone
     • title: Developing a Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry Workflow for Metabolomics
     • date: 1904
     • words: 173
     • flesch: 41
     • summary: Here, I describe the development of a metabolomics workflow using a home-built, electrokinetically driven, nano-spray sheath-flow interface to couple capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) with electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Finally, I will describe the expansion of our CZE-MS capabilities by my work that allows operation of the CZE-MS interface with negative ion mode MS.
     • keywords: cze; metabolomics; molecules; workflow
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955. 5999n299j39
     • author: Robert S. Perricone
     • title: Towards Computing in the Beyond-CMOS Era: A Study of Beyond-CMOS Circuits and Architectures
     • date: 1904
     • words: 598
     • flesch: 32
     • summary: As case studies, I evaluated the impact of NV technologies for both an energy harvesting non-pipelined processor and a general purpose processor executing scientific applications under varying degrees of parallelism. I introduced and evaluated new NML layouts that exploited unique features of the technology to efficiently realize hardware components required for SC.Quantifying the impact of spintronic non-volatile (NV) technologies at the architecture and application levels introduces a unique challenge as the granularity of technology integration can vary significantly (i.e., from heterogeneous architectures with NV cache and CMOS-based logic, to completely NV architectures).
     • keywords: analytical; approach; cmos; design; devices; electronic; nml; non; spintronic; technologies
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956. 5999n299w6f
     • author: Chelsea King
     • title: Hermeneutics of Sacrifice: Wrestling with the Death of Christ in a Feminist and Ecological World
     • date: 2020
     • words: 503
     • flesch: 35
     • summary: Here, I argue that a Lutheran understanding of sacrifice is a deviation from the past three theologians and is responsible for putting forward a soteriology that has rightfully been critiqued by contemporary theologians. From a Catholic standpoint, sacrifice, and in particular, a sacrifice for sins has remained central to both theological and liturgical reflections on the death of Jesus.
     • keywords: cross; eco; feminist; language; sacrifice; salvific; theologians
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957. 5999n299x0p
     • author: Alec W. Houpt
     • title: Control of a Flame Holding Cavity in a Mach 2 Combustor by Quasi-Direct Current Electric Discharge
     • date: 2021
     • words: 383
     • flesch: 40
     • summary: Utilization of this plasma-generated shock wave as an active control technique in a supersonic combustor with a flame holding cavity is explored thoroughly in this work by examining the electrical parameters of the electric discharge, plasma parameters, plasma morphology, the resulting impact on the flow field, efficacy of the design/placement of the electrode array, and finally how the plasma influences combustion stability in a supersonic flame holding cavity. The Q-DC electric discharge generates a high power, filamentary plasma and is applied in Mach 2 airflows using the supersonic blowdown wind tunnel SBR-50 at the University of Notre Dame and Research Cell-19 at the Air Force Research Lab.
     • keywords: discharge; electric; filaments; flow; plasma
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958. 5999n299x42
     • author: Jacob Petersen
     • title: Investigations into Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Small Molecules
     • date: 2021
     • words: 311
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: By geometrically and energetically optimizing both individual molecules and clusters of molecules, the binding energy of specific hydrogen bonds can be determined, giving rise to a quantitative understanding of the clusters. Beyond the instrument itself, the creation of a monolayer of small molecules upon a metallic surface is necessary.
     • keywords: dimensions; hydrogen; instrument; molecules; preamplifier; small; structures; tunneling
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959. 5999n300078
     • author: Yujia Wang
     • title: Computational Investigation of Cu Speciation and Al Distribution in Cu-CHA Zeolites and Implications for Catalyst Optimization
     • date: 2023
     • words: 193
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: In addition, I show how ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and Monte Carlo simulations are used to explore the thermodynamics of heteroatom (i.e. Al) distributions in CHA and to predict Al distributions. The approaches used here can be applied broadly to other zeolites to find optimal zeolite compositions and synthesis conditions for catalysis applications.
     • keywords: cha; conditions; synthesis; zeolites
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960. 5d86nz8231g
     • author: Samantha Anderson
     • title: Questioning Kindling: An Analysis of Cycle Acceleration in Unipolar Depression
     • date: 2015
     • words: 242
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: The kindling hypothesis for depression predicts that as the number of recurrences rises, the intermorbid interval (i.e., wellness period) between successive recurrences decreases in length. Further, individuals did not significantly vary in their trajectories for change in intermorbid interval length over time.
     • keywords: individuals; intermorbid; intervals; recurrence
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961. 5d86nz8232t
     • author: Charles Hamlin Pence
     • title: Chance in Evolutionary Theory: Fitness, Selection, and Genetic Drift in Philosophical and Historical Perspective
     • date: 2014
     • words: 309
     • flesch: 33
     • summary: Discussions of the foundations of evolutionary theory -- especially natural selection, fitness, and genetic drift -- are saturated with terms referring to various kinds of chance, stochasticity, randomness, unpredictability, and so forth. Work in the philosophy of biology (i) often conflates various clearly distinct notions of chance, and (ii) often approaches the analysis of chance from the perspective of a debate (on the causal potency of natural selection and genetic drift) that does not in fact profitably engage evolutionary theory.
     • keywords: chance; drift; evolutionary; selection; theory
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962. 5d86nz82335
     • author: Kyle Bruce Wheeler
     • title: Load Balancing for High Speed Parallel Network Intrusion Detection
     • date: 2005
     • words: 149
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: The simulation results confirm the viability of the SPANIDS architecture for scalable parallel network intrusion detection. The load balancer ensures that sensors do not become overloaded by shifting traffic between sensors while maintaining network flow continuity when possible.
     • keywords: balancer; network; traffic
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963. 5d86nz8244t
     • author: Xinchen Zhang
     • title: Managing Randomness in Wireless Networks: Random Power Control and Successive Interference Cancellation
     • date: 2013
     • words: 464
     • flesch: 42
     • summary: Considering wireless networks whose channel quality and node distribution are random, this thesis studies two types of techniques that can potentially significantly boost the network performance: random power control and successive interference cancellation (SIC). In the first part of the thesis, we study random power control in two types of wireless networks: the noise-limited networks and the interference-limited networks.
     • keywords: control; interference; networks; policies; power; random; sic; strategies; throughput
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964. 5d86nz8249j
     • author: Ke Chen
     • title: Modeling and Designing High-Performance and Power-Efficient 3D DRAM Architectures
     • date: 2013
     • words: 351
     • flesch: 45
     • summary: In addition, this dissertation introduces a Hybrid Memory Cube Cache (HMC$) DRAM that employs an adaptive caching scheme and an intelligent predictor to support full associativity at various granularities and a large number of banks in 3D memory systems. By increasing the row buffer cache hit rate and improving data caching efficiency, HMC$ dramatically reduces memory access latency and dynamic power.
     • keywords: cacti-3dd; cost; dram; efficiency; high; memory; power
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965. 5d86nz8250r
     • author: James S. Doyle II
     • title: Improvements to the Iris Recognition Pipeline
     • date: 1904
     • words: 233
     • flesch: 46
     • summary: The performance of state-of-the-art in iris biometrics is approaching perfect correct recognition rates in small deployments with controlled image acquisition. A method for detection of soft contact lenses using modified binary patterns is introduced and is shown to accurately detect the presence of a clear, soft contact lens, while not reducing the correct detection rate of textured lenses.
     • keywords: acquisition; binary; biometrics; correct; iris; recognition
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966. 5d86nz8292p
     • author: Aparna Bhattacharya
     • title: Development of Space Based Microlensing Exoplanet Mass Measurement Method
     • date: 1904
     • words: 425
     • flesch: 57
     • summary: We will be able to build the statistics of exoplanets with different mass and different host stars. In WFIRST era, it will help to measure the properties of the cold giant planets toward the galactic center with planet mass down to mars mass.
     • keywords: curve; detection; exoplanets; light; mass; microlensing; moa-2008; planet; star
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967. 5d86nz82f80
     • author: Dominic Leon Culver
     • title: On the Cooperations Algebra for the Second Brown-Peterson Spectrum at the Prime 2
     • date: 1904
     • words: 135
     • flesch: 58
     • summary: This is a splitting into torsion concentrated in Adams filtration 0 and a torsion free component. From this we determine a basis for the second page of the Adams spectral sequence modulo torsion.
     • keywords: adams; second; splitting
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968. 5d86nz82v5p
     • author: Amanda N. Marra
     • title: Genetic Mechanisms of Multiciliated Cell Development during Renal Ontogeny
     • date: 2018
     • words: 363
     • flesch: 39
     • summary: Disrupted multiciliogenesis can lead to hydrocephaly, respiratory disease and infertility in humans, and the abnormal presence of MCCs in renal biopsies of patient's with kidney disease has been observed in a handful of cases. In short, the work presented here uncovered an integrated network of etv5a, etv4, irx2a, and prostaglandin signaling in the specification and maturation of renal MCCs.
     • keywords: cells; cilia; conserved; disease; kidney; mccs; pronephros; vertebrates; zebrafish
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969. 5d86nz82x1x
     • author: Teresa Baumer
     • title: Actinide and Lanthanide Interactions with Aluminum (Hydr)oxide Minerals: Equilibrium and Kinetics Analysis of Sorption and Desorption Processes
     • date: 2019
     • words: 195
     • flesch: 24
     • summary: Nuclear energy does not generate greenhouse gas emissions during power production, but the high-level nuclear waste generated in the commercial nuclear fuel cycle remains a barrier to increased nuclear power use in the United States. Minerals were characterized to monitor for phase transformations and aqueous metal ion concentrations were measured using inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry.
     • keywords: different; minerals; nuclear; power; sorption; waste
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970. 5d86nz82z8n
     • author: Mark Evan Fraser
     • title: Novel Anti-Viral Strategies for Lipid-Enveloped Viruses
     • date: 2019
     • words: 768
     • flesch: 36
     • summary: Using these concentrations UCN-01 was shown to reduce plasma membrane localization of Ebola VP40, Marburg VP40, and HIV-1-Gag significantly using confocal imaging of recombinant GFP tagged viral proteins. Finally, live Chikungunya virus, Zika virus, HIV-1, and Ebola virus was shown to be inhibited by UCN-01 treatment.
     • keywords: budding; cell; ebola; group; introns; membrane; plasma; proteins; reduction; rna; viral; virus; vp40
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971. 5d86nz8355r
     • author: Alejandro Corona-Espinosa
     • title: The Generalized Assessment of Personality Dysfunction - Three Brief Factor Form (GAPD-3BFF)
     • date: 2020
     • words: 301
     • flesch: 19
     • summary: However, it also shares limitations of existing measures of the construct (e.g., insufficient discriminant validity both among some aspects of personality dysfunction and with personality traits), indicating the need for a new measure that addresses such limitations. The construct of personality dysfunction has received considerable attention in the last two decades as both clinicians and researchers have sought to further our understanding of what constitutes personality pathology beyond maladaptive-range traits.
     • keywords: dysfunction; gapd-3bff; measures; personality; traits; validity
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972. 5d86nz8364q
     • author: Craig Iffland
     • title: Following and Not Following the Divine Law: Aquinas on Law, Morality, and Obligation
     • date: 2021
     • words: 360
     • flesch: 17
     • 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.
     • keywords: aquinas; human; law; morality; relationship
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973. 5d86nz83652
     • author: Jessica Zinna
     • title: Enzyme-Based Paper Tests for Target Detection in Low-Resource Settings
     • date: 2021
     • words: 639
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: I designed a colorimetric enzyme-on-paper test to detect lactose in illicit drug samples. I am currently working on extending this work into more enzyme-on-paper tests for other common cutting agents in illicit drug samples, such as mannitol.
     • keywords: card; color; drug; enzyme; illicit; lactose; low; pads; paper; samples; sugarpad; test
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974. 5d86nz8376q
     • author: Matthew Kalensky
     • title: Airborne Measurement of Atmospheric-Induced Beam Jitter
     • date: 2022
     • words: 337
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: This is caused by propagating the laser through optical turbulence structures larger than or on the order of the size of the beam diameter. Based on the developments presented in this dissertation, suggestions are provided on how tracking can be improved in realistic digital control systems.
     • keywords: beam; laser; optical; order; tilt; tip
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975. 5d86nz8378d
     • author: Govinda Anantha Padmanabha
     • title: Deep Learning for Forward and Inverse Solutions of Physical Systems
     • date: 2022
     • words: 275
     • flesch: 34
     • summary: Overall, deep learning models developed in this work offer a significant acceleration in terms of computational cost and accuracy for both the inverse and forward solutions of physical systems. This work focuses on investigating deep learning approaches for the inverse and forward solutions of physical systems.
     • keywords: deep; forward; inverse; model; physical; surrogate
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976. 5h73pv65c5x
     • author: Gary Philippe Raczka
     • title: The Lectionary at the Time of Saint John Chrysostom
     • date: 2015
     • words: 39
     • flesch: 56
     • summary: This dissertation seeks to reconstruct the Lectionaries of Antioch and Constantinople as they existed at the time of John Chrysostom. It also relates them to the Byzantine Lectionary as appearing in the tenth century Typicon of the Great Church.
     • keywords: chrysostom
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977. 5h73pv65c68
     • author: Justin M Wozniak
     • title: Overdrive Controllers for Distributed Scientific Computation
     • date: 2010
     • words: 375
     • flesch: 31
     • summary: The design of the controller borrows from techniques used in a variety of disciplines including mathematical modelling, system theory, and autonomic systems to manage user jobs and data. Modern opportunistic middleware systems seek to congregate the potential of these existing systems into a powerful resource for scientific computation.
     • keywords: computation; computing; high; low; methods; need; performance; scientific; systems
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978. 5h73pv65c7m
     • author: Qin Zhang
     • title: Interband Tunnel Transistors
     • date: 2011
     • words: 394
     • flesch: 37
     • summary: For 20 nm channel length, GNR tunnel transistors with ribbon width of 2 and 3 nm can achieve high performance and low operating power simultaneously, meeting 2012 ITRS targets. An analytic expression is derived, showing that the subthreshold swing of interband tunnel transistors is a function of the gate-to-source voltage and can be less than the thermionic limit of 60 mV/decade in MOSFET.
     • keywords: interband; limit; low; performance; state; subthreshold; swing; transistors; tunnel
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979. 5h73pv65c8z
     • author: Stephen M Metzger
     • title: Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Master, on Knowledge, Wisdom and Contemplation
     • date: 2013
     • words: 314
     • flesch: 38
     • summary: After a preliminary examination of his will, which reveals his social and ecclesiastical position, this dissertation probes Gerard's manuscripts for what they reveal about the way in which secular masters taught theology as well as the content of that teaching. Although the history of the University of Paris during the thirteenth century has received much scholarly attention, the contribution of secular masters to that history during the middle of the thirteenth century has been largely overlooked.
     • keywords: century; gerard; paris; secular; thirteenth
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980. 5h73pv65c99
     • author: Tara Natasha Shepherd
     • title: Comparison of the Macroscopic Viscoelastic Properties of Cortical Bone to its Nano-Indentation Response
     • date: 2010
     • words: 178
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: As such, measurements of multiple length scales are useful in order to evaluate bone viscoelastic properties in different microstructural units. To understand the effect of viscoelasticity of bone at small length scales, cortical bone specimens were evaluated under torsional and tensile loads, by ultrasound and by nanoindentation.
     • keywords: bone; cortical; damage; properties; viscoelastic
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981. 5h73pv65d0h
     • author: Dian Respati Arifin
     • title: Cellular Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers as Potential Artificial Blood Substitutes
     • date: 2005
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 28
     • summary: Cellular HBOCs were created by encapsulating bovine hemoglobin (Hb) into the aqueous cores of liposomes, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) conjugated liposomes and polymersomes. Since polymersomes can be synthesized with thicker hydrophobic membranes compared to liposomes, polymersomes are mechanically stronger than liposomes.
     • keywords: cellular; dispersions; hbocs; leh; liposomes; peg; polymersomes
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982. 5h73pv65d1v
     • author: Matthew John Michel
     • title: Influence of multiple environments on tadpole phenotypes: plasticity, adaptation, and conservation implications
     • date: 2010
     • words: 329
     • flesch: 10
     • summary: Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of an organism to alter its phenotype in response to changing environmental conditions. However, the specific impact of these factors on an individual's phenotype depends on the foraging behavior employed by the predator, the type of competition experienced (interference vs. exploitative), and other environmental conditions.
     • keywords: adaptive; changes; competition; environmental; phenotypic; predation; risk
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983. 5h73pv65d26
     • author: Matthew Alexander Barnes
     • title: Prediction, Detection, and Management of Aquatic Invasive Species
     • date: 2013
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: In my dissertation, I have evaluated uncertainties in current predictive methodologies and technologies to increase understanding of the ecology of invasive species and improve management and mitigation of damages due to aquatic invasions. My research has addressed methodological and technological uncertainties associated with the ecology and management of biological invasions, focusing on prediction and detection of aquatic invasions.
     • keywords: aquatic; detection; distribution; edna; environmental; factors; invasions; native; psd; species
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984. 5h73pv65d3j
     • author: David Charles Rozek
     • title: The Developmental Role of Perceived Competence on Depressive Symptoms
     • date: 2013
     • words: 132
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: While much of Cole's work is done in younger children, the transition period of middle school to high school, a time of great change, is vastly understudied. This study makes use of data of 1,075 students followed for 6 years.
     • keywords: cole; model; psychopathology
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985. 5h73pv65d4w
     • author: Alexander Vorobiev
     • title: An Experimental Investigation of Lift and Roll Control Using Plasma Actuators
     • date: 2010
     • words: 165
     • flesch: 44
     • summary: The use of plasma actuators for flow-control applications has been demonstrated extensively in recent years, for example, to postpone flow separation or eliminate Karman shedding behind bluff bodies. This work describes an experimental investigation into the use of plasma actuators for lift and roll control.
     • keywords: actuators; control; plasma
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986. 5h73pv65d6k
     • author: Iulian D Toader
     • title: Objectivity Sans Intelligibility: Hermann Weyl's Symbolic Constructivism
     • date: 2011
     • words: 479
     • flesch: 20
     • summary: On this approach, contentual reasoning is indispensable for objectivity, which entails, as Weyl emphasized, that scientific concepts without contentual significance must be eliminated. While the former can be conceived of as syntactic elegance, the latter obtains if one shows, by contentual reasoning, that the deviation from actual observations of results based on purely symbolic reasoning is smaller than experimental error.
     • keywords: account; approach; concepts; contentual; objectivity; reasoning; scientific; weyl
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987. 5h73pv65d7x
     • author: Jinyang Li
     • title: Antireflection Coating Application of Gallium Arsenide Native Oxide
     • date: 2012
     • words: 138
     • flesch: 36
     • 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.
     • keywords: gaas; native; oxide; reflectance
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988. 5h73pv65d88
     • author: Joseph Workman
     • title: Sector Differences in Achievement During the Elementary School Years
     • date: 2009
     • words: 50
     • flesch: 57
     • summary: I find that students who attend Catholic elementary schools have slightly slower rates of learning in mathematics than do public school students. This study examines sector differences in student achievement from Kindergarten through fifth grade.
     • keywords: students
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989. 5h73pv65d9m
     • author: Julia A. Feder
     • title: A Mystical-Political Theology of Posttraumatic Healing: Teresa of Avila, Edward Schillebeeckx, and Contemporary Trauma Theory
     • date: 2014
     • words: 331
     • flesch: 21
     • summary: In the case of survivors of sexual trauma, political liberation involves bodily material well-being (i.e., safety and sexual integrity), relational well-being (i.e., the presence of healthy interpersonal relationships of support and mutual growth), as well as institutional well-being (i.e., participation in social structures that affirm safe and healthy sexual practices and promptly and appropriately respond if and when sexually violent actions occur). In this work I turn to the writings of Teresa of Avila and Edward Schillebeeckx in order to describe healing from sexual trauma as a mystical-political practice.
     • keywords: christian; healing; human; salvation; sexual; trauma
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990. 5h73pv65f3v
     • author: Melissa Fletcher Pirkey
     • title: Cultural Context, Organizational Processes, and Sensemaking in a Voluntary Organization: An Organizational Ethnography
     • date: 1904
     • words: 286
     • flesch: 16
     • summary: By constraining the forms of exchange deemed normatively appropriate and priming sensemaking processes, State-Line's identity facilitated members' experience of social exchange as being consonant with community ideals and supportive of positive affective group bonds, even in instances where contemporary sociological exchange theories suggest that they should not. Using a combination of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, my research details the interrelated mechanisms and processes that supported shareholders' experience of community, shaped their perceptions of social exchange, and facilitated members' construction of coherent and convergent explanations in the face of unexpected and ambiguous organizational change.
     • keywords: community; exchange; line; members; organization; social
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991. 5h73pv65f46
     • author: Yue Wang
     • title: Assessing Elemental Sulfur Based Denitrification as a Biofilm Process
     • date: 1904
     • words: 280
     • flesch: 29
     • 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.
     • keywords: behavior; biofilm; denitrification; fluxes; kinetic; study
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992. 5h73pv6635q
     • author: Siyuan Jiang
     • title: Improving Program Comprehension Using Neural Machine Translation
     • date: 1904
     • words: 335
     • flesch: 45
     • 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.
     • keywords: change; documentation; programmers; software; topics
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993. 5h73pv66409
     • author: Garrett Andrew Fontenot
     • title: Voluntarism and Imperial Supremacy: Politics and the Military Establishment in the Expansion of the British Empire in French North America, 1760-1775
     • date: 1904
     • words: 227
     • flesch: 15
     • summary: This dissertation explores the tensions between two ideological facets of the British empire—voluntarism and imperial supremacy—that emerged after the Seven Years' War as British officials attempted to come to terms with the territorial expansion and the increased diversity of their empire. At the same time, the empire pursued a policy of imperial supremacy in North America: a deliberate attempt to exclude foreign competitors from the continent to ensure the security of the provinces.
     • keywords: british; disparate peoples.at; empire; imperial; supremacy
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994. 5h73pv66420
     • author: Joseph Hassan Aboki
     • title: Design of Triptycene-Containing Poly(arylene ether sulfone) Multiblock Copolymers and Random Copolymers for Polyelectrolyte Membrane Applications
     • date: 2018
     • words: 312
     • flesch: 18
     • summary: This combination of high water uptake and low swelling ratio of these copolymers resulted in excellent proton conductivity and membrane dimensional stability under fully hydrated conditions. However, the long hydrophilic sequences (typically &gt;10,000 g/mol) required to achieve high proton conductivity usually lead to excessive water swelling which degrade membrane dimensional stability.
     • keywords: applications; copolymers; high; membrane; multiblock; stability; triptycene; water
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995. 5h73pv66f8v
     • author: Julaine D. Zenk
     • title: A Further Exploration into Moral Decision-Making in a Military Context
     • date: 2020
     • words: 376
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: This outcome was different from what is often found in Trolleyology research: namely, when moral decisions become more personal, more non-utilitarian choices are made. The two intelligence officer experiments showed that moral decisions are, indeed, affected by casualty numbers and the demographics of both targets and civilian casualties.
     • keywords: active; choice; decision; making; moral; participants; rpa
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996. 5h73pv66f96
     • author: Jaime L. Shapiro
     • title: Understanding the Extrinsic Disability Associated with Personality Disorder: Conceptual, Terminological, and Empirical Challenges
     • date: 2020
     • words: 344
     • flesch: 4
     • summary: However, the literature lacks clarity in both its theoretical conceptualization of extrinsic disability constructs, particularly as they relate to disorder constructs, and also the empirical measurement of extrinsic disability. Although several studies have examined relations between personality pathology and its associated extrinsic disability, these studies rarely include a comprehensive assessment of both maladaptive personality traits and measures of extrinsic disability; moreover, studies of the DSM-5 Section III alternative dimensional PD model, with its component of impairment in personality functioning, are still developing.
     • keywords: constructs; disability; extrinsic; functioning; pathology; personality
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997. 5h73pv66g7t
     • author: David C Molik
     • title: On the Genetic Information Processing of Metabarcodes: Adding Data Utility with Provenance and Metadata
     • date: 2021
     • words: 357
     • flesch: 47
     • summary: This is done by implementing a genomic informatics processing framework, utilizing provenance and metadata to increase data utility of metabarcode data. I show an increase pf data utility in three ways: by looking at the different features of the metabarcode itself, and exploring how manipulation of those features can start to explain variance in the analysis of metabarcode data; In chapter two, agent based simulations are used to analyze features, such as the relative abundance of barcodes, to show their effect on resulting metabarcode datasets.
     • keywords: data; metabarcode; metadata; provenance; utility
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998. 5m60qr48n39
     • author: Bong-Jun Ko
     • title: International Opportunity and Domestic Policy Consensus: The Case of U.S. Missile Defense
     • date: 2010
     • words: 266
     • flesch: 30
     • summary: This study examines U.S. policy toward missile defense (MD) focusing both on the international opportunities opened up for the U.S. after the Cold War and on the variation of domestic policy consensus at the governmental level that influenced the actual decision making regarding the deployment of the current MD system. This study also addresses how domestic policy consensus played an important role in determining the timing and nature of the decision toward the deployment of the current MD.
     • keywords: opportunities; policy; study; u.s
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999. 5m60qr48n4n
     • author: AnnaMaria Cardinalli-Padilla
     • title: El Llanto: A Liturgiological Journey into the Identity and Theology of the Northern New Mexican Penitentes and Their Spiritual Siblings
     • date: 2004
     • words: 335
     • flesch: 29
     • summary: One of the largest gaps in current scholarship lies in investigation of the medieval roots of Penitente devotion, another in the documentation and examination of their unique tradition of musical worship (the alabados), and a third in the role of women in Penitente society and spirituality. Further, work is still necessary to explore the theology expressed in Penitente art, ritual, and daily living.
     • keywords: dissertation; medieval; new; northern; penitente; relationship; unique
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1000. 5m60qr48n50
      • author: Christina Ann Risatti
      • title: Synthesis of Cyclopropanes via Aldehyde Homologation
      • date: 2005
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: A heteroatom-stabilized route affords a two-step aldehyde homologation to provide cyclopropyl aldehydes and is readily amenable to iteration for the formation of contiguous cyclopropane structures. They have also been used as probes for determining structure activity and conformation activity relationships, in addition to providing synthetic analogs with improved biological profiles.
      • keywords: aldehydes; chiral; cyclopropane; cyclopropyl; formation; groups; methodology; structures
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1001. 5m60qr48p6n
      • author: Timothy Adam Wencewicz
      • title: Development of Microbe-Selective Antibacterial Agents: From Small Molecules to Siderophores
      • date: 2011
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Sideromycins were found to bring new life to antibiotics that fail to enter bacterial cells due to permeability problems. Sideromycins, also called siderophore-antibiotic conjugates, are a unique subset of siderophores that enter bacterial cells via siderophore uptake pathways and deliver a toxic antibiotic in a 'Trojan Horse' fashion.
      • keywords: activity; antibacterial; antibiotic; bacterial; cells; gram; microbe; selective; sideromycins; siderophore
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1002. 5m60qr48q17
      • author: Joshua Abram Kercsmar
      • title: The Politics of Husbandry: Managing Animal and Slave Labor in England and America, 1550-1815
      • date: 2014
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: As Britons on both sides of the Atlantic saw the improvement of nature as a mercantile rather than moral endeavor, and thus treated slaves as commodities, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century century humanitarian reformers came to criticize slavery and animal cruelty alike. While colonists were slow to adopt British innovations as they related to animals, they supported and appropriated them in their interactions with Africans.
      • keywords: africans; animals; century; dogs; horses; sheep; slaves
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1003. 5m60qr49b9v
      • author: Samuel K. Fisher
      • title: Fit Instruments: Gaels, Indians, and the Diverse Origins of Imperial Reform and Revolution
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The second half of the project tells the story of successive imperial attempts to do so, with emphasis on the ways that Gaelic and Indian people themselves contributed to imperial reform both as its targets and as active participants. This constitution began to crumble in the 1740s, when Gaelic and Indian people forced themselves onto the imperial agenda in a series of events that convinced imperial leaders that winning over indigenous people would be central to victory in the imperial struggle against France.
      • keywords: american; empire; gaels; imperial; people; reform; revolution
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1004. 5m60qr49r7w
      • author: Jennifer S. Kaplan
      • title: On Borrowing
      • date: 2021
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: In my role as an art-science-activist, I aim to facilitate access to the arts and actionable change through learning spaces built around shared ideas. Giving people tools to shift the world around us is a recognition of how our future lives with collaborative action.
      • keywords: access; art; learning; point; world
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1005. 5m60qr49s9w
      • author: YuTzu Kuo
      • title: Bayesian Community Detection in Complex Networks
      • date: 2022
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Among the many tasks in statistical network analysis, community detection has arguably received the most attention in the literature. To address these problems, we propose some Bayesian models for community detection in networks by employing novel random partition priors.
      • keywords: chapter; community; detection; model; network; weighted
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1006. 5m60qr49t03
      • author: Shereen Khoo
      • title: The Joint Structure of Detachment and Internalizing Symptoms
      • date: 2022
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: Internalizing was characterized by high neuroticism and low conscientiousness; in contrast, (high) detachment was characterized by low extraversion, and Reward Seeking was characterized by high extraversion and low agreeableness. However, there are several issues regarding the validity of one of these spectra, detachment, including (1) the detachment spectrum is primarily characterized by personality disorders, possibly reflecting a method effect; (2) detachment and internalizing are both characterized by low extraversion and are distinguished by the additional presence of high neuroticism for internalizing, indicating that detachment and internalizing may be more similar than currently characterized in the HiTOP model; and (3) the personality profile of avoidant personality pathology (high neuroticism, low extraversion), currently classified in HiTOP as a detachment disorder, is actually more similar to internalizing psychopathology.
      • keywords: detachment; extraversion; high; hitop; internalizing; low; model
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1007. 5m60qr49v0d
      • author: Kelci Mohrman
      • title: Search for New Physics Impacting Associated Top Production in Multilepton Final States Using the Framework of Effective Field Theory
      • date: 2023
      • words: 205
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: While the results are consistent with the standard model prediction, the extracted limits can help to constrain theoretical models of new physics; interpreted in terms of the energy scale probed by the experiment, the results can also provide information about the energy frontier beyond which new physics discoveries may yet lie. Parameterizing potential new physics effects in terms of 26 dimension-six EFT operators, six associated top production processes are studied.
      • keywords: eft; new; physics; terms
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1008. 5q47rn31x7h
      • author: Yeqing Lu
      • title: Design and Fabrication of Vertical Tunnel Transistors for Low-Power Logic Applications
      • date: 2015
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The DC and AC performance of single devices as well as complimentary circuits (logic inverters) as a function of fan-out loading have been investigated, showing that vTFET has the potential to replace CMOS technology for low power logic application in the future. Interband tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs) have come under intensive investigation for logic applications due to their promise for enabling low VDD operation because of their potential for achieving extremely low subthreshold swing.
      • keywords: drain; ingaas; inp; low; tunnel; vertical; vtfet
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1009. 5q47rn31x8v
      • author: Ali Emre Pusane
      • title: Analysis of LDPC convolutional codes derived from LDPC block codes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 542
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: In particular, we show that the unwrapping process that is used to derive LDPC convolutional codes from LDPC block codes can 'break' some cycles of the underlying LDPC block code, but cannot create any shorter cycles. LDPC convolutional codes have been shown to be capable of achieving the same capacity-approaching performance as LDPC block codes with iterative message passing decoding.
      • keywords: block; codes; convolutional; decoding; distance; ldpc; minimum; pseudo
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1010. 5q47rn31x96
      • author: Lili Ji
      • title: Domain Wall Trapping by Localized Field on Submicron Supermalloy Wires
      • date: 2010
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Trapping domain walls by this method requires no lithographic constrictions on the magnetic wire, which provides a new prospect for the study of current-induced domain-wall motion and other magnetic devices. Simulation and experimental results indicate that for the same strength of the localized field, domain walls trapped on narrower wire require larger releasing field for depinning.
      • keywords: domain; information; magnetic; motion; trapping; wall; wire
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1011. 5q47rn31z0d
      • author: Ethan Eric Uberseder
      • title: Experimentally Constraining the Nucleosynthesis of 60Fe in Massive Stars
      • date: 2013
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Meaningful comparisons between models and observation depend crucially on reliable inputs concerning the underlying nuclear reactions, and while much work has been performed by stellar modelers to resolve an initial disagreement with observation, the production and destruction cross sections for 60Fe nucleosynthesis have remained purely theoretical. Observations of the decay signature of the long-lived radioisotopes 60Fe and 26Al by &gamma;-ray observatories have offered a unique observational constraint on massive star models.
      • keywords: 60fe; massive; models; nuclear
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1012. 5q47rn31z1r
      • author: Heather Dawn Schlotthauer-Hannah
      • title: Well-Posedness and Regularity for a Higher OrderPeriodic Mkdv Equation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 107
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: We then show that the solution to the periodic Cauchy problem for this higher order equation with analytic initial data is analytic in the space variable x at any fixed time t near time zero. The corresponding periodic Cauchy problem is in fact well-posed in Sobolev spaces for all s ge 1/2.
      • keywords: higher; order
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1013. 5q47rn31z23
      • author: Siddharth Maheshwari
      • title: Anomalous Microfluidic behavior near Singular Interfaces
      • date: 2008
      • words: 423
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Suitable modifications were used to generalize the particle trap under different flow conditions, and in conjunction with Raman Scattering, the particle trap was used for bacteria detection. The difference from conventional spraying behavior was explained.
      • keywords: behavior; conventional; devices; different; electrospraying; field; flow; theories
      • versions: original; plain text
1014. 5q47rn31z3f
      • author: Yao Shen
      • title: Applications of Atomistic Modeling in Drug Design
      • date: 2011
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Structure based computer aided drug design has been proven as a potent tool in identifying lead molecules for drug targets, with the increasing number of X-ray structures, validated drug targets and the ever increasing computer power. System-level identification of drug targets was achieved through metabolic network construction of E. coli & S. aureus.
      • keywords: computational; computer; design; drug; inhibitors; mmgbsa; project; structure; targets
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1015. 5q47rn31z4s
      • author: Kristina Jipson
      • title: New Spiritualism: Approaching the Dead in Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
      • date: 2014
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Poets like Susan Howe, Kristen Prevallet, Rusty Morrison, Mary Jo Bang, and M. NourbeSe Philip are using the practice of writing as a means of cultivating felt spiritual contact with the deceased, with skepticism and the imperative for plausibility playing a vital role in each of their pursuits. All of these works employ experimental methods towards deeply personal ends, evidencing collapse of a longstanding division in American literature that figures experimental writing as abstract and difficult and mainstream writing as emotional and accessible.
      • keywords: american; century; contact; dead; poets; spiritual; writing
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1016. 5q47rn31z54
      • author: Mioara Deac
      • title: Mirror of the World or Submerged Unconscious? Hallucinations and the Victorians (1853-1901)
      • date: 2005
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: My analysis is a contextual history of hallucinations that explores intersections among psychology, psychiatry, physical sciences, theological debates, and religious practices. This dissertation is a history of some nineteenth-century English attempts to account for hallucinations.
      • keywords: dissertation; hallucinations; psychical; research; theosophy
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1017. 5q47rn31z6g
      • author: Travis L. Turnbull
      • title: The Spatial Distribution of Fatigue Microdamage Accumulation in Cortical Bone and Factors Influencing Fracture Risk
      • date: 2013
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: The overall objective of this project was to nondestructively investigate the spatial distribution of fatigue microdamage accumulation in cortical bone and factors that, upon interaction with microdamage, influence fracture susceptibility. Spatial correlations between intracortical porosity, elevated mineralization, and fatigue microdamage were investigated by combining, for the first time, sequential, nondestructive, three-dimensional micro-CT measurements of each in cortical bone specimens subjected to cyclic loading followed by an overload to fracture.
      • keywords: bone; cortical; fracture; intracortical; microdamage; porosity; spatial
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1018. 5q47rn31z85
      • author: Christopher L. Kelley
      • title: Airfoil Leading and Trailing Edge Separation Control Using SDBD Plasma Actuators
      • date: 2013
      • words: 525
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This indicated that the shear layer instability was highly receptive to both disturbances: either the body force from AC plasma actuator, or the nondirectional thermal disturbance of the NP plasma actuator. The NASA energy efficient transport (EET) airfoil was a platform to study the effect of plasma actuators on leading edge stall and boundary layer separation in a strong adverse pressure gradient, while the V-22 Osprey airfoil was used to study trailing edge stall with separation in a weaker adverse pressure gradient.
      • keywords: actuator; airfoil; boundary; edge; layer; numbers; plasma; pressure; separation; stall; streamwise; vorticity
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1019. 5q47rn31z9h
      • author: Timothy Lee Conrad
      • title: Characterization of Hydroxyapatite Whisker Reinforced Composites and Scaffolds for Mechanical and Biological Function in Orthopaedic and Spinal Implants
      • date: 2012
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The fatigue life decreased with increasing HA reinforcement. Moreover, HA whisker reinforcement resulted in decreased creep deformation and minimal modulus degradation.
      • keywords: peek; porogen; reinforcement; scaffolds; whisker
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1020. 5q47rn32000
      • author: Nicholas Vincent Russo
      • title: The Origins of Lent
      • date: 2009
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: These are: (1) Lent emerged as the result of a gradual prolongation of the primitive one- or two-day pre-paschal fasts; (2) Lent was modeled on Jewish Passover preparation; (3) Lent arose around a third-century hagiopolite lectionary cycle; (4) Lent emerged as the result of the transposition of an ancient Egyptian post-Epiphany fast. The project reexamines the origins of Lent in light of recent critiques of the generally accepted theories.
      • keywords: fast; project; result
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1021. 5q47rn3216c
      • author: Katharine S. Mahon
      • title: Teach Us to Pray: The Lord's Prayer in the Sixteenth-Century Re-Ritualizations of Christian Formation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: church; formation
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1022. 5q47rn32s1g
      • author: Christina Leo
      • title: The Blue Bull &amp; Other Stories
      • date: 2019
      • words: 50
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The Blue Bull &amp; Other Stories is a collection of short stories which proceeds chronologically, from the present era to the distant future, through characters, settings, and themes—especially those related to ecology, memory, history, and sense of place—based largely in the Gulf Coast region of the American South.
      • keywords: blue; stories
      • versions: original; plain text
1023. 5q47rn32v44
      • author: Jack Himelright
      • title: An Austere Nominalist Strategy for Paraphrasing Away Properties and Relations
      • date: 2019
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Chapter 4 extends the paraphrase strategy to include more sophisticated sentences about intrinsic properties of concrete objects as well as sentences about extrinsic properties of concrete objects, higher-order properties, and dyadic and greater adicity relations. Chapter 2 articulates a new paraphrase strategy for simple sentences about intrinsic properties of concrete objects.
      • keywords: nominalism; objects; paraphrase; properties; strategy
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1024. 5q47rn3310k
      • author: Holly F. Levin-Aspenson
      • title: Symptom-Level Explications of the Hierarchical Structure of Psychopathology
      • date: 2020
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Models were based on relatively comprehensive symptom-level epidemiological data from the 2000 British Office for National Statistics Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity (N = 8,405). Study 3 compares results from Study 1 and Study 2 with those from corresponding models using diagnosis- and symptom count-level data.
      • keywords: level; models; study; symptom
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1025. 5q47rn3320w
      • author: Sara E. Gilson
      • title: Expanding Actinide Crystal Chemistry through Synthesis and Radiolytic Studies of Actinide Metal-Organic Frameworks and Construction of a Structural Hierarchy
      • date: 2021
      • words: 242
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In this work, the subset of thorium MOFs is expanded by exposing this actinide element to synthetic conditions typical of MOFs. Neptunium MOFs are also investigated.
      • keywords: crystal; mofs; neptunium; organic; structures; transuranic
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1026. 5t34sj15655
      • author: Baiyuan Yang
      • title: New Synthetic Applications of Nitroso Diels-Alder and Ene Chemistry
      • date: 2010
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: A solid phase supported iminonitroso ene reaction as well as asymmetric nitroso ene reactions were also investigated. In chapter 6, 2-(N-hydroxy amino)-pyridine containing compounds, obtained from nucleophilic ring-opening reactions of nitroso cycloadducts as well as iminonitroso ene reactions, are shown to be a novel chemical scaffold, selectively active against Gram-positive Micrococcus luteus.
      • keywords: chapter; cycloadducts; ene; iminonitroso; natural; nitroso; products; reactions; ring
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1027. 5t34sj1566h
      • author: Quinn S. Bastian
      • title: Can People Choose Not to Smoke? A Study of Volitional Self-Control, Self-Efficacy, and Cigarette Use
      • date: 2004
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Self-ratings of effort were found to mediate the effects of volitional instructions on smoking behavior, providing further support for an agentic (versus mechanistic) interpretation of volition effects. Following Howard and Conway's (1986) volitional instruction paradigm, the present study examined whether participants could willfully control their cigarette use.
      • keywords: control; self; study
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1028. 5t34sj1567v
      • author: Paul David Mueller
      • title: Shaving with Ockham's Razor: Complexity and Individual Politicial Behavior
      • date: 2005
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: The author outlines an alternative to the disciplinary norms of generating hypothesis that utilizes conditional hypotheses to produce 'thicker' explanations without sacrificing generalizability. The currently accepted quantitative methods generally used to test hypotheses are less suitable for analyzing conditional hypotheses.
      • keywords: acceptance; author; consensus; hypotheses; parsimony; political
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1029. 5t34sj1578h
      • author: Katie Condit
      • title: Special Education and Dropout: Does School Context Matter?
      • date: 2014
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: I combine relevant school characteristics as delineated on both sides of the bureaucratic/communal debate to formulate a theory of salient school characteristics for engaging students in special education, including fiscal and human resources and social climate. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of schools on the relationship between special education status and dropout.
      • keywords: dropout; education; special
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1030. 5t34sj15833
      • author: Margaret Mary Garvey
      • title: Jacques Copeau, Maria Montessori and a Physical Theatre of Aristotelian Embodiment
      • date: 2014
      • words: 440
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Jacques Copeau, a seminal figure in 20th century theatre theory and practice, developed a distinctively Aristotelian approach to actor training, focused on sincerity and embodiment. Copeau's Montessorian child-centered perspective, with its important metaphysical presuppositions and ethical ramifications for the actor's process and the role of theatre, has a continuing influence in theatre theory and practice.
      • keywords: actor; child; copeau; jacques; mask; montessori; practice; theatre; theory; training
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1031. 5t34sj1587g
      • author: Robert W. Miller
      • title: The Relative Contribution of Maternal ADHD Symptoms and Oppositional Defiant Behaviors to Parenting
      • date: 1904
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: Our findings suggest that maternal OD behaviors should be considered in future studies of parental ADHD, indicate OD behaviors may affect functioning for some adults, and have implications for the foci of future interventions for parents with ADHD. 107 mothers at-risk for ADHD completed self-report questionnaires assessing their current ADHD, OD behaviors, and depressive symptoms and parenting behaviors.
      • keywords: adhd; behaviors; parenting
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1032. 5t34sj15x19
      • author: Connor D. O'Rear
      • title: Children's Performance Labeling Set Sizes without Counting Mediates the Effect of Counting Practice on Understanding of Cardinality
      • date: 1904
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Increasing children's ability to label set sizes without counting may accelerate development by promoting analogical reasoning (Mix et al., 2012), or it may delay development by decreasing the immediate need for an abstract understanding of cardinality (Piantadosi et al., 2012). 107 preschoolers were randomly assigned to: (a) count-and-label, wherein children spent six weeks learning to both count and label sets; (b) label-first, wherein children spent three weeks learning to label set sizes without counting before three weeks of count-and-label practice; (c) print referencing control.
      • keywords: children; label
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1033. 5t34sj15x7c
      • author: Brandon LeVon Cook
      • title: Parisian Scholastics and the Gregorian Dictum: Change and Continuity in the Latin Discourse on Images from St. Gregory to St. Bonaventure
      • date: 1904
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: This research project on the Gregorian tradition and medieval Franciscan image theory furnishes further textual resources and evidence relevant to the longstanding historiographical interest in the relationship between Scholasticism and French Gothic art from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. My dissertation examines the development of the textual tradition of the Gregorian dictum from the sixth century to the Scholastic thirteenth and asks what that textual history reveals about changing emphases in medieval image theory in the Latin West.
      • keywords: bonaventure; christian; dictum; franciscan; gregorian; image; latin; medieval; scholastic; textual; theory
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1034. 5t34sj15x8q
      • author: Edward A. Lamere
      • title: Proton Induced Reactions on Molybdenum: Implications for Medical 99mTc Production
      • date: 1904
      • words: 543
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The objective of this study is to provide experimental cross section measurements that can be used to predict Tc production in thick yield targets, as well as guide the choice of these model parameters. Using this experimentally guided model, we have estimated yields for various target impurity profiles.
      • keywords: 99mtc; cross; dosimetry; likely; measurements; method; model; parameters; production; study; target
      • versions: original; plain text
1035. 5t34sj15z9c
      • author: Jamie L. Luther
      • title: Development of Analytical and Synthetic Biological Tools for Use in Low-Technology Settings
      • date: 2018
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This is problematic because consumption of substandard medicines, contaminated water, or poor quality milk can lead to a slew of health problems including disease, chronic illness, antibiotic resistance, and even death. Yeast have been engineered to detect heavy metals such as cadmium, fungal pathogens, antibiotics, and environmental estrogens.
      • keywords: medicines; milk; paper; people; quality; tools; water; yeast
      • versions: original; plain text
1036. 5t34sj16225
      • author: Xingfei Wei
      • title: Thermal Transport in Soft Materials and across Hard-Soft Interfaces
      • date: 2019
      • words: 449
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Polymers with high thermal conductivities are of great interest to both scientific research and industrial applications. However, in polyelectrolytes the mechanism of thermal conductivity enhancement with ionization ratio increasing is not due to the chain conformation change.
      • keywords: blends; chain; conductivity; conformation; molecular; polyelectrolytes; polymer; sam; thermal; transport
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1037. 5t34sj1632g
      • author: Shereen Khoo
      • title: Explicating the Comprehensive Facet Structure across Personality Measures
      • date: 2019
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The study results indicate that Extraversion and Agreeableness are best represented in their aspect-level form rather than domain-level form, as well as that certain facet scales are better organized under domains other than their originally intended domains. However, this approach is problematic because unique facets, which may have substantial predictive validity, are not able to form their own factors.
      • keywords: big; facet; level; personality; structure
      • versions: original; plain text
1038. 5t34sj16883
      • author: Michael Augugliaro
      • title: Electrochemical Detection of Gold Nanoparticle Collisions Using Nanopore Electrode Array (NEA) Devices
      • date: 2020
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: The ability to perform single entity experiments on complex nanostructures is of significant research interest, as complete characterizations of individual nanoparticles can provide valuable insight that cannot be provided by ensemble measurements. Nanopore electrode arrays (NEAs) previously developed by Bohn and coworkers allow for single nanoparticle electrochemical collision experiments with 40 nm diameter silver nanoparticles (AgNP).
      • keywords: complex; current; experiments; nanoparticle; nanostructures; single
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1039. 5t34sj1689f
      • author: Morgan L. Widhalm
      • title: A TMS-EEG Exploration of Latent Working Memory
      • date: 2020
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: While concerns about data quality and TMS protocol (particularly for Experiment 2) limit the conclusions that can be drawn at present, the results from this thesis converge with other recent studies to provide support for the sensorimotor recruitment hypothesis and activity-silent retention mechanisms in WM. We found that participants had higher memory performance for unattended items when those items received TMS during a delay period as opposed to when those items were not directly targeted by TMS.
      • keywords: activity; items; memory; tms
      • versions: original; plain text
1040. 5t34sj1698d
      • author: Tracy-Lynn E. Lockwood
      • title: Development and Implementation of a Paper Analytical Device for Field Drug Detection
      • date: 2021
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Street drugs consist of unregulated and highly variable mixtures of illicit drugs and cutting agents, including diluents and adulterants, making them difficult to evaluate under field conditions. The idPAD involves a library of 12 colorimetric tests that are run simultaneously, each detecting different chemical functional groups and materials found in illicit drugs, diluents, and adulterants.
      • keywords: agents; analytical; device; drugs; epidemic; field; idpad; illicit; overdose; test
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1041. 5t34sj1699r
      • author: Brandon RichardWebster
      • title: Visual Psychophysics for Computer Vision
      • date: 2021
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Psychophysics is the quantitative examination of the relationships between controlled stimuli and the behavioral responses they elicit in experimental test subjects. Instead of using summary statistics to gauge performance, psychophysics directs us to construct item-response curves made up of individual stimulus responses to find perceptual thresholds, thus allowing one to identify the point at which a subject can no longer reliably recognize the stimulus.
      • keywords: computer; evaluation; psychophysics; vision; visual
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1042. 5t34sj16b7c
      • author: Anabel Rodriguez
      • title: Understanding Functional Protein Production: Synonymous Codon Contributions and Development of a Cell- Based Protein Folding Screening Tool
      • date: 2021
      • words: 708
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Progress in the field of protein folding has included the understanding that a sequence containing more rare codon substitutions is more likely to misfold, and that exchanging hydrophobic amino acids with polar ones is likely to significantly disrupt folding. Despite these significant advances, we are still unable to build predictive tools for protein folding.
      • keywords: acid; amino; cat; codon; folding; functional; native; production; protein; screening; state; synonymous; tool
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1043. 5t34sj16c1m
      • author: Phillip Spinella
      • title: Eugénie beneath the Verticals
      • date: 2022
      • words: 7
      • flesch: 78
      • summary: This manuscript is a work of fiction.
      • keywords: fiction
      • versions: original; plain text
1044. 5x21td98g9t
      • author: Badi' Abdul-Wahid
      • title: A Software Pipeline for Ensemble Molecular Dynamics
      • date: 2015
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: As a result, simulations require billions of steps to access slow motions such as protein folding. problem addressed is that current approaches suffer from systematic bias and my contribution is an implementation of a method that does not suffer this bias, as well as a distributed computing pipeline.
      • keywords: molecular; protein; result; simulations
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1045. 5x21td98h01
      • author: Scott Christley
      • title: Modeling and Simulation of Vertebrate Limb Chondrogenesis and Algorithms for Comparative Genomics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 111
      • flesch: 2
      • 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.
      • keywords: biological; modeling; simulation
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1046. 5x21td98h1c
      • author: Chuanxin Lian
      • title: Wafer-Fused AlGaAs/GaAs/GaN Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
      • date: 2010
      • words: 375
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: Unfortunately, the large lat-tice mismatch between GaAs and GaN makes it very difficult to epitaxially grow high quality GaAs on GaN. Com-bining the unity emitter injection efficiency and the large base transport factor of Al-GaAs/GaAs, and the high breakdown field of GaN, an AlGaAs/GaAs/GaN npn HBT is expected to operate at high speed and high power densities.
      • keywords: algaas; fusion; gaas; gan; hbt; hbts; high; large; wafer
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1047. 5x21td98h2q
      • author: Jason M. Grant
      • title: Exploring the Structure of the Similarity Score Space
      • date: 2013
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Furthermore, image specific error rates (a tool for measuring the usefulness of iris images within a dataset) were extended to face images. Given the number of subjects in the dataset, we used hierarchical methods to aggregate images of the same subject.
      • keywords: images; similarity
      • versions: original; plain text
1048. 5x21td98h32
      • author: Kelley Ann Fennell
      • title: Synthesis and studies of amamistatin B and analogs as potential mycobacterial growth inhibitors and anti-tumor agents
      • date: 2008
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Amamistatins A and B are natural products that were isolated from the actinomycete Nocardia asteroides after their identification during a screen for growth inhibitors of human tumor cells. All three compounds, along with synthetic intermediates, were screened in several assays to study their effect on the growth of tumor cells and M. tuberculosis, as well as their ability to inhibit HDAC.
      • keywords: amamistatin; binding; cells; compounds; growth; tumor
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1049. 5x21td98h4d
      • author: Qi Liao
      • title: Smarter Enterprise Network Security Management Through Intelligent and Interactive Visual Analytics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 380
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Besides the ability to visualize various combinations of HUA, the contribution of this study lies on its exploration and evaluation of the viability and efficacy of a unified approach by incorporating algorithmic data mining methods with interactive visual exploration process. The proposed data analysis algorithms can provide intelligence to start and guide an investigation process while the proposed visual transformations brings in experts' domain knowledge to the security and management problems that are infeasible by existing machine learning approaches.
      • keywords: applications; data; enterprise; hua; management; network; security; users; visualization
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1050. 5x21td98h5r
      • author: Yao Shen
      • title: The Side Effects of Small Molecule Drugs: Connecting Network and Atomistic Modeling
      • date: 2011
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: My project aims at predicting new targets for old drugs, correlating targets and relating targets with side effects. Systems biology is very promising to understand the mechanisms of drug reactions at the systems level as well as revolutionize the drug discovery process in the pharmaceutical industry, mainly focusing on the three aspects, drug combinations, drug repurposing and predicting drug side effects.
      • keywords: drug; effects; systems; targets
      • versions: original; plain text
1051. 5x21td98h63
      • author: Christina G. McDonnell
      • title: Mother-Child Reminiscing At-Risk: Maternal Attachment, Elaboration, and Child Autobiographical Memory Specificity
      • date: 2014
      • words: 250
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: attachment; child; memory; reminiscing; specificity
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1052. 5x21td98h7f
      • author: Owen Michael Phelan
      • title: The Formation of Christian Europe: Baptism under the Carolingians
      • date: 2008
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: baptism; carolingian; early; medieval; religious; study
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1053. 5x21td98j0b
      • author: Orsolya Mezei
      • title: The Effect of Soy Isoflavones on the PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma Pathways
      • date: 2004
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In vivo, soy isoflavones also ameliorate some of the symptoms associated with atherosclerosis in both PPAR&gamma; wild-type mice and PPAR&gamma; KO mice. Soy contains several different components including protein, soy lipids, fiber, and other phytochemicals including isoflavones.
      • keywords: glucose; insulin; isoflavones; lipid; metabolic; ppar&gamma; soy
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1054. 5x21td98j1p
      • author: Ashley Elizabeth Ferraro
      • title: The Use of Computational Methods to Develop Selective Antagonists Targeting the Mammalian Notch1-Notch4 Homologs
      • date: 2013
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Stapled SAHM mutants disrupting analogous regions of interface homologs resulted in quick molecular dynamics convergence. The quick and cost-efficient computational techniques that help elucidate the mechanisms associated with binding and have been applied include: homology modeling, equilibration and molecular dynamics simulations, and MM/PBSA binding free energy calculations and rescoring.
      • keywords: ank; csl; drug; factor; notch1; protein; sahm; stapled; structure
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1055. 5x21td98j21
      • author: Wangqing Yuan
      • title: Variable-Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of InAlP Native Oxide Gate Dielectric Layers for GaAs MOSFET Applications
      • date: 2009
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: The optical constants of InAlP-ox, In0.49Ga0.51P (InGaP), and InAlP have been determined by VASE measurements using a photon energy range of 1.45 to 5.45 eV at room temperature. The optical constants of InAlP and InAlP-ox are used to characterize a thick partially-oxidized InAlP epitaxial film grown on GaAs structure.
      • keywords: inalp; thickness; vase
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1056. 5x21td98j3c
      • author: Casey Marie Casias
      • title: Novel Bridge Forms Composed of Temporary Modules for Transitional Bridging
      • date: 2015
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: An impact analysis comparing transitional forms to both a steel and concrete girder bridge of comparable length is completed, supporting the claim that transitional forms compare well to conventional construction practices. This thesis provides a proof of concept for transitional bridges.
      • keywords: bridge; deployable; forms; girder; transitional
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1057. 5x21td98j83
      • author: Rachel M. Gentile
      • title: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Coastal Marsh Sedge Resurrected from a Century-Long Seed Bank
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: We used the results of these experiments to simulate marsh accretion under rising sea level and found notable differences in the sustainability of a marsh surface under sea level rise. In this dissertation, we present the results of a series of studies on the biology of Schoenoplectus americanus and its growth responses to sea level and rising CO2.
      • keywords: co2; evolution; growth; level; marsh; sea
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1058. 5x21td98k3p
      • author: Ae Hee Lee
      • title: Blue Stone Dreams
      • date: 1904
      • words: 105
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Through poetic language and a surrealistic imagery, this thesis will explore the concept of Third Culture, a term first coined by researchers John and Ruth Useem in the 1950s to describe a synthesis of two cultures (one from the country which the individual's parents came from and the second one being the culture in which the family settled into) that produces a new individual culture. Extending itself cross-culturally, cross-linguistically, and multi-dimensionally, the three parts of this thesis present several worlds and an understanding of relationships that were born through the writer's experience of living a Third Culture of her own.
      • keywords: cross; culture
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1059. 5x21td98p70
      • author: Dipanwita Dasgupta
      • title: An Evaluation of Tablet Based Solution Impacting Health and Wellness of Older Adults
      • date: 1904
      • words: 425
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Furthermore, these applications provide limited to no integration with care providers, which is becoming exceedingly important due to the increasing number of older adults and decreasing number of care providers. While tablet devices could be a potential medium for promoting Successful Aging, existing studies evaluating the usability of such tablets have been performed using older tablets.
      • keywords: aging; care; framework; group; older; successful; tablet
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1060. 5x21td9964w
      • author: Hau Nguyen
      • title: Three Essays in the Economics of Vulnerable Populations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Many studies have assessed the direct impact of Part D on prescription drug utilization, medical spending, and the treated medical conditions, but none has evaluated the effects of Part D on the utilization of seemingly-unrelated services such as preventive health measures. The second chapter provides an analysis of how seniors' labor supply responds to health shocks experienced by their spouses.
      • keywords: english; health; increase; labor; seniors
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1061. 5x21td99n0j
      • author: Abigail Csik Doolen
      • title: Examining Relations Among The Three Levels of Narrative Memory Representation Using Retrieval Practice
      • date: 2022
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Discourse is thought to be represented in memory at three levels: surface form, textbase, and event model. Final recognition memory showed a testing effect for the surface form and event model levels, but not the textbase.
      • keywords: event; levels; memory; model
      • versions: original; plain text
1062. 5x21td99n58
      • author: Varun Mannam
      • title: Overcoming Fundamental Limits of Three-Dimensional In Vivo Fluorescence Imaging Using Machine Learning
      • date: 2022
      • words: 826
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: To develop the ML model, we need another massive training dataset that maps from the diffraction-limited images to super-resolution images, which is a cumbersome process. Currently, we have developed a prototype of the ML model that requires only an ultra-small training dataset (15 target SR images with 50 diffraction-limited images per target) to generate super-resolution images.
      • keywords: cnn; dataset; denoising; diffraction; fluorescence; fundamental; images; imaging; methods; models; noise; resolution; snr; super; vivo
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1063. 6108v981r70
      • author: Shu Liu
      • title: Potential of Opportunistic Relaying
      • date: 2014
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: As a promising candidate to reduce the impact of cellular data growth, WiFi offloading appeals to be a cost-effective mean of offloading large amounts of mobile data traffic while delivering a variety of new services. A powerful concept that has only gained limited traction in practice has been the concept of opportunistic networks whereby nodes opportunistically communicate with each other when in range to augment or overcome existing wireless systems.
      • keywords: data; end; large; netsense; offloading; smartphones; wifi; wireless
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1064. 6108v981r8b
      • author: Matthew Eli Gordley
      • title: A Prose Hymn of Christ: The Language, Form, and Content of Colossians 1:15-20 in Its Greco-Roman and Jewish Contexts and in the Context of the Epistle to the Colossians
      • date: 2008
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: A review of hymns in the broader Greco-Roman world will demonstrate that the Colossian hymn is equally indebted to conventions used for praising the divine in the Greco-Roman tradition, including the arrangement and order of the topics of praise, the style of the passage including prose rhythm, and the introduction of philosophical concepts into the hymn. A review of hymns in the literature of Second Temple Judaism will demonstrate that the Colossian hymn owes a number of features to Jewish modes of praise, including the clear movement from the work of God in creation to the work of God in redemption, key terminology in the hymn which derives from Hellenistic expressions of Judaism, as well as the prominent use of parallelism.
      • keywords: colossian; god; greco; hymn; jewish; roman
      • versions: original; plain text
1065. 6108v981r9p
      • author: Zhuowen Sun
      • title: Silicon-based passives fro integrated microwave and infrared applications
      • date: 2008
      • words: 375
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: For infrared detector applications, dipole antennas backed by a dielectric-filled cavity were also explored to increase air-side directive gain for antenna-coupled diode detectors. The dipole resonant frequency is found to decrease with increasing dipole length and its input impedance is sensitive to the dipole position within the cavity.
      • keywords: antenna; cavity; cpws; dipole; frequency; junction; metal; model; substrates; type
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1066. 6108v981s90
      • author: Joshua Lioi
      • title: Advancements in the Multiscale Modeling of Blood Clot Formation
      • date: 2013
      • words: 240
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: aspects; blood; clotting; model
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1067. 6108v981t06
      • author: Eric O Stinson
      • title: Implementation of VectorBase Components: EnsEMBL Genome Browser, Search, and Database Tools
      • date: 2007
      • words: 38
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: VectorBase is a web-based bioinformatics repository for insect vectors of human pathogens. This paper describes three of the components (the genome browser, search engine, and a collection of database tools) developed as part of the VectorBase project.
      • keywords: vectorbase
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1068. 6108v981t8z
      • author: Elizabeth A. Hendriks
      • title: The Relation of Early Adversity to Trait Depression in Adulthood: The Mediating Role of the Trait Cortisol Awakening Response
      • date: 1904
      • words: 284
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The main objective of this study was to explore relations between early adversities and two associated risk factors for depression, trait depression and patterns of HPA axis function. Although this speculation finds some support in animal research, associations between early adversities, the CAR, and dispositional factors such as trait depression cannot be assumed.
      • keywords: car; depression; early; study; trait
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1069. 6108v982g3d
      • author: John Daniel Izzo
      • title: The Logic of Verse in the Lucretian Kulturgeschichte
      • date: 1904
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: As evidence for this, I compare these poetic devices to those found in other locations throughout DRN, as well as to similar features in Latin and Oscan curse tablets, Ennius' Annales, and Varro's De Lingua Latina. Afterwards, by reference to the works of Epicurus, Hermarchus, and Demetrius Lacon, I demonstrate that these philosophical claims are orthodox Epicurean beliefs.
      • keywords: devices; lucretius; poetic
      • versions: original; plain text
1070. 6108v982n0x
      • author: Brian R Joyce
      • title: Modeling Tides, Storm Surge, and Coastal Hydrodynamics in Broad and Narrow Shelved Regions
      • date: 2019
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The effect of sea ice on storm surge is included through a parameterized wind drag coefficient, modifying the air sea momentum transfer under ice coverage. This work examines the development and application of high resolution numerical models, primarily using the ADvanced CIRCulation model (ADCIRC), for the purpose of simulating coastal hydrodynamics including tides and storm surges in Alaska and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (PRVI).
      • keywords: coastal; high; ice; model; sea; storm; surge; wave; work
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1071. 6108v982n49
      • author: Chen Dai
      • title: Novel Metabolic Networks Identify Key Metabolic Hubs of Breast Cancer: The Effect of Aquaporin 7 on Breast Cancer Progression
      • date: 2019
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Using an unbiased, discovery-based approach, this study shed light on important players in breast cancer metabolism from a new perspective that complements current guided network analyses. To further identify the critical metabolic players in breast cancer, we developed a correlation-based network analysis that captures the interactions between metabolic profiling and gene expression data.
      • keywords: aqp7; breast; cancer; gene; metabolism; metabolites; network; specific; tumor
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1072. 6108v982t4v
      • author: Kewei Chen
      • title: Set-Theoretic and Game-Theoretic Estimation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The first part of this dissertation is focused on parameter estimation problems where proper statistical description of the system uncertainties is not available. We develop adaptive filtering algorithms based on the set-membership filtering (SMF) framework which aims to upper bound the magnitude of filtering errors.
      • keywords: adversarial; algorithm; estimates; estimation; filtering; nlms; parameter
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1073. 6108v982v3t
      • author: Kyle M. Conner
      • title: Group 10 Bis(iminosemiquinone) Complexes and Their Propensity to Perform Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions
      • date: 2020
      • words: 516
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: What has been observed is that the mechanism of hydrogen atom transfer is stepwise in all investigated reactions. The frontier orbitals of bis(iminosemiquinone) complexes consist of a ligand-centered orbital, and a higher-lying orbital that is largely ligand-centered but is metal-ligand π antibonding.
      • keywords: atom; bis(iminosemiquinone; complex; complexes; hydrogen; ligand; observed; palladium; reactivity; redox; transfer
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1074. 6108v982x23
      • author: Alexander H. Pierce
      • title: Augustine's Theology of the Sacramental Economy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 873
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: By sacramental economy I mean God's purposeful arrangement of visible sacraments in creation, Scripture, and the Church for the sake of human salvation. Implicit in my argument is the contention that Augustine's theological development is largely the story of his reckoning with the mystery or sacrament of Christ.
      • keywords: account; augustine; christ; church; economy; god; human; sacramentum; salvation; scripture; study; theology; word
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1075. 6108v982z43
      • author: Lindsay Grace Serene
      • title: Exploring the SecA2-Dependent Induction of Host Type I Interferon Response by Pathogenic Mycobacteria
      • date: 2023
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In silico analysis of secreted M. tuberculosis RNAs in addition to RNA synthesis and pulldown experiments suggests these tools could provide valuable information on shared structural attributes and RNA binding proteins involved in the SecA2-dependent activation of host Rig-I/MAVS signaling. Finally, we applied existing computational tools to characterize six previously identified RNAs secreted by M. tuberculosis and trialled an RNA labeling and pulldown approach to identify RNA binding proteins (Chapter 4).
      • keywords: dependent; ifn; rna; rnas; seca2; tuberculosis
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1076. 6395w66521j
      • author: Ning Jia
      • title: Essays in Education Economics
      • date: 2015
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The first chapter investigates the impact of stricter high school math curriculum requirements on STEM degree completion by exploiting cross-state variation in the timing of requirement increases on the number of years of math courses required for high school graduation from two waves of nationwide math reforms, the first in the 1980s, and the second in more recent years. The results suggest that the effectiveness of math reforms on college STEM attainment depends on the specific features, and to effectively improve college STEM attainment for all groups, different policy interventions might be necessary.
      • keywords: academic; attainment; college; completion; immigrant; math; reforms; requirements; stem; students
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1077. 6395w66522w
      • author: Shannon M. Kephart
      • title: Picturing Locales of Resistance: Photographic Representations of the French-Algerian War
      • date: 2010
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Investigating this performative transformation of race, and further, looking at the space of the bidonvilles outside the cities of Algiers and Paris, and the protests of October 17, 1961 in Paris, will show how the colonized body crossed spatial boundaries within the cities of Algiers and Paris as well as its imposed racial boundaries. During the Algerian War of Independence, a challenge to the colonial system arose through breaking the racial segregation and spatial division within both the cities of Algiers and Paris.
      • keywords: algerian; algiers; paris
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1078. 6395w665237
      • author: Ellen Childs
      • title: Happiness and Religious Attendance
      • date: 2009
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In this paper, I compare these explanations by examining two key mediating variablesÌ¢ âÂ' self-reported relationship with God and strength of social ties from the religious organizationÌ¢ âÂ' to explain the correlation between religious attendance and happiness, finding that both mediate the relationship between religious attendance and happiness. In the second part of this analysis, I question the degree to which the assumed causal direction of religious attendance to happiness is accurate.
      • keywords: attendance; happiness; religious
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1079. 6395w66524k
      • author: Jared Edward Miller
      • title: The Effect of Multimodal Rhythms on the Allocation of Attention Across Sensory Modalities
      • date: 2013
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Response time was fastest when targets matched the entrainment rhythm, verifying that entrainment occurred, and did not differ across rhythm type or target modality (auditory vs. visual), indicating that audiovisual entrainment was no more effective than auditory-only or visual-only entrainment. They responded to auditory and visual targets occurring at the end of rhythm that either matched or mismatched the entrainment rhythm.
      • keywords: auditory; entrainment; rhythm; visual
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1080. 6395w66525x
      • author: Mignon Angelé Montpetit
      • title: Negative Affect and Stress: A Dynamical Systems Analysis
      • date: 2007
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Finally, within the stress-and-coping framework, resilience is understood as a process whereby resilience resources intervene in the relationship between the experience of stress and feelings of well-being. After understanding the extent to which these experiences tend to be tied together (in terms of strength and nature of coupling), second order models were used to explore the extent to which resilience resources predicted the parameters of association between changes in NA and in Stress.
      • keywords: daily; experience; process; relationship; resilience; stress
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1081. 6395w665268
      • author: Matthew Thomas Brennan
      • title: Spatial Diversity Gains in Wireless Sensor Networks through Controlled Limited Mobility: An Experimental Approach
      • date: 2007
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: One important issue is whether the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) or the link quality indicator (LQI) would be the most effect link quality metric. This ability could have huge ramifications on the network, and new routing paths are enabled; therefore, new metrics and trade-offs need to be considered.
      • keywords: fading; link; mobile; performance; quality
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1082. 6395w66527m
      • author: James Kang Hoon Lee
      • title: The Mystery of the Church in the Theology of Saint Augustine
      • date: 2012
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This study seeks to recover the richness of Augustine's ecclesiology by exploring the development of his thought on the Church as a great 'mystery' and 'sacrament' (magnum sacramentum). In her celebration of the Eucharistic sacrifice, the Church learns to offer herself as a sacrifice in conformation to Christ, and so the Church is herself a 'sacrament' (sacramentum), a sacred sign, of the invisible sacrifice of the 'whole Christ' (totus Christus) offered in the daily sacrifice of Christians.
      • keywords: augustine; christ; church; mystery; sacramentum; sacrifice
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1083. 6395w66528z
      • author: Timothy M McCoy
      • title: Mesh-Expanding Homotopies and Numerical Irreducible Decomposition Over a Number Field
      • date: 2014
      • words: 217
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: On the other hand, the number of interesting solutions is often far smaller than the total count, and much effort is wasted on complex solutions with no physical interpretation. In the first part of this thesis, a general method is given for constructing a homotopy that directly relates solutions on grids of different resolutions.
      • keywords: isolated; number; numerical; solutions; systems
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1084. 6395w665299
      • author: Rebecca Lynn Stangl
      • title: A Principled Sensibility: Rules and the Life of Virtue
      • date: 2007
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: features; generalities; moral; rules; virtue; virtuous
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1085. 6395w665326
      • author: Carol Elizabeth Akai
      • title: Enhancing Parenting During Pregnancy: An Intervention Project for At-Risk Mothers
      • date: 2005
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Following the intervention, treatment mothers were less rigid, less intrusive and more flexible than control mothers, indicating reduced tendencies to exert control over infants. Treatment mothers also had better understanding of infants' cognitive needs, indicated by higher quality verbalizations, more demonstrative teaching, and less role reversal.
      • keywords: infants; mothers; treatment
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1086. 6395w66534w
      • author: Kamal M Karda
      • title: Low Power Bistable-Body Tunnel SRAM
      • date: 2009
      • words: 117
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: A two-transistor based negative-differential -resistance element is analyzed as an alternative to tunnel diode in bistable-body Tunnel SRAM. A bistable-body tunnel SRAM is proposed and validated using simulations.
      • keywords: cell; sram; tunnel
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1087. 6395w665357
      • author: Katherine E. Ward
      • title: Cytosolic Phospholipase A2: A Mechanistic Study of Lipid Binding and Its Effects on Membrane Morphology
      • date: 2014
      • words: 477
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Our recent work delivered evidence supporting the formation of large protein oligomers through the C2 domain that are capable of sensing and inducing membrane bending through a novel mechanism for C2 lipid binding domains. In addition, we have helped collaborators to identify and characterize other selective C1P binding proteins.
      • keywords: binding; c1p; cpla2&#945; domain; enzyme; membrane; protein; therapeutic
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1088. 6395w66545j
      • author: Sydney J Blevins
      • title: Analysis of T Cell Receptor Structure and Dynamics and Their Role in Antigen Recognition
      • date: 1904
      • words: 414
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: cell; conserved; immune; interactions; mhc; peptide; pmhc; tcr
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1089. 6395w66579v
      • author: Nicholas M. Myers
      • title: Lab on Paper: Adapting Quantitative Chemical Techniques for Use in Low Resource Areas
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: The goal of my project was to design chemical analyses to work within the financial and infrastructure constraints of LMICs, thereby increasing testing capacity. Regulatory agencies can remove bad products from the market but only after the quality is confirmed with expensive testing techniques.
      • keywords: bad; cards; health; lmics; paper; products; quality; test
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1090. 6395w665s12
      • author: Samantha K. Atkins
      • title: The Hemodynamic Theory of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease
      • date: 1904
      • words: 552
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: While those complications may still be promoted by some genetic predispositions, it is likely that their pathogenesis is also driven by synergies between the local mechanical stress abnormalities and the local biology of the leaflets and ascending aortic wall. BMP-4 inhibition on leaflet tissue conditioned under the WSS environment from the fused BAV leaflet significantly reduces the inflammatory response through suppression of VCAM-1 expression.
      • keywords: aortic; bav; expression; leaflets; remodeling; tissue; valve; wall; wss
      • versions: original; plain text
1091. 6395w665s74
      • author: Dianna Tran
      • title: Indirect Effects of Parental Physical Discipline on Child Literacy through Child Externalizing and Internalizing Problems: A Longitudinal Mediation
      • date: 2018
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Overall, findings suggest that parents' physical discipline may have cascading detrimental impacts on child literacy development through problem behaviors. Results demonstrated that externalizing and internalizing symptoms mediated relationship between parents' physical discipline and trajectories of child literacy.
      • keywords: child; discipline; parents; physical
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1092. 6395w665x5p
      • author: Yang Yan
      • title: Dissipativity Analysis and Resilient Design for Cyber Physical Systems
      • date: 2019
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 5
      • summary: This dissertation focus on the following problems: (1) how to quantitatively estimate and analyze the passivity of a plant from its approximate system representation considering model discrepancies; (2) how to design a joint disturbance observer and robust controller facing exogenous uncertainties and adversarial attacks; (3) how to preserve the passive and stable performances of interconnected systems over communication networks; (4) how to analyze dissipativity under a digital control framework for two-dimensional systems. CPS incorporate heterogeneous systems in dynamic environment and provide distributed coordination intelligently.
      • keywords: communication; cps; dissertation; physical; systems
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1093. 6395w66641f
      • author: Emily de Wet
      • title: 'Oh I Love the Vibe': Alternative Township Geographies in Cape Town
      • date: 2020
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Taking vibes as a guiding analytic, this manuscript argues that vibes are a complex web of social aesthetics, embodied ways of being in the world, and emerge as a kind of social legibility. This manuscript explores townships as social margins through a social formation, a way of being in the world, an aesthetic form, that residents use to describe this social value: what they refer to as vibes.
      • keywords: margins; social; townships; vibes
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1094. 6395w66648v
      • author: Bry Martin
      • title: Court Dusk, Country Dawn: The Ideological Formation of the First Earl of Shaftesbury
      • date: 2020
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The study argues that Shaftesbury inherited a conservative vision of English politics with roots in the Plantagenet past, a worldview that pictured government as a combination of top-down kingly authority and legitimacy, the Court, meeting a public virtue nursed on the land and through local government, the Country. The result was an eclectic set of often radical principles that few other Englishmen of his time could have completely shared, yet principles forwarded at the service of a desire to restore the harmonious bonds of Court and Country lodged deep in the English past.
      • keywords: career; country; government; intellectual; political; politics; public; shaftesbury
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1095. 6395w66656g
      • author: Michelle A. Berg
      • title: The Role of Dense Circumgalactic Gas in Shaping Galaxies
      • date: 2021
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: This galaxy-selected survey uses luminous red galaxies (LRGs, logM★ &gt; 11 M⊙) at z ~ 0.5 to observationally test model predictions for cold-mode and hot-mode accretion into galaxy halos by determining the cool HI gas content in LRG halos and the metallicity of the absorbers we detect. This dissertation is composed of two projects that study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies at z &lt; 1, searching for connections between the gas in galaxy halos and their host galaxy properties.
      • keywords: absorbers; cgm; galaxies; galaxy; halos; metallicity; properties
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1096. 6395w66659h
      • author: Yalin Liu
      • title: Towards Explainable and Trustworthy Traceability
      • date: 2021
      • words: 409
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: We adopted this method to address two open challenges of generating trace links in bilingual project environments and supporting domain-specific traceability. To approach our second goal, we adopted data mining and natural language processing techniques to build a fully automated pipeline to construct a knowledge base that could be used to generate trace link rationales.
      • keywords: artifacts; concept; learning; link; model; software; trace; traceability
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1097. 6395w66660q
      • author: Daniel Schor
      • title: The Scope and Control of Attention: A Computational Pupillary Modeling Approach
      • date: 2021
      • words: 217
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Working memory capacity (WMC) is thought to be made up of two, more primitive, underlying constructs; scope of attention (SA) and attention control (AC). Finally, a large-scale online study facilitated the comparison of the model's Kmax (SA) and α (AC) parameters, confirming their independence.
      • keywords: constructs; individual
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1098. 6395w666674
      • author: Samantha Slaubaugh
      • title: Liturgy and Ecstasy among the Beguines of Roubaud: Douceline of Digne's Vida as Liturgical Commentary and Customary
      • date: 2022
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 38
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; community; dissertation; douceline; ecstasy; hagiography; liturgical
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1099. 6682x348992
      • author: Shaofei Zhu
      • title: Exotic Rotation in Weakly Deformed and Triaxial Nuclei
      • date: 2004
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Antimagnetic rotation in weakly deformed nuclei Pd100,101, and chiral rotation in triaxial nuclei Nd135,136 have been investigated by means of gamma-ray spectroscopic measurements. Although there are no chiral partner bands observed in even-even nucleus Nd135 from our data, TAC calculations indeed give chiral solutions related to several Delta(I)=1 bands in the nucleus Nd136.
      • keywords: bands; calculations; chiral; nuclei; rotation
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1100. 6682x348b08
      • author: Andrew Orr
      • title: Mental Maginot Line: Anti-Republicanism, Gender, and Voting Rights in the Politics of the French Army, 1871-1940
      • date: 2008
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Drawing on papers from the Archives Nationales and the Service Historique de l'ArmÌøåÀå_e de Terre, the dissertation argues that French military leaders responded to pressure to weaken their control over their soldiers' lives and transition to a militia-style army by redefining military identity in opposition to the Third Republic and civilian society. The process of separation began with bataille conduite (Methodical Battle) theorists' focus on exercising political control over conscripts and escalated in the mid-1920s to include plans to use civil employees, including women, clandestinely to maintain a larger army than authorized by law.
      • keywords: army; french; identity; military; political; society; soldiers
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1101. 6682x348b1m
      • author: Crystal D Champion
      • title: Effects of Participant Disclosure Tendencies and Physician Verbal Behavior on Participant Willingness to Disclose Facts: An Analogue Study
      • date: 2008
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: x 3 (physician statement: symptom focused question, feeling focused question, or self-disclosure) factorial using perceived privacy and importance of facts and self-disclosure tendency as covariates. Participants were asked to put themselves in the place of patients while listening to audio files of three staged doctor visits (no problem scenario, fatigue scenario, and diabetes scenario).
      • keywords: disclosure; gender; patient; physician; question; scenario
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1102. 6682x348c1x
      • author: Patrick Lee Schoettmer
      • title: Threat, Faith, and Community: The Transformation of American Muslim Political Identity in 21st Century America
      • date: 2014
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: The transformation of the importance and meaning of Muslim identity among those outside the group has lead to both social and political realignments within the Muslim community. By focusing on this transformation and the predictors that explain it, this dissertation tests hypotheses that link the perception of external threat to the way people process political information and allow it to shape their political behavior and belief systems.
      • keywords: dissertation; group; identity; muslim; perception; political
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1103. 6682x348c28
      • author: Sunil Srinivasa
      • title: Statistical Mechanics for Wireless Systems: Application of Exclusion Processes to the Modeling and Analysis of Multihop Networks
      • date: 2011
      • words: 423
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: We then demonstrate via a simple toy example that the PMFA procedure is quite general in that it may be used to accurately evaluate the performance of multihop networks with arbitrary topologies. Finally, we identify that when reliable delivery of packets is not very critical, a viable solution towards balancing end-to-end delay and reliability in multihop networks is to have the nodes forcibly drop a small fraction of packets.
      • keywords: delay; end; line; multihop; network; packets; simple; throughput; wireless
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1104. 6682x348f37
      • author: Weichuan Li
      • title: Algebraic Collective Model and Its Application to Core Quasiparticle Coupling
      • date: 1904
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The soft core is described by the collective model with rotation-vibrational motion, while the rigid core is described by the triaxial rotor model, which is a limiting case of the collective model with only rotational motion. The triaxiality of odd-mass nuclei is addressed in this thesis, by coupling a quasiparticle to an even-even core through the core quasiparticle coupling model.
      • keywords: core; mass; nuclei; triaxiality
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1105. 6682x34915g
      • author: Luis Ernesto Saumell
      • title: Perverse Sheaves and Hyperplane Arrangements
      • date: 1904
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: In this thesis we look at a class of perverse sheaves arising from local systems on a complement of a hyperplane arrangement and give a concrete (combinatorial) formula to identify the simple ones; that is, those of length one. By the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, there is an equivalence of categories between perverse sheaves and regular holonomic D-modules.
      • keywords: complement; hyperplane; perverse
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1106. 6682x34922r
      • author: Erik Fuhrer
      • title: Not Human Enough for the Official Census
      • date: 1904
      • words: 14
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: A book of poetry focusing on the intersection between the human and the nonhuman.
      • keywords: nonhuman
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1107. 6682x34946r
      • author: Michael S. McConnell
      • title: Adiabatic Reversible Computing: Measurement of Heat Dissipation Using Nanothermocouples and Fabrication of MEMS Power Clocks
      • date: 2019
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Much research has been devoted to steep devices to circumvent the passive power term and enable a lower VDD, but an alternative approach is quasi-adiabatic reversible computing, which uses adiabatic transitions and reversible logic designs to minimize the amount of heat dissipated, and break the direct link between the bit energy and dissipation. This work describes quantitative measurement of the heat dissipation in an adiabatic reversible shift register and investigation of piezoelectric microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonators as possible clock sources for reversible logic.
      • keywords: adiabatic; cooling; dissipation; heat; mode; power; resonators; reversible
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1108. 6682x349c6x
      • author: Ricardo Romero-Moreno
      • title: Role of the CXCL5/CXCR2 Axis in Breast Cancer Metastasis to Bone and Initiation of Colonization
      • date: 2019
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: bone; breast; cancer; cxcl5; metastasis
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1109. 6682x349g5h
      • author: Mortaza Saeidi-Javash
      • title: Microscale Additive Manufacturing of Functional Devices for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting and Sensing
      • date: 2022
      • words: 465
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Successful implementation of this methodology led to ultrahigh power factor and flexible TE films with a sintering time less than one second, whereas conventional thermal sintering requires hours of processing time at elevated temperatures which hinders the widespread development of flexible TEGs. We demonstrated aerosol jet printed high-performance TEGs using n-type bismuth telluride (Bi2Te2.7Se0.3) TE nanoplates for energy harvesting and flexible sensors using graphene and Ti3C2Tx
      • keywords: development; devices; energy; flexible; heat; high; ipl; manufacturing; sensors; sintering; tegs; thermoelectric
      • versions: original; plain text
1110. 6682x349h65
      • author: Samuel Piccolo
      • title: From Athens to Turtle Island: Indigenous Thought and Neo-Aristotelianism
      • date: 2023
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Given that Indigenous accounts of sovereignty are also connected to Indigenous natural law, I argue that these debates on sovereignty reaffirms my overall argument that Indigenous philosophy finds more resonances with Western political philosophy rooted in the Aristotelian tradition. What is Indigenous philosophy and how does it relate to the Western tradition?
      • keywords: indigenous; philosophy; sovereignty; thought; tradition
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1111. 6969z031m34
      • author: Nolan James Corry Locke Noble
      • title: Long-Run Consequences of Short-Term Health Shocks
      • date: 2015
      • words: 82
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The first chapter examines how malaria in children in Indonesia impacts household well-being and subsequent compensatory behavior. The third chapter examines how parents respond to the risk and cost of influenza that their young children face in terms of their influenza vaccination decisions for those children.
      • keywords: chapter; children
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1112. 6969z031m4g
      • author: Peter David Hoffman
      • title: Segregation and Self-Assembly of Binary Colloidal Systems under Dielectrophoresis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Although dielectrophoretic separation of binary suspensions has been reported in the past, the bulk structure of the binary system under DEP has not been studied. In this paper, we report on the structural frequency dependence of a binary colloidal system using latex particle suspensions.
      • keywords: binary; diagram; phase
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1113. 6969z031m5t
      • author: Patricia Marcela Rodriguez
      • title: The Participatory Effectiveness of Land-Related Movements in Brazil, Ecuador, and Chile: 1990-2004
      • date: 2010
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Utilizing data derived from newspaper reports of protest events and interviews with movement leaders, government officials, and politicians this research explores the following argument: the policy influence of social movements is a consequence of movements' ability to sustain mobilization in face of the negotiations it engages in with political actors. The realization of the need to engage in a double-pronged approach (mobilization and politics) reflects a substantial distancing from the historical tendency for grassroots movements to adopt an either reform or revolution approach.
      • keywords: grassroots; mobilization; movements; policy; political; politics
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1114. 6969z031m65
      • author: Kotchaphan Kanjana
      • title: Chemical Kinetics in Reactor Cooling Loops: Metal Ion Hexahydrate Reactions and Suppression of Radiolysis by Hydrogen
      • date: 2013
      • words: 468
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The Critical Hydrogen Concentration (CHC) for suppression of water radiolysis has been studied at temperatures up to the supercritical regime in Hastelloy and sapphire tubing. The experimental results obtained from the sapphire system have been used to estimate some rate constants needed for water radiolysis modeling.
      • keywords: chapter; electron; hexaaquo; metal; metal ions; rate; reactions; transition; transition metal
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1115. 6969z031m7h
      • author: Elizabeth Strandberg
      • title: AGB Star Nucleosynthesis of the Magnesium Isotopes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Resonance parameters were determined and reaction rates were calculated. The last reaction in this series, 24Mg(alpha,gamma)28Si, has not been examined with sufficient sensitivity at alpha energies below 1.5 MeV.
      • keywords: 28si; alpha; mev; reaction
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1116. 6969z031m8v
      • author: Buket Korkut
      • title: The Narrative Nature of Ethical Discourse
      • date: 2011
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It pursues a comparative analysis with respect to modern moral theories, theories of practical reasoning, and action theories so as to explain how a unified approach can resolve the chronic problems in each area. So we inevitably turn to a form of description that shares the formal structure of action relations and reveals the evaluative qualities of particular actions.
      • keywords: action; discourse; ethical; narrative; practical
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1117. 6969z031m96
      • author: Jessica Mikels-Carrasco
      • title: Closer to the ground: Environmental sociology of children
      • date: 2014
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: These findings point to the need to recognize the legitimacy of child-centered ways of knowing as pathways to engage youth and underscore the need for greater consideration and intentionality in the development of a nuanced pedagogy of humanature interaction in environmental education. The negative impacts of human behavior on the natural environment are increasingly apparent, and while environmental education offers the hope that teaching and engaging young people will lead them on alternative paths in their interactions with the natural world that worthy goal has not come to fruition.
      • keywords: children; education; environmental; kids; natural; world
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1118. 6969z031n0d
      • author: Andrew Peter Arana
      • title: Arithmetical investigations: a study of models of arithmetic and purity of methods
      • date: 2003
      • words: 279
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: In Chapter 2, we investigate the complexity of m-diagrams of models of various completions of PA. In the mathematical part, we focus on computability-theoretic issues concerning models of first-order Peano arithmetic (PA).
      • keywords: chapter; models; purity; results
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1119. 6969z031n1r
      • author: Xiang Li
      • title: Electrical properties and device applications of InAlP native oxide/GaAs MOS structures
      • date: 2007
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: devices; gaas; gate; inalp; mosfets; native; oxide; properties
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1120. 6969z031n4s
      • author: Sanchita Bhatnagar
      • title: Modulation of Macrophage Biology and Host Immune Response by Mycobacterial Lipids
      • date: 2006
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The data demonstrate a significant shedding of glycopeptidolipids in M. avium infected macrophages and its transport to the neighboring 'bystander cells'. To address the role of GPL as a virulence factor, we utilized M. avium strains either naturally lacking GPL expression or genetically altered to express modified GPL.
      • keywords: avium; gpl; macrophages; mycobacterial; studies
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1121. 6969z031n54
      • author: Andrew N. Downing, S.J.
      • title: The Problem and Promise of History in the Theology of J. S. Drey
      • date: 2013
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Drey's theology offers a distinctive response to these questions, at once acknowledging the problem history poses to religious belief in the modern age and maintaining the essential significance of historical revelation for Christian faith. He further advances a theory of living tradition, born through history by the Christian community, to explain how divine revelation is mediated through time to contemporary believers and thereby secures an historical basis for Christian faith.
      • keywords: drey; faith; historical; history; revelation; theological; theology
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1122. 6969z031n6g
      • author: Joseph Arthur Hagmann
      • title: Magnetotransport Investigation of Bismuth Chalcogenide Topological Insulators
      • date: 2014
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 22
      • 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.
      • keywords: band; bulk; materials; states; surface; systems; transport
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1123. 6969z031n7t
      • author: Sara Bramsen
      • title: Responding to Responsibility in the Fiction of the French Revolution (1789-1814)
      • date: 2015
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: My project examines three works from this traditionally understudied corpus of early revolutionary fiction to determine the early missing links in the conceptualization of responsibility and its migration from the political to the personal. By examining the theme of revolutionary madness and restoration, fictional representations and repercussions of the trial of Louis XVI, and the relationship of women to a modern ethic of responsibility, my dissertation offers a clearer insight into the way responsibility was envisioned by writers during the French revolutionary period in a way that continues to influence our thinking today.
      • keywords: early; french; responsibility; revolutionary
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1124. 6969z031n85
      • author: Jennifer Mary Fox
      • title: Reading Slavery and Agency in the Ancient Novel: Contexts and Receptions
      • date: 2014
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The effects of the legacy of African American slavery, the long literary history of the Captivity genre, psychoanalysis, and post-modern literary theories are examined as powerful influences on current academic reception of the novels. It addresses this problem by examining mythical, historical, religious, political, and philosophical backgrounds to the novel through the lens of literary theory, comparative slavery, colonial, and gender studies.
      • keywords: literary; novels; project; roman; slavery
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1125. 6969z031p2d
      • author: Surya Prakash Tiwari
      • title: Thermodynamics and Speciation of Actinide Materials in the Condensed Phase using Atomistic Simulations
      • date: 2015
      • words: 667
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: An associative interchange exchange mechanism was observed for +2 charged actinyl ions, whereas a dissociative mechanism was observed for +1 charged actinyl ions. Di-oxo actinide cations (AnO$^{n+}2$, $n$=1, 2) or better known as actinyl ions are commonly found and important species in solutions and in nuclear fuel cycle.
      • keywords: actinide; actinyl; energy; field; force; interactions; ions; nuclear; parameters; simulations; systems; water
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1126. 6969z031p6s
      • author: Shiran Zhang
      • title: Catalysis on Cobalt Oxide-Based Nanocatalysts
      • date: 1904
      • words: 553
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Transition metal oxide is one of the key components of heterogeneous catalyst and is frequently used as catalyst support for noble metal nanoparticle catalysts due to low cost. For noble metal nanoparticle catalysts, only atoms exposed on surface participate in catalytic processes, while atoms in bulk do not.
      • keywords: atoms; bimetallic; catalyst; catalytic; conditions; metal; nanocatalysts; noble; oxide; sites; surface
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1127. 6969z032p31
      • author: A. Davis Richardson
      • title: A Genova ci vanno tutti: Reimagining Representations of Homosexuality in Italy, 1942-53
      • date: 2020
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Despite official antipathy towards homosexual men under Fascism, homosexual characters in Italian cultural production began to emerge as early as 1942 with Alberto Moravia's novella Agostino and the production of Luchino Visconti's film Ossessione. It is now a commonplace that in films and literary texts of the early postwar years, representations of homosexuality fell almost exclusively into a tripartite paradigm of fascists-criminals-pedophiles—in line with cronaca of the time—with homosexual characters occupying one or more of those categories and often blurring the lines between them.
      • keywords: early; homosexual; homosexuality; period; postwar; production
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1128. 6969z032q4p
      • author: Bryan (Ning) Xia
      • title: Learning Attentive Deep Representations for Object Re-Identification and Beyond
      • date: 2021
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Overall, this dissertation is motivated by wildlife conservation to address the object re-identification problem. However, the designed attention mechanisms are designed from the root of solving object re-identification problems, they are also deep learning mechanisms with the capability of solving other problems.
      • keywords: identification; mechanisms; object; person; problem; research; wildlife
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1129. 6969z032r0m
      • author: John H Huber
      • title: Jointly Leveraging Mathematical Models and Data to Understand Malaria Transmission and Control
      • date: 2021
      • words: 620
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Accounting for the clinical definitions applied in the surveillance system, I estimated that many P. vivax relapses were likely misdiagnosed as reinfections, potentially leading to an overestimate of P. vivax transmission from routine surveillance data. Second, I fitted transmission models of P. falciparum and P. vivax to a malaria epidemic in Southeastern Venezuela.
      • keywords: analysis; clinical; data; malaria; mathematical; models; plasmodium; surveillance; transmission; vivax
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1130. 6969z032s5n
      • author: Bradley Keegan
      • title: Small Molecule Modulation of the Hsp90 Proteostasis Network for Neuropathic Protection
      • date: 2022
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Within this context, my thesis work has focused on the design, synthesis, and evaluation of small molecule disruptors of Aha1/Hsp90 interactions for the reduction of tau aggregation; the development of a novel in vitrosplit Renilla luciferaseassay for assessment of Aha1/Hsp90 disruptors; and the biological evaluation of small molecule inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated protein 1 (TRAP1), the mitochondrial Hsp90 paralog. The work and methodologies described herein have provided a foundation for the evaluation of small molecule modulators of these specific Hsp90 networks, with the goal of identifying compounds that exhibit increased efficacy and potency toward their biological targets.
      • keywords: aha1; disruptors; evaluation; hsp90; molecules; small
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1131. 6969z032s60
      • author: Bridgette J. Befort
      • title: An Integrated Molecular and Process Design and Optimization Framework for Ionic Liquid Enabled Separation of Azeotropic Hydrofluorocarbon Refrigerants
      • date: 2023
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: This framework is an iterative loop in which data is generated and used to fit thermodynamic models and then perform preliminary process design calculations and technoeconomic analyses under uncertainty. First, we demonstrate two workflows which harness machine learning and Bayesian optimization techniques to fit cheap-to-evaluate surrogate models as replacements for computationally expensive molecular simulations, enabling rapid calibration of molecular models for HFCs.
      • keywords: chemical; data; design; engineering; framework; hfc; models; molecular
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1132. 6d56zw14w1b
      • author: Jiading Gai
      • title: Robust Target Tracking: Theory, Applications and Implementations
      • date: 2010
      • words: 492
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Difficulties in real world robust target tracking can arise due to low resolution, abrupt object motion, loss of information caused by projection of the 3D world on a 2D image, changing appearance patterns of both the object and the scene, non-rigid object structures, occlusions, noise in the image and camera motion. Next, a novel synergistic approach for the robust contour tracking of a moving target undergoing non-rigid motion is introduced.
      • keywords: estimation; flow; framework; motion; new; object; optical; problem; rigid; robust; target; tracking
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1133. 6d56zw14w2p
      • author: Benjamin Louis Fischer
      • title: 'Opium Pushing and Bible Smuggling': Religion and the Cultural Politics of British Imperialist Ambition in China
      • date: 2008
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The dissertation argues that the mission in China represents a shift in British thinking about mission and empire, which reflects the achievement of Evangelical hegemony in British culture. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, British missionaries disrupted the century-old tea-trade triangle by their insistence on penetrating the closed Chinese empire.
      • keywords: british; chapter; china; culture; empire; evangelical; mission; missionaries
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1134. 6d56zw14w31
      • author: Timothy Finley Chilcote
      • title: Lake Effect
      • date: 2010
      • words: 15
      • flesch: 84
      • summary: A collection of short stories, all set in Michigan, often set on the Great Lakes.
      • keywords: lakes
      • versions: original; plain text
1135. 6d56zw14x3b
      • author: Ying Cao
      • title: Investigation of InAlP Native Oxides for GaAs Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Device Applications
      • date: 2006
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The kinetics of wet thermal oxidation of InAlP epitaxial layers lattice-matched to GaAs and the electrical properties of the resulting InAlP wet thermal oxides when scaled to reduced thicknesses have been investigated. GaAs-based metaloxide- semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) devices with InAlP wet oxides as the gate insulator have been fabricated and characterized on two heterostructures.
      • keywords: gate; inalp; thermal; wet
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1136. 6d56zw14x4p
      • author: Shanna Corner
      • title: Religion and Gender Ideology: Uncovering the Relationship between American Religious Schools and the Gender Ideologies of American Young Adults
      • date: 2012
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In contrast, Protestant school education and homeschool education maintain positive associations with support for these aspects of traditional gender role belief, though they differ in their levels of association. This project uses data from two nationally representative studies to examine whether or not past high school education in Protestant schools, Catholic schools, and homeschools is associated with differing levels of support for two measures of traditional gender role belief among American young adults when compared to past education in public schools.
      • keywords: education; gender; role; schools
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1137. 6d56zw15k7w
      • author: Ryan Hammond
      • title: Living Without Desire
      • date: 1904
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This push for simplicity and manageability results in a sort of ersatz clarity, where we have a seemingly straightforward account of desire, but such an account does not actually do justice to the complexity of the concept, and more significantly, leads to a flattened and sterile view of ethics and human living. In this dissertation, I attempt to return a more appropriate level of complexity to discussion surrounding desire, and I ultimately suggest that philosophers might do better to construct their theories in ways that lean less on the claim that they are working from the true account of desire.
      • keywords: concept; desire
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1138. 6d56zw15m45
      • author: Juan Guillermo Albarracin Dierolf
      • title: Criminalized Electoral Politics: The Socio-Political Foundations of Electoral Coercion in Democratic Brazil
      • date: 1904
      • words: 490
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: My dissertation, while focused on contemporary Brazilian urban spaces, provides a more general framework to understand the linkage between criminal violence and electoral politics. In a second step, I employ an original dataset of criminal political violence in over 5,560 Brazilian municipalities (2000-2016) and find that high electoral volatility is associated with the occurrence and intensity of criminal political violence.
      • keywords: criminal; elections; electoral; janeiro; political; politicians; politics; use; violence
      • versions: original; plain text
1139. 6d56zw15m8j
      • author: Haiyan Liu
      • title: Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework
      • date: 1904
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: method; model; network; sna; social
      • versions: original; plain text
1140. 6d56zw15r4d
      • author: Elizabeth Grace Jackson
      • title: Belief and Credence: A Defense of Dualism
      • date: 2019
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: On a credence-first view, credences are more fundamental and beliefs are a species of credence, e.g. credence above some threshold. This raises the question: how do belief and credence relate to each other?
      • keywords: belief; credence; view
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1141. 6d56zw15x8b
      • author: Brian R. Barrett
      • title: The Clothing of Divinity: The Unity of Letter and Spirit in Origen's Exegesis
      • date: 2019
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Chapter 1 establishes that the letter both reveals and constitutes the fullness of Scripture's meaning; the union of letter and spirit is perceived as the text's self-effacement. Particularly in Peri Archôn 4, Origen proposes a method of interpretation which will allow the exegete to perceive Scripture's composition as an irreducible mystery.
      • keywords: chapter; letter; origen; scripture; spiritual
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1142. 6d56zw15z48
      • author: Katherine Eva Neece
      • title: Imagining Haunting: 'Elsewheres and Elsewhens'
      • date: 2021
      • words: 539
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Physical space attempts to keep up with digital space. These factors are rapidly altering the way we consume information, address political and social issues, navigate social spaces and shop.
      • keywords: failure; future; mall; new; past; social; society; space; time; way; work
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1143. 6d56zw15z5m
      • author: Connor D. O'Rear
      • title: Counting Book Features That Encourage Both Counting the Set and Labeling the Set Size during Shared Book Reading
      • date: 2020
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The current dissertation considered both children's and parent's input together across a variety of counting books, offering an in-depth analysis of children's experience during counting book reading. By identifying relevant features within books that lead to different types of numerical input it offers insight for parents and educators choosing counting books, and it provides the foundation for future research aimed at designing effective counting books.
      • keywords: books; children; comparison; counting; input
      • versions: original; plain text
1144. 6d56zw16176
      • author: Ana Petrova
      • title: The Party as a Promise: Political Parties' Organizational Strength in Latin America
      • date: 2022
      • words: 292
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: I show how these dynamics work by focusing on the development and subsequent maintenance of two strong partisan organizations in Chile – the Party of Christian Democracy and the Chilean Socialist Party. Defined as an indication that a party is likely to obtain a proportion of the vote that would allow it to become or remain a significant actor on its national political scene, electoral promise positively affects parties' organizational development through two main mechanisms.
      • keywords: electoral; new; organizations; parties; party; promise
      • versions: original; plain text
1145. 6d56zw16203
      • author: Dominic M. Verner, O.P.
      • title: Saving Honor: A Thomistic Ethics of Honor
      • date: 2022
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 4
      • summary: A true objective standard of excellence is distinguished from false standards both by a consideration of Thomas's metaphysics of goodness, which provides principles to adjudicate the excellence of creatures and their actions as participating in divine goodness both as good in themselves and as possessing the dignity of moving others to goodness, and by a consideration of Thomas's doctrine of love, which show that true honorable goodness is ordered to friendship as enabling the conjunction of cooperation by which friends are united and give joy to each other. According to this Thomistic understanding, honor is reverence exhibited in testimony to someone's excellence, a testimony which seeks to confirm belief in that person's excellence in order to burnish his reputation, to increase his glory of a good conscience, to provoke him to greater excellence, to foster friendship, to unite a community in common life, and to perfect the affections of all towards the honored.
      • keywords: excellence; good; honor; thomistic; true
      • versions: original; plain text
1146. 6h440r9855d
      • author: James Richard Kramer
      • title: AgeS: An Agent System Analysis, Comparison, and Applications
      • date: 2004
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: As its popularity has grown, there has been a corresponding growth of agent systems that support the design, development, and operation of applications that incorporate agents. The AgeS system is then described, highlighting the functionality it provides that is not found in other systems.
      • keywords: agent; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
1147. 6h440r9856r
      • author: Joseph M Gonzales
      • title: Genetic Analysis of Gene Expression and the Underlying Polymorphisms in Plasmodium Falciparum
      • date: 2010
      • words: 667
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: To further examine whether different parasite strains exhibit variation in gene expression, Chapter 3 describes the mapping of gene expression levels in the progeny of the HB3ÌÄ' Dd2 genetic cross as eQTL. While CQ exposure does not elicit a transcriptional response from the resistant Dd2 line, the sensitive HB3 line stalls in development and gene expression levels remain consistent with its stage of development in the presence of CQ.
      • keywords: distant; drug; expression; gene; genome; hsvs; levels; lines; parasite; polymorphisms; progeny; structural; variation
      • versions: original; plain text
1148. 6h440r98573
      • author: Jessica Martinez
      • title: Destinations
      • date: 2010
      • words: 3
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: a poetry manuscript
      • keywords: manuscript
      • versions: original; plain text
1149. 6h440r9858f
      • author: Jason Anthony Rastovski
      • title: Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Financial Globalization
      • date: 2013
      • words: 509
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The findings in this chapter inform the theoretical literature on sovereign debt defaults in that future work should consider the effect of domestic credit markets on sovereign debt default probabilities and the time it takes to resolve such a default. Yet, this explanation does not hold in this latest period of financial globalization as financial asset-to-asset trading has become a much larger contributor to changes in cross-border financial asset positions.
      • keywords: asset; border; borrowing; chapter; cross; debt; financial; increases; long; run
      • versions: original; plain text
1150. 6h440r9859s
      • author: Smarajit Triambak
      • title: The Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation And Ft Value Of The 0+ ---> 0+ Fermi Transition In 32Ar: Two Tests Of Isospin Symmetry Breaking
      • date: 2008
      • words: 13
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This dissertation describes two high-precision measurements concerning isospin symmetry breaking in nuclei.
      • keywords: nuclei
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1151. 6h440r98600
      • author: Hoang Bui
      • title: A Rich Metadata Filesystem for Scientific Data
      • date: 2012
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This dissertation presents the design and implementation of ROARS, focusing primarily on the challenge of maintaining data integrity and achieving data scalability. ROARS is a hybrid approach to distributed storage that provides both large, robust, and scalable storage and efficient rich metadata queries for scientific applications.
      • keywords: data; performance; roars; scientific; storage
      • versions: original; plain text
1152. 6h440r9861b
      • author: Igor Frota de Vasconcelos
      • title: X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Modeling Studies of Ion Adsorption to Kaolinite Clay Surfaces
      • date: 2006
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Finally, analysis of samples with cadmium aqueous concentration of 3 uM, 10 uM, and 100 uM at pH 9 suggests the formation of inner sphere complexes adsorbed to both silanol and aluminol edge sites in different ratios. A small amount of sodium adsorbs on the siloxane surface as inner sphere complexes at diffuse sites.
      • keywords: analysis; cadmium; complexes; inner; outer; sphere; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
1153. 6h440r9862p
      • author: Jiying Liu
      • title: Friction and Heat Transfer Models for Finite Element Simulation of Metal Forming
      • date: 2005
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The lubricant film thickness is analyzed through the Reynolds equation; heat transfer coefficients are obtained from a new model specifically derived for metal forming geometries and surfaces are allowed to roughen according to semi-empirical rules. The current representations of constant friction and heat transfer coefficients is a serious shortcoming of modern finite element codes and leads directly to their limited capability to serve as a predictive design tool.
      • keywords: coefficients; friction; heat; metal; transfer
      • versions: original; plain text
1154. 6h440r98631
      • author: Alexei A Kudriavtsev
      • title: Estimation of Performance and Power of SIMD Processors
      • date: 2007
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This approach is applicable to general purpose processors, but specifically targets SIMD processors. A retargetable SIMDization phase was developed, which is capable of generating SIMD instructions, including data reordering instructions, or permutations.
      • keywords: compiler; design; phase; power; space
      • versions: original; plain text
1155. 6h440r98662
      • author: Shane Michael Fimbel
      • title: Retinal Regeneration in the Adult Zebrafish Following Intraocular Ouabain Injection
      • date: 2007
      • words: 498
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: To identify gene expression changes during the ouabain-induced regeneration response, a microarray analysis was performed at four time points during the ouabain-induced damage time course, which included a time point during INL cell death (24 hrs), a time point during maximal proliferation of MÌ_ller glia (55 hrs), a time point during progenitor cell migration (96 hrs), and a 140 hr time point, which corresponds to the initial stages of ganglion cell differentiation. This demonstrates that inner retinal damage, without extensive photoreceptor damage, is sufficient to induce a regeneration response that is marked by the MÌ_ller glial cells re-entering the cell cycle to produce neuronal progenitor cells that regenerate INL and ganglion cells in the zebrafish retina.
      • keywords: cell; damage; dpi; expression; ganglion; inl; layer; mì_ller; ouabain; regeneration; time
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1156. 6h440r9867d
      • author: Dulcinea Boesenberg
      • title: Moses in Luke-Acts
      • date: 2013
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: It argues that in his two volumes, Luke not only uses the figure of Moses to demonstrate that Jesus and his followers stand in continuity with Israel and the Scriptures, but he also shapes Moses into a source of division and means of drawing new boundaries around Israel. Moses is presented as the pattern for Jesus, the prophet like Moses, to whom he commands Israel to listen.
      • keywords: acts; israel; jesus; luke; moses
      • versions: original; plain text
1157. 6h440r9868r
      • author: Elizabeth C Strauss
      • title: 'Cast me not off in my time of old age...': The Aged and Aging in the &#321;&#243;d&#378; Ghetto, 1939-1944
      • date: 2014
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: The first two years of German occupation and Jewish subjugation from May 1940 to September 1942 provide the chronological focus for my analysis of the experiences of older Jews in the &#321;&#243;d&#378; ghetto. During the week of 5 September 16,500 Jews were torn from community institutions and family dwellings, contained in collections points, and loaded on trains bound for the death camp at Che&#322;mno.
      • keywords: aged; aging; community; german; ghetto; jews
      • versions: original; plain text
1158. 6h440r98709
      • author: Joshua Edward Bennett
      • title: Acid Gas and Nitrogen Solubility in Ionic Liquids for Carbon Capture Applications
      • date: 2014
      • words: 300
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: This work is concerned with the measurement of gas solubilities of interest to carbon capture technologies, CO2, N2 and H2S. CO2 solubilities were measured to determine thermodynamic properties necessary to process design. Currently, the common methods of CO2 capture involve the use of volatile, corrosive solvents and require substantial energy to be diverted for the process.
      • keywords: absorption; capture; carbon; co2; ils; process; properties
      • versions: original; plain text
1159. 6h440r98720
      • author: Qian Zhang
      • title: Multilevel Autoregressive Mediation Models: Specification, Estimation, and Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Results indicated that estimation of fixed effects for the indirect effect components (a and b) and the conditional indirect effects with a Level-2 covariate were accurate for N ≥ 50 and T ≥ 5. In addition, Level-2 covariates can be included to partly explain the inter-individual differences of mediation effects.
      • keywords: effect; estimation; level-2; mediation
      • versions: original; plain text
1160. 6h440r9874p
      • author: J. Pocahontas Olson
      • title: A Density Functional Equation of State for Use in Astrophysical Phenomena
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: These low density definitions have further been updated to include an improved treatment of the nuclear statistical equilibrium and the transition to heavy nuclei as the density approaches nuclear matter density. The inclusion of thermal effects of matter enable nuclear Skyrme models, which have been highly tested and constrained at laboratory energy scales, to expand their domain to predictions of astronomical phenomena.
      • keywords: density; eos; equation; high; matter; ndl; nuclear; state
      • versions: original; plain text
1161. 6h440r98782
      • author: Ryan J. Flaherty
      • title: Development and Improvement of Capillary Electrophoresis Methods and Instrumentation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 78
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Included are advancements made for two-dimensional CE separations, the development and characterization of an online SERS detector for CE, an automated fraction collector for CE separations, a current sinking power supply for electrospray ionization mass spectrometry that is used with a CE instrument, and the development of an instrument and method for high through-put aptamer generation termed 2D-CE-SELEX. In this work, I present the development and improvement of capillary electrophoresis (CE) methods and instrumentation.
      • keywords: development
      • versions: original; plain text
1162. 6h440r9883n
      • author: Stephanie Lyons
      • title: 20Ne(p,g)21Na Cross Section Study with the Notre Dame 5U Accelerator
      • date: 1904
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The stellar reaction rate for 20Ne(p,g)21Na is dominated by direct capture and the high energy tail of a sub-threshold resonance. The first reaction in this cycle is 20Ne(p,g)21Na, which also has the slowest proton capture reaction rate (Iliadis et al., 2001), thereby influencing the rest of the cycle.
      • keywords: 20ne(p; cycle; reaction; resonance
      • versions: original; plain text
1163. 6h440r9919t
      • author: Whitney Liske
      • title: On the Coordinate Ring of a Projection of a Degree Two Veronese Variety
      • date: 2019
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The goal of this thesis is to study Rees algebra R(I) and the special fiber ring F(I) for a family of ideals. The defining ideal of the Rees algebra will be of fiber type.
      • keywords: fiber; ideal; ring; special
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1164. 6h440r9930b
      • author: Dylan M. LeBlanc
      • title: Empire's Callous Hands: British 'Government Men' in the Atlantic Slave Trade
      • date: 2019
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Empire's Callous Hands traces the involvement of British government officials in the Atlantic slave trade and analyzes the consequences of that involvement for both human trafficking and the imperial state. On both sides of the Atlantic, intimate involvements in slaving offered a path for government men to assert their authority and build their own wealth.
      • keywords: atlantic; british; carolina; government; imperial; slave; trade
      • versions: original; plain text
1165. 6h440r9982k
      • author: Mengyu Xu
      • title: Syntheses, Structures, and Solution Behavior of Organic-Functionalized Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters
      • date: 2020
      • words: 270
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: cluster; functionalized; organic; peroxide; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
1166. 6h440r9985m
      • author: Yao Wang
      • title: Monitoring the Behavior of Bridges Using Digital Image Correlation
      • date: 2021
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: DIC can provide unparalleled data on bridge behavior, strength, and overall condition. DIC is also validated for bridge monitoring by comparing DIC and strain gauge measurements directly for field monitoring, which has never been done in published literature.
      • keywords: behavior; bridges; dic; dissertation; erection; monitoring; repair; service
      • versions: original; plain text
1167. 6h440r9986z
      • author: Hyungwon John Park
      • title: Sea Spray Aerosol Particle Transport in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
      • date: 2021
      • words: 94
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The conclusions given by this dissertation can be used to better model, predict, and study sea spray aerosol particle transport. Sea spray aerosol particles in the atmosphere contribute to the fundamental processes of mass, momentum, and heat transfer.
      • keywords: aerosol; sea
      • versions: original; plain text
1168. 6h440r99937
      • author: Rachel Krohn
      • title: Dynamics of the Early Life of Online Content
      • date: 2021
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Reddit communities also interact via direct subreddit links, inducing changes to community activity levels and spurring the creation of new communities. Taken together, the work presented here underscores the complexity and nuance of user behavior and interaction within online social media communities, along with the challenges associated with predicting and understanding early content dynamics.
      • keywords: communities; content; media; online; reddit; social; users
      • versions: original; plain text
1169. 6h440r9998z
      • author: Sarajane Roenke
      • title: Modeling the Effect of Hydroxylamine Addition on Nitrifying Biofilm Communities
      • date: 2022
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: For counter-diffusional biofilms, NH2OH supplied from the bulk was unable to induce nitritation, but when supplied from the base it was able to induce nitritation and fully eliminate NOB, even at low NH2OH concentrations. However, the retention of a small amount of NOB even at high NH2OH concentrations suggests that nitritation could be more easily compromised.
      • keywords: biofilms; diffusional; nh2oh; nitritation
      • versions: original; plain text
1170. 6m311n81f38
      • author: Rebeccah Lynn Schweers
      • title: Whose Fault is it Anyway? The Role of Responsibility Attributions in the Association Between Wives' Marital Discord and Depression
      • date: 2009
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: We conclude that moderate levels of both self and partner responsibility attributions about the causes of negative marital events may be most adaptive in preventing marital discord and depression among married couples. Previous research has demonstrated that negative attributions are associated with both marital discord and depression, but few studies have explored the role of attributions in the strong relation between marital discord and depression.
      • keywords: depression; marital
      • versions: original; plain text
1171. 6m311n81f4m
      • author: Alicia D Guarracino
      • title: Pink Batteries
      • date: 2010
      • words: 19
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Described by others as zany, tasty, and wild, Pink Batteries is a collection of poems that obliterates the envelope.
      • keywords: envelope
      • versions: original; plain text
1172. 6m311n81f5z
      • author: Jill Budny McCormick
      • title: The Education of the Irrational in Plato's Laws
      • date: 2010
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: However, unlike Socrates who refrains from direct involvement in politics because he prefers private education, the Athenian continues to aspire to improve the city, despite his awareness that perfect, lasting resolution between the rational and irrational is not possible in political life. Through the argument and action of the Laws, Plato teaches his readers that political life will never reach a state of rational perfection, but progress is possible through incremental reforms introduced through gentle persuasion.
      • keywords: athenian; city; education; persuasion; political
      • versions: original; plain text
1173. 6m311n81g58
      • author: Evelyn J. Boria-Rivera
      • title: Policing the Maternal: Puerto Rican and Cuban American Literature and the Legacy of the Cold War
      • date: 2010
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 0
      • summary: By historicizing images of maternity in Latina literature in the context of twentieth century immigration as a Cold War phenomenon, this project also seeks to intervene in important debates by Cold War historians about the influence of the Cold War on constructions of domesticity and femininity in the US. Building on recent discussions of the Cold War's profound influence on white women's bodies, my dissertation considers the lost narratives of maternal interventionÌ¢ âÂ' particularly with regards to the sterilization campaign (1937-1965) in Puerto Rico in which over one third of the island's women were sterilized and the Peter Pan program (1960-1962) in Cuba wherein over 14,000 Cuban children were relocated to US orphanages.
      • keywords: century; cold; dissertation; latina; maternal; maternity; twentieth; war
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1174. 6m311n81g6m
      • author: Marcus P. Meuwese
      • title: 'For the Peace and Well-Being of the Country': Intercultural Mediators and Dutch-Indian Relations in New Netherland and Dutch Brazil, 1600-1664
      • date: 2003
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: brazil; colonists; dutch; native; netherland; new; relations
      • versions: original; plain text
1175. 6m311n81j7k
      • author: Erik Matthew Larsen
      • title: Design and Conformational Analysis of Structurally-Related Analogues of Polyketide Natural Products
      • date: 2016
      • words: 424
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: As such, our research uses techniques based around high-field NMR and molecular modeling experiments to analyze polyketide conformational preferences. Finally, the misidentification of the bioactive conformation of the polyketide epothilone prompted us to investigate whether the notable structural elements that influence polyketide conformation could be affected by a solid state environment.
      • keywords: biological; conformation; considerable; effects; energy; features; polyketide; potential; preferences; research
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1176. 6m311n81n4g
      • author: Hubert Turley
      • title: Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering for Short-Wave Infrared Sensing and Probing Higher-Order Molecular Properties
      • date: 1904
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The second study compares resonance hyper-Raman scattering of crystal violet from experimental SEHRS measurements and theoretical calculations over its two lowest-lying electronic states (12,700-27,400 cm-1). Ultrasensitive detection of the scattered signal, which occurs in a biological transparent window, is accomplished for three analyte molecules under modest experimental conditions.
      • keywords: calculations; electronic; hyper; raman; resonance; scattering; sehrs; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
1177. 6m311n81t0n
      • author: Benjamin Lewis
      • title: Quantization Commutes with Reduction on Compact Lie Groups under the Adjoint Action
      • date: 1904
      • words: 113
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: It turns out that in general quantization commutes with reduction, but only weakly; that is the map between the first-quantized-then-reduced space and the first-reduced-then-quantized space is only a vector isomorphism, not necessarily unitary and therefore respecting the physically relevant inner product. Over the last half-century mathematicians and physicists alike have done quite a bit of work on the problem of quantization commutes with reduction and its generalizations.
      • keywords: quantization; reduction
      • versions: original; plain text
1178. 6m311n8249t
      • author: Satyaki Bhattacharjee
      • title: Reduced Order Multiscale Modeling of Nonlinear Processes in Heterogeneous Materials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: This novel reduced order model is able to predict the macro-scale as well as micro-scale deformation field for any unknown loading condition without any expensive simulation. Also a novel pattern/physics based sampling strategy has been introduced to construct a representative solution manifold with a few number of simulations.
      • keywords: deformation; fields; manifold; micro; model; modeling; nonlinear; order; reduced; scale; space
      • versions: original; plain text
1179. 6m311n8252q
      • author: Ming Ma
      • title: Using Direct Numerical Simulation and Statistical Learning to Model Bubbly Flows in Vertical Channels
      • date: 1904
      • words: 306
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of multiphase flows have progressed rapidly over the last decade and it is now possible to simulate motions of hundreds of deformable bubbles in turbulent flows. DNS simulation of a turbulent system with bubbles of different sizes at a friction Reynolds number of 250 shows that small bubbles quickly migrate to the wall, but the bulk flow takes much longer to adjust to the new bubble distribution.
      • keywords: bubbles; different; dns; flows; results; simulation; turbulent
      • versions: original; plain text
1180. 6m311n8296b
      • author: Stefanie Israel de Souza
      • title: Expiration Date: Mega-Events and Police Reform in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
      • date: 2019
      • words: 567
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Implemented in Rio de Janeiro beginning in 2008, this initiative aimed to regain the state monopoly of violence in favelas dominated by armed drug dealers while also reducing police violence. Rather than the single violent post-Olympic invasion that residents had imagined, 2016 was characterized by a series of invasions, attempted invasions, targeted assassinations, and killings by police as drug dealers from both factions called on a seemingly endless supply of outside reinforcements from allied favelas.
      • keywords: communities; event; favelas; pacification; period; police; research; state; time; violence
      • versions: original; plain text
1181. 6q182j64q70
      • author: Mitchell Andre Chouinard
      • title: Hessert Weakly Compressible Free Shear Facility
      • date: 2004
      • words: 597
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: While this model began to gain acceptance on its own merit, its acceptance was resisted due to its most-controversial result of large pressure fluctuations within a free shear layer concomitant with the coherent vertical structures in the layer which form naturally under the influence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Both the static pressure data and the flow visualizations unequivocally vindicated the WCM's predictions of large static pressure wells concomitant with the coherent character of the vertical structures.
      • keywords: aedc; coherent; flow; layer; measurements; pressure; shear; static; structures; time; wavefront
      • versions: original; plain text
1182. 6q182j64q9p
      • author: Christopher W. Miller
      • title: Reliable and Efficient Reprogramming in Sensor Networks
      • date: 2010
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Making a physical connection with each individual node is impractical in large wireless networks. Re-tasking and remote programming of sensor networks is an essential functionality to make these networks practical and effective.
      • keywords: network; nodes; sensor; wireless
      • versions: original; plain text
1183. 6q182j64r0w
      • author: Megan Trucano
      • title: Challenge, Control, Perceptions of Competence and Boredom During an Experimental Science Task
      • date: 2013
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: At four time points during the task students reported boredom, perceptions of challenge, control, and perceived competence. Tests of moderated mediation were conducted to determine whether theory of intelligence moderates the mediation of perceived competence on challenge predicting boredom, and were not significant.
      • keywords: boredom; challenge; task
      • versions: original; plain text
1184. 6q182j64r17
      • author: Julie Noel Schatz
      • title: Prenatal Maltreatment Risk, Early Parenting Behaviors, and Children's Emergent Regulation
      • date: 2007
      • words: 178
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Moreover, children's regulatory difficulties, assessed by physiological, emotional, and behavioral scales of regulation, were influenced by parenting at 18 months; changes in specific parenting behaviors, especially the quality of the home environment; and prenatal maltreatment risk. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the effects of prenatal maltreatment risk on parenting and children's self-regulation and how prevention efforts can best target these domains in high risk families.
      • keywords: children; maltreatment; parenting; risk
      • versions: original; plain text
1185. 6q182j64r2k
      • author: Richard Kim
      • title: The Nature of Well-Being: Towards a Defense of Aristotelian Perfectionism
      • date: 2012
      • words: 517
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: A central claim that I defend is that well-being (or welfare) is not just one kind of value or consideration among others, but one that can be taken to unify other values that can be realized in a person's life, by providing their purpose and point. In my dissertation I seek to provide an account of well-being that is wider in scope than other contemporary accounts, and has the power to play a much more substantial and fruitful role in moral theory.
      • keywords: account; life; moral; role; subjective; values
      • versions: original; plain text
1186. 6q182j64r3x
      • author: Jonathan J. Den Hartog
      • title: 'Patriotism and Piety': Orthodox Religion and Federalist Political Culture
      • date: 2006
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: The study brings together two sub-fields--the new political history of the early republic and religious history--to produce an interdisciplinary work which advances historical scholarship on a seminal period in American history. In so doing, they created a 'Federalist' expression of religion, in which orthodox religionists rallied to defend what they perceived as their embattled faith and endangered republic.
      • keywords: american; early; federalist; party; political; politics; religion
      • versions: original; plain text
1187. 6q182j64r48
      • author: Wei Zhang
      • title: Analysis and Design of Two Classes of Turbo-like Codes
      • date: 2006
      • words: 484
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: As examples, three low complexity MTC's with 2-state or 4-state encoders are designed for rates $R=1/2 \sim 3/4$. Simulation results demonstrate that the obtained MTC's have better error floors than conventional turbo codes and comparable thresholds. To exploit the advantages of MTC's with respect to minimum distance and convergence threshold compared to conventional turbo codes, we present a BICM scheme using low complexity MTC's.
      • keywords: bcc; braided; codes; constituent; convolutional; distance; fading; low; mtc; turbo
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1188. 6q182j64r5m
      • author: Christopher C. Forbes
      • title: Supramolecular Chemistry of Amide Containing Molecules
      • date: 2007
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Bolaamphiphilic fumaramide-based rotaxanes and amide-based bolaamphiphilic thread molecules that are long enough to span a phospholipid bilayer membrane were shown to induce the translocation of phospholipid probes across vesicle membranes. Amide-based synthetic molecules have been prepared and examined in four separate research projects which investigate conformational isomerization, anion binding, phospholipid translocation and rotaxane formation.
      • keywords: amide; binding; cis; molecules; phospholipid; ring; squaraine
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1189. 6q182j64r90
      • author: Michele Anik Stanbury
      • title: Metaphysics and Dialectic: Plotinus' Reception of Aristotle as Mediated by Alexander of Aphrodisias
      • date: 2014
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: In this thesis, I revisit the question of Aristotelian influences on Plotinus' thought, but mediated by Alexander of Aphrodisias. This methodological choice was guided by Porphyry's comments in the Life of Plotinus, to the effect that Aristotle's Metaphysics is condensed in Plotinus' writings, and that Plotinus studied Alexander's commentaries.
      • keywords: alexander; dialectic; divine; intellect; plotinus
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1190. 6q182j64s06
      • author: Kyu Sang Lee
      • title: Rationality, Minds, and Machines in the Laboratory: A Thematic History of Vernon Smith's Experimental Economics
      • date: 2004
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Our historical narrative in Chapter 3 is intended to clarify that computer experience and computational theory drove the development of Reiter' version of mechanism design economics, and that they also (partially) shaped some crucial events in the history of Smith's version of experimental economics. In Part 1, we describe the origin of mechanism design economics, and offer a detailed explanation of the analytical kinship between Smith's 'microeconomic system theory' and the standard theoretical framework utilized in mechanism design economics.
      • keywords: chapter; design; economics; mechanism; rationality; smith; theory
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1191. 6q182j64s1j
      • author: Jeffrey Michael Baumes
      • title: The Chemistry of Anthracene-Containing Squaraine Rotaxanes
      • date: 2011
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: chemical; cycloreversion; imaging; macrocycle; molecular; rotaxanes; squaraine; thesis
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1192. 6q182j64s2w
      • author: Shaojin Chai
      • title: Enlightened Compassion and Global Governance with Chinese Characteristics: Oneness, Care, and Cosmopolitanism in the Political Philosophy of Wang Yangming (1472-1529)
      • date: 2014
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Using textual and historical analysis, I examine and reconstruct Chinese cosmopolitanism and a theory of world order advocated by Wang Yangming (1472-1529), a Neo-Confucian philosopher and general of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).Wang's role as a philosopher-statesman provides an ideal case to investigate complex relations between Confucian ethics of compassionate care and the discourses of Sino-centric world order. Finally I turn to Wang's views on otherness by looking into his memorials on Buddhism as an ethical way of life and competing political culture as well as his commentaries on civilizing ethnic groups on the Southwestern frontier.
      • keywords: confucian; cosmopolitanism; order; political; wang
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1193. 6q182j64s68
      • author: Estefan Miguel Ortiz
      • title: Pupil Dilation Analysis and Mitigation in Iris Recognition
      • date: 1904
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: We show that by including pupil dilation information into the enrollment phase there is an overall improvement in iris biometric performance. In this dissertation, we examine and expand methods that incorporate knowledge of pupil dilation.
      • keywords: aging; dilation; iris
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1194. 6q182j65f3d
      • author: Nur Mustafaoglu
      • title: Design of Antibody-Based Diagnostics and Affinity Chromatography Systems Utilizing the Nucleotide Binding Site (NBS)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 386
      • flesch: 8
      • 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.
      • keywords: antibodies; antibody; diagnostic; fab; fragments; nbs; purification; site; specific
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1195. 6q182j65f7s
      • author: Lara Sisman Grotz
      • title: Enhancing Nitrification Fluxes in Membrane-Aerated Biofilm Reactors (MABRs): Modeling and Experimental Approaches
      • date: 1904
      • words: 77
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) is an emerging wastewater treatment process that can greatly decrease energy requirements for wastewater treatment. In order to maximize MABR nitrification fluxes, a basic understanding and assessment of MABR behavior is needed.
      • keywords: fluxes; mabr
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1196. 6q182j65s7w
      • author: Aaron J. Pope
      • title: Performance of a Subsonic Compressor Airfoil with Upstream, End-Wall Injection Flow
      • date: 2020
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: The exit of the cascade was interrogated by a five-hole-probe and a total pressure Kiel probe to provide total pressure measurements, which were used to calculate total pressure loss coefficients at the exit of the test section. The independent variables studied were airfoil incidence angle and mass flow rate of end-wall injection upstream of the stator.
      • keywords: end; injection; pressure; stator; wall
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1197. 6q182j65t45
      • author: Robert John Burton
      • title: A Conscience Safe for Politics: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and the Formation of the Modern Conscience
      • date: 2020
      • words: 234
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Next, I present Locke's solution to the problem identified by Hobbes, and demonstrate that Locke's advocacy of religious toleration and freedom of conscience rests on a fundamental shift in the epistemology of conscience and thus, for the relevancy of conscience for political life. These innovations had profound implications for both the epistemology of conscience and the freedom of conscience in modern political societies.
      • keywords: conscience; hobbes; modern; political
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1198. 6q182j65t5h
      • author: Yukun Ding
      • title: On the Uncertainty Estimation of Neural Networks: Bounds, Practical Issues, and Applications
      • date: 2021
      • words: 238
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Fourth, with a correction effort prediction model enhanced by uncertainty maps, we propose an ultrasound scanning framework that optimizes the data acquisition for improved automated segmentation by DNNs. In order for DNNs to gain humans' trust in making decisions reliably, uncertainty estimation is investigated as a promising way to competency-aware neural networks.
      • keywords: competency; dnns; estimation; real; uncertainty; world
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1199. 6q182j65t76
      • author: Patrick Barboun
      • title: Plasma-Assisted Catalysis for the Activation of N2
      • date: 2021
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This thesis examines the interactions between nitrogen activated by a dielectric barrier discharge plasma and supported metal catalysts primarily for driving low temperature atmospheric pressure ammonia synthesis, but also for the coupling of nitrogen with oxygen and hydrocarbons. Direct observation of plasma-catalyst interactions through inelastic neutron scattering makes it clear that plasma activation of N2 facilitates the adsorption of N on a catalyst surface at atmospheric pressure and low temperature.
      • keywords: ammonia; catalyst; interactions; plasma; production
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1200. 6q182j65t8j
      • author: Hannah Helena McGarraugh
      • title: Supramolecular Probes for Imaging, Therapy, and Diagnostics
      • date: 2021
      • words: 130
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: chapter; optical; probes
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1201. 6q182j65v65
      • author: Kristopher Murray
      • title: Generalizable Properties of Dynamically Unstable Steady State Polymers
      • date: 2021
      • words: 589
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Experimentalists commonly refer to the singular steady state, but can actually be referring to different steady state behaviors. In this dissertation, I use three types of simulations of dynamic instability that mimic the behavior of microtubules to answer questions about dynamically instable polymers to answer a series of questions about microtubule behavior.
      • keywords: behavior; dynamic; instability; microtubules; simulations; state; steady; thresholds
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1202. 6q182j65w0d
      • author: Yihao Hu
      • title: Data-Driven Approaches for Differential Equation Governing Systems
      • date: 2022
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: To tackle the training issue in learning switch systems with imbalanced scales, we propose a novel PINN-based neural network model that resolves the training issue of regular PINN in learning nonlinear switch systems. This dissertation explores data-driven methods in modeling and predicting differential equation governing systems.
      • keywords: differential; learning; model; neural; pde; pdes; systems
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1203. 6q182j65x12
      • author: Kenneth McClure
      • title: Sample Size Requirements for Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro Item Parameter Calibration in the Multidimensional Graded Response Model
      • date: 2023
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Motivation for the use of high dimensional item response models and the associated computational difficulties are reviewed followed by an examination of existing work looking at item parameter recovery in the multidimensional graded response model. The present study is the first to systematically examine the impact of marginal trait skewness and excess kurtosis on item parameter recovery.
      • keywords: computational; item; parameter; recovery; response
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1204. 6t053f4805n
      • author: Javier Ernesto Guzman
      • title: Kinetics of Carbon/Carbon Composite Oxidation and Inhibition by Site Blockage
      • date: 2004
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Results show that the activation energy for all of the samples are similar, inferring that phosphoric acid blocks oxidation sites without changing the chemical properties of the material; moreover, results with different concentrations of phosphoric acid show that the inhibiting effect is seen in all temperatures åÁV between 600'_aC and 900'_aC. Results with larger particles show a better performance of the phosphoric acid treated samples, suggesting a mass transfer related control of the oxidation rate. We studied the inhibiting effect of phosphoric acid using powder samples, 75 åÁV 125 micrometers, from a carbon brake composite.
      • keywords: acid; carbon; oxidation; phosphoric; samples
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1205. 6t053f48060
      • author: Christopher Robert Carey
      • title: Single Particle Spectroscopy: Ultrafast Studies and Absorption Technique Development
      • date: 2010
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: These two topics demonstrate the advantages of single particle spectroscopy as they pertain to the scientific process of experimentally determining the properties of nanostructures. In this thesis, I present topics involved in single particle spectroscopy.
      • keywords: nanowires; particle; pmm; polarization; single; spectroscopy; technique
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1206. 6t053f4807b
      • author: Lori Anne Petersen
      • title: The Effect of Concrete Objects on Counting Skill: An Interaction Between Perceptual Features and Established Knowledge
      • date: 2010
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Children (M age = 3 yrs, 10 mo) were randomly assigned to counting tasks that used one of four types of objects in a 2 (perceptual richness: high or low) x 2 (established knowledge: high or low) factorial design. Research suggests that perceptually rich objects may hinder children's performance on mathematics tasks relative to bland objects.
      • keywords: children; knowledge; objects
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1207. 6t053f4817n
      • author: James Edward Ford
      • title: Thinking through Crisis: 1930s African American Literature and Politics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Through close readings of their literature, alongside other cultural productions, I conceptualize 'crisis' as a tool for analyzing the contradictory emergences of alternative agencies in moments of social breakdown. In this dissertation I challenge the conventional literary history that 1930s black intellectuals were uncritical followers of mainstream American Communism.
      • keywords: black; crisis; literature; social
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1208. 6t053f48180
      • author: Carla Marie Ingrando
      • title: The Moral Problem of Economic Inequality: An Analysis of the Roman Catholic and the Quaker Traditions
      • date: 2006
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In this project I have explored the moral significance of inequalities of income and wealth through an historical examination of the Roman Catholic and the Quaker traditions' definitions, interpretations, and analyses of economic inequality. While the two traditions evaded the particular problem of inequality of income and wealth, both have conceptual resources which can be utilized to mount a vigorous critique of economic inequality both internally and in the public sphere.
      • keywords: catholic; economic; equality; moral; quaker; traditions
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1209. 6t053f4819b
      • author: Yen-Chun Lee
      • title: Quilt Packaging Integration and Fabrication of Deep-Submicron Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Devices
      • date: 2009
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This CMOS process features 5nm gate oxide, various implants to suppress Short Channel Effects (SCE), dual-type polysilicon gates, silicon nitride spacer, titanium silicide, and two metal layers for interconnection. Deep-submicron lithography and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuit with roughly 50000 transistors per chip require the high through-put of the G-line photolithography stepper tool and the high-resolution of the Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) tool.
      • keywords: chips; cmos; high; packaging; process
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1210. 6t053f4826m
      • author: Andrew S. Clement
      • title: Action-Based Compression of Spatial Memory for Multiple Nested Environments
      • date: 1904
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: objects; participants
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1211. 6t053f48q1s
      • author: William Raymond Anthony Wichert
      • title: Effects of Confinement and Crowding on Enzyme Kinetics Utilizing Lab-on-a-chip Devices
      • date: 1904
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The effect of molecular crowding on enzyme kinetics studies are measured by increasing solution viscosity using varying concentrations of a viscogen, sucrose. A fluidic gradient mixer is designed and fabricated, so that it can be employed as a means to examine multiple concentration dependent enzyme reactions simultaneously.
      • keywords: analysis; devices; enzyme; fluidic; gradient; instrumentation; kinetics; studies
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1212. 6t053f4931g
      • author: Qingyuan Jiang
      • title: The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone Called Him: Modernist Novels and the Reimagination of Sacred Spaces
      • date: 2020
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: My argument is that in response to the increasing alienation between churches and characters in the 19th century literature, modernists very actively seek to address the need for religion through refashioning traditional religious sites, or finding new significance in buildings/environments that bear religious connotations. This dissertation is to explore the interactive relationship between English literary modernism and religion through modernist novels' using of sacred spaces.
      • keywords: church; city; dissertation; novels; relationship; religion
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1213. 6t053f4938w
      • author: Justin Miller
      • title: Intrinsic Density, Asymptotic Computability, and Stochasticity
      • date: 2021
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Intrinsic density was introduced as a way to get around this unsettling fact, and which will be our main focus. Of particular interest for the first half of this dissertation are the intrinsically small sets, the sets of intrinsic density 0.
      • keywords: density; half; intrinsic; problems; sets
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1214. 6t053f49397
      • author: David Burney
      • title: High-Resolution Analyses of Lunar and Martian Samples, and Impactor Material from the Chicxulub Basin Using ICP-MS
      • date: 2021
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: ICP-MS analyses on material recovered from the Chicxulub Impact Basin have indicated that platinum group elements are more concentrated in clast-free impact melt than other impact lithologies. This research provides a method to quantify and correct for this phenomenon, then applies the method to a suite of lunar samples and terrestrial impact samples to correct any artificial inflation of a signal for a suite of moderately volatile elements (MVEs) during a procedural run.
      • keywords: elements; icp; impact; mass; method; samples
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1215. 6t053f49544
      • author: Warren Campbell
      • title: The Pauline History of Hebrews and the Memory of a Jewish Apostle
      • date: 2022
      • words: 234
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: The various hypotheses, argumenta, and other kinds of prefatory markers for the letter, reinscribe Origen's interpretive lens for Hebrews as Pauline letter on the nature of Jewish reading. Eschewing 'acceptance' and 'rejection' as ways of describing ancient engagement with authorial claims, the Paulinity of Hebrews was guided and sustained primarily through manuscript transmission which fitted this text with material markers of Paulinity as it circulated within Pauline letter collections.
      • keywords: hebrews; letter; material; pauline; paulinity
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1216. 6w924b3189j
      • author: Khanh Dai Pham
      • title: Statistical Control Paradigms for Structural Vibration Supression
      • date: 2004
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Moreover, the research continues with a development of cost cumulants per unit time in infinite horizon control for the state-feedback kCC problem. Furthermore, constant controllers measuring Kalman state-estimates for the output-feedback kCC problem in infinite horizon control are also derived by a Lagrange multiplier theory.
      • keywords: control; cost; feedback; finite; horizon; kcc; linear; problem; state
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1217. 6w924b3190r
      • author: Edouard Louis Crago
      • title: End Of Nature
      • date: 2010
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 76
      • summary: The leaps of technology we are making in Genetics present a frightening parallel to the leaps we made in nuclear sciences that led to the development of nuclear weapons. My work is about the fear of the unknown capabilities of biological sciences, specifically Genetics.
      • keywords: genetics; weapons
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1218. 6w924b31913
      • author: Yilin Wu
      • title: Behavioral Principles of Swarming Bacteria
      • date: 2010
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Bacteria that can swarm behave similarly in many ways, indicating that swarming is governed by some general behavioral principles of bacterial cells. Using a cell-based biomechanical modeling approach and taking Myxobacteria as the model system, we have found that (1) social interactions between bacterial cells, (2) directional reversal and (3) cell elongation all constitute the general behavioral principles that govern swarming.
      • keywords: bacteria; cells; principles; swarming
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1219. 6w924b3192f
      • author: Tiancong Chen
      • title: Smooth Local Solutions to Fully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
      • date: 2013
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: In the first chapter we discuss the geometric background of our equations, state our main results and describe the methods for proof. In this dissertation we discuss the local solvability of two classes of fully nonlinear partial differential equations.
      • keywords: chapter; equations; proof
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1220. 6w924b3193s
      • author: Zoltá n Rá cz
      • title: Piezoflexure-enabled nanofabrication using translated stencil masks
      • date: 2007
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Arrays of Al/AlxOy/Ge metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures deposited with varying evaporation conditions have been formed for rapid material characterization. In the PEN approach, a deposition substrate is translated under a stencil mask in an electron-beam evaporator between depositions of dissimilar materials.
      • keywords: lateral; mask; material; nanometer; pen; scale; stencil; structures; technique
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1221. 6w924b31944
      • author: Emmanuel Sifakis
      • title: Routing Protocols for Wireless Networked Sensing and Control Systems
      • date: 2006
      • words: 118
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: They have applications in various domains such as building monitoring, habitat and environmental monitoring. The deployed sensors are able to gather information about sensed phenomena and route them towards a base station for later processing and decision making.
      • keywords: hard; monitoring; sensors
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1222. 6w924b3195g
      • author: Scott Charles Glancy
      • title: TOPICS IN LINEAR OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTATION
      • date: 2005
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: It discusses methods for reducing and correcting errors and recovering from failed operations. It shows how a universal set of logic operations can be performed, including calculations of the fidelity with which these operations may be accomplished.
      • keywords: computer; information; operations; optical; photons; quantum; qubits
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1223. 6w924b3196t
      • author: Amanda Robyn Matthews
      • title: The Technological Insularity Scale: A Scale Development
      • date: 2006
      • words: 115
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: The psychometric quality of the TIS is supported by results of a factor analysis, and relationships found between the scale and social desirability, empathy, and social isolation scales. Technological insularity is defined as a psychological construct associated with technology-mediated communication in which the communicator is more isolated from and less mindful of the recipients or intended audience when engaged in computer-mediated communications than when engaged in face-to-face conversations.
      • keywords: insularity; technological
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1224. 6w924b31975
      • author: Vladimir Sokolov
      • title: Macroeconomic Volatility and Exchange Rate Regimes: Is 'fear of floating' a stabilizing policy?
      • date: 2008
      • words: 442
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: exchange; fear; gdp; growth; policy; rate; volatility
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1225. 6w924b31b1d
      • author: Katherine M. Rueff
      • title: The Structure and Origins of the Thick Disk Interstellar Medium
      • date: 2014
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The discovery of this thick disk star formation implies that the thick disk ISM has, like the disk, the necessary physical structure for star formation. These studies analyze the thick disk ISM in different ways but both reveal the thick disk to be a dynamic environment, capable of supporting a multi-phase ISM, with the physical condition necessary for star formation.
      • keywords: disk; formation; ism; thick
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1226. 6w924b31b2r
      • author: Brooke Elizabeth Crawford
      • title: Moral Atmosphere and Pro-Social Collective Norms: A Case Study of Two Collegiate Softball Teams
      • date: 2011
      • words: 194
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The hypothesis is pro-social collective norms will be both prevalent and persuasive within collegiate athletic teams. The purpose of this pilot initiative is to identify a better measure for assessing the moral atmosphere on collegiate athletic teams.
      • keywords: collective; norms; team
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1227. 6w924b31b4f
      • author: Yen-Chang Huang
      • title: Singular solutions of the sigma_k equations
      • date: 2011
      • words: 99
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: In this thesis, we study the boundary-blow-up problem for the negative $sigma_k$-Ricci equations in bounded domains of R^n. When $k=1,2,$ and $n$, the necessary condition for the existence of the solutions satisfying the $sigma_k$-Ricci equations is that the codimension of the portion of boundary has to be bounded from above by some constants depending on $n$ and $k$. For other cases, we believe that the similar argument can be developed.
      • keywords: equations
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1228. 6w924b31b8t
      • author: Peter Sempolinski
      • title: An Extensible System for Facilitating Collaboration, Crowdsourcing and Robust Long-Running Computing for Structural Engineering Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: As one means to that end, this work proposes that some of the understanding gained in software design could be applied to other design domains, such as structural design. This Virtual Wind Tunnel (VWT) allows users to upload, discuss and collaborate upon proposed building geometries, incorporates powerful CFD simulators and di- rects such simulations to high-throughput back-end systems.
      • keywords: design; engineering; simulation; software; structural; tools; work
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1229. 6w924b3209b
      • author: Peter Ivie
      • title: A Workflow Management System to Facilitate Reproducibility of Scientific Computing Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: I show that with a minimal amount of overhead, these capabilities can be available for large scale and complex workflows, such as an analysis of high-energy physics data, a bio-informatics application, and processing of U.S. census data. As a scientific workflow evolves in PRUNE, a growing but immutable tree of derived data is created.
      • keywords: data; environment; prune; reproducibility; scientific
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1230. 6w924b3249k
      • author: Maria del Pilar Giannini Bravo
      • title: Electoral Mobilization: Assessing the Importance of Individual, Institutional, and Party System Characteristics on Campaign Strategies
      • date: 2019
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 34
      • 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
      • keywords: democracy; level; political; voters
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1231. 6w924b3253t
      • author: Ann Marie Raiho
      • title: Seeing the Trees through the Forest: Understanding Community Ecology's Influence on Long Term Ecosystem Dynamics
      • date: 2019
      • words: 816
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The stand level process of succession over centennial time scales adds up to the process of regional vegetation redistribution over millennial time scales. Individual tree species interact over long time scales in an ecological process called succession where, after disturbance, fast growing, short lived tree species are able to establish in high light conditions.
      • keywords: carbon; chapters; data; forest; long; models; redistribution; scales; species; succession; term; time; vegetation
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1232. 6w924b32d7c
      • author: Irfan Khan
      • title: Leveraging Phonon Polariton Modes in Polar Materials for Selective Thermal Emission and Absorption
      • date: 2021
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Finally, we experimentally evaluate the role of ENZ substrates on the thermal emission profile of multi-mode optical antennas and provide a platform for engineering both the spectral response as well as the radiation pattern. Recent efforts have also used surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) as well as the epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) response of polar materials to increase light-matter interaction at longer wavelengths, but this work is limited due to the lack of an optical infrastructure at these wavelengths.
      • keywords: berreman; emission; enz; infrared; mode; nanoparticles; optical; sphp
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1233. 6w924b32f1m
      • author: Jaeho Shin
      • title: Development of Rationally Engineered Peptide-Targeted Liposomal Nanoparticles to Achieve Enhanced Therapeutic Efficacy with Selectivity and Design of Novel Inhibitors for Allergy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 443
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: This is accomplished by evaluating the liposomal formulation first in vitro, and then further optimizing it in vivo by adjusting the individual design parameters, such as peptide density, linker length, peptide hydrophilicity, and particle size, to achieve maximal cellular uptake while preserving the selectivity for specific target cancer cells. Furthermore, by taking advantage of multivalency in our design and using weak-to-moderate monovalent affinity ligand peptides as the targeting elements, we are able to achieve selectivity by designing avidity for cancer cells while avoiding healthy cells/tissue.
      • keywords: allergen; cancer; chapter; epitopes; inhibitors; liposomal; nanoparticles; response; specific
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1234. 70795714j77
      • author: Yingping Huang
      • title: Autonomic Web-based Simulation
      • date: 2005
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: We discuss mathematical models to simulate the execution of scientific simulations and formulate objective functions for the purpose of determining optimal checkpoint intervals. A self-manageable system is implemented for the NOM simulation project which allows scientists and other end users run NOM simulations anytime from anywhere.
      • keywords: aws; self; simulations; web
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1235. 70795714j8k
      • author: Taylor Richardson Murphy
      • title: Investigation of Phosphatidylinositol Synthase in the Zebrafish Larval Lens and Photoreceptors
      • date: 2011
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: cdipthi559; cdiptlop; cell; lens; lop; mutant; synthase; type; wild
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1236. 70795714j9x
      • author: Camila Escallon
      • title: Droog Design: Sense and Experience
      • date: 2010
      • words: 1725
      • flesch: 56
      • 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.
      • keywords: art; chapter; craft; creativity; decoration; design; designers; droog; dutch; ettore; furniture; group; important; memphis; new; objects; postmodernism; products; projects; prominent; relationship; role; sottsass; way; work
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1237. 70795714k97
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Frost-Murphy
      • title: Reversibility for Nanoscale Systems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This work begins by providing the foundation for a theory of reversible computation by presenting a formal investigation of reversible finite automata and reversible regular languages that surpasses previous discussions of reversible finite automata that were insufficient to allow fundamental and important discussions to be held about the differences between reversible finite automata and reversible regular languages and their traditional counterparts. The discussion is also extended to reversible regular expressions.
      • keywords: automata; high; nanoscale; regular; reversible
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1238. 70795714m0f
      • author: Reuben Peter Keller
      • title: Ecological and Bioeconomic Risk Assessment for Invasive Species
      • date: 2006
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: ecological; efforts; future; invasive; predictions; risk; species
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1239. 70795714m1s
      • author: Melissa Dawn Moore
      • title: Unpacking Heterogeneity: The Effect of Segregated Communities and Majority Group Status on Voluntary Association Participation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 153
      • flesch: -5
      • 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.
      • keywords: heterogeneity; participation; voluntary
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1240. 70795714n3s
      • author: Joseph R. Michalka
      • title: Adsorbate Induced Reconstructions of Metal Surfaces
      • date: 1904
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The length of the (111) plateaus between step edges also played an important role with regard to the extent of surface reconstruction observed. The difference in binding strengths was found to play an important role in the disruption of the Pt/Pd surface while the preferred binding sites on each system (Pt: atop, Pd: bridge/hollow) led to significantly different behaviors with regards to surface diffusion and mobility.
      • keywords: amp; disruption; platinum; step; surface
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1241. 70795714n8h
      • author: Kalpani Werellapatha
      • title: Towards the Understanding of Binding Environments of Metals Bound to Hematite Nanoparticles and Redox Active Ligands Using X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 473
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: XAS results indicate that at pH 7.5, Cd has adsorbed to 8 nm and 40 nm SAN NPs while more precipitation has been observed on 40 nm MN NPs. At pH 9, adsorption and minor precipitation in 8 nm NPs, a more balanced mixture of adsorption and precipitation on 40 nm SAN NPs and more precipitation on 40 nm MN NPs have been observed.
      • keywords: ligand; nps; precipitation; solid; solution; sorption; state; structure
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1242. 70795714p1d
      • author: Zachariah Silver
      • title: Mesoscale Modeling and Observations of Flow in Mountainous Terrain
      • date: 1904
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system was used to investigate the ability of a leading edge mesoscale atmospheric model to predict key atmospheric phenomena observed during the Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) field campaigns. A challenge is that vector fields describing the flow are fully 3D and thus streamlines are not restricted to a single fixed 2D plane, causing presentational difficulties.
      • keywords: atmospheric; flow; mountain; phenomena; research; terrain; weather; wrf
      • versions: original; plain text
1243. 7079571583n
      • author: Jennifer Lea Garbett
      • title: A Vertex Superalgebra via Spin Factorization Algebras with Point Defects
      • date: 1904
      • words: 99
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Factorization algebras are one approximation' to physicists' quantum field theories, and spin factorization algebras with point defects are a generalization of factorization algebras which allow us to take spin structures into account. In this thesis, we construct the spin factorization algebra with point defects of quantum observables for a particular free BV theory.
      • keywords: defects; factorization; spin
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1244. 7079571590x
      • author: Carlos Alvarado
      • title: Phenomenology beyond the Standard Model: Models for R-Symmetric Charginos, Flavored Dark Matter, and Higgs Lepton Flavor Violation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: In this thesis work, I present three extensions of the Standard Model, corresponding to three independent attempts to improve our understanding of dark matter and Large Hadron Collider data in terms of new physics. The trademark of the model is that dark matter reaches its abundance mostly through annihilation into a pair of distinct mediators, with meson mixing observables imposing stronger constraints than current direct detection prospects.
      • keywords: collider; dark; matter; model; standard; work
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1245. 7079571595n
      • author: Nicole Winsor
      • title: In the Wake of Revival and Revolution, 1915-2005: Postcolonial Modernist Theatre and Performance in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand
      • date: 1904
      • words: 379
      • flesch: 7
      • 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.
      • keywords: cultural; modernities; modernity; new; playwrights; political; postcolonial; theatre; zealand
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1246. 70795715p1p
      • author: Franklin Eduardo Mejia Frias
      • title: Engineering Multivalent Systems for Improved Drug Delivery, Allergy Diagnosis, and Bioprocess Development
      • date: 2021
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Next, chapters two and three focus on how targeted nanomedicines can be rationally designed for tackling one of the major bottlenecks in nanoparticle-based drug delivery: endosomal escape. Using a modular liposomal nanoparticle system, we have studied the implications of endosomal escape moieties in targeted drug delivery and determined optimizable parameters for optimization, improving targeted nanoparticle internalization &gt;10-fold and nanomedicine potency by ~3-fold.
      • keywords: design; endosomal; escape; internalization; nanomedicines; nanoparticles; targeted
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1247. 70795715p9f
      • author: Jordan Cockfield
      • title: Investigating Molecular Mechanisms That Promote Survival or Death in ECM-detached Cancer Cells
      • date: 2021
      • words: 987
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: By and large, metastasis, which is the spread of cancer cells from their original organ site, entrance into circulation, and re-establishment in distant, secondary organs, is responsible for 90% of fatalities caused by cancer. Detachment from the ECM is known to induce a caspase-dependent cell death program, termed anoikis, that cancer cells can circumvent by multiple means.
      • keywords: anchorage; atp; cancer; caspase; cell; death; detachment; ecm; glucose; independent; mechanism; metabolic; mitochondria; mitophagy; production; ripk1; sgk1
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1248. 73666397v1r
      • author: Angela Mary McKay
      • title: The Infused and Aquired Virtues in Aquinas' Moral Philosophy
      • date: 2005
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Given that parts of the treatment are clearly concerned with infused moral virtues and other parts are clearly concerned with acquired moral virtue, what portion of the discussion in the second part of the second part is devoted to each? Together these facts present a puzzle about the detailed accounts of the moral virtues in the second part of the second part: Might these be primarily accounts of the infused moral virtues, and only derivatively about acquired moral virtue?
      • keywords: aquinas; moral; second; virtues
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1249. 73666397v23
      • author: Carl Ashley Neblett
      • title: Living in Tension
      • date: 2010
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: In this grounded ethnography, I examine the University of Notre Dame's local gay and lesbian social movement field. The first substantive chapter discusses the problems of emotional ambivalence among potential GLBTQ activists on the Notre Dame campus.
      • keywords: campus; dame; glbtq; movement; notre; organizations; students
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1250. 73666397v3f
      • author: Bradley Allan Dobrzenski
      • title: Cognitive Consequences of Working Memory Training on a Typically Developed Population
      • date: 2011
      • words: 130
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Two studies seek to address whether or not working memory can be trained in a population of college students, by examining how three constructs of working memory: interference control, the focus and scope of attention, and cue dependent retrieval, are impacted by working memory training. Although additional studies have explored the effects of training on other populations such as the older adults and those who have experienced a stroke, they have not extensively examined whether or not training can improve working memory for typically developed populations.
      • keywords: memory; training
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1251. 73666397v4s
      • author: Yao Zhao
      • title: Rigorous Methods for Dynamic Optimization
      • date: 2013
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: approach; dgo; dynamic; global; optimization; optimum; problems; robust; techniques
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1252. 73666397v54
      • author: Andrew Tayanjana Namanja
      • title: Molecular Basis for Signal Transduction in the Bimodular Cell-Cycle Enzyme Pin1
      • date: 2010
      • words: 703
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: active; activity; allosteric; cis; domain; interaction; ligand; modular; pin1; ppiase; proteins; site; substrate; trans
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1253. 73666397v6g
      • author: Casey Cosner
      • title: Potential Niemann-Pick Type C Disease Therapeutics: Synthesis of Pyrrolinones and Enolate-Derived Thiadiazoles, and the Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Alpha Alkenylation Reaction as a Means to Prepare Trichostatin A
      • date: 2011
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The first involved the identification of N-aryl alkylidenepyrrolinones via high throughput screening as agents that lowered cholesterol within NPC cells. Both esters and ketones can be utilized as substrates, furnishing a wide range of substituted thiadiazole products.
      • keywords: alkenyl; concise; coupling; cross; npc; studies; synthesis; useful
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1254. 73666397v7t
      • author: Clint Christian Elison
      • title: Layer Theory of Relationship Development: Factors Influencing Couples' Relationship Status
      • date: 2010
      • words: 112
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Combining stage and process models, the layer theory of relationship development suggests that relationship status can be predicted by layers of relationship/dyadic, individual, and family background characteristics that accumulate as relationships progress. The results show relationship/dyadic factors are the best and earliest predictors of relationship status, while family background factors begin to influence relationships at the serious dating status.
      • keywords: factors; relationship
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1255. 73666397v85
      • author: Amit Kashyap
      • title: Exploration of Chip Level Architecture of a Multithreaded PIM System
      • date: 2010
      • words: 122
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: In particular, we measure the impact of memory latency and degree of banking, outstanding memory references per thread and the network on-chip (NoC) topology on the execution time of micro- benchmarks. Using this simulation tool, we present a bottom up approach for the evaluation of the architecture on a set of micro-benchmarks.
      • keywords: approach; architecture; lightweight; memory
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1256. 73666397v9h
      • author: Megan L Vance
      • title: Thread Management for Increased Throughput of Lightweight Threads
      • date: 2006
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Two policies, RMA and Block, use simple marking mechanisms to guide thread management according to memory access, and show improvements in performance as the number of remote accesses in an application increase. Lightweight Multithreaded Architectures (LIMA) advance latency hiding capability by creating a platform for the execution of many concurrent lightweight threads.
      • keywords: lightweight; management; policies; threads
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1257. 73666397w3r
      • author: Fangzheng LI
      • title: New Synthetic Applications of Nitroso Diels-Alder Reactions
      • date: 2008
      • words: 395
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Interestingly, apoptolidin was found to undergo ene reaction instead of DA reaction again in a highly efficient and stereroselctive fashion. Meanwhile, pyridine NDA reactions of piperine, oligomycin A, rifampicin quinone and flavofungin were also investigated.
      • keywords: acylnitroso; alder; chapter; diels; efficient; nitroso; reaction; synthetic; total
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1258. 73666397w43
      • author: David Carl Salyers
      • title: Stealth Multicast: A New Paradigm in Bandwidth Conservation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Additionally, simulations are presented, showing stealth multicast approaches the efficiency of ideal multicast, with minimal increase in end-to-end delay. In this thesis, a novel approach, stealth multicast is presented, which offers a practical solution for the adoption of network-level IP multicast.
      • keywords: multicast; network; redundant; stealth
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1259. 73666397w5f
      • author: John S Zintsmaster
      • title: A Network of Residues Relevant to Enzymatic Function in Pin1: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Approach
      • date: 2013
      • words: 552
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: It is hypothesized that the difference in dynamics of these two simulations can shed light on the weak interactions contributing to domain-domain coupling in full length Pin1. The third mutant, I28A, has been recognized as playing a role in the domain-domain interaction in Ch.6 and has been chosen to further identify key dynamics related to domain coupling.
      • keywords: changes; chapter; coupling; domain; dynamics; flexibility; function; gnm; pin1; protein; study; thesis
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1260. 73666397w6s
      • author: Courtney Luckhardt
      • title: Connecting Saints: Travel and Hagiography in the Northwestern Atlantic, 500-800
      • date: 2011
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This dissertation asks how and why connection, communication, exchange, and travel were such integral parts of early medieval hagiography in northern Europe and how this kind of religious travel fit into the larger picture of early medieval travel, which has previously focused on secular or commercial exchange. Religious travel often overlapped with secular travel and this dissertation's analysis of hagiographical and religious sources complements previous important work on political and commercial travel.
      • keywords: early; exchange; medieval; picture; religious; secular; travel
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1261. 73666397x01
      • author: Luis G. Vera
      • title: Tablets of Flesh: Memory, Media, and the Perfection of the Image in Digital Societies
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This dissertation develops a theological ethics of media use in digital media societies. Since Christian theologians have long approached media as a way to form and extend memory, memory is also a fruitful focus point for consulting the tradition about the ethics and theological relevance of media use.
      • keywords: chapter; cognitive; digital; media; memory; theological; use
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1262. 73666397x63
      • author: Karrie Fuller
      • title: Repurposing Piers Plowman: Literary Geography and the Codicological Remaking of Langland's Work
      • date: 1904
      • words: 283
      • flesch: 22
      • 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.
      • keywords: individual; langland; manuscript; professional; readers; scribes; versions
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1263. 7366639819b
      • author: Jade Avelis
      • title: Stay-At-Home Fathers, Housedads, and Deadbeats: Social Class and Primary Caregiving Men
      • date: 1904
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: In this dissertation, I address the incompleteness of our understanding of primary caregiving fathers by studying a diverse sample of fathers. Shifting beliefs about gender and proper roles for men and women have brought about many changes in family life, including more men taking over the bulk of responsibility for their children's daily care.
      • keywords: class; fathers; men; primary
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1264. 73666398q55
      • author: Catherine M. Flanley
      • title: Leishmaniasis Two-Pronged Control Approach: Phlebotomus papatasi Saliva Vaccine Development and Age Estimation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Saliva has been shown to exacerbate skin lesions in mice when co-infected with Leishmania parasites but was observed to have a protective effect when mice were pre-exposed to saliva and then challenged with parasites. Here, near-infrared spectroscopy is validated to age-grade P. papatasi with greater than 80% accuracy when grouped into age cohorts &lt;7 days old or ≥7 days old.
      • keywords: old; papatasi; parasites; proteins; sand; vaccine; vector; world
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1265. 73666398x1n
      • author: Taylor R. Quinn
      • title: Microsecond Simulations of the PmHMGR Second Hydride Transfer Transition State and Investigations into Molecule and Enzyme Dynamics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In this thesis, I will primarily discuss how molecular dynamics simulations of the transition state of PmHMGR compared to ground state simulations facilitated the prediction of allosteric residues that help stabilize the transition state of the enzyme. Molecular dynamics was used to help drug discovery efforts for the epigenetic HDAC and P300/CBP systems, which, in the case of the latter, shed light on the role of protein dynamics on the ligand-protein and protein-protein interface.
      • keywords: activity; enzyme; protein; r396a; residues; state
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1266. 73666398x20
      • author: Nicholas E. Bonneau
      • title: Unspeakable Loss: New England's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735-1775
      • date: 2020
      • words: 300
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: distempers; england; epidemic; new; single; study; throat
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1267. 73666398z1z
      • author: David A. Turner
      • title: Scanning Tunneling Microscope Development and Use in Hydrogen Reaction Studies of Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111)
      • date: 2021
      • words: 378
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: With a functional instrument and means of introducing samples to a vacuum chamber, reactions of alkanethiols on Au(111) with atomic hydrogen can be examined on an atomic scale. This thesis explores the development of home-built precision instrumentation and the nature of reaction between alkanethiols and atomic hydrogen gas using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).
      • keywords: instrument; mercapto-1; octanethiol; parts; reaction; stm
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1268. 73666398z5b
      • author: K.C. Barrientos
      • title: Bodies Remembered: The Performance of Race, Class, and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Poetry of the Afro-Hispanic Caribbean
      • date: 2021
      • words: 421
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The dissertation is divided in two parts: Part 1: Bodies in Transaction, or power and violence being transacted through women's bodies in their relationships to other bodies; and Part 2: Bodies in Action, or the Black female voice reclaiming agency in narratives of objectification to assert herself as an equal member of society and politics. Based on the work of Judith Butler, bodies for the purpose of this project are defined as physical and discursive spaces of trauma and power, the chapters of this dissertation trace how power and violence are transacted and reproduced through Black female bodies in the context of enslavement and colonization in the Caribbean.
      • keywords: afro; black; bodies; caribbean; chapter; dissertation; female; power; violence; work
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1269. 73666399006
      • author: Yue Wu
      • title: Computational Study of the Aeroacoustics of a Circulation Control Airfoil
      • date: 2021
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: High-frequency tonal noise is generated as a result of strong vortex shedding from the slot lip, and its magnitude and frequency also increase with increasing jet momentum coefficient. Circulation control is a promising method to augment the lift of airfoils and hydrofoils and enhance vehicle maneuverability.
      • keywords: frequency; increase; jet; momentum; noise
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1270. 73666399037
      • author: Jessica Nicole Ross
      • title: Identification and Evaluation of Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptide Variants Rationally Designed from the Bioactive Domain of AS-48 Bacteriocin Homologs
      • date: 2022
      • words: 457
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: The circularized bacteriocin enterocin AS-48 produced by Enterococcus sp. exhibits antibacterial activity through untargeted membrane disruption. A total of 384 total peptides were assessed for antibacterial activity against a panel of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.
      • keywords: activity; as-48; bacterial; bacteriocin; drug; enterocin; helical; infections; membrane; peptide; resistant; syn
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1271. 76537081391
      • author: Daniel Taller
      • title: Surface Acoustic Wave Microfluidics: Droplets, Pinned Liquid Films, and Biodetection
      • date: 2015
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In order to deliver on these promises, an effective actuation mechanism must be developed which can overcome the viscous and capillary forces that tend to dominate at small scales. The aforementioned SAW pressures are shown to capable of lysing exosomes, secreted membrane vesicles ~30-200 nm in diameter that are present in blood, saliva, urine, and other bodily fluids.
      • keywords: acoustic; actuation; electric; film; liquid; pressure; saws; surface; waves
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1272. 76537081407
      • author: Candace K McLean
      • title: 'Do This In Memory of Me': The Genealogy and Theological Appropriations of Memory in the Work of Johann Baptist Metz
      • date: 2012
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: This becomes clearer when his idea of memory is considered in conjunction with the theology of God's memory in the writings of Latin American liberation theologian Gustavo Guti rrez. Part one arises from critical appraisal of sources upon which Metz relies in formulating his idea of memory.
      • keywords: chapter; god; idea; memory; metz; theology; work
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1273. 7653708141k
      • author: Joshua Leonard Rasmussen
      • title: What Propositions Correspond To and How They Do It
      • date: 2010
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: I argue that if true propositions correspond to anything, then some correspond to abstract things and others to concrete things. Third, there is the problem of understanding how abstract propositions could correspond to concrete facts.
      • keywords: abstract; correspondence; facts; propositions; theory
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1274. 7653708151w
      • author: Carolyn Marie Rodak
      • title: Optimization and Application of the Polymer Film Poly(n-methylpyrrole) for Environmental Sensors
      • date: 2010
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Further analysis concluded continuously sampled films showed a slower rate of signal decay for thicker films whereas stored films showed a slower rate of signal decay for thinner films. Comparisons between continuously sampled films and stored films showed a large loss in signal strength for the continuously sampled films when compared to the stored polymers.
      • keywords: films; pnmp; sensing; signal
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1275. 76537081527
      • author: Patrick Mousaw
      • title: Valuation of Flexible Fuel Energy Conversion Networks Under Uncertainty
      • date: 2011
      • words: 172
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: This dissertation introduces a modeling framework, suitable for analysis, for systems that can be characterized either directly by the first and second laws of thermodynamics or indirectly by relating the fundamental equations characterizing a system or process to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. We illustrate the solution technique of the bilinear optimization problem applied to several energy systems.
      • keywords: bilinear; framework; problem; thermodynamics
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1276. 7653708153k
      • author: Andrew Steven Yoder
      • title: Early Adversity and Symptom Variation in Depressed Adults
      • date: 2011
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Preclinical research with non-human primates and rodents supports that the HPA system becomes dysregulated following EA and specific symptoms indicative of major depression result. The present study seeks to extend this line of research to evaluate whether EA predicts specific manifestations of depressive symptoms in humans suffering from major depression.
      • keywords: depression; dysregulation; hpa
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1277. 76537082604
      • author: Feng Gao
      • title: Influence of Surface Pattern Characteristics on Electrolyte Separations Using Charge-Patterned Mosaic Membranes
      • date: 2020
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: These findings demonstrate the promise of accessing transport mechanisms which could find utility in a diverse range of chemical separations and sensing applications through chemical-patterning of membranes. Simulations of the electrical potential near the membrane surface demonstrate that for symmetric electrolytes, the structural charge heterogeneity reduces the barrier to ion partitioning thereby promoting salt transport through the membranes.
      • keywords: charge; domains; electrolytes; salt; transport
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1278. 7653708265v
      • author: A.L. Castonguay
      • title: Have You a Clear Authority? Dynasties, Da'was, and the Rise of Islamic States in Medieval Morocco
      • date: 2020
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: However, medieval Morocco was not the exclusive domain of the Mālikī Sunni sect wherein Mālikī Sunni dynasties fought one another for territorial control and material gains. According to this logic, questions related to the religiopolitical legitimacy of medieval Moroccan dynasties were seen as part of religious reform movements originating within the Mālikī sect rather than belonging to sectarian divisions outside of Mālikī sect.
      • keywords: dynasties; medieval; moroccan; morocco; mālikī; sect; sunni
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1279. 7653708273g
      • author: Ryan Faraghi
      • title: From the Impossible to the Imperative: Pleasure in the Thought of Leopardi and Nietzsche
      • date: 2021
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The thesis then argues that Nietzsche's negative attitude towards factual truth is, at least in part, inherited from Leopardi himself, and explains how an analogous understanding of the role of pleasure and a radical skepticism towards a stoic system of morals is at the core of both of their works. This thesis discusses Leopardi's theory of pleasure as the motivating force behind human action, and its implications for the idea of truth.
      • keywords: leopardi; nietzsche; truth; works
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1280. 76537082813
      • author: Alainna A. Wen
      • title: Biased Executive Control of Emotional Information in Remitted Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review
      • date: 2021
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This imbalance may then lead to other negative information processing biases and emotion dysregulation, thereby increasing the risk for depression recurrence. Cognitive theories of depression posit that maladaptive information processing increases the risk for depression recurrence.
      • keywords: control; depression; executive; information; negative; positive; rmdd
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1281. 79407w64d35
      • author: Alexander John Buoye
      • title: Capitalizing on the Extra Curriculum: Participation, Peer Influence, and Academic Achievement
      • date: 2004
      • words: 133
      • flesch: 15
      • 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.
      • keywords: academic; achievement; participation
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1282. 79407w64d4h
      • author: Chrystyna D Kouros
      • title: Transactional Relations between Marital Functioning, Spouses' Depressive Symptoms and Children's Adjustment
      • date: 2010
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: The present study investigates (1) changes in depressive symptoms among married adults and the transactional relationship between husbands' and wives' symptoms, (2) changes in two dimensions of marital functioning (namely, marital satisfaction and conflict), as well as the transactional relationship between husbands' and wives' relationship satisfaction, (3) the dynamic, longitudinal associations between depressive symptomatology and marital processes both within and between spouses, and (4) transactional relationships between parental depressive symptoms, marital functioning, and children's adjustment. Transactional associations between marital processes and depressive symptoms were found separately for husbands and wives; however, different domains of marital functioning related to husbands' versus wives' symptomatology.
      • keywords: depressive; husbands; marital; symptoms; wives
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1283. 79407w64d5v
      • author: Steven Michael Rodenborn
      • title: Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz
      • date: 2010
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Chapter One begins by examining the interplay of creation and eschatology in Metz's early theological engagement with mid-twentieth century interpretations of secularization. In tracing the historical developments of their work, the study underscores the important relationship between each theologian's increasingly sophisticated social analysis and the emergence of eschatology as a practical and subversive theological category.
      • keywords: analysis; chapter; creation; eschatology; metz; schillebeeckx
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1284. 79407w64d66
      • author: Sebastiaan Roelands
      • title: The Role of Banking in the Transmission of Monetary Policy
      • date: 2013
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: The final chapter examines why bank loan rates tend to adjust well when the monetary policy rate rises, but not when the policy rate falls. The finding that higher target capital-to-asset ratios cause BHCs to raise loan rates rejects the Modigliani-Miller Theorem that debt versus equity financing should not be a factor in corporate decision-making.
      • keywords: banks; bhcs; capital; loan; policy; rates; regulatory
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1285. 79407w64d7j
      • author: Bo Gao
      • title: Patterning biomolecule at sub-30 nm resolution by electron beam lithography.
      • date: 2010
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In order to effectively bind biomolecules to silicon surfaces without disruption to their structure, I studied the adsorption behavior of tailspike protein and cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) particles on cationic, anionic and hydrophobic surfaces. Nanopatterned APTES SAMs on SiO2 fabricated by EBL and molecular liftoff were used to guide deposition of tailspike protein, CPMV and DNA nanostructures on silicon wafers.
      • keywords: binding; dna; nanostructures; particles; protein; silicon; sub-30; virus
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1286. 79407w64d8w
      • author: Shawn R Moulton
      • title: Essays on Housing Policy and Community Development
      • date: 2011
      • words: 503
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Chapter 2 examines whether programs that provide housing assistance to homeless people can reduce chronic homelessness. Chapter 2 examines whether programs that provide housing assistance to homeless people can reduce chronic homelessness.
      • keywords: act; chapter; chronic; election; gse; homeless; homelessness; housing; mortgage; programs
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1287. 79407w64d97
      • author: Hilma Macedo Vasconcelos
      • title: Topics in Coherent State Quantum Computation and State Purification
      • date: 2006
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: We show how an universal set of logic operations can be performed using coherent states, beam splitters, photon counters, and a source of superpositions of coherent state, called 'cat states'. This dissertation discusses mainly transmission of coherent state qubits, generation of cat states, and entanglement purification of any stabilizer state.
      • keywords: cat; coherent; entanglement; quantum; qubits; stabilizer; state
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1288. 79407w64f0f
      • author: Kristina Marie Peterson
      • title: Interspousal Criticality Bias in Depression and Marital Discord
      • date: 2010
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Reports of perceived criticism may better predict relapse from depression than ratings of actual criticism in part because they capture such cognitive tendencies. That bias was related to reports of global perceived criticism suggests that spousal reports of perceived criticism capture both actual criticism and reporters' cognitive bias towards over- or under-perceiving criticism.
      • keywords: actual; criticism; reports
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1289. 79407w64f1s
      • author: Junying Liu
      • title: Robust Transmission of Arithmetically Encoded Data
      • date: 2006
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: But widely used entropy codes, such as Huffman codes and arithmetic codes, are variable length in nature. With the wide popularity of arithmetic codes in a variety of standards including MPEG4, JPEG2000 and H.26L, joint design for systems involving arithmetic codes has generated interest.
      • keywords: arithmetic; channel; codes; coding; joint; source
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1290. 79407w64f55
      • author: Hongmei An
      • title: Development of Novel Catalysts For Use in Diesel Particulate Filters
      • date: 2008
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Activity and stability tests performed in TGA and fixed bed flow reactor indicated that the activity and degradation of glass catalysts are related to their composition, particle size, glass/soot mixing method (contact), and ambient gas. Measurements in microwave-TGA suggested that the apparent reduction in soot combustion temperature with microwave heating might be not due to the enhancement of microwave, but the result of the inability to measure the interior temperature of the soot/catalyst mass.
      • keywords: catalysts; combustion; diesel; dpf; glass; microwave; potassium; regeneration; soot
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1291. 79407w64f6h
      • author: Mahesh Yadav
      • title: Characterizing the Differential Response by Primary Macrophages to Infection by Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic Mycobacteria
      • date: 2007
      • words: 413
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: However, the TLR2 mediated production of TNF-µÔ by M. smegmatis infected macrophages was dependent on the µÕ-glucan receptor Dectin-1. We observed that mannose receptor is not required for mycobacterial phagocytosis or for macrophage activation.
      • keywords: activation; avium; dependent; macrophages; production; smegmatis; tnf-µô
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1292. 79407w64f86
      • author: Maria Aleksandrovna Rogacheva
      • title: A History of a Town That Did Not Exist: The Soviet Scientific Intelligentsia in the Post-Stalinist Era
      • date: 2013
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This was especially true under Khrushchev, whose Communist idealism, elitism, and absolute faith in the modernizing power of science and technology provided Soviet scientists with opportunities which were otherwise unthinkable in a rigidly centralized state. I argue that, after Stalin's death, the Soviet government was sometimes willing to allow - and even encouraged - autonomous thinking and actions among certain privileged groups of Soviet society — scientists above all — in order to infuse new life into the Soviet project.
      • keywords: dissertation; intelligentsia; post; scientific; scientists; soviet; stalinist
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1293. 79407w64h1d
      • author: Stephanie A Freed
      • title: The Role of Wallenda in Inducing Autophagy to Regulate Neuronal Cell Body Responses in Drosophila Photoreceptor Cells
      • date: 1904
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Overexpression of wnd in Drosophila photoreceptor cells induces degeneration of the rhabdomeres, the microvillar membrane of photoreceptor cells that houses the phototransduction machinery. A role of wnd in regulating norpA induced photoreceptor cell degeneration has also been identified.
      • keywords: cell; degeneration; function; kinase; overexpression; photoreceptor; wnd
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1294. 79407w64m4c
      • author: Ying Shen
      • title: Essays on Economics of High-Skill Immigration
      • date: 1904
      • words: 485
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: I use exogenous factors driving a large inflow of Chinese students that began in 2006, in combination with variation in historical levels of foreign students to construct an instrument to predict enrollment patterns. Using a two-stage least square model that is identified with a difference-in-differences specification, I find a significant crowd-out effect of the enrollment of foreign undergraduate students on the enrollment of domestic undergraduate students at large selective American research universities, with a magnitude approximately one-for-one.
      • keywords: american; chinese; foreign; high; immigrants; productivity; skilled; students; undergraduate
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1295. 79407w6567z
      • author: Matthew R. Hall
      • title: Identifying Long-Sought 18F(p,α)15O Resonances Affecting γ-Ray Emission from 18F in Novae
      • date: 2019
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Because models don't reproduce observed nova properties, the successful detection of keV−MeV energy γ rays would provide further constraints on nova models. Annihilation radiation, which is produced via e+-e− annihilation, should be the most intense source of γ rays from the explosion.
      • keywords: 19ne; energy; rays; reaction
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1296. 79407w65g32
      • author: Kevin Koh
      • title: Development of RT-TDDFT for the Interaction with the Explicit Solvent and for Correct Description of Excitation Process
      • date: 2020
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: The neural network force field was not successful to reproduce the conformer search through molecular dynamics simulations, presumably due to insufficient simulation times. The electronic energy transfer processes in natural systems, such as the light harvesting pigment protein complexes, and semiconductors, such as photovoltaic devices, occur via electron dynamics in complex systems.
      • keywords: block; dependent; dynamics; field; method; tddft; theory; time
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1297. 79407w65g5r
      • author: Margaret H. Regan
      • title: Parameterized Polynomial Systems and Their Applications
      • date: 2020
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: First, we propose a new approach which uses locally adaptive methods and sparse matrix calculations to solve parameterized overdetermined systems in projective space. Experiments are shown using real and synthetic data to demonstrate that challenging scenes can be reconstructed where standard methods fail.
      • keywords: methods; new; numbers; parameterized; real
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1298. 79407w65h0b
      • author: Jeffrey A. Smith
      • title: Novel Silicon and Non-Silicon Transistors for Low Power Logic Applications
      • date: 2021
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Higher mobility channel materials for n and p channel transistors, channel architecture innovation and mitigation of device-to-device variation are focus of current research to further boost transistor performance at scaled technology nodes. This dissertation focuses on three key aspects of enhancing transistor performance, mitigating variation, and improving reliability in CMOS transistors.
      • keywords: channel; current; device; finfet; gate; high; improvement; mobility; silicon; transistors
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1299. 79407w65h7r
      • author: Hyein Do
      • title: Spectroelectrochemistry for Bacterial Communities
      • date: 2021
      • words: 554
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Electrochemical determination of these factors using nanopore electrode arrays (NEAs) has been demonstrated for enhanced detection of these phenazines, again using both model systems and P. aeruginosa bacteria. Myxococcus xanthus is a common soil bacterium that exhibits various form of self-organizing behavior in response to changes in environment, for example, the development of multicellular fruiting bodies in response to constrained nutrient availability.
      • keywords: aeruginosa; bodies; cm-1; conditions; features; nutrient; phenazine-1; pyo; raman; xanthus
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1300. 79407w65j5c
      • author: Matthew D. Hanson
      • title: A Coupled Local Mode Method for the Analysis of Molecular Vibrations: Theory and Applications
      • date: 2022
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: A considerable amount of theoretical and experimental work has focused on the application of vibrational infrared spectroscopy to questions of molecular structure and dynamics of aqueous systems. Thus, a strong understanding of molecular vibrations and spectroscopy gives chemists the ability to directly probe chemical structure and environment of aqueous systems.
      • keywords: chapter; local; mode; molecular; results; structure; theory; vibrations
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1301. 79407w65j9r
      • author: Emily J. Mahan
      • title: Reading Animals in Medieval Fable
      • date: 2022
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Chapters are organized according to several themes: cohabitation between wild animals and humans; human domination of working animals such as dogs and donkeys; and the exploitation of domesticated animals such as sheep and birds for food and other resources. Discussion is focused on relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, as portrayed in works written and circulated in Britain during the Middle Ages, particularly: Avianus's fables; the elegiac Romulus; Alexander Neckam's Novus Aesopus; Odo of Cheriton's Parabolae; the Fables ascribed to Marie de France; the Morall Fabillis of Robert Henryson; and William Caxton's Aesop.
      • keywords: ages; animals; dissertation; fables; nonhuman
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1302. 7d278s47p1t
      • author: Bren Christopher Mochocki
      • title: Voltage Scheduling Techniques for Dynamic Voltage Scaling Processors with Practical Limitations
      • date: 2004
      • words: 100
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Though extensive research exists in this area, processor limitations such as transition overhead and voltage level discretization are not included simultaneously in any research processor model to date. Voltage scheduling is an essential technique used to exploit the benefit of dynamic voltage scaling processors.
      • keywords: limitations; voltage
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1303. 7d278s47p25
      • author: Dixie Dillon Lane
      • title: Skipping School: Homeschooling in Los Angeles County, 1950-2010
      • date: 2015
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: american; children; history; homeschooling; public; schools
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1304. 7d278s47p3h
      • author: Joel Brian Watkins
      • title: Good Taste: Pleasure and Practice in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
      • date: 2010
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: For Kant, I claim, a beautiful object provides us with an excellent example for how we might make sense of something that lies beyond the boundaries of possible experience, for example, the perfect expression of love, the majesty of God's creative power, or what it's like to feel at home in the world. To have good taste is to become mature enough to determine for oneself which objects of art or nature offer an excellent example for how we might strive toward making sense of some of our deepest concerns as humans, that is, an example which always remains worth contemplating, an example from which we can always learn more.
      • keywords: beautiful; example; kant; taste
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1305. 7d278s47q3t
      • author: Julianne Bruneau
      • title: Perceval the Welshman: Identity in Medieval British Romance
      • date: 2010
      • words: 237
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: My dissertation examines the literary representation of Welshness in medieval Perceval romances, challenging the assumption that this category of identity is a remnant of the Celtic origins of Perceval and Grail romance. One clue to the medieval association of Perceval with identity is the recurring epithet li galois or de Galles, the Welshman, the one from Wales.
      • keywords: grail; identity; perceval; romances; welshness
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1306. 7d278s47q45
      • author: John D Young
      • title: Neighbors, Partners, Enemies: Jews and the Monasteries of Germany in the High Middle Ages
      • date: 2011
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: cultural; ideas; interaction; jewish; jews; monks
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1307. 7d278s47q5h
      • author: Heather Elaine Price
      • title: School Networks As Social Resources: The Relationship of School Resources and School Community to School Effectiveness
      • date: 2011
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The survey data collected for this dissertation maps the network of relationships between school staff and assesses their perceptions on various school community and engagement outcomes. There has been a long-standing discourse in the field of sociology of education regarding the relationship of school community to effective schools.
      • keywords: community; resources; school; social
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1308. 7d278s47s85
      • author: Luke J. Hollmann
      • title: Autonomous Ocean Sensing: A Practical Approach to Modeling, Adaptive Whitening, and Location Estimation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 433
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Such challenges include modeling of ambient noise spectra, adaptive whitening of background noise, and sensor location estimation. Existing adaptive whitening techniques make no effort to avoid suppressing tonals in the whitening process, while existing spectral separation methods fail to whiten background noise.
      • keywords: analog; autonomous; background; design; filters; methods; noise; ocean; sensor; whitening
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1309. 7d278s48c7c
      • author: Mona Rahimi
      • title: Leveraging Change Patterns and Software Traceability to Support the Evolution of Safety-Critical Systems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 511
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Constant changes are inevitable in large software systems including safety-critical systems for which failure may result in death or serious injury to humans, damage to property and/or environmental harm. Software evolution relates to the activity and phenomenon of software change.
      • keywords: assumptions; change; critical; evolution; links; safety; software; systems; tle; trace
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1310. 7d278s48t31
      • author: Di Zhou
      • title: Computational Analysis of Noise Generation by a Rotor Ingesting Turbulent Boundary Layer on an Axisymmetric Body of Revolution
      • date: 2021
      • words: 468
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: An examination of acoustic dipole-source distributions on rotor blades reveals that the leading-edge region is acoustically more important at low frequencies, whereas the trailing-edge region become dominant at high frequencies. The Sears theory accurately predicts the haystacking peaks in the sound pressure spectra, but the accuracy deteriorates at higher frequencies.
      • keywords: blade; bor; frequencies; haystacking; noise; peaks; pressure; rotor; tail; wall
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1311. 7d278s48v09
      • author: Chissa-Louise Rivaldi
      • title: Microbiomes of Long-Tailed Macaques in Southeast Asia: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Interactions
      • date: 2022
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Next, I expand this work to Bali, Indonesia, and examine the differences of gut bacterial microbiomes across landscapes through host diet. Revealed in this work is evidence showing that, though oral microbes have greater diversity than gut microbiomes, they show greater similarity across geographic space, which reflects their role as a barrier between hosts and the environment in which they live.
      • keywords: bacterial; environment; gut; host; microbes; microbiomes; work
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1312. 7h149p30z5r
      • author: Patricia L. Maazouz
      • title: Reaction Dynamics and Charge Transfer in the Scattering of State-Selected Ions on Surfaces
      • date: 2004
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The sensitivity of the emergence of Br&ndash; to the Br2+ incident energy suggests a collision-induced dissociation mechanism at higher collision energies and dissociative resonant neutralization at lower collision energies. The latter mechanism is further supported by the reduction of the Br&ndash; yield when the initial vibrational state changes from n=0 to n=2 at low collision energies.
      • keywords: abstraction; collision; energies; energy; formation; gas; ions; pt(111; surface; transfer
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1313. 7h149p30z63
      • author: Guillermo Ernesto Montt
      • title: Cross National Differences in Achievement Inequality
      • date: 2010
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: By analyzing the variability in achievement directly, this paper goes beyond the existing literature on inequalities in educational opportunities by analyzing total achievement inequality directly. It identifies school and institutional practices related to achievement inequality in the form of variations of opportunities to learn and the intensity of schooling.
      • keywords: achievement; educational; inequality
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1314. 7h149p30z7f
      • author: Tian Fang
      • title: Electronic Properties of Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons
      • date: 2010
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: For graphene nanoribbons with complicated structures, the band structures were evaluated numerically. Last, we applied non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism to evaluate transport degradation due to the edge roughness in short nanoribbons.
      • keywords: band; graphene; nanoribbons; structures
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1315. 7h149p30z8s
      • author: Anna G O'Meara
      • title: Speaking the Language of Religion for the Last Time: Guy Debord's Critique of Religion in The Society of the Spectacle and In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni
      • date: 2013
      • words: 1665
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: While writing a history of Guy Debord may sound highly specific and obscure to the vast majority of my contemporaries, it is in fact the general rather than the specific that informs the specific for Marx, for Debord, and in my own thinking. After reading the available writings by Debord, I have had the opportunity to visit the archives of Guy Debord, the 'Fonds Guy Debord' at the Biblioth&egrave;que Nationale de France where I was able to immerse myself in his working notes for The Society of the Spectacle (book), The Society of the Spectacle (film), Howls for Sade, and In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni.
      • keywords: analysis; biography; catholic; context; debord; dialectical; dominant; general; guy; historical; history; ideas; ideological; ideology; marx; negative; notes; possible; reading; religion; society; specific; spectacle; time; writings
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1316. 7h149p30z94
      • author: Kai Liu
      • title: Electrophile-Induced Ether Transfer and Application in Natural Product Total Synthesis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: In laboratory syntheses of such natural products, discrete steps for generating a hydroxyl stereogenic center and subsequent methylation are typically bracketed by additional protecting group manipulation steps. This methodology is capable of significantly simplifying the creation of functionality common to polyketide natural products by controlling the generation of a stereogenic center simultaneous with ether incorporation.
      • keywords: ether; functionality; methyl; natural; polyketide; products; syntheses; transfer
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1317. 7h149p3100m
      • author: Sarah Cotter
      • title: Characterizing forking in VC-minimal theories
      • date: 2012
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Finally, after introducing a slight generalization of the classical notions of forking and dividing, we prove that in any VC-minimal or quasi-VC-minimal theory whose generating family is unpackable or almost unpackable, forking of formulae over a model M is equivalent to containment in a global M -definable type, generalizing a result of Dolich on o-minimal theories in [8]. After covering some basic results, including a notion of generic types, we consider two kinds of VC-minimal theories: those whose generating directed families are unpackable and almost unpackable.
      • keywords: minimal; theories
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1318. 7h149p3101z
      • author: James Patrick Creech
      • title: The Literature of Monarchy from William III to George I
      • date: 2011
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Contrary to the general scholarly perception, the Revolution of 1688-89 and consequent changes to the institution of monarchy informed a large body of political literature. For the literary historian, these languages are best understood not as cohesive political theories but as reservoirs of ideas, metaphors, and images from which writers drew selectively to suit their individual beliefs and purposes.
      • keywords: constitutional; discourse; literature; monarchy; political; revolution
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1319. 7h149p31029
      • author: Juan Luis Sanchez
      • title: Spain, Politics, and the British Romantic Imagination
      • date: 2008
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 7
      • summary: Focusing on the implications of literary representations of Spain in the development of British political thought, this project more specifically considers the complex ways in which romantic imaginings of Spain attempted to reconcile the ideological conflicts that tended to polarize British culture and society in the aftermath of the French Revolution. This dissertation is about why Spain matters to British romanticism and the political importance romantic era writers as diverse as Robert Southey, Felicia Hemans, and Lord Byron deduced from Spain and Spanish affairs during the early part of the nineteenth century.
      • keywords: british; liberal; political; romantic; spain; spanish
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1320. 7h149p3103n
      • author: James Chenkuo Tung
      • title: Towards the synthesis of the cornexistins
      • date: 2008
      • words: 265
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: aldol; cornexistin; hydroxycornexistin; key; membered; ring; structure
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1321. 7h149p31071
      • author: Brian J. Shula
      • title: Effect of Welding Flaws on the Fatigue Life of High Strength Steel Structures
      • date: 2007
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: LEFM principles and crack growth parameters from steels with similar microstructures were used to model fatigue crack propagation in specimens with sharp flaws. In specimens with only porosity flaws, the mean initiation life was over 60% of the total fatigue life, showing the benefit of removing sharp flaws from welds.
      • keywords: fatigue; flaws; specimens
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1322. 7h149p3108c
      • author: Jing Zhang
      • title: Fabrication and Performance of Submicron Gate Length GaAs-Channel MOSFETs Using InAlP Oxide as the Gate Dielectric
      • date: 2007
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The microstructural properties of InAlP oxide have been examined, and the mechanisms governing the oxidation of InAlP have been explored. GaAs-channel MOSFETs using InAlP oxide as the gate dielectric have been fabricated and characterized.
      • keywords: gaas; gate; inalp; mosfets; oxidation; oxide; process; semiconductor
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1323. 7h149p3109q
      • author: James S Doyle
      • title: Quality Metrics for Biometrics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 118
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: This thesis evaluates current metrics and introduces a method for determining the ideal iris image from a set of iris images by using the Mean Self-Match algorithm to examine the set of true matches. This proposed method is shown to outperform other methods currently used for selecting an ideal image from a set of iris images.
      • keywords: image; iris
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1324. 7h149p3110x
      • author: Marco Carlos Emerson Hernandez
      • title: The Seeds of Creation and New Creation: St. Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors on the Generative Principles of Natural and Supernatural Life
      • date: 2014
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Seed imagery facilitates Aquinas' presentation of the totality of God's plan as emanating from the divine goodness, and the importance of the participation of creatures in creation and the supernatural order of new creation. Chapters Three and Four offer Aquinas' analysis of the seminal reasons and how miracles and wonders relate to the fullness of God's plan for creation, including the works of grace.
      • keywords: aquinas; creation; grace; imagery; use
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1325. 7h149p31536
      • author: Bryan Michael Santin
      • title: Imagining the American Right: Postwar Fiction, Race, and the Rise of Modern Conservatism, 1945–2005
      • date: 1904
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 4
      • summary: This dissertation presents a fundamental reinterpretation of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between liberalism and highbrow literary fiction in the post-sixties United States must be understood in relation to the rise of modern conservatism and its evolving positions on race. But I argue that the conservative movement played an equally significant role in reshaping the dominant political order in ways that also reshaped normative assumptions about novelistic form, literary merit, and the value-laden implications of literary fiction.
      • keywords: american; conservatism; fiction; form; literary; movement; politics; postwar; racial; rise
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1326. 7h149p31t95
      • author: Catherine M. Brix
      • title: Transformative (Re)Inscriptions: Traumatic Memories and Testimonio in Chile
      • date: 2019
      • words: 442
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: In considering the testimonios of traumatic experiences – this study focuses on the detention and torture of women political prisoners during the Pinochet dictatorship of Chile – this analysis recognizes testimonial texts as an important component in the construction and preservation of collective memory, and favors them as a key element in the development of transformative justice frameworks in post-conflict societies. In addition to highlighting the literary and theoretical richness of this genre of literature, this investigation also aims to illustrate the practical applicability of testimonial texts within interdisciplinary studies.
      • keywords: analysis; approach; ethical; genre; literary; societies; study; testimonio; text
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1327. 7h149p32090
      • author: Shawn Andrew Kern
      • title: We're the Real Activists: Repression and the Dissident Republican Identity
      • date: 2019
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: identity; movement; repression
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1328. 7h149p32137
      • author: Thomas Sherman
      • title: Upscaled Stochastic Transport Modelling of Hydro-Geologic Systems
      • date: 2020
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: The benefit of random walk methods is that transport behavior can be accurately upscaled, meaning physical process governing transport at a range of scales can be effectively captured in bulk parameters. In natural hydrologic environments, the surrounding geologic media influences the flow field and associated transport behavior.
      • keywords: behavior; media; random; systems; transport
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1329. 7h149p3218z
      • author: Chloe Ramsay
      • title: Using Community Ecology Theory to Enhance Understanding of Co-Infections
      • date: 2020
      • words: 446
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In my third chapter, the timing of parasite co-infections affects co-infection outcomes, in some but not all cases. Co-infecting parasites have the potential to interact with each other and the host and affect disease progression relative to single infections.
      • keywords: chapter; host; infections; life; parasites; species
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1330. 7h149p32257
      • author: Syed Eisar Haider
      • title: Local Expressions, Global Arenas: The Case of Pakistani Shia Muslims to Iraq
      • date: 2021
      • words: 194
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Using ten semi-structured interviews of Pakistani Shia pilgrims to Iraq for the occasion of Arba'een, I argue that in this case, local understandings of religion and culture do not change substantially because of three factors: one, the nature of religious practice is steeped in a local idiom of affective expression and can be difficult to separate local culture from religious practice; two, the structure of pilgrimage participation is made possible by local institutions (family, congregations) and structure the practice in global space; three, pilgrims orient their meaning-making processes towards their localities, and thus local space mediates any changes brought about by the pilgrimage itself. Olivier Roy theorizes – from a macro perspective – that in the face of globalization and secularization, religion attempts to become autonomous in a global space and separates from local culture and politics.
      • keywords: culture; local; pilgrimage; religion
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1331. 7h149p32377
      • author: Romain Thurin
      • title: Nomadic Warriors on the Edge of the World Empire: The Early Karamanids (1225-1335)
      • date: 2022
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This dissertation studies the formation, expansion, and growth of the early Karamanid Beylik (c.a. 1256-1340), from a weak warband of nomads into one of the most politically, economically, and culturally significant entities to emerge from the ashes of the Seljuks, analyzing the processes through which the Mongol invasions forced the ancestors of the Karamanids to abandon their homeland for the greener pastures of Anatolia. In Anatolia, the sixty years that followed the first Mongol invasion (1242/1243) saw the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, once the unchallenged dominant political power in the region, collapse into a myriad of smaller emirates, the so-called Anatolian beyliks.
      • keywords: anatolia; c.a; karamanid; mongol; political
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1332. 7h149p3247j
      • author: Lauren Neilsen
      • title: Answering the Call: Responses to Gendered Constraints within Military Chaplaincy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 228
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: After identifying the gendered constraints present within military chaplaincy, I then assess how military chaplain women navigate them, and why they engage in the type of agentic action they do. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews with military chaplain women, I offer an exploration of what intersecting individual, interactional, and institutional gender structure constraints exist within U.S. military chaplaincy.
      • keywords: action; chaplaincy; constraints; military; women
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1333. 7m01bk1473d
      • author: James D. Rissler
      • title: Divine Providence and Human Libertarian Freedom: Reasons for Incompatibility and Theological Alternatives
      • date: 2004
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: I approach the central issue of divine providence indirectly, by first considering principles that would lead one to 'stronger' incompatibility claims: that libertarian freedom is incompatible with prior truth and with divine foreknowledge. As I proceed from the problem of logical determinism to that of the compatibility of libertarian freedom with divine foreknowledge and finally to its compatibility with divine providence, I expect that more readers will judge that the principles that lead to the particular incompatibility thesis being discussed have greater plausibility than the implications of maintaining compatibility.
      • keywords: compatibility; freedom; libertarian; providence
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1334. 7m01bk1474r
      • author: Ying Du
      • title: Approximation Algorithms for Multicommodity Flow and Normalized Cut Problems: Implementations and Experimental Study
      • date: 2004
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Our experimental results of the implementation of both algorithms show that the output quality of our approach compares favorably against some previous approximation multicommodity flow implementation and the eigenvalue/eigenvector based normalized cut implementation. The thesis presents the theory, implementation and experimental validation of a fast approximation multicommodity flow algorithm and, as an important application of this multicommodity flow algorithm, the first provably good approximation algorithm for the minimum normalized cut problem.
      • keywords: cut; implementation
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1335. 7m01bk14753
      • author: Ewa Misiolek
      • title: Efficient Algorithms for Geometric Problems in Computer-Aided Manufacturing
      • date: 2011
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: For example, we reduce the space requirement for a class of problems that seek a path from among many shortest paths in certain weighted grid graphs, we develop new algorithms for processing an off-line sequence of insertions and deletions of convex polygons interspersed with certain point queries on the common intersection of the polygons, and for finding a line segment of a fixed-length that intersects the maximum number of given polygons. We give efficient algorithms for a single-source K-link shortest path problem on an interval graph and for an optimal color covering problem for n points on a line, where each point is assigned one of m colors.
      • keywords: algorithms; cam; computer; manufacturing; new; problems; surface
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1336. 7m01bk1485d
      • author: Louis Francesco Pignatelli
      • title: Toward a Transformative Democratic Literary Aesthetic: The Late Style of Don Delillo
      • date: 2010
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Specifically of interest is the concept of literary experience as drawn from the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer which, when examined in the context of radical and transformational democracy - engaging the writings of a diverse selection of thinkers from Hannah Arendt, Pierre Rosanvallon, Jaques Rancière, Amy Gutman, Marian Iris Young and Alexis de Tocqueville to the New York Intellectuals, D.H. Lawrence and members of the Frankfurt school - reveals the possibility through an innovative and conceptual form of, borrowing again from Said, a 'democratic and meta-humanistic literature.' Indeed, placed in dialogue with its antecedents - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Ralph Ellison - DeLillo's unconventional late work offers its reader an opportunity for access to the self, advancing agency, facilitating autonomous engagement and autopoesis.
      • keywords: aesthetic; delillo; democracy; democratic; late; literary; literature; political; style
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1337. 7m01bk1486r
      • author: Jie Jayne Wu
      • title: Inductive Links With Integrated Receiving Coils for Mems and Implantable Applications
      • date: 2003
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Here we demonstrate that inductive links with integrated receiving coils can provide sufficient voltage or power to many MEMS devices. To further improve the performance of the inductive link, an inlaid electroplating procedure is developed to reduce the internal resistance of integrated receiving coils.
      • keywords: chip; coils; inductive; link; mems; pulse; receiving; trains; transmission
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1338. 7m01bk14873
      • author: Luis A Montestruque
      • title: Model-Based Networked Control Systems
      • date: 2004
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Popular models for network transmission times are used such as Markov-driven transmission times. The model is used to simulate plant conditions between transmission instants when no information about the plant is available.
      • keywords: control; ncs; network; plant; stability; systems
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1339. 7m01bk1495q
      • author: Douglas R. Smith
      • title: A Method for Estimating Entropy of Real Birational Maps with Constrained Critical Orbits
      • date: 1904
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: Our method is combinatorial, using invariant and critical curves for $f$ to define a partition of $\overline{\R} \ imes \overline{\R}$ that is convenient for coding orbits under $f$. We may expand these codings to hold for points without well-defined orbits. We particularly concern ourselves with the specific family of maps $f:\overline{\R} \ imes \overline{\R} \ ightarrow \overline{\R} \ imes \overline{\R}$ defined by $f(x,y) = \left(y\ rac{x+a}{x-1},x+a-1\ ight)$, where $a \in \R$ is a parameter subject to conditions specified later.
      • keywords: \overline{\r; entropy; imes
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1340. 7m01bk14c0m
      • author: Peter J Barwis
      • title: Power and Mobilization: The Problem of All-Volunteer Force Enlistment
      • date: 1904
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Notable findings include significant, positive relationships between increased structural vulnerability and military recruitment office locations, and increased biographical vulnerability and enlistments. This dissertation argues that state officials did not relinquish power over military recruitment after conscription ended.
      • keywords: military; non; officials; power; recruitment; state; vulnerable
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1341. 7m01bk14x9p
      • author: Mary Catherine Levri
      • title: The Chant-based Organ Works of Anton Heiller
      • date: 1904
      • words: 283
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: For the first four decades of his life, Heiller worked in an environment in which Tra le sollecitudini, Pope Pius X's declaration on sacred music, was the gold standard for composers of modern sacred music for the Catholic Church. This dissertation examines the six Gregorian chant-based organ works of Anton Heiller in light of his musical influences, his philosophy of sacred music, and his ownsentiments as a Catholic believer.
      • keywords: chant; gregorian; heiller; music; sacred
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1342. 7m01bk14z6z
      • author: Eric R DeLeon
      • title: Hydrogen Sulfide and Other Reactive Sulfide Species' Role in Cellular Signaling and Oxygen Sensing
      • date: 1904
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Being able to delineate ROS from RSS and understanding the many potential routes for RSS production, the final goal of this research was to show RSS production in vitro, particularly in hypoxia. Catalase was found to generate H2S from certain RSS, showing that catalase can act as a sulfur oxidase or sulfur reductase.
      • keywords: h2s; oxygen; reactive; ros; rss; species
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1343. 7m01bk1540q
      • author: Andrew Wood
      • title: Low Data Dialogue Act Classification for Virtual Agents during Debugging
      • date: 2019
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: But unfortunately, the gains made into VA development in one domain are generally not applicable to other domains, since the composition of dialogue acts differs in different conversations. Dialogue acts are usually only a few words long, and are divided by researchers into a relatively small set (often less than 10) of dialogue act types, such as eliciting information, expressing an opinion, or making a greeting.
      • keywords: act; acts; dialogue; set
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1344. 7m01bk1549t
      • author: Sage Z Davis
      • title: Deconstructing Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Using Genetic Crosses and Systems Biology Approaches
      • date: 2019
      • words: 493
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Using a recently generated genetic cross whose parents have diverging artemisinin resistance phenotypes, I aim to determine the genetic loci controlling artemisinin resistance. Further exacerbating the situation is the reports of resistance to artemisinin combination therapies, the front-line treatment as recommended by the World Health Organization, combining artemisinin with a long-lasting partner drug.
      • keywords: approach; artemisinin; combination; drugs; genetic; mechanisms; resistance; southeast; thesis
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1345. 7m01bk15908
      • author: Kimberly J. Curtis
      • title: Investigation of the Biochemical and Mechanical Cues Influencing Breast Cancer Metastasis to Trabecular Bone
      • date: 2019
      • words: 477
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Leptin, TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6 were all found to increase due to the presence of bone marrow and may serve as potential chemoattractants for the cancer cells. These results provide information on the mechanical environment present in bone marrow that will be experienced by metastatic cancer cells residing in the tissue.
      • keywords: bone; breast; cancer; cells; marrow; mechanical; metastasis
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1346. 7m01bk15b4z
      • author: Dahyeon Kim
      • title: Positive Attenuation of Autobiographical Memories in Depressed Mood: The Influence of Time and Positive Emotion Regulation
      • date: 2021
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The participants' positive emotions were repeatedly assessed to elucidate whether the benefit of recalling positive autobiographical memory on positive emotions decays with time differentially in the high versus low dysphoric group. Consistent with the hypotheses, recalling positive autobiographical memories after a sad-mood induction elevated positive emotions for all participants.
      • keywords: dysphoric; emotions; group; positive
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1347. 7m01bk15b70
      • author: Michael A Torcivia
      • title: Unraveling the Mineral Components in Lunar Highlands Materials
      • date: 2021
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: We then compare these results to five models of LMO evolution to determine likely provenance for the individual minerals in each sample. In addition to this, individual samples also contain material representative of crystallization out of separate stages of LMO evolution.
      • keywords: evolution; fas; lmo; lunar; study; suite
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1348. 7m01bk15c0w
      • author: Liling Ko
      • title: Towards Finding a Lattice That Characterizes the &gt;ω2-Fickle Recursively Enumerable Turing Degrees
      • date: 2021
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 60
      • 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 .
      • keywords: degrees; lattices; ≥ωω
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1349. 7m01bk15c90
      • author: Carly Olson
      • title: Understanding Shifts in Limitation of Lake Primary Productivity across Scales and Its Implications for Water Quality and Carbon Cycling
      • date: 2022
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Nutrient limitation and the potential shifts to other forms of limitation have important implications for the spatiotemporal variability of biogeochemical process rates and the ultimate fates of elements. In my final data chapter, I found that land use and climate, specifically precipitation, synergistically interact to increase organic carbon burial rates primarily because of a release of nutrient limitation that led to increases in primary productivity.
      • keywords: chapter; data; lake; limitation; nutrient; primary; productivity; shifts
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1350. 7m01bk15f0h
      • author: Himani N. Patel
      • title: Computational Studies on HMG-CoA Reductases and Other Biomolecular Systems
      • date: 2023
      • words: 439
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The computational studies performed using theozyme (DFT) and QM/MM models show that the thiohemiacetal decomposition reaction, that occurs between the two hydride transfer reactions, has an energy barrier of ~ 7 kcal/mol in presence of cofactor NADH. This suggests soaking the PmHMGR crystals in photocaged substrate and cofactor since the flap domain only closes over the active site in presence of both ligands.
      • keywords: coa; domain; hmg; nadh; photocaged; presence; reaction; simulations; substrate
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1351. 7p88cf97h8n
      • author: Joshua Kyle Bolger
      • title: Regioselective Copper-Mediated Organometallic Ring Openings of Acylnitroso Cycloadducts and the Development of 5-Lipoxygenase Inhibitors
      • date: 2010
      • words: 593
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Recently, organometallic reagents were shown to open bicyclic acylnitroso cycloadducts and, more interestingly, the prospect of highly regioselective openings was raised. Allylic oxidations of the lead structure were attempted with numerous established reagents and conditions and in all cases failed to provide a useful intermediate.
      • keywords: acylnitroso; biological; catalyzed; compound; copper; core; derivatization; exploration; reaction; route; synthesis; zone
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1352. 7p88cf97h90
      • author: Fernando Carvalho
      • title: Redesigning the Hospital Cradle to Promote Parent-Newborn Relationships
      • date: 2010
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: While the architecture of the environments for neonatal care have started to be revised to accommodate new conceptions of institutional care for sick infants, the support products utilized in these units seem to be responding at a much slower pace. This proposed solution for the hospital cradle is my attempt to engage in a necessary change that must occur within the universe of artifacts and technologies that compose neonatal care.
      • keywords: babies; care; design; hospital; project; thesis
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1353. 7p88cf97j06
      • author: Amanda Elizabeth Joseph
      • title: Hometown Fantasy Girl
      • date: 2013
      • words: 70
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The work in Hometown Fantasy Girl seeks to explore the intersection of class, race, and gender through the lens of 'white trash,' which can be best understood as a complex set of social representations. The exhibition features drawings and paintings that are informed both by research and personal experience, culminating in portraits of young women that discuss the intricately woven relationship between one's class, race, and gender in America.
      • keywords: class; gender
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1354. 7p88cf97j1j
      • author: Bradley Jourdan White
      • title: Ecological Genomics of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae
      • date: 2010
      • words: 430
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Polymorphic chromosomal inversions shared between forms are non-randomly associated with multiple environmental factors further promoting adaptation. A long-term goal is to determine the genetic basis of ecological adaptation in An. gambiae.
      • keywords: adaptation; africa; chromosome; conditions; divergence; ecological; forms; gambiae; genetic; inversions; polymorphic
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1355. 7p88cf97j2w
      • author: Stephen Flood
      • title: Paths, trees, and the computational strength of some Ramsey-type theorems.
      • date: 2012
      • words: 244
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: We show that this theorem is close in computational strength to standard Ramsey's Theorem, giving arithmetical bounds for solutions to computable instances. In particular, much work has been done on theorems similar to Ramsey's Theorem and to Weak K nig's Lemma.
      • keywords: computational; ramsey; strength; theorem
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1356. 7p88cf97j37
      • author: Mehrdad Aliasgari
      • title: Secure Computation and Outsourcing of Biometric Data
      • date: 2013
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: In this work we explore solutions and techniques to provide secure computation over iris images and voice data. In addition, we provide the first solutions for secure multi-party computation and secure outsourcing to multiple servers of voice data.
      • keywords: biometric; computation; data; secure; solutions; voice
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1357. 7p88cf97j4k
      • author: Matthew P. Larner
      • title: The American Worker in Transition: Insecurity, the Individualization of Work, and Job Values in the 1990's
      • date: 2008
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: changes; job; labor; market; study; values; work; workers
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1358. 7p88cf97j5x
      • author: John S. Zintsmaster
      • title: Probing the Evolutionary Dynamics Of WW Domains Using the Gaussian Network Model and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
      • date: 2010
      • words: 270
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: dynamics; gnm; loop; motions; mutations; proteins
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1359. 7p88cf97j99
      • author: Garnett Brendan Cross
      • title: Investigation of a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spark as a Near Field Guide Star for Aero-Optic Measurements
      • date: 2009
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: aberrations; aero; beam; flow; laser; spark; turbulent
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1360. 7p88cf97k0h
      • author: Jonathan Peter Hill
      • title: Religious Pathways During the Transition to Adulthood: A Life Course Approach
      • date: 2007
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Young people are most likely to decline in religious service attendance, but they are also likely to disaffiliate, convert, or change particular religious beliefs during this phase of the life course. Empirical studies have identified late adolescence and early adulthood as a period of the life course marked by relatively high levels of change in religious belief, practice, and identity.
      • keywords: adolescence; adulthood; attendance; decline; early; influence; late; participation; religious
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1361. 7p88cf97k1v
      • author: Mary Katherine Lattari
      • title: All of the Everything
      • date: 2013
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 50
      • 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.
      • keywords: consciousness; jagger; life; musician; night; place; social
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1362. 7p88cf97k26
      • author: Marjorie Massel
      • title: Thermodynamic and Thermophysical Properties of Ionic Liquid Mixtures
      • date: 2014
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: These results demonstrate the ability of tuning the aprotic heterocyclic anion (AHA)-based ILs, showing great potential for the design of cost efficient carbon capture technology. In order to assess the vialibility of ILs for heat transfer fluid application, their thermophysical properties (i.e. viscosity, density and thermal conductivity) must be well understood.
      • keywords: carbon; co2; ils; ionic; liquids; mixtures; properties
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1363. 7p88cf97q5g
      • author: Melissa D. McCoul
      • title: Come Play with Me: Theorizing Child's Play, Narrative World-Building and Imaginative Embodiment in Literature, 1749-1911
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: By sidestepping the question of what's really happening when children play, I am advocating for a reading sees both play processes and the objects, stories, and bodies that are wrapped up in such processes, as important sites of meaning. This dissertation argues that children's authors of the long nineteenth century imagined play as a creative way for child readers, collaborating with adults, to imbue physical reality with narratives which did not exist before.
      • keywords: children; meaning; physical; play; readers
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1364. 7p88cf98773
      • author: Anna Adams Petrin
      • title: The Egyptian Connection: Egyptian Elements in the Liturgy of Jerusalem
      • date: 1904
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Chapter two provides an overview of three key strands of liturgical scholarship pertinent to the question of Egyptian influence on the liturgy of Jerusalem. This dissertation addresses a longstanding question in the scholarship on early Christian liturgy: namely, were the earliest-known liturgical rites of Jerusalem influenced by the Egyptian liturgical tradition?
      • keywords: chapter; early; egyptian; jerusalem
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1365. 7p88cf98m03
      • author: Xiaoyu Ma
      • title: Numerical Studies of Particle-Like Complex Systems
      • date: 2020
      • words: 249
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We further study how system stability depends on container symmetry, container size, and vortex number. We elucidate their effects and explain the emergent magic number states, which are extraordinarily stable states at specific vortex numbers.
      • keywords: abrikosov; particle; study; systems; vortex; vortices
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1366. 7p88cf98n9h
      • author: Kreila E. Cote
      • title: Neglect Potential in Adolescent Mothers, Predicting Reported Neglect and Psychopathology in Their Children
      • date: 2022
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of using the Mother Child Neglect Scale, a measure of neglect potential, to predict subsequent perpetration of neglect by evaluating associations between scores on this self-reported measure and child self-reported neglect at two subsequent time points, to determine whether maternal self-reported neglect potential is associated with child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and to determine whether child self-reported neglect mediates associations between maternal neglect potential and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms. There was a significant direct effect of maternal neglect potential on child neglect at age 14.
      • keywords: child; maternal; neglect; potential
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1367. 7p88cf98p0q
      • author: Kimberlie Orr
      • title: The Governance of Environmental Mobility
      • date: 2022
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This paper is a primer for academics and policymakers on the interrelated complexities, existing protection gaps, and future possibilities in the governance of environmental mobility. Chapter four ends with a call to action that focuses on the need for a universal terminology and definition of environmental migrants, the potential of regional Free Movement Agreements (FMAs), and the imperative that States implement initiatives that address the root causes of movement and create legal pathways that respect the dignity and agency of environmental migrants.[1] Pörtner, H. et al.
      • keywords: change; chapter; climate; environmental; impacts; nations; protection; united
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1368. 7s75db80s55
      • author: Katherine Anne Hennessey
      • title: Memorable Barbarities and National Myths: Ancient Greek Tragedy and Irish Epic in Modern Irish Theatre
      • date: 2008
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Partially because of its long-standing claim to the title of Ireland's &#34;National Theatre,&#34; the Abbey has been the subject of the preponderance of scholarly criticism about the history of Irish theatre, while the Gate has received comparatively scarce academic attention. I contend, however, that the history of the Abbey--and of modern Irish theatre as a whole--cannot be properly understood except in relation to the strikingly different aesthetics practiced at the Gate.
      • keywords: abbey; adaptations; century; gate; history; irish; performance; theatre
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1369. 7s75db80s6h
      • author: Shawn Elam Gano
      • title: Simulation-Based Design Using Variable Fidelity Optimization
      • date: 2005
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: A common engineering practice is to drive the preliminary design process using lower fidelity models as surrogates of expensive high fidelity simulations. Higher fidelity models are then used in the final design stages to refine the design.
      • keywords: design; fidelity; high; low; methods; models; optimization; scaling
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1370. 7s75db80s7v
      • author: Daniel Kurt Unruh
      • title: The Crystal Chemistry of Uranyl Polyoxometalates and Uranyl Chromates
      • date: 2011
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Study of the crystal chemistry of uranium compounds is essential for understanding the chemical and physical properties of materials necessary for the safe disposal of radioactive materials. However, processes involved with the production of energy or weapons by nuclear fission reactions create a whole suite of waste streams with serious environmental consequences.
      • keywords: compounds; energy; study; uranium; uranyl
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1371. 7s75db80t8h
      • author: Xuan Wang
      • title: Electronic Dephasing in Bimetallic Gold-Silver Nanoparticles Examined by Single Particle Spectroscopy
      • date: 2005
      • words: 108
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: The scattering spectra of single gold, silver, bimetallic gold-silver particles (both core-shell and alloyed) were recorded by dark field microscopy. The results show that core-shell nanoparticles have broader scattering spectra than the corresponding pure gold or silver nanoparticles.
      • keywords: core; shell
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1372. 7s75db80t9v
      • author: Philip A Reed
      • title: The Virtue of Vanity in Hume's Moral Theory
      • date: 2009
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Finally, I contend that moral motivation by vanity does not, on Hume's view, take away from the virtue or moral worth of the action. My central claim in this work is that vanity plays a fundamental role in Hume's account of moral motivation, a role that is almost entirely overlooked by contemporary scholars.
      • keywords: hume; moral; vanity
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1373. 7s75db80v7g
      • author: Cory Juwuan Hayes
      • title: Building Adaptable Robots: How Behavioral Metrics Can Enable Robots to Implicitly Learn from Humans
      • date: 1904
      • words: 505
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: I also designed two experimental testbeds which focus on peoples responses to robot mistakes, which help enable future research in this area. I focus specifically on identifying human behavioral metrics which future robots could one day be trained to identify as a means for enabling this understanding.
      • keywords: behavioral; experiment; hri; human; people; research; robots; work
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1374. 7s75db80w6f
      • author: Emily O. Alberico
      • title: Interactions between EB1, Microtubules and Actin
      • date: 1904
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: We have determined the EB1-MT binding location on the MT lattice as well as raised the possibility for EB1 regulation in vivo through EB1 dimerization. One of the most important microtubule interacting proteins is end binding protein 1 (EB1).
      • keywords: actin; cytoskeleton; eb1
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1375. 7s75db81h38
      • author: Zachary Kyle German
      • title: Spirit, Statesmanship, and the New Sciences of Politics: Montesquieu, the Federalists, and the Anti-Federalists
      • date: 1904
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Scholars frequently note the relationship of Montesquieu to the American framers, usually emphasizing such topics as small republics or the separation of powers. Finally, they exhibit an awareness of the social dynamics of the separation of powers.
      • keywords: american; federalists; montesquieu; people
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1376. 7w62f764303
      • author: Kevin Quinn Walsh
      • title: Behavior and Design of Unbonded Post-Tensioning Strand/Anchorage Systems for Seismic Applications
      • date: 2010
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The research includes the following strand/anchor configuration parameters: (1) strand diameter; (2) anchor type [cast and barrel type anchors] and physical properties; (3) number of anchor wedges [2-piece and 3-piece wedges]; and (4) presence of a binding ring around the wedges. This thesis presents an experimental study on the ultimate stresses and strains of unbonded post-tensioning (PT) strands at wire fracture inside an anchor.
      • keywords: anchor; loading; strand; wedges
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1377. 7w62f76431f
      • author: Erica Elaine Hansen
      • title: Static Renderings, Shifting Identities: Elbridge Ayer Burbank's Portraits of American Indians
      • date: 2010
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: The red drawings, on the other hand, suggest how Burbank used the concept of hybridity, the mixture of heterogeneous elements, in an attempt to reconcile his quest for a single authentic Indianness with his discovery of diverse individual Indians on reservations. The paintings of Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858Ì¢ âÂ'1949) were admired in his lifetime, especially but not exclusively by the anthropological community of collectors and museum professionals who valued 'accuracy' and believed that Burbank delivered it, first in his paintings of African Americans produced between 1892 and 1897 and later in his oil paintings and red crayon drawings of American Indians.
      • keywords: burbank; paintings; red
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1378. 7w62f76432s
      • author: Mario Antonio Cossío Olavide
      • title: Doble enunciación en el discurso para las murallas de Lima. Análisis de la Relación del Virrey Duque de la Palata
      • date: 2013
      • words: 238
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This thesis presents an analysis on sections of the Relaci&oacute;n del Estado del Per&uacute; (1689) related to the construction of the city-walls around the capital city of the Viceroyalty, Lima. This view of the complicated politics within the project will prove key to understand the two proposed barriers that were contained within the physical wall.
      • keywords: city; construction; del; viceroy; walls
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1379. 7w62f76434g
      • author: Elizabeth E. Martinez
      • title: Paths of Legitimacy: A Sociology of the First Amendment Examining Legal Change at the Boundary Between State and Society
      • date: 2011
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The analysis develops a sociology of the First Amendment, tracing the political influences and institutional logics that shape judicial decisions and, conversely, the influence of First Amendment law on institutional logics and behavior in other spheres. In the first two parts of the study, it is shown that the juridical field is sometimes influenced by political codes, such as civil religion, a form of nationalism that governs the display of religious symbols in public; and, conversely, that legal categories influence the realm of civil liberties, for instance, media ethics, an area considered beyond regulation.
      • keywords: amendment; civil; institutional; law; liberties; management; political; regulation
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1380. 7w62f76435t
      • author: Jieying Jiao
      • title: Synthesis, Characterization and Surface Attachment of Square Mixed-Valence Complexes as Building Block for Molecular Quantum Cellular Automata
      • date: 2005
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Based on the general ideas of building the square compounds, a series of square compounds are designed. Molecular QCA cells could be mixed-valence compounds, in which the metal redox sites play the role of dots and the tunneling paths are provided by bridging ligands.
      • keywords: compounds; dicationic; dots; mixed; qca; quantum; square; surface; valence
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1381. 7w62f764365
      • author: Yan Yan
      • title: Silicon-Based Tunnel Diode Technology
      • date: 2008
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Rapid thermal diffusion from spin-on diffusants is the particular focus of this work as a basis for establishing a rapid thermal processing method compatible with commercial foundry processes. Several other approaches were also explored such as flash-lamp annealing and rapid thermal annealing from doped metal sources.
      • keywords: annealing; diodes; rapid; thermal; tunnel
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1382. 7w62f76437h
      • author: Gabriela Cristina Pasat
      • title: Characterization of the Ì¢-Lactam Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus On-Switch: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of The Sensor Domain BlarS
      • date: 2010
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: These results provide the first atomic resolution study of BlaRs and its associated signaling mechanism in the solution state, and supply initial data required for future studies. Responsible for this resistance are the sensing/transducing systems BlaR and MecR. Upon interaction with the Ì_å_-lactam antibiotic through its surface domain, BlaR initiates the signal transduction process.
      • keywords: antibiotic; blar; domain; resistance; signal; study; world
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1383. 7w62f76441r
      • author: Emily Diane Lambeth
      • title: Relationship of Body Characteristics and Steroid Hormone Levels with Frog Mating Behavior
      • date: 2009
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Call properties were not correlated with hormone levels. In female phonotaxis experiments, females with higher CORT levels were slower to reach the speaker.
      • keywords: cort; corticosterone; longer; males
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1384. 7w62f764423
      • author: Hilary C. Cisco Reuter
      • title: Using Shared Reality Theory and Social Tuning to Modify the Expression of Racial Profiling Behaviors
      • date: 2007
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Results were consistent with the tenets of shared reality theory, which postulates that social regulation is central to social cognition and that social bonds are established and maintained to the degree that social beliefs are perceived to be shared by individuals. In the experiments proposed here, I tested the hypothesis that automatic racial prejudice, as evidenced in racial profiling behaviors, is subject to elements of common social influence.
      • keywords: american; racial; social
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1385. 7w62f76443f
      • author: Guowang Li
      • title: MBE Growth and Device Characteristics of Aluminum Gallium Nitride with High Aluminum Composition
      • date: 2010
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: For scaling down to deep sub-micrometer dimensions, high Al composition AlGaN barrier can offer higher two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) density and lower sheet resistance than low Al composition AlGaN. However, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown high Al composition AlGaN has been observed to suffer spontaneous phase modulation and the electron mobility was severely limited. In this work, MBE growth of high electron mobility 2DEG in nitride heterostructures with >70 % Al composition AlGaN ternary alloy barriers is reported.
      • keywords: algan; aln; composition; electron; gate; hemts; high; mbe; mobility; phase
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1386. 7w62f76444s
      • author: Joshua Morton Robinson
      • title: Nicholas of Methone's Refutation of Proclus: Theology and Neoplatonism in 12th-century Byzantium
      • date: 2014
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; nicholas; proclus; refutation; work
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1387. 7w62f764543
      • author: R. Ryan McCune
      • title: Reducing Scope to Increase Scalability: Decentralization in Graph Processing and UAV Swarms
      • date: 1904
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Together with these two applications, UAV swarms and distributed graph processing, I illustrate how centralized control must be relaxed, and component communication increased, in order for large systems to overcome limitations of central control and successfully scale. In such systems, the existence of the central controller presents a bottleneck that limits system scalability.
      • keywords: application; central; control; large; scope; uavs
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1388. 7w62f764632
      • author: Arpita Konar
      • title: Development of Genomic Tools for Comparative Mapping and QTL Studies in Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra L.)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: We hypothesized that the genome architecture of bud burst QTL would be similar to that of Q. robur. Our results indicate the presence of major bud burst QTL on linkage group 2, in agreement with the LG2 region found in Q. robur.
      • keywords: est; map; markers; oak; quercus; rubra; species; ssr
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1389. 7w62f765473
      • author: Haley M. Brickman
      • title: Evaluating the Efficacy of a Brief Prevention Program for Improving Marital and Family Conflict in Community Families: Direct and Indirect Effects on Long-Term Adolescent and Family-Wide Adjustment
      • date: 2020
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Structural Equation Modeling was used to test main effects of the intervention as well as research-informed process models of family conflict and its effects on later family and adolescent psychological adjustment. In addressing the three aims that we set out to test (i.e., the direct effects of the intervention, whether or not these effects occurred through changes in family conflict behaviors, and whether emotional insecurity mediates the effect of the intervention on child psychological outcomes), we found support for the efficacy of the intervention itself at improving several long-term outcomes (both observed and reported).
      • keywords: adjustment; adolescent; behaviors; conflict; effects; family; intervention
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1390. 7w62f76558r
      • author: Katherine Bermingham
      • title: Hannah Arendt's Concepts of Time
      • date: 2021
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Arendt is well known for her analyses of how political disasters, including the loss of democratic freedom, follow from effaced spatial boundaries, i.e. the inappropriate merging of public and private spheres. A theorist of hope as much as of political catastrophe, Arendt's work is particularly apropos in the precarious present we are collectively enduring.
      • keywords: arendt; political; thought; time
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1391. 7w62f76575b
      • author: James P. Breen
      • title: Fighting the Roman Corporation: How the American Protective Association Combined Anti-Catholicism and Antimonopolism in Gilded Age America
      • date: 2022
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Many historians have tried to explain why economic reform movements and mass working-class political movements failed to curb the excesses of industrialization in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Antimonopolism in the Gilded Age often depended on Catholics, so the A.P.A.'s commitment to opposing both corporations and the Catholic Church fractured other antimonopoly political movements and organizations.
      • keywords: a.p.a; antimonopoly; catholic; dissertation; economic; nineteenth; political
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1392. 7w62f765818
      • author: Tyler Finamore
      • title: Gold Nanoparticles as Radiographic Contrast Agents for Noninvasive Monitoring of Scaffold Degradation and Detection of Breast Microcalcifications
      • date: 2022
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 14
      • 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.
      • keywords: contrast; degradation; microcalcifications; nps; scaffold; tissue
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1393. 8049g447b7k
      • author: Angel de Jesus Cortes
      • title: Student Idealists and the Specter of Natural Science, 1870-1910
      • date: 2008
      • words: 442
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Based on an extensive use of primary documents' especially essays written in student literary publications' I show how a segment of undergraduates I call idealists resisted natural science, its methods, and especially its application to the humanities: first, because they believed it would obscure certain principles that they wanted to see clearly; second, because they feared it would introduce a post-Christian and thus an amoral world. Led by some professors, student idealists turned the world of English letters into a romanticized space that functioned as a bulwark against the 'Papacy of Science.'
      • keywords: 1880s; art; chapter; humanities; idealists; literature; natural; science; students
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1394. 8049g447b8x
      • author: Nguyen Phuoc Xuan
      • title: Search for Quark-Lepton Compositeness in the Dimuon Final State at D0
      • date: 2005
      • words: 99
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Preliminary limits on Lambda are set at the 95% confidence level for constructive and destructive interference between the DY amplitude and the contact interaction for various quark and lepton chiralities. We used the upgraded DO detector at the Tevatron at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV to collect data in a search for a compositeness signature of quarks and leptons.
      • keywords: contact; interaction; mass
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1395. 8049g447b98
      • author: May Kim
      • title: Testing Potential Buffers of The Acculturation Gap-Distress Relation Among Asian American College Students
      • date: 2011
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Finally, the coping strategies did not buffer the relation between AFD and distress; however, post-hoc analyses revealed that interpersonal implicit social support exacerbated the relation between AFD and depressive symptoms. The current study tested a moderation model in which culturally-relevant coping strategies (i.e., primary/secondary control and interpersonal/intrapersonal implicit social support) were hypothesized to attenuate the relation between acculturative family distancing (AFD; Hwang, 2006) and depressive symptoms, somatization, and alcohol use.
      • keywords: afd; control; coping; depressive; primary; symptoms
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1396. 8049g447c9k
      • author: Mariana Magaldi de Sousa
      • title: The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Latin America: An Embedded-Agency Approach
      • date: 2010
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Given that the regulation of commercial banks affects the level of performance of countries' financial systems, and the performance of financial systems in turn affects economic development, the consequences of deficient bank regulation and supervision are too grave to be disregarded. While the nature of the P-A relationship among regulators offers insights into who the relevant actors in bank regulation are and how a consensus among them can be achieved, the conjunctural determinants allow us to identify which regulatory objective is assigned priority.
      • keywords: bank; commercial; latin; regulation; regulatory
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1397. 8049g447d0s
      • author: Shannon Lawson Flynn
      • title: Environmental Behavior of Metals and Radionuclides
      • date: 2014
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: aqueous; behavior; bioavailability; peroxide; systems; uranyl
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1398. 8049g447d14
      • author: Chandan Kumar Mozumder
      • title: Topometry Optimization of Sheet Metal Structures for Crashworthiness Design Using Hybrid Cellular Automata
      • date: 2010
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This methodology is used to design for structures with controlled energy absorption with specified buckling zones. With the use of HCA rules, manufacturability constraints (e.g., rolling) and structures which can be manufactured by special techniques, such as, tailor-welded blanks (TWB), have also been implemented.
      • keywords: design; force; hca; method; optimization; response; structures
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1399. 8049g447f8v
      • author: Zhao Wang
      • title: Using Utility-Scale Microgrids in Deregulated Wholesale Power Markets
      • date: 1904
      • words: 714
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The proposed method generates lower average electricity prices, greater power output from new energy resources and larger total surpluses in power market operations. To solve operational problems, this dissertation investigates the impact of utility-scale microgrids on power market operations.
      • keywords: energy; impact; market; microgrids; operations; power; resources; scale; stability; system; utility; voltage
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1400. 8049g447j8s
      • author: Daniel Murphy
      • title: The Technics of Realism: Media and Social Reportage in Narrative Art after 1965
      • date: 1904
      • words: 284
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: A commitment to mimetic social reportage obtains in and after postmodernism, with realistic historical fiction emerging in recent years as the dominant mode of narrative art in American consensus culture. Focusing on a range of artists including Jenji Kohan, Don DeLillo, Kathryn Bigelow, Thomas Pynchon, Terrence Malick, and Rachel Kushner, and assessing texts such as Gravity's Rainbow and Libra alongside Zero Dark Thirty, The Wire, and Orange is the New Black, the project proposes a techno-epistemological account of new realism and shows how media-intensive strategies in docudrama work to theorize, and even justify, the perceived cultural work of narrative art.
      • keywords: fiction; intensive; media; new; project; realism; social; texts
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1401. 8049g448f1q
      • author: Michael T. Waldrop
      • title: Experimental Characterization and Modeling of Gaseous Cavitation of Dodecane in a Converging-Diverging Nozzle
      • date: 2020
      • words: 632
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Known nozzle inlet pressure, known nozzle outlet pressure and a measurement of throat outlet pressure are the only requirements for an accurate prediction for the full length of the nozzle. The first correction is shown to greatly improve prediction accuracy for pressure distribution and several of its features are shown to predict key aspects of aerated dodecane cavitation in a CD nozzle.
      • keywords: cavitation; cloud; collapse; fraction; high; inlet; nozzle; pressure; primary; void; waves
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1402. 8336h130n2q
      • author: Morgan Haugen
      • title: Inhibitory effects of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) on hen granulosa cell differentiation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: The present study was conducted in cultured granulosa cells from prehierarchal follicles, and it was found that the effects of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) on granulosa cells promote EGFL expression while inhibiting Fshr expression, by either promoting or inhibiting indvidual Id isoform expression. At the time of follicle selection, there is a release from inhibitory MAPK/Erk signaling initiating granulosa cell differentiation, causing an increase in FSHR in one selected follicle.
      • keywords: cells; follicle; fshr; granulosa
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1403. 8336h130n32
      • author: David Gene George
      • title: Jesus' Lack of Emotion in Luke: The Lukan Redactions in Light of the Hellenistic Philosophers
      • date: 2010
      • words: 228
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In the characterization of Jesus, the Lukan redactor has removed strong emotion (and the actions which would result from these strong emotions). It will be shown that Luke consistently depicts (with two exceptions in the special 'L' material) the persona of Jesus (and only the character of Jesus) as bereft of strong emotion.
      • keywords: dissertation; emotions; jesus; luke
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1404. 8336h130n4d
      • author: Lauren Margaret Fleury
      • title: Redox Titanocene Catalysis in C&#8211;C Bond Formations and New Discoveries in Phosphorus-Mediated Bond-Forming Reactions
      • date: 2013
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Synthesis of amidines through a novel phosphorus protocol involving a proposed Beckmann-type rearrangement are described, as are initial results for C&#8211;N bond formation through phosphorus assisted 1,3 migrations of enol phosphites. This dissertation describes the development of new bond-forming reactions utilizing the redox properties of titanium and phosphorus.
      • keywords: addition; bond; design; generation; method; new; phosphorus; reactions; redox
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1405. 8336h130n5r
      • author: Regan Deonanan
      • title: Empirical Essays on the Macroeconomics of Developing Countries
      • date: 2012
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: change; chapter; countries; factors; growth; results; structural
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1406. 8336h130n63
      • author: Jeffrey Lawrence Bain-Conkin
      • title: The Refinement of Religious Practices in Nineteenth-Century Louisville, Kentucky
      • date: 2014
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I focus on the most public and ordinary elements of religious practice in nineteenth-century Louisville. With the emphasis on the religious practices of local institutions in nineteenth-century Louisville, my dissertation examines community formation, identity, sermons, death practices, hymnody, liturgy, and architecture.
      • keywords: american; century; city; congregations; dissertation; louisville; nineteenth; practices; religious
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1407. 8336h130n7f
      • author: Youdong Lin
      • title: Lp-Based Strategies for Deterministic Global Optimization Using Interval Methods
      • date: 2005
      • words: 301
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The procedure based on these techniques, LISS_LP, will then be demonstrated using several global optimization problems, with focus on problems arising in chemical engineering. In addition, LISS_LP has also been applied to some global optimization problems arising in molecular modeling, such as locating all stationary points of the potential energy surface of a sorbate particle in silicalite, locating all stationary points of the potential energy surface of triatomic molecules, and seeking molecular conformation with global minimum potential energy.
      • keywords: interval; method; newton; optimization; problems
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1408. 8336h130n8s
      • author: Kyoung Nan Kim
      • title: Self-Assembling DNA Nanostructures as Platforms for Placement of Fluorophores On Silicon [100]
      • date: 2011
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Understanding characteristics and structure of fluorescent labeled DNA raft will accelerate a study of DNA raft modification. Tamra-dT labeled oligonucleotides were purchased from Midland Certified Reagent Company Inc. to compare the properties of Tamra-dT modified DNA raft with pyrene attached DNA raft.
      • keywords: dna; fluorescent; modified; oligonucleotides; raft; tile
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1409. 8336h130n94
      • author: Jesse David Covington
      • title: Taken on Faith: The Concept of Religion in First Amendment Jurisprudence
      • date: 2007
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: First, the three-fold model for how justices think about religion proves a useful tool for describing and analyzing Supreme Court opinions regarding religious exercise. The Court's subsequent efforts to avoid ontology result in two distinct lines of religion decisions.
      • keywords: court; exercise; free; religion; supreme
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1410. 8336h130p3c
      • author: Sean Walsh
      • title: Arithmetical Knowledge and Arithmetical Definability: Four Studies
      • date: 2010
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The fourth chapter is concerned with arithmetical definability in the setting of descriptive set theory, where the relevant benchmark is between notions which may be defined without quantification over elements of certain topological spaces (Borel notions) and notions whose definitions do require such quantification (analytic, coanalytic, projective notions). The first two chapters contain respectively a critique of a logicist account of a preferred means by which we may legitimately infer to arithmetical truths and a tentative defense of an empiricist account.
      • keywords: account; arithmetical; chapter; definability; notions; truths
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1411. 8336h130p4q
      • author: Thomas S Davis
      • title: Distressed Histories: Late Modernism and Everyday Life, 1929-1945
      • date: 2009
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Most readers and critics of twentieth-century literature tag the years between 1930 and 1945 as the long twilight of high modernist formal innovation. I argue that this volatile realignment of realist epistemology and modernist aesthetics converges with the influence of new documentary technologiesÌ¢ âÂ' hand-held cameras, newsreels, broadcast radioÌ¢ âÂ' to beget a 'documentary modernism.'
      • keywords: century; everyday; formal; life; literary; modernist; political; years
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1412. 8336h130p52
      • author: Sandor Volkan-Kacso
      • title: Theory of Fluorescence Intermittency in Quantum Dots and Other Fluorophores
      • date: 2011
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: After a survey of existing models of blinking, we show that the MRC model is the only self-consistent model that can explain the long-range correlations found between blinking times. The purpose of the dissertation is to provide a theoretical explanation to the phenomenon of fluorescence intermittency.
      • keywords: fluorescence; intensity; intermittency; model; mrc; multiple; phenomenon; quantum
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1413. 8336h130p6d
      • author: Djibril Malick Sangare
      • title: Breakpoint Analysis of the Anopheles Gambiae S.S. Chromosome 2Rb, 2Rc, and 2Ru Inversions
      • date: 2007
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The 2Rb distal breakpoint contained an assembly of unique sequences and repetitive elements, including complete and degenerated transposable elements. Inversions 2Rb, 2Rc, and 2Ru are shared between chromosomal forms, Bamako, Mopti, Savanna, Forest and Bissau of Anopheles gambiae s.s. a major malaria vector in Africa.
      • keywords: 2rb; 2ru; breakpoint; inversion; molecular; pcr
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1414. 8336h130t9p
      • author: Zachary Anderson
      • title: Wolf Jewel
      • date: 1904
      • words: 4
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: A collection of poetry.
      • keywords: poetry
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1415. 8336h131b6k
      • author: Megan L. Welton
      • title: Multiplex Virtus: Queens, Ruling Women, and the Discourse of Political Virtue in Tenth-Century Europe
      • date: 1904
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In order to understand the elements of virtus and to see how it shaped early medieval political structures, it is necessary to investigate the language embedded in the widest range of available sources. It focuses particularly on the ways in which the early medieval discourse of political virtus shaped the actions and decisions of queens and empresses in this period.
      • keywords: century; discourse; early; political; sources; tenth; virtus
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1416. 8336h131c15
      • author: Leo Guardado
      • title: Church as Sanctuary: A Preferential Option for the Displaced and Persecuted Poor
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This historical and political context becomes the foundation for a systematic theological reflection where I retrieve ancient traditions of refuge and sanctuary and place them in dialogue with the ecclesiology of Vatican II; analyze the sacramentality of the poor in Oscar Romero's preaching and witness in relation to the vision of a church of the poor as expressed at the Medellin conference; and develop four categories that constitute church as sanctuary: refuge, healing, holiness, and salvation. Among communities of faith the possibility of providing church sanctuary can become a point of controversy and division rather than unity.
      • keywords: church; poor; practice; refuge; sanctuary; united; violence
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1417. 8336h131c8k
      • author: Rusha Chatterjee
      • title: Single Nanostructure Visible and Infrared Microscopies
      • date: 2018
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Finally, it describes a future extension of single particle extinction measurements to the infrared spectrum and discusses the application of infrared microscopies to novel photovoltaic perovskite materials. Single particle extinction spectroscopy is an immediate solution towards overcoming these shortcomings.
      • keywords: emission; extinction; particle; single; spectroscopy
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1418. 8336h131f86
      • author: Joshua D Szczudlak
      • title: Spanwise Transport of Total Enthalpy through a Turbine Nozzle
      • date: 2019
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The facility used was capable of replicating engine relevant conditions including high inflow turbulence intensity, inflow non-uniformities in total pressure and total temperature, and vane exit Mach numbers. Detailed experimental surveys of total temperature and total pressure were obtained upstream and downstream of an annular turbine nozzle vane cascade.
      • keywords: inlet; line; pressure; temperature; total; turbine; vane
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1419. 8336h131p5b
      • author: Qinnan Zhang
      • title: Development of Mixed Matrix Membranes Involving Hierarchical Iptycene Moieties for Gas Separation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: More importantly, the three-dimensional framework of triptycene is able to induce supramolecular interactions and strong π-π stacking, preventing particle aggregation and promoting filler-polymer adhesion, which makes triptycene-based polyimides promising candidates for MMMs fabrication. Ideally, composite membranes combine the superior separation properties of inorganic fillers and the mechanical integrity and good processability of polymer matrices, synergistically leading to better performance.
      • keywords: filler; gas; interfacial; membranes; mmms; new; performance; polymer; separation; triptycene
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1420. 8336h131p9q
      • author: Dustin S. Stoltz
      • title: The Sociology of Elite Advisors
      • date: 2020
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Relying on a close reading of articles and books written by consultants, interviews with management consultants, and participant-observation at recruiting events, I find a contradiction between the front stage presentation of the work of consultants, and the back stage beliefs about how a consultant ought to think. In the first essay, I use a novel dataset of articles written by management consultants at the three most prestigious firms to measure the relationship between education, seniority, and innovativeness.
      • keywords: consultants; essay; occupational; relationship; stratification
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1421. 8336h131q0x
      • author: David T. Omstead
      • title: Optimizing the Selective Delivery of Chemotherapeutics to Multiple Myeloma through the Design of Peptide-Targeted Liposomes
      • date: 2020
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: In order to selectively target MM cells, we discovered or designed short targeting peptide sequences that specifically bind to receptors frequently overexpressed in MM cases such as VLA-4, LPAM1, CD38, and CD138. Finally, Chapter 4 will cover and compare all previously evaluated targeted liposomes as well as using the tumor-penetrating peptide iRGD and their uptake in vitro and biodistribution and tumor cell uptake in vivo.
      • keywords: chapter; design; liposomes; targeted; vivo
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1422. 8336h131r2x
      • author: Allison L. Hendershot
      • title: Understanding the Role of An. coustani Complex Members as Malaria Vector Species in the Democratic Republic of Congo
      • date: 2021
      • words: 444
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: As prompted by conflicting data regarding vector status of An. paludis, the second objective of this research sought to evaluate molecular methods for vector incrimination—the COX-1 PCR and CSP-ELISA. These epidemiologically relevant bionomics have been shown to vary at the local level, leaving questions as to how members of this species group (including An. coustani, An. paludis, and An. caliginosus) contribute to malaria transmission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
      • keywords: coustani; csp; elisa; group; malaria; paludis; species; vector
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1423. 8623hx13w9q
      • author: Julia Henigan
      • title: Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song
      • date: 2009
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Because a different set of social, historical, and literary dynamicsÌ¢ âÂ' as well as theoretical questionsÌ¢ âÂ' are pertinent to individual genres of song, I devote an entire chapter to each one, and include a prefatory chapter on medieval Irish literature. Although a number of Irish folksong scholars have contested the idea of such a dichotomy, there is yet no comprehensive work on the subject in relation to traditional Irish song.
      • keywords: culture; dichotomy; different; historical; interaction; irish; oral; song
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1424. 8623hx13x0x
      • author: Mark Nathan Jensen
      • title: A Theory of Civil Society
      • date: 2008
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Many philosophers argue that civil society is crucial to democracy because it cultivates and sustains democratic moral character. In my view, the civil society that best solves the problem of democratic political culture is also one in which the grand conversation intrinsic to the second vision of democracy takes place.
      • keywords: civil; democracy; democratic; political; society; vision
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1425. 8623hx13x18
      • author: Andrea Nicole Alsobrook
      • title: Understanding the Structural Chemistry of Heterobimetallic Uranyl Transition Metal Phosphonoacetates
      • date: 2012
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: With these types of behaviors, we demonstrated the unpredictable and diverse nature of uranyl phosphonates. There are many uranium(VI) families, such as borates, iodates, tellurites, phosphates, germanates, chromates, and phosphonates.
      • keywords: compounds; diffraction; phosphonates; ray; structures; uranium(vi
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1426. 8623hx13z2x
      • author: Lauren Mackenzie Papp
      • title: Dimensions of marital conflict in the home, parental psychological symptoms, and child adjustment: A family-wide investigation
      • date: 2004
      • words: 290
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Interaction tests that included marital conflict x parent symptoms as a predictor of child adjustment were significant for husbands' but not wives' data. The second question examined associations between child adjustment and marital conflict processes.
      • keywords: adjustment; child; conflict; family; home; marital; question
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1427. 8623hx13z38
      • author: Michael Matthew Crouse
      • title: Enabling one-dimensional nanostructured materials through electrochemistry with novel template development
      • date: 2004
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The limiting case of monocrystalline nanowires can be achieved at low galvanostatic deposition rates where the system is allowed to choose its most energetically favorable nucleation overpotential. The project is presented as essentially two distinct components: nanoporous template development and control of the electrocrystallization of cadmium sulfide.
      • keywords: barrier; development; film; layer; multilayer; nanoporous; template; thin
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1428. 8623hx1411g
      • author: Kristen Drahos
      • title: Dark Beauty: Toward a Catholic Theological Aesthetics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This study opens a discussion of a particular differentiation of theological aesthetics in Catholic thought that arises in the twentieth century in the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Erich Przywara. The dissertation also deeply considers the applications of dark beauty for Catholic thought.
      • keywords: aesthetics; balthasar; beauty; dark; przywara; sublime
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1429. 8623hx14s61
      • author: Heath A. Rose
      • title: The Role of Conformational Dynamics of Beta-Lactamases in Conferring Antibiotic Resistance
      • date: 2019
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Antibiotic resistance towards β-lactams is often promoted via the production of β-lactamases that have the capability to hydrolyze the β-lactams, rendering them ineffective against their drug targets. The work in this thesis compliments the static view of β-lactamases given by X-ray crystallography with a dynamic perspective of β-lactamase activity given by the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) studies presented here.
      • keywords: antibiotic; diseases; drugs; lactamases; lactams; life; resistance
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1430. 8623hx1504g
      • author: Wenbo Li
      • title: Essays in Labor and Environmental Economics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: In cities where road space rationing was implemented permanently, the policy reduced air pollution, while in cities where road space rationing was implemented temporarily, I cannot reject that the policy had zero impact. In the second chapter, I estimate a fixed effects model to study the effect of air pollution in the origin on out-migration and a conditional logit model to study the effect of air pollution on location choice, employing air pollution from distant sources carried by wind as an instrument for local air pollution.
      • keywords: air; cities; pollution; rationing; road; space
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1431. 8623hx1505t
      • author: Ashley Foster
      • title: Scotland's Age of Reckoning: British Union and Enlightenment for a Covenanted People
      • date: 2020
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: It reflected the process of how our subjects became eighteenth-century Britons, people who embraced particular Scottish frameworks to become imperial members. Hence, the revival, occurring thirty-five years after the 1707 Act of Union, provides an excellent entry point for exploring the tensions arising in the first generations of post-Union Scots who had to navigate the push and pull of eighteenth-century imperial Britain.
      • keywords: britain; british; century; enlightenment; imperial; revival; scots; scottish
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1432. 8623hx15243
      • author: Fernando J Alamos Domeyko
      • title: Friction Behavior under Creep in High-Temperature Pressure Gas Forming Applications
      • date: 2022
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: A design of experiment methodology is used to characterize the main parameters that affect asperity contact, and through the incorporation of a physics-based analytical model, a new contact area expression is established based on a characteristic time intrinsic to the asperity deformation behavior. The presence of creep strain leads to junction growth and saturated contact areas at longer time scales than conventional metal forming.
      • keywords: asperity; behavior; contact; creep; friction; model; spf; time
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1433. 8910js9764v
      • author: Stephanie Magdalena White
      • title: Heavy Sky
      • date: 2010
      • words: 2
      • flesch: -6
      • summary: Poetry Manuscript
      • keywords: poetry
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1434. 8910js97656
      • author: Vishwanath Joshi
      • title: Manufacturable Process for High Operating Temperature Silicon Single-Electron Transistors
      • date: 2010
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: CMOS has been the workhorse for the IC industry for past 3 decades and its enormous success is derived mainly from successive improvements in device scaling and the concomitant increase in device density and circuit complexity on a single chip. Work done by other researchers has shown that Si based devices are less vulnerable to background charge offsets, and by utilizing techniques developed for VLSI technology one can make the Si devices dimensionally smaller and hence operate at room temperature and above.
      • keywords: cmos; conventional; density; device; electron; scaling; sets; single
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1435. 8910js9766j
      • author: Kirsten Lynn Milliard
      • title: Architecture in the Design and Content of the Odbert Psalter (Boulogne-sur-mer, Biblioth&#232;que municipale, MS 20)
      • date: 2013
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: That design is not only conducive to the devotional and educational uses of the Psalter, but also to expression of Christ's place at the heart of scripture. That imagery and the texts of the Odbert Psalter are written, drawn, and painted according to the logic of a building and are replete with architectural themes.
      • keywords: life; odbert; psalter
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1436. 8910js9767w
      • author: Benjamin Robert Bernard
      • title: NGO-Business Partnerships: Risk, Trust, and the Future of Development
      • date: 2012
      • words: 92
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: I propose a new Business Purpose classification for NGO-BPs and examine partnership risk analysis and the building of trust through a case study of an ambitious development project in Sub-Saharan Africa undertaken by Catholic Relief Services and supported through partnership with the Intel Corporation. This thesis examines the privatization of development and the changing interests, pressures, and demands that have brought NGOs and corporations into collaborative partnerships (NGO-BPs).
      • keywords: bps; development; ngo
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1437. 8910js97687
      • author: Thanasak Mouktonglang
      • title: Numerical Implementation of a Class of Infinite-Dimensional Primal-Dual Algorithms and Control Applications
      • date: 2004
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: We apply this algorithm to two important control problems: multi-criteria linear-quadratic control problems and linear-quadratic control problems with quadratic constraints. We consider a class of infinite-dimensional optimization problems and its applications to optimal control problems.
      • keywords: control; dimensional; problems
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1438. 8910js9769k
      • author: Michael Alan Tomko
      • title: The Catholic Question in British Romantic Literature: National Identity, History, and Religious Politics, 1778-1829
      • date: 2005
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 0
      • 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.
      • keywords: catholic; cultural; emancipation; literary; nation; national; political; question; religious; romantic
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1439. 8910js9770s
      • author: James Keith
      • title: Group I Intron Mediated Trans-Splicing of Highly Conserved Dengue Virus Sequences and a Mutational Analysis of the PiggyBac Transposase
      • date: 2008
      • words: 632
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: By specifically targeting these regions, trans-splicing products were detected both in vitro with T7 RNA transcripts and in situ from traditional RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) promoted transcripts. One alternative to vaccines currently being explored is the creation of mosquitoes unable to spread the virus from person to person.
      • keywords: ability; acid; amino; apoptotic; conserved; effective; gene; piggybac; pro; serotypes; splicing; spread; tpase; trans; upstream; virus
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1440. 8910js97714
      • author: Michael E DeGruccio
      • title: Unmade: American Manhood in the Civil War Era
      • date: 2007
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: By weaving Cole into overlapping micro-narratives about violence between white officers and black troops, hidden war injuries, the personal struggles of fellow officers, the unbounded ambition of his highest commander, Benjamin Butler, and the melancholy life of his wife Mary Barto Cole, this dissertation fleshes out the essence of the emergent myth of self-made manhood and its relationship to the war era. The central character driving the narrative is a relatively obscure officer, George W. Cole, who gained modest fame in central New York for leading a regiment of black soldiers under the controversial General Benjamin Butler, and, later, for killing his attorney after returning home from the war.
      • keywords: benjamin; butler; cole; dissertation; troops; war
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1441. 8910js9772g
      • author: James Christopher Hebbeler
      • title: Critical Belief in the Unconditioned: Kant's Antinomy as a Positive Response to Skepticism about Reason
      • date: 2009
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: My reading of Kant's account of the unity of theoretical reason has implications for Kant's account of the unity of reason as a whole. I provide an account of the nature of theoretical reason that reveals its teleological structure, including the aims both of the understanding and of reason as the highest intellectual faculty.
      • keywords: account; kant; problem; reason; skepticism
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1442. 8910js9775h
      • author: Chelse M. Prather
      • title: Invertebrate Consumer Influences on Ecosystem Processes in a Rainforest Understory
      • date: 2010
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: availability; consumers; decomposition; nutrient; plant; rainforest; tropical
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1443. 8910js9776v
      • author: Rebecca L. Geister
      • title: Transcriptional regulation following Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
      • date: 2010
      • words: 158
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Previous studies have shown that murine macrophages produce lower levels of TNF-Ì_å± and NOS2 following infection with pathogenic mycobacteria compared to non-pathogenic mycobacteria. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-Ì_å±) and nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) are crucial in the control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
      • keywords: h37ra; nos2; tnf; ì_å±
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1444. 8910js97776
      • author: Courtney McDermott
      • title: The Bird and the Mountain
      • date: 2011
      • words: 40
      • flesch: 70
      • 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.
      • keywords: lesotho
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1445. 8910js9778j
      • author: Kathleen Nanette Bergman
      • title: The Impact of Interparental Aggression and Parental Alcohol Use on Adolescent Adjustment: An Emotional Security Perspective
      • date: 2011
      • words: 117
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: This study explored adolescents' emotional security as an intervening variable in the path from the interaction between interparental aggression and parental problem drinking and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Results indicated a direct relationship between marital aggression and adolescents' internalizing behavior problems, and adolescents' emotional security was shown to mediate the relationship between marital aggression and adolescents' depression and anxiety.
      • keywords: adolescents; aggression; parental
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1446. 8910js9823j
      • author: Pavel A. Brodskiy
      • title: Calcium as a Signal Integrator in Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc Development
      • date: 2019
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Calcium signaling is a well-studied pathway central to cellular decision making. This thesis examines the role of cellular decision making at the cellular, tissue, and organ scale.
      • keywords: calcium; chapter; organ; signaling; wing
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1447. 8910js9890p
      • author: Daniel Vassallo
      • title: Analysis of Gap Flow Phenomena and Machine Learning Strategies for the Prediction of Atmospheric Flows
      • date: 2021
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: A similar question is posed in the third investigation, but for wind speed forecasting. Finally, a study is performed which investigates optimal machine learning strategies for wind speed forecasting.
      • keywords: extrapolation; flow; forecasting; gap; model; modeling; non; speed; wind
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1448. 8910js98942
      • author: Bryant Vande Kolk
      • title: Cross Section Measurements of 10B(p,α)7Be
      • date: 2021
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: While this technique would be implemented at sub-MeV energies, higher energy resonances may interfere with those that lie within the plasma environment energies. Data overlap with previous comprehensive, lower-energy cross-section measurements now provides constraints on the interference effects of higher energy resonances.
      • keywords: data; energies; energy; higher
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1449. 8910js98973
      • author: Chang Che
      • title: A Longitudinal Social Network Mediation Method
      • date: 2021
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: There has been elevating research interest in social network analysis along with prosperous methodology and application studies in network science and other social sciences. In this dissertation, I propose a new approach to integrating the longitudinal mediation method and social network data.
      • keywords: analysis; data; effect; longitudinal; mediation; network; social
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1450. 8910js98b93
      • author: Brian Boyd
      • title: A Just Wage: Equality, Proportionality, and Solidarity in the American Economy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Finally, social justice, which gives form and content to solidarity, requires that citizens be committed to the common good, willing to make what sacrifices are necessary in order to ensure that each of their purchases contribute towards the provisioning of living wages. Distributive justice, which understands workers in firms and citizens in an economy to be true members of social bodies, requires due order and due proportion, with firms' profits proportioned out to workers through an equitable minimum and society's commitment to free labor upholding the rule of law to make this normative.
      • keywords: justice; living; social; wage
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1451. 8c97kp80g2z
      • author: Jeffrey Alan Rood
      • title: Metal-Organic Frameworks as Functional, Porous Materials
      • date: 2010
      • words: 587
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Our group and others have found that the reaction of metal salts with carboxylic acids in polar solvents at elevated temperatures often leads the formation of crystalline MOF materials that can be examined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Further studies showed that the addition of chelating additives led to new solid-state structures and new ions in the mass spectrum, indicating that the Mg2(HCam)3+ ion is likely present in solution prior to MOF formation.
      • keywords: chapter; compounds; formation; magnesium; materials; mof; mofs; molecules; porous; size; studies; synthesis
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1452. 8c97kp80g39
      • author: Sagnik Basuray
      • title: Dielectrophoresis and its Application to Biomedical Diagnostics Platforms
      • date: 2011
      • words: 469
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: With the advancement of soft lithographic techniques, the devices can be easily adapted for medical systems and bio-diagnostic devices to study mechanistic pathways of bio-molecules, bio-chemical reactions and as delivery modules for drug. We designed a rapid, inexpensive, sensitive real time polymerase chain reaction detector; the nano-slot that used dielectrophoresis and EIS to concentrate the DNA molecules for real time detection near a nano-slot.
      • keywords: bio; colloid; devices; dielectrophoresis; diffuse; dna; effect; layer; mechanism; nano; platform; rapid; surface
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1453. 8c97kp80g4n
      • author: Kelley Melissa VanBuskirk
      • title: Partial Immunological and Functional Characterization of Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein
      • date: 2004
      • words: 466
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Due to its critical role in maintaining blood-stage P. vivax infection, DBP is a candidate for inclusion in a vaccine against P. vivax. Serum samples were collected from individuals residing in an area of PNG highly endemic for P. vivax.
      • keywords: binding; dbp; dbpii; domain; ligand; polymorphisms; region; residues; vivax
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1454. 8c97kp80h4z
      • author: Brenda Lynn Daily
      • title: Stimulating Denitrification in Agricultural Headwater Streams Using Elemental Sulfur
      • date: 2007
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: I studied a stream mesocosm, simulating a headwater drainage ditch, amended with elemental sulfur. Microbial community analysis of the sulfur-oxidizing biofilm suggested significant bacterial diversity existed within the mesocosm, with little variation in depth.
      • keywords: headwater; mesocosm; model; nitrate; sulfur
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1455. 8c97kp80h59
      • author: Richard E Pimpinella
      • title: Fabrication and Physical Properties of Semiconducting Nanowires Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
      • date: 2013
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The study of the formation of single crystal semiconducting nanowires examines the growth mechanisms, morphology, and crystal structure of GaAs, ZnTe, ZnSe, and Ge nanowires grown on a variety of substrates by MBE. The study described in this thesis can be subdivided into four main topics: the formation of self-assembled eutectic nanoparticles, the formation of single crystal semiconducting nanowires, the formation of heterostructured semiconducting nanowires, and the magnetic properties of GaAs/Fe core/shell nanowires.
      • keywords: formation; growth; magnetic; nanowires; study
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1456. 8c97kp80k2w
      • author: Angel Daniel Matos
      • title: Feeling Infinite: Affect, Genre, and Narrative in Young Adult Queer Literature
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This dissertation focuses on young adult queer novels published during the twenty-first century, which form an archive of literature that in many ways seems antithetical to the affective and narrative dimensions commonly represented in queer literature. Methodologically, this dissertation focuses on different sub-genres of young adult queer fiction published during the past decade using affective, queer, and narratological approaches.
      • keywords: adult; affect; literature; queer; young
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1457. 8c97kp80p2t
      • author: Rachel E. Bosserman
      • title: Mechanisms of Protein Transport and Regulation in Pathogenic Mycobacteria
      • date: 1904
      • words: 186
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We report on the links between Esx systems and the mycobacterial cell envelope, spontaneous loss-of-function mutations in Esx-1 components, novel Esx-1 substrates in *M. marinum*, and new mechanisms of Esx-1 regulation. As such, *M. marinum* is a widely used model system for studying Esx-1 export and therefore understanding *M. tb* pathogenesis.
      • keywords: export; marinum
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1458. 8c97kp8164f
      • author: David Ju
      • title: Nonlocal Transformation Field Analysis of Heterogeneous Materials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Multi-scale formulations have been used to decrease the computational cost, making use of a periodic representative unit cell (RUC). Methods have been produced to further reduce the cost of multi-scale formulations by embedding the macro-scale solution with the relevant micro-scale features.
      • keywords: coarse; cost; fine; materials; model; multi; numerical; scale
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1459. 8c97kp8191b
      • author: Gerardo Silva-Oelker
      • title: Thermophotovoltaic Cell Design Improvements through Numerical Simulations: Uncertainty Quantification and Geometry Optimization
      • date: 2019
      • words: 516
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In both cases, through suitable design choices high thermal emittance with low directional sensitivity can be obtained. Validation of the proposed approach is performed for several cases, and simulations applied to the calculation and prediction of grating efficiency for realistic grating structures reveal the applicability of the method.
      • keywords: conversion; electric; emittance; grating; hfo2; high; numerical; simulations; structures; thermal; tpv
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1460. 8c97kp81j2v
      • author: Cody Baker
      • title: Second-Order Moments of Activity in Large Neural Network Models
      • date: 2020
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Later work showed that, under some connectivity structures, balanced networks can produce larger correlations between some neuron pairs, even when the average correlation is very small. Understanding the magnitude and structure of interneuronal correlations and their relationship to synaptic connectivity structure is an important and difficult problem in computational neuroscience.
      • keywords: correlations; network; spike; state
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1461. 8c97kp81j4j
      • author: Jeffrey Henry
      • title: The Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Conformational Analogues of Dactylolide, Zampanolide and GEX1A
      • date: 2020
      • words: 555
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This thesis also addresses our efforts to study the relationship between the biological activity and conformational preferences of type-I polyketide GEX1A. GEX1A proves to be an interesting lead for a therapeutic in our acute myeloid leukemia and Niemann-Pick type C disease studies and requires further evaluation of the compound's potential as a drug candidate. These studies confirm previously predicted conformational preferences of the polyketide and identifies two previously undiscovered bond rotations that promote the identification of four potential conformational families.
      • keywords: biological; conformational; lab; natural; polyketide; preferences; products; relationship; studies; synthesis; thesis
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1462. 8c97kp81j7k
      • author: Yuan Gong
      • title: Healthcare Applications and Security Concerns of Speech Processing Systems
      • date: 2020
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Specifically, we can develop speech processing systems for healthcare applications such as building convenient and low-cost diagnose, screening, or monitoring solutions. In the first part of this thesis, I investigate how to build speech processing systems for healthcare applications.
      • keywords: applications; attacks; processing; speech; systems; text
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1463. 8c97kp81k4v
      • author: Nikolaus G. Kleber
      • title: The Design of Widespread Spectrum Monitoring Systems
      • date: 2021
      • words: 521
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: We also conclude that omni-directional sensors are optimal in terms of emitter detection probability, regardless of emitter directivity. Additionally, assuming higher sensor quality results in higher sensor cost, we consider a fixed-budget deployment and observe that sensor quantity is more important than sensor quality for emitter detection.
      • keywords: data; detection; dimensions; directional; emitter; multiple; number; power; probability; sensor
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1464. 8c97kp81k87
      • author: John W. Peck
      • title: Powered Up: Substantial Unity and Upward Determination
      • date: 2021
      • words: 480
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Now if F is the form of every x, then for every x, the properties x bears as a functional part of y are also posterior to F. A fortiori, the powers of y that are upwardly determined by the properties of xs are posterior to F. Therefore, SH is compatible with the upward determination of y's causal powers. Doing so frees them to concede that for a substance y composed of the xs, the causal powers of the xs upwardly determine y's causal powers.
      • keywords: powers; properties
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1465. 8c97kp81m5h
      • author: John Wilkinson
      • title: Novel Nuclear Reactions for Medical and Environmental Applications
      • date: 2022
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This method allows a real-time calibration of beam intensity on target to measured upstream currents for ion beam analysis at beam energies above 3.5 MeV.Light-ion production of nuclear medicine isotopes is the standard methodology, but some highly desired proton-rich isotopes have difficult production hurdles including yield, purity, cost, and availability. Using a complimentary approach and the experimental observations from the terbium project, 44mSc (58.6 h) was investigated from a less symmetrical 35Cl bombardment of natural Boron, natB. The reverse kinematics reaction limited the number of open channels and reaction products.
      • keywords: approaches; beam; gamma; heavy; ion; light; nuclear; production; products; proton; reaction
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1466. 8c97kp81m6v
      • author: Brant Gates
      • title: Cell Surface Decoration with Multivalent Host-Guest Dendrimers for Localized Drug Capture
      • date: 2022
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: cells; cy5; recognition
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1467. 8c97kp81n8v
      • author: Ruiyang Li
      • title: Deep Learning for Modeling Multi-Scale Thermal Transport
      • date: 2023
      • words: 603
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: On the other hand, while BTE is capable of describing heat carrier distributions and simulating thermal transport at the device level, the computational cost of solving BTE can be prohibitively high. PINNs have the potential to be a valuable tool for simulating thermal transport at the device level and may facilitate efficient inverse learning and thermal design.
      • keywords: accuracy; bte; challenges; deep; dissertation; heat; learning; materials; methods; nnps; phonon; thermal; transport
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1468. 8g84mk63r21
      • author: Alexander Selkirk Duff
      • title: The Paradox of Heideggerian Politics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 277
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: It concludes that Heidegger's bequest to his successors is the requirement, for which his thought does not supply adequate means, to negotiate the tension between the demand for the revolutionary transformation of politics and the retreat from politics. The 'paradox' of Heideggerian politics is the necessary proximity of these two inflections to one another.
      • keywords: heidegger; inflection; political; quietist; revolutionary
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1469. 8g84mk63r6d
      • author: Emily Kay Gustafson
      • title: Past Acting Upon Itself
      • date: 2010
      • words: 238
      • flesch: 65
      • summary: By being aware of the current economic shortcomings of the United States, having knowledge of the atrocities being committed overseas, and watching the gradual decay of our infrastructure at home may leave one's brain little space for pondering the beauty and truth that art of the past has been typically concerned with. I pose this question to myself as a starting point for my written thesis in order to help layout what I have come to realize as the role of art and the artist is in these ever intensely changing times.
      • keywords: art; artist; times; world
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1470. 8g84mk63r7r
      • author: Yaya Chu
      • title: Optical Characterization of Semiconductor Microresonaters with Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
      • date: 2010
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Ultra-low lasing thresholds for InP MD and MR lasers at both room temperature and low temperature are demonstrated for the first time. Micro cavities (MCs) with a small effective volume (Veff ) and a high quality factor (Q) are promising for applications in nonlinear optics, sensing, low-threshold lasers, single photon sources, quantum information processing and cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) for individual quantum dots (QDs) in the low temperature emission spectra.
      • keywords: emission; field; low; micro; near; quantum; temperature
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1471. 8g84mk63r83
      • author: Holly Elizabeth Weiss
      • title: Engineering a Replacement Bone Tissue with Adult Adipose-Derived Stem Cells
      • date: 2013
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Upon implantation, the cell-scaffold constructs produced varying amounts of immature bone characterized by highly vascularized osteocalcin and osteopontin-positive matrix and an increase in mineralized tissue volume. Despite identical pre-treatment, the culture systems induced significantly different volumes of mineralized tissue formation in vivo.
      • keywords: bone; cell; chondrogenic; culture; formation; medium; mineralized; tissue; vivo
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1472. 8g84mk63r9f
      • author: Jude C Nnorom
      • title: The Jos Conflict and Peacebuilding: Evaluating Activities of the Justice Development and Peace Commission of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos, Using Principles of Catholic Social Teaching and Strategic Peacebuilding
      • date: 2012
      • words: 158
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: I also argue that the Catholic Church and its partners in Jos address these underlying causes of the conflict through religious, social and agricultural programs. Because of the bias towards religious causation, peacebuilding efforts by religious actors such as the Justice, Development and Peace Commission of the Catholic archdiocese of Jos, are understudied.
      • keywords: conflict; jos; religious
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1473. 8g84mk63s0n
      • author: Carlos Chaparro
      • title: Micro-Calorimetric Study of Iron-Based Superconductor BaFe2(As(1-x)P(x))2
      • date: 2013
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: The clean-limit nature of this material imposes additional restraints on theories aimed at explaining the BCN scaling since models based on specific electron scattering mechanisms appear to be inconsistent with our results. It is the first member of the iron-based layered superconductors that follows this particular trend called the BNC (Bud??ko, Ni, and Canfield) scaling of the specific heat transition.
      • keywords: heat; scaling; specific
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1474. 8g84mk63s10
      • author: Jonathan Kaima Kayondo
      • title: Genetic Structure, Snp Establishment, and Cloning the 2la-Inversion Distal Breakpoint in the Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae
      • date: 2008
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Vector targeted malaria control campaigns require good grasp of the biology and population structure. Evaluating the effectiveness of measures that involve genetic manipulation of vector populations will be facilitated by identifying small, genetically isolated vector populations.
      • keywords: control; genetic; islands; manipulation; populations; structure; vector
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1475. 8g84mk63s2b
      • author: Matthew David Mendham
      • title: Gentleness, Severity, and the System of Rousseau: Responses to Modern Commerce and Enlightenment
      • date: 2010
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: However, he frames the 'softness' it generates as politically base in comparison with the stern virtues of the ancients, as resulting from moral indifference rather than genuine conviction, and as perfectly compatible with the ramification of cruel institutions. This dissertation comprehensively analyzes themes related to gentleness and severity in Rousseau, while also comparing him with other major political philosophers and social theories.
      • keywords: chapter; cruel; human; modern; moral; rousseau; social
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1476. 8g84mk63s3p
      • author: Haifeng Xu
      • title: FVII stands on the crossroads of coagulation and inflammation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 370
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Administration, in vivo, of specific inhibitors of FXa and thrombin demonstrated that the inflammatory responses were unaltered in WT mice, but further reduced in FVIItTA/tTA mice. Keratinocytes from skin tissue are rich sources of tissue factor and are highly associated with skin wound healing.
      • keywords: coagulation; fvii; fviitta; healing; inflammatory; mice; skin; wound
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1477. 8g84mk63s41
      • author: David Charles Kneip
      • title: The Church, the Bible, and the Sacraments: Neglected Aspects of Cyril of Alexandria's Pneumatology
      • date: 2013
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The dissertation argues that Cyril ascribes a significant role to the Holy Spirit in all three areas and in a variety of ways, but that in all three the Spirit plays a rather hidden or subtle role. Nevertheless, when one consults Cyril's works, especially his biblical commentaries, one finds frequent mention of the Spirit, reflecting deep thought on the subject.
      • keywords: cyril; dissertation; holy; regard; spirit
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1478. 8g84mk63s72
      • author: Ryan Kreager
      • title: Investigating the automaticity of imitation: The role of action context
      • date: 2010
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The present study attempts to replicate and extend this reference study by: 1) determining if action context matching could be demonstrated using a task that was not explicitly cooperative, 2) using a procedure offering a better measure of imitation fidelity, 3) discovering if action context matching would be revealed when employing more than just the two action contexts, and 4) determining if action context matching would result in the facilitation of multiple behaviors if each was context appropriate. Action context matching effects were found in most contexts and across multiple dependent measures of performance.
      • keywords: action; context; imitation; matching; non
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1479. 8g84mk63s8d
      • author: Shannon Kay Kuntz
      • title: An Application-Driven Approach to Evaluation of a Lightweight Multithreaded Architecture
      • date: 2010
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: These applications arise from a variety of sources including physics, engineering, biology, sociology, and national defense, to name just a few, and many of them have characteristics that make them ill-suited to conventional high performance architectures. The lightweight processors utilize large numbers of lightweight threads of execution to tolerate latencies that conventional architectures cannot avoid.
      • keywords: applications; architecture; conventional; lightweight; multithreaded; performance; threads
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1480. 8g84mk63s9r
      • author: Jade Avelis
      • title: Religion and Ideal Age of Marriage Among Young Emerging Adults
      • date: 2011
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: marriage; relationship; religious
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1481. 8g84mk63t0z
      • author: Sheila Kathryn Nowinski
      • title: Peasants into Farmers: The Jeunesse Agricole Catholique and the Modernization of Rural France, 1930åÑ1960
      • date: 2012
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: I argue that the Jeunesse agricole provided rural youth with a path to the modern worldÌ¢åÛåÓthat of France's Ì¢åÛåÏthirty glorious years,Ì¢åÛå marked by a burgeoning consumer economy and industrial growth, including industrial agriculture. With these new social identities, rural Catholic Action associations facilitated processes of social and economic change that emptied the countryside, consolidated industrial agriculture, and reinforced and legitimized an interventionist state.
      • keywords: agricole; agriculture; catholic; french; rural; social; women; young
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1482. 8g84mk63v9c
      • author: Adam Foley
      • title: Homer's Winged Words and Humanist Latinity: The Task of Translating Homer in the Italian Renaissance
      • date: 1904
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: In addition to translation practice, humanists also began to develop increasingly more sophisticated ways of thinking about the task of the translator and thus did much to advance the field of translation theory. These translations can be divided into three phases: Literal (The Feather) (1362-1440s), Oratorical (The Wing) (1438-1460s), and Verse translation (The Flight) (1440s-1500).
      • keywords: century; homer; period; standards; translation
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1483. 8g84mk64s91
      • author: Guodong Zhang
      • title: Topology Optimization of Nonlinear Structural and Material Systems
      • date: 2019
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: Mesh distortion under finite deformations is handled by an adaptive linear energy interpolation scheme wherein linear energy is adaptively interpolated in the system until the convergence of finite element analysis is achieved. This dissertation proposes novel frameworks for structural design under finite deformations based on density-based topology optimization.
      • keywords: addition; deformations; design; energy; finite; frameworks; large; material; metamaterials
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1484. 8g84mk64v27
      • author: Constance Davis
      • title: Racial and Gender Disparities in Underemployment among College Graduates
      • date: 2021
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Limiting the sample to college graduates, the hypothesis that gender and racial disparities in the labor market are mediated by college major choice was first tested to see if college major mediates the effect of race or gender on underemployment. Racial and gender disparities in labor market outcomes such as in pay, hiring, and promotion are also well documented.
      • keywords: disparities; gender; labor; racial
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1485. 8g84mk64v3k
      • author: Gabriel J. Foster
      • title: Refining Whole Transcriptome Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum Genetic Crosses
      • date: 2021
      • words: 128
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: This approach includes a detailed analysis of the parental transcriptional time courses, a novel application of a correctional method for the cyclic nature of transcription, and a detailed solution for the difficulties of data curation and analysis of expression Quantitative Trait Locus analysis in P. falciparum. This body of work describes a complete, detailed approach to transcriptional analysis of a newly derived P. falciparum genetic cross, and the tools used to perform these analyses.
      • keywords: analysis; falciparum; transcriptional
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1486. 8g84mk64v4x
      • author: Adam C. Vilanova-Goldstein
      • title: Agency-Driven Biases in Visual Selective Attention
      • date: 2021
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Attentional selection is driven by a complex interplay between endogenous cues (e.g., words or symbols indicating the likely identities or locations of task-relevant objects), exogenous cues (e.g., salient stimulus features such as unique motion or color), and past experience (e.g., selection history). This benefit of agency augmented effects of valid endogenous cues as well as effects of selection history.
      • keywords: agency; attentional; cues; selection
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1487. 8g84mk64v6m
      • author: Rebecca Greenes Gearhart
      • title: Yid
      • date: 2021
      • words: 13
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: Yid is a multigenerational novel exploring themes of Jewish identity, adolescence, and sexuality.
      • keywords: sexuality
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1488. 8g84mk64w47
      • author: Mandana Saebi
      • title: Learning from Complex Networks
      • date: 2021
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In order to understand and model the underlying phenomena in such systems, it is important to solve two key challenges: (1) building network models that are an accurate representation of raw data, and (2) developing models that can learn from the network structure to capture the ongoing phenomena in the complex system. We then explore the applications of higher-order networks in various real-world problems such as modeling species spread through the global shipping network and anomaly detection in dynamic networks.
      • keywords: complex; networks; real; world
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1489. 8g84mk64x1h
      • author: Jieye Lin
      • title: Structure and Conformation Determinations of Saccharides and Peptides in Solution and in the Solid-State
      • date: 2022
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: The fundamental structural properties of saccharides are investigated in solid-state using X-ray crystallography, as shown in Chapter 5 – 7. The lab-developed MA'AT program, aims to use the redundant experimental J-couplings and the DFT-calculated Karplus-like equations to unbiasedly model saccharide conformation in solution.
      • keywords: analysis; chapter; conformation; crystals; experimental; ma'at; saccharides; structural
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1490. 8k71ng47142
      • author: Michael D. Lundin
      • title: Multiphase Flow Management in Confined Geometries Applied to the Optimization of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
      • date: 2010
      • words: 586
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Model predictions explain differences in the initial location of bubble formation for fuel solutions pre-saturated with CO2 as opposed to CO2-free solutions. Because CO2 bubbles are ubiquitous in direct methanol fuel cells, this finding is key to the optimization of these systems.
      • keywords: anode; bubble; co2; experiments; field; flow; formation; fuel; gas; koh; lioh; model; solution
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1491. 8k71ng4715d
      • author: James Kasuboski
      • title: Mitotic Kinases That Build a Dynein-Binding Platform on Kinetochores
      • date: 2011
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Specifically, Aurora B activity regulates the interaction between Zwint-1 and ZW10 through direct phosphorylation of Zwint-1. Zwint-1 phosphorylation is required during prometaphase for proper assembly of the kinetochore and coordinated Zwint-1 dephoshorylation is required for entrance into anaphase and SAC silencing.
      • keywords: assembly; aurora; dynein; kinetochore; zwint-1
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1492. 8k71ng4716r
      • author: Ronald R Cox
      • title: By the Same Word: The Intersection of Cosmology and Soteriology in Hellenistic Judaism, Early Christianity and 'Gnosticism' in the Light of Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine
      • date: 2005
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: In particular Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism (Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon) espouses a holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place in human fulfillment. On the other hand, Poimandres (CH 1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional rubric 'gnosticism,' draw from Platonism to describe how creation is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source.
      • keywords: creation; human; intermediary; middle; platonism; principle
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1493. 8k71ng47262
      • author: Natalia Baeza
      • title: Contradiction, Critique, and Dialectic in Adorno
      • date: 2012
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: contradiction; determinate; dialectics; negative
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1494. 8k71ng4727d
      • author: Matthew McIntyre Jobbins
      • title: Scanning tunneling microscopy investigations of reactions between thiolate coated gold surfaces and gas-phase radicals.
      • date: 2013
      • words: 290
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This will hopefully allow us to further elucidate the kinetics of chemical reactions taking place at surfaces on the molecular level. Further, we have determined that, while chlorination and sulfur abstraction does occur over extended dose times, the principle reaction pathway is likely hydrogen abstraction followed by the recombination of surface radicals, leading to an extensively cross-linked surface.
      • keywords: atomic; hydrogen; lab; molecular; monolayer; reactions; surface
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1495. 8k71ng4739d
      • author: Jennifer Kolesari
      • title: How the Physicality of Space Affects How We Think about Time
      • date: 1904
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: One mechanism to accomplish this mapping is a reference frame that has a number of parameters that are used to define space, including origin, orientation, direction, and scale. For example, the orientation and direction parameters are used together as a timeline.
      • keywords: parameters; scale; spatial
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1496. 8k71ng47w9j
      • author: Lucia Tiscornia
      • title: Who Calls the Shots? Police Reform and Organized Criminal Violence in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict
      • date: 2019
      • words: 1052
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: accountability; behavior; case; changes; conditions; conflict; criminal; effect; groups; militarization; police; post; propensity; reforms; security; use; violence
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1497. 8k71ng47x0r
      • author: Kathryn J. Ralph
      • title: Understanding Individual Differences in Attention Mechanisms, Lapses, and Complex Cognition
      • date: 2019
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: alertness; constructs; lapses; phasic; tonic
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1498. 8k71ng47x44
      • author: Christopher C. Huffman
      • title: Flow Quality Assessment of the ACT-1 Arc-Heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and an Analytical Driver Tube Simulation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 171
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: The results are displayed as comparisons of flow properties at the farthest downstream position in the tube (i.e. a notional inlet to a Ludwieg tube's nozzle) and overall mass fluctuation throughout the time of simulation. A two-phase flow problem is encountered in these tests and corrected for by a factor based on the fraction of carbon dioxide condensate.
      • keywords: act-1; flow; shock; tube
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1499. 8k71ng47x9v
      • author: Brian Mulholland
      • title: Holomorphic Polar Coordinates and Segal-Bargmann Space
      • date: 2019
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Motived by the works of Gestur Olafsson and Henrik Schlichtkrull in [10], I use shift operators to find this holomorphic version of polar coordinates in C_t version of the Segal-Bargmann transform. In Real Euclidean Space, polar coordinates allow mathematicians to calculate the norm of higher dimensional SO-invariant functions with relative ease by reducing the problem to a 1-dimensional integral.
      • keywords: dimensional; polar; transform
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1500. 8k71ng4800n
      • author: Sidney H. Simpson
      • title: Turning against Oneself: The Internalization of the Subject and the Critique of Culture
      • date: 2019
      • words: 413
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: First, from Rousseau to Foucault there is a decline in optimism with respect to the possibility of politics being a vehicle of liberation. Third, there is a deepening articulation of the mechanism by which people are dominated, also beginning in Rousseau and culminating in Foucault's bio-politics.
      • keywords: foucault; ills; nietzsche; politics; rousseau; society; thinkers
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1501. 8k71ng4839p
      • author: Dani Green
      • title: Postal Forms in the Nineteenth-Century British Naturalist Novel
      • date: 2020
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 10
      • 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.
      • keywords: british; naturalist; novel; office; personal; postal; system
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1502. 8p58pc3094w
      • author: Erin Lee Cole
      • title: Water-Soluble, Deep-Red Fluorescent Squaraine Rotaxanes
      • date: 2013
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Bone targeted squaraine rotaxanes with non-bisphosphonate groups were found to be excellent in vivo imaging agents and their bone targeting ability was comparable to that of traditional bisphosphonate probes. The chemical and photochemical stability of water-soluble squaraine rotaxanes with four large stopper groups attached to the dye core was found to be vastly superior to that of squaraine rotaxanes with three and two large stopper groups.
      • keywords: core; groups; imaging; rotaxanes; squaraine
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1503. 8p58pc30988
      • author: Troy Raeder
      • title: Shopping with Networks: An Approach to Market Basket Analysis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: One may use an interestingness measure to quantify the usefulness of various rules, but there is no single agreed-upon measure and different measures can result in very different rankings of association rules. The typical solution involves the mining and analysis of association rules, which take the form of statements such as ``people who buy diapers are likely to buy beer.'
      • keywords: data; mining; network; product; rules
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1504. 8p58pc3099m
      • author: Wenhui Zhang
      • title: Solution Studies of Monosaccharide and Oligosaccharide Structure and Reactivity by NMR Spectroscopy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Saccharides are arguably the most talented molecules in the biological repertoire of molecular structures. In this dissertation, spin-spin coupling constants measured in these compounds are interpreted using theoretically-derived Karplus or Karplus-like relationships between molecular structure conformation and coupling magnitude.
      • keywords: biological; chapter; nmr; oligosaccharides; spin; structure; studies
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1505. 8p58pc30b0t
      • author: Danut Andrei Maces
      • title: Uncertainty Propagation in Models for Dynamic Nonlinear Systems: Methods and Applications
      • date: 2013
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In the context of engineering and science, nonlinear dynamic models often involve uncertain quantities. For example, in an initial value problem (IVP) described by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), the initial conditions may be uncertain, and there may be uncertain parameters in the ODE model.
      • keywords: approach; fuzzy; initial; model; numbers; quantities; uncertain; use
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1506. 8p58pc30b15
      • author: Teng Wu
      • title: Modeling Hysteretic Nonlinear Behavior of Bridge Aerodynamics via Cellular Automata Nested Neural Network
      • date: 2012
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This approach can be extended to a full-bridge (3-D) model that also takes into account the correlation of aerodynamic forces along the bridge axis. The effectiveness of this approach and its applications are discussed by way of modeling the aerodynamic behavior of a single-box girder cross-section bridge deck (2-D) under turbulent wind conditions.
      • keywords: aerodynamic; approach; bridge; buffeting; modeling
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1507. 8p58pc30b2h
      • author: Mark Dwayne Allen
      • title: The Man of God, the Old Prophet and the Word of the Lord: An Exegesis of 1 Kings 13
      • date: 2012
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: The work of Uriel Simon is consulted in the pre-deuteronomistic stage. This prophetic narrative has long confused readers and challenged interpreters.
      • keywords: deuteronomistic; kings; pre; stage
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1508. 8p58pc30b3v
      • author: Bhoopesh Mishra
      • title: Molecular Binding Mechanisms of Aqueous Cd and Pb to Siderophores, Bacteria and Mineral Surfaces
      • date: 2006
      • words: 423
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: adsorption; complex; dfo; results; study; xafs
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1509. 8p58pc30b46
      • author: Lorraine Juliano Keller
      • title: Whence Structured Propositions?
      • date: 2012
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: According to SP, propositions have constituents and are individuated by the identity and arrangement of their constituents. In the penultimate chapter, I evaluate six arguments for SP: the Compositionality Argument, the Logical Form Argument, the Argument from Analyticity, The Similarity Argument, the Direct Reference Argument, and the Language-based Argument.
      • keywords: argument; constituents; historical; propositions; structured
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1510. 8p58pc30b5j
      • author: Timothy Raymond Brick
      • title: TIDE: A Timing-sensitive Incremental Discourse Engine
      • date: 2009
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: TIDE is capable of performing backchannel feedback actions at appropriate times during the utterance, responding to utterances within the boundaries of human turn-taking, and even interrupting a speaker as necessary. We argue that TIDE operates at a level of incrementality required for natural language interactions with humans, and demonstrate TIDE's functionality as a framework for further expansion with the implementation of a model of reference resolution in a shared visual environment.
      • keywords: face; feedback; language; natural; tide; utterance
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1511. 8p58pc30b6w
      • author: Li Yu
      • title: Right-sizing Resource Allocations for Scientific Applications in Clusters, Grids, and Clouds
      • date: 2013
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: While these platforms provide virtually unlimited computing resources, using more resources for an application does not always result in superior performance. We evaluate the effectiveness of this technique on a selection of workload patterns, ranging from highly homogeneous to completely random, and observe that the system is able to significantly reduce wasted resources with minimal impact on performance.
      • keywords: computing; performance; resources; workloads
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1512. 8p58pc30b9x
      • author: Dolores G. Morris
      • title: Physicalism, Dualism and the Mind-Body Problem
      • date: 2010
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: In this dissertation, I examine the implications of the problem of mental causation and what David Chalmers has dubbed the &quot; hard problem of consciousness&quot; for competing accounts of the mind. There, I maintain that Kim's ontology cannot adequately address both the problem of mental causation and the &quot; hard problem of consciousness.&quot; In Chapter Two, I examine the causal pairing problem for substance dualism.
      • keywords: argument; causal; chapter; closure; problem
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1513. 8p58pc30c04
      • author: Xiaoling Zhong
      • title: Effects of Outlying Observations on Standard Errors in Factor Analysis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: When data contain outlying observations, the ML estimates can be biased and SEs may increase. However, effects of outlying observations on SEs have never been studied systematically under the framework of factor analysis.
      • keywords: observations; outlying; ses
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1514. 8p58pc30c2t
      • author: Jaecheon Cho
      • title: Philorhomaios: The Portraits of Herod Agrippa II by Josephus and Luke
      • date: 2013
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Before delving into the portraits of Agrippa, we first investigate three Greco-Roman historians-Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus-who showed their own view of Rome and the Mediterranean world through their descriptions of client king figures. The distinctive identity and role of Marcus Julius (Herod) Agrippa II as a client king of Rome are a medium for the two near contemporary historians, Josephus and Luke, to shape their view of their ethnic and religious identities in the late first century CE.
      • keywords: agrippa; client; josephus; king; luke; roman
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1515. 8p58pc31109
      • author: Gabriela Maria Avelar Bonilla
      • title: Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium between Aprotic Heterocyclic Anion (AHA) Ionic Liquids and Water, and the Effect of Water on CO2 Capture by AHA Ionic Liquids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In the context of post combustion CO2 capture, small tetraalkylphosphonium cations and different AHA anions were probed for CO2 capture. The effect of the cation and anion on the liquid-liquid equilibrium of aprotic heterocyclic anion (AHA) ionic liquids (ILs) and water was studied by volumetric Karl Fischer titration.
      • keywords: anion; co2; equilibrium; reaction
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1516. 8p58pc31d8g
      • author: Andrew J. Volchko
      • title: Uncertainty Quantification of Hypersonic Models
      • date: 2021
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: To do so, we will develop efficient methods based on the polynomial expansion of the output from a deterministic model, also known as Polynomial Chaos Expansion. This system was influenced by design conditions for the new Notre Dame Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel (ANDLM6QT) to provide groundwork for future simulations.
      • keywords: computational; fidelity; high; model
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1517. 8p58pc31g3c
      • author: Hannah Wilson
      • title: Influence in American Legislatures
      • date: 2022
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This project examines the process and implications of political influence in American state legislatures. Using ten years of temporal cosponsorship data from seven U.S. states, I test a theory of asymmetric polarization in co-partisan influence.
      • keywords: american; influence; political; results
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1518. 8s45q813k6n
      • author: Steven Edward Broad
      • title: Index formulas for higher order Loewner vector fields
      • date: 2010
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Structurally, our index formula provides a defect term for Loewner's conjecture containing geometric data extracted from Hessian-like objects associated with higher order derivatives of f. In particular, our index formula computes the Fredholm index of the Toeplitz operator on the unit circle whose symbol is the nth order Cauchy-Riemann derivative of f.
      • keywords: cauchy; index; order; riemann
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1519. 8s45q813k70
      • author: Dayu Lv
      • title: Construction, Analysis and Validation of a Mathematical Model of Human Metabolism
      • date: 2011
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: equations; glucose; model; pancreas; parameters; physiological; results
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1520. 8s45q813k8b
      • author: Junhui Huang
      • title: Separation Control over Low Pressure Turbine Blades Using Plasma Actuators
      • date: 2005
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Separation control was performed using plasma actuators. Flow visualization, pressure measurements, LDV measurements, and hot-wire measurements were conducted to examine the flow fields with and without separation control.
      • keywords: actuators; control; plasma; separation; steady; unsteady
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1521. 8s45q813m8n
      • author: Quanling Zheng
      • title: Investigation of the Mechanical and Thermal Reliability of Quilt Packaging
      • date: 2014
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Pull tests were performed after thermal shock testing, and it was found that during the first 200 thermal shock cycles, the pull force at failure drops significantly, but has little effect on the tensile strength of copper. The adhesion between copper and oxide is more vulnerable to thermal shock testing, and cracks were observed in the sidewall SiO2 isolation layer after thermal shock testing.
      • keywords: chip; mechanical; pull; shock; system; testing; thermal
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1522. 8s45q813m90
      • author: Darshana C Patel
      • title: A Study of the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance: The Role of Symmetry Energy in Nuclear Incompressibility in the Open-Shell Nuclei
      • date: 2014
      • words: 374
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The objective of this thesis work is to investigate the 'softness' in nuclear incompressibility observed in the open shell nuclei and the role of symmetry energy in the nuclear incompressibility. This experiment established the feasibility of using deuteron probe to study giant resonances in the radioactive nuclei and thus explore the density dependence of symmetry energy in further detail.
      • keywords: incompressibility; isgmr; isotopes; nuclear; observed; softness
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1523. 8s45q813n4k
      • author: Yu Yan
      • title: Non-equilibrium Ion Transport in Nanofluidic Devices
      • date: 1904
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: With the help of asymptotic analyses and numerical simulations, we shed light on the physical mechanisms of nanofluidic devices like batteries and diodes, and designed new nanofluidic devices like inductors and oscillators. Nanofluidic devices are known to exhibit a plethora of non-equilibrium ion transport phenomena due to the presence of surface charge on domains comparable in size to the Debye length.
      • keywords: current; devices; equilibrium; flow; ion; nanofluidic; non; surface; systems
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1524. 8s45q813n68
      • author: Dane A. Grismer
      • title: Single-Molecule Spectroelectrochemical Investigation of Freely Diffusing Redox-Active Fluorophores in Zero-Mode Waveguides
      • date: 1904
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Spectroelectrochemical measurements of the redox-active fluorophore, flavin mononucleotide (FMN), were performed at single-molecule concentrations in a bulk solution above an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode and in the approximately 200 zL observation volumes of individual electrochemical ZMWs (E-ZMWs). Single-molecule studies with optical techniques have become instrumental in shedding light upon the heterogeneities in molecular property distributions, which are averaged out in ensemble measurements.
      • keywords: design; electrochemical; fluorescence; measurements; molecule; optical; redox; single; systems; zmw
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1525. 8s45q813p6k
      • author: Miranda Burnette
      • title: Advanced Screening and Integrative Analysis for Biotechnology and Disease
      • date: 1904
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 4
      • summary: This thesis describes several milestone applications that advance the state-of-the art in each field: the generation of the first chemically defined cell culture medium enabling long term culture of a Drosophila cell lines (Chapter 2); building on these results led to unexpected discoveries in the field of developmental biology with the discovery of novel spatiotemporal patterning of polyamines during organogenesis (Chapter 3); the optimization and application of an in vivo tumor screening approach to efficiently identify novel functional targets during secondary metastatic outgrowth in tumors (Chapter 4); and through a close, multidisciplinary collaboration, the characterization of novel compounds through both cytotoxicity and mechanism of action studies, along with the preliminary creation of an ultra-high-content screening platform for structure-activity analysis of compound libraries (Chapter 5). For each application, several avenues are available to further progress the technology, which is discussed in the concluding chapter (Chapter 6).
      • keywords: available; biology; chapter; data; novel; screening; tools
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1526. 8s45q813s6h
      • author: Jeffrey Lee Kurkewich
      • title: The Role of Mirn23a/Mirn23b MicroRNA Clusters and Transcription Factor Arid3b in Hematopoietic Development
      • date: 1904
      • words: 249
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In addition to transcription factors and cytokines, small non-coding microRNAs (miRNAs) also have the potential to influence cell fate decisions through negative regulation of lineage specific genes. Differentiation from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) to committed blood lineages is orchestrated by a network of transcription factors and cytokines that promote lineage specific gene expression while simultaneously repressing genes associated with alternative lineages.
      • keywords: cell; chapter; knockout; loss; mirn23a; transcription
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1527. 8s45q81494r
      • author: Xin Gu
      • title: Probe Mediated SERS-Based Ultrasensitive and Selective Detection of Targeted Analyte
      • date: 1904
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: We solved this problem by introduction of a probe molecule which can specifically interact with the analyte yielding a complex with greater Raman cross section than the original analyte. Although our proposed scheme is not perfect for every molecule that possesses small Raman cross section, it still provides a method to consider when analyzing such class of molecules.
      • keywords: analyte; cross; detection; section; sers
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1528. 8s45q814984
      • author: James D. Strasburg
      • title: God's Marshall Plan: Transatlantic Christianity and the Quest for Godly Global Order, 1910-1963
      • date: 1904
      • words: 378
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Seeing vibrant religious life as essential to a functioning democracy, these Americans worked to export American religious values such as lay activism, voluntarism, stewardship, and ecumenism to Germany. From the early twentieth century onward, American Protestant religious leaders and policymakers worked hand-in-hand to advance an international agenda of democratization and Christianization.
      • keywords: american; germany; god; marshall; plan; protestant; religious; war
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1529. 8s45q814g2m
      • author: J.D. Quigley
      • title: Generalized Mahowald Invariants
      • date: 2019
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: In this thesis, we study the Mahowald invariant in the settings of motivic stable homotopy theory over Spec(C) and Spec(R), as well as C2-equivariant stable homotopy theory. This provides an exotic periodic analog of Mahowald and Ravenel's computation that the classical Mahowald invariant of 2^i , i ≥ 1, is the first element in Adams filtration i of the v1-periodic families constructed by Adams.
      • keywords: equivariant; invariant; mahowald; motivic
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1530. 8s45q814n6j
      • author: Bryson McKay Rytting
      • title: Petroporphyrins: Their Purification and Impact on Asphaltene Aggregation and Interfacial Phenomena
      • date: 2020
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The majority of the petroporphyrins are simple etio (407 nm Soret band) or DPEP (410 nm Soret band) types, but some are more functionalized compounds with highly broadened and shifted Soret bands. Less functionalized porphyrins are shown to inhibit asphaltene aggregation while ore functionalized porphyrins, potentially having one or more intermolecular interaction sites outside of the central macrocycle, tend to promote aggregation.
      • keywords: asphaltene; crude; film; form; heavy; interfacial; oil; petroporphyrins; vopps
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1531. 8s45q814n9k
      • author: Siti Raisah
      • title: A Bienzymatic System Constituted by Horseradish Peroxidase and Glucose Oxidase for Phenol Contaminant Degradation
      • date: 2020
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The result shown that the combination of GOx-HRP could reduce the issue of inactivation of HRP at H2O2-dependent oxidation for phenolic contaminant degradation. This study also showed the low degradation efficiencies of phenolic contaminants were observed at 3mM H2O2.
      • keywords: degradation; gox; hrp; phenolic; system
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1532. 8s45q814p0s
      • author: Emily M. Nett
      • title: Food Mechanical Properties and Masticatory Behavior in Llamas
      • date: 2020
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Chewing frequency was unrelated to food mechanical properties, while chewing investment and chewing duration were related to both dietary stiffness and toughness. On the other hand, chewing frequency has been found to be independent of dietary properties in rabbits and primates.
      • keywords: dietary; duration; foods; frequency; loading; mammals; properties
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1533. 8s45q814p14
      • author: Trevor Sprouse
      • title: New Techniques for the Analysis of Astrophysical Nucleosynthesis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 185
      • flesch: -11
      • summary: In this work, I develop a collection of computational tools and analytical techniques that provide insight into astrophysical nucleosynthesis, specifically in the areas of quantitatively propagating uncertainties from nuclear properties to nucleosynthesis calculations; isolating the specific role of individual nuclear properties in complex nucleosynthesis processes; and combining nucleosynthesis calculations with astrophysical observations to evaluate nuclear models. The extreme conditions that can arise in astrophysical environments enable nuclear transmutation processes to take place, by which atomic nuclei interact with their environment or decay to form new nuclei.
      • keywords: astrophysical; nuclear; nucleosynthesis; processes
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1534. 8s45q814p9w
      • author: Stacy Sivinski
      • title: Subversive Sensations: Reconsidering the Sensory in New Woman Literature
      • date: 2021
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: Using the theories of feminists such as Audre Lorde and Gloria Anzaldúa (who argue that sensory encounters—especially those that are pleasurable—can lead to moments of attunement and awakening), the critical work of sensory studies scholars such as David Howes and Constance Classen, and recent neurological findings, I investigate the ways that women writers who lived during the turn into the twentieth century root social transformation in sensory perception and explain how this kind of approach could be useful in a twenty-first century context. My dissertation, Subversive Sensations: Reconsidering the Sensory in New Woman Literature, explores how sensory studies can help inform our readings of authors who seek to destabilize traditional social categorizations and create space for forms of identity that prioritize in-betweenness, hybridity, and inclusivity.
      • keywords: authors; perception; sensations; sensory; social; studies; women; writers
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1535. 8s45q814q65
      • author: Yassin M. Elbatrawi
      • title: Total Synthesis and Conformational Analysis of Cyclic Hydrazino Acid Natural Products and Peptidomimetics
      • date: 2021
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: We show that our submonomer approach is effective in installing this unusual motif when compared to other strategies that incorporate pre-formed Piz residues. The field of peptide chemistry has benefited greatly from the discovery of new peptide natural products and the unique amino acid residues encountered within them.
      • keywords: acid; amide; backbone; isomerization; motif; natural; peptide; piz; products; residues
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1536. 8w32r496v6x
      • author: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
      • title: Revelations of Love and Operations of Grace: Jonathan Edwards Human Virtues
      • date: 2007
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Building on this body of scholarship, this dissertation explores the implications of Edwards' situation of virtue in God's being for Edwards account of 'human virtues,' and human character traits that fall under the heading of 'natural goodness.' Contemporary studies of Jonathan Edwards virtue ethics have tended to focus on the relation Edwards establishes between virtue and the perfections of God, a feature of Edwards thought that is indeed distinctive.
      • keywords: commitments; edwards; ethics; god; human; moral; virtues
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1537. 8w32r496w05
      • author: Cristian Florin Mihut
      • title: Diachronic Agency and Narrative Understanding
      • date: 2010
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Practical deliberation then implies inhabiting different dramatic personae in mutual dialogue. Narrative understanding is (a) essentially retrospective, (b) couched implicitly in the cadences of our emotional life, and (c) dependent on occupying stances of different dramatic personae.
      • keywords: agency; dramatic; narrative; personae; policies; practical; understanding
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1538. 8w32r496w1h
      • author: Siân Elin White
      • title: Intimate Modernities: British and Irish Literature, 1922-1955
      • date: 2009
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I argue that these conditions, while genuine, also foster new intensities of human intimacy, on view for us in the novels of Virginia Woolf, Patrick Hamilton, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. In the urban milieu of modernity — particularly in times of war — overcrowding, mobility, transience, and the breakdown of familial domesticity increase the opportunities for sudden intimacies to develop between strangers.
      • keywords: alienation; conditions; dissertation; human; intimacy; isolation; modernist; representation
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1539. 8w32r496w2v
      • author: John A. Cooney, Jr.
      • title: Increasing Power Generation in Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines Using Optimized Flow Control
      • date: 2014
      • words: 439
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The overall objective was the development of validated aerodynamic simulations and flow control approaches to improve wind turbine power generation characteristics. In order to effectively realize future goals for wind energy, the efficiency of wind turbines must increase beyond existing technology.
      • keywords: control; design; energy; generation; increase; lift; power; simulations; turbine; wind
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1540. 8w32r496w36
      • author: Peter S. Levi
      • title: Responses in stream ecosystem function to salmon subsidies
      • date: 2012
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In addition to the nutrient enrichment, salmon increased stream ecosystem function from before to during the run. Variation in nitrification rates was best explained by streamwater and exchangeable ammonium concentrations, which increased during salmon, demonstrating that SDN are actively transformed in stream ecosystems.
      • keywords: ecosystem; nutrient; roles; run; salmon; storage; stream; transient
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1541. 8w32r496w4j
      • author: Tamara Lynn Johnson
      • title: Screen for Enhancers of Mutant Dorsal Vessel Phenotypes and Transcription Factors Expressed in the Dorsal Vessel of Drosophila
      • date: 2012
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Additionally, regions showing an increase in mutant dorsal vessel phenotypes have been further screened in an effort to isolate genes within the region that play a novel role in dorsal vessel development. The purpose of this screen is to isolate regions of the second chromosome that contain genes that enhance the effect of tin305 in dorsal vessel development and therefore interact with tin in dorsal vessel development.
      • keywords: development; dorsal; screen; second; vessel
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1542. 8w32r496w5w
      • author: Mary Catherine Wagner Fuhs
      • title: The Structure, Stability, and Prediction of Executive Functioning in Preschoolers at Head Start
      • date: 2009
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Research suggests that early executive functioning skill development may enhance the school readiness of children growing up in disadvantaged homes. Verbal ability was a significant predictor of spring executive functioning, but neither age nor negative emotionality was a significant predictor.
      • keywords: early; executive; functioning; research
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1543. 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
      • words: 383
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: bernard; god; knowledge; self; soul
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1544. 8w32r496w7k
      • author: Jonathan Foelber
      • title: The Protein C Pathway Exacerbates Eosinophilia in an Acute Asthma Model in Mice Deficient for the Endothelial Cell Protein C Receptor
      • date: 2010
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: While the airway hyperresponsiveness to OVA challenge in WT and EPCRÌ_å«/Ì_å« mice were similiar, examination of bronchioalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), lung tissue, and circulating blood showed significantly higher levels of eosinophils in EPCRÌ_å«/Ì_å« mice versus WT mice, and significantly higher levels of eotaxin and Interleukin-13. The current study examined the role of EPCR in mice challenged with the inflammatory agent ovalbumin (OVA).
      • keywords: airway; asthma; cell; epcrì_å«/ì_å; inflammatory; mice; ref; response
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1545. 8w32r496w8x
      • author: Mohammad Ashraf Ali Khan
      • title: Thermomechanical Effects in Quilt Packaging
      • date: 2014
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: We use both thermal cycling and thermal shock tests to examine the failure modes of individual QP chips (i.e., unquilted) as well as two-chip metachips, focusing on reliability issues for various shapes. In this work, a reliable structure for quilted chips is proposed and demonstrated.
      • keywords: chips; failure; quilt; results; simulation
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1546. 8w32r496x1t
      • author: Lori Frances Cummins
      • title: Introversion, Interpersonal Loss, and Symptoms of Depression
      • date: 2011
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In the present research it was predicted that introverts experiencing a romantic break-up would be more depressed, have higher negative affect, and have lower positive affect than introverts without a break-up and extraverts regardless of break up. There is suggestive evidence that the personality trait of introversion may moderate the depressogenic potential of interpersonal life stress, yet this personality domain is understudied.
      • keywords: depressogenic; life; stress
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1547. 8w32r496x25
      • author: Wenguang Lin
      • title: DFT Simulations of Re3 Metal Cluster Binding on Alumina in Hydrogen Environments
      • date: 2010
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: To compare the effects of surface hydroxylation on cluster-support binding, periodic supercell simulations are performed on Re3 clusters adsorbed on a hydrogen-free ('dry') and fully hydroxylated ('wet') Calculations of successive H additions show that H atoms adsorb exothermically and prefer to distribute evenly across Re atoms: the first three hydrogen ligands adsorb atop each Re; the next three hydrogen ligands prefer bridge bonding in the Re3 plane; additional hydrogen ligands again adsorb atop Re atoms.
      • keywords: alumina; cluster; dry; hydrogen; ligands; re3; surface; wet
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1548. 8w32r496x3h
      • author: Rebecca McCumbers Flavin
      • title: The Battle of the Unarmed Prophets: Religion and Republicanism in the Thought of Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolo Machiavelli
      • date: 2014
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Although scholars of political theory do make note of Machiavelli's reflections on Savonarola's attempts at political reform in the Prince and Discourses, none provide any in-depth reflection on the similarities and differences between their writings. Taking history and personal experience as his guide, Machiavelli recommends political reforms that are similar in some ways to Savonarola's understanding that wicked clergy are to blame for the corruption and that harsh punishment is necessary for maintaining order.
      • keywords: church; earthly; florence; machiavelli; political; reform; savonarola; thought
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1549. 8w32r496x4v
      • author: Jiayi Chen
      • title: Identification and Modification of the Internal Protease Cleavage Site in P.93 Pertactin
      • date: 2010
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Besides we also found different effects of this mutation to the proteolytic process occuring at the OM in different cell strains of E. coli cells, which suggested it was unlikely that this proteolysis occuring at the OM was autocatalytic. It is translocated across the inner membrane (IM), and then it is secreted across the outer membrane (OM) with its C-terminal porin domain forming a pore through which the P.69 passenger domain is transported out of the cell.
      • keywords: domain; membrane; pertactin
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1550. 8w32r496z76
      • author: Christopher P. McMillion
      • title: Federalism and Freedom: The Precedential and Normative Roots of the Rehnquist Court's Federalism Revolution
      • date: 1904
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: I conclude with a discussion of how these principles of federalism are founded in something more than ideology. Properly understood, federalism can promote local decision-making and deference to individual choices in a non-partisan manner.
      • keywords: consistent; court; decisions; federalism; jurisprudence; rehnquist
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1551. 8w32r497k2b
      • author: Travis A. Olds
      • title: The Structure and Formation of Several New Uranium Minerals and the Neutron Structure and Cation Dynamics of the Uranyl Peroxide Nanocluster U60
      • date: 1904
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: I describe two Pb-bearing uranyl oxide hydroxyl hydrate (UOH) phases, gauthierite and shinkolobweite, from the Shinkolobwe mine in Africa, which help decipher the complex paragenesis of UOH minerals. Important gaps remain in our understanding of the alteration of uranium deposits and nuclear materials, and we can gain insight into those processes by examining the structure and stability of U minerals.
      • keywords: alteration; crystal; formation; leesite; minerals; processes; structure; uranium; uranyl
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1552. 8w32r497r2w
      • author: Jonathan D. Riddle
      • title: Prospering Body and Soul: Health Reform, Religion, and Capitalism in Antebellum America
      • date: 2019
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Combining the moral agency of Arminian theology with the rising confidence of physiological science, health reformers offered Americans an optimistic program for self-improvement through self-discipline. These explanations require a broader inquiry into the ways early nineteenth-century Americans understood their bodies, their souls, and connections between the two in a world upturned by new sciences, changing theologies, and expanding markets.
      • keywords: americans; antebellum; dissertation; health; new
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1553. 8w32r497x3s
      • author: Kevin Siegl
      • title: Impact of Precise β-Decay Information on Trapped Ion β-Delayed Neutron Spectroscopy
      • date: 2019
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Due to the difficulty in determining the probability of neutron emission from a decay (Pn) and the emitted neutron energy it is one of the least studied aspects of the decay of neutron rich nuclei. The r-process path is determined by astrophysical conditions, beta-decay rates, neutron capture cross-sections and other nuclear properties.
      • keywords: beta; decay; emission; energy; neutron; nuclear; process
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1554. 8w32r49800n
      • author: Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez
      • title: On the Empirical Significance of Physical Symmetries
      • date: 2021
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In the first one, I defend the claim that there can indeed be gauge symmetries that are empirically significant in a way analogous to boosts, and in the second chapter, I show that gauge symmetries cannot be empirically significant in a non-relational way and connect this issue to recent developments in theoretical physics (i.e., edge modes). In the second half of the dissertation, I clarify the conditions under which symmetry-related states can be taken to be representionally equivalent.
      • keywords: significant; way
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1555. 8w32r49815p
      • author: Lailatul Fitriyah
      • title: Border Theologies: Divine Communion, Divine Justice, and Religious Practices among Indonesian Female Migrant Workers in Singapore
      • date: 2022
      • words: 90
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: To do so, three major aspects in the lives of the FMWs (theology, theodicy, and religious practices) are analyzed through the lenses of feminist ethnography and anthropological theology in this dissertation. The concept of border theologies is introduced to denote the kind of theologies that come out of the embodied experiences of the FMWs who live at the liminal spaces of belonging/non-belonging in the diaspora.
      • keywords: fmws; theologies
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1556. 9019s18048r
      • author: Bradley Jefferson Thames
      • title: Historicity, Contingency, and Virtue
      • date: 2011
      • words: 408
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Most virtue theories seek to maintain these ideals, at least to some extent; yet, the claim that virtuous practical knowledge depends upon conditioned frameworks seems to many critics hopelessly incompatible with the ideals, committing virtue ethics instead to a form of relativism or elitism. This theory distinguishes between (in my terms) 'transcendental' and 'immanent' virtues, a distinction that answers the initial worries by reconciling the thesis about the dependency of practical reason on conditioned frameworks with the philosophical ideals of critique, universality, and realism with respect to practical knowledge.
      • keywords: account; ethics; frameworks; ideals; life; practical; understanding; virtue
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1557. 9019s180493
      • author: Brett Frank Goodrich
      • title: Experimental Measurements of Co2 Absorption in Ionic Liquids and Its Effect On Viscosity
      • date: 2011
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: All of the AAs had greater than 0.5 moles of CO2 per mole of IL, while the AHAs showed a range from only physical absorption to near 1 mole of CO2 per mole of IL. Small amounts of water significantly reduce the viscosity of both the neat and CO2 saturated IL.
      • keywords: absorption; co2; viscosity
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1558. 9019s180509
      • author: Christine Claire Willard Noria
      • title: Teenage Moms Become 'Twenty-Something:' Paths to Self-Sufficiency
      • date: 2005
      • words: 122
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Additionally, resilience at 5 years mediated the relationships between prenatal characteristics and subsequent outcomes, suggesting that early success in educational attainment, employment, and socioemotional adjustment is the path through which important prenatal characteristics influence 10 year life outcomes. Three prenatal constructs &ndash; cognitive resources, school involvement and success, and adjustment &ndash; were used to predict resilience and evaluate its mediational role in maternal outcomes.
      • keywords: adjustment; outcomes; resilience
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1559. 9019s18060m
      • author: Kedar K Aras
      • title: Empirical Analysis of Design Patterns - A Case Study in CompuCell3D
      • date: 2005
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Therefore, we investigate the effects of design patterns on application performance through a detailed measurement and profiling of CompuCell3D. By reverse engineering CompuCell3D subsystems with and without design patterns, we evaluate their impact on application performance and maintainability.
      • keywords: design; performance
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1560. 9019s18061z
      • author: Dennis J. Ciancio
      • title: Early Intervention: Effects Of Behavioral Regulation onLearning and Emerging Self-Competence
      • date: 2003
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 2
      • summary: The purpose of this study was to establish: (1) that Head Start children's emergent literacy knowledge would benefit from developmentally appropriate and child-centered intervention; (2) that children's emotional expression and regulatory behaviors are important predictors of interindividual differences in within-individual change in emergent literacy knowledge; (3) that warm and supportive navigation through a childcentered intervention would positively affect a child's perceived-self competence; and (4) that regular (i.e., daily) contextual assessment of emergent literacy is predictive of less frequent and more decontextualized assessments of emergent literacy. Preschoolers therefore respond to and learn from age-appropriate literacy-targeted instruction; behavioral and emotional indices are important indicators of individual change in literacy ability; and successful and enjoyable experiences during age-appropriate activities can impact children's perceivedself competence.
      • keywords: children; competence; emergent; group; literacy
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1561. 9019s18068c
      • author: Sean F. Ryan
      • title: An Evaluation of Spatio-Temporal Changes in the Population Genomics of a Butterfly Hybrid Zone Over a Thirty Year Period of Climatic Change
      • date: 2015
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Using simulation modelling I discovered that spatio-temporal changes in climate during this period of warming has led to differential phenological responses that were dependent on genetic background. Evolution (adaptation) and species interactions are both factors that have the capacity to mitigate and exacerbate organism's responses to climate change.
      • keywords: changes; climate; divergence; factors; genetic; hybrid; responses
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1562. 9019s180v6k
      • author: Megan C. Rogers
      • title: Faiths and Fortune: Religion and the Professional Middle Class in Urban China
      • date: 1904
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: practices; professionals; project; quality; religion; religious; society
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1563. 9019s180x35
      • author: Jeremy Hershberger
      • title: Full-Polarization Characterizations of Time-Varying Targets via Software-Defined Radar
      • date: 2018
      • words: 951
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: While SDR platforms are often not well-suited for radar implementation, radar operation can be achieved with significant customization efforts. An important constraint associated with radar operation is the signal isolation between the transmit and receive functions.
      • keywords: doppler; dual; experiments; isolation; matrix; operation; phase; platforms; polarization; processing; radar; receive; responses; sdr; signal; single; systems; target; transmit
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1564. 9019s18114q
      • author: Antonios Anastasopoulos
      • title: Computational Tools for Endangered Language Documentation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This dissertation mainly focuses on spoken corpora of endangered and low-resource languages with limited translation annotations, tackling problems that cover every layer of linguistic annotation: speech-to-translation alignment: we present an unsupervised method for discovering word or phrase boundaries in the audio signal and aligning the discovered segments with translation words. speech translation: our novel multitask neural model jointly produces a transcription and a (free) translation of an audio segment.
      • keywords: audio; endangered; language; methods; resource; speech; translation
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1565. 9019s18168n
      • author: Madeline Eberle
      • title: Development of Paper Analytical Devices to Detect Chemotherapy Drugs and Urinary Iodine Levels
      • date: 2020
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: Low cost rapid testing devices can fill the need for lab tests in low resource areas, especially in low and middle income countries. Lab tests in low resource settings are often not readily accessible, however, problems that require lab tests to elucidate, such as, falsified drugs and health metrics are most needed in these areas.
      • keywords: lab; low; paper; tests
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1566. 9019s18186k
      • author: Esteban Salas
      • title: Making Portuguese Colonial Governance: Slavery, Forced Labor, and Racial Ideology in the Interior from Benguela, 1760-1860
      • date: 2021
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This dissertation examines the links between the expansion of slavery, forced labor, racial ideology, and early Portuguese colonialism over the Ndombe and Quilengues populations of Catumbela, Dombe Grande, and Quilengues, three areas surrounding the port town of Benguela, Angola, from 1760 to 1860. From the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to the period after its prohibition in 1836, the social and economic transformations experienced by these African communities intensified and laid the groundwork for further Portuguese colonization of Angola.
      • keywords: african; colonial; communities; economic; expansion; local; portuguese; trade
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1567. 9306sx63d8n
      • author: Lauren L O'Neil
      • title: Base Flipping: Detection, Structures and Energetics
      • date: 2008
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Using a selective, non-covalent assay for base flipping, the sequence dependence of base flipping in DNA sequences containing an abasic site has been studied. As there are favorable interactions for an intrahelical base, both hydrogen bonding and base stacking, base flipping is expected to be energetically prohibitive for an undamaged DNA duplex.
      • keywords: base; complex; cpd; dimer; dna; flipping; thymine
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1568. 9306sx63f2w
      • author: John Michael Densmore
      • title: A Model Free Real Space Reconstruction of the Magnetic Field due to the Vortex Lattice
      • date: 2010
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: If higher order Bragg reflections are measured they are simply ignored. In our study, the measured higher order Bragg reflections allow us to perform a more comprehensive data analysis with minimum theoretical input.
      • keywords: bragg; field; lattice; magnetic; measured; reflections; vortex
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1569. 9306sx63f37
      • author: Heather Elaine Edwards
      • title: Alternative Geographies: Uncovering the New Woman in Irish Literature
      • date: 2010
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Although depicted differently by individual fin de si cle authors, the New Woman became synonymous with demands for increased access to education and the public sphere as well as critiques of sexual double standards and the institution of marriage. My analysis follows the lead of such recent critics as LeeAnne Richardson and Iveta JusovÌÄåÁ to uncover the varied intersections of the New Woman with Empire while arguing that a modernity capable of producing New Women also exists in the colonial periphery.
      • keywords: british; dissertation; ireland; irish; modernity; new; woman
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1570. 9306sx63f4k
      • author: Maria Felix Unger
      • title: Cytogenetic Studies of Polytene Chromosomes and Physical Genome Mapping for the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823; Transposable Element Annotation of Several Insect-Vector Species
      • date: 2014
      • words: 391
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The first chapter is devoted to Culex quinquefasciatus, southern house mosquito, polytene chromosomes and an investigation of the non-trivial task of obtaining polytene chromosomes for cytogenetic studies. The making of a standard cytogenetic map for Culex quinquefasciatus is described, which is a base for physical mapping and finishing the Culex genome assembly, as well as a strong contribution to population genetic studies.
      • keywords: chapter; chromosomes; culex; genetic; map; mosquito; physical; polytene
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1571. 9306sx63f5x
      • author: Donald A Brower
      • title: Aspects of stability in simple theories
      • date: 2012
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: Simple theories are a strict extension of stable theories for which non-forking independence is a nice independence relation. This work looks at three aspects of simple theories and uses them to give a better picture of the differences between the two classes.
      • keywords: simple; stable; theories
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1572. 9306sx63f68
      • author: Matthew Joseph Polinski
      • title: Syntheses, Characterization, and Fundamental Studies of Novel Trivalent Lanthanide and Actinide Borates
      • date: 2013
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: actinides; borates; chapters; elements; lanthanides
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1573. 9306sx63f7m
      • author: Joshua Gareth Lollar
      • title: To See into the Life of Things: The Contemplation of Nature in Maximus the Confessor's Ambigua to John
      • date: 2011
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Here I show how Maximus accounts for the coherence of philosophy, specifically that between praxis and contemplation; I then give an analysis of his understanding of the contemplation of nature itself. Chapter 1 is an analysis of the place of the contemplation of nature amongst the ancient Greeks, beginning with the pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraklitus and then proceeding to Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus.
      • keywords: ambigua; chapter; contemplation; maximus; nature
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1574. 9306sx63f8z
      • author: Shi-Hsin Lin
      • title: Novel Bound States and Their Manipulations in Superconductor/Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Hybrids and Mesoscopic Superconductors
      • date: 2012
      • words: 529
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Besides hybrid samples, single-phase material with mesoscopic size can also harbor novel states that are vastly different from bulk states. The overarching theme presented in this thesis can therefore be formulated as follows: (a) I am exploring the conditions (such as geometric confinement and the proximity of another ordered state) leads to exotic vortex phases and order parameter landscape, and (b) provide a detailed quantum mechanical description of the electronic states hosted by the novel vortex matter.
      • keywords: diluted; hybrid; magnetic; mesoscopic; phase; quantum; states; superconductor; vortex
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1575. 9306sx63f99
      • author: Raymond Bautista Aguas
      • title: Relating Faith and Political Action: Utopia in the Theology of Gustavo Guti&#233;rrez
      • date: 2008
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This dissertation argues that utopia's essential role of mediating between faith and political action, allowing for relation without collapse, is necessary for properly interpreting Guti&#233;rrez's theology. The council's appropriation of liberation theology's insights fail to adequately relate faith and political action because of a lack of understanding of utopia's mediating role within Guti&#233;rrez's three dimensions of liberation.
      • keywords: chapter; dissertation; guti&#233;rrez; liberation; theology; utopia
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1576. 9306sx63g0h
      • author: Kimberly S. Howard
      • title: What About Dad? Adjusting to Parenting and Facilitating Children's Development
      • date: 2006
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The present study used latent growth curve modeling to examine trajectories of parenting attitudes among fathers with young children. Information was obtained regarding their personal demographic factors, histories of child maltreatment, socioemotional functioning, and parenting attitudes and beliefs over the first 24 months of their children's lives.
      • keywords: attitudes; children; fathers; parenting
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1577. 9306sx63g3j
      • author: Heather L Holleman
      • title: Early Life Stress and Stress Generation in Recurrent Depression
      • date: 2011
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This paper examined the phenomenon of stress generation as it relates to an individual's history of early life stress. From a stress generation perspective, these results partially support the notion of early life stress, namely physical abuse, as a risk factor for stress generation.
      • keywords: early; events; life; stress
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1578. 9306sx63g4w
      • author: Melissa Renee Ward George
      • title: Family Processes and Children's Attachment at Age 6: Examining Marital Functioning and Parenting
      • date: 2010
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Analyses indicated specific behaviors exhibited during marital conflict, such as anger, were related to attachment while global aspects of marital satisfaction and conflict were not supported. Less research has examined the impact of marital processes on attachment; however, support for marital quality and conflict have been linked to attachment in infancy and toddlerhood.
      • keywords: attachment; children; marital; relationships
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1579. 9306sx63g57
      • author: Courtney Lynne Wiersema
      • title: All Consuming Nature: Provisioning in Industrial Chicago, 1833-1893
      • date: 2015
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Not only do I show that the working class continued to know nature through domestic labors such as gardening and scavenging, but I also suggest that alienation was an upper-class project?a homespun effort to obscure the ties that bound them to nature and to their fellow urban dwellers. The city's upper classes sought increasing distance from labor in nature, and they used products, servants, and municipal services to make their homes appear free from toil.
      • keywords: chicago; city; nature; provisioning; study; urban
      • versions: original; plain text
1580. 9306sx63g6k
      • author: Luke Potter
      • title: The Word Incarnate: Philosophical Essays on the Christian Doctrine of Scripture
      • date: 2012
      • words: 511
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In Chapter 3, I examine the most recent analysis of biblical authority, arguing for an alternative conception. In the following two chapters, I discuss two of these attributes: authority (Chapter 3) and perspicuity (Chapter 4).
      • keywords: chapter; incarnational; model; perspicuity; scripture; text
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1581. 9306sx63h46
      • author: Bin Hu
      • title: Stochastic Safety and Efficiency for Vehicular Networked Systems: Theories and Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 485
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Furthermore, we also show that the proposed event triggering scheme reduces the transmission frequency as system states approach the safe set thereby providing an efficient use of network bandwidth. This variation in channel state, moreover, may be a function of the vehicle's physical state.
      • keywords: channel; communication; ebb; safety; state; system; vehicles; vehicular
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1582. 9306sx63j5v
      • author: Erin Marie Kraus
      • title: Becoming American: Revolutionary Exiles and the Shaping of the Early American Republic
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: And, as they became American, these influential immigrants also helped shape American political culture, further cementing those contradictions rather than challenging them. While they struggled to adapt to their new lives, they came to terms with what it meant to be American—even if that meant accepting compromise and contradictions within American society.
      • keywords: american; compromise; exiles; freedom; reform; revolution; slavery
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1583. 9306sx63m9v
      • author: Brittany J. Barrett
      • title: Flexible Chelating Diphosphine Ligands and Their Interactions with Late Transition Metals
      • date: 1904
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: It is well known that the use of chelating ligands offer the metal center more stability, and additionally, chelating ligands can be tuned readily to influence the reactivity of the metal center. Many of these chelating ligands do not participate with the metal center throughout the course of chemical reactions, however interest has been increasing in the design of ligands that can cooperate with the metal center.
      • keywords: center; coordination; design; ligands; metal
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1584. 9306sx6451b
      • author: Jie Yang
      • title: On the Use of Wavelet to Enhance the Performance of Electrical Impedance Tomography
      • date: 1904
      • words: 499
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: A detailed implementation of wavelet basis function approach in 1-D and 2-D will be presented. The power of this algorithm lies in the multi-resolution representation of a function expanded in wavelet basis.
      • keywords: basis; computational; conductivity; distribution; eit; electrical; inverse; numerical; tomography; wavelet
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1585. 9306sx64h4g
      • author: David Pirchio
      • title: Unreinforced Masonry Italian Medieval Churches: A Holistic Framework for Seismic Risk Assessment from the National Scale to the Building Scale
      • date: 2020
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 3
      • summary: Developing an appropriate and cost-efficient methodology for seismic risk assessments for large portfolios of churches;- Quantifying the exposure and consequence components of risk by recording occupancy rates, heritage components, and equivalent replacement value of the churches;- Developing a risk ranking of churches surveyed in order to assist stakeholders by prioritizing churches for futher detailed assessment and potentially retrofit intervention;- Contributing to the innovation of engineering investigation techniques by introducing a rapid and reliable assessment methodology both on a regional or national scale, as well as on a higher resolution building scale;- Recording in a rapid and dependable way the geometry and material properties with respect to complex URM churches when the lack of architectural and structural drawing represents a significant obstacle to assessment; and- Developing a structural modeling approach for complex URM churches that is accessible by a significant portion of the practicing engineering community, based on the availability of the software utilized and the simplification of the robust analytical methods.
      • keywords: approach; assessment; churches; methodology; risk; seismic; techniques; urm
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1586. 9306sx64h65
      • author: Joshua Siva
      • title: Bluetooth Low Energy Characterization on Android Devices
      • date: 2020
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: My investigations into connection-less and connection-oriented BLE communication on a variety of Android smartphones have illustrated disparate BLE behavior across devices, unequal impacts from ambient and parallel interfering traffic, and an updated understanding of what BLE traffic looks like on modern smartphones. This diverse operating environment for BLE calls for evaluation to better understand how BLE performs at the application layer, especially in the presence of 2.4GHz Wi-Fi interference.
      • keywords: ble; communication; protocol; smartphones
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1587. 9306sx64j1r
      • author: Salvatore R. Curasi
      • title: Understanding Vegetation's Role in the Arctic C Cycle: Lessons from E. vaginatum
      • date: 2021
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Climate change is altering the productivity of arctic vegetation as well as the distribution of species within tundra ecosystems. My dissertation shows that shifts in tundra species with different growth forms as well as variation within tundra species can have impacts on the C cycle and the response of tundra ecosystems to climate change.
      • keywords: carbon; climate; ecosystems; species; tundra
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1588. 9306sx64j54
      • author: Samuel B. Johnson
      • title: A Sign for This Generation: The Life of Jesus in Origen's Gospel Commentaries
      • date: 2021
      • words: 263
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: A number of more recent New Testament scholars have echoed the sentiment that Origen anticipated modern criticism of the Gospels, but such judgments have not yet undertaken a thoroughgoing inquiry into Origen's own account of the historical and literary challenges occasioned by the narratives of Jesus's life. In short: Origen doesn't just read the Gospels figuratively; he believes the Evangelists were themselves figurative readers of the life of Jesus.
      • keywords: gospels; jesus; life; origen
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1589. 9306sx64k43
      • author: Fidelis Olokunboro
      • title: AfroCathonomics: Challenging the African Poverty Context with the Christian/Maritainian Personalism and the Theology of Preferential Option for the Poor
      • date: 2022
      • words: 191
      • flesch: 70
      • summary: And the fifth question captures the intent of this project - to transition theology into social policy on poverty. How do we translate the theology on the recovery of the full personhood of the poor to social policy?With the framing of the first and second questions, it is obvious that the interest of this research is poverty, and its context is Africa.
      • keywords: poor; research
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1590. 9306sx64m32
      • author: Dean Edun
      • title: Investigating the Structure of Macromolecular Protein Assemblies Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy Techniques
      • date: 2022
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: fibril; new; phase; protein; spectroscopy; structure; use
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1591. 9306sx64m5r
      • author: Ricardo M. Morales
      • title: Development of Cyclodextrin Derivatives for the Treatment of Niemann-Pick Type C
      • date: 2023
      • words: 27
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Synthesis of a novel beta-cyclodextrin conjugate for the use as a potential therapy toward treatment of Niemann-Pick Type C, a rare autosomal lipid storage disorder.
      • keywords: synthesis
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1592. 9593tt46q07
      • author: Karen Monique Gregg
      • title: The Safe and Sacred Pajama Party: Social Processes in a Religious Youth Ministry for High School Adolescents
      • date: 2012
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Since then, the Cursillo model of ministry -- using lay-persons to recruit new participants for a religiously-focused retreat -- has spread to many different groups, both religious and secular, throughout the world. This work is an ethnographic case study of the God Loves Everyone (GLE) group, one ecumenical ministry to high school adolescents following the Cursillo model.
      • keywords: adolescents; cursillo; gle; identity; program; religious; work
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1593. 9593tt46q1k
      • author: Dhiraj D Pant
      • title: Essays on Aggregate Fluctuations in the Least Developed Countries
      • date: 2012
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: An important body of work has been devoted to understanding both the extent and the causes of the decrease in output volatility in industrialized and middle-income countries since the mid-eighties. Chapter 1 establishes two empirical facts on output volatility - structural break and moderation.
      • keywords: countries; moderation; output; trade; volatility
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1594. 9593tt46q2x
      • author: Anthony Daniel Cak
      • title: The Influence of Spawning Salmon on Nutrient Dynamics and Epilithon Growth in Southeastern Alaska Streams and Estuaries
      • date: 2005
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: I examined the effects of these salmon-derived nutrients (SDN) on surface water chemistry and epilithon biomass and metabolism in streams and estuaries in southeastern Alaska. With addition of salmon material (either from salmon runs or artificial salmon products), fluxes of streamwater ammonium (NH4+-N) and soluble reactive phosphorous (SRP) increased significantly in streams and estuaries, whereas nitrate and dissolved organic carbon did not.
      • keywords: epilithon; estuaries; salmon; streams
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1595. 9593tt46r27
      • author: Brenda R. Jackson
      • title: Daily Spiritual Experiences: A Buffer Against the Effects of Daily Perceived Stress on Daily Mood
      • date: 2010
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: daily; effects; global
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1596. 9593tt46r3k
      • author: Paul J Patterson
      • title: Myrror to Devout People (Speculum Devotorum): An Edition With Commentary
      • date: 2008
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Abstract This dissertation provides a new edition of the Mirror to Devout People, which survives in two manuscripts: Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame, MS 67 (ND) and Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.1.6 (C). The introduction to the edition provides descriptions of both manuscripts and an overview of the ownership and circulation of the Mirror.
      • keywords: dissertation; edition; manuscripts; mirror; text; university
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1597. 9593tt46s16
      • author: Amy E. Seymour
      • title: Presentism, Propositions, and Persons: A Systematic Case for All-falsism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: In addition, I show that all-falsism provides a useful explanation of our behavior in lottery cases and the beginnings of a middle-ground position between contextualism and traditional epistemology. In chapter two, after showing that the all-falsist can account for truths about the past, I argue that if one thinks 'will' a kind of necessity operator, one should reduce times to possible worlds.
      • keywords: chapter; falsism; future; past; propositions; view
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1598. 9593tt47f2q
      • author: Aryanne D. de Silva
      • title: Family, Cortisol Reactivity, and Emotional Insecurity: Moderated Mediation Models
      • date: 1904
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Using a sample of 213 families, including mothers, fathers, and adolescents (Mage = 13.10 years), six moderated mediation models tested whether family conflict affects adolescents' emotional insecurity two years later, due to conflicts' effects on parent-adolescent relationship quality, and whether adolescents' cortisol reactivity moderates this indirect effect. Subsequent analyses, however, suggested that parent-adolescent relationship quality mediates the effect of family conflict on adolescents' emotional insecurity may have occurred.
      • keywords: adolescents; conflict; emotional; family
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1599. 9593tt47f63
      • author: Jonathan Martin Ciraulo
      • title: The Eucharistic Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
      • date: 1904
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The fourth and final main chapter deals with various issues related to the intersection of eucharistic theology and eschatology, such as Balthasar's conception of a sacramental time, the tension between what he calls liturgy and slaughter, and the status of the communio sanctorum in the eschaton. After a small introductory chapter that provides a roadmap to Balthasar's main sacramental texts, the first main chapter demonstrates how he portrays the Eucharist as intrinsically related to both Christology and Trinitarian theology.
      • keywords: balthasar; chapter; eucharist; main; sacramental; theology
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1600. 9593tt47k6b
      • author: Jillian M. Snyder
      • title: Sincere Performances: The Affective Scripts of the Pulpit and Stage in Post-Reformation England
      • date: 2019
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Sincere Performances argues that the pulpit and stage engaged a series of bodily responses—weeping, trembling, blushing, sighing, and laughing—using a variety of affective scripts by which they could frame and interpret these responses for audiences. Sincere Performances: The Affective Scripts of the Pulpit and Stage in Post-Reformation England fills that gap by analyzing how these two spaces shared an affective landscape distinctly shaped by English Protestant thought.
      • keywords: affective; early; pulpit; sincere; stage
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1601. 9593tt47v13
      • author: Natalie Bourman-Karns
      • title: Gun Violence: Emotional Reactions and a Willingness to Mobilize
      • date: 2021
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: emotional; gun; variation; violence
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1602. 9593tt47v5g
      • author: Christopher James Seymour
      • title: Commissioning of the St. George Recoil Separator and Measurement of the 14N(α,γ)18F Reaction in Inverse Kinematics
      • date: 2022
      • words: 135
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: This reaction is important to furthering understanding of nuclear astrophysical systems and reaction networks involved in nucleosynthesis, particularly as a precursor to a neutron source reaction in AGB stars for s-process nucleosynthesis. The St. George recoil separator (Strong Gradient Electromagnetic Online Recoil separator for capture Gamma Ray Experiments) has been commissioned by comparing its design parameters with the ones measured; the angular and energy acceptance has been characterized; the HIPPO gas target has been rebuilt and recommissioned; a scalable separator tune has been determined; and the rejection has been characterized.
      • keywords: george; reaction; separator
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1603. 9593tt47x0c
      • author: Istvan Szepesi
      • title: Unspoken Accommodations: A Century of Religious Coexistence in Catholic Cologne, 1517-1617
      • date: 2023
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Cologne thus became a place in which Catholics and Protestants could live together in a shared community despite the authorities' outspoken rejection of religious pluralism. This dissertation explores how this compromise functioned, what pressures led to its eventual collapse in the early seventeenth century, and what lessons it imparts about the larger history of religious coexistence.
      • keywords: city; cologne; public; religious
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1604. 9880vq30002
      • author: Shuao Wang
      • title: New Insights in Actinide Borate Chemistry
      • date: 2012
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The core of the this dissertation is focused on the crystal chemistry and the structure-property relationship of actinide borates that derived from the molten boric acid flux reactions including thorium borate (Chapter 3), uranium borates (Chapter 4-7,12,14), neptunium borates (Chapter 9-14), plutonium borates (Chapter 9,12,16,17), americium borate (Chapter 17), and curium borate (chapter 18). The use of molten boric acid as a reactive flux for synthesizing actinide borates has been developed in the past three years providing access to a remarkable array of exotic materials with both unusual structures and unprecedented properties.
      • keywords: actinides; borates; chapter; chemistry; compounds; materials; plutonium; structure; studies
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1605. 9880vq3004f
      • author: Alexandre Chapeaux
      • title: Extraction of Alcohols from Water Using Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2010
      • words: 522
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: To evaluate various ionic liquids for this application, this study details the phase behavior of binary and ternary systems of ionic liquids with water and alcohols. The ionic liquids with the diacyanoamide anion have the largest mutual solubility with water, followed by ionic liquids with trifluoromethanesulfonate tetrafluoroborate, tetracyanoborate, hexafluorophosphate, bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide, and tris(pentafluoroethyl)trifluorophosphate anions.
      • keywords: alcohols; ionic; liquids; mutual; solubility; water
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1606. 9880vq3005s
      • author: David Johnson
      • title: Effects of P190b Over-Expression on Mammary Epithelial Cell Morphology and Behavior
      • date: 2010
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In the developing mouse mammary gland p190B is expressed in the terminal end buds(TEBs), which are the proliferative structures responsible for expanding the ductal system into the mammary fat pad during virgin mammary gland development. In this project we aim to determine the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which p190B overexpression disrupts mammary gland development.
      • keywords: development; ductal; gland; mammary; mecs; overexpression; p190b
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1607. 9880vq30064
      • author: Jessica Muriel Kowalik
      • title: Epidemiological Modeling of a Bioterrorist Attack on the I-95 Corridor
      • date: 2014
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: While a lower basic reproductive number (R0) and protracted generation time (Tg) produced the fewest fatalities, multiple attack loci accelerated peak of infection by as much as several months, complicating potential interventions. My thesis employs a stochastic, population-based SEIR model to determine attack rates and mortality resulting from the deliberate release of a bioterrorist agent such as avian influenza from several strategic I-95 Corridor populations.
      • keywords: fatalities; generation; populations; value
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1608. 9880vq3007g
      • author: Ian V. Lightcap
      • title: Excited State Interactions in Graphene Oxide-Semiconductor/Metal Nanoparticle Architectures for Sensing and Energy Conversion
      • date: 2012
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: On account of the advantageous electronic properties and improved device performance, the work described in this dissertation provides a basis for further exploration in the field of reduced graphene composite materials. Graphene oxide, a chemically modified form of graphene which can be produced economically and in large scale, is one of the most common starting materials for making graphene composite materials with improved conductivity, photovoltaic performance, and photocatalytic activity, to name a few examples.
      • keywords: composite; electronic; films; graphene; materials; oxide; properties; tio2
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1609. 9880vq3008t
      • author: Raymond Kenney Walters
      • title: Estimating Variance Explained by all DNA Loci in a Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis
      • date: 2014
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In response, it has been variously hypothesized that genome-wide studies may lack statistical power to identify the small effects of individual SNPs, that heritability may be a result of other forms of genetic variation, or that twin studies may over-estimate the degree of heritability for common psychological traits (Bohacek, Gapp, Saab, & Mansuy, 2013; Maher, 2008; Park et al., 2010; Zuk, Hechter, Sunyaev, & Lander, 2012). The current dissertation expands upon the method of So, Li, and Sham (2011) to provide more flexible and accurate estimates of the proportion of variance in psychological traits that can be explained by observed SNPs.
      • keywords: genome; heritability; psychological; snps; studies; traits; wide
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1610. 9880vq3010c
      • author: Juan Diwu
      • title: Comparison of Transuranium Elements and Their Proposed Surrogates
      • date: 2012
      • words: 394
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Such results offer a great opportunity for a thorough comparison of transuranic elements with their surrogates in different structure topologies and oxidation states in the diphosphonate system. The Bond Valence parameters for Pu(IV), Np(IV) and Np(VI) was calculated and reported to assist the study the chemistry of transuranic elements.
      • keywords: chemistry; dimensional; elements; ray; structural; surrogates; techniques; transuranic
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1611. 9880vq3011q
      • author: John C. Traver
      • title: The Sense of Amending: Closure, Justice, and the Eighteenth-Century Fictional Sequel
      • date: 2008
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It considers works by both traditionally canonical writers (e.g., Daniel Defoe's Farther Adventures and Serious Reflections and Samuel Richardson's Pamela II) and less familiar authors (e.g., Sarah Fielding's Familiar Letters and Volume the Last and Frances Sheridan's Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph). The literary sequel complicates our understanding of the eighteenth-century novel and enables us to engage with questions of justice and literary endings in a different way.
      • keywords: authors; closure; justice; literary; sequels; works
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1612. 9880vq30122
      • author: Alice J Crohas
      • title: Practical Implementation of a Cognitive Radio System for Dynamic Spectrum Access
      • date: 2008
      • words: 245
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Cognitive radio for dynamic spectrum access enables opportunistic use of the radio-frequency (RF) spectrum, allowing unlicensed users to utilize licensed bands under the condition that they interfere as little as possible with the licensees. This work focuses on the practical implementation of a cognitive radio for dynamic spectrum access.
      • keywords: cognitive; radio; spectrum; transmitter
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1613. 9880vq30153
      • author: Mark Aaron Wacker
      • title: Impacts of Drug Resistance on the Fitness and Metabolism of Plasmodium falciparum
      • date: 2011
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Knowledge of the endogenous fuction of pfcrt is necessary to begin to understand how drug resistant parasites may have adapted to compensate for any fitness costs associated with resistance mutations. The reshaping of drug resistant parasite genomes will constrain loci particularly important to parasite fitness.
      • keywords: drug; effects; fitness; growth; knowledge; malaria; parasite; resistant
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1614. 9880vq3016f
      • author: Corey John Zwikstra
      • title: The Psychology of Wisdom in Old English Poetry
      • date: 2009
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: english; literature; old; wisdom
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1615. 9880vq3017s
      • author: Shavkat Karimovich Kasymov
      • title: Water Disputes in Central Asia and the World: Assessing the Prospect of Conflict and Cooperation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: basin; conflict; river; water
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1616. 9880vq30184
      • author: Maria Theresa Valenzuela
      • title: Questioning the Authentic: Narratives of Nation in Philippine, Asian American and Latin American Literature
      • date: 2012
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: These four countries share an important connection, as all three manifest the literary reverberations of the War of 1898, which, connects Philippine literature, Latin American literature, Asian American literature and Latino/a literature. This dissertation examines the concept of authenticity as it relates to narratives about the Philippines and the juxtaposition of those narratives to Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American narratives.
      • keywords: american; language; literature; narratives; texts
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1617. 9880vq30618
      • author: Wei Xu
      • title: Integration of Optical and Electrochemical Detections on Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for Chemical and Biochemical Sensing
      • date: 1904
      • words: 430
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Electrochemical and optical detection are popular techniques that are compatible with LOC devices for chemical and biochemical analysis. Scalability of electrochemical and optical detection schemes to smaller dimension enables the development of portable sensors with low background and enhanced sensitivity based on LOC devices.
      • keywords: applications; bpe; cell; detection; devices; electrochemical; generation; loc; optical; reporter; simple
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1618. 9880vq30v6w
      • author: Diya Li
      • title: A CNT Switch for Identifying and Classifying Breast Cancer Tumor Cells in Plasma: Enhancing Selectivity of Molecular Assay with Nanoscale Hydrodynamic Shear
      • date: 2019
      • words: 426
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The quantifications of protein expressions per tumor cell allow us to develop cut-off r score values for breast cancer subtype classification. The goal of this research is to develop an inexpensive and non-invasive alternative to MRI scans and tissue biopsies currently used to detect metastatic breast cancer and its relapse.
      • keywords: blood; breast; cancer; cnt; detection; her2; high; non; platform; tumor
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1619. 9880vq31172
      • author: Tobias Flattery
      • title: A Leibnizian Package Deal: Essentialism, Causal Independence, and Existential Independence
      • date: 2019
      • words: 283
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: That Leibniz accepts the first thesis, concerning substances' causal independence, has been nearly universally accepted by commentators. That Leibniz accepts the second thesis, concerning substances' existential independence, has been a prominent view but is still controversial among commentators.
      • keywords: leibniz; substance; thesis
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1620. 9880vq31459
      • author: Skye Elliott
      • title: Optical Spectroscopic Characterization of Plasma Enhanced Fueling and Supersonic Combustion
      • date: 2022
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Effective mixing, ignition, and flameholding in a supersonic flow is an outstanding challenge critical for efficient operation of airbreathing supersonic combustion engines. This work applies a suite of optical diagnostic techniques to characterize the physical processes concomitant with plasma-enhanced mixing, ignition, and flameholding in supersonic flow.
      • keywords: chemical; combustion; effect; flow; fuel; ignition; jet; mixing; pim; plasma; supersonic
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1621. 9880vq3149p
      • author: Susanna De Stradis
      • title: Making Democracy Safe for Religion: The Catholic Argument for the "Nation Under God" (1939-1965)
      • date: 2022
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In the short run, this vision ultimately clashed against the Warren Court's embrace of stricter church-state separation standards, while Rome finally let Murray help reframe Catholic doctrine on religious freedom at Vatican II. The conventional story of American Catholics and religious freedom on the eve of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) is fairly straightforward.
      • keywords: american; church; freedom; murray; religious; rome; state; vatican
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1622. 9c67wm13823
      • author: Douglas Allen Hines
      • title: Excited State Reactions at the Quantum Dot Surface
      • date: 2015
      • words: 414
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: However, due to their small size and large surface area to volume ratio, quantum dots are highly sensitive to their chemical environment. The importance of these molecules in dictating the excited state properties of quantum dots prompted the study of bi-functional organic linker molecules, which are typically employed to anchor quantum dots to TiO2.
      • keywords: dot; dots; electron; molecules; quantum; surface; tio2; transfer
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1623. 9c67wm1383f
      • author: Jingying Zhang
      • title: Electrical Transport and Chemical Sensing Properties of Gold Nanowires
      • date: 2012
      • words: 138
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Thiols cause positive resistivity change, while amines cause negative resistivity change. The resistivity of nanowires fabricated by EBL shows a size effect that thinner nanowires have higher resistivity.
      • keywords: ebl; gold; nanowires; resistivity
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1624. 9c67wm1384s
      • author: Alice C. Schermerhorn
      • title: Child Agency, Marital Conflict, and Child Mental Health
      • date: 2005
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 4
      • summary: Longitudinal analyses were consistent with these relations, and revealed that behavioral dysregulation predicts subsequent adjustment problems, but that adjustment problems do not predict subsequent behavioral dysregulation. Consistent with emotional security theory (EST, Davies & Cummings, 1994) and clinical theory and research, this research advances previous work by operationalizing and examining the independent contributions of agentic behavior, behavioral dysregulation, and perceptions of agency to subsequent marital conflict; examining links between behavioral responses, marital conflict, and mental health over time; and testing developmental change in children's behavioral responses to conflict.
      • keywords: agency; behavioral; children; conflict; dysregulation; marital
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1625. 9c67wm1390q
      • author: Jamie Lynn Zigterman
      • title: Toward the Synthesis of Iejimalide B
      • date: 2005
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: These three key subunits are necessary to complete the total synthesis of the originally proposed and the revised structures of iejimalides B. One subunit, the N-formyl serine subunit, is also necessary for labeling studies of the iejimalides to determine the biological mode of activation. Synthetic efforts are necessary to provide sufficient material for biological investigation.
      • keywords: iejimalides; subunit
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1626. 9c67wm13943
      • author: Min Hu
      • title: Ultrafast Spectroscopic Studies of Metal Nanoparticles
      • date: 2005
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: In the first project, the rate of heat dissipation from Au nanoparticles to their surroundings was examined for different size gold nanospheres in aqueous solution. Both the extensional mode and the breathing mode results show that gold nanorods produced by wet chemical techniques have a smaller elastic moduli than bulk gold.
      • keywords: breathing; elastic; experiments; gold; moduli; project; rods; time
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1627. 9c67wm1395f
      • author: Ellen Marie Flannery
      • title: The Diverse Roles of Semaphorin-1a in Development
      • date: 2012
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Specifically, we characterized the role of Sema1a in the central nervous system (CNS) and olfactory system development of the non-model species and deadly disease vector, Ae. aegypti (Chapters 3 and 4). The results of this work showed that sema1a plays a critical role in Ae. aegypti CNS and olfactory system development and demonstrates the importance of studying the development of disease vectors.
      • keywords: development; disease; olfactory; sema1a; species; system; work
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1628. 9c67wm13c83
      • author: Emily A. Williams
      • title: Characterization of Virulence and Survival Mechanisms in Mycobacterium marinum
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We implemented targeted MRM mass spectrometry to monitor multiple Esx-1 substrates across multiple strains to elucidate distinct genetic requirements for Esx-1 export of several Esx-1 substrates. We built a saturating transposon library in M. marinum and screened for mutants deficient for Esx-1 export.
      • keywords: deficient; esx-1; export; mmar_5350; novel; strain; virulence
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1629. 9c67wm13z71
      • author: Xu Han
      • title: Characterization and Interactions of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets (APPJ) with DNA and Human Cells
      • date: 1904
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: appjs; biological; cancer; cells; chemical; liquid; plasma; species; treatment
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1630. 9c67wm14b51
      • author: Aaron Roeder
      • title: An Experimental Investigation of the Wake Response Downstream of a Spanwise-Oscillating Hemispherical Turret
      • date: 2020
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 38
      • 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.
      • keywords: direction; frequency; pressure; response; turret; wake
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1631. 9c67wm14c5b
      • author: Anne Horcher
      • title: Domesticity and Women's Confession in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Ellen Middleton, The Saint's Tragedy, and Villette
      • date: 2021
      • words: 66
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This thesis is an examination of the role that auricular confession played in the relationships between gender, religion, and domestic life in Britain in the 1840s and 1850s. It focuses in particular on three texts, Georgiana Fullerton's Ellen Middleton, Charles Kingsley's The Saint's Tragedy, and Charlotte Brontë's Villette, and examines the consequences of women's auricular confessions in each of these works.
      • keywords: 1840s; auricular
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1632. 9c67wm14c8c
      • author: Aliya Whitehill
      • title: Production and Applications of Isotopically Labeled Hydrogen Peroxide
      • date: 2021
      • words: 77
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: These experiments confirmed peak assignments of studtite and challenged those of the UPC, indicating errors and unrecognized complexity in the traditional assignments. Although successful use of the product was limited by its purity, concentration, and label incorporation, labeling experiments were successfully performed on two uranyl peroxide materials, studtite and Li@U28.
      • keywords: peroxide; studtite
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1633. 9c67wm14d3z
      • author: John Sontag
      • title: Optical Characterization of Spanwise Uniform Turbulent Flows
      • date: 2021
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: It was demonstrated that in this case, some important fluidic statistics in the wall normal direction, like the local convective speed, fluctuating density profiles, and the spanwise integral scales, can be directly extracted from aero-optical distortions. Using deflection angle spectra and the convective velocity, the local values of aero-optical distortions were reconstructed.
      • keywords: aero; convective; density; distortions; optical; spanwise; tbl; wall
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1634. 9g54xg96j2c
      • author: Golnaz Karbasian
      • title: Chemical Mechanical Polishing of Gold
      • date: 2013
      • words: 20
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This thesis presents a set of experiments dedicated to finding a reliable gold CMP process with satisfactory and reproducible results.
      • keywords: results
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1635. 9g54xg96j6r
      • author: Surajit Kumar Sutar
      • title: Tunneling-Based Memory and Advances in Indium Phosphide-Based Processing
      • date: 2010
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Tunneling-based static random access memory (TSRAM) uses the bistability of tunnel diodes to construct memory elements and requires tunnel diodes with peak currents exceeding transistor leakage currents, high peak-to-valley ratio (PVR) and low valley currents and voltages. Valley currents as low as 0.07 nA/ extmu m$^2$, which is the lowest reported for TSRAM tunnel diodes, and valley voltages as low as 250 mV were demonstrated.
      • keywords: currents; diodes; memory; peak; tunnel; valley
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1636. 9g54xg96j73
      • author: Justin Robert Perry
      • title: The World's Room
      • date: 2010
      • words: 7
      • flesch: 82
      • summary: This is a collection of short stories.
      • keywords: stories
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1637. 9g54xg96j9s
      • author: Zhen Song
      • title: Experimental Studies of Aluminous Goethite Nano/Micro Mineral Structure and Interactions Between Aqueous Metal, Siderophores, Bacteria and Mineral Surfaces
      • date: 2012
      • words: 601
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In addition, we investigated the effects of pH, ionic strength, and the siderophore desferrioxamine on Cd sorption to montmorillonite using batch experiments, EXAFS analysis, and XRD measurements. The extent of Cd sorption to montmorillonite increased with increasing pH and decreasing ionic strength.
      • keywords: dfob; exafs; ionic; outer; samples; sorption; sphere; strength
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1638. 9g54xg96k00
      • author: Huijie Leng
      • title: Micro-computed Tomography of Microdamage in Cortical Bone
      • date: 2006
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The combined studies elucidated microdamage mechanisms in bovine plexiform bone under relatively low load and high cycle number. The new technique was validated qualitatively by comparison between the observed staining shape using micro-CT and finite element analysis, and quantitatively by positively correlating the amount of stain with the number of loading cycles.
      • keywords: bone; cortical; dimensional; imaging; microdamage; technique
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1639. 9g54xg96k2p
      • author: Andrew William Bramsen
      • title: Islamic Party Formation: The Role of Ideology, Institutions and Historical Memory
      • date: 2012
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: A history of Islamic rule' by which I mean having an indigenous government led by Islamic religious leaders or governed under Islamic law' is important because it provides Islamic leaders with a historical precedent to legitimate Islamic party formation. I argue that Islamic parties form when the country's initial electoral transition is dominated by an authoritarian power and when the country has historic examples of indigenous Islamic rule.
      • keywords: islamic; leaders; opposition; parties; political; theory
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1640. 9g54xg96k31
      • author: Harsh Vardhan Pant
      • title: Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia and Middle East: The Centrality of Enduring Rivalries
      • date: 2007
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: Nuclear proliferation, however, has tended to remain confined to three regions of the world in the post Cold War era: South Asia, Middle East, and East Asia. North Korea's nuclear test in October 2006 came as a stark reminder that the problem of nuclear proliferation is alive and well and that the global nuclear arms control and non-proliferation regime is fighting for its survival.
      • keywords: east; nuclear; proliferation; region; states
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1641. 9g54xg96k4c
      • author: Anthony S. Lee
      • 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
      • date: 2011
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: church; critical; dissertation; role; schillebeeckx; theology; world
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1642. 9g54xg96k7d
      • author: Michael Austin Giordano
      • title: Screening Methods for Woven Materials as Artificial Cartilage
      • date: 2011
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In the current work, various screening methods for fiber materials are evaluated and range from simple mechanical property testing using an atomic force microscope (AFM), direct fiber-on-fiber wear using a rig test, to pin-on-disk accelerated life wear testing. It is found that direct fiber-on-fiber wear tests provide distinguishable rankings of fiber materials according to wear coefficient and identify polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) as candidates for further investigation.
      • keywords: direct; fiber; joint; materials; pain; pin; replacement; wear
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1643. 9g54xg96k8r
      • author: Kathryn Michelle Armstrong
      • title: Investigations into the Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Structural Properties of TCR - peptide/MHC Interactions
      • date: 2010
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: This work examines TCR binding thermodynamics and compares these measurements to structural and functional features to gain insight into the determinants of TCR specificity, cross-reactivity, and binding affinity. However, binding caused a pKa shift in one or more ionizable groups, indicated by binding thermodynamics that varied with solution conditions.
      • keywords: a6c134; binding; hla; tax; tcr
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1644. 9g54xg96k93
      • author: Pu Wang
      • title: From Human Behavior to the Spread of Mobile Phone Viruses
      • date: 2010
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: These results explain the lack of a major mobile virus breakout so far and predict that once a mobile operating system's market share reaches the phase transition point, viruses will pose a serious threat to mobile communications. In this dissertation percolation theory is used to study the diffusion process of mobile phone viruses.
      • keywords: mobile; phone; spread; study; theory; viruses
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1645. 9g54xg96m09
      • author: Linda Marie Kawentel
      • title: Getting Back into the Habit:The Significance of Dress for Young Women Religious
      • date: 2012
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The paper concludes with suggestions for future research on Catholic religious life as well as veiling across religious traditions. Interview data highlights how the habit is valued as a tool in preserving sisters' religious identity as a brides of Christ as well as its function in religious witness.
      • keywords: habit; paper; religious
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1646. 9g54xg96m82
      • author: Matthew K. Linford
      • title: Explaining Attitudes of Political Contention in Yemen: Legitimacy, Protest, and Political Violence
      • date: 1904
      • words: 245
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: contention; essay; perceptions; religious; yemen
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1647. 9g54xg96n9q
      • author: Fabrizio Sabba
      • title: Mechanisms of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Formation in Biofilm Processes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 454
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: N2O emissions from AOB biofilms of different thicknesses were explored as a function of bulk dissolved oxygen (D.O.). While much has been learned about N2O emissions from suspended growth processes, little is known about emissions from biofilms, which are of increasing interest for wastewater treatment.
      • keywords: biofilms; denitrification; diffusional; emissions; formation; model; n2o; nitrifying
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1648. 9g54xg97856
      • author: Steven M. Kobosko
      • title: Multinary Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Photophysical Properties and Photovoltaic Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Multinary quantum dots such as AgInS2 and alloyed AgInS2-ZnS are an emerging class of semiconductor materials being explored in numerous applications such as bioimaging, LEDs, catalysis, and solar cells. These quantum dots can absorb much of the visible spectrum, making them potentially suitable for photovoltaic applications.
      • keywords: agins2; dots; emission; photoluminescence; properties; quantum; zns
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1649. 9g54xg97m8b
      • author: Stuart Blood
      • title: A Method for Mapping miRNA Transience as Biomarkers for Myocardial Infarction
      • date: 2020
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Employing miR quantification, EV lysis, and nm-sized particle fractionation could open a series of pathology indicators in a simple point-of-care apparatus. These targets show differences in expression based on tissues affected, flow conditions, oxygen content, and miR release mechanisms.
      • keywords: clinical; disease; lysis; mir; myocardial; pathology; samples; stemi
      • versions: original; plain text
1650. 9g54xg97m9p
      • author: Pingjie Tang
      • title: Multi-View Representation Learning: Approaches and Applications
      • date: 2020
      • words: 135
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: How to generate the data representations by incorporating multiple aspects of data, such as text, network topological information, and data derived from various sources. Data representations can be obtained from multiple views.
      • keywords: data; learning; representation
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1651. 9g54xg97n5m
      • author: Hongyu Guo
      • title: Modeling and Mining on High-Dimensional Biological Data
      • date: 2021
      • words: 616
      • flesch: 42
      • 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'.
      • keywords: classification; classifier; dataset; features; graphlet; group; input; method; new; protein; thesis
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1652. 9g54xg97q1v
      • author: Toochukwu Agha
      • title: Jeremiah, Prophetic Conflict, and the Catastrophe of 587/6 BCE
      • date: 2022
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The main thrust of the following study is the Babylonian devastation of Jerusalem and exile of 587/6 BCE which resulted in the disintegration of Judah, and the contribution of prophetic conflicts between Jeremiah and his opponents to this national tragedy. In its final form, the book apparently makes the case that the šālôm prophets were partly responsible for the national tragedy, thereby warning the post-587/6 community about the disastrous consequences of false prophetic activity.
      • keywords: 587/6; book; disaster; jeremiah; jerusalem; period; prophetic
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1653. 9k41zc79t44
      • author: Nicole Perez
      • title: To Leave or Not to Leave? Familism and the Alignment of Preferences in the Transition to College
      • date: 2015
      • words: 138
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Survey (ELS), I measure the alignment preferences between students and parents across all race-ethnic groups and find that Latino students and parents are more likely to state it is 'very important' to live at home while attending college. This study assesses the degree of alignment of preferences to live at home while attending college between students and parents.
      • keywords: college; students
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1654. 9k41zc79t5g
      • author: Olukunle Patrick Owolabi
      • title: The Colonial Origins of Development and Underdevelopment, Democracy, and Authoritarianism: Forced Settlement, Occupation and the Divergent Consequences of Colonial Rule in the West Indies and Sub-Saharan Africa
      • date: 2012
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: First, I use statistical analysis to examine the long-term consequences of each mode of colonization on education attainment (1950 to 2008) and political regime outcomes (1946-2004) across countries and territories decolonized after World War Two. This dissertation examines the colonial factors contributed to surprisingly high levels of social development and postcolonial democracy in the West Indies vis-ÌÊ-vis Sub-Saharan Africa.
      • keywords: colonial; development; indies; indigenous; outcomes; sub; west
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1655. 9k41zc79t6t
      • author: Alejandro A Espinoza Orias
      • title: The relationship between the mechanical anisotropy of human cortical bone tissue and its microstructure
      • date: 2005
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Orthopedics research has made significant advances in the areas of biomechanics, bone implants and bone substitute materials. Inverse pole figures showed that bone mineral crystals had a preferred crystallographic orientation, coincident with the long axis of the femur, which is its principal loading direction.
      • keywords: anisotropy; bone; coefficients; mineral; orientation; ratios; stiffness
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1656. 9k41zc79v2r
      • author: Yuxing Ben
      • title: Nonlinear Electrokinetic Phenomena in Microfluidic Devices
      • date: 2005
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Two double layer charging mechanisms are responsible for the flow---one due to capacitive charging of ions from the bulk electrolyte and one due to Faradaic reactions at the electrode that consume or produce ions in the double layer. Nonlinear electrokinetics have many advantages, such as low voltage, low power, high velocity, and no significant gas formation in the electrolyte.
      • keywords: charging; electrokinetic; electrolyte; fingering; flow; layer; miscible; nonlinear; velocity
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1657. 9k41zc79v64
      • author: Dmitriy Mikhailovich Orlov
      • title: Modelling and Simulation of Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators
      • date: 2006
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 49
      • 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.
      • keywords: actuator; airfoil; discharge; plasma; results
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1658. 9k41zc79v7g
      • author: Enrica Balboni
      • title: Crystal chemistry of uranyl tungstates and actinide-mineral interactions
      • date: 2014
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This work was conducted by reacting mineral powder with relative dilute peroxide bearing aqueous solutions with neutral to basic pH. A combination of chemical, spectrometric, and X-ray techniques was used to characterized solutions and reacted powders. The first analyzes factors that affect the structural incorporation of neptunium(V) and uranium(VI) in synthetic carbonate and sulfate mineral.
      • keywords: actinide; elements; incorporation; minerals; structural; u(vi; uranyl; work
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1659. 9k41zc80h9t
      • author: Roger Brewer Jr.
      • title: Iterative Reconstruction in Multispectral Computerized Tomography
      • date: 1904
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Due to advancements in detector technology, energy-specific information can be extracted from scans, yielding separate datasets for each of many energy levels of X-ray energy. This thesis presents a generalization of existing algebraic reconstruction to directly calculate the material decomposition of an object, with the sinogram partitioned into predefined energy bins as input.
      • keywords: data; energy; materials; non; reconstruction
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1660. 9k41zc80q0k
      • author: Shinan Xu
      • title: Girl-Sphere
      • date: 2019
      • words: 17
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: I explore femininity in retellings of Asian fairytales, family history and cultural heritage in this poetry collection.
      • keywords: collection
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1661. 9k41zc80w66
      • author: Sabrina Yve Strauss
      • title: Conversion Electrons in 154,156Gd
      • date: 2020
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 62
      • 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.
      • keywords: nuclear; states; transitions
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1662. 9k41zc80w7j
      • author: Julianne Dolan
      • title: Being Laden with Love: A Theological Development of Jacques Maritain's Creative Intuition
      • date: 2020
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Second, it offers a philosophical account of human creativity that is implicitly related to divine creativity by way of the analogy of being. I contend that Maritain's mature work on creativity, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, provides a sound philosophical basis on which to build a theology of human creativity.
      • keywords: creativity; dissertation; human; maritain; subject; work
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1663. 9k41zc80w8w
      • author: Brigid Behrens
      • title: Linguistic Markers of Maternal Focus within Emotional Conversations: The Role of Depressive Symptoms and Maltreatment
      • date: 2020
      • words: 161
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Results indicated maternal depressive symptoms were negatively associated with first person plural pronoun use. These findings extend work on the association between maternal depressive symptoms and maternal language to maltreating and non-maltreating families, and to a new linguistic context—reminiscing about children's past emotional events.
      • keywords: child; language; maltreating; maternal; person
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1664. 9k41zc80x1s
      • author: R.W. Olmstead
      • title: Paths to Reconciliation
      • date: 2020
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: When background conditions are favorable, the implementation of justice practices that restore victims virtually guarantees a country will reach high levels of societal reconciliation. I evaluate each period over 10 years and find that high levels of societal reconciliation are uncommon, occurring in only 27% of cases.
      • keywords: conditions; justice; reconciliation; rule; societies
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1665. 9k41zc80x7v
      • author: Francesca Leonardi
      • title: Giacomo Leopardi and the Aesthetics of Ugliness: Body, Disease, and Materialism
      • date: 2021
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Ultimately, I will show how Leopardi transformed his physical vulnerability and illness into powerful cognitive tools. I argue that Leopardi was perfectly aware of how the body – and especially the ugly body – is a bearer of social meaning and of how it functions as a site in which one's identity is challenged and within which it is shaped.
      • keywords: body; leopardi
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1666. 9k41zc80z2f
      • author: Kathryn Scrafford
      • title: Effects of Intimate Partner Violence, Mental Health, and Social Support on Perinatal Health
      • date: 2021
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Posthoc analyses found parallel indirect effects of IPV on labor morbidity via mental health and social support. The current study proposes (1) to examine the effect of IPV exposure on pregnancy and labor morbidity; (2) to assess prenatal mental health as a mediator of the direct pathway, and (3) to examine the moderating role of social support on the direct and indirect pathways.
      • keywords: health; ipv; mental
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1667. 9p29086334c
      • author: Melissa Davidson
      • title: Continuity Properties of the Solution Map for the Generalized Reduced Ostrovsky Equation
      • date: 2013
      • words: 86
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Considering that for this range of exponents the gRO equation is well-posed with continuous dependence on initial data, this result makes the continuity of the solution map an optimal property. It is shown that the data-to-solution map for the generalized reduced Ostrovsky (gRO) equation is not uniformly continuous on bounded sets in Sobolev spaces on the circle with exponent s > 3/2.
      • keywords: continuous; solution
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1668. 9p29086338r
      • author: Jocelyn Grace Oshrin
      • title: Investigation into the petrogenesis of Apollo 14 high-alumina basalts through textural and compositional analysis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Petrogenetic modeling of Group A basalts suggest that the magma formed from a parental composition with higher Sr and Ba abundances than suggested by whole rock analysis, and that plagioclase rim compositions could contain late stage melt inclusions, or could indicate possible open-system AFC processes. Furthermore, most Group C equilibrium melt compositions fall beyond the FC and AFC trajectories, suggesting incorporation of an assimilant with lower Ba and higher Sr than suggested by whole rock studies.
      • keywords: basalts; compositions; group; petrogenetic
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1669. 9p290863393
      • author: Alexander Jech
      • title: Wholehearted Love: An Augustinian Reconstruction of Frankfurt
      • date: 2010
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: I then argue that a superior account of moral life and the moral self can be constructed through greater reliance upon Augustinian ideas concerning the nature of love that is rooted in two concepts: affinity and peace. Thus Frankfurt develops concepts such as second-order desire, identification and dissociation, wholeheartedness, and love without incurring significant metaphysical costs.
      • keywords: account; agency; dissociation; frankfurt; love; moral
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1670. 9p29086341n
      • author: Kan Wang
      • title: Computational Investigation of Aero-Optical Distortions by Turbulent Boundary Layers and Separated Shear Layers
      • date: 2012
      • words: 459
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The similarities and differences of distortion characteristics compared to those induced by turbulent boundary layers are discussed. The contributions from the viscous sublayer and buffer layer are small, while the wake region plays a dominant role followed by the logarithmic layer.
      • keywords: boundary; control; density; distortions; flat; flow; layer; optical; reynolds; shear
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1671. 9p290863420
      • author: Thomas John Bushlack
      • title: Justice in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas: Rediscovering Civic Virtue
      • date: 2011
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In doing so, we seek to demonstrate that such an account of civic virtue has much to contribute to contemporary Christian theological discussions, on both a theoretical and practical level. Finally, the dissertation concludes with a constructive account of Thomistic civic virtue for contemporary moral theology by combining our historical and exegetical insights and research with the dialogue partners of Catholic social thought, political philosophy, and natural law.
      • keywords: account; aquinas; civic; contemporary; political; virtue
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1672. 9p29086344p
      • author: Lauren Grace Rich
      • title: Food for Thought: Eating, Reading, and Being Modern in British and Irish Literature, 1900s&ndash;1950s
      • date: 2012
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: My work intersects with several vibrant strands of scholarly research, including food studies, women's studies, postcolonial studies, and the 'materialist turn' in modernist studies. My dissertation also explores several 'feminine middlebrow' writers including E.M. Delafield, Stella Gibbons, and Barbara Pym, whose work, I argue, envisions a more optimistic response to modernity's erosion of food-based ritual by creating consumption communities founded on shared tastes' both literary and gustatory.
      • keywords: century; dissertation; food; studies; twentieth; woolf; work; writers
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1673. 9p290863451
      • author: Damrongsak Wirasaet
      • title: Numerical solutions of multi-dimensional partial differential equations using ad adaptive wavelet method
      • date: 2010
      • words: 292
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: We apply the algorithm to simulate the flow in the 2-D lid-driven cavity at moderate Reynolds numbers and in the 2-D differentially-heated cavity at high Rayleigh numbers, and in the 3-D differentially heated cavity for various values of Rayleigh numbers. For time-independent problems, the method is tested on 2- and 3-D Poisson and Helmholtz problems with exact manufactured solutions in order to numerically study the connection between the order of the wavelet, the order of finite difference, the threshold values, and the accuracy of numerical solutions.
      • keywords: adaptive; grid; independent; method; time; wavelet
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1674. 9p29086346c
      • author: Punit Bandi
      • title: Design of Crashworthy Structures with Controlled Behavior in HCA Framework
      • date: 2012
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: behavior; components; crashworthiness; design; methods; new; structure; topometry
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1675. 9p29086349d
      • author: Jia Guo
      • title: Lattice Matched Indium Aluminum Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors with MBE Regrown Ohmic Contacts
      • date: 2012
      • words: 410
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: It was also discovered that for these HEMTs with non-alloyed ohmic contacts, the conventional dielectric passivation actually decreases the device speed, opposite to the observations for conventional HEMTs with alloyed ohmic contacts, which in turn suggests traps states generated during ohmic alloying are responsible for the dispersion effect plaguing the HEMTs. To this end, this thesis describes the development of non-alloyed ohmic contacts regrown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and the resultant HEMTs at Notre Dame.
      • keywords: alloyed; contacts; device; hemts; high; mbe; non; ohmic; performance; regrown; resistance
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1676. 9p29086350m
      • author: Jyotsna Osta
      • title: A Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass with 1 Fb^{-1} of Dzero Run IIa Data
      • date: 2009
      • words: 101
      • flesch: 64
      • summary: The data used for this analysis was collected from 2002 to 2006 with the dzero~detector, during Run IIa of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. This thesis is a detailed presentation of a precision measurement of the mass of the $W$ boson.
      • keywords: measurement
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1677. 9p29086351z
      • author: Hyae Jeong Joo
      • title: Symbolic Boundaries in Music: Musical Tastes of Online Community Members in Korea
      • date: 2010
      • words: 123
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The survey results of 1037 members of online music communities demonstrate that people think that classical music is the most sophisticated genre among others. Considering cultural importance of music in Korea, this study explores Korean's musical taste and influences of parents' socio-economic on musical taste.
      • keywords: classical; music; taste
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1678. 9p290863529
      • author: Emeka Chikezie Ngwoke
      • title: Newman: Universal Revelation and the Challenge of Inculturation in an African Church.
      • date: 2012
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Chapter six brings the work to a close by suggesting a number of steps to be taken by Igbo dioceses in order to get inculturation decisively off the ground. Chapter five pairs Newman up against six twentieth-century theologians of religious pluralism to show why Newman is the preferred Ì¢åÛåÏauthority and guideÌ¢åÛå in this matter and ends with a speculative glimpse into what a slice of life might look like in an inculturated Igbo Catholic Church.
      • keywords: chapter; church; doctrine; early; igbo; newman; religion; traditional
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1679. 9p29086371k
      • author: Keelin Rosaleen Burke
      • title: Gender and the Politics of the Irish Free State, 1922-1937
      • date: 1904
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This dissertation explores the ways in which gender influenced the construction and stability of the newly created Irish Free State, how national identity and citizenship were understood in gendered terms in those years, and how these gendered constructions of civic life affected Irish women and men. In the wider context of a post-war Europe, the Free State wrestled with issues of national identity and citizenship, working to distance itself from its past as a former part of the United Kingdom and to present an image to the world of a potentially strong sovereign state.
      • keywords: citizenship; free; gender; gendered; state; women
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1680. 9p290863t7x
      • author: Moeen Mostafavi
      • title: Control Design Based on Passivity Indices with Learning
      • date: 1904
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: We show how to find passivity indices of a system which has limited frequency inputs. Specially we review how system designer can use specific input-output sets to learn passivity indices of a system.
      • keywords: design; indices; input; passivity
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1681. 9p29086401p
      • author: Matthew Robert Kelly
      • title: Hybrid Induction Heating and Linear Friction Welding
      • date: 2019
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Preheating the workpieces prior to LFW showed no adverse effects on weld quality, and therefore represents a viable strategy to reduce the cost of LFW equipment in the future. Contact loss issues in DEFORM while modeling the initial phase of LFW thermo-mechanically led to the conclusion that the initial phase of LFW must be modeled purely thermally, before the latter phases are modeled thermo-mechanically.
      • keywords: energy; lfw; linear; process; upset; weld
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1682. 9s161546c64
      • author: Kevin Christopher Elliott
      • title: Scientific Anomaly and Biological Effects of Low-Dose Chemicals: Elucidating Normative Ethics and Scientific Discovery
      • date: 2004
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Regarding scientific anomaly in general, the dissertation argues that researchers and policymakers have an ethical responsibility to take reasonable steps to identify, reveal, and provide representative information about all major, plausible characterizations of scientific anomalies to the public or its representatives. This dissertation analyzes the importance of scientific anomaly both for the philosophy of science and for ethical decision-making that draws on scientific information.
      • keywords: account; anomalies; anomaly; dissertation; ethical; novel; science; scientific
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1683. 9s161546c7g
      • author: John Engbers
      • title: Some problems involving H-colorings of graphs
      • date: 2013
      • words: 390
      • flesch: 65
      • summary: Writing hom(G, H ) for the number of H -colorings of G, we show that for &#948; = 1 and &#948; = 2 and fixed H , hom(G, H ) &#8804; max{hom(K&#948;+1, H ) n/&#948;+1 , hom(K&#948;,&#948;, H ) 2&#948; , hom(K&#948;,n&#8722;&#948;, H )} for any n vertex minimum degree &#948; graph G (for sufficiently large n). Third, for a given H , k &#8712; V (H ), and regular bipartite G, we consider the pro- portion of vertices of G that get mapped to k in a uniformly chosen H -coloring of G. We find numbers 0 &#8804; a&#8722;(k) &#8804; a+(k) &#8804; 1 with the property that for all such G, with high probability the proportion is between a&#8722;(k) and a+(k), and we give examples where these extremes are achieved.
      • keywords: -colorings; vertices
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1684. 9s161546c8t
      • author: Timothy Schoenharl
      • title: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach for the Exploration of Self-Organizing Neural Networks
      • date: 2005
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This work applies the Agent Based Modeling paradigm to the simulation of biological neural networks, allowing rapid development of models, easy addition of features and a richness of expression that is not available with other tools. The focus of the ABNNSim toolkit is modeling neural networks at the network level.
      • keywords: biological; modeling; networks; neural
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1685. 9s161546d4r
      • author: Jean Marie Miesbauer
      • title: An Assessment of Large Woody Debris, Fish Populations, and Organic Matter Retention in Upper Midwestern Forested Streams
      • date: 2005
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: On average, all particle types traveled less than 7 m. Overall, my research provides an ecological framework for the management of physical habitat in low-gradient streams of the upper Midwest. Even though streams in the UP had relatively low amounts of LWD compared to other regions in North America, LWD still influenced physical habitat variables.
      • keywords: habitat; lwd; physical; streams
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1686. 9s161546d84
      • author: Christopher O. Porter
      • title: The Optical Environment from the Tip Vortices of a Helicopter in Different Flight Regimes
      • date: 2011
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: To date, aero-optics research has focused primarily on fixed-wing aircraft travelling at compressible-flow speeds, where compressible shear layers and turbulent boundary layers are the dominant source of aero-optic aberrations. These aero-optic aberrations originate from both spatial- and temporal-variations of the index-of-refraction, and are associated with the low-pressure cores and concomitant reduced density within the vortical structures in certain turbulent flow field such as free-shear layers and tip vortices.
      • keywords: aberrations; aero; compressible; hover; shear; tip; turbulent; vortices
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1687. 9s161546d9g
      • author: Sukesh Shekar
      • title: Part 1: Molybdenum Amidophenolates and Catecholates for Nonclassical Oxygen Activation and Atom Transfer Reactions &#47; Part 2: Silicon-Carbon Bond Activation in Aryloxy-Iminoquinones and Enhanced Reactivity Over Tin Analogues
      • date: 2014
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: fashion, as the required reducing equivalents for oxygen reduction are drawn from ligand oxidation and not the molybdenum center. The doubly deprotonated cis-dioxo complex (tBuClipH2)MoO2 readily loses water to form a series of monooxo complexes (tBuClip)MoO(L) in the presence of donor ligands.
      • keywords: intermediate; ligand; migration; oxo; oxygen; silicon; tert; tetrahedral
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1688. 9s161546g1b
      • author: Timothy Byron Webster
      • title: Natural Law, Religion, and the Political Common Good
      • date: 1904
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: A strand of liberal thought called liberal egalitarianism wants to accommodate religious commitments on an equal basis with nonreligious or secular commitments. However, in accommodating religion, liberal egalitarians do not want to recognize religious commitments or activities qua religious as uniquely deserving of protection or accommodation.
      • keywords: chapter; liberal; natural; religion; religious
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1689. 9s161546h20
      • author: Dana Townsend
      • title: Political Violence in the Macrosystem: A Thematic Analysis of Northern Irish Newspapers
      • date: 1904
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: development; individual; macrosystem; reports
      • versions: original; plain text
1690. 9s161547f2n
      • author: Andrew J. Bechter
      • title: Enabling Doppler Spectroscopy at the Diffraction-Limit
      • date: 2019
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Finally, the use of single-mode fibers has unique optical consequences for the RV instrument not experienced by existing multi-modal instruments. In order to probe terrestrial planets, an RV sensitivity of 10cm/s is required, an order of magnitude improvement on existing instrument capabilities.
      • keywords: injection; measurements; mode; optical; order; spectrograph; stars
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1691. 9s161547f7c
      • author: Chungeun Yoon
      • title: Essays in Labor Economics and Innovation
      • date: 2020
      • words: 561
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This latter impact, however, varies considerably across firms; highly innovative firms experience an increase in innovation rates, while other firms experience a decrease in innovation rates. The dissertation contains three essays on the causal relationship between labor supply and innovation.
      • keywords: chapter; firm; innovation; inventors; labor; language; loss; relationship; supply
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1692. 9s161547f8q
      • author: Eric B. Bechter
      • title: Advancing Spectrograph Designs and Doppler Measurements through Numerical Simulations
      • date: 2020
      • words: 417
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The thesis concludes with example scientific applications that involve AO and RV measurements, including: high-contrast imaging of stars that exhibit long-term RV trends; and the discovery that two transiting planets that reside in hierarchical triple star systems (Chapter 6). Earth's Barycentric motion creates multi-pixel lateral Doppler shifts across the detector that cannot be tracked using conventional wavelength calibration; simulations of the spectrograph optical components are used to quantify this effect, along with the impact of spatially varying aberrations, on RV precision when operating near the diffraction-limit (Chapter 5).
      • keywords: calibration; chapter; detector; effects; ilocater; precision; single; spectrograph; stars
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1693. 9s161547g50
      • author: Molly J. O'Neill
      • title: Sleep-Deprived Mothers: How Changes in Sleep Affect Parent Stress and Behavior
      • date: 2020
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: It is hypothesized that infant sleep quality increases parental stress and therefore negatively impact sensitivity over time. The current study investigates the cascading effects of infant sleep patterns on parent stress and subsequent parenting behaviors during wakefulness.
      • keywords: infant; mothers; sleep; stress; study
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1694. 9s161547g9c
      • author: John A. Lindblom
      • title: A 'Chinese Tunic for Christ': John C. H. Wu's Incorporation of the Chinese Classics in Translating the Psalms and New Testament
      • date: 2021
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In it, Wu borrowed both terms and linguistic styles from the Chinese classics, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist texts as well as classical poetry, to translate biblical phrases and concepts in new and surprising ways. It finds that Wu's work is striking and innovative in its use of these terms and styles, including such choices as the Chinese term dao to translate the Greek word logos, the abundant use of chengyu, or four-character set phrases, from classics such as the Analects, Mencius, the Tao Teh Ching (Dao Dejing), and the Diamond Sutra, the poetic styles of Tang dynasty poetry, and the imitation of marked or authoritative language found in many classical texts.
      • keywords: chinese; classical; classics; phrases; terms; use
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1695. 9s161547h3m
      • author: Lauren A. Trichtinger
      • title: Missing Data Methods for Exploratory Dynamic Factor Analysis
      • date: 2021
      • words: 405
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Dynamic factor analysis, a procedure combining factor analysis and time series analysis, is a popular data analytic tool for ILD. However, none of them compared popular missing data methods and examined their effects on estimates in exploratory dynamic factor analysis in a variety of conditions.
      • keywords: analysis; data; factor; ild; methods; missing; simulation; study; time
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1696. 9w032229n66
      • author: Yihui Ren
      • title: Betweenness Centrality and Its Applications from Modeling Traffic Flows to Network Community Detection
      • date: 2015
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: One the most basic function of networks is transport; transport of vehicles/people, information, materials, forces, etc, and these quantities are transported along edges between source and destination nodes. We present an algorithm that solves both problems efficiently and accurately and demonstrate that on both benchmark networks and data networks.
      • keywords: centrality; edges; network; nodes; role; traffic; transport; understanding
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1697. 9w032229p0f
      • author: jennifer Irene Warfel Juszkiewicz
      • title: The Iron Library: Victorian England and the British Museum Library
      • date: 2010
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The first century of the British Museum Library and its Reading Room (1753-1860) illustrates the political, economic, and social considerations that were changing the larger British society, both in small scale (as in purchasing changes in the wake of the French Revolution) and in large scale (as in the submerging of aristocratic authority in a democratizing period). This influence plays out in admissions policies as well as government financial support.
      • keywords: british; larger; period; scale
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1698. 9w032229p1s
      • author: Qin Yang
      • title: Computational Study of Sound Generation by Surface Roughness in Turbulent Boundary Layers
      • date: 2012
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Large scale turbulent structures in the boundary layer have a relatively low influence on roughness dipoles, except for the first row of elements. Correlations and coherence between roughness dipoles and surface pressure fluctuations are analyzed, which reveals the importance of the impingement of upstream turbulence and surrounding vortical structures to dipole sound radiation, especially in the streamwise direction.
      • keywords: acoustic; boundary; dipole; element; hemispherical; noise; roughness; sound
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1699. 9w032229p3g
      • author: Jonathan D. Schwarz
      • title: Degrees of Difference: Returns to Non-Profit and For-Profit Higher Education
      • date: 2012
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: We would expect returns to for-profit and non-profit institutions to be indistinguishable, if proprietary institutions are equally effective at fulfilling the selection, human capital improvement, or signaling roles of traditional higher education. As the college-for-all movement presses forward, public and non-profit institutions alone appear to have been unable to keep pace with the increasing demand for higher education and the share of students enrolled in for-profit institutions has increased.
      • keywords: higher; institutions; non; profit
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1700. 9w032229p4t
      • author: Lori Anne Petersen
      • title: How does the representational status of to-be-counted objects affect children's understanding of cardinality
      • date: 2013
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The current study examined the effects of the representational status of to-be-counted items on preschoolers' understanding of cardinality. Children's counting skill and understanding of cardinality were assessed at pretest and posttest.
      • keywords: cardinality; children; understanding
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1701. 9w032229p6h
      • author: Ann R. Dallman
      • title: Flow and Turbulence in Urban Areas
      • date: 2013
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Three experimental projects are described herein concerning different spatial scales of atmospheric flows in urban areas. Finally, a project studying street canyon flow induced by differentially heated surfaces was carried out.
      • keywords: characteristics; field; flow; spatial; street; turbulence; urban
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1702. 9w032229p7v
      • author: Pantelis E. Eleftheriou
      • title: Groups definable in linear o-minimal structures
      • date: 2008
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: En route, we show that the o-minimal fundamental group of G is isomorphic to L. Let M = be a linear o-minimal expansion of an ordered group, and G an n-dimensional group definable in M. We show that if G is definably connected with respect to the t-topology, then it is definably isomorphic to a definable quotient group U/L, for some convex V-definable subgroup U of and a lattice L of rank equal to the dimension of the 'compact part' of G.
      • keywords: definable; group; isomorphic; lie
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1703. 9w032229p86
      • author: Aprell Loreal Sparks
      • title: Characterization of the mitotic Stil gene in dopaminergic cell survival
      • date: 2013
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: We previously isolated the zebrafish night blindness b (nbb) mutation, which causes a progressive loss of DA cells in the heterozygous adult retina and small eyes with disorganized retinas in the embryonic lethal homozygous mutants. To further evaluate novel mechanisms of STIL in DA cells, the catecholaminergic mammalian PC12 line was used to examine its role in DA proliferation, differentiation and survival.
      • keywords: cells; expression; knockdown; mutant; nbb; pc12; proliferation; stil; study; survival
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1704. 9w032229q13
      • author: Cheng Ji
      • title: Exploiting Bacterial Iron Acquisition: From New Antibiotics to Pathogen Detection Devices
      • date: 2012
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Design, syntheses and antibacterial activity of siderophore-drug conjugates with potential drug release linkers triggered by different microbial actions are described in chapter 3 and 4. Development of such a device on a microfluidic chip using both natural and artificial siderohpore was explored and presented in chapter 5.
      • keywords: antibacterial; chapter; conjugates; delivery; design; drug; potential; release; siderophore
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1705. 9w032229q2f
      • author: Andreas Best
      • title: Measurement of alpha capture reactions on O-17 and O-18 for the s process
      • date: 2011
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: The reaction 16O(n, &#947;) 17O acts as a neutron poison in the weak slow neutron capture process (s process) by reducing the number of available neutrons in the stellar burning environment. The total cross section of the (&#945;, n) reaction was measured using a high efficiency 4&#960; neutron detector.
      • keywords: 17o(&#945; 20ne; 21ne; reaction
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1706. 9w032229q3s
      • author: John Joseph Hess
      • title: 'Borrowed Without Apologies': American Fiction Since 2000
      • date: 2011
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: This dissertation uses new media theories and developments in entertainment and publishing media during the first decade of the century in progress to argue for the significance of the fiction and multimedia projects of a new generation of American novelists. This set of novelists - Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, and David Foster Wallace - have adapted to radical changes in literary production and consumption in order to imagine new approaches to literary aesthetics, entertainment, and questions of audience in the new millennium.
      • keywords: fiction; generation; media; new; novelists
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1707. 9w032229q44
      • author: Zhi Xu
      • title: Dissection of the Multiple Functions of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1
      • date: 2008
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: These PAI-1 knock-in mice would serve to further elucidate mechanisms associated with the observed phenotypes in PAI-1 deficient mice in a number of challenge models. Interestingly, both antifibrinolytic-related and non-antifibrinolytic-related roles of PAI-1 function have been implicated in the process of angiogenesis, which might account for some discrepancies observed in angiogenic models using PAI-1 deficient and over-expressing transgenic mice.
      • keywords: cassette; function; homologous; mice; plasminogen; recombination; vector
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1708. 9w032229q8h
      • author: Brian Long
      • title: Body and Soul: The Production and Reception of Medical Translations from Arabic in the Long Twelfth Century
      • date: 1904
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Rather than characterized by newly ascendant medical practitioners, as has been suggested, a divide appears to have existed between the enthusiasm for medicine among learned readers and the humbler, often empirical world of Byzantine medical practitioners. Second, the translations of Constantine the African are examined, including both the contexts of their production and their connections to the other worlds of Mediterranean medicine.
      • keywords: constantine; cultural; eleventh; latin; medicine; mediterranean; twelfth; west
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1709. 9w032229v93
      • author: Xiaobin Zhang
      • title: Correct-by-Design Human-Robot Collaboration through Supervisory Control of POMDP
      • date: 1904
      • words: 447
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) studies how to achieve effective collaborations between human and robots to take advantage of the flexibility from human and the autonomy from robots. These applications motivate the requirements of HRC to have the performance guarantee to assure the task completion and safety of both human and robots.
      • keywords: control; framework; high; hrc; human; level; model; pomdp; robots
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1710. 9w032230j7c
      • author: Joy H. Kim
      • title: The Effect of School Climate on Teacher Satisfaction: Context of Perceptions and Peer Influence
      • date: 2019
      • words: 117
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Research on school context looks at school climate and workplace relations as related yet separate factors of teacher job satisfaction. Thus, two individuals with the same perceptions of school climate can express different levels of job satisfaction depending on their peers' perception of the climate.
      • keywords: climate; school
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1711. 9w032230q3j
      • author: Benjamin Wright
      • title: Publishing The Imitation of Christ: The Distribution Circles of a Fifteenth-Century Bestseller
      • date: 2019
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In early seventeenth-century Europe it was considered the most widely published work next to the Bible: The Imitation of Christ easily ranks as one of the most translated, printed, and circulated works of early modern Europe among Catholic, Protestant, and even some Orthodox confessional circles, yet until the present, the medieval origins of this work have received little attention. In the later period, the work expanded geographically from its earliest circle in the Northwest German lands to nearly every region of Europe.
      • keywords: century; circulation; earliest; early; europe; manuscripts; work
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1712. 9w032230r2h
      • author: Lilly Watermoon
      • title: Constructing (Trans)Gender Identity in Online Contexts
      • date: 2020
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: This dissertation is comprised of three substantive sections, covering how the trans community constructs and justifies a definition of gender and how this definition both conflicts and aligns with definitions proposed by anti-trans groups, how Twitter's affordances for both personal expression and collective organization are utilized to foster within-community solidarity and how structural tensions within these affordances also work to undermine it, and the role that pervasive anti-trans opposition plays on influencing both the structural and emotional composition of the online trans community. As being trans involves contesting the gender previously assigned to the individual—with the body providing the primary basis for this initial assignment—and as social networking services provide an interactional environment where the body can be curated or concealed entirely, these services provide a fruitful case study into how the construction and enactment of gender manifests itself outside the context of the body.
      • keywords: community; dissertation; gender; trans; twitter
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1713. 9w032230r9x
      • author: Louise Williams
      • title: Exploring the Self: A Metaphysical, Practical, and Linguistic Perspective
      • date: 2021
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 69
      • summary: While the project touches on metaphysics, practical reasoning, and philosophy of language, all three chapters are unified in their goal to unpack what is required of a plausible account of selfhood. While I do not explicitly explore how chapters two and three interact with the picture, I present in the first chapter, I hope to do so in future work.
      • keywords: account; chapter; practical; self
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1714. 9w032230s04
      • author: Trish Bredar
      • title: Paths of Resistance: Walking Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature
      • date: 2021
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In this way, women writers often expose one oft-critiqued aspect of liberal thought—that its endorsement of detachment neglected the situatedness and embodiedness of human experience—while often perpetuating another—that liberalism disavows its own violence and exclusivity. Although this form of self-assertion is closely associated with both male peripatetic theory and liberal thought, women writers are attuned to the embodied, situated, and uneven experiences of mobility in a way that is notably lacking in most peripatetic and liberal theory.
      • keywords: century; literary; nineteenth; peripatetic; walking; women
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1715. 9w032230t24
      • author: Federica Costantino
      • title: Advanced Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water
      • date: 2022
      • words: 815
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The AOPs use semiconductor materials that are activated by the UV or Visible light irradiation that are able to mineralize organic water pollutants. In this chapter, the description of the Advanced Oxidative Processes (AOPs) and their utilization as an innovative solution for water decontamination are presented.
      • keywords: advanced; aops; chapter; cost; degradation; irradiation; materials; mats; organic; performance; photocatalytic; pollutants; process; processes; treatment; utilization; water
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1716. 9z902z12x87
      • author: Bharath Balu
      • title: Genetic Analysis of Plasmodium Falciparum
      • date: 2005
      • words: 651
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: To understand the role of MAEBL in erythrocyte invasion, maebl was disrupted in P. falciparum NF54 parasites by single homologous recombination. The 5' regions of all three genes expressed CAT from episomes in P. falciparum blood stages confirming the presence of promoter elements in 5' regions.
      • keywords: ability; blood; falciparum; genetic; invasion; maebl; malaria; new; parasite; plasmodium; regions; stages; system
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1717. 9z902z12x9k
      • author: Steven M. VanDenDriessche
      • title: Embedding Computable Infinitary Equivalence nto P-Groups
      • date: 2013
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: One may look at this program as eithera project in the computable structure theory of abelian p-groups, or as a projectin the construction of limits of sequences of uniform Turing computable operators. This project of exploiting uniformity of Turingcomputable embeddings to construct a limit embedding is carried out entirely in thecontext of countable reduced abelian p-groups.
      • keywords: abelian; computable; embeddings; groups; operators
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1718. 9z902z12z0s
      • author: Seng Kai Wong
      • title: A Cursory Study of the Thermodynamic and Mechanical Properties of Monte-Carlo Simulations of the Ising Model
      • date: 2005
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: My goal is to illuminate the differences in the dynamical and equilibrium properties of various algorithms and model parameters. In my phase separation simulations, I investigated a number of thermodynamical properties of the two-dimensional Ising model, including the surface energy, surface tension, partition function, free energy and entropy as a function of model parameters and algorithms.
      • keywords: algorithms; boltzmann; choice; materials; model; separation
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1719. 9z902z12z6v
      • author: Ping Yan
      • title: Ear Biometrics in Human Identification
      • date: 2008
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Furthermore, we develop the first fully automated biometric system using 3D ear shape. The results suggest a strong potential for 3D ear shape as a biometric.
      • keywords: approach; biometric; ear; images; matching; recognition; shape
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1720. 9z902z1300c
      • author: James Edward Gentile
      • title: Evaluations and Innovations in Face Detection
      • date: 2008
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: It shows that the Bayesian classifier is preferred under structured lighting conditions and the cascade classifier is preferred under unstructured lighting conditions. This thesis evaluates popular detectors on imagery with known conditions.
      • keywords: conditions; detection; face
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1721. 9z902z1301q
      • author: Eugene Galyaev
      • title: Inclusive high-pt b-jet cross section measurement at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV.
      • date: 2006
      • words: 89
      • flesch: 64
      • summary: A measurement of the b-jet cross section as function of jet transverse momentum pT has been performed using 312 pb-1 of DZero data. The Run II physics program at the Tevatron started in the spring of 2001 with protons and antiprotons colliding at an energy of ps = 1.96 TeV, and is continuing with about 1.2 fb-1 of data currently collected by the CDF and DZero experiments.
      • keywords: data; dzero
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1722. 9z902z1412n
      • author: Lorenzo Dell'Oso
      • title: How Dante Became Dante: His Intellectual Formation in Florence between Laici and Clerici (1294-1296)
      • date: 2020
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Finally, I maintain that the doctrinal complexity of the Vita nova and Le dolci rime was essential for Dante to distinguish himself among the lay and clerical intellectuals of contemporary Florence, and helped him to build his reputation as vero filosofo as well as a leading intellectual in the second half of the 1290s. This dissertation examines Dante Alighieri's intellectual formation and explores the ways in which a laicus such as the poet might have gained access to theological and philosophical knowledge in 1290s Florence.
      • keywords: dante; disputations; florence; philosophical; theological
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1723. 9z902z14130
      • author: Colleen Cross
      • title: 'Unlocking Human Dignity': A Theology of Liberation from the Context of US Immigrant Detention and Deportation
      • date: 2020
      • words: 261
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: In light of the complex challenges posed by global migration and its impact on the human person, this dissertation brings peace studies, Latin American liberation theology, US Hispanic and Latinx theology, and migration theology into conversation, seeking to develop a constructive theology of liberation from the context of US immigrant detention and deportation. While it endeavors to develop a theology of liberation for the victims, it also examines the need for liberation for the perpetrators—for US society and for many in the US Church.
      • keywords: context; detention; human; levels; liberation; theology
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1724. 9z902z1424n
      • author: Erin Archibeck
      • title: Spatial Correlation of Trabecular Bone Tissue Strain Invariants and Sclerostin Expression
      • date: 2021
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Quantifying the spatial relationship between mechanical deformation and signaling protein expression within trabecular bone is essential to understanding the mechanobiological signaling cascade that maintains bone health. Interventions such as pharmaceuticals that can leverage the mechanobiological signaling processes in trabecular bone can provide new therapeutic approaches for bone repair for bone diseases, such as osteoporosis.
      • keywords: bone; deviatoric; high; sclerostin; spatial; strain; trabecular; volume
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1725. 9z902z1448n
      • author: Jaynise M. Pérez Valentín
      • title: Processes Guiding Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Bay of Bengal
      • date: 2023
      • words: 510
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Results show northward propagation for all variables during active and break MISO spells. This prompted analysis using a novel spectral approach where MISO structure and evolution along the BOB was examined using admissible terms (state, stress and flux terms) regarding air-sea coupling processes.
      • keywords: active; air; bob; break; convective; equatorial; intraseasonal; miso; monsoon; ocean; results; spatial; temporal
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1726. b2773t96683
      • author: Yang Zhao
      • title: Bone Indentation Modeling via Analytical and Finite Element Methods
      • date: 2012
      • words: 306
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: On micron scales, cortical bone consists of osteons surrounded by interstitial bone, while trabecular bone consists of structures similar to rods or plates. In recent years, mechanical behaviors of bone at the level of osteons or even lamellae have been assessed via nanoindentation of bone.
      • keywords: bone; different; indentation; mechanical; nano; properties; scales
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1727. b2773t9672b
      • author: Catherine Louise Elizabeth Young
      • title: Vermin, Vectors, and Virus: The Mosquitoes of Northern Indiana, Their Role in Arboviral Transmission, and the Spread of West Nile Virus
      • date: 2009
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Mosquitoes collected during the four-year survey were tested for infection with West Nile virus, and virus was detected in a total of 15 pools of mosquitoes, including nine pools of Cx. Mosquito collections were performed in St. Joseph County, Indiana in 2003-2006, the four years immediately following the initial epidemic of West Nile virus infection in Indiana, and the results were combined with historical data to provide an updated summary of the mosquito fauna of the region.
      • keywords: indiana; nile; pools; viral; virus; west
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1728. b2773t9673p
      • author: Benjamin Highsmith Meekins
      • title: Controlling Interfacial Transfer Processes For Improved Photoelectrochemical Performance
      • date: 2012
      • words: 421
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Following Fujishima and Honda's demonstration of photolysis of water on TiO2 using simulated sunlight in 1972, the field of water photolysis and hydrogen generation has grown quickly. The scavenging of trapped holes by reduced oxygen radicals was enabled only in the presence of IrO2, and this scavenging occurred on a timescale approximately 1000 times faster than that of water oxidation, which means that it represents a serious obstacle to developing a water photolysis system that does not rely on external power input.
      • keywords: earth; energy; hydrogen; photolysis; reaction; reasonable; resources; tio2; water
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1729. b2773t96741
      • author: Heather Rachelle Parrish
      • title: Homing: An Ontological Investigation into the Nature of Inhabitation, Phenomenology
      • date: 2014
      • words: 60
      • flesch: 4
      • 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.
      • keywords: emotional; rational
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1730. b2773t9676q
      • author: Xin Chen
      • title: Modeling the Human Face through Multiple View Three-Dimensional Stereopsis: A Survey and Comparative Analysis of Facial Recognition over Multiple Modalities
      • date: 2006
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Also significant is the demonstrated flexibility of this system to successfully perform 3D recognition on a database acquired originally for 2D face recognition. I contribute to the growing body of work surrounding face recognition by examining novel approaches to face recognition beyond the traditional, two-dimensional intensity modality.
      • keywords: dimensional; face; infrared; intensity; modality; recognition; system
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1731. b2773t9678d
      • author: Patrick Mello
      • title: Toleration, Persecution, and the Novel
      • date: 2013
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Focusing on novels published in the aftermath of the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite rebellions, my dissertation argues that the novelistic preoccupation with character and community gave voice to both the continuing struggle for religious equality and the fear of some writers, such as Henry Fielding and Robert Paltock, that religious difference would ultimately lead to the downfall of the nation. Through her mere existence as a political and religious outsider, for instance, Jane Barker's Galesia disrupts Whig social norms.
      • keywords: century; eighteenth; legal; religious; social; toleration; whig
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1732. b2773t9679r
      • author: Timothy Schoenharl
      • title: Creating, Updating and Validating Simulations in a Dynamic, Data-Driven Application System
      • date: 2008
      • words: 301
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: agent; approach; design; modeling; online; simulation; validation
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1733. b2773t9680z
      • author: Erica Schiller Freeman
      • title: Darwin on the 'More Interesting' and 'Most Intricate' Problems for Natural Selection
      • date: 2013
      • words: 236
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I show that human development toward moral perfection (the 'more interesting' problem) involves the development of humanitarian culture, and yet it is precisely the development of humanitarian culture that gives rise to the conditions Darwin acknowledged as necessary for the continued action of natural selection on the members of any population. My aim is to evaluate the adequacy of Richards's portrayal of Darwin as a moral sense theorist indebted to German Romanticism for the philosophical resources required to articulate a fully naturalistic account of the emergence of moral sense.
      • keywords: darwin; interesting; moral; problem
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1734. b2773t96830
      • author: Sabine Anna Krawietz
      • title: Alleviating Choking Under Pressure Using Imagery
      • date: 2012
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Experiment 2a sought to establish an equally high level of performance pressure as perceived by participants putting in scenarios induced with outcome and monitoring pressure and a significantly higher level of perceived pressure than other participants putting in the no pressure control condition. Choking is defined as suboptimal performance in situations filled with performance pressure.
      • keywords: choking; imagery; monitoring; performance; pressure; task
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1735. b2773t9684b
      • author: Jonathan Carl Leiner
      • title: Exchange Coupling in the Ferromagnetic Semiconductor GaMnAs
      • date: 2012
      • words: 464
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: We show that vertical magnetization gradients in GaMnAs layers can readily be achieved by appropriate growth strategies, although quantitative control of such grading is difficult in the growth of such layers due to various competing effects, such as Mn diffusion, self-annealing, and diffusion of charge carriers. In this thesis I describe magneto-transport, magnetization, and neutron reflectometry experiments applied to GaMnAs-based tri-layer structures, consisting of GaMnAs layers separated by non-magnetic GaAs spacers.
      • keywords: ferromagnetic; gamnas; growth; iec; layers; magnetic; magnetization; vertical
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1736. b2773t9685p
      • author: Ailbhe Darcy
      • title: Imaginary Menagerie
      • date: 2011
      • words: 60
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent despatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven less by metaphor than by wild conceits, semantic leaps, and startling juxtapositions, these are poems that itch and pluck at the pelt of what we think we know.
      • keywords: ailbhe; states
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1737. b2773t96861
      • author: Teasel Elizabeth Muir-Harmony
      • title: Tracking Diplomacy: The International Geophysical Year and American Scientific and Technical Exchange with East Asia, 1955-1973
      • date: 2010
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: By examining the experience of American observers working at satellite tracking stations in Japan and India, this thesis argues that in order to understand the nature and impact of global scientific programs, the day-to-day workings of the scientific outposts, the backbone of the programs, have to be examined. At the beginning of the Space Age, under the auspices of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) was chosen to develop a network of optical satellite tracking stations in a number of countries around the world.
      • keywords: scientific; stations; thesis; tracking
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1738. b2773t9699c
      • author: Craig William Kinnear
      • title: The Legend of Logging: Timber Industry Culture and the Rise of Paul Bunyan, 1870-1945
      • date: 1904
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Paul Bunyan helped the lumber industry reconcile an important contradiction that lay at the heart of capitalist expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In it, there was no resource exhaustion or environmental degradation, no capital flight or community abandonment, no class tension or labor unrest.
      • keywords: bunyan; corporations; history; industry; logging; lumber; lumberjack; paul
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1739. b2773t96d99
      • author: Lynette D. McCarthy
      • title: Life After Death
      • date: 1904
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: These conditions are also investigated through analytical and formalistic observations, offering both data-driven research and theoretical inspection. The documentation of emotional and physical situations after the absence of a spouse provides insight into the experience of death, bereavement, and memory.
      • keywords: death; life; widower
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1740. b2773t96x47
      • author: Aaron Pidel, SJ
      • title: The Ecclesiology of Erich Przywara, S.J.
      • date: 1904
      • words: 242
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The fourth and fifth chapters designate two different attempts by Przywara to transpose this specifically Ignatian configuration of the analogia entis into an ecclesial register: first, an ecclesiology of discretion, in which Przywara models the relationship between Church as hierarchy and the Church as mystical body on the relationship between the ideal Jesuit superior and his subject; second, a nuptial ecclesiology, in which Przywara models the tenson between the Church from above and the Church from below on the relationshp between Christ and Mary. The Catholic Church turns out to be the true Church, according to Przywara, because it is the most analogical Church and thus the best school of creatureliness.
      • keywords: analogia; chapter; church; entis; przywara
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1741. b2773t96z98
      • author: Yizhou Zhang
      • title: Designing Block Polymer-Based Membranes with Tailored Surface Chemistry
      • date: 2018
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In this dissertation, we address the most immediate concern of water stress by purposing a potential option for the freshwater production through engineered polymeric membranes. The rational design of block polymer-based membranes promises to provide new separation archetypes for advanced membrane applications yet to be precisely engineered.
      • keywords: block; chemistry; design; dissertation; membrane; performance; polymer; polystyrene; surface
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1742. b2773t9785z
      • author: S. Sivaranjani
      • title: A Novel Framework for the Analysis and Distributed Control of Congested Transportation Networks
      • date: 2020
      • words: 502
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In general, these models employ discontinuous dynamics or nonlinear terms to describe phenomena like shock waves and phantom jams. In the second part, we consider the problem of designing fast local control policies to mitigate traffic congestion arising from large disturbances in the traffic flow, such as accidents and peak-hour demand surges, before they develop into propagating traffic jams or shock waves.
      • keywords: congested; control; ctm; like; models; networks; problem; regimes; traffic; transportation
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1743. b2773t97c36
      • author: Gonzalo J. Martinez Bas
      • title: On the Challenges of Longitudinal, Multi-Modal, Ubiquitous Sensing Studies
      • date: 2022
      • words: 502
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: In this thesis, we present a thorough analysis of the problem of data quality in ubiquitous sensing studies and suggest methods to increase participant compliance. Additionally, we show to what extent heart rate variability from wearables can be a predictor of stress in real life settings.
      • keywords: data; field; problem; quality; real; researchers; sensing; study
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1744. b2773t97c7k
      • author: Casey Mullaney
      • title: Incarnating Welcome: Formation, Risk, and Hospitality at St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker
      • date: 2022
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In light of the contemporary racial reckoning which began with the founding of Black Lives Matter in 2013, the closing chapter looks to prison abolition and societal decarceration as areas where the Catholic Worker vocation of offering welcome to those on the margins of society might be employed in service to a creative, Black-led vision of broader hospitality. how racial and gender-based hierarchies influence our conception of hospitality and whether true hospitality is possible under conditions of exploitative patriarchy; 2.)
      • keywords: catholic; chapter; contemporary; hospitality; movement; worker
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1745. b2773t97d3h
      • author: Peng He
      • title: Electrode and Electrolyte Design for High Energy Density Li-Ion and Mg-S Batteries
      • date: 2022
      • words: 556
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: A prototype Mg-S flow battery was built and tested with various Mg electrolytes. The side reaction between MgSx and Mg can cause fast capacity decay and the passivation of Mg anode.
      • keywords: batteries; battery; capacity; discharge; electrolytes; flow; gpes; high; mgsx; sulfur
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1746. b5644q79h0q
      • author: Christopher William Norfolk
      • title: Processing Mesocarbon Microbeads to High-Performance Materials fo Friction Applications
      • date: 2005
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Based on this, it is recommended that beta-resin content be optimized, methods of increasing initial sample density be investigated, and techniques of reinforcement without increasing porosity be explored. Results show that this yields materials which are more tolerant of porosity content.
      • keywords: carbon; graphitization; high; materials; mcmb; porosity; reinforcement; sintering; temperature
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1747. b5644q79h12
      • author: Ying Jin
      • title: Processing and Characterization of Secondary Solid-State Li-Ion Batteries
      • date: 2013
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 46
      • 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.
      • keywords: batteries; bulk; electrolyte; film; ion; lithium; solid; state
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1748. b5644q79h2d
      • author: Neil Edmund Hoyt
      • title: Re-humanizing the Commercial Core: A Masterplan for Chicago's Central Loop
      • date: 2005
      • words: 112
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Special attention will be given to the relationship of open public space within the urban fabric, as well as the correlative relationship of monumental buildings within open space. Ultimately, this plan will show how, through a process of defining and developing public spaces, establishing a hierarchical network of buildings and streets, and better addressing the notion of human scale, one can begin to re-humanize the American commercial core.
      • keywords: american; commercial; core
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1749. b5644q79h8g
      • author: Ying Shang
      • title: Semimodule Morphic Systems: Realization, Model Matching, and Decoupling
      • date: 2006
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: We characterize fixed pole semimodules using pole semimodules, zero semimodules, and the extended zero semimodules of the given transfer functions. The concepts of reachability and observability are defined for semimodule morphic systems.
      • keywords: fixed; pole; semimodules; systems; transfer
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1750. b5644q79j2q
      • author: Katherine Waring
      • title: Natural Product Derivatization Through Nitroso Diels-Alder Reactions
      • date: 2007
      • words: 8
      • flesch: 71
      • summary: No abstract is included in my Masters thesis.
      • keywords: thesis
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1751. b5644q79j32
      • author: Sarah R Epstein
      • title: Temperature Stress and Its Impact on the Aedes Aegypti Stress Response and Dengue Susceptibility
      • date: 2009
      • words: 422
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The current study focuses specifically on the role temperature stress plays in stress protein expression and dengue vectorial capacity. Evidence suggests a correlation between the level of stress protein expression and the degree of susceptibility of Ae. aegypti to dengue, but the strength of this relationship is not well defined.
      • keywords: aegypti; capacity; dengue; expression; infection; time; treatment; vectorial
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1752. b5644q79k0b
      • author: John A. Christie
      • title: Molecular Quantum Cellular Automata: Synthesis and Characterization
      • date: 1904
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Chapter 3 focuses on the synthetic extension of substituted 1,2-diferrocenylacetylene compounds from Chapter 2 to square planar tetraferrocenyl compounds. The synthesis of substituted 1,2-diferrocenylacetylenes supports two goals: to study substituent effects on electron transfer and redox chemistry in the 1,2-diferrocenylacetylene system, and to synthesize precursors for the preparation of more complex molecules found in later chapters.
      • keywords: chapter; characterization; focuses; molecules; qca; synthesis; work
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1753. b5644q79m6q
      • author: Sean P. Phillips
      • title: Pox and the Pulpit: The Catholic Church and the Propagation of Smallpox Vaccination in Early Nineteenth-Century France
      • date: 1904
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: This dissertation examines the collaboration between public health officials, government administrators, and Roman Catholic clergy in propagating smallpox vaccination as a case study for modern state building in post-revolutionary France. At a time when boundaries between secular and religious authority were questioned and refashioned, religious authorities served an important role as intermediaries between Parisian health officials and far-flung parishes and villages.
      • keywords: health; religious; secular; state
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1754. b5644q8065d
      • author: Paul Anh McEldowney
      • title: Model-Theoretic Galois Cohomology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 43
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This thesis provides a self-contained and thorough exposition of Proposition 3.3 of Pillay's 1997 paper Some Remarks on Galois Cohomology and Definability. As such, this thesis includes all of the necessary background definitions, results, and proofs required to understand this proposition.
      • keywords: thesis
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1755. b5644q80762
      • author: Sarah E. Naramore
      • title: I Sing the Body Republic: How Benjamin Rush Created American Medicine
      • date: 2018
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: To recover Rush's significance and role in the development of early American medicine this project reflects the scope of his intellectual inquiry independent of modern disciplinary boundaries. Historically Rush's legacy has been fragmented into the histories of medicine, psychiatry, American political history, social history, and the history of reform movements.
      • keywords: american; history; medical; medicine; political; rush; states; united; work
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1756. b5644q80j6v
      • author: Evan Jamison Gerbo
      • title: Behavior and Design of an Adjustable Bolted Steel Plate Connection
      • date: 2019
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches are utilized to (1) develop a versatile connection geometry for greatest adaptability to manufacturing and erection tolerances, as well as member dimensions, (2) understand the residual strains induced during prefabrication via press brake, (3) understand the effect of field installation via bolt tightening on the plates and bolts, (4) investigate the behavior of the connection under service and ultimate loads, and (5) develop recommendations on the design and behavior of adjustable connections. The connection is comprised of prefabricated splice plates (cold bent via press brake) to defined angles, then further cold bent during field installation (by bolt tightening) to form moment-resisting joints.
      • keywords: adjustable; angles; bolt; cold; connection; field; installation; steel
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1757. b5644q80k03
      • author: Rebecca M. West
      • title: The Idea of Anglo-Scandinavian England: "Vikings" in Medieval English Memory
      • date: 2020
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This reuse and repurposing of Anglo-Scandinavian materials and the demonstrably-continued historical influence of these on the religion, art, and politics of the later medieval England illustrate that elements of society and life conditioned by events and habits from the Anglo-Scandinavian period continued to influence post-Conquest English society. The evidence explored in this dissertation suggests that, far from forgetting Anglo-Scandinavian England, post-Conquest authors and artists working in the twelfth and even thirteenth centuries continually reimagined this history in countless ways.
      • keywords: anglo; conquest; england; period; post; scandinavian
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1758. b5644q80k1f
      • author: Robert G. T. Edwards
      • title: Divine Providence and Biblical Narrative in the Thought of John Chrysostom
      • date: 2020
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The recurrence of God's providential actions throughout biblical history also reveals a larger point: that God's providence is neither episodic nor interventionist, but is continual and consistent throughout all of history; Chrysostom is not interested in delineating ages of salvation history, or a history of covenants, but instead in showing his audience how providence operates according to the same love for humanity throughout all time, to the same end of salvation—no matter how at odds events might seem with one another. Finally, scripture's narratives of providence, from creation to the incarnation, and now in the life of the church, also put forward figures who have trusted in divine providence.
      • keywords: biblical; chrysostom; god; narratives; providence
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1759. b5644q80k5t
      • author: Rebecca Carter
      • title: Investigation of Rare Earth Element Signatures and Surrogate Nuclear Melt Glass for Nuclear Forensic Analysis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Advanced technical nuclear forensic capabilities act as a powerful deterrent to nuclear security issues such as nuclear smuggling, nuclear terrorism, nuclear extortion, and nuclear arms proliferation. The first is through the evaluation of signatures related to nuclear materials.
      • keywords: forensic; glass; materials; melt; nuclear; security
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1760. b5644q80m6g
      • author: Travis Lacy
      • title: The Catholicity of the Church: An Augustinian Account
      • date: 2021
      • words: 555
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Henri de Lubac (catholicity as qualitative fullness), J. B. Metz (global catholicity), J.M.R. Tillard (local catholicity), and Avery Dulles (catholicity as discipled mediation). In Chapter Five, I provide a phenomenological analysis of ecclesial catholicity through the work of Edith Stein.
      • keywords: account; augustine; catholicity; chapter; church; donatist; god; positions; przywara; thinkers
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1761. b5644q80n0q
      • author: James (Jay) Martin, Jr.
      • title: Žižek and the Death of God: Hegel or Lacan?
      • date: 2021
      • words: 592
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: approach; christian; commitments; death; dissertation; god; respect; theological; theoretical; theory; žižek
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1762. b8515m62s08
      • author: Amy Loren Roberts
      • title: Investigating Proton Pairing in 76SE with Two-Proton Transfer onto 74GE
      • date: 2013
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: 76se; ground; proton; state
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1763. b8515m62s4n
      • author: Peter Mundey
      • title: The 'Neo-Parish': Willow Creek's Middle Ground between Small Groups and Mega Worship
      • date: 2010
      • words: 216
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: By transitioning from a 'church of small groups' to a 'church of communities,' Willow Creek seeks to find a middle ground between mega-worship and small groups. However, by using measures of customer demand in order to change customer preferences--challenging congregants to grow spiritually--Willow Creek operates in a substantively rational manner running counter to rational choice theory.
      • keywords: creek; groups; parish; rational; small; willow
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1764. b8515m62s50
      • author: Carina Kathleen Finn
      • title: Troubadorable
      • date: 2012
      • words: 4
      • flesch: 75
      • summary: A manuscript of poems.
      • keywords: poems
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1765. b8515m62s6b
      • author: J. Andres Mejia Acosta
      • title: Ghost Coalitions: Economic Reforms. Fragmented Legislatures and Informal Institutions in Ecuador (1979-2002)
      • date: 2004
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Lowering the liability of coalition parties was crucial because public opinion ratings and the proximity of new elections reduced the incentives to cooperate with the executive. The dissertation develops a dynamic choice model to explain how coalition formateurs enhanced cooperation incentives by expanding the value of coalition benefits channeled through party leaders, and by lowering their partners' liability for making government coalitions.
      • keywords: coalition; cooperation; incentives; legislative; party; policy; political; presidents; public
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1766. b8515m62s7p
      • author: Sajeewani Upeka Samarakoon
      • title: Role of recombination in genetic linkage and genome variation in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
      • date: 2012
      • words: 608
      • flesch: 28
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; cnv; cos; disease; gcs; genetic; genome; linkage; malaria; parasite; recombination; variation
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1767. b8515m62s81
      • author: Jennifer F Hsia
      • title: Post-dispersal sugar maple (Acer saccharum) seed predation by sciurids and other small mammals in a northern hardwood forest
      • date: 2010
      • words: 207
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Although fewer seeds were cached in August, we found that small mammals, eastern chipmunks in particular, were predators of sugar maple seeds, with an increased proportion of seeds eaten with increasing seed predator and sciurid biomasses. Using live-trapping efforts and track boards with tagged sugar maple (Acer saccharum) seeds in June and August of 2006 at eight mixed forest sites in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, we asked: (1) are sugar maple seeds provided later in the summer more often cached?
      • keywords: biomass; mammals; sciurid; seed; small
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1768. b8515m62t0k
      • author: Sara M. Fulmer
      • title: Academic challenge in middle school: Teacher perceptions and student reactions
      • date: 2013
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Some teachers were able to resolve pressures from students by having conversations with students about challenge, providing emotional and motivational support, scaffolding students' thinking, and increasing student autonomy. Currently, a contradiction exists between theories of motivation, which emphasize the positive influence of academic challenge on student motivation, and research, which has found contradictory results regarding this relationship.
      • keywords: affect; challenge; difficulty; interest; reading; students; teachers
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1769. b8515m62t1x
      • author: George P Nora
      • title: The Synthesis and In Vitro Testing Of Structurally Novel Isoxazolidine Antibacterial Agents Via an Acylnitroso Diels-Alder Reaction
      • date: 2010
      • words: 180
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In order to increase the potency and broad spectrum antibacterial activity, additional isoxazolidines were synthesized which incorporate side chains which are analogous to physiologically relevant side chains that many effective ?-lactam antibiotics have. The current progress towards a diketopiperzine derived from an isoxazolidine is presented which could also exhibit antibacterial activity.
      • keywords: -lactam; agents; antibacterial; isoxazolidines
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1770. b8515m62t28
      • author: Elizabeth Jordan Daly
      • title: Examining the Validity and Utility of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory
      • date: 2013
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The NPI Likert-scale version was factor analyzed and correlated with these measures to determine the degree of structural similarity to that of the original format and to clarify the meaning of low-end NPI scores. Nevertheless, the inventory has several drawbacks that complicate score interpretation, including the existence of multiple versions, an unstable factor structure, and a psychometrically problematic format.
      • keywords: format; inventory; low; npi
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1771. b8515m62t59
      • author: Kyanne Renee Reidenbach
      • title: An Examination of Mosquito Evolution at Multiple Taxonomic Levels: from Genera to Subpopulation
      • date: 2012
      • words: 390
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The pattern of M:S divergence is highly conserved across Africa. We offer a hypothesis to explain the maintenance of such high divergence regions in the face of gene flow, namely, that occasional relaxation of environmental selective pressures allows temporary periods of introgression between sympatric M and S populations.
      • keywords: africa; differences; divergence; gambiae; inversion; mosquitoes; species
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1772. b8515m62t6n
      • author: Robert Thuan Brathwaite
      • title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Secession and State Formation in the International System, 1815 - 2010
      • date: 2012
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Selecting cases that are similar except for the variables of interest (norms of self-determination and liberal democracy, strength of secessionist movement, and proximity to major powers or contiguous rivals) allows me to explain in detail the causal mechanism that leads violent secessionist movements to become recognized as new states in the international system. The data comes from a variety of sources, which are listed in the appendix of my dissertation, but the majority of the data was collected from two sources; the Minorities at Risk data project and the Correlates of War data project.
      • keywords: data; domestic; factors; international; perspective; secessionist; system
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1773. b8515m62t70
      • author: Melissa Renee Gillette
      • title: Rho GTPase Signaling in Epithelial-Stromal Interactions in the Developing Mammary Glad
      • date: 2014
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 9
      • 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.
      • keywords: epithelial; gtpase; mammary; rho; signaling; stromal
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1774. b8515m62t8b
      • author: Thomas Buschman
      • title: Pornography as a Taste: The Status, Omnivorousness, and Political Tolerance of Pornography Consumers in the 1990s
      • date: 2010
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Despite a broadening of the research agenda on pornography in the late 1980s, pornography research largely remains its own distinct enterprise. This paper integrates pornography into the sociology of taste by examining the taste for pornography using the dominant theoretical perspectives and methods applied to other tastes, specifically the omnivore thesis.
      • keywords: hypothesis; pornography; taste
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1775. b8515m63w3h
      • author: Colin Dassow
      • title: Social and Ecological Factors Affecting Management of Recreational Fisheries
      • date: 2021
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: As both a culturally and economically important resource, the continued viability of recreational fisheries is essential for the employment and cultural identity of people all over the globe (Lynch et al. 2016a,; Cooke and Murchie 2015; Arlinghaus et al. 2002). Recreational fisheries exist across a range of scales from a single species within one waterbody to multiple targeted species across regional sets of waterbodies.
      • keywords: fisheries; important; people; recreational; species
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1776. b8515m63w9k
      • author: Hui Yin Tan
      • title: Functionalized Porous Membranes for Antibody Quantification
      • date: 2021
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: We demonstrated the capability of our functionalized membranes in spin column and 96-well plate format in quantifying Trastuzumab, Bevacizumab, and SARS-CoV-2 mAb in relevant clinical concentration ranges. We reduce detection of non-specific binding by employing fluorescently labelled secondary antibodies with specificity against human immunoglobulin G (IgG) to bind to immobilized mAb and the measured fluorescence intensity directly correlates with the level of mAb in samples.
      • keywords: assay; human; mab; mabs; membrane; min
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1777. b8515m63x5h
      • author: Katherine C Crank
      • title: Developing and Refining Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Using Molecular Viral Fecal Indicators
      • date: 2022
      • words: 383
      • flesch: 26
      • 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).
      • keywords: fecal; health; indicators; model; pathogens; risk; viral; water
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1778. b8515m63z5t
      • author: Tim Shaffer
      • title: Proactive Storage Management for High-Throughput Scientific Workflows
      • date: 2022
      • words: 261
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Next, it examines the scalability limits of shared filesystems, showing how large-scale application behavior leads to metadata storms that are difficult to handle without leveraging workflow information. It then proposes dependency-oriented container management strategies to improve storage usage and reproducibility over standard techniques that do not leverage workflow information.
      • keywords: application; behavior; information; level; management; storage; workflow
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1779. bc386h4622k
      • author: Haixia Yang
      • title: Lubrication Mechanisms for Oil-in-Water Emulsions
      • date: 2005
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: The effects of droplet size and initial oil concentration on the extent of oil pool are also discussed. Ignoring the interactions between oil droplets, all droplets segregate to the backflow region and are rejected from the contact zone regardless the rolling speed.
      • keywords: contact; droplets; emulsions; flow; oil; region
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1780. bc386h4623x
      • author: Michelle Barron (Morton)
      • title: Effects of Nitrogen Based Anions on CO2 Binding and Proton Affinity
      • date: 2013
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: A trend was found between the binding of CO2 and the proton affinity to determine which anion would be most successful at binding CO2 while not binding a proton. The anion appears to be the one of the most important factors when selecting an ionic liquid for the capture of CO2.
      • keywords: binding; co2
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1781. bc386h46248
      • author: Ajit Nimbalker
      • title: Design of High Throughput Low Complexity Turbo Codes
      • date: 2005
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: First, using EXIT chart analysis, puncturing patterns for code rates ranging from 1/4 to 3/4 are found. Advanced low complexity turbo coding solutions are necessary for next generation systems that will have peak data rates in excess of 100 Mbps.
      • keywords: code; complexity; contention; hardware; interleavers; mtc; turbo
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1782. bc386h46306
      • author: Nicolas M. Somma
      • title: Why Don't You Join Us? Grievances, Organizational Membership, Protest Opportunities, and Protest Participation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 121
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Using survey data from a representative sample of adults in the United States, this article examines the effects of grievances and voluntary organizational membership on protest invitation and protest participation. But only political organizations contribute to protest participation after controlling for the effect of protest invitation.
      • keywords: participation; protest
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1783. bc386h4634k
      • author: Prashant Deshlahra
      • title: Study of Electronic Effects in a Catalytic Diode: Dft Calculations and Meiras Experiments
      • date: 2011
      • words: 476
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Vibrational frequency of molecules shifting linearly with external electric field is shown to be a key experimental observable useful in the study of these effects. Nanofabrication techniques are used to prepare regular arrays of uniform and parallel Pt nanowires on TiO2 in order to control the fraction of Pt/TiO2 interfaces while maintaining electrical continuity in the Pt layer.
      • keywords: effect; electric; external; field; metal; molecules; support; tio2; transfer
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1784. bc386h4635x
      • author: Han Yu
      • title: Passivity and Dissipativity as Design and Analysis Tools for Networked Control Systems
      • date: 2012
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: The problems studied in this thesis consider complex but common situations in networked control systems and their solutions represent a practical benefit to the way we design and analyze the studied control systems. In this dissertation, several control problems are studied that arise when passive or dissipative systems are interconnected and controlled over a communication network.
      • keywords: control; systems
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1785. bc386h46488
      • author: Nichole Riggs
      • title: LUMES
      • date: 1904
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This figure represents, among many things, the seemingly invisible violence of war which looms in the lives of U.S. citizens in various ways -- whether that be through our own comfort, the films we watch, or the way we play as children. Ultimately, LUMES combines autobiography and situations of surreal violence in order to reveal truths about our ways of life as U.S. Citizens.
      • keywords: citizens; lumes; poetry
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1786. bc386h4658k
      • author: Thomas Clemmons
      • title: The Development of Augustine's Christology in the Early Anti-Manichaean Works
      • date: 1904
      • words: 287
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: The second chapter provides an outline and diagnosis of Latin Manichaeism through a consideration of the hermeneutical focus of Manichaeism. While not dismissing this dimension, chapter one outlines the deficiency of such a narrow focus on Augustine's Platonism to the exclusion of Augustine's critique of Manichaeism.
      • keywords: augustine; chapter; christology; focus; manichaeism
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1787. bc386h4682f
      • author: Aboutaleb Amiri
      • title: Intercellular Interactions Promote Collective Behavior in Bacterial Colonies and Developing Epithelia
      • date: 1904
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: In this thesis, we study the impact of physical properties of individual cells and intercellular interactions on the swarming behavior in bacterial colonies and self-organization of epithelial cells during development. We also demonstrated that periodic reversals of motion direction with periods within the experimentally observed range, high flexibility of bacterial cells and a moderate level of strength of cell-cell adhesion are crucial for a colony of self-propelled rod-shaped Myxococcus xanthus to spread protein within the population efficiently.
      • keywords: bacterial; behavior; cells; epithelial; interactions; pili; self
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1788. bc386h46s3f
      • author: Bethany Montagano
      • title: Sites of Slavery: Gender, Race and Tourism in America's Slavery Memory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Investigating the lives, relationships and work of these women at the center of this story, provides a multi-dimensional view into the life cycle of a slave memory born from romantic fiction and tourism, charting its dangerous transition to history and into the American imagination. In this study, I probe the romantic, tourism-originated myths embedded in America's Slave memory introducing a fresh site of inquiry, the efforts of three White female Jim Crow era historians Carita Doggett Corse, Minnie Moore Willson and Bernie Babcock who wrote them into slave history.
      • keywords: history; narrative; project; romantic; slave; tourism
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1789. bc386h4739k
      • author: William Temple Andrews
      • title: Development and Application of Mass Spectrometric Imaging Protocols
      • date: 2020
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: MALDI-TOF imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is a common technique used for analyzing tissue samples, as it allows the user to detect multiple different analytes simultaneously. This novel method provides the means to detect a unique subset of peptides from tissue sections when compared to unextracted tryptically digested tissue, all while minimizing the presence of contaminants and maintaining spatial localization.
      • keywords: peptides; spatial; technique; tissue
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1790. bc386h4743t
      • author: Patricia L. Huestis
      • title: Exploration of Radiation Effects on Boehmite and Gibbsite
      • date: 2020
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The changes in charging behavior were followed up with aggregation studies that revealed that irradiated boehmite aggregates differently than pristine boehmite, and those differences remain even with the addition of large amounts of salt. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that the surface of both materials was greatly reduced following high doses, and charge corrections for x-ray absorption spectroscopy indicated a change in charging behavior following irradiation.
      • keywords: atom; boehmite; gibbsite; high; hydrogen; ray; spectroscopy
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1791. bc386h4754g
      • author: Matthew Sarnowski
      • title: Design and Synthesis of Biologically Relevant N-Heteroatom Substituted β-Strand Peptidomimetics
      • date: 2021
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: We anticipate the conformational and non-aggregating characteristics of NAPs will be an effective tool in the design of soluble sequence-specific ligands of amyloidogenic proteins. Peptidomimetics capable of recapitulating the structural features with protein domains would thus be of great use as probe molecules for targeting disease-relevant macromolecular interactions.
      • keywords: approach; hairpin; model; peptidomimetics; protein; sheet; stabilization; strand
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1792. bc386h4755t
      • author: Pratyush Pandey
      • title: Ferroelectric Memory Based on Partial Polarization for Analog Weight Storage
      • date: 2021
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: A strictly symmetric pulse protocol, where the integral of the measurement waveform over a measurement cycle is zero, was developed to measure dynamic effects in FE capacitors. Using the strictly symmetric measurement protocol, partial polarization in metal-FE-metal capacitors was shown to be stable up to 250 ms.
      • keywords: capacitors; current; hzo; measurement; metal; partial; polarization; symmetric
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1793. bc386h4758v
      • author: Jongsuh Lee
      • title: Computation in Aristotle's Syllogistic
      • date: 2021
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: For multi-premise syllogisms with unordered premises, I suggest that the problem of finding all the relevant trees may be NP-complete. Further, I elucidate several mechanical procedures that are found in the Analytics, most notably, the procedure of perfecting imperfect syllogisms.
      • keywords: analytics; aristotle; premises; problem; syllogisms
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1794. bg257d29b2n
      • author: Erin Wilson
      • title: Phosphorus Mediated Reactions Toward the Advancement of C-N and C-C Bond Formations
      • date: 2015
      • words: 455
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: activation; agent; amides; bond; ligation; method; overall; oxindoles; phosphine; phosphorus; synthesis
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1795. bg257d29b61
      • author: Brett Christopher Paice
      • title: Postmodern American Gothic: The Politics of Fear in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson
      • date: 2010
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Considering the profound urgency that differing conceptions of 'terror' represent in a post-9/11 world, I believe that understanding representations of terror in contemporary artistic practice is vital to reassessing the Gothic genre, from its origins in the 18th century to the present, as defined by its politics of transgression. In this project, I argue that the works of artists Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson signify, what I term, the postmodern American Gothic, through their production of a symbolic economy of fear, paranoia, and dread.
      • keywords: american; artists; erickson; fear; gothic; lynch; pynchon; terror; works
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1796. bg257d29b7c
      • author: Alejandro Miguel de la Puente
      • title: A Singlet Extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model: Towards a more natural solution to the Little Hierarchy Problem
      • date: 2012
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The two limiting cases of the S-MSSM, characterized by the size of the supersymmetric mass for the singlet superfield is analyzed, and I find that in the region of small singlet supersymmetric mass a large asymmetry can be obtained while being consistent with constraints arising from flavor physics, quark masses and top quark decays. The small and large limits of this mass parameter are studied, and I find that I can generate masses for the lightest neutral Higgs boson up to 140 GeV with top squarks below the TeV scale, all couplings perturbative up to the gauge unification scale, and with no need to fine tune parameters in the scalar potential.
      • keywords: mass; model; mssm; singlet; supersymmetric
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1797. bg257d29b8q
      • author: Eduardo Cabral Balreira
      • title: Detecting Invertibility from the Topology of the Pre-images of Hyperplanes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: In recent years new topological and geometric ideas have been introduced in the subject of global invertibility, pushing the field in different directions. It states that a Banach space local diffeomorphism f : X &#8594; X is bijective provided inf x&#8712;X kDf(x)&#8722;1k&#8722;1 > 0.
      • keywords: bijective; diffeomorphism; hadamard; local; plastock; theorem
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1798. bg257d29b92
      • author: Jill Suzanne Voreis
      • title: Further Characterization of a Novel Membrane-Microtubule Binding Protein, CLIPR76
      • date: 2012
      • words: 375
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The mechanism of CLIPR76-4 membrane localization was investigated by mutating a key conserved cysteine necessary for CLIPR-59 localization. CLIPR76-4, the smallest human splice isoform, contains a hydrophobic C-terminus that drives ER localization and aligns with the C-terminal Golgi-localizing domain of the CLIPR76 relative CLIPR-59.
      • keywords: cap; clip-170; clipr76; conserved; domains; gly; localization; proteins
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1799. bg257d29c08
      • author: Raymond F. Hain IV
      • title: Practically Virtuous: Instrumental Practical Reason and the Virtues
      • date: 2009
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: After showing how this Thomistic account of instrumental practical reasoning both accommodates the insights gained from the contemporary accounts and includes a clear and persuasive grounding for practical deliberation as a social activity, I argue that the resulting picture of practical reason gives us very good reason to be virtuous. I work to show this by first confronting with one another four recent accounts of practical reason (those of Simon Blackburn, Candace Vogler, David Gauthier, and Philippa Foot) in order to develop a powerful account of instrumental practical reasoning as an irreducibly social practice.
      • keywords: final; good; instrumental; practical; reasoning
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1800. bg257d29c2z
      • author: Erin E Drew
      • title: The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in Eighteenth-Century Literature
      • date: 2013
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Tracing the concept of usufruct in eighteenth-century literature reveals that the period's writers grappled more profoundly and consistently with the need to reconcile the often-contradictory ethical imperatives to improve human life and steward non-human life than has previously been appreciated by either ecocritics or eighteenth-century scholars. Eighteenth-century writers, I show, were acutely aware of the interdependence of human and non-human beings, and believed that human beings had a responsibility to use nature in a way that would guarantee the ongoing stability of non-human and human life.
      • keywords: century; eighteenth; human; nature; use; writers
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1801. bg257d29c39
      • author: Xuan Orali Minh Stevens
      • title: Risk and Protective Factors in At-Risk Mothers' Aand Children's Socioemotional Adjustment
      • date: 2008
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Such a model advocates for psycho-educational interventions that yield improved parent- focused interventions that are designed to lower the risk of these problems in children. This project examined relationships between maternal resources and the socioemotional development for 129 14-year old children born to adolescent mothers.
      • keywords: adjustment; adolescent; children; maternal; parenting
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1802. bg257d29c4n
      • author: Yingxin Jiang
      • title: Edge-Based QoS for Scalable Networks/Systems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: admission; control; diffserv; dissertation; edge; end; qos; services
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1803. bg257d29c7p
      • author: David John Schmidt
      • title: Cluster Expansion Studies of Oxygen Adsorption on Transition Metal Surfaces
      • date: 2012
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Additionally, these metal (111) surfaces fall into two categories: catalytically active surfaces and catalytically inactive surfaces. Instead single crystal surfaces exhibit heterogenous catalytic behavior.
      • keywords: catalytic; catalytically; metal; oxygen; single; surfaces
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      • author: Jeannie A. Hoang
      • title: Host Transcriptional Regulation During a Mycobacterial Infection and Developing a Mechanism of Drug Targeting Through Folate Drug Conjugates
      • date: 2012
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Our work indicates that infection with isogenic strains of M. tuberculosis results in differential activation of various transcription factors. An improved understanding of host immune responses following Mycobacterium infection can provide insights into the pathogenesis of virulent mycobacteria and identify potential targets for rational anti-TB drug design.
      • keywords: drug; macrophages; tuberculosis
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      • author: Jieon Kim
      • title: Beatrice the Consummate Lady Wisdom
      • date: 2015
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The final chapter systematically demonstrates Beatrice as a synthetic figure of Mary, Lady Philosophy, and Lady Wisdom. I demonstrate the identification of Lady Wisdom, Jesus, Lady Philosophy, Mary, and Beatrice in various texts through their common words and actions.
      • keywords: chapter; figure; jesus; lady; philosophy; second; wisdom
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      • author: Fasihun Nisa (Fasiha) Qadri
      • title: Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons: A Social Justice Movement, Beyond Victimhood to Peace Bulding
      • date: 2011
      • words: 444
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The paper will be an important contribution towards understanding how women as victims of state violence under conditions of occupation can contribute to conflict transformation by advancing gendered claims for human rights, justice, and accountability. With civil society initiatives in general and human rights activism in particular being viewed as anti-state activities, I personally am in know of the immense hardships that human rights defenders face on ground to carry on their activities.
      • keywords: apdp; conflict; human; justice; kashmir; paper; rights; women
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1807. bg257d29f3x
      • author: Nathaniel Huston
      • title: Silver Bullets, Subjugation, and Adaptation: Why Some Militaries Thrive and Others Falter in the Face of Technological Change
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: change; militaries; nature; technological; technology
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1808. bg257d3069k
      • author: Stephanie Ellickson-Larew
      • title: Elucidating the Construct of Dissociation through Scale Development
      • date: 2019
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: discriminant; dissociation; facets; item; phase; sample; validity
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1809. bg257d30d4q
      • author: Rebecca A. Scheidt
      • title: Mechanistic Insights into Lead Halide Perovskite Transformations
      • date: 2020
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The excited state properties are perovskites are also elucidated using transient absorption spectroscopy. Cesium lead bromide nanocrystals are studied under elevated temperatures and the transformation process they undergo to change into bulk perovskites films is monitored.
      • keywords: absorption; halide; lead; perovskites; spectroscopy; transient
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      • author: Karina Andrea Soto Rivas
      • title: Multiscale Analysis of Flows Past Marine Hydrokinetic Devices Using Numerical Simulations
      • date: 2021
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: bathymetries; chacao; channel; devices; farm; model; tke; turbines
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      • author: Guido Caponigri Guerra
      • title: Mystical Sense and Experience in Thoreau's Journal; or, the Light in the Mist
      • date: 2021
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: I begin by summarizing existing scholarship on the question of Thoreau's status as a mystic, highlighting important ideas to keep in mind and identifying scholarly shortcomings upon which to improve. I then move to the sites of Thoreau's most extensive use of the Chaldean Oracles, in his essay, Walking, and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, and the first notable instance of his association between mist and mystical thought.
      • keywords: journal; mystical; thoreau
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      • author: Deanna C. Childress
      • title: Post-Conviction Employment: Navigating the "Free" Market with the Stigma of a Criminal Record
      • date: 2022
      • words: 488
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: In this dissertation, I use a mixed-methods approach to investigate how criminal stigmatization is related to job search strategies and employment outcomes. In chapter 4, I explore the role of stigma more closely, operationalizing stigmatization as the decision of the formerly incarcerated to check the box acknowledging their criminal record on job applications, as opposed to the act of rejecting the stigma by not doing so.
      • keywords: chapter; criminal; employment; job; search; strategies
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      • author: Heather D. Whitehead
      • title: Development of Analytical Methods for Highly Selective and Sensitive Analysis of Compounds Relevant to Human Health and the Environment
      • date: 2023
      • words: 750
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This work seeks to demonstrate the applicability of LC-MS/MS analysis and workflows as a useful tool for independent, community and academic-based drug checking and harm reduction services to offer information on drug composition and concentrations in illicit street drug samples. The second project centers on illicit substances found in street drug samples and is concentrated on those that contribute to both nonfatal and fatal overdoses in the ongoing opioid and synthetic opioid epidemic.
      • keywords: analysis; analytes; analytical; chapter; concentrations; drug; fluorinated; pfas; products; results; samples; techniques; work
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      • author: Tao Li
      • title: Isotopic Dependence of Giant Resonances in the Even-A 112-124SN Isotopes and the Asymmetry Term in Nuclear Incompressibility
      • date: 2008
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Essentially all of expected isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR), isoscalar giant dipole resonance (ISGDR), isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance (ISGQR) and high energy octupule resonance (HEOR) strengths were identified in these nuclei. We find that the ISGMR energies in the Sn isotopes are significantly lower than the values predicted in recent theoretical calculations even though the interactions used in these calculations reproduce the GMR energies in the ``standard' nuclei, $^{208}$Pb and $^{90}$Zr, very well.
      • keywords: giant; isoscalar; isotopes; resonance
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      • author: Qian Zhang
      • title: Methods for Moderation Analysis with Missing Data
      • date: 2015
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The factors are missing data mechanisms, population moderation effect sizes, sample sizes, missing data proportions, and distributions of predictor X. Influence of adding auxiliary variables is also discussed in terms of estimation accuracy for NML and NMI. My primary interest is to find ways of estimating and testing the moderation effect with the existence of missing data.
      • keywords: data; effect; estimation; random
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      • author: Raluca Maria Manoliu
      • title: Proposal for a School of Architecture and an Urban Rehabilitation in the City of Hermannstadt, Romania
      • date: 2005
      • words: 485
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The new building will have to be integrated in the site by means of volume, profile or silhouette in the urban landscape; by the coherence with the environment; by the presence of History &ndash; allusive or direct signs of the past in the materials used, in textures or compositions; and by the dialogue between History and contemporary needs in terms of new needs, of the composition of spaces and new technologies. Since ancient times, the creation of new cities or their regeneration went hand in hand with the evolution of architecture.
      • keywords: architecture; building; city; history; new; old; town; urban; way
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1817. bk128912n2h
      • author: Michael W Hull
      • title: The Foundations of Organo-Zintl Chemistry
      • date: 2010
      • words: 915
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: alkyl; alkynes; carbon; chapter; characterized; clusters; ge9; halides; investigations; organic; organo; reactions; reactivity; route; tertiary; zintl
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1818. bk128912n6w
      • author: Adam Knaack
      • title: Sustainable Concrete Structures using Recycled Concrete Aggregate: Short-Term and Long-Term Behavior Considering Material Variability
      • date: 2013
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: To advance this sustainable material as replacement for coarse natural aggregates (e.g., gravel) in structural applications, a fundamental understanding of the behavior of RCA concrete is needed while also incorporating the variability in RCA properties. To this end, this dissertation investigates the short-term and long-term structural behavior of RCA concrete through material and member level experiments, accompanying analytical models, and statistical investigations.
      • keywords: aggregate; concrete; long; material; properties; rca; replacement; structural; term; variability
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1819. bk128912n77
      • author: Andrew L. Prevot
      • title: Thinking Prayer: Doxology, Spirituality, and the Crises of Modernity
      • date: 2012
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: It includes a critical analysis of Martin Heidegger's somewhat doxological effort to overcome metaphysics in dialogue with Friedrich Hölderlin; an appreciative assessment of Hans Urs von Balthasar's form of analogical, aesthetic, and dramatic doxology, especially as crystallized by his reading of Charles Péguy; an account of the limitations of Jacques Derrida's and John Caputo's prayers of apophatic deconstruction; a fresh take on the 'theological turn' of French phenomenology, as represented by Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Jean-Louis Chretien; a new interpretation of Johann Baptist Metz, which clarifies the prayerful character of his political theology (in contradistinction to those of Carl Schmitt and the Frankfurt School) and situates his remembrance of Auschwitz in relation to Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs; and an examination of the various doxological possibilities of Latin American liberation theology, including not only the problematic cases of Enrique Dussel and Juan-Luis Segundo, but also the more adequate proposals of Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, and Ignacio Ellacuría. The concern is not only to resist processes of secularization that imply a loss of prayer but also to consider how a prayerful way of thinking (theology) and living (spirituality) enables one to overcome the most dangerous aspects of modern metaphysics and to counteract various structures of modern violence associated with economic injustice and identity-based exclusion.
      • keywords: account; christian; dissertation; doxological; jean; liberation; modern; prayerful; prayers; theology
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1820. bk128912r0r
      • author: Jordan M. Rodgers
      • title: Nietzsche and the Task of Philosophy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 439
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This dissertation is an attempt to reorient the study of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche around metaphilosophical questions: what is the proper task of philosophy, and, consequently, what relationship should philosophy bear to science? My thesis is that Nietzsche's conception of philosophy is intentionally revisionary – his work is an attempt to make philosophers reconceive themselves as creators of value, and to own up to and embrace the cultural significance of that task.
      • keywords: central; chapter; conception; interpretation; nietzsche; philosophy; work
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1821. bk128913993
      • author: Yuanyuan Lyu
      • title: Process and Thermodynamic Modeling for Separation of Aromatics from Aliphatics with Ionic Liquids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 584
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: For example, through fun- damental studies of the thermodynamic models for liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE), we can better understand the thermo- dynamic limits of the product purities one can achieve with various ILs, and we can evaluate energy and economic costs by building process models to compare the use of IL extraction solvents to traditional solvents for aromatic/aliphatic separation like sulfolane. For the IL process, the energy consumption is much lower than that of sulfolane process, but more ILs need to be explored to increase the product purity.
      • keywords: aliphatic; aromatic; extraction; heptane; ils; liquid; lle; process; separation; solvent; sulfolane; thermodynamic; toluene
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1822. bk128913b51
      • author: Arash Rahnama
      • title: Learning-Based Approaches to Control, Estimation and Modeling
      • date: 1904
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Event-triggered network control designs are capable of decreasing the communication load amongst sub-systems while maintaining the desired performance index and robustness. Next, a passivity based event-triggered control framework for synchronization of multi-agent systems is introduced and its resilience and robustness against Byzantine attacks are characterized.
      • keywords: control; design; event; framework; learning; performance; robustness; systems
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1823. bk128913b6c
      • author: Mary Kate Blake
      • title: An Organizational Analysis of the School Counseling Profession: Implications for Students, Counselors, and Schools
      • date: 1904
      • words: 608
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; counseling; counselors; high; profession; role; school; student; work
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1824. bk128913p85
      • author: Daniel Mershon
      • title: Three Essays on Exchange Rates
      • date: 2020
      • words: 377
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Exchange rate expectations are risk-adjusted futures prices implied by a term-structure model of FX futures. Chapter 3 employs the event study method to test if FXI causes changes in exchange rate expectations.
      • keywords: changes; exchange; expectations; export; fxi; global; import; market; price; rate
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1825. bk128913p9h
      • author: Raquael J. Joiner
      • title: Depression Dynamics across a Decade: Density in Daily Depressive Affect and Yearly Depressive Symptoms
      • date: 2020
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Given that individual differences do not necessarily elucidate intraindividual change, the present study aimed to further the study of depression as a system by exploring whether density of depressive affect at the daily timescale differs within individuals at five different timepoints across a ten-year span. Density of the depressive affect cluster was shown to have moderate to low, however, significant stability over time, and majority of the variance in depressive affect density was found to reside within, as opposed to between, individuals.
      • keywords: affect; density; depressive; individual; time
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1826. bk128913q43
      • author: Zhuoyue You
      • title: Lust, Confusion and Solidarity in Saint Augustine's City of God
      • date: 2021
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Rome, the first human communion of Adam and Eve, and Babylon; each of them points to one unique feature of earthly politics, and all three together form a whole picture of Augustine's understanding of politics: Augustine's critique of Rome comprises a critique of the triple lust (libido); while Babylon for him is a city of confusion (civitas confusionis); both lust and confusion find their origin in the corruption of the natural communion of Adam and Eve. I argue that we need to examine three communities in City of God in order to better appreciate Augustine's insight on politics, and in particular his assessment of the relationship between the city and the philosophers, and between politics and reason.
      • keywords: augustine; city; politics
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1827. bk128913r01
      • author: Kristin Palacios
      • title: The Non-P Jacob Story (Genesis 25–36) in the Neo-Babylonian Period: Its Composition and Its Theological Meaning
      • date: 2021
      • words: 509
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The pro-Shechem materials are later and accommodate proto-Samaritan worship (Gen. 35:2aβ–b, 4, 6*); the anti-Shechem materials are later still and reflect a period of animosity between the Judean and Samaritan Yahwistic cults (Gen. 33:19–34:31; 35:5, along with Gen. 33:17).Finally, we offer new possibilities for the theological meaning of the non-P Jacob story given a Neo-Babylonian time of composition. This study will argue that Gen. 28:10–22 was composed in the Neo-Babylonian period from exile in Babylonia, perhaps during Nabonidus's reign (556–539 BCE).
      • keywords: 28:10–22; author; babylonian; bethel; context; gen; jacob; non
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1828. bk128913r4d
      • author: Ryan Karl
      • title: Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations into Trusted Execution Environments
      • date: 2021
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: performance; privacy; qualitative; tees
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1829. bk128913s21
      • author: Chao Tang
      • title: Highly Selective Ion Separations Based on Counter-Flow Electromigration in Isoporous Membranes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: For ions with especially high electrical mobilities, electromigration results in a net flux that approaches zero, whereas ions with lower mobilities pass through the membrane to create high selectivity. Pressure-driven flow through negatively charged membranes yields a streaming potential that creates a cation electromigration flux that opposes advection and gives high selectivities among cations that have different electrical mobilities.
      • keywords: electrical; electromigration; flow; flux; high; ions; mobilities
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1830. bn999595w4d
      • author: Kasra Pourang
      • title: Growth and Characterization of Beta-Gallium Oxide Thin Films Using Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy
      • date: 2015
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: While GaSnO/Ga2O3 heterostructures could be successfully grown on (001) sapphire substrate by alloying of Sn into Ga2O3 crystal structure, InGaO/Ga2O3 could not be achieved due to non-uniform distribution of In inside the Ga2O3 crystal. For growth, flux-temperature measurements were done on Ga, In, and Sn cells to find the appropriate temperature for a specific beam equivalent pressure (BEP).
      • keywords: crystal; ga2o3; gallium; growth; temperature
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1831. bn999595w8s
      • author: Kristof Tahy
      • title: Fabrication and characterization of 2D graphene and graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors
      • date: 2010
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: The impressive properties such as the linear energy dispersion relation near the charge neutrality (Dirac) point in the electronic band structure, field-effect mobilities as high as 15 000 cm2/Vs and carrier velocity of ~10^8 cm/s at room temperature make graphene a possible candidate for electronic devices in the future. The unique output characteristics of the devices are investigated and found to be the consequence of drain induced channel control.
      • keywords: electronic; fets; field; graphene; high; properties
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1832. bn999595w94
      • author: Patricia May Connolly
      • title: Recluse
      • date: 2012
      • words: 14
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: This thesis is a collection of poetry written from the perspective of a recluse.
      • keywords: recluse
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1833. bn999595x0b
      • author: Jason E Gordon
      • title: Improved Oxygen Delivery to Hepatic Hollow Fiber Bioreactors
      • date: 2006
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Briefly, it was found that a C3A cell containing HF bioreactor maintained with media bRBC supplementation exhibited signs of an improved C3A cell space oxygen environment in comparison to a control (a C3A cell containing HF bioreactor not maintained with bRBC supplementation). The remaining sections present the results of experiments aimed at evaluating bRBC supplementation within a C3A cell containing HF bioreactor and at examining the ability to engineer bRBC properties.
      • keywords: bioreactor; brbc; cell; oxygen; supplementation
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1834. bn999595x1p
      • author: Audrey Christine Bentz
      • title: Dynamics of Tall Buildings: Full-Scale Quantification and Impacts on Occupant Comfort
      • date: 2012
      • words: 421
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: By then introducing a new wavelet-based system identification framework, large amplitude full-scale responses are mined to gain greater insight into the level of energy dissipation at critical design limit states that then drives a more robust and effective predictive model for inherent damping based on this system behavior descriptor. This research addresses the uncertainties associated with the habitability design of tall buildings by viewing the unique insights afforded by full-scale monitoring.
      • keywords: buildings; damping; design; habitability; limit; responses; scale; tall
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1835. bn999595x21
      • author: Kathleen Targowski Ashenfelter
      • title: Simultaneous Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Data During Conversation: Symmetry and Turn-taking
      • date: 2011
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: A major goal of this work was to combine the well-established qualitative method of analyzing verbal (and more recently nonverbal) discourse known as conversation analysis (CA) with more recent quantitative methods for analyzing nonstationary time series data. This dissertation examines coordinated verbal and nonverbal symmetry in turn-taking behavior during conversation using three modern techniques for analyzing conversational data in nonstationary time series data: windowed cross-correlation, multifractal wavelet analysis, and recurrence quantification analysis.
      • keywords: analyses; conversation; data; nonverbal; series; time; verbal
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1836. bn999595x4q
      • author: Jai Kishan Verma
      • title: Polarization and Band Gap Engineered III-Nitride Optoelectronic Device Structures
      • date: 2013
      • words: 255
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: We also investigate the growth of high Al-composition AlGaN on AlN substrates for UV emitters. For shorter-$lambda$ emission, we design and demonstrate a novel quantum dot (QD) UV LED that uses tunnel-injection of carriers.
      • keywords: emitters; iii; nitride; polarization
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1837. bn999595x52
      • author: Andras J Libal
      • title: Simulation Studies of Nonequilibrium Collective Phenomena in Colloids
      • date: 2008
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: We use Brownian dynamics simulations of colloidal systems to explore new nonequilibrium collective effects. Colloids driven over a symmetric flashing periodic substrate undergo a ratcheting behavior which can be used to fractionate different particle species.
      • keywords: collective; colloidal; colloids; substrate
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1838. bn999595x6d
      • author: Philip K Nickell
      • title: Tissue Specific Transcription of Antifreeze Proteins and the Role of Malpighian Tubule Antifreeze Proteins in the Overwintering Strategy of Dendroides canadensis
      • date: 2011
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Also, when D. canadensis larvae were treated with juvenile hormone III (JH-III) and held under non-inductive conditions, THA in hemolymph and midgut fluid increased significantly after seven days. Addition of recombinant DAFPs to solutions containing ice nucleating crystals that have been shown in Malpighian tubules significantly decreased the supercooling points of the solutions suggesting a potential role for DAFPs in Malpighian tubule fluid (primary urine).
      • keywords: canadensis; fluid; hysteresis; larvae; thermal
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1839. bn999595x9f
      • author: Guangle Zhou
      • title: III-V Vertical Tunnel Field Effect Transistors with Tunneling Aligned with the Gate Field
      • date: 2012
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: alignment; ioff; ion; low; tfets
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1840. bn999595z0n
      • author: Kevin Anthony Estep
      • title: Constructing a Language Problem: Paternalism, Power Devaluation, and the Legitimation of Nativism in the English-only Movement
      • date: 2013
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: english; support
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1841. bn999595z10
      • author: Ann Margaret Mazur
      • title: Performative Thoughts in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda: Theatre, Gender, Sympathy, Power
      • date: 2010
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Daniel Deronda, as a development away from Eliot's high realist fiction, offers a powerful model of the capacity and worth of female thought for consumption by a Victorian female readership. Evidence for my analysis is drawn from close readings of the text, as well as Victorian theatre theory, Eliot's other fiction, and concurrent work by Eliot's partner G.H. Lewes.
      • keywords: character; daniel; deronda; eliot; reality; victorian
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1842. bn999595z2b
      • author: Hyunju Kim
      • title: On Two Fundamental Problems in Statistical and Functional Modeling of Complex Networks
      • date: 2011
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 18
      • 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.
      • keywords: construction; data; functional; networks
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1843. bn999595z5c
      • author: Yuning Zhao
      • title: Fabrication and Performance of Advanced Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Devices
      • date: 1904
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Backside contact technology has been demonstrated successfully in silicon solar cells, but has not been explored carefully or demonstrated in III-V multi-junction solar cells so far. While plasma-wave effects have been reported previously at cryogenic temperatures, this study seeks to characterize the potential of these effects for room temperature operation.
      • keywords: backside; cells; contact; effects; plasma; solar; wave
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1844. bn999596007
      • author: Andrew Gillman
      • title: Predicting Effective Material Properties of Heterogeneous Composites from Well-Resolved Higher Order Statistical Description of Morphology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: The geometrical arrangement of heterogeneous materials plays a critical role in a material's behavior, and this work illustrates that the detailed characterization of real materials is essential to accurately predict the macroscopic (overall/effective) behavior. However, assumptions are often made about the microstructure including alignment of inclusions, dispersity of particle sizes, etc., and inclusions in real materials are often irregularly shaped and can lead to anisotropic and complex configurations.
      • keywords: behavior; complex; effective; inclusions; materials; order; real; systems; work
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1845. bn999596n1g
      • author: Maria Cecilia Ulrickson
      • title: 'Esclavos que fueron' in Santo Domingo, 1768-1844
      • date: 1904
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The dissertation expands what is considered an emancipation to include events in 1795, 1801, 1805, and 1822, all key moments when the future of slavery came into question. Esclavos que fueron, those who were slaves, is how one parish priest identified freed people in the decade after the colony's final emancipation during Unification with neighboring Haiti.
      • keywords: colony; dissertation; emancipations; freedom
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1846. bn999596z18
      • author: Jessica H. Schiltz
      • title: Additive Manufacturing of Orthopedic Ceramics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 379
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Preliminary experiments then established a size-strength dependency for SLA ZrO2 which supports that predictive strategies employed for brittle materials can be extended to the development and advancement of AM ceramics. The primary objective of this work was to advance material processing of AM orthopedic ceramics through tribological and mechanical evaluation.
      • keywords: ceramics; hip; manufacturing; market; resistance; sla; thr; utilization; wear; zirconia; zro2
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1847. bn999597088
      • author: Sean R. McGuinness
      • title: A Heavy-Ion Approach to Radiomedicine
      • date: 2021
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: These reactions may also create significant amounts of proton-rich decay products which require chemical separation from the desired product in a highly radioactive environment. Production yields for these reactions were measured and compared to PACE4 calculations, and simple physical-chemical separation methods which will lead to very high radiopurity yields are proposed.
      • keywords: fusion; heavy; production; radionuclei; reactions
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1848. bn99959730f
      • author: Elizabeth Moison
      • title: Ambiguous Identities: Nonbinary Individuals' Experiences with Crafting an Ungendered Self
      • date: 2023
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: I end by highlighting implications for the interrelatedness of ungendered interactions and ungendered selves. Drawing on 20 in-depth interviews with nonbinary young adults, I offer an exploration of how individuals who fall outside of binary gender identities construct an unfixed internal sense of gender that adapts to many social contexts.
      • keywords: ambiguity; gendered; interactions; internal
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1849. bn999597355
      • author: Colin Davison
      • title: Essays on Innovation Economics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 216
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The second chapter underscores the importance of the first chapter by providing evidence that product innovations generate more knowledge spillovers than process innovations. I find that firms increase their product innovation in response to increased import competition, but import competition has no effect on process innovation.
      • keywords: chapter; innovation; process; product
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1850. br86b27956f
      • author: John Jacob Morris
      • title: Solution and Solid-State Studies of Alkali Metal Aggregate Assemblies
      • date: 2008
      • words: 663
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Encapsulation of neutral molecules within alkali metal aggregates is rare. The objective was to utilize ferrocene, the prototypical metallocene, as a neutral, linear, ditopic pi-linker to bridge between preformed alkali metal aggregates The combination of M(HMDS), where M = Na, K, Rb, Cs, with ferrocene gives rise to one-dimensional polymeric chains of dimeric ring amides bridged through ferrocene.
      • keywords: aggregates; alkali; anion; complexes; ditopic; extended; extension; linker; materials; metal; molecular; network; nodes; roli; sbus; units
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1851. br86b27957s
      • author: Julieta Yung
      • title: Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates and Exchange Rates
      • date: 2014
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: After analyzing the empirical applications of the yield curve and extracting the underlying factors that drive different assets and macroeconomic fundamentals, I pose the question: Can interest rate factors explain exchange rate fluctuations? My results suggest that yield curves do contain important information to determine exchange rates, and potentially other asset prices, particularly at longer horizons.
      • keywords: exchange; factors; information; interest; rate; risk; yield
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1852. br86b279584
      • author: J. Jackson Bliss
      • title: Blank
      • date: 2010
      • words: 43
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Blank is character-based, language driven, cinematically aspiring novel that explores double lives, graffiti, the parameters of public/private art, personal voids, Asian-American biculturalism, racism, Parkour, the question of gender and the institution of Hip-Hop in post 9/11 New York City.
      • keywords: blank; york city
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1853. br86b279642
      • author: Ze Zhang
      • title: Sb-Heterostructure Backward Diodes for Direct Detection and Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging
      • date: 2011
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: This work presents further improvements in detector performance as a result of optimized heterostructure and device design. Based on the experimentally demonstrated performance of the Sb-heterostructure tunnel diode detectors reported here and this model's predictions, the potential performance of a passive unamplified direct detection module appears promising.
      • keywords: detector; heterostructure; high; low; noise; performance; potential; sensitivity; structures
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1854. br86b27968f
      • author: Rajkumar Sankaralingam
      • title: High-Speed Photodetectors and Receivers for Long-Haul Communication Systems
      • date: 2005
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: bandwidth; design; ghz; high; photodiodes
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1855. br86b27969s
      • author: Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala
      • title: Micromechanics Based Simulation of Ductile Fracture in Structural Steels
      • date: 2014
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Based on the cyclic analyses, an uncoupled micromechanics based cyclic void growth model is developed to predict the ULCF life of ASTM A992 steels subjected to high stress triaxialities. Detailed micromechanical analyses for monotonic and cyclic loading are conducted to understand the influence of stress triaxiality and Lode parameter on the void growth phase of ductile fracture.
      • keywords: a992; astm; ductile; element; finite; fracture; model; monotonic; steels
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1856. br86b279c69
      • author: Luis G. Perla
      • title: Aggregation of Zintl Ions
      • date: 2018
      • words: 529
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Furthermore, the species is unique in that it strongly resembles condensed polyhedra seen in transition metal clusters. Development for such an endeavor began in the following manner: (1) identifying similarities with other fields of chemistry wherein successful aggregation was carried out (2) identifying suitable transition metal containing Zintl clusters as precursors for aggregation (3) combining both suitable materials and already published techniques to aggregate Zintl clusters (4) further improving the synthetic approaches presented to address the pitfalls in these syntheses.
      • keywords: aggregation; anion; approaches; chapter; clusters; metal; solvent; transition; zintl
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1857. br86b280922
      • author: Maria Sole Costanzo
      • title: Leon Battista Alberti and the Languages of the Italian Humanist Quattrocento
      • date: 2021
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In fact, Leon Battista was the illegitimate offspring of the Florentine Alberti family which had been banished from Florence following the revolt of Ciompi in 1378.Born in exile in Genoa, Leon Battista was exceptional among Italian humanists of his time for his enlightened and spirited promotion of the Florentine language, which also represented a vehicle for his own social integration and repatriation from exile. My dissertation offers a reassessment of the linguistic situation of the Italian humanist Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), addressing specifically Alberti's bilingualism and the unique role that his switching between Latin and Italian, even within the same work, played in his program of self-fashioning and repatriation from exile.
      • keywords: alberti; battista; exile; florentine; language; latin; leon; vernacular
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1858. br86b280953
      • author: Satyaki Sikdar
      • title: Scalable and Interpretable Graph Modeling with Graph Grammars
      • date: 2021
      • words: 113
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This dissertation demonstrates how a newfound link between formal languages, graph theory, and data mining helps to address this challenge. Extracted grammar rules also provide for a better understanding of the network's underlying topology and simultaneously provides for the ability to generate, extrapolate, and infer new graphs in a precise and principled fashion.
      • keywords: challenge; encode; graph
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1859. br86b280b0p
      • author: Fei Ding
      • title: Morphing Building Profile under Winds
      • date: 2022
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Conventional aerodynamic shape design of tall buildings relies on a trial-and-error procedure in which wind tunnel experiments for a limited number of building forms are carried out to select the best performing one. In response to this pressing need, a computational platform for aerodynamic shape tailoring of structures is developed, which takes full advantage of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to assess wind effects on a variety of parameterized structural profiles and surrogate modeling approaches to emulate the responses from CFD simulations.
      • keywords: aerodynamic; cfd; design; fidelity; modeling; multi; shape; wind
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1860. br86b280c62
      • author: Marzieh Alireza Mirhoseini
      • title: Efficient Hyperreduction via Model Reduction Implicit Feature Tracking with an Accelerated Greedy Approach
      • date: 2023
      • words: 494
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The nonlinear trial manifold is constructed using the proposed residual minimization formulation to determine domain mappings that cause parameterized features to align in a reference domain for training parameters. The space of domain mappings, originally constructed using high-order finite elements, is also compressed to ensure the boundaries of the original domain are maintained.
      • keywords: affine; approach; cost; domain; manifold; mesh; method; reduced; residual; space
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1861. bv73bz62f6t
      • author: Hartley Tyler Schmidt
      • title: Calcium Phosphate Based Nanoshell for use in Biomedical Applications
      • date: 2007
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Liposomes, emulsions, and micelles suffer from stability issues in high turbulence environments, polymer based materials require organic solvents for their synthesis that are disadvantageous for biological applications, while silica based materials are not biodegradable. Nanoshells from 5-200 nm are deposited around a 30-200 nm liposome template first (CHAPTER 2) followed by deposition around a 100-350 nm soybean oil and perfluorocarbon emulsions (CHAPTER 3).
      • keywords: ability; applications; calcium; chapter; emulsions; nanoparticles; phosphate; use
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1862. bv73bz62g02
      • author: Hua Jiang
      • title: Seismic Behavior, Evaluation, and Retrofit of Older Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls
      • date: 2010
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In this dissertation, a set of prototype and parametric walls is designed to represent concrete walls from the 1960s and early 1970s in regions of the U.S. with high seismicity. Comparisons between the analytical and test results of older reinforced concrete walls indicate that the models are able to reasonably estimate the wall behavior including nonlinear shear effects.
      • keywords: behavior; concrete; flexural; nonlinear; retrofit; shear; walls
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1863. bv73bz62g1d
      • author: Ryan Connaughton
      • title: Fusion of Face and Iris Biometrics Using a Stand-Off Video Sensor
      • date: 2012
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Despite the recent growth in multi-biometrics research, little investigation has been done to explore the possibility of achieving multi-modal fusion from a single sensor. Multi-biometrics, or the fusion of more than one biometric modality, sample, sensor, or algorithm, is quickly gaining popularity as a method of improving biometric system performance and robustness.
      • keywords: biometrics; fusion; multi; sensor
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1864. bv73bz62g2r
      • author: Peter Nizner
      • title: Expression and Purification of N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases I and II, and Enzymic Synthesis of a GlcNAc-Containing Tetrasaccharide; Expression and Purification of 15N-Labeled Ubiquitin, and Enzymic Synthesis of CMP-Sialic Acid
      • date: 2010
      • words: 503
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Expression of 15N- (and 15N/13C)-labeled ubiquitin in E. coli and purification of this protein to homogeneity for the use in NMR studies of protein glycation are presented in this chapter.(III) One or more molecules of sialic acid (SA) are often found on the terminal non-reducing ends of biologically important oligosaccharides. This method will be used to prepare 13C-labeled CMP-SA for use in the preparation of labeled sialylated oligosaccharides found in the N-glycan on the FC domain of human IgG.
      • keywords: 13c; acid; formation; glcnac; glycation; mannoside; nmr; products; protein
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1865. bv73bz62g33
      • author: Gretchen Busl
      • title: The Poetics of Ultimacy and the (Meta-)World Literature of John Barth and Italo Calvino
      • date: 2012
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: By rewriting texts like The Arabian Nights, Don Quixote, Faust, Hamlet, The Odyssey, and Orlando Furioso, they take up the idea that a finite number of narrative forms exist, and employ this principle against itself to produce original literature. This type of fiction operates as literature which is itself comparative: one that registers, explores, and comments on the relational position of texts.
      • keywords: barth; calvino; literature; original; stories; texts; world
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1866. bv73bz62g4f
      • author: Elizabeth C Koeman
      • title: A Multi-Analytical Approach for Developing Nuclear Forensic Methods for Source Attribution using Trinitite Post-Detonation Material
      • date: 2015
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This thesis reports a detailed investigation of Trinitite's chemical and isotopic composition as well as development of methodologies towards improving nuclear forensic investigations. Overall, the results reported in this doctoral research clearly indicate that a multi-analytical approach can effectively provide accurate and reliable chemical and isotopic signatures of Trinitite in a timely fashion (within hours to days), and these can be employed for source attribution in future investigations of nuclear post-detonation samples.
      • keywords: components; detonation; isotopic; material; nuclear; techniques; trinitite
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1867. bv73bz62g64
      • author: Christine Steeger
      • title: Combined Cognitive and Parent Training Interventions for Adolescents with ADHD and Their Mothers: a Randomized, Controlled Trial
      • date: 2013
      • words: 377
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: Primary results indicated that (a) adolescents in the treatment Cogmed-RM groups improved more than those in the control Cogmed-RM groups on most objective neuropsychological measures of WM spans at posttest; (b) overall, parent-adolescent dyads who were in the control Cogmed-RM/treatment BPT group reported the fewest problems on ratings of adolescent WM functioning, maladaptive parenting behaviors, parent-adolescent conflict, and adolescent global functioning outcomes, particularly when using mother reports; (c) a positive adolescent ODD diagnosis moderated several differential treatment effects for parenting behavior and parent-adolescent conflict outcomes, such that mothers of adolescents with ODD showed fewer parenting problems and lower conflict at posttest; and, (d) when there were no interactions among the conditions from pretest to posttest, we found main effects of time on several outcomes (i.e., forward digit span, inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms, ODD behaviors, and clinical impairment), which indicated that all four groups improved on outcomes over time, regardless of group condition. Overall results suggest BPT is effective for reducing maladaptive parenting behaviors and parent-adolescent relation problems.
      • keywords: adolescent; bpt; control; parent; parenting; treatment
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1868. bv73bz62g7g
      • author: Timothy Edward Workman Gloege
      • title: Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Construction of Corporate Fundamentalism
      • date: 2007
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This dissertation studies the intersection of Protestant fundamentalism and modern consumer capitalism during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Crowell transformed MBI into a multifaceted educational and religious media conglomerate that promoted this new theology to a middle-class audience using the tools of consumer capitalism.
      • keywords: capitalism; class; consumer; crowell; faith; mbi; middle; new; religious; torrey
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1869. bv73bz62g8t
      • author: Andrew David Thrasher
      • title: Leveraging Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Massive Biological Datasets
      • date: 2013
      • words: 107
      • flesch: 46
      • 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.
      • keywords: applications; resources
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1870. bv73bz62h1q
      • author: Karen Tang
      • title: The Role of Individual and Familial Factors on Parental Adherence to Treatment Recommendations for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
      • date: 2012
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Questionnaires screened for accuracy of diagnosis, measured current ASD symptoms, adaptive functioning, and parental adherence to treatment recommendations. When prescribing treatment recommendations, professionals need to be cognizant of how individual and familial contextual factors influence parental adherence.
      • keywords: adherence; recommendations; treatment
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1871. bv73bz62h22
      • author: Zhenyuan Zhang
      • title: Size-Dependent Structures and Properties of Metallic Particles and Thin Films
      • date: 2004
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: For Au particles, the exchange reaction is size dependent. Their melting point was determined and we show that it decreases significantly as particle size decreases, leading to increased self-diffusion coefficient of the Au atoms.
      • keywords: alloy; exchange; particles; size
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1872. bv73bz62h3d
      • author: Angela Kohlhaas
      • title: The core of an ideal and its relationship to the adjoint and coefficient ideals
      • date: 2010
      • words: 190
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In order to prove our main result, we further develop the theory of coefficient ideals in regular local rings of dimension two and study the combinatorial properties of the core of a monomial ideal via the symmetry of its exponent set. We show for certain classes of monomial ideals in the polynomial ring $k[x_1,ldots,x_d]$ over a field of characteristic zero , $core(I)=adj(I^d)$ if and only if $core(I)$ is integrally closed.
      • keywords: adjoint; core; ideal
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1873. bv73bz62h4r
      • author: David Michael Elliot
      • title: Rethinking Happiness: The Role of Hope in Virtue Ethics
      • date: 2014
      • words: 402
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Since the virtue of hope encourages the agent with the prospect of perfect and lasting beatitude, I argue that the gap leaves room for the virtue of hope to be recognized as good news rather than just curious news within virtue ethics and in human life generally. As a practical application of hope, I develop the ars moriendi or art of dying as a resource for end-of-life care in an aging society where death is often seen as unintelligible and approached with despair.
      • keywords: ethics; happiness; happy; hope; life; virtue; virtuous
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1874. bv73bz62j73
      • author: Breno Dantas Cruz
      • title: Detecting Vague Words and Phrases in Requirements Documents in a Multilingual Environment
      • date: 1904
      • words: 130
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Currently, companies rely on human translators to maintain communication and limit vagueness by translating the requirement documents by hand, which is expensive and time consuming. In this thesis, I present two approaches to identifying vagueness in requirements documents in a multilingual environment.
      • keywords: approaches; documents; vagueness
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1875. bv73bz62k31
      • author: Nigel Bosch
      • title: Automatic Face-Based Engagement Detection for Engagement
      • date: 1904
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Computerized learning environments can provide a superior learning experience for students by automatically detecting student engagement (and, thus also disengagement), adapting to it, and providing better feedback and evaluations to teachers and students. This dissertation provides an overview of several studies that utilized facial features to automatically detect student engagement.
      • keywords: detection; engagement; facial; learning; students
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1876. bv73bz6359n
      • author: Michael J. Trujillo
      • title: Development of Functionalized Nanostructure Surfaces for Trace Analyte Detection by Surface-Enhanced Raman and Hyper-Raman Scattering
      • date: 1904
      • words: 487
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The latter portion of this dissertation discusses progress made in alternative functional groups for surface modification. Previous SERS studies have almost exclusively relied on the functionalization of surfaces with thiol or amine containing molecules, as these groups have proven affinity for SERS-active surfaces.
      • keywords: alternative; analytical; detection; groups; limit; nhc; ppb; raman; sers; surface; uranyl
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1877. bv73bz63b34
      • author: Jeffrey V Peterson
      • title: Social Traditions and Social Networks among Long-Tailed Macaques in Indonesia
      • date: 2019
      • words: 244
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This research offers a distinctive contribution to the literature on the evolution of primate societies by examining the patterns by which social traditions and social networks interface with, and shape, social structures among nonhuman primates. These data were assessed via social network analysis to understand individual social behavior in relation to other members of the social group.
      • keywords: adult; behaviors; social; study; sub; traditions
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1878. bv73bz63h9r
      • author: Kyle Gannon
      • title: Approximation Theorems for Keisler Measures
      • date: 2020
      • words: 206
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: We show that generically stable types correspond to {0,1}-valued frequency interpretation measures, and we give examples of finitely approximated measures which are not frequency interpretation measures and local dfs measures which are not locally finitely approximated (joint with Gabriel Conant). This dissertation is concerned with Keisler measures and their approximations.
      • keywords: measures; nip; setting; stable
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1879. bv73bz63m59
      • author: Howard L. Eckdahl
      • title: Herbert Howells: Educational Music, Texture, Equal Voices, and the Gloucester Magnificat
      • date: 2022
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The much-discussed opening of the Magnificat dedicated to Gloucester Cathedral is a display of Howells' mastery of expressive use of texture, a novel use of three-part, equal-voice counterpoint in his church music, and a stylistic culmination that combines use of texture, expectation, and idiom with the incorporation of lesser-known practices associated with educational music. Thus, a quintessential piece of Howells' mature church music was significantly influenced by the educational music, and there is now a musical explanation to contribute to the current explanations of this moment and the larger matter of Howells' arrival as a master composer of church music.
      • keywords: church; equal; howells; music; texture
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1880. bz60cv45q9x
      • author: James Michael Donahue
      • title: In Search of a Global, Godly Order: The Ecumenical Movement and the Origins of the League of Nations, 1908-1918
      • date: 2015
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The World Alliance possessed two intertwined aims: firstly, a union of Christian churches that could complete the Christianization of the globe in their generation; and, secondarily, the establishment of a international federation of states, bound together by a free covenant before God, that would prevent Christendom from ever again descending into civil war. Key figures include John Mott, Charles Macfarland, Adolf Deissmann, W. H. Dickinson, James Allen Baker, Nathan S&#246;derblom, Andrew Carnegie, Wilfred Monod, Prince Max von Baden and Lord Robert Cecil.
      • keywords: alliance; focus; international; league; movement; nations; protestant; war; world
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1881. bz60cv45r04
      • author: Yuhui Lu
      • title: Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata - Electronic Structure, Dynamics, Structure-Functionality Relation, and Self-Doping
      • date: 2010
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: A model Hamiltonian for each QCA cell is constructed based on first-principle calculations, and coherent vector formalism is applied to calculate the switching dynamics of QCA circuits, including switching speed, clocking frequency, energy dissipation, and the structure-functionality relation of molecular QCA. This thesis focuses on the theoretical study of molecular QCA.
      • keywords: bistability; cell; model; molecular; molecules; qca; quantum
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1882. bz60cv45r66
      • author: James Martell de la Torre
      • title: Writing Derrida Thinking Beckett: A Study of the Limits Between Philosophy and Literature
      • date: 2014
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The limits between modern philosophy and literature are difficult to define. In this dissertation, Writing Derrida Thinking Beckett: A Study of the Limits between Philosophy and Literature, I chose these two authors as a case study of the shifting boundaries between modern literature and philosophy.
      • keywords: literature; philosophy; themes
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1883. bz60cv45s0f
      • author: Jigar Patel
      • title: Genetic Analysis of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum
      • date: 2007
      • words: 390
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Although, major gene effects such as the chloroquine resistance (CQR) determinant, pfcrt, have been identified, epidemiological studies identify a range of drug responses indicative of a complex trait that is impacted by multiple genes. Understanding the bases of these traits using a more robust quantitative approach will lead to the identification of novel genes and their underlying role in drug resistance.
      • keywords: approach; cqr; drug; gene; loci; qtl; quantitative; resistance; response
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1884. bz60cv45s1s
      • author: Houjin Zhang
      • title: Nucleotide Analog Interference Mapping of TFIIIA and Ribosomal Protein L5 Binding Sites on 5S rRNA
      • date: 2007
      • words: 396
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: It is of importance to determine the topology of TFIIIA and L5 on 5S rRNA in order to understand the mechanism behind the exchange of 5S rRNA between these two proteins. To pinpoint the chemical groups on 5S rRNA which are important for the binding of TFIIIA and L5, nucleotide analog interference mapping (NAIM) was used.
      • keywords: binding; interference; loop; rrna; structure; tfiiia
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1885. bz60cv45s9j
      • author: Golnaz Karbasian
      • title: Fabrication of Metallic Single Electron Transistors Featuring Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Tunnel Barriers
      • date: 1904
      • words: 813
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: While Si-based SETs suffer from undesirable effect of dopants that result in irregularities in the device behavior, in metal-based SETs the device components (tunnel barrier, island, and the leads) are well-defined. In comparison to the junctions annealed twice in forming gas at 400°C, we consistently observed a ~10× higher conductance in devices treated twice with H2 plasma at 300°C.
      • keywords: barrier; circuits; device; fabrication; insulator; junctions; layers; metal; nio; peald; plasma; sets; temperature; tunnel
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1886. bz60cv46s8g
      • author: Cynthia L. Spires
      • title: Near-Infrared Fluorescent Peptide Probes for Imaging Cancer
      • date: 2020
      • words: 565
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The second half of Chapter 1 provides a broad introduction to the concept of targeted cancer imaging using targeted molecular probes. This thesis describes cancer imaging studies using novel molecular probes based on two near-infrared dyes called squaraine dyes and heptamethine cyanine dyes.
      • keywords: cancer; chapter; covalent; crgdfk; dyes; imaging; macrocycle; molecular; new; non; probe; squaraine; tumor; vivo
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1887. bz60cv46t32
      • author: Patricia Idoko
      • title: Christian – Muslim Representation in Religious Education Textbooks: Implications for Religious Integration in Nigeria
      • date: 2020
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This dissertation, therefore, explores how religious education textbooks in Junior High Schools can be used to promote integration and dialogue in Nigeria. Consequently, some studies have suggested the need for a paradigm shift in the education curriculum to enable religious education to meet the needs of Nigeria's pluralistic context.
      • keywords: education; nigeria; religious; students; textbooks; traditions
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1888. bz60cv46v1p
      • author: William McCarthy
      • title: A Reevaluation of the Genre of John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua
      • date: 2021
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This thesis will argue that the Apologia, along with being an autobiography, is also a defense of Newman's life, and as such Newman treats the text as a trial in the court of public opinion. To refute both Kingsley's accusation and prejudice against the Catholic Church, Newman published his autobiography, the Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
      • keywords: apologia; autobiography; catholic; kingsley; newman; text
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1889. bz60cv46v4q
      • author: Katherine Grein
      • title: Our Home a Refuge?: Trauma-Related Cognitive Distortions, Community, and Perceptions of Asylum-Seekers and Migrants among U.S. Military Veterans
      • date: 2021
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: The current study aimed to explore connections between these variables in a sample of N=101 veterans (87.1% male) across 3 time points, hypothesizing that higher T1 trauma-related cognitive distortions would predict higher T2 threat perceptions of asylum-seekers and lower T2 security in the community; T2 threat perceptions of asylum-seekers would mediate the association between T1 distortions and T3 security; T2 security would mediate the association between T1 distortions and T3 threat perceptions of asylum-seekers; and exposure to psychotherapeutic treatment would moderate the association between initial trauma exposure and trauma-related cognitions, with cognitions lower for treatment-exposed veterans. A post-hoc hierarchical regression analysis using only T1 data, however, suggests some support for associations between higher trauma-related cognitive distortions and lower security in the community (β = -0.53), and higher threat perceptions of asylum-seekers and lower emotional security in the community (β = -0.21).
      • keywords: asylum; distortions; perceptions; security; seekers
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1890. bz60cv46w2b
      • author: Emily McLemore
      • title: Desiring Women: Pleasure and Power in Late Medieval English Literature
      • date: 2022
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In Chapter Four, I focus on Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath to elucidate how Alisoun articulates a theory about women's desire that links the absence of sovereignty with sexual violence and discuss how this connection then carries over into her tale, where she fantasizes about female power and the reformation of male desire. Because discourse pertaining to medieval women's sexuality has traditionally been directed by virginity and violence, there remains a substantial gap in medievalist scholarship where women's desire and pleasure are concerned.
      • keywords: chapter; desire; eroticism; medieval; pleasure; violence; women
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1891. bz60cv46x8q
      • author: Max Smith
      • title: Machiavelli's Conflictual Republic
      • date: 2023
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: democratic; dissertation; political; theory
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1892. c247dr29087
      • author: Balazs Rakos
      • title: Investigation of Metal-oxide-metal Structures for Optical Sensor Applications
      • date: 2006
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In this work, we investigate metal-oxide-metal (MOM) structures for optical sensor applications in the case of low irradiances. MOM diodes can detect visible and infrared radiation in two different ways: using the rectifying properties of the diode (wave detection), or by thermal effects arising in the MOM junction upon irradiation.
      • keywords: effects; infrared; metal; mom; visible
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1893. c247dr2912g
      • author: Allen Chen
      • title: Spiral Series
      • date: 2010
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 71
      • summary: Working with steel and yarn gives me the strong yet flexible structure to form and apply the clay onto. The clay is now stronger than steel, yet the steel is softer and continues to provide support.
      • keywords: steel; work; world
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1894. c247dr2913t
      • author: Amanda Megan Utzman
      • title: Leviathan
      • date: 2012
      • words: 91
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Seen through a foreign language and a fever, an avant-garde production of Richard Wagner's legendary opera Lohengrin becomes the nightmare landscape for a classic horror story: after accepting an ominous vocal invitation, a pair of talented young opera singers find themselves trapped within a playhouse whose patrons and producer are sincere in their desire to 'consume the arts. 'Concerned first and foremost with what it means to 'become your character,' Leviathan carries performance theory to its logical extremes, illustrating all the dangerous and subversive power of theatre and spectacle.
      • keywords: arts; opera; spectacle
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1895. c247dr29145
      • author: Courtney Ryan Gwaltney
      • title: Reliable Location of Equilibrium States and Bifurcations in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Applications in Food Web Modeling and Chemical Engineering
      • date: 2008
      • words: 425
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; bifurcation; food; interest; model; new; nonlinear; rtils; technique
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1896. c247dr2915h
      • author: Vitalijs Permjakovs
      • title: 'Make This the Place Where Your Glory Dwells': Origins and Evolution of the Byzantine Rite for the Consecration of A Church
      • date: 2012
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This feature of the Barberini text raises an important question, namely, which of these major elements did in fact constitute the act of dedicating/ consecrating the church, and what role did the deposition of relics have in the ceremonies of dedication in the early period of Byzantine liturgical history, considering that the deposition of relics became a mandatory element of the dedication rite only after the provisions to that effect were made at the Second council of Nicaea in 787 CE. 336, as well as in the textus receptus of the rite, represents a unique collection of scriptural and euchological texts, together with the ritual actions, intended to set aside the physical space of a public building for liturgical use.
      • keywords: byzantine; consecration; dedication; deposition; liturgical; rite; ritual
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1897. c247dr2916v
      • author: Viviana Andrea Bompadre
      • title: Sources and Process of Cultural Innovation: A Comparison between Center and Border Communities in the Making of Mercosur
      • date: 2004
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Scholars have studied culture either as a prerequisite of state formation or as an instrument of the state. Further, it disputes Shils (1972) claim that in modern society center and peripheral discourses have become more integrated.
      • keywords: block; borderlands; center; cultural; discourses; study
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1898. c247dr2918j
      • author: Christopher Miller
      • title: Configurable Integrated Monitoring System for Mobile Devices
      • date: 2013
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This service integrates traditional system performance monitoring with user activity monitoring and sensor data to provide a comprehensive monitoring solution. A better understanding of how these devices are used, and how common usage patterns impact system performance, can provide insights which lead to improvements in system and application design.
      • keywords: computing; devices; mobile; monitoring; smartphones; system
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1899. c247dr2919w
      • author: Coura Rosalie Diè ne
      • title: Progress towards the Syntheses of Ambruticin and Its Putative Biosynthetic Intermediate
      • date: 2010
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: This thesis also highlights the progress towards the synthesis of ambruticin J, a putative biosynthetic intermediate recently proposed by Reeves following the characterization of the PKS gene cluster responsible for the biosynthesis of ambruticin. In light of the limited amount of ambruticin J available biosynthetically, its large scale preparation via organic synthesis was implemented in order to investigate the role of the epoxidase, AmbJ during the post-PKS modifications leading to the production of ambruticins and their analogues.
      • keywords: ambruticin; cyclopropane; ketone; key; natural; polyketide; products; synthesis
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1900. c247dr29203
      • author: Rachelle Esther Justice
      • title: Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrogen-Bonded CobaltAmine-Disulfonate Extended Structures
      • date: 2010
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Crystals were successfully synthesized from four metal centers (Hexaamminecobalt, aquopentaaminecobalt, tris(ethylenediamine)cobalt and diaquobis(ethylenediamine)cobalt) and four organic linkers 1,2-ethanedisulfonate, 1,5-naphthalenedisulfonate, 2,6-naphthalenedisulfonate and 4,4'-biphenyldisulfonate). Compounds 1 and 2 form sheets of hexa and aquopentamminecobalt, respectively, that are interconnected by galleries of disulfonates.
      • keywords: compounds; forms; naphthalenedisulfonate; tris(ethylenediamine)cobalt
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1901. c247dr29234
      • author: Kevin Joseph Haley
      • title: 'In the Midst of the Congregation I Will Praise You' (Ps 22:23b): The Reinterpretation of the Psalms of the Individual in Judaism and Christianity
      • date: 2013
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: After a close reading of many psalms in Chapter 2, Chapter 3 considers the significance of psalms set within narratives in the Old Testament. Because many psalms of the individual later become collective in their focus, many times the community itself makes the 'I' of the psalms its own (Exod 15; Ps 129).
      • keywords: chapter; focus; individual; psalms
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1902. c247dr2924g
      • author: Michael John Schmitt
      • title: Synthetic Methodology for the Construction of Structurally Diverse Cyclopropanes
      • date: 2005
      • words: 1217
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The paper summarizes the work that used the RCM strategy for the synthesis of trisubstituted cyclopropanes and disubstituted cyclopropanes of both cis and trans geometry. This methodology allowed us to prove our concept, but was limited toward the synthesis of trisubstituted cyclopropanes.
      • keywords: alcohol; catalyst; cation; cyclopropane; ester; group; grubbs; homoallylic; new; olefin; precursor; reaction; step; synthesis; transition; trisubstituted
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1903. c247dr2925t
      • author: Ruth Anne Martini
      • title: Accidentally Anna
      • date: 2011
      • words: 14
      • flesch: 90
      • summary: This is a novel about a young woman who grapples with questions of identity.
      • keywords: identity
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1904. c247dr29265
      • author: Saibal Basu
      • title: Transition and Development: A Case Study of West Bengal
      • date: 2010
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I also explore the possibility of achieving sustainable agricultural practices and rural welfare through the expansion of political and economic democracy through popular control over societal resources, and cooperative-based initiatives. In my dissertation, I closely examine these issues, and analyze how the implementation of rural government programs can address the problem of rural and agrarian distress.
      • keywords: bengal; development; economy; growth; indian; rural; west
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1905. c247dr2934s
      • author: SM Moududul Islam
      • title: Ultra-Thin Quantum Structures for Deep Ultraviolet Photonic Devices
      • date: 1904
      • words: 430
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: bulk; deep; efficiency; emission; gan; quantum; substrates; wavelengths; wells
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1906. c247dr2945f
      • author: Rumana Reaz Arifin
      • title: Numerical Modeling of Thermal Behavior in Lake Ontario Using the EFDC Model
      • date: 1904
      • words: 473
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Lake Ontario, being in temperate Great Lakes region, exhibits special thermal characteristics including thermal bar evolution in spring and thermal stratification patterns in summer. This comparative study establishes a baseline for the future coupling of EFDC Lake Ontario model with a regional climate model.
      • keywords: bar; data; lake; mixing; model; profiles; stratification; summer; temperature; thermal; vertical
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1907. c247dr29r9d
      • author: Ye Zhang
      • title: Tumor Microvesicle MicroRNAs: Profiling, Trafficking and Role in Cell Invasion
      • date: 2018
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The communication between cancer cells and the tumor microenvironments is critical for metastasis. Accumulating evidence has shown that the aberrant release of tumor-derived microvesicles (TMVs), a subtype of extracellular vesicles released by tumor cells, correlates with the onset and progression of cancers.
      • keywords: arf6; cancer; cells; mirna; tmvs; tumor
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1908. c247dr29w58
      • author: Will Jianyu Lu
      • title: Essays on Trade and Firms in China
      • date: 2019
      • words: 639
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: We empirically test this prediction using a comprehensive dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms, and find that firms that are more productive with capital do actually hold less capital and more liquid assets such as cash, a pattern that is not observed among U.S. firms. Firms with assets that exceed an upper ``payout' threshold pay out dividends, whereas firms with assets that fall short of a lower ``refinancing threshold must refinance at a cost.
      • keywords: capital; china; connected; firms; growth; highway; impact; nths; peripheral; productive; regions; system
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1909. c247dr3032v
      • author: Robert Wyllie
      • title: Envy in Spinoza's Political Science
      • date: 2020
      • words: 454
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: More recently, political philosophers like John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum argue that diverse societies of rights-bearing equals are less prone to destabilizing envy. The idea that envy tears communities asunder predates the history of political philosophy.
      • keywords: ancient; envy; history; modern; political; problem; science; spinoza
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1910. c247dr3064g
      • author: Anshuman Goswami
      • title: Application of Spatially Resolved Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations in Microkinetic Modelling of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions
      • date: 2023
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: The third system relates to non-steady microkinetic modelling of temperature programmed evolution of NH3 from plasma induced N, where temperature dependent surface hopping of reaction intermediates and reaction rate constants of surface reactions are explicitly incorporated through stochastic lattice-kMC methods. Microkinetic modelling occupies a central role in heterogeneous catalysis research by enabling a detailed mechanistic and kinetic understanding of catalytic reactions.
      • keywords: catalytic; kmc; methods; microkinetic; reaction; system
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1911. c247dr30696
      • author: Brianna Felegi
      • title: Essays on the Economics of Education
      • date: 2023
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: There are persistent disparities in educational outcomes across racial and socioeconomic groups, even when accounting for differences in academic preparation. In this dissertation, I contribute new evidence on the extent to which policies intended to increase access to schooling alter educational outcomes.
      • keywords: access; chapter; education; policies
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1912. c534fn1291p
      • author: Amanda Jean Sgroi
      • title: Exploration of the Impostor Distribution for Face-Based Biometrics
      • date: 2015
      • words: 135
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: However, when errors occur these features are hard to decipher in order to adjust for these errors. Through this work a method is presented which identifies nonmatching errors - potential false accepts.
      • keywords: errors; face; features
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1913. c534fn12921
      • author: Brandon Fogel
      • title: Epistemology of a Theory of Everything
      • date: 2009
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: detailed; einstein; physical; theory; weyl
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1914. c534fn12983
      • author: Matthew Brandon Lee
      • title: Belief, Doubt, and Confidence: A Threshold Account
      • date: 2014
      • words: 443
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Belief is therefore vague: there are clear cases of belief, clear cases of non-belief, and borderline cases. The thesis in question is the 'Threshold View': to believe that p (for any proposition p) is to have a high degree of confidence that p.
      • keywords: belief; confidence; epistemological; threshold; view
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1915. c534fn12b2b
      • author: Sarah E. Eichler Inwood
      • title: The Influence of Land Use on Denitrification in Headwater Streams in the Kalamazoo River Watershed, Michigan
      • date: 2004
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: We should consider those factors when comparing denitrification rates across habitats, different methods, and when scaling denitrification rates for use in ecosystem modeling. We examined anthropogenic impacts on N cycling in Midwestern streams draining subwatersheds dominated by forested, agricultural, or urban land use and focused on factors controlling sediment denitrification using the chloramphenicol-amended acetylene inhibition technique.
      • keywords: denitrification; streams; urban; use
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1916. c534fn12b3p
      • author: Jason Eton Scott
      • title: What's a Good Grade? Student Performance Standards and the Black-White Achievement Gap
      • date: 2010
      • words: 72
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.'
      • keywords: grades; students
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1917. c534fn1305j
      • author: Neerajha Nagarajan
      • title: Biomechanical Investigation of Engineered Muscle Tissue Constructs for Disease Modeling and Biorobotics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 556
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Contractility of heart muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes (CM), is the major parameter for determining their maturity and functionality. It was observed that myocardial cells on soft substrates (14 kPa) with a stiffness value similar to the healthy heart tissue exhibited higher contractile force (250 nN) and larger propagation distance of mechanical signals up to 800 μm.
      • keywords: cell; cms; contractile; effect; force; heart; mechanical; pdms; stiffness; substrates; tissue; work
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1918. c534fn1312t
      • author: Zhi Wang
      • title: Spatial Systems Modeling and Control of a Microscale Additive Manufacturing Process
      • date: 1904
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Microscale additive manufacturing (µ-AM) processes are a class of manufacturing processes used to fabricate micron-sized structures in a sequence of direct additions of materials as instructed by a digital file, as opposed to the lithographic patterning and subtractive etching used in traditional microscale manufacturing. This work defines a class of input signals, system identification algorithm for µ-AM modeled as a discrete repetitive system, and the experimental protocol to empirically the plant model and validate the model for a different input signal.
      • keywords: dynamics; identification; layer; manufacturing; model; processes; system; µ-am
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1919. c534fn13d6m
      • author: Daheng Wang
      • title: Learning Complementarity and Dynamics for Contextual Behavior Modeling
      • date: 2021
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Machine learning on the behavior data aims at finding effective representations (for calculation) to support functions such as recommendation, fraud detection, planning, and decision making. However, decision makers such as project leaders, course instructors, and doctors are often looking for complementary (instead of the most similar) resources and ideas to create an effective solution.
      • keywords: behavior; data; dynamics; similar
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1920. c534fn13f47
      • author: Jillian A. Fantin
      • title: the Doughnut World
      • date: 2022
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The Doughnut World nurtures, among other things, tattoo culture, The Cockettes, baking, haute couture, 1970s glam rock, the Club Kids, and general self-indulgence in the process of curating queer decadence. Besides taking cues from CAConrad's (Soma)tic Poetry, this collection remains inspired by the creative work of Lara Glenum, Shelley Feller, Kim Hyesoon, T. Fleischmann, David Bowie, Eileen Myles, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Hacker, and Val Kilmer.
      • keywords: decadence; doughnut; gravity; inhabitants; planet; queer; toroid; world
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1921. c534fn13g4j
      • author: Meredith Lee
      • title: Low-Cost Point-of-Care Electrochemical Sensors for Rapid Detection of Target Biological Analytes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Two device geometries and applications are described in this thesis: The first device realizes portable sensing of illicit compounds using closed bipolar electrochemistry (CBE) that marries amplified electrical signals from IDEAs and converts it to more easily understandable optical signals. The second device explores continuous portable sensing of biomarkers in human fluid matrices, such as sweat and saliva, that can be tuned to allow selective and specific detection at concentration ranges that are relevant to human physiology.
      • keywords: device; electrochemical; sensors; site
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1922. c534fn13h0g
      • author: Paul Shaloka
      • title: Essays on Labor Economics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: In this dissertation, I provide novel descriptive and plausibly causal estimates of the effects of labor market attachment on important measures of individual and societal well-being, such as mortality, education, and intergenerational mobility. These considerations deserve the attention of economists because business cycle fluctuations, regional shocks, and long-term trends that affect labor market participation may impact the well-being of individuals and communities in unexpected and important ways.
      • keywords: effects; labor; market
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1923. c821gh95k0m
      • author: Christopher M O'Neill
      • title: Selective Oxidation Reactions for C3 and i-C4 Hydrocarbons in a Membrane Reactor
      • date: 2008
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Selective oxidation reactions pose a great challenge, as the combustion reactions to produce CO and CO2 are favored both thermodynamically and kinetically. Improved selectivity in selective oxidation reactions can be realized through catalyst and reactor design.
      • keywords: aldehydes; bed; oxidation; reactions; selective; studies
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1924. c821gh95k40
      • author: Christina M. Maher
      • title: On Embeddings of Computable Structures, Classes of Structures and Computable Isomorphism
      • date: 2010
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Logicians have worked on finding the complexity of the isomorphism relation on a class of structures, the classification problem, and categorizing the relative complexity of the isomorphism relation on different classes of structures. One way of comparing the complexity of the classification problem for different classes of structures uses the notion of a Turing computable embedding.
      • keywords: class; complexity; structures
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1925. c821gh95k5b
      • author: Shan-Yun Huang
      • title: Growing Away: The Bildungsroman and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
      • date: 2013
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In Chapter One I discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as the precursor of post-independence Irish Bildungsroman, which not only sets up the pattern of growing away from Irish society but also designates 'home, fatherland, and church' as the problems confronting Irish youth. I argue that the pattern of stunted development, of protagonists constantly growing up not into but away from Irish society, is the sign of the individual's struggle with the postcolonial Irish state that is also struggling to be decolonized and to become modern.
      • keywords: bildungsroman; chapter; irish; pattern; society; state
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1926. c821gh95k6p
      • author: Zhi Liang
      • title: Towards Precursor-Directed Biosynthesis and Synthesis of Myriaporone-Tedanolide Analogues
      • date: 2011
      • words: 165
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: analogues; myriaporones; synthesis; synthetic
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1927. c821gh95k71
      • author: Thomas John Mulherin
      • title: The Antinomy of Musical Meaning
      • date: 2012
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Third and finally, I argue for the legitimacy of the debate itself, and hence my project, by showing that the concept of absolute music does not by itself preclude such music from expressing meaning. This dissertation is a philosophical reflection on the interpretation of absolute music, where the latter is understood as music that is independent of any extra-musical adherent, such as text, program, dramatic action, dance, or social function.
      • keywords: absolute; linguisticism; meaning; music
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1928. c821gh95k8c
      • author: Carl Laurence Beckwith
      • title: The Certainty of Faith in God's Word: The Theological Method and Structure of Hilary of Poitiers' De Trinitate
      • date: 2004
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: A close reading of the text reveals that Hilary's extensive comments on theological method at the beginning of De Trinitate is the main reason he attached De Fide to the books against the Arians. I first offer a close reading of De Fide, books two and three of De Trinitate, showing the continued reflection on the proper approach to the mystery of God.
      • keywords: faith; god; hilary; theological; trinitate
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1929. c821gh95m0x
      • author: Xin Tong
      • title: Robust Semiparametric Bayesian Methods in Growth Curve Modeling
      • date: 2014
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: An example about the development of mathematical abilities is used to illustrate the application of semiparametric Bayesian growth curve models, using school children's Peabody Individual Achievement Test mathematical test scores from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort. In this dissertation, three types of robust distributionalgrowth curve models are proposed from a semiparametric Bayesian perspective, in which random coefficients or intraindividual measurement errors follow either normal distributions or unknown random distributionswith Dirichlet process priors.
      • keywords: bayesian; curve; data; models; robust
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1930. c821gh95m18
      • author: Catalina Perez Abreu
      • title: Whence the Other Speaks: A Transnational Approach to Home and Discourse in the Fictional Narratives of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Teresa de la Parra
      • date: 2010
      • words: 370
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Californian Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895), considered the first U.S. Latina writer, and Venezuelan author Teresa de la Parra (1889-1936) shattered cultural boundaries as public critics who exposed social oppression and exclusion from citizenship while situating their works in the domestic, private sphere of patriarchal hierarchy and gendered subjectivities. Stemming from these concepts, my thesis draws on the Foucauldian rendition of discourse as a medium through which relations of power produce speaking subjects and the realities of which they speak.
      • keywords: discursive; domestic; home; power; sphere; subject
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1931. c821gh95m2m
      • author: Christopher Bensing Boehnen
      • title: Improving 3D Face Recognition Model Generation and Biometrics
      • date: 2009
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Further, the significant computational cost of 3D face recognitionhas made large scale deployment of 3D face recognition impractical. The focus of thisthesis is to address these issues to improve the feasability of 3D face recognition so that itis more applicable outside of a research environment.
      • keywords: capture; data; face; recognition
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1932. c821gh95m5n
      • author: Joshua Tepley
      • title: Being in Heidegger's Being and Time
      • date: 2012
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: care; concept; entities; heidegger
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1933. c821gh95m60
      • author: Robert W. Lawrence
      • title: John Milbank and the Creation of Truth: Dialectical Readings
      • date: 2006
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This dissertation explores Milbank's attempt to walk the fine line between the postmodern turn to language and his commitment to a belief in God as the ultimate horizon of meaning and human practice. Thus, it investigates Milbank's account of the creation of meaning through human practice, a practice which in turn participates in the creative life of God.
      • keywords: account; creation; milbank; political; practice; social; truth
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1934. c821gh95m7b
      • author: Changsheng Su
      • title: Stabilization of Potassium in Soot Oxidation Catalysts and Their Application on Diesel Particulate Filters
      • date: 2011
      • words: 454
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Among the regeneration strategies, catalytic regeneration of PDFs by low temperature soot oxidation catalysts is the most promising. In addition, the nature of soot and contact condition between soot and catalysts play important roles in catalytic soot oxidation.
      • keywords: catalysts; catalytic; diesel; oxidation; silicate; soot; stability; study
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1935. c821gh95m8p
      • author: Charles L. Leavitt IV
      • title: Reconciling Word and World: Theories of Literature in the Age of Neorealism
      • date: 2010
      • words: 413
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This study presents a comprehensive model of the divergent theories of representation and interpretation that renewed Italian literature and culture after Fascism. New, hybrid principles of narrativity and hermeneutics result from the clash between competing notions of literary representation and intellectual engagement.
      • keywords: chapter; culture; intellectual; italian; literary; literature; new; postwar; social
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1936. c821gh95n7n
      • author: Xueqiang (Alex) Zhang
      • title: Chemical and Electronic Properties of the O2 and H2O/Electrode Interface of an Electrochemical Cell for Water Splitting
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 2
      • summary: Chapter 1 introduces background information for solar water splitting, the motivations of the thesis, the details of the major instrumentation (AP-XPS) and the overall goal of the thesis; Chapter 2 and 3 present the studies of the interfacial chemistry of O2 and H2O/III-V semiconductors, respectively; Chapter 4 focuses on the investigation of the interfacial chemical and electronic property relationship in a III-V based photoelectrode; Chapter 5 is an extension of the previous three chapters, where a real electrochemical device for water splitting is designed, fabricated and incorporated into the AP-XPS system, and properties including the H2O/device interfacial chemical, electrical and catalytic features are investigated under operational conditions. In the frame of my PhD thesis, I aim to investigate the chemical and electronic properties at the environmental molecule (H2O and O2)/III-V semiconductor interface under in-situ or operando conditions using ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS).
      • keywords: chemical; h2o; iii; properties; semiconductor; splitting; water
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1937. c821gh95p7z
      • author: Yuliya Klymenko
      • title: Cadherin Switch, Ovarian Cancer Cell and Multi-Cellular Aggregate Dynamics and Metastasis-Associated Behavior
      • date: 1904
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: The designed study modeled and comprehensively characterized cell/MCA behavior in their free-floating state based on cellular cadherin composition and elucidated changes in metastasis-associated behaviors caused by alterations in cadherin expression. Finally, I presented a novel technique for feasible and reproducible long-term exposure of fragile and heterogeneous 3-dimentional cellular structures to clinically relevant compressive forces and discovered patterns in gene expression alterations which may modulate cadherin switch in the context of high intraperitoneal pressure caused by malignant ascites.
      • keywords: cadherin; cancer; cell; cellular; mca; metastasis; ovarian; role
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1938. c821gh96865
      • author: Jane Elizabeth Wageman
      • title: Sympathy in the 21st Century: Zadie Smith's Victorian Roots
      • date: 1904
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This thesis focuses on the contemporary novel's formal engagements with its Victorian predecessors, arguing that multiculturalism and immigration impact the ways in which contemporary novels utilize Victorian narrative structures and plots. The influence of the Victorian novel on 20th and early 21st century fiction takes many forms: from rewritings of classic works, to the creation of historical fiction, to the transposition of literature to different media.
      • keywords: fiction; novel; smith; structures; victorian
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1939. c821gh9693f
      • author: Richard S Pinapati
      • title: Understanding Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum through Genetic Crosses and Global Metabolomics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Generation of crosses using recently isolated parasites will allow for a quicker understanding of the mechanisms of resistance development. Generating a cross between strains with different phenotypes and studying intermediary phenotypes of recombinant progeny has been a highly effective approach for studying the genetic basis of drug resistance.
      • keywords: crosses; data; drug; falciparum; genetic; metabolic; model; parasite; resistance
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1940. c821gh9697t
      • author: Aastha Nigam
      • title: Beyond Who and What: Data Driven Approaches for User Behavior Modeling
      • date: 1904
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: We primarily study three aspect of human behavior: 1) preference, engagement and recommendation 2) personal traits, sentiment and opinions and 3) opinion and network evolution. This dissertation is guided by the following principles: 1) leveraging rich situational and interaction context 2) fusing information from heterogeneous data sources using efficient and effective computational models and 3) studying human behavior across multiple application domains to draw actionable insights to address real world challenges.
      • keywords: behavior; data; engagement; human; preference; study
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1941. c821gh96f72
      • author: Eric Wawerczyk
      • title: Congruences between Ordinary Symplectic Galois Representations
      • date: 2019
      • words: 114
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: First, we calculate lower bounds on the degree of the weight space map for Hida families given assumptions on the p-adic L-invariant (or the adjoint L-invariant) of a weight (3,3) automorphic representation on the Hida family when such an L-invariant is defined using theorems of Giovanni Rosso. We prove the existence of congruences between ordinary symplectic Galois representations in two different settings.
      • keywords: galois; invariant; representation
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1942. c821gh96m7m
      • author: Xia Allen
      • title: Exploring Language and Interpersonal Dysfunction in Psychoticism
      • date: 2019
      • words: 245
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: I also conducted regression analyses predicting interpersonal functioning from psychotic-spectrum pathology and category percentages to determine the predictive power of each and whether word use may be a mechanism of interpersonal dysfunction in individuals with psychotic-spectrum pathology. Much of the research examining interpersonal functioning in individuals with psychoticism traits has focused on the social impact of negative psychotic-spectrum symptoms.
      • keywords: functioning; interpersonal; psychotic; spectrum
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1943. c821gh96n57
      • author: Mallika S. Sarma
      • title: Acclimating to the Extreme: Energy Expenditure, Neuroendocrine Systems, and Social Dynamics in Novel and Challenging Environments
      • date: 2020
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Further, we found that greater resilience predicted greater energy expenditure, on average, suggesting that resilient individuals worked harder and spent more energy. These findings have important implications for positive-perception building in small teams engaged in challenging environments can provide critical insights into how individuals successfully cope with the high-energy demands of new and difficult environments.
      • keywords: energetic; energy; individual; month; physiology; processes; project; social
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1944. c821gh96q66
      • author: Wriddhi Chakraborty
      • title: Cryogenic CMOS Technology and Monolithic-3D Integration for High Performance Computing
      • date: 2022
      • words: 392
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In order to address these challenges in future computing systems, this thesis work focuses on novel design space exploration of CMOS technology by investigating: (a) Cryogenic-CMOS logic and memory technology for achieving extremely-high performance and energy efficiency in compute intensive application space, and (b) Monolithic three-dimensional (M-3D) integration of high-performance amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) transistors for high-capacity and high bandwidth embedded memory in memory intensive application space. However, Moore's Law has been predicted to face extreme challenges to meet the future requirements of seamless interaction between big-data oriented compute intensive domain in server-class systems and instant data centric memory intensive spaces in clients (autonomous vehicle, Internet-of-things systems, mobile computing etc.).
      • keywords: cmos; cryogenic; energy; high; intensive; memory; oxide; performance; systems; technology; temperature
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1945. c821gh96s2f
      • author: Angela Chesler
      • title: Politics after Autonomy: Repression, Rebellion, and Revision
      • date: 2023
      • words: 405
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This project investigates the causes and downstream consequences of political violence in the context of territorial autonomy, addressing three interrelated questions: 1) How does territorial autonomy affect state violence against civilians?; 2) How does state violence shape political power and resistance in autonomous territories?; and 3) How and under what conditions does political violence impact the survival of autonomous territories? Second, state violence in autonomous regions nearly always triggers armed uprisings.
      • keywords: armed; autonomous; autonomy; conflict; political; regions; state; territorial; violence
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1946. cc08hd78v30
      • author: Phillip S Harrington
      • title: Compactness and Subellipticity for the D-Bar Neumann Operator on Domains with Minimal Smoothness
      • date: 2004
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In this thesis, we shall examine a strong form of Oka's Lemma which provides sufficient conditions for compact and subelliptic estimates for the d-bar Neumann operator on Lipschitz domains. For the Lipschitz case, we will look at higher order estimates in the special case when the domain admits a plurisubharmonic defining function.
      • keywords: condition; domains; estimates
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1947. cc08hd78v4b
      • author: Karen Hollingsworth
      • title: Sources of Error in Iris Biometrics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 207
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: The majority of iris research ignores the degree of dilation in processing iris images for biometric purposes. Before iris recognition systems are more widely employed, we must ask, ``when do these algorithms fail?'
      • keywords: biometrics; code; iris; valuable
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1948. cc08hd78w08
      • author: Kasey James Stanton
      • title: Quantifying the Strength of the Relations Between Facets of Positive Emotionality and Psychological Symptoms
      • date: 2014
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Cheerfulness and Elation related negatively to internalizing symptoms, and the former also showed moderate negative relations with externalizing symptoms such as distractibility and drug use. Warmth had mostly weak relations, although it showed notable negative correlations with antisocial symptoms.
      • keywords: seeking; structure; symptoms
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1949. cc08hd78w4n
      • author: Mahesh Mahadevan
      • title: Distributed Source Channel Coding of Correlated Sources
      • date: 2006
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Distributed coding schemes are proposed for the transmission of both discrete valued and continuous valued sources over noisy channels. In their 1973 paper Slepian and Wolf described the achievable rate region for two correlated sources transmitting to a common destination over noiseless channels.
      • keywords: case; channels; code; correlation; scheme; source
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1950. cc08hd78w50
      • author: Satyaki Ganguly
      • title: Electrical Characterization of ALD Al2O3/AlN/GaN HEMTs and Integration with Microano Magnets for Novel Device Application
      • date: 2011
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: aln; current; field; high; iii; nitride; operation; structures; switching; voltage
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1951. cc08hd78x28
      • author: John Zane Dillon
      • title: The Servants of Modernism: Aesthetics and Tradition in Yeats, Lorca, and Woolf
      • date: 1904
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: I argue that the nurses and domestic servants of these modernists were crucial to their aesthetic development. Servants played, in other words, a critical role in the development and maturation of modernism.
      • keywords: aesthetic; artists; british; european; modernisms; new; servants; yeats
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1952. cc08hd79s71
      • author: Xiaobin Wu
      • title: Four Dimensional Hybrid Wireless Communication via Coherent Dual-Polarized Antennas
      • date: 2019
      • words: 501
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Over-the-air experiments are conducted to validate the principles and performance trends of proposed ML detectors, 4D hybrid constellations (both coherent and non-coherent), and PAPR reduction phase codes with external HPAs under an OFDM framework. Thirdly, PAPR reduction phase codes, transparent to receiver processing, are proposed for PolSK/DPSK+PolSK modulated OFDM signals based on selective mapping.
      • keywords: bit; capacity; code; coherent; constellations; hybrid; papr; phase; polsk; power; reduction; signaling
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1953. cc08hd79x2j
      • author: Michelle Sawwan
      • title: Not Just Poor People's Politics: Educational Capital, Job Networks, and Party Activism in Lebanon
      • date: 2020
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This study adds to the literature on class and clientelism by using survey and interview data from Lebanon to demonstrate that middle class voters occupy a complex position within patronage structures. Consistent with the literature on class and contentious politics, I argue that being middle class may actually bolster party activism in clientelistic settings by providing the kinds of resources and social capital needed to sustain political activity over time.
      • keywords: class; clientelism; middle; political; voters
      • versions: original; plain text
1954. cc08hd79z4j
      • author: Jared Scripture
      • title: Quantitative Studies of Microtubule Dynamics
      • date: 2021
      • words: 480
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Using this data-driven approach, not constrained by a priori assumptions regarding MT behavior, we find that MT behavior is not well-approximated when constrained to measurements of simply growth and shortening; specifically, we report that a previously identified but not fully characterized behavior, `stutter', should be included in future studies of MT dynamics and in quantification of DI behavior. We also establish and validate analytical relationships between rate constants, MT tip structures, and overall MT behavior; a key result of these analytical solutions is the identification of three random variables that sufficiently describe the tip structure and strongly correlate with the o -rate.
      • keywords: analysis; behavior; chapter; data; dynamics; growth; mts; shortening
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1955. cc08hd79z5w
      • author: Justin Donald DeBenedetto
      • title: Multiset and DAG Automata for Abstract Meaning Representation
      • date: 2021
      • words: 537
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: amr; automata; graph; multiset; nlp; search; sentence; systems; work
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1956. cc08hd8001k
      • author: Brian Fitzpatrick
      • title: Math People Need Not Apply: Mathematics Skill, Math Attitudes, and Gender Among Students and Teachers
      • date: 2021
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Chapter 4 uses survey and U.S. classroom observation data from the Elementary Mathematics Study (EMS) and OLS regression to analyze the relationship between mathematics anxiety and time on math; this research provides evidence that math anxious elementary teachers spend less time on math instruction. The aim of this study is to examine possible sources of negative math attitudes as well as some possible effects.
      • keywords: chapter; data; math; study
      • versions: original; plain text
1957. cc08hd8002x
      • author: Jacob Piland
      • title: Network-Based Approaches to Understanding Protein Structure and Folding Process
      • date: 2021
      • words: 300
      • flesch: 49
      • 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.
      • keywords: approaches; codons; network; protein; structure
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1958. cc08hd8010j
      • author: Symone Johnson
      • title: Making the Marvelous: Experiments in Care and Black Belonging
      • date: 2022
      • words: 248
      • flesch: -2
      • summary: The dissertation draws from ethnographic research conducted in the Summers of 2018 and 2019 and from June 2020-April 2021 when the researcher was a participant observer with four communities of practice—two wellness centers in Brooklyn, New York and two racial justice organizations in Chicago, Illinois—with people who worked toward making sincere relationships and achieving greater personal well-being by experimenting with different traditional ways of healing illness and trauma, constructing restorative relationships, and establishing sustainable communities of mutual belonging based on Black identity, interracial solidarity, and shared spiritual epistemologies. The author applies an ecological framework to understand how care is mobilized, whereby personal healing grows people's capacity to function in right relationship with one another while the values, beliefs, and visions cultivated in and through these relationships can be articulated onto the social and cultural landscape through community action.
      • keywords: author; care; people; relationships; social; sustainable
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1959. cf95j96242f
      • author: David M Schatzman
      • title: A Study of Unsteady Turbulent Boundary Layer Separation Under Conditions Relevant to Helicopter Rotor Dynamics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The implications of the experimental results for the development of flow control strategies for unsteady boundary layer separation are discussed. An experimental investigation focused on the study of the physics of unsteady turbulent boundary layer separation under conditions relevant to the dynamic stall process that occurs in helicopter rotors is presented.
      • keywords: boundary; layer; measurements; separation; turbulent; unsteady
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1960. cf95j96246t
      • author: Matthew James Van Antwerp
      • title: Studying Open Source Versioning Metadata
      • date: 2010
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: We describe the downloading and warehousing of such data from SourceForge, BerliOS, and GNU Savannah and the interface and resources we offer for browsing and studying the data. SourceForge provides us with monthly data dumps mirroring their back-end database, but their versioning metadata is not provided.
      • keywords: data; research; sourceforge; versioning
      • versions: original; plain text
1961. cf95j96248h
      • author: Mamadou Brahima Coulibaly
      • title: Cloning and Characterizing the 2RJ Inversion Breakpoints in the Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae S.S.
      • date: 2011
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 60
      • 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.
      • keywords: 2rj; breakpoints
      • versions: original; plain text
1962. cf95j96249v
      • author: Farzad Talebi
      • title: Statistical Modeling of Multi-Polarized MIMO Channels
      • date: 2012
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: The performance of the proposed transmission schemes are compared for different channel conditions using the developed channel model. In this thesis we synthesize a new model for correlated Rician dual-polarized MIMO channels that enables analysis of MIMO system performance in asymmetric channels.
      • keywords: channel; dual; mimo; model; system
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1963. cf95j962502
      • author: Paul V Hickner
      • title: Enhancement of Genome Investigations and Analysis of Diapause Induction in Culex pipiens Mosquitoes
      • date: 2014
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: complex; diapause; genome; induction; mosquitoes; pipiens; quinquefasciatus; regions
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1964. cf95j96252r
      • author: Katy Michelle Wright-Bushman
      • title: Reading Lyric before Lyric: English Religious Poetry among Its Late Medieval Readers
      • date: 2014
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: In narratives like The Storie of Asneth, we see this understanding of the place of verse within religious practice confirmed through the literary construction of a lay, female penitential subject performing religious lyric. I argue that through both the reading practices in which these texts engage their readers and the construction of the imagined reader within them, as much as through their content, religious lyrics were read to effect ethical, affective, volitional, and epistemic change in a growing array of medieval readers.
      • keywords: english; late; literary; lyric; medieval; reading; religious
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1965. cf95j962533
      • author: Kimberly Hope Belcher
      • title: Your Spirit Breathed on the Waters: A Trinitarian Gift of Identity in Postconciliar Infant Baptism
      • date: 2010
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Infant baptism thus becomes an economic reality, one that reveals significant aspects of the trinitarian manifestation in salvation history. Sacramental theology has been grappling with the trinitarian mystery in recent years, trying to appropriate the pneumatic dimension of Christian liturgy which was all but lost in the West.
      • keywords: baptism; infant; reality; trinitarian
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1966. cf95j96254f
      • author: Thomas Joseph Murray
      • title: Essays on the Economics of Immigration in the United States
      • date: 2011
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Results show that native flight to private schools due to increased immigrant presence in public schools is largely driven by the white population; an additional 10 immigrants in public schools leads to approximately 2 additional white natives enrolled in private schools. In Chapter 1, I use a panel of school districts across the United States to investigate whether increased immigrant presence in U.S. public school districts between 1990 and 2000 has led to increases in native private school enrollment.
      • keywords: native; population; private; public; school
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1967. cf95j96257g
      • author: Michelle Comas
      • title: Child Sexual Abuse and Use of Restraint and Seclusion: The Interactive Contributions of Early Environmental Factors and Child Characteristics
      • date: 2012
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: Results revealed that child temperament, specifically effortful control, and prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drugs were both significant moderating influences on the relation of child sexual abuse history to restraint and seclusion. This master's thesis further examined the relation between child sexual abuse history and subsequent restraint and seclusion incidents, and additionally evaluated the influence of three potential moderators on this primary relationship (namely, prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drugs, child temperament, and executive functioning).
      • keywords: abuse; child; restraint; seclusion
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1968. cf95j96258t
      • author: Anubhav Khandelwal
      • title: CdSe Nanowire Fielf-Effect Transitor
      • date: 2008
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: Pronounced photoconductivity is observed in the presence of visible lightwith current levels increasing from a few pAs to 100s of pAs for single NWs and a few nAs to few $mu$As for network of NWs. In dark, turn-on to turn-off current ratios between 10 and $~$10$^{3}$ for single NWs and between 10$^{3}$ and 10$^{6}$ for network of NWs FETs have been realized.
      • keywords: current; fets; network; nws; single
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1969. cf95j962595
      • author: Elizabeth Anne Franklin
      • title: Wherein All Mye Lomas Make It
      • date: 2011
      • words: 41
      • flesch: 64
      • summary: Contact the Graduate School dissertation editor with questions. NOTE: PERMANENT PRIVATE STATUS; DO NOT RELEASE FILE OR RECORD; DO NOT CATALOG.
      • keywords: hill
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1970. cf95j96260c
      • author: Melanie C. Ross
      • title: Ecumenism After Charles Finney: A Free Church Liturgical Theology
      • date: 2010
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Twenty years ago, historian James White reported a startling lacuna in liturgical studies: nonliturgical evangelicalism åÐ the most prevalent worship tradition in American Protestantism åÐ lacked any recognized name or representation in liturgical scholarship. As a corrective, White introduced the term Frontier Tradition to liturgical studies and nominated Charles Finney as the most influential liturgical reformer in American history.
      • keywords: american; church; evangelical; finney; liturgical; new; studies; white; whitefield; worship
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1971. cf95j96279s
      • author: Michael D Hunckler
      • title: Investigation of a Rabbit Ulnar Loading Model for Atypical Fractures in Cortical Bone during Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment
      • date: 1904
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Treatment groups included a sham (control) and ovariectomized rabbits which were administered either vehicle (saline), a clinical dose, or a high dose of bisphosphonate (alendronate) over one year. Differences in tissue mineral density and fracture toughness between treatment groups were not statistically significant.
      • keywords: affs; bisphosphonate; fatigue; loading; model; treatment; ulnar; vivo
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1972. cf95j962v1m
      • author: James C Sweet
      • title: Enabling Implementation and Optimization of Scientific Algorithms via Graphics Processing Units
      • date: 1904
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Secondly, the performance of molecular dynamics simulations can be improved by $\approx6\ imes$ whilst keeping the accuracy, allowing for faster drug research and development. Firstly, it looks at exploring better methods of creating accurate and realistic 3D models from laser scan data and photographic images.
      • keywords: data; gpu; particle; performance; simulation
      • versions: original; plain text
1973. cf95j96309w
      • author: Tuphan Devkota
      • title: Optical Absorption-Based Studies of Single Nanostructures
      • date: 2019
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Spatial modulation spectroscopy (SMS) has been used to image single organic nanoparticles doped with non-fluorescent, near-IR croconaine dyes. Based on the measured extinction cross-section of the nanoparticles, the number of dye molecules per particle has been determined.
      • keywords: dye; experiments; imaging; measured; mode; nanoparticles; results; single; sms; wavevector
      • versions: original; plain text
1974. cf95j96359f
      • author: Tyler E. Curtis
      • title: Material Decomposition Using Photon-Counting Spectral Computed Tomography
      • date: 2019
      • words: 411
      • flesch: 11
      • 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.
      • keywords: agent; contrast; decomposition; imaging; material; multiple; photon; tissue
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1975. cf95j96368d
      • author: Natalie M. Ehret
      • title: Maternal and Adolescent ADHD, Aggression, and Dysfunctional Discipline: Mediating Roles of Maternal Emotion Dysregulation and Stress
      • date: 2020
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: The current study utilized a process-oriented approach to assess the associations of maternal and adolescent ADHD symptoms and OD and aggressive behaviors with dysfunctional discipline, as well as the mediating roles of maternal emotion dysregulation and stress. An indirect pattern of effects was observed such that maternal ADHD symptoms and OD behaviors were associated with maternal emotion dysregulation, which was associated with dysfunctional discipline.
      • keywords: behaviors; maternal; symptoms
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1976. cf95j96369r
      • author: Emily Vanderbleek
      • title: Personality Pathology, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Legal Offending
      • date: 2020
      • words: 234
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: In this study, I investigated the relations among childhood adversity, personality pathology, and adult antisocial behavior to attempt to elucidate the complex pathways that lead to antisocial behavior and legal offending. The study included a wide range of adverse childhood experiences and antisocial behaviors and also used a trait-based dimensional framework of personality pathology, which has many advantages over the categorical models that have been used in most previous studies.
      • keywords: antisocial; behavior; pathology; personality; research
      • versions: original; plain text
1977. cf95j963792
      • author: Taylor Nutter
      • title: A Self Forgetful of Itself: Augustine and the Modern Oblivion of the Erotic Mind
      • date: 2021
      • words: 459
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: augustine; augustinian; desire; faith; interiority; modern; oblivion
      • versions: original; plain text
1978. cj82k645d5j
      • author: Frederick W. Jordan
      • title: Between Heaven and Harvard: Protestant Faith and the American Boarding School Experience, 1778-1940
      • date: 2004
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Research for this dissertation was conducted in school archives accompanied by a wide reading in the secondary literature of the history of American Protestantism and the history of boarding schools. This dissertation is a study of the role of Protestant faith in six American boarding schools: Phillips Andover and Phillips Exeter (Congregationalist), Lawrenceville (Presbyterian), St. Paul's (New Hampshire) and Groton (Episcopalian) and Mount Hermon (nondenominational).
      • keywords: exeter; faith; mission; phillips; protestant; role; schools
      • versions: original; plain text
1979. cj82k645d6w
      • author: Adam Benjamin Fung
      • title: Wake
      • date: 2010
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: contemporary; landscape; wake
      • versions: original; plain text
1980. cj82k645f2t
      • author: Sorour Abdulhadi Alotaibi
      • title: Temperature Controllability in Cross-FLow Heat Exchangers and Long Ducts.
      • date: 2003
      • words: 290
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: (a) The first is controllability for which conductive-convective systems and cross-flow heat exchangers are examined in detail. (b) The second is the control methodology for the outlet temperature in cross-flow heat exchangers.
      • keywords: control; controllability; equation; exchangers; heat; system
      • versions: original; plain text
1981. cj82k645f66
      • author: Joseph Stephen Ribaudo
      • title: Probing Circumgalactic Gas with Lyman Limit Systems
      • date: 2011
      • words: 583
      • flesch: 60
      • 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.
      • keywords: absorption; galaxies; galaxy; gas; llss; observations; rise; strong
      • versions: original; plain text
1982. cj82k645f7j
      • author: Angel Georgiev Ugrinov
      • title: Reactions of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters in Solutions
      • date: 2004
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: This study revealed that these clusters can bond to each other in different modes to form larger oligomers such as trimers, [Ge9=Ge9=Ge9]6&ndash;, and tetramers, [Ge9=Ge9=Ge9=Ge9]8&ndash;. The discovery of dimers of nine-atom germanium clusters, [Ge9&ndash;Ge9]6&ndash;, showed that 2-center&ndash;2-electron exo-bonds can exist between such clusters.
      • keywords: clusters; ge9; germanium; reactions
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1983. cj82k645g24
      • author: Naomi Fisher
      • title: Kant, Schelling, and a New Philosophy of Nature
      • date: 1904
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This dissertation provides a new framework for thinking about the relationship of rationality to nature. The philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling, namely the philosophy of nature he develops between the years of 1797 and 1800, is a developmental account of nature and rationality.
      • keywords: chapters; nature; philosophy; rationality; schelling
      • versions: original; plain text
1984. cj82k645g9j
      • author: Scott A. Sarver
      • title: Capillary Electrophoresis for High Speed Small Molecule Analysis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Capillary electrophoresis is especially well suited for the analysis of small, polar metabolites because of its high resolution and aqueous running conditions. As a final demonstration of the capability of capillary electrophoresis to rapidly analyze the metabolome, I present a study of the metabolism of early Xenopus laevis embryos.
      • keywords: capillary; chromatography; electrophoresis
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1985. cj82k645m42
      • author: Ashish Kushwaha
      • title: Development of Polybenzoxazole (PBO)-Based Polymer Membranes for Gas Separation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Current PBO synthesis approach addresses the insolubility issue by solid-state thermal rearrangement (TR) of aromatic polyimides (APIs) with ortho-positioned hydroxyl group, wherein the soluble API precursors are solution cast into membranes before being thermally converted to TR membranes. However, the API-TR process poses some major challenges, complicating the implementation of TR membranes for practical industrial applications.
      • keywords: api; conversion; high; membranes; pbo; process; thermal
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1986. cj82k64639d
      • author: Emily R. Hershman
      • title: The Deadliest Century: Gender and Modernism in the Age of Total War, 1895-1981
      • date: 1904
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This dissertation explores connections between the gender politics of British, Irish, and German Modernist drama and novels and total war discourse. A historically contested term, total warfare is chronicled here from Britain's late-nineteenth century New Imperialism to Europe in the decades following the Second World War.
      • keywords: british; contested; dissertation; female; gender; politics; samuel; total; war; warfare
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1987. cj82k64645b
      • author: Anna Elizabeth Woodard
      • title: Effective Field Theory Interpretation for Measurements of Top Quark Pair-Production in Association with a W or Z Boson
      • date: 1904
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: A measurement of the cross section for top quarks produced in association with a W or Z boson, using 19.5/fb of proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, is extended within this framework to set constraints on the Wilson coefficients of five dimension-six operators. An additional measurement of the same processes using 35.9/fb of proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment is used to perform a more sophisticated study of eight dimension-six operators and present bounds on their Wilson coefficients.
      • keywords: collisions; operators; proton
      • versions: original; plain text
1988. cj82k64646p
      • author: Victoria L. Bridewell
      • title: Semiconductor and Graphene Oxide Nanomaterials for Sensing and Catalytic Degradation of Chemical Contaminants
      • date: 1904
      • words: 414
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Two major tasks focused on very distinct applications of reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-based multifunctional mats have been explored; the development of smart materials capable of sensing and degrading target compounds as well as designing graphene-supported catalysts towards the development of heterogeneous chemical fuel generation systems. Therefore, the discovery and development of materials and devices capable of not only promoting the clean energy agenda, but also serving as multifunctional systems to address additional issues has been the focus of my work thus far.
      • keywords: capable; cds; cdse; chemical; development; energy; issues; photophysical; properties; rgo; systems
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1989. cj82k64650x
      • author: Breanna J. Nickel
      • title: Balthasar Hubmaier as a Scholastic Anabaptist Theologian
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: We conclude that he maintains several scholastic teachings including the Christological subsistence theory, Biel's concept of an indifferent free will, and the distinction between God's potentia absolutaand potentia ordinata. The first chapter reconstructs Hubmaier's studies at the University of Freiburg based on archival research and finds that he received a fairly traditional education in medieval scholastic theology, but his education was not limited to the via modernaas commonly assumed.
      • keywords: chapter; doctrines; hubmaier; human; medieval; scholastic
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1990. cj82k646g5f
      • author: Wei Qian
      • title: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: expectations; growth; house; increase; price; spending; survey
      • versions: original; plain text
1991. cj82k646k2b
      • author: Charlotte N. Kunkler
      • title: Understanding the Structural Properties of Triple Helices and a Triple-Stranded RNA-Binding Protein
      • date: 2022
      • words: 458
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Additionally, an RNA shorter than 19-nucleotides disrupts triple helix formation, though longer triple helices did not lead to tighter binding. Herein, I explored two questions about triple helices: (i) which base triples stabilize RNA•DNA-DNA triple helices?
      • keywords: base; dna; helices; helix; rna•dna; triple
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1992. cj82k646m0z
      • author: Elizabeth Boyle
      • title: A Peace Which Unites: A Study of the Peacemaking Approach of the Community of Sant'Egidio
      • date: 2023
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In the past decade non-state actors have been emerging as peace mediators, presenting their own unique approaches to peacemaking which has proven successful in a number of cases. I describe the key facets of Sant'Egidio's charism through the integrated lens of the Three P's of prayer, poor, and peace.
      • keywords: approaches; case; community; peace; sant'egidio
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1993. cj82k646m5p
      • author: Elise DeSomer
      • title: Representations of Hypermobilty in Literature and Performance
      • date: 2023
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: When examined as a whole, these transatlantic examples of short stories and performances elucidate how the performance of hypermobility reflects and protests constraints of gendered and racialized oppression. This thesis foregrounds literary analysis of hypermobility with an overview of the historic medicalization of hypermobility, or an excessive range of motion, with attention to how the politics of pathologizing movement enforces normative standards for permissible ranges of physical and social mobility.
      • keywords: dance; hypermobility; overview; short; thesis
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1994. cn69m328p4j
      • author: Mark Edward Hope
      • title: Examination and Validation of Winds, Waves, and Storm Surge Processes for Hurricanes Ike (2008) and Sandy (2012) and the Integration of Hydrologic Processes into a Coastal Circulation Model
      • date: 2015
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It is the author's intent that the work presented in this dissertation aids the field of Civil Engineering through detailed model validation and analysis of storm surge processes for Hurricanes Ike (2008, Texas) and Sandy (2012, New Yorkew Jersey).Additionally, the integration of hydrologic processes into the ADCIRC coastal circulation model allowing for a more accurate depiction of flooding in the coastal environment during a tropical cyclone is presented. Either by innovation or invention, it is the duty of both the modeler and the Civil Engineer toutilize the most accurate model and tools available in order to provide the best understanding of storm surge and other catastrophic natural processes and how best to protect and prepare in the case of these catastrophes.
      • keywords: coastal; events; flooding; model; numerical; processes; storm; surge
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1995. cn69m328p8x
      • author: John David Simon
      • title: Polarization-Engineered III-V Nitride Heterostructure Devices by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Polarization charges present in nitride heterojunctions can be engineered to enhance theperformance of different devices and introduce novel material physics not present in other semiconductors. Polarization charges can also utilized to enhanced the properties of other devices.
      • keywords: charges; devices; gan; polarization; structures; type
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1996. cn69m328p98
      • author: Sara Mónica Mata
      • title: Myth and Mystery: Augustine's First Commentary on Genesis 1-2:3
      • date: 2013
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I first show that in interpreting each verse, Augustine presents the union between the letter, its immediate referent, and divine reality as one whose meaning and veracity are only discernible through an appeal to authorities or 'manifest realities.' I then show that in his interpretation of each verse, the 'manifest realities' Augustine turns to when examining this union include Genesis 1-2:3, the whole of Scripture, reality as experienced in creation and in being human, and reality as revealed most perfectly and fully in Jesus Christ's humanity, that is, His external teaching given in and through His words and deeds.
      • keywords: augustine; dgcm; reality; res; union
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1997. cn69m328q0g
      • author: Pamela E. Crane
      • title: Implementation of a Sustainable Groundwater Quality Monitoring Program in Rural Benin, West Africa
      • date: 2010
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: Technical methods included test strips, colorimetry, and avoidance of methods requiring electricity or sterile conditions. Sociological methods included surveys, focus groups, and participant observation.
      • keywords: methods; monitoring; sociological; technical
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1998. cn69m328q1t
      • author: John M. Stringer
      • title: Bringing Interests Back In: the Domestic Sources of Employment Protection Legislation
      • date: 2012
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This dissertation explores the sources of employment protection legislation. Employment protection legislation, or 'EPL,' is regulation which restricts the hiring and firing of workers.
      • keywords: employment; evidence; legislation; protection; research
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1999. cn69m328q25
      • author: James F. Wurtz
      • title: A Very Strange Agony: Modernism, Memory, and Irish Gothic Fiction
      • date: 2006
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The Gothic as a genre deals with historical processes of transition or change, and derives its gothic effects not simply from the presence of demons or haunted houses, but from the often violent interruption of the present by the return of the past, frequently depicted in supernatural form. Unsurprisingly, given the especially turbulent modern Irish experience, Irish writers often turned to the Gothic for images and narratives which would enable them to find new ways of articulating a stable identity in the midst of tremendous change.
      • keywords: century; gothic; historical; irish; moment; texts
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2000. cn69m328q4v
      • author: Irena Lanc
      • title: Novel Methods for Assembly Validation and Improvement
      • date: 2014
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: assemblies; assembly; quality; validation
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2001. cn69m328q56
      • author: Andrea J. Fowler
      • title: Linking Policy and Ecology in the Management of Aquatic Ecosystems: Stream Restoration and Invasive Species Legislation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 301
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: brook; large; nonindigenous; prey; species; trout; wood
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2002. cn69m328q6j
      • author: Claudia Vanessa Maldonado Trujillo
      • title: The Political Economy of Conditional Cash Transfers in Mexico and Brazil 1997-2006
      • date: 2012
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: I develop an original theoretical model of choice for program implementation in two dimensions (rules vs. discretion and centralization vs. decentralization), and posit that the choice for the implementation model of direct transfers for the poor &ndash;as a choice between clientelism and rules-based implementation- results from the electoral calculus of the federal government, which is a function of the relative brokerage capacity (partisan territorial presence) of the governing party in the regions where the poor are overrepresented. In the case of Brazil, I find a similar trajectory towards program depoliticisation that warrants, however, a different explanation: the relative brokerage capacity of the federal government in deprived regions also provided for incentives for depoliticisation (with a decentralized implementation model), but not directly as a function PTs territorial presence, but the territorial implications of the governing coalition of Lulaå«s first administration.
      • keywords: federal; government; implementation; model; partisan; poor; program; rules
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2003. cn69m328q9k
      • author: James W. Hamrick
      • title: From Gaeltacht to Grub Street: The Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere in a Four-Nations Context
      • date: 2012
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: I argue that the formation of this multilingual public sphere, like the formation of the British empire, cuts across linguistic and geographical boundaries, leading to a productive cross-pollination between writing in English, Irish, Scots Gaelic and vernacular Scots. Focusing on bilingualism, translation and print culture, my project broadens the scope of recent 'four-nations' approaches and provides a comparative model for understanding important developments in eighteenth-century British literature.
      • keywords: british; century; eighteenth; print
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2004. cn69m328r0s
      • author: Kejia Wang
      • title: Optical Study of Hot-Electron Transport in Iii-V Nitride Semiconductors, and Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Indium Nitride
      • date: 2008
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The rate of increase of electron temperature with the external electric field provides a signature of non-equilibrium hot-phonon accumulation. When the chief electron energy loss mechanism is by the emission of LOoptical phonons, a clear signature of a hot-phonon effect is observed, with a hot-phonon lifetime in the 3-4 ps regime.
      • keywords: electric; electron; hot; inn; phonon
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2005. cn69m328r14
      • author: Jessica Maribeth Dougherty-McMichael
      • title: Transformative Place: Liminal Place in Contemporary Irish and Native American Literatures
      • date: 2011
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The frequently parallel and at times convergent rhetorical representations of Irish and Native American peoples and realities of Anglo colonial policy in Ireland and North America has created similar literary tropes in contemporary Irish and Native American literatures. The first The American West, The Irish DreamÌøåÀå_ looks at the ways in which Irish writers, including Sir William F. Butler, Michael Mac Gabhann, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne and Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, use the American West and Native American inhabitants to create an Irish dream of prosperity and entitlement.
      • keywords: american; chapter; irish; liminal; literary; native; places
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2006. cn69m328r2g
      • author: Chaunce R. Windle
      • title: Against Diversification: A Suggested Strategy for the Know-Something Investor
      • date: 2010
      • words: 128
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: For know-something investors, portfolio diversification reduces risk at the expense of maximizing return, defeating the main purpose of investing in stocks. Results showed that portfolios of brokers' top picks outperformed their diversified portfolios after a one-year period.
      • keywords: investors; portfolio; stocks
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2007. cn69m328s1f
      • author: Solomon Assefa
      • title: Elucidating Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Co-Oxidation-Induced Missing-Row Reconstruction of Rh(110) via DFT Methods
      • date: 1904
      • words: 102
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Coverage dependent formation and binding energies of O and CO species on Rh(110) show a missing-row type (1 X 2) reconstruction of the Rh(110) surface as a result of adsorbate binding. This work used DFT calculations to study adsorbate induced reconstruction on Rh(110).
      • keywords: rh(110; surface
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2008. cn69m328w5r
      • author: Laura Beth Thompson
      • title: Affective Corporeality: Contemplations on the Body in the Postmodern Context
      • date: 1904
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: By delving primarily into the theories of Massumi, Kristeva, Kristine Stiles, and Gilles Deleuze, I suggest that the current condition of humanity is that of the traumatized. Through using visual iterations of affect and the abject, I instill in the viewer the heightened sense of empathy and/ or trauma.
      • keywords: contemporary; sense; thesis
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2009. cn69m329d30
      • author: Chao Luo
      • title: Engineering and Economic Analysis for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure — Placement, Pricing, and Market Design
      • date: 1904
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: algorithm; charging; electricity; energy; market; placement; power; service; system; vehicle
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2010. cn69m329d7c
      • author: Maria A. Krug
      • title: Use of Shared Vision Models in an Integrated Urban Stormwater Planning Process
      • date: 1904
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Validation with observed data found that calibration of response time constants for specific elements captured combined effects of different factors (slope, material, etc.) without needing detailed field measurements. Workshops with community partners showed that integrating stormwater management with other neighborhood issues encouraged resident engagement and customizing the model to simulate specific lots and houses improved visualization of GI options.
      • keywords: lots; model; scale; stormwater
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2011. cn69m329k1v
      • author: Guido Caponigri Guerra
      • title: After the 'Spring of '59': Dante's Inferno in the 1860 Leaves of Grass
      • date: 2019
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: In this thesis, I will present evidence from the works of Walt Whitman to suggest he implemented his reading of Dante Alighieri's Inferno seven years earlier than current scholarship believes and that he used explicitly Dantean words in Leaves of Grass. Neglected is Dante's presence in the earlier, 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, which followed his initial, 1859 reading of the Inferno.
      • keywords: dante; whitman
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2012. cn69m329r7g
      • author: José David Pastrana Chiclana
      • title: Regularity Properties of the Solution Map of the Incompressible Euler Equations
      • date: 2020
      • words: 207
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: In the non-periodic case we use the initial values of two sequences of bounded approximate solutions (which converge at time zero and remain apart at later times) to construct two sequences of exact solutions to the incompressible Euler equations. Second, we prove the non-uniform continuity of the data-to-solution map from bounded subsets of the Besov space into the space of continuous curves landing in the Besov space.
      • keywords: equations; euler; incompressible; solutions
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2013. cn69m329r95
      • author: Michelle A. Marvin
      • title: Remembering in Relation: Edward Schillebeeckx's Theological Anthropology and the Neuroscience of Memory Loss
      • date: 2020
      • words: 411
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Part two shifts to a neuroscientific analysis of memory loss in order to contrast the sociorelational memory of part one with the individualistic memory in contemporary neuroscience. This dissertation addresses the question of how to interpret and understand memory loss as a person of faith embedded in, and informed by, the contemporary medical-scientific milieu.
      • keywords: loss; memory; neuroscientific; person; schillebeeckx; sociorelational; theological
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2014. cn69m329s0c
      • author: Jerry Scott Fisher
      • title: Meaning and Learning in Linear Retention Patterns
      • date: 2020
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: However, Fisher and Radvansky (2019) showed that linear forgetting patterns can be reliably observed. This dissertation explored the influence of representational complexity on the observation of linear retention and forgetting patterns of episodic memory.
      • keywords: forgetting; linear
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2015. cn69m329w6c
      • author: Woori Kim
      • title: Weightless, Nameless
      • date: 2023
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: My thesis questions whether there is an essential relationship between one's identity and name, exploring the interaction between the name and the owner of it and reflecting on the arbitrary nature of name. The two stories, set in different worlds, seemingly distinct pieces of subjects, start to converge in the middle of the stories and reveal that they are parallel, with the voice of the wolf in The Three Little Pigs resonating throughout the stories.
      • keywords: little; stories; thesis
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2016. cr56n011z6s
      • author: Julia Elizabeth Stephens
      • title: Control of the Tip-Gap Flow of a Low-Pressure Turbine Blade in a Linear Cascade
      • date: 2010
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Additionally, surface flow visualization was performed on the end wall and blade tip for a greater understanding of the flow behavior. Vortex generators on the end wall were designed to produce vorticity of opposite sign of the tip leakage vortex.
      • keywords: blade; flow; gap; leakage; ratios; tip; vortex
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2017. cr56n011z74
      • author: Nicholas Michael Petruzzi
      • title: Bacteria Mobilization and Diversity as a Function of Rate of Extraction from a Monitoring Well
      • date: 2004
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It was hypothesized that total bacteria concentrations will increase with increasing pumping rate (consistent with the previously observed increase in total colloids with pumping rate). However, little work has been done to quantify the impact of pumping rate at a sampling point on bacterial and inorganic colloid concentrations, as well as the diversity of the bacteria population observed in a groundwater sample.
      • keywords: bacteria; colloid; concentrations; diversity; passive; pumping; rate; samples; total
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2018. cr56n011z8g
      • author: Bruce James Melancon
      • title: Competitive Cationic Pathways and the Asymmetric Synthesis of 1,2-Disubstituted Cyclopropanes: Insight into the Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Electron rich aryl cyclopropanes were ultimately synthesized through transition metal couplings of aryl bromides that cyclized with high enantioselectivity. Rooted in the classic homoallylic cation rearrangement, in situ generated aryl sulfonates readily provided vinyl cyclopropanes in excellent yields.
      • keywords: activation; aldehydes; aryl; cyclopropanes; electron; enantioselectivity; formation; homoallylic; oligocyclopropanes; yields
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2019. cr56n01204p
      • author: Ana Laura Rodriguez Gusta
      • title: Evaluative Ratings and Gender: The Dynamics of Assessing Employee Performance in Three Organizations in the Uruguayan's Public Sector
      • date: 2004
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: This strategic use of organizational rules is rooted in the lack of fit between the institutional basis of the performance appraisals and supervisors' own assessments of the workplace, including the impact of ratings on their work groups, thus calling attention to the political nature of personnel management. As a determinant of inequality, I conclude that the political nature of organizational rules is a crucial factor in light of increasingly gender-integrated workplaces and continual managerial reforms of public bureaucracies.
      • keywords: evaluative; gender; inequality; organizational; ratings; rules; supervisors
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2020. cr56n012082
      • author: Marcelo Carlos Leiras
      • title: Parties, provinces and electoral coordination: a study on the determinants of party and party system aggregation in Argentina, 1983-2005
      • date: 2008
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: The fragmentation of national party systems may grow when different parties compete effectively in different districts. The extent to which national fragmentation resembles district level fragmentation is a measure of the degree of aggregation of party systems.
      • keywords: coordination; different; national; nationalization; parties; party; problems
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2021. cr56n01209d
      • author: Ineke Murakami
      • title: 'Public, Scurrilous and Profane': Transformations in Moral Drama and Political Economy, 1465-1599
      • date: 2006
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Challenging long held critical assumptions about the 'morality play's' 'tedious' rehashing of conservative religious doctrine, I argue that moral drama is an intensely political form from its inception, and that playwrights from the late fifteenth century to the height of Elizabethan playing use literary and performance conventions to both veil and articulate inflammatory perspectives on social justice, labor, and commercialism. By closely reading literary and performance conventions, I reveal that the difference between early and late moral drama is best grasped not as the break typically depicted in periodizing accounts but as a proliferation of the spirit of innovation intrinsic to moral drama.
      • keywords: capitalist; chapter; drama; labor; market; moral; relations; social; state
      • versions: original; plain text
2022. cr56n012218
      • author: Mary-Reginald Anibueze
      • title: Eucharistic Communion and Rituals of Communion in Igbo Culture: An Integrative Study of Liturgy, Faith, and Culture
      • date: 1904
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In line with the clear expressions of the theological and relational aspects of Eucharistic communion in terms of thanksgiving, meal sharing, fellowship, reconciliation, and unity, this dissertation relates these themes to the traditional rituals of communion expressed in Igbo culture, for an enrichment of Igbo Catholicism. Therefore an integrative study of liturgy, faith, and culture, establishes the theological and relational aspects of both the traditional rituals of communion in Igbo culture and the Christian understanding of Eucharistic communion, for a truly inculturated Eucharistic theology.
      • keywords: communion; eucharistic; gospel; igbo; message; rituals
      • versions: original; plain text
2023. cr56n01256x
      • author: Paul Johns
      • title: Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Gold Nanostructures: Conversion, Coupling, and Confinement
      • date: 1904
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Other key issues include coupling between nanostructures and the interactions of multiple SPP modes launched simultaneously. Despite SPP usefulness, the effects of defects in the supporting substrate, the effects of defects in the nanostructures, and the effects of the geometry of nanostructures on the modes, the mode shapes, and various mode characteristics (such as damping as measured by propagation length) has not been well understood.
      • keywords: effects; mode; nanostructures; plasmon; spp; substrate
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2024. cr56n012p1v
      • author: Patricia M Schnepp
      • title: Integrative Bioinformatic and Experimental Investigation of the Mechanisms of Brain Metastatic Adaptation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Furthermore, I compared the surrounding microenvironment during the early and late stages of brain metastases. Based on a distinct metabolic transcriptome profile in brain metastases compared to their primary tumor counterparts, I hypothesized that metabolic transcriptome shifting during metastatic evolution is crucial for metastatic success to the brain.
      • keywords: analysis; brain; gad1; global; metastatic; primary; transcriptome; tumor
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2025. cr56n012q2h
      • author: Keith Joseph Feldman
      • title: Beyond Modeling: The Emergent Role of Informatics in Advancing Healthcare Knowledge
      • date: 1904
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This dissertation will present the notion that informatics techniques now provide an opportunity to advance health knowledge by providing evidence in a manner that realizes a broader set of Bloom learning objectives from understanding to synthesis. It will first highlight the ability of informatics to provide a deeper understanding of health data and models employed in practice and research.
      • keywords: data; health; informatics; knowledge; learning
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2026. cr56n01312k
      • author: Tyler Anderson
      • title: Measurement of 36Cl Production Cross Sections for Nuclear Astrophysics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 255
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This goal led to the start of a campaign for measuring production cross sections for the SLR 36Cl, where Bowers et al. found higher cross sections for the 33S(alpha,p)36Cl reaction than were predicted by Hauser-Feshbach based nuclear reaction codes TALYS and NON-SMOKER. Reducing uncertainty on critical reaction cross sections can both enable more precise predictions and provide constraints on physical processes and environments in the early solar system.
      • keywords: cross; production; reaction; sections; system; talys
      • versions: original; plain text
2027. cr56n013179
      • author: Yinan Li
      • title: Noise Injection and Noise Augmentation for Model Regularization, Differential Privacy and Statistical Learning
      • date: 2020
      • words: 382
      • flesch: -11
      • summary: My dissertation includes whiteout in Neural Networks, which adaptively inject noise into nodes to achieve regularization effects and promote robustness; fast Converging and Robust Optimal Path Selection (CROPS) in continuous-time Markov-switching generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (COMS-GARCH) process, CROPS is a Bernoulli NI enhanced Markov Chain Expectation Maximization (MC-EM) algorithm that improves accuracy in both hidden path identification and volatility estimation and achieve ensemble learning and robustness effects; AdaPtive Noise Augmentation (PANDA) in Generalized Linear Models (GLMs), PANDA realizes a wide range of existing regularization effects and also exact L0 regularization with little computational burden through the orthogonal regularization I proposed, PANDA also provides tighter confidence intervals with higher coverage probability for both zero and non-zero estimated parameters under variable selection regularization; PANDA in Undirected Graphical Models (UGMs), PANDA realized both likelihood based graphical L0, I proposed for Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) and existing Neighborhood Selection methods in UGMs; adaptive Noise Augmentation for differentially Private (NAP) Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM), NAP-ERM mitigates over regularization issue in existing works, hence improves utility, it also simultaneously achieves regularization and differential privacy (DP) through noise augmentation. As part of the future work, I extended PANDA L0 regularization into Support Vector Machine (SVM), I generalized the concept of orthogonal regularization to realize rank regularization in both multiple response GLMs and Tensor Regressions, I expect the combination of rank regularization and NAP-ERM show high utility while guaranteeing DP, I also expect there to be a more rigorous proof for graphical L0 by using duality.
      • keywords: augmentation; effects; erm; graphical; methods; models; nap; noise; panda; regularization
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2028. cr56n01318n
      • author: Caitlin Smith
      • title: Writing through Darkness: Doubt and Spiritual Life-Writing from Jonathan Edwards to Herman Melville
      • date: 2020
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: By understanding how these authors sought to structure, contain, cultivate, or anticipate doubt, my project demonstrates how nineteenth-century Americans used experimental literary form for the work of writing their life stories and recognizing the stories of others. My dissertation examines doubt in American spiritual life-writing, from 1734-1876.
      • keywords: american; authors; dissertation; doubt; religious
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2029. cr56n013326
      • author: Sara Y. Kim
      • title: Stress, Sleep, and the Emotional Enhancement of Memory: An fMRI Investigation of Prioritized Encoding and Consolidation
      • date: 2021
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This dissertation investigated (1) the effects of pre-encoding stress on neural correlates of emotional memory encoding and (2) interactive effects of stress, encoding processes, and subsequent sleep on emotional memory consolidation. However, there was no evidence for stress–sleep interactions, as defined in the present study, on emotional memory consolidation.
      • keywords: emotional; memory; sleep; stress
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2030. cr56n013446
      • author: Mette Evelyn Bjerre
      • title: To Be, or Not to Be Danish: Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Racial Identity in a 'Raceless' Society
      • date: 2022
      • words: 552
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In the third paper, I argue that although White multi-ethnic Danes benefit from White privilege and have access to cultural citizenship and 'Danishness', some experience social exclusion and feel conflicted about their national belonging. Multi-ethnic Danes grow up with more than one cultural orientation within their homes and between home and majority culture.
      • keywords: cultural; danes; ethnic; identity; multiracial; race; racialisation; social; status; white
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2031. cr56n013504
      • author: John Haug
      • title: Hyperbolic Metasurfaces for Structured Illumination Microscopy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The goal of this work is to is to lay the groundwork for the use and application of these metasurfaces in obtaining super-resolution images through SIM.We demonstrate the ability to engineer the dispersion of modes present along the top of silver nanoridge array metasurfaces through simulations. There have been a variety of techniques to overcome this resolution limit to produce what are known as super-resolution images.
      • keywords: illumination; images; imaging; metasurfaces; modes; resolution; sim; super
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2032. cr56n01357j
      • author: Kalie Pead
      • title: She Speaks
      • date: 2023
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 65
      • summary: The generator creates a three card tarot spread erasure poem on the click of a button. She Speaks is a collection of poetry that explores the depths of reader interaction, randomization, and fate.
      • keywords: card; today
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2033. cv43nv95765
      • author: Maxwell Edward Agnew
      • title: Surge and Wave Propagation over Wetlands with Respect to Storm Forward Speed
      • date: 2012
      • words: 512
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: approach; area; coverage; friction; land; mesh; model; nested; new; surge
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2034. cv43nv9580d
      • author: Robert K Garcia
      • title: Nominalist Constituent Ontologies: A Development and Critique
      • date: 2010
      • words: 603
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: And, as I will argue in Chapter 4, the strongest version of nominalism is a novel account, modeled after trope theory, that deploys AN's basic strategy at a more fundamental level than that of ordinary objects. Thus, while troper theory is the best nominalist account on offer, it is ultimately inadequate as an account of the character of ordinary objects.
      • keywords: account; nominalist; objects; ordinary; strategy; theory; trope
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2035. cv43nv9581r
      • author: Michael Strand
      • title: A Genealogy of Social Justice: Britain, 1834-1914
      • date: 2013
      • words: 423
      • flesch: -6
      • summary: My argument develops a purposive (or why) based account of the development and introduction of social policy paradigms that stands in contrast to approaches rooted in either political ideology or in social policy modeled as the rational response to social problems as brute facts. From this analysis, I develop an explanatory model for the effects of moral meanings derived from the genesis of shared normative categories; this offers a way of fostering mutually binding social critique that departs from the principles of communicative action; I contribute a new argument for the role that social justice meanings play in general processes of institutionalization; I also offer a moral and evaluative counterweight to contemporary neo-Polanyian understandings of the amoral market in economic sociology; finally, I identify endogenous mechanisms for theorizing macro-cultural change (like rationalization) as part of non-derivative cultural processes.
      • keywords: analysis; britain; contrast; cultural; justice; meanings; moral; policy; problems; social
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2036. cv43nv95823
      • author: Catherine M. Punsalan-Manlimos
      • title: Langdon Gilkey's Theology of Culture: A Guide for Engaging Science and Religion in the Philippine Context
      • date: 2007
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: It argues that neither liberation theology nor current discourse in science and religion adequately engages all three elements. More specifically, it presents the development of Gilkey's thoughts on the relationship of science and religion, which moves his theology of culture into a theology of nature.
      • keywords: gilkey; religion; science; theology; work
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2037. cv43nv9583f
      • author: Christopher Porter
      • title: Mathematical and Philosophical Perspectives on Algorithmic Randomness
      • date: 2012
      • words: 554
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Prior to evaluating the Martin-L f-Chaitin Thesis and related randomness-theoretic theses, in Chapters 8 and 9 we discuss two roles of definitions of randomness, both of which motivated much early work in the development of algorithmic randomness: the resolutory role of randomness, which is successfully filled by a definition of randomness that allows for the solution of problems in a specific theory of probability, and the exemplary role of randomness, which is successfully filled by a definition of randomness that counts as random certain sequences that exemplify the properties typically held by sequences chosen at random. Definitions filling the calibrative role allow us to calibrate the level of randomness necessary and sufficient for certain almost-everywhere results in classical mathematics to hold, while definitions filling the limitative role illuminate a phenomenon known as the indefinite contractibility of the notion of randomness.
      • keywords: chaitin; chapter; claim; definitions; martin; randomness; role; thesis
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2038. cv43nv9584s
      • author: Jennifer Suzanne Ross-Viola
      • title: The Effect of Soy Isoflavones on Nucleotide, Lipid and Drug Metabolism
      • date: 2008
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We hypothesize that consumption of soy isoflavones can alter gene expression in human and rodent models, and that this may be one mechanism by which soy lowers cholesterol. Since lipid- and cholesterol-lowering drugs are often prescribed concurrently with dietary modification, we are interested in elucidating potential interactions of soy isoflavones with prescription drugs.
      • keywords: bile; cholesterol; diet; dietary; isoflavones; levels; soy
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2039. cv43nv9586g
      • author: Amin Doostmohammadi
      • title: Settling and Swimming in Stratified Fluids: Rigid Particles to Self-Propelled Organisms
      • date: 2014
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: In addition, the results of our direct numerical simulations of the sedimentation of particles show that the presence of vertical density gradients in the water column can substantially affect the settling dynamics of a particle, interaction between pair of particles, and settling rates and microstructure of suspension of particles. Moreover, the role of stratification on reorientation of elongated particles at density interfaces is scrutinized.
      • keywords: density; particles; pycnoclines; stratification; water
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2040. cv43nv9587t
      • author: Jennifer Jungmin Kang
      • title: A Stage and Metronome for Translation Services
      • date: 2010
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: However, religion had a positive effect for the organization, in that it provided high EE to compensate for the loss of EE resulting from moments of translation; religion produced energy through its cultural actions, tools, and forms, with these assets resembling those cited in other church cultures, such as the black church culture. After spending one year in a social movement group, during which qualitative data was collected using ethnographic participant-observation methods, I found that this group engaged in two kinds of translation, both of which led to lower EE.
      • keywords: emotional; entrainment; group; religion; social; translation
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2041. cv43nv95885
      • author: David Charles Mengel
      • title: Bones, Stones, and Brothels: Religion and Topography in Prague under Emperor Charles IV (1346-78)
      • date: 2003
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: It provides an alternative to the rubrics and narratives that have dominated the study of religion in medieval Prague, while contributing to the growing literature on the significances of space in the Middle Ages. Each chapter of this dissertation explores one aspect of Prague's urban topography, the people who produced and inhabited it, and the implications for local religion.
      • keywords: chapter; charles; emperor; medieval; prague; religion; religious; topography
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2042. cv43nv95912
      • author: Daniel Gregory Perett
      • title: Calculated Insults: The Rhetorical Use of Invective by Latin Authors of the Imperial Age and Late Antiquity
      • date: 2012
      • words: 263
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The five main functions of invective are identified and discussed in a wide variety of texts, and are offered as a hermeneutic tool for a greater understanding of Latin texts, both imperial and patristic, in which artful insulting speech is used. This dissertation investigates the role of the rhetorical sub-genre of invective or vituperatio in the speeches and writings of four major Latin authors: Apuleius, Tertullian, Lactantius, and Jerome.
      • keywords: dissertation; invective; lactantius; latin; rhetorical; speech
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2043. cv43nv9592d
      • author: Lei Tong
      • title: Implementation of Reliability Index Approach Analysis Tool for Missile Trajectory Simulation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 91
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In this thesis, the Reliability Index Approach, RIA, and the Monte Carlo simulation were implemented as a reliability analysis tool for missile trajectory simulation. Testing was performed to verify the fidelity of the RIA solution and to compare computational time of analysis with a baseline Monte Carlo simulation.
      • keywords: ria; simulation
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2044. cv43nv9593r
      • author: Thade Jude Correa
      • title: The Falling Light
      • date: 2013
      • words: 2
      • flesch: -6
      • summary: Poetry collection.
      • keywords: poetry
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2045. cv43nv95943
      • author: Zhenqiu Lu
      • title: Bayesian Inference of Robust Growth Mixture Models with Non-Ignorable Missing Data
      • date: 2011
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Second, robust growth models with non-ignorable missing are proposed. Four non-ignorable missingness selection models are formulated with robust growth models.
      • keywords: data; growth; ignorable; missing; models; non; robust
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2046. cv43nv95b32
      • author: Victor L. Maqque
      • title: From the Cacique to the Community: Political Transformations in the Altiplano 1750-1850
      • date: 1904
      • words: 685
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Also, for relevant debates about peasant resistance and views on autonomy and nation, see James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak, Everyday forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, Reflections on the Origin and the Spread of Nationalism (NY: Verso, 1991), and Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1993). [2] See the case of Huachaca in Cecilia Mendes, The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State (Duke University Press, 2005); Bonilla, The Indian Peasantry and 'Peru' during the War with Chile in Stern Steve J., Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries, ed.
      • keywords: caciques; collective; colonial; commoners; communities; community; duke; indigenous; late; litigations; movements; nation; peasant; peru; political; press; process; system; university
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2047. cv43nv95b8s
      • author: Anjin Guo
      • title: SINR Distributions in Cellular Networks: Spatial Stochastic Model Fitting and Analyses
      • date: 1904
      • words: 453
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: For the fourth step, since the independent randomness in the positions of the BSs and the propagation conditions we usually assume does not comply with the real procedure of BS deployments, we propose a new class of cellular model, where BSs are deployed to make all users at cell edges achieve a minimum required signal power level from the serving BS. In this dissertation, we mainly study the SINR distributions and their properties in cellular networks.
      • keywords: bss; cellular; model; networks; performance; point; sinr; spatial; step
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2048. cv43nv95f7c
      • author: Bailey Mestayer Pittenger
      • title: Lawthy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 57
      • flesch: 70
      • summary: Sad Sad follows a woman who experiences a duplicity of self in the form of either human or raptor. This thesis includes the beginning excerpt from the novel Lawthy, and then a chapbook length set of micro prose titled Sad Sad.
      • keywords: lawthy; sad
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2049. cv43nv95z9q
      • author: Elisabetta Drudi
      • title: The Golden Age and Roman Imperial Autocracy: The Power of Myth-Making in Creating Political Consensus
      • date: 1904
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: The ideological association of the Golden Age with autocratic power did not emerge as a monolithic cultural program as soon as the first emperor Augustus established the Principate; it was the product of a progressive appropriation of the traditional constituents of the myth – peace, prosperity, justice, equity, social equality, harmony of men and nature, guaranteed by the rule of the god Saturn – in literary and material culture, which over time created a symbolism that immediately identified the imperial regime. The chronological trajectory of the myth which this project examines reveals how the rhetoric of the Golden Age came to be a cultural discourse in Roman society, which eventually substantiated imperial ideology.
      • keywords: age; golden; golden age; imperial; myth
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2050. cv43nv96d18
      • author: Brooke Stemple
      • title: Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry of the Engineered Deep Biosphere Exposed to Carbon Storage and Hydraulic Fracturing Environments
      • date: 2022
      • words: 667
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Our microbial community analysis revealed important microbial taxa with putative functions including sulfide and acid production, and biofilm formation that could affect reservoir quality and the long-term storage of CO2 in this system. This dissertation work sheds light on microbial community composition in a potential carbon storage reservoir to understand how CO2-impacted microbial communities may influence the fate and permeance of stored CO2.
      • keywords: analysis; carbon; co2; community; gas; important; microbial; observed; potential; production; recovery; reservoir; shale; storage; water
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2051. cv43nv96d5n
      • author: Paul Friesen
      • title: Democratic Enculturation: Explaining Inaugural Party Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
      • date: 2022
      • words: 590
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: First, inaugural ruling parties continue to benefit from nationalist branding, the strength of which is determined by the degree of struggle against colonialist regimes. Inaugural ruling parties may be integrated into the military, state bureaucracy, and national vision of the country in ways that create both material and symbolic advantages that cannot be rivaled by opposition parties.
      • keywords: african; authority; botswana; citizens; countries; democratic; inaugural; parties; party; political; power; systems
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2052. cv43nv96f7n
      • author: Han Gao
      • title: Scientific Deep Learning for Forward and Inverse Modeling of Spatiotemporal Physics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 94
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Taken together, the frameworks presented in this thesis offer useful insight into the impact of modern deep learning models on solving challenging spatiotemporal systems in physics. To achieve this, modern deep learning models for complex systems were developed by integrating machine learning, numerical methods, and probabilistic modeling.
      • keywords: learning; systems
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2053. cz30pr78h8x
      • author: Amy M McHenry
      • title: Immunological characterization of the P. vivax DBP
      • date: 2009
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: blood; cells; invasion; malaria; parasite; pvdbp; specific; vaccine
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2054. cz30pr78h98
      • author: Gabriela Illiann Burgos Sol rzano
      • title: Supercritical Fluid Technology: Computational and Experimental Equilibrium Studies and Design of Supercritical Extraction Processes
      • date: 2004
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Among all the wide variety of interesting studies that can emerge from this technology, we focused on three main concerns to obtain a better insight into SCF's: (1) the computational study of high-pressure chemical and multiphase equilibrium and the importance of mathematical validation of the number of phases and composition after reaction, (2) the experimental and modeling of solubilities of solutes in SCF's, and (3) the design and optimization of supercritical extraction processes (SFE). Finally, a computational method for the optimization of SFE processes is studied.
      • keywords: applications; computational; equilibrium; experimental; importance; methodology; scf; supercritical; technology
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2055. cz30pr78j0g
      • author: Paul Edward Slaboch
      • title: Fluid Mechanics and Passive Control of the Flow-Excited Helmholtz Resonator
      • date: 2010
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: The forcing magnitude was found to increase with speed over a range of flow speeds. The resulting expressions were used to guide an experimental program designed to obtain measurements of the resonator pressure under flow excitation, as well as the dynamics of the shear layer in the orifice using Particle Image Velocimetry.
      • keywords: flow; layer; orifice; resonance; resonator; scale
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2056. cz30pr78j6j
      • author: Feride Tiglay
      • title: The Cauchy Problem for Two Nonlinear Evolution Equations
      • date: 2005
      • words: 75
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Modifying the techniques developed for Euler equations of hydrodynamics, we prove local well-posedness results in Sobolev spaces. Finally we describe the Hamiltonian structure of the Euler-Poisson equation on a semidirect product space.
      • keywords: equation; euler
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2057. cz30pr78k0s
      • author: Lindsay Ann Seders
      • title: Experimental Studies of Geochemical Reactions that Affect the Mobility of Metals and Nanoparticles of Environmental Interest
      • date: 2010
      • words: 228
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Three experimental studies will be described: 1) flow-through column experiments to study the effects of NOM on Cd(II) mobility and of Cd(II) on NOM sorptive fractionation in various types of mineral sands; 2) an investigation of influence of pH, nanoparticle size, and nanoparticle concentration on the adhesion of titanium dioxide nanoparticles to silica and iron-coated silica grains; and 3) the use of potentiometric titrations and chemical equilibrium modeling to evaluate the proton binding of bacterial exudates collected from Gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis) and Gram-negative (Shewanella oneidensis) bacterial species. This research focuses on the interactions of NOM, cadmium (Cd(II)), and nanoparticles with geosorbents, as well as the potential reactivity of bacterial exudates, under a range of aqueous conditions.
      • keywords: adhesion; adsorption; bacterial; cd(ii; nanoparticles; nom
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2058. cz30pr78k14
      • author: Nahyan A.G. Fancy
      • title: Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Naf&#299;s (d. 1288)
      • date: 2006
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In the process, it provides a new framework with which to understand the relationship between reason and revelation in Islamic societies, and suggests new ways to revisit the entire problem of the decline of Islamic science. Traditionally, historians of science have only been interested in Islamic science because of its relationship to Greek science, and in the ways in which it was instrumental in transporting Aristotle, Ptolemy and Galen to the West.
      • keywords: dissertation; ibn; islamic; naf&#299;s; new; science
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2059. cz30pr79730
      • author: Anh P Ha
      • title: Parental Post Conflict Explanations: Implications for Children's Adjustment Outcomes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: The identification of these post-conflict explanations represents a step forward in detecting destructive communication behaviors in hope of incorporating novel interventions in projects designed to improve communication and security within the family. Longitudinal mediation analyses were conducted for these subscales' effect on adolescent internalizing and externalizing outcomes and indirect effect as mediated by emotional security.
      • keywords: conflict; effect; post
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2060. cz30pr79792
      • author: Alexander Wimberly
      • title: Present Witness: The Confession of 1967 and the Travails of Presbyterians in American Society
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In particular, studying the Confession of 1967 shows why the denomination's response to James Forman's Black Manifesto and its support of Angela Davis's legal defense fund crystallized divisions within and between Presbyterian denominations. In so doing, denominational leaders risked splitting their church along lines that divided Americans more generally, rather than uniting it around a shared belief and common purpose.
      • keywords: america; church; confession; culture; denomination; landmark; reconciliation; significant
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2061. cz30pr79d4w
      • author: Charles C. Yost
      • title: The Thought and Ministry of a "Unionist Priest" (ἑνωτικὸς ἱερεύς): John Plousiadenos (†1500), the Council of Florence, and the Tradition of Byzantine Unionism
      • date: 2019
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: byzantine; dissertation; greek; john; latin; plousiadenos; tradition; unionist
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2062. cz30pr79k4f
      • author: Meredith M. Doellman
      • title: Characterizing the Genomic Architecture of Divergence along the Speciation Continuum in the Rhagoletis pomonella Species Group
      • date: 2019
      • words: 487
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Thus, despite an estimated magnitude of ongoing gene flow similar to that of host races, R. pomonella and the FDF remain genomically distinct both in sympatry and globally, suggesting a rapid transition across the GWC tipping point. This dissertation examines genome-wide divergence along this continuum from genic (host race) to genomic (species) phases of differentiation, providing an empirical test for theoretical models of divergence via genome-wide congealing (GWC).
      • keywords: divergence; gene; genome; host; loci; pomonella; selection; species
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2063. cz30pr79k95
      • author: Linh Nguyen
      • title: Essays in Development Economics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: One stylized fact in development economics is that a large share of the labor force in developing countries is concentrated in agriculture even though their agricultural productivity is much lower than their non-agricultural productivity. The second chapter investigates the effect of land titling on employment migration and education migration of rural households as land market frictions can hinder labor mobility in developing countries.
      • keywords: agricultural; countries; labor; land; migration; productivity
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2064. cz30pr79n0p
      • author: Giovanni Di Cristina Torres
      • title: Forced Convective Flame-Flow Interactions in Discrete Fuel Arrays
      • date: 2021
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: This regime of flame spread inversion coincided with a change in flame behavior which resulted in fragmented, independent flames, rather than one continuous flame area. In order to incorporate the effects of the changing mixing conditions and flame behaviors, a stagnation point flow model is employed for the heat flux.
      • keywords: array; behavior; flame; flow; spread; tunnel; wind
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2065. cz30pr79n3q
      • author: Pitambar Sapkota
      • title: Photoelectron Spectroscopic Studies of Energy Converting Semiconductor Materials and Their Interfaces with Molecular Gases
      • date: 2021
      • words: 226
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: cells; energy; materials; molecular; promising; solar
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2066. cz30pr79n42
      • author: Ross Jensen
      • title: Love and the Politics of Place
      • date: 2021
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: For the most part, environmental virtue ethicists have not talked much about love. The first major claim of this dissertation is that love of home is the preeminent environmental virtue.
      • keywords: dissertation; environmental; love; virtue
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2067. cz30pr79p1b
      • author: Nicholas Geneva
      • title: Modern Deep Learning for Modeling Dynamical Systems
      • date: 2022
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Advances in deep learning have made constructing, training and deploying deep neural networks more accessible than ever before. With several key research breakthroughs in the deep learning field, modern deep learning architectures are now more accurate and generalizable facilitating improved physics-informed models.
      • keywords: deep; learning; networks; neural
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2068. cz30pr79q3b
      • author: Timothy Tetrault
      • title: Solution and Solid-State NMR Studies to Advance the Application of MA'AT Analysis for Structural and Conformational Analysis of Saccharides
      • date: 2023
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; biological; chapter; dft; experimental; ma'at; use
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2069. cz30pr79q9d
      • author: Lance Carroll
      • title: KAIROS
      • date: 2023
      • words: 6
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: A hybrid memoir about conversion therapy.
      • keywords: therapy
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2070. d217qn61s8s
      • author: Peter James Bui
      • title: AIR: Accelerated Image Registration
      • date: 2010
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This compares favorably to recent image registration studies, but it also indicates that our implementation only reaches about 70% of theoretical peak performance. To analyze our results, we utilize profiling data to identify some of the underlying limitations of CUDA that prohibit peak performance.
      • keywords: gpu; implementation; performance; speedup
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2071. d217qn61t21
      • author: Yuting Wang
      • title: An Uncertain Future: Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Mosque in the Post-9.11 United States
      • date: 2010
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This dissertation contributes to the growing literature on American Muslims, especially on their religious life and identity issues in the post-9.11 American society, as well as the general literature on immigrant religion. The core question is that how Muslim immigrants negotiate their multiple identities in relation to the racial/ethnic differences, divergent visions of Islam, varied socioeconomic status, competing views of gender roles and ambivalent attitudes toward American society among the younger generations.
      • keywords: american; divergent; diverse; immigrant; muslims
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2072. d217qn61t3c
      • author: Drew Kalbach
      • title: Planchette, Loud, Spooky Plan
      • date: 2013
      • words: 21
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: Planchette, Loud, Spooky Plan is a manuscript of poetry that deals with media, culture, the internet, and other online-related issues.
      • keywords: planchette
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2073. d217qn61t4q
      • author: Xiangyi Liu
      • title: Application of Mechano-Regulatory Tissue Differentiation Theory in Tendon Attachment Scaffold Design - A Finite Element Study
      • date: 2008
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: algorithm; attachment; bone; differentiation; implant; ingrowth; tendon; tissue
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2074. d217qn61t52
      • author: Jessica Mary Zekus
      • title: Youthful Days
      • date: 2012
      • words: 402
      • flesch: 67
      • summary: Our memories of both extremes (and everything in between) contribute to shaping who we are, how we see ourselves, and how we view others. It is a time during which self-discovery is dependent on the presence and affirmation of others.
      • keywords: childhood; clay; coils; memories; time; work
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2075. d217qn61t6d
      • author: Matthew Van Hook
      • title: Alexander Hamilton: A Theory of Statesmanship
      • date: 2015
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: and absolute&mdash;and offered a multi-tiered proposal on forms of government suited for the perpetuation of the free regime, accounting for the habits, mores, and present opinions of its citizens. He began with the public consensus that the American body politic was connected with free government and elucidated its natural rights source and the principle foundations of the English constitution and colonial charters which put it into practice.
      • keywords: government; hamilton; political; regime; statesman; statesmanship; theory
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2076. d217qn61t83
      • author: Michael Thomas Hartney
      • title: Turning Out Teachers: The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Political Activism in the Postwar United States
      • date: 2014
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 20
      • 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?
      • keywords: bargaining; collective; education; political; politics; states; teachers; unions
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2077. d217qn61t9f
      • author: Yanghai Yu
      • title: Photoelectronic Properties of CdSe and CdTe Nanowires
      • date: 2010
      • words: 454
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: While the polarization sensitivity of single or aligned NW ensembles is a well known phenomenon, we surprisingly found the existence of a residual photocurrent polarization sensitivity even in random NW networks. The main conclusion from these studies, however, is that polarization sensitive devices can be made from random NW networks without the need to align component wires.
      • keywords: cdse; cdte; cells; devices; growth; networks; nws; polarization; random; solar
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2078. d217qn61v0n
      • author: Marlene Leydy Daut
      • title: Science of Desire: Race and Representations of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1865
      • date: 2008
      • words: 389
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: black; century; chapter; desire; haitian; mulatto; nineteenth; revolution; toussaint
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2079. d217qn61v3p
      • author: Yvonne Anya Gaspar
      • title: Between The Plant Sciences: Richard Bradley's Study of Horticulture, Botany and Landscape Design
      • date: 2012
      • words: 228
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Of particular interest are his efforts to develop technological solutions to aesthetic problems in design of the garden, such as his proposal for the construction of scale models of gardens that allowed designers to visualize the effects of different prospects by mapping the lines of sight at different views. Conclusions will argue for an understanding of the way in which horticulture might be seen to act as an intermediary for changes in eighteenth-century arts and sciences.
      • keywords: bradley; design; landscape; natural; plant; sciences
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2080. d217qn61v41
      • author: Min Xie
      • title: Channel Access and Packet Scheduling in Wireless Multihop Networks with QoS Guarantees
      • date: 2008
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Packet dropping strategies are employed to guarantee delay constraints and reduce unnecessary energyconsumption. The Quality of Service (QoS) parameters under study include delay, packet loss rate, throughput, and capacity.
      • keywords: delay; mac; packet; traffic; wireless; wmns
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2081. d217qn61v5c
      • author: Lynda Brigytt Letona Rodriguez
      • title: Fugitive Lovers
      • date: 2014
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: After reading an article in National Geographic titled The Mysterious End of Moctezuma, in a special History issue, I began thinking about the conquest and creating a fictional character whose name I would find a year later, after I read Bartolom&eacute; de Las Casas' A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, during a Caribbean Literature course taught by poet and Creative Director Orlando Menes. In the first part of this poetry series, I'm reimagining Bartolom&eacute; de Las Casas as a priest who is very invested in this subaltern narrative and trying to help their cause not merely out of duty to his faith, but out of love for the fictional figure of Anaca&iacute;da.
      • keywords: bartolom&eacute; casas; fictional; las
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2082. d217qn61v6q
      • author: Karolina Serafin
      • title: Culture in Second Language Acquisition
      • date: 2006
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: In order to understand the importance of culture for the second language acquisition the author analyzes the nature of culture within this specific context and its connection with language, and proves that the teaching of target culture brings benefits to teaching of foreign lanaguage. The author reviews the significance of the teaching of second culture looking for asnwers to several questions, such as: Is it possible to separate language from culture?
      • keywords: culture; foreign; language; teaching
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2083. d217qn61w5p
      • author: MacKenzie Warren
      • title: Neutrinos in Core-Collapse Supernovae
      • date: 1904
      • words: 569
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: I have found that the accretion process itself does not does not provide sufficient X-ray luminosity to explain the observed gamma ray burst X-ray precursor. This equation of state is built upon the framework of the Bowers &amp; Wilson EoS, but with many updates, including a reformulation to a Density Functional Theory approach, the incorporation of 3-body forces at high densities, an improved treatment of the transition to heavy nuclei at high densities, and the possibility of a first-order or crossover transition to a deconfined quark phase at densities above nuclear matter density.
      • keywords: collapse; core; equation; explosion; mechanism; neutrino; nuclear; ray; star; state; supernova; thesis
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2084. d217qn61x50
      • author: Andrew John Allen Geist
      • title: 'He Will Repay Him With Good': The Relationship Between Wealth and Piety in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel
      • date: 1904
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The study reveals a shared theological grammar of wealth and piety which surfaces in three forms: the dangerous or illusory quality of wealth, economic generosity as a form of piety, and economic metaphors for piety. In identifying these features of the relationship between wealth and piety the study explores the conceptual ancestry of Second Temple Jewish and early Christian theologies of wealth and almsgiving.
      • keywords: akkadian; dissertation; economic; generosity; hebrew; piety; wealth
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2085. d217qn62j1g
      • author: Anne L Tufts
      • title: Numerical Investigation of Sound Generation by Airfoil Interaction with a Turbulent Shear Layer
      • date: 1904
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Near the trailing edge of both the center and high airfoils an increase in high-frequency spectral levels is observed, confirming important trailing-edge contribution to the high-frequency radiated sound. The turbulent shear layer is generated using a separate temporal simulation and fed into airfoil simulations as an inflow boundary condition to closely match the setup of a previous experiment.
      • keywords: airfoil; edge; high; layer; positions; shear; sound
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2086. d217qn62j5v
      • author: Jared A. Lamp
      • title: Electrophoretic and Chromatographic Separations with Mass Spectrometry Detection for Peptide, Glycan, and Antibody Analysis
      • date: 2018
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: I first investigate the proteome of wing imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster larvae incubated in adult Drosophila melanogaster extract. I next coupled capillary electrophoresis to mass spectrometry for the analysis of standard oligosaccharide solutions and glycosylation modifications cleaved from human IgG. I then developed a novel glycan labeling technique utilizing rhodamine 6G. Finally, capillary isoelectric focusing coupled to ESI-TOF-MS is used for the online focusing, separation, and identification of monoclonal antibody charge state variants.
      • keywords: mass; phase; proteome; spectrometry
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2087. d217qn62w4m
      • author: Justin Saxby
      • title: The Sublime Unselfing of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Sermons
      • date: 2020
      • words: 113
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This dissertation suggests that Ralph Waldo Emerson's sermons may be fruitfully read as Christian mystical texts in light of Bernard McGinn's discussion of Western Christian mysticism. More specifically: Emerson's sermons, read systematically with McGinn's historical survey in mind, describe the preparation, pursuit, experience and expression of a mystical encounter with the Divine.
      • keywords: emerson; mystical; sermons
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2088. d217qn62x1w
      • author: Nicholas P. Roberts
      • title: A Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Saʿid bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
      • date: 2021
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: capitalism; empire; global; new; omani; world
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2089. d217qn62z78
      • author: Maria Cristina Miranda Vergara
      • title: Microenvironmental Changes by Stromal MMP3 Regulate Primary Tumor Growth and Lung Metastasis in Breast Cancer
      • date: 2022
      • words: 453
      • flesch: 38
      • 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.
      • keywords: breast; cancer; cells; inhibitory; mammary; mmp3; role; stromal; tumor
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2090. d217qn6303g
      • author: Craig Waitt
      • title: First-Principles Studies of Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems: Reactivity and Stability of Surfaces and Zeolites
      • date: 2022
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: First, I describe and present several approaches to evaluate the free energy and entropy of adsorbed atoms and molecules on metal surfaces. Second, I present results regarding the stability of defects in zeolites post-dealumination.
      • keywords: computational; defect; free; plasma; present; stability; zeolites
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2091. d504rj4530p
      • author: Joel N Jimenez Lozano
      • title: Peristaltic Flow with Application to Ureteral Biomechanics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 671
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: It is concluded that peristaltic pumping is affected as particle volume fraction is increased. This is motivated by the possible presence of particles accompanying ureteral peristalsis.
      • keywords: bifurcations; equations; experimental; flow; fluid; parameters; particle; peristaltic; phase; pumping; results; solution; ureteral; urinary; wave
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2092. d504rj45311
      • author: Kristen Nicole Fleming
      • title: Total Synthesis of the Cytotoxic Natural Products Myriaporones 1, 3, and 4 and Related Analogues
      • date: 2004
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Current synthetic efforts toward a number of analogues will demonstrate how very slight modifications to our established route will lead to the formation of a diverse array of new potential chemotherapeutic agents. This dissertation details the synthetic efforts that ultimately culminated in the first successful total synthesis of the cytotoxic marine natural products myriaporones 1, 3, and 4.
      • keywords: analogues; myriaporones; natural; products; synthesis; tedanolides; total
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2093. d504rj4532c
      • author: Brian Scott Dudley
      • title: Flavor Physics Effect on Beyond the Standard Model Physics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 498
      • flesch: 56
      • 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.
      • keywords: experiments; flavor; higgs; lhc; new; sector; susy
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2094. d504rj4538f
      • author: Mireya Garcia-Duran Huet
      • title: Reconciliation: Seeking Peace and Justice Through Non-Oppression
      • date: 2004
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Specifically, it looks at the wys in which non-violent peace seekers react to oppression. This thesis argues that oppression can be seen as a continuum in which oppressive reactions to oppression appear, limiting the reconciliation process.
      • keywords: oppression; reconciliation
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2095. d504rj4542p
      • author: Jeremy Newkirk
      • title: Measurement and Quantification of the Human Shoulder Girdle Motion and Design of a Humanoid Shoulder Girdle Mechanism with Minimal Actuation
      • date: 2013
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The results from the data collection were used to find the optimal configuration for this mechanism to mimic human shoulder girdle motion. The results indicate that the optimized mechanism well approximates the motion of the human shoulder girdle, making it the first mechanism that replicates human shoulder girdle motion with minimal actuation.
      • keywords: equations; girdle; human; mechanism; motion; shoulder
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2096. d504rj45431
      • author: Tonia L. Warnecke
      • title: The Incorporation of Gender in Economic Development
      • date: 2007
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: While, on the surface, this makes the importance of gender seem apparent, it also isolates gender research from other divisions such as macroeconomics and growth. Although many economists study issues of gender equality in microeconomic analyses, the ways that gender interacts with the macroeconomy have only recently become a subject of interest.
      • keywords: chapter; gender; macroeconomic; models; structure; unpaid; ways
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2097. d504rj45509
      • author: Matthew J. Meagher
      • title: Engineering Synthetic Bone Graft Substitutes with Improved Mechanical Properties, Enhanced Bioactivity, and On-Demand Growth Factor Delivery
      • date: 1904
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 11
      • 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.
      • keywords: angiogenesis; bone; collagen; osteogenesis; scaffolds
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2098. d504rj45551
      • author: Benjamin J. Wetzel
      • title: American Crusade: Lyman Abbott and the Christian Nation at War, 1861-1918
      • date: 1904
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: For Abbott as well as for these counterpoint groups, ideological orientation and social position did the most to shape perspectives on American warfare and influence their wartime commentary. An understanding of American history in the Civil War Era, Gilded Age, and Progressive Era remains incomplete without reckoning with the ways religion was mobilized to support or oppose warfare.
      • keywords: abbott; american; congregationalist minister; groups; war
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2099. d504rj4556c
      • author: Joseph S. Manser
      • title: Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskites for Light Energy Conversion: Excited State Properties and Photovoltaic Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Advancements in thin film processing and our understanding of the underlying structural, photophysical, and electronic properties of these materials over the past several years have led to development of perovskite solar cells with power conversion efficiencies that rival much more mature first- and second-generation technologies. Time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy serves as a principle tool in these investigations to analyze excited state decay kinetics and optical nonlinearities in perovskite thin films.
      • keywords: ch3nh3pbi3; excited; perovskite; properties; solar; splitting; state; tandem; thin; time; water
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2100. d504rj45s5m
      • author: Lorraine V. Cuddeback
      • title: Liberation, Resistance, and Agency in Intellectual Disability: An Ethnographic Study for Christian Ethics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 33
      • 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).
      • keywords: chapter; disabilities; idd; inclusion; people
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2101. d504rj45t1j
      • author: Christopher R. J. Scheirer
      • title: Written in Stone: The Roman Epigraphic Tradition and Anglo-Saxon Literature
      • date: 1904
      • words: 320
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This dissertation explores the transmission and reception of Roman epigraphic poetry in early-medieval England, using intensive source-study analysis to demonstrate its profound influence on native Anglo-Saxon literary culture. The dissertation also shows how Roman verse inscriptions not only influenced works composed by Anglo-Saxon authors in Latin, but also infiltrated their vernacular poetry in significant ways.
      • keywords: anglo; epigraphic; latin; literary; poetry; roman; saxons
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2102. d504rj45z6h
      • author: Meenu Garg
      • title: A Membrane-Based Biofilm Photobioreactor for Enhanced Algal Growth Rates
      • date: 2019
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Results suggest the proposed system would lead to higher algae growth rates, especially when high light intensity is used. Both 1-D and 2-D biofilm models were developed to assess performance compared to conventional algal biofilm reactors.
      • keywords: biofilm; rates; reactors
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2103. d504rj46439
      • author: Nancy Aguillón Díaz
      • title: White Stars and Stripes: The Effect of Race on Flag Displays at U.S. Protest Events
      • date: 2019
      • words: 118
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: flag; protest; u.s
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2104. d504rj4646b
      • author: Cunjia Qiu
      • title: Characterization of Plasminogen-Binding Group A Streptococcal M Proteins from the Aspects of Function, Structure, and Evolution
      • date: 2019
      • words: 383
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Although all PAMs tightly bind to hPg in a nM range at 25 °C, the reduction of α-helical content at 37 °C makes class II PAMs that only contain the a2-repeat interact with hPg ~1,000 times weaker, but impacts little to hPg-binding of class I/III PAMs containing complete a1a2-repeats. However, this protection disappears when the a1-repeat is absent in class II PAMs.
      • keywords: binding; class; gas; hpg; pams; repeat
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2105. d504rj4663x
      • author: Yunyang Gu
      • title: Influence of Loading on Tissue Differentiation and Bone Ingrowth in a Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model with the Application of Mechano-Regulation Algorithm
      • date: 2021
      • words: 217
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of various mechanical loading scenarios on osseointegration of an additively manufactured surface coating for orthopedic implants. The mechano-regulatory tissue differentiation algorithm developed by Prendergast et al. as modified by Liu et al., as well as the modified bone pathway algorithm, were implemented.
      • keywords: bone; differentiation; interface; model; similar; tissue
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2106. d504rj46915
      • author: Melissa Yorio
      • title: Early Christian Graffiti in the Basilica of Saint Felix, Cimitile
      • date: 2023
      • words: 112
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This thesis analyses the fourth-century hand-written wall inscriptions found in the Basilica of Saint Felix in Cimitile/Nola, and uses them to explore the non-Christian context of Campania in its relationship to the larger early Christian community in the Mediterranean. I introduce the history, context, and layout of the Basilica Vetus in Cimitile.
      • keywords: cimitile; context
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2107. d791sf28c0q
      • author: Amit Kumar Verma
      • title: Modulating Extreme Electron Densities in Complex Oxides
      • date: 2015
      • words: 434
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: We also demonstrate SrTiO3/GdTiO3 Schottky diodes and HEMTs on LSAT substrate modulating ~1014 cm-2 electron density, and SrTiO3/GdTiO3 Schottky diodes on (100) Si substrates modulating greater than 1.1 x 1014 cm-2 electron density. Using Au Schottky contacts, we demonstrate ~ 1.6 x 1014 cm-2 charge modulation in SrTiO3 MESFETs.
      • keywords: cm-2; contacts; density; electron; gdtio3; high; large; metal; schottky; srtio3
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2108. d791sf28c5f
      • author: Katelyn Ann Seprish
      • title: The Strange Hair and the Pretty Nipple
      • date: 2015
      • words: 527
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The summation of my quest is eloquently stated by Carolyn Korsmeyer: The complexity of aversive emotions bound up with artistic beauty creates a zone where horrid, beautiful, sublime and sublate can be difficult to distinguish. I rely on feminist theory and discourse, the work of other female artists wrestling with the complexities of feminism, as well as research on historical and current modes of biology and psychology.
      • keywords: beauty; body; female; historical; pleasure; relationship; research; sensuality; work
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2109. d791sf28c6s
      • author: Carly M Kemmis
      • title: Investigation of 1,25(OH)2D3 synthesis and vitamin D3 signaling in human mammary epithelial cells
      • date: 2008
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In contrast, DBP blunted the efficacy of 25D in MCF-7 cells, suggesting altered vitamin D signaling in breast cancer cells. Furthermore, we demonstrated internalization of vitamin D binding protein (DBP), CYP27B1 activity and 1,25D synthesis in mammary cells.
      • keywords: 1,25d; cancer; cells; mammary; vitamin
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2110. d791sf28c74
      • author: Ayan Paul
      • title: Charm Beyond the Standard Model
      • date: 2012
      • words: 463
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: These modes are dominated by long distance contributions and for new dynamics to produce any enhancements to the decay rates, the short distance contribution to these modes have to be enhanced by orders of magnitude, a task which is difficult in most new dynamics scenarios. With current results from CDF and LHCb on the asymmetry in D^0vto pi+pi- and D^0 to K+K- the ambiguity regarding whether D physics can or is showing hints of new dynamics has been given a new life.
      • keywords: asymmetries; asymmetry; decay; dynamics; modes; new
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2111. d791sf28c8g
      • author: Mary L Beard
      • title: Reaction Rate Calculations in Dense Stellar Matter
      • date: 2010
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The primary of these reaction mechanisms are electron capture reactions, which are activated for different isotopes depending on the electron Fermi energy. An interesting question on nuclear astrophysics is the fate of X-ray burst ashes as they descend under gravity to the deep layers of an accreting neutron star crust.
      • keywords: ashes; capture; electron; reactions
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2112. d791sf28d01
      • author: Amaresh Malipatil
      • title: Parameter Estimation in Distributed Sensor Networks and CFO Estimation in OFDM Systems
      • date: 2014
      • words: 417
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: We derive Cram`{e}r-Rao lower bound (CRLB) and approximate maximum-likelihood-estimators for CFO estimation in the static and time-varying channel scenarios. Analysis and simulation reveal that Doppler fading introduces a floor on the accuracy of CFO estimation.
      • keywords: cfo; energy; estimate; estimation; nlt; parameter; performance; sensor; solution
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2113. d791sf28d1c
      • author: Jim Thomas
      • title: Automated Damage Assessment from High Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery
      • date: 2010
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This work presents a first-of-its-kind system for automatic damage assessment. Damage detection from high-resolution satellite or aerial imagery for post-disaster analysis has been a major research effort in the past decade.
      • keywords: damage; detection; event; images
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2114. d791sf28d2q
      • author: Andrea Lindsay Turpin
      • title: Gender, Religion, and Moral Vision in the American Academy, 1837-1917
      • date: 2011
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Instead, institutions transmitted moral visions whose particulars were grounded in a conception of the sex-specific types of future service students could render their communities. This study explores how the entrance of women into American higher education in the nineteenth century affected the concurrent religious liberalization and ultimate secularization of the American academy.
      • keywords: century; colleges; education; higher; institutions; moral; universities; women
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2115. d791sf28d5r
      • author: Thomas Alan Duster
      • title: Experimental Determination of Metal Sorption and Transport Parameters for Graphene Oxide
      • date: 2013
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In Chapter 4, we use deposition rate coefficient measurements to establish that pH, ionic strength, and sand surface coatings all play critical roles in determining the transport of single-layered GO (SLGO) through laboratory columns. We use surface complexation modeling to calculate equilibrium constants for the surface sorption reactions between MLGO and protons, Cd, Pb, and U(VI), and we account for ionic strength effects as a competition between the target adsorbate and Na from the background electrolyte.
      • keywords: chapter; ionic; sorption; strength
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2116. d791sf28d63
      • author: Alan Anthony Arico
      • title: A Tribological Investigation of Carbon Carbon Composites and the Affect of Roughness and Waviness Parameters on Friction Performance
      • date: 2010
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: carbon; decrease; increase; mean
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2117. d791sf28d7f
      • author: Karilyn Goden Sheldon
      • title: Materia in the Material World of Butrint: Wooden Remains from the Roman Forum
      • date: 2015
      • words: 61
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: Discovered several meters below the Roman Forum, the wooden remains shed light on Butrint's early history, between the 7th century B.C. and the Augustan period. This study discusses uses for wood in antiquity and available technologies, tools, and land use in Butrint.
      • keywords: butrint; wooden
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2118. d791sf28d8s
      • author: Gavin Maxwell Foster
      • title: The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War
      • date: 2010
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: anti; civil; conflict; irish; political; social; treaty; war
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2119. d791sf28f3c
      • author: Aaron S. Donahue
      • title: A Pressure-Poisson Based Boussinesq-Type Phase Resolving Wave Model
      • date: 1904
      • words: 474
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Due to the large range of temporal and spatial scales present during these events it isn't possible to fully study them in a laboratory setting and thus computational models are the standard approach to simulating hurricanes and tsunamis. A straightforward numerics based wave breaking algorithm is employed in the nearshore and wave runup is captured using a globally mass conservative wetting/drying algorithm specifically designed for discontinuous Galerkin finite element models.
      • keywords: boussinesq; coastal; model; nearshore; nonlinear; order; poisson; pressure; problem; swe; type
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2120. d791sf28f7r
      • author: Nathan T. Evans
      • title: Improving Detection and Community Assessment of Rare and At-risk Fishes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: I then evaluated how eDNA metabarcoding can be used to estimate fish species richness. I, however, caution that eDNA should not be viewed as a replacement for traditional sampling methods that provide unique information.
      • keywords: detection; dissertation; edna; fishes; metabarcoding; sampling; species; traditional
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2121. d791sf28g72
      • author: Stephen J. Molvarec
      • title: A City in the Wilderness: The Development of Social Relations in the Carthusian Order, 1084-1340
      • date: 1904
      • words: 409
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: These show the existence of networks between episcopal sees and Carthusian houses as well as connections between the monasteries themselves. The next three chapters explore images for Carthusian life found in the person of their founder, Bruno, in Guigo's Customary—the Carthusian rule, and in two twelfth-century polemics.
      • keywords: carthusians; chapter; house; monasteries; monks; urban; world
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2122. d791sf28k1x
      • author: Meghan K. Cain
      • title: ­­Fit for a Bayesian: An Evaluation of PPP and DIC
      • date: 1904
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Posterior predictive p-values (PPP) and deviance information criteria (DIC) are now available in Mplus and WinBUGS for Bayesian model evaluation, but they remain under-utilized. Despite its importance to structural equation modeling, model evaluation remains underdeveloped in the Bayesian SEM framework.
      • keywords: bayesian; dic; model; ppp
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2123. d791sf2933j
      • author: Brock E. Hedlund
      • title: Measurement of Flow Perturbations Occurring Both Naturally and by Plasma Induction over a Mach 4.5 Corner Separation Zone
      • date: 1904
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Three measurement methods were used to determine the frequency spectrum of flow perturbations: a high-frequency Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, a laser differential interferometer, and high-frequency pressure sensors. This thesis documents the efforts to characterize the Mach 4.5 flow over a flat plate model with a 30° compression ramp over a range of unit Reynolds numbers (Rel = 4‧105 – 1‧107 m-1) in low enthalpy (T0 = 293 K) and high enthalpy (T0 = 800 – 1250 K) flow conditions.
      • keywords: compression; flow; frequency; high; perturbations; ramp; rel; separation
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2124. d791sf2937x
      • author: Alyssa C. Lesko
      • title: Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Regulates Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 to Mediate 3D Morphogenesis and Apical-Basal Polarity
      • date: 2018
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: apc; apical; basal; emp2; novel; polarity; studies
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2125. d791sf2939m
      • author: Trung T. Nguyen
      • title: Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 as a Novel Target and a First-in-Class Therapeutic Agent for Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
      • date: 2018
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Topical application of ND-336-a MMP-9 selective inhibitor- accelerates wound repair of diabetic mice, and it demonstrates that upregulation of active MMP-9 is detrimental to diabetic wound healing. The enantiomerically pure (R)-ND-336 exhibits superior efficacy in inhibiting MMP-9, lowering ROS while improving diabetic wound healing significantly.
      • keywords: active; dfus; diabetic; healing; mmp-9; topical; wound
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2126. d791sf2942h
      • author: Julie W. Dallavis
      • title: Does a School's Mission Matter? Exploring Changes in Statement Content, Use and Understanding, and Links to Student Achievement
      • date: 2018
      • words: 495
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Using mission statements from a state representative sample of schools in Indiana, I use measures of topic proportions within school mission statements calculated through structural topic modeling. In the first analysis, I examine the content of mission statements prior to the enactment of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program and seven years later to consider how mission statement topics may be changing in the presence of choice policies.
      • keywords: achievement; data; mission; schools; statements; time; topics
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2127. d791sf29f6p
      • author: Lyda Urresta
      • title: On Generalizing the Partial Semi-Group of Spheres with Tubes in Huang's Geometric Vertex Operator Algebra and the Algebraic Structures That Arise as a Consequence
      • date: 2020
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Then, we introduce a new piece of data to our notion of unfurled worldsheet, which results in a new collection of objects, called the unfurled worldsheets with dilation. We construct a geometric analogue to the sphere with tubes model where there is one incoming and one outgoing tube in Yi-Zhi Huang's notion of a geometric vertex operator algebra (GVOA) in a generalized setting that resolves the multivaluedness resulting from a generalization of the grading axiom in a GVOA such that it is no longer semisimple; we call the objects in our geometric structure the unfurled worldsheets.
      • keywords: dilation; unfurled; worldsheets
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2128. d791sf29g49
      • author: Robert W. Mowry
      • title: Jolted: The Political Causes and Consequences of Earthquake-Triggered Infrastructure Collapse
      • date: 2021
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Theorists to date have focused on how agentic social actors orchestrate and react to events, and craft, interpret, and contest associated meanings, but have yet adequately to consider how non-agentic materiality shapes events. Part Two examines the political consequences of these collapses, with anti-viaduct campaigns forming in Oakland and San Francisco and successfully removing these unpopular structures from their host communities.
      • keywords: collapses; cultural; events; japan; political; research; viaduct
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2129. d791sf29h5z
      • author: Jinyu Yang
      • title: Optical and Electrical Characterization of Piezoelectric Direct Discharges Generated Using Piezoelectric Crystals
      • date: 2022
      • words: 404
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The direct piezoelectric effect of non-centrosymmetric crystals, such as lead zirconate titanate (Pb[Zr(x)Ti(1-x)]O3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1), PZT), offers the opportunity to develop energy conversion plasma sources that remedy the reliance on a high-voltage power source by converting mechanical energy directly into plasma generation. Results show that this plasma shares many characteristics with conventional plasma jets but is not constrained by a guiding flow, so we refer to it as a PT free plasma jet.
      • keywords: energy; field; high; low; piezoelectric; plasma; pts; source
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2130. d791sf29k16
      • author: Vicky Zhu
      • title: Fixed Points, Learning, and Plasticity in Recurrent Neuronal Network Models
      • date: 2023
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: I found that homeostatic synaptic plasticity alone is not sufficient to learn and perform non-trivial predictive coding tasks in unstructured neuronal network models. To link neuroscience and machine learning, I study models of recurrent neuronal networks to establish direct, one-to-one analogs between artificial and biological neuronal networks.
      • keywords: learning; machine; models; networks; neuronal; neurons; recurrent
      • versions: original; plain text
2131. db78tb11n27
      • author: Kari Marie Christoffersen
      • title: From a Model of the Nation to Models for Citizens: Religious References in U.S. Presidential Addresses
      • date: 2010
      • words: 138
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: references; religious
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2132. db78tb11n3k
      • author: Peter J. Wallace
      • title: 'The Bond of Union': The Old School Presbyterian Church and the American Nation, 1837-1861
      • date: 2004
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: How did a phrase from the Presbyterian constitution, describing the relationship of the Presbyterian General Assembly to its congregations come to play such a central role in how Old School Presbyterians thought of their role in the civil Union? An overwhelming proportion of Old School Presbyterians were of Scottish and Ulster descent.
      • keywords: church; dissertation; old; presbyterians; school; scottish; union
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2133. db78tb11n4x
      • author: Adam Mitchell Knaack
      • title: Stress-Strain Properties of Concrete Under Elevated Temperature
      • date: 2010
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It is shown that at elevated temperatures, the concrete strength and elastic modulus are significantly reduced, whereas the strain at peak stress and ultimate strain are increased. Predictive multiple least squares regression relationships are proposed for the concrete strength, elastic modulus, strain at peak stress, ultimate strain, and stress-strain behavior, including the temperature, aggregate type, test type, and strength at room temperature as parameters.
      • keywords: concrete; strain; strength; stress
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2134. db78tb11p0v
      • author: Hilary C. Cisco Reuter
      • title: Racial Categorization of and Decision-Making Responses to Ambiguous and Unambiguous Facial Stimuli: An Examination of Racial Profiling Processes
      • date: 2005
      • words: 131
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Results indicated that participants did engage in racial profiling behaviors, and did so of African Americans and European Americans at statistically indistinguishable rates. In addition, results indicated that crime decision-making was dependent on racial categorization and participants made race categorizations before deciding crime apprehension, even when the order of judgments required a crime decision prior to a race categorization.
      • keywords: categorization; decision
      • versions: original; plain text
2135. db78tb11p47
      • author: Eric William Hagedorn
      • title: The Language of Scientia: Ockham's Mental Language as the Subject Matter of Aristotelian Science
      • date: 2012
      • words: 180
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: language; mental; ockham
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2136. db78tb11p5k
      • author: Radha Krishna Ganti
      • title: A Stochastic Geometry Approach to the Interference and Outage Characterization of Large Wireless Networks
      • date: 2009
      • words: 509
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The performance of a wireless link is governed by interference and signal power which in turn depend on the node locations. More specifically, interference was characterized when the nodes were either distributed as a Poisson point process or as a lattice process.
      • keywords: distribution; geometry; interference; network; nodes; performance; spatial; thesis; wireless
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2137. db78tb12b7f
      • author: Michael J. Petrin
      • title: Saved by the God above Every Name: Salvation in the Theology of Gregory of Nyssa
      • date: 1904
      • words: 291
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the multiplicity of patristic soteriology, that is, early Christian authors' use of many different images to describe salvation. Chapters 3–5 show how the method of naming God with many names is applied and extended in Gregory's discourse about salvation.
      • keywords: chapter; gregory; method; salvation; soteriology
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2138. db78tb12h8b
      • author: Gabriella M. Di Palma
      • title: 'The Magnificent and Progressive Destiny' of Unified Italy: History and Sicily in Il Gattopardo
      • date: 2019
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Such an attitude towards progress might remind us of Giacomo Leopardi's skepticism vis-à-vis any optimistic theory of historical progress. The novel depicts a society rooted in tradition, but also suspended in time and skeptical towards historical progress.
      • keywords: historical; identity; italy; southern
      • versions: original; plain text
2139. db78tb12p8w
      • author: Antonio Tlatenchi
      • title: Sex Differences in Episodic Memory Perfromance: The Role of Endogenous Testosterone
      • date: 2019
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Though results of our study fail to account for sex differences in episodic memory performance, previous research suggest a need to consider cortisol-testosterone interactions to understand emotional episodic memory performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of testosterone, in addition to cortisol, to account for the sex differences in episodic memory performance.
      • keywords: episodic; memory; testosterone
      • versions: original; plain text
2140. db78tb12q6h
      • author: William T. Barker
      • title: Small Molecules That Synergize with Colistin
      • date: 2020
      • words: 523
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Specifically, SAR studies using derivatives of meridianin D, a marine natural product, identified molecules with significant colistin adjuvant activity in Gram-negative species while simultaneously controlling biofilm formation in Gram-positive strains. This work comprises efforts to identify a diverse cohort of chemical scaffolds that can be employed in advantageous combinations with colistin, a polymyxin antibiotic, to defeat colistin resistance and offset its detrimental side effects.
      • keywords: activity; antibiotic; colistin; drug; effects; efforts; eukaryotic; molecules; resistance; sar; studies; work
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2141. db78tb12r75
      • author: Tan Chen
      • title: Geometric Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems with Application Focus on Bipedal Robots
      • date: 2021
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The application examples include bipedal robots, quadruped robots, flexible-link robots, underactuated manipulators, snake robots, acrobatic robots, robots on a mobile platform, spacecraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, surface vessels and underwater vehicles. The systems generally have highly nonlinear dynamics, and less control authority due to the underactuation; furthermore, some systems, such as bipedal robots, include a mixture of continuous and discrete dynamics and multiple switching events among different phases.
      • keywords: bipedal; control; mechanical; nonlinear; robots; robustness; systems; ums; underactuated; vehicles
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2142. db78tb12s5s
      • author: Haimeng Wang
      • title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molten Salts: Force Field Evaluation and Development
      • date: 2022
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Molten salt reactors are considered to be a leading candidate for the next generations of nuclear reactors; they have a great potential to help with the energy problems the world is facing. Molten salt reactors have enhanced safety figures and higher energy production efficiency over traditional nuclear reactors.
      • keywords: molten; nuclear; reactors; salt
      • versions: original; plain text
2143. db78tb12t0c
      • author: Giovanni Vedovotto
      • title: The Poet, the Saint, and the Friars: Dante, Francis, and Franciscanism
      • date: 2022
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 52
      • 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.
      • keywords: dante; francis; poverty; renunciation
      • versions: original; plain text
2144. df65v694x2h
      • author: Charles F Vardeman II
      • title: Computational Studies of Metallic Glasses and Nanoparticles
      • date: 2009
      • words: 532
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Chapter 4 computationally explores experimental observations involving the transient response of metallic nanoparticles to the nearly instantaneous heating undergone when photons are absorbed during ultrafast laser excitation experiments. It was observed during the studies of metallic nanoparticles dissused on in Chapter 4 that the time scale for the cooling of these particle is very short (on the order of tens of picoseconds).
      • keywords: alloying; chapter; computational; dynamics; excitation; glass; metallic; molecular; nanoparticles; systems; techniques
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2145. df65v694x6w
      • author: Mark Hamilton Ross
      • title: Radiated Sound Generated By Airfoils in a Single Stream Shear Layer
      • date: 2010
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: airfoil; correlation; function; length; scale
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2146. df65v694x77
      • author: Joshua Mitchell Lee
      • title: Computational Studies on the Mechanism and Stereochemistry of Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Aldol Condensations and Other Molecular Modeling Studies
      • date: 2014
      • words: 468
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: By combining insights about the transition state regarding preferred torsion angles, the preferred configuration of the stereocenter at the boron atom, and the preferred coordination geometry of the catalyst relative to the aldehyde, transition state conformational analysis is simplified. These results lead to a more quantitative understanding of causes of diastereoselectivity in Mukaiyama aldol reactions.
      • keywords: aldol; catalyzed; diastereoselectivity; lewis; model; modeling; mukaiyama; reaction; state; study; transition
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2147. df65v694x8k
      • author: Jooyoung Cha
      • title: Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Pathogens: Characterizations of Catalytic Properties in Antibiotic Resistance
      • date: 2008
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: -lactamases; active; activity; antibiotics; blars; lysine; protein; tp47
      • versions: original; plain text
2148. df65v694x9x
      • author: Darcy A. Davis
      • title: Network-Centric Data Mining for Medical Applications
      • date: 2012
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: In order to facilitate the necessary changes, better tools are needed for assessing risk and optimizing treatments, which further require better understanding of disease interdependencies, genetic influence, and translation into a patient's future. This dissertation explores network-centric data mining approaches for benefit in multiple stages of this feedback loop: from better understanding of disease mechanisms to development of novel clinical tools for personalized and prospective medicine.
      • keywords: better; data; disease; tools
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2149. df65v694z04
      • author: Kelsey M. Stocker
      • title: Development and Application of Non-Periodic and Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation Methods
      • date: 2014
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Velocity shearing and scaling reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (VSS-RNEMD) for periodic systems is used to study the effect of ligand chain length and mixtures of chain lengths on the interfacial thermal conductance (G) of Au(111) Non-periodic geometries present problems for traditional affine scaling techniques in constant-pressure constant-temperature simulations.
      • keywords: chain; conductance; dependence; interfacial; ligand; non; periodic; systems; thermal
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2150. df65v694z2t
      • author: Caitlin Spencer Mills
      • title: How Do Extrinsic Value and Text Difficulty Impact Engagement during Learning? An Experimental Approach
      • date: 2014
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Specifically, extrinsic value had a negative impact on valence, but a positive impact on arousal and learning. This suggests extrinsic value can in fact be an effective motivator for learning, given the right context.
      • keywords: engagement; learning; value
      • versions: original; plain text
2151. df65v694z35
      • author: Leslie Danette Patterson
      • title: Syntheses of Desferrioxamine B Conjugates for Use in Antibiotic Delivery and Iron Overload Diseases
      • date: 2010
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The methodology needed to allow DFO conjugates to be easily prepared without the need for standard protecting groups has been discussed here. Many complex siderophore conjugates have been synthesized by the Miller group and others for the purpose of antibiotic delivery, the treatment of iron overload diseases and for the use of MRI contrast agents.
      • keywords: cephalosporin; conjugate; dfo; ferritin; peptide; reaction
      • versions: original; plain text
2152. df65v694z4h
      • author: Ebrahim MolavianJazi
      • title: A Unified Approach to Gaussian Channels with Finite Blocklength
      • date: 2014
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: In this dissertation, we build upon a recent line of work on non-asymptotic information theory to characterize second-order approximations for channel coding rates over a variety of Gaussian settings at finite blocklength. For the non-ergodic fading channel with short blocklength, the Gaussian noise can have as significant an impact on the outage probability as fading can.
      • keywords: blocklength; channel; gaussian; i.i.d; information; latency; machine; non; random; results
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2153. df65v694z7j
      • author: Raymond Paul Seekell
      • title: Dynamics of Dense Microgel Suspensions
      • date: 2014
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: As dense suspensions of microgels tend to form colloidal glasses at high concentrations, the opening chapter provides a strong focus on the glass transition and details certain aspects including glass fragility, dynamic heterogeneity, and the confinement effects. In Chapter 5, these glassy suspensions are shown to be spatially heterogeneous and links are developed between glass fragility and dynamic heterogeneity.
      • keywords: chapter; confinement; fragility; glass; microgels; particles; strong; suspensions
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2154. df65v694z8w
      • author: Xiaofeng Wang
      • title: Exotic Collective Excitations at High Spin: Triaxial Rotation and Octupole Condensation
      • date: 2007
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Some striking differences exist between the level scheme and deexcitation patterns seen in 240Pu, and to a lesser extent in 238Pu, and those observed in 242Pu and in many other actinide nuclei such as 232Th and 238U, for example. A series of so-called 'unsafe' Coulomb excitation experiments as well as one-neutron transfer measurements was carried out to investigate the role of octupole correlations in the 238,240,242Pu isotopes.
      • keywords: 240pu; bands; isotopes; octupole; structures
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2155. df65v694z97
      • author: Peng Zhou
      • title: Roles of Chronic Alcohol Feeding and the ID2 Gene in the Regulation of Circadian and Metabolic Function
      • date: 2015
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: My studies revealed that hepatic circadian clock is disturbed in the alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis, and effects of chronic alcohol administration upon the clock itself may contribute to steatosis. My studies also found that chronic alcohol consumption and liquid diet can differentially modulate the daily rhythmicity of locomotor and feeding behaviors; aspects that might contribute to disturbances in the circadian timing system and development of hepatic steatosis.
      • keywords: alcohol; chronic; id2; steatosis; studies
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2156. df65v69500q
      • author: Kyle Stewart Haygarth
      • title: Radiolysis Studies in Supercritical Water
      • date: 2010
      • words: 637
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This dissertation will consist of three topics which fall under the general umbrella of studies of water radiolysis at supercritical temperatures and pressures for nuclear power applications. In order to control the corrosion potential, a successful strategy employing hydrogen water chemistry inhibits radiolytic decomposition of the coolant by the minimum addition of hydrogen (the critical hydrogen concentration) to the primary cooling water.3 Experiments showing that this strategy can be successfully applied in supercritical water reactors are discussed.
      • keywords: chapter; corrosion; data; hydrogen; nuclear; order; radiolysis; reaction; second; supercritical; temperatures; water; yields
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2157. df65v695012
      • author: Elizabeth L. Antus
      • title: The Doors of the Soul: A Critical Augustinian Account of Self-Love
      • date: 1904
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: However, this project also identifies certain inconsistencies in Augustine's articulation of human dignity. Specifically, this project centers around the experience of the self-hating person and contains a description of proper self-love in response to such a person.
      • keywords: augustine; christian; human; love; person; project; self
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2158. df65v695132
      • author: Andre P. Audette
      • title: The Religious Bases of Latino/a Political Participation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Previous research finds that religiosity and participating in church activities are frequently correlated with greater levels of political participation. While some religious beliefs lower rates of political engagement among Latinos, I demonstrate that, on the whole, churches have a substantial mobilizing effect for the Latino population.
      • keywords: churches; latinos; lower; political; rates; religion; religious
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2159. df65v695n1z
      • author: Tyler L. Spano
      • title: Uranyl Vanadate Mineralogy and Nuclear Forensic Analysis of Uranium-Rich Materials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: This thesis explores the crystal chemistry and thermodynamics of uranyl vanadate minerals, and describes transformations between these and other groups of U minerals. Trace element and U isotope analysis of uraninite, the primary ore mineral for U, and uranium ore concentrate (UOC), an important intermediate material in the nuclear fuel cycle indicate that these forensic signatures remain viable indicators of the geologic origin of radioactive materials through early ore processing.
      • keywords: forensic; materials; minerals; nuclear; signatures; uranium; uranyl; vanadate
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2160. df65v695n5b
      • author: Genevieve C. Lyons
      • title: Alessandro Blasetti's Cinema and the Fantastic: A Re-Evaluation of the Unmarried Woman
      • date: 1904
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: This paper explores how Blasetti utilized the fantastic genre to maneuver around the established policy towards women, blurring gender lines and subtly challenging fascist authority. However, this campaign—both in Blasetti's later cinema and in general fascist policy—was far from straightforward.
      • keywords: blasetti; fascist; mussolini; women
      • versions: original; plain text
2161. df65v69608r
      • author: Erika M. Holmbeck
      • title: The Looking-Glass and Beyond: Using Observations and Modeling of Stellar Actinide Abundances as a Window into r-Process Events
      • date: 2020
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: I find that neutron star mergers have the potential to synthesize all observed levels of actinide abundances measured in metal-poor stars if astrophysical variations on the composition of the ejecta are allowed within the merger site. Using this principle, I then determine that if neutron star mergers produced the majority of r-process elements in the Galaxy, then the first mergers were primarily mass-asymmetric.
      • keywords: elements; heavy; neutron; process; stars
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2162. df65v696151
      • author: Garrett M. Tow
      • title: Molecular Models of Energetic Materials
      • date: 2021
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Studies of energetic materials that employ classical atomistic models do exist, but the chemical space covered by these classical studies is small when compared to the literature of quantum mechanical studies. The primary focus of this work is the development of classical atomistic models for conventional solid propellant that contains ammonium perchlorate and hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene.
      • keywords: chemical; classical; energetic; materials; models
      • versions: original; plain text
2163. df65v696318
      • author: Sakib Haque
      • title: Improved Source Code Summarization Using Context-Aware Inputs and Semantic Similarity Based Optimization
      • date: 2022
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Current research in this area focuses on improving these models on the encoder-side by providing better representation of source code. The state-of-the-art in source code summarization is an encoder-decoder neural network with attention.
      • keywords: better; code; source; summarization
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2164. df65v696391
      • author: Cristhian Umaña Gamboa
      • title: Designing Structural and Conformational Analogs from Polyketide Natural Products
      • date: 2023
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Our laboratory has utilized total synthesis, semi-synthesis, and fermentation of bacterial species to produce natural product analogs to study the relationship between conformational preferences and biological activity. In the case of zampanolide, it was demonstrated that the linear analog exhibited potent biological activity due to the conservation of an allylic strain, which restricted the conformational flexibility of the molecule.
      • keywords: activity; biological; conformational; natural; new; preferences; synthesis
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2165. dj52w37864j
      • author: Abigail L Palko
      • title: Motherhood, Declined: Negotiating Maternal Subjectivities in Irish and Caribbean Novels, 1934 - 2007
      • date: 2010
      • words: 656
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: I argue that women writers evoke images of motherhood to envision a form of personhood and citizenship in the new, postcolonial state specifically for women, in contrast to their male counterparts, who use the trope to argue for the autonomy of the state. The 1990s saw a boom in women's writing in both Ireland and the Caribbean traditions that explores a more sophisticated, nuanced engagement with motherhood; the second half of this dissertation demonstrates ways that women writers engage with this literary trope at the end of the twentieth century through an analysis of six contemporary novels.
      • keywords: caribbean; century; dissertation; feminist; irish; literary; motherhood; novels; postcolonial; studies; traditions; women
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2166. dj52w378667
      • author: Jeffrey Munson Carney
      • title: Intramolecular Hydroamination of Alkynes Catalyzed by Silver-Phenanthroline Complexes
      • date: 2010
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The intramolecular hydroamination reaction is among the more versatile means of forming nitrogen-containing hetereocycles, compounds of interest in a variety of chemical disciplines. While the reaction has been intensely studied, concerns still exist over its amenability to organic synthesis.
      • keywords: hydroamination; reaction; synthesis
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2167. dj52w378725
      • author: Vesta Mai Coufal
      • title: A Family Version of Lefschetz-Nielsen Fixed Point Theory
      • date: 2004
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 62
      • summary: Our goal is to develop a family version of Lefschetz-Nielsen theory, i.e., for a smooth fiber bundle p:E--> B and a fiber bundle endomorphism f:E--> This gives us a base point free version of the Lefschetz invariant.
      • keywords: family; invariant; lefschetz
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2168. dj52w37876j
      • author: Feng Shen
      • title: A Visually Interpretable Iris Recognition System with Crypt Features
      • date: 2014
      • words: 425
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The results support the applicability of using crypt features for semi-automatic iris recognition. To verify the human-in-the-loop system design, we conducte two human-subject experiments to evaluate human perception of crypt features in both consistency and robustness.
      • keywords: automatic; crypt; detector; feature; human; iris; matcher; recognition; system; visible
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2169. dj52w37877w
      • author: John Anderson Hall
      • title: The Sacraments in the Compilatio Questionum Theologie of Magister Martinus: Critical Edition with Commentary
      • date: 2011
      • words: 270
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This dissertation corrects a longstanding assumption that Martinus belonged to the school of Gilbert of Poitiers and complicates an incompatible but equally venerable assumption that he was a follower of Peter of Poitiers. This dissertation further suggests that because of its practical concerns, Martinus' text resembles contemporary works which scholars have identified as belonging to a literature of pastoral care.
      • keywords: canon; dissertation; law; martinus; text
      • versions: original; plain text
2170. dj52w378903
      • author: Evan Harris
      • title: EMMA
      • date: 1904
      • words: 4
      • flesch: 97
      • summary: EMMA is a novel.
      • keywords: emma
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2171. dj52w378b0d
      • author: John Salvatore Marchese
      • title: Religion, Revolution, and the Realm of the Literary in Twentieth-Century Central American Prose
      • date: 1904
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: A key aspect of the argument is that these works deploy liturgical language to disrupt the discourse of a state that tries to dominate and control human subjectivity and, more specifically, that the Eucharist serves to articulate social mobilization through language that unites the discrete parts of a social body against domination by hegemonic forces. In line with the study's transnational approach, the historical particularities of each of the four countries are explored in detail, and the inclusion of nonfictional texts demonstrates that the social mobilization articulated through the Eucharist is not merely metaphorical or symbolic, since the liturgy has sometimes served as a site of actual historical resistance to violent oppression.
      • keywords: century; context; eucharist; historical; social; study; twentieth; works
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2172. dj52w378d4d
      • author: Hannah Zdansky
      • title: Converting Romance: The Spiritual Significance of a Secular Genre in Medieval France, England, Wales, and Ireland
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: In order to understand the reception of these texts, the use of miscellanies, and to better grasp medieval reading practices, I show that we have to do two things: pay attention to material context and be open to questioning the secularity of medieval romances. My dissertation responds to the work of Derek Pearsall, John Thompson, Julia Boffey, Phillipa Hardman, Susanna Fein, Murray Evans, and others regarding miscellanies and the influence of manuscript contexts on reception.
      • keywords: chapter; contexts; manuscript; pious; reception; romances; texts
      • versions: original; plain text
2173. dj52w378w9g
      • author: Brandon S. Gerig
      • title: Controls of Contaminant Biotransport by Pacific Salmon to Great Lakes Tributaries
      • date: 1904
      • words: 495
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: biotransport; consumption; contaminants; fish; lakes; resident; salmon; stream
      • versions: original; plain text
2174. dj52w378x6r
      • author: Katie Sparrow
      • title: Dante's Self-Characterization in the Vita Nova: Auctoritas through Love and Writing
      • date: 1904
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Though Dante Alighieri deems writing of oneself inappropriate in his Convivio, he appears as a protagonist or source of exemplary poetry in almost every one of his works. His Vita Nova can be considered the most self-reflective of these works, since it recounts the personal emotions, thoughts, and events of Alighieri's youth, as part of and in addition to a commentary on his own poetry.
      • keywords: nova; vita
      • versions: original; plain text
2175. dj52w37930h
      • author: Kangkang Li
      • title: Topology-Aware Job Scheduling and Placement in High Performance Computing and Edge Computing Systems
      • date: 2019
      • words: 460
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Thirdly, I study the second case of job placement problem, in which the shapes allocated for communication non-sensitive jobs are not limited to convex prisms. The second problem is networked virtual machine (VM) and job placement in edge cloud systems, in which a two-layer star topology is applied in the considered edge cloud architecture.
      • keywords: algorithm; cloud; communication; edge; job; placement; problem; system
      • versions: original; plain text
2176. dj52w379802
      • author: Gregory Michael Cruess
      • title: Augustine's Biblical Christology: A Study of the In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus CXXIV
      • date: 2019
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: It is demonstrated that this focus upon the normativity of the prologue and its proclamation of the wholeness of Christ in both humanity and divinity (totus Christus) functions as a guiding principle for Augustine's understanding of the complexity of the Gospel narrative concerning the Incarnate Word. This background provides the necessary context for clarifying the importance of a closer investigation of Augustine's preaching about Christ.
      • keywords: augustine; chapter; christ; divinity; gospel; study
      • versions: original; plain text
2177. dj52w37997s
      • author: Nicholas Ames
      • title: Traversing the Hearth: Navigating the Structures of 19th Century Irish Migrations
      • date: 2021
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This research provides a detailed analysis of the different ways in which migrants relied on personal agency and social community to contend with, and shape, the structures defining 19th century migration processes. This dissertations addresses 19th century Irish migration to the United States, and the ways in which migrants navigated the complex structures through which they moved.
      • keywords: 19th; century; community; irish; migrants; migration; ways
      • versions: original; plain text
2178. dj52w379b8f
      • author: Dharsan K. Soundarrajan
      • title: Dynamics of Calcium Signaling in Multicellular Systems: Quantitative Experiments and Computational Modelling
      • date: 2022
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Development of fully functional organs from undifferentiated cells requires constant communication between various participating cells. An important component in this cellular communication machinery are second messenger systems that relay external mechanical, chemical and hormonal stimuli to the genetic machinery of the cells.
      • keywords: ca2; calcium; cells; chapter; dynamics; organ; signaling; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
2179. dj52w379c62
      • author: Tao Wang
      • title: High Free Volume Ion-Containing Polysulfone Membranes for Fuel Cells and Water Purification Applications
      • date: 2022
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Novel membranes are in high demand in both fields to address the challenges that existing membranes are facing, such as insufficient chemical stability (e.g., chlorine resistance for RO membranes) and mechanical stability (excessive swelling for PEMs). However, the classic bisphenol A (Bis-A)- or biphenol (BP)-based sulfonated polysulfones showed inferior proton conductivities and oxidative stabilities for fuel cell application, and their water/salt selectivity still has a lot of room for improvement as RO membranes.
      • keywords: cells; energy; fuel; high; membranes; pemfc; performance; phenolphthalein; polysulfones; sulfonated; water
      • versions: original; plain text
2180. dj52w379d51
      • author: Todd P. Marek
      • title: Textual Lives and Living Skills: Doctors and Their Texts in the Practice of Tibetan Medicine
      • date: 2023
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: I show that textual practice is a specific type of embodied skill and offer an alternative view of the relationship between this skill and other embodied skills to more common views. What are their institutional histories and presents including their relationships with other texts?
      • keywords: clinical; medicine; practice; relationship; skill; tantras; texts
      • versions: original; plain text
2181. dn39x061g4c
      • author: Lionel Nicolas
      • title: Structural Revision, Stereochemical Assignment and Total Synthesis of Gephyronic Acid
      • date: 2011
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: acid; gephyronic; product; region; spectroscopic; structure; synthesis; synthetic
      • versions: original; plain text
2182. dn39x061g8r
      • author: Raja Chakarvorty
      • title: Investigation of the Role of Compensation and Origin of Ferromagnetism in Ga1-xMnxAs Using Magnetic Circular Dichroism Studies
      • date: 2009
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) is a powerful tool for investigatingmagneto-optical properties in thin magnetic layers, and in this study we apply thismethod to address the problem of Mn acceptor compensation in GaMnAs and itsimplication in determining the Zeeman splitting of band edges of GaMnAs, with theaim of shedding additional light on the co-relation of hole concentration and Curietemperature of these samples with Zeeman splitting of band edges. These resultslead to the conclusion that Mn ions in the A0 configuration (d5 + hole) providethe only mechanism for exchange interaction between Mn spins and band carriers.
      • keywords: band; edges; gamnas; magnetic; splitting; zeeman
      • versions: original; plain text
2183. dn39x061h09
      • author: Karsten J. K. Steinhaeuser
      • title: Scalable Learning With Thread-Level Parallelism
      • date: 2010
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: However, extreme dataset sizes place unprecedented demands on high-performance computing infrastructures, and a gap has developed between the available real-world datasets and our ability to process them. We conjecture that the architectural design is well suited for the application of machine learning to massive datasets.
      • keywords: ability; data; datasets; learning; sizes
      • versions: original; plain text
2184. dn39x061h1n
      • author: Erin Elizabeth Daly
      • title: Stereotype and Generalization in Herodotus and the Temple of Athena Nike: The Creation of the Eastern Other
      • date: 2015
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The purpose of this paper is to analyze a larger and more general context for the formation of Athenian/Panhellenic identity and its attitude towards and construction of Persian/barbarian identity during the fifth century BCE by employing Herodotus as a lens to examine the south frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike. Like Herodotus, this frieze offers an organized representation of not only Persian/barbarian identity but also of Athenian/Panhellenic identity during the period immediately following the Persian Wars.
      • keywords: herodotus; identity; persian
      • versions: original; plain text
2185. dn39x061h20
      • author: Paul Joseph Scherz
      • title: Technology and Subjectivity in the Thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and Michel Foucault
      • date: 2014
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: MacIntyre requires the Christian biologist to isolate herself from the community of biologists, while Foucault describes techniques of the self analogous to Christian ascetic techniques that form the individual while she lives in a secular world. In this dissertation, I use the analyses of Alasdair MacIntyre and Michel Foucault to develop this critique and a response to it, arguing that Foucault's recovery of Stoic care of the self provides an ethical template for Christians who are biologists.
      • keywords: chapter; christian; forms; foucault; macintyre; techniques; truth
      • versions: original; plain text
2186. dn39x061h4p
      • author: Choonkeun Kim
      • title: Aminoglycoside-Modifying Enzymes: Catalytic Mechanisms and Properties
      • date: 2010
      • words: 552
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Since these enzymes are expressed constitutively in resistant bacteria, the turnover of ATP is continuous during the lifetime of the organism both in the absence and the presence of aminoglycosides. AAC(3)-Ib is specific to gentamicin and fortimicin A among a dozen of aminoglycosides.
      • keywords: aminoglycoside; antibiotics; aph(3')-ia; atp; catalyzes; domain; effects; enzyme; kinetic; solvent
      • versions: original; plain text
2187. dn39x061h51
      • author: Marc&#233;e Marie Turner
      • title: Personality Factors, Multicultural Exposure, and Cultural Self-Efficacy in a Model of White Fear
      • date: 2011
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Neuroticism, Openness, multicultural exposure through family and friends, and cultural self-efficacy were statistically significant predictors of White fear. Mediational analyses revealed that the relation between multicultural exposure and White fear was explained by cultural self-efficacy.
      • keywords: cultural; fear; white
      • versions: original; plain text
2188. dn39x061h6c
      • author: Carl Ross Berntsen
      • title: The Remote Microphone Probe for Unsteady Surface Pressure Measurement
      • date: 2014
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: frequency; probe; rigid; surface; tube; tubing
      • versions: original; plain text
2189. dn39x061h9d
      • author: Enmamuelle Pardilla Delgado
      • title: Does Sleep Influence the Persistence of False Memories Across Long Delays?
      • date: 2014
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 65
      • summary: Over longer delays (e.g. 1-2 weeks), true memory tends to deteriorate while false memory persists, but it is currently unknown how sleep influences this pattern. While the influence of sleep on memory has a long history, sleep's role in the formation of false memories is less clear.
      • keywords: false; gist; memory; sleep
      • versions: original; plain text
2190. dn39x061j0m
      • author: Jennifer Michelle Couture
      • title: A Search for Second Class Currents in the A=8 System
      • date: 2007
      • words: 127
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This work explores several possible explanationsfor the disagreement between simulation and experiment and suggests a myriad offuture improvements to be applied the next time the experiment is attempted. Probing for second-class induced weak currents is one method of testing selectpredictions of the Standard Model.
      • keywords: experiment; limits; work
      • versions: original; plain text
2191. dn39x061j29
      • author: Marcia E Braun
      • title: Sleep and Emotions in Midlife: The Value of Restorative Sleep
      • date: 2010
      • words: 562
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: daily; day; mood; negative; positive; quality; sleep; stress
      • versions: original; plain text
2192. dn39x061j3n
      • author: Hallie Nuzum
      • title: Understanding Relations among Personality, Clinical Syndromes and Functioning
      • date: 1904
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: Results indicated two main PD-III criteria overlapped substantially and together consistently predicted more extrinsic disability variance than did the PD-II model. These two constructs, however, are difficult to distinguish conceptually and empirically, and both relate to extrinsic disability (Clark &amp; Ro, 2013).
      • keywords: disability; extrinsic; personality
      • versions: original; plain text
2193. dn39x061j9q
      • author: M. Anthony Mills
      • title: Émile Meyerson's Neo-Kantian Épistémologie: An Interpretation and Defense
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Émile Meyerson (1859-1933) helped inaugurate a philosophical tradition in early twentieth-century France – épistémologie – which harkened back to Auguste Comte's historical method, analyzing science in order to grasp the nature of human reason, while rejecting orthodox positivism. Specifically, I argue that Meyerson is unique for accepting epistemological holism along with a Kantian commitment to the essential oneness of human reason; and defending a distinctive brand of scientific realism along with a Kantian commitment to the essential unknowability of nature in itself.
      • keywords: historical; kantian; meyerson; neo; philosophy; positivism; science; today; épistémologie
      • versions: original; plain text
2194. dn39x061k0x
      • author: Kevin Rinz
      • title: Consequences of Voucher Programs for Private Schools
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: By altering the market for private schooling, large-scale school voucher programs may have effects on the educational experience of private school students beyond the effects of small-scale programs. students experience in private schools.
      • keywords: large; private; programs; schools; students; voucher
      • versions: original; plain text
2195. dn39x061p5k
      • author: Christina N. Cheng
      • title: Analysis of the Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms That Regulate Renal Progenitor Cell Fate Specification
      • date: 1904
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: aki; anomalies; cakut; death; development; disease; kidney; renal
      • versions: original; plain text
2196. dn39x06250g
      • author: William Kye
      • title: Social Disorganization and the Consolidation of Parameters: A Multi-Level Analysis of City Racial Segregation, Neighborhood Ethnic Heterogeneity, and Crime
      • date: 1904
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: However, such research has failed to examine how the effects of neighborhood ethnic heterogeneity vary by city level racial segregation. Extant sociological research on why some communities are more prone to crime than others rely on theories of social disorganization, which argues that neighborhood ethnic heterogeneity fractures community solidarity, which in turn, increases crime.
      • keywords: ethnic; heterogeneity; social
      • versions: original; plain text
2197. dn39x06260s
      • author: Jakub Voboril
      • title: Democratic Political Leadership and Education in Thucydides and Plato
      • date: 1904
      • words: 174
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: I conclude that the root of many, if not all, of these differences lies in Thucydides's willing acceptance and Socrates's insistent rejection of the common sense of ordinary political life. In an attempt to answer these questions, I turn to the ancient Greek political thinkers Thucydides and Plato.
      • keywords: political; questions; thucydides
      • versions: original; plain text
2198. dn39x06263t
      • author: Julianna Poole
      • title: Medicine, Then and Now: The Problem of Using Persistence as a Measure for Medical Efficacy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Modern Western biomedicine is in need of new drugs, and ethnopharmacologists are turning to premodern medical texts, such as the Anglo-Saxon Leechbooks, for remedies. In previous studies, historians have associated persistence of remedies in materia medica throughout the centuries with biomedical efficacy, but this association is problematic for two reasons.
      • keywords: efficacy; historians; remedies
      • versions: original; plain text
2199. dn39x062676
      • author: Jennifer Kolesari
      • title: How Features of Contextual Events Alter the Interpretations of Before and After
      • date: 2018
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: We systematically assessed the influence of contextual events on temporal prepositions (before, after) by asking participants to estimate the duration of events and the duration that passed between these events. We found that there is a strong relationship between the durations of events and the estimates of time that passed between them, corresponding to before and after.
      • keywords: duration; events
      • versions: original; plain text
2200. dn39x06271f
      • author: Stephen A. Long
      • title: 'A God Who Repays': Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Both texts are concerned that gifts be coupled with proper speech, and both emphasize that words and gifts alike do things—having the potential to reinforce social solidarity (or to destroy it), and to elicit return gifts. The final sections of Chapter 4—and all of Chapter 5—then attempt to account for the incorporation of ordinary generosity into the sacrificial economy by pointing to the history of effects of texts such as Deut 26:13; Prov 10:2, 11:4, 19:17; and Deut 15:1-18.This study finds that the presence of charity does not abolish the category of reciprocity for Ben Sira.
      • keywords: chapter; generosity; gift; reciprocity; sir
      • versions: original; plain text
2201. dn39x062912
      • author: Hui Li
      • title: First Principle Modeling of Cu-SSZ-13 Dynamics, Free Energies and Sulfur Deactivation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 451
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In this dissertation I used different molecular modeling tools to study the dynamics and mobilities of the Cu sites under simulated reaction conditions, developed a correlation to accurately calculate the free energies of adsorption on Cu sites, and compared sulfur poisoning species between the two different types of Cu sites. Cu-SSZ-13, a microporous zeolite exchanged with Cu metal, is the leading choice for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx to harmless N2 and H2O, using NH3 as the reductant.
      • keywords: adsorption; chapter; conditions; different; gas; scr; sites; spectra; ssz-13
      • versions: original; plain text
2202. dn39x062c1p
      • author: Timothy Wanyama Machasio
      • title: Democratizing Kenya's Financial Market: A Mobile Technology Blueprint
      • date: 2019
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: My thesis will consider the problem of low financial market participation in Kenya, where a paltry 5% of residents transact in the country's bourse. After reviewing literature that broadly establishes four factors (low levels of financial literacy, capital constraints, risk averseness, and the lengthy process of setting up a Central Depository System (CDS) account) as exhaustive culprits for low financial market participation in the country, this thesis will quantitatively analyze responses to online survey instruments administered to carefully curated pools of Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) participants and non-participants to determine the relative weighting of these factors within the target demographic for the proposed intervention.
      • keywords: financial; instruments; low; market; nse; participation
      • versions: original; plain text
2203. dn39x062k1j
      • author: Ian H. Guldner
      • title: Characterizing the Brain Metastatic Niche and Elucidating Its Functional Role during Brain Metastasis Outgrowth
      • date: 2020
      • words: 399
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Intriguingly, depleting microglia during brain metastasis outgrowth reduced metastasis number, while inhibiting the infiltration of BMDM to metastatic lesions did not change metastasis number, implicating microglia as the main myeloid effector during brain metastasis. Here, leveraging recently developed techniques, we sought to (1) characterize spatial and pseudo-temporal aspects of key components of the metastatic niche, (2) compositionally and transcriptionally profile the myeloid immune component of the brain metastatic niche, and (3) elucidate the functional role of myeloid cells during brain metastasis and the molecular mechanism by which they regulate metastatic outgrowth.
      • keywords: brain; cells; immune; metastatic; microglia; myeloid; niche; outgrowth
      • versions: original; plain text
2204. dn39x062k7m
      • author: Caitlin O'Loughlin
      • title: Development and Validation of the Self-Injury Stigma Scale
      • date: 2021
      • words: 438
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: To examine clinical utility, relationships between the SISS and characteristics of NSSI behavior were examined, showing the SISS retrospectively predicted recent (i.e., last 3 months) frequency of NSSI, but not lifetime NSSI frequency or NSSI disclosure. As such, this study sought to validate the newly developed Self-Injury Stigma Scale (SISS), a measure of NSSI stigma based on a widely used four-step model of stigma.
      • keywords: factor; nssi; self; siss; step; stigma; structure
      • versions: original; plain text
2205. dn39x062m26
      • author: Khalique Newaz
      • title: Novel Network Science Approaches for a Better Understanding of Protein Folding and Human Aging
      • date: 2021
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This dissertation aims to help advance the current understanding of proteins' functions by developing network-based computational approaches to study individual protein structures as well as physical interactions between proteins. Additionally, we use PSNs to study a specific protein folding-related phenomenon, i.e., to understand relationships between protein 3D structures and synonymous codon usage.
      • keywords: functions; interactions; network; ppi; proteins
      • versions: original; plain text
2206. dn39x062n3v
      • author: Emorja Roberson
      • title: Donald Lawrence: The Concert Stage, the Church, the Theatrical
      • date: 2022
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: In this work, I present an overview of those aspects of the history of Black music that have been most influential to Donald Lawrence, and I outline those strains of scholarship that have been most useful in my own studies of his music. This thesis is the first study of Donald Lawrence, a highly influential composer, conductor, and impresario in the area of Black gospel.
      • keywords: black; gospel; music; study
      • versions: original; plain text
2207. dn39x062p1g
      • author: Bokai Yao
      • title: Set Theory with Urelements
      • date: 2023
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: In Chapter 1, I present mathematical and philosophical motivations for studying urelement set theory and lay out the necessary technical preliminaries. Chapter 2 is devoted to the axiomatization of urelement set theory, where I introduce a hierarchy of axioms and discuss how ZFC with urelements should be axiomatized.
      • keywords: chapter; theory; urelements
      • versions: original; plain text
2208. dr26xw44r6z
      • author: Pu Wan
      • title: Event-triggered Distributed Algorithms for Network Optimization
      • date: 2010
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: algorithm; communication; event; network; problem; state; use
      • versions: original; plain text
2209. dr26xw44r79
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Hepinstall
      • title: Comparison of the Effects of Hydroxamate Siderophores on Lead and Cadmium Adsorption to Kaolinite
      • date: 2004
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: adsorption; dfo
      • versions: original; plain text
2210. dr26xw44r8n
      • author: Shannon Rae Zentall
      • title: Early Parent-Child Relationship and Type of Parental Praise and Criticism as Predictors of Toddler Motivation on an Unsolvable Task
      • date: 2009
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Finally, although feedback did not predict motivation, greater toddler persistence predicted, although not significantly, a greater proportion of maternal positive feedback (i.e., praise). Further, mothers' used more ambiguous than either person or non-person positive feedback.
      • keywords: children; feedback; motivation; person
      • versions: original; plain text
2211. dr26xw44s06
      • author: Peng Li
      • title: Enhanced Permeability Dielectrics in Nanomagnet Logic
      • date: 2014
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Thus, magnetic switching behavior, magnetization states and coupling of nanomagnets are studied via various magnetic metrologies to understand the physics of nanomagnet switching in the context of NML. Low-power operation is the most important benefit of NML operation, which relies on magnetic ordering.
      • keywords: dissipation; nanomagnets; nml; operation; power
      • versions: original; plain text
2212. dr26xw44s4k
      • author: donglin Liu
      • title: Firm Real-Time System Scheduling Based on a Novel QoS Constraint
      • date: 2010
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: Examples of often used QoS metrics for rm real-time systems are average deadline miss rates and (m; k)- rm constraint. However, for certain applications, these metrics may not be adequate measures of system performance.
      • keywords: real; system; time
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2213. dr26xw44s8z
      • author: Victor Carmona
      • title: Neither Slave Nor Free: A Critique of U.S. Immigration Policy in Light of the Work of David Hollenbach, Gustavo Gutierrez, and Thomas Aquinas
      • date: 2014
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: First, I show that American legislatures have developed this ability by setting immigration preferences throughout the nation's history to forge mixed settlements between multiple political, economic, and cultural interests with regard to immigration. I then draw preference systems from the Christian tradition-David Hollenbach's priority principles, Gustavo Gutierrez's preferential option for the poor, and Thomas Aquinas' order of charity-to argue that current U.S. immigration preferences are not simply wrong, but backwards.
      • keywords: free; immigration; preference; slave
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2214. dr26xw44s99
      • author: Xue Rui
      • title: The Adsorption, Mineralization and Reduction of Metal Ions (Cadmium and Uranium) by Microorganisms in the Aqueous System
      • date: 2011
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Soluble uranyl ion can form stable mineral with phosphate ligands. The fate of heavy metals in subsurface environments is controlled by interrelated adsorption, precipitation, and redox reactions where living bacteria play a critical role.
      • keywords: alginate; bacteria; binding; eps; heavy; hup; metal; mineral; xafs
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2215. dr26xw44t6k
      • author: Jessica Ann Hughes
      • title: The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus: Literary Relationships with Jesus in Victorian Realism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Despite a few studies of Jesus in historical fiction regarding his role as a canvas onto which Victorian culture projected its own ideals, fears, and expectations, no one has seriously considered Jesus—and Victorian characters depicted in terms of Jesus' life— within successful realist novels by respected novelists. But scholarship on the matrix of beliefs, texts, practices and communities that comprise religion frequently ignores the central figure of the Christian faith: Jesus.
      • keywords: century; characters; charles; jesus; life; novels; religion; victorian
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2216. dr26xw44v2h
      • author: Sayanty Roy
      • title: Genetic Architecture and Transcriptomic Basis of Cadmium Response in Daphnia magna
      • date: 1904
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: In addition, we use a functional genomic approach with RNA-Seq data to examine transcriptional responses to cadmium exposure. We evaluate the underlying genetic architecture and transcriptional responses of the freshwater microcrustacean Daphnia magna to cadmium exposure in order to identify genes and pathways involved in the physiological response to this common environmental contaminant.
      • keywords: aquatic; cadmium; environmental; exposure; heavy; metals; responses
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2217. dr26xw45t2g
      • author: Benjamin A. Stone
      • title: The Galant Style in Chorale-Based Organ Works of Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) and Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785)
      • date: 2019
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: By analyzing organ chorales of Krebs and Homilius through the lens of Gjerdingen's schemata, this study shows how the galant style operates in these works, even among the constraints imposed by preexisting chorale melodies. Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) and Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785) were both significant composers of organ music in the middle of the eighteenth century.
      • keywords: galant; music; organ; study; style
      • versions: original; plain text
2218. dr26xw45v1f
      • author: Heejin Kim
      • title: Heinrich Scheidemann's Motet Intabulations
      • date: 2020
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: My thesis is intended to study the influence of his teacher, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, as well as the historical background, why such motet intabulations for organ were created in seventeenth-century Hamburg, and how Scheidemann arranged vocal motets into keyboard music by employing diverse colors of figuration patterns, which he called colorations (Kolorierungen).The thesis will consist of five chapters. I will examine several manuscripts, including the arrangements of motets in the Robertsbridge Codex of the fourteenth century, intabulations in the Buxheimer Orgelbuch, from fifteenth-century Germany, and Ammerbach's Orgel oder Instrument Tabulaturbuch, a collection of keyboard intabulations published in the sixteenth century.
      • keywords: century; chapter; intabulations; keyboard; motet; music; scheidemann; vocal
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2219. dr26xw45v34
      • author: Austin Boucher
      • title: The Role of MiRNA Clusters Mirn23a and Mirn23b in Hematopoietic Development and Macrophage Function
      • date: 2020
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: coding RNAs that have direct regulatory capacity over both the lineage commitment process as well as immune cell functions upon terminal differentiation. HSPCs differentiate down specific lineage trees towards mature blood cells responsible for systemic oxygen transport (erythrocytes) and immune cells responsible for host defense.
      • keywords: blood; cells; chapter; hematopoietic; hspcs; mirn23a; process
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2220. dr26xw45x3r
      • author: Emma Rosenberg
      • title: Rally around the Steeple: Religious Rhetoric and Nativist Parties in Central Europe
      • date: 2022
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: german; nativist; parties; people; religious; rhetoric
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2221. dv13zs28169
      • author: David Karapetyan
      • title: On the well-posedness of the hyperelastic rod equation
      • date: 2012
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: cases; periodic; solution
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2222. dv13zs2820j
      • author: Stacy Lynn Hoehn
      • title: The Moduli Space of Compact Fiber Bundle Structures on a Fibration
      • date: 2010
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Suppose that p is a fibration with total space E over a connected, finite CW complex B whose fibers are homotopy equivalent to a finite CW complex F. Then there is a fibration associated to p whose fibers are all homotopy equivalent to A(F), the algebraic K-theory space of F. Dwyer, Weiss, and Williams have constructed a section of this fibration, called the parametrized Euler characteristic of p, which has a lift to a parametrized excisive Euler characteristic if and only if p is fiber homotopy equivalent to a topological fiber bundle whose fibers are homeomorphic to a compact topological manifold, possibly with boundary. We show that this space of structures on p is homotopy equivalent to the product of the space of all lifts of the parametrized Euler characteristic of p to a parametrized excisive Euler characteristic with the space of stable Euclidean bundles over E.
      • keywords: equivalent; space
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2223. dv13zs28227
      • author: Shashank V Maiya
      • title: Spectral Efficiency and Its Relation to Routing Strategies in Simple Communication Networks
      • date: 2010
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: hop; routing; simple
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2224. dv13zs2823k
      • author: Geoffrey Henry Siwo
      • title: Predictive Modeling of Complex Malaria Phenotypes
      • date: 2014
      • words: 479
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The diverging co-expression of the chloroquine resistance transporter gene (pfcrt) provides insights into the normal biological functions of the gene and highlights diverging biological processes in CQR and CQS clones, including diverging small molecule responses that are validated by dose response profiling and quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis. The systems approaches developed in the chapter allow the prediction of small molecule effects on specific biological processes, laying a foundation for future prediction of drug MOA.
      • keywords: chapter; drug; gene; malaria; parasite; profiling; resistance; responses; small; thesis; transcriptional
      • versions: original; plain text
2225. dv13zs2824x
      • author: Maria O Jobbins
      • title: Syntheses of Hydroxamic Acid-Containing Bicyclic ß-Lactam Cores
      • date: 2014
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Chapter four details how aminal-containing cores are accessed in two steps from allyl hydroxamates utilizing a ruthenium-catalyzed isomerization followed by Pd(II)-catalyzed oxidative cyclization. A palladium(II)-catalyzed oxidative amidation methodology was developed and used to synthesize several bicyclic cores, including two examples of unusual aminal-containing cores.
      • keywords: chapter; cores; lactam
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2226. dv13zs2826m
      • author: James Robert Hogan
      • title: Analysis of the Genomic Architecture of Anopheles Gambiae
      • date: 2008
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Malaria still kills over one million people a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa. Anopheles gambiae is the main malaria vector in sub-Saharan Africa.
      • keywords: africa; data; gambiae
      • versions: original; plain text
2227. dv13zs2827z
      • author: Kelly Elizabeth Lane
      • title: Landscape Dynamics: Genetics and Parasitism in Balinese Long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
      • date: 2011
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Using traditional parasitological techniques, I show that the anthropogenic landscape is significant in determining the pattern of pathogen success of both individual parasite species and the community of gut parasites. The impact of the landscape, especially a complex, anthropogenic landscape, on wildlife populations is substantial, influencing reproductive success and fitness, dispersal ability, pathogen exposure risk, resource availability, and ultimately, population success.
      • keywords: anthropogenic; environment; landscape; pathogen; population
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2228. dv13zs28289
      • author: Dylan Menzies-Gow
      • title: Tests of Non-Standard Cosmological Theories
      • date: 2006
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: However, there are a great variety of ways that infinite universes can be 'wrapped up' and given a compact finite vol- ume, without the need to modify general relativity. The final part looks at an unusual explanation for galaxy rotation curves.
      • keywords: cmb; compact; flat; galaxy; infinite; objects; relativistic
      • versions: original; plain text
2229. dv13zs28316
      • author: Andr és Tovar
      • title: Bone Remodeling as a Hybrid Cellular Automaton Optimization Process
      • date: 2004
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Many theoretical models for bone remodeling use this concept as part of the strategy to simulate bone structural adaptation. The objective of this investigation is to develop an algorithm that incorporates tissue-level mechanisms of bone functional adaptation compatible with both phenomenological and optimization approaches.
      • keywords: adaptation; algorithm; bone; level; mechanical; models; structure; trabecular
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2230. dv13zs2832j
      • author: Joseph Stever Gallagher
      • title: The Impact of Host Galaxy Environment on the Photometric Properties of Type Ia Supernovae
      • date: 2007
      • words: 501
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Our narrow focus allows for the simultaneous measurement of both global age and metallicity, further allowing for a direct identification of possible dependences between both SN peak magnitude and Hubble Residual on host galaxy age and metallicity. We study the effect of environment on the properties of SNe Ia by analyzing the integrated spectra of a sample of local SN Ia host galaxies.
      • keywords: age; distributions; galaxies; galaxy; host; metallicity; sne; supernova; type
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2231. dv13zs2833w
      • author: Peter Ryan
      • title: Sacred Ambiguity: Group Inclusivity and Distinctiveness at First Community Unitarian Universalist
      • date: 2015
      • words: 123
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: If strong social identities, which create clear boundaries between in-groups and out-groups, are more effective in retaining and recruiting members and increasing the salience of in-group identities, why, and under what circumstances, do groups persist in formulating weak, and ambiguous group identities and group boundaries? If we are to analyze group means for boundary maintenance, I argue that we must also analyze group processes and motivations for boundary disruption and decay.
      • keywords: boundaries; group
      • versions: original; plain text
2232. dv13zs28347
      • author: Katie Kristine Thorne
      • title: An Experimental Investigation of Compressible Dynamic Stall on a 2-D pitching airfoil
      • date: 2010
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: A new facility has been designed and constructed at the University of Notre Dame to investigate dynamic stall and compressible dynamic stall on a 2-D pitching airfoil at high subsonic Mach numbers. The facility is able to pitch an airfoil at non harmonic frequencies at flight Reynolds numbers.
      • keywords: data; dynamic; stall
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2233. dv13zs2842v
      • author: Kasey J Clear
      • title: Molecular Probes for Biomembrane Recognition
      • date: 1904
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: biological; cell; chapter; death; lipids; polar; zn2bdpa
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2234. dv13zs2853h
      • author: Hao Wang
      • title: Coupled Plasmonics for TERS and Understanding of Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Junctions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The thesis will begin with an introduction to coupled plasmonics: reviewing the related backgrounds of plasmonics &amp; plasmonic coupling, a topic of close relevance to the research conducted in this thesis, after which a brief description of SERS and TERS will be given. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), by taking advantage of the enormous field enhancements arising from the excitation of the localized surface-plasmon resonances (LSPR), have both shown great potential in ultra-sensitive detection.
      • keywords: detection; dissertation; plasmonics; quantum; spectroscopy; surface; ters
      • versions: original; plain text
2235. dv13zs28r2f
      • author: Deborah R. Forteza
      • title: Monsters and Saints: Tudors, Stuarts, and English Catholics in Early Modern Spanish Discourses
      • date: 1904
      • words: 127
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: I then compare these with later representations of the same characters and events across various genres: the letters of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza; Calderón de la Barca's tragedy, La cisma de Ingalaterra; Lope de Vega's comedy, El amor desatinado, and poems, La Dragontea, Rimas Humanas, and La corona trágica; and Cervantes' novella, La española inglesa. This dissertation is a comprehensive study of Spanish literary works about the English Schism (published 1580-1630) that provides a richer understanding of contested views on Anglo-Spanish rapprochement and collaboration in early modern Spain.
      • keywords: english; spain; spanish
      • versions: original; plain text
2236. dv13zs28s33
      • author: Martin P. Barron
      • title: Statistical Machine Learning for Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data: Sparse Clustering for Cell Type Identification and Confounding Factor Removal
      • date: 1904
      • words: 703
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: SparseDC is applicable to any situation where the simultaneous analysis of multiple populations consisting of independent observations is undertaken, such as examining data on individuals from different cities or countries, or stock market data taken from an index at different periods of time. Data coming from scRNA-seq experiments typically contain 100-10,000 cells and measurements for about 20,000-50,000 genes, this leads to a large \ extit{p} small \ extit{n} problem, leading to issues such as conventional clustering algorithms being ineffective due to the curse of dimensionality.
      • keywords: analysis; cell; change; clustering; cycle; data; genes; methods; scrna; seq
      • versions: original; plain text
2237. dv13zs2938w
      • author: Katelyn E. Carothers
      • title: A Puzzling Promiscuous Protease: Role of the Streptococcal SpeB Protein in Host Virulence and Polymicrobial Dynamics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We first examined the effect of SpeB production using this non-invasive GAS strain in a model of host skin infection, hypothesizing that the proteolytic activity of SpeB would cause host cell damage and loss of viability. We demonstrate that SpeB exhibits potent biofilm disruption activity at multiple stages of S. aureus biofilm formation.
      • keywords: aureus; biofilm; gas; human; infection; skin; speb
      • versions: original; plain text
2238. dv13zs2949j
      • author: Samantha Sherman
      • title: Mechanism Analysis and Synthesis Using Numerical Algebraic Geometry
      • date: 2021
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Next, we investigate coupling methods from numerical algebraic geometry with statistical models to estimate the number of solutions to polynomial systems arising from synthesis problems. Homotopy continuation is a standard tool from numerical algebraic geometry that can be used to solve systems of polynomial equations and analyze the resulting solution sets arising from problems in mechanism analysis and synthesis.
      • keywords: cognates; gough; planar; platforms; problems; stewart; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
2239. dv13zs2950r
      • author: Chamara Moore
      • title: Swapping Heels for Capes: Black Womanhood, Speculative Fiction, and the Black Imaginary
      • date: 2021
      • words: 434
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: I also read these texts and characters through a critical lens that not only acknowledges the epistemological barring of the Black Femme subject from the category of human, but also overlaps the lenses of Afro-Pessimism, Afrofuturism, and other lines of Black thought in a way that highlights their importance as a collective body of work that informs Black Speculation now rather than posing them against each other. In a moment where we've seen Wakanda on the big screen, Octavia Butler is a household name, and Colson Whitehead has won two Pulitzers, Black Speculation is officially mainstream.
      • keywords: black; body; femme; human; popular; speculation; way; womanhood
      • versions: original; plain text
2240. dv13zs29784
      • author: Drew Blankstein
      • title: Active Target Measurement of the 25,26Mg(α,n)28,29Si Total Cross Section
      • date: 2023
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Sensitivity studies have found that two reactions contributing to the uncertainty of 26Al production in massive stars are the 25Mg(α,n)28Si and 26Mg(α,n)29Si reactions. Models of supernova nucleosynthesis have failed to reproduce this ratio.
      • keywords: 26al; massive; production; reactions; stars
      • versions: original; plain text
2241. dz010p1198p
      • author: Lindsay Elizabeth Ficke
      • title: Thermodynamic Properties of Imidazolium and Phosphonium Based Ionic Liquid Mixtures with Water or Carbon Dioxide
      • date: 2010
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Ionic liquids (ILs) as absorbents in absorption refrigeration systems present the possibility of overcoming some of the safety and environmental concerns of current systems. In general, absorption refrigeration is attractive since electrical energy is replaced with low value heat energy.
      • keywords: absorption; energy; ils; refrigeration; research; systems; water
      • versions: original; plain text
2242. dz010p11991
      • author: Karthik Swaminathan
      • title: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth and Single Electron Transistor Measurements
      • date: 2004
      • words: 66
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: Growth is carried out by thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) using a solid catalyst. In this work, an attempt is made to study the factors behind carbon nanotube growth.
      • keywords: carbon; nanotubes
      • versions: original; plain text
2243. dz010p11b07
      • author: Amanda Georgeanne Michaels
      • title: Open Season: Fanfiction Theory Beyond 'Textual Poachers'
      • date: 2010
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: This emergence calls for a rethinking of fanfiction theory, as fan studies has relied heavily upon Henry Jenkins' *Textual Poachers* for the last sixteen years, despite the fact that it was written well before the Internet stepped in to completely revolutionize the field. After establishing that 1) fanfiction can be accepted as a new artistic medium, and 2) it is in need of fresher theory, this thesis will then offer performativity as another way into the fan-written text.
      • keywords: artistic; fanfiction; medium
      • versions: original; plain text
2244. dz010p11b2x
      • author: Caroline Elizabeth Byrd
      • title: Gesturing May Not Always Make Learning Last
      • date: 2015
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: We hypothesized that children in the eye movement and gesture conditions would retain more from instruction when compared to children in the speech only condition. Posttest performance was similar across conditions.
      • keywords: children; instruction
      • versions: original; plain text
2245. dz010p11b69
      • author: Mitchell O. Stokes
      • title: Quinean Meta-Ontology and Fictionalism
      • date: 2005
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: Another goal is to show how Quinean meta-ontology is used, particularly in arguments for the existence of abstract objects. Once this is done, the philosophical geography surrounding Quinean meta-ontology (the meta-ontology proper as well as its use in arguments for platonism) should be apparent.
      • keywords: arguments; meta; ontology; question; quinean
      • versions: original; plain text
2246. dz010p11c0j
      • author: Brian Ray Novak
      • title: Molecular Simulation Studies of Heterogeneous Bubble Nucleation: Effects of Surface Chemistry and Topology
      • date: 2007
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Weak surface interactions created a region of tension near the surface and stronger surface interactions created a region of high pressure. Increasing the strength of surface-fluid interactions induced more ordering in the fluid near the solid surface causing nucleation to occur at the solid surface for weak interactions and above the surface for stronger interactions.
      • keywords: constant; dynamics; fluid; interactions; molecular; nucleation; surface; weak
      • versions: original; plain text
2247. dz010p11c1w
      • author: Martina Cucchiara
      • title: 'Bitter Times:' The Poor School Sisters of Notre Dame in Hitler's Germany, 1933 to 1945
      • date: 2011
      • words: 739
      • flesch: 46
      • 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.
      • keywords: 1930s; catholic; germany; hitler; modern; nazi; notre; nuns; poor; religious; school; sisters; war; women
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2248. dz010p11c7z
      • author: James Wismer
      • title: Res Novae: Epicurean Metaphor in De Rerum Natura
      • date: 1904
      • words: 29
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: An examination of the metaphor of revolution in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura which accounts for the metaphor in terms of Lucretius' Epicurean philosophy, Roman social reality, and rhetorical technique.
      • keywords: metaphor
      • versions: original; plain text
2249. dz010p1203f
      • author: William R. Smith
      • title: A Heavenly Correspondence: Benjamin Colman's Epistolary World and the Dissenting Interest
      • date: 1904
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The dissertation shows that the history of British Protestant Dissent is fundamentally an Atlantic story, one shaped as much by the provincial edges of empire as by the center. As Dissenters adjusted to a growing empire, letters became lifelines and indispensable social threads that knit them together despite their geographic distance and ecclesiastical diversity.
      • keywords: atlantic; british; dissent; dissertation; england
      • versions: original; plain text
2250. dz010p1216s
      • author: Anshumaan Bajpai
      • title: New Approaches for Describing Non-Ideal Adsorption and Reaction at Transition Metal Surfaces
      • date: 1904
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: In this work, we explored both the aspects of free energy, the contribution from creation of adsorbate-surface bonds and the estimation of entropic contribution to the free energy. The minimization of free energy is driven by two competing factors: energetic driving force for creating adsorbate-surface bonds and the entropic cost of reducing the degrees of freedom of an adsorbate as it moves from a fluid phase to the surface.
      • keywords: adsorbate; energy; free; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
2251. dz010p12c46
      • author: Paolo Paletti
      • title: Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors: Device Models and Experiments on Two-Dimensional Semiconductors, Including Demonstration of Electric-Double-Layer Esaki Junctions
      • date: 2019
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Ion doping employing the solid polymer polyethylene oxide:cesium perchlorate (PEO:CsClO4) is then applied to decanometer WSe2 channels to form 2D lateral Esaki junctions. To properly characterize the transport properties of MBE-grown WSe2 thin films in a FET configuration in the presence of Schottky barrier-limited injection at the contacts, a semianalytical model has been developed and validated against experiments for different TMD channel materials.
      • keywords: channel; cmos; dec; semiconductor; tmd; transistors; transport; voltage; wse2
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2252. dz010p12d04
      • author: G. C. Havrilak
      • title: Upgrade
      • date: 2020
      • words: 41
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Upgrade is a collection of ten stories written and revised under the supervision of the creative writing faculty at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 2020. It is entirely a work of fiction, with no referents outside the imagination.
      • keywords: upgrade
      • versions: original; plain text
2253. dz010p12f86
      • author: Daniel Patrick Burdette
      • title: Precision Tests of the Standard Model Using Nuclear β Decay at the Nuclear Science Laboratory
      • date: 2021
      • words: 523
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: This can be accomplished by extracting Vud from the ensemble of superallowed mixed beta decays to an improved precision. The second aspect of this thesis includes the development of an experimental apparatus to measure the Fermi to Gamow-Teller mixing ratio of superallowed mixed decays, as this quantity is required to determine Vud with this ensemble of nuclei.
      • keywords: decays; half; life; measurement; precision; seconds; superallowed; unitarity
      • versions: original; plain text
2254. dz010p12g13
      • author: Katherine Edler
      • title: The Reminiscing and Emotion Training Intervention and Trajectories of Parental Reflective Functioning over One Year
      • date: 2022
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Finally, an indirect effect between RET and post-intervention sensitive guidance through post-intervention pre-mentalization was observed. Reflective functioning may be malleable following maltreating mothers' participation in Reminiscing and Emotion Training (RET; Valentino et al., 2019), a relational intervention aimed to enhance sensitive reminiscing.
      • keywords: functioning; mothers; reflective; reminiscing; sensitive
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2255. dz010p12g2f
      • author: Bradley Rebeiro
      • title: Natural Rights (Re)Construction: Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Abolitionism
      • date: 2022
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: 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?
      • keywords: constitutional; douglass; slavery
      • versions: original; plain text
2256. dz010p12h95
      • author: Parinda Tennakoon
      • title: Mechanisms of Endocrine Therapy Resistance in Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer by ZNF217 and ERBB3 Signaling
      • date: 2023
      • words: 417
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Moreover, by analyzing cell culture media in MCF7 cells ± siRNA ZNF217, I discovered that ZNF217 alters the cytokine/chemokine/growth factor profile secreted by ER+ breast cancer cells. Together, my results suggest that Zfp217 overexpression in ER+ breast cancer cells causes endocrine therapy resistance and that growth factor induction via NRG1 induces non-canonical ER binding to the genome and a ZNF217-dependent gene expression signature.
      • keywords: breast; cancer; cells; endocrine; er+; resistance; tamoxifen; therapy; znf217
      • versions: original; plain text
2257. f1881j94k87
      • author: Jeffrey Thomas Wickes
      • title: Out of Books, A World: The Scriptural Poetics of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Faith
      • date: 2013
      • words: 242
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: ephrem; hymns; scripture
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2258. f1881j94m2g
      • author: Stephen L Erwin
      • title: Extraction of Full-Scale Dynamic Properties from Short Duration Records
      • date: 2010
      • words: 457
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: database; design; dynamic; observations; properties; scale; spectra; structures; system; thesis
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2259. f1881j94m45
      • author: David Andrew Pitt
      • title: Revising the Rite of Adult Initiation: The Structural Reform of the Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum, Ordo Catechumenatus per Gradus Dispositus, 1964-1972
      • date: 2008
      • words: 290
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Chapter Six details the investigation of the experimental rite to the Consilium and to the Congregation for the Rites, and the emendation of the OCGD prior to its presentation to Paul VI and his approval for experimentation. The method of research is largely archival, and treats the various schemae prepared for the Consilium ad exsequendam contitutionem de sacra liturgia (Consilium) as well as documents pertaining to their composition: drafts, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and reports of experimentation.
      • keywords: chapter; consilium; experimentation; ocgd; rite
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2260. f1881j94m5h
      • author: Velmurugan Balaraman
      • title: Hammerhead Ribozyme Mediated Suppression of Chikungunya Virus Replication in Vero Cells
      • date: 2014
      • words: 395
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The viral titers of supernatants determined at 3 dpi using TCID50-IFA demonstrated complete of suppression of CHIKV replication with some of the hRz-transformed Vero cell clones expressing hRz# 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8. QRT-PCR also showed significant reduction of CHIKV RNA copies with these hRz-transformed Vero cell clones as compared to the control negatives. hRz#1 and hRz#8 targeting the nsp1 and nsp4 genes, respectively, yielded 2 and 5 logs suppression of CHIKV replication as compared to wild type infected Vero cells.
      • keywords: cells; chikv; hrz; hrzs; infected; mosquitoes; transformed; vero; viral
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2261. f1881j94m6v
      • author: Kate Nicholls
      • title: Europeanizing Responses to Labor Market Challenges in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal: The Importance of Consultative and Incorporative Policy-Making
      • date: 2007
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It focuses specifically on Greek, Irish, and Portuguese responses to a set of labor market challenges in the higher education, immigration, and family policy fields, the latter concentrating on the evolution of policies for work-life balance. This dissertation investigates the relationship between policy-making institutions and processes and the Europeanization of policy content in three second- and third-wave members of the European Union.
      • keywords: consultative; institutions; making; policy; processes; responses
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2262. f1881j94m8j
      • author: David A. Hartman
      • title: Toward an Understanding of How Religion Affects the Timing of Sexual Debuts: A Test of Smith's Framework
      • date: 2010
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The direct effects of religious participation on the age at sexual debut become statistically insignificant in the presence of Smith's (2003) factors, supporting the idea that considering only religion's direct effects is a myopic view of how religion work. Smith (2003) proposes that religious participation creates its impact primarily through nine intervening religious mechanisms or factors.
      • keywords: participation; religious; smith
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2263. f1881j94m9w
      • author: Christopher David Chapman
      • title: Taboo: The Real Modernist Aesthetic Made Real
      • date: 2011
      • words: 430
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Rather, I wish to offer a discussion and presentation of the theory of allegory which demonstrates its origins in the profound interest in natural history that held modernism in its nascent grip. This is due to the fact that natural history was an absorptive and expansive term that allowed for refinement without reduction as it came to signal entire processes of cultural, linguistic, and aesthetic practice.
      • keywords: adorno; allegory; benjamin; history; modernist; natural; nature; theory
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2264. f1881j94n03
      • author: John M Holmes
      • title: Sustainable Energy Development
      • date: 2010
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Then, taking these constraints into account, we develop a basic model of energy production with varying levels of pollution in discrete time. Hence, we pose the problem in continuous time, which yields an analogous system of differential equations.
      • keywords: energy; equations; model
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2265. f1881j94n34
      • author: Keefe Roedersheimer
      • title: A Study of the Impact of Multi-Leaf Collimator Rotation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 53
      • 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.
      • keywords: beams; mlc; radiosurgery; tumor
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2266. f1881j94n4g
      • author: Yiying Luo
      • title: Characterizing the Role of Cell Polarity Genes: Pard3, Lin7, and Scribble in Zebrafish Retina Development
      • date: 2007
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Specification of retinal neural cells was abolished and the Ath5 differentiation signaling pathway required for ganglion cell differentiation was inhibited in the scrib morphant retina. Anti-scrib morpholinos knocked down Scrib protein and resulted in a small retina without discernable neural layers.
      • keywords: anti; apical; cell; lin7; pard3; protein; retina; scrib
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2267. f1881j94n5t
      • author: Kathleen Targowski Ashenfelter
      • title: Simultaneous Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Data During Conversation: Symmetry and Turn-taking
      • date: 2007
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: A major goal of this work was to combine the well-established qualitative method of analyzing verbal (and more recently nonverbal) discourse known as conversation analysis (CA) with more recent quantitative methods for analyzing nonstationary time series data. This dissertation examines coordinated verbal and nonverbal symmetry in turn-taking behavior during conversation using three modern techniques for analyzing conversational data in nonstationary time series data: windowed cross-correlation, multifractal wavelet analysis, and recurrence quantification analysis.
      • keywords: analyses; conversation; data; nonverbal; series; time; verbal
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2268. f1881j94n65
      • author: Daniel J. Kim
      • title: The Political Economy of Corporate Governance and Reform: Industrial Policy, Financial Crises, and the Path of Corporate Governance Restructuring Policy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This dissertation explores the relationship between politics and economic policy. Yet, no matter the quality of various economic policy choices, the ultimate winner is commonly chosen, not because that particular policy is the best economic solution to the problem, but because it garners the greatest support from the political elites.
      • keywords: dissertation; economic; particular; policy; political; politics
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2269. f1881j94q5f
      • author: Madeline Ahmed Cronin
      • title: The Politics of Taste: Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen on the Cultivation of Democratic Judgment
      • date: 1904
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Mary Wollstonecraft however, proposes dramatic revision of the extant model of taste driven by the spread of rational education. Proponents of the politics of taste, such as David Hume and Edmund Burke, suggested fostering existing standards of taste as a palliative to the modern democratic ills they diagnosed.
      • keywords: education; moral; politics; taste
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2270. f1881j94s9f
      • author: Sean Myers
      • title: The Contribution of Michael Mathis, C.S.C., to the Liturgical Movement in the United States
      • date: 1904
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 24
      • 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.
      • keywords: education; liturgical; mathis; work
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2271. f1881j9594n
      • author: Rachel Banke
      • title: Bute's Empire: Reform, Reaction, and the Roots of Imperial Crisis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Bute's successor, George Grenville, soon promoted policies constructed in contradistinction to the approach of Bute and his likeminded appointees. His sober-minded attitude toward post-war imperial policy emphasized security, from both external threats and internal instability, as the foundation for long-term colonial growth and development.
      • keywords: american; approach; british; bute; colonial; colonies; imperial; policies
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2272. f1881j95b1x
      • author: Daniel Uncapher
      • title: Cityplace
      • date: 1904
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: cityplace; end; process
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2273. f1881j95b59
      • author: Emmanuel Cannady
      • title: To Help or Not to Help: Does Family Racial Configuration Matter?
      • date: 1904
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: I end with a discussion proposing a racial hierarchy that considers the intersection of race, gender, and family racial configuration. I find that people would directly intervene on behalf of a child victim with a black father and white mother significantly less than a comparable child with two white parents.
      • keywords: behalf; child; racial
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2274. f1881j95p0p
      • author: Sarah Wright
      • title: Battling the Backlog: A Novel Bioanalytical Technology for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence
      • date: 2020
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: assault; cells; dna; saks; separation
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2275. f1881j95q5q
      • author: Tyler Giles
      • title: Essays on Risky Behaviors
      • date: 2021
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Hence, in this dissertation, I provide novel descriptive and plausibly causal estimates of the effects of both policy and institutions on costly risky behaviors. This dissertation is a collection of research on risky behaviors such as criminal activity and substance abuse.
      • keywords: behaviors; example; policy
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2276. f1881j95r7q
      • author: Char Brecevic
      • title: A Philosophical Investigation of Patient Nonadherence: Imagining a Way Forward
      • date: 2022
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: However, the vast majority of these frameworks overestimate the importance of cognitive factors (e.g., beliefs, background knowledge, consciously articulated desires, etc.) while downplaying the importance of experiential and/or emotional factors. The one theory that does account for the latter features of health behavior, the Common Sense Model (CSM) of Illness Representations, ultimately succumbs to the asymmetric focus on cognitive factors.
      • keywords: behavior; factors; health; nonadherence; patient
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2277. f4752f77w0v
      • author: Sean Michael Hoban
      • title: Natural and anthropogenic influences on population dynamics in butternut (Juglans cinerea L.)
      • date: 2010
      • words: 404
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: A current goal in conservation biology and population ecology is to quantify the short- and long-term impact of anthropogenic activities, including habitat degradation and global climate change, in order to predict changes in populations, species, and communities. While populations are inherently dynamic, contemporary environmental change may create population instability by altering processes such as migration, recruitment, and population growth and decline.
      • keywords: anthropogenic; change; decline; diversity; genetic; populations; processes; recruitment; species; use
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2278. f4752f77w16
      • author: Sean David Brittain
      • title: Using High-Resolution Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Probe the Interstellar Medium and Circumstellar Disks
      • date: 2004
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: There is some controversy surrounding the interpretation of H3+ observations toward dense clouds. Some argue that most of the observed H3+ originates in diffuse material surrounding dense clouds rather than in the dense clouds.
      • keywords: circumstellar; clouds; dense; disks; dust; gas
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2279. f4752f77w2j
      • author: Patrick Meredith Gardner
      • title: Dante and the Suffering Soul
      • date: 2010
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I argue that Dante's explanation of the shades (primarily in Purgatorio XXV) is a coherent justification of the possible union of separated souls to aerial bodies: not a formal union allowing for sensation, but a virtual one allowing for manifestation&#8212which is precisely parallel to angelic appearances. Most literary visions of the afterlife ignore such difficulties, silently granting pseudo-embodiment to the departed; but Dante, employing similar aerial bodies, directly questions their nature.
      • keywords: afterlife; bodies; commedia; dante; embodiment; interpretative; souls
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2280. f4752f77w47
      • author: Catherine Rastovski
      • title: Metastable Vortex Lattice Dynamics in MgB2 Studied by Small Angle Neutron Scattering
      • date: 2014
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: ground; metastable; mgb2; state
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2281. f4752f77w8m
      • author: David Andrew Teeter
      • title: Exegesis in the Transmission of Biblical Law in the Second Temple Period: Preliminary Studies
      • date: 2008
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The analysis of these cases offers important data for better understanding the pluriformity of the pentateuchal text in the period, for assessing the character and scope of scribal exegesis in the transmission of biblical law, and for charting the unclear literary boundaries between scriptural transmission and exegetical rewriting in the period. The present dissertation offers a specific contribution toward these larger ends by collecting and analyzing all examples of a single type of variant--namely, major textual pluses--preserved in extant witnesses to pentateuchal legal texts from the period.
      • keywords: biblical; cases; exegetical; legal; period; scriptural; second; text
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2282. f4752f77x2v
      • author: Luling Yang
      • title: Shear Stiffness Modeling of Cemented Sand
      • date: 2007
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Nonlinear site response analyses can provide more accurate predictions of ground motions during an earthquake than equivalent linear procedures, especially for higher amplitude ground motions. This can be useful for performing site response analysis for naturally cemented sites or sites that have been improved by cementation.
      • keywords: cemented; model; response; sand; shear; site
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2283. f4752f77x36
      • author: Jeffrey Allen Mayfield
      • title: The Flavin-Dependent N-Hydroxylating Ornithine Monooxygenase from Aspergillus fumigatus and the Heme-Dependent O2-Generating Chlorite Dismutase from Dechloromonas aromatica: Studies of Oxygen Consumption and Production by Two Microbial Enzymes
      • date: 2012
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: At the biochemical level, this forced the production of enzymes and cofactors that were able to react with and bind oxygen, while limiting and elminating the toxic side products of its reduction. Modern species contain several oxygen-reactive biomolecules that are critical for survival; the following describes an in-depth examination of two enzyme systems with evolved highly sophisticated mechanisms for the use and production of molecular oxygen, respectively.
      • keywords: chlorite; cld; dismutase; enzyme; family; ornithine; oxygen; protein; species
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2284. f4752f77x8x
      • author: Nathaniel R. Myers
      • title: Death Matters: Lyric, Affect, and Ethics in British and Irish Elegy, 1960-2012
      • date: 1904
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: cultural; ethical; genre; personal; public; work
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2285. f4752f77z6j
      • author: Ana M. Jimenez-Moreno
      • title: Writing out of the Center: English Interwar Authors Reflect on the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution
      • date: 1904
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: My research makes an intervention in the field of modernist studies since it tests the bridge between phenomenology and post colonial studies. Although Greene, Huxley, Lawrence, Lowry and Waugh straddle the border between modernism, thriller, and post-modernism, they converge on the use of the travelogue, a genre they change in key ways.
      • keywords: genre; mexican; mexico; modernist; travel; writers; writing
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2286. f4752f78002
      • author: Jiazhuo Wang
      • title: New Approaches for Biological Structures Identification in Histology Tissue Images
      • date: 1904
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: biological; histology; images; structures; tissue
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2287. f4752f78k83
      • author: Jin L.C. Guo
      • title: Semantically Enhanced Traceability across Software and System-Related Natural Language Artifacts
      • date: 1904
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: To further increase the trace link accuracy, an intelligent tracing system DoCIT is proposed that is able to reason over artifact semantics through use of a domain ontology and a set of trace heuristics. Finally, a deep learning based tracing method is presented that represents and compares artifact semantics in an implicit but fully automated way.
      • keywords: links; software; solutions; trace; traceability
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2288. f4752f78z2f
      • author: Juan A. Valdez Jr.
      • title: Democratizing the Lone Star State: How Mexican Americans Challenge Texas Authoritarianism
      • date: 2020
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In my dissertation, I take a historically informed approach to analyze how Mexican-Americans managed to overcome 19th and 20th century authoritarian institutions in Texas, and in effect, initiated a transition to democracy in south Texas. I frame the political transformation of Texas as a form of localized regime change spearheaded by Mexican-Americans seeking the guarantee of democratic protections and political inclusion.
      • keywords: americans; dissertation; latinx; mexican; political; state; texas
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2289. f4752f78z5g
      • author: Rocio Cortes Rodriguez
      • title: Diálogo interreligioso en Latinoamérica y Razonamiento de la Escritura: Perspectivas teóricas y modelos para el diálogo
      • date: 2020
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: Segundo, buscamos demostrar que Razonamiento de la Escritura es un método viable para ser practicado en Chile y, ojalá, en otros países de América del Sur. En efecto, consideramos tanto la teoría como la práctica del Razonamiento de la Escritura.
      • keywords: américa; chile; del; diálogo; este; que; south; sur
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2290. f4752f79021
      • author: Valeria N. Mora-Hernández
      • title: Víctimas y sobrevivientes: gestión de la violencia e identidad en la narrativa española premoderna
      • date: 2021
      • words: 766
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Mi disertación se enfoca en las representaciones de la violencia, pues estudia los efectos de las agresiones en los personajes subyugados desde las perspectivas de las teorías de la discapacidad, los estudios de género y de violencia. En el segundo capítulo analizo las protagonistas de las novelas La gitanilla y La ilustre fregona de Miguel de Cervantes.
      • keywords: capítulo; cervantes; chapter; como; estas; género; las; los; lázaro; maría; novelas; personajes; positions; protagonistas; pícaros; que; social; studies; sus; violence; violencia; zayas
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2291. f4752f79141
      • author: Suraj Mishra
      • title: Data-Driven Approaches for Biomedical Image Analysis
      • date: 2022
      • words: 283
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Finally, on data-driven approaches for application driven designing, we present our framework for the assessment of CNN based methods for vitiligo diagnosis. Operations like target object segmentation, and classification are principal tools used in biomedical image study.
      • keywords: approaches; biomedical; classification; data; image; segmentation; specific
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2292. f4752f7924b
      • author: Emily LaPorte
      • title: Infant Perceptual Sensitivity and Attachment Security with Mothers but Not Fathers Predict Cognitive Development at 20 Months
      • date: 2022
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The three objectives of this longitudinal study were to examine temperamental perceptual sensitivity (IBQ-R; Gartstein &amp; Rothbart, 2003) as a predictor of cognitive growth at 20 months, attachment style (Strange Situation; Ainsworth et al., 1978) as a predictor of infant cognitive growth (Mental Development Index scores; Bayley, 1993) at 20 months, and the moderating effect of attachment x perceptual sensitivity on cognitive growth at 20 months. Latent basis growth curve models revealed that attachment security with mothers was a significant predictor of MDI scores in infants at age 20 months.
      • keywords: attachment; cognitive; infant; months; security
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2293. f7623b6150p
      • author: Brian Gerald Morgen
      • title: Friction-Damped Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Moment Frame Structures for Seismic Regions
      • date: 2008
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Large scale beam-column subassemblies are tested under pseudo-static cyclic lateral loading with the following varied parameters: damper normal force, type of friction interface, area and initial stress of beam post-tensioning steel, and beam depth. Comparisons of the prototype structures with structures that use only mild steel reinforcement crossing the beam-column joints as well as structures that use only post-tensioning steel and structures that use combinations of mild steel and post-tensioning steel are also provided.
      • keywords: beam; dampers; frame; friction; lateral; post; seismic; steel; structures
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2294. f7623b61542
      • author: Nathan L Whitfield
      • title: Hydrogen Sulfide and its Potential Role as an Oxygen Sensor
      • date: 2010
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Using the methylene blue method we were unable to replicate blood sulfide measurements found in other studies, while showing unequivocally that this method should work in plasma if sulfide is present. In this thesis the focus is two-fold: whether H2S functions as a gasotransmitter in blood and whether H2S could act more locally as an endogenous oxygen sensor.
      • keywords: blood; h2s; oxygen; plasma; research; sensor; sulfide
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2295. f7623b61573
      • author: Kuldeep Niraula
      • title: Addressing the Neglect of Local Peacebuilding Practices Through Documentaries: A Case of Everyday Gandhis
      • date: 2015
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: While documentaries can witness and record local peace practices, the subject matter and presentation style can pose barriers for dissemination of documentaries to wider audiences. But, none of them envision autonomous functioning of indigenous peace practices.
      • keywords: indigenous; peace; practices
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2296. f7623b61600
      • author: Neal Manu Patel
      • title: Crashworthiness Design using Topology Optimization
      • date: 2008
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The results demonstrate that the methodologies provide a practical technique and tool to aid the design engineer in the generation of design concept of crashworthy structures. Vehicle crashworthiness design is one of the most difficult problems being addressed in design optimization.
      • keywords: constraints; crashworthiness; design; goal; material; optimization; research; topology
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2297. f7623b6161b
      • author: Kathleen Patricia McCoy
      • title: Early Childhood Exposure to Constructive and Destructive Marital Conflict and Adolescent Social Adjustment
      • date: 2011
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Additionally, initial levels of positive family expressiveness act as intervening variables between initial levels of destructive marital conflict and adolescent closeness in friendships, and initial levels of mothers' warmth act as intervening variables between initial levels of constructive marital conflict and adolescent prosocial behavior. Yet few studies have explored the impact of early exposure to constructive marital conflict and the transition to adolescence using a longitudinal study design that does not involve retrospective data, and especially few studies have attempted to identify pathways and mediators accounting for the positive effects of constructive conflict.
      • keywords: adolescent; conflict; constructive; family; marital
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2298. f7623b6162p
      • author: Lavaughn A Pritchard
      • title: The Link Between Financial Liberalization and Financial Crisis: A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago
      • date: 2010
      • words: 94
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: I argue that financial liberalization leads to financial crisis and I show that the liberalization of TT's financial system allowed CLF to engage in financial practices which were responsible for CLF's difficulties which initiated a financial crisis. This dissertation examines the relationship between financial liberalization and financial crises and its impact on small open developing countries using Trinidad and Tobago (TT) and the fall of the CL Financial conglomerate as the case study.
      • keywords: crisis; financial
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2299. f7623b6165q
      • author: Ryan M Sweeny
      • title: Making Sense of the Mozart Effect: Correcting the Problems Created by Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
      • date: 2006
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This finding, subsequently labeled the 'Mozart effect', resulted in a flurry of additional research aimed at exploring the nature and extent of the effects of music on cognitive tasks. Some studies failed to replicate or generalize the effects to additional cognitive tasks or types of music.
      • keywords: cognitive; effect; mozart
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2300. f7623b61662
      • author: Sunil Srinivasa
      • title: Modeling Interference in Uniformly Random Wireless Networks: Theory and Applications
      • date: 2007
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: As another application, we study the problem of path loss exponent (PLE) estimation in large wireless networks, which is relevant to several important topics in communications such as localization, energy-efficient transmission and handoff initiation in cellular networks. The MGF is used to compute the interference moments, which accurately depict the asymptotic behavior of the network interference as the number of nodes increases.
      • keywords: channel; estimation; interference; network
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2301. f7623b6167d
      • author: Song Guo
      • title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Dinuclear Organometallic Molecules on Au(111)
      • date: 2010
      • words: 442
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: Submolecular structure of Ru2 was clearly discernible in STM images at room temperature, with a bright feature corresponding to each of the two Ru-centered end groups within each Ru2 molecule. Molecular QCA cells, with their sizes at the nanometer scale, are predicted to be able to function at room temperature.
      • keywords: au(111; contrast; end; groups; molecules; room; ru2; stm; temperature
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2302. f7623b6168r
      • author: James E. Helmer
      • title: The Rights of Peoples? A Theological Analysis of Cultural Rights
      • date: 2010
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 0
      • summary: While endorsing the liberal-egalitarian premises of standard liberal accounts of cultural rights, it endeavors to provide a mediated defense of cultural rights that supports the legitimate attribution of various rights to minority cultural communities as moral entities possessing some dignity or inherent worth of their own, for various theological and philosophical reasons. It is a constructive theological analysis of the idea of cultural rights, and it attempts to provide a fundamental analytical and normative framework for conceptualizing and evaluating the various types of rights claims made by cultural minorities within contemporary culturally pluralistic political contexts.
      • keywords: contemporary; cultural; cultures; idea; liberal; minority; rights; theological
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2303. f7623b61c1w
      • author: Shahram Jevin Poureetezadi
      • title: Prostaglandins as Regulators of Nephrogenesis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Genetic abrogation or inhibition of the prostaglandin producing enzymes, Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 1 or 2a (also known as Cox-1/Ptgs1 and Cox-2/Ptgs2a respectively), or the Prostaglandin E receptor 2a or 4a (Ptger2a, Ptger4a), which we found to be expressed in renal progenitors, triggered an alteration in the balance of distal segment fates. Taken together, these findings show for the first time that prostaglandin signaling is an essential component of nephron cell fate choice, and indicate that the prostaglandin family may have considerable implications in understanding how to treat kidney failure that arise from congenital kidney diseases and end-stage renal disease.
      • keywords: distal; fate; nephrogenesis; nephron; prostaglandin; proximal; segment
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2304. f7623b61c3k
      • author: Stephen J. Kuhn
      • title: Exploring Highly Anisotropic Vortex Lattices of Unconventional Superconductors Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering
      • date: 1904
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: One way to explore unconventional superconductors is to examine how these properties of superconductors behave differently along different crystalline directions in various materials. In the iron based superconductor KFe2As2, SANS was used to show, for the first time, simultaneous evidence for multiband superconductivity and Pauli paramagnetism.
      • keywords: lattice; materials; superconductivity; vortex
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2305. f7623b61v6z
      • author: Garima Agrahari
      • title: Two-Component CovRS Regulatory System: Role in Host Innate Immunity Modulation and Bacterial Virulence
      • date: 1904
      • words: 486
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In addition, the role of CovRS system was also examined in the regulation of HtpA in the AP53 strain. Using GAS strain AP53, which strongly binds host human plasminogen/plasmin (hPg/hPm), this study identified a key role for CovRS in the regulation of opsonophagocytosis of GAS by the host complement system.
      • keywords: ap53; c3b; complement; covrs; gas; host; strain; system; virulence
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2306. f7623b61w37
      • author: Robert W. Miller
      • title: Parenting among Mothers of Adolescents with ADHD: Maternal and Child Contributions and the Intervening Role of Parenting Stress
      • date: 1904
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: With a sample of 107 mothers and their adolescent children with ADHD, the current study tested the hypothesis that the difficulties associated with an adolescent's ADHD predicted greater parenting-related stress, which in turn would be associated with problems in parenting behavior. Using a structural equation modelling approach, we tested a model in which mothers' parenting stress mediated the relationship between potentially stressful difficulties associated with an adolescent's ADHD (i.e., adolescents' metacognitive and self-regulatory problems, mothers' depressive symptoms) and parenting behavior (i.e., warmth, use of psychological control).
      • keywords: adhd; children; parenting; stress
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2307. f7623b61w7m
      • author: Moonseok Choi
      • title: Excessive Juice
      • date: 1904
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: body; hate; korean; president; self; speaker
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2308. f7623b62681
      • author: Yizhe Zhang
      • title: New Algorithms and Deep Learning Methods for Object Detection and Segmentation for Biomedical Image Analysis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: More specifically, we present two new methods for utilizing unlabeled data for model training: (1) deep adversarial networks for biomedical image segmentation utilizing unannotated images, and (2) a new deep learning method using algorithm-generated pseudo-annotations. A new data augmentation technique based on super-pixels is then presented as a new regularization technique for training biomedical image segmentation networks.
      • keywords: analysis; biomedical; data; image; learning; model; new; segmentation
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2309. f7623b62879
      • author: Jin Jia
      • title: Spatiotemporal Mapping of Quinolone and Phenazine Secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms by Confocal Raman Imaging
      • date: 2021
      • words: 619
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Confocal Raman microscopy was also applied to investigate the response of P. aeruginosa biofilm grown on lithographically defined patterned or unpatterned mucin to antibiotic treatment and to characterize the spatial and temporal distribution of secreted metabolites from static biofilms on the substrate, from supernatant of the bacterial broth, and from pellicle biofilms at the air-liquid interface. Moreover, the tendency of P. aeruginosa to form biofilms and its ability to utilize multiple mechanisms of motility make P. aeruginosa biofilms hundreds of times more resistant to antibiotics than the corresponding planktonic cells.
      • keywords: aeruginosa; biofilms; mucin; mucoid; nonmucoid; pca; spatial; static; strain; surfaces; temporal
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2310. fb494744f2q
      • author: Xiaoyang Chen
      • title: Curvature and Riemannian Submersions
      • date: 2014
      • words: 69
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: We study Riemannian submersions from positively curved manifolds and from Einstein manifolds. We first prove a diameter rigidity theorem for Riemannian submersions.
      • keywords: manifolds; riemannian
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2311. fb494744f32
      • author: Gail Maureen Mulligan
      • title: The Participation of Language Minority Families in Formal School Activities
      • date: 2005
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The analyses show that the opportunities schools offer families to be involved vary by school characteristics such as size, resources, and sector. The study concludes with a discussion of several practices schools should consider adopting in order to increase language minority parent participation in formal school activities.
      • keywords: families; involvement; opportunities; participation; school
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2312. fb494744f4d
      • author: Joseph Paul Vasquez, III
      • title: International Politics by Ordinary Means: Conscription's Constraining Effect on Democracies Waging War
      • date: 2010
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In this dissertation, I examine whether democracies with conscript militaries (conscript democracies) experience greater constraints during military conflict than democracies relying on volunteers (volunteer democracies). I use a statistical approach to test my hypothesis that conscript democracies experience fewer military casualties during militarized interstate disputes than volunteer democracies.
      • keywords: cases; casualties; conscript; democracies; military; volunteer; war
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2313. fb494744f63
      • author: Ling Sun
      • title: Role of Hemodynamic Shear Stress Abnormalities in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease
      • date: 2014
      • words: 786
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: The results revealed the particular sensitivity of valvular tissue to FSS magnitude as opposed to FSS frequency. Supported by those observations, the central hypothesis of this thesis is that hemodynamic FSS abnormalities contribute to CAVD development by regulating AV inflammation, extracellular matrix remodeling and valvular osteogenesis.
      • keywords: abnormalities; aortic; bav; cavd; endothelial; frequency; fss; hemodynamic; leaflets; magnitude; remodeling; role; specific; tgf-&#946;1; valve; valvular
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2314. fb494744g0b
      • author: David R. Swartz
      • title: Left Behind: The Evangelical Left and the Limits of Evangelical Politics, 1965-1988
      • date: 2008
      • words: 320
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Powerful cultural and political forces shaped the evangelical left, which traveled a parallel journey with its secular counterpart through the civil rights movement, antiwar protests, New Left politics, and identity politics. Though the movement languished under the weight of identity politics and the dilemmas of abortion, it persisted into the 1980s as a key component of the postwar politicization of evangelicalism.
      • keywords: diverse; evangelicalism; identity; left; movement; political; politics; religious
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2315. fb494744g4q
      • author: Manshu Yang
      • title: Treatment Effects in Randomized Longitudinal Trials with Different Types of Non-Ignorable Dropout
      • date: 2010
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Results suggest that the traditional ML method is well suited for MAR data whereas the proposed PM-AD model has the best overall performance for MNAR data. Analytical derivations are also provided to explain the source of bias across different estimation methods.
      • keywords: data; different; method; missing; models
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2316. fb494744g52
      • author: Sarah S Roley
      • title: The Influence of Floodplain Restoration on Stream Ecosystem Function in an Agricultural Landscape
      • date: 2012
      • words: 292
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In addition, I found that clubshell mussels appear to be limited by low pore water oxygen, likely as a result of interstitial sedimentation limiting the percolation of surface water oxygen. I also assessed habitat constraints on the endangered clubshell mussel (Pleurobema clava), and evaluated the influence of plants on wetland denitrification.
      • keywords: denitrification; ditch; floodplain; influence; rates; stage; water
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2317. fb494744h72
      • author: Linlin Liu
      • title: Essays on Asset Returns and Portfolio Allocation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 38
      • 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.
      • keywords: asset; equity; investors; model; return; risk; stock
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2318. fb494744h8d
      • author: Nicole Lyn Sund
      • title: Preasymptotic Approaches to Upscaling of Diffusion Limited Transport of Solutes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: We find that for conservative transport in steady flows velocity correlation plays a major role and cannot be neglected at preasymptotic length scales, yet in unsteady flows this correlation is weak and can be neglected. We assess the importance of accounting for preasymptotic velocity correlation in upscaling solute transport in a variety of situations.
      • keywords: correlation; model; transport
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2319. fb494744t3g
      • author: Karen Hooge Michalka
      • title: Embodied Cultural Transitions in Latino Protestant Congregations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This study investigates how bodily discipline in immigrant religious communities contributes to shared cultural logics regarding how groups understand their presence and purpose in their host country. I argue that religious contexts shape immigrant experience and acculturation by being places of bodily retooling, where ethnic, religious, and class attachments and identities can be reformed.
      • keywords: immigrant; latino; religious; society
      • versions: original; plain text
2320. fb49474552h
      • author: Bonnie Jaskowski Huge
      • title: Preparative Capillary Zone Electrophoresis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Instead, we employ a highly efficient automated fraction collector that interfaces CZE with a collection plate for seamless transition to downstream analyses. CZE instruments often employ absorbance, laser-induced fluorescence, or mass spectrometry for on-line detection and analysis.
      • keywords: cze; efficient; plate; preparative; tool
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2321. fb494745546
      • author: Laura Christine Collins
      • title: Shaping the Potential Landscape: A Study of Atomically Engineered Quasicrystals and Molecules
      • date: 1904
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Second, the creation of synthetic molecules using quantum corrals of carbon monoxide molecules is detailed. The weighted recombination of these Kekul\'e structures illustrates the dependence of aromatic molecules on the individual Kekul\'e structures.
      • keywords: electronic; molecules; potential; quasicrystals; states; surface; synthetic
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2322. fb49474598t
      • author: Jacqueline Smith
      • title: The Loose
      • date: 2019
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: Ten years after his sister's mysterious death by asphyxiation, Johnny Longfellow, 21, is lured to Key West by the promise of clarity. There he meets the performers of Loose Associations who entertain their nightly crowds by combining social phenomena with acts of illusion.
      • keywords: death; sister
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2323. fb494745g8c
      • author: Brandon Sepulvado
      • title: Three Studies in the Cultural Sociology of Science
      • date: 2019
      • words: 515
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: I conclude by noting how, in bringing Sociological Idea Analysis to bear upon individual thinkers, one may advance the new sociology of ideas, research on scientific/intellectual movements, and field theory. Bioethics is important because it has life and death consequences across public policy, medical research, and the civil sphere.
      • keywords: bioethics; chapter; field; research; science; social; sociology; structure; tarde; theory
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2324. fb494745h7b
      • author: Muhammad Ahmad
      • title: Selective Ion Dialysis through Ion-Exchange Membranes Coated with Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
      • date: 2020
      • words: 495
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Coated anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) show Cl-/SO42- selectivities as high as 140, and a moderate increase in pH gives a five-fold increase in the limiting current through modified cation-exchange membranes (CEMs).Development of AEMs with selectivities among anions may expand the applications of these membranes in salt separations. This work shows that LBL coating of aliphatic polyamide AEMs with poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS)/protonated poly(allylamine) (PAH) films enhances Cl-/SO42- dialysis selectivities.
      • keywords: coated; dialysis; membranes; pah; phase; selectivity; source
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2325. fb494745j4m
      • author: Junrong Sheng
      • title: Whose Attitudes and Money Matter? The Way Gender Talks in His Housework Participation in China
      • date: 2021
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Results suggest a dominant logic of patriarchal culture in China, that is, it is men's own attitudes and income, and men's comparisons with other men that affects their behaviors. I argue, however, that this emphasis on women's attitudes and income in affecting division of domestic labor leads to an overlook on the possibility that men's housework is only affected by their own or other men's attitudes and resources.
      • keywords: attitudes; income; men
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2326. fb494745j80
      • author: Timothy Campion
      • title: Free Duals and a New Universal Property for Stable Equivariant Homotopy Theory
      • date: 2022
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In this thesis, I study the left adjoint D to the forgetful functor from the ∞-category of symmetric monoidal ∞-categories with duals and finite colimits to the ∞-category of symmetric monoidal ∞-categories with finite colimits, and related free constructions. As an application, I show that, for any compact Lie group G, the ∞-category of genuine G-spectra is obtained from the ∞-category of naive G-spectra by freely adjoining duals for compact objects, while respecting colimits.
      • keywords: colimits; ∞-category
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2327. fb494745k0j
      • author: Chaz Rich
      • title: Examining the Emotional Memory Tradeoff Effect in Young and Middle-Aged Adults
      • date: 2021
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences among younger adults in memory consolidation for sleep compared to wake, no significant relationship between depressive symptomatology and emotional memory, nor interaction between poor sleep quality, high depressive symptomatology and the tradeoff. To address these gaps within the literature, the present study compared emotional memory consolidation after a period of active wakefulness and full night of sleep in young and middle-aged adults in an online study.
      • keywords: emotional; memory; sleep
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2328. fb494745k58
      • author: Alyssa G. Oberman
      • title: Effects of Mechanical and Biochemical Stimulation of Bone Marrow on Bone Formation and Ingrowth
      • date: 2022
      • words: 437
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Stimulation of bone marrow resulted in bone formation within scaffold pores. Current methods of joint fixation are limited to two methods: the use of bone cement to stabilize the orthopaedic implant in the bone and the use of osseointegration to encourage bone to integrate into the implant surface.
      • keywords: bone; current; designs; formation; loading; method; normal; scaffolds; situ
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2329. fb494745m0v
      • author: Zhao Gao
      • title: Cohomology of Line Bundles on the Incidence Correspondence
      • date: 2022
      • words: 265
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This thesis is dedicated to characterizing the (non)vanishing of cohomology of line bundles on the incidence correspondence X = {(p,H) ∈ ℙV × ℙVv : p ∈ H}, where V is a vector space of dimension n ≥ 3 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p &gt; 0. Given a (partial) flag variety over algebraically closed field k, a fundamental problem is to determine the sheaf cohomology groups of line bundles on it.
      • keywords: bundles; case; characteristic; cohomology; line
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2330. fb494745m78
      • author: Jacob Dillabaugh
      • title: The Weight of an Anchor (Institution): Institutional Inequality, Status, and Mission in University-Community Partnerships
      • date: 2023
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: At the highest levels of institutional status, missions and status orientations are tightly aligned towards status maintenance, while lower status universities and colleges are more likely to adopt alternative status markers and are more willing to incorporate engagement across their institutions. This study finds that there is a deep tension in the field of higher education between maintaining institutional status and becoming an engaged university.
      • keywords: community; institutional; status; study
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2331. ff365427q65
      • author: Iris Amy Law
      • title: Physics at the Dinner Table
      • date: 2010
      • words: 41
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In this collection of poems, I explore themes of lineage, ethnicity, and gender, and engage with the intersections between science and lyric language as played out in the stories of fourteen different historical women whose lives were deeply intertwined with science.
      • keywords: science
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2332. ff365427q8v
      • author: Nicholas Alan Lynchard
      • title: Addictive Substance Familiarity: Prior Knowledge Effects in Comprehension and Recall
      • date: 2010
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In a self-paced task, undergraduates at a private, Midwestern university read narratives involving the use of different addictive substances. Multiple regression techniques were used to examine whether indices of addictive substance familiarity, recreational usage, and exposure are related to reading times of sentences involving different types of drug schema-relevant information.
      • keywords: addictive; participants; reading; substance
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2333. ff365427q96
      • author: Benjamin Chleboun
      • title: Negotiated Gratitude: Resettled Refugees and Social Support
      • date: 2015
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Gratitude and flexibility seem to open opportunities in a new context without denying the incredible difficulty of the challenges of the first months and years of resettlement. should lead to negative emotions.
      • keywords: emotions; flexibility; negative
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2334. ff365427r0d
      • author: Nadine Shillingford
      • title: A Framework for Configuration and Management of Quality-of-Service (QoS) in Wireless Mesh Networks
      • date: 2010
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Quality-of-Service (QoS) support for wireless mesh networks (WMNs) poses a significant challenge because they are increasingly used as multi-purpose networks, i.e., they serve multiple objectives and different applications simultaneously. Finally, CMR allows applications to customize the WMN to their own needs, that is, routes are discovered, monitored, and adapted based on application-specific requirements.
      • keywords: applications; cmr; qos
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2335. ff365427r23
      • author: Meggan Evelyn Valrance
      • title: Role of the Vitamin D Receptor in 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3-Mediated Growth Arrest and Apoptosis
      • date: 2008
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: KO cells stably expressing VDR were growth inhibited by 1,25D and its structural analogs, indicating that the vitamin D growth regulatory pathway could be reconstituted in VDR null cells. 1µ M. Collectively, these data indicate that functional VDR protein is required for the anti-cancer effects of 1,25D and structurally related vitamin D based therapeutics in vitro.
      • keywords: anti; cancer; cells; effects; growth; tumor; vdr; vitamin
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2336. ff365427r3f
      • author: Lai Wei
      • title: Bandwidth-Efficient Partnering for Cooperative Diversity
      • date: 2011
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The receiving partner employs trellis-pruning (TP), i.e., its knowledge of the relayed data helps to 'prune' the inappropriate edges from the code trellis, so the partner-to-partner link is enhanced. The signal labeling is based on set partitioning (SP), and is carried out in such a way that each partner's knowledge of the relayed data enables it to decode the other partner's data from a sparser subset of the original constellation, thereby enhancing the robustness of the partner-to-partner link.
      • keywords: data; modulation; partner; technique
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2337. ff365427r4s
      • author: Janine Ruegg
      • title: Biofilm responses to Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) spawners: the role of environmental context and scale
      • date: 2011
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The dynamics of salmon runs and environmental conditions of streams in which they spawn can vary in space and time, potentially creating or reinforcing heterogeneity in these recipient ecosystems. The only consistent predictor across scales was sediment size, especially during the run, demonstrating the importance of salmon disturbance.
      • keywords: biofilm; disturbance; ecosystems; environmental; run; salmon; scales; streams
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2338. ff365427r7t
      • author: Srinath Puducheri Sundaravaradhan
      • title: Distributed LT Codes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: This thesis describes techniques to decompose LT codes (a class of rateless erasure correcting codes) into distributed LT (DLT) codes. This enhanced performance is due primarily to the longer blocklengths that are made possible by the MLT approach; when the relay-to-sink link is the bottleneck, it is better to deliver one long MLT codeword to the sink than multiple shorter LT codewords.
      • keywords: codes; dlt; relay
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2339. ff365427r85
      • author: Rui Ma
      • title: Apoptosis of Breast and Colon Carcinoma Cells by Inhibitors of Glycolipid and DNA Biosynthesis
      • date: 2007
      • words: 551
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Activation of both extrinsic and intrinsic apoptotic pathways by cis-Platin was observed in human breast cancer cells (MCF-7, MDA-468, and SKBR-3) with western blot using caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9 antibodies. Apoptotic effects of potential anti-cancer agents (GSL-glycosphingolipid biosynthesis inhibitor L-PPMP, DNA biosynthsis inhibitor cis-Platin, disialosylgangliosides GD3 and GD1b, etc.) in human breast cancer cell lines were evaluated in this study.
      • keywords: agents; apoptosis; apoptotic; biosynthesis; breast; cancer; cell; cis; gsl; human; platin; ppmp
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2340. ff365427r9h
      • author: Maurice Thomas Raycroft
      • title: Analysis of Dynactin Microtubule Binding
      • date: 2010
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: To test if dynamic MT-binding was required, we generated a GFP-p150Glued-MAP4 chimera which exhibited stable MT binding. Despite the widespread conservation of this structure, the requirement for MT-binding remains controversial.
      • keywords: binding; dynactin; golgi; transport
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2341. ff365427s0q
      • author: Xiaofei Cui
      • title: Destruction of Escherichia coli in Combined Sewer Overflow by Ultrasonication and Electrochemical Processes
      • date: 2010
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Nano-scale TiO2 was found to improve ultrasonic disinfection at high dosages and protect E. coli at low dosages. Ultrasonic disinfection performances were found to negatively correlate with ratios of initial turbidity to initial E. coli concentrations.
      • keywords: coli; cso; disinfection; ultrasonic
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2342. ff365427s8g
      • author: Bryant Crubaugh
      • title: Not All Civic Action Is Equal: How Place-Based and Identity-Based Civic Organizations Differentially Impact Neighborhoods and Cities
      • date: 1904
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: It also overcomes a central tension in civil society research: some social scientists argue that civic organizations are the key to well-functioning democracy, allowing people the ability to collectively organize for the promotion of their interests, but others argue that civic organizations instead breed exclusion, leaving only organized communities in the position to reap the benefits of organization. Its fundamental premise is that the effects of civic organizations differ, depending on the form they take and the level of analysis at which they operate.
      • keywords: civic; effects; organizations
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2343. ff365427t32
      • author: Aryanne D. de Silva
      • title: Marital Conflict Exposure and Emotional Security as Predictors of Adolescents' Dating Conflict
      • date: 1904
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: After controlling for marital conflict exposure, higher levels of emotional security predicted lower levels of destructive dating conflict behaviors. Results suggested that greater marital conflict exposure predicted higher levels of destructive dating conflict behaviors two years later.
      • keywords: adolescents; behaviors; conflict
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2344. ff365427t4d
      • author: Ashley Nicole Swanson
      • title: Using Molecular Techniques to Define the Role of Glycopeptidolipids in Mycobacterium avium Pathogenesis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The outer leaflet of M. avium bacteria and other non-tuberculosis mycobacteria (NTMs) contain unique, surface-exposed, antigenic molecules known as glycopeptidolipids (GPLs) that are able to interact with host immune receptors including the mannose receptor (MR). As GPLs are likely one of the first molecules that the host immune cells interact with, determining the importance of GPLs in the context of an infection could be an important step for understanding how the host initially responds to M. avium.
      • keywords: avium; gpls; immune; molecules
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2345. ff365427x19
      • author: Chrysovalantis Constantinou
      • title: Natural Orbitals for the No-Core Configuration Interaction Approach
      • date: 1904
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The natural orbital basis builds in contributions from high-lying oscillator shells, thus accelerating convergence of wave functions, energies, and other observables. The convergence of the ground and excited state energies, radii, and electromagnetic observables of He, Li, and Be isotopes calculated using natural orbitals in ab initio NCCI calculations is discussed.
      • keywords: basis; body; calculations; natural; orbitals
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2346. ff365427x30
      • author: Michael W. Staude
      • title: The Role of Protein Dynamics in β-lactamase Resistance Proteins
      • date: 1904
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Much of our knowledge about β-lactamase resistance proteins has come from X-ray crystallography studies. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is the premier method to determine the site-specific dynamics of proteins.
      • keywords: antibiotic; bacterial; dynamics; function; proteins; resistance
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2347. ff365428d8b
      • author: Nikhil Shukla
      • title: Computational Device and Circuit Concepts Based on Insulator-Metal Transition Phenomena
      • date: 1904
      • words: 205
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: On the other hand, the same materials and their properties can be leveraged to create new functionalities such as phase transition based synchronized oscillator devices which provide an alternate, and potentially, a more energy-efficient non-Boolean approach to certain problems such higher order distance computation and graph coloring which are difficult to compute in the conventional CMOS based framework. Our ever-expanding information eco-system demands energy efficient hardware platforms for computing and data storage.
      • keywords: data; hardware; imt; storage; work
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2348. ff365428f90
      • author: Caroline R Scheid
      • title: Potential Predictors of Children's Positive Talk: The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Positive Talk, and Maternal Mental Health
      • date: 1904
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Future research should examine children's positive talk with other positive outcomes, and promoting positive talk between mother-child dyads may stimulate facilitative communication, despite IPV and mental health symptoms. One element is positive talk, defined as vocalizations contributing to relationships and exchanges.
      • keywords: children; positive; talk
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2349. ff365428v6p
      • author: Monica Arul Jayachandran
      • title: Application of Shapelet Transform to Time Series Classification of Earthquake, Wind and Wave Data
      • date: 2022
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Autonomous detection of desired events from large databases using time series classification is becoming increasingly important in civil engineering as a result of continued long-term health monitoring of a large number of engineering structures encompassing buildings, bridges, towers, and offshore platforms. The efficacy of this proposed shapelet transform-based autonomous detection procedure is demonstrated by examples, to identify known and unknown earthquake events from continuously recorded ground-motion measurements, to detect pulses in the velocity time history of ground motions to distinguish between near-field and far-field ground motions, to identify thunderstorms from continuous wind speed measurements, to detect large-amplitude wind-induced vibrations from the bridge monitoring data, and to identify plunging breaking waves that have a significant impact on offshore structures.
      • keywords: detection; representation; series; shape; time; transform
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2350. ff365428w7b
      • author: Jamie M. Trost
      • title: Spatial Cueing Effects Reflect Direct Influences of Experience and Not Updated Goals
      • date: 2022
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Further, the SCE associated with each context varied as a function of experience, supporting that spatial cueing effects reflect the direct influence of experience and not the top-down updating of goals. Conditions varied by competing context cue validity and distinctiveness; context choice and performance measures (response time and error rates) were used to measure the alignment of an individual's top-down goals and implicit performance.
      • keywords: context; experience; sce; spatial
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2351. ff365428x4m
      • author: Daniel Soskin
      • title: Determinantal Inequalities for Totally Positive Matrices
      • date: 2023
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Majorizing monotonicity of symmetrized Fischer's products were already known for hermitian positive semi-definite matrices which brings additional motivation to verify if they hold for totally positive matrices as well (joint work with M. Skandera). One of the approaches to describe canonical bases is to study their dual objects, so called dual canonical bases.
      • keywords: bases; canonical; fischer; matrices; positive
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2352. fj23611103z
      • author: Ryan N. Lichtenwalter
      • title: Network Analysis and Link Prediction: Effective and Meaningful Modeling and Evaluation
      • date: 2012
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: It has important applications ranging from recommending beneficial relationships in social networks to discovering new protein-protein interactions in biological networks. This dissertation primarily focuses on link prediction in homogeneous, single-relational networks, but it also introduces new techniques for handling multi-relational networks.
      • keywords: link; networks; prediction; protein
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2353. fj236111049
      • author: Pedro Sztybel
      • title: Automatic Shifts of Spatial Attention to Symbolic Cues that Convey Information About Direction and Distance
      • date: 2015
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: attention; direction; distance; symbols
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2354. fj23611105n
      • author: Xiangning Luo
      • title: Resistive CrOx Thin Film for Single-electron Devices
      • date: 2005
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Based on our experimental results, we conclude that resistive microstrip itself can not provide sufficient barriers to observe Coulomb blockade oscillations, and the formation of tunneling barriers capable of fulfilling the two requirements of Coulomb blockade remains crucial for the observation of Coulomb blockade phenomenon. The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate single-electron devices using resistive microstrips, and to investigate their applicability for QCA device fabrication.
      • keywords: blockade; crox; devices; fabrication; microstrips; qca; sets
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2355. fj23611108p
      • author: Elaine MacDonald
      • title: Low Energy Orthopedic Instruments and Fixation Strategies
      • date: 2014
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Small diameter pins in external fixators require less energy for insertion and are therefore well suited for low energy designs. An understanding of how geometric design parameters affect the performance of orthopedic drill bits is desired to guide future low energy designs.
      • keywords: designs; dimensional; drilling; energy; orthopedic; power; requirements; surgical
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2356. fj236111169
      • author: Joseph Bartholomew Gianino
      • title: Development of Titanocene-Catalyzed Multicomponent Coupling Reactions
      • date: 2014
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 18
      • 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.
      • keywords: aldehydes; electron; nucleophilic; rich; titanocene
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2357. fj23611117n
      • author: Garrett Smith
      • title: The Problem of Divine Attributes from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus
      • date: 2013
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: These statements appear to violate divine simplicity, because taken individually they introduce a distinction between an attribute or property of God and the divine essence itself (for example, between God and God's goodness), and taken together they posit a plurality of attributes in God. My dissertation is a close examination of the Scholastic controversy concerning the divine attributes and the philosophical attempts to reconcile a plurality of divine attributes with the simplicity of God.
      • keywords: attributes; divine; god; intellect; plurality
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2358. fj236111645
      • author: Valentina Geri
      • title: Testimony, Memory, and Intertextual References: Shakespeare's Presence in the Works of Primo Levi
      • date: 1904
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Keywords: Primo Levi; William Shakespeare; intertextuality; memory; testimony; narration; literary creation; grey zone; interiority; poetry. Levi's work is very rich in references to other literary works and these seem to be even fundamental in some texts.
      • keywords: intertextuality; levi; memory; references; texts
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2359. fj236111q55
      • author: Christopher R Vetter
      • title: Stochastic Ground Motion Modeling: Impact on Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment and Enhancements through Hazard Compatibility
      • date: 1904
      • words: 509
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: The impact of the use of stochastic ground motion models within the context of probabilistic seismic risk assessment is emphasized throughout the thesis. For applications involving dynamic analysis this hazard may be characterized through stochastic ground motion models.
      • keywords: assessment; ground; hazard; models; motion; probabilistic; risk; seismic; stochastic
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2360. fj236111r5g
      • author: Yin Liu
      • title: Teaching the Secunda Lex: Deuteronomy and Church Reform at Lyon in the Age of Charlemagne
      • date: 2018
      • words: 283
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Paris, BnF, NAL 1740 is a Bible codex from early medieval Lyon. In the early ninth century, a scribe of Lyon cathedral copied more than 400 exegetical annotations alongside the Deuteronomic verses, either in page margins or between the two columns of the main text.
      • keywords: annotations; biblical; century; commentary; dissertation; exegetical; lyon
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2361. fj236111w00
      • author: Erik Z. D. Ellis
      • title: The Language of Order: Latin, Greek, and Roman in the Byzantine Book of Ceremonies
      • date: 2019
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The study also places De Cerimoniis in its wider cultural and literary milieu, focusing on how the text both reflects and projects a deeply philosophical and theological vision of the ways by which language and ceremony have real effects in the world and how Constantine VII understood his book as an essential tool in his project of recovering the Roman past and restoring cosmic order. Through ceremony, the basileus and his basileia begin to reflect heavenly rather than historical taxis, and Constantine VII imagines the possibility of directing his empire towards the fulfillment of its transcendent destiny.
      • keywords: cerimoniis; constantine; language; linguistic; middle; place; study; vii
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2362. fj23611217x
      • author: Laura C. Merrill
      • title: Electrodeposition and Electrochemical Interfaces for Magnesium Batteries
      • date: 2019
      • words: 635
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Research efforts have focused on developing electrolytes with increased thermal stability and decreased corrosiveness in order to lead to the eventual application of magnesium batteries. Finally, the use of single ion conducting polymers and their application in magnesium batteries is discussed.
      • keywords: addition; application; batteries; battery; density; electrodeposition; electrolytes; energy; lithium; magnesium; materials; metal; sulfone
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2363. fj23611225j
      • author: Christina Horr
      • title: Creation of Breast Cancer Subtypes: A Consensus-Based Network Approach
      • date: 2020
      • words: 446
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease composed of multiple subtypes, each with its own distinct biological characteristics, therapy, and clinical outcomes. The advantage of this consensus-based subtyping method is that it does not produce subtypes based on a single unsupervised clustering method like PAM50, but rather produces subtypes that are based on multiple clustering strategies that are integrated together.
      • keywords: clustering; data; method; pam50; samples; subtypes; subtyping
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2364. fj236112366
      • author: Pauline Paris Buisch
      • title: The Woman Facing the Threat of Childlessness: The Literary and Theological Development of a Biblical Motif
      • date: 2021
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The remainder of the project is dedicated to demonstrating that the link between mother characters and the city of Jerusalem forged in prophetic texts was so strong that the authors of new narratives portrayed maternal characters in such a way that made them function as a parallel to the city of Jerusalem. Second Temple authors employed allusions to prophetic passages that feature the female city in order to make the mother's story indicative of the city's story while New Testament authors wrestled with this impulse to connect the mother character to Jerusalem in light of their changing views of the city.
      • keywords: city; jerusalem; story; woman
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2365. fj236112486
      • author: Bumkyu Kim
      • title: Effects and Control of Protozoan Predation on Biofilm Processes for Wastewater Treatment
      • date: 2022
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: However, the conclusions drawn are weakened by the fact that protozoan predation is largely ignored, despite their ubiquitous presence in biofilm systems. Three representative types of biofilm systems were studied: (1) a heterotrophic membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR), (2) a nitrifying MABR, (3) a membrane-based biofilm photobioreactor (MBPR), and (4) a novel biofilm reactor that allows for control of protozoan predation.
      • keywords: base; biofilm; membrane; predation; reactor; systems
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2366. fj23611264f
      • author: Luiz Vilaça
      • title: A Socio-Cultural Approach to Anti-Corruption Crusades: A Multi-Methods Study of the Lava Jato Prosecutions
      • date: 2023
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: In this way, my dissertation unpacks the work that prosecutors and judges do on the ground to criminalize corruption, and contributes to a more complete understanding of anti-corruption crusades. Specifically, I draw on three distinct and original data sources: a) 130 in-depth interviews with judicial agents, b) an original dataset of appeals of corruption cases (N=1,136) constructed through supervised machine learning, and c) an original online experiment in which respondents were randomly assigned to watch videos that simulate a prosecutors' press conference where prosecutors use different frames when calling for public support (N=2,060).
      • keywords: corruption; cultural; dissertation; level; prior; prosecutors; socio
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2367. fn106w9487f
      • author: Zhanwei Sun
      • title: Design and Implementation of Sequence Detection Algorithms for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
      • date: 2010
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: access; detection; dsa; spectrum; users
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2368. fn106w9488s
      • author: Kathryn Lynn Gardner
      • title: Constructing and Deconstructing Islam in the Western State: A Comparative Look at the Politicization of Religion in France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945-2008
      • date: 2010
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: In doing so, I provide an assessment of the post-9/11 context and how the development of state policies countering terrorism has affected Muslim incorporation policies. I argue that venue-shopping is a strategy employed by British, French, and American elites in order to circumvent constraints imposed by politicization of national security and Muslim incorporation issues as well as harness the benefits of a more insulated process and third-party partnerships, particularly with Muslim leaders and organizations.
      • keywords: incorporation; muslim; policies; security; state; western
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2369. fn106w9490b
      • author: Jogender Singh
      • title: Role of the ARF6 GTPase in Epithelial Gland Morphogenesis
      • date: 2007
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 22
      • 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.
      • keywords: activation; arf6; cell; cysts; dependent; development; epithelial; gtp
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2370. fn106w9491p
      • author: Qingmin Liu
      • title: Tunnel Diode/Transistor Integrated Circuits
      • date: 2008
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: circuit; digital; frequency; inductance; models; new; power; quantum; tdt; technology; transistor
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2371. fn106w94921
      • author: Patricia Snell Herzog
      • title: People in Context: Perceptions of Social Dissonance and Community Involvement
      • date: 2011
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: What are the primary mechanisms by which community contexts relate to social outcomes? I focus in particular on perceptions of context and find that people's subjective experiences of their neighborhood context matter just as much, if not more, than their objective structural neighborhood situations.
      • keywords: contexts; neighborhood; outcomes; social
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2372. fn106w9493c
      • author: David Alan Cieslak
      • title: Finding Problems In, Proposing Solutions to, and Performing Analysis on Imbalanced Data
      • date: 2009
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Less attention has been garnered for the set of problems in which the data distribution changes, potentially wiping out the gains from expensive data mining methods. It is the purpose of this dissertation to explore concepts of distributionalchange, particularly within the context of imbalanced data problems and the effects of the performance on solutions from this realm.
      • keywords: data; methods; problems
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2373. fn106w9494q
      • author: Travis A Eisenhour
      • title: Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the Bending Characteristics of Laminated Steel
      • date: 2008
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Because of the particular construction of laminated steel, bending can involve some issues that are not of concern when bending solid steel sheet. Experimentally, it was necessary to design and build a set-up for each type of bending that had the required flexibility to change tooling parameters.
      • keywords: draw; layer; parameters; polymer; sheet; steel
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2374. fn106w94952
      • author: Melinda Nielsen
      • title: Impersonating Boethius in Middle English Literature
      • date: 2011
      • words: 545
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Vernacular translations, such as the Alfredian Old English Boethius, provide an on-site glimpse into early medieval applications of Boethius's persona to new circumstances. This dissertation focuses on the literary persona of Boethius, a classical sage turned Christian martyr, and its influence on later writers.
      • keywords: boethian; boethius; chapter; later; literary; medieval; person; self; testament; tradition; usk; vernacular
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2375. fn106w9496d
      • author: Jennifer Rose Stutzman Rodriguez
      • title: The Ethics of War and Peace: Competing Traditions
      • date: 2012
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: I will then argue that pacifism and just war tradition, given their underlying principles, are morally preferable to the alternatives, and more specifically, that a strong form of pacifism (that takes active responsibility for nonviolently combating injustice), and a strict form of just war (that is willing forego war when it is unjust), are morally superior to other forms. Over time, a number of traditions regarding war have emerged, ranging from categorical rejection (pacifism) to a limited acceptance (just war tradition) to an enthusiastic acceptance (crusading tradition); others ultimately reject the notion that war is subject to moral strictures at all (realism).
      • keywords: moral; pacifism; tradition; war
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2376. fn106w9499f
      • author: James Buckingham Leighton
      • title: Pressure and Diffusion Driven Bubble Growth on a Static Surface
      • date: 2010
      • words: 378
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This thesis describes the growth of gas bubbles on a static surface. As an initial verification of the experimental apparatus, the surface tension of three separate fluid (distilled water, dodecane, and Jet-A) is calculated using a force balance involving measured quantities at the instant of bubble departure.
      • keywords: bubble; diffusion; fluid; growth; pressure; surface; system
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2377. fn106w94b0n
      • author: Ivan Gregoretti
      • title: Modeling Microtubule Dynamic Instability
      • date: 2007
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The opening chapter presents an overview of microtubule dynamics and its pending questions. Quantitative analysis concludes that it is the relationship between the lengths of cracks and the GTP cap what dictates microtubule dynamics, not the GTP cap alone.
      • keywords: cell; dynamic; instability; microscopic; microtubule; model; scale
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2378. fn106w94b10
      • author: Elijah Park
      • title: Flight Manifest
      • date: 2010
      • words: 15
      • flesch: 78
      • summary: Collection of short stories and novel excerpts worked on between Fall 2008 and Spring 2010.
      • keywords: collection
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2379. fn106w94b2b
      • author: Martin Beisswenger
      • title: Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii (1895 åÐ 1968) and the Invention of "Eurasia"
      • date: 2010
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This dissertation makes ample use of all available archival materials relating to the life and work of P.N. Savitskii, in Russia, France, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and the United States. The movement considered the Russian revolution not the result of an unfortunate coincidence or even a malicious conspiracy, but rather the logical outcome of Russia's historical development and the fatal consequence of the country's Europeanization.
      • keywords: dissertation; ideas; ideology; movement; revolution; russian; savitskii
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2380. fn106w94c19
      • author: Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
      • title: On Postcolonial Libya: The Structure of Ambivalence and the Ambivalence of the Structure in Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men
      • date: 1904
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In this thesis, I analyze the theme of subject formation in the novel entitled In the Country of Men by the Libyan author Hisham Matar and connect this biopolitical process to structural conditions that marked Gaddafi's Libya. I explore the central mode of ambivalence that is enunciated in the narrative and interpret it to be both the affective blueprint of the productive effects of political power on the emerging subject as well as a structure of feeling that reflects the sense of life in a certain period of Libyan social organization under the Jamahiriya regime.
      • keywords: libyan; regime; social; subject
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2381. fn106w94d1m
      • author: Kyle Heintz
      • title: Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Non-cyclical Frequency and Amplitude Variation on Dynamic Stall
      • date: 1904
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Lastly, a novel dual harmonic pitch motion is devised which rapidly traverses dynamic stall regimes on an inter-cycle basis by modulating the static-stall penetration angle. Throughout all results presented, there is evidence that for consecutive pitch-cycles, the process of dynamic stall is affected when prior oscillations prior have undergone deeper stall-penetration angles.
      • keywords: airfoil; amplitude; coefficients; dynamic; penetration; pitch; stall
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2382. fn106w9500t
      • author: Seungmin Oh
      • title: Structural Characterization of Ionic Liquids Containing Phenolate and Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The experimentally generated structure factors give structural information, such as pre-peaks, charge alternation peaks, and adjacency peaks. Furthermore, structure factors determined computationally by our collaborators are validated by comparing them with the experimentally generated structure factors here.
      • keywords: anions; capture; co2; different; factors; ils; information; phenolate; structure
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2383. fn106w95077
      • author: Shanna Corner
      • title: Tactics and Transcendence: The Struggle to Create Common Understandings about Religion and Its Relationship to Women's Human Rights within the United Nations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In this dissertation, I help to correct this problem and answer these questions by looking at dynamics that take place at the micro-interactive level within one of the most important intergovernmental institutions at work in the world to address and resolve differences around human rights, gender, and religion. I examine how UN treaty body members and state representatives involved in CEDAW monitoring procedures talk with one another about religion and its relationship to women's rights within this setting, as well as how they think about this relationship and work out how to approach it.
      • keywords: institutions; relationship; religion; rights; women
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2384. fn106w9511g
      • author: Matthias Alonyenu
      • title: Salvation in Jesus Coming from God: Edward Schillebeeckx's Jesus-Project in the Context of Pluralistic Africa
      • date: 1904
      • words: 511
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In posing this question, this dissertation is aware of the ongoing challenges of religious pluralism as well as religious violence on the continent. This later method was informed by the problem of secularism, religious pluralism, suffering, interreligious dialogue, and religious violence in a postmodern world.
      • keywords: constitutive; dissertation; god; historical; jesus; pluralism; religious; salvation; schillebeeckx; universal
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2385. fn106w95b2m
      • author: Ebenezer Akesseh
      • title: Relevance of the Virtue of Justice to Contemporary Discussions of Corruption
      • date: 2020
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Since corruption occurs between actors and actants in a particular social setting, the dissertation uses anthropological theories of corruption and social relations to understand corruption in Ghana. Unlike studies which privilege the importance of institutions and policies to addressing corruption, this dissertation pivots the idea of corruption as a vice and, as such, argues the necessity of focusing on forming virtuous individuals who work in those institutions.
      • keywords: account; corruption; dissertation; justice; social
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2386. fn106w95c07
      • author: Alireza Partovi
      • title: Security Enforcement and Reactive Control of Cyber-Physical Systems
      • date: 2020
      • words: 658
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This inspires this dissertation to focus on the cyber behavior of CPSs in the framework of discrete event systems (DESs), as this class of dynamic systems provides suitable formal models and analytical techniques to study event-driven systems. The recent development in communication networks and computational devices has greatly enhanced the technological evolution of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as networked mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, smart manufacturing systems, and other classes of systems that have a large degree of autonomy.
      • keywords: behavior; dynamic; environment; external; intruder; level; model; notion; opacity; reactive; systems
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2387. fn106w95d1w
      • author: Jenny Baranker
      • title: Characterization of Large-Area Plasma Jet Discharges and Sintering Performance of Printed Thermoelectric Thin-Films
      • date: 2021
      • words: 549
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: A proposed non- thermal alternative is low temperature, atmospheric pressure plasma jets, characterized as plasmas with electron temperatures far exceeding that of the ionized gas particles and neutral species. A common way to generate this type of plasma jet is a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), or an electrical discharge between two electrodes separated by a dielectric surface.
      • keywords: ajp; energy; esj; films; jet; jets; nozzle; plasma; printing; samples; sintering; thin
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2388. fq977s77j52
      • author: Yue Li
      • title: Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Renal Progenitor Patterning During Zebrafish Nephrogenesis
      • date: 2015
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: patterning; pronephros; renal; zebrafish
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2389. fq977s77j6d
      • author: Robert Lester
      • title: Three Essays in Macroeconomics
      • date: 2015
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Welfare is greater in high shock volatility regimes under plausible parameter values. Augmenting the model with features that increase the elasticity of factor supply extends the range of parameters over which higher volatility results in greater welfare.
      • keywords: chapter; home; model; monetary; policy; production; volatility; welfare
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2390. fq977s77j7r
      • author: Min Zhang
      • title: Study of Externalization in Organizations: Examining the Determinants of Using Workers Not On Payroll
      • date: 2005
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Another finding is that Organizations use externalized workers to screen qualified workers for permanent organizations, which reduces the turnover and instability of an organization. Drawing on 1996-1997 National Organizations Survey (NOS Ì ), I study the use of externalized workers from five theoretical perspectives: numerical flexibility, dual workforce, organization transformation, matching efficiency, and internal labor market (ILM) screening flexibility.
      • keywords: flexibility; organizations; workers
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2391. fq977s77k0n
      • author: Jakob Joseph Ollinger
      • title: Popocalypse Now: The rise of the Boy-Men in Pop Culture
      • date: 2015
      • words: 174
      • flesch: 69
      • summary: By investigating the Superhero mythos in a post-apocalyptic environment I hope to shed new light on a new group of young people who aren't interested in the former ideal of growing up and are searching for a new way to try and define themselves. My work examines perpetual adolescence as it manifests of Pop Culture.
      • keywords: culture; new; pop
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2392. fq977s77k8d
      • author: Dugald John MacDougall
      • title: Self-Assembly of Extended Networks from Molecular Lithium and Sodium Complexes
      • date: 2005
      • words: 424
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Section two describes the self assembly of coordination polymers from molecular lithium or sodium aryloxides through Lewis acid/base interactions. Furthermore, electrospray mass spectroscopy and MeI quenching studies found that the geminal dianionic complexes react with DMSO to regenerate mono anions.
      • keywords: anions; assembly; complexes; cubic; ligation; molecular; mono; polymers; related
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2393. fq977s77k9r
      • author: Elizabeth Hope Blodgett
      • title: Marital Conflict and Mothers' Responsive Parenting Practices as Mediators of the Relation between Maternal Emotional Distress and Adolescent Adjustment
      • date: 2010
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Results of structural equations modeling procedures using latent variables suggested that marital conflict and responsive parenting practices mediated the relation between maternal emotional distress and adolescent externalizing behaviors. In contrast, only marital conflict mediated the relation between maternal emotional distress and adolescent internalizing behaviors.
      • keywords: adolescent; distress; emotional
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2394. fq977s77r68
      • author: Nathan P. Vander Werf
      • title: Screening Operators for Lattice Vertex Operator Algebras and Resulting Constructions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: We then show how to construct subalgebras of $V_L$ by considering the kernel of a screening operator for $V_L$ when $L$ is of rank $2$, and how one can take the intersection of the kernels of certain commuting screening operators to obtain interesting vertex operator algebras that can be analyzed using this intersection of kernels structure. We analyze and classify when screening pairs can arise for $L$ of arbitrary rank, and then give a classification of when configurations of multiple screening pairs can occur for lattice vertex operator algebras with lattices of rank $2$ and ADE-type root lattices.
      • keywords: operator; rank; screening
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2395. fq977s7887j
      • author: Ann E. Zeleniak
      • title: Investigating the Role of MTSS1 in the Metastatic Progression of Pancreatic Cancer
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: It was established that loss of MTSS1 leads to increased invasion and migration in PDAC cells. Additionally, overexpression of MTSS1 in PDAC cells leads to a loss of migratory potential in vitro and an increase in overall survival in vivo.
      • keywords: inflammation; loss; metastatic; mtss1; pdac; pten
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2396. fq977s78955
      • author: Arman Mirhashemi
      • title: Investigation of Thermal Transport in an Accelerated Turbulent Flow
      • date: 2018
      • words: 178
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This model was then also validated against independent experimental measurements of turbulent Prandtl number in jet flow, flat plate boundary layer, and turbulent pipe flow. A theoretical model for turbulent Prandtl number was developed based on the intermediate mixing length concept.
      • keywords: experimental; flow; temperature; total; turbulent
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2397. fq977s78f2c
      • author: Amanda M Bohne
      • title: Managing Death: Women's Networks of Private and Civic Responsibility in Medieval England
      • date: 2019
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Medieval literary narratives and historical records show that medieval women navigated various spiritual and material postmortem concerns in their families and communities. Chapter Four argues that in the Middle English romance Ywain and Gawain, a network of grieving women grapple with competing personal and public responsibilities after the death of an important male member of the community.
      • keywords: bukerel; chapter; concerns; dissertation; london; responsibilities; women
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2398. fq977s78q36
      • author: Carmen Orozco-Acosta
      • title: A Black and Brown Rainbow? Levels of Policy Congruence and Cooperation between African American and Latino National Organizations in the 20th and 21st Centuries
      • date: 2022
      • words: 439
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The People of Color model was predicted for organizational behavior around the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Five hypotheses were examined to explain Black‐Latino organizational behavior and a fourth model, named the Power Asymmetry Model was developed.
      • keywords: behavior; education; immigration; model; organizational; policy; reform; rights; work
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2399. fq977s78q4j
      • author: Zixuan Song
      • title: Machine Learning Methods for High-Dimensional Data and Multimodal Single-Cell Data
      • date: 2022
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: We consider the problem of variable selection, that is, selecting the input variables that have significant predictive power on the output, in deep neural networks. Autoencoders are a type of deep neural network that are usually applied in unsupervised learning for dimensionality reduction.
      • keywords: cell; control; datasets; methods; networks; neural; selection; survnet; variables
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2400. fq977s78r25
      • author: Lauren Finnigan
      • title: The Necessary and the Ornamental: Women's Empowered Labor in Pullman, Chicago, 1880-1894
      • date: 2023
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Archaeology performed in Pullman by Jane Baxter indicated that some residents may have used their backyards less intensively during the period of company control than residents after, and she attributed this to alienation experienced due to surveillance and company oversight. Pullman had well-constructed homes and an aesthetically-appealing community that came with paternalist forms of company oversight that alienated some residents.
      • keywords: company; labor; pullman; town; women; work
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2401. fq977s78r6j
      • author: Zhuoming Zhang
      • title: Optical Refrigeration in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
      • date: 2023
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This results in minimum cooling floors as low as 10 K.This PhD thesis begins by presenting an overview of the theoretical model in semiconductor laser cooling, which highlights key factors and concepts crucial to establishing valid laser cooling claims. The thesis then compares three different methods of all-optical thermometry: pump-probe luminescence thermometry (PPLT), differential luminescence thermometry (DLT), and up-conversion emission thermometry.
      • keywords: cooling; laser; optical; semiconductor; temperatures; thermometry; thesis
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2402. ft848p60t90
      • author: Ryan Joseph Downey
      • title: Maw Maw
      • date: 2010
      • words: 55
      • flesch: 62
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: maw; south
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2403. ft848p60v2w
      • author: Philip W. Snowberger
      • title: Sub-Identities: A Hierarchical Identity Model for Practical Containment
      • date: 2010
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In this model, user identities form a hierarchy, and each user may create sub-identities at any time without the help or approval of an administrator. Further, in the face of increasingly common malware and spyware, users are not empowered to protect themselves.
      • keywords: model; sub; user
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2404. ft848p60v37
      • author: Bradford Ray Houston
      • title: The Marketplace as a Vehicle for Social and Economic Revitalization: A New Market Hall for LaGrange, Georgia
      • date: 2006
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Providing a thriving commercial center that supports and encourages other local businesses and provides an atmosphere that encourages pedestrian activity. A case study for a new market hall in LaGrange Georgia will demonstrate how the traditional market hall typology can serve as a model for contemporary markets.
      • keywords: hall; market; neighborhood; thesis
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2405. ft848p60v4k
      • author: Eloy Garcia
      • title: Model-Based Control over Networks: Architecture and Performance
      • date: 2012
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The use of a limited bandwidth network for control communication presents new challenges on the design and analysis of network interconnected systems due to quantization, time delays, and the absence of feedback measurements for long intervals of time. Control systems that transmit information over a shared digital communication network offer improved efficiency, flexibility, and reliability compared to traditional closed loop feedback systems.
      • keywords: control; feedback; model; ncs; network; sensor; systems
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2406. ft848p60v5x
      • author: Annalia Palumbo
      • title: Alpha-Capture and Alpha-Elastic Scattering on P-Nuclei to Probe the Hauser-Feshbach Framework
      • date: 2009
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The thirty five neutron deficient stable nuclei known as the p-nuclei are synthesized in a series of photodisintegration reactions of the (gamma,n), (gamma,p) and (gamma, alpha) type in a hot gamma-flux environment. Even though in the astrophysical environment it is photodisintegration reactions that synthesize the p-nuclei, in the laboratory it is the inverse process that is generally measured.
      • keywords: alpha; gamma; model; nuclei; potential; reactions
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2407. ft848p60v68
      • author: Changjun Zhou
      • title: The Effect of Additives and Processing Conditions on Properties of Sintered Mesocarbon Microbeads
      • date: 2008
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: carbon; composite; fracture; heat; high; liquid; microbeads; properties; tib2
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2408. ft848p60v7m
      • author: Raúl Erick Juárez Hernández
      • title: A Convergent Approach for the Syntheses of Sideromycins: Mycobactin T and Gallioxamine B Conjugates
      • date: 2012
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: In the case of pathogenic bacteria, the importance of iron-acquisition has resulted in the ability to recognize and utilize exogenous siderophores, which in turn has been met with the generation of drug-conjugates to combat siderophore-mediated iron-thievery. The identification of these molecules has sparked the interest of many laboratories to use siderophores as carriers to deliver antibiotics and other molecules of interest, inside bacteria Because in many cases, siderophores are exclusively recognized and acquired by a specific microorganism, the possibility of designing bacteria-specific antibiotics makes the study and synthesis of these molecules an exciting area of research.
      • keywords: bacteria; conjugates; iron; molecules; siderophores; synthesis
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2409. ft848p60v8z
      • author: Minjun Yan
      • title: Electric Field Detection by Electrostatic Force Microscopy for Clocking Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Molecules
      • date: 2006
      • words: 238
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: EFM-phase measurement is not well understood here and used mostly for phase-contrast qualitative measurements. In our experiments, parallel nanowires were fabricated by electron beam lithography and metal lift off, and applied with different voltages to simulate different clocking phases.
      • keywords: clocking; efm; electric; measurements; metal; phase; qca
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2410. ft848p60w1v
      • author: William L Towns
      • title: Impact of Transfected Cytoplasmic Dynein Intermediate Chain on Dynein-Based Transport
      • date: 2008
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: In previous work, we found that overexpression of dynein IC tagged with GFP (IC-GFP) disrupted dynein cargo transport in vivo. IC-GFP did not incorporate into native dynein or dimerize with dynein IC, but it recruited a limited amount of the dynein light chains LC8 and Tctex-1.
      • keywords: binding; cargo; dynein; gfp; s84d
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2411. ft848p60w26
      • author: RaviKiran Gopalan
      • title: Practicable Schemes for Multi-User Networks
      • date: 2007
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: There has been a lot of effort ondesigning transmission schemes for such networks, most of whichexploit spatial diversity to achieve improved throughputs. The thesispresents a low-complexity rotate-and-quantize algorithm based on extended scalar quantization that has a tremendouslyreduced complexity when compared to traditional feedback schemeswhile achieving comparable throughputs.
      • keywords: channel; multi; networks; practicable; schemes; thesis; user
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2412. ft848p60w3j
      • author: Michaela Marie Logue
      • title: Sound Generation and Scattering in Turbofan Engines
      • date: 2010
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Third, as broadband noise has become an important component of the noise spectrum of turbofan engines, a broadband noise prediction model is presented for realistic engine cascade geometries. Hence, it is determined that linear cascade theory cannot adequately predict the noise spectrum resulting from unsteady disturbances interacting with a rotating cascade.
      • keywords: cascade; dimensional; linear; model; noise; theory
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2413. ft848p60x8k
      • author: Emma Vanhoozer
      • title: Problems in Poetics: Robert Creeley in Theory and in Practice
      • date: 1904
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: creeley; dissertation; poetics; reading
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2414. ft848p6117f
      • author: Janna L. Hunter-Bowman
      • title: Agency under Duress: A Political Theological Approach to Peacebuilding
      • date: 1904
      • words: 292
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The thesis is that the kinds of actions performed by war-torn communities in Colombia, South America, indicate a kind of agency that is undertheorized in peace studies but that can be illuminated by theology in a way that contributes to peace studies. This dissertation testifies to multiple forms of power, freedom, and agency contributing to peace, and the moral worlds embedded therein.
      • keywords: agency; communities; dissertation; messianic; peace; state
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2415. ft848p6168b
      • author: Shinkyu Lee
      • title: Communities of War and Peace: Arendt, Political Association, and International Relations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In my view, Arendt's writings evince an acute awareness of how difficult it is to balance the domestic need for robust political participation, public spirit, and care for a particular political world with the need, at the inter-state level, to create and maintain a framework of international law. My study traces the main features of these models and shows how Arendt's interest in and understanding of constitutional law and participatory politics lead her to reject both abstract legalism and all-too-concrete nationalism.
      • keywords: arendt; international; law; need; peace; political; state
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2416. ft848p61j5d
      • author: Sara Fathipour
      • title: Electric Double Layer Doping and Process Development for Transition-Metal-Dichalcogenide Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors
      • date: 1904
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The devices show clear rectification with a forward-to-reverse current ratio of 2000 to 28,000.As a part of the TFET process development, two techniques were utilized to deposit gate dielectrics on TMD channels: one suitable for planar channel geometries and the other suitable for nonplanar geometries. Electric double layer (EDL) doping of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) channels in planar, nanoribbon, and nanotube geometries, have been explored for the realization of tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs).
      • keywords: channels; current; geometries; layer; materials; suitable; wse2
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2417. ft848p61j73
      • author: Elizabeth Hannah Peuchen
      • title: Analytical Approach to the Developmental Proteomics of Xenopus laevis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: In this work, I assimilate known developmental biology and the capabilities of mass spectrometry to develop a pipeline to study the developmental proteomic changes occurring in Xenopus laevis beginning with oocyte development and tracing development through the basis of early neural formation, and into single cell analysis. I exploited the benefits and long history of Xenopus laevis to develop sensitive shot-gun proteomic mass spectrometry techniques for the analysis and monitoring of the proteome during development.
      • keywords: biology; developmental; laevis; xenopus
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2418. ft848p61k31
      • author: Rufino Enno H. Dango, CP
      • title: Rationalist Hermeneutics: A Study of Muhammad Asad's Translation and Commentary of the Qur'ān
      • date: 1904
      • words: 263
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: It also contextualizes its praxis of translation within the discourse of current theories translations. The Message of the Qurʾān (TMOQ) by Muḥammad Asad (formerly Leopold Weiss, d. 1992) ranks among one of the major influential works of translations and exegetical literature in the contemporary period.
      • keywords: hermeneutical; islamic; message; method; qurʾān; tmoq
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2419. ft848p61k8r
      • author: Matthew Jerry
      • title: Collective Phenomena Based Solid State Devices and Their Natural Computing Applications
      • date: 2018
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: The systematic series of advances in semiconductor device manufacturing over the last 70 years has enabled previously unforeseen applications and allowed semiconductor device technologies to become a hidden yet central part of everyday modern life. However, in order to fulfill the demands of future computing systems, the continued scaling of current semiconductor device technologies alone will not suffice.
      • keywords: algorithms; cmos; devices; dynamics; phase; semiconductor; stochastic; technologies
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2420. ft848p61w3t
      • author: Jeremy Mann
      • title: Applications of Factorization Homology to Riemannian Field Theories
      • date: 2019
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: field; general; theory
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2421. ft848p61z0d
      • author: Laura Taylor Steiner
      • title: Féile agus Béaloideas: The Interconnection of Religious Folk Narrative and Popular Practice on Feast Days in the Irish Sanctoral Cycle
      • date: 2021
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: It is a constructive and corrective project that sheds light on obscured voices and devotional practices in Irish liturgical tradition and folklore, and raises important questions about nominal Christianization and secularization, and about the survival of loric power and even magical layers of Christian ritual in the face of encroaching anglicization and modernization. This dissertation is a case study of the sanctoral cycle of the liturgical year in conflict and transformation, and utilizes a range of sources from Irish oral tradition to explore the liturgical phenomenon of the Irish patron day in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
      • keywords: cycle; irish; liturgical; patron; sanctoral; tradition
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2422. fx719k4437n
      • author: James Russell Johnson
      • title: Targeted Delivery of Molecular Cargo and Fluorescent Bioimaging Agents
      • date: 2010
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The dye described here, the squaraine rotaxane, shows significantly greater photostability and resistance to degradation in biological systems as compared to conventional fluorescent dyes. Fluorescence imaging provides a powerful and convenient method to monitor biological systems both in vitro and in vivo in real time.
      • keywords: biological; cargo; membrane; molecular; systems
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2423. fx719k44380
      • author: Gaurav Nigam
      • title: Base Station Cooperation in Downlink Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
      • date: 2015
      • words: 409
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Motivated by this ongoing debate in standard settings, this thesis presents a stochastic geometry model to study base station cooperation in heterogeneous cellular networks. Unlike the typical network user, a user located at the cell boundary suffers from severe inter-cell interference, a problem which is aggravated by the deployment of small cells in heterogeneous networks.
      • keywords: base; cell; coverage; interference; network; probability; typical; user
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2424. fx719k4439b
      • author: Paul A. Brink
      • title: The Idea of a Pluralist Politics: Pluralism and Consensus in John Rawls's Political Liberalism
      • date: 2005
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: This assumption is made clear by reviewing Rawls's theory particularly with regard to the relationship between comprehensive views and political conceptions of justice, Rawls's arguments concerning human reason, and Rawls's views concerning public political culture. Focusing in particular on Rawls's Political Liberalism and later writings, the dissertation argues that although Rawls does seek to take account of the diversity of beliefs and worldviews present in society, his model assumes a particular perspective on this diversity, stemming from larger and more controversial assumptions concerning the purposes and meaning of public discourse and political life.
      • keywords: consensus; pluralism; political; public; rawls; views
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2425. fx719k4441w
      • author: Ginger E. Sigmon
      • title: Crystal Chemistry of Early Actinides (Thorium, Uranium, and Neptunium) and Uranium Mesoporous Materials
      • date: 2010
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Uranium mesoporous materials may provide a waste form or nuclear fuel material that may selectively store other radionuclides. The research reported herein concerns the crystal chemistry of the early actinide elements as well as uranium mesoporous materials.
      • keywords: fuel; materials; mesoporous; neptunium; nuclear; thorium; uranium
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2426. fx719k44427
      • author: Bahman Aboulhasanzadeh
      • title: Multiscale Computations of Mass Transfer in Bubbly Flows
      • date: 2014
      • words: 248
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: We study the effect of void fraction and bubble interactions on the mass transfer from many bubbles using a 3D implementation of the code. In Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) the resolution requirement for flows with mass transfer are therefore significantly higher than for flow without mass transfer and reaction.
      • keywords: approach; boundary; bubbles; mass; transfer
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2427. fx719k4450v
      • author: Christopher Joseph Fennell
      • title: Development of Molecular Dynamics Techniques for the Study of Water and Biochemical Systems
      • date: 2008
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Accordingly, the first chapter starts by introducing the technique of molecular dynamics and discussing technical considerations needed to correctly perform molecular simulations. The third chapter applies the above techniques and focuses on water model development, specifically the single-point soft sticky dipole (SSD) model.
      • keywords: chapter; ice; models; point; simulations; ssd; water
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2428. fx719k44516
      • author: Sinead Howley
      • title: Cloning and Characterization of Zebrafish Lengsin: A Lens-Specific Gene Expressed in Differentiating Secondary Fiber Cells
      • date: 2006
      • words: 8
      • flesch: 82
      • summary: N/A (The abstract is optional for theses)
      • keywords: theses
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2429. fx719k4455k
      • author: Erik A. Koenke
      • title: Paul's Divided Patrimony: How Early Christian Commentators on Galatians Shaped The Reformation Debate Over Justification By Faith Alone
      • date: 2014
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: commentators; justification; law; luther; paul; works
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2430. fx719k4464j
      • author: Allison E. Murphy
      • title: Living Well with Others: Aristotle on Friendship
      • date: 1904
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Second, Aristotle employs two related notions to account for the identification in question: that of living together (suzēn), and that of a sunaisthetic perception (sunaisthēsis), a special form of perception. Third, the relationship between suzēn and sunaisthēsis turns out to be a special instance of the activity-pleasure relationship that is central to Aristotle's account of human flourishing.
      • keywords: aristotle; flourishing; good; perception
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2431. fx719k4504z
      • author: Xueying Wang
      • title: Improving Information Extraction via Truth Finding with Data-Driven Commonsense
      • date: 2019
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The task of temporal slot filling (TSF) is to extract values of specific attributes for a given entity, called ``facts', as well as temporal tags of the facts, from text data. Commonsense knowledge was automatically generated from data and used for inferring false claims based on trustworthy facts.
      • keywords: facts; tags; temporal; time
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2432. fx719k4570r
      • author: Anna Katherine Johnson
      • title: 'Seeing Is Believing in the End': Solidarity Tourism in Palestine
      • date: 2021
      • words: 191
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Analyzing interviews with 12 Palestinians working for local NGOs that offer lectures or tours to international visitors, I argue that Palestinians navigate a complex web of political, economic, social, and religious dynamics in order to achieve both local and international goals. International tourism is a powerful and growing force in Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank, yet scholarship on the topic has tended to focus on the experience of the tourists rather than the consequences for the Palestinian community.
      • keywords: international; local; palestinians; tours
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2433. fx719k4576t
      • author: John R. Hoffman
      • title: Designing Multi-Functional Copolymer Nanofiltration Membranes
      • date: 2021
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: azide; domains; functional; membranes; multi; reaction; surface; transport
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2434. fx719k4594r
      • author: Nan Feng
      • title: Applications of Stochastic Methods and Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Mechanics and Topology Optimization
      • date: 2023
      • words: 284
      • flesch: 3
      • summary: Based on the performance studies on uncertainty quantification methods, an efficient 2nd-order stochastic perturbation technique is integrated with a density-based topology optimization framework for designing robust structures at finite deformations while considering load, material, and geometric uncertainties. Recent advances in stochastic methods and machine learning (ML) techniques have opened new pathways that can be explored for addressing uncertainty quantification and for accelerating computational tasks in various mechanics applications.
      • keywords: computational; learning; linear; mechanics; methods; nonlinear; stochastic
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2435. g158bg27d18
      • author: Sophia Meyers
      • title: Giambattista Tiepolo: His Representations of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia and His Self-Identification with the Classical History Painter Timanthes
      • date: 2010
      • words: 123
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Some scholars have suggested that Tiepolo's treatment of the theme was primarily the result of contemporary trends in opera production. Recent scholarship has examined Timanthes' legacy and the exemplum of the sacrifice of Iphigenia to show its important place in the history of western art.
      • keywords: iphigenia; painter; tiepolo
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2436. g158bg27d49
      • author: Angela Nardoni Laws
      • title: Effects of abiotic conditions and herbivore density on tritrophic interactions in an old field food chain
      • date: 2008
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: cascades; density; grasshopper; species; spiders; survival; temperature
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2437. g158bg27d5n
      • author: Peter Michael LoGiudice
      • title: Humanism and the Classical: The Expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago
      • date: 2006
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The intention of this thesis is to demonstrate the relevance of Classical architecture to a modern institutional program in an urban setting. Classical architecture tells a history of itself, tying together the past with the present and speaking of the future.
      • keywords: architecture; classical; humanism
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2438. g158bg27d60
      • author: Kyle Pettijohn
      • title: Causality and Expectedness in Establishing Event Boundaries
      • date: 2014
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: event; experiment; model; shift
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2439. g158bg27d7b
      • author: Erin R. Hurley
      • title: S-Block Metal Amide Complexes and Enolization Reactions
      • date: 2010
      • words: 403
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This dissertation focuses on the use of s-block metal amides in enolization reactions. The product ratios for stereoselective enolizations are shown to be dependent on the choice of solvent for the deprotonation reaction.
      • keywords: enolization; lithium; magnesium; metal; mixed; reactions; section; structure; thf
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2440. g158bg27d8p
      • author: Michael Eugene Morris
      • title: The Unity of Identity and Difference as the Ontological Basis of Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: The unification of identity and difference presents the central problem or paradox of Hegel's philosophy. In order to central problem presented by the structure of the will, I argue that we must first recognize the will as the highest instantiation of the more general structures that constitute the notion.
      • keywords: hegel; paradox; philosophy; unity
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2441. g158bg27d91
      • author: Joshua P. Yoder
      • title: Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Governors in Luke-Acts
      • date: 2012
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In order to better evaluate the significance of various aspects of Luke's characterizations for such an audience, the dissertation examines several other narratives from the first century that feature Roman governors as prominent characters. In the context of these works Luke's portrayals of Roman governors emerge as varied, nuanced and congruent with literary expectations of the early empire.
      • keywords: church; governors; jesus; luke; roman
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2442. g158bg27f07
      • author: Chad David Meyer
      • title: Computational Models of Molecular Clouds -- Connection with Observation and Theory
      • date: 2014
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: These effects have implications in the observation of magnetic field strengths and could be used to deepen our understanding of the magnetic fields in molecular clouds. Star formation occurs in molecular clouds, which are turbulent, dense environments with strong magnetic fields and very low ionization fractions.
      • keywords: field; formation; ions; magnetic; neutrals; star
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2443. g158bg27f38
      • author: Sean Gregory Harmeyer
      • title: Acceleration Capability Analysis as a Development Tool for Motion Control of Legged Robotic Systems
      • date: 2006
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Legged motion is accomplished by determiningpostures which aid in the system's ability to resist impacts more effectively. An illustrative example, using a six degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator simulation, demonstrates themajor contributions of the method and allows some insight into the extension of the aforementioned method into motion generation of legged systems.
      • keywords: dynamic; legged; method; systems
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2444. g158bg27f4m
      • author: Jonathan Juilfs
      • 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
      • date: 2010
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 3
      • 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.
      • keywords: biblical; julian; marguerite; medieval; mirror; revelation; texts; women
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2445. g158bg27f5z
      • author: MarÌa Alejandra Armesto
      • title: Territorial Control and Particularistic Spending: The Provision of Local Public Goods by Subnational Governments in Mexico and Argentina
      • date: 2010
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: First, credit for local public goods that benefit clearly geographically circumscribed communities can be claimed by local mayors, while credit for local public goods that benefit more than a single municipality cannot be credibly claimed by local authorities. As a governors' rivals gain ground, her stronger allies obtain more particularistic benefits in targetable goods, and her weaker allies and rivals benefit more in non-targetable local public goods.
      • keywords: allies; goods; local; particularistic; public; spending; targetable
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2446. g158bg27g9n
      • author: Salvatore Buonocore
      • title: An Application of Fractional Calculus to Anomalous Diffusion and Imaging in Inhomogeneous Media
      • date: 1904
      • words: 428
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: The aim of this thesis is to investigate the occurrence of anomalous transport mechanisms associated to wave-like fields propagating in highly scattering media and to diffusive fields propagating in inhomogeneous media. Anomalous diffusion models are applicable to complex and inhomogeneous environments where classical diffusion theory ceases to be valid.
      • keywords: anomalous; classical; diffusion; fractional; media; models; non; order; phenomena; transport
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2447. g158bg27h5k
      • author: Allison E. Gaffey
      • title: An Evaluation of the Interactions Between Acute Stress, Cortisol, Oxytocin and Working Memory Performance
      • date: 1904
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: Therefore, OT's stress-reducing (and potential WM) effects may alter the impact of stress on WM performance and levels of cortisol. Separate evidence indicates that hormones released during acute stress (e.g., cortisol) can impair or enhance WM (Wolf, 2008).
      • keywords: stress
      • versions: original; plain text
2448. g158bg27m14
      • author: Brian F. Hilbert
      • title: The Design, Validation, and Application of an Inverse Heat Transfer Measurement Technique
      • date: 1904
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Additionally, the presence of contact sensors, e.g. heat flux gauges, is known to disturb the near wall flow field and modify thermal boundary conditions in many applications. An internal sensor spacing criteria, i.e. the axial distance separating measurements and the appropriate wall normal distance between a thermocouple and an estimation boundary, is identified and evaluated for accurate inverse solutions.
      • keywords: boundary; heat; inverse; measurement; technique
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2449. g158bg2845f
      • author: J. David Woodington
      • title: Disbelieving Disciples: Doubt in the Post-Resurrection Scenes of the Four Gospels
      • date: 1904
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This dissertation explores the doubts of the disciples in the post-resurrection scenes of the four canonical Gospels contained in the New Testament. It is striking that the Gospels all include this ostensibly negative moment in their texts but differ in the precise details of what happened.
      • keywords: disciples; doubts; gospel; resurrection; scenes
      • versions: original; plain text
2450. g158bg28c5m
      • author: Chao Zheng
      • title: The Challenges of Scaling Up High-Throughput Workflow with Container Technology
      • date: 2019
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: However, as most workflow systems are not liable for managing the task execution environment, HTC workflows are regularly limited in dedicated HTC facilities that have required settings. To containerize HTC workflows and scale them up on the cloud, I synthesize my experiences on using container technologies and develop a methodology that contains seven design factors: i) Isolation Granularity – the granularity of isolation should be determined by characteristics for target workloads; ii) Container Management – container runtimes must be adapted to the distributed environment, and the under-layer distributed systems best does the management of containers; iii)
      • keywords: container; environment; htc; layer; management; systems; workflow
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2451. g158bg28f57
      • author: Nicholas Hazekamp
      • title: Methods Enabling Portability of Scientific Workflows
      • date: 2020
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I propose that workflows can be written for pure scientific intent, with the idiosyncrasies of execution resolved at runtime using workflow abstractions. I examine three methods for developing workflow abstraction on static workflows, apply these methods to a dynamic workflow, and propose an approach that separates the user from the distributed environment.
      • keywords: abstractions; dynamic; methods; scientific; workflow
      • versions: original; plain text
2452. g158bg28j3g
      • author: Hannah N. Corman
      • title: Characterization of a Select Series of Small Molecules as Potential Anti-Leishmanial Agents
      • date: 2022
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: As of 2018, cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in 92 countries and territories while visceral leishmaniasis is endemic in 83 countries and territories. In addition, we optimized both murine ear and footpad infection models of cutaneous leishmaniasis; using fluorescence allowed us to monitor an infection of a single mouse over time.
      • keywords: 1,4; chemotherapeutics; cutaneous; dapp; disease; endemic; leishmaniasis; major
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2453. g158bg28j6h
      • author: Bernardo Aquino
      • title: Image Classification under Noise and Adversarial Attacks: Spatio-Temporal and Robust Designs
      • date: 2022
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Our method can classify using as few as a single measurement and allows the use of low SNR sensors. We also analyze the problem of substance classification using a mid-infrared laser and sensors with a low signal-to-noise ratio.
      • keywords: algorithms; classification; data; low; networks; neural; problem; robustness; selection
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2454. g445cc10n98
      • author: Grant R. Brodrecht
      • title: 'Our Country': Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction
      • date: 2008
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: These evangelicals went to war to save the Union, with emancipation instrumental, yet incidental, to the cause of Union and the preservation of a Christian people under God&#39;s providential hand. Third, focusing on evangelical Unionism also contributes to our understanding of the place and importance of religion in relation to Reconstruction and the failure of the federal government to adequately prepare the ex-slaves for freedom; evangelical Unionists consistently functioned as a brake on radical visions for a racially equitable and inclusive American Union.
      • keywords: civil; dissertation; evangelical; northern; reconstruction; union; unionism; war
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2455. g445cc10p0g
      • author: Kathleen Allan Targowski
      • title: Semantic Complexity and Language Production: Simple vs. Complex Verbs
      • date: 2004
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Three experiments tested the hypothesis that more complex verbs replace their simpler counterparts more often than vice versa in contextual errors due to being associated with a greater number of activated semantic features at the point of lemma selection. In language production, it has been shown that lemmas that share overlapping semantic features cause interference for each other's production when encoded in the same local context.
      • keywords: features; semantic; verbs
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2456. g445cc10p1t
      • author: Christopher Dennis Middendorff
      • title: A Hierarchical Swarm System for Robust Real-Time Feature Detection
      • date: 2010
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: We demonstrate the utility of the extension in an application system for dynamical facial feature detection and tracking, which uses the proposed 'real-time evolving swarms' for a continuous dynamic search of the best locations in a two-dimensional parameter space to improve upon feature detection with static parameters. Specifically, the feature detector/tracker uses the proposed 'hierarchical real-time swarms' for a continuous concurrent dynamic search of the best locations in a two-dimensional parameter space and the image space to improve upon feature detection and tracking in changing environments.
      • keywords: extension; feature; parameter; space
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2457. g445cc10p3h
      • author: Orfilio Ernesto Valiente
      • title: Truth, Justice, and Forgiveness: Reconciliation in Jon Sobrino's Christology
      • date: 2010
      • words: 445
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: It also argues that such a spirituality advances the theological conversation on reconciliation by: prioritizing the perspective, role, and contribution of the victims in the process of reconciliation; insisting on the need both for personal forgiveness and for a social restoration of justice inspired by Jesus' merciful praxis and the values of God's Kingdom; and by arguing that Christian discipleship must foster a ministry of reconciliation aimed at the eradication of structural sin, the corresponding humanization of its victims, and the rehabilitation of the oppressor. This dissertation proposes that Jon Sobrino's Christology offers the basis for a Christian spirituality and a theology of reconciliation that promotes both the mending of historical reality and the reconciliation of human beings with God and among themselves.
      • keywords: chapter; christian; jesus; reality; reconciliation; spirituality; theological; theology
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2458. g445cc10p4v
      • author: Mohammad Abu Jafar Siddiq
      • title: Clock Line and Field-Coupled Input for Nanomagnet Logic
      • date: 2014
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: chip; clocking; field; nml; scheme
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2459. g445cc10q2g
      • author: Firat Demir
      • title: Three Essays on Financial Liberalization, Country Risk and Low Growth Traps in Argentina, Mexico and Turkey
      • date: 2005
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: capital; country; financial; investment; relationship; risk; short
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2460. g445cc10q3t
      • author: Michael Stanley Evans
      • title: Chain Length-Dependent Conformations of Co-Translational Folding Intermediates of P22 Tailspike
      • date: 2008
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Newly synthesized proteins must form their native structure in the crowded environment of the cell, while avoiding non-native conformations that can lead to aggregation. To assess whether co-translational folding enables newly synthesized tailspike chains to avoid aggregation-prone conformations in vivo, a novel method was first developed to produce stalled ribosome nascent chain complexes.
      • keywords: aggregation; chain; conformations; tailspike
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2461. g445cc10q76
      • author: Jeremy A Bates
      • title: Efforts toward the Total Synthesis of Sphinxolide
      • date: 2010
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: This compound has been shown to possesses potent activity against several cell lines of human carcinoma including several drug resisitant cancer cell lines. Efforts toward the total synthesis of the molecule have been made and will be discussed within which include synthesis of the East fragment, Joint fragment, and progress toward the South fragment.
      • keywords: sphinxolide; synthesis
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2462. g445cc10r03
      • author: Quinn Culver
      • title: Topics in Algorithmic Randomness and Effective Probability
      • date: 2015
      • words: 534
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: However, for a fixed Lebesgue-random real, the set of random measures for which that real is random is small. Random measures fail Kolmogorov's 0-1 law.
      • keywords: chapter; closed; continuous; lebesgue; measure; random; real
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2463. g445cc10r65
      • author: Yan Zhang
      • title: The Risky Rainbow of Artificial Food Dyes: A Visual Communication Campaign Designed to Raise Concerns about Potential Dangers of Petroleum-Based, Synthetic Food Dyes and Offer Healthier Choices to Consumers
      • date: 1904
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Synthetic food colorings add absolutely no flavor or fragrance to the foods we are eating, but do in fact pose quite a few serious risks to human health. The design goal is to educate consumers on why synthetic food colorings are being used, the potential health hazards of consuming them, and the limited regulations the FDA imposes on their usage.
      • keywords: dyes; food; health; regulations; synthetic; u.s
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2464. g445cc11c8q
      • author: Thomas A. Zirkle
      • title: Investigation of the Dominant Noise Mechanism in MIM SETs at Low Frequencies
      • date: 1904
      • words: 586
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: During the formation of aluminum oxide, according the model presented by Cabrera and Mott [10], aluminum ions diffuse through interstitial sites in the oxide as they move toward the surface to combine with oxygen adsorbed to the surface. This thesis will present the findings and conclusions on flicker noise from measurements made on Al/AlOx/Al SETs.
      • keywords: aluminum; electron; flicker; frequency; ions; noise; oxide; sets; surface; thesis
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2465. g445cc11d1m
      • author: Lei Li
      • title: Topology Optimization of Structures with Microstructural and Elastoplastic-Damage Effects
      • date: 1904
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Novel dual sequential approximation (DSA) algorithms for design variable updating are proposed for topology/structural optimization problems. This dissertation focuses on developing novel density-based topology optimization frameworks and optimization algorithms that can be used to obtain optimal structural designs while consistently incorporating the physics associated with higher-order continuum theories and inelastic constitutive models with plasticity/damage effects.
      • keywords: algorithms; damage; design; elasticity; frameworks; optimization; theories; topology
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2466. g445cc11j6k
      • author: Rachael Purta
      • title: Characterizing Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons for Studying Social Behavior
      • date: 2019
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: My research lies in the center of these three movements, characterizing and using BLE beacons, in conjunction with the smartphones that detect them, for the large-scale study of social behavior. In this work, I evaluate the use of BLE beacons for sensing social behavior in three ways.
      • keywords: beacons; ble; bluetooth; energy; rssi; smartphones; social; study
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2467. g445cc11v6c
      • author: Kyson R. Smith
      • title: Cation-Mediated Interactions of Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters
      • date: 2023
      • words: 473
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Tertiary structures were most prevalent among alkali metal cations, specifically for systems containing 9.5 mM Rb+ or 9.5 mM K+, but were also observed in the system containing 2.5 mM Ba2+. Our findings provide the basis for the application of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, perhaps most specifically in the separation of used nuclear fuels.
      • keywords: aggregation; nanoclusters; nanoscale; peroxide; project; u60; u60ox30; uranyl
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2468. g445cc11w0m
      • author: Luning Sun
      • title: Scientific Machine Learning for Modeling and Discovery of Physical Systems with Quantified Uncertainty
      • date: 2023
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: On the other hand, when the data is abundant but the underlying physics is partly known, equation discovery model can be used to identify the underlying governing equations. The main motivation of my research is to leverage physics laws and data to develop predictive deep learning model for physics systems.
      • keywords: data; deep; discovery; equation; learning; model; physics
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2469. g732d793z3s
      • author: Matthew A Quinn
      • title: Beta Decay Half-Lives of Neutron Rich Isotopes in the Germanium-Bromine Region
      • date: 2010
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: More than half of these elements are thoughtto have been created by a process called the rapid neutron capture, or R process. This work details the measurement of several r-process nuclei that have neverbeen produced before.
      • keywords: half; nuclei; process; region; shape
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2470. g732d793z6t
      • author: Aida Ramos
      • title: Economy, Empire, and Identity: Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in Sir James Steuart's Principles of Political Economy
      • date: 2008
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Using historical and literary criticism to recast Steuart in his proper social, cultural, and political background his Principles can be read as a policy handbook for smaller nations struggling with political identity and economic survival in the face of the rise of the imperial power of Britain and France. Through the application of ideas from the sociology of scientific knowledge on how scientific communities and canons are formed, the dissertation also places Steuart in his proper Enlightenment context, and acknowledges that his work, which is reliant on local oversight and knowledge, is anathema to nineteenth century British needs for universal economic policies, and, in doing so, explores the political and intellectual reasons why he was written out of the canon of economics.
      • keywords: dissertation; economic; economy; histories; nations; political; principles; steuart
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2471. g732d793z75
      • author: David A Cieslak
      • title: A Clustering Defense Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
      • date: 2009
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This thesis presents Randomized Algorithms for Packet InferencE and Rejection (RAPIER), an adaptive scheme for maintaining web service despite the presence of multifaceted attacks in a noisy environment. In contrast to existing solutions that rely upon 'clean' training data, a live web service environment makes finding such training data difficult if not impossible.
      • keywords: attacks; environment; rapier; service; solutions
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2472. g732d793z8h
      • author: Wei Chen
      • title: Deciphering Mantle Sources and Petrogenetic History of the Oka Carbonatite Complex, Qu&eacute;bec, Canada
      • date: 2014
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In-situ U-Pb ages for apatite, perovskite and niocalite define a ~15 Myr protracted history of magmatic activity. The combined and variable radiogenic (Sr, Nd and Pb) and stable (C and O) isotope data clearly demonstrate the involvement of at least three mantle components (HIMU, EM1 and ADM) in the petrogenetic history of Oka, and these are inconsistent with crustal contamination.
      • keywords: apatite; carbonatite; complex; data; history; melt; niocalite; overall
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2473. g732d793z9v
      • author: Xiaoling Zhong
      • title: Model Selection, Evaluation and Tests of Invariance in Finite Factor Mixture Modeling Using a Two Stage Approach
      • date: 2010
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Besides, the single-stage ML approach only allows relative model fit indices such as AIC and BIC, which do not support tests of model evaluation, hence tests for factorial invariance across components are not available. Three studies are included and results suggest that: (1) The two-stage approach identifies the model with the correct number of components more frequently when the model is misspecified or when the distribution assumption is violated; (2) Even when the model and distribution are both correctly specified, the classification-based criteria perform better with the two-stage approach when all components share the same factor loadings; (3) Most provided test statistics for overall model evaluation and tests of invariance across components perform well except for extreme conditions, while the conventional chi-square difference test statistics associated with either ML or GLS methods rejects the correct models too frequently and can not be trusted.
      • keywords: components; factor; mixture; model
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2474. g732d79400b
      • author: Namita Chatterjee
      • title: The role of protein C signaling in inflammation-associated cancer in vivo
      • date: 2011
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: APC and its receptor, the Endothelial Protein C Receptor (EPCR), have also been linked to tumor malignancy. In the absence of aPC-mediated signaling, inflammatory cells may migrate from the vessels into the tumor more readily.
      • keywords: apc; cells; inflammation; protein
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2475. g732d79401p
      • author: Nicole Eddy
      • title: Marginal Annotation in Medieval Romance Manuscripts: Understanding the Contemporary Reception of the Genre
      • date: 2012
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The apparent straightforwardness of romance notes, often summarizing or even quoting the text, is belied by the complexity of the choices made by annotators in deciding what aspects of the text require annotation. Annotators seem to have viewed note-making as an educated activity &ndash; notes are as likely to be in Latin as in the English or Anglo-Norman of the texts themselves &ndash; and they appealed to a standard form and constellation of interests in the notes' content.
      • keywords: apparatus; notes; readers; romance; text
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2476. g732d794021
      • author: Ya-Cheng Lin
      • title: Combustion Joining of Dissimilar and Refractory Materials
      • date: 2013
      • words: 690
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In this work special attention has been paid to the gasless heterogeneous combustion joining (CJ) (rapid reactive welding) and topics related to it such as mechanical activation (MA) of reactive systems, kinetics study of high temperature reactions and CS of anti-oxidation (AO) coatings. To summarize, combustion synthesis of gasless heterogeneous systems can be utilized in the field of materials joining and applied further to associated area of interests such as mechanical activation of reactive powders, kinetics study of high temperature reactions and development of anti-oxidation refractory coatings.
      • keywords: alloy; combustion; composites; high; joining; materials; mechanical; mixtures; oxidation; reactive; systems; technique; temperature
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2477. g732d794052
      • author: Shuangcai Wang
      • title: Blowup in Nonliear Heat Equations
      • date: 2006
      • words: 115
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: We show that if the even initial value is close enough to a 2-dimensional manifold of approximately homogenous solutions, the solution blows up in a finite time and the asymptotical profile is an approximate solution with parameters evolving according to a certain dynamical system plus a small fluctuation in $L^infty$.The result allows us to construct initial data with more than one local maximum while the solutions still blow up in a finite time according to the asymptotical profile. We also demonstrated that there is an open subset in the space of initial data and their solutions blow up according to the described asymptotical profile.
      • keywords: asymptotical; profile
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2478. g732d79406d
      • author: Brian James Smith
      • title: Design, Analysis, and Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid Precast Concrete Shear Walls for Seismic Regions
      • date: 2013
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The results demonstrate that hybrid precast walls can satisfy all of the requirements for special reinforced concrete shear walls in high seismic regions with improved performance, while also revealing important design, detailing, and analysis considerations to prevent undesirable failure mechanisms. The primary goal of the dissertation is to investigate the seismic behavior and design of hybrid walls with practical details, while specifically focusing on the classification of the system as 'special' reinforced concrete shear walls according to the requirements of the American Concrete Institute (ACI).
      • keywords: base; concrete; design; hybrid; lateral; mild; shear; steel; walls
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2479. g732d79407r
      • author: Amanda Goncalves
      • title: Studies of Deep-Red and Near-Infrared Imaging Probes and Their In Vitro Applications
      • date: 2010
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Comparative photobleaching and quenching studies of biotinylated squaraine rotaxanes demonstrated their higher photochemical stabilities when compared to fluorescein-4-biotin; likewise, streptavidin-conjugated squaraine rotaxanes displayed higher photostability when compared to commercially available Cy5-Streptavidin. This study analyzes the performance of fluorescent probes for in vitro applications.
      • keywords: higher; probes; rotaxanes; squaraine
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2480. g732d794172
      • author: Michael James Gonzales
      • title: Safety-Critical Healthcare Technology Design
      • date: 1904
      • words: 909
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Attending to the ways new HIT impacts the clinical workflow will help designers make improvements to their software before compromising patient safety. This can help prevent some of the severe problems that compromise patient safety and help reduce the number of preventable medical errors that occur today.
      • keywords: awareness; clinicians; cognitive; critical; design; hit; patient; problems; safety; situational; task; team; technology; visual
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2481. g732d794219
      • author: Andrea E. Kalchik
      • title: Location-Based Prospective Memory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Experiment 1 provided preliminary evidence that the virtual environment and location cues were effective, while Experiment 2 indicated that people improved performance when they received instructions from two locations and performed both tasks in one. The event cognition literature supports the idea that location-based cues will be effective, while leaving open the question of whether multiple events will improve or impair performance.
      • keywords: location; tasks
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2482. g732d79422n
      • author: Peter Ulrickson
      • title: Oriented One-Dimensional Supersymmetric Euclidean Field Theories and K-Theory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 89
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: There have been other spaces of 1-dimensional supersymmetric Euclidean field theories related to the K-theory spectrum; novel aspects of the approach in this dissertation are the use of non-projective modules in the algebraic codomain of the functors defining 1|1−EFT and the use of an oriented bordism category whose space of connected endomorphisms of the super-point is connected. This dissertation defines a simplicial set 1|1−EFT of certain functorial quantum field theories and determines that it has the homotopy type of a representing space for K-theory.
      • keywords: dissertation; theory
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2483. g732d794517
      • author: Todd A. Adkins
      • title: Mercury Rising: How State Policy Diffusion Influences National Public Opinion
      • date: 1904
      • words: 270
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This dissertation examines the relationship between state policy diffusion and related national public opinion over time. In this dissertation, I offer a new dynamic underlying public opinion change in the United States, the diffusion-opinion-linkage, which reveals the influence of state policy diffusion on related national opinion over time.
      • keywords: diffusion; national; opinion; policy; public
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2484. g732d794g8f
      • author: Enmanuelle Pardilla-Delgado
      • title: Strengthening Memory by Repeated Labilization-Reconsolidation Events: The Effects of Stress on Memory Retrieval
      • date: 1904
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Stress has been robustly shown to be detrimental to memory retrieval. We partially replicated the strengthening effect, as multiple (two but not four) reactivations resulted in better memory.
      • keywords: memory; process; reconsolidation
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2485. g732d794n69
      • author: Pedro Sztybel
      • title: The Structure of Visual Spatial Representations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 242
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: But conceptual representations depend on non-compositional, perceptual representations to bind the activations arising from their separate spatial dimensions, much like non-spatial feature dimensions do. Experiment 2 used non-compositional number cues to rule out an alternative account.
      • keywords: compositional; coordinate; experiment; reference; spatial
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2486. g732d794p27
      • author: Kun Yao
      • title: Neural Network Model Chemistries
      • date: 1904
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: methods; model; network; neural; simulation
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2487. g732d794p3k
      • author: Michelle Ngai
      • title: Serotonin Receptors as Novel Insecticide Targets
      • date: 1904
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Chemical compounds reported to effect invertebrate 5-HT receptors were tested for their impact on locomotion, sugar feeding, and blood feeding via in vivo behavioral assays. In particular, the serotonin (5-HT) GPCR family, subdivided into 5-HT1, 5-HT2 and 5-HT7, has been implicated in processes paramount to vectorial capacity including feeding and locomotion.
      • keywords: diseases; feeding; gpcr; locomotion; receptors; system; target; vector
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2488. g732d794p7z
      • author: Sean P. Braniff
      • title: Territorial Gains and Losses: The Political Psychology of Issue Indivisibility
      • date: 1904
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: I test these cases against prominent theories of indivisibility and find that issue indivisibility is an important factor in international relations and that the source of intransigent maximalist preferences lies in the psychology of loss aversion driven by shifting power dynamics. When reference points shift such that states view compromise as a loss they develop a preference for territory that is averse to loss, resulting in intransigent maximalist preferences.
      • keywords: maximalist; preferences; quo; status
      • versions: original; plain text
2489. g732d79512m
      • author: Michael Perlman
      • title: Equivariant D-Modules on Spaces of Tensors and Applications to Local Cohomology
      • date: 2020
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: In another direction, we determine the D-module structure of local cohomology with support in Pfaffian varieties, in which case the simple composition factors were known by past work of Raicu-Weyman. This information, combined with careful use of graded local duality allows us to calculate the Lyubeznik numbers for Pfaffian varieties.
      • keywords: cohomology; local; modules; space
      • versions: original; plain text
2490. g732d79515n
      • author: Carson L Running
      • title: Global Measurements of Axisymmetric Hypersonic Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions
      • date: 2020
      • words: 465
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: angle; boundary; flare; layer; measurements; pressure; psp; reattachment; separation; shock
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2491. g732d795160
      • author: Amir M. Sadeh
      • title: Mobilization and Maria: Demographic Change in Florida and the Future of American Politics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Qualitative data was gathered in the form of semi-structed interviews of local community organizations, government officials, and Puerto Rican migrants on the topics of political behavior, voter mobilization, and the Puerto Rican community in Central Florida. Before the 2018 midterm elections, much attention was placed on Florida's growing Puerto Rican population.
      • keywords: community; mobilization; political; puerto; rican; voter
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2492. g732d79524m
      • author: Kayla D. R. Pierce
      • title: Status, Influence, and Emotions: Emotional Contagion in Status Hierarchies
      • date: 2021
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: emotional; emotions; influence; low; people; status
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2493. g732d79527n
      • author: Amy E. W. Maxey
      • title: Erotic Entanglements with the Christian Mystical Tradition: A Heuristic Notion of Mysticism for Feminist Theology from Bernard McGinn, Sarah Coakley, and Catherine Keller
      • date: 2021
      • words: 437
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: These understandings have impoverished considerations of the Christian mystical tradition and problematized feminist theological retrievals of Christian mysticism. In this dissertation I propose a heuristic notion of mysticism as a dynamism of eros by developing Bernard McGinn's understanding of mystical consciousness and enriching it with insights from Sarah Coakley and Catherine Keller, arguing that this notion critically anchors feminist retrievals of the Christian mystical tradition.
      • keywords: chapter; christian; feminist; mcginn; mystical; mysticism; notion
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2494. g732d79552v
      • author: Ceara J. Talbot
      • title: A Model-Based Evaluation of the Lateral Transport and Fate of Carbon Across the Terrestrial-Aquatic Continuum
      • date: 2023
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: I demonstrate that data collected in aquatic ecosystems can constrain vertical gross primary production fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems using a data assimilation approach. The lateral C transport (LCT) from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems is understudied and poorly constrained within the land C budget relative to vertical fluxes, yet determines when, where, and for how long C is stored.
      • keywords: aquatic; coupled; ecosystems; land; lct; model; terrestrial
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2495. gb19f47771q
      • author: Joseph William Thompson
      • title: Iris Perturbation Methods for Improved Recognition
      • date: 2012
      • words: 112
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: image; rate
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2496. gb19f477722
      • author: Jennifer M Moran
      • title: Characterization of Toxoplasma Rack1: Implications for a Novel 'Interacktion'
      • date: 2004
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Receptor for Activated C Kinase 1 (RACK1) has been implicated in multiple protein-protein interactions, although it was first described as the intracellular receptor for protein kinase C (PKC). Significant parasite-specific functions, including roles in resistance to Leishmania major and progression through cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei, have also been described.
      • keywords: parasite; pathway; protein; tgrack1
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2497. gb19f47773d
      • author: William Danny Paquette
      • title: Toward the Total Synthesis of 20-Deoxyapoptolidin
      • date: 2006
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It is a selective apoptotic inducer of cells transformed with the adenovirus E1A oncogene, leaving normal cells unaffected. While apoptolidin exhibits unique biological properties, it is known to undergo a ring expansion under cell assay conditions to afford a less active compound, isoapoptolidin.
      • keywords: apoptolidin; biological; cells; chloride; e)-triene; rearrangement; structural; synthetic
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2498. gb19f477753
      • author: Anna-Gay Nelson
      • title: Understanding The Structural Chemistry of Actinide Phosphonates
      • date: 2010
      • words: 319
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: A compilation of published results from my doctoral research will seek to provide a better insight and understanding of phosphonates with actinide elements; exploring the preparation, structural characterization, and physical properties in this class. My doctoral research has focused on the development of low-temperature hydrothermal crystal growth methods for synthesizing actinide phosphonates that can be thermally or radiolytically decomposed to phosphates at relatively low temperatures.
      • keywords: actinide; compounds; elements; nuclear; phosphonates; research; structural; uranium; waste
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2499. gb19f47776f
      • author: Karl Smith
      • title: &#946;-Delayed Neutron Emission Studies of Neutron-Rich Palladium and Silver Isotopes
      • date: 2014
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This forces astrophysical models to rely heavily upon theoretical models of the involved nuclear physics. The first measurements of &#946;-decay half-lives and neutron branching ratios, Pn values, were performed for neutron-rich isotopes of palladium and silver.
      • keywords: astrophysical; neutron; nuclear; process
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2500. gb19f477842
      • author: Jeanette Young
      • title: Towards Characterization of the Polyketide Synthase Gene Cluster Responsible for the Production of Gephyronic Acid
      • date: 2012
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Our recent total synthesis and structural reassignment of gephyronic acid incorporates a synthetic route that provides a means by which to prepare gephyronic acid efficiently and selectively and has provided significant quantities, thus facilitating further biological evaluation towards identifying gephyronic acids specific mode of action in cancer cells. An in vitro translation assay demonstrated that gephyronic acid is a specific inhibitor of eukaryotic protein synthesis (IC50 66-80 ng/mL).
      • keywords: acid; action; cancer; cluster; gene; gephyronic; human; ic50; polyketide; synthesis
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2501. gb19f47785d
      • author: Paul Tran
      • title: Oxidative Stabilization of Mesophase Pitch: Permeabiltity Measurements and Kinetics
      • date: 2007
      • words: 394
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: carbon; composites; high; matrix; mesophase; oxygen; pitch; rtm; stabilization
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2502. gb19f47789s
      • author: Emily Stetler
      • title: Poured Out Like an Offering: Toward an Anthropology of Kenosis
      • date: 2012
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: dissertation; kenosis
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2503. gb19f47791b
      • author: Joseph William Brutto
      • title: The Many Faces of Aristotle: Neo-Aristotelianism and Contemporary Political Theory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: It argues that there can be a more authentic Aristotelian political theory in the twenty-first century—a theory that remains true to Aristotle's thought while at the same time addressing present political circumstances. After Aristotle's project has been explained and clarified, the dissertation concludes by applying Aristotelian insights to modern political problems.
      • keywords: aristotelian; aristotle; neo; political; politics
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2504. gb19f47792p
      • author: Vittoria Luchini
      • title: Il Divo Dei Poveri: Totó's Journey from Rags to Fame
      • date: 2015
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In an age of highly refined special effects and manicured filmic experiences, Totò's artistic contribution is still cherished within Italian culture. Sadly, though treasured by his compatriots, Totò has not won the proper exposure and appreciation within the field of Italian Cinema studies outside of Italy and, in particular, in the United States.
      • keywords: cultural; culture; italian; totò
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2505. gb19f47797d
      • author: Haichao Lu
      • title: Synthesis of Star Polymer to Explore the Effect of Structure on Loading Efficiency
      • date: 1904
      • words: 128
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Several parameters were tested during the synthesis of star polymers in solution condition, including the different arm lengths, different ratios of arms to cross-linkers, and different densities of cross-linked core in Chapter 1. In chapter 2, synthesis of star polymers in microemulsion system was explored, and various synthetic condition was deployed during this process.
      • keywords: polymers; star; synthesis
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2506. gb19f477f4m
      • author: ChiaFu Chang
      • title: Total Syntheses of Two Classes of Polyketide Natural Products Lyngbyaloside C and Ambruticin J: Structural Verification and Application of Methodologies
      • date: 1904
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In the first project, we accomplished a structural reassignment of lyngbyaloside C via total syntheses of the nominal structure and two diastereomers. As a highlight of the sequence, we demonstrated a robust synthetic route toward the requisite trisubstituted cyclopropane moiety using cyclopropanation methodology previously developed in our laboratory.
      • keywords: project; route; syntheses; synthetic; total
      • versions: original; plain text
2507. gb19f47800g
      • author: Luis A. Bravo Galassi
      • title: Poéticas de la liberación: la escritura de Ibero Gutiérrez y el 68 en clave Latinoamericana
      • date: 1904
      • words: 705
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: En la conjugación de lo poético, lo filosófico y lo político su escritura da lugar a enfoques históricos y teóricos entre los que comparecen la conciencia tercermundista y la axiología revolucionaria del Hombre Nuevo en Latinoamérica, la articulación con el pensamiento-imagen de Walter Benjamin, el discurso de la psicodelia como expansión de la conciencia, el tratamiento sin tapujos de la sexualidad, la poéticas Beat y el sonido Beatle como disidencia de una contracultura glocal. Ibero Gutiérrez (Montevideo, 1949-1972) artista plástico y militante, intelectual y delegado universitario, preso político y mártir estudiantil es, ante todo, un poeta en cuyos textos gravitan el
      • keywords: como; con; consonancia; del; escritura; gutiérrez; historical; ibero; las; los; montevideo; pensamiento; poetry; político; poéticas; que; revolucionaria; sus; una; work
      • versions: original; plain text
2508. gb19f47836g
      • author: Brooke Stemple
      • title: Yarrowia lipolytica as a Microbial Platform for Waste-to-Value Biotransformation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Ionic liquid (IL) carryover from lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment inhibits microbial biotransformation of waste biomass into valuable fuels and chemicals during simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. To overcome this challenge, we used evolutionary engineering to develop an IL tolerant strain of Y. lipolytica that can grow at a competitive growth rate in the presence of ≤14% IL (v/v).
      • keywords: biomass; lipolytica; vfas; waste
      • versions: original; plain text
2509. gb19f47842d
      • author: Fanbo Meng
      • title: Search for Lepton Flavour Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson
      • date: 2019
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: A search for lepton flavour violation Higgs decay in the *H → µτh* and*H → eτh* in which tau leptons decay hadronically is presented. The search of tau lepton hadronic decay channels and the searches that are combined with tau lepton leptonic decays are presented.
      • keywords: proton; search; tau
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2510. gb19f478c5m
      • author: Jeonghyun Ko
      • title: Computational Study for Selective Ethane Dehydrogenation Using Metal Phosphide Catalysts
      • date: 2022
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In this dissertation, density functional theory (DFT) calculations were employed to describe how I dealt with that diversity and investigated EDH performance on metal phosphides. A simple isostructural metal phosphide model was selected to reduce the structural diversity, and they were utilized to perform a screening of selective EDH catalyst over metal phosphide series via the adsorbate-binding characteristics which observed in the above Ni2P studies.
      • keywords: diversity; edh; metal; ni2p; performance
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2511. gb19f478f3j
      • author: Eric Jovinelly
      • title: Geometric Manin's Conjecture for Fano Threefolds
      • date: 2023
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: First, we describe how a recent, movable version of Mori's Bend-and-Break for free rational curves on Fano threefolds reduces Geometric Manin's Conjecture to a study of low degree free curves. This allows us to describe families of low degree free rational curves explicitly on such threefolds.
      • keywords: conjecture; curves; fano; manin
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2512. gf06g160h5n
      • author: Lindsay Rebecca Starck
      • title: Noah's Wife
      • date: 2010
      • words: 2
      • flesch: 77
      • summary: A novel.
      • keywords: novel
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2513. gf06g160h8p
      • author: April Irene Wilkins
      • title: Submerged
      • date: 2010
      • words: 85
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The first half of the paper discusses the historical and theoretical aspects that have influenced this current body of work by talking about the role of portraiture in the beginning of photography, the relationship that is formed between the photographer, the subject, and the viewer, and photography's inherent relationship with death. This paper details the major issues and influences that are important to my photographic work.
      • keywords: paper; work
      • versions: original; plain text
2514. gf06g160h91
      • author: Patrick James Kolesiak
      • title: Architecture as a Diplomatic Tool: A Proposal for the New American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq
      • date: 2006
      • words: 120
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The designsolution ranges from urban design issues to the development of ornamental patterns andmotifs. The architectural idiom used in the design is a hybrid of western classicalarchitecture and traditional Islamic architecture, with a primary focus on the study oflocal Arabic precedents
      • keywords: architecture; baghdad; design; thesis
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2515. gf06g160j07
      • author: Blanca Isabel Andia
      • title: Nonstationary and Nonlinear Sinogram Filtering for Tomographic Image Reconstruction
      • date: 2003
      • words: 290
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The reconstruction of the image is non-iterative, reducing the cost of the method but achieving quality comparable to that of other statistical methods. Since the reconstruction problem posed in this manner usually reduces to an optimization problem, a variety of iterative numerical methods for solving this problem has been explored.
      • keywords: data; image; methods; reconstruction; sinogram
      • versions: original; plain text
2516. gf06g160j1k
      • author: Kara Leigh Huegel
      • title: The Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Impact of Mutations in NPC1
      • date: 2011
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Small molecule inhibitors were utilized to increase the tubulation of NPC1 mutant membranes and improve cholesterol trafficking, indicating the mutant protein is not functionally dead. Differences in the protein and phosphotidylinositol (PI) composition of wild type and mutant NPC1 membranes were identified.
      • keywords: cell; cholesterol; membranes; mutant; npc1; proteins; transport; type
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2517. gf06g160j2x
      • author: Inna V. Birchenko
      • title: Genetic Diversity of Native Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra L.) Populations
      • date: 2008
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: In this study, I examined the biogeographical distribution of chloroplast and nuclear genetic diversity of Northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) at 26 sites in the northwestern part of the species range. I detected fine-scale substructure at the northern edge of the range and found that an island population had higher allelic richness than three shoreline populations and had three private alleles not found in any of the other 25 sites suggesting that the island population has retained diversity lost elsewhere.
      • keywords: chloroplast; diversity; north; northern
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2518. gf06g160j38
      • author: Ezequiel Alejo Gonzalez Ocantos
      • title: The Collapse of Impunity Regimes in Latin America: Legal Cultures, Strategic Litigation and Judicial Behavior
      • date: 2012
      • words: 406
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This transformation involves the deinstitutionalization of formalist and positivist legal cultures, historically protective of conservative interests in Latin America, and the entrenchment of a juridical vision committed to the defense of human rights. Since the early 2000s, judiciaries across the region have become a beacon of progress in the area of transitional justice by fully embracing a set of juridical arguments and doctrines derived from international human rights law that enabled them to take bold jurisprudential steps against impunity.
      • keywords: activists; actors; capabilities; corporations; human; judicial; justice; law; political; rights
      • versions: original; plain text
2519. gf06g160j4m
      • author: Timothy S. Miller
      • title: Closing the Book on Chaucer: Medieval Theories of Ending and the Ends of Chaucerian Narrative
      • date: 2014
      • words: 770
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: I argue that these endings demonstrate Chaucer's adherence to a Horatian rather than Aristotelian paradigm of ending, which privileges the harmonious congruence of parts over teleology and necessity. The reception history of Chaucer's Retraction provides the clearest example of the way in which often unarticulated theories of ending have driven response to Chaucer's works.
      • keywords: chaucer; early; ending; history; literary; medieval; narrative; poet; project; reception; theories; theory; tradition; works
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2520. gf06g160j7n
      • author: Timothy Collin Faltemier
      • title: Flexible and Robust 3D Face Recognition
      • date: 2007
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In this dissertation, we introduce a new system for 3D face recognition that addresses many of the current challenges preventing this technology from becoming viable. Scalability issues are mitigated by combining a feature-based indexing technique with desktop grid processing to greatly reduce the amount of time required for recognition experiments.
      • keywords: face; recognition; system
      • versions: original; plain text
2521. gf06g160j80
      • author: Lyubov Titova
      • title: Optical Studies of Low Dimensional Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Semiconductor Structures
      • date: 2005
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In addition to preliminary success in fabricating ZnCdSe quantum wires in the ZnSe matrix, this work has also resulted in the observation of zero-dimensional ZnSe/ZnCdSe quantum structures ( natural quantum dots). We also show that the dots exhibit large Zeeman splitting observed in the photoluminescence emission, indicating that this growth method is suitable for fabricating magnetic quantum dots that exhibit strong spin polarization effects.
      • keywords: dots; photoluminescence; quantum; surface; wells; zncdse; znse
      • versions: original; plain text
2522. gf06g160j9b
      • author: Santanu Chatterjee
      • title: Coarse-grained Methods for Long Timescale Dynamics of Biomolecules
      • date: 2010
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Finding reaction paths often require knowledge of a set of reaction coordinates, or collective variables, along which the transition takes place, which is non-trivial. Given the endpoints of transition, path sampling algorithms find a set of reaction path(s) of interest.
      • keywords: algorithms; changes; interest; method; normal; reaction; sampling
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2523. gf06g160q3t
      • author: Garrett McGrath
      • title: Serverless Computing: Applications, Implementation, and Performance
      • date: 1904
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Metrics are proposed to evaluate the execution performance of serverless platforms and conduct tests on the prototype as well as existing commercial platforms. In this work, I detail real world applications utilizing these platforms, and explore how existing applications can be adapted to run in serverless environments.
      • keywords: environments; functions; platforms; serverless
      • versions: original; plain text
2524. gf06g161685
      • author: Filippo Gianferrari
      • title: Dante and Thirteenth-Century Latin Education: Reading the Auctores Minores
      • date: 1904
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: authors; latin; school; thirteenth
      • versions: original; plain text
2525. gf06g16175f
      • author: Justin Keith Trupiano
      • title: Strange Loops: A Study of Computation in Art and Consciousness
      • date: 1904
      • words: 91
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Observations of astronomical objects as well as other aspects of the universe--previously out of reach of human observational capabilities--have become ubiquitous. By design, these technological devices experience fundamentally different qualia than their human creators; and yet through them humans are able to gain access to those qualia.
      • keywords: humans; limits
      • versions: original; plain text
2526. gf06g16179t
      • author: Devin L Shirley
      • title: Utilization of Genetic and Genomic Resources in Hardwood Forest Trees
      • date: 1904
      • words: 499
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: 2018).My projects reveal how, even when working with challenging non-model species with long juvenile periods and complicated genomes, it is possible to answer important basic genetics and genomics questions while generating data that is immediately useful for conservation and protection of threatened forest tree species. This thesis addresses three research projects involving forest tree genetics and genomics.
      • keywords: ash; chapter; cultivars; fagaceae; green; juglans; map; mapping; markers; project; species; walnut
      • versions: original; plain text
2527. gf06g161k2h
      • author: Kevin Hans Waitkuweit
      • title: A Contemporary Etymology of the American Medical Patient from 1980 to 2000
      • date: 2020
      • words: 122
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: I conclude proposing that a conceptualization of a patient using the social generalized form allows for future research on social phenomena to be undertaken in a shared language with physicians. While most research on patients explores the patient-physician relationship, this paper examines the conceptualization and meaning of patients.
      • keywords: patient; research
      • versions: original; plain text
2528. gf06g161m5v
      • author: Jiaji Guo
      • title: Arsenic Treatment Using Directional Solvent Extraction and Application of Ionic Liquid in Directional Solvent Extraction
      • date: 2021
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Secondly, the study demonstrates that a specific ionic liquid can have a greatly enhanced performance in water yield and energy cost of seawater desalination. Purification of polluted water and seawater desalination are the effective ways to produce freshwater and solve this problem.
      • keywords: directional; freshwater; solvent; water
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2529. gf06g161m8w
      • author: Shih-Kai Chiu
      • title: On Calabi-Yau Manifolds with Maximal Volume Growth
      • date: 2021
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: calabi; infinity; manifolds; tangent; yau
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2530. gf06g161p9v
      • author: Benjamin Rathman
      • title: Design and Synthesis of Biologically Relevant N-Aminated Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 611
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Our work offers insight into the nature and extent of interresidue sidechain-to-backbone hydrogen bonding in proteins and suggests that several of these interactions may play an important role in protein folding as they are evolutionarily conserved. Peptides that emulate protein domains at protein-protein interfaces represent a promising strategy for drug development.
      • keywords: aminated; amino; analogues; backbone; bonds; constraint; crystal; gramicidin; hydrogen; peptides; protein; ray; sidechain; structure
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2531. gh93gx43s3t
      • author: Ryan Cole Thompson
      • title: The Cauchy Problem for the CH2 System
      • date: 2015
      • words: 95
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: For Sobolev exponent s > 5=2, it is shown that the data-to-solution map for the2-component Camassa-Holm system is continuous from Hs x Hs􀀀-1 into C([0; T];Hs x Hs􀀀-1) but not uniformly continuous. The proof of non-uniform dependence on the initial data is based on the method of approximate solutions, delicate commutator and multiplier estimates, and well-posedness results for the solution and its lifespan.
      • keywords: continuous; solution
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2532. gh93gx43s45
      • author: Kevin David Neuman
      • title: The Health Effects of Retirement: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
      • date: 2004
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: health; investment; model; results; retirement; study; women
      • versions: original; plain text
2533. gh93gx43s5h
      • author: Beth Couture
      • title: An Encyclopedia of Living Ghosts
      • date: 2011
      • words: 15
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: This is a collection of short stories dealing with psychological and cultural myths surrounding ghosts.
      • keywords: ghosts
      • versions: original; plain text
2534. gh93gx43s76
      • author: Ana Velitchkova
      • title: Cosmopolitan Priming for Change: Transnational Social Movements in Communist Eastern Europe
      • date: 2010
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: My concrete research question is: What were the societal institutional environment and the political culture in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s within which protest movements could gather mass support and within which democracy could take root? Social movement scholars have argued that social movement mobilization at the micro level is a sequential multi-stage process but have ignored the first stage of this process, the creation of a pool of supporters from which movements can potentially draw participants, when analyzing the Eastern European protest wave of 1989.
      • keywords: eastern; european; mobilization; movement; protest; social
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2535. gh93gx43s8j
      • author: Marika K Kuspa
      • title: Targeting and Recognition of Proteins Within the Mycobacterial ESX-1 Secretion System
      • date: 2014
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The ESX-1 secretion system is a type VII secretion system that is necessary for the virulence of M. tuberculosis and select other pathogenic mycobacteria. We have created a possible model for the interaction of PepQ and EspN and subsequent acetylation of ESX-1 proteins.
      • keywords: protein; secretion; system
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2536. gh93gx43t65
      • author: Hattie Rita Dambroski
      • title: The role of diapause and host fruit odor preference in sympatric race formation of Rhagoletis pomonella.
      • date: 2004
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Surprisingly F1 hybrids showed limited responses to fruit volatiles, suggesting that the hybrids lack of behavioral response to fruit odor may be a post-mating barrier to gene flow. Diapause traits act as an allochronic premating barrier to gene flow because populations eclosing at different times cannot freely interbreed.
      • keywords: diapause; flow; fruit; gene; host; odor; pomonella; speciation; sympatric
      • versions: original; plain text
2537. gh93gx43t7h
      • author: Berlyn Rose Mellein
      • title: Solvent Strength Effects on the Anti-Solvent Ability Of Carbon Dioxide With Ionic Liquid/Organic Mixtures
      • date: 2008
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: The solvent strength behavior can be used to explain the anti-solvent ability of CO2 for liquid organic solutes and the solid [Cu(acac)(tmen)][BPh4] solute. This work describes the solvent strength effects on the anti-solvent behavior of CO2 with ILs and IL/organic mixtures.
      • keywords: anti; co2; mixtures; organic; solvent
      • versions: original; plain text
2538. gh93gx43v1r
      • author: John D. Sehorn
      • title: Origen of Alexandria's Homilies 1-14 on Ezekiel: Translation and Commentary
      • date: 2014
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Chapter 3 considers Origen's preached exegesis of an exceptionally difficult chapter in the book of Ezekiel, and puts him in explicit and critical conversation with contemporary interpreters. Chapter 4 asks what the Homilies on Ezekiel reveal about Origen's doctrine of the Church, and relates his ecclesiological convictions to difficult historical questions about his own ecclesiastical experience.
      • keywords: chapter; ezekiel; homilies; origen; preaching
      • versions: original; plain text
2539. gh93gx43v4s
      • author: Temistocle Grenga
      • title: Numerical Solution of Multi-Dimensional Compressible Reactive Flow Using a Parallel Wavelet Adaptive Multi-Resolution Method
      • date: 1904
      • words: 122
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This work demonstrates the great potential for the method to perform direct numerical simulation (DNS) of combustion with detailed chemistry and multi-component diffusion. In particular, it addresses the performance obtained using a massive parallel implementation and demonstrates important savings in memory storage and computational time over conventional methods.
      • keywords: combustion; dimensional; multi; problems
      • versions: original; plain text
2540. gh93gx43w0q
      • author: Christopher Meyer
      • title: A Convergent Synthesis of Imidazoles and Their Use in Task Specific Ionic Liquids for Carbon Capture
      • date: 1904
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Development of this method would assist us in fine-tuning ILs and their chemical and physical properties by making site-specific modifications prior to generating the desired ILs, allowing us to easily access ILs with desirable properties for reversible CO2 capture. In order to do this efficiently, we developed a new method for synthesizing aprotic heterocyclic anionic ILs (AHA-ILs), allowing for a much cheaper, more time efficient route towards these compounds; both requirements necessary to make large scale application a viable possibility.
      • keywords: aha; co2; efficient; ils; imidazoles; method; route
      • versions: original; plain text
2541. gh93gx44049
      • author: Matthew J. Kane
      • title: Aeromechanical Response of an Axial Compressor in Stall
      • date: 1904
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Information about the physics of stall is often obtained through the analysis of unsteady casing pressures, but no observed link has been shown between blade vibrations and unsteady casing pressures. Blade strains and unsteady casing pressures were measured during stall at various corrected speeds with two different inlet profiles.
      • keywords: blade; stall; unsteady
      • versions: original; plain text
2542. gh93gx44h6n
      • author: Jean E Yoon
      • title: White Guise / Zen Party Mix
      • date: 1904
      • words: 45
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Its content was initially composed in poems, diaries, emails, phone notes, text messages, Tweets, and other aleatoric formats, and aggregated therefrom. This is a hybrid critical and lyrical poetic thesis in two parts that addresses insecurity, inscrutability, the performance of whiteness, and digitally-constituted speakerhood.
      • keywords: constituted; speakerhood
      • versions: original; plain text
2543. gh93gx44p04
      • author: Kaitlyn E. Eckert
      • title: Novel Transition Metal or Phosphine-Mediated Bond Activations for C-C/C-X Bond Formations
      • date: 2019
      • words: 190
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Towards that end, we successfully employed aza ortho-quinone methides, aroyl isocyanates, vinyl ketenes, and vinyl allenes as four atom components in conjunction with metal-stabilized carbenes or phosphorus-based carbenoids as C1-synthons to generate dihydroindoles, oxazolones, and spirooxindole cyclopentenones. Additionally, the variety of four atom components available would allow access to multiple heterocyclic motifs.
      • keywords: access; heterocyclic; membered; variety
      • versions: original; plain text
2544. gh93gx44v0p
      • author: Richard Fahey
      • title: Enigmatic Design and Psychomachic Monstrosity in Beowulf
      • date: 2019
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: anglo; beowulf; english; latin; old; poem; project; saxon
      • versions: original; plain text
2545. gh93gx44x3b
      • author: Mauna Dasari
      • title: Age and Early Life Adversity in the Wild Baboon Gut Microbiome
      • date: 2021
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: changes; data; gut; host; life; microbial; microbiome
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2546. gh93gx44x82
      • author: Robert Stanley
      • title: Plant Defenses in Non-Model Systems: A Multi-Year Analysis of the Chemical Defenses Deployed by Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) Against Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) and the Changes in Gene Expression Associated with Successful Defenses
      • date: 2022
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB) invasion in North America threatens most North American Fraxinus species, including green ash (F. pennsylvanica), the mostly widely distributed species. A small number of green ash (0.1-1%) both survive for years after all surrounding green ash have been killed by EAB and kill more EAB larvae when challenged in greenhouse studies.
      • keywords: ash; eab; effective; green; response; work
      • versions: original; plain text
2547. gh93gx44z6p
      • author: Roopak Karulkar
      • title: Predicting Changes in the Desired Gait Speed of Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Users Via Intuitive Physical Human-Robot Interaction
      • date: 2022
      • words: 595
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Driven by this insight, the work herein describes a predictive two-stage estimation framework called the Buttressed Kalman Filter (BKF) that uses data-driven models to relate gait speed and gait features. This dissertation further shows that exoskeleton users' desire to change gait speed was apparent through their interactions with the robot and the environment.
      • keywords: changes; collaboration; data; dissertation; estimation; exoskeleton; gait; intent; speed; user
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2548. gh93gx44z9q
      • author: Daniel J. Bruzzese
      • title: Mixed Mode Dynamics of Ecological and Geographic Speciation in the Rhagoletis cingulata Sibling Species Group and Associated Wolbachia Endosymbionts
      • date: 2023
      • words: 587
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In Chapter 2, I found a unique Wolbachia strain, wCin3, that putatively causes CI in crosses to other cherry fly populations, and, when coupled with other strong ecological RI, may contribute meaningful RI to the speciation process. To address this gap, the goal of my dissertation is to study how Wolbachia induced CI and other mixed modes of speciation influence host RI dynamics during speciation.
      • keywords: barriers; chapter; cherry; ecological; flies; isolation; mixed; speciation; wcin2; wolbachia
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2549. gh93gx4504k
      • author: Yihao Fang
      • title: Utilizing Geometry in Some Statistical and Machine Learning Problems
      • date: 2023
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In this thesis, we demonstrate how geometry can be utilized to address crucial issues in statistics and machine learning for effective learning and inference. Specifically, we first present both intrinsic and extrinsic deep neural network (DNN) architectures as versatile deep learning frameworks for manifold-valued data.
      • keywords: data; deep; geometry; inference; learning
      • versions: original; plain text
2550. gm80ht2727j
      • author: Francis Kobina Insaidoo
      • title: Dynamics of Peptides Bound to Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Proteins: Implications for T-Cell Receptor Recognition in the Immune Response
      • date: 2010
      • words: 427
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: This study describe methodologies for characterizing peptide dynamics within MHC binding grooves via NMR, using a biosynthetic approach for producing labeled peptide in which the peptide is fused to ubiquitin and a ubiquitin dehydrolase used to liberate the peptide. Using the Tax11-19 peptide bound to the 45 kD human class I MHC HLA-A2 as a model system, it is evident that peptides generated in this manner can be well characterized in MHC binding grooves by NMR, providing the opportunity to more precisely study the role of peptide dynamics in TCR recognition, specificity, and cross-reactivity.
      • keywords: binding; conformations; dynamics; mhc; nmr; peptide; recognition; tcr
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2551. gm80ht2730f
      • author: Suzanne Orr
      • title: Deporting the Red Menace: Russian Immigrants, Progressive Reformers, and the First Red Scare in Chicago
      • date: 2010
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Seriously considering reformers' arguments about mitigating hardship and protecting dependent women and children shows the significant effect of humanitarianism on the implementation of U.S. deportation policy. Russian immigrants and Progressive reformers framed their discussions about deportation and the protection of aliens in terms of preserving the integrity of the family and protecting men's roles as providers.
      • keywords: deportation; government; immigrants; progressive; red; reformers; russian
      • versions: original; plain text
2552. gm80ht2731s
      • author: Alec Pawling
      • title: Data Stream Summarization for Machine Learning
      • date: 2011
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: data; gain; non; stream
      • versions: original; plain text
2553. gm80ht27324
      • author: Richard Cameron Murphy
      • title: Traveling Threads: A New Multithreaded Execution Model
      • date: 2006
      • words: 82
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This helps address the von Neumann problem by exposing additional concurrency within programs to tolerate long memory latencies, reduces two-way request/response network transactions typical of caching architectures to one way thread migration transactions, and reduces or eliminates cache coherency traffic. This work introduces and evaluates the traveling thread execution model in which threads mi- grate to the memory resources close to the data they require rather than perform remote memory accesses.
      • keywords: memory; neumann; von
      • versions: original; plain text
2554. gm80ht2733g
      • author: Nilay Saiya
      • title: The Roots of Religious Terrorism
      • date: 2013
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In this study, I argue that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, religious terrorism is not primarily the result of poverty, psychological alienation or foreign occupation, but rather a natural consequence of states that repress the religious and political rights of religious groups and individuals. Religious terrorism stems centrally from regimes that deny religious freedom to their people.
      • keywords: individuals; religious; rights; terrorism
      • versions: original; plain text
2555. gm80ht2734t
      • author: Mariana Figuera Losada
      • title: Human Plasminogen, Conformational Transitions and Activation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 421
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This novel state of Pg can be more effectively activated by Pg activator such as urokinase and streptokinase. To assess the contributions of specific domains on the maintenance of the closed form, we have generated a panel of recombinant Pg truncation mutants, which include APK1-3 (residues 1-338 of Pg), APK1-4 (residues 1-438 of Pg) and APK1-5 (residues 1-543 of Pg).
      • keywords: activation; apk1; glu1; lys; residues; zymogen
      • versions: original; plain text
2556. gm80ht27355
      • author: Eric C. Rowe
      • title: Called by the Name of the Lord: Early Uses of the Names and Titles of Jesus in Identifying His Followers
      • date: 2012
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Recent scholarship on early Christianity has witnessed a great deal of interest in the identity of that movement, particularly with respect to the diverse forms of Christianity and their relationships to Judaism. One conclusion many scholars involved in studying these questions have reached is that there was an early period in the history of the Jesus movement in which it would be anachronistic to call it Christianity, which then leads to the problem of what to call this movement that would become Christianity.
      • keywords: christianity; early; jesus; movement
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2557. gm80ht2736h
      • author: Richard Ledet
      • title: Evangelical Protestants, Individualistic Churches, and Economic (In)-Equality in the American States
      • date: 2011
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Moreover, in the US conservative religious groups have thrived and now dominate the religious marketplace, taking up market share that could be held by churches promoting communitarian rather than individualistic religious perspectives, which conservative religious groups tend to promote. Religious groups have different ideas about the role of religion in the affairs of the broader community.
      • keywords: groups; religion; religious
      • versions: original; plain text
2558. gm80ht2739j
      • author: William Franklin Zech
      • title: Highly-Ionized Gas; Probing Energetic Galactic Environments
      • date: 2009
      • words: 401
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: These narrow components imply temperatures where little C IV is expected, yet considerable amounts of C IV (and Si IV) is observed. High velocity absorption is seen in C IV, Si IV, O VI, and lower ionization species at LSR velocities of -140 and -110 km/s. We conclude that this gas is not circumstellar on the basis of photoionization models and path length arguments.
      • keywords: components; galactic; gas; high; narrow
      • versions: original; plain text
2559. gm80ht2740r
      • author: Damon Lamar Woodard
      • title: Exploiting Finger Surface as a Biometric Identifier
      • date: 2005
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Performance results for both authentication and identification tasks are presented, which suggest that 3D finger surface is a viable choice as a biometric identifier. Using 3D range images of the hand, a surface representation for the index, middle, and ring finger is calculated and used for comparison to determine subject similarity.
      • keywords: biometric; finger; identifier; performance
      • versions: original; plain text
2560. gm80ht27413
      • author: Matthew Todd Eggemeier
      • title: Prophetic Apophasis: Emmanuel LÌ©vinas and Johann Baptist Metz on Philosophy/Theology, Subjectivity, and God after the End of Theodicy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 1414
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: While I ultimately think that what is urgently needed in contemporary theology is a renewed mystical-prophetic theology, for our purposes this juxtaposition will serve to accent the distinctiveness of the projects of LÌ©vinas and Metz and point to the important contribution that prophetic theology offers to debates in contemporary theology. In order to describe these prophetic retrievals in the projects of LÌ©vinas and Metz this dissertation will unfold in five chapters, each chapter exploring different contours of their engagement with prophetic discourse.
      • keywords: chapters; death; discourses; ethics; focus; forms; metz; philosophy; projects; prophetic; subject; suffering; theology; vinas
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2561. gm80ht27s0n
      • author: Jenifer B. Gifford
      • title: GRP78 Associated Chemoresistance Affects Drug Response in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
      • date: 1904
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Gemcitabine based therapy is the standard of care for patients; however, in the majority of cases, patients exhibit tumor relapse and resistance. It was established that induction of GRP78, an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone protein, has a direct relationship with the GEM-resistant status of pancreatic cancer cell lines and tumors.
      • keywords: cancer; efficacy; gem; grp78; induction; it-139
      • versions: original; plain text
2562. gm80ht27s6q
      • author: Triet S. Nguyen-Beck
      • title: Development and Applications of the Real-Time Electronic Dynamics Method OSCF2
      • date: 1904
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: To make progresses toward this goal, we have developed time-dependent open-system self-consistent field at second order (OSCF2), a real-time time-dependent functional theory method incorporated with open quantum systems theory. Many fundamental processes in nature and technology, from the electronic energy transfer in biological photosynthetic complexes to the charge mobility in solid-state photovoltaic devices, involve the dynamics of electrons in complex molecular systems and nanostructures.
      • keywords: dynamics; electronic; oscf2; present; real; systems; theory; time
      • versions: original; plain text
2563. gm80ht27s72
      • author: Niccole A. Nelson
      • title: Future Time Perspective: An Application of Exploratory Data Mining Techniques
      • date: 1904
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Utilizing machine-learning techniques, the current study examined the salience of several potential contributors to FTP simultaneously, including Age, Number of Chronic Health Conditions, Frequency of Somatic Symptoms, Self-rated Health, and the Five-factor Personality Domains, in a sample of N = 387 individuals (MAge = 67.35, SDAge = 8.89). Contrary to what may be expected based on the SST, these findings imply that stable personality traits more saliently contribute to individual differences in FTP than age and health.
      • keywords: age; agreeableness; ftp; health; self
      • versions: original; plain text
2564. gm80ht28463
      • author: Kevin Richardson
      • title: Ukrainian Language Policy, Identity, and Community
      • date: 2020
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: By utilizing Ukrainian language as the official state language and being tolerant of the ethnic minority languages within its borders, Ukraine can stay united under an inclusive Ukrainian identity that strives for the promotion of an imagined community of many languages, instead of an imagined community of one language that excludes others. This paper seeks to understand to what extent can civic identity be constructed while promoting ethnocultural language policies.
      • keywords: identity; language; ukrainian
      • versions: original; plain text
2565. gm80ht2872n
      • author: Brandy Sky Martinez
      • title: Examination of the Dynamic Multi-Level Model of Emotion Regulation
      • date: 2022
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Accordingly, the present study tested aspects of the Dynamic Multilevel Model of Emotion Regulation, which characterizes regulation processes as an emergent feature of the relational interaction between the individual and their surrounding environment (Martinez, Bergeman, Payne &amp; Yoon, invited revision). This dissertation sought to align theoretical accounts of emotion regulation as a process-oriented system with quantitative approaches consistent with this perspective.
      • keywords: affect; interventions; regulation; task
      • versions: original; plain text
2566. gq67jq10b5p
      • author: Xavier Marquez
      • title: The Stranger's Knowledge: Political Knowledge in Plato's Statesman
      • date: 2010
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: There, philosophy is shown to be different from political knowledge; it is at best a striving for such knowledge. This dissertation examines the Platonic view of the nature of political knowledge, its relations to other forms of knowledge, and its alienation from the political community.
      • keywords: knowledge; nature; platonic; political; statesman
      • versions: original; plain text
2567. gq67jq10b61
      • author: Quan Zhou
      • title: Achievement differences between Chinese and Non-Chinese Asians in America: Linking Parental Involvement with Student Academic Achievement by Race-Ethnicity
      • date: 2004
      • words: 107
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: asian; chinese; differences
      • versions: original; plain text
2568. gq67jq10b7c
      • author: Elizabeth E. Martinez
      • title: Placing the Public Figure in the Public Sphere: From Legal Solution to Internet Scapegoat
      • date: 2008
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: The related meanings of newsworthiness, public sphere, and public figure are traced as they are negotiated over time and across fields of power. This study applies the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu to show how the irresolvable conflict between free speech and privacy is managed by U.S. courts, newspaper editors, and Web publishers.
      • keywords: courts; figure; newsworthiness; public
      • versions: original; plain text
2569. gq67jq10b92
      • author: Jennifer Claire Penkethman
      • title: The Sympathetic Division
      • date: 2010
      • words: 5
      • flesch: 66
      • summary: A collection of short stories.
      • keywords: stories
      • versions: original; plain text
2570. gq67jq10c08
      • author: Clara Elizabeth Seaman
      • title: Characterization of Tricuspid and Bicuspid Aortic Valve Hemodynamics Under Normal and Calcified States
      • date: 2014
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In the bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), which is the most common type of aortic valve defect and is characterized by the formation of two functional leaflets instead of three, the onset of CAVD typically occurs at an earlier age and progresses to severe stenosis much more rapidly than in the normal tricuspid aortic valve (TAV). Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is the most prevalent form of heart valve disease, affecting 25% of the population 65 years and older with disease progression lasting 20-30 years.
      • keywords: aortic; bav; calcific; flow; model; performance; tav; valve
      • versions: original; plain text
2571. gq67jq10c81
      • author: Katherine Leigh Hull
      • title: A Solution-Based Approach to Semiconductor Nanowires
      • date: 2005
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 65
      • summary: Crystalline NWs with lengths up to 10 microns are grown in solution, where NW growth is initiated by Au/Bi core/shell nanoparticles (NPs). The morphologies obtained in each case emphasize the influence of crystal phase on NW growth.
      • keywords: case; nws; pbse
      • versions: original; plain text
2572. gq67jq10c9c
      • author: Wei Zhang
      • title: Estimating Latent Variable Interactions with Missing Data
      • date: 2010
      • words: 228
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Parameter estimates from multiple imputation approach tend to exhibit severe negative biases when the rates of missing data are high, regardless of missing data mechanism. A Monte Carlo simulation study is sequentially conducted to examine the behavior of these two estimation approaches across different data distributions, sample sizes, reliabilities of measures, and missing data rates and mechanisms.
      • keywords: data; effect; estimation; interaction; missing
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2573. gq67jq10d3m
      • author: Seyedehsaideh Eshraghi
      • title: The Green Movement: Its Roots and Causes from a Gender Perspective
      • date: 2011
      • words: 656
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The women's movement was also an integral component of the Green Movement and it is still strengthening the Green Movement of Iran through requesting equality and fundamental rights for half of the Iranian population and introducing nonviolent tactics and strategies into Iranian democracy movement, the Green Movement. The women's movement began along with democracy movement with both emerging out of the Constitutional Revolution.
      • keywords: democracy; gender; green; iran; iranian; movement; perspective; power; rights; women
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2574. gq67jq10f2k
      • author: Christopher E. Kleven
      • title: Vane Separation Control in a Linear Cascade with Area Expansion using AC DBD Plasma Actuators
      • date: 1904
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Surface flow visualization, optical flow analysis, and wake pressure measurements are taken for the concurrent fence and plasma actuation case. Passive and active forms of flow control are employed to mitigate losses in the system.
      • keywords: actuation; cascade; flow; plasma; separation; suction; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
2575. gq67jq1128h
      • author: Kathryn M. Lance
      • title: To Conceal or Reveal? Predictors of Adolescent Self-Disclosure to Mothers and the Mediating Role of Trust
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 24
      • 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.
      • keywords: adolescent; concealment; disclosure; maternal; reports; self
      • versions: original; plain text
2576. gq67jq1137g
      • author: Joshua S. Hobgood
      • title: Notch3 Acts as a Negative Regulator of Müller Glia Proliferation in the Adult Zebrafish Retina
      • date: 2018
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Specifically, Notch signaling is suppressed in response to light damage in the adult zebrafish retina and inhibition of Notch is sufficient to induce a proliferative response in the absence of cellular damage. The expression levels of each Notch receptor gene was examined, and each receptor was inhibited prior to light damage via morpholino-mediated knockdowns.
      • keywords: damage; expression; glia; light; notch3; response; zebrafish
      • versions: original; plain text
2577. gq67jq11720
      • author: Ke Feng
      • title: A Location-Dependent Signal-to-Interference Ratio Analysis in Cellular Networks
      • date: 2019
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This work proposes a location-dependent SIR analysis for cellular networks where BS locations are modelled by stationary point processes. Due to the nature of the wireless medium, the link quality, captured by the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), strongly depends on the location of the users relative to the serving and interfering base stations (BSs).
      • keywords: interference; networks; sir; wireless
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2578. gq67jq11c9n
      • author: Dewen Yushu
      • title: An Image-Based Multiscale Multigrid Framework for Heterogeneous Systems
      • date: 2019
      • words: 413
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This solver solves a macroscopic quasi-static boundary value problem in a domain that is composed of multiple multi-resolution microstructures. To this end, part of this dissertation focuses on developing an innovative image-based modeling technique, based on Google Earth like algorithms, to effectively resolve intricate morphologies and address the computational complexity associated with heterogeneous systems.
      • keywords: computational; data; dissertation; heterogeneous; image; modeling; multiscale; numerical; solution; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
2579. gq67jq11j7h
      • author: Madison Hoaglund
      • title: Motherhood in the Delphic Manumission Inscriptions
      • date: 2023
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The mother-child clauses, which appeared decades before paramone clauses concerning motherhood, delineated the statuses of slave children and added legitimacy to the mother's and children's emancipation. In this way, the mother-child clauses represent a tangible example of both the societal concern surrounding the roles of these women and children as well as their attempt to address these concerns through the manumission inscriptions.
      • keywords: child; clauses; inscriptions; manumission; mother; paramone
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2580. gt54kk93m9b
      • author: Elizabeth A. Covay
      • title: The Emergence and Persistence of the Black-White Achievement Gap
      • date: 2010
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: achievement; black; early; gap; learning; white
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2581. gt54kk93n27
      • author: Quanling Zheng
      • title: A Multifluidic MEMS Microneedle
      • date: 2010
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Several fabrication methods from other groups will be briefly presented, such as anisotropic wet etching method, buried microchannel method, double deep X-ray lithography method, and so on. In this thesis, I will give an introduction of the development of microneedle.
      • keywords: etching; method; microneedle; simulated
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2582. gt54kk93n3k
      • author: Thomas Lawrence Miller
      • title: The False Histories: Seven Folktales
      • date: 2010
      • words: 4
      • flesch: 75
      • summary: Seven short fake folktales.
      • keywords: folktales
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2583. gt54kk93n4x
      • author: Lindsay N Salem
      • title: Does the Gender-Additive Model of Depression Apply? An Examination of Body-Image Related Risk Factors in Early Adolescent Boys and Girls
      • date: 2004
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The results indicated that for girls, self-esteem mediated the relation between thin ideal and depressive symptoms, and for boys, both self-esteem and body dissatisfaction mediated the relation between thin-ideal internalization and depressive symptoms. Early adolescents (73 boys, 91 girls) completed well-developed self-report measures of depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, self-esteem, and pubertal development.
      • keywords: body; depressive; symptoms
      • versions: original; plain text
2584. gt54kk93n58
      • author: Atanas Ventzeslavov Koulov
      • title: Using Small Molecules to Mediate and Influence Biomembrane Function
      • date: 2005
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: These triple-chain compounds were observed to promote negative membrane curvatures and most likely act through stabilization of membrane fusion intermediates that contain such inverse curvatures. For example, it was demonstrated that cationic triple-chain amphiphiles facilitate membrane fusion, as compared to double- and single-chained analogues.
      • keywords: analogues; compounds; dissertation; fusion; membrane; molecules; phospholipids; synthetic; transport
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2585. gt54kk93n6m
      • author: Jody S Nicholson
      • title: Get the Lead Out: Reducing Lead Exposure for Children in Poverty
      • date: 2010
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: children; exposure; lead; low
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2586. gt54kk93n7z
      • author: Sarah Shafiq
      • title: De-Secularizing Finance: Islamic Banking in Pakistan
      • date: 2013
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: I explore these questions using content analysis of the earliest publications of Islamic theory, semi-structured interviews with Islamic bankers and shari'a board members, and participant observation at an Islamic bank. How did Islamic economic theory begin to challenge conventional economic theory, and what were the barriers to its implementation?
      • keywords: banking; economic; finance; islamic; norm; pakistan; system; theory
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2587. gt54kk93n89
      • author: Jeffrey Matthew Hemmes
      • title: Improving Data Availability in Mobile Applications Through Enhanced Cooperative Localization
      • date: 2010
      • words: 414
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: A simulation environment for mobile ad hoc networks incorporating various models of localization error is presented. Two methods are presented which can account for and reduce localization error using shared data, exploiting the independence of error among nodes in close proximity.
      • keywords: cooperative; data; different; error; localization; mobile; sensor; techniques; ways
      • versions: original; plain text
2588. gt54kk93p16
      • author: Lu Zhang
      • title: Manipulation of the DNA and Colloids in Suspension and at Surfaces
      • date: 2009
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Zeta potential measurements indicate that functionalized colloids remain negatively charged with increasing ionic strength, suggesting that screened electrostatic repulsion can account for enhanced DNA adsorption in high ionic strength media, despite the possible hydrophobic origin for DNA adsorption in low ionic strength media. Janus particles with assembled CH3-end thiol monolayer on gold-capped hemisphere exhibit negative DEP to positive DEP (n-to-p) crossover frequencies at high medium conductivities because interfacial polarization dominates at low frequencies and conductive gold layer dominates at high frequencies.
      • keywords: colloids; dep; dna; formation; gold; janus; particles; suspension; systems
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2589. gt54kk93p2j
      • author: Xiang Wang
      • title: Measurement and Analysis of Microdamage in Bone
      • date: 2005
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Barium sulfate, used as the radio-opaque contrast agent to label microdamage in bone, had partial volume effects on adjacent bone tissue in micro-CT images. Overall, this research provided insight into trabecular bone damage mechanics by studying microdamage development, and developing an innovative new technique to study microdamage in three dimensions.
      • keywords: bone; dimensions; microcracks; microdamage; specimens; strain; technique
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2590. gt54kk93p3w
      • author: Denise Audrey Ayo
      • title: Modern Women of Letters: Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, and Mary Colum
      • date: 2013
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: My dissertation joins Jaffe's work on male modernists with Faye Hammill's and Catherine Keyser's on female middlebrow authors by analyzing how female critics sought to position themselves as highbrow intellectuals. By attending to Colum and overlooked works by West and Woolf, I uncover a repeated use of re-mediation as a mechanism for managing female literary authority.
      • keywords: colum; dissertation; female; west; woolf; works
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2591. gt54kk93q36
      • author: Piyush M. Ranade
      • title: Turbulence Amplitude Modulation in an Externally Forced, High Reynolds Number Boundary Layer
      • date: 1904
      • words: 409
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The modulation of small scales by larger scales in the turbulent boundary layer has been observed and reported in literature. More recently, experimental studies at CalTech have shown that the phase-organizing effect of large scales on small scales can be regularized by introducing a synthetic large scale using a spanwise oscillating rib internal to the boundary layer.
      • keywords: boundary; high; large; layer; scales; shear
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2592. gt54kk93q7k
      • author: W. Robert Burns
      • title: Statistical Learning Methods for Aero-Optic Wavefront Prediction and Adaptive-Optic Latency Compensation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Aero-Optics is recognized as a major technical issue that needs to be solved before airborne optical systems can become routinely fielded. Since the early 1970's research in airborne laser systems has been the subject of continued interest.
      • keywords: aero; airborne; beam; flow; laser; latency; optics; research
      • versions: original; plain text
2593. gt54kk94b2q
      • author: Angelica Frausto
      • title: Mother Satisfaction with Father Caregiving and Multigenerational Coparenting
      • date: 1904
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The moderating effects of mother sociodemographic factors, consistency in father-child contact, and paternal and maternal grandparent involvement were tested in a series of multilevel models. The present study examined the between and within-person effects of father-child contact on mother satisfaction with father caregiving in a sample of 682 first-time high-risk and low-risk mothers.
      • keywords: effects; father
      • versions: original; plain text
2594. gt54kk94b8s
      • author: Carolyn M. Shirey
      • title: Methods for Studying Lipid-Protein Interactions and Studies of Ceramide 1-Phosphate
      • date: 1904
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Here, we set out to discover new C1P binding proteins through several immunoprecipitation assays followed by mass spectrometry. Specifically, ceramide 1-phosphate (C1P) is an important signaling sphingolipid that has been shown to regulate physiological processes such as cell proliferation, inflammation, apoptosis, and macrophage chemotaxis.
      • keywords: c1p; lipid; protein; roles
      • versions: original; plain text
2595. gt54kk94h1x
      • author: Abigail L. Mills
      • title: Destructive Marital Conflict as a Risk Factor for Adjustment Problems in Adolescents: Differentiating the Causal Influence of Emotional Security and Attachment Security
      • date: 2019
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: Guided by Attachment Theory and Emotional Security Theory, the purpose of this study is to examine the differential influence of marital conflict on the psychological processes of emotional security about family relations, emotional security about marital relations, and attachment security, which in turn will contribute to a refined understanding of how and why marital conflict leads to adjustment problems in adolescents. Results revealed that emotional insecurity about marital relations (T2) significantly mediated the link between marital conflict (T1) and adolescent's externalizing behavior problems (T3).
      • keywords: emotional; marital; relations; security
      • versions: original; plain text
2596. gt54kk94p97
      • author: Carla I. Villanueva
      • title: The Politics of Repressive Education Reform: The Institutional Relationship between the Secretaría de Educación Pública and Escuelas Normales Rurales in Mexico During the Cold War
      • date: 2020
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Education officials reinforced the public anxieties of the period by using campus policies and disciplinary actions as a way to combat student activism. The SEP's systematic use of policy, as a tool to control student power on campus, escalated throughout the 1960s, and exploded in 1969, when the SEP implemented a punitive education reform that closed down half of the then twenty-nine campuses.
      • keywords: education; mexico; revolution; sep; student; unesco
      • versions: original; plain text
2597. gt54kk94q24
      • author: Chao Yang
      • title: Remnants of the Balbiani Body Are Required for Formation of RNA Transport Granules in Xenopus Oocytes
      • date: 2020
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In addition, biotinylated ribonucleoprotein (RNP) pull-down coupled with label-free quantitative proteomics (LFQ) was utilized to determine the full inventory of protein factors comprising the localization complex and identified multiple liquid-phase separation driving proteins. Balbiani body (Bb) is a conserved structure in oocytes that is characterized by mitochondria, ER membranes and germ plasm RNAs.
      • keywords: perinuclear; phase; rna; vegetal
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2598. gt54kk94r3s
      • author: Kayla Simone Knox
      • title: Racial Habitus and Diversity: A Historical Comparative Analysis Amongst College Alumni
      • date: 2021
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: This project makes several important sociological contributions to racial habitus, meaning-making around diversity, and to diversity initiatives in higher education. Ultimately, I find: racial isolation leads to structural conceptualizations of diversity; black and white students seem to conceptualize diversity similarly, but with different effects; and structural conceptualizations of diversity have remained consistent over time.
      • keywords: conceptualizations; diversity; white
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2599. gt54kk94s4f
      • author: Vítor Albiero
      • title: Bias in Face Recognition: From Causes to Mitigation
      • date: 2022
      • words: 465
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: First, we explore the problem by looking into differences in face recognition accuracy across race, where our experiments show a mixed set of results for African-American and Caucasians, but African-Americans usually have higher false match rates (FMR) and lower false non-match rates (FNMR). Second, we investigate face recognition accuracy across age groups.
      • keywords: accuracy; bias; face; fmr; gender; higher; recognition; training
      • versions: original; plain text
2600. gx41mg76w7q
      • author: James A Hussar
      • title: Cycling Through the Pampas: Fictionalized Accounts of Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Argentina and Brazil
      • date: 2008
      • words: 120
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: I reevaluate the literary legacy of Gerchunoff, the father of Jewish Latin American literature, by showing how his canonical Los gauchos jud&#237;os (1910; translated as The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, 1955) offered a structural and thematic template for works by Mactas, Alexandr, and Voloch. My comparative study focuses on the negotiation of national, regional, religious, and ethnic identity in the works of four Latin American Jewish authors: Argentines Alberto Gerchunoff and Rebeca Mactas, and Brazilians Frida Alexandr and AdÌÄå£o Voloch.
      • keywords: alexandr; jewish; latin; voloch
      • versions: original; plain text
2601. gx41mg76w82
      • author: Jonathan Peter Hill
      • title: The Evangelical Advantage: A Test of the Subcultural Identity Theory of Religious Strength
      • date: 2004
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Other major Protestant religious traditions do not maintain the correct balance between distinction and engagement with relevant outgroups &ndash; hence they display lower levels of religious strength. This paper examines the sources of the evangelical advantage in religious strength over other Protestant religious traditions.
      • keywords: outgroups; religious; strength
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2602. gx41mg76w9d
      • author: Hristina A Staleva
      • title: Transient Absorption Studies of Single Metal Nanoparticles
      • date: 2010
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Different particles show different periods and lifetimes. Fitting the data to a damped cosine function yields the periods and homogeneous lifetimes of the vibrational motion.
      • keywords: distribution; lifetimes; mode; nanowires; periods; vibrational
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2603. gx41mg76x1z
      • author: Ryan Edward Butler
      • title: The Design and Development of Vectorbase: A Bioinformatic Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens
      • date: 2010
      • words: 94
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: VectorBase is a Bioinformatics Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Hu- man Pathogens funded by NIAID. We hope this document can provide a sort of snap-shot of the status of the VectorBase project at the time of this writing, and may provide an initial look into VectorBase.
      • keywords: project; vectorbase
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2604. gx41mg76x29
      • author: Anne Elizabeth Martin
      • title: Predictive Modeling of Healthy and Amputee Walking using a Simple Planar Model
      • date: 2014
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The models were validated using new robotic hardware experiments and existing data from human subject studies. This work extends a robot modeling and control technique to create highly accurate, yet computationally inexpensive, predictive models of human walking.
      • keywords: design; foot; gait; human; models; robots; walking
      • versions: original; plain text
2605. gx41mg76z0x
      • author: Peter Ryan McHenry
      • title: Elucidating the mechanism of action of the novel marine macrolide iejimalide
      • date: 2008
      • words: 255
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Iejimalides are a novel family of marine macrolides shown to be active against cancer cells in vitro that inhibit vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) activity in osteoclast cells. CHO-A8 cells, which re-duplicate their centrioles under conditions of prolonged S-phase arrest, maintain normal centriole numbers when arrested by Iej A/B. Iejimalides appear to have unique effects on cancer cells and should be further developed as anti-cancer agents.
      • keywords: arrest; cancer; cell; iej; p53; phase
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2606. gx41mg76z18
      • author: Jody Peters
      • title: Influence of Habitat, Predation, and Spatial and Temporal Scales on Species Diversity and Distributions: Interactions Involving Crayfishes in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Inland Lakes
      • date: 2010
      • words: 582
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Invasive crayfish can alter littoral zone food webs through herbivory and interactions with native crayfish. I used long-term data sets and surveys across multiple lakes, combined with field experiments in one lake, to demonstrate that the availability of the three littoral habitats influences whether native virile crayfish (O. virilis) are displaced by or coexist with invasive rusty crayfish.
      • keywords: crayfish; diversity; habitats; invasive; lakes; littoral; multiple; native; rusty; species; zone
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2607. gx41mg76z5n
      • author: Ashleen Kelly Menchaca-Bagnulo
      • title: My City Before My Soul: Reading the Discourses on Livy as a Retelling of Augustine's City of God
      • date: 2014
      • words: 206
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In order to understand the educational objectives of Machiavelli's *Discourses on Livy*, one must study Augustine's *City of God*. I then turn to Machiavelli's use of rituals and other institutions, which parallels Augustine's use of rituals, and how Machiavelli uses these institutions and rituals to solve the problem of corruption.
      • keywords: augustine; machiavelli; political
      • versions: original; plain text
2608. gx41mg77386
      • author: Eliseo Marin-Rimoldi
      • title: Monte Carlo Simulations for Phase Equilibria and Software Development
      • date: 1904
      • words: 244
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The main motivation of this dissertation is the development, implementation and application of molecular simulation methods to predict phase equilibria thermodynamics. Molecular simulations allow researchers to study matter at the microscopic level and make predictions of macroscopic properties at a wide range of conditions.
      • keywords: algorithms; equilibria; molecular; phase; simulation; systems
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2609. gx41mg77m34
      • author: Jacob B. Hoffman
      • title: Utilizing Quantum Dot Assemblies for Light Harvesting Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: dot; energy; films; halide; photovoltaics; quantum; resonance; transfer
      • versions: original; plain text
2610. gx41mg77n9h
      • author: Sergiu Draguta
      • title: Spatially-Resolved Photophysics of Hybrid Perovskite Thin Film and Solar Cell Devices
      • date: 2018
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In this regard, this thesis presents a new type of excitation-dependent microscopy which enables to reveals local charge recombination mechanism of thin film and solar cell device. In order to increase PCE of these devices close to SQ limit, a better understanding of charge recombination mechanisms is necessary.
      • keywords: halide; issue; pce; phase; separation
      • versions: original; plain text
2611. gx41mg77s2b
      • author: John C. Sikorski
      • title: Bearing Death Bravely and Undertaking it in Charity: Redemptive Suffering and the Ars Moriendi
      • date: 2019
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The third part of the dissertation turns explicitly to the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).In Christ, the perfect wayfarer who exemplifies virtue in suffering, human beings are presented with the exemplar of human suffering. In the second part of the dissertation, two neglected figures in moral theology, Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) and Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), are examined in order to show how their thought can be used to develop a fruitful account of redemptive suffering, and to show the relationship between suffering and the virtues, God's mercy, and human moral growth.
      • keywords: christ; dissertation; human; moral; redemptive; suffering; tradition
      • versions: original; plain text
2612. gx41mg7800s
      • author: Micah J. Ferrell
      • title: Investigations of the Virulence Mechanisms of Mycobacterium marinum
      • date: 2020
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: By utilizing M. marinum as a model we have gained new insights into protein homeostasis, virulence regulation and virulence factor secretion, which will inform future studies in M. tuberculosis. Using M. marinum we studied the modification, regulation and transport of mycobacterial virulence factors through biochemical, molecular and genetic approaches.
      • keywords: enzymes; marinum; nat; secretion; virulence
      • versions: original; plain text
2613. gx41mg7839t
      • author: Toby Hale
      • title: The Sacred and Infernal River: Mapping the Arno in Dante's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
      • date: 2023
      • words: 291
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The second half of the chapter will trace the trajectory that the Arno – now superimposed onto the Phlegethon – will traverse across lower Hell, offering a close analysis of the passages in which the river is charted as it passes through the ditches of the Malebolge reserved for the hypocrites and the falsifiers in Inf. 23 and Inf. 20 respectively before making its descent into the final circle of Hell, where in Inf. 33 The first chapter begins by proposing new evidence to suggest that Dante consciously establishes a parallel between the river Phlegethon of Inf. 14 and the river Arno of Purg.
      • keywords: arno; chapter; dante; inf; phlegethon; river
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2614. h128nc60644
      • author: Lawrence P. Tardibono Jr.
      • title: Methodology Development and Syntheses of Biologically Relevant Molecules from Acylnitroso Cycloadducts: Access to Benzodiazepines and Carbocyclic Nucleosides
      • date: 2010
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In chapter two, the biological activity of several relevant carbocyclic nuleosides is explored and various synthetic strategies to the molecules and their analogs are discussed. Finally, a brief summary of synthetic accomplishments and an analysis of the biological activity of various molecules are given.
      • keywords: activity; acylnitroso; allyl; benzodiazepines; chapter; cycloadducts; key
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2615. h128nc6065g
      • author: Mingjun Huang
      • title: Erbium-Doped Wet Oxides of AlGaAs and InAlP on GaAs Substratesfor Optoelectronic Integration
      • date: 2008
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Substantial research effort is still focused on developing host materials suitable for theincorporation of the high Er concentration required in devices of limited waveguidelength, critical to compensate for the small optical transition cross sections of Er ions. wt.%, a very long excited lifetime of 6-8 ms, and an unusually broad bandwidth,making them quite competitive with other host materials utilized for the aboveapplications.
      • keywords: devices; high; host; increase; materials; optical; performance; vip
      • versions: original; plain text
2616. h128nc6066t
      • author: Simone Brosig
      • title: 'In the Secret of the Trinity': Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth-Century Southern Low Countries
      • date: 2005
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: In effect, the trinitarian context proves to be fundamental in all genres of eucharistic devotion from the strictly theological approach of the treatises of male scholastics and testimonies of mystical women through to the pastoral practice of ecclesial action, public ideals of sanctity, preaching, and liturgical practice. These texts present an ideal of sanctity and devotion that places ritual practices involving the eucharist squarely in the context of devotion to the Trinity.
      • keywords: chapter; devotion; eucharistic; hugh; practice; theological; trinity
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2617. h128nc60675
      • author: Joseph R Rausch
      • title: Designing Longitudinal Studies of Negative Exponential Growth According to the Reliabilities of Growth Parameter Estimators
      • date: 2005
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences frequently depend on linear models when designingand analyzing longitudinal studies. However, when attempting to precisely understand the underlyinggrowth process, nonlinear growth models are typically more useful.
      • keywords: growth; nonlinear; studies
      • versions: original; plain text
2618. h128nc6068h
      • author: Stacey B Scott
      • title: A Multi-Perspective Examination of Stress in Later Life
      • date: 2010
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Using a multi-pronged approach to assessing stress and synthesizing this information to create stress profiles in persons with and without psychopathology is a necessary next step. First, life events, perceived stress, and allostatic load were used as predictors of current depression.
      • keywords: biological; depression; environmental; events; life; psychological; stress; tradition
      • versions: original; plain text
2619. h128nc6069v
      • author: Lucrecia Garcia Iommi
      • title: Thinking Institutions in 3-D: Ideas, Interests, and Power in the Creation of the International Criminal Court
      • date: 2012
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Norms shaped the national security interests and security policy of states, creating incentives to cooperate through institution building around the issue of core international crimes. The end of the Cold War was a necessary precondition to the definition of international crime as a common goods problem, and to the establishment of cooperation around it.
      • keywords: core; court; crimes; independent; international; process; security; states
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2620. h128nc60702
      • author: Seyedehsaideh Eshraghi
      • title: The Green Movement: Its Roots and Causes from a Gender Perspective
      • date: 2011
      • words: 656
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The women's movement was also an integral component of the Green Movement and it is still strengthening the Green Movement of Iran through requesting equality and fundamental rights for half of the Iranian population and introducing nonviolent tactics and strategies into Iranian democracy movement, the Green Movement. The women's movement began along with democracy movement with both emerging out of the Constitutional Revolution.
      • keywords: democracy; gender; green; iran; iranian; movement; perspective; power; rights; women
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2621. h128nc60733
      • author: Pramita Mitra
      • title: Reliable and Efficient Group Communication in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
      • date: 2009
      • words: 180
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Flooding also contributes to congestion and collisions; thereby degrading the performance of group communication. Therefore, performing membership updates while minimizing flooding is critical in the bandwidth efficiency of group communication in mobile ad-hoc networks.
      • keywords: group; multicast; networks
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2622. h128nc6074f
      • author: Christopher Bensing Boehnen
      • title: A Multi-Modal Approach to Frontal and Non Frontal Facial Feature Detection
      • date: 2010
      • words: 171
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Before 3D face images can be used to identify an individual, they requiresome form of initial alignment information, typically based on facial featurelocations. After beginning with a discussion on biometrics and therole of automatic facial feature detection, we provide a comparative evaluation of3D sensors.
      • keywords: biometrics; detection; individual
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2623. h128nc6075s
      • author: Chad Patrick Quaglia
      • title: Novel, Deployable Origami-Inspired Shelters for Forward Operating Bases: Design and Optimization
      • date: 2014
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: This thesis will review existing shelter technology in the military and relevant work in origami engineering, present a series of novel origami-inspired concepts developed by the research team, present the structural design and analysis of one promising concept, optimize this design for structural performance and energy efficiency, and finally discuss conclusions and future work. Toward achieving these priorities, this thesis harnesses the art of origami as inspiration for rigid wall deploying shelters and introduces a novel erection strategy for these origami-inspired shelters based on the principle of counterweighting.
      • keywords: design; origami; priorities; shelters
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2624. h128nc6084r
      • author: Bret Nye
      • title: The Yearning Sessions and a Lifestory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Though different in both form and content, these fictions share a number of thematic investigations: explorations of new masculinities in American culture, fabular and fantastical figurations of the Midwest region, and the artistic convergence of the theoretical concepts of memory and haunting. This thesis is made up of one half of a novel, titled The Yearning Sessions, and a long fiction story, titled Lifestory: A Memoir.
      • keywords: fiction; lifestory; memoir
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2625. h128nc60853
      • author: Kevin J. Vaughn
      • title: The Organ Masses of Gaston Litaize (1909-1991): The Culmination of a Twentieth-Century Liturgical Genre
      • date: 1904
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In order to contribute to a wider appreciation of Litaize's musical influence and legacy, this project focuses on his liturgical music for organ in three of his organ Masses: the Grande Messe pour tous les temps, 1948; the Messe basse pour tous les temps, 1949; and the Messe de la Toussaint, 1964. Litaize's effortless facility with complex compositional devices, especially fugue and canon, also marks him as the heir to the contrapuntal tradition of organ music in France.
      • keywords: century; church; french; litaize; masses; messe; music; organ; twentieth
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2626. h128nc60c9d
      • author: Edithstein Taeyin ChoGlueck
      • title: FUME
      • date: 1904
      • words: 32
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: When their lives inevitably includes life-long jealousies, regrets, and misunderstandings, will their bond endure in the end? Fume explores two cousins' relationship that grows apart premised on having grown up together.
      • keywords: fume
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2627. h128nc60x08
      • author: Samantha F. Anderson
      • title: Missing Data in Randomized Pretest Posttest Studies: A Growth Curve Perspective
      • date: 1904
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; ate; data; missing; models; pretest
      • versions: original; plain text
2628. h128nc6125h
      • author: Yuan Tian
      • title: New Applications of III-V Compound Semiconductor Native Oxides for Photonic Devices
      • date: 2019
      • words: 300
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Building upon previous work at the University of Notre Dame on oxygen-enhanced non-selective wet thermal oxidation of low Al content III-V compound semiconductor alloys, which has simplified the fabrication of advanced performance diode laser devices, this work has further expanded the application of III-V native oxides in photonic device fabrication and integration while stimulating additional materials related discoveries. The discovery of new materials, the improvement of processing, and the design of new devices are the three engines which boost our modern semiconductor industry.
      • keywords: compound; devices; fabrication; iii; inp; materials; native; new; oxide; semiconductor; waveguide
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2629. h128nc61919
      • author: Christopher C. Rios
      • title: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Mikel Dufrenne at the Limits of Theological Phenomenological Cosmology: A Constructive Proposal
      • date: 2021
      • words: 378
      • flesch: 7
      • summary: This dissertation develops a theological phenomenological cosmology in light of Christian revelation by examining the fundamental structures of incarnate lived experience as described by Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Mikel Dufrenne in order to understand better the significance of Christian revelation upon the cosmic stage. In this cosmological schema, Christ makes explicit as an object for reflective knowledge the implicit, affective knowledge that human persons have of the divine Life in the depths of their enfleshed bodies inasmuch as they are children of God, while himself remaining a distinct form of Life's revelation.
      • keywords: cosmological; dufrenne; henry; life; marion; phenomenological; revelation; theological
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2630. h128nc61d0w
      • author: Santain Tavella
      • title: Lost in Translation: Technical Aspects and Challenges in the Italian Dubbing of Miracle at St. Anna and Fargo
      • date: 2023
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: dubbing; film; italian; language; original; product
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2631. h128nc61d17
      • author: Damien A. Dablain
      • title: Linear Data Augmentation to Improve Generalization for Imbalanced Learning
      • date: 2023
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In this dissertation, we take a step toward understanding how DA works with imbalanced data. We also find that certain DA methods and parametric ML classifiers (CNN, logistic regression, SVM) incorporate hidden linearity at the front-end of training and during inference that may affect generalization, when learning with imbalanced data.
      • keywords: data; generalization; imbalanced; latent
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2632. h415p843f9m
      • author: Patrick Ormande Bowles
      • title: Wind Tunnel Experiments on the Effect of Compressibility on the Attributes of Dynamic Stall
      • date: 2012
      • words: 474
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: aerodynamic; chord; cycle; damping; dynamic; pitch; shock; stall; surface; vortex
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2633. h415p843g0t
      • author: Thidapat Chantem
      • title: Generalized Elastic Scheduling for Real-Time Systems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Second, it is shown in this thesis that the well-known task compression algorithm in fact solves a quadratic programming problem that seeks to minimize the sum of the squared deviation of a task's utilization from initial desired utilization. This finding indicates that the task compression algorithm may be applied to efficiently solve other similar types of problems that often arise in real-time applications.
      • keywords: problem; real; task; time
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2634. h415p843g15
      • author: Stephanie Rochelle Ahern
      • title: Breaking the Organizational Mold: Why the Institutional United States Army has Changed despite Itself since the End of the Cold War
      • date: 2010
      • words: 383
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Second, despite its hierarchical structure, leadership priority and consensus were both critical in the Army making voluntary changes. Why has the institutional U.S. Army changed since the end of the Cold War?
      • keywords: allison; army; changes; evidence; institutional; military; u.s; zelikow
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2635. h415p843g3v
      • author: Jianfeng Zhu
      • title: Application of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for vertebrate limb pattern formation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 208
      • flesch: -2
      • summary: Major outstanding questions regarding vertebrate limb development are how the numbers of skeletal elements along the proximodistal (P-D) and anteroposterior (A-P) axes are determined and how the shape of a growing limb affects skeletalelement formation. A mechanism based on local autoregulation of a molecular activator of cell aggregation coupled to a laterally acting inhibitor (a LALI system), is consistent with in vivo and in vitro experimental results and provides qualitative interpretations of several genetic anomalies affecting limb development.
      • keywords: diffusion; limb; mechanism; reaction; systems
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2636. h415p843g46
      • author: Michael W Kennedy
      • title: Visual Feedback in Balance Rehabilitation using Inexpensive Gaming Peripherals
      • date: 2014
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Preliminary examination of the data from clinical sessions indicates that instrumentation of clinical balance therapy could provide a method for quicker balance assessment and quantitative insight into patient balance performance. This work focuses on implementation of visual feedback in balance therapy with the ultimate goal of improving the efficacy of clinical balance rehabilitation.
      • keywords: balance; clinical; feedback; mediolateral; shifting; subjects; visual; weight
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2637. h415p843h2t
      • author: Allison A.P. Regier
      • title: Challenges in working with draft genomes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 54
      • 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.
      • keywords: cost; draft; errors; finding; genomes
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2638. h415p843h7j
      • author: Na Fu
      • title: Squaraine Rotaxanes: Highly Stable Fluorescent Bioimaging Probes
      • date: 2009
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This dissertation describes a series of structural investigations of squaraine rotaxanes and their fluorescent properties. A series of squaraine rotaxanes with a pyridyl-containing macrocycle adopt an unusual boat conformation in the solid state.
      • keywords: dyes; fluorescence; macrocycle; properties; rotaxanes; specific; squaraine; thread
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2639. h415p843h8w
      • author: Kathleen M. Kole de Peralta
      • title: The Nature of Colonial Bodies: Public Health in Lima, Peru, 1535-1635
      • date: 1904
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: These discussions emerged in response to the rapid rate of Lima's growth and the challenges it faced, including deforestation, food supply challenges, and the concentration of waste, disease, and illness. Its residents transformed the landscape to build a colonial capital and in the process, the landscape shaped local understandings of race, gender, social status and power.
      • keywords: lima; natural; population; world
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2640. h415p843p2c
      • author: Vahideh Ghanbari
      • title: Dissipativity/Passivity Based Control Design for Symmetric and Switched Systems with Application to Medical Robotics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 393
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: To this end, the passivity-based approach is applied to the control of various types of challenging problems in control systems such as symmetric systems, switched systems, and the automatic cycle-rider systems. This dissertation studies the concept of dissipativity and passivity, in theory, in practice, and in design of control systems.
      • keywords: approaches; concept; control; dissipativity; energy; passivity; stability; systems
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2641. h415p844j5f
      • author: Dmitrii Gudin
      • title: Stellar and Galactic Archaeology: Chemo-Dynamically Tagged Groups of Chemically Peculiar Stars in the Halo
      • date: 2020
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The sample of RPE stars includes a total of 426 stars with available accurate dynamical information and high-resolution spectroscopic abundances of iron, carbon, strontium, barium, and europium. As a result, photometric and spectroscopic data for many millions of stars in the Galaxy, including hundreds of thousands of ancient metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo, have been obtained.
      • keywords: cdtgs; cemp; elemental; milky; sample; stars; way
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2642. h415p844k32
      • author: Trevor B. Demille
      • title: Synthesis and Plasmonics of Surface-Truncated Noble Metal Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoantenna Engineering
      • date: 2021
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: Herein, is demonstrated a comprehensive study of the effects of surface truncation on the plasmon resonance and near-fields of substrate-truncated nanostructures, beginning with Ag nanospheres, and expanding to include Au nanostars and hexagonal Au nanoplates. The increasing interest in on-chip plasmonic devices underscores the importance of having a fundamental understanding of the interactions occurring when noble metal nanostructures are brought into contact with substrate materials.
      • keywords: devices; nanostructures; plasmonic; substrate
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2643. h415p844m7r
      • author: Adrianna Bickner
      • title: Membrane and Monolith Enzyme Reactors for Rapid Digestion of Proteins Prior to Mass Spectrometry Analysis
      • date: 2022
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Electrophoresis remains a popular method for protein separation prior to MS analysis. Future work with the monolith-containing emitter tip may yield successful digestion after CE protein separations.
      • keywords: analysis; electrodigestion; gel; ief; layer; monolith; proteins
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2644. h415p844p0z
      • author: Kangling Ma
      • title: Synthesis and Application of Hyperbranched Polytriazole-Based Unimolecular Nanocontainers
      • date: 2023
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 1
      • summary: The application of these affordable HBPs as unimolecular nanocontainers for bioimaging, drug delivery, and template for inorganic nanoparticles are investigated by encapsulating various functional payloads. Unimolecular polymeric nanocontainers possess exclusive single molecular architecture with covalently bonded core-shell structure, which can maintain outstanding stability upon surrounding environmental changes and are suitable for various applications, including small molecules encapsulation for drug delivery, bio-imaging, reaction catalysis, and the generation of inorganic nanoparticles as templates.
      • keywords: chain; growth; nanocontainers; polymers; unimolecular
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2645. h415p844p19
      • author: Gaofei Zhang
      • title: Gradient Flow-Based Generative Model and Geometric Information Enhanced Learning
      • date: 2023
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The other topic of this thesis is utilizing intrinsic geometric information to enhance learning. We propose two algorithms to extract intrinsic geometric information from the data.
      • keywords: algorithm; geometric; information; network
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2646. h702q526r3x
      • author: Krastyu G Ugrinov
      • title: Co-translational folding properties of the beta-sheet protein green fluorescent protein (GFP)
      • date: 2010
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In addition, a protease resistance assay revealed the presence of a stable GFP nascent chain fragment with a size close to the size of full length GFP.These results suggest that co-translational folding promotes the acquisition of on pathway, native-like conformations of the growing GFP nascent chains, resulting in high folding efficiency for an otherwise highly aggregation-prone Ì_å_-sheet protein. Importantly, GFP nascent chains that have their C-terminus buried in the ribosome exit tunnel remain folding competent and fold to a native conformation with high efficiency after release from the ribosome; this efficiency is significantly higher than the folding efficiency of chemically denatured GFP.
      • keywords: folding; gfp; native; protein; ribosome; translational
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2647. h702q526r6z
      • author: Titik Firawati
      • title: Overcoming Collapsed Peace Processes: Why Negotiations Were Sustained in Aceh but Disintegrated in South Thailand
      • date: 2010
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The Indonesian government and GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, Free Aceh Movement) needed five years to address the conflict in Aceh before finally reaching a peace deal in August 2005. To explain why negotiations were maintained in Aceh but not in South Thailand, this thesis looks at the influence of reconciliatory moves by each party in both regions and leadership change on the Indonesian and Thai government side in the peace process.
      • keywords: aceh; peace; process
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2648. h702q526r79
      • author: Michael A. Vidmar-McEwen
      • title: Prolongational and Transformational Views of Sonata Form in the First Movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-flat, D.960
      • date: 2010
      • words: 100
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This thesis analyzes the first movement of Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960, with special attention to issues of sonata form. A Schenkerian viewpoint is adopted, and that choice is justified by Schenkerian analysis' ability to attend to the most important rhetorical moments of sonata form.
      • keywords: schenkerian; sonata
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2649. h702q526r8n
      • author: Corey Bourassa
      • title: An Experimental Investigation of an Accelerated Turbulent Boundary Layer
      • date: 2005
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Modification of the normal stresses in the near-wall region, large-scale changes in the skewness and kurtosis of the velocity components, a change in integral length scales of the accelerated boundary layer, and a shift in the energy spectrum each lend support to this assertion. Threecomponents of velocity are measured using multiple X-wires and the wall shear stress is directly measured using oil film interferometry.
      • keywords: accelerated; boundary; layer; wall
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2650. h702q526r90
      • author: Scott Robert Stolpa
      • title: Spatially Resolved Near Surface Motions in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
      • date: 2005
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Conditionally averaging the velocity field based on high swirl strength yields inclined regions of low momentum and inclined streamlines. This shear layer typically exhibits a set of vortex cores identified by circular streamlines in a convected reference frame.
      • keywords: layer; low; momentum; shear
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2651. h702q526s06
      • author: Michael Jeehoon Lee
      • title: American Revelations: Biblical Interpretation and Criticism in America, Circa 1700-1860
      • date: 2010
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Bible faced threats from German historical critics, who argued that the Bible must be interpreted as an amalgam of myth and history. In the early eighteenth century, most Christians could not imagine that the Bible was anything other than supernatural revelation from God.
      • keywords: bible; century; eighteenth; empirical; german; nineteenth; revelation
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2652. h702q526s1j
      • author: David M Lantigua
      • title: Idolatry, War, and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World
      • date: 2012
      • words: 412
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Las Casas' theory of religious toleration offered an unprecedented defense of religious rights for persons in error. The culmination of these opposed doctrines of religious coercion and religious toleration in the sixteenth century surfaced at the Valladolid debate from 1550 to 1551 between Las Casas and his principal adversary, Juan Gin s de Sep lveda.
      • keywords: casas; doctrine; freedom; las; natural; persons; religious; rights; toleration
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2653. h702q526s2w
      • author: Luma A Khudher
      • title: Micah 4-5 and the Message of Salvation of the Eighth Century Prophet
      • date: 2012
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 67
      • 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.
      • keywords: book; century; chs; oracles
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2654. h702q526s4k
      • author: Douglas Edward Finn
      • title: Life in the Spirit: Trinitarian Grammar and Pneumatic Community in Hegel and Augustine
      • date: 2011
      • words: 471
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Hegel's sublation of the Christological moment in Spirit issues in the displacement of the church by the state and an attendant realized eschatology that obviates psalmic lament as a form of communal Christian prayer, thereby leaving the suffering and the church that would speak on their behalf without a critical theological voice. Yet Hegel dominates the contemporary scene of Trinitarian theology and its reception of classical Trinitarian doctrine.
      • keywords: augustine; christ; christian; creation; hegel; spirit; thought; trinitarian
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2655. h702q526s5x
      • author: Janice Pauline Louvane Kenney
      • title: Metal Adsorption to Bacterial Cells and Their Products
      • date: 2010
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Our results suggest that EPS contains functional groups that are similar to those on the cell wall, and that EPS and bacterial cell walls exhibit similar site concentrations and affinities for adsorbing protons and metal cations from solution. This strongly suggests that bacteria that grow under extreme conditions exhibit similar proton and metal adsorption behaviour to that of previously studied neutrophilic species, and that a single set of proton and metal binding constants can be used to model the behaviour of bacterial adsorption under a wide range of environmental conditions.
      • keywords: adsorption; bacterial; cell; conditions; metal; proton
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2656. h702q526s68
      • author: Reanna A. Ursin
      • title: Slavery as a Site of Memory: Interracial Intersubjectivity in the Historical Novels of Sherley Anne Williams, Caryl Phillips and Edward P. Jones
      • date: 2008
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: interaction; jones; narrative; phillips; slavery; williams
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2657. h702q526s7m
      • author: Martino Rabaioli
      • title: Alla sua Donna: Leopardi's Poetics of Absence
      • date: 2014
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: It immediately precedes the project Leopardi began in 1824: the Operette morali, a series of short prose narratives in which he starts to develop that negative philosophy that critics would label as cosmic pessimism. With the single exception of Al conte Carlo Pepoli, written in 1826, Alla sua Donna is the last poem that Leopardi wrote before a long period of poetic silence, interrupted in 1828 with the Canti Pisano-Recanatesi.
      • keywords: alla; donna; leopardi; sua
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2658. h702q526t7x
      • author: Meng Qi
      • title: Novel MBE III-Nitride Heterostructure Devices Enabled by Bulk Substrates
      • date: 1904
      • words: 647
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: III-Nitride semiconductors have been of great interest and have been studied extensively for the applications in high frequency and high power devices. Ultra-thin body (UTB) GaN on AlN platform also enables high density of two-dimensional hole gases (DHG), by polarization-induced p-type doping.
      • keywords: aln; bulk; crystal; devices; gan; grown; high; iii; nitride; single; substrates
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2659. h702q527g2c
      • author: Micayla A. Bowman
      • title: The Earliest Steps of Protein Folding: Conformational Biases within the Unfolded Ensemble and during Folding
      • date: 1904
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In order to natively fold and avoid intermediates that may lead to misfolding and aggregation, many proteins must fold under kinetic control. I develop a novel refolding assay with a fluorescent protein sensor to directly measure the effects of vectorial polypeptide appearance on protein folding.
      • keywords: appearance; ensemble; folding; polypeptide; protein; unfolded; vectorial
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2660. h702q527g3q
      • author: Austin James Brady
      • title: No Dads No Masters
      • date: 1904
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: The simultaneous operation of indulgence and criticism of masculinity complicates a narrative of hegemonic masculinity in favor of an infinitely richer and more difficult approach to identity. The work makes for a repositioning of contemporary gender theories to be explored via these specific material masculinities in ways that they are often overlooked in the field of gender studies.
      • keywords: class; interrogation; white; working
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2661. h702q527g73
      • author: Erin Suzanne Bela
      • title: Numerical Macaulification in Arbitrary Codimension
      • date: 2018
      • words: 180
      • flesch: 62
      • summary: We conclude by showing that the subset of L_S consisting of NACM subschemes, which we denote by M_S, fails to have the Lazarsfeld-Rao property. An immediate consequence of this result is that every even liaison class of equidimensional codimension c subschemes of P^n contains elements which are NACM.
      • keywords: codimension; ideal; nacm
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2662. h702q527m7b
      • author: Elvin E. Morales
      • title: Analysis of Renal Development: Genetic Mechanisms of Distal Nephron Cell Fate Specification Involving Emx Genes
      • date: 2019
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: blood; body; distal; formation; function; kidney; nephrons; organ; tubule
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2663. h702q527t3t
      • author: Peter A. Ryan
      • title: Religion in Majority and Minority Context: Lessons from the Mormon-Evangelical Encounter
      • date: 2020
      • words: 402
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Local religious majority contexts can sometimes, in contrast, normalize religious commitments and foster more open religious conversational rules, or even favorable sociolinguistic subcultures. Local religious minority contexts, for example, tend to increase opportunities for contact and engagement with local majority outgroups and decrease opportunities, or increase the associated costs, of some specific within-tradition forms of religious participation.
      • keywords: contexts; day; experiences; local; majority; minority; religious; saints
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2664. h702q527w4s
      • author: Jessica Brockmole
      • title: Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat
      • date: 2022
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Pink Cars and Pocketbooks examines the fraught relationship between the automotive industry and female consumers throughout the twentieth century and how, through their purchases and their persistence, women bought their way into the automobile, into masculine car culture, and into an automotive future of their own making. These demands increased after World War II, as suburban living and postwar spending brought more cars into American garages and more women onto American roads.
      • keywords: automotive; cars; consumers; female; industry; research; women
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2665. h702q527w9h
      • author: Junjun Zuo
      • title: A Novel Role for Plakoglobin in Regulating Critical Stem Cell and Cancer Cell Functions Revealed by Using Pluripotent Stem Cells to Identify Embryonic Mechanisms Mediating Cancer Aggressiveness
      • date: 2022
      • words: 277
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: To strategically identify relevant embryonic-like mechanisms exploited by cancer cells, we performed mass spectrometry of the cell surface proteome of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) and breast cancer cells to find surface molecules shared by both cell types. Accumulating evidence has shown the presence of embryonic stem cell programs in cancer cells that contribute to aggressive malignancy.
      • keywords: breast; cancer; cells; ips; plakoglobin; stem
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2666. h989r210119
      • author: Scott Hampton
      • title: Improved Sampling of Configuration Space of Biomolecules Using Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo
      • date: 2004
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: dimensionality; phase; shmc; space
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2667. h989r21012n
      • author: Diana S. Hou
      • title: Designing Microfluidic Components For Analyte Concentration and Identification Using AC Electrokinetics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 442
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The advantage of using microfluidics and AC electrokinetic mechanisms is that fluid forces and particle specific forces such as dielectrophoresis and electroosmotic flow can be combined to induce forces that are not only fast and far reaching into the bulk (~1 cm/s) but also specific to the particle's characteristics (permittivity, size, etc.). Microfluidics and nanofluidics have recently been on the forefront of new medical devices and new technologies.
      • keywords: bioparticles; chip; detection; devices; forces; particle; specific
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2668. h989r210130
      • author: Rachel B Getman
      • title: Simulation of NO Oxidation Catalysis over Oxygen Covered Transition Metal Surfaces
      • date: 2010
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: At these Ì_åüO, the kinetics of O2 dissociation (O2 + 2* ? In contrast to prior reports, we show O2 dissociation is rate limiting, and OÌ¢ âÂ'NO bond formation is equilibrated.
      • keywords: kinetics; lean; metal; no2; rate; reaction
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2669. h989r21015p
      • author: Joseph Louis Niewiarowski
      • title: Flow Control in an Inter-Turbine Duct
      • date: 2010
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Decreasing the axial length of this annulus not only reduces overall engine weight but can potentially increase performance in low pressure turbine stages. Two aggressive inter-turbine duct geometries differing in axial length but sharing identical inlet and outlet cross-sectional areas were tested at an inlet Mach number of 0.3.
      • keywords: axial; duct; inter; length; separation; turbine
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2670. h989r210161
      • author: Kaushik Viswanath
      • title: To Stop Train Pull Chain & Variations on the Mahabharata
      • date: 2014
      • words: 28
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: The thesis is divided into two sections: scenes towards a novel titled To Stop Train Pull Chain, and a collection of short stories titled Variations on the Mahabharata.
      • keywords: mahabharata
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2671. h989r21024n
      • author: Joel Casey Dietrich
      • title: Development and Application of Coupled Hurricane Wave and Surge Models for Southern Louisiana
      • date: 2010
      • words: 555
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: The work described herein represents a significant step forward in the modeling of hurricane waves and surge in complicated nearshore environments. The recent introduction of unstructured wave models makes nesting unnecessary.
      • keywords: hurricanes; interpolation; louisiana; mesh; model; shelf; storm; surge; system; unstructured; waves
      • versions: original; plain text
2672. h989r21029c
      • author: Ali Vahdati
      • title: Role of Fixation and Mechanical Properties of Implanted Cartilage Replacements in Integrative Repair of Articular Cartilage Injuries
      • date: 2012
      • words: 401
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In spite of some success in engineering cartilaginous tissue, inferior biomechanical and biochemical properties of ICR compared to native articular cartilage (AC) and inadequate quality of fixation and integrative repair of tissues remain significant clinical challenges. In comparison to intact joint, load partitioning between different phases of cartilage was affected by inferior properties of the ICR.
      • keywords: cartilage; fibrin; icr; implant; interface; joint; properties; results; study
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2673. h989r21038b
      • author: Curtis Earl Marshall
      • title: Plasma Anemometer and Pressure Sensor Design and Characteristics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 458
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: AC carrier frequency and electrode length are investigated with respect to their effect on static sensitivity. The dielectric thickness, electrode length, and AC carrier frequency were varied.
      • keywords: carrier; frequency; mean; plasma; pressure; sensor; static; velocity
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2674. h989r210t1f
      • author: Cheyenne Caci Tait
      • title: Mechanisms of Ecological Divergence and Speciation: Genetic and Neurophysiological Bases for Fruit Volatile Discrimination Behavior in the Apple Maggot Fly (Rhagoletis pomonella)
      • date: 2018
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 28
      • 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.
      • keywords: apple; discrimination; flies; fruit; hawthorn; host; odor; olfactory
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2675. h989r210w6s
      • author: Jessica K Lukowski
      • title: Mass Spectrometry-Based Spatial Analysis of Endogenous and Exogenous Molecules in Three-Dimensional Cell Culture
      • date: 2019
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: These multicellular aggregates referred to as tumor spheroids, display pathophysiological gradients that are more complex than conventional two-dimensional cell cultures in addition to being higher throughput than animal models. However, the techniques utilized within this document include Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MALDI MSI) and Stable Isotope Labeling by Amino Acids in Cell Culture (SILAC) followed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).Tumors in vivo have a complex microenvironment and researchers have spent decades developing different models to test the efficacy of novel treatments.
      • keywords: analysis; cancer; dimensional; mass; spectrometry; spheroids; tumor; work
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2676. h989r211258
      • author: Morgan E. Smith
      • title: Data-Driven Modelling of Vector-Borne Macroparasitic Disease Transmission and Elimination
      • date: 2019
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: computational; control; data; diseases; elimination; onchocerciasis; programs; transmission
      • versions: original; plain text
2677. h989r211316
      • author: Devon Mason
      • title: Transcriptional Control of Cytoskeletal Remodeling, Mechanotransduction, and Cell Motility
      • date: 2020
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 14
      • 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.
      • keywords: adhesion; cytoskeletal; feedback; focal; inhibition; taz; transcription; yap
      • versions: original; plain text
2678. h989r21133w
      • author: Jacob Long
      • title: Precision Half-Life Measurements of 13N, 25Al, and 29P for Testing the Standard Model
      • date: 2020
      • words: 458
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: To aid in future measurements of correlation parameters, a new Fermi to Gamow-Teller mixing ratio ρ and correlation parameters for this mixed transition have been calculated assuming Standard Model validity using the new world half-life. This dissertation consists of precision half-life measurements for three superallowed mixed mirror β-decays: 13N, 25Al, and 29P. 13N is the second most sensitive decay to Standard Model violating currents.
      • keywords: 25al; 29p; half; life; measurement; new; value; world
      • versions: original; plain text
2679. h989r21136x
      • author: Jinhe Ye
      • title: Analytification and Its Model Theory
      • date: 2020
      • words: 595
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Following Hrushovski and Loeser, Chapter 1 is dedicated to an attempt to study various analytification functors in various theories via the study of tame pairs as introduced by van den Dries and Lewenberg. We proved theorems analogous to Marker-Steinhorn theorem on o-minimal structures for various other theories.
      • keywords: chapter; cohomology; completion; definable; equivalence; group; results; study; theories; theory
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2680. h989r21139z
      • author: Benjamin Grisafe
      • title: Investigation of Threshold Switching Phenomena and Their Application to Electronic Devices
      • date: 2020
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The demand for enhancement of computational performance has been primarily driven by the continued scaling of CMOS transistors. The work will discuss the application of threshold switches to three device architectures – (1) a hybrid transistor design, Phase-FET, where the innate abrupt switching nature and orders of magnitude change in resistivity are used to surpass conventional transistor performance (2) cross-point selectors, where the large ON-OFF resistivity ratio can aid in the suppression of sneak-path leakage current for high density memory arrays and (3) a mm-wave RF switch, where the abrupt switching phenomenon in the threshold switch can be triggered using mm-wave pulses to enable RF circuits over wide temperature ranges.
      • keywords: cmos; performance; switching; threshold; wave; work
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2681. h989r21144j
      • author: Catlin N. Schalk
      • title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigations of Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayer Surface Structure with Exposure to Atomic Hydrogen
      • date: 2021
      • words: 559
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: chain; defect; design; experiments; instrument; monolayer; parts; phase; reaction; surface; temperature; work
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2682. h989r21156j
      • author: Adam Kern
      • title: Optimized Processing Methods to Produce LLZO based Solid-State Li Metal Batteries
      • date: 2022
      • words: 552
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Improvements in LLZO processing and properties are needed for it to be a practical alternative for use in lithium batteries. This thesis addresses several incremental advances to improve sintering and boost the performance of LLZO.
      • keywords: additions; batteries; ccd; conductivity; current; density; electrolyte; llzo; sintering; wetting
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2683. h989r21159k
      • author: Michael Dale Vander Wal
      • title: The Extension of Neural Networks to Compute NLTE Opacities for Multiple Elements and at Increased Fidelities
      • date: 2022
      • words: 246
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Further extending the capabilities of the neural networks, it is demonstrated that neural networks can be made to predict high-fidelity spectra through the use of transfer learning achieving median relative errors of the maximum radiative temperature can be on the order of 1\%-2\% and can very likely be made better with more training data. En route to obtaining this capability many experiments have been and will continue to be done in this pursuit; however, these experiments are costly at one million dollars or more for single experiment.
      • keywords: fusion; icf; networks; neural; simulations
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2684. h989r211676
      • author: Carl A. Friesen
      • title: Theological Foundations for a Christian Land Ethic
      • date: 2023
      • words: 228
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: However, despite overt attempts to incorporate evolutionary biology and ecology into moral and theological discourse, some of the central insights of these sciences—such as the symbiotic patterns of interspecies relationships and processes of regeneration by which ecosystems evolved and are sustained—are rarely accorded substantive moral weight, or worse, are explicitly theorized as problems to be overcome. The overlapping ecological, economic, and social crises created by our contemporary industrialized food system have increased moral attention to the human relationship to the rest of nature.
      • keywords: land; members; moral; natural; processes; regeneration
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2685. h989r21172s
      • author: Jovian C. Lam
      • title: The Role of Rumination in Memory Consolidation during Creative Problem-Solving Incubation
      • date: 2023
      • words: 191
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: However, less is known about the relations between anxiety and creative problem solving, which is defined as the ability to generate unique solutions to problems. Thus, this dissertation investigated 1) the association between trait tendencies to ruminate, memory consolidation, and problem solving using a pre-existing dataset and 2) the effect of active rumination during incubation on subsequent memory and problem-solving success through a novel experimental study.
      • keywords: creative; memory; problem; solving
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2686. hd76rx9395s
      • author: Joan Frances Arbery
      • title: Remembering Purgatory: Contemporary Incarnations in Paris, London, and Dublin
      • date: 2010
      • words: 412
      • flesch: 54
      • 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.
      • keywords: cities; city; contemporary; dublin; london; paris; purgatorial; purgatory
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2687. hd76rx9398t
      • author: Rahul Singh
      • title: On LQR Control with Asynchronous Clocks and Control Oriented Code for AWGN Erasure Channel: Two Control-Communication Problems
      • date: 2011
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: The rst problem deals with control of a system over a constrained channel, while the other problem deals with using control techniques to analyze channels with state. The second problem dealt in this thesis concerns capacity of an AWGN channel corrupted by i.i.d. erasures.
      • keywords: channel; control; problem
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2688. hd76rx93995
      • author: Anthony Edet Ekpenyong
      • title: Acquisition of Channel State Information For Adaptive Transmission
      • date: 2008
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This dissertation investigates the acquisition of channel state information for adaptive transmission systems. Adaptive transmission systems improve the throughput of wireless communication systems by utilizing some knowledge of the channel state to adapt or allocate transmitter resources.
      • keywords: channel; feedback; systems; transmission
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2689. hd76rx93b0c
      • author: X+B454iaokai Wang
      • title: Cloning and Characterization of Zebrafish Sill, a Gene Responsible for Night Blindness B Mutant Zebrafish
      • date: 2007
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: We found that the expression of the shh pathway target gene gli1, which play a role in inducing ventral neural tube development, was decreased in nbb mutants. The data suggested that nbb phenotype was caused by the mutated sill, inducing deficiencies in the shh signaling pathway.
      • keywords: development; gene; nbb; sill
      • versions: original; plain text
2690. hd76rx93b1q
      • author: Jason Edward Lennon
      • title: Phenomenology of Supersymmetry With Large Tan Beta
      • date: 2005
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Here I present two practical phenomenological studies of SUSY parameter space, which are now in ongoing experimental development. Thus I spend some time motivating large values of $ aneta$ to facilitate interest in this region of parameter space.
      • keywords: decay; questions; rare; susy; values
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2691. hd76rx93b22
      • author: Valerie Goss
      • title: Adsorbing, Desorbing, Jamming, and Burning DNA Origami
      • date: 2012
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: The placement of new and smaller features on a silicon chip is possible with directed DNA origami binding onto silicon surfaces. I will present the first set of results on the characteristics of DNA origami adsorption to and desorption from silicon and mica substrates, which speaks to the stability of these structures on surfaces, and their ability to anneal during deposition.
      • keywords: chicago; chip; dna; origami; science; silicon; single; surfaces
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2692. hd76rx93b3d
      • author: Douglas R Berry
      • title: Evidence of the Higgs Boson Decaying into Two Photons
      • date: 2013
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 69
      • summary: The excess is also present in a cut-based cross-check analysis with a significance of 3.9&#963;, where 3.5&#963; is expected, which corresponds to a best-fit cross-section of 1.11+0.32-0.30 at 124.5 GeV. Both the measured cross-section and couplings are consistent with a standard model Higgs boson. The best-fit cross-section is 0.78+0.28-0.26 times the standard model, and the best-fit mass is 125.4?0.5(stat.)?0.6(syst.)
      • keywords: gev; model
      • versions: original; plain text
2693. hd76rx93b4r
      • author: Louis James Antonelli
      • title: A Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Tau Pairs at the CMS Experiment
      • date: 2012
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: In the Standard Model Higgs search, this analysis is able to exclude a Higgs at roughly 5x the Standard Model prediction. The results are consistent with the background expectations and so upper limits are placed on the Higgs production cross-section times the branching ratio to tau leptons.
      • keywords: higgs; search; standard
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2694. hd76rx93b6f
      • author: John Stanley Cirilli
      • title: The Coherence of the Astronomers: Incomplete Knowledge and Imaginative Exploration in the Mar&#257;gha Tradition of Islamic Astronomy
      • date: 2011
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Virtuosity and rhetoric, spirituality and one-upmanship, and perhaps even artistry evident in the Mar&#257;gha astronomers' proliferation of ingenious models highlight an elective quality that bridges the 'motivation gap' between their ongoing model-making and the lack of more tangible motivations, revealing the humanity behind their enterprise. Al-Ghaz&#257;l&#299;, once thought a destroyer of Islamic science and philosophy, truly helped give shape to a distinct and distinctive style of astronomy as an exploration of God, the heavens, and the bounds of human knowledge.
      • keywords: astronomy; ghaz&#257;l&#299; tradition
      • versions: original; plain text
2695. hd76rx93b7s
      • author: Mandelle Ann Danser
      • title: Beyond the Gas Phase: Towards Modeling Bulk Ionic Liquids with a Comparison of Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) to Density Functional Theory (DFT)
      • date: 2010
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Since the expense of DFT methods is high with systems above 100 atoms, the DFTB method was used to study ionic liquid systems. This study proved that DFTB could accurately reproduce DFT results of neutral molecules, however, this was not consistently seen in ionic liquid systems.
      • keywords: ionic; liquid; systems
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2696. hd76rx93b84
      • author: Christopher B Harrison
      • title: Models and Mechanisms of DNA Damage Repair
      • date: 2007
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: carbinolamine; cpd; intermediate; mechanism; models; oxetane; photolyase; repair
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2697. hd76rx93b9g
      • author: Leo Costigan
      • title: Accounts of the Cold
      • date: 2014
      • words: 4
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: No abstract: Creative Thesis
      • keywords: thesis
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2698. hd76rx93c73
      • author: Matthew D. Mosby
      • title: High Performance Multi-scale Modeling of Heterogeneous Interfaces
      • date: 1904
      • words: 505
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: cores; dissertation; failure; interfaces; macroscopic; micro; response; scale; simulations; structures
      • versions: original; plain text
2699. hd76rx93c8f
      • author: Evan M. Peck
      • title: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition Using Squaraine Rotaxanes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Finally, Chapter 5 describes the use of a targeted Synthavidin probe as a bone imaging agent in small animal models. The thesis will then transition into the development of a new class of chromophores, thiosquaraine rotaxanes, and their evaluation as potential photodynamic therapy agents.
      • keywords: chapter; function; molecular; recognition; self; synthavidin; synthetic; system; thesis
      • versions: original; plain text
2700. hd76rx93d31
      • author: Jongsik Kim
      • title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Utilization of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Their Pyrolyzed Functional Carbons
      • date: 1904
      • words: 370
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Ultimately, these metal-modified IRMOF-3 templates were synthesized and pyrolyzed to produce novel carbon catalysts. Structural modulation of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is of importance because it can be used to enhance the gas adsorption abilities and heterogeneous catalytic performance of MOFs and their pyrolyzed analogues.
      • keywords: catalysts; metal; mofs; pyrolyzed
      • versions: original; plain text
2701. hd76rx93d5q
      • author: Curtis Charles Urban
      • title: An Emotional Revolution: Fearing France in New England, 1754-1794
      • date: 1904
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Fear of France shaped understandings of all other concerns and sensibilities for New England colonists during a tumultuous era, serving as the defining emotion which created a mindset that framed the decisions and dictated the actions of New Englanders as they engaged in a revolution and built a nation. This dissertation examines interactions between New Englanders and the French from the beginning of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the French Revolution to better understand how these exchanges informed New Englanders' conceptions of their roles first as provincials in the British Empire and then as citizens of a new republic.
      • keywords: englanders; fear; french; new
      • versions: original; plain text
2702. hd76rx9419z
      • author: Phillip Jedlovec
      • title: Hopf Rings and the Ando-Hopkins-Strickland Theorem
      • date: 1904
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In particular, we prove that the so-called symmetry and cocycle relations hold in the E-homology of BU&lt;2k&gt; for any complex-orientable E and that these relations are the defining relations whenever E=HQ or k=1, 2, or 3. This new proof avoids the algebro-geometric perspective of Ando, Hopkins, and Strickland and instead uses the work of Ravenel, Wilson, and Yagita on the unstable homology of the truncated Brown-Peterson spectra, as well as the relationship between these spectra and BU&lt;2k&gt;.
      • keywords: ando; homology
      • versions: original; plain text
2703. hd76rx94596
      • author: Thomas C. Samper
      • title: Separation Control in 2-D Closed Channel Bends
      • date: 2019
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: bend; channel; control; experiments; flow; radius; separation
      • versions: original; plain text
2704. hd76rx9478g
      • author: Sandipan Banerjee
      • title: Exploring the Effects of Frontalization and Data Synthesis on Face Recognition
      • date: 2019
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Our method, starting off with actual face images from an existing dataset, can generate a large number of synthetic images of real and synthetic identities, without the identity-labeling and privacy complications that come from downloading images from the web. In this regard, we propose a novel face synthesis method for augmentation of existing face image datasets.
      • keywords: cnns; data; face; facial; images; model; recognition; synthetic; training
      • versions: original; plain text
2705. hd76rx94c8q
      • author: Timothy Cuneo
      • title: Controlling Polymer Architecture and Monomer Sequence Using Confined Space and Unequal Reactivity
      • date: 2020
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: In Chapter 3, acid-catalyzed Friedel-Crafts hydroxyalkylation polymerization of 1,4-disubstituted benzene and benzaldehyde derivatives is used to obtain multisegmented block copolymers. This polymerization takes advantage of the intriguing unequal reactivity in step-growth polymerization to control the structure and produce block copolymers from carefully tuned oligomers.
      • keywords: chapter; copolymers; materials; methods; polymerization
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2706. hd76rx94d50
      • author: Tianyuan Cao
      • title: Confocal Raman Imaging of Signaling Molecules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacterial Communities
      • date: 2021
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Approaches such as co-culturing different bacterial strains under various environmental conditions, alternating surface motility rate and biofilm growth conditions, developing a three-dimensional imaging set-up to characterize the aggregation depths in bacterial biofilms are used to provide new methodologies for bacterial studies. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of bacterial behaviors both spatially and temporally will be really helpful for the overall picture.
      • keywords: aeruginosa; bacterial; behaviors; conditions; imaging; molecular; raman
      • versions: original; plain text
2707. hd76rx94d9c
      • author: None
      • title: Simón Bolívar and the Search for Modern Republican Foundations
      • date: 2021
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: By channeling human passions and sentiments, Bolívar sought to socialize the heterogenous inhabitants of Spanish America for republican life. The other involved knowledge of the mechanics of the human soul, the strings of passions and sentiments that a deft educator could manipulate to produce social harmony.
      • keywords: bolívar; human; passions; principles; soul
      • versions: original; plain text
2708. hd76rx94g17
      • author: Ankit Agrawal
      • title: Human-Drone Collaborations in Human-on-the-Loop Emergency Response Systems
      • date: 2022
      • words: 488
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: design; emergency; human; information; intervention; multiple; rescue; response; uav; uavs
      • versions: original; plain text
2709. hd76rx94h4k
      • author: Alex S. Brodersen
      • title: Tree-Link: Semi-Parametric Item Response Theory Using Decision and Regression Trees as a Link Function
      • date: 2023
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Likewise, the estimated item response function (IRF) is demonstrated to closely match the true IRF. Item response theory models typically assume the form of the link function between manifest variables and the typically discrete outcome variables is known.
      • keywords: data; function; item; link; models; response; theory
      • versions: original; plain text
2710. hh63st76k35
      • author: Steven J. Schweitzer
      • title: Reading Utopia in Chronicles
      • date: 2005
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The book of Chronicles is examined using the methodology of utopian literary theory. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the state of scholarship on Chronicles, to the methodological approach of utopian literary theory, and to the applicability of this method to Chronicles.
      • keywords: analysis; book; chapter; chronicles; future; utopian
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2711. hh63st76k4h
      • author: Shannon Lynn Pelini
      • title: The Biogeography of Adaptation and its Implication for Range Shifts under Climate Change
      • date: 2010
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: These shifts will change total species richness and biodiversity patterns because species likely differ in their capacity to shift under climate change. This more nuanced consideration of species could lead to different expectations for the biological consequences of climate change if species can not shift their ranges as previously projected.
      • keywords: change; climate; host; local; plant; poleward; ranges; species
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2712. hh63st76k5v
      • author: Desmond Kon
      • title: Colour Wheel Beside Scholem on a Koan behind the Dakinis: Four Disembodied Chapbooks
      • date: 2010
      • words: 2
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Not Applicable.
      • keywords: applicable
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2713. hh63st76k7j
      • author: Monica Mody
      • title: This That Takes Shape
      • date: 2010
      • words: 9
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Poetry and an experimental screenplay written during 2008-2010.
      • keywords: poetry
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2714. hh63st76k8w
      • author: Dipanjan Ray
      • title: Dynamics of Vortices and Active Matter on Structured Substrates
      • date: 2014
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Magnetization studies reveal a variety of novel vortex states at integer and fractional matching fields, which are not present in either periodic or conformal pinning. The 'conformal crystal' structure is investigated in the context of superconducting vortex pinning.
      • keywords: conformal; particles; pinning; structure; vortex; work
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2715. hh63st76m6h
      • author: Patrick Anthony La Fratta
      • title: Optimizing the Internal Microarchitecture and ISA of a Traveling Thread PIM System
      • date: 2010
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: To address these challenges, this work employs an iterative design methodology in the optimization of an innovative processor architecture that leverages the above features in the implementation of an advanced, powerful execution model called traveling threads for exploiting parallelism and data locality in tandem at multiple levels of granularity. The design of this Passive/Active Multicore (PAM) architecture and the development of mechanisms for locality-cognizant extraction of traveling threads offer insights into the benefits of utilizing computational migration at a granularity of parallelism between the conventional instruction and thread levels.
      • keywords: architecture; design; locality; parallelism; threads
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2716. hh63st76n13
      • author: Roberto E.N. Rivera
      • title: The Couples for Christ: Suborganizational Framing and Sociopolitical Mobilization in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
      • date: 2008
      • words: 389
      • flesch: -1
      • summary: Using content analysis of organizational documents and other archival sources, key informant interviews, as well as participant observation in key CFC activities, I monitor how the transformation of worldview expressions, interpretative frames, and suborganizational forms lead to suborganizational frame resonance, i.e. individual participation in organizational mobilization initiatives. I hypothesize that the specific worldview of the CFC initiates the process of suborganizational frame alignment wherein interpretative frames and specific suborganizational forms are deployed strategically in response to various socioeconomic and political challenges.
      • keywords: cfc; charismatic; frames; movement; political; religious; study; suborganizational; worldview
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2717. hh63st7789q
      • author: Ewa A. Dzik
      • title: Experimental Thermochemistry of Select Uranyl and Neptunyl Phases
      • date: 1904
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In this thesis, I examine thermodynamic properties of a large family of uranium minerals from the meta-autunite group, as well as the uranyl vanadates from the francevillite group, and neptunium compounds, NpO2 and Np2O5. The normalized charge deficiency per anion (NCDA) approach relates the thermodynamic stability of these compounds to their crystal structures, and is a useful approach for probing thermodynamic properties of materials with identical structural units.
      • keywords: autunite; calorimetry; compounds; high; properties; temperature; thermodynamic; uranium
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2718. hh63st77c3k
      • author: Jordan Dorney
      • title: Sage Against the Machine: The Politics of the Deus ex Machina
      • date: 2018
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The god from the machine, however, regularly reveals an appreciation for the insolubility of politics and of the problems of political theory. More than affirming enduring questions that extend beyond the circumstances of Greek drama, the deus ex machina can enact, if not understand, the fact of the perplexity (aporia) of politics.
      • keywords: deus; machina
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2719. hh63st77q8d
      • author: Giulia Mondello
      • title: Penetrare Non Possit Acumen: Fortuna and Ethics in Giovanni Boccaccio
      • date: 2022
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Both texts contaminate the medieval literary genres with which they are affiliated, namely, the collection of exempla and the didactic treatise, making it possible for Boccaccio to propose an interpretive paradigm intended to be valid for informing human moral action. In this thesis, I focus on Boccaccio's conception of Fortuna, examining three of his texts.
      • keywords: boccaccio; fortuna; texts
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2720. hm50tq59v7m
      • author: Daniel E. Colón
      • title: Vigencia de la vida y obra de Pablo Neruda: Un análisis del discurso autobiográfico y la sensibilidad social en su obra temprana
      • date: 2010
      • words: 439
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Through a detailed analysis of Neruda's early, unpublished works, I establish a model of continuous development and argue that his political orientation is rooted in notions of social justice that predate his exposure to formal Marxist thought. These democratic ideals form the underpinnings of Neruda's political convictions and explain the continued relevance of his poetry in a more nuanced manner than traditional Marxist interpretations.
      • keywords: development; early; neruda; party; political; social; spanish; war; writings
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2721. hm50tq59w0h
      • author: Angela Marie Schwenkler
      • title: Prolegomena to a Kantian Theory of Moral Judgment
      • date: 2011
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: I turn to an examination of recent work in Kant's theory of theoretical judgment--in particular, the work of Beatrice Longuenesse in Kant and the Capacity to Judge--in order to find out what, for Kant, guides and makes possible theoretical judgment. Articulating a set of desiderata for a theory of moral judgment, I consider whether Kant has the resources from which we could construct a similar theory of moral judgment while also retaining what I take to be advantageous aspects of his moral theory more generally.
      • keywords: judgment; moral
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2722. hm50tq59w1v
      • author: Qingfeng Pan
      • title: Conformational Studies of Monosaccharides and Oligosaccharides by Nmr Spectroscopy and X-Ray Crystallography
      • date: 2008
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The hydrolysis of the starting materials for this synthesis, the aldopentopyranosylamines, was investigated by NMR to determine optimal reaction conditions for the cyanide addition reaction. By incorporating dual 13C-labeling at the carbons participating directly in the linkage and measuring the ensemble of trans-glycoside J-couplings across the linkage, firm qualitative and semi-quantitative information can be obtained rapidly about whether linkage conformations are similar or different.
      • keywords: 13c; glycoside; linkage; torsion; trans
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2723. hm50tq59w26
      • author: Rita George Tvrtkovic
      • title: The Ambivalence of Interreligious Experience: Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Theology of Islam
      • date: 2007
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.'
      • keywords: islam; medieval; religions; riccoldo; theology
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2724. hm50tq59w3j
      • author: Nathan Wallace
      • title: Culture, Reconciliation, and Identity in Edmund Burke, Matthew Arnold, and Edward Dowden
      • date: 2004
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Third: as Arnold redefines culture and English national character he struggles to recuperate Burke's defense of English conciliatory government. First: Burke's and Dowden's crises of Anglo-Irish identity lead them to redefine both reconciliation and the idea of English national character.
      • keywords: arnold; burke; dowden; english; irish; political; reconciliation
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2725. hm50tq59w4w
      • author: Ankit Rohatgi
      • title: Shear-Induced Diffusion in Dilute Suspensions
      • date: 2012
      • words: 277
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: The experimental study of particle flux due to gradients in concentration is used to determine the diffusivity arising from the interaction of the roughness elements on the surface of particles. The particle and fluid interactions that occur in dilute suspensions of non-colloidal particles in shear flow are examined in this thesis.
      • keywords: fluid; mechanism; particle; suspensions
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2726. hm50tq59w57
      • author: Xueying Wang
      • title: Gregory of Nyssa on the Corporate Nature of the Human Body
      • date: 2014
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: body; chapter; christ; gregory; human; medium
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2727. hm50tq59w6k
      • author: Adam Michael Alessio
      • title: Statistical Modeling and Reconstruction of Rebinned PET Measurements
      • date: 2003
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Along with refining the system model, this research improves the data model for rebinned PET measurements. In particular, this work develops a successful method for estimating geometric system parameters directly from data measurements.
      • keywords: data; measurements; model; pet; system
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2728. hm50tq59w88
      • author: Xin Tong
      • title: Evaluation of Test Statistics for Robust Structural Equation Modeling with Nonnormal Missing Data
      • date: 2012
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: These statistics areevaluated under a linear growth curve model by varying eight factors: data distributions, missing data mechanisms, missing rates, samplesizes, numbers of measurement occasions, covariances between latent intercept and slope, variances of measurement errors, and downweight rates of the two-stage robust method. Several test statistics have been used to evaluate the two-stage robust method.
      • keywords: data; method; robust; stage; statistic; test
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2729. hm50tq59w9m
      • author: Hongqiu Zhao
      • title: Measurement and Parameterization of Spin-Spin Coupling Constants and Potential Applications in Conformational Analysis of Oligosaccharides
      • date: 2010
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This bias was consistent with the gauche conformation of C3'-O3' in crystal structure and was interpreted as potential hydrogen bonding between O3'-H in the glucose ring and ring oxygen (O5) in the galactose ring. The hydrogen bond was studied theoretically, and its strength (~ 4 kcal/mol) was in line with normal hydrogen bond.
      • keywords: constants; coupling; equations; hydrogen; karplus; solvent; thesis
      • versions: original; plain text
2730. hm50tq59x0t
      • author: Kindalee Pfremmer De Long
      • title: Surprised by God: Praise Responses in the Narrative of Luke-Acts
      • date: 2007
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Vigorous praise responds first to angelic revelation, builds in response to healing miracles, and reaches a climax as Jesus approaches Jerusalem. In all three narratives, praise responses by characters introduce and resolve narrative tensions; mark climactic moments in the plots; show recognition of divine beneficence; interpret characters' experiences as paradigmatic for their communities; and to varying degrees, link these experiences with expectations about Israel's eschatological restoration.
      • keywords: acts; divine; healing; luke; praise; responses; revelation
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2731. hm50tq59z5v
      • author: Kirk D. Farney
      • title: Golden Mouths, Ethereal Pulpits: The Remarkable Radio Success of Reverend Walter A. Maier, Ph.D. and Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Ph.D.
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This study makes two arguments regarding network religious radio during the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression, through World War II, to the Cold War. Fulton J. Sheen on the Catholic Hour, both of whom achieved popularity that rivaled top radio personalities and entertainers, but whose radio ministries largely have been forgotten, were cultural and religious forces with which to be reckoned, in broadcasting careers that spanned these early decades of radio's contribution to American civilization.
      • keywords: american; christian; hour; maier; radio; religious; sheen; study; war
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2732. hm50tq60n4g
      • author: Stefanie R Lewis
      • title: Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints for Uraninite Formation: Implications for Nuclear Forensic Analyses
      • date: 2018
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This thesis examines nuclear forensic signatures of several uraninite samples from North America (n=14) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (n=1) for enhancing and improving provenance determination methods. The latter results were then used to establish Pb as an ideal internal standard for laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of uraninite.
      • keywords: ages; icp; isochron; secondary; uraninite
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2733. hm50tq60r1c
      • author: Bethany Blakely
      • title: Effects of Land Use and Long-Term Forest Development on Regional Energy Balance
      • date: 2019
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Combined, I show that composition shifts have novel effects on energy balance that will be important to quantify in the future as forest regrowth and composition shift proceed. Finally, exploring the ecological and biophysical mechanisms of composition shifts in two ecosystem models, I find disagreement in leaf phenology and vegetation albedo relations that point to a need for more explicit treatment of composition shift in predictive models.
      • keywords: composition; effects; energy; land; shift; use
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2734. hm50tq60z0w
      • author: Raúl G. Rodríguez
      • title: The Foundations of Tocqueville's New Kind of Liberalism
      • date: 2020
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: The current scholarly consensus is that Tocqueville rejects the state-of-nature heuristic of early modern political thought. Ultimately, Tocqueville's new liberalism should provide scholars with more questions than answers.
      • keywords: liberalism; new; pascal; thought; tocqueville
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2735. hm50tq60z3x
      • author: Jing Li
      • title: Socialist Ideology Legacy in a Chinese State-Owned Bank: From Red Engineers, to Colorless Cats, to Pink Bankers
      • date: 2020
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Through empirically examining the exposure effects of socialist ideology on different generations of bureaucrats with semi-structured interviews, I found that socialist ideology influences individual attitudes differently by cohorts. The red engineers born in the 1950s and 1960s are staunch socialists; the colorless cats born in the 1970s and 1980s absorbed the state's nominal socialist attitude but practiced capitalist ideas as encourage by the state; and the pink bankers born in 1990s subscribe to socialist attitudes for both nominal legitimacy and organizational operations less relevant to their personal interests.
      • keywords: degree; generations; socialist; state
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2736. hm50tq6101t
      • author: Rachel Hanks
      • title: Learning Linguistic Discrimination in the Grammar Classroom: Barbarismus, Xenophobia, and Non-Standard Language in Early Medieval English Texts
      • date: 2021
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Examining the linguistic ideologies underlying the grammar textbooks students studied in schools, this dissertation argues that grammars associate linguistic error with xenophobic stereotypes of foreigners, teaching students to equate linguistic, moral, spiritual, and intellectual error, and to assume that second-language speakers will demonstrate all of these. The grammars associate linguistic errors with foreignness, immorality, heresy, and poor cognition, and restrict language to humans.
      • keywords: chapter; english; ideologies; language; linguistic; writers
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2737. hm50tq6118j
      • author: Galiya Magazova
      • title: Heterogeneous Oligomerization and Dehydrogenation Catalysis for Shale Gas Valorization
      • date: 2022
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Industrially, the light olefins for oligomerization reactions are produced through catalytic or thermal cracking of saturated hydrocarbons, or direct catalytic dehydrogenation of light alkanes. Lastly, a PtMn catalyst was studied for high temperature alkane dehydrogenation reactions.
      • keywords: acid; catalysts; dehydrogenation; ethylene; oligomerization; propylene; sites
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2738. hm50tq61265
      • author: Jieyu Li
      • title: Information Fusion for Machine Perception in Challenging Environments
      • date: 2023
      • words: 595
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Then image processing modules, such as denoising, deblurring and image enhancement, can be implemented to improve quality of the captured images. For instance, image noise can introduce errors in localization and mapping, especially in low-light environments.
      • keywords: exposure; image; information; localization; machine; methods; network; noise; perception; scenes; system; visual
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2739. hq37vm43451
      • author: Jacob William Johnson
      • title: The Enlightenment In Praxis: An Experiment in Unifying Theories of American Political Development
      • date: 2008
      • words: 409
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: america; approach; cultural; founding; institutional; liberalism; political; way
      • versions: original; plain text
2740. hq37vm4346c
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Mordan-McCombs
      • title: Role of the Vitamin D Receptor During Prostate Tumor Progression in the LPB-Tag Mouse Model of Prostate Cancer
      • date: 2010
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: To investigate the therapeutic potential of vitamin D3 for prostate cancer, we have utilized the LPB-Tag transgenic model of prostate cancer and a vitamin D receptor-null (VDRKO) mouse model to determine the effects of high dietary calcium on tumor progression, and the role of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) in prostate tumor progression. Altered levels of dietary calcium did not change tumor progression in the LPB-Tag mouse model, refuting many epidemiological studies, and providing the groundwork for the use of a high calcium rescue diet in later studies of VDRKO mice.
      • keywords: cancer; epithelial; progression; prostate; tumor; vdrko; vdrwt; vitamin
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2741. hq37vm4347q
      • author: Valerie Goss
      • title: Thermodynamics of Synthetic Zippeites
      • date: 2010
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The stability of these phases is presented and discussed in the context of their crystal structures and related environmental implications. Despite being a minor species, zippeites serve as a model in the discovery of physical and chemical properties of other related minerals.
      • keywords: enthalpy; formation; minerals; state; zippeite
      • versions: original; plain text
2742. hq37vm4349d
      • author: Ana J Samuel Quesada
      • title: Legislating Morality: Montesquieu's Case for the Regulation of Sexual Morals
      • date: 2010
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Chapter four studies how the civil laws of Montesquieu's monarchy regulate marriage and procreation, divorce, adultery, homosexuality, polygamy, and modesty, and shows that his laws do regulate sexual behavior according to the requirements of his natural law, natural rights sexual morality. On the subject of his sexual morals, his essential view is that sexual behavior should be reserved for marriage between one man and one woman, and that sexual practices outside of marriage are violations of natural laws, rights, and the political and civil needs of free societies.
      • keywords: behavior; laws; liberty; natural; rights; sexual
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2743. hq37vm4350m
      • author: Rachel L. Harding
      • title: Identification and Characterization of miRNA Expression During Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration
      • date: 2014
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Dicer knockdown prior to light damage lead to decreased proliferation in regenerating retinas without affecting the number of M&#252;ller glia during retinal regeneration or cell death. Light-induced photoreceptor cell death causes inner nuclear layer M&#252;ller glia to dedifferentiate, reenter the cell cycle and produce proliferating progenitor cells.
      • keywords: cell; mirna; progenitor; proliferation; regeneration; retinal
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2744. hq37vm4358c
      • author: Nishant Chetwani
      • title: Preferential Entrainment of Macro Ions at Singular Interfaces in an Alternating Current (AC) Electric Field
      • date: 2011
      • words: 240
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: The successful conclusion of human genome project partly owes its success to the advent of soft ionization techniques, namely electrospray ionization (ESI) and laser desorption ionization (MALDI), in mass spectrometry (MS). The second portion establishes the AC electrospray as a potential soft ionization method for mass spectrometry, with the added benefits of higher sensitivity, reduced ionization suppression and the frequency modulation of pH in the biomolecular analysis, which is direct contrast to the conventional DC electrospray.
      • keywords: electrospray; ionization; mass; soft; spectrometry
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2745. hq37vm4363z
      • author: Burcu Ekşioğlu Gürkan
      • title: Kinetics of CO2 Absorption of Reactive Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2011
      • words: 481
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Cation functionalized and amino acid based ILs both suffer from dramatic viscosity increase during CO2 reaction. Novel task-specific ionic-liquids (TSILs) were screened according to their reaction characteristics for their potential use in CO2 capture.
      • keywords: acid; amino; capture; cation; cf3pyra; cnpyr; co2; ils; mol; reaction; use
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2746. hq37vm43827
      • author: Anna Catherine Siebach-Larsen
      • title: 'For in the Boke of God Is No Such Matter': Visual Epistemologies and Vernacular Reading Culture in Thirteenth-Century England
      • date: 1904
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: This dissertation contributes to current work exploring the interactions of language and culture in the thirteenth century, text and image in medieval culture, the history of the book, and cognitive studies. This dissertation focuses on the overlooked, yet central, role of scientific innovation in and the adoption of Aristotelian philosophy in the reading and devotional practices of multilingual and multicultural of late medieval England.
      • keywords: culture; dissertation; image; medieval; multilingual; readers; text; visual
      • versions: original; plain text
2747. hq37vm4410n
      • author: Donya Ghavidel Dobakhshari
      • title: Mechanism Design for Smart Infrastructure Systems with Strategic Agents
      • date: 2019
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Human integration into cyber-physical systems, such as the smart grid, smart transportation systems, and crowdsensing, while possibly contributing to the efficiency and sustainability of the system, introduces the possibility of externalities due to the actions of various participants who act strategically to further their own interest. In order to ensure desired system performance in spite of such strategic decision making, the system operator may need to design appropriate incentives for the users.
      • keywords: design; incentive; participants; smart; system
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2748. hq37vm4468z
      • author: Roberto J. De La Noval
      • title: Sophiology in Suspension: The Theological Condemnations of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov
      • date: 2020
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This study argues, in sum, that the Sophia Affair represents a major moment in recent Orthodox theology, insofar as the rising Neo-Patristic synthesis defined itself explicitly and implicitly against Bulgakov's sophiology. By clarifying the mistaken assessments of Bulgakov's thought that were generated in the Sophia Affair, Bulgakov's sophiology is suggested as a resource valuable for contemporary theological retrieval.
      • keywords: affair; bulgakov; sophia; sophiology; theological
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2749. hq37vm4471v
      • author: Shilpi Sunil Kumar
      • title: Household Uncertainty, Risk Attitude and Implications for Macro Economy
      • date: 2020
      • words: 521
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Further, smaller estimates of risk aversion casts doubt on the ability of precautionary saving channel to propagate and amplify aggregate uncertainty shocks in a way that is consistent with the observed co-movements during the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008.Chapter 3 uses dispersion in consumer confidence as an empirical measure of time varying household uncertainty and studies its consequences for the macroeconomy. It uses cross-sectional dispersion in consumer confidence over time as a measure of consumer confidence uncertainty or disagreement among consumers.
      • keywords: confidence; consumer; estimates; household; motive; precautionary; preferences; saving; uncertainty
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2750. hq37vm44726
      • author: Arash Ebadi Shahrivar
      • title: Radio Frequency Exposure Compliance of Next-Generation Portable Wireless Devices
      • date: 2021
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Regulatory agencies impose limits on exposure measures such as specific absorption rate (SAR) and power density (PD) to ensure portable wireless devices are safe for public use. Recent developments in the new generation of portable wireless devices, such as the fifth generation of the cellular system (5G), have introduced devices with multiple transmitters operating in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies.
      • keywords: antenna; devices; excitation; exposure; measurements; multiple; portable; wireless
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2751. hq37vm44935
      • author: Eduardo Fernando Mello
      • title: Minimizing Transportation Energy in Urban Environments: An Optimization Approach for Connected EVs
      • date: 2022
      • words: 463
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: If the only term in the cost function is transportation energy, and all other conditions are formulated as constraints (maximum acceleration, average speed, etc.), substantial energy cost reductions are possible. The prime motivation of urban platooning comes from the fact that urban platoons efficiently utilize the available road space, at least partially alleviating the problem of ``mixed traffic' where some vehicles optimize transportation energy and others do not.
      • keywords: driving; electric; energy; optimal; optimization; speed; trajectories; transportation; urban; vehicles
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2752. hq37vm4494h
      • author: Jiahao Huang
      • title: Low-Dispersion Metamaterials for Wideband Gradient-Index (GRIN) Lens Antenna
      • date: 2022
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The proposed 40 GHz GRIN metamaterial in this thesis is based on printed circuit board (PCB) technology, with relatively low cost compared with other fabrication methods such as layered dielectrics and perforated dielectrics. The lens antennas have the advantages of low loss, low power consumption and wide bandwidth over other kinds of high-directivity antennas, among which the low-profile flat GRIN lens antenna is compelling in millimeter-wave (MMW) 5G and satellite communication applications.
      • keywords: antennas; directivity; grin; lens; low
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2753. hq37vm44b1s
      • author: Mary S. Tarsha
      • title: Investigating Early Life Experience on Sociomoral Development: The Mediating Role of Child Physiological Regulation
      • date: 2023
      • words: 374
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Observed quality of maternal parenting was assessed at 12 months of age (N=138 mother-child dyads) through the Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (KIPS; Comfort &amp; Gordon, 2006) and child cardiac vagal regulation (RSA; respiratory sinus arrhythmia) and social oppositionalism were assessed five years later. Lastly, the direct effect of parenting quality in early life on child social oppositionalism years later was not evident, providing evidence for the importance of child physiological regulation.
      • keywords: cardiac; child; life; oppositionalism; parenting; physiological; regulation; social; vagal
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2754. ht24wh26d9g
      • author: Xiutao Shi
      • title: Effects of architecture on microdamage susceptibility in trabecular bone
      • date: 2010
      • words: 394
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Since the Weibull probabilistic model did not improve the ability of computational models to predict damage, the morphology, number, and mean volume of the predicted yielded regions were studied for overloading of trabecular bone specimens along two orthogonal directions. However, the primary loading mode was axial compression with superposed bending for on-axis loading in contrast to bending for transverse loading.
      • keywords: loading; longitudinal; microdamage; model; overloading; regions; trabecular; yielding
      • versions: original; plain text
2755. ht24wh26f2c
      • author: Bryant Alan Davis
      • title: R. Budd Dwyer
      • date: 2012
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 70
      • summary: A handful of teenagers in Titusville, Pennsylvania discover a genre of music called 'Noise' which requires minimal skill and minimal effort and use it as a cudgel against their enemies both perceived and imaginary. Two friends drive to New Jersey so that one of them can have sex with a middle-aged Iraq war veteran he met playing World of Warcraft.
      • keywords: minimal; pennsylvania; stories
      • versions: original; plain text
2756. ht24wh26f3q
      • author: Anthony Joseph Schorer
      • title: Buffer Management In Zero-Copy I/O Protocols
      • date: 2007
      • words: 126
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The relative cost of memory operations continues to increase as processor performance improvements outpace memory performance improvements. Buffering schemes such as Fbufs and Container Shipping incorporate virtual memory page remapping and exploit locality in I/O traffic in an effort to reduce memory copying in the kernel.
      • keywords: improvements; memory; performance
      • versions: original; plain text
2757. ht24wh26f42
      • author: Juan Jiang
      • title: Electrochemical Studies of Nanostructured Materials: The Synthesis and Size Effect Dependence of the Adsorption of Organic Molecules and Applications to Biosensors
      • date: 2005
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: For the hydrogen ion sensor, a linear calibration curve between the sensor output signal and the logarithmic concentration of hydrogen ion precursor was obtained in the concentration range from 10-5 M to 10-2 M. For the E.coli senor, the attachment of every 50 E.coli cells on the surface can be detected by EIS. The adsorption kinetics and the ordering of the adsorbed monolayer of 1-dodecanethiol were studied by electrochemical methods, including Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), Chronoamperometry, and EIS.
      • keywords: biosensors; e.coli; eis; electrochemical; gold; hydrogen; ion
      • versions: original; plain text
2758. ht24wh26f5d
      • author: Yingqiong Gu
      • title: Theoretical investigation of Triaxial Strong Deformation and Tidal Waves in Nuclei
      • date: 2008
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: The recent discovery of wobbling rotational bands is considered as first clear cut evidence for this type of nuclear shape. With present-day types of experiments, the two modes can only be disentangled if the wobbling states are the lowest excitations, as in the Lu isotopes, whereas in many other cases, including $^{163}$Tm, the particle-hole excitations make up the spectrum of observed rotational TSD bands.
      • keywords: bands; calculations; hole; nuclear; nuclei; particle; rotational; states
      • versions: original; plain text
2759. ht24wh26f6r
      • author: Yen-Chun Lee
      • title: Silicon Single Electron Transistors Fabricated by Chemical Mechanical Polishing
      • date: 2012
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) removes material based on the surface topography instead of a mask, and the integration of CMP in device fabrication has provided us with new possibilities to construct an ideal SiSET.The fabricated devices show that the presence of dopants in the silicon causes Coulomb blockade oscillations (CBO) to be very irregular, which is an undesirable feature for SiSETs to be used as electrometers. In conclusion, we have developed a new type of SiSETs by integrating CMP in device fabrication.
      • keywords: dopants; energy; fabrication; logic; qca; silicon; siset; temperature
      • versions: original; plain text
2760. ht24wh26f73
      • author: Chengbang Huang
      • title: Multiscale Computational Methods for Morphogenesis and Algorithms for Protein-Protein Interaction Inference
      • date: 2006
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The genetic regulation is modeled by a combination of a rule-based state automaton and a set of partial differential equations (PDEs); the generic cellular mechanisms include cell adhesion, cell differentiation, cell growth, mitosis, secretion of morphogens, haptotaxis and chemotaxis. The predictions by MSSC preserve not only the topological characteristics of protein interaction networks, but also the protein co-expression.
      • keywords: biocomplexity; cell; networks; organisms; protein
      • versions: original; plain text
2761. ht24wh26f8f
      • author: Annette Vitale Brown
      • title: Total Synthesis and Precursor Directed Biosynthesis of Epothilone Analogues
      • date: 2004
      • words: 249
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: However, when intermediates including the C14-Me group were subjected to epothilone producing enzymes, the desired products were not formed in quantities comparable to the natural substrate. It was discovered that they inhibit tumor cell proliferation via microtubule stabilization, exhibiting the same mode of action as the famous therapeutic Paclitaxel, or Taxol, but with improved properties.
      • keywords: biosynthesis; c14; enzyme; epothilone; group
      • versions: original; plain text
2762. ht24wh26g00
      • author: Brandon Schneider
      • title: Solute Transport Across an Angled Interface: Assessments of Spreading and Mixing
      • date: 2012
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: For homogeneous systems this is perfectly acceptable, however natural systems are generally heterogeneous. A commonly used method in the assessment of mixing relies on the evaluation of concentration breakthrough data at a well over time.
      • keywords: breakthrough; concentration; homogeneous; mixing
      • versions: original; plain text
2763. ht24wh26g1b
      • author: Elizabeth Ann Hendriks
      • title: Moderation of the time-to-onset of depression by depression history
      • date: 2010
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Since a history of depressive episodes is one of the strongest predictors of future episodes of depression, the present study examined the association of depression history (i.e., first episode versus recurrence) and the time-to-onset of depression following a severe life event. The results indicate that depression history alone is not predictive of the time-to-onset of depression following a severe life-event.
      • keywords: depression; life; onset; severe
      • versions: original; plain text
2764. ht24wh26g2p
      • author: Jeffrey Robert Spies
      • title: Local sequence alignment as a method to detect temporal patterns in behavioral data
      • date: 2007
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This project will describe methods of local sequence alignment as they existin the biological sciences and propose and implement analogous methods for use with temporal data. They developed local sequence alignment as a means to discovernontrivial patterns of similarity in long sequences of DNA and protein, each comprised of elements from an alphabetof size four and twenty respectively.
      • keywords: patterns; sequence; series; time
      • versions: original; plain text
2765. ht24wh26g31
      • author: Christine Texeira
      • title: Whatever Remains, However Improbable
      • date: 2014
      • words: 16
      • flesch: 84
      • summary: Elle journeys through a strange world looking for her brother, who may or may not exist.
      • keywords: elle
      • versions: original; plain text
2766. ht24wh26h7q
      • author: Bohang Chen
      • title: The Death of Early Twentieth Century Vitalism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 42
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The theories of vitalism, exemplified by the doctrine of the entelechy put forth by Hans Driesch, were once popular in the history of science. However, current scholars reject vitalism as a metaphysical heresy because it violates the metaphysics of materialism or physicalism.
      • keywords: vitalism
      • versions: original; plain text
2767. ht24wh26h9d
      • author: Erik Jensen
      • title: Performance Evaluation of a Concrete Wall Panel-Frame Housing System for Informally Constructed Environments: A Case Study in Design Innovation for Haiti
      • date: 1904
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: These efforts ultimately verify the ability of this housing system to meet the demands imposed by regional hazards, even in the presence of mild local adaptations, while assuring a design that is readily implementable using local materials, technologies, and skillsets. In response, this thesis offers a Design Innovation: a precast wall panel and reinforced concrete frame housing system.
      • keywords: analytical; design; housing; innovation; local; panel; system; thesis; world
      • versions: original; plain text
2768. ht24wh2747k
      • author: Andika Suhardjo
      • title: Development of a High Resolution Hydrodynamic Model for the Asian-Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Associated Marginal Sea Basins for Tidal Predictions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Bottom friction parameterization based on seafloor sediment characteristics was developed and found to vary mainly in shallow continental shelf regions, while internal tide dissipation varied in deeper ocean depths. Dissipative effects are concentrated in two major parameters: bottom friction and internal tide dissipation.
      • keywords: friction; indwpac; model; ocean; resolution; shelf; significant
      • versions: original; plain text
2769. ht24wh2748x
      • author: Dahyeon Kim
      • title: Imagery, Valence, and Working Memory in Depression
      • date: 1904
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: depressive; imagery; negative; positive; symptoms
      • versions: original; plain text
2770. ht24wh2753h
      • author: Ya Su
      • title: Money, Work, Norms, and Love: Reexamining Determinants of Divorce
      • date: 1904
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: divorce; perspective; studies
      • versions: original; plain text
2771. ht24wh2754v
      • author: Abbie Thompson
      • title: Who's Talking to Whom and Does It Matter? The Impact of Multiple Speakers, Overheard Speech, and Child-Directed Speech on Infants' Language Development
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: The number of CDS tokens produced by infants' primary caregivers was related to their novel word learning ability; such that hearing more CDS tokens from the primary caregiver was related to higher levels of accuracy. Infants who hear more child-directed speech (CDS) tend to have better language learning trajectories (Huttenlocher, Haight, Bryk, Seltzer, &amp; Lyons, 1991; Pan, Rowe, Singer, &amp; Snow, 2005).
      • keywords: cds; individuals; infants; language; speech
      • versions: original; plain text
2772. ht24wh2793r
      • author: Heather Tucker
      • title: Pose &amp; Play: A Visual Literacy Guide for Girls' Virtual Self-Imaging Projects
      • date: 2019
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Twenty-first century technology and its uses has increased the visibility of girl's bodies in mass and social media, revealing a pattern in posing that is complicated by a long artistic tradition of female body presentation. In this paper and project, I offer an analysis that acknowledges some of the potential problems within our selfie culture regarding female body presentation and suggest a design intervention that advocates design as a tool for media and visual literacy.
      • keywords: body; design; media; presentation; visual
      • versions: original; plain text
2773. ht24wh27g4n
      • author: Weiping Gan
      • title: Construction of Branched Polymers with Different Topologies by Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Click Reaction and the Application in Catalysis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 113
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: cuaac; polymers; reaction
      • versions: original; plain text
2774. ht24wh27j0w
      • author: Emily Amenson-Lamar
      • title: High Sensitivity CZE-ESI-MS/MS: Method Development and Applications
      • date: 2021
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The Dovichi group uses capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) coupled to a mass spectrometry through electrospray ionization (ESI) to perform bottom-up analyses of complex proteomes. However, electrophoresis has emerged as a high-resolution separation method that can be coupled to various detection method for a thorough analysis of the proteome of any biological system.
      • keywords: detection; electrophoresis
      • versions: original; plain text
2775. ht24wh27j2k
      • author: Vardan Danghyan
      • title: Activity and Stability of High Surface Area Nickel Supported Catalysts during the Dry Reforming of Methane
      • date: 2021
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In this dissertation, the deactivation mechanism of Ni supported catalysts during DRM has been studied and highly active and stable Ni based catalysts have been developed. In order, to prevent the sintering of Ni active sites, NiO-MgO solid solution-based catalysts with strong metal-support interactions were developed.
      • keywords: active; catalysts; combustion; deactivation; drm; interactions; metal; support
      • versions: original; plain text
2776. ht24wh27j3x
      • author: Kelsey M. Reese
      • title: Resilient Communities of the Mesa Verde North Escarpment, AD 890–1300
      • date: 2021
      • words: 591
      • flesch: -7
      • summary: Results from these research efforts provide insight into the compounding factors that augment the effects and perception of sustained climate change on subsistence-farming communities, contribute to identifying vulnerable populations during periods of climatic volatility, explore adaptive measures utilized by subsistence-farmers to mitigate the effects of sustained climate change, and observe how extreme climatic events can induce change at the household- and community-levels of social organization. Studies on contemporary subsistence-farming communities repeatedly call for increasing our understanding of: the impacts of climate change on subsistence-farming communities; the populations most vulnerable to climate change; the adaptive measures available to communities to mitigate the effects of climate change, and; how the perception of climate change impacts household- and community-level responses to extreme weather events.
      • keywords: change; climate; climate change; communities; ecological; effects; farming; impacts; people; subsistence; sustained
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2777. ht24wh27m1v
      • author: Jessica Ann Muhlenkamp
      • title: Ni and Co Based Metal Phosphide Catalysts for Ethane and Propane Dehydrogenation
      • date: 2022
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The results in this dissertation demonstrate the promise that metal phosphides have as alternative dehydrogenation catalysts. Future research investigating other metal phosphide compositions, alkali and alkaline Earth metal doping, and the use of microporous supports has the potential to further enhance the light alkane dehydrogenation performance of metal phosphides.
      • keywords: dehydrogenation; energy; gas; high; metal; ni2p; phosphides; stability
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2778. hx11xd09p7v
      • author: Daniel Kraus Van Ness II
      • title: A Study Of Tip Clearance Flow Loss Mitigation In A Linear Turbine Cascade Using Active And Passive Flow Control
      • date: 2009
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: blade; clearance; control; flow; methods; passive; tip
      • versions: original; plain text
2779. hx11xd09p86
      • author: Naomi V Ekas
      • title: Adaptation to Stress Among Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Positive Affect and Personality Factors
      • date: 2009
      • words: 222
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This daily diary study investigates (1) the relationship between daily stress, general life stress as well as stress related to the child's characteristics, and daily negative affect, (2) the role of daily positive affect in promoting resistance to stress and recovery from daily stress, (3) the moderating effects of optimism and perceived control on the relationships between daily stress, daily positive affect, and daily negative affect, and (4) whether daily positive affect serves to mediate both relationship between optimism and daily negative affect, as well as the relationship between perceived control and daily negative affect. Results from hierarchical linear models (HLM) revealed that higher levels of perceived stress were associated with decreased well-being, both within and across days.
      • keywords: affect; daily; positive; stress
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2780. hx11xd09p9j
      • author: Nancy Elaine Roback
      • title: Crystal Chemistry of Uranyl Sulfates and Oxalates and Perrhenate Incorporation into Uranyl Phases
      • date: 2010
      • words: 499
      • flesch: 46
      • 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).
      • keywords: bipyramids; fuel; group; nuclear; oxalate; pertechnetate; phases; space; uranium; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
2781. hx11xd09q13
      • author: Marie Claire Keultjes
      • title: Children's Understanding of Approximate Addition Depends on Problem Format
      • date: 2010
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 54
      • 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.
      • keywords: canonical; children; problems
      • versions: original; plain text
2782. hx11xd09q2f
      • author: Samuel Seo
      • title: Chemically Tunable Ionic Liquids with Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions for CO2 Separation
      • date: 2014
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: To summarize, the new families of tunable ILs are explored as a viable alternative for current CO2 capture technologies. While the field of ILs is relatively new and ample opportunity should exist to optimize the properties of ILs for CO2 capture, this study offers a promising step forward in the search for energy-optimal carbon capture materials.
      • keywords: capture; cations; co2; energy; heat; ils; reaction; technologies
      • versions: original; plain text
2783. hx11xd09r02
      • author: Kyle James Knoepfel
      • title: A Precision Measurement of the B ? Xs&gamma; Branching Fraction
      • date: 2010
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: Radiative decays of B-mesons are ideal laboratories for probing New Physics (NP). New Physics particles can potentially propagate in this loop, and if the NP couplings are comparableto those of the SM, deviations from the SM prediction of the B ?
      • keywords: backgrounds; decays; photon; prediction; signal; xs&gamma
      • versions: original; plain text
2784. hx11xd09r5s
      • author: Samuel Stanford Chan Rund
      • title: Circadian and diel rhythms of the Anopheles Gambiae mosquito
      • date: 2013
      • words: 178
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In this work the identification, characterization and comparison of rhythmic gene expression under light:dark and dark:dark conditions in An. gambiae mosquitoes using DNA microarrays is performed. One prominent set of rhythmic genes identified included olfactory and blood-feeding behavior genes.
      • keywords: dark; gambiae; malaria; mosquito; rhythmic
      • versions: original; plain text
2785. hx11xd09s3d
      • author: Lei Meng
      • title: Computational Strategies for Analyzing Dynamic and Heterogeneous Networks and Their Interdisciplinary Implications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: To this end, we: 1) integrate heterogenous network data and demonstrate that our approach reveals additional information that is missed by simpler approaches such as homogenous network analysis, by exploring a smartphone study encompassing multiple link types and node traits; 2) introduce a novel computational framework for systematic analysis of dynamic and heterogeneous networks, which we use to link individuals' evolving social network positions with their traits, revealing in the process additional links that are missed by simpler approaches such as static network analysis or that have not been studied to date; and 3) introduce the first ever comparison of two complementary types of network alignment methods (local and global) and propose a new algorithm, IGLOO (Integrating Global and LOcal biOlogical network alignment), to reconcile the two, demonstrating in the process the superiority of IGLOO over each network alignment type individually. 3) How to efficiently compare two heterogeneous yet related networks via network alignment?
      • keywords: alignment; analysis; data; dynamic; heterogeneous; network
      • versions: original; plain text
2786. hx11xd10d3r
      • author: Amanda M. Holland
      • title: Iron Pincer Complexes with a Pyrrole-Based PNP Ligand: Synthesis and Reactivity
      • date: 1904
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: To further explore this area, iron complexes containing a pyrrole-based PNP ligand, PNpyrP (PNpyrP = 2,5-bis((di-iso-propylphosphino)methyl)pyrrolide), were synthesized. Finally, the reactivity of the complexes towards hydrogen gas, ligand substitution, and hydride reagents was investigated.
      • keywords: complexes; iron; ligand; pnpyrp
      • versions: original; plain text
2787. hx11xd10g7r
      • author: Calantha K. Phillips
      • title: Metaphysics without Naturalness
      • date: 2018
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: In the first part of the dissertation I argue that metaphysics is methodologically well-founded, and that there is no need to appeal to irreducible metaphysical naturalness of quantifiers in order to resist arguments to the effect that ontological disputes (such as whether there are composite material objects, i.e., things with parts) aren't substantive. In the second part of the dissertation I argue that one can secure determinacy of linguistic content without invoking metaphysically natural properties as reference magnets.
      • keywords: content; linguistic; metaphysical; naturalness; ontological; reference; strategy
      • versions: original; plain text
2788. hx11xd10s04
      • author: Ian Campbell
      • title: Measuring Subpopulation Invariance in Test Equating with Equivalence Testing
      • date: 2020
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Evaluating subpopulation invariance in test equating is crucial to establishing the fairness and interchangeability of scores that arise from multiple forms. Determining if low levels of dependency amount to a meaningful departure from invariance or are close enough to zero to ignore is fundamental to validating the interchangeability of equated scores.
      • keywords: dependency; equating; invariance; test
      • versions: original; plain text
2789. hx11xd10s35
      • author: Qiyu Zhi
      • title: Coupling Text and Visualization in Visual Storytelling for Data Communication
      • date: 2020
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: These interactive systems and our study findings aim to go beyond current visual storytelling authoring approaches to facilitate the creation and understandings of visual storytelling in different domains for designers, journalists, analysts, and other researchers. The concept of visual storytelling is not new.
      • keywords: data; researchers; storytelling; text; visualization
      • versions: original; plain text
2790. hx11xd10t4t
      • author: Aaron Tyrrell
      • title: Renormalized Volume and Area
      • date: 2021
      • words: 67
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: manifold
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2791. hx11xd10t7v
      • author: Nina Kikel-Coury
      • title: Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Neural Populations in the Developing Peripheral Nervous System
      • date: 2021
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This work establishes a connection between molecules and actin stabilization in the growth cone to complete circuit development. First, we study the somatosensory system by elucidating the molecular mechanisms that guide sensory axon growth cone navigation and entry into the spinal cord.
      • keywords: development; health; nervous; peripheral; pns; system
      • versions: original; plain text
2792. hx11xd10w95
      • author: Kayla J. Hurd
      • title: Beyond Nourishment: A Biocultural Analysis of Meaning Making, Dietary Practices, and Insect Eating in the Times of COVID-19
      • date: 2023
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: This research provides a grounded ethnographic and biocultural example of how people protect their bodies via their thoughts, perceptions, and behavior regarding food in order to make sense of the changing sociocultural world around them. As such, this dissertation expands our understanding of how people make sense of, choose, and embody necessary objects, like food, in rapidly changing contexts.
      • keywords: dissertation; food; pandemic; people
      • versions: original; plain text
2793. j098z89301d
      • author: John Thomas Schmitz
      • title: Experimental Measurements in a Highly Loaded Low Pressure Turbine
      • date: 2010
      • words: 138
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Measurements were acquired in a recently developed, high-speed turbine facility constructed to investigate the effects that Reynolds number, nozzle exit flow, freestream turbulence, vane-blade spacing, and rim seal flows have on the loss generating mechanisms of a highly loaded LPT stage. Flow control techniques were applied at the stage inlet with the intent of reducing a source of stage losses.
      • keywords: flow; stage; turbine
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2794. j098z89304f
      • author: Thomas Ryan Hoens
      • title: Living in an Imbalanced World
      • date: 2012
      • words: 194
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: By the end of this dissertation, we will present a wide variety of solutions to the class imbalance problem, including the combination of class imbalance and concept drift. An orthogonal problem to class imbalance arises due to concept drift in data streams.
      • keywords: class; imbalance; problem
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2795. j098z89305s
      • author: Gaiying Zhao
      • title: Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel and Potentially 'Universal' &#946;-Lactams
      • date: 2010
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The preliminary results showed electron donating groups gave better anti-TB activity (33 with an MIC of 2.81 ÌøåÀå_0ÌøåÀå_8M against GAST NRP-TB). In addition, the direct amine-linked quinolone-cephem 74 and carbamate-linked quinolone-cephem 77, and their corresponding esters 73 and 76 were synthesized and evaluated for anti-bacterial activity.
      • keywords: activity; anti; cephalosporins; group; leaving; quinolone; ìøåàå_8ìøåàå_5
      • versions: original; plain text
2796. j098z893064
      • author: Paul James LeBlanc IV
      • title: Measurement and R-Matrix Analysis of the 15N(p,g)16O Reaction Cross Section
      • date: 2010
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The resulting S factor calculations were used to calculate new reaction rates for different temperature values, and gives up to a factor of 2 difference from currently used compilations~cite{Angulo1999}. Along with the p-p chains, the CNO cycle is the main source of energy production inside of stars with masses larger than the sun.
      • keywords: cycle; energy; kev; measurements; production; reaction
      • versions: original; plain text
2797. j098z89307g
      • author: Vladimir Protasenko
      • title: Electro-optical properties of CdSe nanowires
      • date: 2008
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Similarly, the smaller density of electrons on the other side of the wire yields emission quenching. Our current working hypothesis is that mobile electrons driven by the external electrical field passivate emission quenching centers resulting in local emission enhancement.
      • keywords: absorption; emission; experiments; light; measurements; nws; quenching; single; wire
      • versions: original; plain text
2798. j098z89308t
      • author: Bin Zhang
      • title: Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flow over Hemispherical Turrets with Application to Aero-Optics
      • date: 2012
      • words: 320
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: At small elevation angles it decreases with increasing azimuthal angle and the change is nonlinear; however, when the elevation angle is large, the aberration does not decrease much, and even increases with azimuthal angle at small azimuthal angles but keeps decreasing at large azimuthal angles. Besides, the effects of elevation angle and azimuthal angle on optical aberrations are studied in a systematic way.
      • keywords: angle; azimuthal; degree; elevation; flow; optical; turret
      • versions: original; plain text
2799. j098z893095
      • author: Daniel Joseph Dentinger
      • title: ITEAMS - An Intelligent Teaching Environment with Assessment Modules for Self-Study
      • date: 2010
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: environments; intelligent; systems; tutoring
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2800. j098z89310c
      • author: Ronald Walter Diersing
      • title: H-Infinity, Cumulants, and Games
      • date: 2006
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: Cost cumulant control is a generalization of linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control. MCC control is applied to various building problems.
      • keywords: control; cost; cumulant; game; infinity
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2801. j098z893122
      • author: Georgios Poulios
      • title: Peterzil-Steinhorn subgroups of Real Algebraic Groups
      • date: 2013
      • words: 107
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: We consider Peterzil-Steinhorn groups defined in o-minimal expansions of the reals. We show that each Peterzil-Steinhorn group is isomorphic to either the additive or the multiplicative group of the reals and we provide a simple criterion that can be used to classify each such group into one of those two categories.
      • keywords: group; peterzil
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2802. j098z89313d
      • author: Rumana Reaz Arifin
      • title: Evolution of Large Scale Three Dimensional Coastal Features During Hurricanes Using Bathymetric Lidar
      • date: 2010
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 53
      • 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.
      • keywords: bar; conditions; hurricane; ivan; morphology
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2803. j098z89314r
      • author: Robert Vernon Bruggner
      • title: A System for Integration And Management of Community Annotation for VectorBase.org
      • date: 2007
      • words: 186
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Due to the size and number of genomes that the Bioinformatic resource VectorBase.org maintains, VectorBase relies heavily on automated computational analyses for gene prediction and functional annotation. Although these per-gene investigations are numerically limited due to the time and effort entailed, the information ascertained through such experiments can be used as both a benchmark and training material for automated gene-prediction analyses in addition to simply providing trustworthy genomic annotation.
      • keywords: analyses; annotation; data; gene
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2804. j098z893153
      • author: Peter Samir Jeries Twal
      • title: Airplane Mode
      • date: 2014
      • words: 44
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Airplane Mode is, first and foremost, an homage to the TV show Community, emulating a voice similar to that of main character Abed Nadir. This collection of poems spins out of my interest in shifting identities and landscapes, (mis)communication, hyper-masculinity, and narrative bricolages.
      • keywords: airplane
      • versions: original; plain text
2805. j098z89319g
      • author: Jonathan P. Callis
      • title: Reading the Mind: Renaissance Allegory and Lockean Psychology in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Descartes and Locke agree that the mind's perception of external reality cannot always be trusted. This, at least, is the basic philosophical account of mind and body which runs through Descartes's groundbreaking work in Optics and Locke's theory of psychology from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
      • keywords: allegory; century; eighteenth; ideas; locke; mind
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2806. j098z893p9c
      • author: Matthias Wolf
      • title: Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Hadronic Tau Pairs in Association with Top Quark Production
      • date: 1904
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Limits and best-fit values on the Standard Model production cross-section are given, both for the channel alone and in combination with other Higgs boson decay channels. A search for the Higgs boson decaying to pairs of tau leptons is presented, where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a pair of top quarks.
      • keywords: boson; higgs; proton; search
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2807. j098z894230
      • author: Rachel A. Miller
      • title: Development of Yeast-Based Biosensors for Pharmaceutical Analysis in Technology Limited Settings
      • date: 2020
      • words: 1681
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In this thesis I will discuss the work I have done to develop whole cell yeast biosensors for detecting pharmaceuticals in low- and middle- income (LMICs). This work has shown that scent as a reporter modality has great potential for use in analytical technologies to be used in a field settingIn this thesis I will discuss the work I have done to develop whole cell yeast biosensors for detecting pharmaceuticals in low- and middle- income (LMICs).
      • keywords: analyte; biopad; biosensors; development; field; fluorescence; friendly; lmics; portable; reagents; reporter; scentsor; use; yeast
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2808. j098z89443m
      • author: Sarah Petersen
      • title: Ravenel-Wilson Hopf Ring Methods in C2-Equivariant Homotopy Theory and the HF2-Homology of C2-Equivariant Eilenberg-MacLane Spaces
      • date: 2022
      • words: 106
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Our main application and motivation for introducing these methods is a computation of the RO(C2)-graded homology of C2-equivariant Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. The result we obtain for C2-equivariant Eilenberg-MacLane spaces associated to the constant Mackey functor F2 gives a C2-equivariant analogue of the classical computation due to Serre at the prime 2.
      • keywords: equivariant; spaces
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2809. j098z894470
      • author: Amaryst Parks-King
      • title: Demanding the Impossible: Abolition, Black Educational Spaces, and the Disruptive Agency of Black Imagination
      • date: 2022
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: anti; black; schools
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2810. j098z89453x
      • author: Jack Consolini
      • title: In Silico Model for Determination of In Vivo Pre-Stretch in Neonatal and Adult Murine Cranial Dura Mater
      • date: 2022
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: cranial; dura; pre; stretch; vivo
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2811. j3860576792
      • author: Peter Joseph Fritz
      • title: Sublime Apprehension: A Catholic, Rahnerian Construction
      • date: 2010
      • words: 161
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This uncoupling occurs in various phases, passing through Rahner's appropriations of Thomas Aquinas and Ignatius of Loyola and his teachings on grace, mystery, and eschatology, Martin Heidegger's readings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich HÌÄå¦lderlin, and Rainer Maria Rilke, and the sublime-aesthetics of Jean-FranÌÄå¤ois Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-Luc Marion. This dissertation shows how the thought of Karl Rahner presents the ethos of Catholic Christianity, which, since the dawn of modernity, one might call the Catholic sublime, and its late modern instantiation, called sublime apprehension.
      • keywords: dissertation; jean; modern; rahner; sublime
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2812. j3860576808
      • author: James Whitcomb
      • title: The Role of Vitamin D and Vitamin D Receptor in Immunity to Leishmania major Infection
      • date: 2010
      • words: 319
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Additionally, VDR KO mice exhibit a decreased parasite burden at the height of infection. We observed that VDR knockout (KO) mice develop smaller lesions in response to L. major infection than their wild type (WT) counterparts.
      • keywords: diseases; infection; mice; response; vdr; vitamin
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2813. j386057681m
      • author: Bennett Richard Streit
      • title: Understanding the Mechanism of Chlorite Dismutation by the Heme Dependent Enzyme Chlorite Dismutase
      • date: 2010
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The catalytic data as a function of pH show a pKa at pH 6.5, likely from the protonation of Arg-183 and suggest a positively charged Arg is needed for properly positioning the anionic ClOÌ¢åÈ within the hydrophobic distal pocket for reaction with Compound I, generating ClÌ¢åÈ and OÌ¢'_'_. It was determined using EPR and stopped flow spectroscopy that the enzyme forms the highly oxidizing ferryl-oxo porphyrin Ì â cation radical intermediate (Compound 1) upon reaction with peracetic acid.
      • keywords: arg-183; distal; enzyme; pka; pocket; reaction
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2814. j386057684n
      • author: Beau Branson
      • title: The Logical Problem of the Trinity
      • date: 2014
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Much of the literature on 'The Logical Problem of the Trinity,' as this has been called, attacks or defends Trinitarianism with little regard to the fourth century theological controversies and the late Hellenistic and early Medieval philosophical background in which it took shape. I further argue that any solution from the Historical Approach satisfies the concerns of the Puzzle Approach and mysterianism anyway.
      • keywords: approach; doctrine; logical; problem; trinity
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2815. j3860576928
      • author: Amanda Jean Sgroi
      • title: An Analysis of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors for Iris Biometric Systems
      • date: 2012
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: human; intrinsic; iris; sensor
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2816. j3860576970
      • author: Oscar Pellon-Cardenas
      • title: Regulation of Canonical Wnt Signaling in Epithelia
      • date: 2012
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Wnt/ÌÄå_Ìâå_-catenin signaling also initiated a proliferation response that correlated with the luminal filling of epithelial glandular structures. The dual function ÌÄå_Ìâå_-catenin in cell adhesion and transcription is tightly regulated in vertebrates in order to maintain a balanced level of canonical Wnt signaling.
      • keywords: arf6; canonical; cell; epithelial; erk; transcription; wnt; ìäå_ìâå_-catenin
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2817. j3860576b5m
      • author: Paul W. McBurney
      • title: Improving Program Comprehension via Automatic Documentation Generation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: code; documentation; software
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2818. j3860576c06
      • author: Kyle William Beam
      • title: Future Primitive: The Politics of Militant Ecology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: commitment; ecology; militant; movement; philosophical; political; principles; study
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2819. j3860576z56
      • author: McKenna LeClear
      • title: Explaining Variation in Social Distance from Religious Out-Groups: A Cross-National Study of Muslims in Minority Contexts
      • date: 1904
      • words: 131
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Further findings indicate institutional religion mediates the relationship between state religious discrimination and religious out-group bias among Muslims in minority contexts. Social scientific studies have sought to characterize and explain the state of prejudice toward different religious groups in the United States, and Muslims have increasingly been the objects of this exploration since 9/11.
      • keywords: muslims; religious; social
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2820. j386057701d
      • author: Justin Jon Schader Wilcox
      • title: Exploring the Ecology of Eukaryotic Symbionts in Long-Tailed Macaques (and Beyond)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: As ubiquitous non-human primates known to harbor diverse eukaryotic communities with proposed relevance to emerging zoonotic disease risk, long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) represent excellent hosts for the study of such symbiont. I find that long-tailed macaques harbor diverse communities of eukaryotic symbionts with taxonomic richness comparable and functional diversity that is comparable to many free-living systems.
      • keywords: communities; ecological; free; host; living; macaques; processes; symbiont
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2821. j386057702r
      • author: Ingabirano I. Nintunze
      • title: The Hero Fig
      • date: 1904
      • words: 73
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: But when old friends seem to come back to life, political enemies gain steam, and the city itself begins to fight back, magic, technology, and lost loves lead them towards an inevitable rupture. After a war between highlanders (who have the ability to magically manipulate the land around them) and lowlanders (who do not) leaves their city in ruins, James and Oliver struggle to rebuild a life as the world around them recovers.
      • keywords: life
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2822. j386057746c
      • author: Justin Van Ness
      • title: A Cognitive Ethnography of Meaning-Making and Social Interaction
      • date: 2022
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 10
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; framework; interaction
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2823. j3860577b1h
      • author: Jeremiah Coogan
      • title: Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity
      • date: 2020
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Third, I demonstrate the paradoxical centrality of marginal phenomena in the history of Gospel reading and beyond. I argue that Eusebius employed emerging textual technologies to create new possibilities of reading, thereby rewriting the fourfold Gospel in a significant and durable way.
      • keywords: apparatus; century; eusebian; gospel; textual
      • versions: original; plain text
2824. j3860577b2v
      • author: John E. Herr
      • title: Development of Neural Network Models for Prediction of Molecular Properties
      • date: 2020
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: ML potential energy models are promising the accuracy of quantum methods at significantly reduced cost. This dissertation describes methods for collecting datasets of nonequilibrium geometries for training ML potential energy models and shows that enhanced sampling methods or methods which do not follow Boltzmann statistics are necessary for diversely sampling geometries.
      • keywords: elements; methods; models; potential; shift; systems; tensormol; training
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2825. j3860577b5w
      • author: Steven L. Claucherty
      • title: Unsteady Surface Flow Measurements for Aerodynamic Testing with Reduced Uncertainty
      • date: 2020
      • words: 509
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Additionally, dynamic characterizations show that the sensor has a response time of approximately 20-30 us, which is comparable to current fast PSP sensors. Static performance characteristics, namely signal level, pressure sensitivity and temperature dependency are discussed as they relate to these parameters.
      • keywords: dependency; luminescent; phenolic; porous; pressure; psp; results; sensor; shock; temperature; tsp
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2826. j3860577c25
      • author: Matteo Bianchetti
      • title: Geometric Representations in Mathematical Problem-Solving: Intuition and Creativity
      • date: 2021
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 8
      • 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.
      • keywords: geometric; intuition; mathematical; representations
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2827. j3860577c7w
      • author: Kathryn Scrafford
      • title: Motherhood and Intimate Partner Violence in the Context of Social-Ecological Resilience
      • date: 2021
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: MLM revealed a within-person effect such that mothers reporting more IPV also reported improvement in mother-child relationship quality over time. Both stated that mothers left partners for their children's sakes and expressed concerns about intergenerational transmission of IPV.
      • keywords: ipv; mothers; parenting; resilience; women
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2828. j3860577d76
      • author: Diego Gundersen
      • title: Experimental Studies on the Flow Past Mound-Bearing Craters and Flexible Vegetation Elements
      • date: 2022
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The first research project investigated the intracrater and extracrater flow structures over mounded craters induced by unidirectional flow. The first is a study of the flow dynamics over impact craters that host a central mound by utilizing a model with an idealized geometry and another model with a geometry sourced from that of a Martian impact crater.
      • keywords: crater; flow; idealized; model; project; results; rim; second
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2829. j3860577g1r
      • author: Keaton Prather
      • title: Probing Surface Electrostatics on Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals Using Surface-Bound Metal Carbonyl Fragments
      • date: 2023
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Chapter 3 describes a new synthetic pathway to metal carbonyl functionalized metal chalcogenide nanocrystals through Z-type addition of [CdFe(CO)4]. Altogether, these results showed that CdSe-CdFe(CO)4 NCs were sensitive to changes to surface reduction and oxidation and that the metal carbonyl bonding interactions could be tuned by altering the NC surface.
      • keywords: addition; carbonyl; chalcogenide; changes; electrostatics; metal; spectroscopy; surface; type
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2830. j6731259j3c
      • author: Brooke Michelle Vertin
      • title: Writhing and Roaring
      • date: 2010
      • words: 108
      • flesch: 66
      • summary: Caroline Walker Bynum has written extensively about identity and change. I explore nature as a metaphor for change and regrowth, as embodiments of emotion, struggle, and a place in which we are confronted with, and cannot turn away from our identity.
      • keywords: change; identity
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2831. j6731259j6d
      • author: Lindsay A. Herko
      • title: Air Hunger
      • date: 2012
      • words: 126
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: A girl exponentially expands realizing she may have been an abusive man in a past life but finds redemption in a spiritual kinship with Laika the first dog in space, when a parent gets teriminal cancer she realizes Laika is really more destined for him, discovering an occult truth about air hunger. Fish-exhausted mothers compliment pastors who receive letters from dead girls.
      • keywords: embodiment; girl; mothers
      • versions: original; plain text
2832. j6731259j7r
      • author: Matthew Aaron Ricke
      • title: The Slow Curve
      • date: 2011
      • words: 2
      • flesch: 77
      • summary: Short stories
      • keywords: short
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2833. j6731259j83
      • author: Oleksandra Lyapina
      • title: The variety of Lagrangian subalgebras of real semisimple Lie algebras
      • date: 2009
      • words: 263
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Let $g$ be the complexification of $ g.$ Denote by $sigma$ the complex conjugation on $g$ with respect to $ g.$ Let $G$ be the adjoint group of $g.$ Then $sigma$ can be lifted to an antiholomorphic involutive automorphism $sigma: G ightarrow G,$ which we denote by $sigma$ too. The set of $sigma$-fixed points $G^{sigma}={gin G : sigma(g) =g}$ is a real algebraic group with Lie algebra $ g.$
      • keywords: components; irreducible; lie; real
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2834. j6731259j9f
      • author: Erin Leigh Hunter
      • title: A Spectroscopic Study of Lead (Pb(II)) and Siderophore Sorption to Montmorillonite
      • date: 2010
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Maximum sorption of Pb(II) in the presence of DFOB was ~118 Ì_å_mol/g; maximum sorption of DFOB in the presence of Pb(II) was ~140Ì_å_mol/g. Sorption density of Pb(II) on montmorillonite in the presence of DFOB increased from ~15% of initial Pb(II) at pH 3 to ~ 90% at pH 7.5. Modeling and FTIR showed that the presence of DFOB also decreased the formation of Pb-bearing precipitates.
      • keywords: dfob; ftir; pb(ii; presence; sorption
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2835. j6731259k0n
      • author: Vipin Vijayan
      • title: Three Dimensional Face Recognition of Identical Twins
      • date: 2012
      • words: 205
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The combination of factors related to the facial similarity of identical twins and the variation in facial expression makes this a challenging dataset. The results indicate that 3D face recognition of identical twins in the presence of varying facial expressions is far from a solved problem.
      • keywords: dataset; expression; twins
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2836. j6731259k10
      • author: William Felix Acosta
      • title: Constructing Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Unstructured Peer-To-Peer Networks
      • date: 2008
      • words: 422
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: We analyze the range of replication ratios required for good search performance using Makalu. P2P networks have been used to support such diverse applications as file sharing, distributed storage and backup, and content distribution.
      • keywords: expansion; graph; high; makalu; networks; overlay; p2p
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2837. j6731259k2b
      • author: Eric Shuler
      • title: Almsgiving and the Formation of Early Medieval Societies, A.D. 700-1025
      • date: 2010
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The theology of charity revolved around a triangle of relationships between God, giver, and recipient; these relationships are best understood in light of anthropological insights into gift exchange. This dissertation undertakes an investigation of a behavior practiced by kings and commoners alike: charity to the poor or, to adopt the term favored then, almsgiving (eleemosina).
      • keywords: charity; dissertation; early; institutional; medieval; poor; society; theology
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2838. j6731259k41
      • author: Tiphaine Anne Williams
      • title: Wind Effects on Tall Buildings
      • date: 2003
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Empirical models, finite element computer models, and other analysis tools have been combined with scaled model wind tunnel testing to predict wind loads on structures and associated response. Therefore, designers are faced with the challenge to accurately predict building response and to ensure that survivability, serviceability, and habitability criteria are satisfied.
      • keywords: response; serviceability; tools; wind
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2839. j6731259k5c
      • author: Nicol ás M. Somma
      • title: When the Powerful Rebel: Armed Insurgency in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
      • date: 2011
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 43
      • 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?
      • keywords: insurgencies; insurgency; party; state; systems; ties; vertical
      • versions: original; plain text
2840. j6731259k6q
      • author: Dinesh Rajan Pandiarajan
      • title: Energy Management Mechanisms for Wireless Real-time Environments
      • date: 2007
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This work observes existing energy management techniques in distributed wireless environments to be non-cooperative in the sense that they reduce the energy consumption of a single device, disregarding potential consequences for other constraints (e.g., end-to-end deadlines) and/or other devices (e.g., energy consumption of neighboring devices). It is shown that energy management in such environments has to be end-to-end in nature, requiring a coordinated approach among participating devices.
      • keywords: consumption; devices; end; energy; management
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2841. j6731259k72
      • author: Dev Himanshu Varma
      • title: No Man's Land
      • date: 2015
      • words: 52
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This collection of creative work investigates an author's relationship to the characters it creates, the words it uses for that creation, the landscapes it interacts with and receives inspiration from, everything that goes into what an author does--even the food one eats. Associated media files can be found at https://curate.nd.edu/concern/documents/9c67wm1380d.
      • keywords: author
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2842. j6731259m7c
      • author: Jon Simpkins
      • title: Modeling, Approximation, and Estimation of Spatially-Varying Blur in Photographic Systems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: We also propose a quantitative measure of blur estimation accuracy, and of measuring the inaccuracy introduced by using an approximation to the true blur in deblurring. Finally, we introduce an improved method of non-blind blur estimation, and demonstrate the accuracy benefit of using the proposed active target estimation instead of the traditional passive target estimation.
      • keywords: blur; estimation; photographic; representation
      • versions: original; plain text
2843. j6731259r1j
      • author: Lorenzo Bonaiti
      • title: Reactions to the Publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi
      • date: 1904
      • words: 36
      • flesch: 66
      • summary: This essay offers an evaluation of the current state of Levi's reception in the Anglophone world, with a particular focus on the US, in light of the reviews to this edition of his opera omnia.
      • keywords: essay
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2844. j6731260871
      • author: Benjamin C. Denison
      • title: Strategies of Domination: Uncertainty, Local Institutions, and the Politics of Foreign Rule
      • date: 1904
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: I first broadly test my claims using an original dataset of over 160 cases of foreign rule, which includes original data collection and coding of foreign rule strategies across all cases. This dissertation asks two interrelated questions: What determines a foreign ruler's choice of strategy following armed intervention, and why do foreign rulers often fail to plan post-intervention strategies prior to the arrival of troops on the ground?
      • keywords: armed; cases; foreign; intervention; local; ruler; strategy; strength
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2845. j673126088c
      • author: Kaiyu Fu
      • title: Nanopore Electrochemistry: The Development and Applications of Nanopore Electrode Arrays as High-Performance Sensors
      • date: 1904
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Electrochemical reactions at the nanoscale possess unique characteristics that are not accessible to conventional electrochemistry. High areal density (109 cm-2) over large scale (3-inch wafer) NEAs with zeptoliter characteristic volumes are designed and fabricated to perform electrochemical measurements.
      • keywords: current; electrochemical; electrode; electron; nanopore; neas; reactions; redox; topic; transfer
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2846. j6731260m8g
      • author: Alexandra E. Chirakos
      • title: Novel Regulatory Functions of ESX-1 Associated Proteins in Pathogenic Mycobacteria
      • date: 2020
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: They are also required for virulence in M. marinum and M. tuberculosis, effectively connecting ESX-1 secretion and virulence with gene expression and fine-tuning of ESX-1 substrate production. Further, we discovered that EspE and EspF, known ESX-1 secreted substrates, negatively regulate whiB6 gene expression.
      • keywords: esx-1; gene; membrane; secretion; tuberculosis
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2847. j6731260n63
      • author: Anh P. Ha
      • title: Acculturation, Family Conflict, and Mental Health in Immigrants in Norway
      • date: 2021
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 0
      • 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.
      • keywords: acculturation; community; family; outcomes
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2848. j6731260p21
      • author: Weikai Cao
      • title: Redox Cycling-Based Field-Effect Transistor: Fabrication Strategies and Characterization
      • date: 2021
      • words: 320
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Considering the similarity of nanofluidic FETs to NEAs in their functional mechanism (manipulation of ion transport through nano-sized channels), it is desirable to extend the abovementioned benefits of NEAs to other applications such as the fluidic field-effect transistor, with the aim to establish a redox cycling-based FET that possesses higher transconductance and can achieve ultrasensitive chemical sensing. The ultimate goal of this research is to fabricate the NEAs with three embedded electrodes, of which the middle electrode is specifically designed to be coated with electrochemical blocking layers.
      • keywords: electrode; fet; ion; layers; nanofluidic; neas; response; transport
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2849. j6731260r19
      • author: Cheng Liu
      • title: Compromised Item Detection for Computer-Based Testing
      • date: 2023
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Overall, our proposed models provide a more comprehensive and efficient approach to detect compromised items, which can improve test security and fairness. For instance, examinees who took the test earlier might share the encountered items with other test takers, resulting in item bank leakage and endangering the test's validity and fairness.
      • keywords: items; leakage; models; takers; test
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2850. j6731260r2n
      • author: Noe Pliego Campos
      • title: Crises, Rights, and Futurity: Youth in 1980s Mexico City
      • date: 2023
      • words: 399
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Drawing from a broad range of archival materials that include newspaper accounts, films, and songs, in conjunction with oral history, I examine four youth groups that were differently affected by neoliberalism in Mexico City: chavos banda, or marginalized youth who engaged in gang-like and punk-like subculture and developed a unique style as a form of resistance to their exclusion from the neoliberal project; queer youth (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans), whose response to neoliberal policies coincided with the AIDS crisis and the collapse of the Homosexual Liberation Movement (1978-1984); National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)-affiliated youth, middle-class university and high school students, who organized a massive student protest against the privatization of the UNAM in 1986 and made up a significant base of the left opposition that contributed to the defeat of the PRI; and yuppies and wealthy young people who welcomed and benefited from the neoliberal economic reforms and strengthened the conservative opposition. The reaction of citizens to these events and their decision to elect oppositional parties at the local level signaled the weakening of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which lost its grip of the nation to the conservative opposition in 2000, after seventy years of undisputed political leadership and twenty years of economic neoliberal reforms that included privatization, structural adjustments, and the dismantling of the welfare system.
      • keywords: city; conservative; economic; mexico; neoliberal; political; pri; years; youth
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2851. j9601z42t12
      • author: Alexis Michelle Chambers
      • title: The Effect of Sleep on the Consolidation of Positive Emotional Memories
      • date: 2013
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: positive; scenes; sleep
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2852. j9601z42t2d
      • author: Matthew Howell
      • title: History on the Menu: An Examination of the Use of History as a Legitimating Marker of Status in Restaurant Websites on the Internet
      • date: 2010
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: These markers of success represent both culinary/cultural markers and entrepreneurial/economic markers, with smaller organizations focusing more on culinary terms while larger organizations utilize more economic terms. Internet websites produced by restaurants present information contained in a format designed to convey an image of the restaurant as the owner(s) see it, and as the owner(s) want it to be viewed by the potential customers.
      • keywords: history; restaurant
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2853. j9601z42t3r
      • author: Elizabeth E. Webster
      • title: American Science and the Pursuit of Useful Knowledge in the Polite Eighteenth Century
      • date: 2010
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Particularly, I explore the writings of three central figures in the early years of the American Philosophical Society, David Rittenhouse, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin Rush, to see how they variously used the language and ideals of politeness to argue for the promotion of useful knowledge in America. He criticized what he saw as a certain culture of useful knowledge by turning to the polite ideals of benevolence and open conversation.
      • keywords: century; eighteenth; knowledge; useful
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2854. j9601z42t5f
      • author: Ian Bentley
      • title: Wigner X Resolved and Photo-Reaction Cross-Section Predictions: Improvements for Astrophysical Calculations
      • date: 2010
      • words: 408
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The linear coefficient in symmetry energy term of nuclei, called the Wigner X, is determined from the experimental binding energies by removing the Coulomb energy by use of mirror nuclei with corrections for deformation based on additional experimental information. This is done in an automated procedure called AutoTAC which is used to find equilibrium deformation parameters corresponding to an energy minimum.
      • keywords: deformation; energy; isovector; nuclei; pairing; parameters; probability; procedure; wigner
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2855. j9601z42v4d
      • author: Hangyao Wang
      • title: Atomistic Studies of Oxidation Catalysis and Surface Poisoning on Transition Metal Oxide Surfaces
      • date: 2009
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: As an attempt to understand how surface metal oxides develop on metal surfaces and what their exact role is during oxidation, we study the formation of oxide nuclei on Pt surface. In this study we employ plane-wave, supercell DFT calculations to examine the mechanisms of oxygen activation, COO oxidation as well as surface poisoning on RuO2(110) surface.
      • keywords: catalytic; metal; oxidation; poisoning; study; surface
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2856. j9601z42v94
      • author: Yu Cao
      • title: Study of AlN/GaN HEMTs: MBE Growth, Transport Properties and Device Issues
      • date: 2010
      • words: 390
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: To achieve high-speed nitride-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), both lateral and vertical scaling are required for future device fabrication. As a theoretical work, remote surface roughness (RSR) scattering is studied as a new scattering mechanism in AlN HEMTs.
      • keywords: aln; buffer; contact; engineering; gan; growth; hemts; high; leakage; scattering
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2857. j9601z42w7r
      • author: Patrick Joseph Donnelly
      • title: Data Locality Techniques in an Active Cluster File System Designed for Scientific Workflows
      • date: 1904
      • words: 263
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The user does not need to redesign their workflow or provide additional consideration to the management of data dependencies. While today's large data analysis systems are highly effective at establishing data locality and eliminating inter-dependencies, they are not so easily incorporated into scientific workflows that are often complex and irregular graphs of sequential programs with multiple dependencies.
      • keywords: cluster; data; dependencies; file; scientific; system
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2858. j9601z4312j
      • author: Christian K. Hunter
      • title: Robust Water Resource Decision-Making Under Internal and External Uncertainties: A Study of Latin America
      • date: 1904
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: Comparing MoS and cost rankings of proposed water management schemes, this work determines that the traditional evaluation method not only underestimates future water deficits, but also espouses solutions without considering supply and demand uncertainties. Considering water resource scarcity and uncertainty in climate and demand futures, decision-makers require techniques for sustainability analysis in resource management.
      • keywords: analysis; climate; decision; demand; evaluation; future; management; resource; sustainability; water
      • versions: original; plain text
2859. j9601z43j3j
      • author: Hythem Sidky
      • title: Predicting Elastic Properties of Liquid Crystals from Molecular Simulation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The utility of molecular simulation in predicting elastic properties of liquid crystals has historically been limited due to the immense time and length scales needed to generate accurate estimates of quantities such as the bulk elastic moduli. Finally, we present the first direct simulations of the bulk and surface-like elastic constants for molecular 4-5-alkyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl which challenge indirect experimental observations that suggest spontaneous elastic curvature in certain geometries.
      • keywords: crystals; elastic; liquid; molecular; properties; simulation; study
      • versions: original; plain text
2860. j9601z43x49
      • author: Gabriel Wright
      • title: Computational Analyses of Codon Usage Bias and Its Effects on Protein Translation, Expression, and Folding
      • date: 2021
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This algorithm has the ability to incorporate a number of codon usage models, and therefore allows each model's biological efficacy to be tested in vivo. The debate about how best to define CUB has resulted in the development of numerous codon usage models, all of which define preferred codons in a distinct way.
      • keywords: codon; cub; models; protein; usage
      • versions: original; plain text
2861. j9601z43z69
      • author: Dung Thi Hanh To
      • title: Electrochemical Synthesis of Nickel-Molybdenum Alloys and Nickel-Molybdenum-Oxygen Composites from Citrate-Ammonium Baths and Their Electrocatalytic Properties for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
      • date: 2022
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: To maximize the efficiency, electrocatalysts need to be optimized to further reduce the overpotential for hydrogen and accelerate the rate of water splitting. Besides the complicated fossil-fuel-derived synthesis methods, hydrogen gas can be generated simultaneously with oxygen gas through electrochemical water splitting.
      • keywords: composition; electrocatalysts; electronic; energy; hydrogen; material; methods; synthesis; water
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2862. j9601z43z9b
      • author: Emmanuel Cannady
      • title: Black Lives Matter University: How Activist Knowledge Affects Organizational Sustainability
      • date: 2022
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: My participation in this nascent organization helped me develop a theory of knowledge convergence using an activist knowledge framework to explain variation between the three versions. A knowledge hierarchy developed that privileged those with global-theoretical knowledge, which was positioned closer to whiteness, and doomed any attempts at knowledge convergence.
      • keywords: activists; bend; convergence; knowledge; organization
      • versions: original; plain text
2863. j9601z44135
      • author: Jacob Moniz
      • title: The Pacific End
      • date: 2023
      • words: 226
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: The protagonist, Caleb, is confronted with his past as he returns to his hometown after several years of being away. Furthermore, the novel delves into the themes of trauma and healing, as Caleb confronts his emotional wounds and learns to reconcile with his past.
      • keywords: caleb; novel; past; self
      • versions: original; plain text
2864. jd472v26352
      • author: Christopher Paul Andrews
      • title: Blood and Glitter: Monster Subjectivity in a Concentration of Camp
      • date: 2010
      • words: 17
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This paper deals with the philosophical implications of queer subjectivity in relationship with monster in horror film.
      • keywords: film
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2865. jd472v26383
      • author: Jun Yi
      • title: DYNAMIC RESERVATION MEDIUM ACCESS FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS
      • date: 2012
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: However, providing timeliness support is challenging, mainly due to (i) the inherently unreliable nature of the wireless medium, (ii) the distributed nature of multihop wireless networks, and (iii) the resource-constrained (mainly bandwidth and energy) environments. Many wireless multihop networks carry streams of data with time-critical information (e.g., video streams in surveillance networks, sensor streams in monitoring and actuating applications, or command and control streams in factory automation applications).
      • keywords: applications; bandwidth; control; multihop; streams; timeliness; wireless
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2866. jd472v2639f
      • author: Christine Ann Kelley
      • title: Pseudocodewords, Expander Graphs, and the Algebraic Construction of Low-density Parity-check Codes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Despite their tremendous success, LDPC codes lack a strong theoretical foundation and few explicit constructions of them are known that outperform their random counterparts. The second part of this thesis constructs LDPC codes having desirable properties.
      • keywords: bounds; codes; decoding; graph; ldpc; performance; pseudocodeword; weight
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2867. jd472v2640n
      • author: Joseph Bruce Herzog
      • title: Optical spectroscopy of colloidal CdSe semiconductor nanostructures
      • date: 2011
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Temperature-dependent NSOM and micro-photoluminescence (Ì_å_PL) spectra produce s- shape peak emission energy dependence on temperature, which reveal the formation of band-tail states in the NWs due to the variation of the polytype structure along the length of the NW. Time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measures emission decay data that shows type-I band alignment between the WZ-ZB heterojunction due to the spectral dependence of the emission decay: the decay times decrease as the energy decreases.
      • keywords: dependent; emission; nws; temperature
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2868. jd472v26410
      • author: Lichun Li
      • title: Event triggered state estimation and control with limited channel capacity
      • date: 2013
      • words: 502
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Our research is to analytically examine the trade-off between system performance and digital channel capacity in event triggered systems. The limited digital channel capacity, however, can degrade or even destroy control systems.
      • keywords: capacity; channel; control; digital; efficient; event; limited; systems
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2869. jd472v2642b
      • author: Jennifer Newsome Martin
      • title: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Press of Speculative Russian Religious Philosophy
      • date: 2012
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 2
      • 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.
      • keywords: balthasar; eschatology; method; modern; non; russians; theological; work
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2870. jd472v2643p
      • author: Heather D. Maxwell
      • title: A Case Study of NCAA Division I Women's College Basketball Fans: Sport Fan Motivation and Game Enhancers
      • date: 2010
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Most previous research has failed to identify sport specific motivations of female collegiate basketball fans. Although some consistent themes emerged, results from this study varied from past research on sport fan motivation.
      • keywords: basketball; participants; research; sport; wann
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2871. jd472v26441
      • author: Justin Mathew Hilyard
      • title: Various Results on Enumerations of Graph Homomorphisms
      • date: 2014
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Many graph notions can be described using graph homomorphisms, including independent sets, matchings, and graph colorings. Finally, we present a q-weighted enumeration of matchings of complete bipartite graphs, an enumeration which was key to proving the validity of a new combinatorial interpretation of the q-analog of a generalization of the Stirling numbers of the second kind in work with Engbers and Galvin
      • keywords: graphs; independence; log; question
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2872. jd472v2646q
      • author: Zhiguo Ge
      • title: Magneto-Transport Studies of Ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As Heterostructures
      • date: 2007
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: For (Ga,Mn)As-based heterostructures (both EB structures and MTJ structures), we investigated the response of the magnetization of the (Ga,Mn)As layers to the sweeping magnetic field taking advantage of the PHE technique. We also found that in MTJ structures, the interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) between two (Ga,Mn)As layers oscillates between the FM type and antiferromagnetic type as a function of the spacer thickness.
      • keywords: heterostructures; magnetization; mn)as; samples; structures; study
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2873. jd472v2648d
      • author: Jeffrey R Smith
      • title: Religiosity, Social Support, Divine Support and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being
      • date: 2007
      • words: 206
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Further analyses indicates that the positive effects of religious social support for adolescents are linked to this subjective perception of congregational support, independent of the quantity of religiously affiliated peers and adults one trusts, or one's level of participation in religious communal activities like youth group or bible studies. Research hypothesizing the underlying causal mechanisms of positive religious effects on mental health and psychological well-being emphasize the potential social support found in religious communities, and psychological resources that provide comfort and security in difficult times.
      • keywords: congregational; effects; religious; support; swb
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2874. jd472v2649r
      • author: Javier Mocarquer
      • title: Políticas de género y sexualidad en el Cono Sur: Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo y Cecília Meireles en las esferas pública y privada
      • date: 2015
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The intellectual friendships that developed among these women, the tensions that emerged between them and their governments, their struggles against political impositions and masculine dominance, and the establishment of intellectual networks at the international level, are the main topics of this study. I propose that these three feminist writers and public intellectuals deployed strategies of self-representation to avoid being discriminated against because of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or social class.
      • keywords: intellectual; meireles; mistral; ocampo; public; women
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2875. jd472v2654b
      • author: Ryan T. Kelly
      • title: Numerical Prediction of the Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of the Aero-Optical Disturbance Produced by a Helicopter in Hover
      • date: 1904
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: helicopter; optical; rotor; tip; vortices; wake
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2876. jd472v26592
      • author: Kai Cao
      • title: Fluid-structure Interaction Modeling of Valvular Hemodynamics and Secondary Aortopathy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 850
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Therefore, the objective of this dissertation was to computationally quantify the native mechanical environment on BAV leaflets and BAV aortas using fluid-structure interaction (FSI) modeling. This study demonstrated the existence of abnormal WSS on BAV leaflets, which may further our understanding of the role played by hemodynamic forces in BAV disease.
      • keywords: aortic; bav; coronary; dilation; flow; fusion; leaflets; study; tav; type; valve; ventricle; wss
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2877. jd472v26639
      • author: Matthew J. Kuiper
      • title: Indian Muslims, Other Religions and the Modern Resurgence of Da'wa: The Tablīghī Jamā'at and Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: By investigating and juxtaposing the lineages, formative histories and inter-religious discourses of these movements and their founders, Part II elucidates both the unique contributions Indian Muslims have made to modern da'wa, and the diversity of Indian da'wa. Indian Muslims, this dissertation suggests, have made pioneering contributions to global da'wa, particularly with respect to their development of bottom-up styles of da'wa and what this dissertation calls da'wa modernities.
      • keywords: da'wa; dissertation; indian; inter; islamic; modern; religious
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2878. jd472v26s89
      • author: Alan Claude Liddell, Jr.
      • title: Applications of Newton Homotopies
      • date: 1904
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Finally, we present an application of Newton homotopies to the computation of saturation properties from fundamental equations of state, determining the coexistence curve for all vapor-liquid equilibrium conditions between the triple point and critical point. Using homotopies, we compute solution sets for systems of polynomial equations.
      • keywords: equations; homotopies; homotopy; newton
      • versions: original; plain text
2879. jd472v26z7h
      • author: Abigail Marie Csik
      • title: Retrieval Practice of Event-Based Narratives
      • date: 2019
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Surface form retrieval practice improved surface form memory but impaired event model memory for practiced sentences. Participants in the current study read narratives, had retrieval practice of a subset of sentences directed at surface form (Experiments 1 and 3) or event model memory (Experiment 2), and took a recognition test to measure three levels of narrative memory: the surface form (verbatim memory), textbase (propositional memory), and event model (gist memory).
      • keywords: event; memory; retrieval
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2880. jd472v2757n
      • author: Jeremy Davidheiser
      • title: Heroic Masculinity and the Problem of Violence in British Political Fiction, 1790-1850
      • date: 2020
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Exploring the subgenres of Jacobin and anti-Jacobin fiction, historical fiction, Chartist fiction, and social fiction, this dissertation reads scenes of political heroism alongside developing ideals of nonviolence in Britain—especially concerning typically violent political processes such as warfare and revolution—and it shows how these ideals place important limits on the motives for and kinds of heroic violence depicted in fiction. This dissertation analyzes the ways that representations of a heroic and physical masculinity express changing attitudes toward violence in political fiction published in Britain between the French Revolution and the decline of Chartism, that is, from around 1790 to 1850.
      • keywords: dissertation; fiction; heroic; political; scenes
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2881. jd472v2766m
      • author: Jason Wiggins
      • title: Journey to the Heart of Darkness - Exploring Void Galaxies
      • date: 2021
      • words: 405
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: An earlier survey conducted by Kreckel using the SDSS found that void galaxies tended to be luminous blue star forming dwarfs but the result was limited by the magnitude cutoff of the SDSS at ∼ 17 in the r band. Standard ΛCDM Cosmological models also make predictions about the number of dwarf galaxies that should be present in voids as a function of the matter density parameter Ωm.
      • keywords: candidates; emission; formation; galaxies; galaxy; regions; sdss; star; void
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2882. jd472v2769n
      • author: Ruimin Ma
      • title: Polymer Design via Data-Driven Approaches
      • date: 2021
      • words: 473
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: approaches; benchmark; database; embedding; informatics; molecular; pi1; polymer
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2883. jd472v2781h
      • author: Jonathan Rawls
      • title: Three Essays on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 92
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Together, they seek to understand how fiscal and monetary policies can better facilitate trade, stimulate demand, and reduce the volatility of macroeconomic aggregates in response to economic shocks. My first chapter studies the optimal maturity structure of government debt in response to demographic shocks.
      • keywords: chapter; monetary
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2884. jd472v2793h
      • author: Austin D. Nelson
      • title: A Novel "In-Cathode" Activation Technique for 41Ca Production Cross Section Measurements Using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
      • date: 2023
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Production models rely on theoretical nuclear models, but theoretical reaction cross sections can be imprecise, making experimental measurements crucial to relieving some uncertainties on theoretical models. Studies and subsequent analysis of meteoritic material has provided evidence of the presence of several short-lived radionuclides (SLRs) at the formation of the Solar System.
      • keywords: material; models; reaction; slrs; solar; solar system; system
      • versions: original; plain text
2885. jh343r09c3f
      • author: Zachary Terranova
      • title: Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of Ionic Liquids Using Molecular Dynamics
      • date: 2014
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Experimental studies of solvation dynamics in imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) have revealed complex kinetics over a broad range of time scales from femtoseconds to tens of nanoseconds. Microsecond-length molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of coumarin 153 (C153) in a series of imidazolium-based ILs were performed to reveal the molecular-level mechanism for solvation dynamics over the full range of time scales accessed in the experiments.
      • keywords: anions; dynamics; imidazolium; response; solvation; structure
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2886. jh343r09c4s
      • author: Williams R Calder&#243;n Mu&#241;oz
      • title: Linear Stability of Electron-Flow Hydrodynamics in Ungated Semiconductors
      • date: 2010
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The main motivation of this work is to analyze from a hydrodynamic perspective the conditions under which instabilities occur in electron flow in ungated semiconductors. The governing equations include Gauss' law, the mass, momentum and energy conservation equations for electrons and a constitutive equation for energy flux in the lattice.
      • keywords: electron; flow; instabilities; lattice; radiation; semiconductors; stability; uncoupled
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2887. jh343r09c54
      • author: Daniel E Hoehn
      • title: The Effect of Shear Stress Magnitude on Aortic Valve Inflammation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 131
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This study investigates the role played by blood flow dynamics and prospective mechanosensitive molecules in the development of aortic valve disease. Blood exerts a combination of forces on the valve leaflets, which are believed to have a significant effect on valvular disease progression.
      • keywords: aortic; disease; valve
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2888. jh343r09c7t
      • author: Nicholas Patrick Miller
      • title: The Religious Roots of the First Amendment: Dissenting Protestantism and the Separation of Church and State
      • date: 2010
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This dissertation argues that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation, an outgrowth of the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West. The dissertation aims to show that religion played more than a pragmatic role in contributing to religious disestablishment in America.
      • keywords: american; disestablishment; early; figures; religious
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2889. jh343r09c85
      • author: Brian W. Neiswander
      • title: Electron Density Measurements for Plasma Adaptive Optics
      • date: 2014
      • words: 263
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: As a laser beam propagates from an aircraft in flight, it passes through boundary layers, turbulence, and shear layers in the near-region of the aircraft. This research investigated the use of plasma as a medium for adaptive optics for aero-optics applications.
      • keywords: aircraft; beam; chamber; laser; optical; optics; plasma
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2890. jh343r09d6s
      • author: Warren E Shrader
      • title: The Metaphysics of Ontological Emergence
      • date: 2005
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Such theories can be classified along two dimensions, the first being the type of dependence relation holding between emergent properties and microphysical properties and the second being the way in which an emergent property is causally efficacious. Though this basic idea is clear, there is considerable disagreement in the literature as to the exact nature of emergent properties, and this motivates this dissertation.
      • keywords: causal; chapter; emergent; properties; property; theories
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2891. jh343r09d8g
      • author: Ziheng Wu
      • title: Measures of bone quality and their relationship to bone mechanical properties
      • date: 2011
      • words: 430
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The objectives of this dissertation were to investigate viscoelastic properties of bone tissue using nanoindentation, identify the effects of disease, aging, gender and tissue compositions on bone mechanical properties, and study crack initiation and propagation in bone samples subjected to multiple loading modes. Overall, this research provides insight into bone viscoelastic properties and microdamage by studying creep behavior, tissue composition, disease and crack initiation and propagation.
      • keywords: bone; creep; microdamage; mineralization; properties; time; tissue; viscoelastic
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2892. jh343r09f1c
      • author: John Karim Kamel Ibrahim
      • title: Chemical Vapor Deposition/Chemical Vapor Infiltration of Pyrocarbon in Porous Carbon
      • date: 2007
      • words: 236
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Moreover, such solution is beyond the capability of present computers for unsteady and multidimensional problems that include, multi-species, gas phase as well as surface chemicalreactions, and surface to surface radiation. This method is based on operator decomposition where the pressure is obtained by solving a Poisson equation followed by a projection or correction step for the velocity field so that it satisfies the conservation of mass equation.
      • keywords: algorithm; mechanism; reaction; solution; step; surface
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2893. jh343r09f4d
      • author: Eric M. Weaver
      • title: Evaluating Tumor Microenvironments in Three Dimensional Cell Culture Models of Colon Cancer
      • date: 1904
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Overall, these studies have evolved the application of IMS to three dimensional cell culture models into a robust and viable experimental technique that will have an enormous impact on the understanding of the complex interaction between tumor microenvironments and how drug treatment and chemotherapeutics affect tumor microenvironments. Although initially applied to thin sections of mammalian tissues, the application of IMS to sections of three dimensional cell culture tumor mimics has led to a dramatic increase in the ability to study and understand the complex interactions between tumor microenvironments.
      • keywords: ability; application; cell; complex; ims; mass; microenvironments; tumor
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2894. jh343r09f94
      • author: Ding Nie
      • title: Matching Networks for Broadband Multiport Radio-Frequency Systems: Theory, Analysis and Design
      • date: 1904
      • words: 509
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: In multiport systems where there are more loads than sources, we show that non-reciprocal components are essential to the design of matching networks that achieve the broadband bounds. For a single load driven by a source through a two-port network, the maximum achievable bandwidth is governed by the Bode-Fano upper bounds, introduced by Bode and Fano in 1940s, on the integral over all frequency of the logarithm of the reflection coefficient of cascaded matching network and load.
      • keywords: bandwidth; bounds; loads; matching; multiport; networks; sources
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2895. jh343r09g0b
      • author: Angela M. Lake
      • title: Children's Literature and Modern Thought: Bridging the Barrier of World War I
      • date: 1904
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: First, I will provide a limited history of children's and adult literature, paying specific attention to the decades between 1860 and 1940. I believe that children's literature has a unique ability to topically anticipate trends in adult literature, and this project will prove that hypothesis in three ways.
      • keywords: children; literature; specific
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2896. jh343r1035d
      • author: Kathryn Ann Sontag
      • title: Computational Study of Upstream-Propagating Potential Disturbances in an Axial Flow Compressor
      • date: 1904
      • words: 374
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Historically, the primary source of the aerodynamic excitations has been limited to viscous wakes (and later the inclusion of shocks), even though several different types of blade row interactions are known to occur. High cycle fatigue is often the result of neighboring blade row interactions that cause an aerodynamic excitation to be resonant with a mechanical natural frequency.
      • keywords: blade; configuration; data; experimental; interactions; potential; rotor; row; unsteady
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2897. jh343r1036r
      • author: Abigail G. Jorgensen
      • title: The Mommy Politic: Understanding Motherhood's Impact on Voting Behavior
      • date: 1904
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Nearly all previous research on the motherhood shift in voting conflates women who will and will not become mothers by using cross-sectional data and/or random effects models, ignoring the effect of selection. In this article, I find that reconsidering the motherhood shift as a selected phenomenon and modeling it through fixed effects regression reverses our understanding motherhood's effect on voting.
      • keywords: motherhood; shift
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2898. jh343r10373
      • author: Eredzhep Menumerov
      • title: Novel Nanomaterial Fabrication Techniques for Catalysis, Sensing, and Electronics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 430
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: These nanofabrication techniques were applied to the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol, hydrogen gas sensing, and thermal management in electronics. Thermal dewetting is one of a number of unconventional methods for fabricating substrate-based nanomaterials and it was used to study the leaching of metal nanostructures through oxidative etching and its influence on the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol.
      • keywords: catalytic; dewetting; nanofabrication; nanostructures; nitrophenol; reduction; single; step; techniques; thermal
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2899. jh343r10g65
      • author: Yuliya Fedorovych
      • title: The Holodomor: Expressing the Inexpressible
      • date: 2021
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 50
      • 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.
      • keywords: audience; genocide; holodomor
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2900. jh343r10h23
      • author: Wen Qu
      • title: A Framework for Analyzing Qualitative and Quantitative Data for Student Evaluation of Teaching
      • date: 2021
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: With digital tools, teaching evaluation data are more widely collected and effectively stored. Therefore, researchers are allowed to develop and apply mixed methods to analyze teaching evaluation data.
      • keywords: data; evaluation; student; teaching
      • versions: original; plain text
2901. jh343r10h85
      • author: Si Li
      • title: Development of Polymer Membranes Involving Crosslinked Model Network Structures for Gas Separation
      • date: 2022
      • words: 533
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: While the permeability-selectivity tradeoff seems to be tackled by many new high-performing polymers pushing the upper bound limits further toward the upper right side, polymer gas separation membranes frequently suffer from physical aging (e.g., loss of permeability over time) and plasticization (e.g., loss of size sieving in the presence of condensable gases like CO2). The impact of these challenges is clearly evidenced by the fact that only a handful of polymers have made it into commercial applications despite hundreds of new polymers have been developed and evaluated for gas separation membranes.
      • keywords: chain; chapter; crosslinked; crosslinking; gas; membrane; model; network; new; permeability; polymers; separation
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2902. jh343r10k4d
      • author: Brian DuSell
      • title: Nondeterministic Stacks in Neural Networks
      • date: 2023
      • words: 285
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Human language is full of compositional syntactic structures, and although neural networks have contributed to groundbreaking improvements in computer systems that process language, widely-used neural network architectures still exhibit limitations in their ability to process syntax. In this dissertation, we remedy this discrepancy by proposing a method of incorporating nondeterministic stacks into neural networks.
      • keywords: context; free; language; networks; neural; nondeterministic
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2903. jh343r10k5r
      • author: Hannah Resnick
      • title: Plowing the Semantic Field in Book III of Apuleius's Golden Ass
      • date: 2023
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Discourse analysis of Book 3 of Apuleius's Golden Ass reveals that multivalent vocabulary in both the narration and dialogue alerts readers to plot themes and events before they are explicitly addressed, and that Apuleius writes on multiple levels which may be detected by different readers. This analysis argues that Apuleius's twists are not universally unpredictable for a Roman first reader, for whom a single word or group of words can conjure up associated concepts and actions Searching for the presence of similar groups of polysemous words in the novel may reveal other instances of hints for the first reader.
      • keywords: analysis; apuleius; dialogue; discourse; lucius; reader
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2904. jm214m92n7k
      • author: Krista E. Duttenhaver
      • title: Love's Labor: The Relational Self in Simone Weil's Mystical-Political
      • date: 2010
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: This project, a new understanding of the manner in which justice and love intersect in the category of the mystical-political, develops out of the thought of twentieth-century French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil. Though her writing is notoriously difficult and demanding and her biography is not without controversy, her worth as an intellectual can in part be measured by the burgeoning cross-disciplinary influence of her thought: novelists, feminists, ethicists, political philosophers, and theologians have found in her work fruitful resources for reflection and constructive endeavors.
      • keywords: justice; mystical; political; project; thought; weil; world
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2905. jm214m92p0g
      • author: Julio Garí n
      • title: Three Essays in Macroeconomics
      • date: 2012
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: While there has been a vast literature that has tried to explain and account for the short-run fluctuations in aggregate economic activity, several features of business cycles in the United States business are not well understood yet. In the study, we document some important changes at business cycle frequencies that have occurred in the US since the mid-eighties.
      • keywords: business; cycle; default; financial; important; market; mortgage
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2906. jm214m92p1t
      • author: Chuanxin Lian
      • title: Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopic Study of Ni-(Al)GaN and Heterogeneous Integration of GaAs/GaN by Wafer Fusion
      • date: 2008
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 52
      • 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.
      • keywords: gaas; gan; hbts; surface
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2907. jm214m92p25
      • author: Sally Ann Entrekin
      • title: The Response of Organic Matter Dynamics and Macroinvertebrates to Experimental Wood Additions in Three Michigan Streams
      • date: 2008
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: After wood addition, I measured an increase in organic matter standing stocks around the added logs, but no reach-scale responses and no changes in organic matter decomposition. One of the most common restoration activities in streams is to add in-stream structures, such as flow defectors, boulders, wood, and vegetation to stabilize banks, reduce erosion, increase habitat complexity, and retain organic matter.
      • keywords: addition; changes; habitat; matter; organic; restoration; stream; wood
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2908. jm214m92p3h
      • author: Susan Ranee Dahlheimer
      • title: Potential Siderophore-Enhanced Platinum-Group Element Mobility: The Rold of Siderophores on the Fate of Catalytic Converter Emissions
      • date: 2010
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: catalytic; dfo; stability
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2909. jm214m92p4v
      • author: Austin David Choi-Fitzpatrick
      • title: Letting Go: Resignation and Resistance Among Contemporary Slaveholders
      • date: 2013
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: attention; control; movements; process; rights
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2910. jm214m92p56
      • author: Timothy J Dysart
      • title: Defect Properties and Design Tools for Quantum Dot Cellular Automata
      • date: 2006
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: In this work, QCA wires of varying widths are examined to determine their resistance to certain individual defects and a specific subclass of manufacturing defects: missing cells. One common issue with these nanoelectronic devices is that many manufacturing defects are likely to occur.
      • keywords: defects; nanoelectronic; qca; system; transistors
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2911. jm214m92p6j
      • author: Gilberto Mej ía Rodr íguez
      • title: A Computer Aided Multiscale Material Design Optimization Framework for Composite Materials Tailoring
      • date: 2010
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: The need and the opportunity for significant savings in both time and cost for the engineered development of advanced nanomaterials coupled with the tremendous growth in the past couple of decades in computational materials science has not yet materialized into significant material design tool developments. Also, a trust region managed variable fidelity optimization framework is proposed in this investigation to address the computational challenges and model management issues that are inherent to multiscale material design.
      • keywords: cost; design; investigation; materials; optimal; optimization; silicon; time
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2912. jm214m92p87
      • author: Lisa Weaver Swartz
      • title: 'This is My Father's World': American Evangelical Ambivalence Toward Climate Change
      • date: 2010
      • words: 48
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The analysis shows that evangelicals are at least as concerned about the effects of climate change as the reference group, but less willing to support governmental intervention. This sociological study, attentive to the historical context of postwar evangelical social and political practice, analyzes evangelical views of climate change.
      • keywords: change; climate
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2913. jm214m92q0s
      • author: Michael Yan-Kiat Lau
      • title: Extreme Response Style: An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Scale Response Format Fatigue
      • date: 2007
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Existing research has demonstrated that such response biases potentially yield erroneous results in research findings that rely on scale responses that are susceptible to extreme responding. Study 2 involved examining the potential effect that extreme response style may have in mediating the relationship of individualism/collectivism on satisfaction with life (Bettencourt & Dorr, 1997).
      • keywords: extreme; options; response; scale
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2914. jm214m92q14
      • author: Jacob Riyeff
      • title: Making the Divine Economy: Imagination, Performance, and the Old English Poetry of Prayer
      • date: 2015
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: anglo; chapter; christian; early; prayer; saxon; world
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2915. jm214m92r7h
      • author: Ji Hye Shin
      • title: Instituting the Balance: Great Power Politics and Postwar Institutional Architectures in Western Europe and Northeast Asia
      • date: 1904
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Despite striking similarities in their post-World War II security environments, Western Europe and Northeast Asia have since developed distinct types of regional security institutions. In Western Europe, an intricate set of multilateral institutions has arisen as the preferred form of interstate cooperation, whereas the governments of Northeast Asia have largely refrained from region-wide institution building.
      • keywords: asia; europe; northeast; regions; security; treaty; western
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2916. jm214m92v5r
      • author: Xiaojing Yan
      • title: Advances in Large-Scale Bottom-Up Proteomics by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis-Electrospray Ionization-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Prefractionation Steps
      • date: 1904
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: To overcome this issue, I have worked to reduce sample complexity and enrich low abundance components while depleting high abundance ones. The identification number produced by CZE-ESI-MS/MS can approach those produced by UPLC-MS/MS, but using nearly two orders of magnitude lower sample amounts.
      • keywords: cze; esi; large; scale
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2917. jm214m92v7f
      • author: Brian Fitzpatrick
      • title: Sector Differences in the Effects of Teacher Characteristics on Student Outcomes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This article tests conflicting theories of schools as institutions by studying how the relationship between teacher credentials and student learning is moderated by school sector. The model utilizes fixed effects at the student- and school-level, with the aim of identifying the causal effect of teachers and schools by leveraging students who move across school sectors.
      • keywords: career; growth; school; sector; students; teachers
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2918. jm214m93c0z
      • author: Angela M. Kurth
      • title: Analyzing the Still Face Paradigm Using Longitudinal Techniques
      • date: 1904
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The lab task interrupts contingent interaction between mother and infant, typically eliciting affective responses indicative of the infant's self-regulatory skills. The Still Face Paradigm is used frequently as a lab-controlled situation for studying self-regulation in infants.
      • keywords: infant; regulation; self; task
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2919. jm214m93j1v
      • author: Mojtaba Kashani
      • title: Differentiating Role of Race in the Processes of Collective Identity Construction: Black Lives Matter
      • date: 2019
      • words: 127
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Drawing on the literature on collective identity and boundary activation processes, I have done a content analysis on a sample of 30 opinion articles written by BLM activists and authors with concern about racial justice issues. While both black and white activists tend to activate racial boundaries, the emphasis on race and blackness is more common among black authors.
      • keywords: activists; black; white
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2920. jm214m93q64
      • author: Michael Davis
      • title: Synonymy
      • date: 2021
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: For every human being, bodily vulnerability and inevitable decay are a fact of life. Every human is gifted a miraculous biologically evolving body, a fascinating sense of psychology, and a limited tenure on Earth called life.
      • keywords: body; characteristics; human; life; sense; synonymy
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2921. jm214m93q7g
      • author: Owen Dominguez
      • title: Optical Structures for the Mid–Infrared: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Optical Phonon Polariton Devices
      • date: 2020
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The ENZ mode is obtained from light interacting with a material at a frequency where the permittivity is vanishing, such material is known as an ENZ material. We investigate optical phonon polaritons resonances, these resonances are the result of light coupling with lattice vibrations (phonons) of polar materials, and are a promising approach to achieve the electrical field enhancement in a subwavelength volume in the long-wavelength IR.In our devices, phonon polariton resonances are achieved by coupling nanoantenna modes with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) modes.
      • keywords: enz; modes; near; phonon; polaritons
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2922. jm214m93s0p
      • author: Xinyue Zhao
      • title: Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of Applied Free Boundary Problems
      • date: 2021
      • words: 105
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Free boundary problems (the time dependent problems are also often known as moving boundary problems) deal with systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) where the domain boundary is apriori unknown. Many mathematical models in different disciplines, e.g., biology, ecology, physics, and material science, involve the formulation of free boundary problems.
      • keywords: boundary; free; problems
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2923. jm214m93s11
      • author: Wenjing Hu
      • title: Statistical Methods for Clinical Trial Design, Climate Projection and Air Pollution Assessment
      • date: 2021
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Physically constrained projections, in the presence of both observations and climate simulations, can be obtained by establishing an empirical relationship in the historical period, and use it to correct the bias of future simulations. This thesis presents three statistical projects on clinical trial design, climate projections and air pollution assessment.
      • keywords: air; bias; climate; clinical; design; future; pandemic; patients; projections; trial
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2924. jm214m93s9s
      • author: Jerry T. Crum
      • title: Interrogation and Catalytic Influence of Al Site Proximity and Topology in Brønsted Acid Zeolites
      • date: 2022
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: We further relate the topology of zeolite frameworks to ion exchange energy siting preferences for various monovalent cations in a number of common frameworks. The topology of zeolite frameworks and of associated tetrahedral sites (T-sites) are commonly characterized by their associated rings, typically defined as some set of closed paths or cycles through a framework that cannot be decomposed into shorter cycles.
      • keywords: common; frameworks; number; rings; sites; topology; zeolite
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2925. jm214m93v51
      • author: Zoe Darsee
      • title: Double Uncle or, What to Do about the Wife
      • date: 2023
      • words: 3
      • flesch: 90
      • summary: A verse novel.
      • keywords: novel
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2926. jq085h75x57
      • author: Jeremiah J. Gassensmith
      • title: The Supramolecular Chemistry of Squaraine Dyes and Anthracene Macrocycles
      • date: 2009
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: core; dye; interesting; macrocycle; process; synthetic; tetralactam
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2927. jq085h75x6k
      • author: Timothy Everett Wright
      • title: Privacy and Integrity in Collaborative, Virtual Environments
      • date: 2010
      • words: 171
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: cves; participants; technologies; wonderland
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2928. jq085h75x7x
      • author: Erik L. Peterson
      • 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
      • date: 2010
      • words: 399
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: bateson; evolution; life; neo; sciences; synthesis; waddington
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2929. jq085h75x9m
      • author: Takhmina Shokirova
      • title: Is Peace Achievable for Women? Comparative Study of Gender Relations in Private Sphere in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
      • date: 2010
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: The hypothesis to this research is: the more peaceful the approach to conflict resolution, the more gender equal policies will result in private sphere, and more security is distributed equally for women and men. The study thoroughly analyses the governmental policies related to gender equity in private sphere and distribution of security for women and men.
      • keywords: gender; policies; private
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2930. jq085h75z0t
      • author: Erin Elizabeth Hinz
      • title: Mermaid Pinch: Investigating Identity and Sexual Subjectivity within a Gendered System
      • date: 2015
      • words: 27
      • flesch: 67
      • summary: This paper will situate my paintings within the context of feminist theory and politics. I see my work as a continuation of past and present feminist thought.
      • keywords: feminist
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2931. jq085h75z8k
      • author: Manish Sushil Kelkar
      • title: Computing Transport Properties of Molecular and Ionic Fluids Using Atomistic Simulations
      • date: 2007
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: We report the results of first atomistic simulation study to compute the thermal conductivity of ionic liquid as well as the effect of water content on the transport properties (such as viscosity and thermal conductivity) of these liquids. Using mixture viscosity models, it is shown that the relative drop in viscosity with water content is actually less than that which would be predicted for an ideal system.
      • keywords: content; ionic; liquids; methylimidazolium; viscosity; water
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2932. jq085h7600d
      • author: Chan Yong Schuele
      • title: Control of Stationary Cross-Flow Modes in a Mach 3.5 Boundary Layer Using Patterned Passive and Active Roughness
      • date: 2011
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Two had minute (20 - 40 åµm) 'dimples' that are equally spaced around the circumference, at a streamwise location that is just upstream of the linear stability neutral growth branch for cross-flow modes. Spanwise-periodic roughness designed to excite selected wavelengths of stationary cross-flow modes was investigated in a 3-D boundary layer at Mach 3.5.
      • keywords: amplified; cone; cross; flow; modes; passive; roughness
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2933. jq085h7603f
      • author: Lori Molinari
      • title: The Ancient Republics and the Mixed Regime in Montesquieu's Political Thought
      • date: 2014
      • words: 130
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: dissertation; montesquieu
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2934. jq085h7604s
      • author: Jeremiah J. Castle
      • title: Rock of Ages: Subcultural Religious Identity and Public Opinion Among Evangelical Millennials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: I find that accounts of a new generation of liberal young evangelicals have been overstated: in terms of their partisan identity, ideology, and attitudes on abortion, young evangelicals are as conservative as ever. Drawing on research from sociology, I argue that evangelicalism is a subculture that is engaged in society but holds certain values that are contrary to society.
      • keywords: evangelicals; gay; marriage; political; subculture; young
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2935. jq085h76112
      • author: Kyle Muntz
      • title: The Holy Ghost
      • date: 1904
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: Along the way, the novel is a very serious exploration of the nature of goodness, knowledge, and belief in a strange, surreal world where human society and history are unrecognizable; prophets read the words of Holy Books embedded somewhere in their chest; and the stars are holes in the sky, letting the light of heaven shine through. A young boy's mother dies after being possessed by a demon—and, traumatized, the family leaves the village for the Holy City of Jerusalem: a place where, once every ten years, someone is sent to see God.
      • keywords: god; holy; village
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2936. jq085h76n6c
      • author: Christopher B. Wotta
      • title: The Metallicity Distribution of the Circumgalactic Medium of Galaxies at z &lt; 1
      • date: 1904
      • words: 483
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: This dissertation is composed of two related projects focused on assessing the metallicity distribution of circumgalactic gas at low redshift. We demonstrate a strong evolution of the metallicity with N(H I) between 16 and &gt;21 dex, i.e., from very ionized to neutral gas.
      • keywords: absorbers; cgm; distribution; gas; low; metallicity; survey
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2937. jq085h76n82
      • author: Michael Tze-Sung Longenecker
      • title: The Contingently Non-Concrete: Uses and Nature
      • date: 1904
      • words: 127
      • flesch: 53
      • 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.
      • keywords: concreta; non
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2938. jq085h76t2j
      • author: Chao Huang
      • title: Spatial-Temporal Data Inference and Forecasting: Models and Applications
      • date: 2019
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: With the advances in wireless and location-acquisition communication technologies, spatial-temporal data is ubiquitous in real world ranging from social media to urban planning. The results of the work in this proposal are important because they provide a solid analytical foundation to accurate and effective modeling of spatial-temporal data, and directly contribute to the emerging field of computational sustainability, social science and urban planning.
      • keywords: data; planning; spatial; temporal; work
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2939. jq085h7708f
      • author: Matt T. Trentman
      • title: Linking Land Use, Land Cover, and Floodplains with Phosphorus Cycling and Ecosystem Function in Streams
      • date: 2020
      • words: 427
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: I evaluated these linkages by measuring the effect of added land cover on tile drain P export and stream metabolism, and the effect of land use intensity on stream sediment P retention. Approximately 40% of global land cover is now used for some form of agriculture, and the mining of P for fertilizing crops has significantly increased the amount of bioavailable P in the biosphere.
      • keywords: cover; land; movement; stream; terrestrial; vegetative; water
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2940. jq085h7718r
      • author: Hongshuo Wang
      • title: Edge Termination Design of Vertical GaN High Voltage P-N Diodes and Current Leakage Study of GaN P-N Diodes
      • date: 2021
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Gallium nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap semiconductor with huge potential in power electronics devices due to its large direct bandgap (3.4eV), high critical electrical field, high electron saturation velocity, large electron mobility, and high thermal conductivity compared with other common materials like Si, GaAs and SiC. Based on this promise, vertical GaN diodes have been demonstrated that are promising for high-voltage power applications. Therefore, in order to improve the performance of high power GaN devices, it is essential to study the role of edge effects in these devices.
      • keywords: breakdown; design; diodes; field; gan; high; power; vertical
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2941. jq085h7733n
      • author: Connor Mullen
      • title: Combining Hydrology with Data Science and Economics to Address Modern Water Resources Challenges
      • date: 2022
      • words: 440
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: challenges; data; hydrologic; landscape; processes; situ; study; systems; water
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2942. js956d5969x
      • author: Elizabeth Ann Buchta
      • title: Self-Centering: Seeing Through Self-Distortion
      • date: 2010
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Works by Robert Rauschenberg and Tracey Emin, two artists who have been major influences and research interests of the author during her time at Notre Dame, provide a contextual reference for the use of personal autobiographical materials. The author discusses two groups of work completed during her second year as an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame.
      • keywords: artist; dame; notre
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2943. js956d5972t
      • author: Paul Louis Mikrut
      • title: Vibration of Axial Turbomachinery Blades: Measurement and Fluid-Structure Interactions
      • date: 2012
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The focus of this dissertation is on turbomachinery blade vibration measurements and unsteady fluid-structure interactions. Accurate blade vibration measurements are critical in product aero-mechanical design validation and can be difficult to obtain.
      • keywords: blade; dissertation; high; interactions; measurement; technique; vibration
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2944. js956d59735
      • author: Wei Zhao
      • title: Impact of Uniaxial Strain on the Electrical Characteristics of CMOS and Esaki Tunnel Diode
      • date: 2008
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: In this thesis, the impact of uniaxial strain on the peak tunneling current density of Esaki tunnel diodes is theoretically calculated, considering strain-induced changes in the bandgap, electron repopulation among different valleys (only for multi-valley conduction band minimum) and the reduced mass along the tunneling directions. From the theoretical calculation, it is found that uniaxial stress can be used to improve peak tunneling current density of Esaki tunnel diodes and the optimum directions for current and uniaxial stress are identified to achieve the largest increase in peak tunneling current for a given magnitude of uniaxial stress.
      • keywords: changes; current; esaki; strain; stress; tunneling; uniaxial
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2945. js956d5974h
      • author: Patrick L. Hill
      • title: How to Succeed in Morality without Really Trying: Testing the Influence of Implicit Prototypes on Moral Action
      • date: 2009
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: These results thus support claims that implicit moral actor prototypes do motivate moral action, and future research directions are discussed. Second, participants' perceptions of volunteer prototypes positively predicted their reported volunteer hours per week.
      • keywords: moral; participants; prototypes; volunteer
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2946. js956d5975v
      • author: Thomas F Rzeznik
      • title: Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Industrial Era Philadelphia
      • date: 2007
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: This research advances our understanding of American social and religious history in the modern era by revealing the prevalence and potency of religious belief among members of the upper class, and by giving heed to the ways in which social class affected religious institutions and their mission. In return for their outward commitment to religious principles, wealthy individuals obtained the spiritual capital necessary to secure social status and strengthen class identity.
      • keywords: class; religious; social; status; upper
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2947. js956d59766
      • author: Mary L. Hirschfeld
      • title: Virtuous Consumption in a Dynamic Economy: A Thomistic Engagement with Neoclassical Economics
      • date: 2013
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: To develop a meaningful account of economic justice requires an account of the role economic goods play in a good human life. Aquinas's nuanced views on private property accommodate the insights of economists about the role of markets and incentives, while still ordering economic goods to the virtues, including the virtue of economic justice.
      • keywords: account; aquinas; behavior; economic; economists; human
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2948. js956d5977j
      • author: Ching He
      • title: Analysis and Design of Multiple Turbo Codes
      • date: 2005
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Compared to conventional turbo codes using the best DRP permutors, significant improvement has been achieved by using multiple turbo codes with linear permutors. The extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart method is then generalized to multiple turbo codes and used to search for low complexity multiple turbo codes with low convergence thresholds.
      • keywords: codes; distance; linear; minimum; multiple; permutors; turbo
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2949. js956d5978w
      • author: Lucas Isaac Gonzalez
      • title: Primus Contra Pares: Presidents, Governors, and the Struggles over the Distribution of Power in Federal Democracies
      • date: 2010
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Relying on a statistical analysis, it also tests the main explanation and alternative arguments to account for changes in the distribution of resources and functions in federal democracies in a large-N study. It finally concludes with some theoretical and comparative implications for the study of fiscal federalism and the functioning of developing federal democracies.
      • keywords: changes; distribution; federal; fiscal; government; resources; theoretical
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2950. js956d5980f
      • author: Travis David Marsico
      • title: Post-glacial migration, limitations to poleward range expansion, and growth responses to future climates of plants in the Garry oak ecosystem
      • date: 2009
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: One way to tackle the limits to generalization is to investigate range limiting factors and patterns of range shift for well-chosen taxa in a comparative fashion to glean general principles. Yet many species are not or not yet exhibiting range changes associated with anthropogenic climate change.
      • keywords: climate; dispersal; experiment; factors; important; limitation; range; species
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2951. js956d59824
      • author: Kimberly F. Baker
      • title: Augustine on Action, Contemplation, and Their Meeting Point in Christ
      • date: 2007
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: It argues that Augustine resolves this question theologically in Christ with his doctrine of the totus Christus, L558the whole Christ with Christ as Head and the Church as Body, teaching that Christ united himself to all of humanity in order to transform humanity into his Body, the Church. Chapter 4 concludes the dissertation by describing the value Christ's love gives to daily life as it becomes a place for meeting Christ as well as the matrix for ongoing conformation to Christ as the Church joins his work of love.
      • keywords: christ; church; contemplation; totus
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2952. js956d5983g
      • author: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
      • title: The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven
      • date: 2015
      • words: 8
      • flesch: 82
      • summary: A collection of short stories and a novella.
      • keywords: novella
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2953. js956d59d73
      • author: Laura Lemna
      • title: Incremental Adjustments
      • date: 1904
      • words: 90
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: This thesis is an exploration in the ways that painting and the specific historical languages of abstraction can represent attitudes, strategies and processes that arise under competing pressures to be unwavering in our decisions and our public and self-images, while also staying easy-going and adaptable in the face of recent technologies, social media platforms, and instantaneous and overwhelming access to information and opinions. Through a combination of gestural mark-making and wobbly geometric design, I reflect a human desire to create and contribute in productive and meaningful ways.
      • keywords: opinions; ways
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2954. js956d59x21
      • author: Lisa E. Irimata
      • title: An Anatomic Breast Phantom Mimicking Varying Levels of Radiographic Tissue Density for Investigating Contrast-Enhanced Detection of Microcalcifications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 236
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The radiographic density of breast tissue varies between women depending on the relative amounts of low-density adipose tissue and high-density fibroglandular tissue. PEGylated bisphosphonate-functionalized gold nanoparticles (BP-PEG-Au NPs) enabled contrast-enhanced detection of µcals as small as 0.5 mm in hydrogels mimicking dense breast tissue using laboratory and preclinical micro-computed tomography.
      • keywords: breast; cancer; density; tissue; µcals
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2955. js956d59x83
      • author: Eve A. Granatosky
      • title: Biosynthetic Access to the GEX1A Scaffold: A Novel Therapeutic Approach for Niemann-Pick Type C Disease
      • date: 1904
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: We also attempted to manipulate GEX1A biosynthesis in S. chromofuscus through genetic manipulation, by inactivating one or more of the genes involved in tailoring the GEX1A scaffold. We finally examined the effects of GEX1A on in vitro models of NPC disease at the cellular and molecular levels.
      • keywords: chromofuscus; disease; gex1a; natural; npc; npc1; production
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2956. js956d6091v
      • author: Louis Faust
      • title: Modeling Physiological and Behavioral Data Streams Towards Health Insights
      • date: 2020
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: By successfully informing users of their health through their health behaviors, wearable devices will serve as a pervasive and convenient platform for engaging with personal health. The fine grained physiological and behavioral measurements these devices provide serve as invaluable tools for the fields of health and wellness.
      • keywords: behaviors; devices; health; wearable
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2957. js956d6094w
      • author: Rrezarta Krasniqi
      • title: Detecting Emerging Quality-Related Concerns across Evolving Software Artifacts
      • date: 2020
      • words: 486
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In the broader context, this thesis makes an effort to further enhance comprehension of quality concerns during software maintenance and evolution, software reuse, code reuse, and supports consistency between design and the code. Seemingly, the architectural knowledge associated with quality concerns becomes fragmented across implemented code leading to architectural drift phenomena.
      • keywords: architectural; bug; code; concerns; developers; functional; level; quality; requirements; software
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2958. js956d60c4h
      • author: Audrey K. Taylor
      • title: Biomarker Methods in Paleoclimatology: Applications to the Southeast African Margin and Mediterranean Region
      • date: 2022
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The δDwax record produced for Chapter 3 represents the only one of its kind for the region, resolving seasonal rainfall dynamics and providing continuous, sub-millennial hydroclimatic context for early human dispersal out of Africa. Ultimately, Chapter 2 addresses a critical spatiotemporal gap in geologic records of African climate and helps establish regional rainfall controls related to the Indian Ocean and high-latitude glaciation that may inform forecasts of future climate.
      • keywords: aquatic; chapter; early; ecosystem; glycerol; human; lagoon; mis; ocean; rainfall; δdwax
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2959. jw827942g7s
      • author: Molly M. Zahn
      • title: The Forms and Methods of Early Jewish Reworkings of the Pentateuch in Light of 4Q158
      • date: 2009
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The analysis conducted here provides empirical foundations for exploring issues that arise out of this discussion, such as the relationship between particular forms of reworking and particular exegetical goals; the connection between particular forms and purposes of reworking and the status of the resulting rewritten text; and the ways in which rewritten texts that constitute new compositions can be distinguished from expanded editions of biblical books. The methods of reworking in the 4QRP manuscripts are then compared with those evidenced in two related texts or text groups: the Samaritan Pentateuch and its Qumranic forebears, and the Temple Scroll (11QT).
      • keywords: analysis; forms; manuscripts; new; particular; texts
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2960. jw827942g84
      • author: Haitao Wang
      • title: Algorithms and Data Structures for Geometric Object Approximation Problems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In this dissertation, we study a number of geometric approximation problems. In addition, we study the problems of approximating a piecewise linear nonnegative functional curve in the plane by a set of 'simpler' nonnegative curves, which can be a nonincreasing curve and a nondecreasing curve, or a set of unimodal curves, or a piecewise linear curve with fewer peaks.
      • keywords: algorithms; curve; geometric; problems; query; set
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2961. jw827942h2c
      • author: Francis James Raycroft
      • title: Characterization of the JAK1 / Stat3 pathway during zebrafish retinal development and light-induced photoreceptor regeneration
      • date: 2015
      • words: 665
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Also, previous studies demonstrated that tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat3 and downstream activation of Stat3-activated genes, including the two zebrafish paralogues of Socs3 (socs3a and socs3b), was associated with neuronal regeneration (Elsaeidi et al., 2014; Liang et al., 2012). We demonstrated previously that, following light-induced photoreceptor cell death, a loss of either TNF&#945; or Stat3 reduced M?ller glial cell proliferation significantly, suggesting that the number of M?ller glia that reenter the cell cycle following retinal damage was dependent upon coordinated expression of TNF&#945; and Stat3 (Nelson et al., 2013).
      • keywords: cell; development; expression; glial; m?ller; proliferation; retina; socs1; socs3a; stat3; tnf&#945; zebrafish
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2962. jw827942j00
      • author: Kelsey Blomeke
      • title: Stress Generation in Marital Interactions Among Currently Depressed, Past Depressed, and Never Depressed Spouses
      • date: 2013
      • words: 161
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Contrary to hypotheses, partners with a history of depression did not engage in more criticism-eliciting behaviors than never-depressed partners; however, they did engage in more support-eliciting behaviors (when controlling for dyadic adjustment) even though their spouses did not provide more support, which supports the excessive-reassurance seeking model. The stress-generation model of depression (Hammen, 1991) posits that people with current or past depression behave in ways that generate more frequent negative stressful life events, and that this, in turn, leads to the maintenance or recurrence of depression.
      • keywords: comments; depression; model; stress
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2963. jw827942j2p
      • author: Lesley-Anne Dyer
      • title: Translating Eternity in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
      • date: 2011
      • words: 412
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Chapter two argues that Richard of St. Victor's De Trinitate (1170) develops Anselm's theories of Eternity as Divine Maximum in a Trinitarian direction by articulating more fully what it means to be a Trinity of co-eternal persons. The second section looks at twelfth-century works that are inspired by Platonic sources, primarily Calcidius' translation and commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Macrobius, and Martianus Capella.
      • keywords: century; chapter; concept; divine; eternity; sources; twelfth
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2964. jw827942j5q
      • author: Aanuoluwa Adeola Adelani
      • title: Genetic Approaches and Therapeutic Strategies Against Severe Malaria
      • date: 2014
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In this project, we investigated the role of members of merozoite surface protein 7 (MSP7) family for their modulatory effect on malaria invasion, death and cerebral malaria using in-vivo rodent models in acute infection BALB/c mouse and experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) C57BL/6 mouse. This formulation is thus proposed as a future treatment option for late stage cerebral malaria.
      • keywords: cerebral; death; ecm; formulation; infection; malaria; proteins; treatment; vivo
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2965. jw82794370g
      • author: Xin Mu
      • title: Molecular Dynamics Study of Thermal Energy Transport in Graphene-Based Materials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 832
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Overall, the projects conducted in my PhD study contributed to a better understanding of the thermal transport physics in pristine graphene, functionalized graphene, graphene superlattice and graphene/metal interface, which is of significant scientific importance. Graphene, which has ultrahigh thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power factors, can potentially be used as the core material for these two applications.
      • keywords: boundaries; conductance; conductivity; coverage; grain; graphene; heat; interface; oxygen; phonon; polycrystalline; pristine; project; study; thermal; transport
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2966. jw827943876
      • author: Michael W. Altenburger
      • title: Hans Urs von Balthasar: Apocalyptic, Politics, and the Church
      • date: 2018
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The third chapter initiates the turn to political theology proper by placing Balthasar in conversation with Saint Augustine, the figure of architectonic significance for Christian political theology. Central features of Balthasar's apocalyptic theology are identified in this dissertation in order to open up the resources of those features for political theology.
      • keywords: apocalypse; balthasar; chapter; features; political; theological; theology
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2967. jw827943j9c
      • author: Kristina Hook
      • title: When the Ukrainian World Was Destroyed: Genocidal Narrative Convergence and Stakeholder Interactions during National Crises
      • date: 2020
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 13
      • 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.
      • keywords: holodomor; influential; narratives; national; processes; stakeholders; suffering; ukraine
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2968. jw827943n2w
      • author: Hadrian Renaldo Olayvar Aquino
      • title: Electrical-to-Spin-Wave Transducers for Spin-Wave Computing Devices
      • date: 2022
      • words: 551
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: Relatively large CPWs are used to launch spin waves having long wavelengths in the Supermalloy; these waves travel into the YIG where they are converted into short-wavelength spin waves. This work contributes new designs of electrical-to-spin-wave transducers for the realization of computing devices based on the interference and diffraction of spin waves in a magnetic thin film.
      • keywords: cpw; devices; film; simulations; spin; wavelength; waves; work; yig
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2969. jw827943p88
      • author: Kathleen Reynolds Nicholson
      • title: Secretion and Transcription: New Regulatory Mechanisms of Virulence Control By ESX-1
      • date: 2023
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Collectively, our findings have expanded our understanding of ESX-1 regulation, emphasizing that this regulation is both multifaceted and complex, involving coordination of ESX-1 substrates and transcription factors themselves. We also defined roles of additional ESX-1 substrates inside the mycobacterial cell.
      • keywords: esx-1; mycobacterial; secretion; system
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2970. k0698625s02
      • author: Alonso Faruck Morcos Gonzalez
      • title: Multiscale Protein Networks: Interactions, Two Component Systems and Kinetics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: This work presents a multiscale approach to study protein networks. This network based approach reproduced experimental studies in E. coli and produced a series of hypotheses of domain specificity that could extend our knowledge of interaction interfaces in two-component systems.
      • keywords: approach; domain; experimental; molecular; network; protein; scale; specificity; work
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2971. k0698625s1d
      • author: Michael Joseph Keane
      • title: Political Equality and the Empirical Analysis of Deliberation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: deliberation; equality; groups; likely; political
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2972. k0698625s4f
      • author: Marie Yvonne Bourgeois
      • title: Inside Out: Graphic Design's Place in Beauty, Distortion and Ugly Truths
      • date: 2012
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: By contrasting the unattainable images of femininity presented in make-up ads with the ugly reality that cosmetics contain toxins, this thesis and the accompanying Fierce Cosmetics Campaign question the out-of-control nature of consumer culture in the United States and graphic design's role in contributing to, as well as subverting, the advertising industry. One can contribute to existing critiques of the advertising-design relationship by examining marketing practices for beauty products.
      • keywords: advertising; beauty; design
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2973. k0698625s5s
      • author: Jing Zhou
      • title: Fabrication of ALGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors
      • date: 2011
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: The atomic force microscopic study show the roughness of etched GaN surfaces is comparable with that of the as-grown surface. Cl2-based GaN reactive ion etching, as a critical step of HEMT process flow, is investigated to obtain consistent etch rates with smooth etched surfaces.
      • keywords: algan; etch; gan; hemts; mbe; surfaces
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2974. k0698625s64
      • author: Christopher M. Moretti
      • title: Abstractions for Scientific Computing on Campus Grids
      • date: 2010
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The discussion of the abstractions includes modeling of the problem, managing input data, organizing computation on the campus grid, and managing output data. These abstractions are used for several problems in bioinformatics, biometrics, and data mining.
      • keywords: abstractions; computation; data; non; pairs
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2975. k0698625s7g
      • author: Joe Reese Haywood
      • title: Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations of Neutron Stars
      • date: 2006
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Also of current interest is the detection of gravitational radiation from binary neutron stars, black-hole neutron star binaries, binary black holes, etc. [89] are confirmed, which show that the neutron stars can collapse to black holes before colliding when the EOS is realistic and we also confirm results of Miller [56] and others that there is essentially no compression, the central density does not increase, when the stiffer equation of state is used.
      • keywords: binary; eos; gravitational; neutron; relativistic; signal; stars
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2976. k0698625s8t
      • author: Nathan J. Alves
      • title: Utilization of the Conserved Antibody Nucleotide Binding Site (NBS): From Antibody Purification and Advanced Medical Diagnostics to Next Generation Therapeutics
      • date: 2013
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: This method of crosslinking also has implications in the development of next generation pharmaceutical antibodies by providing a site-specific insertion of functional moieties such as: chemotherapeutics, cell penetrating peptides, targeting sequences for bispecific antibody preparation, imaging molecules, and immobilization of antibodies to various nanoparticle drug delivery platforms, without negatively impacting antibody-antigen binding interactions. This dissertation will demonstrate how an underutilized, highly conserved binding domain located on the antibody variable fragment, known as the nucleotide binding site (NBS), can be implemented for antibody purification, advanced medical diagnostic development and for next generation antibody based therapeutics.
      • keywords: antibody; development; iba; immobilization; method; nbs; site; specific; target
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2977. k0698625s95
      • author: Wenyi Zhang
      • title: The Role of Correlation in Communication over Fading Channels
      • date: 2006
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In the low-SNR regime, it is shown using asymptotic analysis that spatially correlated antennas lead to both multiplicative rate gain as well as peak power reduction, at no cost of additional transmit power. In wireless communication systems with no channel state information (CSI) available at the transmitter or receiver, channel correlation plays a pivotal role in analyzing system behavior.
      • keywords: channel; correlation; low; noise; snr; thesis; time
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2978. k0698625t22
      • author: Sarita Reena Mendonca
      • title: Function of P.falciparum MAEBL ligand domain M2 in the invasion of Anopheles salivary glands
      • date: 2010
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The aims of my research are: 1) To gain insights into the structure of ligand domain M2 and to determine its function of in the invasion of mosquito salivary glands, 2) To study the role of glycosaminoglycans in MAEBL ligand-receptor interactions. To understand the function of MAEBL ligand domains in the invasion of mosquito salivary glands, the ligand domain M2, and the subdomains of M2, M2sd1 and M2sd2 were cloned and expressed in the BL21(DE3)pLysE strain of E.coli.
      • keywords: domain; glands; ligand; maebl; salivary
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2979. k0698625t4r
      • author: Jeremiah John
      • title: The Moral Life of Law in Hegel
      • date: 2007
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Hegel's philosophy of law is in the tradition of natural law, broadly speaking, but it is just as much an overcoming of modern natural law, since it proposes not only to provide a evaluative standard against which one might judge existing laws, but an account of how the potentially critical perspective of the moral individual can be brought to an attitude of free assent to and reverence for objective laws and institutions. It is a distinctive feature of Hegel's moral and political philosophy that it is characterized as a philosophy of right or law.
      • keywords: account; hegel; law; philosophy
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2980. k0698625t53
      • author: Xiaoyue Zhang
      • title: The Role of 7-Hydroxy Group In Epothilone D
      • date: 2010
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Our group has contributed to these studies by focusing on the conformational constraints of the molecule, and has probed the bound conformation through analogue design. Several proposed pharmacophore models have suggested that the C7-hydroxyl group represents an important point of contact with the protein receptor through hydrogen bonding.
      • keywords: epothilones; group; hydroxyl
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2981. k0698626g4x
      • author: Erin M. Franks
      • title: A Regional and Hierarchical Assessment of Cranial Plasticity and Dietary Adaptations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: This is critically important as it suggests that physiological adaptation, and corresponding variation in skeletal performance, may reside differentially at one level of bony architecture, thus potentially affecting accurate behavioral reconstructions. It was hypothesized that masticatory regions would exhibit a more pronounced response to elevated loading and that cortical bone quantity and quality would be positively related to diet-induced loading levels in masticatory elements.
      • keywords: bone; loading; long; masticatory; mechanical; related; sites; variation
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2982. k0698626n4g
      • author: Caitlin Stevenson
      • title: Lay Reading, Writing, and Religious Authority in Fifteenth-Century Germany
      • date: 2019
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: These books reflect a massive movement of pastoral theology aimed at filtering scholastic theology into its most basic teaching to reach as many lay people as possible, which Berndt Hamm has called *Frömmigkeitstheologie*. This dissertation investigates the impact of this body of literature through the writers overlooked by the top-down focus of a *Frömmigkeitstheologie* paradigm: lay people.
      • keywords: century; fifteenth; literature; people; religious; writers
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2983. k0698626w08
      • author: None
      • title: k0698626w08
      • date: None
      • words: 886
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Moreover, our analysis of solid state systems based on perovskite (CsPbBr3) quantum dot superlattices provides a theoretical framework able to explain recent observations of superradiant emission. In search of a common mechanism to cooperativity and its robustness, we have compared the Cooper pair model of superconductivity and single-excitation superradiance, showing many similarities between the two: in particular, superradiant systems present an imaginary gap in the complex plane (that is, a segregation between the lifetimes of the system eigenstates) that, similarly to the superconducting gap, makes these systems robust to static disorder.
      • keywords: aggregate; collective; cooperative; dimer; disorder; energy; field; interaction; molecular; noise; quantum; room; state; superradiance; systems; temperature; wavelength
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2984. k0698626w4n
      • author: Liam de los Reyes
      • title: By Nature Common: Foundations for a Natural Law Theory of the Convention of Property
      • date: 2021
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In the penultimate chapter I show why Locke offers an unsuitable lens for interpreting CST: his approach is logically incoherent, conducive to imperialist thought and practice, and, contrary to the patristic and scholastic traditions, holds that property is primarily a power of personal use. It offers, in other words, a Christian theory of property: identifying key principles from patristic discourse; how these principles are explicated and systematized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century canon lawyers and theologians; and why this tradition offers a compelling lens to interpret Catholic Social Teaching.
      • keywords: christian; cst; principles; property; social; tradition; use
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2985. k0698626z3x
      • author: Whitney M. Conard
      • title: Integration of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems of the Great Lakes Region
      • date: 2022
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: aquatic; contaminants; dissertation; fish; habitat; lake; michigan; pfas; types
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2986. k3569309196
      • author: Zhenhua Gong
      • title: Interference, Outage, and Throughput in Mobile Wireless Networks
      • date: 2013
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We quantify the temporal correlation of the interference and outage in mobile Poisson networks in terms of the correlation coefficient of the interference and conditional outage probability, respectively. Bounds of the local delay in mobile Poisson networks are derived for different mobility and transmission models.
      • keywords: delay; interference; local; mobile; mobility; networks
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2987. k356930920d
      • author: Jennifer E. Rosato
      • title: Opening Oneself to An Other: Sartre's and Levinas' Phenomenological Ethics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: I then proceed to discuss these philosophers' accounts of relations with others, and discuss in detail the ethical theory that Sartre and Levinas develop on the basis of their respective descriptions of self and others. I begin the project by circumscribing the sense in which I take it that both Sartre and Levinas are working within the phenomenological tradition, and by outlining the fundamental assumptions -- phenomenological and ontological -- about the self and its position in the world upon which Sartre's and Levinas' ethics are based.
      • keywords: ethics; levinas; sartre
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2988. k356930923f
      • author: Ann Catherine Johnson
      • title: Defining Working Memory Deficits in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Search for Impairment in Active Maintenance and Cue-Dependent Retrieval
      • date: 2010
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: With this knowledge, researchers developed working memory training programs for individuals with ADHD in the hopes of ameliorating working memory deficits and alleviating symptoms of the disorder. The reported experiments shed light on this area by utilizing a model of working memory that evaluates two components of working memory, active maintenance in primary memory (PM) and cue-dependent retrieval from secondary memory (SM).
      • keywords: adhd; memory; training
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2989. k356930924s
      • author: Michael Patrick Griffin
      • title: The Politics of Penance: Proposing an Ethic for Social Repair
      • date: 2014
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: I then turn to Thomas Aquinas who understands penance as both a gift offered to sinners in the sacrament and a virtue which restores justice by capacitating sinners for right relationship. I show why these are distinct elements in a coordinated movement toward justice as the re-establishment of right relationship.
      • keywords: case; ethic; justice; penance; relationship; right
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2990. k3569309312
      • author: Heather Claire Treseler
      • title: Lyric Letters: Elizabeth Bishop's Epistolary Poems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This project materially legitimates that claim by showing how, in the epistolary poem, Bishop manifests a genius for both the reinvention of traditional forms and the assimilation of popular cultural tropes. Thus, Lyric Letters asserts Bishop's enduring legacy and challenge: the integration of generic literature with the media of everyday life in the authorship of lyric verisimilitude.
      • keywords: bishop; cold; epistolary; letters; lyric; poems; poetry; queer; war
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2991. k356930932d
      • author: David A Ams
      • title: Experimental Studies of Bacterial Interactions with Aqueous Heavy Metal Cations and Mineral Surfaces
      • date: 2005
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Metal adsorption onto bacterial surfaces, bacterial adsorption onto mineral surfaces, and bacterially mediated mineral dissolution can control mass transport in bacteria-bearing geologic systems. Chapter 3 describes a study of the effect of metabolism on Cd adsorption onto Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial cells.
      • keywords: adsorption; bacterial; cells; chapter; gram; metabolizing; mineral
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2992. k3569309343
      • author: Jonathan Simpkins
      • title: Modeling and Estimation of Spatially-Varying Point-Spread Functions due to Lens Aberrations and Defocus
      • date: 2011
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In simulated PSF sets with spread measure noise as strong as 10 dB SNR, the proposed model consistently led to PSF estimates with a 5 dB SNR improvement over the observations, and typically a 10 dB SNR improvement. Existing PSF models are either parameterized and spatially-invariant, or spatially-varying and discretely-defined.
      • keywords: model; psf; snr
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2993. k3569309374
      • author: Erin Michele Johnson
      • title: Tribology of Large Diameter Head Total Hip Devices
      • date: 2014
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Finally, using wear equations and film parameter estimations, wear factor as a function of film parameter was calculated, resulting in distinct regions for particular bearing technologies, providing initial data for establishing formulas to calculate wear factor values for these bearings. Contact mechanics of these bearings confirmed that careful selection of design parameters, such as material, diameter, clearance, and surface roughness is needed in the design of the bearings in order to balance the magnitude and distribution of the contact pressure between the articulating surfaces, with surface roughness identified as a primary driver of film parameter and clearance as a primary driver of film thickness.
      • keywords: analyses; bearings; ceramic; experimental; film; simulations; wear
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2994. k3569309463
      • author: Somayeh Vojdani
      • title: On Presburger Arithmetic, Nonstandard Finite Cyclic Groups, and Definable Compactifications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 236
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: We consider nonstandard analogues of finite cyclic groups as a family of groups defined in an elementary extension of Presburger arithmetic. Since the theory of Presburger arithmetic has NIP, any such group H has a smallest type-definable subgroup of bounded index.
      • keywords: arithmetic; group; presburger; theory
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2995. k3569309808
      • author: Seog Joon Yoon
      • title: Role of Mixed Halide on Photophysical Properties of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Compounds
      • date: 1904
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite is currently one strong candidate for next generation solar cells. To apply the perovskite compounds to solar cell devices, it is undebatable that one must study the fundamental photophysical properties and basic chemistry of these perovskite.
      • keywords: absorption; energy; halide; perovskite; process; recovery; rich; segregation; solar
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2996. k3569309t1k
      • author: Clayton R. Johnson
      • title: Modeling and Quantifying Bacterial Metal Adsorption in Aqueous Systems
      • date: 2018
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: The ability to predict the fate of metals in complex geological systems is dependent on: understanding bacterial adsorption mechanisms, being able to quantify bacterial metal adsorption, and creating accurate models for bacterial metal adsorption. Chapter 2 describes how the ratio of Hg to bacteria, known as Hg loading, affects the mechanism of bacterial Hg adsorption.
      • keywords: adsorption; bacterial; metal; systems
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2997. k3569309t9b
      • author: Stewart Clem
      • title: Truth as a Virtue: A Thomistic Framework for the Ethics of Lying and Truthtelling
      • date: 2018
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: How should we interpret the crisis of truth in the 21st This approach generates a more precise taxonomy of speech acts, demonstrating the ways in which these acts and their corresponding habits are opposed to the virtues of truth and justice.
      • keywords: aquinas; lying; permissible; truth; virtue
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2998. k3569310027
      • author: Gregory Cousins
      • title: Some Model Theory of Fields and Differential Fields
      • date: 2019
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The fourth chapter is based on joint work with Quentin Brouette, Anand Pillay, and Françoise Point in which we prove that if T is a theory of large, bounded fields of characteristic 0 with almost quantifier elimination, and T' is the model companion of T together with the statement d is a derivation then for any model (U, d) of T', differential subfield K of U such that C(K) is a model of T, and logarithmic differential equation dlog(z)=a (defined over some algebraic group G that is definable over C(K)), there is a strongly normal extension L of K for the equation with L a differential subfield of U. The third chapter is dedicated to the study, and characterization, of differential fields with a notion of largeness for differential-algebraic sets.
      • keywords: chapter; differential; fields; model
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2999. k356931058v
      • author: Hrafn Traustason
      • title: The Development of New Calorimetric Methods Aid the Understanding of Uranyl Peroxide Nanocluster Solution Behavior
      • date: 2021
      • words: 206
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In total, the energy landscapes for 10 UPCs, two Mo POMs, and one uranyl peroxide monomer (building block of UPCs) were analyzed by obtaining values for enthalpy of formation of POM crystals (ΔHf,(c)), enthalpy of formation of aqueous POMs (ΔHf,(aq)), and enthalpy of dissolution (ΔHdiss). The studies were primarily conducted on uranyl peroxide nanoclusters (UPCs).
      • keywords: enthalpy; poms; u24; upcs; uranyl
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3000. k3569310685
      • author: Jon Kara Shields
      • title: Listen to the Word That God Has Spoken: The Study of Christian Communities in Christian Ethics
      • date: 2022
      • words: 516
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The interdependency of the practices of individual participants and their congregation in these particular congregations as well as the high levels of engagement reveal the fittingness of a participatory hermeneutic to Christian life when that life is believed to include a mandate to both a just distribution of formative care and the just (re)distribution of other shared relational goods of life together. Through discernment practices, Christian congregations act corporately to recognize God's presence and address.
      • keywords: acts; christian; congregation; discernment; ethics; god; life; participants; practices; presence
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3001. k3569310801
      • author: Sabrina Khan
      • title: Developing Functional Nanoparticle Assemblies to Facilitate Enhanced Efficacy and Controlled Release of Therapeutic Payloads in Cancer Treatment
      • date: 2023
      • words: 408
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Furthermore, the approaches described in this thesis have the possibility to overcome existing challenges of poor clinical outcomes in cancer treatments, such as less effective treatment, shorter life expectancy, poorer prognosis, and greater risk of cancer relapse in already suffering patients. The majority of nanomedicine used in cancer treatment, vaccination, diagnostics, fungal treatment, or analgesics, are FDA-approved lipid-based nanoparticles, that have not been targeted yet.
      • keywords: cancer; endosomal; escape; formulations; nanomedicine; peptide; targeted; treatment; tumor
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3002. k356931081c
      • author: Vanessa E. Rubio Ramos
      • title: The Role of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes During the Assembly of Tropical Plant Communities through the Lens of Functional Groups
      • date: 2023
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; forests; functional; groups; species; tropical
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3003. k6439z92b2p
      • author: David Mark DiQuattro
      • title: Learning to Speak: A Prelude to an Augustinian Conception of Practical Reason
      • date: 2010
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This dissertation seeks to develop the outline of an Augustinian approach to ethics by bringing Augustine into contact with contemporary reflections on practical reason. The dissertation articulates an Augustinian understanding of practical reason by discussing ways that these debates can benefit from Augustine's insight that all exercises of practical reason which fail to recognize that the human heart is restless until it rests in God are self-defeating.
      • keywords: approach; augustine; augustinian; practical; reason
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3004. k6439z92b31
      • author: Nicole Paxton Sullo
      • title: Imagining Local Identity in Medieval Puglia: Wall Paintings in the Rock-Cut Churches of Casalrotto
      • date: 2010
      • words: 85
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This thesis examines the wall paintings in the rock-cut churches of Sant'Angelo, Santa Margherita, and San Nicola in the medieval village of Casalrotto in Puglia, Italy. This analysis seeks to understand these churches through their local particularities and idiosyncrasies in order to gain an understanding of their function and reveal elements of the religious identity in Casalrotto from the mid-twelfth to thirteenth-century.
      • keywords: casalrotto; churches
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3005. k6439z92b62
      • author: Jessica Renee Stoller-Conrad
      • title: Determination and Characterization of Novel Genes Influencing Drosophila Hematopoietic Development
      • date: 2012
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Two genes whose functions have been studied in the differentiation of germline stem cells of Drosophila, bag-of-marbles (bam) and zero population growth (zpg), and have been found by our lab to be necessary for normal larval hematopoiesis. Though bam and zpg were originally thought to be specific to the germline, we hypothesize that these and other factors involved in germline stem cell maintenance and differentiation may also be important in hematopoietic progenitor maintenance and differentiation.
      • keywords: bam; cell; differentiation; drosophila; hematopoiesis; stem; zpg
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3006. k6439z92b7d
      • author: Sandra L. Dedo
      • title: Violent Fragility
      • date: 2010
      • words: 3
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: Creative Writing Thesis
      • keywords: creative
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3007. k6439z92b8r
      • author: Brian Joseph Seger
      • title: Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrocatalytic Aspects of Proton Exchange Membrane Based Nanostructured Assemblies
      • date: 2009
      • words: 438
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: electrons; fuel; graphene; membrane; nafion; oxide; platinum; protons; reduction
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3008. k6439z92b93
      • author: Craig Matthew Goehler
      • title: Design of a Humanoid Shoulder-Elbow Complex
      • date: 2008
      • words: 123
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: A difficulty with humanoid design is the kinematic interpretation of human joints and the development of mechanisms that can mimic human motion. Experimental results are presented highlighting the accuracy of this mechanism along with the similarities to human configurations.
      • keywords: development; elbow; human
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3009. k6439z92c09
      • author: Aaron Segal
      • title: Hume-Inspired Metaphysics
      • date: 2013
      • words: 382
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: It particular, it appears to imply that causal, nomic, and temporal-direction relations are all extrinsic (and always extrinsic to their bearers), and that the causal and nomic relations globally supervene on the non-causal non-nomic properties and relations. That principle says, very roughly, that scenarios that are patched together from other possible scenarios are themselves possible.
      • keywords: dilemma; hume; lewis; patchwork; principle
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3010. k6439z92c1n
      • author: Kyle Daily
      • title: Size-Dependent Cutoff Methods: A Statistical, Dynamic and Structural Comparison
      • date: 2010
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: Cases are also shown in which the MIX and MAX cutoff methods do not produce the same dynamical or structural results as the traditional cutoff method. The new MAX cutoff method uses the larger contacted distance of the pair to calculated cutoff.
      • keywords: cutoff; method
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3011. k6439z92c4p
      • author: Megan Halteman Zwart
      • title: What Simple Description Can Never Grasp: Heidegger and the Plato of Myth
      • date: 2009
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Calling his reading of Plato impatient, violent and coercive, critics argue that Heidegger's caricature of Plato is driven by his life-long desire to deconstruct the tradition of western philosophy from Plato onward. These close readings lay the groundwork to view Heidegger's later move towards non-theoretical discourse as a continuation of his early attention to muthos discourse in Plato, rather than as an abrupt transition.
      • keywords: discourse; heidegger; logos; plato; reading
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3012. k6439z92c6c
      • author: Angela Bobeldyk
      • title: Spread and impacts of freshwater invasive invertebrates in North America
      • date: 2009
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: My dissertation investigates the spread and impacts of a group of invasive aquatic invertebrates in stream ecosystems - an invasive gastropod (Chinese mystery snail), bivalve (zebra mussel), and crustacean (rusty crayfish). Finally, I summarized for the first time the state-of-the-knowledge on the distribution of aquatic invasive invertebrates in the U.S. and identified current invasional hotspots.
      • keywords: aquatic; chinese; crayfish; invasive; invertebrates; mystery; rusty; species
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3013. k6439z92c7q
      • author: Edurne Zoco
      • title: The Collapse of Party Systems in Italy, Peru, and Venezuela: A Cross-Regional Theory
      • date: 2010
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: This study contributes to the existing literature on collapse by offering a clear definition and operationalization of party system collapse and contending that causes of collapse are common across cases and that can be identified following a process-tracing methodology. This dissertation develops a cross-regional theory of party system collapse.
      • keywords: collapse; party; system; theory
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3014. k6439z92f18
      • author: Mary Prokop
      • title: La Battaglia de' Debili Cigli: Mending the Eyes in Dante's Commedia and George Herbert's The Temple
      • date: 1904
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: It explores both poets' presentation of la battaglia de' debili cigli— the battle of the weak eyelashes, in which human vision is strengthened in order to perceive divine revelation and love (Paradiso 23, 78). It then addresses Herbert's emphasis on how God mends human eyes (The H. Scriptures (I), 9).
      • keywords: dante; herbert; human; temple
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3015. k6439z92h9n
      • author: Danyal Floisand
      • title: Probing Structure and Dynamics Using Simulations That Connect to Vibrational Spectroscopy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Finally, the calculated spectral diffusion dynamics show that water in the vicinity of the DNA backbone is slowed by a factor of five, in agreement with NMR and solvation dynamics experiments, as well as previous MD simulations. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of isolated water, methanol, and ethanol in the 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [emim][NTf2], IL were performed to shed insight into the nature of coupled solute-ion dynamics.
      • keywords: alcohol; diffusion; dna; dynamics; spectral; vibrational; water
      • versions: original; plain text
3016. k6439z9316j
      • author: Jeff Snapper
      • title: Ontological Commitment, Paraphrase, and Nihilism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Roughly, neutral commitment pluralism is the thesis that a good criterion of commitment does not choose any particular logic for determining commitments, but instead uses different ones, and so yields a variety of verdicts on the commitments of a given theory. This dissertation is a defense of a logical criterion of ontological commitment, an argument for neutral commitment pluralism, a defense of a useful paraphrase relation, and an examination of nihilism.
      • keywords: commitment; ontological; paraphrase
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3017. k6439z93663
      • author: Hannah Hemphill
      • title: Sacrifice in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas
      • date: 2019
      • words: 387
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: According to Aquinas, sacrifice is integral to Christ's own pilgrim journey and thereby to ours as well. Christ does not offer sacrifice merely in response to our sin.
      • keywords: chapter; christ; sacrifice; sin; thomas
      • versions: original; plain text
3018. k6439z93d2k
      • author: Nathan P. Chase
      • title: Rethinking Anaphoral Development in Light of the Barcelona Papyrus
      • date: 2020
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 46
      • 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.
      • keywords: anaphora; barcelona; classical; eucharistic; papyrus
      • versions: original; plain text
3019. k6439z93d3x
      • author: Fangchi Yan
      • title: Well-Posedness of a Higher Dispersion KdV Equation on the Half-Line
      • date: 2020
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The initial-boundary value problem (ibvp) for the m-th order Korteweg-de Vries (KdVm) equation on the half-line is studied by extending a novel approach recently developed for the well-posedness of the KdV on the half-line, which is based on the solution formula produced via Fokas' unified transform method for the associated forced linear ibvp. Replacing in this formula the forcing by the nonlinearity and using data in Sobolev spaces suggested by the space-time regularity of the Cauchy problem of the linear KdVm, gives an iteration map for the ibvp which is shown to be a contraction in an appropriately chosen solution space.
      • keywords: ibvp; linear; problem
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3020. k6439z93j1g
      • author: Sean Field
      • title: Climate, Community, and Connectivity in the Northern U.S. Southwest
      • date: 2023
      • words: 238
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Results from these studies suggest that: 1) the effect of acute climate stress is strongly dependent on the resilience of subsistence and social systems at individual communities; 2) irrigation-based maize intensification was critical to the persistence of certain large settlements in the CMV region; and 3) persistent settlements, and possibly people's willingness to endure climate stress, were also managed through regional connections and relationships. The following chapters present three articles pursuing a detailed understanding of the role of climate stress on subsistence practices at persistent settlements in the Central Mesa Verde (CMV) region of the northern U.S. Southwest.
      • keywords: climate; cmv; people; region; relationships
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3021. k930bv75m1d
      • author: Daniele Puccinelli
      • title: Mitigation and Exploitation of Multipath Fading in Wireless Sensor Networks
      • date: 2005
      • words: 486
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The increasing interest in wireless sensor networks can be promptly understood simply by thinking about what they essentially are: a large number of small sensing self-powered nodes which gather information or detect special events and commu- nicate in a wireless fashion, with the end goal of handing their processed data to a base station. In the rest of the present chapter, we provide an overview of the research efforts in the field of wireless sensor networks.
      • keywords: chapter; hardware; multipath; networks; nodes; present; research; sensor; wireless
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3022. k930bv75m2r
      • author: Andrew Hofer
      • title: Herald of the Word: Gregory of Nazianzus Evoking Christ
      • date: 2010
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: 'Herald of the Word: Gregory of Nazianzus Evoking Christ' is a study of Gregory's speaking of Jesus Christ with particular attention to its autobiographical features. When Gregory speaks of Christ, he does so through reflection on his own life.
      • keywords: chapter; christ; gregory; jesus; mystery; study
      • versions: original; plain text
3023. k930bv75m5s
      • author: Jaime W Guaman
      • title: Empirical Ground Motion Relationships for Maximum Incremental Velocity
      • date: 2010
      • words: 121
      • flesch: 24
      • 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.
      • keywords: ground; miv; motion; velocity
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3024. k930bv75m64
      • author: Katherine Michelle Byrd
      • title: Design, Synthesis and Application of Cholesterol-Based Molecular Probes as Biochemical Tools for the Study of Cholesterol Trafficking
      • date: 2014
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: One such probe is a novel fluorescent cholesterol mimic that would serve as a general tool to track cholesterol movement in live cells or identify cholesterol localization in fixed cells. Our hypothesis behind this probe design is that these cross-linker probes can be used to identify and isolate protein pairs that participate in the transfer of cholesterol.
      • keywords: cholesterol; design; molecular; probes
      • versions: original; plain text
3025. k930bv75n3d
      • author: Robert Thomas Davis
      • title: Assessing the role of constructed floodplains on the biogeochemistry of agricultural streams
      • date: 2014
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: nutrients; stage; streams
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3026. k930bv75n4r
      • author: Brandy Jean Ellison
      • title: Does Getting A's Really Matter? A Conceptualization of Grades as a Measure of Educational Outcomes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 485
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Therefore, grades are expected to provide a more comprehensive evaluation of student achievement than standardized test scores. Grades are theorized to assess elements of both of these goals because they account for academic achievement and student behavior, while standardized test scores primarily reflect knowledge and instruction.
      • keywords: achievement; educational; grades; outcomes; students; test
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3027. k930bv75n6f
      • author: Nan Sun
      • title: Electronic Noise in Graphene FETs
      • date: 2011
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 67
      • summary: A new noise model based upon a random array of charge traps is presented, which not only reproduces the observed gate voltage offset of the noise peak from the CNP, but also explains the noise asymmetry between the electron and hole branches. Noise measurements were made under vacuum at room temperature.
      • keywords: films; graphene; noise
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3028. k930bv75n9g
      • author: Jiao Wang
      • title: System and Image Modeling in Statistical Iterative Reconstruction for Multi-Slice CT
      • date: 2012
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: bayesian; estimation; forward; frequencies; frequency; inverse; potential
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3029. k930bv75p0p
      • author: Carlos Melendez-Guerrero
      • title: Transitional Partisanships and Political Linkages after Post-Party System Collapse: The Case of Peru
      • date: 1904
      • words: 423
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Although political parties in Peru are based on extremely weak organizations with minimal levels of social rootedness, their national leaders have developed permanent connections that exceed mere personalistic appeals. Finally, negative partisanships represent a coherent, hardcore opposition to particular party identifications that also coalesce around programmatic and personalistic appeals (the cases of Anti-Aprismo and Anti-Fujimorismo).
      • keywords: andean; collapse; partisanships; party; peru; political; programmatic; system; transitional
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3030. k930bv75p8f
      • author: Philipp Gollner
      • title: Good White Christians: How Religion Created Race and Ethnic Privilege for Immigrants in America
      • date: 1904
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: This dissertation's implications extend to the present: despite the contributions of their busy, world-bettering activism to the vitality of religious life in America, the immigrant religious groups I am interested in probably lost what could be a considerable gift to a culture still fraught with racial tensions: the instinct of ethnoreligious minorities that declined to exploit the advantages of their skin pigmentation, but opted instead for a wise provincialism – a position on the sidelines of dominant culture. This dissertation demonstrates that various European immigrant religious groups harnessed the cultural capital and coercive power of white Protestantism by adopting a posture of restless cultural activism and fervent missionary zeal, as well as a view of ethnic boundaries as harmful to proper religion.
      • keywords: activism; american; dissertation; immigrants; racial; religion; religious; white
      • versions: original; plain text
3031. k930bv75t2m
      • author: Tania Sarfraz
      • title: Metropolis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 5
      • flesch: 66
      • summary: A collection of short fiction.
      • keywords: fiction
      • versions: original; plain text
3032. k930bv76b3w
      • author: Levi UC Nkwocha
      • title: Muslim-Christian Dialogue of Life via Hospitality: A Theology of Abrahamic Asymmetric-Mutual Substitutive Responsibility Applied in an African Context
      • date: 1904
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In chapter three, Levinas' substitutive responsibility will be harnessed into a theological model (the Abrahamic pilgrim model), through which, ordinary Muslims and Christians in Nigerian are challenged to demonstrate their respective faith by outdoing each other in good works. Above all, it seeks to articulate them into an Abrahamic theology of hospitality for the sustenance of peaceful coexistence.
      • keywords: chapter; christians; hospitality; muslims; mutual; ordinary; research
      • versions: original; plain text
3033. k930bv76b9z
      • author: Mark Suhovecky
      • title: Test Submission for Production AWS Sipity Instance
      • date: 2018
      • words: 11
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Testing the http thesis submission between Production Sipity and Batch Ingest
      • keywords: ingest
      • versions: original; plain text
3034. k930bv76g8v
      • author: Jacob Schepers
      • title: Ugly Ground Swell Moss
      • date: 2019
      • words: 26
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: A collection of original poetry for fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Program in English at the University of Notre Dame.
      • keywords: dame
      • versions: original; plain text
3035. k930bv76j74
      • author: Matthew R. Kemnetz
      • title: Analysis of the Aero-Optical Component of the Jitter Using the Stitching Method
      • date: 2019
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The results were found to agree well with the results from other shear layer flows. The component of the jitter caused by mechanical vibration of the optical table, optical elements, etc. is called mechanical jitter.
      • keywords: aero; component; jitter; method; optical; stitching; tilt
      • versions: original; plain text
3036. k930bv76p4b
      • author: Carly A. Hagins
      • title: Weft: A Framework for Well-being
      • date: 2021
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: College well-being is often approached topic-by-topic. The Satellite Team model proposes a new approach for health promotion professionals to act as subject matter experts, collaborating with stakeholders to develop meaningful, personalized, and lasting interventions.
      • keywords: approach; college; satellite; topic
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3037. k930bv76p7c
      • author: Leslie Elva MacColman
      • title: Coercive Force, Symbolic Power, and Fragmented Urban Publics: Understanding Democratic Police Reform in Buenos Aires, Argentina
      • date: 2020
      • words: 725
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This dissertation asks how democratic police reform shapes police legitimacy. In light of this conceptualization, I argue that democratic police reforms can simultaneously strengthen police legitimacy among certain publics, while undermining it for others.
      • keywords: buenos; city; democratic; field; legitimacy; metropolitan; pfa; police; policing; political; reform; security; wave
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3038. k930bv76q4n
      • author: Jessica Wahlers
      • title: Development of Transition State Force Field Parameters for Asymmetric Reactions to Predict Stereoselectivity and to Gain Insight into the Interactions Dictating Stereoselectivity
      • date: 2021
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: There has been immense interest in predictive methods that could search through ligand libraries and find which ligands could give the best selectivity rather than experimentally testing hundreds of ligands so just testing the 5-10 ligands give the best results. Asymmetric catalysis has been used to generate products with high yields and high selectivities.
      • keywords: best; catalyzed; high; ligands; selectivity
      • versions: original; plain text
3039. k930bv76q81
      • author: Brenna Gomer
      • title: Quantifying the Impact of Missing-Data Mechanism Uncertainty: A Tailored Sensitivity Analysis Approach for the Behavioral Sciences
      • date: 2021
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Statistically, one approach to the issue of missing-data mechanism uncertainty is sensitivity analysis. In this dissertation, I develop a method for sensitivity analysis that involves decisions with less subjectivity and aims to provide more objective information that is straightforward and easy to interpret.
      • keywords: data; mechanism; missing; procedure; sensitivity; uncertainty
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3040. k930bv76s6z
      • author: Melody Grubaugh
      • title: Precursor to Political Hebraism: What Aquinas Thinks We Can (and Should) Learn From the Mosaic Law
      • date: 2022
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This dissertation argues that Aquinas deserves a place in the growing body of scholarship on political Hebraism, since the fundamental idea that gained prominence with political Hebraists during the early modern period—that the Hebrew constitution should be viewed as a standard and model for constitutions in general—is already present in Aquinas's writings on law. Examining Aquinas's treatment of the regime of the Hebrews provides an avenue into the understanding of his views regarding the two-fold end of political community, the virtues of prudence and particularity, the best constitution and laws, and citizenship.
      • keywords: aquinas; hebraism; law; political; thought; understanding
      • versions: original; plain text
3041. k930bv76t37
      • author: Lily A. Polster
      • title: Preliminary Testing of a Novel Precast Concrete Buckling-Restrained Brace
      • date: 2023
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The thesis explains the experimental testing set-up, describes the casting process of the test specimens, explains the instrumentation and data acquisition system, presents the results from the tests, and draws conclusions and recommendations for future experimental research on precast concrete BRB components as well as precast concrete braced frame structures. While BRB frames are commonly used for primary lateral-load resistance in steel building construction with great success, they are currently not permitted for precast concrete structures due to extremely limited research.
      • keywords: brb; concrete; precast; thesis
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3042. kd17cr58w4s
      • author: Wenjie Chen
      • title: Deep Level Defects in Indium Phosphide PIN Diodes
      • date: 2011
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 46
      • 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.
      • keywords: deep; dlts; electron; trap
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3043. kd17cr58w54
      • author: Jimena Holguin
      • title: Communitarian Reintegration in DDR Programs: An Analysis of the Communutarian Component of the Reintegration Program in Colombia, 2002 - 2008
      • date: 2010
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Thus, a more equal and fair environment would be created in the process of reintegrating ex-combatants into civilian life. By including the communities into the reintegration process, not only the programs are creating conducive conditions to reintegration, but also they are creating a space for reconciliation in which both former combatants and host communities (which includes vulnerable populations and victims of violence) would benefit in the same way.
      • keywords: process; reintegration
      • versions: original; plain text
3044. kd17cr58w85
      • author: Simon Peter Kanaan
      • title: Inferring Protein-Protein Interactions from Protein Domain Combinations
      • date: 2012
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The predicted interaction network preserves the characteristics of the initial web of known protein interactions. We also observe high levels of co-expression among putative interactions.
      • keywords: high; interactions; mssc; protein
      • versions: original; plain text
3045. kd17cr58w9h
      • author: Christopher Raymond Green
      • title: The Epistemic Parity of Testimony, Memory, and Perception
      • date: 2008
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: I first criticize the suggestion that perception is a generative epistemic source, while testimony and memory are not; I propose and defend counterexamples in which testimony and memory produce new beliefs. Extensive literatures exist on the epistemology of testimony, memory, and perception, but for the most part these literatures do not systematically consider the extent of the analogies between the three epistemic sources.
      • keywords: beliefs; epistemic; memory; perception; testimony
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3046. kd17cr58x0q
      • author: Jian Ge
      • title: Low Dimension Soul Theorems
      • date: 2011
      • words: 93
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: We study the Soul theorem for low dimensional topologically regular open complete nonnegatively curved Alexandrov spaces and give a topological classification of these spaces. These spaces occurs naturally as the blow-up limits of sequences of Riemannian manifold with a lower curvature bound.
      • keywords: manifold; spaces
      • versions: original; plain text
3047. kd17cr58x12
      • author: Yin-Ting Yeh
      • title: Development of a Hydrodynamic Technique for Rapid Concentration of Dilute Suspensions
      • date: 2010
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The mechanism we employ is the shear induced secondary flow produced in the rotating upper plate and stationary lower plate system. Current techniques such as centrifugation, filtration, dielectrophoresis, and immunomagnetic separation are time consuming and have sample volume limitations.
      • keywords: flow; geometry; improvement; plate; system; thesis
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3048. kd17cr58x2d
      • author: Kelly Allyn Kuznicki
      • title: A Longitudinal Examination of Child Symptoms of Psychopathology as a Mediator Between Marital Conflict and Child Involvement in Interparental Disagreements
      • date: 2013
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: Though the links between marital conflict, child involvement in interparental disagreements, and child psychopathology are well-established, previous research has not viewed child psychopathology as a process by which child involvement in marital conflict may be influenced. Children (235 at 6-years, 220 at 7-years, and 217 at 8-years) completed the MacArthur Story Stem Battery as a measure of child involvement and mother, father, and teacher reports of study variables were collected.
      • keywords: child; marital; psychopathology
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3049. kd17cr58x3r
      • author: Florin Dumitrescu
      • title: Superconnections and Parallel Transport
      • date: 2006
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: The larger context is the Stolz-Teichner program (see cite{ST}) of relating field theories and cohomology theories, and our effort is to complete the understanding of the one-dimensional story. Before doing this, we extend the usual notion of parallel transport along paths associated to a connection to superpaths, and see how the super-parallel transport incorporates the analytical concept of a connection.
      • keywords: notion; parallel; transport
      • versions: original; plain text
3050. kd17cr58x6s
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Baker
      • title: Effects of Time-Lapse and Contact Lenses on Iris Recognition
      • date: 2009
      • words: 174
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: We present results debunking both of these common myths in iris recognition and show a real effect of time-lapse and contact lenses on iris biometric performance. Using four years time-lapse data for 46 'iris-subjects?,' we present results from three different iris recognition systems that indicate that the iris biometrics template does 'age' Another element of iris biometrics folklore is that performance is not affected by sub jects wearing contact lenses during acquisitions.
      • keywords: biometrics; contact; iris; results
      • versions: original; plain text
3051. kd17cr58x8g
      • author: Bin Wu
      • title: InAs-on-SOI MOSFETs with Extreme Lattice Mismatch
      • date: 2009
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 59
      • 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.
      • keywords: growth; inas; lattice; mocvd; soi; structures
      • versions: original; plain text
3052. kd17cr5903n
      • author: Robert A. McKee
      • title: Renal Regeneration After Cisplatin Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Zebrafish and Expression Map of Tight Junction Components in Development
      • date: 1904
      • words: 438
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: During the course of their everyday function the nephrons encounter toxins that in high concentrations can lead to an episode of acute kidney injury (AKI), characterized by a rapid loss of renal function. In this thesis, the first goal was to identify and characterize a suite of useful epithelial cell markers.
      • keywords: aki; cell; date; epithelial; injury; kidney; nephron; regeneration; renal; zebrafish
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3053. kd17cr59358
      • author: Joseph R. Pauszek
      • title: Incorporating Visual Asymmetries into a Semantic-Based Theory of the Symbolic Control of Attention
      • date: 1904
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Humans routinely use spatial symbols to guide the attention of others towards relevant aspects of the environment. Contemporary research suggests that the various ways these symbols are semantically processed have important implications regarding how attention is subsequently distributed.
      • keywords: attention; research; spatial
      • versions: original; plain text
3054. kd17cr59k8n
      • author: Brian Yong Lee
      • title: Members of Christ: Reevaluating the Significance of Stoic Language and the Unity of Paul's Argument in 1 Corinthians
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: -1
      • summary: Modern biblical scholarship on 1 Corinthians has long recognized the presence of language and concepts most closely paralleled by Stoic descriptions of the sage, as in 3:21–23; 4:8; and 6:12–20, and the sage's perspective on their relationship to other human beings, as in 12:1–11, 12–27.For all the cultural backgrounds adduced in support of the scholarly theory that Paul addressed libertine believers at Corinth in the letter, from Gnosticism, to Hellenistic Judaism, to realized eschatology, and to the Cynic-Stoic hypothesis, one of the most enduring elements of the theory of libertine Corinthians is the assumption that 3:21–23; 4:8; and 6:12–20 in some manner reflect Corinthian claims to possess a perfect form of wisdom that justifies immoral conduct analogous to Stoic claims to perfect wisdom. Methodologically grounded in fresh comparative research on the native function of the Stoic elements that appear in 1 Corinthians within the Stoic ethical system, my dissertation demonstrates that Stoic descriptions of the sage and the sage's perspective did not function as self-descriptions of one's wisdom or to justify immoral behavior, but were used by Stoic teachers to orient their students' moral aspirations and training towards the goal of benefitting others in line with a normative understanding of the common good.
      • keywords: corinthians; descriptions; paul; perspective; sage; stoic; wisdom
      • versions: original; plain text
3055. kd17cr59m5x
      • author: Madison McCartha
      • title: Freakophone World
      • date: 1904
      • words: 4
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: A manuscript of poetry.
      • keywords: poetry
      • versions: original; plain text
3056. kd17cr59p2h
      • author: John (JJ) Shanley
      • title: Catholic Freedom, Protestant Slavery? Reconsidering Anti-Catholicism in Maryland, 1688-1776
      • date: 2018
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Each emergence of anti-Catholic sentiment grew from the concerns of the day, rather than a consistent objection to that religion or its members. Anti-Catholic sentiment during the Glorious Revolution targeted actual Catholics in the colony, but also extended to their supporters (alleged and real) in Maryland and Virginia.
      • keywords: anti; catholic; catholicism; country; maryland; sentiment
      • versions: original; plain text
3057. kd17cr59r7v
      • author: Emily Maiden
      • title: Beware the Magic Crocodile: The Role of Chiefs in Cultural and Political Reform in Malawi
      • date: 2019
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Using Malawi as a case study, this project uses 121 interviews with chiefs, with supporting evidence drawn from approximately 50 additional interviews from key stakeholders (including teachers, child protection workers, government bureaucrats, and NGOs), and 23 focus groups with over 200 women, to explore how and why chiefs are promoting political and a cultural reform to combat child marriage. I find that the dual positionality of chiefs as both political and cultural actors, invested with high levels of trust and support from their communities, contributes to their ability to address culturally embedded practices like child marriage, which actively promote violence against children.
      • keywords: chiefs; child; cultural; marriage; political; underlying
      • versions: original; plain text
3058. kd17cr6004r
      • author: Ana V. Fleming
      • title: Into the Chthulucene
      • date: 2021
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Drawing from the genres of speculative and weird fiction; the visual paradigms of the grotesque and surreal; and the philosophical veins of speculative realism, my work posits potential futures—visions of a world unfurling, in uncertain balance, at the threshold of the Chthulucene. In Into the Chthulucene, I trace the literary, philosophical, and visual inheritances that inform my work, particularly the nonhuman worlds depicted in my paintings and drawings.
      • keywords: chthulucene; visual; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3059. kd17cr60200
      • author: Jinfeng Lin
      • title: Accurate Trace Link Generation for Querying Software Projects at Scale
      • date: 2022
      • words: 527
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The results show that our approach not only outperform other language model based deep learning models on resource rich scenarios, but also tackle resource limited scenarios that other deep learning models are incapable of handling. Traditionally, low availability of manually created trace links for training purposes, has limited the application of deep learning trace models.
      • keywords: approach; deep; learning; links; models; performance; software; techniques; trace; traceability
      • versions: original; plain text
3060. kd17cr6034p
      • author: Savannah Benjamin
      • title: Exploring the Relationship between Uranyl Hydroxide and Uranyl Peroxide Phases: Alteration and Formation Studies
      • date: 2023
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Nuclear materials subjected to various storage environments may undergo important chemical changes as a consequence of variables including atmospheric gases and ionizing radiation. Specifically, the origin of peroxide is investigated in systems where depleted uranium is used, and alternate methods of obtaining uranyl peroxide are described for the first time.
      • keywords: hydrate; nuclear; peroxide; phase; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
3061. kh04dn42538
      • author: Fei Liu
      • title: Atomic Force Microscopy of Erythrocyte Cytoskeleton
      • date: 2005
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This thesis provides evidence to demonstrate that AFM combined with quantitative image analysis is a promising approach to connect biochemical and structural data for the study of cytoskeleton physical properties. Also studied was the effect of free Ca2+ on the cytoskeleton structure and properties of healthy young erythrocytes.
      • keywords: afm; cytoskeleton; erythrocytes; method; properties
      • versions: original; plain text
3062. kh04dn4254m
      • author: GE LIU
      • title: Peer Influence on Adolescents' Academic Outcomes
      • date: 2011
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: I found that the average GPA of students' friends have significantly positive effects on the academic outcomes of high school students of all races/ethnicities and that the effect of the racial heterogeneity of friends on student's academic outcomes is mediated in part through the effect of the average GPA of students' friends. Finally I examined the long-term influence of high school friends on 10th-graders' higher educational attainment process.
      • keywords: academic; college; friends; influence; outcomes; peer; school; students
      • versions: original; plain text
3063. kh04dn4257n
      • author: Logan M. Axon
      • title: Algorithmically random closed sets and probability
      • date: 2010
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Others have meanwhile developed definitions of algorithmic randomness for different spaces, for example the space of continuous functions on the unit interval (Fouche), more general topological spaces (Hertling and Weihrauch), and the closed subsets of Cantor space (Barmpalias et al., Kjos-Hanssen and Diamondstone). Algorithmic randomness in Cantor space has recently become the subject of intense study.
      • keywords: closed; lof; martin; random; space
      • versions: original; plain text
3064. kh04dn42580
      • author: Dinesh Rajan Pandiarajan
      • title: Principles for the Design and Operation of Elastic Scientific Applications on Distributed Systems
      • date: 2015
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: applications; efficient; operation; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
3065. kh04dn42658
      • author: James Arthur Thompson
      • title: Making North America
      • date: 2008
      • words: 410
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This argument thus demonstrates a manner in which the two schools of IR theory can not only be reconciled in terms of their theory concepts, but can also be combined to form a more useful theory than other theories which rely strictly upon either realist or liberal tenants. Mexico, conversely, sought an FTA with the US in order 1) to establish greater influence over US foreign policy, and 2) to make Mexico more attractive to the Europeans as a trading partner, with the idea being that, by establishing a Mexican-European FTA, Mexico would then be better able to balance against the US, which was now liberated from the constraints of the Cold War, and hence able to pursue a more aggressive foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere.
      • keywords: cold; fta; mexico; north; order; state; war
      • versions: original; plain text
3066. kh04dn4266m
      • author: Yuen Man Rebecca Cheung
      • title: Testing a Model of Disclosure Benefits Based on Identifiability of the Discloser and Features of the Confidant
      • date: 2010
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Previous research has demonstrated that public, as compared with private, disclosure can lead to greater psychological symptom reduction. Thus, humans today may have inherited the predisposition to disclose publicly; and when they do so, they may experience a reduction in psychological symptoms.
      • keywords: confidants; psychological; reduction; study
      • versions: original; plain text
3067. kh04dn42689
      • author: Amelia Hicks
      • title: Moral Particularism: The Nonexistence of Moral Principles and the Nature of Proper Moral Deliberation
      • date: 2013
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Some versions of particularism claim that there are no true moral principles, while others claim that we shouldn't use moral principles in moral deliberation; I call the former view 'eliminativism' and the latter view 'abstinence.' Moral particularism is a family of views---a family unified by its rejection of moral principles---in moral metaphysics and moral epistemology.
      • keywords: abstinence; eliminativism; incompactness; moral; particularism
      • versions: original; plain text
3068. kh04dn42716
      • author: chaojun shi
      • title: Development of Ionic Liquids for Li-Ion Battery Applications
      • date: 2013
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Even though there are many thousands of possible combinations of anions and cations for ILs design, the choice/selection of cations and anions commercialized in electrochemical devices is much less diverse due to strict industrial standards. More specifically, physicochemical property measurements cover density, viscosity and diffusivity, and electrochemical property investigation includes conductivity, electrochemical window, Walden plot behavior and ionicity.
      • keywords: anions; cations; electrochemical; electrolytes; ils; lithium; organic
      • versions: original; plain text
3069. kh04dn4272j
      • author: Kyle D. Watson
      • title: The Development of Metal-Mediated Methodologies for the Syntheses of Monocyclic and Bicyclic Oxamazins
      • date: 1904
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Additionally, an interesting new route to cephalosporins through the use of Pd(0) chemistry will be proposed. The core backbone of bicyclic oxamazins were synthesized and used in intramolecular ring-closing olefin metathesis reactions.
      • keywords: bicyclic; chapter; chemistry; compounds; oxamazins; ring; strategies
      • versions: original; plain text
3070. kh04dn42747
      • author: Samir Budhathoki
      • title: Molecular Modeling and Simulation Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Confined Ionic Liquids and Their Performance in Gas Separations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Additionally, CO2 permselectivities over CH4and H2 in confined IL systems were either similar or marginally better than those in the bulk IL. To our knowledge, there have been no investigations on the permeability (P) defined as the product of solubility (S) and diffusivity (D), and permeability selectivity (βP) defined as the ratio of permeabilities of gases of interest in confined ILs, which are very important properties for materials to be used for the gas separation processes.
      • keywords: bulk; confined; gas; ils
      • versions: original; plain text
3071. kh04dn4275k
      • author: Lourdes Cecilia Hurtado
      • title: 'Unido a la Historia por Fecunda y Viril Tradición': Gender, Race and the Military in Cold War Peru (1951-1960)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 420
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Based on archival research, discourse and visual analysis and oral history, this dissertation argues that during the Latin American Cold War the Peruvian military glorified some characteristics of Peruvian women and attempted to incorporate female images into its institutional narratives. These narratives shaped each other up by showing how the army was an institution where there was room for most Peruvians and how men's labor of defending the nation was fostered, sustained, and complemented by Peruvian women.
      • keywords: army; cold; military; nation; national; peruvian; war; women
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3072. kh04dn42805
      • author: Jishan Liao
      • title: Using Ecological Niche Modeling to Support Species Conservation under Changing Climate
      • date: 1904
      • words: 375
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In chapter two, I investigate geographic fragmentation induced from laws and regulations regarding species management, regulations that may affect the survival of species that might cross diverse land ownership and state lines due to range change under climate change. Ignoring the impacts of regulatory fragmentation on species movement under climate change can lead to over-estimation of the potential for geographic range change by species as the climate changes.
      • keywords: change; climate; fragmentation; models; range; regulatory; species
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3073. kh04dn42c4g
      • author: Sarah Snider
      • title: Grippled
      • date: 1904
      • words: 39
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: This work is a collection of thematically and stylistically interconnected memoir essays and stories that explore themes surrounding gender, religion, family, and community in order to create a broad illustration of life as an Orthodox Jewish woman in America.
      • keywords: america
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3074. kh04dn42z3d
      • author: Shlomo M. Wadler
      • title: Genesis and Halakhah: An Analysis of the Relationship between Genesis and Law in the Second Temple Period
      • date: 2018
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 62
      • summary: While the book of Genesis is part of a larger corpus referred to by terms related to law (torah in Hebrew and nomos in Greek), Genesis poses a problem, as it contains relatively little legal material, and takes place prior to the formal giving of the law at Sinai. This dissertation looks at the ways in which Jews in the second temple period grappled with the place and role of Genesis in the Torah, as they relate to halakhah, and focuses on the following questions: What was the status of the Law prior to Sinai?
      • keywords: genesis; halakhah; law; second; sinai
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3075. kh04dn4320k
      • author: Kirsten Marie Kozlovsky
      • title: Additive Manufacturing of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Under Applied External Pressure
      • date: 2019
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This thesis demonstrated in-situ pressurization in AM of UHMWPE for the first time, leading to increases in strength and wear resistance even under moderate applied pressures. Unfortunately, AM materials currently are lacking with respect to wear resistance.
      • keywords: high; laser; material; powder; pressures; sintering; uhmwpe; wear
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3076. kh04dn43677
      • author: Salvatore Buonocore
      • title: Anomalous Diffusion of Acoustic Fields in Periodic and Random Scattering Media and Its Application to Remote Sensing
      • date: 2019
      • words: 482
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: The unique properties of fractional-order models and their ability to capture and simulate complex physical acoustic processes suggest they offer great potential for applications to inverse acoustic problems, and beyond. Particular attention is devoted to the analysis and characterization of anomalous acoustic transport and to uncovering the link between both geometric and material parameters and the fractional order of the governing continuum model.
      • keywords: acoustic; complex; fractional; hybrid; imaging; media; models; non; order; processes; transport
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3077. kh04dn4375v
      • author: Laura Josephine Wells Murray
      • title: Equivariant Factorization Algebras: An Infinity-Operadic Approach
      • date: 2020
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: In this dissertation, we consider two particular types of factorization algebras: G-equivariant factorization algebras on a model space M, where G is a group acting on M; and factorization algebras on a site of manifolds which locally look like M and with geometric structure encoded by the G-action. We then generalize the definition of factorization algebras to the infinity-operadic setting, and utilize higher algebraic techniques to prove the comparison result.
      • keywords: algebras; condition; factorization
      • versions: original; plain text
3078. kh04dn43855
      • author: Xiangyu Ni
      • title: Frequency Response of Self-Similar Dynamic Networks with Applications to Health Monitoring and Control
      • date: 2021
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: No matter whether possessing interconnected appearances, those large-scale systems are often mathematically modelled as dynamic networks which involve abundant nodes and intricate rules regarding the interaction among those nodes. Hence, it can be anticipated that plentiful research concerning dynamic networks exist in literature, including studies about graph theories, multi-agent systems and materials' complicated behaviors.
      • keywords: complex; domain; dynamic; frequency; monitoring; networks; response; systems
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3079. kh04dn4390r
      • author: Sarah Roumas
      • title: Infernal Bodies: Lazarus Saturday in the Development of the Triodion
      • date: 2021
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Concerning the content of the hymns, the project examines the relationship in the hymns of the sixth week of Lent between the Lazarus of Luke 16 and the Lazarus of John 11, the use of 'rewritten Bible exegesis', and the central theme of Lazarus Saturday: the anticipation and promise of the Harrowing of Hades, which will be celebrated a week later. This project examines early manuscripts of the Greek Triodion to investigate the development and celebration of Lazarus Saturday in centuries leading up to the Byzantine Rite.
      • keywords: early; lazarus; manuscripts; triodia
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3080. kh04dn43b2r
      • author: R. Jordan Lavender
      • title: The Subjective Turn: Phenomenal Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Experience in the Fourteenth Century
      • date: 2022
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: I call the shift by which conscious experience came to be at the heart of medieval debates about the metaphysics of cognition the Subjective Turn. This dissertation argues that fourteenth-century debates about the metaphysics of cognitio were debates about the metaphysics of conscious experience.
      • keywords: debates; experience; subjective; turn
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3081. kh04dn43c4r
      • author: Jason Christopher Carley
      • title: Low-Impact Production with Bioplastic Composites
      • date: 2023
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: carbon; low; materials; modern; petroleum; plastics; production; project
      • versions: original; plain text
3082. kk91fj25f6b
      • author: Jeff Allen Brooks
      • title: Helping the Less Fortunate: The Interaction Between Cultural and Economic Conservatism
      • date: 2011
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Analyses suggest that cultural conservatism moderates the impact that economic conservatism has on these variables. Cultural conservatism was positively related to social justice and taking action for the unfortunate.
      • keywords: conservatism; unfortunate
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3083. kk91fj25f7p
      • author: Srinath Puducheri Sundaravaradhan
      • title: Complexity-Feedback Tradeoffs and Capacity Results for Packet Erasure Networks
      • date: 2010
      • words: 427
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This dissertation investigates two problems related to communicating reliably over packet erasure networks, adopting two different views of the network, viz., (i) a point-to-point erasure channel (that models either a single link or end-to-end communication), and (ii) a network of erasure links. Many communication networks are well-modeled as 'packet erasure' networks, as packets transmitted over these networks are either received correctly at the destination or are 'erased'; a packet erasure occurs when an error-corrupted packet is detected and discarded, or when a packet is dropped due to congestion in the network.
      • keywords: arq; channel; communication; erasure; networks; packet; point; protocols
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3084. kk91fj25g0k
      • author: Daniel J. Hicks
      • title: Scientific Practices and their Social Context
      • date: 2012
      • words: 455
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: conception; debate; influence; inquiry; practice; science; scientific; values
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3085. kk91fj25g1x
      • author: Michael Shaw
      • title: Mythological Lieder of Franz Schubert and Johann Mayrhofer
      • date: 2010
      • words: 14
      • flesch: 65
      • summary: The thesis discusses five mythological Lieder by Franz Schubert with texts by Johann Mayrhofer.
      • keywords: mayrhofer
      • versions: original; plain text
3086. kk91fj25g28
      • author: Jeffery Alan Bertke
      • title: Synthesis and Characterization of Coordination Polymers and Studies for CO2 Capture
      • date: 2012
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Formation of 1-D inorganic rods is an emerging trend for large alkali metal phenoxide systems. Section 1 investigates the use of large metal cations in the construction of coordination polymers.
      • keywords: construction; inorganic; linkers; materials; metal; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3087. kk91fj25g3m
      • author: Paul Raymond Brenner
      • title: Parallel Algorithms and Distributed Systems for Computational Biophysics
      • date: 2008
      • words: 481
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: In tandem to this development, I present the simulation and analysis of a target protein domain linked to cancer, Huntington disease, and Alzheimer disease. The understanding of atomic scale biomolecular function is a key component in the prevention and treatment of disease.
      • keywords: analysis; biomolecular; biophysical; computational; development; disease; domain; exchange; method; new; sampling; scale; simulation; system
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3088. kk91fj25g4z
      • author: Glenn Joseph Bradford
      • title: Rate, Reliability, and Delay of Wireless Relays
      • date: 2014
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Beyond significant modeling and theoretical analysis, ongoing integration of relays into the Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular standard promises many key benefits but also poses many challenges. Experimentation captures more effects of various protocol layers when evaluating the relationship between rate, reliability, and delay for different relay types.
      • keywords: channel; lte; performance; radio; rate; relay; reliability; tradeoff
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3089. kk91fj25g59
      • author: D. Corbett Redden
      • title: Canonical Metric Connections Associated to String Structures
      • date: 2006
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: We say that such a bundle admits a string structure, and a choice of string structure is given by particular elements in $H3(P;)$. This provides an analogue to the idea of a spin structure, where the topological group $String(n)$ is, up to homotopy, the unique 3-connected cover of $Spin(n)$ $(ngeq 5)$. Choosing a Riemannian metric on the base $M$ and a connection on $P$ determines a 1-parameter family of metrics on $P$. We prove that in a scaling limit known as the adiabatic limit, the harmonic representative of a string structure is equal to the Chern–Simons 3-form on $P$ minus a 3-form on $M$, denoted $Hin Omega3(M)$. This 3-form $H$ is closely related to the Chern–Simons form, and can be thought of as a reduction of the Chern–Simons form on $P$ to a form on $M$. The exterior derivative of $H$ is the $phalf$-form; the integral of $H$ on any 3-cycle is equal, modulo $$, to the integral of the Chern–Simons 3-form pulled back via a global section on the same 3-cycle.
      • keywords: chern; form; simons; structure
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3090. kk91fj25g8b
      • author: Alice M. Nightingale
      • title: Adaptive-Optic Approach to Mitigating Aero-Optic Disturbances for a Forced Shear Layer
      • date: 2010
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Subsequently, the resulting optical wavefront, and corresponding optical signal, emerging from the regularized flow becomes more periodic and predictable effectively reducing the bandwidth necessary to make real-time corrections. Initially irregular, unpredictable large-scale structures within a shear layer are regularized using flow control.
      • keywords: beam; controller; corrections; flow; lock; loop; optical; phase; time
      • versions: original; plain text
3091. kk91fj25h0w
      • author: Daniel F Escher
      • title: Revisiting Risk: Sensation-Seeking and the Sex Difference in Religiosity
      • date: 2010
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Using direct measures from the 2006 Panel Study on American Religion and Ethnicity, I find that enjoying thrilling and frightening sensations and experiences has a direct negative effect on personal religiosity. These two effects provide plausible support for the partial-heritability thesis and demonstrate that biology and personality influence personal religiosity.
      • keywords: religiosity; risk; sensation
      • versions: original; plain text
3092. kk91fj25h17
      • author: Matthew Henry Loverin
      • title: Obedient Unto Death: The Person and Work of Jesus Christ in Karl Barth's Theological Ethics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Chapter Three discusses the work of Jesus Christ, specifically in terms of his obedience to God in the atonement; this obedience is constitutive of all other forms of human obedience and is the basis for Barth's description of the ethical event of encounter with the command of God. In Chapter Five, the dissertation brings Christology to bear on the criticisms of Barth's theological ethics highlighted in Chapter One, and recommends that Barth's Christological basis for theological ethics represents a constructive and positive way forward for Christian ethics more broadly considered.
      • keywords: barth; chapter; dissertation; ethics; theological
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3093. kk91fj25h90
      • author: Kimbra G. Turner
      • title: Mechanisms of Miltefosine Resistance in Leishmania major
      • date: 1904
      • words: 249
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In Leishmania, the drug appears to have a similar effect, inducing oxidative stress to activate an apoptotic-like mechanism resulting in cell death. Additionally, none of the currently available therapeutic options for treatment of leishmaniasis were developed specifically for the disease, leading to many severe side effects.
      • keywords: leishmania; major; miltefosine; populations; resistant; treatment
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3094. kk91fj25j7m
      • author: Adam C Clark
      • title: The Creator Sovereign in Christ: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Protestant Natural Law Retrieval
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Chapters Five and Six highlight Bonhoeffer's argument that God commands a christological lifeform focused on reconciliation and loving response to divine and human Others, which enables recognition of God's specified commands and, with a little help, fundamentally repositions the place and meaning of natural goods, rights, duties, and justice. Charles and VanDrunen agree that the natural law is ontologically and epistemologically universal, that it provides initial knowledge of what is good and right to church and world, and that it gives societies a shared life, morality, and praxis of justice, including rights.
      • keywords: bonhoeffer; charles; god; law; natural; vandrunen; world
      • versions: original; plain text
3095. kk91fj26502
      • author: Maria Giulia Genghini
      • title: Prophets of a New Israel — Jesuit Rhetoric in the New World
      • date: 1904
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: A large quantity of manuscripts survives from the vast network of libraries established by the Jesuits across colonial South America, including many examples of a distinctive kind of Jesuit scriptural meditation. Although the social and economic influence of the Jesuits in South America has been well documented, no study has focused on the literary and theological aspect of these scriptural meditations, or the significant extent to which they reflect the cultural practices of the indigenous communities that the Jesuits were preaching to.
      • keywords: america; jesuits; new; scriptural
      • versions: original; plain text
3096. kk91fj26b0m
      • author: Bradley M. Minrovic
      • title: A Non-Toxic Small Molecule Approach to Combating Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria
      • date: 2019
      • words: 473
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Furthermore, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic synthesized within our lab showed increased worm survival against a multidrug resistant A. baumannii strain; tested at 50 mg/kg and 100 mg/kg, worm survival was 22% and 32% after a six-day study, respectively. Against colistin sensitive bacteria, a 2-aminoimidazole adjuvant enabled a 1000-fold reduction in the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of colistin in vitro when tested at a concentration of 30 µM and at 15 µM, it reduced the colistin MIC against three colistin sensitive, multidrug resistant Acinteobacter baumannii strains from 1000 to 7.8, 3.9, and 3.9 ng/mL. In an additional study, an indole derived lead adjuvant increased colistin efficacy 32-fold against a colistin resistant bacteria strain containing the mcr-1 gene at 5 µM, and effects a 1024-fold increase in colistin efficacy against bacteria harboring chromosomally encoded colistin resistance determinants; these combinations lowered the colistin MIC to levels at or below clinical breakpoint levels for colistin susceptibility (≤2 µg/mL).In addition to in vitro studies, the wax worm Galleria mellonella provides an in vivo model that provides an alternative to expensive and ethically challenged murine models.
      • keywords: adjuvant; antibiotic; bacteria; colistin; resistant; survival
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3097. kk91fj26b5b
      • author: Christopher Quiroz
      • title: Masculinity in Context: How Social Environments Frame Gender Based Actions and Attitudes
      • date: 2019
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Much of this research has theorized that heterosexual men, specifically White men, are able to violate physical boundaries with other men due to the social acceptability of the same-sex touching within masculine contexts. The last study provides an answer to why women and sexual minority men encounter extraordinary and persistent barriers when entering masculine occupations, even as the gendered relations have grown more egalitarian over time.
      • keywords: heterosexual; masculine; masculinity; men; minority; sexual; social; study
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3098. kk91fj26j0g
      • author: Julia Qiuye Zhao
      • title: 'They Compel with Baptism as with a Monkish Vow': Baptism and the Monastic Vow in Medieval Monastic and Early Anabaptist Writing
      • date: 2020
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Examination of the writings of early Anabaptists on adult baptism alongside the writings of monastic authors shows that structural similarities do indeed exist between monks committed to Rome and Anabaptists who rejected infant baptism. This study argues that it is the very transformation of Gelassenheit among early Anabaptists which allowed them to create communities which came to resemble monastic communities, built around the vows taken by believers at their baptism.
      • keywords: anabaptists; baptism; communities; medieval; rome; study; writings
      • versions: original; plain text
3099. kk91fj26j3h
      • author: Vincent J Kitsmiller
      • title: Next Generation Frequency Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy
      • date: 2020
      • words: 995
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The details of integrating silicon photomultiplier detectors in fdNIRS imaging systems to provide performance improvements are further investigated to include the operation of SiPMs fdNIRS imaging equipment is typically a large highly expensive cart-based system that must be stored and wheeled around the hospital when needed for use.
      • keywords: approach; depth; fdnirs; functional; handheld; hemoglobin; imaging; information; infrared; optical; properties; real; sensitivity; sipm; system; time; tissue; tunable; window
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3100. kp78gf08q5b
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Frost
      • title: Memory Architecture for Quantum-dot Cellular Automata
      • date: 2005
      • words: 83
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This work presents the H-memory architecture, a memory architecture that exploits the characteristics of QCA and results in order of magnitude density gains over end of the roadmap SRAM and DRAM. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a novel nanotechnology with great potential for very dense memory and low power logic.
      • keywords: architecture; memory; novel
      • versions: original; plain text
3101. kp78gf08q6p
      • author: Georgios Magkotsios
      • title: Nucleosynthesis During Freeze-Out Expansions in Core-Collapse Supernovae
      • date: 2011
      • words: 248
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Non-monotonic profiles involve longer non-equilibrium nucleosynthesis intervals compared to the exponential and power-law profiles, resulting in mass fraction trends and yield distributions which may not be achieved by the monotonic profiles. We use exponential and power-law adiabatic profiles, and introduce additional non-monotonic profiles to mimic explosion asymmetries and reverse shock nucleosynthesis.
      • keywords: exponential; isotopes; law; mass; power; profiles
      • versions: original; plain text
3102. kp78gf08q9q
      • author: Adam Thomas Biggs
      • title: The Benefits of Distractors: Search Strategy Can Influence Attentional Allocation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Recently, Biggs and Gibson (2010) provided evidence that distractor interference depended upon the context of the task, suggesting top-down effects were responsible for distractor interference. Our findings suggest that top-down mechanisms can increase or decrease interference produced by irrelevant information depending on how this information is incorporated into visual search.
      • keywords: distractor; information; interference
      • versions: original; plain text
3103. kp78gf08r0x
      • author: Daniel Peter Fagnant
      • title: Solubility and Solvation of Metal Species in Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2015
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The effect on metal salt solubility in an IL when tuning the properties of the cation is important to designing processes that retain high metal solubilities but allow for adjusting other physical properties of the IL solvent. ILs with specialized functional groups, or task specific ILs, are investigated through UV-vis and Raman spectroscopy to understand the IL-metal complexes that are formed and how this behavior effects metal solubility.
      • keywords: ils; liquid; metal; processes; solubility; water
      • versions: original; plain text
3104. kp78gf08r7b
      • author: Jessica Elizabeth Hornick
      • title: Mitotic Spindle Assembly: Microtubules and the Role of the Centrosome
      • date: 2009
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: assembly; asters; bipolar; cells; centrosomes; microtubule; spindle
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3105. kp78gf08r8p
      • author: Roger Arthur Brooks
      • title: An Analysis of Desired Breadth and Depth of Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Medicine
      • date: 2011
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Contrary to the hypotheses, we found that female 'patients' desired more disclosure from male physicians and male therapists than from female professionals. Participants may be aware of the self-disclosure disparities between males and females and may have compensated by endorsing increased disclosure from the lower disclosing male professionals.
      • keywords: depth; disclosure
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3106. kp78gf08s07
      • author: Andrew Hansen
      • title: Geschichte und Glaube: Protestant Theologians and the Problems of History, 1815-1900
      • date: 2013
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: However, the mediating theologians' emphasis on justifying Christianity through contemporary historical scholarship, paired with their reliance on particular assumptions of early historicist thought to resolve problems related to the historicity of Christianity, left their mediations intellectually vulnerable to changes in historical scholarship that came at the end of the century. This dissertation examines how Protestant theologians in Germany and the United States navigated the transition to historicism, the unprecedented awareness of qualitative historical change that marked Western historical consciousness in the nineteenth century.
      • keywords: century; german; historical; historicism; states; theologians; theology; united
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3107. kp78gf08s38
      • author: Ryan T. Anderson
      • title: Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights
      • date: 2014
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This dissertation develops a natural law account of social justice and economic rights. In these chapters I decipher what is true in the accounts of social justice and economic rights that they offer &#8212; as well as highlight what a natural law account could offer by way of correction.
      • keywords: economic; justice; law; natural; rights; social
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3108. kp78gf08s7n
      • author: Albertus Horsting
      • title: Prosper of Aquitaine's Poetical Synthesis of Augustinian Theology: A New Edition of the Liber epigrammatum
      • date: 1904
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: By providing a new textual reckoning of the epigrams, it will be possible to fix the contours of Prosper's (and therefore Augustine's) influence and establish a sound textual footing for further investigations. This dissertation is something of a prolegomenon to the further study of the early centuries of the interpretation and transmission of Augustine's theological reflections.
      • keywords: augustine; epigrams; prosper; theological
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3109. kp78gf08t27
      • author: Suzi F. Garcia
      • title: Dear Dorothy: Poems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 25
      • flesch: 69
      • summary: This thesis contains poems about a fantasized matriarchal world, though the speaker does not know how it will be achieved, likely through her own blood.
      • keywords: blood
      • versions: original; plain text
3110. kp78gf08t6m
      • author: Sandhya Vasudevan
      • title: The Effect of Nanoparticle Shape on the Electrical and Thermal Properties of Solid Polymer Electrolytes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: While the filler concentration for maximum conductivity improvement is correlated to the nanoparticle shape, the magnitude of the improvement is correlated to the surface-to volume ( S V ) ratio. Thermal properties, measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), show a decoupling between increased crystallinity and decreased conductivity.
      • keywords: conductivity; filler; ratio; tio2; wt.%
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3111. kp78gf09g6s
      • author: Michael S. Hahn
      • title: Augustine in the Teaching of Thomas: Aquinas's Reception and Use of Contra Faustum Manichaeum
      • date: 2018
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Part I provides an introduction to the Contra Faustum, establishing a necessary background for considering Thomas's use of it, and filling an existing gap in Augustine studies, where analysis of the work in its entirety is largely absent. The culmination of the dissertation comes in Part III, which provides a close reading of the treatise on law, exposing how the Contra Faustum shapes Thomas's teaching, while attending to other textual influences, and to contested aspects of his teaching concerning Jews and Judaism, and his approach to the Old Testament more broadly.
      • keywords: augustine; contra; faustum; law; teaching; thomas
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3112. kp78gf09m2n
      • author: Steven M. Barbachyn
      • title: Seismic Design, Analysis, and Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Coupled Shear Wall Systems with Post-Tensioned Coupling Beams
      • date: 2019
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Ultimately, the high-fidelity data from these tests support the ACI validation of the design procedures and modeling/prediction tools for the use of post-tensioned coupled shear wall structures as primary lateral load resisting systems in moderate and high seismic regions of the U.S. Overall, both test specimens performed well and significantly better than previous tests of conventional RC coupled shear wall structures.
      • keywords: beams; coupling; design; post; shear; specimens; structures; tensioned; wall
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3113. kp78gf09n81
      • author: Karl Cronberger
      • title: Petrogenesis of KREEP Basalts
      • date: 2019
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Chapter 5 combines the data from chapters 2 and 3 and synthesizing these with the major and trace element compositions and calculated equilibrium liquids of pyroxene and plagioclase from additional KREEP basalts. Their trace element signature is evolved, possessing an abundance of incompatible trace elements (KREEP: K, Rare Earth Elements and Phosphorus), and yet they are primitive with regards to their major element composition.
      • keywords: basalts; element; kreep; trace
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3114. kp78gf09s7x
      • author: Patrick K. Kirkland
      • title: Developing a Measure of Mature Number Sense with Valid and Reliable Scores
      • date: 2020
      • words: 191
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: By flexibly solving problems and learning from other students' strategies, Number Talks are claimed to increase students' number sense (Boaler, 2015; Boaler et al., 2018; Sun et al., 2018). Therefore, the goal of this project was to develop a measure of student number sense with valid and reliable scores that can be used to assess the impact on student number sense of instructional practices such as Number Talks.
      • keywords: number; sense; students; talks
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3115. kp78gf09v2t
      • author: Hunter O. Ford
      • title: Functional Polymers for Beyond-Li-Ion Batteries: Elucidating Structure-Chemistry-Property Relationships for Engineered Ion Transport in Gel Polymer Electrolytes
      • date: 2021
      • words: 469
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Further, it is shown that unless the cross-linked polymer is porous or sufficiently tough, Li-S batteries using polymer gel electrolytes will suffer quick and catastrophic dendritic failure. Regarding cationic transport, it is demonstrated here that by changing the crosslinker chemistry in polymer electrolytes designed for Li, Na, K, and Ca systems that cation transport can be enhanced.
      • keywords: batteries; discharge; electrolytes; gel; ion; polymer; polysulfide; self; transport
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3116. kp78gf09w0f
      • author: Derek Shank
      • title: Fractured but Whole: Towards Understanding the Smallest Substructure of the Milky Way
      • date: 2022
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Previously discovered remnants are, for the first time, analyzed in exhaustive detail to compare relations between discoveries, showing remarkable consistency across the field even when using differing detection methods. Associations of remnants to known Milky Way substructures are recovered, such as Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus, the Helmi Streams, Thamnos, the Splashed Disk, the Metal-Weak Thick Disk, and LMS-1 (Wukong).
      • keywords: mergers; milky; remnants; structure; way
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3117. kp78gf09x6t
      • author: Neha Mehra
      • title: Active Site Models, Mechanisms, and Performance Predictions for Catalytic Ethylene Oligomerization and Hydrogenation
      • date: 2023
      • words: 255
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Results obtained aid in understanding trends across metal ions and factors governing their activity towards hydrocarbon conversion reactions relevant to today's economy based on oil and increasing production of shale gas. We construct atomistic models of metal sites grafted on (111) and (001) surfaces of beta-cristobalite, a silica polymorph.
      • keywords: activity; group-4; pathways; reaction; silica; sites
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3118. ks65h99208d
      • author: Kimberly Akiko Koga
      • title: from the pseudoplague
      • date: 2011
      • words: 15
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This collection of poetry explores power dynamics at the intersections of love, sex, and violence.
      • keywords: violence
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3119. ks65h99209r
      • author: Craig Richard Powers
      • title: Monte Carlo Simulation of Adsorption and Ion Exchange in Nanoporous Materials
      • date: 2011
      • words: 465
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: adsorption; behavior; carlo; component; exchange; materials; monte; simulations; study; systems
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3120. ks65h99212n
      • author: Luke Ellis Chicoine
      • title: Health and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa
      • date: 2012
      • words: 514
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: This dissertation includes two essays examining how changes in human capital levels have affected the lives of people in sub-Saharan Africa. First, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a detrimental impact in South Africa, killing over a quarter of a million people in 2007.
      • keywords: africa; aids; dissertation; education; epidemic; evidence; fertility; hiv; population; south
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3121. ks65h992130
      • author: Darcy Danielle LaClair
      • title: Optimization and Characterization of the Growth of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Blastochloris Viridis and a Brief Survey of Its Potential as a Remediative Tool
      • date: 2006
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Exogenous carbon dioxide, added as 2.5 g sodium bicarbonate per liter media also enhanced growth and reduced the lag time. The Two-Point method, a rapid and reliable method to compare cell growth and health, was demonstrated.
      • keywords: carbon; formation; good; growth; medium; shift; viridis
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3122. ks65h99214b
      • author: Nicole Rae Kroeger
      • title: Coisotropic Subalgebras of Complex Semisimple Lie Bialgebras
      • date: 2014
      • words: 96
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Furthermore, we view coisotropic subalgebras of inside the variety of Lagrangian subalgebras of the double. M. Zambon gives a construction for certain coisotropic sugalgebras, he explains his construction explicitly for the classical simple Lie algebras.
      • keywords: lie; subalgebras
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3123. ks65h99215p
      • author: Daniel Michael O'Hare
      • title: 'Have You Seen, Son of Man?': Preliminary Studies in the Translation and Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40-48
      • date: 2010
      • words: 428
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Based on this principle, analysis of the Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40-48 concludes that it preserves numerous secondary readings that harmonize Ezekiel's final vision with his earlier ones and thereby interpret Ezekiel in terms of the prophet's unique theology. On the other hand, a number of modernizing supplements bring the Hebrew text of Ezekiel 40-48 into conversation with developing Palestinian merkabah traditions (LXX Ezek 43:2-3) and the architecture of the Second Temple (LXX Ezek 40:38-40).
      • keywords: ezekiel; lxx; septuagint; source; study; text; translator; vorlage
      • versions: original; plain text
3124. ks65h992161
      • author: John Clay
      • title: Comparison of Palladium and Platinum Water Gas Shift Kinetics Using Density Functional Theory Models
      • date: 2014
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: In general, binding energies and reaction energies are close on both surfaces. Since CO is important for WGS, the CO-CO interactions on Pd(111) were studied by the development of a cluster expansion.
      • keywords: coverage; energies; energy; reaction; wgs
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3125. ks65h99217c
      • author: Leann Elizabeth Smith
      • title: Early Parenting Trajectories and Children's Language Development: Differences Between Adolescent and Adult Mothers
      • date: 2006
      • words: 122
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The present study used latent growth curve modeling to investigate changes in parenting over the first 18 months of life and how parenting is related to child language development at 24 months of age. However, since parenting is a dynamic process, there is a good reason to investigate parenting behaviors from a longitudinal framework.
      • keywords: children; parenting; time
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3126. ks65h992208
      • author: Rosanne Catherine Martyr
      • title: Toward a Unified Parametrization of Bottom Friction for Riverine, Tidal and Hurricane Surge Analysis
      • date: 2012
      • words: 285
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This dissertation applies the high-resolution, unstructured-mesh, wave-current SWAN+ADCIRC model to examine river flows and water levels in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers. Low-lying near-shore coastal features are shown to impact tidal flows in the Gulf region, while use of a lower limit on bottom friction is shown to directly impact hurricane surge water levels and currents.
      • keywords: energetic; gulf; hurricane; mississippi; river; surge; wave
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3127. ks65h99222z
      • author: Michael Albrecht
      • title: Design of a Data Repository for a Long-Running Physics Experimen
      • date: 2010
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Challenges such as storing large datasets, interface design, fast data analysis, and large-scale data visualization are examined, and solutions are presented in the form of distributed storage and parallel computation. Furthermore, in areas like physics, scientists are frequently looking for interesting events or trends amongst a sea of boring data, making visualization and mass analysis very important.
      • keywords: analysis; data; needs; scientific
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3128. ks65h992239
      • author: David Joel Janetski
      • title: Ecological Effects of Introduced Pacific Salmon in Great Lakes Tributaries
      • date: 2012
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In a meta-analysis of Pacific salmon research in their native range, I found that dissolved nutrients and benthic communities respond positively to salmon overall, but that variability is driven by methodological and environmental factors, such as salmon abundance and sediment size. Overall, I found evidence that responses to salmon spawning in the Great Lakes were strongly driven by environmental factors.
      • keywords: ecological; effects; environmental; impacts; nutrients; pacific; salmon; spawning
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3129. ks65h992q2v
      • author: Siyi Qu
      • title: Development of Chemically-Tailored Copolymer Nanofiltration Membranes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Furthermore, functionalization using a novel micro-patterning technique allows the development of a fast and versatile modification of membrane chemistry, which results in more selective and chemically affiliated separations. The versatile and precise control over membrane chemistry at the microscale provided by the technique suggests the potential in future development of a variety of highly selective membranes.
      • keywords: applications; chemical; copolymer; development; membrane; performance
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3130. ks65h992w3r
      • author: Andrew J. O'Connor
      • title: The Prophetic Vocation in the Qur'an: Kerygmatic and Theonomic Visions of Prophetology
      • date: 2019
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: First I situate the Qur'an's broader presentation of prophethood within the history of prophetic activity as a whole and demonstrate its connection to developments within the context of Late Antiquity. I argue that its sequential recollection of earlier prophetic figures (what I call messenger-reports)—the building blocks of much of the kerygmatic paradigm—suggest a typological reading of prophets as preachers of an eschatological message, but also demonstrate a certain adaptability in its understanding of prophethood.
      • keywords: kerygmatic; paradigms; prophethood; qur'an
      • versions: original; plain text
3131. ks65h993316
      • author: Leo Jimenez
      • title: Internality in Families
      • date: 2020
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In the first part, we generalize one of the fundamental tools of geometric stability theory, type-definable binding groups, to certain families of internal types, which we call relatively internal. Studying internal types, one often encounters uniformly defined families of internal types.
      • keywords: definable; internal; internality; types
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3132. ks65h99339z
      • author: Jose R. Berlioz
      • title: Spin-Filtered Tunneling Device Using a Topological Insulator
      • date: 2021
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Due to their unique electronic structure, these new materials have been an active area of research to discover new quantum phenomena and their application in new technologies. The alignment of the Fermi levels of the topological insulator layers and the thickness of the tunnel barrier were investigated using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.
      • keywords: diode; spin; states; structure; surface; topological; tunnel
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3133. ks65h993556
      • author: Jian Ren Lim
      • title: First-Principles Interrogation of H2 Reduction Mechanisms on Copper Active Sites in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeolite
      • date: 2022
      • words: 596
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: In its case, the type of intermediary species and their formation steps in H2 reduction of Cu2+ and CuOH+ have yet been understood. The understanding of this copper reduction mechanism has an impact in the understanding of copper reduction pathway, the types of intermediate species, and possibly the effects of water solvation on copper reduction rate.
      • keywords: al3; copper; cu2; cuoh+; nh3; reduction; ring; sites; species; zeolite
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3134. kw52j675874
      • author: Craig Bradshaw Woelfel
      • title: Varieties of Aesthetic Experience: Religious Experience and Literary Modernism
      • date: 2011
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: As a pair of test cases, I look at the impact of the study of religious experience and Eastern religions on the art and aesthetics of T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster, focusing on their work from the early to late 1920's. Rather than seeing religion and secularity as mutually exclusive viewpoints in modernity Ì¢ âÂ' or, conversely, as possibly obtaining some kind of accomodationist relationship - I use Charles Taylor's conception of 'cross-pressures' from A Secular Age (2007), along with contemporary discourse surrounding the study of religious experience, as context through which to read modernist literature as a site of what I call dissociated belief: a fragmentary exploration of transcendent experience situated within a secular and skeptical background of understanding, and pressured equally by stances against orthodox religiosity or mystical epistemologies and against totally immanent or rational accounts of being, knowing, and art.
      • keywords: aesthetics; art; belief; experience; modernist; question; religious
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3135. kw52j67588g
      • author: Brenda R. Whitehead
      • title: Affect-Biased Health Perceptions: How Global and Daily Affect Influence the Correspondence Between Objective and Subjective Health in Older Adults
      • date: 2013
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Additional models also tested the degree to which health bias is primarily a trait process (dependent on global affect) or a state process (dependent on day-level affect). On the global level, structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the presence of affective health bias, so that the relationship between an Objective Health factor and a Perceived Health factor is moderated by global NA and PA.
      • keywords: affect; bias; global; health; level
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3136. kw52j67591c
      • author: Anna Louise Heckmann
      • title: Targeting the Dengue Genome with a Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme
      • date: 2010
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Our analyses provide validation of this ribozyme as a candidate effector gene for Dengue virus refractivity in mosquito cells, although future work is necessary to determine the extent of target cleavage. The ability of the ribozyme to cleave this conserved sequence was examined in cell culture using a 5' DENV/firefly luciferase fusion target and luciferase assays, RT-PCR, western dot-blot, and in-vitro cleavage assays.
      • keywords: dengue; denv; mosquito; ribozyme; target; virus
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3137. kw52j67592q
      • author: Tihtina Zenebe Gebre
      • title: Essays on the Effects of Education Policy Reforms in Developing Countries
      • date: 2015
      • words: 672
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The second essay attempts to fill this gap by examining the relationship between increased schooling by household heads on households' consumption in Malawi. Moreover, I find significant reduction in the fraction of children who died, due to increased schooling by the mother.
      • keywords: additional; education; effects; exposure; fpe; language; malawi; policy; reform; schooling; work; years
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3138. kw52j675994
      • author: Angela Dawn Carpenter
      • title: Sanctified Children: Natural Moral Formation and Sanctification in Reformed Theology
      • date: 2014
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: In Chapter 4, I introduce recent studies of child development, first presenting recent research on the cognitive, affective, and social capacities of infants and then looking at how moral agency emerges from these capacities in the context of a mutually responsive parent-child relationship. Prompted by such questions, this dissertation explores how natural processes of moral formation relate to divinely enabled moral change by placing a Reformed Protestant understanding of sanctification in conversation with recent social scientific research on early childhood development.
      • keywords: chapter; context; formation; moral; relationship; sanctification
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3139. kw52j675b0b
      • author: Brian D Wilson
      • title: Study of the Effects of Acylation within the Extracellular Domains of BlaR1
      • date: 2011
      • words: 650
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The BlaRS sensor domain has high structural conservation with other penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) and the Class A and D Ì¢-lactamases, although the proteins have low sequence homology. The exact mechanism of signal initiation and signal relay from the extracellular to intracellular domains is currently unknown.
      • keywords: antibiotic; binding; blars; domain; interaction; l2short; loop-2; peptide; protein; signal; site; work
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3140. kw52j675b21
      • author: David I Gregory-Negron
      • title: A New Space for Aesthetics: Contemporary Literature and Filmic Representations of Alterity Within the Southern Cone
      • date: 2013
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Chapter Three takes these considerations in terms of film language and how we can understand the collective identity of Chile. Chapter Four focuses on Argentina and how identity is build from memory and the language that forms that memory.
      • keywords: chapter; chile; contemporary; literature; national; new; political
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3141. kw52j675b52
      • author: Ian M Sander
      • title: Protein Folding is Modulated by the Translating Ribosome
      • date: 2012
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: folding; protein; ribosome; translation
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3142. kw52j675b6d
      • author: William K. Bauder
      • title: A Measurement of Actinide Neutron Transmutations with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in Order to Infer Neutron Capture Cross Sections
      • date: 1904
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The Measurement of Actinide TRAnsmutation (MANTRA) project aims to make a comprehensive set of energy integrated neutron capture cross section measurements for all relevant isotopes from Th to Cf. These results can be combined with a MCNP model for the neutron fluence to infer actinide neutron capture cross sections.
      • keywords: accelerator; actinide; capture; cross; measurements; neutron
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3143. kw52j675c2b
      • author: Kathryn M. Lance
      • title: Troubling Trends: Predictors of Binge Drinking in Adolescents in Northern Ireland
      • date: 1904
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: The study focused on factors present in an adolescent's social-ecological system, including levels of anger/aggression, maternal psychological control, and community violence as predictors of adolescent binge drinking across two time points. The analyses indicated that an adolescent's anger/aggression level is not a significant predictor of binge drinking over time (p &gt; .11); however, both maternal psychological control (ß = .215, p = .015) and the level of community violence proved to be significant predictors in the regression analysis (ß = .215, p = .015; ß = .184, p = .027).
      • keywords: adolescent; drinking
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3144. kw52j675c3p
      • author: Victoria Colleen Tomiczek Johnson
      • title: Wave and Surge Vulnerability of Coastal Residences
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: conditions; damage; environmental; hurricane; scale; storm; water; wave
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3145. kw52j675c41
      • author: Tara C. Weigand
      • title: Performance-Based Habitability Design and Assessment of Tall Buildings Using Full-Scale Data
      • date: 1904
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 24
      • 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.
      • keywords: design; framework; performance; scale; urgent
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3146. kw52j675g8b
      • author: Aamir Ahmed Khan
      • title: 3-Dimensional, High-Resolution Oxygen Microscopy in Vivo through Multiphoton Phosphorescence Lifetime Imaging
      • date: 1904
      • words: 439
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: However, MPM-FLIM for biological oxygen imaging requires water-soluble phosphorescent dyes that have high oxygen-sensitivity and a large two-photon cross-section. For example, quantitative information about oxygen levels in tumors can lead to optimized treatment methods in oncology, whereas oxygen imaging of brain vasculature can lead to a better understanding of brain activity in neurological research.
      • keywords: biological; cross; high; imaging; life; microscopy; oxygen; photon; probes; ru(dpp)3]2; section
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3147. kw52j67615j
      • author: Elizabeth A. Baker
      • title: More Romance than Reality: Mary Carpenter, 'Native Gentlemen,' and the National Indian Association, 1830-1880
      • date: 1904
      • words: 96
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This study tracks the beginning of native gentlemanliness, its deployment by Mary Carpenter, and the ways elite male Indian social reformers became native gentlemen to gain social capital, imperial prestige, and imperial funding for their education reforms. In doing so, it investigates the ways race, gender, and class all influenced who could participate, and ultimately control, the practice and ideology of imperial gender reform.
      • keywords: imperial; native; women
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3148. kw52j67652r
      • author: Arturo Argueta
      • title: Accelerating Natural Language Processing Algorithms Using Graphics Processing Units
      • date: 2019
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: We carry out experiments using different GPU architectures and compare the performance on different datasets. The word-level frequency in natural language creates irregular sparsity patterns, and these patterns generate sparse data structures that do not perform well on parallel architectures.
      • keywords: computation; different; gpu; language; natural; nlp; parallel; sparse; time
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3149. kw52j67670p
      • author: Colleen E. Mitchell
      • title: The Political Lessons of Rome: Augustine and Machiavelli on the Eternal City
      • date: 2019
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: My dissertation has three substantive parts: the first deals with Augustine, the second with Machiavelli, and the third with larger themes about the relationships between politics, religion, and morality in the writings of these two thinkers and in contemporary politics. I challenge the view that Augustine thinks politics in this world cannot be improved and illustrate how he believes the Roman Empire can be used as a means to further Christian ends.
      • keywords: augustine; machiavelli; politics; rome
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3150. kw52j676b5b
      • author: John Conlan
      • title: Altered States: Biopolitics and Precarious Life in Flann O'Brien and James Joyce
      • date: 2020
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: By considering groups of people that are politically ambiguous and economically precarious (like displaced women and radical labourers), I arrive at a model of biopolitics that is informed by the subversive political potential of subjects on the fringe of Irish civil society. In this dissertation, I will discuss the concepts of biopolitics and precarious life as they relate to Irish modernist fiction.
      • keywords: body; irish; o'nolan; political
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3151. kw52j676c5n
      • author: Kang Gao
      • title: Computation of Mutual Information with Training and Its Applications in Quantized Large-Scale Systems
      • date: 2020
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: information; large; mutual; number; training
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3152. kw52j676d4m
      • author: Vu Anh Truong Nguyen
      • title: Evolution and Control of Ecological Communities
      • date: 2021
      • words: 110
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: It is possible to change communities with high specificity by modifying multiple interactions. A simple geometric interpretation for modifying interactions to displace the equilibrium abundance of communities towards some desired state is derived.
      • keywords: communities; evolutionary; interactions; model
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3153. kw52j676g9z
      • author: William Tjaden
      • title: Cyclic Degradation of Clays within a Finite Element Framework under Various Dynamic Loading Characteristics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 37
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Using commercially available final element software, this research project investigates the cyclic behavior of clay and the current state of constitutive models in capturing the cyclic degradation of clay. Progress to rectify current state shortcomings is presented.
      • keywords: clay
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3154. m039k358k0d
      • author: Xin Liu
      • title: Reaction of Hyperthermal Oxygen Ions with Graphite and Polyhedral Oligosilsequioxane (Poss) Monolayers
      • date: 2011
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The incident energy of O+ ions is found to be positively correlated with the rate of oxygen uptake and negatively correlated with oxygen coverage in the steady state. Ion induced modifications of HOPG are characterized in situ by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and temperature programmed desorption (TPD) at various stages during exposure to O+.
      • keywords: graphite; ion; modifications; monolayer
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3155. m039k358k1r
      • author: Yuzhe Liu
      • title: Analysis and Design of Systems with a Non-negative Impulse Response
      • date: 2011
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The results explain the difficulties associated with non-negative impulse response filter design for systems other than lowpass filters. An approximation-based approach is presented for designing high-performance non-negative finite impulse response (NNFIR) lowpass filters, while NNFIR nonlowpass filters of various types can be obtained from a lowpass design via proposed transformations that preserve the NNIR feature.
      • keywords: conditions; feature; frequency; impulse; negative; non; response
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3156. m039k358k4s
      • author: Zijun Ke
      • title: Finite Sample Performance of Standard Error Estimators for Dynamic Factor Analysis of Non-Normal Data Using the Kalman Filter Algorithm
      • date: 2012
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: However, the observed information SE estimator is still valuable in that the advantage of the sandwich type SE estimator proposed by Papanastassiou (2006) over the observed information SE estimator for non-covariance component parameters is limited. Results indicate that the sandwich type SE estimator proposed by Papanastassiou (2006) generally outperforms other SE estimators.
      • keywords: estimator; type
      • versions: original; plain text
3157. m039k358k54
      • author: Nathan Daniel Gunsch
      • title: Mishappening
      • date: 2006
      • words: 3
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: Creative Thesis: Poetry
      • keywords: creative
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3158. m039k358k6g
      • author: Sara Lynn Crosby
      • title: Poisonous Mixtures: Gender, Race, Empire, and Cultural Authority in Antebellum Female Poisoner Literature
      • date: 2005
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This movement expanded outward from local conflicts over elite New England masculinity in the trials (chapter one) to questions about racial and regional power between North and South in the pamphlets and Stowe's work (chapters two and three) to a debate over empire and forms of imperial hegemony between Holmes and Hawthorne (chapter four). In short, this literature enabled a debate about how power should be distributed in a 'civilized' society, what boundaries and structures constituted that civilization, and which configurations of race, class, and gender should wield hegemonic authority over it.
      • keywords: authority; boundaries; conversation; dissertation; female; literature; narratives; poisoner
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3159. m039k358k7t
      • author: Kritsanu Tivakornsasithorn
      • title: Magnetic Properties of Hybrid Fe/Semiconductor Structures
      • date: 2012
      • words: 586
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The ability of growing Fe films of high crystalline quality on these semiconductor layers is made possible by a fortuitous between match the body-centered cubic crystal structure of Fe and the face-centered cubic structure of GaAs, ZnSe and Ge. The GaAs nanowires are then coated by Fe (to form in effect Fe tubes), and again by Au to protect them from oxidation after removal from the MBE chamber.
      • keywords: bias; crystalline; exchange; films; gaas; magnetic; nanowires; properties; semiconductor; structures
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3160. m039k358k85
      • author: Jonathan Stephen Wolff
      • title: Essays Concerning the Nature of Business Cycles
      • date: 2014
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Chapter two continues this focus on state dependent fiscal policy by studying the state-dependent effects of consumption, labor, and capital tax cuts. Both the output multiplier (the change in output for a one dollar change in government spending) and the welfare multiplier (the consumption equivalent change in welfare for the same change in spending) are found to move significantly across states, but tend to co-move negatively with one another.
      • keywords: change; chapter; multiplier; output; state; tax; welfare
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3161. m039k358k9h
      • author: Faruk Eray DÌ_zenli
      • title: Re/Presenting Labor: Economic Discourse, Value, Ethics
      • date: 2006
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In the first essay, I analyze contemporary renditions of labor in nonacademic economic discourses' publications of international institutions' as well as postmodernist narratives to show that labor, rather than being a given category with a single definition, acquires different meanings in different theories, with different theoretical, economic and ethical implications. As it participates in the constitution of a unique discourse that renders certain aspects of reality visible, labor becomes a 'particular lens' with which one can understand, ascribe meanings to prevalent economic and social relations, and destabilize, subvert, and transform the status quo by potentiating counter-hegemonic discourses and mobilizing alternative movements.
      • keywords: definition; different; economic; essay; labor; meanings; surplus
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3162. m039k358m2d
      • author: Jeremiah Ross Barr
      • title: Gallery-Free Methods for Detecting and Recognizing People and Groups of Interest in the Wild
      • date: 2014
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: FACE forms high-fidelity identity clusters by integrating a minimal amount of human feedback with automatic face recognition results. We introduce an active clustering scheme, the Framework for Active Clustering with Ensembles (FACE), with an emphasis on clustering face images.
      • keywords: active; clustering; detection; face; identity; recognition; results; scenes
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3163. m039k358m43
      • author: Ted Ritchie Kolberg
      • title: Measurement of the Isolated Photon Cross Section with Conversions in pp Collisions at &#8730;s = 7 TeV
      • date: 2011
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: We present a measurement of the isolated direct photon cross section using 36.1 pb&#8722;1 of pp collision data at &#8730;s = 7 TeV collected with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment during the 2010 physics run of the CERN We measure the photon cross section over a range of photon transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and find that it agrees with the predictions of perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations.
      • keywords: cms; measurement; photon; transverse
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3164. m039k358m5f
      • author: Alissa Russell
      • title: The Influence of Control on Daily Affect Regulation in Later Life: Longitudinal and Developmental Approaches to Understanding Change
      • date: 2012
      • words: 279
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: The main objectives of this thesis were to investigate whether: 1) there is a daily relationship between environmental control and negative affect, 2) that relationship changes within participants across three waves of data spanning five years, 3) the age of the participant (when the study began) influences the daily relationship between environmental control and negative affect, and 4) global levels of emotion or environmental control influence individuals' relationship between daily environmental control and daily negative affect. Global emotion control (but not global environmental control) moderated the daily relationship; specifically, on days of lower environmental control, individuals with higher global emotion control had lower negative affect than those with lower global emotion control.
      • keywords: control; daily; environmental; negative; relationship
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3165. m039k359848
      • author: Benjamin K. Mayala
      • title: Climate Change and Variation on Malaria Transmission in Tanzania
      • date: 1904
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This is true despite significant global reductions in the number of reported cases and associated mortality over the last decade as a result of the expansion and intensification of control programs. Finally, I assessed how climate change and development scenarios, will impact future malaria transmission in the various districts of Tanzania
      • keywords: approach; malaria; risk; spatial
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3166. m039k359906
      • author: Gabriel J. LaBonia
      • title: Investigation of In Vitro Models for Colon Cancer Research
      • date: 1904
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In this project, two novel in vitro platforms are employed to better understand the effects of chemotherapeutic treatments on colon cancer cells: tumor spheroids and paper-based cultures. Individual layers of paper are seeded with colon cancer cells, stacked together into a 3D structure containing a diffusion-limited environment generated with the use of diffusion limiting membranes and stainless steel holders.
      • keywords: cancer; cell; cultures; drug; paper; pbcs; spheroids; tumor; typical
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3167. m039k359f55
      • author: Anne Malin Ringwalt
      • title: What Floods
      • date: 2019
      • words: 10
      • flesch: 78
      • summary: A stream-poem exploring memory-as-echo, voice and performance.
      • keywords: performance
      • versions: original; plain text
3168. m039k359h5s
      • author: Jesse Schupack
      • title: The Socratic Foundations of Platonic Justice
      • date: 2019
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: This dissertation argues, by contrast, that there is more than this to be said for the Gorgias—deeply Socratic work though it is—and that the Republic, for all the ways it represents a new developmental stage in Plato's philosophical career, is fundamentally continuous with the Gorgias on the question of justice. The argument starts by showing of the Gorgias that it has more to say about justice than is sometimes thought, even as it preserves the central ethical content of so distinctively Socratic a work as the Apology.
      • keywords: gorgias; justice; plato; socratic
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3169. m039k359n4p
      • author: Aparna Bharati
      • title: Vision and Learning-Based Methods for Scalable and Generalized Image Forensics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 406
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This work contributes towards formalizing the problem definition and creating solutions that are applicable to general cases of manipulated images at a large scale. The increase in sharing of images has also led to more ways to edit image content aimed towards achieving a certain goal.
      • keywords: analysis; image; large; manipulated; media; provenance; quality; scale; understanding
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3170. m039k359q2m
      • author: Monica Arul Jayachandran
      • title: Machine Learning Techniques to Support Long-Term Monitoring Networks with Applications to Wind and Structural Health Monitoring Programs
      • date: 2022
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: With the wider availability of sensor technology through easily affordable sensor devices, many structural health monitoring (SHM) programs and wind field monitoring networks have been established to better understand the different meteorological phenomena and their effects on structures. Various machine learning frameworks have been developed in this study to better understand extreme wind characteristics and the performance of civil infrastructure under winds.
      • keywords: data; learning; machine; monitoring; networks; ports; study; wind
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3171. m039k359q3z
      • author: Justin Easa
      • title: Surface Science Analysis of Catalytic Thin Films: Pd-Based H2 Separation Membranes and Pyridine-Assisted Cycloaddition of CO2
      • date: 2022
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: catalytic; conditions; reaction; surface; understanding
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3172. m039k359q7b
      • author: Morgan Munsen
      • title: The Effect of Confirmation Bias and Perceptual Disfluency on Juror Decision-Making and Memory Retention
      • date: 2022
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: The decision-making results showed a dissociation where Juror Bias Scale score (a measure of pre-existing personal biases towards the criminal justice system) predicted verdicts while the experimentally-manipulated initial bias predicted suggested length of sentence—both in a direction that supported an effect of confirmation bias on decision-making. The second experiment also addressed the novel area of confirmation bias mitigation by implementing a perceptual disfluency manipulation—a manipulation which has been hypothesized to operate by shifting individuals from a heuristic mode of processing into an analytical mode of processing.
      • keywords: bias; confirmation; decision; juror; making; memory
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3173. m039k359r38
      • author: Sukhwan Chung
      • title: Emergence of Functional Modules in Multitasking Systems
      • date: 2022
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Furthermore, functional modules emerge naturally from multitasking systems because specialized components are extremely more probable to form than multitasking components. It allows us to quantify functional modularity of a system in terms of functional specialization of individual components.
      • keywords: functional; modular; modules; systems
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3174. m326m041t9r
      • author: Nathan J. Ristuccia
      • title: The Transmission of Christendom: Ritual and Instruction in the Early Middle Ages
      • date: 2013
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Rituals of basic instruction, like Rogationtide and Lent, helped to form the local communities of the Latin West. Medieval law, theological treatises, narrative sources, sermons, and liturgy are all essential sources testifying to developments in the social and religious position of basic instruction across the early medieval Latin West.
      • keywords: ages; christian; early; instruction; medieval; middle
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3175. m326m041v0z
      • author: Rebecca Carole Quardokus
      • title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observations of Neutral and Mixed-Valence Organometallic Complexes
      • date: 2013
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Investigation of mixed-valence dinuclear organometallic molecules with asymmetric electron state density may open up the possibility for their use in molecularly based electronic devices. STM images of neutral molecules show symmetrical distribution of electron density across the metal centers because the metal centers are present in the same oxidation state.
      • keywords: images; metal; mixed; molecules; stm
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3176. m326m041v30
      • author: Matthew Passmore Smylie
      • title: Magnetism and Superconductivity in Ruthenates, Ruthenocuprates, and Other Layered Oxides
      • date: 2010
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Another controversial class of superconducting material, Ba2ARu(1-x)CuxO6 (A=Ln,Y) is examined and the compound Ba2YRu(1-x)CuxO6 is shown to be superconducting with simultaneous Cu magnetic order at temperatures near that of YBCO, without CuO2 planes. The magnetic and crystal structures of several members of the Ln series are examined by SQUID magnetometry, electron spin resonance, and x-ray and neutron diffraction, with discovery of simultaneous superconductivity and Cu magnetic order in only Ba2DyRu(1-x)CuxO6.
      • keywords: electron; high; magnetic; materials; order; superconductivity
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3177. m326m041v4b
      • author: Raj K Jana
      • title: Low-Power Electronic Devices for Energy-Efficient Applications
      • date: 2015
      • words: 564
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The goal is to design transistor switch in a way that the device dissipates less power during logic operation than conventional FETs, BJTs. We also developed compact models for III-nitride HEMTs incorporating polarization charge to calculate transistor characteristics, and device parameters.
      • keywords: barrier; capacitance; circuits; dissipation; energy; gate; negative; piezoelectric; power; switching; transistor
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3178. m326m041w1m
      • author: David C Salyers
      • title: Improving Network Efficiency
      • date: 2008
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Specifically, this work presents two techniques and related research with an aim in improving overall network efficiency by trading a small amount of delay for individual flows. This dissertation investigates various aspects of network efficiency, in both the wired and wireless forms.
      • keywords: efficiency; network; qos
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3179. m326m041w2z
      • author: Wei Zhang
      • title: A Comparison of Four Estimators of a Population Measure of Model Misfit in Covariance Structure Analysis
      • date: 2005
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: A Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to examine how the above four estimators of F0 perform across varying model misspecifications, data distributions, model complexities, and sample sizes. A major issue in the utilization of covariance structure analysis is model misfit evaluation.
      • keywords: approximation; f02; model
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3180. m326m041w4n
      • author: Mehrdad Babadi
      • title: The Varieties of Everyday Religiosity Among Iranian Graduate Students in US Universities
      • date: 2013
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: My evidence suggests that these young Iranian students with Islamic background are neither secularists nor traditional orthodox Muslims. In this paper, I have attempted to uncover the processes of everyday religiosity and secularity among Iranian graduate students within the United States.
      • keywords: religiosity; states; students; united
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3181. m326m041w7p
      • author: John Paul Abdelsayed
      • title: Our Great Archpriest: St. Cyril of Alexandria's Approach to the Priesthood of Christ
      • date: 2014
      • words: 191
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Never losing cite of his exceptional contribution to the articulation of the seminal aspects of Christian doctrine, Cyrillian scholarship moved to explore related aspects of his teaching on the Trinity, the Eucharist, the Church, the Spirit, and Scripture. The notion of Christ's priesthood is doctrinally integral to the whole of Cyril's thought, including his reflections on the Eucharist, the Trinity, the Church, sanctification, divine filiation, anthropology, grace and pastoral ministry.
      • keywords: aspects; christ; cyril; priesthood
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3182. m326m041x59
      • author: Ryan M. Nell
      • title: A Thermodynamic Modeling Approach to Metal Fate and Bioavailability in Aqueous Microbial Systems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 437
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: A comprehensive understanding of the extent of metal adsorption onto bacteria in aqueous systems is imperative in order to predict the fate of metals in natural and engineered geologic systems. Bacterial adsorption of metals can have a great impact on environmental metal cycling.
      • keywords: adsorption; bacterial; binding; chapter; iron; metal; results; sulfhydryl; systems
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3183. m326m041x6n
      • author: Lucas J. Korte
      • title: Toxicity Is Agency
      • date: 1904
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In doing so, I am offering an image in which matter exceeds human thought, with something of the material world always remaining resistant to conceptualization and instrumentalization. Is it merely the raw components of the universe to be manipulated by human beings?
      • keywords: matter; thinking; universe; world
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3184. m326m041z0w
      • author: Robinson Murphy
      • title: Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Literature
      • date: 1904
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: anglophone; castration; chapter; ethos; global; masculine; normative
      • versions: original; plain text
3185. m326m042203
      • author: Javier (Xavi) Lanao Cámara
      • title: Lawless Possibilities: A Powers Account of Natural Modality
      • date: 1904
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: The resulting conceptual framework allows us to (i) accommodate a wide range of natural necessities, including natural necessities with different scopes, degrees of generality and strictness, as well as natural necessities with different degrees of modal force; (ii) systematically account for the variety of natural possibilities we find in scientific practice; and (iii) provide truth conditions for counterfactual conditionals regarding natural modality. This project presents a principled and systematic approach to how to understand natural modality taking powers as an ontological (and modal) primitive.
      • keywords: modal; modality; natural; scientific
      • versions: original; plain text
3186. m326m042m95
      • author: Dana Townsend
      • title: Coming of Age in Post-Accord Belfast: Changes in the Political Climate and Exposure to Sectarian Violence as Moderators of Adolescents' Emotional Security
      • date: 2019
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: As macro-level threat increased, Catholics who had more cumulative exposure to violence became more secure, Catholics who had less cumulative exposure became more insecure, and Protestants who had more cumulative exposure remained more insecure than their peers. During periods of high intergroup tension in society, adolescents with more cumulative exposure to violence became more secure, regardless of their group.
      • keywords: cumulative; emotional; exposure; society; tension; threat; violence
      • versions: original; plain text
3187. m326m042q5q
      • author: Cunlu Zhou
      • title: Entropy, Optimization and Coding Theory
      • date: 2019
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Entropy is a central concept in many different disciplines, and many important applications involving entropy can be viewed as entropy optimization problems. We develop a long-step path-following algorithm for such optimization problems.
      • keywords: case; entropy; optimization; problems; quantum
      • versions: original; plain text
3188. m326m042x2j
      • author: Jonathan F. Gondelman
      • title: Thucydides and the Passions of City Life
      • date: 2020
      • words: 127
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This dissertation examines the role of the passions in political life in Thucydides' work, reading Thucydides to a large degree as a political psychologist, focused on what motivates citizens and cities to take the actions that they do. It does so by looking at paradigmatic episodes in Thucydides' narrative, namely those episodes that show a link between passions and the city.
      • keywords: life; passions
      • versions: original; plain text
3189. m326m042z2v
      • author: Chuanqi Wang
      • title: Machine Learning Methods for Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data Analysis
      • date: 2021
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Scaling by sequencing depth is usually the first step for any analysis of RNA-seq data, but estimating sequencing depth accurately can be difficult, especially for single-cell data, which may influence the validity of downstream analysis. The second method is proposed for DE analysis of scRNA-seq data.
      • keywords: analysis; cell; data; rna; seq; single
      • versions: original; plain text
3190. m326m042z67
      • author: Felicity Sterling
      • title: StARD9 Is a Multifunctional Kinesin That Couples LDL-Uptake to the Projection of Lysosomal Membrane Tubules
      • date: 2021
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Similar to NPC disease cells, StARD9 depleted cells lack lysosomal tubulation and accumulate cholesterol. Oxysterol-X treatment, through activation of lysosomal tubulation, ameliorated cholesterol accumulation in both in vitro and in vivo models of NPC disease.
      • keywords: cholesterol; disease; lysosomal; npc; stard9; tubulation
      • versions: original; plain text
3191. m326m04321q
      • author: Amal Sebastian
      • title: Plasma Diagnostics through Experimental Data-Driven Predictive Modeling of Plasma-Induced Changes in Diverse Targets
      • date: 2023
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Then, I discuss the diverse diagnostics capabilities I achieved using predictive modeling of plasma-induced DNA damage, including plasma's gas temperature, reactive species generation, and dose rate of LTP. My study opens a potential gateway for developing novel plasma diagnostics tools that combine the power of predictive modeling tools such as machine learning and alternate probes like DNA.
      • keywords: diagnostics; dna; dose; modeling; plasma; predictive; reactive; species
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3192. m613mw2542t
      • author: Juan Francisco Yepez Albornoz
      • title: Essays of the Effectiveness of Capital Controls
      • date: 2012
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The first chapter studies the effectiveness of capital inflow controls in insulating countries from foreign interest rate shocks. To examine the systematic effect of capital controls on the economy, counterfactual VARs are constructed by 'zeroing out' capital controls and their effects in the VAR system.
      • keywords: capital; chapter; controls; countries; net; rate
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3193. m613mw25435
      • author: Jason Joseph Cytacki
      • title: Into the Sunset
      • date: 2011
      • words: 49
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: I present research on how our national identity is created through a tension between nostalgia and progress. I explore the cultural construction of the American character using examples from history, mythology and popular culture.
      • keywords: american
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3194. m613mw2547j
      • author: Erez Abittan
      • title: A Model-Based Approach for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
      • date: 2006
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 46
      • 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.
      • keywords: method; network; sensors; structure; wireless
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3195. m613mw2548w
      • author: Clay Porter Arango
      • title: Anthropogenic and landscape factors control stream nitrogen transformations at multiple spatial scales
      • date: 2008
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: A synthesis of my findings from high N streams in the Midwest suggests that land-use practices have increased temporary N removal at the expense of permanent N removal. At the reach scale, I studied how land use influenced N uptake and transformation in Midwestern streams (Michigan, USA) and found that dissimilatory N transformation rates (i.e., nitrification and denitrification) within streams were not affected by riparian zones, which are commonly used to mitigate water quality degradation.
      • keywords: concentrations; denitrification; function; landscape; rates; scale; streams; transformation
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3196. m613mw2550f
      • author: James M Marr
      • title: Atomic Force Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy Experiments with Molecular Dynamics for the Study of Field-Dependent Chemical and Morphological Changes
      • date: 2014
      • words: 615
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Effect of Nano-confined Electric Field on Water Water was used as an initial test of applied fields with strengths on the order of those achievable in the experimental scheme. The data showed frequency distributions were largely unchanged as a function of applied field.
      • keywords: applied; ca2; cm-1; dpps; effect; electric; fields; phase; plasmonic; simulations; vesicles; water
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3197. m613mw2551s
      • author: Weng-Lee Lim
      • title: Investigation of Magnetotransport Properties in III-Mn-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
      • date: 2006
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This asymmetry allows one to obtain four distinct zero-field resistance states in vicinal GaMnAs films that depend on the history of the experiment, making it of potential interest for building a unique four-state memory device. III-Mn-V ferromagnetic semiconductors' GaMnAs, InMnAs, InMnSb, and GaMnSb' are studied experimentally using electrical transport techniques, with emphasis on resistivity, anomalous Hall effect (AHE), anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR), and planar Hall effect (PHE).
      • keywords: alloys; effect; gaalas; gamnas; hall; iii; phe; plane
      • versions: original; plain text
3198. m613mw2554t
      • author: Marianne Alicia Malo Chenard
      • title: Narratives of the Saintly Body in Anglo-Saxon England
      • date: 2003
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: In these works, the textualized body of the saint provides fertile ground for narrative constructions of sanctity, regardless of the genre in which that body figures: it is clear that the processes underlying these constructions are always inflected by the historical circumstances surrounding the Marianne Alicia Malo Chenard production of the texts in which the saintly body is narrated. This dissertation investigates narratives of the saintly body in Anglo-Saxon England that were written between the late seventh century and the late tenth century.
      • keywords: body; century; chapter; narratives; saintly; saints; sanctity; texts
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3199. m613mw2556h
      • author: Angela Gugliotta
      • title: 'Hell With the Lid Taken Off:' A Cultural History of Air Pollution &ndash; Pittsburgh
      • date: 2005
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Pittsburgh has been known for coal smoke since its founding. Changes in class structure and social geography encouraged elites to reject provincialism and frontier exceptionalism.
      • keywords: coal; economic; environmental; frontier; historical; history; pittsburgh; problem; smoke; urban
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3200. m613mw25b31
      • author: Fattaneh Bayatbabolghani
      • title: Secure Biometric Computation and Outsourcing
      • date: 1904
      • words: 448
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: These solutions can be provided by developing secure biometric computations in a way that no information gets revealed during the protocol execution. To the best of our knowledge, our unique contributions in different biometric modalities largely benefit the field of secure biometric computation.
      • keywords: applications; biometric; computations; data; party; recognition; secure; settings
      • versions: original; plain text
3201. m613mw25r5f
      • author: Karen Tang
      • title: Great Expectations: The Influence of Parent Expectancies on Therapeutic Improvements in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
      • date: 1904
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 22
      • 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.
      • keywords: child; functioning; intervention; outcome; parents; treatment
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3202. m613mw25t6d
      • author: Mazen Makkouk
      • title: On the Possibility of a Muslim Hermeneutic across Religion and Literature: Imagining a Relation to the World through the Qur'an and the Novel
      • date: 1904
      • words: 462
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: To investigate the possibilities of metaphor for readers of the novel, I offer a reading of Abdul Rahman Munif's Al-Tīh, and Hoda Barakat's Malakūt Hādhihi al-Arḍ, as novels portraying the failure of nation at the individual level, and offering the reader the opportunity to construct metaphors that may both acknowledge and overcome the social divisions that led to that failure. To investigate the possibilities of metaphor for readers of the Qur'an, I first examine the pre-modern exegete Al-Biqāᶜī, and his attempt at reading cohesion in Sūrat Al-Nisā', and show that his search for cohesion through metaphors is motivated by his political perspective as well as limited by it, in that his politics do not permit him the scope to posit the world towards which his metaphors might point.
      • keywords: dissertation; metaphor; nisā; reading; world
      • versions: original; plain text
3203. m613mw26663
      • author: Daniel (Yue) Zhang
      • title: Social Edge Intelligence: Empowering Human-Centric Edge Computing, Learning, and Intelligence
      • date: 2020
      • words: 444
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: There exist several major limitations of existing research in edge computing for supporting AI applications at the edge. Third, the current centralized training of AI models is no longer appropriate in privacy-sensitive applications where the training data is owned by individuals.
      • keywords: applications; computing; devices; edge; humans; sei; thesis; training
      • versions: original; plain text
3204. m613mw26b1m
      • author: Levi Allen
      • title: Political Heretics: Why Voters Act in Defiance of Their Social Identities
      • date: 2023
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: These findings have implications for American democracy as political heretics may reduce stereotypes around the parties, thus reducing Americans' negative views of the out-party. This dissertation analyzes voters who cannot be explained by their social identities, voters whom I call political heretics.
      • keywords: party; political; social; states
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3205. m613mw26b39
      • author: Ashley Hastings
      • title: Frontiers of Actinides and Metal–Organic Frameworks: Diversifying Metal/Ligand Selection and Probing Radiation Stability
      • date: 2023
      • words: 250
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: These efforts at the intersection of the actinides with the MOF platform underscore fundamental actinide science and fortify the viability of MOF applications in high radiation fields. The third frontier pivots from assembly to breakdown with understanding the role of metal selection in MOF radiation stability.
      • keywords: actinide; chemistry; metal; mof; mofs; radiation
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3206. m900ns08d1j
      • author: Jesse Patrick Sullivan
      • title: Oxygen Transport within a Hepatic Hollow Fiber Bioreactor
      • date: 2008
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Unfortunately, the development of this type of device is currently hindered by oxygen limited transport to cultured hepatocytes, due to the low solubility of oxygen in aqueous media. In designing BLADs for clinical use, it is important to note that hepatocytes in vivo experience a spectrum of oxygen tensions (pO2 ranging from 25 &ndash; 70 mmHg).
      • keywords: bioreactor; fiber; hepatocytes; hollow; oxygen; po2
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3207. m900ns08d2w
      • author: James E. Gentile
      • title: Development, Verification and Usage of a Model for the Primary Vector for Malaria
      • date: 2013
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Modeling and simulation can help to evaluate the potential effectiveness of various control strategies and expose new ways to interrupt disease transmission. With this model, researchers can simulate a mosquito population, subject it to various intervention pressures, evaluate its response and its capability to transmit the disease.
      • keywords: agent; model; mosquito; population; simulation; transmission
      • versions: original; plain text
3208. m900ns08d5x
      • author: Shamsia Wanjiru Ramadhan
      • title: Religious Presence in Kenyan Politics, Culture and Civil Society: Peacebuilders or Partisans?
      • date: 2010
      • words: 20
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: The thesis is about the role that religious leaders can play in peacebuilding but under condition that they remain impartial.
      • keywords: impartial
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3209. m900ns08d68
      • author: Kara Marie Harmatys
      • title: Fluorescence Molecular Imaging and Photothermal Therapy Using Small Molecules
      • date: 2015
      • words: 588
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Both probes were evaluated in cell culture and selectively targeted dead and dying cells over healthy cells. These molecules, croconaine dyes, are designed to absorb 800 nm laser light and generate sufficient heat to kill cancerous cells.
      • keywords: ala; analysis; bdpa; bone; cells; dead; greater; membrane; molecules; probe; target; tetravalent; tumor
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3210. m900ns08d7m
      • author: Stuart Ambler
      • title: A Bundle Gerbe Construction of a Spinor Bundle from the Smooth Free Loop of a Vector Bundle
      • date: 2012
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: A polarization class bundle is constructed, choosing continuously over each point of the loop space a polarization class of Lagrangian subspaces of the complexification of the real vector space from which the Clifford algebra is made. A bundle gerbe is constructed from an oriented smooth vector bundle of even rank with a fiberwise inner product, over a compact connected orientable smooth manifold with Riemannian metric.
      • keywords: bundle; loop; space
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3211. m900ns08f3j
      • author: Jos&eacute; E Lugo
      • title: Integrating Product form Preference into Engineering Design
      • date: 2014
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: complexity; form; gestalt; preference; product; subject
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3212. m900ns08f4w
      • author: Maria-Elena D. Diaz
      • title: Asian Embeddedness and Political Participation: An Examination of Social Integration, Asian Heterogeneity, Ethnic Organization, and Asian Voting Behavior
      • date: 2009
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: This nationally representative multilevel study examines variation in Asian voting behavior, focusing on the influence of county characteristics and characteristics of Asian communities on Asian voting behavior. When combined with national ethnic organizations, concentrations of Asian ethnic groups appear to have varying effects on Asian electoral participation: percent Chinese decreases it, percent Asian Indians increases it, and the interaction of larger Filipino communities with the presence of an ethnic organization increases it.
      • keywords: asian; behavior; ethnic; integration; likely; organizations; political; voting
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3213. m900ns08f6k
      • author: Jill J Bouchard
      • title: Ensemble Interpretation of Domain Mobility in Modular Protein Pin1 by NMR and Molecular Dynamics
      • date: 2014
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Thus, if we want to understand how modular proteins function, we must characterize the range of conformations modular proteins sample. Consequently, there is a lot of mobility between the domains of modular proteins.
      • keywords: interdomain; modular; motions; new; proteins; thesis
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3214. m900ns08f9m
      • author: Ethan J Guagliardo
      • title: The Limelight of the Idols: Political Theology as Fiction in Renaissance England
      • date: 2014
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The poets in my study are no political scientists in the secular sense; for them, political authority was intrinsically tied to emotions and beliefs associated with religion &#8212; in this sense, they were political theologians. In this view, political theology is the permanent truth of politics.
      • keywords: authority; fiction; idol; poets; political; religion; theology
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3215. m900ns08g8k
      • author: Augusto Stoffel
      • title: Supersymmetric Field Theories and Orbifold Cohomology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Using the Stolz-Teichner framework of supersymmetric Euclidean field theories (EFTs), we provide geometric interpretations of some aspects of the algebraic topology of orbifolds. As a basic example, we show that dimensional reduction of untwisted EFTs over a global quotient orbifold X//G recovers the equivariant Chern character.
      • keywords: dimensional; efts; reduction
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3216. m900ns08h2t
      • author: Rebecca Anne Morrissey
      • title: Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Bulimic-Symptom Expression in Adolescent Girls: Examining Contingencies of the Restraint Pathway
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 15
      • 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.
      • keywords: adolescent; body; dieting; girls; pathway; restraint
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3217. m900ns08m2r
      • author: Tomer Levinboim
      • title: Invertibility and Transitivity in Low-Resource Machine Translation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: We integrate our techniques into the phrase-based machine translation pipeline and carry out translation experiments in the low-resource data scenario, which assumes the amount of training data is limited (a realistic assumption for most language pairs), and that syntactic analyzers of the source language are unavailable. However, we notice that these two properties are generally ignored by traditional statistical techniques for machine translation, and furthermore, that earlier research that does take them into account fails to fully utilize them.
      • keywords: invertibility; language; source; translation
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3218. m900ns09431
      • author: Julia L. Paulson
      • title: Prenatal Sleep Quality and Mental Health Symptoms across the Perinatal Period: A Longitudinal Study of High-Risk Women
      • date: 1904
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Results suggest past-year IPV is associated with elevated prenatal PTSS (ß=0.26, p&lt; .01) and depression symptoms (ß=0.17, p&lt;.001) and sleep difficulties are associated with a worsening trajectory in PTSS across pregnancy and postpartum (ß=0.01, p&lt;.05). Trauma-exposed women may be at magnified risk for posttraumatic stress (PTSS) and depression symptoms in the perinatal period, but few studies have examined symptomatology across the perinatal period in high-risk samples.
      • keywords: perinatal; period; ptss; sleep; symptoms
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3219. m900ns09g4g
      • author: Brandon W. Hollihan
      • title: Rehearsal and Performance Issues in Steve Reich's Tehillim: Unlocking the Process
      • date: 2020
      • words: 420
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Given the rise in the appreciation of Tehillim as a landmark American work for a vocal-instrumental ensemble, it continues to gain interest among young conductors. In Tehillim, Reich set these longer melodic lines to verses from the Hebrew Psalms and created a four-movement work that still highlights the composer's well-known techniques of repetition and phasing.
      • keywords: dissertation; ensemble; melodic; performance; reich; tehillim; time; work
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3220. m900ns09h4s
      • author: Samuel Pérez-Ayala
      • title: Extremal Eigenvalues for Conformally Covariant Operators
      • date: 2021
      • words: 102
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Riemannian metrics that extremize eigenvalues of conformally covariant operators are known to have a relationship with the existence of solutions of important partial differential equations (PDEs). Questions about the regularity of extremal metrics, possible obstructions to their existence, and to which PDEs are these associated with are discussed.
      • keywords: extremal; metrics
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3221. m900ns09j6s
      • author: Arambage Dushani Ranasinghe
      • title: Exploring the Regulation and Role of the Signaling and Epigenetic Modulator S1P in Pulmonary Hypertension Lung Vasculature
      • date: 2022
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Our findings are an important discovery for PAH, as novel and epigenetic roles for SPHK's were identified and represents a new therapeutic target that could provide opportunities for the development of novel PAH therapies. Thus, the underlying mechanism mediating the pathophysiological influences in PAH that modulate pulmonary vascular remodeling should be explored.
      • keywords: arterial; pah; pulmonary; s1p; sphk; vascular
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3222. m900ns09k01
      • author: Stella Jiayue Zhu
      • title: Artifact and Social Intention: A Consideration in Three Parts
      • date: 2022
      • words: 222
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: I argue that seemingly ordinary artifacts often play institutional-functional roles in social institutions by contributing to the self-reproduction of those institutions. Furthermore, I argue that an explanatorily adequate ontology of artifacts that accounts for their existences, functions, and our behavioral phenomenology around them must appeal to intentional sources beyond the minds of their authors.
      • keywords: artifacts; authors; ordinary; social
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3223. mc87pn91p4k
      • author: Ryan E Grady
      • title: On Geometric Aspects of Topological Quantum Mechanics
      • date: 2012
      • words: 114
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We construct a Chern-Simons gauge theory for dg Lie and L-infinity algebras on any one-dimensional manifold and quantize this theory using the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and Costello's renormalization techniques. Koszul duality and derived geometry allow us to encode topological quantum mechanics, a nonlinear sigma model of maps from a 1-manifold into a cotangent bundle as such a Chern-Simons theory.
      • keywords: chern; manifold; theory
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3224. mc87pn91p5x
      • author: Jason Matthew Miller
      • title: Subjectivity in Hegel's Aesthetics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: By contrast, this dissertation re-examines Hegel's philosophy of art through an in-depth analysis of what we might call 'aesthetic subjectivity' - the status of the individual subject in the context of aesthetic theory - that is overlooked by opponents and proponents of Hegel alike. Focusing primarily on Hegel's oft-neglected Lectures on Aesthetics, this dissertation identifies three distinct aspects of aesthetic subjectivity: aesthetic experience, aesthetic freedom, and aesthetic imagination (both creative and interpretive).
      • keywords: aesthetic; art; dissertation; hegel; individual; philosophy; relation; subjectivity
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3225. mc87pn91p99
      • author: Mark N Mitchell
      • title: Essays on the Determinants and Implications of the Choice of Undergraduate Major
      • date: 2008
      • words: 481
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: This study finds that some students in higher earnings majors do tend to have higher total debt levels. Other studies have analyzed various aspects of the decision making process associated with the choice of college major, however, many questions remain unanswered.
      • keywords: choice; college; earnings; major; second; student
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3226. mc87pn91q0h
      • author: Todd Walatka
      • title: The Opening of the Political: Grounding Political Action in Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theodramatic Christology Through an Engagement with the Christology of Jon Sobrino
      • date: 2011
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Through an engagement with the work of Jon Sobrino, Balthasar's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the Christian life today is reconfigured in two ways: in his aesthetics by focusing our gaze on the particularity of Jesus Christ and his merciful love of the poor; in his theodramatics by attending to the role of historical oppression within our relation to God and one another and to the place of the preferential option within a theodramatics attentive to the suffering of the poor and vulnerable. The third chapter responds more directly to the second and third questions as it develops Balthasar's account of history, human action, and the Kingdom of God.
      • keywords: balthasar; chapter; christian; life; world
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3227. mc87pn91q1v
      • author: Lauren Marie Keane
      • title: Sowing the Seeds for Grassroots Growth: How Recruitment Appeals Impact the Calculus of Citizen Engagement
      • date: 2013
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: I conclude with recommendations for future scholarship in this area, noting its practical importance for increasing participation rates generally and decreasing the participatory gap, which are two ailments of American Democracy today. Using this framework, I generate a number of hypotheses about what types of people should participate when solicited, as well as which appeals work best in particular contexts and for whom.
      • keywords: appeals; framework; people
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3228. mc87pn91q26
      • author: Lindsay J Haney
      • title: Performing Anxiety: Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture
      • date: 2014
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I concentrate on characters who attempt to adapt to new expectations of masculinity, but are nevertheless anxious about the erosion of male privilege or the assumption of new roles. Taking these characters as productively unreliable guides through this period of rapid change, I highlight the ways in which male privilege is continually reinscribed even as it is ostensibly challenged.
      • keywords: european; ireland; male; masculinity; period; rapid; social; texts
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3229. mc87pn91q3j
      • author: Lara Ostaric
      • title: Between Insight and Judgment: Kant's Conception of Genius and Its Fate in Early Schelling
      • date: 2006
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: In this dissertation it will be argued that contrary to many current views the concept of genius is of considerable importance for understanding what is most significant in the aesthetics of German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). In the recent literature on Kant's aesthetics, it is commonly asserted that Kant's discussion of genius in the Critique of Judgment is 'parergonal,' or merely extrinsic to his aesthetics.
      • keywords: aesthetics; conception; genius; kant; plato; production
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3230. mc87pn91q6k
      • author: Shiva Prasad Kotagiri
      • title: State-Dependent Networks with Side Information and Partial State Recovery
      • date: 2007
      • words: 429
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: In this thesis, we focus on studying state-dependent network models from an information theoretic perspective when the side information is available at some encoders and state recovery is considered at some decoders. For the state-dependent MAC with non-causal side information at some encoders and without state recovery at the decoder, we study bounds on the capacity region in the case of independent messages and derive the capacity region in the case of dependent or degraded messages.
      • keywords: capacity; case; dependent; recovery; region; state
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3231. mc87pn91q88
      • author: Shishir K. Rai
      • title: Zinc Diffusion in GaAsSb from Spin-on Glass Dopant Sources
      • date: 2004
      • words: 406
      • flesch: 50
      • 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.
      • keywords: diffusion; gaassb; profiles; surface; temperatures; type; å¡c
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3232. mc87pn91q9m
      • author: Hannah W. Matis
      • title: Daughters of Jerusalem: Early Medieval Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Carolingian Reform
      • date: 2013
      • words: 432
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: And finally, I examine how the Song of Songs formed one very important aspect of of an ongoing conversation between church and crown, providing Carolingian monks and clergy with a plethora of models to advise, to inspire, and occasionally to rebuke their sovereigns. In using the language of the Song of Songs to describe themselves and to form a common identity within the church, Carolingian elites also used that language to label and characterize the behavior of those they perceived to be tearing the church apart from within.
      • keywords: bride; carolingian; church; imagery; language; scholars; song
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3233. mc87pn91r8k
      • author: Kevin William Kastner
      • title: Molecular Dynamics and Virtual Screening of the Octopamine Receptor: A GPCR Computational Biochemical Analysis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: However, accelerated Molecular Dynamics (aMD) simulations can reduce this timescale to even hundreds of nanoseconds, while running the simulations on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) would enable even small clusters of GPUs to have processing power equivalent to hundreds of CPUs. My results show that aMD simulations run on GPUs can successfully obtain the active and inactive state conformations of a GPCR on this reduced timescale.
      • keywords: dynamics; experimental; gpcr; gpus; molecular; protein; simulations; timescale
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3234. mc87pn91r9x
      • author: Thomas A. Metzger
      • title: Experimental and Computational Investigation of Bone Marrow Mechanobiology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 462
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The goal of this dissertation research was to establish methods to assess the micromechanical environment of trabecular bone marrow and to apply these methods to investigate changes in bone marrow mechanobiology in disease. To assess the mechanical environment of the bone marrow during whole bone loading, bone marrow pressure was measured experimentally.
      • keywords: bone; cell; constitutive; fluid; gradients; marrow; models; pressure; shear; stress
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3235. mc87pn91w2r
      • author: Elizabeth A. Miller
      • title: Social Behavior and Host-Associated Microbes in Wild Baboons
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: I found that both social and non-social forces are important in shaping baboon microbial populations and communities. Animal associated microbes—from single microbial taxa to whole microbial communities—have profound effects on animal health.
      • keywords: animal; baboon; communities; host; microbial; populations; social; vaginal
      • versions: original; plain text
3236. mc87pn92d5q
      • author: Katherine E Richards
      • title: Pancreatic Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Exosomes Alter Pancreatic Cancer Cell Chemoresistance
      • date: 1904
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: CAFs are intrinsically resistant to gemcitabine, the chemotherapeutic standard of care for PDAC.Further, CAFs exposed to gemcitabine significantly increase the release of exosomes, which promote proliferation and chemoresistance of recipient PDAC epithelial cells. The goal of this research was to explore the effect of CAF-secreted extracellular vesicles, called exosomes, on the phenotypic traits of PDAC cells.
      • keywords: cafs; cancer; cells; chemoresistance; pdac
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3237. mc87pn92h60
      • author: Alison Fitchett Climenhaga
      • title: Reconciling Charisma: Healing, Conflict, and Identity in Catholic Charismatic Movements in Uganda
      • date: 2019
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: Drawing on archival research, interviews, and ethnographic participant observation, this dissertation analyzes how the ritual practice and organizational cultures of the two associations cultivated divergent styles of Catholic practice. Association members' sense of themselves as commissioned to promote authentic Catholic practice among themselves and their neighbors generated controversy, for that vocation presumed particular ideals toward which they were called to motivate their Catholic community as well as particular paths considered best for pursuing those goals.
      • keywords: bakaiso; catholic; ccr; groups; lay; outreach; practice; uganda
      • versions: original; plain text
3238. mc87pn92j80
      • author: Jenna R. Davidson
      • title: Informing Vector-Borne Disease Intervention Strategies in Biodiversity Hotspots: Indonesia
      • date: 2019
      • words: 1314
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: The specific objectives of this dissertation were to (i) evaluate standard practices for mosquito surveillance in their ability to comprehensively survey local mosquito species compositions in biodiversity hotspots, (ii) evaluate trapping methodologies for mosquito surveillance in their ability to characterize mosquito bionomics in biodiversity hotspots, and (iii) evaluate the accuracy of morphological mosquito identification in biodiversity hotspots. For objective one, to evaluate standard practices for mosquito surveillance in their ability to comprehensively survey local mosquito species compositions in biodiversity hotspots, this dissertation found that indoor HLCs and larval surveys are insufficient sampling regimens.
      • keywords: baseline; biodiversity; bionomics; compositions; control; data; disease; dissertation; hotspots; identification; indonesia; local; molecular; morphological; mosquito; practices; species; strategies; surveillance; vector
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3239. mc87pn92m5k
      • author: Sara M. Brackett
      • title: Using Small Molecules to Disarm Antibiotic Resistance
      • date: 2019
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This work describes a structure activity relationship (SAR) study based on a lead compound that has previously displayed biofilm inhibition and dispersion activity and β-lactam potentiation against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This SAR study revealed that the meridianin D analogues lack β-lactam potentiation capabilities, but replacing the 2-aminopyrimidine moiety attached to the indole with a 2-aminoimidazole group led to enhanced biofilm inhibition and dispersion activity.
      • keywords: activity; adjuvants; antibiotic; potentiation; resistance; sar; study; work
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3240. mc87pn92r4g
      • author: Brittany Williams
      • title: Unthought Known
      • date: 2021
      • words: 77
      • flesch: 28
      • 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.
      • keywords: memory; trauma
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3241. mc87pn92s85
      • author: Caroline R. Scheid
      • title: More than Words: Associations of Intimate Partner Violence, Psychopathology, and Observed Communication in Mothers
      • date: 2021
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: In study 1, observed communication data were used in variable-centered analyses to identify the potential emergence of macro-factors of communication and analyze possible risks for maternal communication. In person-centered analyses, latent profile analysis was implemented in study 2 to explore the emergence of maternal communication profiles, and analyses revealed a five-profile model of maternal communication, including Reserved, Harsh Directive, Warm Directive, Inquisitive Guidance, and Interactive typologies.
      • keywords: analyses; communication; ipv; maternal; psychopathology; subtypes
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3242. mc87pn92t6s
      • author: Lan Dinh
      • title: Essays in Firm Dynamics
      • date: 2022
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: By first calibrating the model to the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1997, then feeding in the observed trend in revenue productivity dispersion, aggregate TFP initially increases then declines when revenue productivity dispersion is 1.47 times the 1997 level. In my second essay, I study the effect of the recent increase in productivity dispersion on aggregate TFP.
      • keywords: competition; dispersion; model; productivity; revenue; shocks
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3243. mc87pn92v8s
      • author: Maria Caterina Gargano
      • title: Migration Experiences and Women's Perceived Impact of Migration on Their Community in Lima, Perú: Associations with Violence and Mental Health
      • date: 2023
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 28
      • 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.
      • keywords: experiences; health; internal; mental; migration; study; women
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3244. mc87pn92w4q
      • author: Sinyoung Lee
      • title: Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Contractionary monetary policy shocks have negligible effects on necessities (and total) spending inequality but have statistically significant effects on luxury spending inequality. Chapter 1 investigates the transmission of monetary policy shocks to US state-level house prices.
      • keywords: effects; house; inequality; monetary; policy; shocks; spending; state
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3245. mg74qj74z39
      • author: Irene N Kasumba
      • title: Comparative Analysis of Midgut Gene Expression Profiles in DENV-2 Susceptible and Refractory Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
      • date: 2011
      • words: 456
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The first goal of this project was to investigate midgut gene expression variation elicited in dengue susceptible (SUS) and refractory A proportion of our SAGE tags also mapped on the anti-sense strand of annotated genes.
      • keywords: dengue; expression; genes; infection; libraries; nref; nsus; strains
      • versions: original; plain text
3246. mg74qj74z4n
      • author: Wuming Luo
      • title: Searching for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top-Quark Pair in PP Collisions at the LHC
      • date: 2014
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 59
      • 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.
      • keywords: data; pair; proton; search
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3247. mg74qj74z7p
      • author: Bonnie Bradberry Smith
      • title: Cores of Monomial Ideals
      • date: 2010
      • words: 386
      • flesch: 68
      • summary: In this dissertation, we describe the cores of several classes of monomial ideals. The first class of ideals which we consider is one coming from graph theory, the strongly stable ideals of degree two.
      • keywords: ideal; minimal; monomial; reduction
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3248. mg74qj74z81
      • author: Brian Hamilton
      • title: Pauperes Christi: Voluntary Poverty as Political Practice
      • date: 2015
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Although those movements do in some ways confirm our worries about voluntary poverty, I also recover from them a way of thinking about voluntary poverty that is sensitive to the complex relationship between poverty and social power. Modern theologians attuned to the realities of poverty have usually kept their distance from classical Christian affirmations of voluntary poverty.
      • keywords: chapter; earlier; movements; poor; poverty; social; voluntary
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3249. mg74qj74z9c
      • author: Harry Karahalios
      • title: Differentiating National Identities: Cultures of Immigration in Europe's Peripheries
      • date: 2012
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Furthermore, both countries overemphasize their affiliation with Europe, and downplay their cultural connections with non-Western nations like Morocco and Turkey. As a result, the new role of Spain and Greece as Europe's bulwarks against illegal migration has produced a series of internal cultural crises in both countries centered around the anxiety of Muslim infiltration and its impact on the European cultural make-up.
      • keywords: countries; cultural; europe; greece; migration; multi; relationship; spain
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3250. mg74qj7505k
      • author: Carol Elizabeth Akai
      • title: Redefining Early Child Neglect: Subthreshold Pathways to Non-Optimal Development
      • date: 2007
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Infants demonstrated significantly delayed development at both 12 and 24 months of age in social-emotional competence, the absence of social-emotional problems, cognitive development, and language development. Subthreshold neglect is defined as the absence of positive parenting behaviors that eventually results in delayed child development.
      • keywords: development; emotional; language; months
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3251. mg74qj7506x
      • author: Rachel Nduku Masyuko
      • title: Correlated Imaging by Confocal Raman Microscopy and Mass Spectrometry for Studying Microbial and Plant Systems: Going Beyond Single Technique Limitations
      • date: 2014
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Acquiring and correlating information from complementary imaging experiments has the potential to expose complex chemical behavior in ways that are simply not available from single methods applied in isolation, thereby greatly amplifying the information gathering power of imaging experiments. These requirements pose special challenges for image cross-correlation that go well beyond those posed in single technique imaging approaches.
      • keywords: chemical; correlated; different; experiments; imaging; information; work
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3252. mg74qj7508m
      • author: Jian Mu
      • title: New Algorithms for Biomedical Image Processing and Computer Vision Problems
      • date: 2014
      • words: 287
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: algorithms; computer; image; problems; processing; solutions
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3253. mg74qj7511h
      • author: Michael Butler Kelly
      • title: The Invasion of Things Sacred: Church, Property, and Sacrilege in Early Modern England
      • date: 2013
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Sacred space, sacred things, and sacred doctrine lay at the heart of the religious upheavals in early modern Europe. Yet often Calvinists spearheaded measures for the protection of sacred things, and contributed enthusiastically to the contemporary sacrilege discourse.
      • keywords: church; england; god; protestant; reformation; sacred; space; things
      • versions: original; plain text
3254. mg74qj7524v
      • author: Teng Zhang
      • title: Atomistic Simulation of Thermal Transport Physics in Soft Materials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 566
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: We find that the thermal transport in amorphous polymers with weak inter-chain interaction is dominated by along-chain heat conduction, and thermal conductivity is a strong function of the radius of gyration of the molecular chains. For example, high thermal conductivity is desired for a wide variety of heat transfer applications, such as the thermal interface material and the heat spreader in microelectronic devices.
      • keywords: applications; chain; conductivity; heat; high; interfaces; materials; molecular; phase; polymers; thermal; transition; transport
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3255. mg74qj7554s
      • author: Clark R. Casarella
      • title: Lifetime Measurements and the Feasibility of Vibrational Phonon Configurations in Deformed Rare-Earth Nuclei
      • date: 1904
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Femtosecond to picosecond range nuclear lifetimes can be measured with the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method via Inelastic Neutron Scattering at the University of Kentucky Accelerator Laboratory, where we have performed a series of measurements of nuclear lifetimes in two rare-earth nuclei, 160Gd and 162Dy. Historically, low-lying excitations in deformed nuclei have presented unique challenges in the context of nuclear structure.
      • keywords: lifetimes; nuclear; nuclei; structure; vibrations
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3256. mg74qj75n9v
      • author: Justin Appel
      • title: Perspectivism in the Passions of Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The thesis examines the narrative structure of each Passion, using narrative theory to explain Ešenvalds' process of characterization. In particular, his two Passion settings, Passion and Resurrection (2005) and the St. Luke Passion (2010), demonstrate the kind of stylistic eclecticism associated with postmodern compositional aesthetics.
      • keywords: eclecticism; evangelical; ešenvalds; narrative; passion; perspectival; thesis
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3257. mg74qj75q4r
      • author: Gregory K. Kline
      • title: Exploring the Structure-Property Relationships of Linear and Crosslinked Poly(ethylene Oxide) Polymer Membranes for Gas Separations
      • date: 2018
      • words: 222
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Compared to conventional gas separation systems, such as absorption, gas separation membrane systems are inherently smaller in size and easier to operate, and potentially, more economically viable. The majority of this work explores strategies for incorporating rubbery poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) into gas separation membranes.
      • keywords: gas; high; materials; peo; separation
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3258. mg74qj75r3q
      • author: Jessica Lumsden Fisher
      • title: The Rise and Fall of the Ribbonmen: Militant Irish Nationalism in Ireland and Abroad, c. 1810-1858
      • date: 2018
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The final chapters turn to the literature of William Carleton, who wrote obsessively about Ribbon Societies, and to the writings and aspirations of the Young Ireland movement that attempted to recreate the republican nationalism of the 1798 rebellion in their own image in 1848. It argues that Ribbon Societies created a blended organization that incorporated nationalist rhetoric and aims while continuing to use methods of resistance learned through agrarian societies.
      • keywords: century; dissertation; ireland; rebellion; ribbon; ribbonism; societies; society
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3259. mg74qj75v0m
      • author: Joseph Earl Thomas
      • title: Sink: A Memoir
      • date: 2019
      • words: 24
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Sink is a coming of age story in relation to the anthropocene, which attempts to reckon with loneliness and the impossibility of support systems.
      • keywords: sink
      • versions: original; plain text
3260. mg74qj7616h
      • author: Kenton Murray
      • title: Learning Hyperparameters for Neural Machine Translation
      • date: 2020
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: However, these neural machine translation systems have complicated architectures with many hyperparameters that need to be manually chosen. Machine Translation, the subfield of Computer Science that focuses on translating between two human languages, has greatly benefited from neural networks.
      • keywords: hyperparameters; machine; model; neural
      • versions: original; plain text
3261. mg74qj7626t
      • author: Nirupama Sensharma
      • title: Wobbling Motion in Nuclei: Transverse, Longitudinal and Chiral
      • date: 2021
      • words: 404
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Beyond the A ∼ 130 region, the present work has also investigated the A ∼ 190 region to seek for evidence of nuclear wobbling motion. Based on these observations, 135Pr has been proposed to be the first observed case of a chiral wobbler wherein chiral rotation has been observed in coexistence with wobbling motion.
      • keywords: observed; region; wobbling; work
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3262. mg74qj7632r
      • author: Junchi Lu
      • title: Far-Infrared Emission from Electrically Injected Phonon-Polariton Lasers
      • date: 2021
      • words: 300
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The emission is compared directly to thermal emission. Finally, to investigate the photon-electron-phonon tripartite coupling mechanism and thermal characteristics of such complex infrared emitters, we use Raman spectroscopy-based techniques to determine the temperature distribution and thermal conductivity from a continuous wave (CW) mode quantum cascade laser (QCL) at room temperature.
      • keywords: devices; emission; emitters; fir; phonon; polariton; thermal; work
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3263. mg74qj7638t
      • author: Cassandra C. Shaffer
      • title: Intersection of Organic and Inorganic Supramolecular Chemistry
      • date: 2022
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Chapter 4 describes fluorescent rotaxane probe molecules with potential applications in biological imaging, while Chapter 5 describes a novel method of synthesizing hollow silica nanoparticles for imaging and drug delivery. Though the field did not receive widespread recognition until the late 1980s when it won its first Nobel Prize, its organic roots can be traced back to the late 1800s in the study of enzymes and other related biological binding systems.
      • keywords: chemistry; field; recognition; study; supramolecular
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3264. mk61rf5876p
      • author: Christopher S Seibert
      • title: Properties and Characterization of Deeply-Etched High-Index-Contrast Ridge Waveguide Structures
      • date: 2012
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Utilizing this process, passive single mode HIC RWG devices have been fabricated which exhibit record low propagation losses. In order to realize the high index contrast (&#916;n) between the semiconductor waveguide core and the dielectric cladding, an oxygen-enhanced non-selective wet thermal oxidation (OENSO) process developed at the University of Notre Dame has been applied to the fabrication of GaAs and InP based HIC RWGs.
      • keywords: contrast; devices; hic; order; process; use
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3265. mk61rf58771
      • author: David A Deen
      • title: Advanced Design of Ultra-Thin Barrier AlN/GaN HEMTs: A Study of Device Design, Modeling, and Analysis
      • date: 2011
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Furthermore, the ultra-thin (< 5 nm) barrier and excellent transport properties of this all binary heterostructure make it well suited for high electron mobility transistor applications where high frequency and high currentare required. This work encompasses various design aspects of GaN-based High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) which ultimately result in the realization of several generations that utilize the AlN/GaN heterostructure.
      • keywords: aln; electron; gan; hemt; high; mobility; thin; ultra
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3266. mk61rf58818
      • author: Benjamin Isaac Huff
      • title: Friendship and the Shared Life of Virtue
      • date: 2008
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The view that happiness consists in virtuous action is an attractive view. However, I defend a version of the claim that happiness consists in virtuous action, and I show that when properly understood, happiness is an appropriate motive for virtuous action.
      • keywords: action; happiness; view; virtuous
      • versions: original; plain text
3267. mk61rf5882m
      • author: Karen Cynthia Saavedra
      • title: An Exploration into Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Applied to Rural Drinking Water Systems
      • date: 2011
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Preliminary conclusions include: i) a fault tree can be constructed to represent the routes to failure in the system, ii) local water practitioners appear to view the resulting fault tree as a useful tool in the design of water development projects, and iii) measuring necessary and sufficient data in the field to quantify probabilities for FTA is possible, but will require both substantial application of the field surveys and careful attention to cultural sensitivities. The research question asks whether the data necessary to estimate the probabilities of failure for each step can be collected from the field work methods, allowing for the potential application of FTA in the assessment of quantity and quality failures in local potable water resource systems.
      • keywords: development; failure; field; fta; steps; system; water
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3268. mk61rf5883z
      • author: Ernest Wylie
      • title: Crystal chemistry and application development of uranyl extended structure and nanoscale materials and actinyl ion-substituted mineral phases
      • date: 2014
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy and mass spectrometry were used to quantify elemental distributions in the feed and permeate solutions while Raman spectroscopy, small-angle X-ray scattering, and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry were used to define the characteristics of the cluster species across a range different solution conditions. Ultrafiltration techniques were utilized to separate uranyl peroxide nanoclusters from complex aqueous solutions.
      • keywords: challenges; liquid; nuclear; ray; techniques
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3269. mk61rf58849
      • author: Sara Melissa Stasik
      • title: Nosological Placement of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: A Comprehensive Structural Analaysis
      • date: 2014
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: disorder; fear; ocd; ocrd; oddity; psychopathology; structural
      • versions: original; plain text
3270. mk61rf5885n
      • author: Kent R. Walters
      • title: Large Molecular Weight Antifreezes and Related Adaptations in Freeze-Tolerant Alaskan Insects
      • date: 2010
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In addition, erythritol is catabolized under conditions that promote threitol synthesis, leading to the accumulation of high concentrations of threitol without concomitant accumulation of erythritol. Although, the hemolymph of individual cold acclimated nymphs occasionally exhibited more than a degree of thermal hysteresis, typically the hemolymph exhibited only hexagonal crystal growth and recrystallization inhibition.
      • keywords: arctica; concentrations; freeze; hysteresis; thermal; threitol; tolerant
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3271. mk61rf5888p
      • author: Scott Daniel Moringiello
      • title: Irenaeus Rhetor
      • date: 2010
      • words: 114
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In this dissertation, I argue that the second-century bishop Irenaeus of Lyon should be understood within the context of Greco-Roman rhetorical traditions. With the study of rhetoric, I examine Irenaeus's theology under five headings: martyrdom, genealogy, apocalypse, prophecy, and eschatology.
      • keywords: irenaeus; rhetorical; word
      • versions: original; plain text
3272. mk61rf58907
      • author: Emily Scanlon Kaulbach
      • title: Surface Complexation Modeling of Proton and Cd Adsorption onto an Algal Cell Wall
      • date: 2005
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Application of this surface complexation modeling approach enables quantitative assessment of algal adsorption effects on aqueous metal mobilities. The results suggest that the stabilities of the Cd-surface complexes are high enough for algal adsorption to affect the fate and transport of Cd, but that on a per gram basis, bacteria exhibit higher buffering capacities and stabilities of the Cd-cell wall surface complexes.
      • keywords: adsorption; algal; cell; surface
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3273. mk61rf5891k
      • author: Jason Michael Baxter
      • title: Two Sacred, Encyclopedic Poets: Dante and Bernard Silvestris
      • date: 2014
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Chapter Three analyzes Dante's response to the encyclopedic Virgil, particularly as presented in Bernard Silvestris's commentary. Chapter Four explores Dante's use of the sacred, encyclopedic poetic tradition in Purgatorio XXVIII and discusses the significance of Dante's attempt to draw our attention to its presence.
      • keywords: dante; encyclopedic; sacred; tradition
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3274. mk61rf58z66
      • author: Tyler R. Jaramillo
      • title: Modeling and Optimization of a Friction Stir Extrusion Process Using Finite Element Methods
      • date: 1904
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Friction stir extrusion (FSE) is a relatively new manufacturing process that allows for reduced cost production of metallic piping with a fine, equiaxed grain structure. Second, the sample FSE process was modeled and compared to physical trials.
      • keywords: extrusion; fse; models; process
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3275. mk61rf59012
      • author: Alberto Lo Pinto
      • title: The Representation of Urban Space in the Italian Cinema of the Economic Miracle
      • date: 1904
      • words: 248
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The three films offer criticism, that may also be found in a broad range of Italian films, of the dominant center-right culture of the Christian Democrats, and hence may be considered exemplary of a trend in contemporary Italian cinema. Italian films critiqued the urban politics of the Christian Democrats by offering a counternarrative to the positive image presented on television and in other media.
      • keywords: cinema; economic; films; italian; study; urban
      • versions: original; plain text
3276. mk61rf5940z
      • author: Alainna Wen
      • title: Depression and Biases in Affective Set-Shifting following Stress
      • date: 2019
      • words: 394
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate pre- and post-stress affective set-shifting in relation to current and prospective levels of depressive symptoms. However, it is unclear if depression is associated with a negative bias in affective set-shifting (i.e., slower shifting from emotional aspects of negative stimuli to non-emotional aspects).
      • keywords: affective; depressive; set; shifting; stress
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3277. mk61rf59c66
      • author: Samaresh Midya
      • title: On the Spectral Decomposition of Skewness of Streamwise Velocity in a Zero Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layer
      • date: 2021
      • words: 578
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: With an active ALSSA, despite having unchanged total event frequency in the region y + ≤ 30, the events occur more frequently in one half of the actuation cycle but less frequently in the other half. In fact, it is shown that, especially in the near wall region, the range of skewness producing frequencies matches closely with the probability density function of the frequency of the ejection-sweep and sweep-ejection events.
      • keywords: active; contribution; ejection; events; frequencies; near; skewness; sweep; wall
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3278. mk61rf59f5g
      • author: Geneva Lark Hutchinson
      • title: RESTORE/RECLAIM
      • date: 2023
      • words: 69
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Using the conceptual frameworks provided by trauma theorists and feminist artists, I am drawing attention to the abuse of power towards women within the church. Simultaneously, through creating the work, I seek healing and reclamation for myself and other women with this lived experience.
      • keywords: church
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3279. mk61rf59f6t
      • author: Mariama S. Dampha
      • title: Perceived Social Support and Access to Postpartum and Newborn Care in Northern Ghana: Exploring Women's Experiences Using the Three Delays Model
      • date: 2023
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This thesis examined this relationship using the three-delays model (Thaddeus &amp; Maine, 1994) and the conceptual framework of social networks and social support (Heaney &amp; Israel, 2008), as well as social networks and health (Berkman et al., 2000).In The first 1000 days of life for a mother and her child are crucial, yet most preventable maternal and newborn deaths continue to occur (WHO, 2019; WHO, 2022a).
      • keywords: care; health; networks; newborn; postpartum; social; support; women
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3280. mp48sb41h55
      • author: Sameer Vijay
      • title: Synthesis, Characterization and Isomerization Activity Studies for Modified Sulfated Zirconia Catalysts
      • date: 2004
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: catalyst; deactivation; metallic; platinum; species; surface; use
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3281. mp48sb41h6h
      • author: Kimberly A. Berg
      • title: Essays on Exchange Rates
      • date: 2014
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Under incomplete markets, the choice of exchange rate regime is nearly irrelevant for welfare whether export prices are set by LCP or PCP. The presence of third-country shocks are also largely irrelevant to the choice of exchange rate regime.
      • keywords: choice; country; currency; exchange; model; monetary; rate; welfare
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3282. mp48sb41j0r
      • author: Eva Van Leemput
      • title: Essays on Macroeconomic Development and International Trade
      • date: 2015
      • words: 434
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: aid; barriers; cost; countries; donor; foreign; services; trade; welfare
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3283. mp48sb41j13
      • author: Madagama Gamage Buddika Sumanasena
      • title: A Multidimensional Systems Approach to Grid Sensor NetworksNETWORKS
      • date: 2012
      • words: 374
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: method; models; node; sensor; space; state; system
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3284. mp48sb41j75
      • author: Nicholas Anderson
      • title: Growth of Alumina from Aluminum Films Using Oxygen Plasma
      • date: 2004
      • words: 115
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: A variety of experimental techniques and setups are described and explained. Final setups and techniques are shown to allow for reproduction.
      • keywords: changes; techniques
      • versions: original; plain text
3285. mp48sb41j8h
      • author: Eimear Mary Mullen
      • title: The Effect of Soy Isoflavones on Cellular Sterol Regulation
      • date: 2007
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: It is our hypothesis that the hypocholesterolemic effects of soy are mediated at least in part by isoflavone-mediated regulation of the Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Proteins (SREBPs) and the Sterol Regulatory Element- (SRE) regulated genes. To see if similar results could be observed in vivo, we carried out a 10 day soy feeding study in C57BL/6J mice.
      • keywords: genes; increase; mice; regulated; soy; sre
      • versions: original; plain text
3286. mp48sb41k02
      • author: Cynthia Marie Nikolai
      • title: SimEOC: A Virtual Emergency Operations Center (vEOC) Simulator for Training and Research
      • date: 2015
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This tool is important because it enables emergency managers to train for crises more efficiently and effectively in a virtual environment. In this dissertation, we describe a socio-technical training simulator and research tool for upper level emergency managers.
      • keywords: emergency; tool; training
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3287. mp48sb41k33
      • author: Edwin Siu
      • title: The Impact of Gene Copy Number on Plasmodium falciparum Antifolate Drug Susceptibility
      • date: 2011
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Our data raise the interesting possibility that the genetic background of resistant parasites, specifically dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) mutation background, influences the magnitude of effect of gch1 CNV on parasite drug response. Using the parents and progeny of the genetic cross between clonal parent lines, HB3 and Dd2, we identified a positive correlation between gch1 copy number (CN) and PYR IC50 values and confirmed the phenotypic effect of the gch1 CNV by amplifying the CN in HB3 parasites (a two-fold increase) using the piggyBac transfection system.
      • keywords: antimalarial; background; cnv; drug; gch1; number; parasite; pyr; resistance
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3288. mp48sb41m1q
      • author: Andrew Brenner
      • title: A Defense of Mereological Nihilism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Two of the objections I consider are deflationary, in the sense that they contend that the debate over the existence of composite objects is merely verbal, or trivially easy to settle via conceptual analysis in conjunction with basic empirical investigation. I go on to consider whether science gives us compelling reasons to believe in composite objects.
      • keywords: argument; composite; nihilism; objections; objects
      • versions: original; plain text
3289. mp48sb41m84
      • author: Peter Finocchiaro
      • title: Structuring Metaphysical Disputes: A Foray into Meta-Ideology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: According to this position, we ought to endorse theories that employ ideology we have reason to believe correspond to the objective features of the world, where these features can be things (e.g. electrons or properties) or non-ontic stuff (e.g. water and quantificational structure). In the first third, I provide a preliminary characterization of ideology and in so doing distinguish the multiple ways metaphysicians conceive of ideology.
      • keywords: dissertation; ideological; ideology; maximal; theory
      • versions: original; plain text
3290. mp48sb41q51
      • author: Dasha Safonova
      • title: Topics in Monetary Economics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 422
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: I then study the implications of these mechanisms in a dynamic setting and relate these developments to central bank policies. I show that the aggregate loan rate increases in response to a shock that destroys a large fraction of bank relationships and decreases in response to a shock that destroys a small fraction of bank relationships.
      • keywords: aggregate; bank; central; hours; interbank; labor; market; network; rate
      • versions: original; plain text
3291. mp48sb41q6c
      • author: Julie A. Kessler
      • title: The Exploration of Metal Ligand Cooperation and Bond Activations by Late Transition Metal Complexes Containing the PNpyrP Ligand
      • date: 1904
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Overall, the ability of late transition metal complexes containing the (PNpyrP) ligand to undergo reversible structural changes was investigated as a means to leverage metal-ligand cooperation for the activation of small molecules and typically inert bonds. This dissertation describes the synthesis of late transition metal complexes containing a new PNP ligand comprised of a central pyrrole unit and di-iso-propylphosphine donors, bis[(dimethylamino)methyl]pyrrole, ((PNpyrP)H), 1.With this ligand, multiple transmetallation reagents including [(PNpyrP)Li]2 (7), (PNpyrP)Tl (8), and [(PNpyrP)Ag]2 (12) were synthesized in order to afford group 10 metal complexes of the form (PNpyrP)MCl (M = Ni (2), Pd (3), Pt (4)) as well as (PNpyrP)Ir(COD) (6) and (PNpyrP)Ru(PPh3)Cl (12).
      • keywords: backbone; complexes; ligand; metal; pnpyrp; pyrrole; transition
      • versions: original; plain text
3292. mp48sb41q82
      • author: Sarah Griffin
      • title: Probing the Spectral Signatures of Energy Transfer in Metal-Decorated Plasmonic Nanoprisms
      • date: 1904
      • words: 422
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: We are able to utilize EELS to spatially image the LSPR mode structure of gold nanoprisms and gold nanoprisms of the same size decorated with a catalytic metal, particularly, platinum. This dissertation focuses on imaging localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) by utilizing electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and resonance-Rayleigh scattering to understand energy transfer and changes in LSPR morphology dependent upon the location of a catalytic metal in contact with a plasmonic metal.
      • keywords: catalytic; eels; energy; gold; lspr; metal; mode; platinum
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3293. mp48sb42d2g
      • author: Xiaoxing Jin
      • title: Darwin in China, 1870-1935
      • date: 2019
      • words: 629
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: This explores the development of science, particularly biology, by describing the establishment of the Science Society of China in June 1914, and its official publication, Kexue (Science), which remained the major, if not the only, intellectual site for Chinese biologists to debate Darwinism in the 1910s. Chinese biologists continued to be trained in the West, and a new age of biology, in China, was on its way.
      • keywords: biologists; biology; china; chinese; darwinism; eclipse; evolutionary; origin; translation
      • versions: original; plain text
3294. mp48sb42m2b
      • author: Christianos A.G. Burlotos
      • title: Advancing Resilience in Urban Residential Construction: Formalizing Housing Design and Delivery in the Developing World
      • date: 2020
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: Through collaborative research and proposed intervention in multiple stages of the housing delivery process, this thesis will develop practical, evidence-based designs, frameworks, processes, tools, and recommendations that seek to advance the resilience of urban residential construction by providing a pathway to formalizing housing design and delivery in the developing world. The advantages and disadvantages of a variety of relevant housing typologies are discussed, and a comparative material cost analysis is used to establish the masonry-infilled special moment frame as the most cost-effective seismically-detailed typology.
      • keywords: construction; delivery; designs; hazards; housing; residential; thesis
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3295. mp48sb42m8d
      • author: Rebekah Fisher
      • title: Double Look: A Study of the Characterization of Doubles in Roman Comedy and Its Impact on the Presentation of Traditional Roman Values
      • date: 2021
      • words: 83
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The second examines the characterization of doubles in Terence's Adelphoe to discover how doubles can complicate usual characterization techniques. This paper studies the effect of doubles on the characterization and message of Roman comedy.
      • keywords: characterization; doubles
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3296. mp48sb42q0k
      • author: David B. Stevenson
      • title: Cyber-Weapons of the Weak: Understanding the Pursuit of Offensive Cyber-Capabilities by Smaller States
      • date: 2022
      • words: 190
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Cyber-weapons offer smaller countries significant strategic and tactical advantages across the international relations arena, yet not all smaller actors choose to prioritize cybersecurity and the development of offensive cyber-capabilities. This research project develops and tests a provisional theory about when and under what conditions smaller countries pursue offensive cyber-capabilities, arguing that smaller countries are more likely to develop offensive cyber-capabilities when threatened by a more powerful, cyber-armed rival, and when they demonstrate high-levels of military spending, a reliance on a high-tech military, or advanced national cyber-infrastructure.
      • keywords: capabilities; countries; cyber; smaller
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3297. mp48sb42q70
      • author: Shane Oh
      • title: Seismic Behavior and Design of Precast-Concrete Buckling-Restrained Braces and Frames
      • date: 2023
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: This dissertation describes a numerical evaluation on the seismic behavior and design of precast concrete buckling-restrained braced frames and a numerical and experimental evaluation of a novel reinforced-concrete buckling-restrained brace component for use in precast concrete construction. The following research topics are addressed: Investigation of seismic design performance factors for precast concrete building frames with traditional commercial steel buckling-restrained braces.
      • keywords: brace; buckling; concrete; design; precast; restrained; seismic
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3298. ms35t724s88
      • author: Michelle M Blum
      • title: Development, Characterization and Simulation of Boundary Lubricant Functionalized Hydrogels for Use as a Low-Friction Cartilage Substitute
      • date: 2012
      • words: 811
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Wear testing was also performed with polyvinyl alcohol and boundary lubricant functionalized hydrogels articulating against bovine cartilage pins in phosphate buffer saline solution as a fluid. It was demonstrated that a significant decrease in friction occurred for the boundary lubricant functionalized hydrogels when compared with neat polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels, and that friction coefficients were within the range of reported values for cartilage.
      • keywords: alcohol; behavior; boundary; cartilage; experiments; friction; functionalized; hydrogels; joint; lubricant; neat; polyvinyl; properties; results; surface; tribological; wear
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3299. ms35t724s9m
      • author: Susan Gundersen
      • title: Second Language Learners' Use of Grammatical Cues in Their Second Language
      • date: 2011
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Predictions are derived from the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1982; 1987; 1989) according to which subject-verb agreement (SVA) is a vertical cue, reflecting a correlation between word form and meaning (e.g., subject noun - agent role). Noun-adjective agreement (NAA) is a horizontal cue, reflecting a correlation between word forms only.
      • keywords: agreement; mapping; naa; subject; sva
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3300. ms35t724t3v
      • author: Ryan C. Kennedy
      • title: Verification and Validation of Agent-based and Equation-based Simulations and Bioinformatics Computing: Identifying Transposable Elements in the Aedes aegypti Genome
      • date: 2010
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This work centers around two subjects: 1) verification and validation of simulation models and 2) identifying transposable elements through novel approaches. Here, we perform verification and validation techniques, including docking and visualization, on an agent-based and an equation-based model and contrast the effectiveness of the techniques used.
      • keywords: validation; verification
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3301. ms35t724t46
      • author: Robert Rene Rodriguez
      • title: Health Effects of Disclosing Personal Secrets to Accepting Versus Non-Accepting Confidants
      • date: 2005
      • words: 158
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Eight weeks later, the accepting group' having imagined reactions that were more accepting and less judgmental than the non-accepting group' again reported fewer illnesses than did the non-accepting and trivial groups. In Experiment 1, undergraduates (N = 87) wrote either about trivial events or about a secret while imagining (a) an accepting confidant, (b) a non-accepting confidant, or (c) no confidant.
      • keywords: accepting; confidant
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3302. ms35t724t6w
      • author: Joseph William Thompson
      • title: Simulation and Analysis of the Impact of Eye Morphology on Iris Recognition
      • date: 2014
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: An examination of relevant eye anatomy is presented along with visualizations of iris texture distortions caused by various morphological factors. Because of the difficulty in obtaining data to measure such factors, a model of the eye is used to create data sets varying each factor.
      • keywords: corneal; eye; factors; iris
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3303. ms35t724t77
      • author: Daniel Govinda Rinzler
      • title: Design and Implementation of an FPGA-Based Image Processor: Exploring a Distributed Data Multi-Core Co-Processor Architecture
      • date: 2010
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: fimp; image; processing; processor; system
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3304. ms35t724v04
      • author: Yuping Zhu
      • title: Synthesis and Conformational Studies of Isotopically Enriched Saccharides
      • date: 2010
      • words: 441
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: These parameters were used to assess the N-acetyl side-chain conformation in combination with DFT parameterized equations. The aims of this dissertation are to explore isotope labeling of biologically important saccharides, and establish new correlations between NMR parameters and molecular structures with a particular focus on trans-glycoside scalar couplings and their application to the studies of glycosidic linkage conformation.
      • keywords: acetyl; alpha; chapter; conformation; couplings; dft; isotope; labeling; nmr
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3305. ms35t724v2t
      • author: Daniel Dominique Leger
      • title: The Nafta's Chapter 11 and U.S. Regulatory Takings: Can International Trade Agreements Develop a Consistent and Principled Regulatory Takings Jurisprudence?
      • date: 2005
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Its purpose is to examine the manner in which Chapter 11 authorized tribunals answer the question of how far is too far when reviewing disputed governmental regulation that may rise to the level of an expropriation and therefore compensable under Chapter 11's investor-protection provisions. Supporters and critics of the NAFTA's Chapter 11 investor-protection provisions claim that they are at once a boon to individual property rights or, alternatively, an assault on democracy and the right of a sovereign country to enact regulations through lawful and democratic means.
      • keywords: chapter; far; investor; protection; provisions; u.s
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3306. ms35t724v35
      • author: Sally Suzanne Williams
      • title: Modernizing the System Hierarchy for Tall Buildings: A Data-driven Approach to System Characterization
      • date: 2015
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: This implies that few modern systems obey this classical hierarchy, requiring a new approach to classify structural systems and their applicability to modern practice as both a design aid and educational tool for future designers. In the mid-1960s, Fazlur Khan created a hierarchy of structural systems, ranging from two-dimensional moment resisting frames to three-dimensional tubular systems, to aid designers in making efficient choices to resist lateral loads.
      • keywords: designers; hierarchy; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
3307. ms35t724v5v
      • author: Feng Li
      • title: Functionalization of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters with More Than Two Substituents
      • date: 1904
      • words: 525
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Studying the similarity in the reactivity of functionalized Ge9 clusters and the naked parent Ge94– anions has both experimental and theoretical implications. The primary goal of this research project is to develop methodologies for further functionalization of Zintl clusters in order to attach more than two substituents.
      • keywords: chapter; clusters; functionalized; ge9; reactivity; substituents; tri; zintl
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3308. ms35t72506q
      • author: Christopher Matthews
      • title: Reducing Spatial Errors in Ground-Based High-Contrast Imaging Systems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Scattered starlight limits the ability of high-contrast instruments to directly image extrasolar planets and other faint companions orbiting nearby stars. This result is the first step in the ultimate goal of developing and fully implementing a robust and efficient procedure to remove scattered starlight introduced by NCP spatial errors in P1640 and other high contrast imaging instruments.
      • keywords: algorithm; contrast; efc; field; high; lab; thesis; wavefront
      • versions: original; plain text
3309. ms35t725h20
      • author: Adam Papp
      • title: Spin-Wave-Based Computing
      • date: 1904
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: cmos; computing; signals; spin; wave
      • versions: original; plain text
3310. ms35t725h82
      • author: Brandon M. Tutkowski
      • title: Studies Directed toward the Improvement and Mechanistic Understanding of Several Transition Metal-Catalyzed Organic Reactions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Transition metals can be used to catalyze chemical reactions, allowing rapid and selective access to fine chemicals. The discovery of new reactions, as well as the improvement and understanding of existing reactions is thus a highly important task for organic chemists.
      • keywords: catalyzed; mechanism; reactions; transition; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3311. ms35t725j3n
      • author: Shirui Luo
      • title: Non-Membrane, Low Temperature and Low Emission Water Desalination Using Directional Solvent Extraction
      • date: 1904
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Rather than using costly electricity or high-quality heat for water treatment, the directional solvent extraction (DSE) process can utilize abundant low-quality waste heat from sources like power plant condensers and solar thermal energy to treat a wide variety of water sources, including seawater, brackish water, and condenser blow-down water. RO uses fine membranes and high-pressure pumps, and thermal distillation relies on intensive high temperature thermal energy, making both technologies very energy intensive.
      • keywords: desalination; dse; energy; high; intensive; plant; technologies; thermal; water
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3312. ms35t725k60
      • author: Mark Roosien
      • title: The Liturgical Commemoration of Earthquakes in Late Antique Constantinople: At the Intersection of Ritual, Environment, and Empire
      • date: 2018
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Prior to the practice of commemorating earthquakes liturgically, the late-fourth and early-fifth century preachers Severian of Gabala and John Chrysostom drew from this ritual repertoire to make theological sense of Constantinopolitan earthquakes. Those dedicated to augmenting Constantinople's political and ecclesiastical power disputed the theology of earthquakes as signs of divine wrath, and reframed local earthquakes as signs of divine blessing upon the city and its ambitions.
      • keywords: commemoration; constantinople; divine; earthquakes; liturgy; rite; thesis
      • versions: original; plain text
3313. ms35t725p2j
      • author: Frederick C. Nwanganga
      • title: Optimizing Workload Resource Allocation in the Cloud: A Data-Driven Approach
      • date: 2019
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Finally, the work presents an approach to predict how workload characteristics will change as a result of variations in allocated resource parameters. This research presents an analytic approach to workload resource allocation in the cloud.
      • keywords: approach; cloud; optimization; resource; risk; workload
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3314. ms35t725w12
      • author: Qian Liu
      • title: Measurement of Alpha Capture Reactions on 10,11B
      • date: 2020
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: However, there may exist other reaction chain sequences that utilize only light elements acting as alternative pathways to convert primordial hydrogen, helium, and lithium isotopes to heavier nuclei. R-matrix analyses are performed for both reactions in order to facilitate a comparison of the underlying nuclear structure with reaction measurements.
      • keywords: chains; measurements; n)14n; nuclei; reaction
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3315. ms35t725x32
      • author: Justice Chiedozie Chukwu
      • title: Inclusive Peacebuilding and Disability: The Lens of Vulnerability
      • date: 2021
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: And further, bringing the perspective of the disabled to peacebuilding approaches not only adds additional voices to the work of peacebuilding but also brings a new and different lens – the lens of vulnerability – that can generate a significantly different form of understanding of peace, one that is better able to generate positive and sustainable peace. The final chapter summarizes the main points of the study and offers recommendations for the field of peace studies.
      • keywords: chapter; lens; peacebuilding
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3316. ms35t725z1p
      • author: Ann Franchesca Laguna
      • title: Accelerating Memory Intensive Algorithms and Applications using In-Memory Computing
      • date: 2022
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: applications; cams; distance; drf; genome; memory; networks; sequencing; transformer
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3317. mw22v408278
      • author: Daniel Patrick Moloney
      • title: The Mirror of Justice: A Plea for Mercy in Contemporary Liberal Theory
      • date: 2004
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Perhaps for this reason, liberal political philosophers have mostly neglected the topic of mercy, despite its traditional role in contributing to political stability. As usually defined, the concepts of justice and mercy seem incompatible' if justice is the strict application of the law, and mercy lenient deviation from it, then mercy is unjust and justice is merciless.
      • keywords: anselm; justice; mercy; order; political; stability
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3318. mw22v40828m
      • author: Faiza Afroz Faria
      • title: MBE Growth of GaN Heterostructures for High Performance HEMTs
      • date: 2015
      • words: 370
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Additionally, we investigated crystalline AlN growth at a low temperature of ~ 480 &#176;C. This was motivated by novel MBE grown AlN barrier HEMT structures with high mobility InGaN channels for Terahertz applications. AlN and In0.17Al0.83N enable maximum possible vertical scaling of barriers in Ga-polar GaN-based HEMTs for high speed performance.
      • keywords: aln; gan; growth; hemts; high; low; mbe; mobility
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3319. mw22v40831h
      • author: Kristof Tahy
      • title: 2D Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbon Field Effect Transistors
      • date: 2012
      • words: 226
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Process limitations lead to the utilization of a new e-beam lithography resist (HSQ) and to the switch to epitaxial graphene on SiC substrates. These results have been replicated on FETs formed from CVD grown graphene.
      • keywords: devices; fets; gnr; graphene; ndash; properties
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3320. mw22v40832v
      • author: Chad A. Stephenson
      • title: Growth and Simulation of Direct Bandgap Germanium Alloys
      • date: 2015
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: A similar shift from electrical wires to optical interconnects could increase chip-level interconnect bandwidth by one to two orders of magnitude and allow continued performance enhancements. This work highlights two routes to achieving optical interconnects on Si: tensile-strained Ge and dilute Ge1-xCx alloys.
      • keywords: bandgap; direct; interconnects; models; optical; processor; years
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3321. mw22v408336
      • author: Martin Aguirres Carrasco
      • title: Elucidating the Biochemical Overwintering Adaptations of Larval Cucujus clavipes puniceus and Cucujus clavipes clavipes, Non-Model Organisms, via High Throughput Proteomics
      • date: 2012
      • words: 1075
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Proteins unique to DSC include alpha casein precursor, alpha-actinin, vimentin, tropomyosin, beta-lactoglobulin, immunoglobulins, tubulin, cuticle proteins and endothelins. Proteins up-regulated in winter relative to summer larvae include cytoskeletal elements (including myosin, actin, paramyosin, tropomyosin, and actinin), muscle proteins (myosin, actin, paramyosin, and tropomyosin), ATP synthesis proteins (ATP synthase), glycolysis proteins (glycogen phosphorylase), binding proteins (HSP70, nucleolin, DNA gyrase, and myosin) anti-microbial agents, and calcium binding proteins (alpha casein precursors).
      • keywords: afps; anti; beetle; binding; c.c.c; clavipes; cucujus; dsc; freeze; gene; larvae; low; non; products; proteins; species; summer; temperatures; tropomyosin; winter
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3322. mw22v408398
      • author: Sarah Gillian Winikoff
      • title: The Influence of Marine-Derived Nutrient Subsidies on Streams and Lakes at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge
      • date: 2014
      • words: 206
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In my second data chapter, I examined whether marine-derived nutrient subsidies from salmon and waterbirds differ in their effects on lake ecosystems. Nevertheless, I found that upstream and downstream reaches within a single watershed can respond differently to salmon migration, suggesting that salmon differentially influence freshwater ecosystems depending on landscape position.
      • keywords: lakes; nutrient; pacific; salmon; subsidies
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3323. mw22v40840g
      • author: Robin Andrew Joyce
      • title: A System to Demonstrate the Bistability of Molecules for Application in a Molecular QCA Cell
      • date: 2008
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 51
      • 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].
      • keywords: cells; device; dot; molecules; new; qca; set
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3324. mw22v408425
      • author: Stephanie Anne Ellickson-Larew
      • title: Dissociation as a Cross-Cutting Dimension: Relations with Affectivity, Personality, and Psychopathology
      • date: 2014
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 4
      • summary: At the multivariate level, Depersonalization/Derealization was adaptive for normal-range personality, yet related to several maladaptive personality traits and uniquely predicted psychotic disorder; Fantasy was adaptive via positive affectivity and extraversion, yet predicted antagonistic maladaptive traits and uniquely predicted manic episodes. Overall dissociation and Memory Disturbances were found to be cross-cutting symptom dimensions, at both the bivariate and multivariate levels; for example, it was related to low positive affectivity and high negative affectivity; Neuroticism (strongly), most maladaptive personality traits, and virtually all diagnoses (including internalizing, externalizing, and oddity).
      • keywords: affectivity; dissociation; maladaptive; personality; psychopathology
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3325. mw22v408456
      • author: Isaac E. Choi
      • title: Epistemic Expertise: Its Nature and Appraisal
      • date: 2012
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Comparatively little has been written on expert testimony, despite our most pressing questions requiring expertise and experts often offering divergent answers. The various properties that epistemologists have put forward as essential to knowledge or justification are shown to all contribute to greater expertise in varying ways and degrees.
      • keywords: better; chapter; epistemic; expertise; experts; position
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3326. mw22v40853t
      • author: Thomas E. Frederick
      • title: A New Basis for Signal Transduction in the Staphylococcus aureus Beta-Lactam Sensor Protein BlaR1
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Our results suggest a new basis for the BlaR1 signaling mechanism, in which sustained L2-BlaRS contact mediates transmembrane signaling stimulated by changes in BlaRS dynamics upon binding of b-lactam antibiotics. This opens the possibility that CBAP can be a general probe to expose functional motions in β-lactam binding proteins with shared structural architecture.
      • keywords: active; binding; blars; cbap; interaction; lactam; site
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3327. mw22v40858j
      • author: Andrew W. Klein
      • title: Along English Borders: Imagining Transnational English Identity in the Premodern World, 1200-1500
      • date: 1904
      • words: 634
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: The plurality of these visions of English national identity, however, does not and cannot present us with a unified whole picture of a global medieval England, but it does open to us the variety of transnational experiences attached to a more widely conceived notion of national identity. This means, I suggest, that English national identity emerges, in different forms, out of the interplay between different ethno-national identities as they are literarily imagined.
      • keywords: anglo; cultural; different; dissertation; england; english; englishness; identities; identity; late; medieval; national; romances
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3328. mw22v40888g
      • author: Kelsey Castaneda
      • title: RAM
      • date: 1904
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 82
      • summary: Ram is at times a character and at times not. She is at once a woman and gender fluid.
      • keywords: ram; story
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3329. mw22v408901
      • author: Dong Lu
      • title: Krylov Integration Factor Method for High Spatial Dimension Convection-Diffusion Problems on Sparse Grids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 398
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Compact integration factor methods developed in [Nie et al., Journal of Computational Physics, 227 (2008) 5238-5255] provide an approach to reduce the cost prohibitive large matrix exponentials for linear diffusion operators with constant diffusion coefficients in high spatial dimensions to a series of much smaller one dimensional computations. This approach is further developed in [Wang et al., Journal of Computational Physics, 258 (2014) 585-600] to deal with more complicated high dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with cross-derivatives in diffusion operators.
      • keywords: computational; diffusion; factor; high; integration; krylov; methods; spatial
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3330. mw22v408s7s
      • author: Diana L. La Torre
      • title: Innate Immunology and Microbial Invasion in a Spontaneous Model of Colitis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 410
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: cells; colitis; iec; ilcs; inflammation; inflammatory; mice; tnfaip3
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3331. mw22v40934t
      • author: Cary Balser
      • title: Essays on Maternity Leave Policy and Educational Experiments
      • date: 2021
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: I find that the policy increases leave taking by 5 weeks, has minimal impacts on continued employment, and significant negative impacts on promotion. As a result, my estimates provide evidence which can help reconcile estimates of positive short run and negative long run impacts found in past research.
      • keywords: chapter; classroom; health; impacts; leave; maternal; maternity; randomization
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3332. mw22v40951d
      • author: Luis L. Schenoni
      • title: Bringing War Back In: Victory and State Formation in Nineteenth Century Latin America
      • date: 2020
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In a second part, it develops a multi-method strategy to test this claim by combining qualitative comparative analyses of state capacity at the year 1900 with difference-in-differences analyses and the synthetic control method, two estimators that identify the effect of losing vis-à-vis winning a war on levels of state capacity in a panel of Latin America (1865-1913). Scholars have often dismissed the effect of war on state formation in regions like Latin America where mobilization for war is deemed insufficiently intense and international conflict fails to out-select weaker states.
      • keywords: america; latin; state; war
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3333. mw22v40988r
      • author: Qiushi Zhang
      • title: Light-Generated Plasmonic Nano Bubble and Micro Surface Bubble in Gold Nanoparticle Suspension
      • date: 2023
      • words: 590
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The resonance wavelength of plasmonic nanoparticle can be tuned by engineering the materials, geometry and size of the nanoparticle. When surface plasmonic heating effect occurs in nanoparticle suspension, a large amount of heat is produced locally around the irradiated nanoparticles, which can vaporize the surrounding liquid and generate plasmonic bubbles.
      • keywords: bubbles; effect; force; heating; laser; liquid; nanobubble; nanoparticle; optical; plasmonic; resonance; surface
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3334. n009w091c07
      • author: Bryan Andrew Smith
      • title: In Vivo Optical Imaging of Cell Death Using Fluorescent Synthetic Coordination Complexes
      • date: 2012
      • words: 538
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Ex vivo imaging and histological analysis confirmed PSS-794 localization to site of brain cell death. Finally, multivalent Zn2BDPA were evaluated to determine the whether increasing the number of Zn2BDPA ligands enhances cell death imaging.
      • keywords: animal; brain; cell; death; fluorescent; histological; imaging; probe; pss-794; vivo; zn2bdpa
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3335. n009w091c1k
      • author: Ryan Sanford Smith
      • title: halcyon is a desolate city / In Every Frame A Mirror
      • date: 2011
      • words: 11
      • flesch: 80
      • summary: This thesis consists of the work towards two books of poetry.
      • keywords: poetry
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3336. n009w091c5z
      • author: David Thunder
      • title: Rethinking Modern Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Integrity and Virtue
      • date: 2006
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Many current ideals of citizenship expressly or implicitly require citizens to subordinate their most cherished ethical commitments to the norms of liberal citizenship. There is a malaise at large in our modern liberal democracies arising from the failure of our public life to be grounded in, and in turn inspire, our deepest moral questions and our ceaseless quest for ethical integrity or wholeness.
      • keywords: account; chapter; citizenship; integrity; liberal; political; virtue
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3337. n009w091c69
      • author: Timothy J Hoellein
      • title: The effects of seasonality and restoration on stream nutrient cycling at multiple spatial scales
      • date: 2008
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Overall, nutrient uptake rates are sensitive metrics for integrating changes in stream biological activity, and represent a powerful tool for characterizing the influence of seasonal change and restoration on stream ecosystem function. These conclusions are significant in the context of restoration, which often results in changes to the streambed 'landscape' I also used seasonal measurements of nutrient uptake to document the influence of two contrasting restoration strategies on stream ecosystem function.
      • keywords: changes; headwater; nutrient; rates; restoration; seasonal; stream; uptake
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3338. n009w091c7n
      • author: Kelly J Johnson
      • title: Bacterial Adsorption of Aqueous Heavy Metals: Molecular Simulations and Surface Complexation Models
      • date: 2008
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: We applied potentiometric titrations and metal adsorption experiments (Ch. 4) and found that changes in bacterial diversity do not impact proton and metal uptake of consortia grown from three locations and sampled throughout a year, strongly suggesting universal adsorption behavior for the species present. Simulation models (Ch. 2) enabled us to estimate the most stable configuration for bacterial surface complexes and to compare binding affinities and interatomic distances with experimental values to validate and predict metal adsorption behavior.
      • keywords: adsorption; bacterial; cell; gram; metal
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3339. n009w091c80
      • author: Patrick David Slaney
      • title: Problems of a Scientific Culture: The Task of Science Education in the Atomic Age
      • date: 2010
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: I show how Frank's program for science education had roots in the Viennese Unity of Science movement and that Frank sought to dissolve the boundaries between philosophy and science. I then show how Conant's educational proposals were a response to the Cold War: educational reform could provide the unity needed for national survival and education in the history of science would make the technocracy of the atomic age less alien.
      • keywords: conant; frank; science
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3340. n009w091c9b
      • author: Ali Irmak Ozdagli
      • title: Analytical Modeling of Diagonally Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams under Lateral Loads
      • date: 2009
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The diagonal reinforcement is modeled using nonlinear truss elements in the diagonal direction whereas the concrete beam is modeled using nonlinear fiber beam-column elements in the horizontal direction. This thesis describes an analytical model to investigate the nonlinear behavior of diagonally reinforced concrete coupling beams under reversed-cyclic lateral loading.
      • keywords: analytical; beam; diagonal
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3341. n009w091d27
      • author: James Craig Fryman
      • title: Wear of a Total Ankle Replacement
      • date: 2010
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: This new total ankle replacement was found to have a wear rate that is lower than existing ankle implants and similar to that found in other total joint replacements. This leads to complications such as reduced range of motion, infection, non-union, and deterioration of adjacent joints.
      • keywords: ankle; new; total; wear
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3342. n009w091d4x
      • author: Aaron Joseph Couture
      • title: 19F(p,g)20Ne and the Stellar CNO Burning Cycle
      • date: 2007
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: A new measurement of the 19F(p,g) breakout reaction to CNO cycle has been completed at the University of Notre Dame, covering energies from 200-800 keV. As part of the development for the measurements, an particle accelerator of nuclear astrophysics was refurbished and installed in the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame.
      • keywords: cno; measurements; reaction
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3343. n009w091d58
      • author: Jayme Christine Russell
      • title: As the World Falls Down
      • date: 2015
      • words: 5
      • flesch: 117
      • summary: As the World Falls Down
      • keywords: world
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3344. n009w091f5k
      • author: Catherine A. Campos
      • title: Titanocene as a Bifunctional Catalyst for the Rapid Assembly of All-Carbon Tertiary Centers
      • date: 1904
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In vitro toxicity to hematopoietic cells was not observed, providing a foundation for the synthesis of diarylheptanoid analogs that are cytotoxic to brain and peripheral nervous system cancers. Developing solutions for the construction of biologically active compounds lies at the heart of the field of synthetic organic chemistry.
      • keywords: analogs; centers; coupling; curcumin; materials; single; synthesis; synthetic; work
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3345. n009w091f9z
      • author: Jeffrey Tolly
      • title: Reliabilism and the Generality Problem
      • date: 1904
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In chapter four, I argue that relevance theories that merely take into account causal features of the tokens aren't extensionally correct. According to the generality problem objection, there is some normative burden for the reliabilist to supply some account of type relevance.
      • keywords: belief; chapter; generality; problem; process; relevance
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3346. n009w091g1h
      • author: Kathrin Kranz
      • title: Armed with Good Intentions? Explaining Arms Embargo Compliance
      • date: 1904
      • words: 121
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Explaining arms embargo compliance—investigates why major arms exporters have come not only to comply with international arms embargoes, but also to embrace them as policy instruments. During the past 50 years, these countries moved away from treating arms embargoes as a nuisance they reluctantly navigated—and sometimes violated—to championing them as policy instruments.
      • keywords: arms; embargo; instruments
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3347. n009w091j9w
      • author: Mayukh Raj Gangopadhyay
      • title: Constraints on Inflation and the Origin of Space-Time
      • date: 1904
      • words: 491
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: The various observed power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are then modified by the dynamics of the cosmic radiation and matter fluids as various scales re-enter the horizon along with effects due to the transport of photons from the epoch of last scattering to the present time. Both of these deviations occur in an interesting region in the CMB power spectrum because they correspond to angular scales that are not yet in causal contact when the CMB photons were emitted.
      • keywords: cmb; constraints; effects; inflation; observed; planck; power; spectrum; thesis
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3348. n009w092301
      • author: Claire McKay Bowen
      • title: Data Privacy via Integration of Differential Privacy and Data Synthesis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Many statistical methods of data privacy and confidentiality have little to no means in measuring an altered data set's privacy guarantee. Next, I created a method (called SPECKS) to compare DIPS data to real-life data, and another method to improve the statistical inferences of non-parametric DIPS approaches.
      • keywords: data; dips; methods; privacy; risk
      • versions: original; plain text
3349. n009w092750
      • author: Garrison M. Crouch
      • title: Nanoholes and Nanowires: Electrochemistry in Optically-Active Nanostructures
      • date: 2019
      • words: 457
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: Experimentation and simulation showed that nanoparticles, otherwise electrically inaccessible within the electrolyte, act as bipolar electrodes and influence filament behavior within a large area of the electrolyte. These measurements constitute true unamplified studies into single molecule electron transfer events and thus may direct future study of fundamental electrochemical reaction events.
      • keywords: afm; behavior; conductive; electrochemical; electrode; electrolyte; fabrication; filaments; metamaterial; optical; single; transfer; zmws
      • versions: original; plain text
3350. n009w092917
      • author: Elliott H. Smith
      • title: Mozart's "Great" Mass: Sources, History, and Performance Practice
      • date: 2019
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Further, this thesis examines the work's orchestration and its expressive devices such as tempo and dynamics and studies them from the mindset of the Classical Era musician using the writings of eighteenth and nineteenth century writers such as Leopold Mozart, Daniel Gottlieb Türk, and Heinrich Koch coupled with the writings of modern scholars and performers such as Leonard Ratner and Robin Stowell. This paper's ultimate purpose is to aid the modern conductor by presenting a well-rounded view of the work, its sources, and its performance history, as well as by offering performance suggestions.
      • keywords: date; great; mozart; performance; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3351. n009w092g55
      • author: Valentina Geri
      • title: Primo Levi and the Anglophone World: An Intertextual Itinerary
      • date: 2021
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: dissertation; levi; primo
      • versions: original; plain text
3352. n009w092j4f
      • author: Taylor E. Hartson
      • title: Regenerative Relationships: Mutuality, Identity, and Ethics in Sustainable Agriculture
      • date: 2023
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 3
      • summary: A growing body of literature examines the gender and sexual dynamics inherent to agricultural production in the United States, and some sociological work engages with the symbolic and micro interactions between humans and non-human animals raised for agricultural purposes. As agricultural systems contend with an ever-changing environment, it becomes increasingly important to turn our attention to the web of living beings that structures these systems—including the relationships between humans and non-human animals.
      • keywords: agricultural; animals; human
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3353. n296ww74m9w
      • author: Emma A Lynch
      • title: Role and Regulation of the Proteasome in Epithelial Cell Adhesion and Migration
      • date: 2006
      • words: 405
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: We have also begun to elucidate a role for the GTPase, Rap1, in the regulation of E-cadherin membrane traffic during adherens junction turnover in epithelial cells. We show that arfaptin 2, an ARF interacting protein, regulates the disassembly of cell contacts via its effect on proteasome activity.
      • keywords: adherens; cadherin; cell; contacts; disassembly; epithelial; proteasome; rac1
      • versions: original; plain text
3354. n296ww74n03
      • author: Meng Xia
      • title: Analysis and Design of Cyber-physical Systems Using Passivity and Passivation
      • date: 2015
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In summary, this dissertation focuses on the analysis and design of CPS using passivity and passivation theory, concentrating on systems with human controllers and automotive systems. This dissertation studies the analysis and design of Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) using passivity and passivation theory, concentrating on applications in automotive systems.
      • keywords: cps; design; method; passivation; passivity; systems
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3355. n296ww74n34
      • author: Bernadette M. Boyle
      • title: On the Unimodality of Pure O-Sequences
      • date: 2012
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: Finally we will show that for r greater than or equal to 4 and e greater than or equal to 7, there exists a non-unimodal pure O-sequence in r variables with socle degree e. In particular, for any r > 2, there exists a monomial Artinian level algebra in r variables whose Hilbert function fails unimodality with an arbitrary number of peaks.
      • keywords: pure; sequences; unimodal; variables
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3356. n296ww74n4g
      • author: Michael W Penninger
      • title: Simulation of NO oxidation Catalysis on Perovskite Catalysts
      • date: 2015
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: We used periodic DFT calculations in the Vienna ab initio Simulation Package to compute the energies of vacancies, O, O2, NO, NO2, and NO3 on the (100)-LaO and (100)-CoO2 terminations of the parent LaCoO3 and 8&#37;-doped Sr-substituted material. These models show that the reaction mechanism is sensitive to the material, termination, and temperature.
      • keywords: catalysts; lacoo3; models; no2; oxidation; perovskites; sulfur; terminations; thermodynamic
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3357. n296ww74n5t
      • author: Quinn Darlington
      • title: Modernism's Miniatures: Space and Gender in the Stettheimer Dollhouse and Duchamp's Boîte-en-Valise
      • date: 2012
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: More than simply a vessel for the display of diminutive works by prominent artists such as Marcel Duchamp, however, the Dollhouse is itself a work of art that engages the avant-garde spirit of playfulness that is highlighted by the works it contains. In addition to providing Carrie with an outlet from her everyday domestic life, her Dollhouse, along with her activities in her home, were part of a systematic attempt to create aesthetically pleasing, fantastical environments and a theatrical mode of life, which can ultimately be viewed as avant-garde in its combination of art and lived reality.
      • keywords: art; avant; carrie; dollhouse; garde; works
      • versions: original; plain text
3358. n296ww74p1r
      • author: Jeffrey M. Patton
      • title: Some Consequences of Response Time Model Misspecification in Educational Measurement
      • date: 2014
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In particular, two promising applications of RT models were of interest: examinee ability estimation and item selection in computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Thus the goal of this research was to study a few of the potential consequences of RT model misspecification in educational measurement.
      • keywords: ability; estimates; items; model; test
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3359. n296ww74p23
      • author: Andrew Ward
      • title: Improved Synthesis of the Novel Anti-Tuberculosis Drug SQ109 and Synthesis of Nitroso-ene Analogs
      • date: 2011
      • words: 174
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: SQ109 (1) has shown very promising activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), but exhibits low oral bioavailability. Despite the advances made in the middle of the 20th century to combat tuberculosis, the current short-course therapy has been met with challenges from multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria as well as the inability of providing these drugs to immunocompromised patients with HIV.
      • keywords: advances; drug; sq109; strains
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3360. n296ww74p4s
      • author: Jin Hao
      • title: Aeroacoustics of Small Gaps and Steps in Low-Mach-Number Turbulent Boundary Layers
      • date: 2014
      • words: 441
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: For swept steps, it is found that the sweep independence hypothesis holds for mean flow quantities for sweep angles up to 45?, and for fluctuating quantities including surface pressure fluctuations and Reynolds stresses for sweep angles up to 30?. Rouding the step upper corner is shown to cause reduced flow separation on the upper surface, increased level of peak surface pressure fluctuations and faster downstream relaxation to an equilibrium turbulent boundary layer.
      • keywords: boundary; forward; gap; gaps; pressure; step; surface; sweep; trailing
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3361. n296ww74p7t
      • author: Jordan Joseph Wales
      • title: Sacrifice in the Theology of Gregory the Great
      • date: 2014
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In the long-running late antique debate on the nature of Christian perfection, Gregory's sacrificial theology of human life with God makes a speculative contribution: a new theory of perfect love that makes possible an aspiration to contemplative perfection even in worldly life. His teaching on sacrifice accomplishes a theological re-negotiation of the clashing traditions of Augustine and Cassian, opening a broad horizon of new cultural possibilities by elaborating a theory of spiritual perfection capacious enough to embrace the secular.
      • keywords: gregory; life; perfection; sacrifice
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3362. n296ww74q6s
      • author: Alethea Magdalena Tusher
      • title: A Mad Lush Alter
      • date: 1904
      • words: 20
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: A collection of poetry that takes the quotidian and makes it weird by excavating the inherent violence in domestic spaces.
      • keywords: spaces
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3363. n296ww74r01
      • author: Kyle Pettijohn
      • title: Selective Directed Forgetting and Event Models
      • date: 1904
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The to-be-forgotten sentences could or could not be integrated into event models. An event model is a mental representation that contains elements of an episode such as when and where it took place.
      • keywords: forgetting; instruction
      • versions: original; plain text
3364. n296ww75r82
      • author: Poorna Talkad Sukumar
      • title: Contextual and Qualitative Approaches for Visualization Design
      • date: 2021
      • words: 495
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: In addition to contributing visualization design guidelines to each of the four domain-specific problems, we reflect on the application of these methods for visualization design and how they differ from their traditional counterparts used in disciplines such as HCI and the social sciences. Existing guidelines that are commonly referred to in visualization design, such as, Shneiderman's Overview First, Zoom and Filter, Details on Demand, are predominantly informed by the state of knowledge and empirical research in visualization.
      • keywords: design; domain; empirical; guidelines; research; specific; study; tools; use; visualization
      • versions: original; plain text
3365. n296ww75v07
      • author: Nikolai Konovalov
      • title: Algebraic Goodwillie Spectral Sequence
      • date: 2023
      • words: 215
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: As an essential ingredient of our calculations, we establish a general Leibniz rule in functor calculus associated to the composition of mapping spaces, which conceptualizes certain formulas of W. H. Lin. Let sL be the infinity-category of simplicial restricted Lie algebras over F, the algebraic closure of a finite field F_p.
      • keywords: category; lie; sequence; spectral
      • versions: original; plain text
3366. n583xs57x2v
      • author: Andrea Lynn Christensen
      • title: Characteristics of Effective Teacher Leadership in School-based Learning Communities
      • date: 2012
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: learning; practice; professional; study; teacher
      • versions: original; plain text
3367. n583xs57x36
      • author: Karen L. Williams
      • title: Development of a high throughput impedance measurement device for new materials discovery
      • date: 2011
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Testing on BaZr0.9Y0.1O2.95 (BYZ10), a candidate electrolyte for intermediate temperature fuel cell applications was inconclusive due to experimental difficulties in obtaining high quality data. Doped perovskites are a material of interest due to their ability to conduct protons in a temperature range desirable for intermediate temperature fuel cell applications.
      • keywords: cell; high; material; quality; samples; temperature
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3368. n583xs57x7k
      • author: Anees Attarwala
      • title: Optimal Process Operations: Valuing Real Options
      • date: 2010
      • words: 115
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This thesis computes the value of flexibility embedded in production engineering processes. A stochastic dynamic programming evaluation of the value function is performed in discrete time via trinomial trees.
      • keywords: flexibility; option; value
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3369. n583xs57x8x
      • author: Rebeccah Schweers
      • title: The Impact of Rumination on Anger and Forgiveness in Marital Relationships
      • date: 2012
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: We sought to determine whether rumination had a causal effect on anger, forgiveness, explicit attitudes, and implicit attitudes toward one's spouse. Following this thought manipulation task, we assessed subjects' anger, forgiveness, explicit attitudes, and implicit attitudes toward their spouse.
      • keywords: anger; attitudes; forgiveness; rumination
      • versions: original; plain text
3370. n583xs57x98
      • author: Patrick Lawrence Hill
      • title: Defining Salience During Reference Object Selection
      • date: 2010
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: object; reference; spatial
      • versions: original; plain text
3371. n583xs57z0g
      • author: Pascal R Deboeck
      • title: Using Surrogate Data Analysis to Estimate Tau for Local Linear Approximation of Damped Linear Oscillators
      • date: 2008
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This model can capture aspects of a series of measurements such as how quickly a set of data fluctuates between two extremes, or whether the magnitude of the fluctuations are increasing or decreasing over time. One increasingly common way to study individual level data is through the recording of a series of measurements on an individual over time.
      • keywords: data; model; time
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3372. n583xs57z1t
      • author: Kyle Chormanski
      • title: Alkyne Substituent Effects in Radicals and Carbocations
      • date: 2010
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In the methylenecyclopropane rearrangement all studied systems are moderate radical stabilizers, rearranging more quickly than the parent system. Solvolytic studies showed that the sigma + values for the para-substituted trifluoroacetates are relatively similar, with the para-acetylene group the only system that showed rate retardation in reference to the parent para-hydrogen system.
      • keywords: para; studies; system
      • versions: original; plain text
3373. n583xs57z4v
      • author: Cornelius Griggs
      • title: A Sub-Kelvin Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Its Application to MgB2 and CeCoIn5
      • date: 2012
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The nodal direction has been confirmed, and evidence for multiband superconductivity is presented. Such an environment places many constraints upon the design of the instrument, but also allows the study of many exotic phenomena, in particular superconductivity.
      • keywords: high; low; superconductivity; temperature
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3374. n583xs57z6j
      • author: Jacqueline A Whyte
      • title: Mitotic Phosphorylation of Cytoplasmic Dynein
      • date: 2006
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: These results suggest that phosphorylation of dynein ICs modulates subunit composition during mitosis and plays a role targeting dynein ICs to specific functional mitotic sites. To identify dynein kinases and to further investigate dynein cargo-targeting mechanisms, we examined mitotic dynein and determined that the mitotic ICs are phosphorylated by gel-shift and 2D gel analysis.
      • keywords: abl; dynein; ics; mitotic; phosphorylation; site; t89; y130
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3375. n583xs57z7w
      • author: Alice Elizabeth Ladrick
      • title: AUTOBITCHOGRAPHY
      • date: 2015
      • words: 1
      • flesch: -132
      • summary: AUTOBITCHOGRAPHY.
      • keywords: autobitchography
      • versions: original; plain text
3376. n583xs5807g
      • author: Lindsey Passenger Wieck
      • title: Contesting the Mission: The Cultural Politics of Gentrification in Postwar San Francisco
      • date: 1904
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Rhetoric of safety and authenticity shaped these battles over Mission spaces fought by Latinos, corporate giants, municipal powers, and gentrifiers. Latinos in San Francisco's Mission District worked to build a community to defend themselves from the looming specter of urban redevelopment from the 1960s to the 1980s.
      • keywords: community; gentrifiers; latinos; mission; municipal; residents; safety; spaces
      • versions: original; plain text
3377. n583xs58n0z
      • author: David J. Pattillo
      • title: Reference and Ontology: How Can We Refer to Abstract Objects?
      • date: 1904
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 55
      • 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?
      • keywords: abstract; objects; reference
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3378. n583xs58n2n
      • author: Meleah L. Ladd
      • title: Liturgical Spirituality in the Kitchen: Glimpsing Domestic Churches through Books with Recipes for Food Practices to Celebrate the Church Year
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The scholarly discussion takes a top-down perspective viewing domestic churches as imitations (miniature versions) or extensions of institutional churches. The sources also cite instances of bi-directional influence between domestic churches and institutional churches, indicating that domestic churches are not only receivers of, but also contributors to liturgical tradition.
      • keywords: churches; domestic; food; institutional; practice; religious
      • versions: original; plain text
3379. n583xs58v3v
      • author: Kevin D. Magas
      • title: Integrating Liturgy and Life through Mystery: Re-Sourcing a Theme in Twentieth Century Sacramental-Liturgical Theology
      • date: 2019
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It argues that the concept of mystery serves as a bridge between the liturgy and the wider life of the Church, especially the ascetical and mystical aspects of spiritual theology. It then uses insights from the Schmemann-Kavanagh-Fagerberg-Taft school of liturgical theology to illustrate how Bouyer unites asceticism and mysticism with liturgy around an integrative, multifaceted vision of the Christian mystery.
      • keywords: bouyer; concept; liturgical; liturgy; mystery; spiritual
      • versions: original; plain text
3380. n583xs59172
      • author: Megan Kathleen Levis
      • title: A Microfluidics-Driven Study into the Biomechanics of Epithelial Organogenesis and Homeostasis
      • date: 2021
      • words: 721
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Chapter 1 introduces the complexities of epithelial tissues and discusses the tools available for studying fragile epithelial tissues. As a key component that converts mechanical stretching into calcium signals, we addressed the homeostatic role of the mechanosensitive ion channel, Piezo, in organ size control (Chapter 4).
      • keywords: actomyosin; calcium; cell; chapter; control; disc; drosophila; epithelial; mechanical; micro; microfluidic; organ; piezo; size; study; tissue; wing
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3381. n583xs59292
      • author: Benjamin Stortenbecker
      • title: The Entropic Concavity Framework: A Universal Formulation for Understanding Phase Transitions
      • date: 2022
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Being a universal description, it can be applied to systems from both traditional physics, such as of interacting particles of arbitrary composition and interaction ranges, and more general systems of interconnected variables, e.g. networks, combinatorial structures, biological systems, etc. We present several examples such as the two-star model, Strauss' cluster model of transitive networks, gelation in random graphs (Erdös–Rényi), magnetic spin models with short range interactions such as the Ising model, the Blume--Emery--Griffiths model, which is characterized by long-range interactions and finally, the Van der Waals gas as a model system with continuous variables.
      • keywords: description; entropy; model; physics; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
3382. n583xs59350
      • author: Neil Butcher
      • title: Impact of Memory System on Manycore Nodes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: With expansion from multi-core to manycore,' including hundreds of cores per chip many HPC systems are beginning to include additional layers of memory between the main memory and the top of the cache hierarchy. The key strategy developed in this work uses a library that allows the user to explicitly manage the relationship between memory channels, directories, and cores.
      • keywords: cores; library; memory
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3383. n870zp4161b
      • author: Florentiu Daniel Cibotaru
      • title: Localization Formulae in odd K-theory
      • date: 2010
      • words: 103
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Certain finite codimensional real subvarieties described by incidence relations define geometric representatives for the generators of the cohomology rings of these classifying spaces. We use these Schubert varieties to describe the Poincare duals of the pull-backs to the parameter space of the cohomology ring generators.
      • keywords: manifolds; real; spaces
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3384. n870zp4162p
      • author: Aaron Matthew Vorwerk
      • title: An Experimental Study on Reducing Ramp Stress Levels Using 'Smart' Damping
      • date: 2004
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Design of the experimental model, verification of the dynamic properties of the system, characterization of the dampers, system identification, control design, and experimental testing are discussed. However, the current design of the RO/RO Discharge Facility (RRDF) has been determined to be structurally inadequate in sea state 3, in that relative roll motions between the ship and the RRDF induce stresses above yield.
      • keywords: roll; rrdf; system
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3385. n870zp4165q
      • author: Li Zeng
      • title: Energy and Charge Transfer of Hyperthermal-Energy Heavy Ions Scattering on Target Surfaces with Low Atomic Mass
      • date: 2012
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: collision; dynamics; energy; hopg; incident; ions; scattering; surface
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3386. n870zp41662
      • author: John A. DiTillo
      • title: On Solid Ground: Critical Perspective on Peace, Ecology, and Education in the 21st Century
      • date: 2015
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This thesis explores obstacles and opportunities for building a durable peace that aligns with Johan Galtung's holistic vision: more than an absence of war, positive peace is marked by the presence of flourishing communities, both human and more-than human. It asks questions about destruction and alienation, healing and reconnection, and seeks to address them through two case studies: (1) a land-based learning program at a K-Jr. High Montessori School, and (2) an expeditionary leadership program at Outward Bound Peacebuilding.
      • keywords: changes; human; mdash; peace; threat; world
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3387. n870zp4167d
      • author: Andrew James McGregor Irving
      • title: The Eleventh-Century Gospel Books of Montecassino: An Archaeology
      • date: 2012
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Gospel books, central to the celebration of Christian liturgy, are frequently assumed to be in some way different to other books. By investigating each material aspect of this group of Gospel books from a single time and place, we demonstrate to what extent this was the case.
      • keywords: archivio; books; dell'abbazia; evangelistary; gospel; mass; material; montecassino
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3388. n870zp4173b
      • author: Kyle Harris Butler
      • title: The Impact of Extreme Wind Events on Structures
      • date: 2010
      • words: 577
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This experimental work focuses on the development of multiple simulation frameworks to simulate salient features of severe wind events and to assess their load effects on prismatic scale models. Surface pressures show a marked increase/decrease in coefficient values, beyond those developed in boundary layer flow fields.
      • keywords: environment; events; features; fields; flow; gust; pressures; results; severe; structures; surface; tunnel; wind
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3389. n870zp4174p
      • author: Xuan Orali Minh Stevens
      • title: Religiosity, Parenting Support, and Successful Parenting Practices in Adolescent Mother Households
      • date: 2004
      • words: 62
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Seventy-three adolescent mothers completed questionnaires for parenting, religiosity, and parenting support. The results indicated that the relation between religiosity and parenting were not mediated by parenting support.
      • keywords: parenting
      • versions: original; plain text
3390. n870zp4176c
      • author: Tony J Cunningham
      • title: Stressing Sleep: The Impact of Psychosocial Stress on Sleep and Emotional Memory Consolidation
      • date: 2014
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Stress subjects demonstrated an increase in memory for negative objects but poorer memory for their matched neutral backgrounds, resulting in a greater emotional memory trade-off compared to controls. Importantly, moderate stress responses have been linked to increased performance on emotional memory tests, but suppressed ability to remember neutral information.
      • keywords: emotional; memory; sleep; stress
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3391. n870zp4179d
      • author: Leonce Fabian Rambau, C.S.Sp.
      • title: Paul and His Co-Workers: Equality in Pauline Letters
      • date: 2014
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: In Galatians 3:26-28, Paul states: In Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
      • keywords: christ; egalitarian; language; paul; practical
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3392. n870zp4180m
      • author: Joshua A. Gargac
      • title: Evaluation of Bone Healing, Damage, and Adaptation Using Computational Modeling and Image Processing Techniques
      • date: 1904
      • words: 542
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: A poroelastic constitutive model enabled the calculation of pore pressures resulting from whole bone loading, and these were validated against experimental measurements. Although this is a simplified model, shear stress was estimated far in excess of the mechanostimulatory threshold, suggesting that whole bone loading is mechanostimulatory to marrow cells.
      • keywords: bone; damage; femurs; image; loading; marrow; mechanical; models; processing; specific; specimen; study
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3393. n870zp41d2j
      • author: Lenore VanderZee
      • title: Concluding Conquest: Why States End Military Occupation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Using this data, I build my theory and develop hypotheses using diverse literatures, including territorial disputes, inter- and intrastate wars, failing states and falling empires, the demise of colonialism, and case studies of the individual cases of military occupation. Despite these emerging norms and the process of decolonization, military occupation continues to be an important international issue.
      • keywords: analysis; end; military; occupation; states; war
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3394. n870zp41x4w
      • author: William R Smith
      • title: Legitimizing Medical Practice
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This paves the way to developing a general framework for understanding legitimate medical practice from this theory, the implications of which the dissertation illustrates by expounding both on the theory of special obligations of medical professionals and on the theory of healthcare resource allocation in regard to claims of medical necessity. This dissertation criticizes standard views of these foundations and then offers an alternative according to which the legitimate prescriptions of legitimate medical practices as well as those of legitimate governments.
      • keywords: claims; foundations; medical; obligations; theory
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3395. n870zp4286z
      • author: Camilo Nieto-Matiz
      • title: Integrating Subnational Peripheries: State Building and Violent Actors in Colombia
      • date: 2020
      • words: 540
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In contrast, state capacity will be more difficult to attain in areas with stronger rural elites and where violent groups do not pose a major threat to state authority. This dissertation studies why and how political elites differentially build state capacity in peripheral and marginalized areas of a country and in the midst of violent conflicts.
      • keywords: actors; areas; capacity; country; elites; groups; peripheral; rural; state; threatening; violent
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3396. n870zp42890
      • author: Keith O'Connor
      • title: Biomarker and Stable Isotopes of Plants, Soils, and Waters from a Northern Alaska Transect for Paleoclimate Calibrations
      • date: 2020
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Increased understanding of the vegetation and soil microbial communities across modern biome boundaries will aid Paleoclimate reconstructions from high latitude environment. Overall, these results opened a wide range of opportunities for microbial and plant proxies to be applied in paleoclimate reconstructions from lesser studied high latitude environments.
      • keywords: high; latitude; microbial; paleoclimate; soils; understanding; vegetation
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3397. n870zp4294k
      • author: Misael Osorio-Conde
      • title: tongues the sound of sand
      • date: 2021
      • words: 6
      • flesch: 102
      • summary: Let the work speak for itself.
      • keywords: work
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3398. n870zp4297m
      • author: Julia L Paulson
      • title: Patterns and Predictors of Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Latent Transition Analysis
      • date: 2021
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: class; classes; ipv; perinatal; ptss; women
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3399. n870zp4298z
      • author: Mirela Tumbeva
      • title: Modular Joints for the Accelerated Fabrication and Erection of Steel Structures
      • date: 2021
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The modular joints are prefabricated, steel nodal connectors composed of a weldment/built up section of webs and flanges, including a starter segment to connect wide flange members through bolted splice connections in double shear. To address these challenges, this dissertation introduces a new approach to the design of steel structures that modularizes the nodal connection between members and utilizes standard, rolled wide flange sections as structural members.
      • keywords: connection; design; joints; members; modular; steel; structural
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3400. n870zp42b6k
      • author: Maria A. Videtta
      • title: The Accidental Citizens of Bedford: The Representation of Italian Immigrants in Britain
      • date: 2022
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: bedford; england; italian
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3401. n870zp42d35
      • author: Laura M. Alderfer
      • title: Engineering Tunable Synthetic Biomaterials for Mechanistic and Therapeutic Lymphatic Vasculature Applications
      • date: 2023
      • words: 508
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: HA-based hydrogels were used to investigate the role of mechanical and biochemical cues in regulating lymphatic vessel formation within a synthetic matrix, and to evaluate their potential for in vivo functionality to progress towards a viable lymphatic vessel transplant therapy. Controlling lymphangiogenesis, the formation of new lymphatic vessels, exhibits potential as a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of lymphatic-related conditions and could provide the first-long term treatment, replacing current treatments which are limited in effectiveness and longevity of relief.
      • keywords: disease; dissertation; dysfunction; formation; limited; lymphatic; matrix; models; novel; system; treatment; vessel
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3402. nc580k24g4v
      • author: Daniel Robert Scott
      • title: The Influences of Conformational Dynamics on T Cell Receptor Specificity and Cross-reactivity
      • date: 2012
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Multi-specificity is a hallmark of T cell receptor (TCR) recognition, as a high volume of antigen must be identified by the T cell arm of the immune system. Protein-protein interactions have been characterized by a wide variety of biophysical and structural methods, which have resolved many key attributes of the interaction process.
      • keywords: cell; mechanism; protein; receptor; recognition; tcr
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3403. nc580k24g9k
      • author: Ning Su
      • title: High-Performance Sb-Heterostructure Backward Diodes for Millimeter-Wave Detection and Imaging
      • date: 2011
      • words: 237
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Sb-heterostructure backward diodes have been designed, fabricated, characterized and modeled for zero-bias millimeter-wave detection and imaging. The high sensitivity, low noise, wide bandwidth, good detection linearity and favorable temperature-dependence make the Sb-based device a promising candidate for improving the performance of passive millimeter and submillimeter imaging systems.
      • keywords: detectors; device; heterostructure; imaging; performance
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3404. nc580k24h0s
      • author: Pierre Tran
      • title: Computational Investigations of Thymidine Dimer Incorporated into a Double Strand DNA and Synthesis of a CPD Building Block and a Single Strand of DNA Containing a CPD
      • date: 2005
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The CPD in the 'flipped out' form is also not the most thermodynamically favorable product; its concentration is not measurable by present analytical methods. The main problem with photodamaged DNA is the 'flipped-out' structure, which cannot be resolved by any existing analytical method because of its small concentration.
      • keywords: artificial; base; cpd; dna; pairs; repair; structure
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3405. nc580k24h14
      • author: Nathan Robert Elliott
      • title: Evolving Science Fictions: Biological Representation in Nineteenth-Century Britain
      • date: 2006
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: The last chapter explores the work of Max Nordau and H.G. Wells; both were concerned about the possibility of distinguishing artistic representation from scientific representation. Biological representations, as found in both the literary and scientific texts of the nineteenth century, exacerbated epistemological problems in such a way that it became necessary for nineteenth-century intellectuals' whether explicitly concerned with epistemology or not' to begin formulating practical epistemologies and philosophies of scientific representation.
      • keywords: century; chapter; difficulties; nineteenth; representation; scientific; work
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3406. nc580k24h2g
      • author: Patrick Q Mason
      • title: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mob: Violence against Religious Outsiders in the U.S. South, 1865-1910
      • date: 2006
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: In addition to the many instances of violence against African American churches and ministers in the South, there were also dozens of episodes of anti-Jewish violence and literally hundreds of cases of anti-Mormon violence from 1865 to 1910. Although some episodes treated herein qualify as overt religious violence, in most of the cases religion was one among a number of variables that shaped and triggered violent interactions, including race, gender, family structure, politics, class, economics, and ethnicity.
      • keywords: american; culture; groups; history; outsiders; religious; southern; violence
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3407. nc580k24h3t
      • author: Gun Sunyeekhan
      • title: Equivariant Intersection Theory
      • date: 2010
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: Fortunately, by using results of Petrie on equivariant transversality, Komiya on equivariant embedding, we are able to prove the main theorem for the equivariant case. The proof of the main theorem relies heavily on intersection theory.
      • keywords: equivariant; map; point
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3408. nc580k24h6v
      • author: Kelly Ann McEnerney
      • title: Observations and Dynamics of Low Salinity Cold Pools in the Bay of Bengal
      • date: 2015
      • words: 380
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: air; bob; cruise; lscwp; mesoscale; research; sea; water
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3409. nc580k24h8j
      • author: Christian David McConnell
      • title: Baptism in Visigothic Spain: Origins, Development and Interpretation
      • date: 2006
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: During this period, Spanish baptismal rites underwent dynamic change, a process that is followed in light of several main features of initiation rites. Spanish authors' rich range of interpretive motifs include a combination of regeneration language (both as rebirth and as recreation) with a Paschal context, and a seeming preference for Johannine language, all in a way that presents Paschal baptism as having a much wider range of meaning than Romans 6.
      • keywords: baptismal; historical; period; rites; spanish
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3410. nc580k24h9w
      • author: WonJae Shin
      • title: Learning a Recursive Center-Embedding Rule and the Role of Test Method and Feedback
      • date: 2014
      • words: 401
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Although several previous AGL studies showed that adults were unable to induce a center-embedding rule, Lai and Poletiek (2011) demonstrated successful induction if the learning experience began with simple sequences with no embedding and then progressed to sequences with one- Numerous studies have investigated the rule induction process using the Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) paradigm, which involves presenting sequences of meaningless elements generated from a rule to children or adult participants and testing their learning by having them judge the grammaticality of correct and incorrect novel sequences.
      • keywords: center; embedding; induction; learning; rule; sequences; test
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3411. nc580k24j8v
      • author: Amanda M. Weppler
      • title: Dante's Stazio: Statius and the Transformations of Poetry
      • date: 1904
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Finally, Dante uses Stazio in order to express a complex position on the interpretation of poetry. There is evidence to suggest that scenes from the later books of the Thebaid, either the story of Menoeceus' sacrifice or the prayers to Clementia, or both, may have influenced Dante's decision to Christianize Stazio.
      • keywords: commedia; conversion; dante; poetry; statius; stazio
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3412. nc580k24p3c
      • author: Nikhil S. Japtiwale
      • title: Cerium and Manganese Incorporated Zeolites as Catalysts for C-C Coupling Reactions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This thesis outlines a research project in the area of C-C coupling reactions to synthesize industrially relevant products using substrate molecules typically small oxygenates, such as, acetic acid, and C2-C3 aldehydes. The data show the presence of Ce3+, and Mn3+ heteroatom species in the crystalline zeolite framework, and these catalysts are active at low temperature during self-aldol condensation reaction as well as can deliver higher rates to the desired products during the C-C coupling reactions of small oxygenates tested.
      • keywords: catalysts; coupling; high; products; reactions
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3413. nc580k2564n
      • author: Crystal Spring
      • title: Expanding Freirean Praxis with Great Books Pedagogy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 117
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: This thesis argues not just that it is possible to use a Freirean critical stance to teach Great Books, but that Mortimer Adler's Great Books would be a natural and logical way to enact critical literacy. Though this paper is written in the spirit of generating further discussions that bring together apparently disparate educational ideas, the scope of this paper's argument is simply to show that there exist foundational commonalities between critical literacy and Great Books programs: that they both work towards the vision of democracy not only as a form of government but also as conjoint communicated experience (Dewey, 1916), support dialectical and inquiry-based pedagogy, and stand for a value-driven education system.
      • keywords: critical; great
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3414. nc580k25j0c
      • author: Christopher Thomas Brophy
      • title: Perilous Ascent: The Education of Erōs in Plato's Symposium
      • date: 2020
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: In taking up Nietzsche's alternative approach in this work, I emphasize the unique contributions of each speech towards a proper understanding of the role of erōs in human nature, and I trace the developments of those contributions through the movement of the dialogue. In all cases, both elements remain in creative tension.
      • keywords: dialogue; plato; poles; preliminary; speeches; symposium; tensions
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3415. nc580k25k0p
      • author: Jude Ash (Majd Alshoufi)
      • title: The Only Way Out Is Through: Development and Validation of the Multidimensional Executive Emotion Processing Schedule (MEEPS)
      • date: 2020
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Finally, the MEEPS scales predicted internalizing psychopathology symptoms (i.e., depression, social anxiety, panic, and traumatic intrusions) more strongly than externalizing symptoms (i.e., ill-temper) and over and above all convergent measures (i.e., EACS, MEAQ, and KIMS/FFMQ) combined. Overall, the results indicate that the MEEPS measures emotion processing with excellent reliability and promising validity, including predictive power for psychopathology, particularly internalizing domain symptoms.
      • keywords: emotion; measures; meeps; processing; psychopathology; symptoms; understanding
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3416. nc580k25k42
      • author: Angela R. Smith
      • title: Peptide Anchor Modifications Modulate T Cell Receptor Recognition of a Melanoma-Associated Antigen
      • date: 2021
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Finding that gp100209-specific TCRs are sensitive to peptide anchor modifications, I show that, in contrast to previously published work, the enhanced tumor control properties of the SILv44 TCR are a result of strong TCR binding affinity to the WT peptide antigen. The association between peptide binding affinity and immunogenicity has led to the engineering of modified peptides with improved MHC binding, with the hope that these peptides would be useful for eliciting cross-reactive immune responses directed toward their weak binding, unmodified counterparts.
      • keywords: anchor; binding; peptides; tcr; tcrs
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3417. nc580k25k9s
      • author: Joseph Farris
      • title: Genotype-Phenotype Predictions in Rare Genetic Diseases: The Relationship between Glycine Decarboxylase Mutations and Non-Ketotic Hyperglycinemia Severity
      • date: 2021
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: cleavage; defects; disease; disorders; glycine; mutations; rare; system
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3418. nc580k25n09
      • author: Meng (Simona) Jia
      • title: The Novel Roles of the Hippo Pathway in Regulating Retinal Regeneration in Adult Zebrafish
      • date: 2022
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: glia; hippo; mechanism; müller; notch; pathway; proliferation
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3419. nc580k25p40
      • author: David Pirchio
      • title: Advancements in the Design of Pultruded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Structures
      • date: 2023
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 10
      • 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.
      • keywords: asce; composites; design; frp; pre; sei; standard
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3420. ng451g07r3k
      • author: Yifei Dai
      • title: Subject-Specific Computational Modeling of Spinal Constructs
      • date: 2010
      • words: 464
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This dissertation addresses four specific issues: modeling of the vertebral endplate, mesh generation for human vertebrae, material property variation in vertebral trabecular bone, and modeling spinal fusions in rabbits. The model prediction of stiffness, which is the primary variable of interest in spinal fusion, strongly correlated with the measured data.
      • keywords: bone; element; finite; fusion; material; modeling; models; spinal; study; surface; vertebral
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3421. ng451g07r4x
      • author: Elisa Gorla
      • title: Lifting Properties from the General Hyperplane Section of a Projective Scheme
      • date: 2004
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: For curves in P^3, we show that any set of Betti numbers that satisfy that condition can be realized as the Betti numbers of the general plane section of an arithmetically Buchsbaum, non arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay curve. In this dissertation, we discuss some necessary and sufficient conditions for a curve to be arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay, in terms of its general hyperplane section.
      • keywords: cohen; general; macaulay; section
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3422. ng451g07r7z
      • author: Jason Michael Mayes
      • title: Reduction and Approximation in Large and Infinite Potential-driven Flow Networks
      • date: 2012
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In this dissertation, several new reduction methods are proposed with the intent of extending the application of classical methodological reduction methods to complex systems. Complex systems often result in intractable mathematical models when classical methodological reduction methods are used in modeling.
      • keywords: complex; fractional; methods; reduction; self; similar; systems
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3423. ng451g07r89
      • author: Nisha Srinivas
      • title: Analysis of Facial Marks as Biometric Signatures for Forensic Facial Identification
      • date: 2015
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: We present three different facial mark systems: a manual facial mark system, a multi-scale facial mark system in which facial marks are detected automatically, and a semi-automatic facial mark system which integrates human knowledge within the multi-scale facial mark system. In this dissertation, we conduct a complete study on the usability of facial marks as biometric signatures to distinguish individuals.
      • keywords: biometric; facial; individuals; mark; system
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3424. ng451g07s5k
      • author: Laura Taylor Johnson
      • title: The influence of land use on the role of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in stream nutrient processing
      • date: 2008
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Previous research has found that agricultural and urban land use can saturate biotic inorganic N and P demand, but less is known about the impacts of human land use on the cycling of organic C and N. By examining each component of nutrient spiraling in streams, I examined how anthropogenic land use may alter stream dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) dynamics. By examining DOC and DON, relatively understudied solutes, my dissertation research has shed light on the complex effects of human land use on streams, the mechanisms behind stream N saturation, and the interactions between the biogeochemistry of multiple stream nutrients.
      • keywords: doc; don; human; land; nutrient; production; streams; use
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3425. ng451g07s6x
      • author: Manshu Yang
      • title: Using State-Space Model with Regime Switching to Represent the Dynamics of Facial EMG Data
      • date: 2008
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In this thesis, facial EMG data is analyzed using time series analysis methods. Facial electromyography (EMG) is a useful physiological measure for detecting subtle affective changes in real time.
      • keywords: data; emg; facial; model; regime; time
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3426. ng451g07s8m
      • author: Dawn Weseli Hopkins
      • title: The Genetic Control of Hematopoietic Progenitor Fate in Drosophila
      • date: 2014
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Forced expression of the C-terminal domain of qin with a MZ-specific driver caused significant expansion of the MZ, similar to the full-length construct and was able to rescue the reduced LG and MZ size characteristic of qin mutants, highlighting the importance of the Tudor domains located in this fragment. Furthermore, Bam was expressed in both the niche cells of the posterior signaling center (PSC) and the progenitors of the medullary zone (MZ).
      • keywords: bam; cells; drosophila; hematopoiesis; lamellocyte; lgs; qin
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3427. ng451g07t1h
      • author: James Zokoe, Jr
      • title: Investigation of Potassium Containing Glass Coatings as Diesel Soot Oxidation Catalysts
      • date: 2014
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: A baseline glass compound (KCS-1) was found to sustain acceptable soot oxidation temperatures after this lifetime (T50 < 500&deg;C). One means for reducing cost of the aftertreatment unit is to lower the required temperature for soot oxidation (DPF regeneration) by implementing a low cost, low temperature soot oxidation catalysts.
      • keywords: catalysts; diesel; engines; exhaust; glass; oxidation; soot
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3428. ng451g08f94
      • author: Hope B. Pearson
      • title: BMP-2 Indirectly Induces Angiogenesis During Large Bone Defect Regeneration
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: To determine whether the angiogenic response to growth factor stimulation was a direct effect of endothelial cell activation or a paracrine effect induced by bone formation, we treated endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) with BMP-2, TPO, or hMSC conditioned media and evaluated migration, tubulogenesis, and SMAD 1/5/9 nuclear localization in vitro. These data suggest that the effect of BMP-2 on angiogenesis is secondary to bone formation-induced vascular recruitment rather than direct endothelial cell activation.
      • keywords: bmp-2; bone; effect; endothelial; formation; tpo
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3429. ng451g08g6d
      • author: Emerson Eads
      • title: Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater: A Question of Empathy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: An examination of Joseph Haydn's 1767 setting of the Stabat Mater reveals a masterpiece of profound depth. This study examines the history of lament or Planctus Mariae, from which the poem of the Stabat Mater sprang, briefly studies some of the musical antecedents to the 1767 setting, and illuminates the various musical gestures, forms, and tonal architecture, within the context of Haydn's Stabat Mater.
      • keywords: haydn; mater; stabat
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3430. ng451g08h0n
      • author: Jingshan Wang
      • title: High-Power Vertical GaN Electronic Devices Formed by Epitaxial Lift-Off
      • date: 1904
      • words: 548
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: To investigate vertical GaN devices and the potential benefits of ELO processing, Schottky diodes and p-n junction diodes have been fabricated and tested. The Schottky device results suggests that ELO processing could potentially improve device performance for devices on non-native substrates.
      • keywords: bulk; devices; diodes; elo; gan; high; large; performance; power; processing; schottky; substrates; thermal; vertical
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3431. ng451g08t9j
      • author: Matthew J. Filmer
      • title: Development of High Speed Nanoscale Sensors Based on Single-Electron Devices
      • date: 2020
      • words: 284
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The consistency between measurements and simulations then allows for straightforward design and implementation of improved impedance transformers, increasing the SNR of extremely sensitive measurements, with simple data-based simulations. These measurements typically employ basic resonant impedance transformers to bring the device impedance close to the characteristic impedance of the measurement apparatus.
      • keywords: impedance; measurements; reflectometry; simulations; single; temperature
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3432. ng451g08v6t
      • author: Abigail L. Mills
      • title: Evaluating a Brief Family-Focused Preventive Intervention Program on Adolescent Adjustment Outcomes: Unveiling the Indirect Effects of Program Efficacy
      • date: 2021
      • words: 261
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The present study is an efficacy evaluation of the Family Communication Project (FCP), a randomized controlled trial of a family intervention designed to improve communication and conflict resolution strategies by educating families about the different types of conflict (destructive and constructive) and their implications on emotional security, parenting quality, and adolescent adjustment outcomes. More specifically, the current study investigated program effects on conflict behaviors at post-test, parenting quality and emotional security 6-months post-intervention, and adolescent adjustment outcomes 12-months post-intervention.
      • keywords: adjustment; adolescent; conflict; intervention; post
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3433. ng451g08v9v
      • author: Thomas H. Do
      • title: Redox-Active Ligands and Their Role in Expanding the Reactivity of Silicon, Zirconium, and Iridium
      • date: 2021
      • words: 827
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The incorporation, design, and reactivity of redox active ligand metal complexes provide a rich, new area of chemistry to explore. The reaction of (Diso)2IrCl with oxygen atom transfer reagents produces discrete iridium alkoxide complexes derived from oxidation of the isopropyl groups of the Diso ligand as products.
      • keywords: complexes; coordinate; diso)2ircl; form; iminoxolene; intermediate; iridium; ligand; lower; metal; oxidation; oxygen; reaction; redox; silicon; transfer; zirconium
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3434. ng451g08w2r
      • author: Zachary D. Tucker
      • title: Recent Advancements in the Synthesis, Functionalization, and Applications of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles
      • date: 2021
      • words: 238
      • flesch: -4
      • summary: Our attention was focused on: unearthing methodologies which exploit transition metal-stabilized carbenes for the synthesis and functionalization of N-heterocycles; the total synthesis of biologically active alkaloids via resourceful retrosynthetic disconnects; the synthesis and discovery of N-heterocyclic/pnictogen based ionic liquid materials for various alternative energy applications. Therefore, technology related to the development of methodologies for the synthesis, derivatization, or applications of nitrogenated compounds which exhibit novel bond disconnects or functions are of high interest.
      • keywords: applications; compounds; functionalization; heterocyclic; synthesis
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3435. ng451g08w7g
      • author: Orlando Olivas-Gomez
      • title: Constraining the γ-Process Using HECTOR
      • date: 2022
      • words: 445
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: For future works, cross-section measurements to identify other potential γ-process branching points such as 85Rb and 129Cs points are desirable. These are known as branching points, and knowing at which temperature the (γ,n) and (γ,p) reaction rates become equal for an isotope is crucial for accurately modeling the reaction flow of the γ-process.
      • keywords: branching; nuclei; process; rates; reaction
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3436. ng451g08w8t
      • author: Xiaoxiang Feng
      • title: Investigation of Potassium Containing Glass Catalyst for Use in Diesel Particulate Filters
      • date: 2022
      • words: 440
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: With more and more attention of the public shifting toward environmental concern, governments around the world are acting by implementing more stringent emission standards for particulate matter and NOx from diesel engine exhaust. Diesel engines have the highest engine efficiency of any practical combustion engine design, having a 30 percent better fuel economy and 25 percent less CO2 emissions than gasoline engines.
      • keywords: catalyst; diesel; emissions; engine; exhaust; filter; glass; matter; oxidation; particulate; soot
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3437. ng451g08z42
      • author: Zhuogang Peng
      • title: Low-Rank Methods for Radiation Transport Calculations
      • date: 2023
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This dissertation seeks to reduce the computational cost in radiation transport calculations using dynamical low-rank approximation (DLR) methods, a complexity reduction technique to approximate a tensor or a matrix with a reduced rank. The resulting system preserves the information on angular direction by applying separate low-rank decompositions in each octant where angular intensity has the same sign as the direction cosines.
      • keywords: low; order; rank; solution; system; transport
      • versions: original; plain text
3438. nk322b9116n
      • author: Kyoung Nan Kim
      • title: Self-Aligned DNA Oligomer and the Deposition of DNA Oligomers on EBL Patterned Cationic SAMs on SiO2/Si [100]
      • date: 2012
      • words: 300
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Aligned DNA origami chains were selectively deposited on 60 nm wide lithographically patterned lines of cationic SAMs on silicon chips, Preliminary studies were done to show that DNA origami could be deposited on hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ); this work establishes a pathway towards multilevel patterning of DNA origami. I compared several strategies to prevent &#960;-stacking and investigated optimal annealing conditions for the oligomerization of DNA origami.
      • keywords: 960;-stacking; alignment; annealing; dna; non; origami; strands
      • versions: original; plain text
3439. nk322b91170
      • author: Karsten Steinhaeuser
      • title: Viewing the World Through a Network Lens
      • date: 2011
      • words: 216
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Most conventional data structures and data analysis methods were designed with simple transaction data in mind. First, we propose a methodological advance in the form of a novel algorithm for identifying community structure in networks that is relevant across many domains.
      • keywords: analysis; data; network; relationships
      • versions: original; plain text
3440. nk322b91217
      • author: Wayne L. Buckhanan
      • title: Wideband Chip-to-Chip Interconnects for High Performance Computing
      • date: 2013
      • words: 116
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This research suggests that alternative packaging methods can improve system performance. Initial exploration suggests that QP implementations of conventionally-packaged HPC nodes can result in improved performance through decreased latency and increased data throughput.
      • keywords: memory; modern; performance
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3441. nk322b9122k
      • author: Samara Anne Cahill
      • title: 'Intelligent Souls': Women, Reason, and Identity in England's 'Long' Eighteenth Century
      • date: 2009
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Because the term 'soul' was associated with individual spiritual identity and public religious identity, it enabled women to engage in debates about national concerns while claiming that their duties were not limited to obeying temporal authority. A growing body of scholars has noticed the crucial importance of the concept of the soul (usually conceived as rational, immaterial, and immortal) to literature by Englishwomen writing during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
      • keywords: authority; concept; identity; literature; soul; temporal; women
      • versions: original; plain text
3442. nk322b9123x
      • author: Beth Anne McNally
      • title: Use of Synthetic Transporters to Facilitate Anion Transport across Vesicle and Cell Membranes
      • date: 2010
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: anion; carrier; chloride; class; mechanism; mobile; transport; transporters
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3443. nk322b91248
      • author: Stephen Robert Grimm
      • title: Understanding as an Epistemic Goal
      • date: 2006
      • words: 291
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: In this respect, I argue that a situation stands in need of explanation for us, and therefore inspires our why-questions, in virtue of our sense that there are various ways that we think the situation might have been. In particular, I suggest that if we can get a good grip on why a situation stands in need of explanation for us in the first place, then we will in turn be in a good position to determine how we might satisfy that need.
      • keywords: difference; explanation; need
      • versions: original; plain text
3444. nk322b9125m
      • author: Catherine Rose Cavadini
      • title: The Commercium of the Kiss Who Saves: A Study of Thomas the Cistercian's Commentary on the Song of Songs
      • date: 2010
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: It contextualizes Thomas's style, method, and message within the broader history of Song of Songs interpretation, draws out what is more particulary 'Cistercian' about Thomas the Cistercian's interpretation, and what is unique about his vision of the Song's meaning. In the history of Song of Songs interpretation, beginning with Origen, the 'kiss' of Song of Songs 1:1 is read as this 'exchange,' or commercium.
      • keywords: cistercian; commentary; commercium; kiss; song; thomas
      • versions: original; plain text
3445. nk322b9128n
      • author: Ethan Perez
      • title: Entropy Generation in a Highly-Loaded, Axial Turbine
      • date: 2014
      • words: 165
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Entropy generation at on and off-design conditions was investigated. Investigation of the numerical simulation identified localized regions within the blade passage that were associated with significant entropy generation.
      • keywords: entropy; generation; regions
      • versions: original; plain text
3446. nk322b91306
      • author: Edward M Nik-Khah
      • title: Designs on the Mechanism: Economics and the FCC Spectrum Auctions
      • date: 2006
      • words: 249
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Chapter 4 studies both the published accounts of the FCC mechanism design process as well as the unpublished materials in the FCC archives, and finds that the strategic imperatives of a handful of large telecommunications companies displaced the scientific imperatives of mechanism design. Chapter 1 peruses existing accounts of the FCC spectrum auctions, finds a lack of consensus both on the role of game theory and on the performance of the FCC auctions, and establishes the central task of the dissertation as evaluating the role of academic mechanism designers in acting as 'consulting engineers for the market economy.'
      • keywords: auctions; chapter; fcc; mechanism; spectrum
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3447. nk322b9131j
      • author: Benjamin Sunderlin
      • title: Terms of Art
      • date: 2015
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: I seek to position these things in certain ways to expose the conditions and political nuances that shape how certain forms of national identity have &mdash; or may be &mdash; constructed, changed, destroyed, or are otherwise affected. At the same time, this collection of work also renders these objects within the scope of human social activity, and situates these concerns against enlightenment era philosophies as a critique of the west-o-centric Humanist tradition.
      • keywords: certain; identity; mdash; national; subject; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3448. nk322b9134k
      • author: Andrew P. Baumann
      • title: The Relative Influence of Material and Architectural Properties on the Mechanical Behavior of Bone Tissue
      • date: 1904
      • words: 392
      • flesch: 17
      • 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.
      • keywords: bone; ct.po; element; finite; human; material; mechanical; mineralization; relative; tissue
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3449. nk322b9141v
      • author: Brad Vermurlen
      • title: Reformed Resurgence: A Field-Theoretic Analysis of Religious Strength (and Weakness) in Advanced Modernity
      • date: 1904
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: calvinism; evangelical; field; modern; new; power; religious; strength
      • versions: original; plain text
3450. nk322b91457
      • author: Xiao Fang
      • title: Measurement and Extrapolation of Total Cross Sections of 12C + 16O Fusion at Stellar Energies
      • date: 1904
      • words: 290
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The total cross section of the 12C+16O fusion has been measured at low energies using the St Ana 5MV accelerator at the University of Notre Dame. The predicted results depend sensitively on the adopted model parameters, hindrance effects, and the possibility of resonances at relevant energies.
      • keywords: burning; cross; fusion; important; mev; range; reaction; results
      • versions: original; plain text
3451. nk322b9174t
      • author: Joshua McCollum
      • title: Hobbes on Political Union and Authorization
      • date: 1904
      • words: 244
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The first set of questions concerns Hobbes's argument for the rationality of union. Having considered why Hobbes regards union as rationally necessary, the dissertation turns to questions concerning Hobbes's descriptions of union and its consequences.
      • keywords: covenant; hobbes; political; union
      • versions: original; plain text
3452. nk322b91r65
      • author: Robert A. Jonson
      • title: Processing and Implementation of Substituted Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolytes in Solid-State Lithium Batteries
      • date: 1904
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: A battery with a solid electrolyte would be a safer alternative to current Li-ion technologies utilizing organic liquid electrolytes. The addition of an interfacial layer of zinc was found to promote wetting of the LLZNbO surface but its impact on a Li/LLZNbO/Li cell's interfacial resistance and critical current density was indeterminate.
      • keywords: density; electrolyte; lithium; llznbo; solid; tape; use
      • versions: original; plain text
3453. nk322b91t43
      • author: Shireen Jayman
      • title: Cellular Mechanisms in Epithelial Glandular Morphogenesis and Preinvasive Cancer
      • date: 2018
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Multiple platforms have emerged that enable the study of cellular events preceding and contributing to glandular disruption, as it pertains to early epithelial tumor progression. While investigations of monolayers provide insight into interactions between cells, the 3D morphogenesis culture system allows for further analysis of hyperactivated cellular signaling and its effects on acinar structure development, reminiscent of glandular remodeling during epithelial cancer progression.
      • keywords: arf6; cell; dcis; epithelial; glandular; progression; signaling; tumor
      • versions: original; plain text
3454. nk322b91x10
      • author: Kevin O'Brien
      • title: Investigating Aberrant Gait Patterns in Individuals with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
      • date: 2019
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: In terms of motion analysis, individuals with iSCI are compared to matched healthy controls to identify specific gait deficits. Instead, this research demonstrates how individuals with iSCI can be grouped according to aberrant walking strategy based on key gait metrics to better quantify deficits and target therapeutic interventions.
      • keywords: characteristics; gait; individuals; isci; muscle; rehabilitation; simulations; walking
      • versions: original; plain text
3455. nk322b91z7c
      • author: Caleb Hamman
      • title: From Homer to Hemingway: The Place of the Soldier in Political Life
      • date: 2019
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 50
      • 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.
      • keywords: american; modern; soldier
      • versions: original; plain text
3456. nk322b9236j
      • author: Michael A. Skulski, Jr.
      • title: Development of 129I AMS at the Nuclear Science Laboratory for Measurements of the Great Lakes Region
      • date: 2020
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Two MCP detectors were used to obtain adequate timing resolution for discrimination against 127I, the primary contaminant in 129I measurement. Following the measurement, potential methods for improving the AMS system for 129I measurement were identified for future development, both in terms of sample preparation and technical developments that can improve the ease and consistency of an 129I measurement.
      • keywords: 129i; fuel; measurement; nuclear; reprocessing
      • versions: original; plain text
3457. nk322b92774
      • author: Sam Potier
      • title: Advanced Wavefront Sensors for Enhanced Adaptive Optics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Current industry-leading WFS designs, such as the Shack-Hartmann WFS (SHWFS), lack vital sensing capabilities such as a broad spatial frequency capture range and high photon-efficiency, limiting the use of diffraction-limited observations for various science cases of interest. It is shown that the FWFS is more accurate than an equivalent SHWFS, providing sensitivity to a broad range of spatial frequencies, a large capture range, robustness to scintillation, and an increased photon-efficiency.
      • keywords: designs; photon; wavefront; wfs
      • versions: original; plain text
3458. np19377495n
      • author: Stephen Michael Little
      • title: The Sacramental Poetics of Dante's Commedia
      • date: 2010
      • words: 135
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Using a close-reading methodology, I examine how three key passages from the Comedy--the encounters with Adam in Paradiso XXVI, Ulysses and Guido da Montefeltro in Inferno XXVI and XXVII, and Bonagiunta da Lucca in Purgatorio XXIV--reveal the human person as both a sign of God and (potentially) God by participation in Christ's divine nature. My interdisciplinary study uses the medieval sacramental theology of double signification to integrate two contemporary conversations in Dante scholarship: the question of how to understand Dante's poetics, and the problems surrounding the presence of medieval liturgy in the Comedy.
      • keywords: comedy; dante; god
      • versions: original; plain text
3459. np193774960
      • author: Jason Thomas Daly
      • title: Lifetime Measurements of Excited States in 19-Neon
      • date: 2005
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: These values agree with currently accepted values for the lifetime and support the belief that the 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne reaction is not a probable breakout path from the HCNO cycle into the rp-process in novae, but may have an impact on breakout in x-ray bursts. In novae and x-ray bursts, the 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne reaction is a potential breakout path from the hot-CNO cycle and into the rp-process.
      • keywords: 19ne; gamma)19ne; lifetime; mev; reaction
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3460. np193774991
      • author: Brandon Rowekamp
      • title: Planar Pixelations and Shape Reconstruction
      • date: 2012
      • words: 101
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: This approximation converges to the original shape in a very strong sense: as the size of the pixels goes to zero we can recover important geometric and topological invariants of the original shape such as Betti numbers, area, perimeter and curvature measures. Any subset of the plane can be approximated by a set of square pixels.
      • keywords: original; set
      • versions: original; plain text
3461. np193774b07
      • author: Jamie L. Dawson
      • title: Trans-Splicing Group I Introns Targeting Highly Conserved HIV-1 Sequences Coupled with Induction of Apoptosis Are Effective Mediators of Viral Suppression
      • date: 2015
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Sequence analysis of the cryptic splice-variant revealed that targeting remained highly specific to the PAS/PBS sequences. No HIV was detected by p24 ELISA analysis, demonstrating that a homogenous population of GII expressing cells are capable of 100% viral suppression.
      • keywords: anti; giis; hiv; sequence; splice; suppression; viral
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3462. np193774b7n
      • author: Matthew J Cooper
      • title: Structure and Function of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
      • date: 2014
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Using nutrient-diffusing substrata, I found that algal biomass accrual was frequently nitrogen-limited and rarely phosphorus-limited, suggesting that nitrogen loading from agricultural lands and other sources has the potential to stimulate excessive algal growth and affect ecosystem function in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. I also documented water quality impairment and altered land cover to be associated with structural changes to algal, macroinvertebrate, and fish communities, illustrating the far-reaching impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on coastal wetland ecosystems.
      • keywords: coastal; ecosystems; great; lakes; nutrient; protection; restoration; wetland
      • versions: original; plain text
3463. np193774b80
      • author: Melissa Ann Mitchell
      • title: A Comparison of the Diagonal and Cross-Sectional Designs When Assessing Longitudinal Mediation
      • date: 2009
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This design is a compromise between the cross-sectional and longitudinal designs since it incorporates time in the model but only has one measurement of X, M, and Y. These two designs were compared to see whether the diagonal design assesses longitudinal mediation more accurately than the cross-sectional design when mediation is full or partial. It was found that the diagonal design does not assess longitudinal mediation more accurately than the cross-sectional design.
      • keywords: design; mediation
      • versions: original; plain text
3464. np193774c0j
      • author: Kelcie L. Vercel
      • title: Imperfectly Compatible: The Problematic Integration of Leisure and Work in the Lives of Lifestyle Bloggers
      • date: 2014
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Their actions illuminate those of creative entrepreneurs negotiating modern work, and have implications for work on symbolic boundaries, modern work and economic sociology. When individuals attempt to transform an interest or a leisure activity into paid work, meanings related to both leisure and work threaten to delegitimize their activities.
      • keywords: activities; meanings; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3465. np193774c3k
      • author: Lauren Linn Whitnah
      • title: Patrons of That Place: The Cults of Anglo-Saxon Saints in Twelfth-Century Northumbria
      • date: 2014
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 53
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; cult; local; region; saints; veneration
      • versions: original; plain text
3466. np193774c6m
      • author: Rafael O. Ruiz
      • title: A New Type of Tuned Liquid Damper and Its Effectiveness in Enhancing Seismic Performance: Numerical Characterization, Experimental Validation, Parametric Analysis and Life-Cycle Based Design
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The research presented here introduces a new type of liquid mass damper, called Tuned Liquid Damper with Floating Roof (TLD-FR) which combines the favorable characteristics of traditional Tuned Liquid Dampers (TLD) and liquid column dampers, and further examines its efficiency for seismic applications for Chile. This creates a vibratory behavior that resembles other types of a linear mass dampers and a framework is developed to characterize this behavior with a simple parametric description that can facilitate an easy comparison to such dampers.
      • keywords: cost; dampers; liquid; parametric; roof; seismic; tld
      • versions: original; plain text
3467. np193775112
      • author: Vince Bagnulo
      • title: Liberalism, Democracy, and Character: Mill, Nietzsche, Tocqueville and the Problem of Democratic Character
      • date: 1904
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: change; character; liberalism; problem
      • versions: original; plain text
3468. np19377515f
      • author: Albert M Olszewski
      • title: Lower Limb Control and Joint Stability During Stand-to-Sit Maneuvers in Subjects with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
      • date: 1904
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Deceleration phase duration was shorter in un-exercised subjects than in healthy control subjects. Valgus moment values were not significantly affected by downhill training, but more subjects exhibited negative training effects in a longitudinal study.
      • keywords: characteristics; control; downhill; isci; sit; study; subjects; training
      • versions: original; plain text
3469. np19377522q
      • author: Tony J. Cunningham
      • title: The Interaction of Stress and Depression and Their Effect on Sleep and Emotional Memory Consolidation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: While there was no impact on memory consolidation for the negative components of scenes, individuals in the depressed group that participated in the stress task were found to have poorer memory for neutral scene information, particularly for the neutral central object. These results indicate that stress and depression interact to reduce veridical memory of neutral information.
      • keywords: cortisol; depressed; depression; memory; neutral; sleep; stress
      • versions: original; plain text
3470. np19377562z
      • author: Etika Agarwal
      • title: Compositional Control of Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems Using Hybrid Models and Dissipativity Theory
      • date: 2019
      • words: 401
      • flesch: 22
      • 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.
      • keywords: control; controllers; cps; design; dissipativity; feedback; network; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
3471. np193775d8w
      • author: Brittni L. Bertolet
      • title: Disentangling Drivers of Lake Methane Dynamics across Scales
      • date: 2021
      • words: 435
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: My dissertation draws mechanistic links between sediment microbial community composition and lake methane dynamics by investigating how both microbial communities and ecosystem processes are individually influenced by the environment, as well as how microbial communities may mediate ecosystem responses to environmental change. Recent advances in sequencing technologies now allow us to determine differences in microbial community composition across space and time and to explicitly consider the influence of these differences on ecosystem-scale processes.
      • keywords: community; composition; ecosystem; lake; methane; microbial; variation
      • versions: original; plain text
3472. np193775f9j
      • author: Tsuyoshi Anthony Kohlgruber
      • title: Synthesis and Characterization of Actinide-Bearing Compounds Using Ionic Liquid Media
      • date: 2022
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: The goal of this dissertation is to explore the fundamental chemistry of various hexavalent uranium and neptunium compounds with a focus on crystal structure determination to better understand the formation and stabilization of actinide compounds in the solid-state. The second study investigates the way in which the organic cations and interstitial species coordinate to and stabilize uranyl sulfate structural units.
      • keywords: compounds; crystal; ionic; liquids; organic; phosphate; structures; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
3473. np193775g0r
      • author: Omar Coronel Cuadros
      • title: Violent Protest in Weak Democracies: Conflict Prevention Agencies and Civil Society Organizations in Peru
      • date: 2022
      • words: 386
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Employing interviews, an original database of protests from 2008 to 2018, and archival data from local newspapers and reports in Arequipa, Puno, Lambayeque, and Cajamarca, I show that when robust local CPAs and a non-competitive ecology of CSOs are in place, the likeliness of violent protest will reduce. From a relational approach, my dissertation proposes a theory of violent protests that focuses on state accommodation capacity and on how the interaction of this capacity, through conflict prevention agencies, and civil society organizations generate higher or fewer chances to use violent repertoires.
      • keywords: civil; democracies; protests; regions; state; violent; weak
      • versions: original; plain text
3474. np193775g3s
      • author: Bumjun Park
      • title: Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium and Magnesium Metal Batteries: Metal Ion Transport and Deposition
      • date: 2022
      • words: 535
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Polymer electrolytes are beneficial in terms of mechanical stability and safety, which can reduce electrolyte leakage and possible ignition upon a short circuit. However, polymer electrolytes have low ionic conductivity and high interfacial resistance resulting from poor contact on an electrode compared to liquid electrolytes.
      • keywords: anodes; cation; conduction; coordination; deposition; electrolytes; host; metal; mg2; polymer
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3475. np193775h02
      • author: Shanghui Huang
      • title: Targeting Assembly in Colloidal Materials by Tilting the Free Energy Surface
      • date: 2022
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This method is likely to have a significant impact when collaborating with recently developed machine learning free energy methods. Free energy calculation is a powerful tool to probe into the assembly process.
      • keywords: assembly; clusters; colloidal; energy; free; material
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3476. ns064457k8r
      • author: Jesse Werth Johnson
      • title: Computable Model Theory for Uncountable Structures
      • date: 2013
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: We then show that any class satisfying these properties is &#954;+-computably categorical if and only if there is no triple (N',N,M) of structures of dimension &#954; such that M &#8838; N &#8838; N' and M is 'closed' in N and N', but N is not 'closed' in N'. Using classical definitions from admissible set theory, we examine computable model theory for uncountable structures.
      • keywords: categorical; classes; computable; structures
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3477. ns064457k93
      • author: Yeqing Lu
      • title: Tunnel Transistor Modeling
      • date: 2011
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The major advantage of tunnel transistors is the possibility to achieve less than 60 mV/decade sub-threshold swing, which is the thermionic limit in conventional MOSFETs. In this work, simulation of III-V semiconductor based tunnel transistors has been explored using both commercially available simulator (Synopsys TCAD) and novel analytical compact models.
      • keywords: gate; model; simulation; transistors; tunnel
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3478. ns064457m3b
      • author: Andrew David Kosal
      • title: New Discoveries in Titanium and Phosphorus Mediated Carbonyl Additions
      • date: 2013
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: These catalytic strategies involving redox chemistry of both transition metals and phosphorus enable a fast and resourceful approach towards the construction of valuable synthetic intermediates of saturated carbonyls, homoallylic alcohols, and substituted amides from the readily accessible starting materials. The scope of conjugated compounds includes cyclic and acyclic variations of ketones, esters, aldehydes, amides, as well as ynones, which contain an extra degree of unsaturation.
      • keywords: alkyl; amides; aryl; catalytic; chemoselective; materials; phosphorus; titanocene
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3479. ns064457m4p
      • author: Andrea Asztalos
      • title: Applications of Random Walks: From Network Exploration to Cellulose Hydrolysis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 236
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: An exact formula for the number of visited nodes and edges as function of time is presented, that is valid for arbitrary graphs and arbitrary walks defined by stationary transition probabilities (STP). In the first part of the thesis we investigate network exploration by random walks defined via stationary and adaptive transition probabilities on large, but finite graphs.
      • keywords: cellulose; degradation; exploration; graphs; model; walks
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3480. ns064457m51
      • author: David Bruce Stephens
      • title: Sound Sources in a Low Speed Ducted Rotor
      • date: 2008
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Measurements of the flow field around the rotor were found to provide insight to the mechanisms of sound that depend on mean loading conditions. Quantifying this function enables the study of the rotor sound source, without need of other methods for considering duct effects.
      • keywords: boundary; function; rotor; sound
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3481. ns064457m6c
      • author: Matthew T. Loveland
      • title: Civic Congregations: Congregational Dynamics and Individual Civic Involvement
      • date: 2006
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: The dissertation calls specifically for further consideration of the relationship between congregations and individual civic participation, and generally for common use of contextual modeling to adequately portray the role of religion in social life. Most explanations of the religion and civic life relationship focus on a sole level of analysis, but the cross level relationship between congregations and their members' public participation is more pertinent to general sociological theory.
      • keywords: civic; congregations; evangelism; individual; likely; participation; social
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3482. ns064457m7q
      • author: Jonathan J Yip
      • title: Can Social Comparison Lead to a Decrease in Prosocial Behavior?
      • date: 2010
      • words: 126
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Participants' prosocial behaviors were measured 2-days post-manipulation. Then they were randomly assigned to conditions in which they were told that their performance indicated that they were either inferior or superior to their peers on personal characteristics.
      • keywords: prosocial; upward
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3483. ns064457n0m
      • author: Hui Yu
      • title: Function of Lipid Binding Ability of Nedd4 on Its Regulation of PTEN and Other Substrates
      • date: 2014
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Several key regulators of cellular homeostasis, such as the tumor suppresser PTEN, are Nedd4 substrates. The ubiquitination of PTEN by Nedd4 proteins is involved in cellular proliferation and neuron survival.
      • keywords: binding; calcium; cellular; nedd4; pten
      • versions: original; plain text
3484. ns064457n29
      • author: Eric S Covey
      • title: A wavelet method for estimating damping in oscillating systems
      • date: 2008
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Given that the modified Schroeder integration procedure failed to produce a better estimate of signal decay than other currently available procedures, the single-value criterion method of identifying significant signals is retained as the simpler and more flexible of the two methods of determining signal significance. A combination of multiresolution analysis (MRA) and a modified Schroeder integration method is tested as a means of identifying unknown oscillating signals in time series data, and estimating signal decay.
      • keywords: criterion; mra; signals
      • versions: original; plain text
3485. ns064457n3n
      • author: Jace Brittain
      • title: Dumm Film, A Novel
      • date: 2015
      • words: 26
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The fraying nerves of the geography of Los Angeles is explored through a deaf actress, the great-grandson of an experimental filmmaker, and a collections agent.
      • keywords: agent
      • versions: original; plain text
3486. ns064457n8c
      • author: Jonathan R. Trotter
      • title: The Jerusalem Temple in the Practice and Thought of Diaspora Jews during the Second Temple Period
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: It is often thought, therefore, that the temple was essentially irrelevant as an institution, even though it maintained a certain symbolic value, for most Diaspora Jews who reoriented their identity toward other universally accessible focal points, such as the Torah. More specifically, in part one, we suggest that most Diaspora Jews voluntarily adopted these practices, which increased in popularity during the Second Temple period, in order to maintain regular contact with and participation in the sacrificial cult.
      • keywords: certain; diaspora; jerusalem; jewish; jews; temple
      • versions: original; plain text
3487. ns064457p3z
      • author: Yaoyi Guan
      • title: Radiated Sound and Structural Vibration Induced by Flow over Asymmetrical Trailing Edges
      • date: 1904
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The third and fourth part developed an understanding of sound and vibration induced by trailing edge flows, respectively. They provided a unique database for understanding the mechanisms and analyzing the characteristics of sound and vibration induced by trailing edge flows.
      • keywords: edge; fields; flows; sound; vibration
      • versions: original; plain text
3488. ns064457p7b
      • author: Patrick Gamez
      • title: Foucault against Ethics: Subjectivity and Critique after Humanism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: I argue that Foucault's archaeological and genealogical works are best construed as an historical inquiry into the construction of spaces of reasons, in which we find ourselves subject to normative evaluation and direction. I then argue that the charge of nihilism against Foucault is the result of a process of neutralizing and depoliticizing the essentially plural, agonistic character of the space of reasons.
      • keywords: charge; ethical; foucault; genealogical; interpretation; reasons
      • versions: original; plain text
3489. ns064457s78
      • author: Elena Smyrniotis
      • title: Horizons of Utopia: From Realism to Abstraction
      • date: 1904
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: I will also discuss historical examples of artistic illustrations of dystopia based on literary texts such as Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and contemporary representations of utopian space in the works of land artists Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer. These works have all focused on various aspects and usages of maps and of the historical definitions of utopia to varying degrees of success, employing different art formats.
      • keywords: art; dystopia; island; representation; utopia
      • versions: original; plain text
3490. ns064458h9r
      • author: Audra Julia Dugandzic
      • title: Cultivating a Catholic Neighborhood: Space, Place, and Subcultural Identity
      • date: 2019
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: This study extends subcultural identity theory, not only by offering another case (Catholicism) but also by showing how space and place – and their attendant dimensions of race and class – are crucial to the development of a subcultural identity. This study seeks to understand how a Catholic enclave simultaneously (re)constructs Catholic tradition and American community life in a Washington, D.C. suburb and the role that race, class, and neighborhood features contribute to this process of reconstruction.
      • keywords: catholic; identity; neighborhood; subcultural
      • versions: original; plain text
3491. ns064458s7j
      • author: Luan Doan
      • title: Large-N Limit of the Segal–Bargmann Transforms on the Spheres
      • date: 2023
      • words: 180
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: It turns out that the limiting transform is still a unitary map from the limiting domain Hilbert space onto the limiting range Hilbert space. In this thesis, I study the limiting behavior of the Segal–Bargmann transforms on high dimensional spheres.
      • keywords: hilbert; measure; space; sphere
      • versions: original; plain text
3492. nv935140v7x
      • author: Plamen Boutachkov
      • title: Toward Understanding of the Nuclear Force Via Detailed Spectroscopy of 208Bi and Development of New Techniques for Studies of Neutron Rich Exotic Nuclei: Spectroscopy of 7He.
      • date: 2005
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: It is shown that the developed methods can be used to study other exotic neutron rich nuclei. In the first part of the thesis the single particle structure of 208Bi is studied via the &#947; - &#947; coincidence technique.
      • keywords: 7he; experimental; study
      • versions: original; plain text
3493. nv935140v88
      • author: Boris B. Skorodumov
      • title: Resonance reactions induced by beams of light radioactive nuclei
      • date: 2007
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: It was shown that the position of the 1/2+ state significantly affects the reaction rate through that state, but the total reaction rate remains unchanged since the 18Ne(2p,gamma) proceeds mostly via the ground and first excited states in 19Na at stellar temperatures. In the analysis of the experimental studies reported in this thesis, three light nuclei were investigated via resonance elastic scattering using the Thick Target Inverse Kinematics technique (TTIK).
      • keywords: assignment; energy; excitation; excited; mev; state
      • versions: original; plain text
3494. nv935140w15
      • author: Tian Fang
      • title: Carrier Transport in Graphene, Graphene Nanoribbon and GaN HEMTs
      • date: 2012
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The effect of line edge roughness on mobility in sub-10 nm graphene nanoribbons is studied analytically. The results indicate the mobility in sub-10 nm graphene nanoribbons is limited by edge roughness scatterings and agree with experimental work.
      • keywords: carrier; graphene; high; nanoribbons; phonon; velocity
      • versions: original; plain text
3495. nv935140w2h
      • author: Ryne A Gorsuch
      • title: Sox2 is necessary and sufficient to induce M&uuml;ller glia reprogramming and proliferation in the regenerating zebrafish retina.
      • date: 2015
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: 946;-catenin; expression; glia; m&uuml;ller; regeneration; reprogramming; retinal; sox2
      • versions: original; plain text
3496. nv935140w3v
      • author: Michelle Marie Dolan
      • title: Constraints on the Structure, Evolution, and Approach to Thermonuclear Runaway in Intermediate Mass and Massive Stars
      • date: 2013
      • words: 79
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: This thesis provides an assessment of stellar evolution models for intermediate-mass and massive stars in advanced stages of evolution through a detailed cooperation between simulations and observations of nearby stars and eclipsing binary stars. We also make a detailed study of the approach to unstable helium burning, the core flash, and thermally pulsing phases.
      • keywords: detailed; stars
      • versions: original; plain text
3497. nv935140w9x
      • author: Soon-Hyung Yook
      • title: From the Topology to the Dynamics of Complex Networks
      • date: 2004
      • words: 235
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Understanding the mechanisms governing the behavior of complex networks is a prerequisite for characterizing complex systems. Frequently, networks are modelled as unweighted graphs in which each link has the same strength.
      • keywords: complex; network; properties; systems; understanding
      • versions: original; plain text
3498. nv935140x04
      • author: Neil Benjamin Petroff
      • title: Biomimetic Sensing for Robotic Manipulation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In manipulation tasks, humans have the advantage over machines due to an unparalleled ability to process information from various inputs, including touch. Experiments were conducted with fixed-point manipulation to produce a baseline for comparing reconfigurable manipulation experiments.
      • keywords: experiments; loop; manipulation; object; open; sensors; system
      • versions: original; plain text
3499. nv935140x2t
      • author: Brandon R. Sepulvado
      • title: Disentangling Cultural Homophily from Confounding Mechanisms
      • date: 2014
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: A high level of clustering distinguishes social networks from other types of networks. Using novel data, this study employs statistical network analyses to infer how music tastes produce different structures within an emerging social network by influencing the number and similarity of friends that a person has.
      • keywords: individuals; networks; tastes
      • versions: original; plain text
3500. nv935140x5v
      • author: Stephen Morgan
      • title: Shepherds of a Dying Flock: The Rhenish Mission, the Herero, and German Colonial Conquest in South-West Africa
      • date: 2014
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: colonial; colonialism; herero; missionaries; order
      • versions: original; plain text
3501. nv935140x66
      • author: John P. D'Antonio
      • title: Front Stage Axial Compressor Stable Rotating Stall: An Experimental Investigation of Pressure Field Spatial and Temporal Scales
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: These rotating regions of separated flow are associated with high amplitude pressure fluctuations. This decomposition showed a variation in blade pressure distribution shape and amplitude.
      • keywords: complicated; compressors; fields; pressure; simple; stall
      • versions: original; plain text
3502. nv935141272
      • author: Quirine Astrid ten Bosch
      • title: Insights from Mathematical Modeling on the Natural History, Dynamics, and Control of Dengue
      • date: 1904
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: When post-secondary infections were assumed to contribute to transmission, cross-immunity was found to be the most important factor for reproducing patterns characteristic of dengue dynamics. I found that individuals with inapparent or no symptoms whatsoever—i.e., 'silent' infections—are likely the primary reservoir of DENV, which casts doubts on current practices for dengue control.
      • keywords: control; dengue; denv; dynamics; human; infections; modeling; reservoir; transmission
      • versions: original; plain text
3503. nv93514128d
      • author: Michael B Machen
      • title: Krylov Implicit Integration Factor Methods for Solving Fourth Order Equations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Previous methods that solve fourth order equations explicitly need small time steps. Most explicit numerical methods for solving fourth order partial differential equations (PDEs) have time constraints that require small time steps, which is not feasible for high dimensional problems.
      • keywords: differential; equations; factor; fourth; implicit; integration; methods; order; time
      • versions: original; plain text
3504. nv935141k3b
      • author: Mohammed S. Kamel
      • title: Aero-Optical Prediction of High-Reynolds Number Flows Using Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 319
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In this study, wall-modeled LES is employed to predict and analyze aero-optical distortions of subsonic and supersonic turbulent boundary layers and subsonic and transonic flows over cylindrical turrets at high Reynolds numbers. The results are compared to experimental measurements and previous results from wall-resolved LES at reduced Reynolds numbers.
      • keywords: distortions; flow; les; optical; results; reynolds; shock; wall
      • versions: original; plain text
3505. nv935141k7q
      • author: Madeleine Marie Klem
      • title: The Most Sacred Rights of Parents: English-Speaking Catholics and Parental Rights in the Schools Question
      • date: 1904
      • words: 277
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Catholic parental rights arguments, drawn from the tradition of natural law, were meant to appeal to their Protestant neighbors by emphasizing rights and appealing to religious liberty. In the United States, Catholics failed to create a coalition in favor of funding religious education, but they did manage to convince their neighbors that Catholic schools had a right to exist with minimal government interference.
      • keywords: catholics; education; family; parental; rights
      • versions: original; plain text
3506. nv935141p2x
      • author: Chontel Syfox
      • title: Rewriting and (Re)Negotiating Gender: A Study of the Depictions of the Matriarchs in the Book of Jubilees in Relation to Depictions of Heroines in the Greek Novel and Jewish Novella
      • date: 2018
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Like the Greek novel and Jewish novellas, Jubilees simultaneously contains images of female characters who defy gender norms, as well as images of female characters who reinforce stereotypically patriarchal ideas about the performance of gender. It also asks whether Jubilees was unique in its elevation of female characters or dealt with them in a manner that was typical of the then literary Zeitgeist.
      • keywords: author; characters; female; jubilees; matriarchs
      • versions: original; plain text
3507. nv935141r2j
      • author: Joshua D. Wright
      • title: Supported Zirconium Hydride Catalysts for Ethylene Oligomerization
      • date: 2019
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Ethylene oligomerization seeks to upgrade this feedstock to more value-added products though controlled carbon chain growth. Supported zirconium hydrides are a class of heterogeneous catalyst that are activated in the presence of hydrogen and have yet to be applied to ethylene oligomerization, despite their reported activity for other carbon-carbon bond forming reactions.
      • keywords: carbon; ethylene; oligomerization
      • versions: original; plain text
3508. nz805x24500
      • author: Pramita Mitra
      • title: Sensor Sharing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
      • date: 2013
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: There are numerous situations where proximity-awareness (i.e., a device is aware of other mobile devices in its neighborhood) could be used to support spontaneous sharing of resources and information, thereby enabling a variety of new application scenarios. This dissertation presents a software architecture called SPontaneous Information and Resource sharing InfrasTructure (SPIRIT), which allows mobile devices to create, discover, join, leave, and control the sharing of resources and information in an efficient and automatic fashion.
      • keywords: devices; information; mobile; service; sharing; spirit
      • versions: original; plain text
3509. nz805x2455q
      • author: Susy Mariela Sanchez Rodriguez
      • title: From the Father to the Mother of the Nation: The Metamorphosis of the Politics of Commemoration in Nicaragua (1936-1997)
      • date: 2014
      • words: 398
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Political leaders take advantage of the symbolic and political power of the politics of commemorations to become sublime bodies of the nation, either as father or mother. Instead of identifying the nation as horizontal and homogeneous political communities, nations are vertical entities.
      • keywords: body; commemoration; nation; political; politics; sublime
      • versions: original; plain text
3510. nz805x24562
      • author: Justin Neil Cross
      • title: Tuning Actinide Complexes Through Structure and Oxidation State
      • date: 2014
      • words: 417
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The properties of actinide materials have been explored by discriminate ligand selection based on hyperpolarizability and control of oxidation state. This work has implications for actinide chemistry through a method of ligand discrimination to affect actinide properties.
      • keywords: actinide; bonding; metal; oxidation; properties; synthesis; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3511. nz805x2457d
      • author: Diane Marie Lickenbrock
      • title: The Effects of Parenting and Marital Functioning on Affect in Early Infancy
      • date: 2008
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 21
      • 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).
      • keywords: affect; infant; marital; parenting
      • versions: original; plain text
3512. nz805x2458r
      • author: Weihua Cai
      • title: Nonlinear Dynamics of Thermal-hydraulic Networks
      • date: 2010
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Experiments are conducted of the synchronization of coupled oscillators set up by the simultaneous action of multiple controllers on different secondary loops. Thermal-hydraulic networks are widely used in the heating and cooling of building complexes, industrial processes, power plants, and in many other applications.
      • keywords: control; different; flow; hydraulic; model; synchronization; thermal; valve
      • versions: original; plain text
3513. nz805x24593
      • author: Eric William Smith
      • title: Turbulence, Stability, and Imaging of Gas-Liquid Flows
      • date: 2010
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: An experimental investigation of dispersed multiphase flow was undertaken to determine a parameter space for gravity independent flow. Linear stability analysis was used to determine flow pattern transitions.
      • keywords: analysis; equation; flow; gravity; linear; problem; stability
      • versions: original; plain text
3514. nz805x24620
      • author: Andrew Steven Yoder
      • title: The Effects of Stress Inoculation on Stress Reactivity and Depression in Emerging Adults
      • date: 2015
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The current study tested the stress-inoculation hypothesis, a resilience concept that suggests that those who have experienced a moderate amount of previous life stress will be better prepared to endure future life stress. Those with moderate CA did not produce a more resilient cortisol response to an acute stressor, and did not consistently report less depressive symptoms or greater levels of positive functioning when challenged by recent severe life stress.
      • keywords: depression; future; life; stress
      • versions: original; plain text
3515. nz805x2464p
      • author: Li Guo
      • title: Adaptive Signal Processing for Multi-User Wireless Communications
      • date: 2008
      • words: 470
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In this dissertation, we developed multi-user multi-antenna techniques to suppress various severe interferences in multi-user systems. By allowing multiple data streams (to multiple receivers) to occupy the same channel, multi-user systems can potentially provide significant system throughput improvement.
      • keywords: antenna; domain; frequency; multi; results; smf; systems; throughput; user
      • versions: original; plain text
3516. nz805x24740
      • author: Kristina Krasich
      • title: Gotta Capture 'Em All: How Appealing Distractors Capture Visual Attention
      • date: 1904
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: However, this effect reversed when neutral distractors appeared more frequently than appealing distractors (Experiment 2). Furthermore, slower performances reflected a covert capture of attention rather than an inability to disengage attention from distractors (Experiments 3 &amp; 4).
      • keywords: attention; capture
      • versions: original; plain text
3517. nz805x2475b
      • author: Jeffrey Madsen
      • title: Equations of Rees Algebras and Singularities of Rational Plane Curves
      • date: 1904
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: In particular, we give a complete list of the possible bidegrees of a minimal generating set of K when the degree of C is 7, as well as the correspondence between these bidegrees and the multiplicities of the points of C, which was previously known only for degree &lt;= 6. We give a description of the part of K in degree greater than or equal to the second largest degree of a generator of the syzygy module of I.
      • keywords: degree; ideal
      • versions: original; plain text
3518. nz805x24771
      • author: John E. Derwent
      • title: On the Realization of the Morse Inequalities as Equalities
      • date: 1904
      • words: 30
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: The purpose of this paper is to reformulate and generalize the recent work of S. Smale [13, 15, 16] on the use of handles in the study of differentiable manifolds.
      • keywords: smale
      • versions: original; plain text
3519. nz805x2479q
      • author: Emily Vanderbleek
      • title: A Dimensional Perspective on the Associations between Personality Disorder and Childhood Adversity
      • date: 1904
      • words: 118
      • flesch: 4
      • summary: Understanding how negative experiences in childhood relate to later personality pathology has implications for implementing treatment strategies among individuals who have experienced childhood maltreatment and/or trauma, and deepens our knowledge about the development of specific personality traits that cause difficulties for individuals with PD. This study explores relations between personality disorder (PD) and childhood adversity, specifically childhood maltreatment and/or trauma.
      • keywords: childhood; personality
      • versions: original; plain text
3520. nz805x2514d
      • author: Ian M. Walsh
      • title: Testing the Effects of Synonymous Codon Usage on Co-Translational Protein Folding Using Novel Experimental and Computational Techniques
      • date: 2019
      • words: 399
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In this dissertation, I describe novel experimental and computational techniques that I developed to study co-translational protein folding. I also adapted a coarse-grained model of co-translational folding to simulate a protein with two native states, whose folding is known to be sensitive to changes in the translation rate.
      • keywords: cell; folding; protein; sequence; synonymous; translational
      • versions: original; plain text
3521. nz805x2515r
      • author: Ken Newcomb
      • title: A Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Actinyl Ions and Nanoclusters in Aqueous Solution
      • date: 2019
      • words: 744
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: We sought to accurately determine the binding sites of water and various cations (Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, and Ca(2+)) to the U20 nanocluster, and to better understand how the identity of the cation affects nanocluster aggregation. The nanoclusters carry an overall negative charge ranging from -20 to -60, which is balanced by cations in solution.
      • keywords: actinides; actinyl; cations; dynamics; energy; free; fuel; molecular; nanoclusters; nuclear; power; properties; simulation; solution; water
      • versions: original; plain text
3522. nz805x25310
      • author: Rebecca E. Wiegel
      • title: Reading Matrona: The Sixth Century Life of a Trans Saint
      • date: 2019
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This dissertation presents a close reading of the Life of St Matrona, a mid-6th century hagiographic work about a 5th century monastic who founded a monastery in Constantinople for persons assigned female at birth who desired to dress as men. To articulate a trans hermeneutic for reading pre-modern texts, this dissertation engages critical theory from transgender studies, concluding that since Matrona moves from one position of sexed or gendered intelligibility to another within her culture, she can be read as trans.
      • keywords: dissertation; matrona; reading; trans
      • versions: original; plain text
3523. nz805x2545p
      • author: Harrison B. Yates
      • title: Plasma-Actuated Flow Control of Hypersonic Crossflow-Induced Boundary-Layer Transition
      • date: 2019
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The purpose of this research was to control crossflow-induced boundary-layer transition on a cone at angle of attack in hypersonic quiet flow. A wavelet analysis was conducted on the experimental surface heat-flux data to construct a spatial mapping of the local largest amplitude wavenumbers of the stationary crossflow waves, which were between 40 and 80 per circumference.
      • keywords: analysis; cone; crossflow; factors; plasma; transition; wavenumber; waves
      • versions: original; plain text
3524. nz805x2573x
      • author: Mary S. Tarsha
      • title: The Heart of Embodied Morality: Investigating the Role of the Evolved Developmental Niche on Autonomic Regulation
      • date: 2020
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Due to its wide influence in numerous social and moral behaviors, RSA was utilized as an online biomarker for healthy neurobiological functioning, examining both tonic vagal tone and flexibility of vagal functioning. Optimal social and moral capacities are dependent upon healthy neurobiological functioning.
      • keywords: early; experience; functioning; moral; neurobiological; social; tonic; vagal
      • versions: original; plain text
3525. nz805x25779
      • author: Ömer Faruk Özkaya
      • title: Geochemical, Isotopic and Geochronological Investigation of the Magnet Cove Carbonatite Complex, Arkansas, USA
      • date: 2020
      • words: 279
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: The Magnet Cove alkaline igneous complex, which was emplaced ~95 to 99 million years ago, is located within the northeastern region of Hot Spring County (Arkansas), and consists of alkaline silicate rocks such as nepheline syenite, ijolite, and jacupirangite along with associated carbonatite. This thesis presents new geochemical, radiogenic (Sr, Nd, Pb) and stable (C, O) isotope data, and first-time reported stable B isotope compositions (δ11B values) for carbonatites and associated silicate rocks from the Magnet Cove complex.
      • keywords: alkaline; cove; isotope; magnet; rocks; silicate; values
      • versions: original; plain text
3526. nz805x2593j
      • author: Alexandra Niclou
      • title: When the Cold Gets under Your Skin: The Variation and Metabolic Effects of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity in Samoans
      • date: 2022
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: My findings underline the importance of considering the inter-individual variation in BAT activity when developing evolutionary or health-related arguments centering around BAT. I assessed the changes in metabolic rate and body heat dissipation associated with BAT activity as a result of mild cold exposure.
      • keywords: activity; bat; cold; health; metabolic; samoans
      • versions: original; plain text
3527. nz805x25b15
      • author: Zhenyu Wu
      • title: Developing and Evaluating Molecular Detection Tools for Water Quality Monitoring
      • date: 2022
      • words: 493
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Ultimately, my dissertation work advances water quality monitoring by demonstrating novel indicator performance through wastewater treatment processes, and methodologies to enable quantitative metagenomic water quality monitoring. CrAssphage has the potential to serve as a surrogate as human-specific pathogens removal through wastewater treatment process including anaerobic digestion.
      • keywords: fecal; global; human; indicator; metagenomic; methods; monitoring; pcr; quality; treatment; wastewater; water
      • versions: original; plain text
3528. p2676t07d95
      • author: Karen Louise Hibbard
      • title: A Genetic Screen To Identify Genes Affecting The Biogenesis Of Rhodopsin
      • date: 2008
      • words: 246
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The DEAD-box family of RNA helicases has roles in the numerous steps of RNA metabolism, which include transcription, splicing, translation, ribosome formation, and RNA degradation. Mutations in components of the phototransduction cascade or the maintenance of the rhabdomere usually result in retinal degeneration.
      • keywords: box; dbp21e2; dead; family; photoreceptor; rh1; rna
      • versions: original; plain text
3529. p2676t07f0c
      • author: Ze Zhang
      • title: Fabrication and Characterization of Heterojunction Backward Diodes Based on the InAs/AlSb/GaSb Material System
      • date: 2010
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Devices incorporating an Al0.1Ga0.9Sb anode instead of a GaSb anode show improved curvature coefficient. Based on estimates of potential for contact resistance improvement and device scaling (down to 1 um^2), improvement of the intrinsic cut-off frequency to over 500 GHz appears possible for this structure.
      • keywords: anode; gasb; junction; um^2
      • versions: original; plain text
3530. p2676t07f3d
      • author: Raymond Kenney Walters
      • title: Evaluation of a Two-Stage Statistical Learning Design for Genome-Wide Studies
      • date: 2013
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: GBM is used as a first stage variable selection screen to substantially reduce the dimensionality of SNP data while maintaining sensitivity to additive, nonlinear, and interaction effects, allowing hypothesis testing with a reduced multiple testing burden in the second stage analysis. Recent work suggests statistical learning methods like gradient boosting (GBM) may be a viable alternative to conventional methods, especially after adjustments for the structure of SNP data.
      • keywords: data; design; gwas; stage; studies
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3531. p2676t07f4r
      • author: Brian Robert Helgans
      • title: Turbulent Latent and Sensible Heat Flux in the Presence of Evaporative Droplets
      • date: 2015
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: The sea spray does not have an additive increase to sensible heat and latent heat because some of the sensible energy is taken from the air and transferred into energy carried by the vapor through the droplet evaporative mechanisms. The authors find the droplets act as a bridge between sensible and latent heat and they can influence the total energy flux as well as change the distribution between latent and sensible heat transfer under certain conditions.
      • keywords: heat; latent; sensible
      • versions: original; plain text
3532. p2676t07f53
      • author: Alexander Jeffrey Skiles
      • title: Getting Grounded: Essays in the Metaphysics of Fundamentality
      • date: 2013
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I begin by arguing that concepts of grounding ought to serve as a foundation for understanding the metaphysics of fundamentality more generally (Chapter 2, 'Grounding the Metaphysics of Fundamentality'), and then propose an account of reductive analysis that retains the traditional insight that a reductive analysis purports to describe the constituents of a property or fact and depict how they are structured together (Chapter 3, 'On What Consists in What'). I then argue that even though grounding neither entails nor is entailed by reduction, facts about grounding can be understood wholly and without circularity in terms of facts about reductive analysis (Chapter 4, 'Getting Grounded').
      • keywords: fundamentality; metaphysics
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3533. p2676t07g11
      • author: Sarrah Marie Dunham-Cheatham
      • title: Biomineralization and Biosorption Involving Bacteria: Metal Phosphate Precipitation and Mercury Adsorption Experiments
      • date: 2012
      • words: 165
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In Chapter 2, I investigated the effects of bacteria on the precipitation of metal phosphates and discovered 2 phenomena, passive cell wall mineralization and the decreased size of precipitated minerals due to the presence of bacteria. The research conducted in these chapters focused on the transport and fate of a range of metals in the presence of bacteria.
      • keywords: bacteria; chapter; presence
      • versions: original; plain text
3534. p2676t07g2c
      • author: Joseph Allen Van Nausdle
      • title: Effects of Hydroxyapatite Morphology on MC3T3-E1 Osteoblast-Like Cells
      • date: 2005
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: cells; powder; substrates
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3535. p2676t07g42
      • author: Zongyang Hu
      • title: GaN HEMTs and MOSHEMTs for Power Switching Applications
      • date: 2014
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: While the material and device physics for GaN HEMTs have been studied extensively in the past decades, penetration of power device market relies on the development of high performance devices, which requires solving a series of critical issues including gate leakage, device passivation and threshold voltage control. In this work, development of enhancement mode GaN HEMTs and MOSHEMTs is discussed, with a focus on variation of device fabrication techniques and its impact on device characteristics, providing solutions to the aforementioned issues.
      • keywords: device; electron; gan; high; power
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3536. p2676t07g73
      • author: Hao Wu
      • title: Dynamics and Water Solubility of Ionic Liquids for CO2 Capture Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation
      • date: 2013
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: These ionic liquids have properties that make them attractive candidates for use in CO2 capture applications, which undergo a solid to liquid phase transition when it reacts with CO2. This particular ionic liquid is one of several newly discovered TSILs containing aprotic heterocyclic anions designed specifically for CO2 capture.
      • keywords: co2; dynamics; ionic; liquid; reaction; water
      • versions: original; plain text
3537. p2676t07h00
      • author: Paul F. Rumbach
      • title: Solvated Electron Chemistry at a Plasma-liquid Interface
      • date: 2015
      • words: 444
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: + 2H2O → 2OH–(aq) + H2(g)­.Introducing known electron scavengers, such as H2O2, acid (H+), nitrite (NO2-), and nitrate (NO3-), into the solution quenches the signal in a manner consistent with reaction kinetics previously measured in radiolysis experiments. Solvated electrons are known to absorb red light, therefore the experimental method uses optical absorption spectroscopy in a novel reflection geometry to directly probe the interface.
      • keywords: acid; atomic; electrons; known; plasma; radicals; reduction; solution; solvated
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3538. p2676t07h62
      • author: Bretton Rodriguez
      • title: Narratives of Power: Royal History and the Language of Legitimacy in Medieval Castile
      • date: 1904
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: castile; historians; history; literary; medieval; royal
      • versions: original; plain text
3539. p2676t08745
      • author: Katelyn Ludwig
      • title: Proteomic Analysis of Biological Systems
      • date: 2018
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Data analysis was performed using a number of mass spectrometry software platforms, including Proteome Discoverer 1.4, MaxQuant statistical software, Perseus, R, and Proteosign, an online statistical analysis platform. Further studies analyze various sample preparation and separation techniques to increase the information garnered from biological samples.
      • keywords: biological; data; mass; spectrometer; studies
      • versions: original; plain text
3540. p2676t08h50
      • author: Kevin B. Howard
      • title: Structure Effects on the Giant Monopole Resonance and Determinations of the Nuclear Incompressibility
      • date: 2020
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Comparison of the measured ISGMR strengths with Random Phase Approximation calculations demonstrates that the molybdenum nuclei have ISGMR energies which are overestimated to a similar degree as seen in the tin and cadmium nuclei, while the strength of 208Pb is precisely reproduced. One of the isoscalar compressional modes -- namely, the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) -- has been studied extensively with the goal of constraining the density dependence of the equation of state (EoS) for infinite nuclear matter.
      • keywords: asymmetry; energies; giant; incompressibility; isgmr; mev; molybdenum; nuclear; nuclei
      • versions: original; plain text
3541. p2676t08k79
      • author: Sebastian F. Otárola-Bustos
      • title: Studies of Wind and Turbulence in Complex Terrain at Multiple Space-Time Scales
      • date: 2022
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The goal of the 2020 SWEX Experiment was to study the spatio-temporal characteristics of Sundowner Winds – a dangerous weather condition that may intensify wildfires in Coastal Santa Barbara, CA. Notwithstanding the limited instrumentation deployed during the 2020 SWEX – Pilot experiment, the collected dataset could be used along with operational data of the National Weather Service (NWS) to identify days with sundowner winds and study small-scale weather phenomena in the Santa Ynez Valley (SYV) and in the lee of the Santa Ynez Mountains (SYM) in Santa Barbara County (CA) during sundowners with strong synoptic-to mesoscale forcing.
      • keywords: barbara; complex; experiment; santa; swex; terrain; weather; wind
      • versions: original; plain text
3542. p5547p90q2t
      • author: Erica Jean Kistner
      • title: A Grasshopper and Its Fungal Pathogen: A Model System for Disease Dynamics
      • date: 2014
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: These factors interact to produce pathogen limitation under some conditions and no pathogen limitation under other conditions. Host dynamics was a key biotic factor with pathogen limitation occurring during earlier developmental stages when hosts are most vulnerable to disease and at low host densities when food is abundant.
      • keywords: disease; dynamics; field; grasshopper; host; mortality; pathogen; rates
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3543. p5547p90q35
      • author: James R Young
      • title: Essays on the Forward Premium Anomaly
      • date: 2011
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The anomaly refers to the violation of uncovered interest parity (UIP) in the form of a negative estimate of the slope coefficient in the regression of the future percent change in the spot exchange rate measured in units of domestic currency per foreign currency on the interest rate differential between the home and foreign countries. I first reexamine conventional risk factors as explanations of the anomaly that were previously evaluated in the literature.
      • keywords: anomaly; currency; disasters; premium; rare; risk
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3544. p5547p90q7j
      • author: Kelly Renee Taylor
      • title: Politics and wine don't mix: reconciling contradictions in Arrian's Anabasis
      • date: 2015
      • words: 51
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This thesis explains how this conflict can be resolved through analysis of Arrian's identity as a Roman Greek, his reliance on the classical literary tradition, and the social and political background of the second century A.D. Arrian presents two conflicting summaries of Alexander the Great's character in his Anabasis.
      • keywords: arrian
      • versions: original; plain text
3545. p5547p90q8w
      • author: Piyush Milind Ranade
      • title: Multi-Scale Grid Geometries for Internal Flow Turbulence Generation
      • date: 2014
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: The results presented in this thesis describe multi-scale grid generated turbulence in an internal flow setting. Various grid geometries found in literature as well as new geometries were created.
      • keywords: geometries; grids; turbulence
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3546. p5547p90q97
      • author: Alexandros Lamprou
      • title: Probabilistic Life-Cycle Cost: Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis Through Stochastic Ground Motion Modeling for Seismic Hazard
      • date: 2011
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This thesis investigated the application of stochastic ground motion models for characterization of seismic hazard within the context of life-cycle cost assessment for earthquake engineering applications. Description of the uncertainty for these characteristics and for the predictive relationships, by appropriate probability models, leads then to a complete description of seismic hazard, expressed in terms of ground-motion time-history.
      • keywords: cost; cycle; description; hazard; life; models; seismic; stochastic
      • versions: original; plain text
3547. p5547p90r0f
      • author: Michael Terry Scancella
      • title: Synthesis and Characterisation of Extended Structures of Metal Atoms Interconnected by Polycarboxylic Linkers
      • date: 2010
      • words: 72
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Three polycarboxylic linkers were used in the synthesis, tetrahydrofuran 2,3,4 tetracarboxylic acid (THFTC), benzenepentacarboxylic acid (BPCA), and benzenehexacarboxylic acid (BHCA). A total of 9 different compounds were synthesized and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
      • keywords: acid; compounds
      • versions: original; plain text
3548. p5547p90r1s
      • author: Frank Fuqiang Li
      • title: Laser Transmission Spectroscopy: A Discussion of Technique and Studies of Biological Systems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Furthermore, LTS has the capability to determine the geometry of particles, which is not available with any other current particle sizing technique. The precision of LTS's measurements allows not only the determination of the particle size distribution, but also the absolute number of particles with diameters in the range of 5 nm to 3000 nm.
      • keywords: function; geometry; lts; particles; wavelength
      • versions: original; plain text
3549. p5547p90r4t
      • author: Edward Kyung-Hoon Kang
      • title: Design and Implementation of a Multithreaded, Wide Word Operation, Processing in Memory Architecture
      • date: 2003
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: This includes a history of Dataflow and multithreaded machines, how it applies to the PIMLite processor, a description of the PIMLite Instruction Set Architecture, and also state diagrams and source code in VHDL. To keep up this growth in computing power, new discoveries in semiconductor technology, processor architecture, operating systems, and programming models must be made.
      • keywords: memory; pim; power; years
      • versions: original; plain text
3550. p5547p90r6h
      • author: Brett Lantz
      • title: Virtual or Reality? Elements of Masculinities Across Video Game Play Contexts
      • date: 2010
      • words: 110
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The systematic differences highlighted in this research across the three contexts are likely to be related to important differences in how male gamers perceive and construct masculine identities. The purpose of this project is to identify differences in the elements of masculinities associated with single player, online multiplayer, and offline multiplayer video game play contexts.
      • keywords: differences; multiplayer; video
      • versions: original; plain text
3551. p5547p90r7v
      • author: Paul Edward Cunningham
      • title: The House of the Tree of Sores
      • date: 2015
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: His English language, masculinity, sexuality, notions of whiteness and foreignness, notions of family and understanding of nationhood, is all severely disrupted as his body undergoes continuous mutation in fake living room scene after fake living room scene of what is referred to as ideal comfort. The House of the Tree of Sores, which was written in English and in Swedish, follows a white American male's late night activities in a phantasmal IKEA department store.
      • keywords: english; fake; notions
      • versions: original; plain text
3552. p5547p90s6t
      • author: Sean M. Kelly
      • title: The Tension between Past and Present in the Chorus of Electra: Sophocles and Strauss
      • date: 1904
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: This thesis examines the dismantling of the chorus' functions in Sophocles' Electra in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss' opera adaptation of the play in order to demonstrate that this action reflects Hofmannsthal's personal literary crisis, which involved the tension between literary tradition and innovation. The second chapter then offers a comparative analysis of Sophocles' play and Hofmannsthal's libretto, citing Freudian psychoanalysis as a formative context for Hofmannsthal's innovation and subsequent representation of his own literary crisis.
      • keywords: chorus; hofmannsthal; literary; order
      • versions: original; plain text
3553. p5547p90t1d
      • author: Rachel Baird
      • title: The Effect of Misspecifying Random-Effect Time-Varying Predictors as Fixed on Estimates of Other Parameters
      • date: 1904
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Although negative variance estimates are uninterpretable, results of the simulation show that estimates of the fixed effect of the time-varying predictor are as accurate for these cases as for cases with positive variance estimates, and that treating the time-varying predictor as random and allowing negative variance estimates performs well whether the time-varying predictor is fixed or random in reality. A second simulation study shows that treating the time-varying predictor as random may have poor convergence, except when allowing negative variance estimates.
      • keywords: effect; random; time
      • versions: original; plain text
3554. p5547p90x1b
      • author: Kristi Donaldson
      • title: The Implementation of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program: Equity, Access, and Effectively Maintained Inequality
      • date: 1904
      • words: 386
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: educational; growth; ibdp; program; school; students; u.s
      • versions: original; plain text
3555. p5547p91d6p
      • author: Santiago Quintero
      • title: Modernidad en la sangre: vampirismo y cultura en América Latina (S. XIX-XXI)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 403
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Por el contrario, esta disertación propone que, gracias a su relación con la sangre—elemento que está conectado simbólica y materialmente a las transformaciones sociopolíticas, tecno-científicas y epistemológicas de la modernidad—la figura del vampiro permite pensar en proyectos políticos y gubernamentales concretos; entre ellos, la organización de la identidad (racionalizada a partir de las categorías de género, clase, raza y sexualidad), la fundación y administración de los Estados-Nación latinoamericanos, y el desarrollo del capitalismo. Modernidad en la sangre: vampirismo y cultura en América Latina (S. XIX-XXI) estudia las diferentes narrativas y representaciones culturales de vampiros y vampirismo en América Latina desde el siglo XIX
      • keywords: america; como; cultural; del; disertación; esta; gambaro; las; latin; modernidad; que; vampirismo; vampiro; xix
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3556. p5547p91d71
      • author: Adriana M. Solomon
      • title: On Isaac Newton's Concept of Mathematical Force
      • date: 1904
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Broadly speaking, this project is a contribution to the epistemology and metaphysics comprised in (i) the mathematical practices underlying the birth of dynamics and (ii) the philosophical foundations of the transition from natural philosophy to mathematical physics. As a contribution to the philosophy of science, it introduces a novel understanding of Newton's philosophy of science centered on the use of what have come to be called models based on mathematical concepts.
      • keywords: mathematical; philosophy; science
      • versions: original; plain text
3557. p5547p91k5w
      • author: Prateek Mehta
      • title: Computational Design of Multifunctional Catalytic Systems: Metal-Support Interfaces and Plasma-Enhanced Catalysis
      • date: 2019
      • words: 284
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: All of these effects are potentially tunable---the work provides guidelines on how the metal/support synergy may be exploited to develop superior catalysts. In this dissertation, I discuss how I have applied computational modeling to understand and design two types of multi-component catalytic systems: (1) oxide-supported metal catalysts, and (2) plasma-enhanced catalytic systems.
      • keywords: catalysis; component; metal; plasma; support; systems
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3558. p5547p91k67
      • author: Bridgette Drummond
      • title: Scaling Up to Study Kidney Development: Using the Zebrafish as a High-Throughput Model to Identify Novel Genetic Regulators
      • date: 2019
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: These findings improve what was previously known about the genetics of kidney development, which will be useful in the future avenues of diagnostics and targeted therapeutics. One of the limiting factors for developing new treatments to kidney disorders is a lack of knowledge about the pathways utilized to develop this cellularly diverse organ.
      • keywords: development; disease; factors; kidney; knowledge; niddk
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3559. p5547p91k7k
      • author: Martha M. Dee
      • title: Land Use Impacts, Biogeochemical Controls, and the Fate of Nitrogen in Stream Networks and Their Floodplains
      • date: 2019
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The primary objective of my dissertation is to improve understanding of the fate of N in stream networks and their floodplains by identifying biogeochemical controls that vary as a function of spatial and temporal scale in the context of land use change. Then I scaled this biogeochemical process to the reach scale to assess the impact of surrounding land use, season, and stream size on denitrification and assimilatory nitrate removal in two watersheds of contrasting land use.
      • keywords: impact; land; reach; scale; stream; use; watersheds
      • versions: original; plain text
3560. p5547p91m1t
      • author: Ryan Pyle
      • title: Dynamics and Computations in Recurrent Neural Networks
      • date: 2019
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Accounting for the spatially dependent structure observed in real cortical networks increases the reliability of the reservoir network, allowing it work in realistic spiking networks. Existing RNN algorithms use simplified neuron models due to difficulties using more complex or realistic neuron models.
      • keywords: algorithms; model; plausible; rnns
      • versions: original; plain text
3561. p5547p91n3t
      • author: Andrew F. Schranck
      • title: Analysis of Electrochemical Systems for Decomposition of Urea in Urine
      • date: 2019
      • words: 562
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Two major barriers for implementation of electrochemical wastewater treatment include minimizing energy requirements and controlling treatment byproducts. Though RCS can produce hazardous disinfection byproducts such as ClO3- and ClO4-, RCS were very effective for electrochemical conversion of wastewater N to N2, while HO• species showed more diverse selectivity toward NO3- and TAN.Photocatalyst and H2 producing electrode systems present two options for decreasing the energy demand of electrochemical wastewater treatment.
      • keywords: decomposition; electrochemical; electrodes; electrooxidation; rcs; reactor; selectivity; treatment; urea; urine; wastewater
      • versions: original; plain text
3562. p5547p91s2q
      • author: Qiuwen Lou
      • title: Cross-Layer Energy Efficient Hardware Design and Benchmarking with CMOS and Emerging Technologies
      • date: 2020
      • words: 688
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Specifically, we present (i) the implementation of different layers, including convolution, ReLU, and pooling, in a CoNN using CeNN, (ii) modified CoNN structures with CeNN-friendly layers to reduce computational overheads typically associated with a CoNN, (iii) a mixed-signal CeNN architecture that performs CoNN computations in the analog and mixed signal domain, and (iv) design space exploration that identifies what CeNN-based algorithm and architectural features fare best compared to existing algorithms and architectures when evaluated over common datasets -- MNIST and CIFAR-10.We also focus on benchmarking and evaluating DNN architectures. We also show that TFETs can be useful to realize non-linear VCCSs, which are either not possible or exhibit degraded performance when implemented via CMOS.Then, we investigate cellular neural network (CeNN)-based co-processors at the application-level for accuracy, delay and energy.
      • keywords: accelerator; accuracy; algorithm; application; architecture; cenn; design; dnn; domain; energy; level; network; neural; performance; specific
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3563. p5547p91t3c
      • author: Alexander N. Erickson
      • title: Iminoxolene Complexes of Molybdenum, Vanadium, Chromium, and Osmium
      • date: 2021
      • words: 661
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This correlation suggests that the osmium oxo group shows a balance between both electrophilic and nucleophilic character in the oxygen atom transfer reactions with phosphorus(III) reagents.(Hap)2Os(L) complexes react with substrates such as styrene oxide. The electronic structure of both (MeClamp)Cr and (MeClamp)V is best described using a covalent model in which the metal center is supported by iminoxolene ligands with substantial π donation.
      • keywords: aryl; complexes; coordinate; electron; fac; iminoxolene; isomer; ligand; meclamp)cr; neutral; state; substituents; temperature
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3564. p5547p91t7r
      • author: Bethany Wentz
      • title: Impact of Outgroup Attitude and Emotional Security on Youth Engagement in Sectarian Anti-Social Behavior
      • date: 2021
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 5
      • 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.
      • keywords: adolescent; mother; outgroup; security
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3565. p5547p91v41
      • author: Logan Quigley
      • title: There and Back Again: Spatiotemporal Navigation in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Literature
      • date: 2022
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: It should of course come as no surprise that accounts composed over two centuries may differ in their interests, goals, and source material, but nevertheless in each narrative, Jerusalem and the Holy Land writ-large seems to act as the testing ground for each author's theories on and beliefs about their place in time and their access to the past and future. In this dissertation, I turn to three major pilgrim accounts from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England (and the nearby continent) in order to explore how these pilgrims situated themselves spatially in order to access times outside their own moment.
      • keywords: accounts; dissertation; england; order
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3566. p8418k7401t
      • author: Robert McKeon
      • title: Three-Dimensional Face Imaging and Recognition: A Sensor Design and Comparative Study
      • date: 2010
      • words: 217
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: This is the subset of our full SLS dataset with 2270 images of 379 unique subjects, which has a subject velocity less than 0.33 m/s. We also developed techniques to improve face recognition based on ICP using fusion techniques and score normalization techniques. Many commercially available 3D sensors suitable for face image capture employ passive or texture-assisted stereo imaging or structured illumination with a moving light stripe.
      • keywords: light; rank; recognition; subject; techniques
      • versions: original; plain text
3567. p8418k74025
      • author: Fabian Ernesto Saenz
      • title: Functional Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum MAEBL
      • date: 2008
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Therefore, we investigated the function of P. falciparum MAEBL in the invasion of salivary glands. Only the transmembrane form of MAEBL is essential and is the first P. falciparum ligand validated as essential for invasion of Anopheles salivary glands.
      • keywords: essential; falciparum; glands; invasion; maebl; salivary
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3568. p8418k74056
      • author: Justin Dewayne Barfield
      • title: The Dereliction of Place
      • date: 2013
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Industrial landscapes have become graveyards with abandoned buildings towering like massive tombstones, a representation of progress and decline sealed in the confines of an oxidizing surface. Landscapes that are always in a state of flux.
      • keywords: change; economic; factories; industrial; landscapes; rust; state
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3569. p8418k7406j
      • author: Nathaniel Edward Reed
      • title: Discomfort, Dissonance and Prioritization among Individuals with Two Stigmatized Identities
      • date: 2015
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This project seeks to understand how discomfort with stigma influences LGBT-POC (people of color) identity selection, especially in today's social climate where many people assume we have progressed past prejudicial disadvantages. Using a data set titled the Social Justice Sexuality Project reported identity importance is measured.
      • keywords: discomfort; identity; lgbt
      • versions: original; plain text
3570. p8418k7407w
      • author: Claudia Anewalt-Remsburg
      • title: Candidate Cues: Race, Ethnicity, and Partisanship
      • date: 2013
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Previous scholarship on the effect of candidate race on voter evaluations and behavior finds that black candidates are disadvantaged. With the election of the first African-American president, do voters still view black candidates as less qualified and more liberal?
      • keywords: black; candidate; evaluations; latino; race; voter
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3571. p8418k7413t
      • author: Elizabeth Ann Kerr
      • title: Damage Mechanisms and Repairability of High Strength Concrete Exposed to Elevated Temperatures
      • date: 2007
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: However, concrete loses strength when exposed to elevated temperatures as a result of damage to the pore structure and chemical degradation. This work is intended to further the understanding of the behavior of concrete exposed to elevated temperatures, and the ability to repair that concrete, through the implementation of a comprehensive study.
      • keywords: concrete; elevated; repair; strength; temperatures
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3572. p8418k74145
      • author: Adam Christopher Beck
      • title: STM Investigation of Phthalocyanines as Possible Building Blocks for Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
      • date: 2005
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Ultra-high-vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy was used to observe copper phthalocyanine molecules deposited on the Au(111) surface. There where several issues that had to be addressed satisfactorily before the microscope would be ready to scan single molecules.
      • keywords: copper; molecules; single
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3573. p8418k7416v
      • author: Anne Siebels Peterson
      • title: Hylomorphism in Aristotle's Metaphysics: Constituent Ontology without Derivative Diversification
      • date: 2015
      • words: 432
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: My first chapter explores the two mainstream views on this question, both of which claim that the diversity of co-specific organisms is derivative (either from the diversity of their matter or from the diversity of their form), arguing 1) that both mainstream views are committed to what we might call a constituent ontological vision of hylomorphism (according to which matter and form are non-identical components of organisms) and 2) that there are considerable advantages to viewing Aristotle's hylomorphism as a constituent ontology, perhaps most notably for defending the coherence of generation and corruption. My fourth chapter argues that we need not throw away constituent ontology along with the mainstream views; rather, we can maintain both the thesis that diversity for co-specific organisms is underived and a constituent ontological understanding of hylomorphism.
      • keywords: constituent; diversity; matter; organisms
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3574. p8418k7419w
      • author: Mayuri Rebala
      • title: Allopregnanolone: Synthesis, Genomic Mechanism of Action and Its Role in Intracellular Signaling Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity in the Adult Brain of Xenopus laevis
      • date: 2011
      • words: 404
      • flesch: 7
      • summary: In amphibian brains, synthesis of various neurosteorids is well established, however the endogenous synthesis of 5 alpha and 5 alpha-3 alpha reduced neurosteroids such as allopregnanolone, THDOC and androstanediol, in amphibian brain is not demonstrated yet. Third, we studied the expression and localization patterns of mRNA encoding steroidogenic enzymes that are involved in 5 alpha and 5 alpha-3alpha reduced neurosteroid synthesis in amphibian brain.
      • keywords: allopregnanolone; alpha; amphibian; brain; effects; genomic; mechanisms; mrna; plasticity; synthesis
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3575. p8418k7428v
      • author: Dania Straughan
      • title: Tell Me, Hear Me: A Study on Participant Needs and Dialogue Structure
      • date: 1904
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: This paper presents an ethnographic study of the South Bend Study Circles on race, which explores how dialogue structure interacts with participant needs and organizational goals. Yet for dialogue to be productive and positive, facilitators need to be trained to welcome disclosure and manage emotions and social injustice.
      • keywords: dialogue; people; social; welcome
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3576. p8418k7434s
      • author: Na Yu
      • title: Model-Based Design Optimization and Predictive Control to Minimize Energy Consumption of a Building
      • date: 1904
      • words: 396
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Current research has shown that building energy consumption contributes to more than 40\% of the total energy use in United States. At the operational stage, a machine learning method is utilized to predict the occupants temperature schedule, and this schedule is input to the model-based predictive control for further optimization with the goal of minimizing energy consumption while maintaining comfort conditions.
      • keywords: building; control; design; energy; information; model; stage; temperature
      • versions: original; plain text
3577. p8418k7461p
      • author: Zhenguo Jiang
      • title: Device and Circuit Technologies for Advanced Terahertz Receiver Systems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 859
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Balanced HEB mixers are superior to single-element ones since the thermal noise and AM noise from the LO injection can be effectively suppressed. The accomplishments achieved in this work not only provide novel devices and circuits which are essential for realizing advanced THz receiver systems, but also a comprehensive set of techniques that can be extended to multiple directions and applied to broader applications.
      • keywords: antenna; balanced; devices; heb; high; mesh; mixer; noise; novel; operation; performance; receiver; reconfigurable; systems; thz; tunable
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3578. p8418k74j7v
      • author: Karie Cross
      • title: Defining Critical Feminist Justpeace: Women's Peacebuilding Praxis and Feminist Political Thought
      • date: 1904
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Entering an ongoing debate within peace studies about the United Nations' top-down, institutions-oriented liberal peace, I use ethnographic research with women's peacebuilding groups in India alongside feminist political thought to argue for a critical feminist justpeace, developed from the bottom-up and taking the diverse experiences of marginalized women as motivation. I analyze their practices, synthesizing them into a peacebuilding praxis—reflection combined with action with the goal of transformation—which we can fruitfully compare to Western feminist thought.
      • keywords: feminist; peace; women
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3579. p8418k74q1b
      • author: Brianna R. Mullins (Norris)
      • title: Elucidating Mechanisms of Leishmania Signaling Pathways and Parasite Stress Response
      • date: 1904
      • words: 396
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Using bioinformatics and in silico analysis we identified protein phosphatase 5 (PP5), a Ser/Thr phosphatase belonging to the PPP family of phosphatases. Though protein kinases, and their downstream targets, have been more actively studied for the potential development of anti-parasitic therapeutics, our understanding of the biology of protein phosphatases in Leishmania is poor despite their implication in critical post-translational modifications and differentiation.
      • keywords: anti; differentiation; kinases; leishmania; parasite; phosphatases; pp5; protein; signal; target
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3580. p8418k74q31
      • author: Felicia M. Roland
      • title: Molecular Probes for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The following two chapters describe molecular imaging probes based on squaraine dyes linked to zinc(II) dipicolylamine (ZnDPA) for fluorescence imaging of anionic lipids on membranes of cancer cells and pathogens. Studies compared two constructs having different numbers of targeting units to reveal that a hexavalent probe is preferred for mammalian cell imaging while a dodecavalent probe is favored for microbial imaging.
      • keywords: cancer; cells; croconaine; disease; dyes; imaging; probes; theranostic; zndpa
      • versions: original; plain text
3581. p8418k74q4c
      • author: Carmella Vizza
      • title: Chemical and Microbial Drivers of Pond Ecosystem Function in the Copper River Delta, Alaska
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The predictability of processes in the CH4 cycle diminished from CH4 production to diffusive emissions to total emissions. Although specific processes in the CH4 cycle were challenging to predict, I demonstrated that carbon stable isotopes of detritus are a potential tool for tracing CH4 production.
      • keywords: ch4; change; cycle; ecosystem; emissions; function; microbial; ponds; production
      • versions: original; plain text
3582. p8418k74q8r
      • author: Lucia Manzi
      • title: The Effective Judicial Prosecution of Systemic Political Corruption: Italy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I argue that judicial effectiveness depends on the structure of professional relationships among judicial actors, both at the national and local level. The use of process tracing allows me to detail the significance of local judicial relationships for the judicial prosecution of systemic corruption in each of these case studies.
      • keywords: effective; italian; judicial; jurisdictions; local; prosecution; studies
      • versions: original; plain text
3583. p8418k74r1n
      • author: Anh H. Nguyen
      • title: Quantitative Online Sheath-Flow Surface Enhanced Raman Detection for Liquid Chromatography
      • date: 2018
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This dissertation focuses on the development of sheath-flow surface enhanced Raman (SERS) detection for liquid chromatography (LC), to enable online separation, detection and quantification of biomolecules at low concentrations in flow. The SERS cell is connected directly with the LC outlet for simultaneous post-separation detection.
      • keywords: biomolecules; detection; flow; phosphate; proteins; sers; sheath
      • versions: original; plain text
3584. p8418k74x47
      • author: Justin David Strong
      • title: The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: Their Form, Origins, and Implications
      • date: 2019
      • words: 393
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: The fable provides an answer to why Luke can depict a first-century Jewish figure as teaching in parables and it also resolves lighter matters, such as whether the parables attributed to Jesus are intended to make us laugh. Most New Testament scholars view it as axiomatic that the historical Jesus taught in parables.
      • keywords: fable; gospel; jesus; luke; new; parables
      • versions: original; plain text
3585. p8418k7526f
      • author: Jinglan Liu
      • title: Generative Adversarial Networks in Resource Constrained Environment
      • date: 2020
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: As a spin-off of DNNs, GANs require a large amount of resources as other DNNs, no matter in terms of physical resources like memory and computation cost, or data resources needed for training. This high resources demand hinders GANs from being widely used in various practical environments with limited resources.
      • keywords: data; dnns; gans; image; method; resources
      • versions: original; plain text
3586. p8418k75462
      • author: Ryan M. Wise
      • title: Agamben and the Kingdom: A Theological Introduction
      • date: 2022
      • words: 277
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: We will subsequently compare this account with other operative paradigms of political theology, focusing on the magisterial approaches of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and German theologian Johann Baptist Metz, the Radical Orthodoxy of Anglican theologian John Milbank, and the weak theology of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo and American academic John D. Caputo. Unlike previous studies of this and other related topics, this project aims to show that Agamben's work is not only thoroughly informed by theology, but that it can also be productively interpreted as itself a kind of political theology, as presenting a constructive account of Christian theory and praxis in the space of modern politics.
      • keywords: account; agamben; christian; kingdom; political; politics; theology; work
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3587. p8418k7563n
      • author: Monica C. Perez
      • title: Material Hardship and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing: Mediating and Moderating Roles of Mothers' Parenting Stress and Fathers' Social Support
      • date: 2023
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 14
      • 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.
      • keywords: adolescent; maternal; parenting; stress
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3588. pc289g57846
      • author: David Kopp
      • title: Microwave Performance and Fabrication Of Quilt Packaging, a Novel Chip-To-Chip Interconnect Technology
      • date: 2014
      • words: 284
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: For such millimeter-wave systems, the bandwidth of individual interconnects is paramount, and the packing densities are far less important. Microelectronics packaging forms the link between the nanometer scale transistors on a chip and the micrometer or millimeter scale interconnects that provide electrical connections between chips and other circuit components.
      • keywords: bandwidth; chip; data; interconnects; millimeter; systems; technology
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3589. pc289g5785j
      • author: Andrew J Peterson
      • title: Understanding Election Violence in Burundi
      • date: 2011
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: brief; burundi; violence
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3590. pc289g5789x
      • author: Paul Stey
      • title: Bayesian Analysis of Children?s Moral Judgments on the Trolley Cases
      • date: 2014
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 50
      • 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.
      • keywords: greene; judgments; moral; project; tendency
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3591. pc289g57904
      • author: Lauren Elizabeth Barton
      • title: Size Dependent Structure and Reactivity of Nanohematite
      • date: 2010
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: DFOB adsorption remained minimal despite changes in particle size and pH. Kinetic dissolution experiments indicated that the presence of DFOB enhanced dissolution approximately 6 fold. Characterization of the hematite samples indicated increased surface hydroxylation as particle size decreased and a shift to lower pH for the point of zero net proton charge (pHpznpc) of the nanohematite surface.
      • keywords: adsorption; changes; dissolution; hematite; size; surface
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3592. pc289g5791g
      • author: Victoria Elizabeth Froude
      • title: AC-Electrokinetic Formation, Manipulation, and Induced Release of Lipid and Surfactant Based Vesicles
      • date: 2011
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Developing a theoretical understanding of the polarization for complex nanocolloids is an essential stepping stone for creating a robust diagnostic device and advanced delivery techniques. Strong AC-frequency dependence of micelle concentration is observed, from which the DEP crossover frequency is determined for the first time for micelle particles.
      • keywords: advanced; complex; dep; lipid; liposomes; techniques; work
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3593. pc289g5792t
      • author: Joseph R Rausch
      • title: Investigating Change in Intraindividual Factor Structure Over Time
      • date: 2007
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Although changes in factor structure are sometimes seen as hindrances to scientific research, the investigation of factor structure changes can also provide new opportunities for the development of theory in psychology. A Monte Carlo simulation study was undertaken to evaluate the estimation and model evaluation procedures proposed for investigating changes in intraindividual factor structure over time.
      • keywords: changes; factor; model; structure; time
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3594. pc289g57935
      • author: JohnChristopher Adorno Keller
      • title: Telling the Whole Truth: The Role of Paraphrase in Philosophical Inquiry
      • date: 2010
      • words: 481
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: It exposes a widespread misconception about JohnChristopher Adorno Keller the function of paraphrase: that its purpose is to remove unwanted commitments. The entailment relations our theories stand in, being truths of logic and hence necessary, cannot be removedÌ¢ âÂ' the only commitments paraphrase is able to 'remove' are commitments that were not really there in the first place: merely apparent commitments.
      • keywords: claims; commitments; different; formulations; paraphrase; problem; sentences; widespread
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3595. pc289g57966
      • author: Marian Valentin Iordache
      • title: Methods for the Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems Based on Petri Net Abstractions
      • date: 2003
      • words: 421
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The decentralized supervision problem is approached in three settings: no communication, unrestricted communication, and restricted communication. This dissertation proposes new methodologies for the supervisory control of concurrent systems.
      • keywords: concurrent; design; discrete; event; level; petri; systems
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3596. pc289g5798w
      • author: Di Liang
      • title: High-Index-Contrast Ridge Waveguide Devices for Integrated Photonic and Optoelectronic Applications
      • date: 2007
      • words: 378
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Excellent device performance (low threshold current, high efficiency, stable-mode operation) is achieved for 808 nm graded-index separate confinement heterostructure (GRINSCH) HIC laser diodes in both straight and curved geometries, indicating a low surface state density at the semiconductor/oxide interface. Oxidation smoothing, a new technique allowing ultra-low loss HIC waveguides, is demonstrated for the first time in III-V compound semiconductor heterostructures via non-selective oxidation.
      • keywords: confinement; hic; high; laser; low; non; optical; oxidation; oxide; performance; potential; selective; structure
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3597. pc289g57997
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Roth
      • title: Historical Bodies
      • date: 2015
      • words: 58
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Historical Bodies contains five book projects: Esperanto Pass, The Future, GypsieLand, Postnatural, and Historical Bodies. The collection is framed by two pieces of creative nonfiction, anchoring the creative pursuit in the story of my mother's illness.
      • keywords: creative; historical
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3598. pc289g57c3s
      • author: Kathleen Patricia Ansaldi
      • title: Regularity of Tor, LCM-Duals, and Hilbert Functions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 69
      • summary: The first class of ideals that arises from graph theory are Ferrers ideals, which are edge ideals of a Ferrers graph. The second class of ideals we consider are specializations of Ferrers ideals, strongly stable ideals of degree two.
      • keywords: dual; ideals; lcm; ring; stable
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3599. pc289g57g3q
      • author: Tyler C. Kreipke
      • title: Structural, Mechanical, and Biological Relationships of Trabecular Bone In Osteoporosis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Trabecular bone is the primary site of osteoporosis. The relationship between structure, biology, and solid phase mechanics in trabecular bone was studied using the ovariectomized ewe.
      • keywords: architecture; bone; fluid; mechanics; osteoporosis; structure; trabecular
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3600. pc289g57s0g
      • author: Kathryn J. Ralph
      • title: Targeting the Three Stages of Retrieval from Secondary Memory in a Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Working Memory Training Study
      • date: 1904
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Participants were 168 adolescents whose SM and gF was measured using delayed free recall tasks and matrix reasoning and verbal inference tests respectively. Solely two-component training was predicted to improve SM and gF. ANCOVAs indicated that two-component trainees improved over the controls on some SM retrieval parameters (total recall and total correct), but not on gF scores.
      • keywords: training
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3601. pc289g57z8s
      • author: Duy Nguyen
      • title: Sea Spray Concentration Profile in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
      • date: 1904
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Quantifying sea spray concentration in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) is critical to understand the life time, dynamics and transport of sea spray processes. The transport of sea spray is driven by a complex mix of winds, waves and turbulence.[15]
      • keywords: concentration; profiles; sea; spray; transport
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3602. pc289g58040
      • author: Wenqi Liu
      • title: Molecular Recognition Using Tetralactam Macrocycle and Development of Synthavidin Technology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 249
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Our group is pursuing a synthetic mimic approach, called synthavidin technology, that is based on high affinity binding of tetralactam macrocycle and squaraine dye in water. Biotin/(strept)avidin binding is a remarkable molecular recognition process in nature with extraordinary high binding affinity (Ka ~ 10^15 M-1).
      • keywords: affinity; binding; high; molecular; recognition; water
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3603. pc289g5848m
      • author: Maria Glenski
      • title: Social News Consumption in Systems with Crowd-Sourced Curation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: information; news; social; sources
      • versions: original; plain text
3604. pc289g58c1c
      • author: Sandhya Vasudevan
      • title: The Role of Broadband Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Breast Cancer Diagnosis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 827
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: One is to determine the meaning of the tumor specific absorption signature and understand its relation to the underlying tumor containing tissue absorption. The hybrid DOI technique demonstrated enhanced performance in reconstruction of optical absorption with a mean accuracy over all 71 wavelengths of 8.39 % versus 32.26 % for a 10 mm deep tumor with the topographic DOI method.
      • keywords: absorption; benign; breast; doi; hybrid; lesions; malignant; methb; method; optical; specific; spectral; stc; tissue; tumor
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3605. pc289g58c5r
      • author: Pamela Bilo Thomas
      • title: Measurements for Adoption, Spread, and Prediction of Online Human Behavior
      • date: 2021
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: As a consequence, news organizations, social media companies, and government policy makers are now grappling with how to balance questions of free speech with incitement to violence and harassment on social media platforms. The early part of the 21st century saw the creation and quick adoption of social media as a way for people to communicate with their friends and loved ones.
      • keywords: media; new; online; people; results; social
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3606. pc289g58d1p
      • author: Shinjini Chattopadhyay
      • title: Plurabilities of the City: Metropolitan Cosmopolitanisms in Modernist and Postcolonial British, Irish, and Bengali Novels
      • date: 2021
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: As a woman my country is the whole world, is now considered one of the defining moments in the formulation of modernist cosmopolitanism. Woolf's declaration of a world citizenship locates the crux of modernist cosmopolitanism in renouncing national loyalties and transcending cultural boundaries.
      • keywords: cosmopolitanism; country; cultural; modernist; postcolonial; studies; woman
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3607. pc289g58d52
      • author: Nazli Turan
      • title: Development and Characterization of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets for Low Temperature Sintering
      • date: 2022
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Plasma jet sintering is a low temperature material processing method that employs non-thermal plasma species to treat surfaces. Experiments conducted in a controlled environment also show that plasma jet sintering can provide comparable electrical conductivity values at milder conditions to high-temperature sintering.
      • keywords: conductive; jet; non; plasma; sintering; temperature; thermal
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3608. pc289g58f10
      • author: Nicholas Yeh
      • title: The Role of Preparatory Cognitive Reappraisal Strategies on Emotional and Memory Outcomes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: The present work examined whether preparatory regulation cues facilitated success in generating cognitive reappraisals and if success or failure in implementing preparatory cognitive reappraisals was differentially associated with how events are experienced and subsequently remembered. Future work can expand upon these findings by investigating different types of preparatory reappraisal strategies that may benefit our ability to regulate our emotions.
      • keywords: cognitive; cues; preparatory; reappraisals; regulation
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3609. pc289g58f72
      • author: Ziqing Hu
      • title: Graph Related Data Analysis and Neural Network Based Partial Differential Equations Solver
      • date: 2022
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: For graph neural network, we modified the traditional training process of graph neural network by re-sampling the graph structure. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to introduce the randomness into the training phase of graph neural network.
      • keywords: graph; network; neural; numerical; structure
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3610. pg15bc40j3d
      • author: Carleton G Collins
      • title: Advanced Studies of Anthracene Containing Squaraine Rotaxanes
      • date: 2014
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The thesis begins with the development of a SR for optical anion detection. Chloride induces lateral displacement of the macrocycle away from the stabilized squaraine core, resulting in a 30-40 nm shift in absorption/fluorescence maxima that allows for naked-eye detection of analyte.
      • keywords: chloride; dyes; emission; macrocycle; optical; squaraine; srep; thesis
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3611. pg15bc40j4r
      • author: Gabriel LeVerne Converse
      • title: Processing and Properties of Hydroxyapatite Whisker Reinforced Polyaryletherketones for Orthopaedic Applications
      • date: 2010
      • words: 261
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The compression molding/particle leaching technique used in this study facilitated the incorporation of high levels of bioactive HA whisker reinforcements into the polymer matrix. The effects of the reaction temperature and carboxylic acid on the morphology and composition of HA whiskers synthesized by chelate decomposition were first studied using a controlled heating rate under static conditions.
      • keywords: bone; reinforcement; scaffolds; vol%; whisker
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3612. pg15bc40j84
      • author: Amy Kathleen Nuttall
      • title: Identifying Patterns of Adaptive and Destructive Parentification in Childhood
      • date: 2015
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The present study sought to provide exploratory empirical support for parentification theory, which distinguishes between familial patterns of parentification that are destructive to child development and familial patterns of parentification that are an adaptive response to familial stress. Contrary to predictions, the classes did not differ on measures of child adjustment (internalizing, externalizing, social problems, prosocial behavior, cortisol reactivity to familial stress) concurrently or over time.
      • keywords: caregiving; child; familial; parentification; patterns
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3613. pg15bc40j9g
      • author: Michael F Penta
      • title: The Ol' Ball and Chain: Negative Effect of Intimate Long Distance Relationships on New Tie Formation in Personal Networks
      • date: 2013
      • words: 97
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Using data on the cell phone and email behaviors of 196 college freshman attending U.S. university, I examine the effect that the presence of an intimate long distance relationship has on the formation of ties during the first weeks of school. I theorize that the development of new relationships is limited by the presence of these relationships due to the time and energy required to maintain them.
      • keywords: data; university
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3614. pg15bc40k5d
      • author: Darcy A Davis
      • title: Predicting Individual Disease Risk Based on Medical History
      • date: 2008
      • words: 158
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: We propose CARE, a Collaborative Assessment and Recommendation Engine, which relies only on a patient's medical history using ICD-9-CM codes in order to predict future diseases risks. We present experimental results on a large Medicare dataset, demonstrating that CARE and ICARE perform well at capturing future disease risks.
      • keywords: care; cost; disease; medical; risks
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3615. pg15bc40k6r
      • author: Xiu Xing
      • title: Small-Signal Modeling and Microwave Noise Characterization of InGaP/GaAs HBTs
      • date: 2007
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Device physics, analytical extraction and numerical optimization are incorporated to extract small-signal equivalent circuit parameters (ECPs), improved by modeling interaction between contact metalizations and hybrid optimization of T and ? Combined with NF50 measurement, frequency- and bias-dependent noise parameters (NPs) up to 20 GHz are extracted using polynomial approximation of noise parameters for intrinsic device.
      • keywords: gaas; ghz; ingap; noise; parameters
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3616. pg15bc40k8f
      • author: Jindal Kiritkumar Shah
      • title: Monte Carlo Simulations of the Ionic Liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate
      • date: 2004
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Calculated molar volumes (or densities) are within 5 % of experimental values, and a reasonable agreement is obtained between computed and experimental values of the isothermal compressibility and volume expansivity. A united atom forcefield is developed using a combination of ab initio calculations and literature parameter values.
      • keywords: anion; experimental; liquid; molecular; results; simulations; values
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3617. pg15bc40m1b
      • author: Ali Zeeshan Raja
      • title: Deciphering the Role of MPS-1 in the Regulation of Kinetochore Assembly
      • date: 2014
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Expression of a triple-Ala (3A) mutant of Zwilch induced defects similar to MPS-1 inhibition and led to a loss of dynein, dynactin, spindly, RZZ complex and anaphase inhibitors from the kinetochores. A triple-Glu (3E) mutant of Zwilch rescued the effects of MPS-1 inhibition by reversine.
      • keywords: alignment; aurb; chromosome; inhibition; rzz; zwilch
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3618. pg15bc40m4c
      • author: Kelsey J. Weigel
      • title: Microenvironment and Chemotherapeutic Modulation of Breast Cancer Cell Survival
      • date: 2015
      • words: 474
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: With enhanced appreciation for the contributions of the tumor microenvironment to cancer cell survival and disease progression, it is imperative that we consider cell types such as CAFs in our treatment regimen for patients. In parallel to our studies understanding the contribution of CAFs to cancer cell survival and disease progression, we have also started exploring normal microenvironment fibroblasts (NMFs).
      • keywords: cancer; cell; detachment; ecm; microenvironment; novel; opportunity; progression; survival
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3619. pg15bc4139q
      • author: Mengyu (Miranda) Gao
      • title: The Link between Marital and Parent-Child Relationship Quality: Test for the Spillover and Compensatory Hypotheses with a Daily Diary Design
      • date: 1904
      • words: 250
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: child; day; mothers; quality; relationship
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3620. pg15bc4181h
      • author: Yongho Francis Lee
      • title: Bonaventure and Chinul: Christian and Buddhist Models for Integration of the Intellectual and Spiritual Life
      • date: 1904
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In both Christianity and Buddhism, there has long been a conflict between the learned study of doctrine and spiritual practice, or between theology and spirituality. Those who advocate scriptural and theoretical study insist that the nature of the ultimate is effable, and intellectual exercises involving the use of language can be of use to soteriological ends—to union with the divine in Christianity or enlightenment to the ultimate reality in Buddhism.
      • keywords: divine; intellectual; spiritual; study; ultimate
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3621. pg15bc41d9h
      • author: Yingjia Ni
      • title: Functional Screen Identifies Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Vulnerability Driven by Death Effector Domain-Containing Protein
      • date: 2019
      • words: 248
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Overexpressed in &gt;60% TNBC tumors, cytosolic DEDD facilitates an accelerated cell cycle progression and renders TNBC cells vulnerable to cell cycle inhibition. Contrary to this prevailing notion, my study demonstrated that, regardless of Rb status, TNBCs with DEDD overexpression exhibit a DEDD-dependent vulnerability to the combinatorial treatment of CDK4/6 inhibitor and EGFR inhibitor in vitro and in vivo.
      • keywords: breast; cancer; cell; cycle; dedd; study; tnbc
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3622. pg15bc41f0q
      • author: Trung Duong Minh Ly
      • title: Essays in Macro-Labor Economics
      • date: 2019
      • words: 573
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: I show that a model with a binding minimum wage delivers lower Nash-bargained wages than one without that feature, and higher minimum wages negatively affect wages of those for whom the minimum wage is not binding. This finding helps explain why inequality falls as the minimum wage increases: wages are less dispersed because higher wage floors compress the wage distribution both from the bottom and from the top, i.e. they raise the wages of those at the bottom of the wage distribution and lower the wages of workers who earn the most in the economy.
      • keywords: high; labor; market; minimum; public; skilled; wage; workers
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3623. pg15bc41n70
      • author: Ivan Navarrete Leschot
      • title: Mineral Admixture-Based Rheological Design of Concrete
      • date: 2021
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: The specific objectives of this research are to experimentally investigate, develop and validate empirical models for the effects of: 1) SCM properties and their interactions with the primary mixture parameters on the increase of static yield stress on time of cementitious paste before initial set; 2) SCM properties and their interactions with the primary mixture parameters on the viscosity of cementitious paste before initial set; and 3) concrete mixture design (i.e., cementitious paste rheology and aggregate-to-cementitious paste ratio), building process (i.e., layer-to-layer free-fall height and delay time), and their interactions on the layer-to-layer flexural and shear bond strength in multilayer SCC. This thesis provides an experimental-based quantitative assessment and understanding of the effects of the particle size and physicochemical properties of SCMs and their interactions with the primary mixture parameters (such as water-to-cementitious materials ratio, SCM replacement, and reactivity of cement) on the rheology of cementitious paste (i.e., cementitious mixture with no coarse or fine aggregates).
      • keywords: cementitious; concrete; interactions; mixture; paste; properties; scc; scms
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3624. pg15bc41r6k
      • author: Yoonrae Cho
      • title: Catalytic Light Olefin Oligomerization via Transition Metal Substituted Polyoxometalate Catalysts
      • date: 2023
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: We investigated the influence of molecular surroundings on substituted Ni sites by changing the size and elemental compositions of site bearing polyoxometalates. On the other hand, the activation energy of Ni sites was found to be correlated with the electronegativity of internal heteroatoms.
      • keywords: active; catalysts; polyoxometalate; pom; sites
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3625. pk02c823t6h
      • author: Julie W Dallavis
      • title: Religious High Schools and Gender Socialization: Examining Postsecondary Outcomes of College Degree and Choice of Major
      • date: 2015
      • words: 171
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Catholic school students are more likely and evangelical Protestant school students are equally as likely as public school students to earn a degree. Findings from logistic regression suggest that there are no differences by gender across school sector in earning a college degree.
      • keywords: degree; major; school
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3626. pk02c823t7v
      • author: Curtis Alan Holliman
      • title: Continuity Properties of the Data-To-Solution Map for the Hunter-Saxton Equation
      • date: 2011
      • words: 120
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: To achieve this result, approximate solutions that satisfy this property are chosen, after which actual solutions are found by solving the HS Cauchy problem with initial data taken to be the value of approximate solutions at time zero. To demonstrate this sharpness of continuity, two sequences of bounded solutions to the HS equation are constructed whose distance at the initial time converges to zero and whose distance at any later time is bounded from below by a positive constant.
      • keywords: solutions; time
      • versions: original; plain text
3627. pk02c823v13
      • author: Yuridia Caire
      • title: Investigations of proteins important for antibiotic resistance
      • date: 2005
      • words: 117
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This project required isolation and purification of the OXA-10 beta-lactamase overexpressed in E. coli BL21 and the determination of kcat, Km, and Vmax parameters for different beta-lactam antibiotics at different viscosities of the reaction buffer. This protein is a gene repressor, believed to be involved in inducible expression of beta-lactamases in S. aureus.
      • keywords: beta; project
      • versions: original; plain text
3628. pk02c823v2f
      • author: Peter James Bui
      • title: A Compiler Toolchain for Distributed Data Intensive Scientific Workflows
      • date: 2012
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: To address this need, I propose applying concepts from traditional compilers, linkers, and profilers to the construction of distributed workflows and evaluate this approach by implementing a compiler toolchain that allows users to compose scientific workflows in a high-level programming language. Altogether, these components form a compiler toolchain that demonstrates the effectiveness of applying traditional compiler techniques to the challenges of constructing distributed data intensive scientific workflows.
      • keywords: compiler; scientific; toolchain; workflows
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3629. pk02c823v3s
      • author: Anand Kumar
      • title: Combustion Synthesis of Novel Catalysts for Hydrogen Production from Light Alcohols
      • date: 2011
      • words: 470
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: These findings were used to synthesize partially reduced catalyst with high surface area for hydrogen production from alcohols. The reactive mixture of the SCS was impregnated on a thin cellulose paper in order to enhance the heat transfer effects after combustion which would in fine particles with high surface area.
      • keywords: area; catalyst; combustion; high; hydrogen; mixture; surface; synthesis; temperature
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3630. pk02c823v44
      • author: Matthew J. Grow
      • title: 'Liberty to the Downtrodden': Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
      • date: 2006
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: While many remained traditionally religious, others, like Kane, reacted against evangelical reform because of their own antipathy to evangelicalism (though he converted in mid-life to Christianity). He represents a crucial community of reformers who challenge the traditional narrative of nineteenth-century reform, which presents antebellum reform as springing from the convergence of Whig politics and evangelical religion.
      • keywords: century; kane; mormons; nineteenth; reform; reformers; religious; war
      • versions: original; plain text
3631. pk02c823v5g
      • author: Cody Daniel Christopherson
      • title: Can Happiness Be Successfully Pursued? A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness
      • date: 2011
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: As a subset of this possibility, in separate experiment, the assessment of happiness is examined as a potential source of decreased happiness, N = 175. It is further found that the assessment of happiness is not self-defeating compared to control assessments.
      • keywords: happiness; pursuit; self
      • versions: original; plain text
3632. pk02c823v8h
      • author: Benjamin Patrick Roope
      • title: Analysis of Elevated Uranium and Impact of the Cotton Industry on Groundwaters in Benin, Africa
      • date: 2004
      • words: 377
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; concentrations; cotton; data; elemental; elevated; groundwater; samples; uranium
      • versions: original; plain text
3633. pk02c823w02
      • author: Gilberto Libanio
      • title: Three Essays on Aggregate Demand and Growth
      • date: 2008
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This dissertation consists of three independent essays that explore different aspects of the relation between aggregate demand and growth. The first chapter revisits the debate on unit roots in macroeconomic time series and discusses the endogeneity of the natural rate of growth.
      • keywords: aggregate; chapter; demand; effects; growth; results; roots; unit
      • versions: original; plain text
3634. pk02c823w1d
      • author: Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
      • title: Ministers of Christ: Benedictine Women Religious in Central Medieval England
      • date: 2015
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 16
      • 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.
      • keywords: benedictine; england; liturgical; ministries; pastoral; religious; study; women
      • versions: original; plain text
3635. pk02c823x53
      • author: Peter Sutcliffe
      • title: Neural Network Feedforward Control of a Closed-Circuit Wind Tunnel
      • date: 1904
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: control; model; network; neural; operating; tunnel; use; wind
      • versions: original; plain text
3636. pk02c823z0p
      • author: Matthew W Eng
      • title: Validation and Characterization of Host Factors for Dengue Virus in the Vector Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
      • date: 1904
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This represents the first report of oral delivery of dsRNAs to successfully reduce DENV infection of adult Ae. aegypti. This dissertation aims to elucidate the roles and functions of several of these host pathways in the context of DENV infection of Ae. aegypti.
      • keywords: aegypti; dengue; denv; genes; important; infection; vector
      • versions: original; plain text
3637. pk02c824159
      • author: Timothy Earl Neill
      • title: Digital Artefacts (Chernobyl): Self-Organizing Matter
      • date: 1904
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This new body of work shifts away from the culturally constructed myths surrounding human progress, and embraces natural patterns of the dynamic and the chaotic as a more complex and accurate view of the relationship humans have with perceived advancement. Contrary to the methodology of archaeology, that as the natural transition of material, or entropy, increases, information and thus meaning decreases, I am interested in the inverse, or that as entropy increases, meaning has the potential to increase.
      • keywords: artefacts; chernobyl; meaning; self; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3638. pk02c824170
      • author: Rebecca Chan
      • title: Making Metaphysics Matter: Essays on Reasons and Persons
      • date: 1904
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Sometimes, the challenge arises because metaphysical disputes are thought to be unresolvable. The four independent essays that compose it are united by a central theme: to what extent does normative data—roughly, facts about value and what we ought to do—bear on metaphysical disputes?
      • keywords: challenges; disputes; metaphysical; practical
      • versions: original; plain text
3639. pk02c824d00
      • author: Peter E. Feist
      • title: Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Intractable Samples
      • date: 1904
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; contaminants; mass; proteins; proteomic; sample; spectrometry
      • versions: original; plain text
3640. pk02c824j4m
      • author: Kristen A. Johnson
      • title: A Mechanistic Study of the Ebola Virus Matrix Protein Membrane Binding Properties
      • date: 1904
      • words: 486
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: VLPs are formed through two VP40 actions: 1. VP40 host lipid binding and 2. VP40 lipid binding and VP40 oligomerization are closely related as lipid binding promotes and stabilizes the formation of oligomers.
      • keywords: binding; formation; lipid; membrane; pi(4,5)p2; virus; vp40
      • versions: original; plain text
3641. pk02c824r7h
      • author: Evercita Cuevas Eugenio
      • title: Some Methods for Differentially Private Data Synthesis
      • date: 2019
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Many of the existing methods for data privacy and confidentiality do not quantify the amount of privacy that the data set may leak. Balancing between protecting the privacy of individuals who contribute to data sets and releasing data sets of good utility is of extreme importance.
      • keywords: algorithm; data; differential; network; privacy; sets
      • versions: original; plain text
3642. pk02c824t12
      • author: Shenglong Zhu
      • title: Algorithms for Assembly Consolidation and Prediction of Large-Scale Genome Structures
      • date: 2019
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Our work on inversion prediction aims to predict and catalog inversions by exploring the well-known Range Maximum Query model and Max-Cut model for what we call ``global' inversions, and the novel Rectangle Clustering model and Representative Rectangle Prediction model for more localized inversions. Evaluated using both simulated and real genome data, our algorithms and implementations have shown substantial promise for accurate computational analysis of genome structure in significantly shorter time.
      • keywords: algorithms; genome; model; prediction; structure
      • versions: original; plain text
3643. pk02c824x6q
      • author: Ariel Aguero
      • title: The Role of Multimodal Synchrony in Visual Categorization
      • date: 2021
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Previously we demonstrated that experience with audio-visual synchrony can lead a non-speech signal - sine-wave tones – to facilitate categorization, suggesting that parents' use of multimodal synchrony plays a role in the link between speech and concepts. Alternatively, multimodal synchrony may underlie the development of a link between signals other than speech (e.g., sign language) and concepts, but not speech-concept links per se.
      • keywords: categorization; link; speech; synchrony
      • versions: original; plain text
3644. pk02c824z19
      • author: Brady T. Russo
      • title: The Role of Sortase A in the Maintenance of Cell Surface Properties and Cell Hardiness in Streptococcus pyogenes AP53
      • date: 2021
      • words: 470
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The activity of SrtA is specific to cell surface proteins with a C-terminal LPXTG-motif followed by a hydrophobic region and a positively charged tail. Overall, the results of this study suggest the existence of an alternative mechanism for cell surface protein expression and the necessity for srtA activity for bacterial viability and hardiness.
      • keywords: ability; cell; lpxtg; motif; proteins; srta; surface; virulence
      • versions: original; plain text
3645. pk02c82515k
      • author: Joseph J. Liberko
      • title: Exploring Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale with Synchrotron Infrared Nanospectroscopy and Spatial Modulation Spectroscopy
      • date: 2023
      • words: 522
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Knowledge of the laser's focal parameters (such as its position and beam waist) are crucial to extracting extinction parameters. Transmitted laser intensity is measured versus blade position resulting in a sigmoidal response whose fit parameters yield the beam position and beam waist.
      • keywords: beam; characterization; focal; laser; light; optical; position; results; source; system; work
      • versions: original; plain text
3646. pk02c82516x
      • author: Qing Lu
      • title: Hardware-Efficient Automated Machine Learning Using Neural Architecture Search: Methods and Applications
      • date: 2023
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: During the past few years, neural architecture search (NAS) has demonstrated to be one of the most successful techniques in realizing machine-based architecture engineering for deep neural networks, and become the key component in automated machine learning (AutoML). While NAS has already achieved the state of art in many machine learning tasks, efficiency problem arises in both the development and deployment phases.
      • keywords: architecture; efficiency; hardware; learning; machine; nas; neural; search
      • versions: original; plain text
3647. pn89d50735r
      • author: Kathryn L Wagner
      • title: Essays in Medicaid Crowd-out for the Disabled
      • date: 2015
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: cost; crowd; disabled; essay; individuals; insurance; medicaid
      • versions: original; plain text
3648. pn89d507363
      • author: Donald Allan Tillotson
      • title: Drag Reduction and Directional Control of a Projectile Using Plasma Actuators
      • date: 2010
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Previous research has demonstrated the ability for plasma actuators to prevent flow separation as well as to vector a flow around a surface radius. A projectile model with a varying radius on the downstream end was experimentally examined between free-stream Mach numbers of 0.3 to 0.5 to determine the ability of plasma actuators to lower the aerodynamic drag, and to provide asymmetric aerodynamic loading that could be used for flight control without moving surfaces.
      • keywords: actuator; end; plasma; projectile
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3649. pn89d507394
      • author: Hyunjin Deborah Kwak
      • title: State Repression and Religion: A Statistical Analysis of Religious Groups? Collective Responses to the State
      • date: 2013
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: As a result, we know very little about the process through which religious groups radicalize, the types of repression that motivate religious groups to radicalize and the kinds of collective action religious groups engage in. Religious groups employ and share various resources and symbols from their religious cultures, which help cultivate a culture of resistance and embattled identity.
      • keywords: groups; religious; repression
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3650. pn89d50740b
      • author: Amy Lyn Buchmann
      • title: Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Bacterial Motility and Swarming
      • date: 2015
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: M. xanthus are able to share outer membrane proteins through direct cell contact, and the study of these properties is important for determining the populations' ability to efficiently share protein. To characterize cell-cell interactions, the contacts between cells in simulations are analyzed to determine how these properties influence the populations' ability to form and keep cell-cell connections.
      • keywords: bacterial; cell; method; motility; role; xanthus
      • versions: original; plain text
3651. pn89d50741p
      • author: Edit Varga
      • title: Experimental Study of Novel Nanomagnet Logic Devices
      • date: 2013
      • words: 377
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Among the most intensively researched magnetoelectronic devices are the Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM), the racetrack memory, as well as the magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (MQCA), recently called nanomagnet logic (NML). We built new basic magnetic structures such as shape engineered majority gates, AND gate, OR gate, for the first time, and used wires, inverters and gates to construct more complex circuits, such as a fanout, an XOR, and a full adder.
      • keywords: basic; devices; gate; logic; majority; memory; nanomagnet; nml; wires; work
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3652. pn89d50747r
      • author: Saivenkataraman Jayaraman
      • title: Computing thermodynamic and transport properties of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts from atomistic simulations.
      • date: 2010
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Melting points were computed for lithium, sodium and potassium nitrate salts, which are being considered as candidates for heat transfer media in solar thermal applications. Ionic liquids and molten salts are being considered for many novel applications including for use as heat transfer fluids in thermal energy generation cycles.
      • keywords: ionic; liquids; melting; points; properties; salts; thermal
      • versions: original; plain text
3653. pn89d507483
      • author: Su Su
      • title: Decentralized Damage Detection in Civil Infrastructure Using Multi-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
      • date: 2011
      • words: 444
      • flesch: -4
      • summary: These contributions include (1) a Bivariate Regressive Adaptive INdex (BRAIN) for damage detection that proves to be more robust and accurate than previous formats, (2) a Restricted Input Network Activation Scheme (RINAS) with a new image-based vehicle classification algorithm that not only reduces the size of reference databases and enhances detection reliability, but also relieves computational burdens and extends network lifetime and (3) an offline damage localization technique employing Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory that is capable of effectively isolating damage positions even for minor loss levels. Thus the primary research tasks in this dissertation can be summarized as: Develop a wireless sensor network philosophy that provides reliable data for detection and localization of damage in complex Civil Infrastructure, while maximizing the performance and lifetime of the hardware Develop an assessment framework suitable for damage detection and localization using data measured from a distributed wireless sensors and suitable for operation within said network, i.e., recognizing the computational resources, communications constraints, and power available to the network Analytically and experimentally verify, at various scales and levels of complexity, the proposed network philosophy and assessment framework.
      • keywords: activation; damage; data; detection; dissertation; lifetime; localization; network; philosophy; scheme; wireless
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3654. pn89d50750n
      • author: Benjamin Lewis Fitzpatrick
      • title: Negroes for Sale: The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky
      • date: 2010
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This study of slave speculation in Kentucky expands our existing definition of slave trading in the antebellum South to include the practices of slave hiring and slave catching and also reveals how the speculation in human beings affected the potency of antislavery movements in the Upper South. I argue that instead of slavery declining in Kentucky during the antebellum period, the state's system of intrastate slave speculation, which included the practices of slave hiring and slave catching, provided Bluegrass masters with a profitable and flexible system of circulating enslaved black labor throughout communities and within the state.
      • keywords: kentucky; slave; slavery; speculation
      • versions: original; plain text
3655. pn89d50753p
      • author: Juan Argaez
      • title: Structural Change and Regional Income Distribution: The Case of Mexico (1993-2003)
      • date: 2010
      • words: 178
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: The analysis contributes to the understanding of the complex phenomenon of regional income distribution in Mexico by providing evidence that the internal dynamics of the Mexican economy work against the states with lower levels of per capita income, but that, contrary to what is found in the literature, external intervening factors contribute to the reduction in the dispersion of regional income per capita during the period. This study analyzes the structural transformations of the Mexican economy after the period of structural reforms to highlight the internal and external adjustments that took place between 1993 and 2003, and their effects on regional income distribution.
      • keywords: distribution; income; mexican; regional; structural
      • versions: original; plain text
3656. pn89d50756q
      • author: Nicholas Dennis McNamara
      • title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Performance of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and MOF-Templated Materials
      • date: 2015
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: To that end, this dissertation documents the synthesis, characterization, and utilization of MOFs and MOF-templated materials specifically designed and synthesized to perform as active and stable catalysts for the oxidation of thiophenic compounds. Initially, two existing MOFs, (V) MIL-47 and (Ti) MIL-125, were evaluated for catalytic activity and stability in the oxidation of thiophenic compounds.
      • keywords: active; compounds; materials; mil-125; mofs; oxidation; thiophenic
      • versions: original; plain text
3657. pn89d50762n
      • author: Jihyun Won
      • title: Phenotypic and Genomic Variations between and within Natural Populations in Daphnia pulex
      • date: 1904
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Natural genetic variation is essential for organisms to adapt to their local environment and to changing environments. One of the key objectives in evolutionary biology is to understand the underlying sources of phenotypic variation in natural populations.
      • keywords: genetic; natural; phenotypic; variation
      • versions: original; plain text
3658. pn89d507661
      • author: Austin Gregory Murphy, OSB
      • title: The Bible as Inspired, Authoritative, and True according to Saint Augustine
      • date: 1904
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Within the Christian system of these three authorities, the biblical texts mentor believers in wisdom, mediate the divine wisdom, teach purification, and impart the correct knowledge of how to use temporal things, so that God is attained. Suspecting that the patristic thinking about biblical inspiration has not been assessed correctly, this study considers what Saint Augustine says about the importance of believing in the divine inspiration of the Bible.
      • keywords: augustine; bible; biblical; inspiration
      • versions: original; plain text
3659. pn89d50792k
      • author: Brian Yoo
      • title: Molecular Simulations of Surfactant Interfaces
      • date: 1904
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In the former (comprising the majority of this thesis), molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous ionic liquids (ILs) are performed with a lipid bilayer as a model cell membrane. While ionic liquids have been the subject of extensive research in the past decade, the risks associated with their unknown toxicities have persisted as a major bottleneck in their commercialization.
      • keywords: cell; ionic; liquids; membrane; model; molecular; simulations
      • versions: original; plain text
3660. pn89d50796z
      • author: Alicia T. Specht
      • title: Robust Inference and Network Analysis for Non-Gaussian Gene-Expression Data
      • date: 1904
      • words: 586
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Two methods for constructing gene coexpression networks are presented---a robust method for RNA-Seq data, and a method for estimating directed networks from scRNA-Seq data---as well as a novel method for testing differences in gene expression. The most straightforward way of constructing a coexpression network is to connect gene pairs whose expressions are highly correlated under different experimental conditions.
      • keywords: correlation; data; different; expression; gene; method; rna; seq; sequencing
      • versions: original; plain text
3661. pn89d507t6m
      • author: Michael Rauschenbach
      • title: Spinoza's Isolationism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: My aims here are far more modest than establishing the EB's truth, however, for fairly strong critical consensus in Spinoza scholarship suggests that Spinoza did not have, and that there really could not really be, any good reason for believing it. This project coalesces around a simple but highly counterintuitive claim forcefully emphasized by the 17th century Dutch rationalist, Baruch Spinoza.
      • keywords: barrier; claim; explanatory; project; spinoza
      • versions: original; plain text
3662. pn89d50801q
      • author: Nathaniel Bristow
      • title: Turbulent Flow Structure Associated with Interacting, Laterally Offset Barchan Dunes
      • date: 2019
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Smaller, faster migrating barchans will overtake and collide with larger, slower moving ones, resulting in complex morphological changes, enhanced sediment erosion, modified flow dynamics. Barchan dunes are three-dimensional, crescent-shaped bedforms which, as they migrate in the direction of the overlying wind or water flow, interact with their neighboring bedforms.
      • keywords: analysis; barchan; bedforms; dynamics; flow; measurements; modified; piv; turbulent; wake
      • versions: original; plain text
3663. pn89d508847
      • author: Bryce Frentz
      • title: An Investigation of the Astrophysically Important 14N(p, γ)15O Reaction
      • date: 2022
      • words: 573
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: This work also addresses the uncertainty coming from the lifetime of the excited state at Ex = 6.79 Mev, as previous measurements of this state's lifetime are significantly discrepant. To provide cross-validation of our method, the lifetimes of the states at 5.18 MeV and 6.17 MeV to be t = 7.5 +/- 3.0 and t = 0.7 +/- 0.5 fs, respectively, in good agreement with previous measurements.
      • keywords: data; energy; lifetime; low; measurements; mev; state; γ)15o
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3664. pr76f190c8j
      • author: Douglas Robert Rice
      • title: Molecular Imaging Using Nanoparticles and Small Molecules
      • date: 2015
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Fluorescence cell microscopy studies demonstrated that the multivalent liposomes selectively target bacteria in the presence of healthy mammalian cells and caused bacterial cell agglutination. The highest target selectivity, observed with a divalent tracer equipped with two ZnDPA targeting units, compared quite favorably with the imaging selectivities previously reported for other nuclear tracers that target bacterial cell surfaces.
      • keywords: bacterial; bat; cell; cfu; fluorescent; imaging; interscapular; living; probe; zndpa
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3665. pr76f190c9w
      • author: Kevin Tvrdy
      • title: Electron Transfer Reactions in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells
      • date: 2011
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Two other electron transfer reactions which are unique to quantum dot sensitized solar cells, namely that from the electrolyte to the quantum dot, as well as that from TiO2 nanoparticles to the electrolyte, were also investigated with transient absorption spectroscopy and chronopotentiometry, respectively. This dissertation addresses the inefficiencies of quantum dot sensitized cells from the standpoint of electron transfer reactions.
      • keywords: cell; dot; electron; quantum; sensitized; solar; transfer
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3666. pr76f190d34
      • author: Tomas Estrada
      • title: Model-Based Networked Control Systems with Intermittent Feedback
      • date: 2010
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The aim of this dissertation is to provide a set of results in stability, perfor- mance, and robustness of model-based networked control systems with intermit- tent feedback, which will serve as a nexus between the study of systems with instantaneous feedback and with continuous feedback. We begin by introducing the basic architecture for model-based control, then discuss the concept of intermittent feedback, its applica- tions in various fields, and its role as a link between instantaneous and continuous feedback.
      • keywords: case; control; feedback; intermittent; model
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3667. pr76f190d4g
      • author: James Brian Pitts
      • title: General Covariance, Artificial Gauge Freedom and Empirical Equivalence
      • date: 2008
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This dissertation updates the debate over the nontriviality of general covariance for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (GTR) and considers particle physics in the debate over underdetermination and empirical equivalence. Particle physics provides case studies for empirical equivalence.
      • keywords: covariance; debate; einstein; empirical; equivalence; general; gtr; theory; underdetermination
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3668. pr76f190d5t
      • author: Kurt Henry Piepenbrink
      • title: Understanding the Energetic Basis for T-cell Receptor Recognition
      • date: 2011
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: The interaction energy between those two residues is defined as native free energy change minus the free energy changes of the two single mutants, plus the free energy change of the double-mutant; ddGint = dG(Xwt-Ywt) - dG(Xz->A,Ywt) - dG(Xwt,Yz->A) + dG(Xz->A,Yz->A). To assess to what extent the different portions of the TCR-pMHC interface contribute to binding, we quantify the contributions to binding of the side-chain contacts between the residues at the interface through double-mutant cycles.
      • keywords: binding; double; energy; mutant; partners; residue; tcr
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3669. pr76f190d65
      • author: Philip Alan Wingert
      • title: Nanoencapsulation of Luminol-Hematin-H2O2 Chemiluminescence in Calcium Phosphate Nanoshells
      • date: 2008
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 25
      • 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).
      • keywords: chapter; chemical; chemiluminescence; detection; oxidants; reaction; solution; substances
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3670. pr76f190d7h
      • author: Katherine Anne Isbell
      • title: Preservation of a Labile Post-Translational Modification
      • date: 2011
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In this work, the issue of preserving labile post-translational modifications (PTMs) for mass spectrometric analysis is studied. A new ionization method called alternating current (AC) ESI has been conjectured to be a 'softer' ionization technique, and, as such, is a candidate for preserving labile PTMs for high sensitivity and more efficient mass spectrometry.
      • keywords: esi; ionization; labile; ptms
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3671. pr76f190f0d
      • author: Laurie Ropel
      • title: Diffusion Coefficients and 1-Octanol-Water Partition Coefficients of Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2004
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Diffusion coefficients of CO2 into various ionic liquids (IL) were measured at atmospheric pressure because they are needed for properly designing processes. Values of the diffusion coefficients ranged between 1.8 x 10-6 cm2/s for an IL with viscosity of 603 cP and 1.2 x 10-5 cm2/s for an IL with viscosity of 14 cP. Diffusion coefficients increased in a linear fashion with the inverse of the IL's viscosity.
      • keywords: coefficients; diffusion
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3672. pr76f190f23
      • author: Christina Di Gangi
      • title: Lydgate's Mesure: The Echecs Amoureux Tradition and the Theme of the Fall of Princes
      • date: 2012
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: In tracking key nouns in the text of the Fall of Princes (resoun, sensualite, suffisaunce, mesure, remedie and others), this study relates the Fall of Princes to Reson and Sensuallyte, to the Echecs amoureux, and to Evrart de Conty's Eschez amoureux moralises, re-contextualizing and re-evaluating Lydgate's project in terms of his philosophic and literary antecedents, English and Continental. Although the Fall of Princes is a translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium (1363, 1370) via Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Lydgate is equally indebted to the Roman de la Rose tradition, and in particular to the Echecs amoureux, which he translated as Reson and Sensuallyte (c. 1410).
      • keywords: amoureux; fall; princes
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3673. pr76f190f3f
      • author: Farzad Talebi
      • title: Stochastic Multipath Modeling of Wideband Polarized MIMO Channels
      • date: 2015
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In order to demonstrate the efficacy of the approach with real-world measurements, we designed a wideband MIMO channel sounder to capture channel impulse response snapshots. Results are applied in an algorithm that allows enumeration and estimation of LoS or specular reflections in a sequence of measured channel impulse responses.
      • keywords: channel; los; mimo; model; reflections; specular; wideband
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3674. pr76f190f54
      • author: Wann-Jiun Ma
      • title: Learning and Optimization for Smart Power Grids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Second, we propose a distributed algorithm for online energy management in networked microgrids with a high penetration of distributed energy resources. In general, the state-of-the-art forecasting for distributed energy resources such as solar is not sufficiently accurate, which results in inaccurate energy scheduling.
      • keywords: algorithm; charging; current; electric; energy; online; power
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3675. pr76f190h2q
      • author: Karen A. Bailey
      • title: Multiplex Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Correlation Spectroscopy and Imaging
      • date: 2016
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: binding; cars; cells; chemical; diffusion; lpa; receptor; results; spectral; treatment
      • versions: original; plain text
3676. pr76f190k72
      • author: Margaret I Schmitt
      • title: On the Activity of Theoretical and Practical Reason
      • date: 1904
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: The second joins the longstanding literature on free will and focuses on freedom as the property constitutive of agency and then argues that beliefs are among the things that instantiate freedom. There are two predominant ways in which participants in the so-called ethics of belief literature defend a unique form of epistemic (i.e. belief-forming) agency.
      • keywords: activity; agency; beliefs
      • versions: original; plain text
3677. pr76f190k9r
      • author: Huan Wang
      • title: New Antibiotics and Enzyme Inhibitors against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria
      • date: 1904
      • words: 161
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: E. faecium is a Gram-positive bacterium; P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii are Gram-negative bacteria. The bacteria that are studied in this thesis are Enterococcus faecium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii.
      • keywords: aeruginosa; baumannii; gram; thesis
      • versions: original; plain text
3678. pr76f19199j
      • author: Rose Weisshaar
      • title: Some Results in Computability Theory
      • date: 2019
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Further, we indicate some circumstances in which, given computable ω-branching trees T0 and T1, a path through TKP helps the paths through T0 compute paths through T1.In a different line of work, we consider effective forcing notions. In particular, we define a class of effective forcing notions that are similar to versions of Mathias forcing and Cohen forcing defined in the literature, and prove some results about how these notions relate.
      • keywords: branching; compute; forcing
      • versions: original; plain text
3679. pr76f191f8f
      • author: Minh Nguyen
      • title: Investigation of Aero-Optical Wavefront Measurements using Laser-Induced Breakdown Sparks
      • date: 2020
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This research explores different models of LIB sparks to determine if the amplitudes of these Zernike aberrations can be predicted based on variations in spark attributes such as length and position that arise in spark to spark ignitions. This dissertation focuses on the problem of improving wavefront measurements that use the light from a laser-induced breakdown (LIB) spark as the light source.
      • keywords: lib; light; models; spark
      • versions: original; plain text
3680. pr76f191g93
      • author: Hernan E. Delgado
      • title: Fundamental Studies of the Chemistry and Charge Exchange at a Plasma-Liquid Interface
      • date: 2021
      • words: 516
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In this work, an electrolytic cell consisting of a DC nonthermal, atmospheric-pressure argon plasma was used as with a submerged platinum counter electrode as an experimental system to study some of these issues. Additionally, it is shown that •OH introduced from the plasma significantly decrease the Faradaic efficiency for reversible reactions, but not for non-reversible reactions.
      • keywords: anode; chemistry; electron; liquid; plasma; reactions; study; systems
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3681. pr76f191h3b
      • author: Joshua Berwanger
      • title: Functionalized Microporous Membranes for Capture and Analysis of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies
      • date: 2021
      • words: 285
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Subsequent studies explored mimotope-modified alumina membranes and a fluorescent dye (Cy5)-labelled anti-human IgG secondary antibody to increase the sensitivity of mAb quantitation based on capture in a membrane. In some cases, such as Bevacizumab treatment, the concentration needs to be within a therapeutic window to ensure effective treatment without side effects.
      • keywords: bevacizumab; capture; increase; mabs; serum; therapeutic; treatment
      • versions: original; plain text
3682. pv63fx73n73
      • author: Weiye Chen
      • title: Penalized Methods and Their Applications to Genetic Research and Economic Forecasting
      • date: 2015
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Group SCAD regression with residual bootstrap and SCAD regression significantly improve forecast accuracy for most macroeconomic variables. With such recommendation, SCAD penalty is further extended to group SCAD regression, SCAD regression with residual bootstrap and group SCAD regression with residual bootstrap.
      • keywords: bootstrap; forecasting; group; lasso; regression; residual; scad
      • versions: original; plain text
3683. pv63fx73n8f
      • author: Matthew D Landrigan
      • title: Evaluation of Methods for Measuring Microdamage Accumulation in Cortical Bone
      • date: 2010
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The LEBT modulus was shown to include the combined effect of both elastic (recovered) and creep (accumulated) strain indicating that both the secant modulus and creep should be measured throughout a test to most accurately indicate damage accumulation and account for different damage mechanisms. Conventional techniques used to image damage accumulation in cortical bone are inherently invasive, destructive, two-dimensional, and tedious.
      • keywords: accumulation; bone; cortical; creep; fatigue; mechanical; microdamage; modulus
      • versions: original; plain text
3684. pv63fx73p1b
      • author: Elizabeth Lee-Ellen Munnich
      • title: Essays in Health Economics
      • date: 2013
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: My findings suggest that offsetting changes due to hospital closures and shifting staff within hospitals mitigated employment effects of the mandated minimum staffing legislation. Using annual financial data from California hospitals, I find that nurse-to-patient ratios in California hospitals increased substantially following the staffing mandate.
      • keywords: california; chapter; health; hospitals; outpatient; results; spacing; staffing; surgery
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3685. pv63fx73p2p
      • author: Nathan Winshp Smith
      • title: Chien D'Aveugle
      • date: 2015
      • words: 10
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Gender Assumptions and Stereotypes explored through ceramic art and imagery.
      • keywords: gender
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3686. pv63fx73p31
      • author: Steven J Kurtz
      • title: Nanomagnet Logic: Architectures, Design, and Benchmarking
      • date: 2013
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: NML devices offer numerous potential advantages including: low energy operation, steady state non-volatility, radiation hardness and a clear path to fabrication and integration with CMOS. However, maintaining both low-energy operation and non-volatility while scaling from the device to the architectural level is non-trivial as (i) nearest neighbor interactions within NML circuits complicate the modeling of ensemble nanomagnet behavior and (ii) the energy intensive clock structures required for re-evaluation and NML's relatively high latency challenge its ability to offer system-level performance wins against other emerging nanotechnologies.
      • keywords: clock; cmos; energy; level; low; nml; non; performance
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3687. pv63fx73p93
      • author: Michelle M. Kundmueller
      • title: Politics and the Flight from Honor: Homer and the Human Good
      • date: 2014
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This dissertation brings Homer's complex vision of the relative value of and interplay between the love of one's own and the love of honor to bear on enduring questions about politics, justice, and the meaning of human life. The observation that the love of one's own and the love of honor are powerful political forces is thus not new; but much less is it outdated.
      • keywords: homer; honor; human; life; love; political
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3688. pv63fx73q09
      • author: Marianne Arlene DiQuattro
      • title: Unsettled Spectatorship: The Unforeseen Implications of Viewing the Works of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, and Martin McDonagh
      • date: 2011
      • words: 377
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In the final chapter I examine the role of laughter in Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy, and the role of postmodern kitsch and multimedia intertextuality in simultaneously globalizing and hyper-localizing McDonagh. I expand on their work by linking this school of performance studies to phenomenological studies of the event by Jean-Luc Marion and Claude Romano.
      • keywords: approach; chapter; event; godot; mcdonagh; performance; spectator; studies; theatre
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3689. pv63fx73q20
      • author: YongJin Cho
      • title: Control of Magnetic Properties of Ferromagnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As by Fabrication Methods
      • date: 2010
      • words: 484
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: One will note, however, that the II-PLM (Ga,Mn)As also exhibits a weak but finite uniaxial in-plane magnetic anisotropy similar to that observed in LT-MBE (Ga,Mn)As, the origin of which is not yet understood in either of these materials. Ferromagnetic semiconductor alloy (Ga,Mn)As is studied using different fabrication methods, including doping.
      • keywords: anisotropy; ga1; mn)as; plm; xmnxas
      • versions: original; plain text
3690. pv63fx73q51
      • author: Michael Arthur
      • title: Separation Control Using Plasma Actuators in a High Pressure Bend
      • date: 2014
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: While previous work has been performed investigating the effects of pressure on plasma actuators and the force generated by plasma actuators, this experiment examines plasma actuators as flow control devices in high pressure flows. These experiments were performed over a range of pressures and Mach numbers to determine the applicability of plasma actuators under the extreme conditions of compressor flows.
      • keywords: actuators; plasma; section; test
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3691. pv63fx73r8c
      • author: Allison R. Showalter
      • title: An Investigation into the Adsorption Behavior of Aqueous Metal Ions to Graphene Oxide and Archaeal Surfaces
      • date: 1904
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Graphene oxide (GO) is a highly sorptive material for a variety of heavy metals under different ionic strength conditions over a wide pH range, making it a promising candidate for use in metal adsorption from contaminated sites or in filtration systems. Remediation and prevention of environmental contamination by toxic metals is an ongoing issue.
      • keywords: adsorption; cd(ii; metals; noricense; range; sphere; toxic
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3692. pv63fx74c3h
      • author: Mateusz Dembowski
      • title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Spectroscopy of Uranyl Peroxides
      • date: 1904
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Results indicate that formation of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters follows a well-defined stepwise mechanism consisting of multiple assembly/disassembly steps showing retention of basic uranyl peroxide building blocks (e.g. [(UO2)4(O2)4], {U4}).Finally, stability of [(UO2)20(O2)27(HPO4)6], {U20P6} nanocluster incorporating peroxide in an unusual µ:eta2:eta2 bridging mode is studied by combination of Raman, 31P DOSY NMR spectroscopy, small angle X-ray scattering, and single crystal X-ray diffraction. This thesis explores the mechanisms by which uranyl peroxide complexes form, the detailed structural features of pyrophosphate functionalized nanoclusters, the spectroscopic signatures of uranyl peroxide monomers, the effect of pH on the identity of the products formed in the uranium-peroxide-pyrophosphate system, and stability of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters.
      • keywords: crystal; identity; nmr; peroxide; pyrophosphate; ray; single; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
3693. pv63fx74f7h
      • author: Julaine D. Zenk
      • title: A Modified Trolley Problem Procedure for Studying Dilemmic Decisions
      • date: 2018
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Heart rate and decision time served as correlates for measuring emotional engagement. Further, emotional engagement varied across the three scenarios, evidenced heart-rate change and longer reaction times.
      • keywords: decision; emotional; making
      • versions: original; plain text
3694. pv63fx74v2h
      • author: Joseph Zepeda
      • title: The Search and Study of CEMP Stars
      • date: 2022
      • words: 214
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: abundances; cemp; orbital; stars
      • versions: original; plain text
3695. pv63fx74v9x
      • author: Ayşe Bursali
      • title: On Display: Crafting Refugees, Gendered Stories, and Moral Navigation in Neoliberal Istanbul
      • date: 2023
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Focusing on a skills and livelihood project for refugee women that taught them crafting skills and facilitated the selling of their handcrafts in-person and on digital platforms such as Instagram and Etsy, I explore the political economy of neoliberalism in the context of NGOs and aid organizations, as well as the moral economy of neoliberalism in the scripts of the enterprising and individual subject in the marketing of handcrafts and through a TikTok protest started by Syrian refugees in Türkiye. Finally, this dissertation explores the global imperative to present oneself on social media, shaped by the neoliberal self-making industry, on multiple scales - personal, for the Project, for refugee communities, and for the state.
      • keywords: dissertation; handcrafts; neoliberal; online; organizations; refugees; syrian; türkiye
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3696. pz50gt56z02
      • author: Quinn Nathaniel Lathrop
      • title: IRT and SVD: Implementing Psychometric Methods in New and Complex Situations
      • date: 2015
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This document provides analytical and empirical justification for SVD's use with psychometric data under missing data. Chapter 3 investigates the large sample properties of using SVD with psychometric data.
      • keywords: chapter; data; missing; psychometric; svd; techniques
      • versions: original; plain text
3697. pz50gt56z1d
      • author: Christopher M Osborne
      • title: Written into the West: Print-Visions and the Revolutionary Inheritance in Early National America's 'Western Country'
      • date: 2011
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: There were, inevitably, divergences between this envisioned Western Country and its experienced reality. It contends that their successes and shortcomings alike wrote the Western Country into the ongoing struggle to define the Revolutionary inheritance across an antebellum republic of aggressive expansion and ambiguous unity.
      • keywords: american; commentators; country; national; place; print; visions; western
      • versions: original; plain text
3698. pz50gt56z5s
      • author: Dana Charles Wheeler
      • title: High-k-InAs metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors formed by atomic-layer deposition
      • date: 2009
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: TEM and XPS data suggest the high trap densities in the HfO(2)-InAs capacitors are associated with an interfacial layer likely composed of native indium oxides. Interface trap densities are measured by the Terman method to be in the 10^13 cm^(-2)eV^(-1) range at midgap.
      • keywords: al(2)o(3; densities; devices; films; gate; high; inas
      • versions: original; plain text
3699. pz50gt56z64
      • author: Jared F Stefanick
      • title: Design of Ligand-Targeted Nanoparticles for Enhanced Cancer Targeting
      • date: 2014
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: To further improve tumor targeting and enhance the selectivity of targeted nanoparticles, a dual-receptor targeted approach was evaluated by targeting multiple cell surface receptors simultaneously. By increasing the hydrophilicity of the targeting peptide sequence and simultaneously optimizing the EG peptide-linker length, the in vitro cellular uptake of targeted liposomes was significantly enhanced.
      • keywords: cellular; linker; liposomes; nanoparticles; peptide; receptors; targeted; tumor; uptake
      • versions: original; plain text
3700. pz50gt56z7g
      • author: James Alan Barham
      • title: Teleological Realism in Biology
      • date: 2011
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The argument proceeds by analysis of the concepts of teleology and normative agency, by reflection upon the explanatory structure of the theory of natural selection, and by review of some contemporary scientific accounts of 'self-organization' and 'autonomous agents,' as well as of other physical features of living things. The concept of purpose, together with the closely related concepts of normativity and agency, stand at the crossroads of three academic disciplines: the philosophy of action, the philosophy of biology, and the nexus of theoretical biology and cognitive science that is concerned with the theory of the 'organization' of 'autonomous agents.'
      • keywords: agency; agents; autonomous; biology; concepts; normativity; teleology
      • versions: original; plain text
3701. pz50gt56z8t
      • author: Weimin Yue
      • title: Micromechanical Modeling of Hydroxyapatite Whisker Reinforced Polymer Composites and Cortical Bone Tissue
      • date: 2006
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: The same micromechanical model developed and validated for HA whisker reinforced composites was also applied to the elastic properties of human cortical bone tissue. The orientation distribution of apatite crystals was shown to be a significant factor contributing to the elastic anisotropy of cortical bone tissue.
      • keywords: distribution; orientation; whisker
      • versions: original; plain text
3702. pz50gt56z95
      • author: Sajanish Muchiruparambil Balagopal
      • title: Counter-Flow Ionic Wind for Heat Transfer Enhancement
      • date: 2011
      • words: 248
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: As corona discharge creates a charged environment, seeding particles may get charged, and this may result in deviation from fluid flow due to Coulombic forces on the particles. To ensure the fidelity of the PIV results in these experiments, a simplified particle tracking analysis was conducted, solving the modified Basset-Boussinesq-Oseen (BBO) equation for particle motion and including charging and electric field effects to simulate the effects of corona discharge.
      • keywords: cooling; corona; experiments; flow; piv; results
      • versions: original; plain text
3703. pz50gt5702b
      • author: Ronghui Zhou
      • title: Micro-Fluidics of Micro- and Nano-Colloidal Suspensions: Designing Future Miniature Diagnostic Devices
      • date: 2006
      • words: 386
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: However, successful chip-size devices, even for common applications such as human blood and water pathogen tests, are still not available because of some key technological bottlenecks involving microfluidics of micro- and nano-colloidal suspensions, such as anomalous bioparticle migration due to hydrodynamic forces, insensitivity of many biosensors to low pathogen concentrations and the lack of rapid pathogen concentration technologies. I also developed new technologies to enhance on-chip pathogen detection.
      • keywords: blood; cells; chip; detection; devices; micro; migration; nanowires; pathogen; technologies
      • versions: original; plain text
3704. pz50gt57041
      • author: Joshua David Cameron
      • title: Stall Inception in a High-Speed Axial Compressor
      • date: 2008
      • words: 250
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: behavior; casing; clearance; compressor; inception; rotor; stall
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3705. pz50gt5705c
      • author: Jennifer Laura Starner-Kreinbrink
      • title: Investigating beta-sheet folding and aggregation
      • date: 2015
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: While &#946;-sheet rich proteins tend to have slower folding kinetics and increased population of aggregation prone intermediates (1, 2), &#946;-sheet rich proteins can avoid aggregation and robustly fold (3). Understanding how a polypeptide chain achieves its native fold and the complex interplay between folding and aggregation remains, even after over 40 years, an area of active research.
      • keywords: aggregation; complex; folding; proteins; rich
      • versions: original; plain text
3706. pz50gt57072
      • author: Enrique Pacis Blair
      • title: The Theory and Modeling of Power Dissipation and Quantum Decoherence in Molecular Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: A model of a QCA molecule interacting with a simple, explicitly-modeled quantum environment is developed to study quantum decoherence in molecular QCA, revealing that environmental interactions tend to stabilize molecular QCA bits. QCA is motivated by high levels of power dissipation (heat) in modern CMOS devices and the approaching limit of the decades-long trend of transistor scaling to improve computing performance.
      • keywords: cmos; dissipation; model; molecular; molecule; power; qca; quantum
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3707. pz50gt5709r
      • author: Joseph Anthony Giambrone
      • title: The One Who Did Mercy: Sacramental Charity, Creditor Christology, and the Economy of Salvation in Luke's Gospel
      • date: 1904
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: charity; christological; jewish; lukan; luke; probe; second; study; temple
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3708. pz50gt5710z
      • author: Nikolaus G. Kleber
      • title: Analysis of CSIR for an OFDM System Limited by a Frequency-Hopping Interferer
      • date: 1904
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In particular, the Shannon channel capacity of the system is derived for two different cases of channel state information at the receiver (CSIR), namely Perfect CSIR and Partial CSIR. The gains in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) obtained by Partial and Perfect CSIR for various interference powers are considered.
      • keywords: capacity; channel; csir; system
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3709. pz50gt5714b
      • author: Michael James Johnson
      • title: Non-Centrosymmetric Materials for the Generation of Atmospheric Pressure Gas Discharges
      • date: 1904
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: To reduce the required input voltage, this works investigates inherent characteristics of certain polar non-centrosymmetric crystals to determine if they can be beneficial for discharge formation. Atmospheric air plasmas are driven through large electric fields (&gt;3 kV/mm) generated between one or more electrodes.
      • keywords: air; atmospheric; crystal; discharge; electric; input
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3710. pz50gt5715p
      • author: Christopher Dant
      • title: Worthy Sons
      • date: 1904
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: This thesis project presents moments of stasis amidst the action occurring in the surrounding space, whether in the home, the neighborhood or the skatepark, and allows the viewer to contemplate one's own perspective on this complex and complicated chapter of teenage life. With a large group of photographs on the gallery walls, along with the audio sounding through the space, the viewer is placed in the locations where they are forming their identity.
      • keywords: group; home; neighborhood; photographs; thesis; viewer
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3711. pz50gt57p16
      • author: A. E. McCoy
      • title: Ab Initio Multi-Irrep Symplectic No-Core Configuration Interaction Calculations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: (2) The evolution of the accuracy of energies, radii and E2 transitions strengths in 3He and 6Li are analyzed with respect to a simple truncations of the basis by Sp(3,R) irrep to gain the necessary insight for developing more efficient truncation schemes. The efficacy of this framework depends on the extent to which the wavefunctions are dominated by specific Sp(3,R) irreps and are thereby accurately described in a basis restricted to the dominantly contributing irreps.
      • keywords: basis; calculations; computational; irreps; sp(3,r; symplectic; wavefunctions
      • versions: original; plain text
3712. pz50gt57q5w
      • author: Yue Ma
      • title: Improving Reliability of Real-Time Embedded Systems
      • date: 2018
      • words: 487
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: However, due to CMOS technology scaling, MPSoCs increasingly have higher power density and temperature, which reduce system lifetime reliability. Meanwhile, the decreasing feature size of transistors and low supply voltage and frequency make the chip more vulnerable to soft errors and degrade soft-error reliability.
      • keywords: error; framework; lifetime; mpsocs; real; reliability; soft; tasks
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3713. pz50gt57t5t
      • author: Carlos Rondón Moreno
      • title: Essays on Financial Crises
      • date: 2019
      • words: 574
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Since then, a rich and comprehensive literature on the causes and economic consequences of financial crises has arisen. This dissertation studies financial crises in emerging and developing countries.
      • keywords: chapter; collapses; crises; economy; financial; income; information; management; optimal; permanent; policy
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3714. pz50gt58107
      • author: Philip D. Byers
      • title: How Firm the Foundation: The Lilly Endowment and American Christianity, 1937-1989
      • date: 2020
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Yet over and over, experience curbed their idealism, and they were forced to negotiate questions of power and interdependence as they cultivated external donors: the story of postwar American religion is, to some degree, a story of which religion managed to win funding. This dissertation addresses two related questions: what does attention to philanthropy reveal about Christianity in the postwar United States, and how does consideration of religion reorient stories about modern, organized giving?
      • keywords: american; dissertation; endowment; lilly; philanthropic; postwar; religion
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3715. pz50gt5821w
      • author: Janel M. Dempsey
      • title: Noncovalent Assembly Using a New Class of Tetralactam Macrocycles
      • date: 2021
      • words: 622
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: affinity; capture; chapter; dissertation; fluorescence; guest; host; new; sidewalls; squaraine; synthavidin; tetralactam; threading
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3716. pz50gt5833w
      • author: Kathleen H MacKay
      • title: Who Gets to Drink the Water in Lake Michigan?
      • date: 2022
      • words: 393
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: It is the further thesis of the dissertation that the act of the drafting of the Compact, and the organizing of the collective will of eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces, was an example of an effort made to further the common good. The successful ability to organize and distribute natural resources, such as water, is a fundamental, necessary task of any society.
      • keywords: compact; dissertation; great; lakes; process; thesis; water
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3717. q237hq40690
      • author: Guillermo Del Castillo
      • title: Autonomous, Vision-Based, Pivoting Wheelchair With Obstacle Detection Capability
      • date: 2004
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The vehicle has been tested extensively and successfully with disabled veterans at the Edward J. Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Hines IL. The industrial robot-control system stores internal joint poses that have been selected by a human operator and recalls them in sequence to execute each recurring task.
      • keywords: control; disabled; power; teaching; tracking; ultrasound; wheelchair
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3718. q237hq40706
      • author: Megan Patnott
      • title: Arithmetically Gorenstein sets of points on general surfaces in P3
      • date: 2013
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 64
      • summary: We use a connection between such sets of points and rank two arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay vector bundles on the surface, as well as liaison techniques and Terracini's lemma. In the first two chapters, we study the minimal free resolution of a general set of points on a surface of degree d in P3.
      • keywords: general; points; surface
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3719. q237hq40737
      • author: Aaron Allen Huus
      • title: Modern Computing Paradigms: Mobile Applications and Infrastructure as Code
      • date: 2013
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: A benefit of this approach is the developers, testers, and system administrators all work on identical computing environments. An Android mobile application was created and will be tested during the summer of 2013 by a small group of engineering students in Ecuador, Uganda, and Costa Rica.
      • keywords: approach; computing; infrastructure; world
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3720. q237hq4074k
      • author: Adam Edwin Smith
      • title: Evaluation of Passive Boundary Layer Flow Control Techniques for Aero-Optic Mitigation
      • date: 2015
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: The effect of two passive boundary layer flow control techniques, Large-Eddy Break-Up (LEBU) devices and wall heating/cooling, on turbulent boundary layer induced aero-optical aberrations is experimentally investigated. The method is used to study turbulent boundary layers with low Reynolds numbers.
      • keywords: aberrations; aero; boundary; layer; optical
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3721. q237hq4075x
      • author: Gergo Peter Szakmany
      • title: Antenna-Coupled Nanowire Thermocouple for Infrared Detection
      • date: 2013
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The atmospheric absorption in this range is relatively low making this band attractive for application, such as target detection and tracking. This phenomena opens the door for possible cheap implementation of these devices as well as the mass production for future application, since the complexity of fabrication is greatly reduced.
      • keywords: antenna; coefficient; infrared; nanowire; seebeck; thermocouples
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3722. q237hq4081v
      • author: Yilan Li
      • title: Botanical-Drug Interactions: Soy Isoflavones and Drug Metabolism
      • date: 2007
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: There is evidence showing that soy isoflavones may affect the expression of some of the genes in drug metabolism pathways. Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) are important phase I drug-metabolizing enzymes in the liver and the expression levels of CYP1, 2, and 3 subfamilies are the rate-limiting factor for the turnover of many drugs.
      • keywords: cholesterol; cyp3a4; drug; enzymes; expression; isoflavones; metabolism
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3723. q237hq40826
      • author: Richard Bryan Bademan
      • title: Contesting the Evangelical Age: Protestant Challenges to Religious Subjectivity in Antebellum America
      • date: 2004
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Unlike many American Protestants, these churchmen (principally of Lutheran, Episcopalian, Old School Presbyterian, and German Reformed background) rejected the aims and tactics of revivalism and of experimental religion more generally. Concerned that religious and political cultures were too readily blending into each other--to the detriment of both--leading Protestants criticized populist evangelicalism for its easy accommodation to and sanction of American cultural norms.
      • keywords: american; century; churchly; concerned; mid; nineteenth; political; protestants; religion
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3724. q237hq4084w
      • author: Joshua A. Cole
      • title: On the elementary theories of the Muchnik and Medvedev lattices of &Pi;01 classes
      • date: 2009
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: We define Ps to be the collection of &equiv;s degrees of nonempty &Pi;01 subsets of 2&omega; (Cantor space); similarly, we define Pw to be the collection of &equiv;w degrees of nonempty &Pi;01 subsets of 2&omega;. If we do not require the same e for every f, we get a &quot;weak version&quot;: U &lew V if for all f &isin; V, there is an e so that &Phi;ef &isin; U. The relations &le;s and &le;w naturally induce equivalence relations &equiv;s and &equiv;w.
      • keywords: isin; result
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3725. q237hq4087x
      • author: Daniel P. Castillo
      • title: Foundations for an Ecological Theology of Liberation: Gustavo Guti&eacute;rrez's Concept of Integral Liberation, Political Ecology, and Salvation
      • date: 2014
      • words: 103
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Through a dialogue with the environmental and social sciences and a close reading of salvation history as it is mediated through scripture, I expand Guti&eacute;rrez's concept in order to elucidate a positive relationship between salvation, human liberation, and care for creation. Gustavo Guti&eacute;rrez's classic text, A Theology of Liberation, continues to stand as one of the most important works in liberation theology.
      • keywords: guti&eacute;rrez; liberation
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3726. q237hq40b04
      • author: Laura Gamboa Gutiérrez
      • title: Opposition at the Margins: The Erosion of Democracy in Latin America
      • date: 1904
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Using comparative historical analysis focusing on the cases of Alvaro Uribe (Colombia) and Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), I show that when the opposition uses extra-institutional strategies with radical goals, it provides the president with legitimate reasons to remove opposition leaders from office, prosecute, and jail them, allowing him to push for more aggressive reforms that –without presence congress or the courts—the opposition cannot stop. Some of these presidents have eroded democracy.
      • keywords: democracy; institutional; opposition; presidents; strategies
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3727. q237hq40f02
      • author: Mark Hoipkemier
      • title: The Political Economy of Common Goods
      • date: 1904
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: But, self-description notwithstanding, if a given political or economic institution turns out to be an order of common action, then it is per se oriented toward some common end and should be evaluated by the standard of common good. Even in aspects of liberal politics and economics that may not seem to concern the common good, the concept proves indispensable to sound deliberation just because common goods are intrinsic features of any community.
      • keywords: action; common; community; good; liberal; polity
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3728. q237hq4109d
      • author: Hamed Pezeshki
      • title: Anywhere Decoding: Low-Overhead Uplink Interference Management for Wireless Networks
      • date: 2018
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Motivated by this intermediate architecture as a potential use case, this disser- tation presents a low-overhead distributed uplink interference management scheme called anywhere decoding. We compare anywhere decoding to other uplink interference management schemes in the literature with varying levels of cooperation and observe considerable gains in outage probability performance compared to baseline, non-cooperative schemes.
      • keywords: cellular; interference; networks; systems; wireless
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3729. q237hq4135z
      • author: Ryan Alberdi
      • title: Computational Methods for Multiscale Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Multifunctional Materials and Structures for Energy Management
      • date: 2019
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 3
      • summary: This development concerns two areas: (a) A rational design framework for energy dissipating structures based on topology optimization and accounting for the complex interplay between physical phenomena such as inelastic mechanisms, material rate effects, large deformations, and inertia effects. The focus of this dissertation is on development of numerical methods for the analysis and design of materials and structures which can be used to better manage different energy transfer mechanisms.
      • keywords: design; effects; energy; materials; methods; simulation; structures; transfer
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3730. q237hq41667
      • author: Alan H. Duong
      • title: Active Turbulent Boundary Layer Control: An Experimental Evaluation of Viscous Drag Reduction Using Pulsed-DC Plasma Actuators
      • date: 2019
      • words: 205
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Viscous drag reduction over a flat plate in a zero-pressure gradient boundary layer was achieved over a decade of Mach numbers all while maintaining net power savings. Viscous drag reduction in turbulent boundary layers has been an exceptionally interesting topic within fluid dynamics for several decades.
      • keywords: drag; field; flow; reduction; viscous
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3731. q237hq4194g
      • author: Michael C. Brennan
      • title: Lead Halide Perovskites: Size-Dependent Properties and Photostability
      • date: 2020
      • words: 161
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: fundamental; halide; ncs; photostability; properties
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3732. q237hq4195t
      • author: Jovian C. Lam
      • title: Emotion Regulation Effects on Anxiety and Intuitive Decision Making
      • date: 2020
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: I also hypothesized that the individuals with high levels of trait anxiety in the rumination condition would have better intuitive decision making for negative stimuli. Research has suggested that intuitive decision making can be impacted by anxiety, which in turn can be modulated by emotion regulation.
      • keywords: anxiety; decision; intuitive; making
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3733. q237hq41b6g
      • author: Niccole A. Nelson
      • title: Purpose in Life, Stress Reactivity, and Cognitive Aging: A Longitudinal Investigation
      • date: 2021
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Prior research indicates that purpose in life and affective stress reactivity are related, and that both relate to allostatic load and cognitive aging. Therefore, this study examined the time-varying relationship between purpose in life and affective reactivity to perceived stress, the trajectory of affective reactivity to perceived stress as it relates to both within- and between-person purpose in life, as well as the predictive utility of affective reactivity to perceived stress and its rate of change on later life cognitive ability and allostatic load.
      • keywords: affective; individuals; life; purpose; reactivity; stress
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3734. q237hq41b85
      • author: Jorge Gómez Mir
      • title: Functional Oxide-Based Electronics for Logic, Memory, and RF Applications
      • date: 2021
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This phenomenon can be harnessed to provide a boost in logic transistor performance. Moore's law, which aims to double the number of transistors in the same area every 18 months, has been in full swing over the last 60 years.
      • keywords: applications; devices; high; models; performance; transistor
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3735. q237hq41c3r
      • author: Michael T. Baker
      • title: Essays in Labor Economics
      • date: 2022
      • words: 651
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: In Chapter one I use variation in advertising exposure across the universe of U.S. television markets over the period 2010-2019 to identify the effect of advertising by components of the Department of Defense (DoD) on the quantity and quality of U.S. Army applications and hires. Using detailed administrative data covering all applications and enlistments into the U.S. Army from September 2005-September 2019 (1.5 million applicants, 847 thousand enlistees, and 29 thousand recruiters), I show that frictions in the selection and assignment of Army recruiters to recruiting stations leads to plausibly random within-recruiting station variation in the presence of a minority-race or female recruiter after conditioning on variables that could influence the recruiter assignment decision.
      • keywords: advertising; applications; army; dod; enlistments; evidence; hires; marriage; peer; recruiters; u.s; variation
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3736. q237hq41d32
      • author: Vivek
      • title: Electrokinetically Driven Microfluidics Modules: Towards Patterned Evolution of Tissues
      • date: 2022
      • words: 475
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In Chapter 4, I will present a bias-free high-throughput and highyield continuous isoelectric fractionation (CIF) nanocarrier fractionation technology to purify protein nanocarriers (EVs, lipoproteins and ribonucleoproteins) and dispersed proteins in cell media (or blood) based on their distinct isoelectric points. Once fully realized, it will be a next generation experimental platform for applications ranging from drug discovery &amp; development, cell therapy, whole organ transplant and fundamental biology studies on interorgan and intercellular signaling driving tissue growth/ regeneration and metabolic/immuno-system dynamics.
      • keywords: applications; cell; chapter; dream; drug; ion; ooc; organ; platform; proteins; stem; technology
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3737. q237hq41d4d
      • author: Francisco Huizar
      • title: Development of Computational Models and Platforms for Multicellular Development and Preclinical Therapeutic Screening
      • date: 2022
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: This dissertation builds upon the existing resources available to study crosstalk in developmental biology, identify therapeutic targets of interest, and evaluate efficacy of novel small molecule therapeutics. More specifically, efforts to develop computational, simulation-based models of multicellular development and high-throughput preclinical therapeutic screening assays are broadly needed to provide insight into novel treatment approaches in modern medicine.
      • keywords: biology; computational; data; high; screening
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3738. q237hq41f0b
      • author: Grace Hamilton
      • title: Design Is Not Neutral: A Feminist Approach to Design Pedagogy
      • date: 2023
      • words: 261
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Ultimately, this intervention leads to a more diverse, accessible, and empowering design education that challenges dominant patriarchal, Eurocentric, and heteronormative design education. The podcast, titled Design is Not Neutral, features design educators who research gaps in design education and seek to deconstruct the binaries that have traditionally excluded subaltern forms of making from the design field.
      • keywords: design; education; educators; pedagogy; podcast
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3739. q524jm23h2z
      • author: Aaron Lukefahr Willis
      • title: The New Laboratory for Empire: Quebec and the Reformulation of British Imperial Practice, 1760-1775
      • date: 2015
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The bill maintained French civil law, while instituting English criminal law. Quebec, then, was a laboratory for new practices of empire that drastically differed from that which came before.
      • keywords: bill; british; colony; empire; governance; new; quebec
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3740. q524jm23h39
      • author: Elise M. Crull
      • title: Quantum Decoherence and Interlevel Relations
      • date: 2011
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Thus it has been frequently proposed by physicists and philosophers alike that decoherence explains the dynamical transition from quantum behavior to classical behavior. Importantly, the following philosophical investigations are carried out by intentionally leaving aside the measurement problem and concerns about particular interpretations of quantum mechanics.
      • keywords: classical; decoherence; levels; quantum; relations
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3741. q524jm23h7p
      • author: Peyman Hesami
      • title: Low-Complexity Incremental Transmission for Multiple-Antenna Wireless Systems
      • date: 2011
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Finally, we analyze these systems in the limit of large number of transmit and receive antennas, and large number of transmissions which gives some useful insights for designing IMIMO systems. In this thesis, we develop and analyze low-complexity schemes that we call incremental multiple-input multiple-output (IMIMO) for exploiting multiple antennas for reliable high rate communications.
      • keywords: feedback; imimo; multiple; time
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3742. q524jm23h81
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Spengeman
      • title: Saint Augustine and Hannah Arendt on Love of the World: An Investigation Into Arendt's Reliance on and Refutation of Augustinian Philosophy
      • date: 2014
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: arendt; augustine; human; political
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3743. q524jm23h9c
      • author: Pavithra C Tiruppathi
      • title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquid Nanodroplets in Electric Fields
      • date: 2011
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: field; ionic; liquid; nanodroplets
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3744. q524jm23j0k
      • author: Benjamin Daniel Hunt
      • title: Knee Simulation, Creep, and Friction Tests of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Hydrogels Manufactured Using Injection Molding and Solution Casting
      • date: 2006
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: hydrogels (PVA-H) have the potential to be an articular cartilage replacement in the future with properties similar to those of natural articular cartilage. Further improvements must be made before PVA-H is a suitable material for articular cartilage replacement.
      • keywords: articular; cartilage
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3745. q524jm23j1x
      • author: Christopher John Hausmann
      • title: Profound Encounters: How Groups Cultivate Extraordinary Experiences of Social Realities
      • date: 2011
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Based upon ethnographic research at a religious college retreat and with a group of paranormal investigators, I illustrate how both groups disrupted actors' implicit expectations, leading actors to reinterpret who and what was in their midst. This dissertation investigates how groups cultivate profound experiences of their circumstances.
      • keywords: actors; experiences; group
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3746. q524jm23j4z
      • author: Marcee Marie Turner
      • title: Multicultural Teacher Attitudes and Cultural Sensitivity: an Initial Exploration of the Experiences of Individuals in a Unique Alternative Teacher Certification Program
      • date: 2007
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Findings indicate that female teachers scored significantly higher on the Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey (TMAS) than male teachers. In addition, teachers with more experience in the alternative teacher certification program showed significantly less endorsement of color-blind racial attitudes than teachers with less experience.
      • keywords: alternative; program; teacher
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3747. q524jm23j6n
      • author: Christopher D'Andrea
      • title: Analysis of Ground Level Events, Solar Flares, and Forbush Decreases
      • date: 2008
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: The sun, while normally not a source for high energy cosmic rays, does still at times produce energetic events such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections. Project GRAND, an array of ground level secondary muon stations, with an angular resolution of 0.26 degrees on a projected plane and a counting rate of 1800 muons/s, is an excellent tool for detecting ground level events associated with solar phenomena.
      • keywords: events; flares; ground; level
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3748. q524jm23j70
      • author: Terrance Garret Travis
      • title: Glitterworld: A Novel (Excerpted)
      • date: 2015
      • words: 9
      • flesch: 103
      • summary: The first two parts of a three-part novel.
      • keywords: novel
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3749. q524jm23j9p
      • author: Jeffrey Morgan
      • title: Singular Self-Awareness with the Searcher of Hearts: Conscience in the Thought of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Barth
      • date: 1904
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: But I argue that for Kant, Kierkegaard, and Barth conscience is where we strive to approximate God's knowledge of our character before God as God makes a claim upon us. This dissertation examines and defends a theory of conscience as a person's individual moral self-awareness before God.
      • keywords: barth; conscience; god; kant; kierkegaard; self
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3750. q524jm23k2k
      • author: Travis L. Brown
      • title: Reaction Wheel Actuation for Stabilization and Efficiency Improvement in Planar Bipeds
      • date: 2016
      • words: 598
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: RWS use also expands the range of dynamically feasible motions. In aperiodic motions such as speed and step length changes, RWS use is similarly beneficial, with significant efficiency gains in very demanding motions and expanded dynamic feasibility.
      • keywords: balance; biped; body; efficiency; ernie; gear; optimization; reaction; robots; rws; use; walking; wheel
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3751. q524jm23m1j
      • author: Abbie J. Thompson
      • title: One or Many? The Influence of Talker Variability on Infant Word Learning
      • date: 1904
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Our findings suggest that high amounts of speaker variability promotes generalization of mappings immediately after training, but that lower variability benefits recognition after a delay, at least for females. Females in the MT condition demonstrated generalization of the mappings immediately after learning, but not at the delayed test.
      • keywords: condition; infants; mappings
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3752. q524jm23p77
      • author: Michael A. Skaggs
      • title: Reform in the Queen City: Religion and Race in Cincinnati in the Era of Vatican II
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: First, while the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) is often touted as a revolutionary moment given its repudiation of centuries of Catholic anti-Semitism, in Cincinnati such a pronouncement barely rippled among local Catholics and Jews, who had long cooperated, especially on civic projects, with little thought for the theological obstacles that ostensibly divided them. Second, Vatican II's neglect of race as a discrete social concern fueled intra-Catholic conflict over the Church's response to discrimination in local communities.
      • keywords: catholic; church; cincinnati; local; response; vatican
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3753. q524jm23q1g
      • author: Robert William Graff
      • title: Regulating the Synthesis of Nanostructured Polymers by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in Microemulsion
      • date: 1904
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: These results represented the first comparison between hyperbranched polymers and cross-linked nanogels to explore the effect of branching structures on their loading efficiencies. Chapter 2 describes an in-depth and systematic investigation into the self-condensing vinyl polymerization of AB* inimer in microemulsion for the synthesis of hyperbranched polymers with controlled structures.
      • keywords: chapter; polymerization; polymers; structures
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3754. q524jm2466t
      • author: Jian Xu
      • title: Representing Big Data as Networks: New Methods and Insights
      • date: 1904
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: For researchers who want to leverage the power of the network toolkit, and apply it beyond networks data to sequential data, diffusion data, and many more, the question is: how to represent big data and networks? Our world produces massive data every day; they exist in diverse forms, from pairwise data and matrix to time series and trajectories.
      • keywords: data; higher; network
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3755. q524jm2472r
      • author: Leandro Lichtenfelz
      • title: The Geometry of the Euler and the Navier-Stokes Equations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: M. We prove that the set of conjugate vectors for the L2 exponential map contains an open and dense subset, called regular conjugate vectors, which forms a smooth, codimension one submanifold of the tangent space. These results apply, more generally, for infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with Fredholm exponential maps.
      • keywords: conjugate; dimensional; equations; manifold
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3756. q524jm2477g
      • author: Francis Bonenfant-Juwong
      • title: Ever-Widening Circles: Private Voluntary Development, Colonialism, and Arab Palestinians, 1930-1960
      • date: 1904
      • words: 191
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: And I argue that rural development was the predecessor to community development and that, rather than Asia, it is to the Middle East that U.S. community development primarily owes its emergence. In this way, I encourage peacebuilding scholars to take seriously the everyday of colonial praxis and push historians of U.S. development towards the everyday of specific projects.
      • keywords: advocates; development; local; modernization; rural
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3757. q524jm24f3z
      • author: Randal Marks
      • title: A Catalytic Hydrogel Membrane Reactor to Treat Oxidized Contaminants in Drinking Water
      • date: 2019
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Primary research objectives of this work were to (1) develop a structurally stable and catalytically active CHMR and demonstrate its efficacy for hydrogenation reactions, (2) evaluate the effect of water quality and operational parameters including reactive species concentration, pH, co-occurring aqueous species, and gas delivery mode on catalytic activity and hydrogel stability, and (3) develop a 1-D model of the CHMR to predict the effect of reaction conditions and reactor configuration on catalytic performance and optimize the reactor design for catalytic activity and contaminant conversion. These results show that CHMRs are a promising class of interfacial catalytic membrane reactor that deserves further investigation.
      • keywords: activity; catalyst; catalytic; chmr; hydrogel; membrane; model; mol; reactor
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3758. q524jm24n6v
      • author: Feiyang Geng
      • title: Approaches for CO2 Utilization and CO2 Efficient Processes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: bimetallic; catalyst; co2; conversion; low; methane
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3759. q524jm24n8j
      • author: Julian Chike
      • title: Mari and the Bible: A Link to the Past? The Case of Šāpiṭum and Šōpēṭ Reconsidered
      • date: 2022
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: bce; bible; hebrew; israel; leadership; traditions; šāpiṭum
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3760. q811kh06s1p
      • author: Robert Michael Bossarte
      • title: A Contextual Effects Approach to Current Methods of Ecological Inference
      • date: 2004
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This dissertation uses the Ecological Inference (EI) method to produce subgroup estimates of health outcome proportions for 22 US counties. Further, the accuracy of EI estimated proportions is strongly dependent on the level of contextual influence present in the grouped data, the strength of the relationship between grouped measures, and the level of aggregation.
      • keywords: aggregation; data; level; method; proportions; subgroup
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3761. q811kh06s21
      • author: Kristen Koenig McCampbell
      • title: Nephron regeneration after acute kidney injury in the zebrafish
      • date: 2013
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Interestingly, there is evidence that suggests nephron epithelial cells can regenerate after some forms of damage, but there is a poor understanding of the cellular and molecular events that mediate nephron regeneration. The zebrafish is an attractive and viable system to study the molecular pathways responsible for nephron regeneration, as its nephrons are simple, yet they maintain the biological complexity inherent to that of higher organisms including mammals.
      • keywords: cellular; injury; kidney; nephron; regeneration; zebrafish
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3762. q811kh06s6d
      • author: Michael Edward Swoboda
      • title: The Sensory Garden and Playscape: Applying Principles of Design to Create Effective Outdoor Multi-Activity and Multi-Sensory Environments for Use at Institutions That Treat Children with a Broad Range of Special Needs with a Particular Focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder
      • date: 2015
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Situated in a setting that seamlessly integrates with the existing landscape, this project's eight distinct components facilitate and enhance communication, crisis de-escalation, compliment appropriate classroom curriculum-related learning, and promote the development of social and workplace skills. Ultimately, the final result is an innovative synthesis of elements that have the capacity to change &mdash; for the better &mdash; not only the experiences of the community of users, but also the lives of participant experts, designers, and makers.
      • keywords: designers; development; experts; mdash; project
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3763. q811kh06s7r
      • author: Andrew Kent Rider
      • title: Data and Network Science for Noisy Heterogeneous Systems
      • date: 2013
      • words: 215
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: In the fields of systems biology and healthcare, data mining is increasingly being used to create models that represent the current state of understanding of important problems. The primary thesis of this work is that the application of data mining and network science to data with these challenges must be carefully joined with domain knowledge.
      • keywords: data; models; network; problems
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3764. q811kh06t3p
      • author: Jacquilyn Weeks
      • title: Fairies, Fairy Tales, and the Development of British Poetics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 17
      • 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.
      • keywords: british; canonical; century; fairy; poems; poetry; tale; twentieth
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3765. q811kh06t41
      • author: Cédric Lorand
      • title: A Theory of Synchronization Errors in Interconnected Systems
      • date: 2004
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: For the case of a two system control loop, it is shown that the nature of the period ratio $frac{T_1}{T_2}$ profoundly affects system behavior. Little is known about their effects on system stability and performance robustness.
      • keywords: discrete; errors; model; stability; state; synchronization; system; time
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3766. q811kh06t6q
      • author: Luke David Simoni
      • title: Predictive Modeling of Fluid Phase Equilibria for Systems Containing Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2009
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Potential applications that have been purported in the literature include using ILs as reaction media, electrolytes for electrochemical processes, heat transfer fluids, absorption refrigeration media, entrainers for extractive distillation, and extraction solvents among others. Furthermore, n-octanol/water partion coefficients are calculated as an assessment of toxicity for several ILs.
      • keywords: data; equilibrium; ils; ionic; liquid; literature; models; systems
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3767. q811kh06t9r
      • author: Karen Clausen-Brown
      • title: Remembering the Sabbath: Law, Labor, and Liberty in Milton and His Contemporaries
      • date: 2014
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Chapters 4 and 5 show that Milton's understanding of Sabbath law changed throughout his career: during the early 1640s he agreed with the Puritans that Christians were bound to Hebrew Sabbath law, but in his later career he argued that Christ had freed Christians from the law. Chapters 1 and 2 consider the turn from theological to political explorations of Sabbath law in England, focusing on the writings of the Puritans, the Laudians, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, and Thomas Hobbes.
      • keywords: debates; law; liberty; milton; political; sabbath
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3768. q811kh06v5p
      • author: Lawrence P. Zaino
      • title: Electrochemical Techniques in Nanoscale Devices for Enhanced Chemical Measurement
      • date: 1904
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Additionally, by fabricating pores at sub-wavelength dimensions (typically &lt; 100 nm), the optical field becomes highly confined and creates effective sampling volumes &lt; 200 zL. This extremely small sampling volume is particularly useful for studying propertied of single molecules at concentrations up to 100 µM.This work seeks to use nanoscale properties to develop new measurements not previously possible with current macro-scale techniques. At nanoscale dimensions, phenomena not observable at the macro-scale can be exploited to enhance chemical measurement.
      • keywords: chemical; confined; dimensions; lengths; measurement; nanometer; scale
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3769. q811kh0704v
      • author: Kasey Stanton
      • title: The Dominance Behavioral System: Explicating Its Psychopathological Structure and Personality Relations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: In Phase 1, the item-level structure of the Hypomanic Personality Scale (Eckblad &amp; Chapman, 1986) and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Raskin &amp; Terry, 1988) was examined concurrently both in (a) community adults currently receiving psychiatric treatment (N = 737), and (b) university undergraduates (N = 487). In the Phase 2 analyses using these same samples, the structure of a wider range of mania, narcissism, antisocial personality disorder/psychopathy, and substance use disorder measures was examined, including factor-based scales modeling the emergent Phase 1 factors.
      • keywords: dominance; measures; narcissism; personality; structure; substance
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3770. q811kh07981
      • author: Courtney Smotherman
      • title: Io ho deliberato di scrivere: The Personalization of Humanistic Historiography during the Italian Wars (1494-1559)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: authors; histories; historiography; humanistic; italian; wars
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3771. q811kh07n6f
      • author: Joseph Riordan, SJ
      • title: Isaiah Unbound: The Transfiguration of Zion in Tobit 13-14
      • date: 2019
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: This thesis wades into the recent debates over the composition and redaction of some of the latter Zion oracles in the Book of Isaiah. Tobit makes this latter point explicitly in his final testament, and so in my third chapter I take his reflections as the point of departure for a broader survey of restoration eschatology within Second Temple literature.
      • keywords: chapter; isaiah; prophetic; reception; redactional; tobit; tradition
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3772. q811kh07n7s
      • author: Kelcie L. Vercel
      • title: Narratives of Livability in American Housing: Connecting Culture and Action in the Work of Home Stagers, Home Builders, and Realtors
      • date: 2019
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This research bridges the gap between structural analyses of home buying and cultural analyses of domestic consumption by locating cultural meaning in the housing exchange. Narratives of livability are actionable configurations of cultural meanings drawn from the complex semiotic space that defines the home.
      • keywords: buying; cultural; home; housing; meanings; narratives; professionals
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3773. q811kh07p8f
      • author: Sichi Li
      • title: Extra-Framework Cations in Zeolites: Relationship between Their Stability, Reactivity and Al Support Proximity
      • date: 2019
      • words: 171
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: I will describe considerations important in model construction, applications of ab initio molecular dynamics to structure annealing and accurate computations of reaction and activation free energies, first-principles thermodynamics approaches for predicting site speciation at realistic conditions, and approaches for predicting heteroatom distributions into material models. Computational models of zeolites must capture their three-dimensional structure, the intrinsic microscopic heterogeneity introduced by heteroatom substitutions that underlie their interesting chemical behavior, and the dynamic nature of reactive sites within the pores of molecular dimensions.
      • keywords: dimensional; heteroatom; models; molecular; structure; zeolites
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3774. q811kh07x6x
      • author: Joshua Wright
      • title: Romanticism on the Battlefield: Representations of Conflict, 1793-1815
      • date: 2022
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: While a majority of scholarly attention in the field has focused on Romantic era representations of war as a mediated form of deferral that sublimates war's damages, I argue that by focusing on poetic representations of the battlefield we can better understand how writers of this era open up a space in which they can consider the fragmenting and discordant effect violence has on the process of meaning-making and can represent what they themselves have not experienced. This dissertation analyzes the multifaceted representations of the battlefield by British Romantic poets in their responses to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, covering roughly the years 1793-1815.
      • keywords: battlefield; era; landscape; meaning; romantic
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3775. q811kh0802f
      • author: Karen Angeles
      • title: Advancing Multi-Hazard Performance Assessments from Parcel to Regional Scale: A Data-Driven Approach to Wind Hazards Impacts on Commercial Buildings
      • date: 2023
      • words: 579
      • flesch: 10
      • 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.
      • keywords: actual; assessments; building; data; hurricane; loss; open; regional; source; specific; workflows
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3776. qb98mc90240
      • author: Damian Francis Zurro
      • title: We All Work in Common: Medieval Cistercian Lay Brothers in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
      • date: 2015
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Cistercian monks brought in lay brothers as helpers in the goal of restoring manual labor to an important place in monasticism. Then, the dissertation surveys the customaries that guided monks and lay brothers both at work and during communal liturgical celebrations to illuminate how these practices reinforced the subordinate status of lay brothers.
      • keywords: brothers; cistercian; lay; life; monks
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3777. qb98mc9025b
      • author: Constance Lynne Slaboch
      • title: Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi
      • date: 2011
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In this investigation, a murine thrombus, formed from platelet-rich plasma, calcium, and thrombin, was nanoindented and the elastic modulus was determined via elastic contact theory. This information was used as input to an inverse finite element simulation, which synthesized optimal values for the elastic modulus and viscosity of the thrombus using a viscoelastic material model.
      • keywords: aortic; elastic; major; thrombus
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3778. qb98mc9026p
      • author: Jay Nicholas Roudebush
      • title: The Fence Line: Concerning the Human Interface
      • date: 2013
      • words: 31
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: A thesis of research supporting the visual work of artist Nick Roudebush. His work employs clay and the ceramic process as metaphorical devices concerning the connection between humanity and its land.
      • keywords: work
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3779. qb98mc90318
      • author: Yang Yang
      • title: Bacterial Diagnostic System for Infectious Diseases: Siderophore-Mediated Capture and Development of a SPR-PI Sensing Platform
      • date: 2013
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Future work target additional optimization of the sensing platform to resolve bacteria signal below 20 minutes. Dielectrophoresis used in conjunction with siderophore functionalized surfaces improved bacteria surface coverage by a factor of 30 for Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA01, and showed an 8 fold improvement compared to PA6.
      • keywords: aeruginosa; bacteria; iron; pseudomonas; signal
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3780. qb98mc9032m
      • author: Teng Lin
      • title: Molecular Dynamics Methodology and Simulations of Phospholipid Bilayers and Liquid Crystals
      • date: 2008
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: As a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary science bridging physics, chemistry and biology, the study of soft condensed matter involves the kinetics, dynamics and geometric structures of complex materials like membrane, liquid crystal and polymers. In order to simulate large soft condensed systems for long times within a reasonable amount of computational time, some new coarse-grained models are presented in this dissertation to describe phospholipids and liquid crystals.
      • keywords: dynamics; liquid; materials; new; properties; scale; soft
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3781. qb98mc9033z
      • author: Xue Rui
      • title: Beam Hardening Correction in Iterative Tomographic Image Reconstruction
      • date: 2011
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The reconstructed images present promising improvement with the table correction in ILIBO: the artifacts from dense bone structure are better removed; small bone structures are better defined and the edge of the bone structures are more sharp. When the phantom contained both materials, applying soft tissue and bone polynomial correction successively was not able to fully remove the beam hardening artifacts.
      • keywords: artifacts; beam; bone; correction; hardening; iterative; table
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3782. qb98mc90360
      • author: Jason Robert Baldwin
      • title: A Social Requirement Theory of Moral Obligation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: And contra Richard Joyce's recent argument for moral error theory, moral obligations need not be strictly metaphysically necessary to satisfy our prephilosophical intuitions about morality's inescapability. Social Requirement Theory is the view that moral obligations are reasons for action constituted by the actual demands of an agent's culture.
      • keywords: moral; practical; reasons; social; theory
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3783. qb98mc9038p
      • author: David Joseph Guseilla
      • title: Efforts towards the Total Synthesis of 20-Deoxyapoptolidinone and 'Chimeric' Analogues
      • date: 2010
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Fragment B in its various forms was synthesized from commercially available (L)-malic acid utilizing the purchased stereochemistry to influence the addition of several new stereocenters. Because of this structural complexity and cytotoxicity, apoptolidin has garner considerable interest in the scientific community resulting in several total syntheses, SAR work, and further isolations of compounds in the apoptolidin family.
      • keywords: analogues; apoptolidin; cells; deoxyapoptolidinone; fragment; isoapoptolidin; macrolide; membered
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3784. qb98mc9049b
      • author: Troy Aiken
      • title: Through the World of Replication and Consumption
      • date: 1904
      • words: 32
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: This thesis paper details my research regarding mold making and slip-casting within ceramics. It is meant to be an addendum to my thesis exhibition held in the Snite Museum of Art.
      • keywords: thesis
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3785. qb98mc9053k
      • author: Darren Cheah
      • title: Characterization of Sedimentary n-alkyl Lipids in a Holocene Record from Lake Kivu, East Africa
      • date: 1904
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Lake Kivu is an East African rift lake unique for its hydrothermal activity that contributes to permanently stratified conditions and high concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane at depth. Further analyses on compound-specific isotopes, relevant biomarker classes, and the vegetation and microbial ecology surrounding Lake Kivu are needed to better constrain the sources of organic matter to Lake Kivu's sediment archive.
      • keywords: carbon; compound; kivu; lake; matter
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3786. qb98mc90825
      • author: Daniel B. McArtor
      • title: Extending a Distance-Based Approach to Multivariate Multiple Regression
      • date: 1904
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: MDMR, however, is not commonly used in the social sciences, and this is partially due to three key issues that are addressed in this dissertation: (1) the null distribution of the MDMR test statistic is unknown, so the computation of p-values is currently contingent upon permutation tests that can be computationally infeasible, (2) the MDMR framework does not provide a useful measure of effect size for specific outcome variables, and (3) the MDMR framework relies on the assumption of independent observations. The freedom to choose any distance metric to quantify the dissimilarity between these response profiles can result in the relaxation of several assumptions that are commonly required to conduct multivariate association tests.
      • keywords: mdmr; multivariate; statistic; test
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3787. qb98mc90r8k
      • author: Edward J. Ondrako
      • title: Rebuild My Church: Peter Damian Fehlner's Appropriation and Development of the Ecclesiology and Mariology of Vatican II
      • date: 1904
      • words: 1234
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Fehlner develops this Franciscan understanding of the mystery of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and Marian mode of Franciscan theology and metaphysics. Fehlner's Franciscan thinking is a treasure trove for new Franciscan research on analyzing the positive and negative principles affecting global fraternity.
      • keywords: charity; christ; church; development; duns; ecclesiology; experience; father; fehlner; franciscan; god; john; mariology; mary; metaphysics; mystery; newman; scotistic; scotus; theology; vatican
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3788. qb98mc90s04
      • author: Steven Marczak
      • title: Beyond Equilibrium: Using Ion Concentration Polarization to Enhance the Detection and Selectivity of Nucleic Acids and the Isolation of Exosomes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In the same study, we illustrated the importance of designing selective DNA sensors based on nonequilibrium, or kinetic, properties rather than thermodynamic equilibrium properties. To avail the medical community of nucleic acid biomarkers, microfluidics has arisen to supplant traditional instrumentation by offering portable, affordable, and simple microfluidic chips which match the performance of conventional laboratory techniques.
      • keywords: acid; biomarkers; chip; dna; exosomes; isolation; microfluidic; new; nucleic
      • versions: original; plain text
3789. qb98mc90s4h
      • author: Aylin Acun
      • title: Aged, Human-Origin Engineered Myocardium Model to Study Reperfusion Injury
      • date: 1904
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: We then designed and fabricated myocardial model tissues using hiPSC-derived endothelial cells (ECs) and cardiomyocytes (CMs) from rats to study pathophysiology and potential ameliorations of RI. The current clinical approach after MI is reoxygenating the infarct heart tissue, however, this may lead to further damage due to the oxidative stress created, causing reperfusion injury (RI).
      • keywords: age; cells; cvds; diseases; human; myocardial; tissue
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3790. qb98mc90x9g
      • author: Cesar L. Soto
      • title: Religion and Revolution in a Transatlantic Frame: The Cases of English, Irish, and Mexican Literature (1789-1832)
      • date: 2019
      • words: 285
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: I show how diverse writers such as William Godwin (England), Lady Morgan (Ireland), and Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (Mexico) constructed national imaginaries in light of pressures exerted on religion by revolutionary events. I widen this scholarly perspective to include how Mexicans writing in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries appropriated revolutionary ideas for their own designs, and I also engage comparative work on how the English and the Irish made different use of the same radical material.
      • keywords: atlantic; england; irish; mexico; religious; revolutionary; use
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3791. qb98mc9146k
      • author: Reginald (Brendan) Lynch
      • title: The Reception of the Summa Theologiae on the Question of Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period
      • date: 2020
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Accordingly, this thesis begins with a textual study of the concept of Eucharistic sacrifice in Aquinas' Summa theologiae. Because Aquinas' own teaching in the Summa is broader than Reformation polemics, in this thesis the term 'Eucharistic sacrifice' has been adopted in order to capture the full range of meaning that is associated with the concept of sacrifice in Aquinas' Eucharistic theology in the Summa.
      • keywords: aquinas; early; eucharistic; sacrifice; summa; teaching; theology; thesis
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3792. qb98mc9147x
      • author: Craig Reingold
      • title: Indirect Measurements of Neutron Induced Radiative Capture Cross Sections on Rare Earth Elements
      • date: 2020
      • words: 255
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The data taken explores the existence of the low energy enhancement of the γ-strength function in a spherical and deformed nuclear system, and verifies the robustness of the method to differ- ent indirect reaction channels. Indirect measure- ments of compound nuclear reactions can be performed using more easily accessible reaction channels as a way of studying the reaction of interest.
      • keywords: cross; measurements; method; reaction; sections
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3793. qb98mc9170f
      • author: Aikaterini P. Kyprioti
      • title: Natural Hazard Risk Assessment: Promoting Computational Efficiency through Advances in Surrogate Modeling
      • date: 2022
      • words: 404
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: Using synthetic storm databases developed for coastal studies as the foundation of the surrogate model development, various unexplored topics are investigated in detail for the formulation of surrogate models to predict the peak storm surge. Implementation greatly reduces the number of structural simulations for the calibration of the metamodel that approximates the EDP distribution, promoting significant computational savings in seismic risk assessment application.
      • keywords: assessment; hazard; implementation; model; risk; storm; strategies; surge; surrogate
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3794. qf85n873b2c
      • author: Qiang Yu
      • title: The role of sulfhydryl sites in metal binding onto bacterial cells
      • date: 2015
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Besides carboxyl, phosphoryl, and amine groups, the sulfhydryl sites have also been identified recently as potential metal binding sites, but the exact role of sulfhydryl sites has not yet been extensively studied. The research presented in this dissertation focuses on the role played by sulfhydryl sites in metal adsorption onto bacteria.
      • keywords: bacterial; cell; chapter; metal; sites; sulfhydryl
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3795. qf85n873b3q
      • author: Alexandra Imre
      • title: Experimental Study of Nanomagnets for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (MQCA) Logic ApplicationsExperimental Study of Nanomagnets for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (MQCA) Logic Applications
      • date: 2005
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Magnetic random access memories (MRAM) store binary information in such nanomagnets, and fabrication of dense arrays of nanomagnets is also under development for application in hard disk drives (HDD). The networks of nanomagnets were imaged by magnetic force microscopy (MFM), with which magnetization states of the individual nanomagnets were distinguished and mapped.
      • keywords: dipole; dissertation; gate; magnetic; mfm; mqca; nanomagnets; ordering
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3796. qf85n873b42
      • author: Melissa Lauren Dinsman
      • title: Radio at War: Literature, Propaganda, and the Emergence of New Modernist Networks During World War II
      • date: 2013
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In the process of exploring modernism's second act in the early 1940s, this dissertation also exposes formal similarities between radio broadcasting and literary modernism, namely that radio networks, which simultaneously forge and deny effective communication, act as a fitting analogy for the contradictions of modernism, where authors' attempts to communicate with the public were often thwarted by esoteric forms. This comment on radio's martial power and extensive reach drives this dissertation, which explores the link between radio networks and destructive weaponry, and argues that while there is a historical correlation between radio and war, wartime broadcasting cannot simply be categorized as a weapon for disseminating nationalist propaganda.
      • keywords: authors; broadcasting; dissertation; literary; modernism; networks; radio; writers
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3797. qf85n873b8f
      • author: Carl Jonathan Wojtaszek
      • title: Essays in Economics Using Military-Induced Variation to Study Human Capital Development, Excess Sensitivity to Income, and Labor Market Decisions
      • date: 2015
      • words: 524
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: More importantly, I find, conditional on enlisting, that local casualties also reduce enlistments into riskier military jobs and reduce the length of initial contracts more strongly than national casualties - presenting additional manning challenges for the military. The third chapter examines the impact of military casualties and their salience on both the type and number of enlistments that occur in the following months.
      • keywords: casualties; charitable; enlistments; giving; income; military; percent; sensitivity; timing; war
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3798. qf85n873b9s
      • author: John Milton LaBarge, III
      • title: Rapid Infrastructure Digitization to Support High-Fidelity Hurricane Risk Assessment
      • date: 2013
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The end result is a digitization schema that can be readily applied to wood frame residential structures and is readily expandable to other construction typologies. The framework has three main phases: exterior geometry extraction, interior geometry estimation, and subassembly modeling.
      • keywords: approach; computational; digitization; need
      • versions: original; plain text
3799. qf85n873c5q
      • author: Randy Jeffrey
      • title: Effects of the Anti-Androgen Bicalutamide on Prostate Cancer Cells
      • date: 2012
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: However these experiments identified a distinct threshold response to bicalutamide: at low doses of bicalutamide both cell lines induce cell cycle arrest but no significant level of cell death, while at higher doses both cell lines exhibit extensive cell death. Bicalutamide induces dose dependent effects on cell cycle and cell death in both cell lines.
      • keywords: androgen; anti; bicalutamide; cell; lines; response
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3800. qf85n873c62
      • author: Alexander Arnold
      • title: An Essay on Evidence
      • date: 2011
      • words: 439
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This conception of the fundamental evidential role helps us derive an ontology of evidence according to which all evidence consists in epistemically-usable facts, where facts here are not understood a true propositions, but as that which true propositions represent. My dissertation treats theories of evidence.
      • keywords: evidence; fact; specific; theories; theory; token; type
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3801. qf85n873c8r
      • author: Laura Marie Grande
      • title: Understanding Disorder and Crystallographic Phase Changes in Metalloporphyrins
      • date: 2009
      • words: 127
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Crystal structures at multiple temperatures reveal that the system changes from a system with eightfold disorder at 250 K to one that is more ordered below 195 K. Interestingly, at 190 K, it was possible to trap the structure in its transition state, resulting in three distinct structures of [Co(TPP)(NO)]. The phase change is reversible and has given insight into the nature of nitrosyl disorder in the porphyrin system as a dynamic disorder.
      • keywords: change; phase; system
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3802. qf85n873d1n
      • author: John Herrington
      • title: Elucidation of the selection and roles of synonymous codons in protein biogenesis
      • date: 2014
      • words: 128
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: In this thesis, the importance of rare codons on protein biogenesis as well as cell fitness will be discussed. The turbidostat, as well as batch culture, is used to test the extent to which rare codons affect an antibiotic resistance protein known as chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT).
      • keywords: cat; codons; rare
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3803. qf85n873f0m
      • author: John W. McCormack
      • title: Wounded Faith: Monarchy and Memory in the French Wars of Religion, 1559-1629
      • date: 1904
      • words: 370
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This study traces a transformation in the way French kings were ritually commemorated during the Wars of Religion, focusing on the deaths of Henry II (1559), Charles IX (1574), Henry III (1589), and Henry IV (1610). By 1589, the Catholic League emerged to combat the religious policies of Henry III and the succession of Henry IV, and when Jacques Clément assassinated Henry III and was celebrated as a martyr, it showed how contested the memory of a French monarch could become.
      • keywords: catholic; death; french; henry; iii; league; political
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3804. qf85n874198
      • author: Junye Wang
      • title: Computation of Rotor Noise Generation in Turbulent Flow Using Large-Eddy Simulation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: acoustic; advance; blade; frequency; ingestion; noise; rotor; turbulence; wake
      • versions: original; plain text
3805. qf85n87469t
      • author: Margaret Blume Freddoso
      • title: Spe salvi facti sumus (Rom. 8:24): Thomas Aquinas's Doctrine of Theological Hope and Its Role in the Human Being's Journey to God
      • date: 2019
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The study is undertaken through a close reading of the Summa Theologiae according to which Aquinas's doctrine of theological hope is related to his doctrines of the divine ordinatio, human beatitude, providence, predestination, the Trinitarian missions, Christ, grace, sin, the theological virtues, the natural desire for happiness, human free choice, and the passions. The theological virtue of hope is a person's holy self love and desire for eternal beatitude, as well as her trust in God's merciful and omnipotent love, and her voluntary reception of his grace.
      • keywords: doctrine; god; hope; human; love; theological; thomas
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3806. qf85n87480b
      • author: Jens Jakob Kjaer
      • title: Homology of the Derivatives of the Identity Functor of Spaces
      • date: 2019
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: The derivatives of the identity functor on spaces in Goodwillie calculus forms an operad in spectra. In this chapter we recover Bousfield's computation of v_1-periodic homotopy groups of simply connected, finite H-spaces from Bousfield's work using the techniques of Goodwillie calculus.
      • keywords: andré; bousfield; cohomology; quillen
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3807. qf85n874d59
      • author: Ruth Speidel
      • title: The Effects of Early Adversity on Child Self-Regulation: Indirect Effects of Maternal Sensitivity and Child Internal Working Models
      • date: 2020
      • words: 536
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Results revealed unique effects of cumulative early adversity predicting increases in diurnal cortisol slope from T1 to T4 and lower child emotion regulation at T4, as well as lower maternal sensitivity during free play and lower maternal sensitive guidance during reminiscing at T2. Higher maternal sensitivity during free play at T2 predicted lower child representations of behavior dysregulation during child narratives at T3, and higher maternal sensitive guidance during reminiscing at T2 predicted higher representations of moral affiliative themes during child narratives at T3.
      • keywords: adversity; approach; child; cumulative; early; effects; lower; maternal; regulation; self; sensitivity
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3808. qf85n874h7x
      • author: Kevin Manley
      • title: Hypothesis Testing and Structure Learning for Directed Acyclic Graphs
      • date: 2022
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: These procedures are shown to theoretically and empirically control FDR while increasing power over existing methods under certain scenarios. This model incorporates graph edge sparsity through a sparsity inducing prior, while modeling each node as coming from a conditional distribution in which the variance is a quadratic function of its mean.
      • keywords: dag; extensive; graph; model
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3809. qf85n874h88
      • author: Helena S Kleiner
      • title: Intraspecific Variation Explains Differences in Plant-Mediated Methane Emissions in a Coastal Marsh across Species Composition and an Environmental Gradient
      • date: 2022
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: It is well understood that sea-level rise both affects methane emissions directly and indirectly through shifts in plant community composition. The role of intraspecific genetic variation in explaining variation in plant traits and methane emissions is much less studied.
      • keywords: emissions; methane; plant
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3810. qf85n874j46
      • author: Joshua Barthuly
      • title: Modal Skepticism and Its Applications
      • date: 2023
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: I consider implications for modal skepticism in metaphysics and philosophy of religion, showing that divine revelation can play the role that secular modal epistemology cannot in advancing those debates. It also brings to bear highly-relevant, recent results in mainstream epistemology that have surprisingly gone overlooked in the otherwise thoroughgoing developments in modal epistemology, a sub-discipline that has burgeoned in the last two decades in response to van Inwagen's original, influential argument.
      • keywords: argument; epistemology; modal
      • versions: original; plain text
3811. qf85n874j5j
      • author: John Middlebrooks
      • title: Cross-Flow Instability Experiments on a Swept Fin-Cone with Variable Nose Bluntness in Mach 6 Flow
      • date: 2023
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Infrared thermography was used to assess surface heating caused by stationary boundary layer disturbances. Pressure transducers were embedded in the surface of the fin to capture non-stationary boundary layer disturbance.
      • keywords: boundary; fin; instability; layer; stationary
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3812. qj72p556m6t
      • author: Seemit Praharaj
      • title: Particle Migration in Confined Shear Flows
      • date: 2015
      • words: 391
      • flesch: 46
      • 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.
      • keywords: blood; chapter; experiments; flow; migration; particles; shear; simple
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3813. qj72p556m75
      • author: Levi Bronson Sanchez
      • title: Legends of Robert Alvarez and Collected Stories
      • date: 2011
      • words: 15
      • flesch: 73
      • summary: The start to a novel, Legends of Robert Alvarez, and a collection of short fiction.
      • keywords: fiction
      • versions: original; plain text
3814. qj72p556m8h
      • author: Brian T Hayden
      • title: Better Understanding Type Ia Supernovae With the Goal of Making Them More Reliable Distance Indicators
      • date: 2013
      • words: 382
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: correlation; galaxy; host; mass; metallicity; rise; stretch
      • versions: original; plain text
3815. qj72p556n1d
      • author: Charles Laurin
      • title: Lasso Meta-Regression and Its Application to Psychiatric Genomics
      • date: 2014
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: covariates; level; meta; regression
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3816. qj72p556n2r
      • author: John Perry
      • title: Subverting the Republic: Christian Faithfulness and Civic Allegiance in John Locke's America
      • date: 2008
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Because of Locke's decisive role in launching political liberalism and his influence on the American founders, he remains an often-overlooked presence in todayÌøåÀå_s debates. In America, this most commonly involves debates about Christianity and political liberalism.
      • keywords: american; christians; liberalism; locke; political; religious; solution
      • versions: original; plain text
3817. qj72p556n33
      • author: Yong Huang
      • title: Thermal Stability and Phase Transitions of Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2013
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: ILs are studied in a variety of applications, including solvents for reactions and separations, high temperature heat transfer fluids, geothermally driven absorption refrigeration systems and working fluid in a variety of electrochemical applications. In addition, vaporization/decomposition products of several ILs were first studied by chromatoprobe gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) under a helium environment in both EI and NCI modes.
      • keywords: anions; applications; ils; low; organic; properties; temperature; vapor; variety
      • versions: original; plain text
3818. qj72p556n4f
      • author: Micah Rose Rogel
      • title: Effects of Hydroxyapatite Crystal Morphology on Osteoblast-like Cell Response
      • date: 2010
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Preliminary studies have also indicated that HA whiskers are at least as biocompatible as conventional HA powders. These results, in conjunction with the improved mechanical properties of polymer composites reinforced with HA whiskers, establish whiskers as a biomaterial of similar cytocompatibility to conventional equiaxed HA powders and worthy of further study.
      • keywords: morphology; powders; proliferation; whiskers
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3819. qj72p556n5s
      • author: Brian Pocock Boeninger
      • title: Partial Freedom and Degrees of Moral Responsibility: The Metaphysics of Influence and Libertarianism
      • date: 2011
      • words: 505
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This dissertation focuses on the concept of influence--the metaphysical middle ground between determinism and chance--in libertarian accounts of free will and moral responsibility, a concept that, despite its centrality to libertarianism, has not been given a satisfactory explication. One main project of the dissertation is to make significant progress toward an explication of influence; the other main project consists of tracing some of the implications of this explication, especially implications for theories of moral responsibility.
      • keywords: act; causal; explication; free; influence; libertarian; moral; responsibility
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3820. qj72p556n8t
      • author: David M. Costello
      • title: Effects of invasive species and chemical contaminants on biogeochemical fluxes across ecosystem boundaries
      • date: 2009
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: To control how chemical contaminants and non-native species negatively affect ecosystem functions, we must understand that seemingly separate ecosystems can be connected through resource subsidies and, thus, the impact of stressors can move across ecosystem boundaries. Anthropogenic disturbances, such as the transport and release of invasive species and chemical contaminants, can disrupt the functioning of ecosystems and I examined how these stressors caan influence the flux of resources across ecosystem boundaries.
      • keywords: boundaries; earthworms; ecosystem; flux; native; non
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3821. qj72p556p0c
      • author: Ryan Matthew Connaughton
      • title: Physics and Visualization in Swarm Agent Modeling
      • date: 2010
      • words: 115
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Extensions are made to the SimWorld environment, a simulator for multi-agent swarm experimentation, to provide rigid-body physics and three-dimensional renderings of simulations. This thesis investigates the role of physics and visualization in agent modeling.
      • keywords: agent; swarm
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3822. qj72p556p1q
      • author: Eleanor Everett Pettus
      • title: Reforming Boys: The English Reformation and the Conversion of Humanism
      • date: 2015
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Thus, when Henry VIII and Edward VI attempted to disentangle schools from the fabric of English religious life, simultaneously stamping out practices they regarded as superstitious, many schools vanished with the institutions that had been outlawed. Pre-Reformation English humanism had proven itself to be entirely compatible with late medieval religious beliefs about the role of intercessory prayers in the life of the church; schools founded by humanists maintained traditional expectations about the role of school as religious organization.
      • keywords: early; humanists; religious; schools
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3823. qj72p556r1b
      • author: Vaibhav Katewa
      • title: Analysis and Design of Multi-Agent Systems under Communication and Privacy Constraints
      • date: 1904
      • words: 457
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: agents; control; framework; level; multi; noise; privacy; system
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3824. qj72p556t40
      • author: Yuxiao Dong
      • title: Computational Lens on Big Social and Information Networks
      • date: 1904
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Finally, our work on diversity presents neural network based representation learning models for embedding heterogeneous networks in which there exist diverse types of nodes and edges, giving rise to important implications for traditional mining and learning tasks in heterogeneous network data, including similarity search, clustering, and classification. Accordingly, this thesis develops computational models to investigating the ways that individuals are embedded in and interact within a wide range of over one hundred big networks---the biggest with over 60 million nodes and 1.8 billion edges---with an emphasis on two fundamental and interconnected directions: user demographics and network diversity.
      • keywords: demographics; direction; diverse; individuals; models; networks; social; thesis
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3825. qj72p556t5b
      • author: Caroline Byrd Hornburg
      • title: Optimizing Problem Format to Facilitate Children's Understanding of Math Equivalence
      • date: 1904
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Results indicate that the role of encoding in children's solving of math equivalence problems depends on problem format, and specifically that the interpretation of what is encoded may matter more than accuracy encoding problem features. Unfortunately, most children (ages 7-11) struggle to understand it and have difficulties solving math equivalence problems, which have operations on both sides of the equal sign (e.g., 3 + 4 = __
      • keywords: blank; encoding; problems
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3826. qj72p557b6m
      • author: David Morris
      • title: Apocalypse Now or Later: The Manuscript Tradition of the Super Prophetas (Super Esaiam) of Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore
      • date: 2018
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: This dissertation represents a preliminary, yet essential, step toward both a comprehensive analysis and a critical edition of one of the most important examples of the pseudo-Joachite corpus, a compilation called Super Prophetas—also known as Super Esaiam Prophetam. These pseudo-Joachite works, written by Joachim's various heirs but under his name and often decades after his death, have long remained a mystery: comparatively unstudied, mostly unedited, and without clear analysis of the manuscript tradition behind them.
      • keywords: abbot; compilation; joachim; manuscript; tradition; works
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3827. qj72p557g9w
      • author: Joseph R. Pauszek
      • title: A Predictive Coding Account of Attention Control
      • date: 2019
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: On this account, virtually every aspect of human cognition serves the universal imperative of minimizing prediction error between implicit hypotheses about the state of the external world and data from sensory inputs, under a constraint that computational efficiency is prioritized. In particular, observers routinely exploited the task strategy associated with less cognitive demand, but their behavior was also flexibly adaptive and sensitive to alternative motives for goal-driven behavior.
      • keywords: account; attention; cognition; control; demand
      • versions: original; plain text
3828. qj72p557j7t
      • author: Marwa S Asem
      • title: The Contribution of Malignant Ascites in Regulating Ovarian Cancer Metastasis
      • date: 2019
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The molecular components of malignant ascites may play a significant role in OvCa progression through influencing OvCa cell behavior and preparing a receptive environment for OvCa metastasis. Our data identified Wnt5a as a host peritoneal-secreted factor that potentiates OvCa cell pro-metastatic behavior.
      • keywords: ascites; cell; malignant; metastatic; ovca; peritoneal; progression; wnt5a
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3829. qj72p557p9r
      • author: Kyle Dubiak
      • title: The Proteomic, Transcriptomic, and Metabolomic Analyses of Developing Xenopus laevis Embryos
      • date: 2020
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 4
      • summary: This has resulted in furthering single cell proteomic sensitivity, whole embryo metabolite imaging, N-­glycoproteome quantitation, conduction system analysis of the developing heart, and the integration of proteomics and transcriptomics investigating neural cell lineage commitment. Beginning with the largest developmental proteome dataset of any organism at that time, Xenopus laevis has since been utilized in countless analytical experiments, ranging from single cell proteomics and metabolomics, protein extraction optimization, and phosphoproteomics.
      • keywords: analytical; developmental; proteomics; xenopus
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3830. qj72p557q30
      • author: Sarah L. Bliese
      • title: Developing Screening Technologies for Low Resource Settings
      • date: 2020
      • words: 389
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I collaborated with medicine regulatory agencies in Bangladesh and Tanzania to conduct specificity and sensitivity studies of paper analytical devices used for rapid screening of pharmaceuticals. Analytical instrumentation is critical for regulating medicine and environmental quality, yet in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) a lack of technological infrastructure prevents regulatory agencies from responding effectively to problems that affect the health of their populations.
      • keywords: agencies; analysis; analytical; medicine; pad; products; quality; regulatory; screening
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3831. qj72p557q7c
      • author: Augustine M. Reisenauer, O.P.
      • title: Augustine on the Resurrection
      • date: 2021
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: From the witness of Scripture, Augustine grasps that our integral resurrection consists of a twofold process: (1) the historical and spiritual resurrection of the human soul from its death in sin to life in Christ; and (2) the eschatological and fleshly resurrection of the human body from its temporal death to eternal existence, either in eternal death or in eternal life. It then investigates his articulations of the fleshly resurrection of Jesus Christ, of encountering the resurrected Lord even in the scriptural proclamation and preaching of his resurrection, and of the twofold application of Christ's paschal mystery to the whole human person, by way of sacrament and by way of example.
      • keywords: augustine; christ; death; human; resurrection; study
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3832. qj72p557r1m
      • author: Lau Ortiz Mercado
      • title: Double Trouble: Queering and Disrupting Genre Conventions through Witches in Early Modern Drama
      • date: 2021
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This dissertation argues that the presence of witches on the stage was an integral part of early modern English theatre that helped shape the conventions of different genres and transform theatre itself. Performing incantations, ritualistic spells, and making people and objects fly, among other things, allowed playwrights and theatre companies to exploit theatrical mechanisms and push the limits of the theatre, providing awe-inducing scenes for their audiences.
      • keywords: english; stage; theatre; witchcraft; witches
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3833. qn59q239w4g
      • author: Patricia Snell
      • title: 'Just Reproduce After What I Taught You': Spatial Segregation of Religious Youth Socialization and the Reproduction of Social Inequality
      • date: 2009
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: This analysis provides evidence for a spatially stratified pattern to religious youth socialization. This study extends the social reproduction literature by examining intended socialization of religious-based youth programs across socioeconomic status differences of the areas in which religious congregations are located.
      • keywords: congregations; religious; socialization; youth
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3834. qn59q239w5t
      • author: Sean C. Kassen
      • title: Characterization of Light-Induced Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration and the Role of Stat3, CNTF, and Olig2 During Light-Induced Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration
      • date: 2008
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: To examine genes involved in M&#252;ller glial cell proliferation and progenitor cell differentiation, I performed temporal and functional gene cluster analysis. Immunolocalization demonstrated increased Stat3 expression in M&#252;ller glial cells by 31 hours, and some Stat3-positive M&#252;ller glial cells expressed PCNA.
      • keywords: cells; cntf; glia; m&#252;ller; proliferation; regeneration; stat3; zebrafish
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3835. qn59q239w65
      • author: John Harvey
      • title: Around Palais' Covering Homotopy Theorem
      • date: 2014
      • words: 215
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Under mild topological hypotheses, it is shown that when a sequence of orbit spaces is 'close' to a limit orbit space, in some suitable sense, within a larger ambient orbit space, the G-spaces in the tail of the sequence are strongly equivalent to the limit G-space. The classification by Palais of G-spaces, topological spaces acted on by homeomorphisms by a compact Lie group G, is refined.
      • keywords: classification; group; spaces
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3836. qn59q239x0d
      • author: Gregory Thomas Neumann
      • title: Tailoring the Active Site and Mesostructure of ZSM-5 for Deoxygenation and C-C Bond Coupling Reactions
      • date: 2015
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The use of lignocellulosic biomass as a source of renewable energy has gained traction in recent years due to the finite supply, environmental effects, geopolitics, and overall sustainability of fossil fuels. With an appropriate catalyst, these products or reaction intermediates can be upgraded to valuable and stable fuels and chemicals mimicking those currently produced from petroleum resources.
      • keywords: biomass; catalyst; chemicals; fuels; reactions; renewable; use; zeolites
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3837. qn59q239x1r
      • author: Joel Griffith
      • title: Modeling Electromagnetic Properties of Hadrons
      • date: 2013
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This work is motivated by the existence of edm enhancement in relativistic atoms; a novel calculation of this enhancement effect in alkali atoms is presented using a modification of the Furry representation that extends standard screening effects to a field-theoretical framework. The proton polarizability is found to agree with existing estimates using dispersion relation theory, indicating that this effect is incapable of resolving the outstanding proton size puzzle.
      • keywords: edm; enhancement; field; proton; representation
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3838. qn59q239x7t
      • author: Andrew M. Bailey
      • title: Person and Animal
      • date: 2011
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: One argument exploits crowding problems that plague non-animalist views. I further argue for a priority principle according to which each of us thinks our thoughts in the primary and non-derivative sense and show that a number of non-animalist views are inconsistent with this principle.
      • keywords: animalism; human; materialism; objections; views
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3839. qn59q239x85
      • author: Seok-Hyeon Kim
      • title: Impacts of Information Technology on Productivity and Linkage of the US Economy
      • date: 2004
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Second, Information Technology industries made substantial contributions to reduce inflation as well as to productivity growth. The IT sector contributes to productivity growth of about 40 percent in growth-accounting and to factor saving in I-O analysis as of about 15 percent from 1987 to 2000.
      • keywords: accounting; growth; industry; inter; productivity; sector
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3840. qn59q239z0q
      • author: Shanshan Yan
      • title: Design, Syntheses and Biological Evaluation of Novel Cephalosporin and Oxazolidinone-Based Antibiotics
      • date: 2010
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Chapter 2 described the synthesis of novel oxazine and aminocycloalkenol containing oxazolidinone antibiotics using nitroso DielsÌ¢ âÂ'Alder chemistry. In Chapter 1, the synthesis of cephalosporin-based antibiotics using nitroso DielsÌ¢ âÂ'Alder chemistry was rationalized and described.
      • keywords: antibiotics; cephalosporin; oxazolidinone
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3841. qn59q239z3r
      • author: Lionel Obadiah Pittman Jr.
      • title: Aerothermal Experiments in Turbine Rim Seals
      • date: 2014
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: Also a computational study was done on the low pressure turbine stage to add insight into the effect of purge flow on turbine stage performance. Purge flows are necessary for ensuring that hot gasses do not penetrate the thermally sensitive rim seal and disk cavity regions of turbines.
      • keywords: flow; purge; seal; stage; turbine
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3842. qn59q240014
      • author: David N. DeJong
      • title: A Prophet like Moses: Prophecy and Canon in Early Judaism and Christianity
      • date: 1904
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This dissertation examines the scriptural concept of the prophet like Moses, both in its original context in Deuteronomy 18:15–22 and in its reception in the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and nascent Christianity. Their distinctive description of the prophets as Yhwh's servants reflects and is dependent this interpretation of Deut 18:15–22.
      • keywords: deuteronomy; dissertation; mosaic; moses; prophecy; prophetic
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3843. qn59q24036s
      • author: Zhou Li Kastner
      • title: Dissociative Electron Attachment to Gas Phase Biomolecules
      • date: 1904
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Peptide bond cleavage induced by DEA clearly demonstrates bond selectivity, which is susceptible when the LEE energy falls between 5to 8 eV. Resonance states responsible for the cleavage are found by my stabilization calculations which show that an anti-bonding force is exerted on the peptide bond by the attached electron through forming a π* type orbital around this bond. This experimental procedure can be extended to investigate more radicals resulting from DEA processes.
      • keywords: bond; cleavage; dea; electron; energy; peptide; processes; ring
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3844. qn59q240n2c
      • author: Christina G McDonnell
      • title: Emotional Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory among Preschool Children with ASD: Considering Difficulties, Strengths, and Predictors
      • date: 2018
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Regarding executive functioning, working memory only predicted AM specificity in the ASD group, supporting that EF is an important compensatory mechanism facilitating AM retrieval in ASD. Children with ASD required more prompting to complete AM tasks and demonstrated difficulties with AM performance in independent and collaborative recall contexts, including reduced AM specificity.
      • keywords: asd; children; ended; memory; specificity
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3845. qn59q24107g
      • author: Anna Thorne
      • title: Luminous Visions: Expanding Awareness through the Undisclosed Lenticular Photograph
      • date: 2021
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The photographs comprising Luminous Visions document ordinary and overlooked moments of natural light in interior spaces. The ontological bond between photography and daily life invites us to recognize the simple presence of natural light appearing in our own everyday environments.
      • keywords: life; light; natural; photographs; state
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3846. qn59q241362
      • author: Ernie Tsybulnik
      • title: Efficient Sparse-Grid Implementation of a Fifth-Order Multi-Resolution WENO Scheme for Hyperbolic Equations
      • date: 2023
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: In our previous work (Lu et al. 2018, Zhu and Zhang 2021), sparse-grid techniques were applied to the classical finite difference WENO schemes in solving multidimensional hyperbolic equations, and it was shown that significant CPU times were saved while both accuracy and stability of the classical WENO schemes were maintained for computations on sparse grids. Numerical experiments on solving high dimensional hyperbolic equations including Vlasov based kinetic problems are performed to demonstrate that the sparse-grid computations achieve large savings of CPU times, and at the same time preserve comparable accuracy and resolution with those on corresponding regular single grids.
      • keywords: classical; equations; hyperbolic; schemes; weno
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3847. qn59q24137d
      • author: Santiago Navarrete Astorquiza
      • title: Los sedimentos del texto: confluencias entre género, sexualidades y extractivismo en la región Andina en la primera mitad del siglo XX
      • date: 2023
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Estudio una serie de obras, como las fotografías de Robert Gerstmann y Martin Chambi; las novelas Íntimas, de Adela Zamudio, y Doña Bárbara, de Rómulo Gallegos; y el poema Alturas de Macchu Picchu, de Pablo Neruda. y diferentes tipos de textos de la región Andina.
      • keywords: andina; bárbara; las; los; neruda; pablo; que; región
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3848. qr46qz2358h
      • author: Hailey Jane LaVoy
      • title: 'Why have you been silent for so long?': Women's Letter Writing in the Early Middle Ages, 700-900
      • date: 2015
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Following an introduction which describes the extant letter collections, and a second chapter in which I contextualize women's letters and letter-writing within the larger corpus of male epistolary activity, I focus on three prominent themes which occur in letters to and from women: petition, gift-exchange, and land and spiritual administration. By unfolding the epistemological significance of these topics and examining individual letters in light of contemporary social, political, economic, and religious conditions of Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe, I highlight how women were not only engaging with their world, but how these engagements are actually documented through the ephemera of letters.
      • keywords: anglo; carolingian; dissertation; early; letters; medieval; saxon; women
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3849. qr46qz2359v
      • author: Mostafa Khoshnevisan
      • title: Optimal Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications Subject to Several Power and Eneregy Constraints
      • date: 2011
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: It is known that adaptive power and rate allocation is a useful technique for combating channel variations induced by multipath fading in wireless systems. Finally, we consider an energy harvesting wireless system, and study rate allocation policies to minimize a delay criterion, e.g., average delay in the data buffer or probability of overflow, subject to the hard power constraints imposed by the available energy.
      • keywords: constraints; power; short; term; wireless
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3850. qr46qz23602
      • author: Colin Michael McClelland
      • title: Type Ia Supernova Diversity: Studies of SN 2007qd, SN 2008Q and SN 2011fe
      • date: 2013
      • words: 435
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: It appears to belong to the SN~2002cx-like subclass of peculiar SN~Ia. We observe and analyze the photospheric-phase spectra and photometry for this event and determine that, despite its extreme nature, it still appears to be a thermonuclear event rather than a core-collapse SN~Ic. We identify intrinsic differences between SN~2008Q and SN~2000cx, and discuss what this means for the variation in explosion and nebular physics in SN~Ia events.
      • keywords: decay; mir; optical; photometry; sn~2008q; spectra
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3851. qr46qz23633
      • author: Justin Van Ness
      • title: Meaning Making in Protest Situations
      • date: 2015
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: Integrating cultural sociology and social psychology, I demonstrate processes of meaning-making that occur as bystanders enter protest situations and that mediate their engagement with the protests: (1) spatial dynamics as they mediate emotions and cognitions; (2) the presence of potentially polluting symbols; and (3) the consequences of emotional inconsistencies. Specifically, I shift focus from the individual to the situation to explore dynamic influences on bystanders' assessments of protest situations organized around two issues: attempts to 'reclaim' the clitoris in order to liberate women's sexuality and their use of the swastika inside the Star of David as their group's religious symbol.
      • keywords: making; protest; recruitment; religious
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3852. qr46qz2364f
      • author: Amanda Leigh Klingensmith
      • title: Np5+ Incorporation into Select Uranyl Phases and Thermal Analysis of Select Uranyl Phases
      • date: 2008
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: + into soddyite increased steadily with synthesis temperature. Np incorporation into uranophane, becquerelite, and kasolite was not dependent on synthesis temperature.
      • keywords: boltwoodite; incorporation; kasolite; soddyite; uranophane; uranyl
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3853. qr46qz2365s
      • author: May Kim
      • title: The Influence of Cultural Context on Risk, Resilience, and Mental Health on Emerging Latino Adults
      • date: 2014
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Informed by the cultural-ecological-transactional (CET) theoretical model (Kuperminc et al., 2009), the present study investigated culture-specific risk and resilience processes and mental health among Latino emerging adults in the United States. Specifically, the acculturation gap and perceived discrimination were identified as culture-specific risk factors and hypothesized to be linked to worse mental health outcomes (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety, alcohol use).
      • keywords: gap; health; mental; risk
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3854. qr46qz23664
      • author: Angelina Maria Copeland
      • title: The Interaction of Goal and Temporal Shifts in Situation Models
      • date: 2006
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: situation; time
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3855. qr46qz2367g
      • author: Aniruddha Konar
      • title: Electronic and Optical Properties of Low Dimensional Systems: Effect of the Dielectric Environment
      • date: 2011
      • words: 186
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: For perfect 2D crystals such as graphene, this mobility enhancement is only possible at low temperatures, whereas at room temperature polar phonon vibrations originating from the dielectric environment wash out the advantages of using high-Ì_å¼ dielectrics. In this work, the effect of the dielectric mismatch between a semiconductor and its dielectric envi- ronment on charge transport in 1D quantum wires and 2D nanoscale membranes is investigated.
      • keywords: dielectric; environment; high; semiconductor
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3856. qr46qz2370c
      • author: Hector Guillen Ahlers
      • title: Sulindac Treatment and Fas Deletion: Effects on a Colon Cancer Mouse Model
      • date: 2009
      • words: 525
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: apcmin/+; cancer; collagen; expression; fas; gene; mice; mmp7; mouse; study; sulindac; tumors
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3857. qr46qz23722
      • author: John Thomas Markiewicz
      • title: Development of a Vinylogous Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reagent: Syntheses of Siloxy Dienes, Aryl Amines and Medicinally Active Compounds
      • date: 2010
      • words: 226
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: We have developed an efficient synthesis of 1-a-13, which allowed us to provide gram quantities of this pyrrolinone to our collaborators for biological evaluation as a Niemann-Pick type C disease (NP-C) therapeutic. Additionally we have used an analogous step-wise version of this synthesis to prepare trichostatin A.
      • keywords: a-13; aryl; bis(siloxy)diene; corresponding; synthesis
      • versions: original; plain text
3858. qr46qz2373d
      • author: Ciara Máire Conneely
      • title: Representation and Relocation: Aspects of Migration in an Irish and Francophone African Context
      • date: 2015
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: There is a movement from the general day-to-day life of the immigrant family and their interactions with the host society and public space to the more impersonal institutionalized setting of the hostel in which there is little contact with the outside world accentuating isolation for the male immigrants in both Britain and France and even less with the most intimate space of all, the home, but with the added complexity of homeplace as workplace for female immigrants, work abroad turns out to be an even more depersonalized environment for the female immigrant. I analyze the migrant's engagement with space in the host society with the lingering backdrop of home as not only physical but also psychological space.
      • keywords: britain; chapter; female; france; host; immigrant; society; space
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3859. qr46qz2377s
      • author: Emery Ndjiho Longanga
      • title: Interpreting a Christian Classic in an African Context: Pluralism and Inculturation in Light of David Tracy and Leonard Santedi
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: In Africa plagued with violence, war and poverty but also displaying exceptional signs of Christian growth, the dissertation contends, the poietic reception of the Incarnation – God pitching His tent among us – that integrates the hermeneutical criteria laid by David Tracy's critical correlation method and Leonard Santedi's paradigm of the theology of invention constitutes an asset to a new way of doing theology that challenges African imagination, and calls for African political, ecclesial and social transformation. It argues that every reception is a poietic interpretation of the truth of faith that leads to the invention of new expressions of the same truth of faith and a new-mode- of-being-in the world for, by and within the new community that experiences the encounter with the Christ event.
      • keywords: african; batetela; christ; incarnation; new; reception; world
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3860. qr46qz23c6p
      • author: R. Rebecca Love
      • title: The Anopheles gambiae Complex: Genetic Variation and the Tools to Study It
      • date: 1904
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: We use whole-genome sequencing of the Bamako chromosomal form of An. gambiae s.s. to characterize its differentiation from its parent taxon, An. gambiae s.s., and clarify which genomic regions are most strongly implicated in that differentiation (chapter 3). Finally, we perform the first known characterization of insertion-deletion mutations (indels) in An. coluzzii and An. gambiae, adapting methods and creating a data set that will be used for future studies of how this category of variants has affected divergence between the two species (chapter 6).
      • keywords: chapter; complex; efforts; gambiae; species
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3861. qr46qz23r2q
      • author: Jacob A. Zwart
      • title: Hydrologic Regulation of Lake Carbon Cycling in Both Time and Space
      • date: 1904
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: My dissertation research addressed the role of hydrologic behavior in regulating lake carbon cycling both within lakes through time and across lakes on a landscape. I also demonstrated that lake carbon cycling responds strongly to natural perturbations of hydrology as extreme precipitation events induced high carbon loading to lakes, enhanced lake heterotrophy, and elevated the mineralization rate of dissolved organic carbon (DOC).
      • keywords: carbon; doc; global; hydrologic; lake; land; rates; role
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3862. qr46qz23w81
      • author: John R. Haase
      • title: Enhanced Thermionic Energy Conversion Using Microplasmas and Diamond Electrodes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Due to their high operating temperatures (1000°C – 1700°C), thermionic energy converters have the opportunity to be an efficient source of electrical energy. Microplasmas can be used both in converters, canceling out the effect of negative space charge and enhancing emission current, and outside converters by synthesizing low work function materials such as diamond-containing materials.
      • keywords: converters; energy; thermionic
      • versions: original; plain text
3863. qr46qz2422s
      • author: Yushan Zhang
      • title: Computational Methods to Assist in Material Discovery: Membranes and Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes
      • date: 2019
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Two directly related areas are membranes for protein separation and lithium-ion battery electrolytes for energy storage. Molecular dynamics simulations, optimization algorithms, and quantitative structure property relationships are conducted to improve the predictive behaviors of electrolyte properties, which then could be used to design better liquid electrolytes.
      • keywords: dynamics; electrolytes; lithium; membrane; model; molecular; project; protein; separation; simulation
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3864. qr46qz24819
      • author: Allie Roos
      • title: Marvels and Memory: Exploring Motivations for Travel in Antiquity
      • date: 2020
      • words: 27
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: This thesis utilizes the works of Gaius Licinius Mucianus and Pausanias to demonstrate the presence of travelers who traveled for purposes of intellectual curiosity, escapism, and nostalgia.
      • keywords: nostalgia
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3865. qr46qz2497p
      • author: Leonor Marietta Taiano Campoverde
      • title: Alabanzas sopechosas: Máscaras imperiales y posturas novohispanas en la corte de Gaspar de la Cerda
      • date: 2021
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: cerda; civis; corpus; dissertation; gaspar; la cerda; novohispanic; pessimus; spanish
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3866. qr46qz24b1x
      • author: Shubha Raj Kharel
      • title: Degree Preserving Network Growth
      • date: 2022
      • words: 289
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: DPG can be used to grow networks with desired higher-order metrics (other than the degrees), allowing applications, for example, in epidemic control via network immunization, viral marketing, knowledge dissemination, and the design of molecular isomers with desired properties. We introduce a novel family of network growth models called 'Degree Preserving Network Growth' (DPG), in which new nodes join the network over time without changing the existing node's degrees.
      • keywords: connections; degree; dpg; models; network; node
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3867. qr46qz24b59
      • author: Rene Celis Cordova
      • title: Reversible Computing: Adiabatic Capacitive Logic
      • date: 2022
      • words: 408
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Adiabatic reversible logic devices require ramping clocks to implement reversible computing. This work presents the design and fabrication of adiabatic capacitive logic MEMS devices that pave the way to implement adiabatic reversible computing not limited by leakage.
      • keywords: adiabatic; computing; devices; logic; mems; power; reversible
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3868. qv33rv06f6w
      • author: Pei Zhao
      • title: Novel High Frequency Devices with Graphene and GaN
      • date: 2015
      • words: 785
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: In chapter 4, we compared the performance of GaN Schottky diodes on bulk GaN substrates and GaN-on-sapphire substrates. The forward bias IV characteristics of GaN Schottky diodes on bulk GaN substrate and GaN-on-sapphire substrate are well explained by the thermionic emission model.
      • keywords: barrier; bulk; chapter; current; device; diodes; frequency; gan; graphene; high; model; peak; power; schottky; substrate; symfet; transistor
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3869. qv33rv06f77
      • author: Rakshit Tirumala
      • title: Corona Discharges in Asymmetric Electric Fields and its Impact on Ionic Wind Generation
      • date: 2013
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: An overview of fundamentals of corona discharges and ionic winds, and a literature survey of various ionic wind devices and numerical modeling procedures is included. Ionic wind devices, which operate on the principle of electrohydrodynamic interaction, are being studied as a replacement for conventional fans because of the inherent advantages of small acoustic signature, low weight, low power consumption, and the absence of moving parts.
      • keywords: configurations; corona; devices; electrode; flow; ionic; miniaturization; operation; small; wind
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3870. qv33rv06f8k
      • author: Danielle Marie McDermott
      • title: Pattern Formation in Micro and Nanosystems
      • date: 2014
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: We explore static regimes where specific ratios of colloids to optic traps produce ordered and disordered patterns. We focus primarily on patterns which form from interacting grain-boundaries in an otherwise hexagonal lattice.
      • keywords: bonding; cluster; colloids; patterns; static; total
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3871. qv33rv06g2t
      • author: Lorenzo Delloso
      • title: 'Litre de stampa son caliginose': The Role of Filippo da Strada (1450-1505) in the Debate on Printing in Renaissance Italy
      • date: 2015
      • words: 383
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: d. 5 of the Hesburgh Library (University of Notre Dame), in which I found three unknown autograph texts by Filippo himself: here he stresses the higher pedagogical value of manuscript texts over printed ones, and highlights his fear of finding serious mistakes, especially in sacred printed texts: the same fear expressed by humanists. Fundamentally, Filippo's unique critique is based on three main concerns: an economic one, i.e. the economic loss for copyists (because of the great economic success of printed books); a humanistic reason, i.e. the praise of the accuracy in copying texts and the subsequent attention to not making errors that, in copying sacred texts, can distort God's word; and a pedagogical reason, i.e. the pedagogical value of the action of copying itself: only by copying, indeed, can students absorb and learn the text.
      • keywords: century; critique; economic; filippo; pedagogical; printing; texts
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3872. qv33rv06g35
      • author: Youngho Yoon
      • title: Spectrum of Hyperplane Arrangements in Four Variables
      • date: 2013
      • words: 68
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In this thesis the main result is the formula for reduced hyperplane arrangements in four variables. It is known that the Hodge spectra of hyperplane arrangements are combinatorial.
      • keywords: hodge; hyperplane
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3873. qv33rv06g97
      • author: Cesar Cadena
      • title: Molecular Modeling of the Thermophysical and Transport Properties of Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2006
      • words: 405
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: In this research dissertation, thermophysical and transport properties of ionic liquids are theoretically investigated by means of molecular simulation techniques. There exists industrial interest in applications of mixtures of these refrigerants with ionic liquids and thus, molecular modeling can help elucidating design problems.
      • keywords: applications; class; experimental; force; ionic; liquids; properties; property; structure; triazolium
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3874. qv33rv06h0f
      • author: Hui Fang
      • title: Control of Distributed Systems with Interconnection Constraints
      • date: 2007
      • words: 527
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: bit; communication; constraints; control; distributed; problems; quantization; rate; results; systems
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3875. qv33rv06h24
      • author: Matthew Aron Bennington
      • title: Tip Gap Flow and Casing Treatments in an Axial Compressor
      • date: 2009
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: It was found that an interface exists at the blade tip between incoming axial flow to the compressor and reverse leakage flow over the blade tip. The movement of this region was proposed to be governed by a momentum balance between the axial flow and reverse flow.
      • keywords: axial; compressor; flow; location; stall; tip
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3876. qv33rv06h55
      • author: Kevin Joseph Melchiorri
      • title: The Collaborative Tribe
      • date: 2014
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This includes immersing oneself in unfamiliar territories, striving to understand and become fluent in as many disciplines as possible, collaborating with those who can provide the expertise in other disciplines necessary to the success of an endeavor, and as John Bielenberg stated, one must think wrong from time to time. When design is used a vehicle for the communication of ideas among a diverse audience, the potential outcome can possess exponential and outlasting advantages over other mediums and outlets.
      • keywords: design; field; objectives; projects; time; work
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3877. qv33rv06j44
      • author: Thomas Graff
      • title: A Rhetoric of Suspension: Rethinking Salvation in the Commedia
      • date: 1904
      • words: 51
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: My thesis attends to the relationship between Dante's reflection on salvation and the rhetorical development of the term sospeso throughout the Commedia. In their coming together, I offer that we discern a more profound realization of what it might mean for humanity to participate fully in the mystery of salvation.
      • keywords: salvation
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3878. qv33rv0753n
      • author: Julia Beck
      • title: Plasminogen Activation, Conformation, and Binding in the Context of Group A Streptococcus Virulence Factors, Streptokinase and PAM
      • date: 1904
      • words: 285
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: It was also found that SK activates hPg faster when hPg adopts the open conformation; however, the addition of a lysine analogue, EACA, inhibits hPg activation. Kringle domains, excluding K3, bind to ω-amino acids such as lysine and C-terminal lysines.
      • keywords: gas; hpg; kringle; pam; proteins
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3879. qv33rv0759q
      • author: Jixin Si
      • title: Fluorescence Intermittency in Graphene Oxide: Experiment versus Theory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: We argue that the number density of recombination centers can be linked to the microscopic number of optically active graphene quantum dots generated during the various photoreduction stages of graphene oxide. In this thesis, we provide an extensive phenomenological analysis of the spatially resolved fluorescence trajectories in reduced graphene oxide (rGO).
      • keywords: dimensional; fluorescence; graphene; oxide; trajectories
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3880. qv33rv07b36
      • author: Marshall A. Taylor
      • title: The Politics of Attention: The Case of White Nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980-2008
      • date: 2019
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In the case of peer attention-getting, I posit that any given organization has a higher capacity for garnering internal peer attention when they also have leaders that are high status enough to warrant external countermovement attention—but that the peer attention-getting capacity for these groups is positively moderated to the extent that the organization presents itself discursively with fearful language. In the case of grievance-based attention-focusing, I put forth a theory outlining the conditions under a white nationalist organization is more likely to shift attention to immigration-related issues.
      • keywords: attention; getting; language; likely; organizations; peer
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3881. qv33rv07j5r
      • author: Elizabeth McCourt Noonan
      • title: Strategic Framing, Partisanship, and Philanthropy: The Story of the Charter School Movement
      • date: 2020
      • words: 444
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This finding partially supports my theory that the symbolic nature of abstract racial equality framing has failed to produce broad, multiethnic support for charter schools. However, the racial and ethnic composition of states has no effect on charter school adoption and mixed effects on charter school implementation.
      • keywords: charter; education; equality; governors; policy; racial; republican; school; social
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3882. qv33rv07n2n
      • author: Farya J. Chattergoon
      • title: Targeting Triple Negative Breast Cancer with Combinatorial Kinase Inhibitors
      • date: 2022
      • words: 435
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Based on this observed rewiring, and the known advantage of using sequential treatment to prevent reemergence of parallel signaling pathways, we theorized that sequential treatment would be more effective than concurrent combination treatment. Sequential treatment with Abemaciclib, Lestaurtinib and Defactinib, a FAK inhibitor, resulted in decreased cell proliferation and an increase in cell death.
      • keywords: cdk4/6; cell; inhibitor; kinase; sequential; tnbc; treatment
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3883. qv33rv07n8q
      • author: Janeala Morsby
      • title: Enzyme Responsive Molecular Probes for Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Imaging
      • date: 2023
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Finally, Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 describes optical imaging and quantification of tumor hypoxia biomarkers using novel fluorescent near infrared molecular probes. Ongoing synergistic advances in medical understanding and bioanalytic technology are enabling scientists and clinicians to identify and quantify an increasing number of molecular biomarkers that reflect disease status and treatment effectiveness.
      • keywords: assays; biomarkers; chapter; detection; disease; enzymes; hypoxia; levels; optical
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3884. qv33rv07n92
      • author: Vincenz Heereman
      • title: All humans are cast into battle: Ephrem the Syrian's Theology of Spiritual Struggle and Ascetic Heroism
      • date: 2023
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The Memra on Jonah and the Repentance of Nineveh, read against the backdrop of ancient epic literature, reveals that Ephrem seeks to create a Christian ideal in which repentance, construed as a battle, is the epitome of heroism (chap. A fascinating pattern emerges from Ephrem's construal of ascetic practices: even as he highlights human agency, he forestalls any potential lapse into voluntarism.
      • keywords: ascetic; chap; ephrem; human; idiom; language; metaphors; theological
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3885. qz20sq89r0d
      • author: Michael L. Kamen
      • title: The Science of the Bible in Nineteenth-Century America: From 'Common Sense' to Controversy, 1820-1900
      • date: 2004
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Moreover, these debates provided one of the chief avenues by which historicist assumptions about human culture infiltrated American intellectual life: large numbers of Americans, both the educated and the ordinary, encountered the claims of historicism most directly or for the first time in the arena of conflict over biblical criticism. From the early years of the century, the Scottish philosophy of Common Sense armed American theologians with an effective apologetic by which to defend Christianity from the dangers associated with German biblical criticism and other threats.
      • keywords: american; bible; biblical; century; criticism; intellectuals; protestant
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3886. qz20sq89r1r
      • author: Todd Kane
      • title: Experimental Determination of Engineering Parameters for the Creation of a Mathematical Model of the Notre Dame Three Foot Wind Tunnel
      • date: 2011
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Mathematical models of wind tunnels are very useful, cost-saving tools in the field of aerodynamic testing. An entire test can be run on a mathematical model to predict the reaction of relevant flight variables and to ensure that the test can be run without any unexpected results or the need for an emergency shut down.
      • keywords: mathematical; model; tunnel; wind
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3887. qz20sq89r23
      • author: Brittani R Russell
      • title: A Novel Rapidly Deployable Floating Causeway: Design and Optimization
      • date: 2013
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: In response to the increasing demand for improved systems, the Engineer Research and Development Center has designed the Lightweight Modular Causeway System, which possesses great improvements over current systems. This thesis will review existing deployable bridge and causeway systems, present this re-conceptualization, discuss the implementation of optimization to achieve this new design, and finally discuss conclusions and future work.
      • keywords: design; optimization; systems; weight
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3888. qz20sq89r54
      • author: Matthew Hatch
      • title: Leopardi's Ironic Genesis: 'La storia del genere umano'
      • date: 2015
      • words: 84
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Due to what scholars have called a shift from historic pessimism to cosmic pessimism in the year 1824, this study focuses on his opening story of the Operette Morali, 'La storia del genere umano,' written in early 1820. The present study is primarily concerned with understanding Giacomo Leopardi's 'system' described in 1820 in his Zibaldone, which fuses the incongruent relationship between the myth-like 'origin story' of humanity described in Genesis and its modernity into a comprehensible reality through the medium of irony.
      • keywords: story; study
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3889. qz20sq89r6g
      • author: Michael Joseph Chapple
      • title: Security Management of Controlled Networks in a Resource-Constrained Environment
      • date: 2009
      • words: 190
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: The growing complexity of enterprise networks and the proliferation of security devices creates a resource availability crisis for security professionals seeking to concurrently manage security controls and analyze voluminous log records for evidence of suspicious activity. The techniques presented in this research present practical approaches to security management.
      • keywords: management; networks; resource; security; techniques
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3890. qz20sq89r7t
      • author: Stephen L Armet
      • title: Education Policy as a Mechanism for Secularization in a Catholic Majority Country: The Case of Uruguay, (1877 &#8211; 1932)
      • date: 2014
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Competition and conflict between religious and secular projects generated a specific form of symbolic capital &#8212; representational capital &#8212; the capacity to contextualize the elite project through social representations to non-elites in order to affirm the project's relevance and legitimacy. The central claim of this study suggests that secularization achieved in Uruguayan society is to be understood as historically grounded, embedded in conflict between interests groups, and attributable to agency more than macro-social structures.
      • keywords: capital; conflict; elites; religious; social; study
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3891. qz20sq89r85
      • author: Heather Brooke Reilly
      • title: The genetic dissection of differential growth in Plasmodium falciparum and its relationship to chloroquine drug selection
      • date: 2008
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: To identify genes and mechanisms regulating differential growth, a series of phenotypes ranging from bulk growth (e.g. blood smears and Hx-incorporation) to its nested steps (merozoite production, invasion efficiency, and cycle time) were measured in progeny of a cross between a CQ resistant and CQ sensitive parasite, Dd2 and HB3 respectively, and used in quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping. Progeny exhibit quantitative distributions of growth in all five growth assays.
      • keywords: alleles; differences; genome; growth; list; parasite; progeny
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3892. qz20sq89r9h
      • author: Erin Marie Daly
      • title: Probing Tubuling Interactions with 14-Methyl Epothilone D Analogues
      • date: 2011
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: (14S)-methyl epothilone D exhibits biological activity against several human cancer cell lines analogous to the naturally occurring epothilones; however, (14R)-methyl epothilone D retains no significant cytotoxicity. The structure-activity relationships (SAR) of epothilones have been extensively investigated.
      • keywords: conformation; conformer; epothilone; epoxide; olefinic; region
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3893. qz20sq89s2d
      • author: Caitlyn Shea Butler
      • title: Fundamental and Applied Studies of Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Water and Wastewater Treatment
      • date: 2009
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Water and wastewater treatment accounts for around 4% of energy consumption in the United States. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) can allow direct conversion of the chemical energy in wastewater to electrical energy, increasing the sustainability of wastewater treatment.
      • keywords: bacteria; communities; energy; mfc; microbial; treatment; wastewater
      • versions: original; plain text
3894. qz20sq89s43
      • author: Kyong Chang
      • title: New Multi-Biometric Approaches for Improved Person Identification
      • date: 2005
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: biometric; expression; face; multiple; proposed; recognition
      • versions: original; plain text
3895. qz20sq89s5f
      • author: Rachel Zavecz
      • title: SIX
      • date: 2015
      • words: 36
      • flesch: 66
      • summary: It is primarily concerned with the perversion of language and narrative form, and utilizes visually arresting text as art. This manuscript is a collection of poems based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Six Swans.
      • keywords: swans
      • versions: original; plain text
3896. qz20sq89s9t
      • author: Danielle Fulmer
      • title: Bridging Together: Boundary-Spanning Actors and Community Violence
      • date: 1904
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This strategy builds on empirical successes as well as a theoretical tradition extolling the role of intermediary actors in bridging disconnected groups. Some communities are collaborating with local leaders to improve relationships between authority figures and the communities they serve.
      • keywords: authority; bsas; communities
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3897. qz20sq89t94
      • author: Sean P. Vilanova
      • title: An Investigation of the Multiple Binding Modes and Secondary Interactions of N-Arylated PNArP Ligands on Iridium
      • date: 1904
      • words: 301
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Thermal stability and reactivity studies demonstrated that some of the backbones underwent decomposition to new anionic pincer ligands, some of which demonstrated metal-ligand cooperativity in the activation of H2 and iso-propanol. Sterically bulky polydentate ligands have been employed to aid in the stabilization of reactive catalytic centers.
      • keywords: activation; ancillary; aryl; catalytic; ligands; metal; substituent
      • versions: original; plain text
3898. qz20sq89x8q
      • author: Patrick J. Miller
      • title: Boosted Decision Trees for Multivariate, Hierarchically Clustered, and Longitudinal Data
      • date: 1904
      • words: 306
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Exploratory regression analysis is beneficial because the results suggest testable hypotheses, can limit the number of plausible models, and help avoid errors in model specification. Mixed effects tree boosting takes hierarchically clustered data into account by treating a grouping variable as random.
      • keywords: data; effects; exploratory; models; regression; tree
      • versions: original; plain text
3899. qz20sq90f4r
      • author: Elizabeth A. Loughran
      • title: The Impact of Aging and Parity on Ovarian Cancer Metastasis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 299
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: In this work, we demonstrate that multiparous mice are less susceptible to ovarian cancer metastasis than their nulliparous or primiparous age-matched counterparts. Using two different murine models of aging and metastasis, we demonstrated for the first time that aged animals are more susceptible to intraperitoneal ovarian cancer metastasis than young animals.
      • keywords: aging; cancer; host; metastasis; ovarian; work
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3900. qz20sq90f84
      • author: Patrick Conry
      • title: Scale Continuum of Vertical Exchanges between Lower Stratosphere and Surface Layers
      • date: 1904
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Exchanges of momentum, heat, and moisture between layers of atmosphere and upper ocean govern the variability of global climate down to local environments. The quasi-periodic WWBs were also studied using one-dimensional ocean mixed layer model to estimate response of upper ocean.
      • keywords: abl; disturbances; exchange; kws; layer; measurements; ocean; upper; vertical; waves
      • versions: original; plain text
3901. qz20sq90g5d
      • author: Lixing Song
      • title: Fast Mobile Network Characterization: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 453
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Therefore, the key challenge is how to conduct mobile network characterization in an accurate and efficient manner. In this dissertation, I propose a test suite of mobile network characterization using both active and passive approaches on WiFi and cellular networks.
      • keywords: case; characterization; efficient; layer; methods; mobile; networks; traffic; wifi; wireless
      • versions: original; plain text
3902. qz20sq90h8r
      • author: Mitchell Springer
      • title: Icons of Eco-Anxiety
      • date: 2018
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This material treatment is a departure from traditional ceramic processes and intends to question pre-conceived definitions of the ceramic object. I pursue processes that usually foster the durability and permanence of ceramic objects in an effort to expand and transform the possibilities of the medium for the creation of seemingly fragile, ephemeral objects.
      • keywords: ceramic; materials; medium; objects; processes
      • versions: original; plain text
3903. qz20sq90p1w
      • author: Marjorie Housley
      • title: Queer Time and the Ethics of Emotion in Medieval North Atlantic Heroic Literature
      • date: 2019
      • words: 377
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This dissertation examines how medieval heroic literature exploits the interpretive ambiguity of emotions to interrogate ethical mores. The fourth and final chapter examines how the spatiality of fear functions alongside processes of thinking and knowing, bringing the mind in proximity with possible futures; by linking the emotional to the embodied, readers engage affectively with the often-fantastical traumas experienced in heroic literature.
      • keywords: chapter; dissertation; feelings; future; heroic; literature; medieval; past
      • versions: original; plain text
3904. qz20sq90t3t
      • author: Tierney C. Miller
      • title: A Structural and Dynamical Analysis of Ionic Liquids and Aqueous Hydroxide Solutions via Molecular Dynamics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The latter part of this manuscript studies dilute aqueous solutions with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Branched alcohols slowed ionic liquid dynamics more than any other class, while primary alcohols and aromatic alcohols displayed similar time scales when the alkyl chain lengths were identical.
      • keywords: alcohols; aqueous; dynamics; hydroxide; solutions; time
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3905. qz20sq90v5t
      • author: Ankur Saxena
      • title: Spatial and Temporal Evolution of an Electrohydrodynamic Flow Generated Off the Surface of a Piezoelectric Transformer
      • date: 2021
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Results show that the maximum flow speeds increased linearly with increasing input voltage, and surprisingly, decreased with increasing duty cycle. The jet width initially tends to increase with increasing input voltage and eventually saturates for all input voltages as the duty cycle increases above approximately 20%.
      • keywords: ehd; electric; flow; input; jet; voltage
      • versions: original; plain text
3906. qz20sq90w3f
      • author: Sevda Arslan
      • title: The Alevi Path through a Center: Transnational and Transgenerational Community in Berlin
      • date: 2022
      • words: 399
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: The Turkish government does not legally recognize Alevi path rituals or their worship and communal space (called cemevi, in Turkish). They primarily define themselves by their faith – Alevism – a syncretic religion with roots in Islam which Alevis refer to as the path (yol, in Turkish).
      • keywords: alevis; berlin; communal; community; path; practices; religious; transnational; turkey; turkish
      • versions: original; plain text
3907. qz20sq90w7t
      • author: Daniel Flynn
      • title: The Hidden Rank: Civilian Education and Military Leadership
      • date: 2022
      • words: 438
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: argument; career; civilian; education; leaders; military; officers; professional; prospects; rank
      • versions: original; plain text
3908. qz20sq90x2d
      • author: Elizabeth I. Harper
      • title: Integrative Analysis of the Aging Peritoneum in Metastatic Receptivity
      • date: 2022
      • words: 462
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: While many studies have been done on aged collagen in the skin, the effect of aging on omental collagen has not been investigated. While in vitro assays showed no significant difference in adhesion or proliferation of OvCa cells on Y vs A collagen, human cell line OVCAR5 showed increased invasion through Boyden invasion chambers lined with A collagen compared to Y. The relationship between tumors and aged collagen was further investigated by analysis of collagen hybridizing peptide (CHP) staining of paraffin-embedded omental tumor sections, which shows an increase of intratumoral collagen remodeling in A tumors despite no significant difference in overall collagen amount as shown by trichrome analysis of serial sections.
      • keywords: aged; aging; analysis; cancer; cells; collagen; mice; ovca; tumor
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3909. qz20sq90x3r
      • author: Sharif Rahmy
      • title: Overcoming Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 15
      • 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.
      • keywords: cancer; cells; icb; major
      • versions: original; plain text
3910. r207tm7309b
      • author: Calli Anne Versagli
      • title: Understanding the Metabolic Mechanisms Behind the Survival of Extracellular Matrix-Detached Breast Cancer Cells
      • date: 2014
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In addition, these studies have unveiled a PI(3)K-dependent but AKT-independent signaling pathway involved in mediating metabolism and cell survival in detached cancer cells. In order to understand the implications of these studies, my project investigated the significance of metabolic regulation during ECM-detachment in cancer cells.
      • keywords: cancer; cells; detachment; ecm; survival
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3911. r207tm7310j
      • author: Jonathan Darryl Ashley
      • title: Engineering Novel Targeted Nanoparticle Formulations to Increase the Therapeutic Efficacy of Conventional Chemotherapeutics Against Multiple Myeloma
      • date: 2014
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: In addition to doxorubicin, other classes of therapeutic agents, such as proteasome inhibitors, can be incorporated in nanoparticles for improved therapeutic outcomes. Therefore, VLA-4 antagonist peptides were conjugated onto the nanoparticles via a multifaceted procedure to actively target MM cells and simultaneously inhibit CAM-DR.
      • keywords: bortezomib; cam; carfilzomib; doxorubicin; drug; improved; nanoparticles; therapeutic
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3912. r207tm7314x
      • author: Prashan De Visser
      • title: The Role of Youth in Transforming Conflict
      • date: 2015
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This thesis examines the role of youth in transforming conflicts through a multi-layered study of grassroots youth movements adopting conflict transformational approaches in conflict zones across the world. Grassroots youth movements that have adopted conflict transformational approaches have enhanced their relevance and capacity by using innovative methods to expose, challenge, and transform a the root causes of conflict.
      • keywords: capacity; conflict; grassroots; movements; role; thesis; youth
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3913. r207tm73158
      • author: Huijing Du
      • title: Multiscale Modeling of Bacterial Swarming
      • date: 2013
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: We hypothesize that the cell wave formation is due to increased cell division rate and rhamnolipid production rate and cell alignment. In experiments, we observed the development and propagation of cell waves (bright ring pattern) and formation of branched tendril patterns controlled by bacterial population and self-production of rhamnolipid.
      • keywords: cell; formation; liquid; model; rate; rhamnolipid; signaling; simulations; wave
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3914. r207tm73216
      • author: Sara Summers
      • title: The effects of a microbial ligand on Pb sorption to montmorillonite clay and on Pb carbonate formation
      • date: 2012
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Siderophores are organic ligands released by aerobic microorganisms and plants to acquire Fe; they may also bind other metals such as Pb, affecting Pb sorption and nucleation and growth of Pb-bearing minerals. Lowering the electrolyte concentrations was found to increase Pb sorption to Na-mmt but had no change of Pb sorption for Ca-mmt.
      • keywords: dfob; sorption
      • versions: original; plain text
3915. r207tm7322j
      • author: Yunshan Wang
      • title: Novel Optical Biosensors: Singular Intensity Amplification and Molecular Trapping Enhancement at Nanoscales
      • date: 2014
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: To reduce assay time, I use dielectrophoresis (DEP) force and electrophoretic force to trap molecules, which drastically speeds up detection process. I have demonstrated detection of a hundred molecules within fifteen minutes by driving molecules into detection region using electrophoretic force.
      • keywords: assay; cost; force; low; molecules; new; time
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3916. r207tm73247
      • author: Matthew Zyskowski
      • title: Cost Density-Shaping for Stochastic Optimal Control
      • date: 2010
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Together MCCDS and STS enable the design of control laws with optimality among a family of target cost densities, which might be regarded as a new approach to robust LQG control design. The field of cost cumulant controls has made considerable advances towards this capability in the past few decades, largely because of the advantage gained from controlling the cost cumulants instead of the cost moments.
      • keywords: control; cost; cumulant; density; design; function; lqg; mccds; target
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3917. r207tm73278
      • author: Peter Mundey
      • title: American Christianity & Consumerism: Understanding the Relationship Between Christian Economic Culture and Secular Consumer Culture
      • date: 2014
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: I argue that that mainstream American Christianity is multi-vocal regarding consumerism, but the most widely accepted voices prop up the consumerist regime by dualistically compartmentalizing some aspects of economic life from religion&mdash;especially point-of-purchase situations&mdash;promoting unfettered consumerism through the prosperity gospel, and by encouraging prudent consumerism through a gospel of fiscal responsibility. Using interview and survey data from the University of Notre Dame's Science of Generosity Project, I explore how mainstream American Christianity interacts with the quasi-religion of consumerism.
      • keywords: american; christianity; consumerism; mainstream
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3918. r207tm7328m
      • author: Jarred Robert Edward Pickering
      • title: The Application of Polyketide Natural Product GEX1A to Niemann-Pick Type C Disease
      • date: 2015
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Our laboratory determined that the novel cholesterol activity of GEX1A merited further investigation within the context of Niemann-Pick Type C.Through isolation of natural GEX1A from its producing organism, our laboratory has demonstrated that GEX1A represents a novel therapeutic candidate for Niemann-Pick type C. Specifically, GEX1A restores cholesterol homeostasis in NPC1 mutant cell lines and cells induced with the disease associated phenotype. Histone deacetylase inhibitors, such as trichostatin A and vorinostat, have recently been shown to restore cholesterol homeostasis in Niemann-Pick type C mutant cell lines.
      • keywords: cholesterol; disease; gex1a; natural; niemann; novel; pick; type
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3919. r207tm73305
      • author: Deanna C. Childress
      • title: Cultural Resources and School Success: School Engagement as the Missing Link
      • date: 1904
      • words: 235
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: A lack of school engagement has been determined to be a significant contributor to high school dropout. I also find that cultural capital is significantly associated with high school completion, with and without controlling for engagement.
      • keywords: capital; cultural; engagement; school
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3920. r207tm73r1d
      • author: James Kapaldo
      • title: The Spatial Dependent Interaction of Environment Controlled Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets with Cultured Cells
      • date: 1904
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This is a rarely reported aspect of plasma treatment due to the lack of techniques and analysis methods that are able to reveal spatial information over a large cell growing region (order of cm2) while also provide detailed cellular feature information. The spatial investigation of cellular effects induced by plasma treatment can also reveal essential information, such as the size of the treated area, and the effectiveness in the treated area.
      • keywords: area; cell; distribution; environment; liquid; plasma; spatial; species; treatment
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3921. r207tm73x3n
      • author: Anthony James Ruth
      • title: Quantum Confinement and the Emission of Visible Light
      • date: 2019
      • words: 107
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: This document is (hopefully) a useful reference for those who want to understand how to model complex, dynamic systems over multiple orders of magnitude of length and time. Multiscale modeling was used to build up from the atomic scale and to test hypotheses of lattice dynamics.
      • keywords: structure; thesis
      • versions: original; plain text
3922. r207tm73z2m
      • author: Daniel Schor
      • title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Latent Capacity and Attention Lapses in a Whole Report Visual Array Task
      • date: 2019
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This research has concluded that attention lapses are better characterized as graded states, and more importantly that individual differences in performance appear to be due primarily to differences in lapse rate as opposed to capacity. One important line of research has devised a whole report visual array task to better measure capacity along with a computational model to help distinguish between graded vs. dichotomous lapses of attention.
      • keywords: capacity; lapses
      • versions: original; plain text
3923. r207tm74413
      • author: Dezhao Huang
      • title: Thermal and Mass Transport at Hard/Soft Material Interfaces
      • date: 2021
      • words: 54
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: It provides a comprehensive understanding of a variety of possible strategies to achieve this goal from solid-water interfacial thermal conductance, water slip behavior at the solid interface, hot gold nanoparticle Brownian motion. This dissertation discusses my research in understanding the thermal and mass transport at hard/soft material interfaces as the overarching goal.
      • keywords: goal; understanding
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3924. r207tm7454f
      • author: Naima Msechu
      • title: Infestations: A Tetraptych &amp; Other Stories
      • date: 2022
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Characters do their best to cope with this onslaught, alternately embracing and fending it off with such coping mechanisms as befriending cockroaches, projecting whale sounds through a rainwater pipe, archiving scenes from a failed relationship, and metaphorically detonating earrings shaped like grenades—in short, these characters craft personal ideologies even as they are influenced, as all people are, by larger, societal ones. Throughout the collection, pests often take the form of memories, fears, and grief, among other things, usually in connection with intimate relationships, be they familial, romantic, or friend-based.
      • keywords: characters; collection; infestations; stories; tetraptych
      • versions: original; plain text
3925. r207tm7457g
      • author: Xiaoyi Zhang
      • title: Conservi sani li affetti suoi: Dante's Education of Affects
      • date: 2022
      • words: 233
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: As I demonstrate, in conversation with the tradition of affective piety in his own stories of salvation and redemption, Dante brings important thinkers of affective piety—Augustine, Anselm, Bernard, Aquinas, and Bonaventure—onto stage in the Commedia as characters, who, with their life stories full of affections, and with their expressed affections towards each other and towards the pilgrim, teach Dante about affection and faith. This dissertation examines Dante's ideas on emotions or affects, and the literary, moral, and spiritual significance of affectivity in his writings— in the Commedia and the Vita nova—in the context of medieval affective piety.
      • keywords: affections; affective; dante; pilgrim
      • versions: original; plain text
3926. r207tm74711
      • author: Carly B. Sherman
      • title: Which is Witch? Authenticity, Aesthetic, and Pop Culture Representation in the Witchcraft Community
      • date: 2023
      • words: 386
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Witchcraft has exploded in popularity as a genre within entertainment media, as a fashion aesthetic, and as a lifestyle: crystals, tarot decks, and spellbooks are now sold at major retailers and these tools and information about witchcraft are easily accessible in ways that would have once seemed unimaginable. In this work, I examine how self-identified Witches respond to the mainstreaming of interest in the witchy and esoteric: given the proliferation and newfound visibility of witchcraft (and availability of information and resources), how do Witches navigate their own identity and feelings of authenticity within this context of Witchcraft-as-fad?
      • keywords: community; emotional; energy; information; lifestyle; witchcraft; witches
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3927. r494vh56928
      • author: Craig Matthew Goehler
      • title: A Generalized Parameterization of T1 Motion and its Application to the Synthesis of Planar Mechanisms
      • date: 2004
      • words: 102
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Prior development of T1 motion theory has used a second-order parameterization which maximally simplifies the theory and allows for a description of the kinematic geometry. In the T1 motion theory presented here, this parameterization is generalized and not limited to the second-order.
      • keywords: motion; theory
      • versions: original; plain text
3928. r494vh5693m
      • author: Michael Daniel Driessen
      • title: Religiously Friendly Democracy: Framing Political and Religious Identities in Catholic and Muslim Societies
      • date: 2011
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: My analysis presents a theory for modeling the dynamics which are created when states allow hostile religions more access to the political and public spheres during moments of democratization (or lesser forms of political liberalization) by a) allowing religious political parties to contest elections and b) biasing religion-state arrangements in favor of religion. This research project explores the relationship between faith and nation, and the institutional entanglements of religion, state and democracy in Catholic and Muslim societies.
      • keywords: religion; research; state; theory
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3929. r494vh5694z
      • author: Xiu Xing
      • title: Pseudomorphic In0.22Ga0.78As-Channel MOSFETs Using InAlP Oxide as the Gate Dielectric for RF Applications
      • date: 2013
      • words: 425
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: However, despite the excellent performance obtained, the demonstrated devices do not yet exhibit the full advantages of the new gate structure and high mobility channel due to un-optimized device designs. The utilized process also results in self-alignment of the gate metallization and localized oxidation region, thus reducing the access resistance and enabling high RF performance to be obtained.
      • keywords: channel; devices; electron; gate; high; mobility; noise; oxide; performance; structure; transistors
      • versions: original; plain text
3930. r494vh56970
      • author: Erika A. Olson
      • title: The Initial Value Problem for Two Nonlinear Evolution Equations
      • date: 2008
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: For the higher-order modification of the Camassa-Holm equation under consideration, we show that the non-periodic initial value problem is locally well posed for initial data in Sobolev spaces of index s greater than s' where s' is greater than or equal to 1/4 and less than 1/2 and the value of s' depends on the order of equation. For the hyperelastic rod equation, we show that solutions to the periodic initial value problem do not depend uniformly continuously on initial data in Sobolev spaces of index s equal to 1 or s greater than or equal to 2.
      • keywords: equation
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3931. r494vh5698b
      • author: Huyen Thanh Pham
      • title: Essays on Dynamic Competition and Academic Entrepreneurship
      • date: 2012
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The third essay examines the effects of the Bayh-Dole Act (1980) and the Pasteur's Quadrant effects on a faculty's research efforts over a career life cycle, taking into account research preferences and productivities, spillovers among different types of research knowledge, and monetary payoffs. The first essay studies the dynamics and equilibrium outcomes of a duopoly in which firms make decisions about both capacity expansion and cost reduction.
      • keywords: entrepreneurship; essay; research
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3932. r494vh5699p
      • author: Gregory Daniel Shufeldt
      • title: Unequal Parties: Partisan Differences in Political Behavior
      • date: 2014
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Republicans appear more loyal by engaging in partisan political behavior because, quite frankly, they do not have to make the choice of group over party as often as Democrats. These partisan differences in political behavior and party loyalty persist even after controlling for the most obvious explanation: that demographic and socioeconomic differences in the type of people who identify with each party explain these observed behavioral differences.
      • keywords: identifiers; likely; party; republicans
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3933. r494vh56b0w
      • author: Weiqiang Huang
      • title: Synthetic Studies on Carbocyclic Nucleosides
      • date: 2008
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: An aldehyde-cyclopentadiene strategy led to successful syntheses of carbocyclic analogs nucleosides A 500359s and an efficient synthesis of racemic aristeromycin as well as some derivatives of carbocyclic uridine. The focus of this dissertation research was to develop efficient synthetic approaches to carbocyclic furanose nucleosides, which play an important role in the discovery for new anti-cancer, anti HIV and anti tuberculosis drugs.
      • keywords: alder; anti; asymmetric; carbocyclic; chapter; cyclopentadiene; nucleosides
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3934. r494vh56b17
      • author: Katharine Elizabeth Harmon
      • title: 'There Were Also Many Women There': Roman Catholic Lay Women in the American Liturgical Movement, 1926-1959
      • date: 2011
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This dissertation, titled 'There Were Also Many Women There': Roman Catholic Lay Women in the American Liturgical Movement,' re-examines the narrative of the liturgical movement by focusing on this complex era of liturgical reform and the practical, spiritual, and intellectual engagement of lay, non-religious women with liturgical worship within the mid-twentieth century American Roman Catholic Church. A study of this nature offers a fresh perspective by recovering the integral role which lay women played in the development of liturgical life, including social action, education, worship practice, and familial activity.
      • keywords: american; catholic; chapter; liturgical; movement; social; women
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3935. r494vh56b48
      • author: Jai Kishan Verma
      • title: Polarization Engineering for Novel III-V Nitride Device Structures
      • date: 2010
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In addition a shoulder extending to energies higher than GaN band gap (3.4 eV) was observed in the EL spectra signifying recombination occuring in high band gap AlGaN layers. N-face growth can also help in solving the p-type doping problem for wide band gap nitrides.
      • keywords: band; face; gan; gap; polarization; semiconductors; tunnel
      • versions: original; plain text
3936. r494vh56b6z
      • author: Alison Leah Dekoschak
      • title: Active and Passive Flow Control of a High Reynolds Number Axisymmetric Jet
      • date: 2005
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 59
      • 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.
      • keywords: control; device; flow; plasma
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3937. r494vh56b79
      • author: Brian William Lysholm
      • title: Labyrinths
      • date: 2008
      • words: 71
      • flesch: 73
      • summary: Contact the Graduate School dissertation editor with questions. The status of this file was changed to permanent withholding, per agreement between the author, the program, and the Graduate School.
      • keywords: graduate; school
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3938. r494vh56c68
      • author: Liang Wu
      • title: High Order Fast Iterative Methods for Steady State of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The first order fast sweeping method for solving Eikonal equations has linear computational complexity, namely, the computational cost is O(N) where N is the number of grid points of the computational mesh. Especially, we show that although the methods do not have linear computational complexity, they converge to steady state solutions much faster than regular time-marching approach by stability improvement for high order schemes with a forward Euler time-marching.
      • keywords: complexity; computational; equations; fast; linear; methods; order; sweeping
      • versions: original; plain text
3939. r494vh5710c
      • author: Benjamin Cohen Rossi
      • title: Internalism about Practical Reasons
      • date: 1904
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: While practical reasons internalism should be rejected, I show that examining this view reveals important criteria of adequacy for any account of practical reasons. Internalism about practical reasons is the thesis that reasons for action depend upon the goals, aims, desires, and interests of the agent whose reasons they are.
      • keywords: internalism; normative; practical; reasons
      • versions: original; plain text
3940. r494vh5711q
      • author: Salvador Aguinaga
      • title: Generating Networks by Learning Hyperedge Replacement Grammars
      • date: 1904
      • words: 191
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Experimental results demonstrate that hyperedge replacement grammars offer a new way to learn network features that facilitate compelling graphical structure generation that advances network science in areas of modeling and network analysis. Evaluating network models on their ability to automatically learn the underlying features is integral to algorithm development in many areas of computational science.
      • keywords: complex; generation; modeling; network; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
3941. r494vh57c25
      • author: Amanda L. Nowak
      • title: Trajectories of Maternal Supportiveness during Toddlerhood Differentially Predicting Child Outcomes
      • date: 2020
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The present study sought to understand whether there are multiple trajectories (classes) of maternal supportiveness across toddlerhood, whether supportiveness classes relate to unique child outcomes in middle childhood dependent race/ethnicity, and whether early childhood emotion regulation mediates these relations in a low-income sample. Ultimately, emotion regulation mediated the effects of class on child outcomes for all outcomes except parent-reported internalizing behavior.
      • keywords: maternal; mothers; outcomes; supportiveness
      • versions: original; plain text
3942. r494vh57d3t
      • author: Canjia Zhai
      • title: Self-Threaded Fluorescent Probes for Biological Imaging and Self-Assembly
      • date: 2021
      • words: 215
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The second part focuses on the engineering of SF8 probes by introducing chirality, incorporating a cancer cell targeting peptide RGD motif onto the loops, or preparing unsymmetric SF8 probes. Fluorescence imaging plays an important role in fundamental research and disease diagnosis because it is non-toxic and inexpensive compared to other imaging technologies.
      • keywords: fluorescence; imaging; nir; probes; sf8; targeting
      • versions: original; plain text
3943. r494vh57d6v
      • author: Amanda Brown
      • title: Microkinetic Modeling of HCN Formation from Methane and Nitrogen with the Addition of Vibrational Energy Effects
      • date: 2021
      • words: 94
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: A microkinetic model was constructed that modeled the formation of hydrogen cyanide from methane and nitrogen on the platinum (111) surface using elementary reaction data found in the literature and calculated using density functional theory. Vibrational energy effects were then added to the model to simulate the plasma effects for the nitrogen dissociation reaction and methane to methyl group reaction.
      • keywords: model; reaction
      • versions: original; plain text
3944. r494vh57g54
      • author: Rebeka Kelmar
      • title: Using HECTOR to Study Capture Reactions Relevant to the Astrophysical γ-Process
      • date: 2022
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: For studies of the γ-process, photodisintegration rates on the nuclei involved are crucial. One way to constrain these rates is to measure the inverse capture reactions.
      • keywords: accelerator; measurements; reactions
      • versions: original; plain text
3945. r494vh57h2d
      • author: Richard A. P. Birkett
      • title: Algebraic Stability and Skew Products on the Berkovich Projective Line
      • date: 2023
      • words: 389
      • flesch: 60
      • 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.
      • keywords: algebraic; product; skew; stabilisation
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3946. r781wd39k10
      • author: Jeffrey Arnold Christians
      • title: Mesostructured Thin Film Solar Cells: Examining Hole Transfer Mechanisms and Device Stability
      • date: 2015
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This dissertation describes progress in the fundamental understanding of charge transfer processes in Sb2S3 ETA solar cells, and improving the stability of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy was employed to track minority carrier (hole) behavior in Sb2S3 ETA solar cells.
      • keywords: cells; ch3nh3pbi3; eta; hole; perovskite; sb2s3; solar; stability
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3947. r781wd39k2b
      • author: Tai-Wei Hwang
      • title: Dynamics of Atomic Scale Metallic Junctions and Adsorbed Lewis Base Adsorbates Studied by Fluctuation Spectroscopy
      • date: 2014
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The goal of this work was to fabricate robust ASJs for sensing applications that fully utilize this potential and detect chemical noise. Atomic-scale junctions (ASJs) are the ultimate thin nanowires that exhibit great potential as chemical (Lewis bases) sensors through adsorbate-induced conductance changes.
      • keywords: asjs; chemical; induced; noise; potential
      • versions: original; plain text
3948. r781wd39k6q
      • author: David Michael Eike
      • title: Property Prediction of Novel Compounds Using Statistical Analysis and Molecular Simulations
      • date: 2006
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In addition, there have been numerous theoretical studies to predict properties of ionic liquids and explore the underlying physical interactions that influence ionic liquid properties. In this study, a new methodology is developed to evaluate solid-liquid equilibrium for complex molecular systems in a general way using molecular simulation.
      • keywords: ionic; liquids; molecular; properties; relationships; structure; system
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3949. r781wd39k72
      • author: Jason M. Bray
      • title: Adsorbate Coverage Dependence in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Kinetics of Oxygen Adsorption on Platinum Surfaces from First Principles
      • date: 2013
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: catalysts; computational; coverage; heterogeneity; model; new; principles; surfaces
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3950. r781wd39m30
      • author: Roger G. Hanshaw
      • title: Small Molecules for the Selective Recognition of Biomembrane Components
      • date: 2006
      • words: 209
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: A second series of amphiphilic compounds designed to partition into the bilayer hydrocarbon region and interact with membrane proteins is also presented. These molecules include derivatives of the lipid phosphatidylcholine, and all have either thymine or urea functionalities that likely embed in the bilayer and form hydrogen bonds to targeted transmembrane protein residues.
      • keywords: applications; cell; compounds; membrane; phosphatidylserine
      • versions: original; plain text
3951. r781wd39m4b
      • author: Nathan Alan Meredith
      • title: Influences on Neptunium Incorporation in Uranyl Phases
      • date: 2014
      • words: 301
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: As the understanding of the factors that affect neptunium incorporation continues to improve, the future of this research needs to evaluate how incorporation affects the properties of the uranyl host compound, which will have a strong impact on mitigating the release of neptunium from a repository. The objective of this research is to study the factors that influence neptunium incorporation, particularly charge-balancing mechanisms and structural considerations, in order to gain a better understanding of the fundamental chemistry of this process.
      • keywords: compounds; cs[(uo2)(hseo3)(seo3; factors; incorporation; neptunium; np(v
      • versions: original; plain text
3952. r781wd39m61
      • author: Justin Michael Deuerling
      • title: Effects of ultrastructural organization on the mechanical properties and anisotropy of human cortical bone
      • date: 2010
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: The overall objective of this project was to investigate the hierarchical structural features governing the anisotropic elastic constants of human cortical bone tissue. X-ray diffraction was used to study the apatite crystals, micro-computed tomography was used to study the intracortical porosity, and ultrasonic wave propagation was used to measure tissue elastic constants.
      • keywords: bone; elastic; human; porosity; tissue
      • versions: original; plain text
3953. r781wd39n2z
      • author: Meghan K. Cain
      • title: Time and Other Considerations in Mediation Design
      • date: 1904
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: data; longitudinal; mediation; models
      • versions: original; plain text
3954. r781wd39r8z
      • author: Lisa Weaver Swartz
      • title: Gendered Gospel, Ungendered Mission: Identity Construction at Two Evangelical Seminaries
      • date: 1904
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: asbury; effective; gender; ideologies; processes; seminary; southern; students
      • versions: original; plain text
3955. r781wd39s26
      • author: Christopher Paolucci
      • title: Theoretical and Computational Modeling of the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeolites
      • date: 1904
      • words: 28
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: The goal of my dissertation research is to develop a molecular level description of how selective catalytic reduction occurs on an important commercial heterogeneous solid catalyst, Cu-SSZ-13.
      • keywords: ssz-13
      • versions: original; plain text
3956. r781wd4093z
      • author: Michael Rotolo
      • title: Imagining Religion: The Unconscious Substructures of American Religious Understandings
      • date: 1904
      • words: 112
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Systematically focusing on implicit knowledge structures rather than discursive language structures, its findings reveal five schemas, which are internally coherent, widely shared, but variably relied upon as scaffolds for understanding. While insights from the cognitive sciences have advanced understandings by illuminating the distinct operations of practical and discursive cognition, limited consideration has been given to the underlying semantic structures beneath these cognitive modes.
      • keywords: culture; structures; understanding
      • versions: original; plain text
3957. r781wd4098p
      • author: Yingying Chen
      • title: Engineering Robust Yeast Microbial Systems for Beneficial Biotransformation in Energy and Water Sustainability
      • date: 1904
      • words: 384
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: The research offers a practice to develop robust strains for enhanced lignocellulosic biofuel production and a novel category of enzyme biocatalysts for treating emerging contaminants for water reuse. Based on this study, we developed an engineered yeast strain YC1 with superior resistance to acetic acid, furfural and their mixture.
      • keywords: acetic; acid; contaminants; engineering; environmental; lignocellulosic; production; renewable; systems; water
      • versions: original; plain text
3958. r781wd40b2x
      • author: Kathryn Rose Sawyer
      • title: Belief in Power: Building a National Church of Ireland, 1660-1689
      • date: 2018
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This dissertation explores the ways that Church of Ireland clergymen of the Restoration era (1660-1689) used religious beliefs to construct their identity as Ireland's national church. From it, we see that an understanding of religious belief changes our knowledge of matters previously considered solely through social or political lenses.
      • keywords: church; clergymen; dissertation; ireland; national; protestant; religious; restoration
      • versions: original; plain text
3959. r781wd40f7k
      • author: Ek Raj Adhikari
      • title: Electrical and Biochemical Performances of a Plasma Jet at Atmospheric Pressure
      • date: 2019
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: clinical; damage; dna; irradiation; plasma; reactive; results; species
      • versions: original; plain text
3960. r781wd40p6d
      • author: Jian Yang
      • title: Edge Computing Based Real-Time Notification System for Vulnerable Road Participants
      • date: 2021
      • words: 194
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: In this dissertation, a real-time notification system is presented to enhance and improve the safety and user experience of vulnerable road participants. A typical application utilizing this technology is the protection of vulnerable road participants such as pedestrians or cyclists.
      • keywords: computing; edge; participants; real; road; user
      • versions: original; plain text
3961. r781wd40p83
      • author: Amanda E Yamasaki
      • title: Advancing Our Understanding of Normal and Disease-State Hematopoiesis: Leveraging the Unique Advantages of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Therapeutic Development and Disease Modeling
      • date: 2021
      • words: 370
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: Stem cell-based therapies have a long history in diseases of the hematopoietic system, where hematopoietic stem cell transplants – most familiarly in the form of bone marrow transplants from healthy donors – have been the standard of care for over forty years, often due to a lack of more targeted therapeutic options because of an incomplete understanding of the complex interactions between genetic aberrations and the development and progression of disease. In short, these studies have identified novel miRNA-modulated regulatory pathways enriched in genes differentially-expressed between functional human HSCs and their genetically-matched iPSC-derived counterparts, providing previously unreported insights into recapitulating normal hematopoietic development in vitro.
      • keywords: cell; development; disease; hematopoietic; ipscs; pluripotent; stem; studies; study
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3962. r781wd40q5c
      • author: Aram Derdzyan
      • title: Energy Markets and Consumer Behavior
      • date: 2022
      • words: 98
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Additionally, COVID-19 has created an unseen turmoil in energy markets, where all players have to deal with high uncertainty. I also shed light on the impact of gasoline prices, uncertainty, and consumers' information-seeking behavior on vehicle purchase decisions.
      • keywords: energy; high; markets
      • versions: original; plain text
3963. r781wd40q6q
      • author: Daniel Sexton
      • title: Rayleigh Number Effects on Direct Numerical Simulations of the "Pi Chamber"
      • date: 2022
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In a previous study, the model matched the salient features of the Pi Chamber experiments and proved to be a valuable tool in understanding cloud microphysics in this context. From these observations, comments on the coupling of turbulence and cloud microphysics in this context can be made and the simulation's ability to be paired with the Pi Chamber experiments for further understanding can be evaluated.
      • keywords: chamber; cloud; microphysics; study
      • versions: original; plain text
3964. r781wd40q9r
      • author: Ian E. Van Dyke
      • title: Evangelical Multiculturalism in the Age of Fracture: U.S. Missionaries and Evangelicals' Search for Diversity and Social Justice, 1974–2010
      • date: 2022
      • words: 287
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: This dissertation examines the emergence of a multicultural sensibility among American evangelical Protestants and their global peers in the late twentieth century. Deeply influenced by the radical political currents of the global sixties, I argue that Global South evangelicals within the Lausanne Movement forced their peers to rethink their approach to mission work and develop new answers to charges of cultural imperialism.
      • keywords: american; evangelical; global; history; lausanne; movement; north
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3965. r781wd40r4b
      • author: Vincent L. Strand
      • title: That They May Have Life: Trinitarian Deification in Matthias Joseph Scheeben
      • date: 2022
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Chapter 3 (Grace: Becoming God's Adopted Children) analyzes Scheeben's theology of the divine missions, conception of the relation of nature and grace, and theology of human union with God understood as trinitarian deification, through which we become children of the Father, spouses of the Son, and temples of the Holy Spirit. Chapter 1 (Mysteric-Supernatural Deification: A Doctrine Emerges) argues that Scheeben's theology of deification, with its characteristic accents on mystery and the supernatural, emerged as a counterproposal to the theological rationalism Scheeben saw threatening Christian life and theology in nineteenth-century Germany.
      • keywords: chapter; grace; scheeben; theology
      • versions: original; plain text
3966. r781wd40r61
      • author: Alexander W Weig
      • title: Synthesis of Small Molecule Disruptors of Bacterial Resistance Mechanisms
      • date: 2022
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: With the discovery of plasmid borne resistance to colistin found in 2015, the possibility of bacterial strains with pan-antibiotic resistance became a reality. Due to the lack of industrial interest, the challenges of developing new antibiotics and finding alternative approaches to fighting multi-drug resistant bacterial infections have fallen on small startup biopharmaceutical companies and academic research groups.
      • keywords: adjuvants; antibiotics; bacteria; colistin; compounds; infections; resistance; small; virulence
      • versions: original; plain text
3967. rb68x922v1t
      • author: Sergio Escobar Vargas
      • title: Agglomerate Detachment of Microparticles
      • date: 2004
      • words: 90
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The experimental data obtained was characterized as detachment fraction versus free stream velocity. Different materials of microparticles were used as well as different microparticle sizes.
      • keywords: detachment; fraction
      • versions: original; plain text
3968. rb68x922v4v
      • author: Stephanie Marie Golden
      • title: Effects of Photoirradiation on the Physicochemical Properties of Natural Organic Matter: Considerations of Nom Isolation Technique and Iron Content
      • date: 2004
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Physicochemical properties monitored included: light absorbance, dissolved organic carbon concentration, fluorescence, average molecular weight, low molecular weight carboxylic acid concentration, and iron speciation. This indicates that the XAD isolation process may remove constituents in natural surface water which act as oxidant scavengers.
      • keywords: fluorescence; kinetic; natural; nom
      • versions: original; plain text
3969. rb68x922v56
      • author: Elaine M Mindrup
      • title: Discovery of New Ionic Liquids for Co2 Capture
      • date: 2011
      • words: 533
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Unfortunately, when amino acid based ionic liquids react with CO2, their viscosity increases significantly, making them undesirable for CO2 capture. Post-combustion CO2 capture is the most clear-cut and promising path to limiting carbon emissions but its implementation relies on the discovery of energy-efficient means of separating CO2 from other flue gas components such as N2, O2, H2O and other trace gases.
      • keywords: amine; capture; co2; energy; group; ils; ionic; liquids; reaction; ìãh
      • versions: original; plain text
3970. rb68x922v6j
      • author: Wangqing Yuan
      • title: Novel Design of Monolithically Integrated Photonic Devices: Teardrop Laser and Polarization Rotator-Splitter
      • date: 2013
      • words: 489
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The mode converter, consisting of a bi-level taper and a width taper, effectively converts the fundamental TM mode into the second order TE mode without changing the polarization of the fundamental TE mode. The following adiabatic asymmetric Y-coupler splits the fundamental and the second order TE modes and also converts the second order TE mode into the fundamental TE mode.
      • keywords: bend; laser; loss; mode; polarization; single; straight; teardrop; waveguide
      • versions: original; plain text
3971. rb68x922v9k
      • author: Hubert George
      • title: Manufacture and Performance of Aluminum Single Electron Transistor for Ultra-Sensitive Charge Fluctuation Measurements
      • date: 2010
      • words: 123
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This work consists on the fabrication and implementation of SETs to measure charge fluctuations made by electrons, and establish the cause of the fluorescence intermittency seen in molecules and quantum dots (QD). One of the applications we are interested on, is using them as electrometers, SETs as the most charge sensitive devices, to perform ultra-sensitive charge fluctuation measurements.
      • keywords: applications; charge; sets
      • versions: original; plain text
3972. rb68x922w0s
      • author: David Christopher Post
      • title: Robustness and Efficiency of Planar Biped Walking Robots
      • date: 2013
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: However, heuristic rules for disturbance rejection in hardware were developed from implementing the dominant control responses to disturbance from the orbit-stabilizing controller. This work seeks to experimentally demonstrate that the use of curved feet under hybrid zero dynamics (HZD) -based control offers efficiency benefits and to make HZD-based controllers more robust to velocity disturbances.
      • keywords: control; controller; curved; disturbances; foot; hzd; velocity
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3973. rb68x922w14
      • author: Gregory James Davis
      • title: Modeling the Symbolic Control of Visual Attention
      • date: 2014
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: attentional; cue; models
      • versions: original; plain text
3974. rb68x922w3t
      • author: Daniel Smith Borkowski
      • title: Rangewide Population Genetics and Genomics of Quercus rubra L.
      • date: 2014
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: I first investigated genetic diversity and differentiation of 6 populations in the UP (the Upper Peninsula, Michigan) and Isle Royale National Park. In the following set of studies, I investigate the neutral and adaptive genetic variation in Q. rubra and present a sequence of the LSC region of its chloroplast.
      • keywords: diversity; genetic; populations; rubra
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3975. rb68x922w6v
      • author: Amy Lynn Fagan
      • title: Volcanic and Impact Processes on Mars and the Moon
      • date: 2012
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Changing celestial spheres, chapter 4 is a detailed explanation of the geochemical methods of analysis employed for the Lunar petrology studies in chapters 5-7; these chapters focus on the petrology of basalt and impact melt samples from Apollo 14 and 16 missions. Chapter 3 examines the depth-diameter relationship, cavity wall slopes, and morphologic characteristics of interior topographic formations within Martian North polar impact craters to constrain polar processes and possible target effects.
      • keywords: apollo; chapter; characteristics; composition; impact; polar; topographic
      • versions: original; plain text
3976. rb68x922w8j
      • author: Harish Agarwal
      • title: Reliability Based Design Optimization: Formulations and Methodologies
      • date: 2005
      • words: 301
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: Original contributions of this research are the development of a novel efficient and robust unilevel methodology for reliability based design optimization, the development of an innovative decoupled reliability based design optimization methodology, the application of homotopy techniques in unilevel reliability based design optimization methodology, and the development of a new framework for reliability based design optimization under epistemic uncertainty. This investigation focuses on the development of efficient and robust methodologies for reliability based design optimization in a simulation based design environment.
      • keywords: design; development; methodology; optimization; reliability; unilevel
      • versions: original; plain text
3977. rb68x922w9w
      • author: Misty Yvonne Schieberle
      • title: Feminized Counsel: Representations of Women and Advice to Princes in Late Medieval England
      • date: 2010
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Even as the representation of women by medieval poets has been extensively studied, scholars have yet to explore how images of women have informed images of political counsel. I examine selected Middle English works by John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Stephen Scrope, as well as manuscripts and French sources, in order to evaluate the association of women with political counsel.
      • keywords: advice; counsel; medieval; poets; political; women
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3978. rb68x923k2z
      • author: Xiang Li
      • title: Investigation and Manipulation of Ferromagnetic Properties of GaMnAs and GaMnAsP Nanostructures
      • date: 1904
      • words: 453
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Ferromagnetic properties are investigated in GaMnAs and GaMnAsP diluted magnetic semiconductors by multiple experimental techniques, including magnetometry, magnetotransport, and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR), with emphasis on magnetic anisotropy and its manipulation by nano-patterning, strain, and interfacial exchange between layers of dissimilar materials. Interestingly, the effects due to nanostructure shape can be remarkably reduced by low-temperature annealing of the nanostructures, which thus provides an approach for controlling magnetic anisotropy on the nano-scale.
      • keywords: anisotropy; direction; exchange; ferromagnetic; films; gamnas; interfacial; magnetic; nanostructures; strain; temperature
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3979. rb68x923q9m
      • author: Kimberly Swendson
      • title: Ruinscape
      • date: 2019
      • words: 29
      • flesch: 69
      • summary: What emerges from the wreckage has potential to sound, to birth, to grip you by the throat. The Ruinscape is a ruined landscape existing in the aftermath of obliteration.
      • keywords: obliteration
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3980. rb68x923z5d
      • author: Corinne M. Kuebler
      • title: Boron Isotope Signatures of Carbonatites: Novel Insights into Magmatic Carbonate Processes and Deep Mantle Carbon Flux
      • date: 2021
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The total range (up to ~16‰) in δ11B values for carbonatites examined suggests either the presence of enriched recycled subducted material in their mantle source region, or reflects the interaction between continental lithosphere and upwelling asthenospheric mantle. Possible influence of late-stage hydrothermal activity giving rise to associated mineral deposits, or secondary post-emplacement alteration (or crustal involvement), on their original (upper mantle-inherited) geochemical and isotopic signatures, 3. Origin of carbon present within their upper mantle (metasomatized) sources (i.e., primordial or recycled), and whether this flux has changed through geologic time.
      • keywords: boron; carbonate; carbonatites; hydrothermal; isotope; mantle; origin; signatures; time; δ11b
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3981. rb68x923z8f
      • author: Katherine Carrasco Ramos
      • title: An Image-Based Co-Designed Experimental and Computational Framework for Heterogeneous Materials
      • date: 2021
      • words: 447
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Specifically, an image-based modeling concept along side complex three-dimensional imaging techniques is used to understand the influence of microstructure and local damage phenomena on the effective mechanical response of particulate reinforced composites. Moreover, this co-designed framework is used in the development of a novel damage model to study particulate reinforced composites.
      • keywords: complex; damage; framework; image; imaging; materials; microstructure; modeling; particulate; strain; techniques
      • versions: original; plain text
3982. rb68x92423x
      • author: Gozde Basara
      • title: Development of Novel Bioinks and 3D Printing Methodologies for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications
      • date: 2023
      • words: 641
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: bioinks; cardiac; gelma; healthy; hipsc; human; hydrogels; models; myocardial; novel; post; tissue
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3983. rf55z60643v
      • author: Eric Clark Stewart
      • title: Gathered around Jesus: An Alternative Spatial Practice in the Gospel of Mark
      • date: 2005
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: These works demonstrate several remarkable consistencies in the presentation of space among ancient authors, in particular the idea that certain spaces are inhabited by certain types of people because the place makes the person. Chapter four reexamines ancient spaces in light of the material discussed in chapter three.
      • keywords: chapter; gospel; mark; presentation; space
      • versions: original; plain text
3984. rf55z606446
      • author: Felix Vietmeyer
      • title: Optical Properties of CdSe Nanowires &#8212; Experiment and Theory
      • date: 2014
      • words: 279
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: cdse; charges; diameter; effects; nanowires; properties; size
      • versions: original; plain text
3985. rf55z60648k
      • author: Jarrett Adrian Carty
      • title: Machiavelli, Luther, and the Reformation of Politics
      • date: 2006
      • words: 222
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Essentially both men sought to restore temporal government to its place of honor and purpose beyond ecclesial control, and to restore an understanding of political reality so that temporal government could be well founded and efficaciously maintained. Both men argued against any kind of medieval universalism in government, utopian politics, or any withdrawal from or denunciation of temporal government.
      • keywords: government; political; theories
      • versions: original; plain text
3986. rf55z60655v
      • author: Jeremiah David Edward White
      • title: Combustion Based Technique for Synthesis and Joining of Refractory Materials
      • date: 2009
      • words: 462
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Additionally, joining layers of similar thickness and microstructure were obtained with different reactive media, ranging from pellets of pressed powders (~ 1-2 mm) to thin metal foils (~ 25 micron). Honeywell Aerospace is a leading producer of carbon brakes for commercial aircraft.
      • keywords: apparatus; carbon; composite; free; high; joining; mechanical; new; pore; silicon; thin
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3987. rf55z606566
      • author: Michael Edward Lee
      • title: Transforming Realities: Christian Discipleship in the Soteriology of Ignacio Ellacur a
      • date: 2007
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: This dissertation argues for the valuable contribution and ongoing relevance of Latin American liberation theology by exploring the work of Ignacio Ellacur a. Ellacur a articulated the Christian message of salvation with an emphasis on a discipleship that entails a creative and mutually-transformative engagement with historical reality. Ellacur a's hope and call for Christian engagement in historical reality provides a sober, integrated vision of the church that seems lacking in the exalted ecclesiologies of other contemporary theologians.
      • keywords: christian; dissertation; ellacur; liberation; reality; theology; thought
      • versions: original; plain text
3988. rf55z60658w
      • author: Holly R. VandeWall
      • title: Expertise and the Disunity of Science: A Case Study in the Difficulties of Providing Expert Advice for Policy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 258
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: The information needed to meet the goals of environmental policy is rarely limited to the domain of any individual scientific discipline or technical field. Its particular focus is the failure of scientific and technical experts in different fields to effectively communicate across their disciplinary boundaries in order to provide coherent advice.
      • keywords: cognitive; discipline; epistemic; policy; scientific; technical
      • versions: original; plain text
3989. rf55z60661s
      • author: David Gary Flagel
      • title: Trophic Cascades with Mammals in a Northern Great Lakes Forest
      • date: 2014
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Twelve permanent sites were established in forest patches scattered throughout high- and low- wolf use areas (six each). I investigated whether a large mammalian predator affects forest community structure and diversity.
      • keywords: areas; deer; forest; high; soil; use; wolf
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3990. rf55z60670r
      • author: Christian Cirhigiri
      • title: Student Movements and Societal Accountability for Ethnic Reconciliation: Case Studies of the Eastern DR Congo, Burundi and Sri Lanka
      • date: 1904
      • words: 222
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The biggest contribution of these student organizations as agents of social accountability for ethnic reconciliation in three countries of study is that they engineer new agendas and raise new forms of consciousness about what alternative pathways can be followed by countries experiencing internal ethnic conflicts. In this thesis through analysis of case studies in eastern Congo, Burundi and Sri Lanka, I study the role of student movements as agents of ethnic reconciliation.
      • keywords: ethnic; movements; reconciliation; student; study
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3991. rf55z606v52
      • author: Ian Giles
      • title: Closed-Loop Control of Dynamic Stall
      • date: 1904
      • words: 396
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: It was also found that for each velocity and stall penetration case, there was an optimum amount of actuator control time that gave the best increase in both cycle-integrated lift and cycle-averaged aerodynamic damping. Baseline measurements were taken for freestream velocities ranging from U∞ = 10 m/s to U∞ = 50 m/s and stall penetration angles of three, seven, and ten degrees.
      • keywords: aerodynamic; control; cycle; lift; penetration; stall; velocity
      • versions: original; plain text
3992. rf55z60787r
      • author: Kevin Schieman
      • title: In View of Ourselves: On the Benefits of Neuroscientific Explanation in Machine Ethics
      • date: 2022
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In this sense, the potential of cognitive neuroscience to benefit machine ethics is not a matter of modeling moral cognition in toto, but rather, one of understanding how the neural implementation of certain cognitive functions might inform our best efforts to realize similar functions in machine agents. However, human moral cognition is hardly a guarantee of morally correct behavior and machine ethics should be careful not to build machines so biologically faithful that they share our moral failings.
      • keywords: better; cognition; cognitive; ethics; machine; moral
      • versions: original; plain text
3993. rf55z60796q
      • author: Xian Gao
      • title: A New Economic Assessment Framework for Future Energy System Design
      • date: 2022
      • words: 236
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Moreover, the proposed general multiscale simulation framework creates abundant future research opportunities within the context of energy markets, e.g., advanced bidding, operation, and control strategies of energy systems. In this thesis, we present a new multiscale simulation framework that integrates process- and grid-centric modeling paradigms to better design, operate, and control energy systems in wholesale energy markets.
      • keywords: complex; control; energy; framework; markets; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
3994. rj430289d38
      • author: Faisal Ahmed Shah
      • title: Exchange-Biased Magnetic Multilayers for Nanomagnet Logic Applications
      • date: 2015
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: In this regard, a double e-beam exposure technique with 3&#948; overlay accuracy of 4 nm was developed to fabricate NML datalines with sub-10-nm spacing. Types and causes of error in ultra-dense NML dataline were also investigated.
      • keywords: error; field; logic; mtj; nml; output; power; spacing
      • versions: original; plain text
3995. rj430289d69
      • author: Colleen Marie Iversen
      • title: Effects of Increased Nitrogen and Phosphorus Availability on Plant Productivity and Nutrient Use at Multiple Ecological Scales in Northern Peatlands
      • date: 2004
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Lastly, we examined the plant community response to environmental nutrient availability and N-uptake efficiency (plant N uptake/soil N availability). Thus, plant community response to soil N availability may exert more important ecosystem controls than NUE, as significant changes in N-uptake efficiency at various ecological scales may affect ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling processes.
      • keywords: community; efficiency; nue; nutrient; plant; response
      • versions: original; plain text
3996. rj430289d7n
      • author: Gergo Peter Szakmany
      • title: Fabrication of Antenna-Coupled Metal-Oxide-Metal Infrared Detectors Using Atomic-Layer Deposition (ALD)
      • date: 2011
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Thin-film metal-oxide-metal diodes were fabricated in this research, where high quality uniform aluminum oxide was deposited by atomic layer deposition. Long-wave infrared detectors which are able to work at room temperature without cooling are of special interest.
      • keywords: antenna; infrared; metal; radiation; wave
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3997. rj430289d80
      • author: Paolo Pellecchia
      • title: The Inescapable Importance of the Subject in 'Le Cosmicomiche' and 'Ti con Zero' by Italo Calvino
      • date: 2013
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 51
      • 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.'
      • keywords: calvino; literature; science
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3998. rj430289f1w
      • author: Shawn Patrick O'Brien
      • title: Exploring the &#945;p-process with high precision (p,t) reactions
      • date: 2010
      • words: 572
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The present results indicate a smaller rate compared to the statistically based Hauser Feshbach rates currently being used in X-ray burst models. With more accurate reaction rates, X-ray burst models are able to more reliably determine the characteristics of the physical environment near the surface of neutron stars.
      • keywords: burst; energy; models; neutron; rates; ray; reaction; states; target; time
      • versions: original; plain text
3999. rj430289f27
      • author: Wenrui Hao
      • title: Homotopy Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation Systems
      • date: 2013
      • words: 101
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The algorithms presented in this thesis can be applied to other problems arising in nonlinear PDEs and dynamic systems Examples from hyperbolic systems and tumor growth models will be used to demonstrate the ideas.
      • keywords: homotopy; methods; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
4000. rj430289f3k
      • author: Kirstin Joy Hasler Brathwaite
      • title: Symbols and Sacrifice: The Role of Nationalism in Combat Effectiveness
      • date: 2014
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: These soldiers take more initiative on the battlefield, have more faith in their leaders, and are more committed to their country than soldiers from authoritarian states. The second argument claims that soldiers who come from democracies are more effective in combat than non-democratic soldiers.
      • keywords: battle; battlefield; combat; effectiveness; nationalism; soldiers
      • versions: original; plain text
4001. rj430289f4x
      • author: Yashan Sun
      • title: Distributed coordination of multi-agent systems based on estimation over ad-hoc communication networks
      • date: 2008
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In this work, we consider three important and related issues:communication logics, swarm cohesion under consensus and the convergence rate of consensus filter under network throughput limitations. The convergence rate of consensus filters under throughput limitations is examined.
      • keywords: agent; communication; consensus; filter; logic; multi; optimal
      • versions: original; plain text
4002. rj430289f58
      • author: Casey Lanea Hill
      • title: The Holistic Influences and Dynamics of the Aedes aegypti Microbiome
      • date: 2014
      • words: 320
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: We showed that fitness characteristics of the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti, vary largely between strains, including varying response to microflora presence or absence, but did not vary in response to dengue virus infection We were able to elucidate the microbiome composition of Ae. aegypti throughout the life cycle of a susceptible and resistant strain, documenting differences between the two strains. Finally, we investigated how the presence of the microbiome influence microRNA expression of Ae. aegypti strains that are susceptible or resistant to dengue virus and found that in the resistant strain, microbiome absence dramatically decreases microRNA expression.
      • keywords: aegypti; host; mechanisms; microbiome; strains; vectors
      • versions: original; plain text
4003. rj430289f89
      • author: Jim O Thomas
      • title: Computer Vision Techniques for Damage Assessment from High Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery
      • date: 2012
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Techniques in post-disaster assessment from remote sensing imagery have been studied by different research communities in the past decade. The results demonstrate that this work promises higher leaps in the field of automated damage classification and provides insights into the reliability of such analysis in real world scenarios.
      • keywords: assessment; damage; imagery; past; work
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4004. rj430289g0v
      • author: Lucas Q. Ton
      • title: Positional Cloning and RNA Interference Assay Demonstrated Plasmodium-Melanizing Function of a Serine Protease Within the Plasmodium Encapsulation 1 Locus (Pen1) of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles Gambiae
      • date: 2007
      • words: 459
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: We also show that RNAi knockdown abolishes CLIPB17 gene induction in L35 and significantly reduces refractoriness to both Plasmodium berghei and P. cynomolgi B. Melanotic encapsulation represents the fastest and most important endogenous refractory mechanism against pathogens too large or too numerous for other immune mechanisms to cope with (Vey, 1993). Melanin-associated refractoriness to the primate parasite P. cynomolgi B and the rodent parasite P. berghei is influenced by at least three Quantitative trait loci (QTLs).
      • keywords: clipb17; domain; enzyme; gene; important; melanin; parasites; pen1; protease; serine; strain
      • versions: original; plain text
4005. rj430289g16
      • author: Silpa Swarnapuri
      • title: Tales of the Apocalypse
      • date: 2008
      • words: 12
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: A creative thesis outlining the various myths about the event of apocalypse.
      • keywords: apocalypse
      • versions: original; plain text
4006. rj430289g3w
      • author: Nikhil Yadav
      • title: Portable Concussion Assessment Using Speech Biomarkers
      • date: 1904
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: While speech analysis has a tremendous potential as the foundation for a new generation of diagnostic tools, the development and deployment of such tools has been hindered by two closely tied problems: (1) the lack of an in-depth understanding of the relationship between neurological disorders and speech production and (2) the small and incomplete sets of speech samples (and the lack of medical context) prior studies are based on. In this work, a portable speech collection and analysis system is designed and implemented to extract acoustic metrics from speech tests developed to study various aspects of speech production affected by concussions.
      • keywords: access; analysis; collected; concussions; data; neurological; production; speech; tools
      • versions: original; plain text
4007. rj430289m5t
      • author: Shant M. Mahserejian
      • title: A Modeling Study to Characterize Microtubule Mechanisms of Dynamic Instability: Connecting Micro-Level Tip Structures to Macro-Level Phases
      • date: 1904
      • words: 658
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The high frequency and low amplitude fluctuations present in simulated MT length history data make it difficult to pinpoint where DI phases begin and end, and where phase transitions occur. Thus, specific MT tip structures and the reaction events that create them are identified as the mechanisms that drive respective transitions between DI phases.
      • keywords: bonds; events; gtp; length; level; phases; structure; subunits; tip; transitions
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4008. rj430290902
      • author: Anthony R. Rosales
      • title: Development of Force Field Parameters for Predictions in Asymmetric Catalysis and a Foray into Mechanism Elucidation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: asymmetric; chemical; methods; predictive; screening; second; tsff; virtual
      • versions: original; plain text
4009. rj430290g6p
      • author: Margaret Lee Butzen
      • title: Experimental Studies of Bacterial Sorption: The Role of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS), Sorption of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), and Controls on Sulfhydryl Site Concentrations
      • date: 2020
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: I describe the results of a study of the effects of varying the concentration and identity of electron donors on bacterial surface and EPS sulfhydryl site concentrations. In chapter 2, I describe a study of the effects of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) on bacterial adsorption, and the importance of sulfhydryl binding sites on the EPS molecules.
      • keywords: bacterial; eps; results; sites; sulfhydryl; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
4010. rj430290h7b
      • author: Sean Dageforde
      • title: The Role of Loss in Value-Based Attentional Selection
      • date: 2021
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: However, in two experiments, no effects of reward or loss were observed on antisaccade behavior. Few existing studies have ventured into the realm of loss research, with conflicting results.
      • keywords: loss; studies; value
      • versions: original; plain text
4011. rj430290j07
      • author: Chang Liu
      • title: Obfuscatory Work: Toward a Theory of Changes in Legitimacy of Rule of Law
      • date: 2021
      • words: 216
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Based on a comparative case study of two villages in China, this paper argues that grassroots bureaucrats' obfuscatory work - work on blurring the conflict between formal and informal rules - can gradually change the legitimacy of formal rules and thus have a long-term impact on the political ecology. Modern state interventions in society often encounter popular resistance, especially in developing countries where informal rules dominate and formal institutions that conflict with them find it difficult to gain legitimacy.
      • keywords: formal; informal; legitimacy; rules; work
      • versions: original; plain text
4012. rj430290k9n
      • author: David Connelly
      • title: Principles, Modeling, and Measurement Towards Efficient Microwave Spin-Wave Circuits
      • date: 2022
      • words: 383
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Fundamentally, efficient transduction requires matching the periodicity of EM fields to the periodicity of spin wave fields, a difficult task considering their respective wavelengths. An end-to-end microwave/spin-wave transducer model is proposed that permits the use of classical microwave network analysis and matching theory towards analyzing and designing efficient transduction systems.
      • keywords: circuits; devices; efficient; end; microwave; spin; transducer; waves
      • versions: original; plain text
4013. rj430290m6x
      • author: Liana R. Arceri
      • title: Exploring the Role of Endocannabinoid Signaling in Renal Multiciliated Cell Development in the Zebrafish Embryonic Kidney
      • date: 2023
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: A previous study performed by Marra et al. in 2019 aimed to determine chemical regulators of MCC development in the zebrafish nephron. This finding indicates a possible role for endocannabinoids in MCC development.
      • keywords: cells; development; mcc; mccs; renal
      • versions: original; plain text
4014. rn300z72p5b
      • author: Mei Chen
      • title: Multilevel Coding for ISI Channels and Fading Channels
      • date: 2008
      • words: 235
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: For linear ISI channels and block fading channels, the complexity scales linearly with the channel length and the number of levels, and the process is shown to be asymptotically information lossless if a fixed input power is properly distributed over a sufficiently large number of layers. For nonlinear ISI channels, two nonlinear equalizers are introduced, the nonlinear ISI cancellation with linear complexity and the reduced-state BCJR algorithm with better performance and slightly higher complexity.
      • keywords: channels; complexity; data; dense; isi; nonlinear
      • versions: original; plain text
4015. rn300z72p6p
      • author: Renato G. Bettiol
      • title: On different notions of positivity of curvature
      • date: 2015
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 40
      • 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).
      • keywords: curvature; positive; sec>0; sectional
      • versions: original; plain text
4016. rn300z72q0x
      • author: Matthew J Kennedy
      • title: Second Naivete: Essays on the Structure of Experience
      • date: 2008
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In this debate, theoretical fit with the apparent nature of experience is rightly regarded as an important desideratum. The apparent nature of experience is what is revealed to us from the first-person perspective.
      • keywords: apparent; experience; nature; naìøve; realism; world
      • versions: original; plain text
4017. rn300z72q7b
      • author: Richard James deBoer
      • title: Measurements and Analysis of alpha-Induced Reactions of Importance for Nuclear Astrophysics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 114
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: A detailed understanding of the critical reaction chain 4He(2&#945;, &#947;)12C(&#945;, &#947;)16O(&#945;, &#947;)20Ne is necessary both because it is the primary energy source and because it determines the ratio of 12C to 16O produced, which in turn significantly effects subsequent nucleosynthesis. Reactions during stellar helium burning are of primary importance for understanding nucleosynthesis.
      • keywords: nucleosynthesis; reaction
      • versions: original; plain text
4018. rn300z72q8p
      • author: Jose Carmelo Interlando
      • title: Toward a Theory of One-Way Functions via Gate Complexity of Boolean Functions.
      • date: 2005
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: However, the existence of such functions has yet to be proved. The focus of this work is on provable computational security via gate (or circuit) complexity of Boolean functions.
      • keywords: computational; functions; security; systems; trapdoor; way
      • versions: original; plain text
4019. rn300z72r07
      • author: Meredith Chase Whitnah
      • title: American Evangelical Gender Ideology and Intimate Partner Violence
      • date: 2010
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In this paper, I use cultural and feminist theory to examine the discourse of two evangelical Christian organizations whose missions are to promote different gender ideologies. I argue that such different performances of gender ideology stem from the same underlying cultural code, partly because of the socio-religious characteristics of evangelical subcultural identity (Smith 1998).
      • keywords: abuse; cultural; different; evangelical; gender; ideology; organizations
      • versions: original; plain text
4020. rn300z72r38
      • author: Ruobing Xie
      • title: Transformation of a Three Dimensional First Order Vortex Matter Transition with Induced Disorder
      • date: 2010
      • words: 410
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: On the other hand, vortex matter can be considered as a new form of matter with solid, liquid and gas phases analogous to solid state materials, except that the building blocks in this case are vortices or magnetic flux quanta rather than atoms. The understanding of vortex matter in high temperature superconductors is important since vortex behavior determines the entire electromagnetic response of high Tc superconductors and hence holds the key to a variety of technical applications.
      • keywords: defects; high; matter; melting; order; temperature; transition; vortex; vortices
      • versions: original; plain text
4021. rn300z72r4m
      • author: Craig M. Bonitsky
      • title: Wear and Friction Characteristics and Crosslinked Properties of Genipin and Photochemical Crosslinked Articular Cartilage
      • date: 2015
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: However, there was no difference between impact damaged cartilage and undamaged cartilage in terms of the amount of collagenase digestion at the articular surface. Furthermore, genipin crosslinking decreased the amount of collagenase digestion at the articular surface but did not alter cartilage friction.
      • keywords: cartilage; concentration; crosslinking; disease; genipin; impact; wear
      • versions: original; plain text
4022. rn300z72s27
      • author: Pablo Ruiz de Olano
      • title: Epistemic Values in Theoretical Physics: Symmetries, Conservation Laws, and the Strong Nuclear Interaction
      • date: 1904
      • words: 563
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: As I show, different authors used symmetries and conservation laws in different ways, giving rise to different research programs. Secondly, I make a technical point about the manner in which symmetries and conservation laws relate to each other in different physical theories.
      • keywords: claim; conservation; different; laws; particle; symmetries; theories
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4023. rn300z72w56
      • author: Yi Liu
      • title: Electrical Capacitance and Adsorption of Uranyl Peroxide Clusters and Photocatalytic Application of Uranium-Doped TiO2
      • date: 1904
      • words: 327
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The electrical capacitance of uranyl peroxide clusters in water has been measured, and provides information concerning the electrical double layer formed in dilute cluster solutions. Cyclic voltammetry was used to study the relationship between effective capacitance and cluster concentration of uranyl peroxide cluster solutions of U60 (Li48+mK12(OH)m[UO2(O2)(OH)]60(H2O)n, m≈20, n≈310 in the solid state).
      • keywords: capacitance; clusters; fuel; major; nuclear; peroxide; solution; uranium; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
4024. rn300z73k2n
      • author: Gilbert C. Stockson III
      • title: Charity, Reward, and "Mercenary" Intent in Thomas Aquinas and Gabriel Biel
      • date: 2019
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: By establishing a competitive relationship between self-love and love for God, Biel emphasizes restraint rather than spontaneity in Christian activity. Decisive differences regarding the relationship between God and the human good, the role of habits in the Christian life, and each thinker's appreciation for divine transcendence lead to very distinctive takes on motivations for Christian activity.
      • keywords: aquinas; biel; charity; god; love; relationship
      • versions: original; plain text
4025. rn300z73r88
      • author: Emily P. Bacher
      • title: Shedding New Light on Squaraines: Utilizing Squaraine Dyes as Effective Tools in Organic Synthesis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: To date, the applications of squaraine dyes have been successfully extended towards: (1) the development of squaraine dyes as thermo- and chemoreversible imaging agents, (2) accessing highly functionalized oxindoles and benzofuranones via a phosphine-mediated ring expansion of appropriately substituted dianiline squaraine dyes, (3) the utility of amino-acid bound 1,3-squaramides in Brønsted acid catalysis, and (4) the design of squaraine dyes as chiral transition metal ligands in enantioselective catalysis. Structurally, squaraine dyes contain a central, electron deficient cyclobutenedione core flanked by two electron rich aromatic substituents in a 1,3-orientation, leading to donor- acceptor-donor resonance stabilization.
      • keywords: analytical; applications; chemistry; dyes; physical; squaraine
      • versions: original; plain text
4026. rn300z73t2t
      • author: Samuel L. Henderson
      • title: Studies of Nuclear Structure via B(E2) Measurements in ⁷Be and ⁸Li
      • date: 2021
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: One of the most promising theories making progress to explain these structures in light nuclei are ab initio calculations. Two measurements were made to support this end, the B(E2; 3/2⁻ →1/2⁻) transition strength of ⁷Be and the B(E2; 2⁺ → 1⁺) transition strength of ⁸Li.
      • keywords: b(e2; calculations; initio; nuclei; transition
      • versions: original; plain text
4027. rr171v55z5p
      • author: Qiang Shen
      • title: Seismic Analysis, Behavior, And Design of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Hybrid Coupled Wall Structures
      • date: 2007
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This dissertation focuses on the development of a new type of hybrid coupled wall structure for seismic regions. Finally, a performance-based seismic design approach is developed for unbonded post-tensioned hybrid coupled wall structures.
      • keywords: analytical; behavior; coupling; hybrid; post; results; structures; systems; wall
      • versions: original; plain text
4028. rr171v55z8q
      • author: Tonia Sue Bock
      • title: And the Message of the Story Is ...? Theme Comprehension in Children and Adolescents
      • date: 2004
      • words: 172
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Developmental differences were found among all ages for both types of theme comprehension, except for moral themes in early adolescence. In a multiple regression, social responsibility (or compliance) and ability-avoidance goals were predictors of moral theme comprehension.
      • keywords: comprehension; moral; stories; themes
      • versions: original; plain text
4029. rr171v55z92
      • author: Crystal Harris Blount
      • title: The Impact of Race-Related Stress in a Sample of African American Adults
      • date: 2011
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Finally, the challenge of data collection across diverse social classes is also discussed as more studies rely on middle class, educated African Americans. Additional hypotheses tested race-related stress and stressful life events as predictors in both depressive symptoms and physical health problems.
      • keywords: african; americans; health; physical; racial; racism; stress
      • versions: original; plain text
4030. rr171v5600j
      • author: Autumn Brooke Wyant Palmiter
      • title: The Effects of Adult Scaffolding and Child Executive Functioning on Vocabulary Learning During Shared Book Reading
      • date: 2013
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Results indicated that children who heard extra-textual input during shared book reading were able to receptively identify more new vocabulary words than those who did not hear any extra-textual input. This study examines how different forms of scaffolded adult extra-textual input (questions, comments, or a combination of the two) during shared book reading might enhance vocabulary acquisition in young children attending Head Start.
      • keywords: children; extra; input; textual; vocabulary
      • versions: original; plain text
4031. rr171v56027
      • author: Alison Elaine Adams
      • title: Subliminally Liminal: Aeschylus' Agamemnon Through the Lens of Transitional Space
      • date: 2013
      • words: 161
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This study concludes that the same principles that dictate the ideals of monumental gateways, as physical and metaphorical boundaries and vehicles of transition between spaces of contrasting character, are also prevalent in the staging and representation of space in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Gateways are entrances from one space to another and as such, they are intended to function as specific transition points between two delineated spaces.
      • keywords: function; monumental; spaces
      • versions: original; plain text
4032. rr171v5603k
      • author: Michelle L Lute
      • title: Demography and Behavior in Macaca fascicularis in the Anthropogenic Landscapes of Singapore
      • date: 2010
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: demographic; dispersal; group; results; sampling; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4033. rr171v5604x
      • author: Kimberly Dawn Burham
      • title: 401(k)s as Strategic Compensation: Align Pay with Productivity and Enable Optimal Separation
      • date: 2003
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: 401(k)s; productivity; results
      • versions: original; plain text
4034. rr171v56058
      • author: Elke Katrin Markert
      • title: Connective 1-dimensional euclidean field theories
      • date: 2005
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The spaces of this spectrum form connective covers of the spaces of euclidean field theories constructed by S. Stolz and P. Teichner in their expository paper 'What is an elliptic object?'. The ideas developed in this work might also help to prove the spectrum properties for the original spaces of conformal field theories of S. Stolz and P. Teichner, which is still an open problem.
      • keywords: connective; field; spaces; theories; theory
      • versions: original; plain text
4035. rr171v5606m
      • author: Daniel Jon McKaughan
      • title: Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Epistemic Attitudes: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape
      • date: 2008
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: I then show how the emerging picture complicates traditional positions on the issue of epistemological voluntarism, casts light on deliberative processes important in scientific practice (such as the nature of theory choice and abductive reasoning), and provides tools for understanding the different ways in which attitudes enter into the debate over scientific realism. When we attend to the epistemic and practical judgments that real scientists make about their theories, we find them quite naturally and effortlessly adopting complex cognitive attitudes that display an extraordinary richness, nuance, and variety.
      • keywords: attitudes; belief; cognitive; epistemic; project; science; scientific
      • versions: original; plain text
4036. rr171v5607z
      • author: Peter Philip Campbell
      • title: The Essence of War and Military Doctrine: Military Realism and US Army Warfighting Doctrine from 1960 to 2008
      • date: 2014
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Military Realism argues that major doctrinal changes are instituted by senior military leaders when the theories of victory and mission priorities of existing doctrine do not plausibly address the most dangerous threats. However, civilian intervention will not determine the essential characteristics of major doctrinal changes.
      • keywords: changes; doctrine; leaders; military
      • versions: original; plain text
4037. rr171v5610v
      • author: Alejandro Montecinos
      • title: Essay on Strategic Behavior of Heterogeneous Agents
      • date: 2014
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The first chapter studies how an initial asymmetry in the production costs between two firms affects aggregate R&D investment and equilibrium welfare under non-cooperative R&D and under a research joint venture. Under both regimes, increasing the initial cost asymmetry reduces welfare.
      • keywords: equilibrium; information; link; node; signal; welfare
      • versions: original; plain text
4038. rr171v5612j
      • author: Georgian Schiopu
      • title: Latinos in Chicago: Is Assimilation Rewarded in the Job Market?
      • date: 2006
      • words: 49
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: I find that assimilation, outside its acculturation dimension, has no significant effect on wages, concluding that the labor market offers few incentives for Latinos to assimilate. Using data from a recent Chicago survey among Latinos, this paper explores the economic situation of Latinos and their economic motivation for assimilation.
      • keywords: latinos
      • versions: original; plain text
4039. rr171v5627k
      • author: Katherine R. Comeau
      • title: Where Can I Find More Money?: How the Challenges of Fundraising Impact the Religious Identity of Faith-Based Organizations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Little research has addressed how external sources of funding influence religious identity. My findings support theories of stakeholder salience and resource dependency; when FBOs can maintain a sustainability of resources then their religiosity also remains constant.
      • keywords: fbos; identity; religious
      • versions: original; plain text
4040. rr171v56q33
      • author: Laura M. Weis
      • title: Interpreting Islam: U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1953-1968
      • date: 1904
      • words: 184
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: It examines not only the accuracy and nuance of U.S. officials' knowledge about Islam in Indonesia, but also religion's shifting salience in U.S. foreign relations during the height of the Cold War. It argues that religion mattered in the construction and implementation of U.S. policies toward Indonesia—but under specific, changing conditions, not as an overarching framework.
      • keywords: indonesia; islam; religion; u.s
      • versions: original; plain text
4041. rr171v56q4f
      • author: Xiaosong Cao
      • title: A Novel Chain-Growth CuAAC Polymerization: One-Pot Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers with Well-Defined Structures
      • date: 2018
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The living nature of this CuAACP is extensively explored to demonstrate the intriguing features of multiple-batch addition of various AB2 monomers to produce hyperbranched polymers with high molar mass, low dispersity, core-shell segmented structures and orthogonal functionalities. Although the perfectly branched dendrimers with degree of branching (DB) and molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1 are very promising structures, the tedious multistep synthesis and inefficient chromatographic purification have led to attempts to replicate their structural properties via synthesis of hyperbranched polymers with high DB and low polydispersity in one-pot processes.
      • keywords: chain; hyperbranched; monomer; polymers; pot
      • versions: original; plain text
4042. rr171v5718w
      • author: Natalia Salamanca Balen
      • title: The Effectiveness of Hope-Fostering Interventions in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: care; hope; interventions
      • versions: original; plain text
4043. rr171v5724t
      • author: Velena Alise Hernandez
      • title: College Enrollment Outcomes: Impact of College Preparation Program Participation and Meeting with a Counselor
      • date: 2020
      • words: 50
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Student participation in college preparation programs and meetings with counselors are examined as a way to understand if there is an impact on college enrollment three years after anticipated high school graduation. This paper focuses on student enrollment in college, particularly focusing on the transition from high school to college.
      • keywords: college
      • versions: original; plain text
4044. rr171v5733s
      • author: Christian Villa Santos
      • title: Molecular Modeling and Simulation of Ideal and Amorphous Soft Porous Coordination Polymers
      • date: 2021
      • words: 114
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Soft porous coordination polymers (SPCPs) are a new kind of porous material composed of metal-organic polyhedra and organic linkers. These novel adsorbents could combine the excellent properties of metal-organic frameworks and soft materials.
      • keywords: organic; properties; spcps
      • versions: original; plain text
4045. rr171v5741d
      • author: Mary Rose Dwyer
      • title: The Wooing of Her Lords and Feasting on the Shroud
      • date: 2022
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Its diction and aesthetics, described by several readers as transtemporal, find their inspirations in medieval courtly romances—like Chrétien de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charrette, the Lais of Marie de France, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and Sir Orfeo— as well as Spenser's Faerie Queene, early 20th century nursery rhymes and folk songs, and poems by writers from working class origins. The Wooing of Her Lords and Feasting on the Shroud bear the fruits of two years spent reading, grieving, and transforming painful memories of home via the linguistic imagination.
      • keywords: memories; men; poems; shroud; speaker; time
      • versions: original; plain text
4046. rr171v5751q
      • author: Barry T. Pawlowski Jr.
      • title: A Study of Secondary Flow Generation Within a "Virtual-Duct"
      • date: 2023
      • words: 544
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Previous investigations revealed that the virtual-duct also generated secondary flows on the turret surface, in particular, oil-flow visualization showed regions next to the virtual-duct fences that were swept clear of oil that was pushed towards the centerline of the hemisphere. Results are shown for steady flow measurements performed in low-speed flow (M approximately 0.12) for virtual-ducts of varying curvature on; flat plates with different boundary layer growth distances, and on a hemisphere of diameter, D = 0.3048 m. Oil-flow visualization, surface pressure, and five hole flow angle probe measurements were conducted to study the secondary flow corner vorticies.
      • keywords: aero; corner; duct; flow; optical; section; turret; virtual; vorticies
      • versions: original; plain text
4047. rv042r3977q
      • author: Christopher Wells
      • title: Sacraments of the Incarnate Word: The Christological Form of the Summa theologiae
      • date: 2009
      • words: 432
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In this perspective, the trinitarian anthropology of the prima pars (chapter three) may be seen to frame the ascetical economy of virtue and gift of the prima secunda and secunda secundae (chapter four); and the tertia pars elaborates the christological and sacramental condition of discipleship, first in terms of the salvific purpose of the Incarnation and all that the Word did and suffered (chapter five), and then in terms of God's provision of sacraments under the sign of the Word as means to the end of human sanctification (chapter six), preeminently in the Eucharist (chapter seven). By taking Christ as Word as its focus, the present study aims to elucidate the most basic theological and rhetorical structure of Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae, without which claims of christological centrality in the work as a whole remain intuitive and gestural at best.
      • keywords: aquinas; chapter; christ; god; pars; prima; summa; trinity; word
      • versions: original; plain text
4048. rv042r39782
      • author: Carolyn B Bond
      • title: Does Increasing Black Homeownership Decrease Residential Segregation?
      • date: 2004
      • words: 165
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The increased share of mortgage loans received by blacks contributed to black homeownership and decreased segregation levels in MSAs with significant black populations. Theoretically, changes in home mortgage lending, which offer more lending opportunities to previously underserved populations and areas should reduce levels of residential segregation.
      • keywords: black; changes; lending; segregation
      • versions: original; plain text
4049. rv042r39829
      • author: James Matthew Wilson
      • title: Catholic Modernism and the Irish 'Avant-Garde'
      • date: 2006
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: catholic; historical; irish; literary; modernism; modernity; work; writers
      • versions: original; plain text
4050. rv042r3989q
      • author: Craig Michael Nelson
      • title: Characterization of Danio Rerio Retinal Regeneration and the Role of TNF&#945;, Stat3, and Ascl1a During the Initiation of MÌ_ller Glia Proliferation
      • date: 2012
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Following retinal damage, the expression of transcription factors Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) and Achaete-scute complex-like 1a (Ascl1a) are upregulated in MÌ_ller glia and are each required for maximal MÌ_ller glia proliferation following retinal damage. The light-damaged retinal homogenates stimulated MÌ_ller glia proliferation, which demonstrated that a MÌ_ller glia proliferation-stimulating factor was present during the peak of photoreceptor apoptosis.
      • keywords: apoptosis; expression; glia; mì_ller; photoreceptor; proliferation; retinal
      • versions: original; plain text
4051. rv042r3990x
      • author: Kerry Gerard
      • title: The Effects of Stream Restoration and Sediment Removal on Community Dynamics and Secondary Production Rates of Benthic Invertebrates in Juday Creek, Indiana
      • date: 2008
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In addition, this study shows that secondary production rates are a sensitive indicator that may be used to evaluate the effectiveness of stream restoration projects. My dissertation focuses on the effects of stream restoration and the effect of sediment basins on the benthic macroinvertebrate community of Juday Creek.
      • keywords: habitat; rates; reaches; restoration; secondary; sediment; stream
      • versions: original; plain text
4052. rv042r3992m
      • author: Jessica Mikels-Carrasco
      • title: Media coverage of climate change and individual understanding of human/environment relations
      • date: 2010
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: This study explores how different mass media coverage of the consequences of climate change may impact individuals' perceived relationship between humans and the natural environment, the importance of climate change relative to other global problems, as well as behavioral intentions towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Results suggest that the perceived relationship between humans and the natural world is likely deeply engrained and enduring, but that media messages may indeed work to increase the saliency of climate change.
      • keywords: change; climate; natural
      • versions: original; plain text
4053. rv042r3995n
      • author: Megan Vance
      • title: Evaluation of a Massive mNUMA Multicomputer with Graph Application Codesign
      • date: 2010
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Active edge graph communication primitives provide building blocks to compose graph algorithms that avoid data hotspots found in other theoretical graph algorithm designs. To support large shared memory applications, mNUMA (migrational NonUniform Memory Access) architectures combine scalable system design with hardware supported multithreading and thread migration, which replace or augment traditional coherence schemes while providing fine grained resource sharing to tolerate long memory access latencies.
      • keywords: access; algorithms; graph; memory; mnuma; model
      • versions: original; plain text
4054. rv042r39991
      • author: Reid A. Johnson
      • title: Data Science for Imbalanced Data: Methods and Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Class imbalance refers to when the frequency with which each class appears in data is not roughly equivalent, and the problem is that introduction of class imbalance into the task of classification poses serious challenges that must be addressed in order to provide knowledge and insight. Yet, the challenges that class imbalance gives rise to are in part due to its ubiquitous prevalence, and it stands as a problem that pervades almost every area of investigation under which data science has provenance.
      • keywords: class; data; imbalance; problem
      • versions: original; plain text
4055. rv042r39f7k
      • author: Danilo H. Jara Quinteros
      • title: Photophysical and Photovoltaic Properties of CuInS2 Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots
      • date: 1904
      • words: 560
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Therefore, CuInS2 QDs have recently been the subject of interest of several research groups because they may be an alternative to the conventional CdSe and PbS QDs. Nevertheless, the optical and electronic properties of CuInS2 QDs are yet to be fully understood.
      • keywords: absorption; band; chapter; cis; cuins2; lifetimes; optical; properties; qds; ratio; size
      • versions: original; plain text
4056. rv042r39f98
      • author: Lien-Yung Kao
      • title: Thermodynamic Formalism and Its Applications to Deformation Spaces
      • date: 1904
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In this dissertation, we discuss applications of Thermodynamic Formalism to various deformation spaces, namely, deformation spaces of metric graphs and immersed surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Moreover, we compare the Riemannian geometry features, such as curvature and completeness, of these two pressure metrics with the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmüller spaces.
      • keywords: metric; riemannian; spaces
      • versions: original; plain text
4057. rv042r4060r
      • author: Mahboobeh Ghalehnovi
      • title: Novel Computational Approaches for Network-Based Protein Structural Classification
      • date: 2019
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: However, in this thesis, we first model protein 3D structures as protein structure networks (PSNs). Moreover, because graphlets can deal only with unweighted PSNs, and because accounting for edge weights when constructing PSNs could improve PSC accuracy, we also propose a deep learning framework that automatically learns network features from the weighted PSNs.
      • keywords: features; network; ppi; protein; psc; psns
      • versions: original; plain text
4058. rv042r40b2p
      • author: Paul Anh Trần-Hoàng
      • title: Model-Theoretic Approaches to Theoretical Equivalence and Reduction
      • date: 2020
      • words: 265
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: What does it mean to say that a formal theory is reducible to another?This dissertation seeks to better understand possible answers to these questions by employing methods and tools from model theory, a branch of mathematical logic that studies the relationship between formal languages and the mathematical structures that provide such languages with meaning. In Chapter 2, I motivate a a distinctively semantic view of mathematical theories according to which formalized mathematical statements are taken to specify conditions which describe a variety of possibly non-isomorphic structures.
      • keywords: chapter; formal; model; theoretic; theories
      • versions: original; plain text
4059. rv042r40d0m
      • author: Joseph Baxley
      • title: A Byzantine King in Jerusalem: Intellectual and Cultural Exchange in a Crusader State
      • date: 2022
      • words: 403
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The goal is to ascertain how Byzantine intellectual culture affected their neighbors and the state of Latin intellectual culture by the mid-twelfth century when the Franks were at their peak. Last, it contains a preliminary analysis of the Frankish states in Antioch and Edessa, seeking to broaden our understanding of known intellectual exchange in Frankish Syria.
      • keywords: chapter; culture; exchange; intellectual; jerusalem
      • versions: original; plain text
4060. rv042r40f0x
      • author: Charlotte M. Wood
      • title: Testing the Top Rung of the Distance Ladder: Understanding Type Ia Supernovae Variations and Their Effects on the Hubble Constant
      • date: 2022
      • words: 531
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Using surface brightness fluctuations to measure the distances to 25 type Ia supernovae in elliptical galaxies, I can compare how the properties of type Ia supernovae in elliptical galaxies compare to those in spiral galaxies with distances measured by Cepheid variables. Of particular interest is the use of type Ia supernovae as standard candles to calculate the Hubble constant.
      • keywords: constant; degenerate; dust; galaxies; hubble; light; properties; supernovae; system; type
      • versions: original; plain text
4061. rv042r40f8p
      • author: Jonas Nauerz
      • title: Essays on Labor and Climate Economics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 559
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Motivated by structural changes in female labor force participation in the past decades, cross-country differences in participation rates today, and political debates about constraints and disincentives for women to supply labor, the first two chapters study the effects of the policy tools of income taxation and public childcare on female labor supply. I contribute to the debate by highlighting that the effects of abolishing joint taxation on labor force participation and GDP are twofold.
      • keywords: chapter; childcare; country; effects; female; force; labor; participation; policy; public; supply; women
      • versions: original; plain text
4062. rx913n22j04
      • author: Parveen Kumar Chandila
      • title: Strategy for Global Optimization and Post-Optimality Using Local Kriging Approximations
      • date: 2004
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The non-linear response of the system is captured through local approximations. The global design space is divided into local regions.
      • keywords: approximations; global; local; regions
      • versions: original; plain text
4063. rx913n22j1g
      • author: Jeremy Adam Montemarano
      • title: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice: A Study of a Protocol for CBT Dissemination and Implementation in a Community Mental Health Center
      • date: 2011
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This data suggests that the significant increase in therapist CBT competence may explain the significant decreases in patients' reported depression and anxiety symptoms when receiving CBT compared to TAU. Therapist CBT competence was measured using the Cognitive Therapy Rating Scale (CTRS), and patients' symptomatology was measured using the Beck Depression Inventory-2 (BDI-II) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).
      • keywords: cbt; patients; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4064. rx913n22j2t
      • author: Gang Li
      • title: Constant Q-Curvature Metrics Near the Hyperbolic Metric
      • date: 2013
      • words: 76
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: A similar analysis is applied to a class of fourth order equations arising in spectral theory. We prove that there are infinitely many asymptotically hyperbolic metrics with constant Q-curvature in the conformal class of an asymptotically hyperbolic metric close enough to g. These metrics are parametrized by the elements in the kernel of the linearized operator of the prescribed constant Q-curvature equation.
      • keywords: curvature
      • versions: original; plain text
4065. rx913n22j4h
      • author: Kamilah Kiana Campbell
      • title: Home is What I Make It
      • date: 2013
      • words: 55
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Through the context of prior political movements in the United States and the work of African-American artists and writers, this paper serves to locate contemporary artistic endeavors as they relate to identity construction. This project investigates the potential of the African-American home to be political by challenging notions of collective identity and hybridity.
      • keywords: african; identity
      • versions: original; plain text
4066. rx913n22j5v
      • author: Omar Sami Dahi
      • title: Economic Development and South-South Trade
      • date: 2008
      • words: 448
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Instead I focus on the literature that has dealt with South-South integration and trade per se and their relation to development within the countries of the South. This is done for trade in both directions with a set of countries classified as 'North' as well as the rest of the world, classified as 'South.'
      • keywords: countries; intensive; literature; manufactures; south; trade
      • versions: original; plain text
4067. rx913n22j66
      • author: Qinxin Zhang
      • title: Near-field Scanning Microwave Microscopy and its Applications in Characterization of Dielectric Materials
      • date: 2006
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: SMM characterization has been used to detect defects in single crystals, such as twinning structure in a LaAlO3 single crystal; to present topographic and grain boundary effects in bulk polycrystalline yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ); to differentiate chemical variations, such as oxygen-deficient 'cored' titania crystal, and Zn/Co varied BZCN312 matrices; to characterize inhomogeneities of dielectric properties in a co-fired CMT30/CMT40 ceramic; to discover a new phase with unknown dielectric properties, such as BZCN816 phase in BZCN312 matrices; to investigate stabilized components, such as La2/3TiO3 phase stabilized by LaAlO3 phase; to study solid solution, such as LT3-LAO solid solution and LAO-STO solid solution; to study phase separation and development, LaAlO3-TiO2 and CaTiO3-MgTiO3 diffusion couples; to observe critical feature size effect, such as in CT-MT eutectic system; and to rank the dielectric constant of dielectric materials in these demonstrated systems. All of theses studies indicate that near-field scanning microwave microscopy is a powerful nondestructive technique to characterize local dielectric properties variations, and relate them to local microstructure and chemical variations.
      • keywords: dielectric; local; microscopy; phase; properties; smm; solid; solution; variations
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4068. rx913n22j7j
      • author: Hai Lin
      • title: Robust Analysis and Synthesis of Uncertain Linear Hybrid Systems with Networked Control Applications
      • date: 2006
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Considering a class of applications, networked control systems(NCSs) with uncertain access delay and packet dropouts are studied in the framework of switched systems. It is proved that the robust analysis and synthesis procedures terminate in finite number of steps for switched linear systems under certain conditions.
      • keywords: analysis; control; disturbance; hybrid; linear; problem; robust; systems; uncertain
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4069. rx913n22j8w
      • author: David Gerardo Ortiz Canseco
      • title: The Relationship between Contentious Collective Action and State Repression: A Dynamic, Continuous-Time Model.
      • date: 2008
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Consideration of the multidimensional forms that state repression and contentious collective action can take, the influence of time on the process, and several geopolitical influences acting on the manner in which state repression and contentious collective action interact suggest that these are all important factors that researchers must consider if they hope to gain insight in to the true nature of the relationship between state repression and contentious collective action. Models of the effects of state repression on the hazard of contentious collective action show that, in the short-term, the application of state repression has a dampening influence on contentious collective action, but after a period of seven days, such dampening effects give way to a backlash of contention.
      • keywords: action; collective; contentious; repression; state
      • versions: original; plain text
4070. rx913n22k24
      • author: Kaplan Page Harris
      • title: The Inherited Self: Autobiography and History in American Avant-Garde Poetry
      • date: 2004
      • words: 262
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: In another chapter I suggest that the documentary forms associated with historical poetry should be read as documenting inheritance rather than documenting history as such. If a poet assumes that the self is a product of history, then the historical poem becomes, in effect, a new form of autobiography.
      • keywords: autobiography; historical; history; self
      • versions: original; plain text
4071. rx913n22k4t
      • author: Yonghui Chen
      • title: Using FPGA to Accelerate Monte Carlo Superposition Based Radiation Dose Calculation
      • date: 2009
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Radiation Therapy (RT) is a major modality for treating cancer by delivering radiation dose to cancer cells. The Monte Carlo Superposition (MCS) method provides a fast but accurate algorithm for radiation dose calculation.
      • keywords: carlo; monte; radiation; superposition
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4072. rx913n22k7v
      • author: Sandra Botero
      • title: Courts that Matter: Judges, Litigants and the Politics of Rights Enforcement in Latin America
      • date: 1904
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In Latin America, the transformation of courts into key scenarios for the discussion of public policy, the protection of rights, and the struggle for political change has been one of the most significant political trends following the third wave of democratization. In recent decades, citizens in young and established democracies alike have increasingly turned to courts seeking to solve political disputes and to enforce rights.
      • keywords: courts; impact; judicial; legal; political; public; rights; rulings
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4073. rx913n22m9v
      • author: Alexander Long
      • title: An Indirect Study of the Astrophysical 34Ar(α,p)37K Reaction and its Influence on Type-1 X-ray Burst Light Curves
      • date: 1904
      • words: 827
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Therefore, to use these models to explore other parameters relevant to the double-peak bursting behavior, such as accretion rates and metallicties, this large uncertainty in the 34Ar(α,p)37K reaction rate must be significantly reduced. From these rate distributions, the 34Ar(α,p)37K reaction rate was found to be significantly lower than the corresponding HF predicted rate used in X-ray burst models.
      • keywords: 34ar(α; 38ca; burst; double; lower; p)37k; peak; possible; process; rate; ray; reaction; structure
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4074. rx913n2376p
      • author: Catherine S. Kuiper
      • title: Through the Features of Men's Faces: The Political Community in Francisco Suárez and John Locke
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: There is a great body of Catholic political thought, however, developed just prior to Locke's life and career, that also provided theoretical treatments of many of the same concerns that animated early modern liberalism. Although Suárez is less well-known now, he had an immediate connection to Locke: Robert Filmer, the man against whom Locke directed the entire First Treatise on Government, was himself writing against Jesuit political thought and mentions Suárez by name as an example.
      • keywords: government; locke; philosophical; political; suárez; theological; thought
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4075. rx913n2378c
      • author: Xueheng Hu
      • title: Efficient Content Delivery through Provider Accessible Storage Service
      • date: 1904
      • words: 333
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Solutions have been proposed along two primary tracks, namely instrumenting smaller areas with small cells for more capacity and / or mollifying the effect of data tsunami through better content management. This dissertation presents my research on investigating the potential for the said mechanism and discusses in detail how the proposed method has been implemented to show new opportunities for efficient content delivery.
      • keywords: content; data; devices; infrastructure; mobile; space; storage; wireless
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4076. rx913n2380x
      • author: Clyde A. Daly Jr.
      • title: Modeling Carbon Dioxide Vibrational Frequencies in Ionic Liquids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: It is found that the vibrational frequency of CO2 in ionic liquids can be calculated accurately by using a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics implementation of density functional theory to obtain the potential energy surface required for a discrete variable representation solution to the nuclear Schrödinger equation. As such, many studies have focused on the solvation of CO2 in ionic liquids.
      • keywords: co2; ionic; liquids; solvation; spectroscopy; studies; theory; vibrational
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4077. rx913n23n21
      • author: Patrick Heslin
      • title: Two-Point Boundary Value Problems on Diffeomorphism Groups
      • date: 2021
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: We achieve like results in an array of other settings including 3D axisymmetric ideal fluids, symplectic Euler equations, Euler-alpha equations, and one dimensional integrable systems including the mu-CH and Hunter-Saxton equations. Most notably, we consider the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms equipped with a weak L^2 metric, whose geodesics correspond to Lagrangian solutions to the Euler equations.
      • keywords: equations; euler; lagrangian; solutions
      • versions: original; plain text
4078. rx913n23n52
      • author: Saurabh Bansal
      • title: Exploring Naturalness at Colliders and in Cosmological Observations
      • date: 2021
      • words: 292
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The naturalness problems of the Standard Model, like the Higgs hierarchy problem, have been some of the most prominent motivations for theoretical particle physics over the last few decades. Finally, in the third part of the thesis, we explore minimal flavor violating (MFV) scalar leptoquarks as the potential source of the anomaly in the measurement of R_D. MFV is a framework that can lead to a natural flavor structure for new physics models.
      • keywords: higgs; measurements; mfv; model; naturalness; physics; thesis
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4079. rx913n23p3p
      • author: Alexander LeClair
      • title: Neural Models of Automated Documentation Generation for Source Code
      • date: 2022
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 52
      • 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.
      • keywords: code; models; project; source; summarization; summary
      • versions: original; plain text
4080. s1784j05s8z
      • author: Ben Reinhard
      • title: 'God's Lore and Worldly Law': Archbishop Wulfstan, his manuscripts, and the Institutes of Polity
      • date: 2014
      • words: 321
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Even more importantly, the texts in the manuscripts help to connect Wulfstan's writings with the two most important developments in social theory from the continent: namely, the Three Orders of Society and the Peace of God movement. This project was rooted in clerical and liturgical reform, and looked forward to the later eleventh-century clash between regnum and sacerdotium.
      • keywords: dissertation; manuscripts; polity; project; social; text
      • versions: original; plain text
4081. s1784j05s99
      • author: Chinmoy Nath
      • title: Theoretical and Laboratory Modeling of Turbulent Jets in Low Aspect Ratio Cavities
      • date: 2014
      • words: 471
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: This dissertation concerns a laboratory experimental and theoretical modeling program conducted to investigate: (a) mixing mechanisms and precession of turbulent jets in homogeneous fluids (b) mixing of turbulent jet in stratified fluids and (c) wall attachment of offset jet in a homogeneous fluid. Digital video recordings and particle image velocimetry are used to map the flow structures and velocity/vorticity fields, from which the frequency of jet switching, jet stopping distance, mean flow, turbulence characteristics and the influence of end-wall boundary conditions are inferred.
      • keywords: cavern; cylinder; delta; flow; jet; mixing; offset; spr; turbulent; wall
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4082. s1784j05t0h
      • author: Cheolho Sim
      • title: Host Factors of the African Malaria Mosquito, Anopheles Gambiae In O'nyong Nyong Virus Replication
      • date: 2008
      • words: 441
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In addition, to clarify the tissue tropism of An. gambiae in ONNV infection, ONNV infectious system (ONNV-eGFP) which is capable of express green fluorescent protein (Brault 2004), has been used to characterize tissue tropism and dissemination of ONNV in An. gambiae by intrathoracic injection. Hence, these observations provide direct evidence that HSC70B impedes ONNV replication in An. gambiae.
      • keywords: agglutinin; expression; gambiae; genes; hsc70b; infection; mosquitoes; onnv; post; protein
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4083. s1784j05t4w
      • author: Stacey Beth Scott
      • title: Examining Social Support in Adaptation to Widowhood: A Mixed Methods Approach
      • date: 2010
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Second, the core themes of social support in the lives of older widows were examined using qualitative methods. First, the trajectories of social support were examined using quantitative indicators of satisfaction with social support following the death of a husband through 98 days of daily assessment.
      • keywords: qualitative; social; support
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4084. s1784j05v15
      • author: Candice Yango Lumibao
      • title: Genetic Legacies of 10,000 Years of Environmental Changes on Forest Trees
      • date: 2014
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I examined two historical processes that have had the greatest impact in shaping genetic diversity among species and populations: past climatic oscillations since the last glacial period and the extensive regional forest clearance in the last 500 years. By explicitly examining these past processes at different temporal and spatial scale, my work provides a better and more complete picture of the long-term genetic consequences of past large-scale environmental changes on tree species.
      • keywords: changes; diversity; environmental; genetic; past; patterns; populations; range; species
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4085. s1784j05v2h
      • author: Peter Wicks
      • title: Everything Is What It Is: Ethical Theory and the Language of Judgment
      • date: 2010
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Our moral concepts also play a role in the formation of moral beliefs as instruments of moral perception. However, a careful examination of our moral language suggests that this assumption is unwarranted and that by focusing on a small set of moral concepts ethical theories have ignored much of our moral thinking.
      • keywords: ethical; judgments; moral
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4086. s1784j05v46
      • author: Charles Leslie Penninger
      • title: An Investigation in the Cellular Mechanisms of Bone Remodeling using a Hybrid Cellular Automaton Approach
      • date: 2010
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: activity; bone; cellular; level; models; process; remodeling
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4087. s1784j05v6w
      • author: Philip Damien Little
      • title: Online Algorithms for Dynamic Data and Query Shipping in Object Caching
      • date: 2010
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Applications can involve requests for multiple data objects (or file bundles), queries with results much smaller than the data they access, or updates to data at the source. Database applications can involve all of these properties, and the increasing rate at which they transfer data necessitates an efficient, general, and rigorous approach to managing caches that serve their data.
      • keywords: applications; data; problems
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4088. s1784j05v77
      • author: Nathaniel T. Hollingsworth
      • title: Constitutive Modeling and Damage Mechanics of the Annulus Fibrosus
      • date: 2011
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The objective of this project was to develop more complete constitutive models and to investigate annulus fibrosus damage mechanics. Although the these motions can induce annulus fibrosus damage, the stress-strain state of the annulus during these motions is not known.
      • keywords: annulus; damage; fibrosus; strain; stress
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4089. s1784j0609f
      • author: Tahsin Ahmed
      • title: Optical Quilt Packaging: A New Chip-to-chip Optical Coupling and Alignment Technique
      • date: 1904
      • words: 611
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: These results represent lower loss than previously reported chip-to-chip MIR optical coupling via butt-coupling (~10 dB), fiber coupling (as low as ~10 dB), and grating coupling (tens of dB loss).The initial optical coupling results suggest, OQP is a low-loss chip-to-chip MIR optical coupling technique. In the next phase of the OQP research, QCL chips will be incorporated in this new OQP fabrication process to realize an on-chip modular scheme for explosive imaging.
      • keywords: chip; coupling; imaging; inter; loss; low; mir; optical; oqp; qcl
      • versions: original; plain text
4090. s1784j06p6m
      • author: Andrew P. O'Donnell
      • title: Probabilistic Vulnerability Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
      • date: 2019
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Importantly, this model can quantify the contribution of different damage modes at different locations in a wall, including the effects of perforations from doors and windows. To aid in quantifying this risk, the broad objective of this dissertation is to develop and demonstrate a numerical analysis framework for assessing the seismic performance and expected vulnerability of URM building structures.
      • keywords: damage; model; plane; scenarios; story; urm; vulnerability; wall
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4091. s1784j06r2v
      • author: Vikramjit Singh Rathee
      • title: Modeling Weak Polyelectrolyte Behavior and Predicting Complexation Properties
      • date: 2019
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: Finally, via molecular simulations, we model the ion rejection process in self-assembled copolymer membranes and discuss the thermodynamics of stimuli responsive nanofiltration membranes with pore confined weak polyelectrolyte brushes and outlook with regards to weak polyelectrolyte simulations and applications. Then we extend these routines by incorporating advanced sampling method to elucidate on the thermodynamics behind weak polyelectrolyte complexation.
      • keywords: applications; membranes; polyelectrolytes; properties; simulations; systems; weak
      • versions: original; plain text
4092. s1784j06x8g
      • author: Sreya Banerjee
      • title: A Study on Biologically-Inspired Recognition Using Multi-Platform and Multi-Modal Data
      • date: 2021
      • words: 558
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: First, to study the impact of difficult scenarios on automatic recognition, I explore the usefulness of state-of-the-art visual recognition combined with image restoration algorithms as off-the-shelf components, operating on the idea that restored images should be somewhat easy to classify. To build a recognition system for any application these days, one's first inclination is to turn to the most recent machine learning breakthrough from the area of deep learning, which no doubt has been enabled by access to millions of training images, clean and correctly labelled from the Internet.
      • keywords: activations; algorithms; art; image; impact; learning; recognition; sensory; state; system; zebrafish
      • versions: original; plain text
4093. s1784j0710x
      • author: Nicole Cortes
      • title: Market-Based Technoeconomic Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Based Integrated Energy Systems
      • date: 2023
      • words: 277
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In this work, we develop a computational optimization framework for dynamic market-based technoeconomic comparison of IESs that co-produce low carbon electricity and hydrogen (e.g., solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide electrolysis) against technologies that only produce electricity (e.g., natural gas combined cycle with carbon capture) or hydrogen. Using data from these models, we train algebraic surrogate models, which enable tractable multi-period optimization of electricity and hydrogen coproduction based on energy prices.
      • keywords: concepts; electricity; energy; flexibility; framework; hydrogen; market; solid
      • versions: original; plain text
4094. s1784j07118
      • author: Abhishek Khanna
      • title: Phase Transition Oscillators Based Ising Machines for Combinatorial Optimization Problem Solvers
      • date: 2023
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Various proposals for building such special purpose Ising machines have recently been made, including superconducting qubits and trapped ions-based quantum computing and quantum annealing digital and mixed-signal complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) annealers and coherent networks of degenerate optical parametric oscillators. In this work, we describe and demonstrate an electronic phase transition nano-oscillator (PTNO) based CTDS that acts as an Ising Hamiltonian solver using a network of injection-locked coupled oscillators.
      • keywords: digital; dynamical; ground; hamiltonian; model; problem; state; systems; time
      • versions: original; plain text
4095. s4655d8932r
      • author: Qingling Hang
      • title: Molecular Liftoff Technology by Electron Beam Lithography for Molecular Electronics Devices
      • date: 2004
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: For molecular nanopatterning, surface cleanliness is critical for molecular deposition and the investigation of deposited molecular patterns. Compared with PMMA resist, both of these two resists are not appropriate for molecular nanopatterning.
      • keywords: contamination; molecular; molecules; nanopatterning; pmma; qca; resist; surface
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4096. s4655d89333
      • author: June H Sun
      • title: Father Involvement Differences by Race in Fragile Families
      • date: 2011
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: Hispanic fathers had difficulty in overcoming the 'hurdle' of reading to their children. Past studies on the intersection of class, race, and family have posited that class trumps race.
      • keywords: children; class; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4097. s4655d8934f
      • author: Andrew Mercer Deines
      • title: Environmental Change and Tradeoffs in Freshwater Ecosystem Services: Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Introduction to the Kafue River, Zambia
      • date: 2013
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: I evaluate the value of the Kafue River fishery by modeling the tradeoff between fisheries production and hydropower generation, as imposed by dam-induced flow modification, and find that annual fishery production is $USD 7 million per year, but this production is not affected by flow modification. Global environmental change is putting increasing demands on freshwater resources.
      • keywords: ecosystem; flow; freshwater; modification; production; services; tilapia
      • versions: original; plain text
4098. s4655d89364
      • author: Michael Benjamin Cover
      • title: Lifting the Veil: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions
      • date: 2013
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The contribution of this study is to read Paul's midrash through comparison with the forms and traditions of Hellenistic Jewish commentaries, particularly Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary. Second, recognizing the presence of covenant renewal themes in both Paul's epistolary frame and in his midrashic excursus suggests that his opponents in 2 Corinthians were Hellenistic Jewish Christian missionaries.
      • keywords: commentary; exodus; hellenistic; jewish; midrash; moses; paul
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4099. s4655d8937g
      • author: Jennifer M. Sexton
      • title: Subcloning and Partial Purification of Perchlorate Reductase from Dechloromonas aromatica RCB
      • date: 2007
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Utilizing DEAE (diethylaminoethyl) reverse anion exchange as a first step resulted in an increase of perchlorate reductase specific activity from 0.0759 U/mg to 0.218 U/mg. Perchlorate reductase from Dechloromonas aromatica RCB is responsible for the enzymatic reduction of perchlorate to chlorate and chlorate to chlorite in two, two electron transfers.
      • keywords: activity; constructs; perchlorate; purification; reductase
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4100. s4655d8938t
      • author: Xiaohai Shi
      • title: Characterizing the Roles of Pitx3 and Foxe3 in Zebrafish Lens and Retina Development
      • date: 2006
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: In the eye, expression of the Pitx3 protein was restricted to the lens epithelial cells and differentiating lens fiber cells. The absence of detectable Pitx3 protein expression in the retina suggested that Pitx3 expression in the lens induces a required effect on retinal development.
      • keywords: cells; expression; foxe3; genes; lens; pitx3; protein; zebrafish
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4101. s4655d89395
      • author: Srinivas Sridharan
      • title: Implementing Scalable Locks and Barriers on Large-Scale Light-Weight Multithreaded Systems
      • date: 2006
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This thesis focuses on computer architectures, which increase the opportunities for concurrency usually not possible in systems based on complex superscalar based cores. The primary objective of this thesis is to explore scalable synchronization mechanisms for LWP architecture.
      • keywords: architecture; lwp; techniques; technology; thesis
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4102. s4655d8940c
      • author: Matthew Lynn Rissler
      • title: Stochastic Models of Collective Motion of Myxococcus xanthus
      • date: 2008
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: It is demonstrated that a modified Lattice Gas Cellular Automata model of cells with reversals is capable of aggregation and mounding in fruiting body formation. The social aspect is also evident during swarming, or coordinated expansion of a colony with sufficient nutrient.
      • keywords: cells; lattice; swarming
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4103. s4655d8941q
      • author: Daniel Robert Jackson
      • title: Birational maps of surfaces with invariant curves.
      • date: 2007
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 59
      • 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.
      • keywords: invariant; maps; projective
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4104. s4655d8944r
      • author: Devin A. Brown
      • title: Analysis of Wind-Induced Acceleration and Pressure Data from an Eight-Hundred-Foot Building
      • date: 2003
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Structural properties, e.g., natural frequencies and damping of structures, as-built, can be determined from measured response time histories using system identification techniques. The data was statistically analyzed to gain better understanding of the action of wind on bluff structures with separated flow regions.
      • keywords: data; properties; structures; techniques; thesis
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4105. s4655d8946f
      • author: Thomas Bradley Apker
      • title: Experimental Investigation and Modeling of Time Resolved Thrust of a Flapping Wing Aircraft
      • date: 2010
      • words: 205
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: This motion was used to develop phenomenological linear models of flapping wing thrust generation. This study showed that the spectral content of the flapping wings extended to 15 times the flapping frequency, well above the resonant frequency of the mass-spring-damper system formed by a load cell and flapping mechanism.
      • keywords: counterweight; linear; thrust; wings
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4106. s4655d8949g
      • author: Thomas R. Coughlin
      • title: Mechanobiological Signals in Trabecular Bone and Marrow
      • date: 1904
      • words: 448
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: They were present on a small fraction of bone marrow cells and osteocytes, and were relatively short within the trabecular bone and marrow compartment, indicating that they may function as mechanosensors in concert with other mechanosensors or that only a small number of cells are responsible for mechanosensing in the trabecular bone and marrow compartment. There is little known about the contribution of bone marrow cells to mechanotransduction and the subsequent signaling that takes place.
      • keywords: bone; cells; lmms; marrow; mechanical; mechanotransduction; osteocytes; trabecular
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4107. s4655d89t0k
      • author: Jessica A. Brandwein
      • title: Threat, Risk, and Repression: Exploring State-Sponsored Political Violence from a Prospect Theory Approach
      • date: 1904
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: A statistical analysis of government responses to dissent among African countries supports this argument, showing that governments in the domain of loss repress low levels of dissent at higher rates than governments in the domain of gain. Chapter 4 looks at how international actors influence the use of state repression, proposing that the effect of interventions on the use of state-sponsored violence is conditioned on government domain.
      • keywords: chapter; domain; government; state; violence
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4108. s4655d89t70
      • author: Ruth Speidel
      • title: Longitudinal Development of Child Self-Regulation in the Context of Child Maltreatment: The Roles of Parenting Style, Family Expressiveness, and Maternal Reminiscing Quality
      • date: 1904
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: Maternal reminiscing quality mediated relations between maltreatment and lability/negativity at 6 months, and change across time in emotion regulation and inhibitory control. In this study, three mediators (positive parenting, positive family expressiveness, and maternal reminiscing quality) were examined as processes through which maltreatment influences three dimensions of child self-regulation (emotion regulation, lability/negativity, and inhibitory control) across three time points (baseline, 2 months, and 6 months later) using longitudinal mediation analysis with latent growth modeling.
      • keywords: maternal; regulation; self; time
      • versions: original; plain text
4109. s4655d90090
      • author: Michael C. Magree, S.J.
      • title: Shaped to the Measure of the Kenosis:The Theological Interpretation of Philippians 2:7 from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria
      • date: 2019
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The dissertation opens with a significant survey of twentieth century interpretation of Philippians 2:7, in order to provide points of comparison with antiquity. This quickly comes to involve disputes concerning the understanding of who God is and how union with human nature is possible.
      • keywords: christianity; human; kenosis; philippians
      • versions: original; plain text
4110. s4655d9071d
      • author: Afzal Hossain
      • title: Context-Driven and Resource-Efficient Crowdsensing
      • date: 2021
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Context plays a critical role in balancing the trade-off between the quality of opportunistic sensing data and the energy of the participating device. First, it identifies the challenges of continuous data collection in longitudinal cohort studies and addresses some of them.
      • keywords: collection; context; crowdsensing; data; mobile
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4111. s4655d90911
      • author: Amelia Mendelsohn
      • title: Gone Home
      • date: 2023
      • words: 86
      • flesch: 23
      • 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.
      • keywords: domestic; sphere
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4112. s7526972c0m
      • author: Fernando Antonio Garcia
      • title: Valuation of Chemical Operations Under Uncertainty
      • date: 2015
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This dissertation uses process synthesis formulations to develop models that explain how to value chemical processes and minimize financial risk. Three methodologies are being proposed as part of the approach to value chemical processes.
      • keywords: chemical; models; process; processes; risk; value
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      • author: Christopher John Hausmann
      • title: The Best Laid Plans: Bodies, Thwarted Objectives, Stubborn Inequalities and Unexpected Encounters
      • date: 2008
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Drawing upon ethnographic data collected at the 2007 World Social Forum and United States Social Forum, I demonstrate that the very ecological shifts that create opportunities to collaborate across geographical and social locations can also threaten participants' physical capacity to take advantage of those opportunities. To capitalize on the favorable, but fleeting opportunities at the USSF and 2007 WSF, participants both put forth intense physical effort and disrupted their typical strategies for maintaining their bodies.
      • keywords: opportunities; participants; political; social
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4114. s7526972c6p
      • author: Jarren Thomas Gonzales
      • title: The Acculturation Experience of International Graduate Students: A Qualitative Investigation
      • date: 2006
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This study actualizes the consideration of social cognitions in the acculturation process through qualitative methodology and analytical techniques that are based on grounded theory. The immersion experience in the United States is best understood from the perspective of acculturation theory (e.g., Berry, 2003).
      • keywords: acculturation; cultural; international; social; theory
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4115. s7526972d3z
      • author: Philip P Schonewill
      • title: Oscillatory Flow: Effect on Transverse Diffusivity and Inertial Migration of Particles and Bubbles
      • date: 2008
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: A promising alternative use of oscillatory flow in the DMFC was discovered during this study: it assists with carbon dioxide bubble management at low steady feed rates. Two processes which benefit from oscillatory flow are investigated herein: the first, using oscillatory flow to enhance mass transport in a porous medium, and the second, developing separation strategies from the study of inertial migration of particles and bubbles in oscillatory flow.
      • keywords: diffusivity; dmfc; flow; mass; medium; oscillatory; steady
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4116. s7526972d49
      • author: Amy Libardi
      • title: Tribological and Thermal Properties of Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2013
      • words: 127
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Results show that ionic liquids have the potential to be suitable lubricants. The thermal conductivity, viscosity, and pressure-viscosity coefficient were measured for several ionic liquids using a Unitherm Thermal Conductivity Measurement System, a viscometer, and an Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication (EHL) rig, respectively.
      • keywords: co2; ionic; refrigerant
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4117. s7526972d60
      • author: Charles Thomas Strauss
      • title: Catholicism, Central America, and United States Politics During the Cold War, 1943-1988
      • date: 2011
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Historians have convincingly shown how ideological considerations acquired a primacy over practical matters in the making of United States policy on Central America during the Cold War. This dissertation explores how religion shaped United States foreign policy on Central America during the second half of the twentieth century.
      • keywords: america; catholic; central; development; policy; states; united
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4118. s7526972d8p
      • author: William Benjamin Secunda
      • title: In the Shadow of the Eagle's Wings: The Effects of Removal on the Unremoved Potawatomi
      • date: 2009
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The Michigan Road leadership embraced civilization, but manipulated it in such a way so as to preserve their lives, rights, and identity, and avoid forced removal. A combination of documentary and archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate how members of the Michigan Road band developed syncretized life ways.
      • keywords: civilization; michigan; policy; potawatomi; removal
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4119. s7526972d91
      • author: Anne B. McGinness
      • title: Atlantic Reformation: How Confessional Conflict Affected Brazilian Society, 1554-1654
      • date: 2013
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Starting from a reconsideration of the French and Dutch Protestant presence in colonial Brazil, I seek to understand how the Reformation affected Brazilian society. I explore several problems within this arena: how and why Catholic and Protestant traditions crossed the ocean; how contestation among Protestants and Catholics unfolded in Brazil after a century of Catholic spiritual conquest; how cross-confessional influences originating in Brazil affected European religion in turn; how missionaries communicated specific notions and practices of European origin, including sacraments, priesthood, martyrdom, and traditional devotions and cults; and how and why some natives became Protestant adepts.
      • keywords: brazil; brazilian; catholic; confessional; europe; protestant; reformation
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4120. s7526972g27
      • author: Lauren Squires
      • title: Dissecting the Anti-Vaccination Movement: Moving Beyond a Typical Dichotomy in Order to Understand Lifestyle Choice Non-Compliance
      • date: 1904
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Due to a lack of consistent categorization, inconsistencies arise in demographic characteristics. However, when looking at the anti-vaccination movement in terms of complete non-, selective (MMR and Varicella), and fully-up-to-date, we capture the shift in types of non-compliance associated with non-vaccinators and limit demographic inconsistencies.
      • keywords: date; movement; vaccination
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4121. s752697327h
      • author: Lori F. Cummins
      • title: Life Events and the Phenotypic Expression of Depression in Men
      • date: 1904
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Results indicated that (1) the experience of a Severe life event predicts increases in typical depressive symptoms for both men and women, (2) a male-based model of depressive symptoms, which included indicators of depressed mood, social isolation, and alcohol abuse, best reflected the latent structure of depressive symptoms for both men and women, and (3) the experience of a Severe life event still predicted elevations in depressive symptoms even when only the core of symptoms identified in Study 2 were included. Participants included 401 emerging adults, nearly equally divided among men and women, who completed a gold-standard assessment of stressful life events; self-reported measures of typical depressive symptoms, externalizing behaviors, and alcohol use; and investigator-based assessments of typical depressive symptoms and alcohol abuse.
      • keywords: depression; men; symptoms; women
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4122. s7526973296
      • author: Olivia F. Cox
      • title: The Effects of Titanium Dioxide on Cell-Cell Contacts during Xenopus Embryogenesis and Targeted Depletion of SUMOylation in Cardiomyocytes of Xenopus Embryos
      • date: 1904
      • words: 570
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Expression of Gam1, an adenoviral protein that degrades the SUMO E1-activating enzyme, was placed under the control of three cardiac specific promoters (Nkx2.5, MLC2, and ANF), in order to reduce SUMOylation in cardiac progenitor cells at distinct embryonic stages. Targeted Depletion of SUMOylation in Cardiomyocytes of Xenopus EmbryosCHDs are the most common form of human birth defect with 36,000 American births and ~1% of worldwide births affected each year.
      • keywords: cardiac; cell; control; embryos; expression; gam1; nanoparticles; nps; occurrence; promoter; rhoa; sumoylation; tio2
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4123. s7526973772
      • author: Enrico Speri
      • title: Synthesis and Biological Studies of New Classes of Antibiotic and Antibiotic Potentiators for Resistant Bacteria
      • date: 2019
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 33
      • 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).
      • keywords: aureus; difficile; family; mrsa; resistant; vancomycin
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4124. s7526973b8b
      • author: Maryann H. Kwakwa
      • title: The Ambiguous Cohort: How Alternative Undergraduate Experiences Affect Civic Engagement
      • date: 2019
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: By shifting out focus from degree receipt to educational experience, we can capture the effect that the college environment has on civic engagement with greater precision. Thus, in my dissertation I ask: what is the effect of undergraduate college experiences on civic engagement?
      • keywords: civic; college; degree; educational; effect
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4125. s7526973f3j
      • author: Maj-Britt K. Frenze
      • title: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Romance: Translation and Transmission in England and Scandinavia
      • date: 2020
      • words: 245
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This dissertation examines nature and the supernatural in medieval romance, specifically how romance motifs were transmitted and incorporated into translated and original Middle English romances and Old Norse-Icelandic romances and legendary sagas. The dissertation is divided into four studies on different landscapes and beings common to medieval romance: the garden, the forest, the supernatural mistress, and the so-called Saracen giant.
      • keywords: dissertation; english; medieval; nature; romance; supernatural
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4126. s7526973f4w
      • author: Ellen Lehet
      • title: The Explanatory Value of Category Theory
      • date: 2020
      • words: 194
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Category theory has proven to be useful in many distinct areas of mathematics and the usefulness of this applicability is often a result of the fact that the category theoretic approach produces explanation. In total, these three chapters clarify some important features of mathematical explanation and shed philosophical light on the success of category theory within mathematics.
      • keywords: category; mathematics; theory
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4127. s7526973f9m
      • author: Brian A. Page
      • title: Scalability of Irregular Problems
      • date: 2020
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: While regular applications can be developed into highly optimized implementations such that they benefit from traditional architecture design, irregular problems often achieve a mere fraction of a systems computational power even when optimized. In this work we evaluate and analyze the performance of irregular problems on a range of modern architectures commonly used in high performance computing, as well as a novel migrating thread architecture.
      • keywords: architectures; design; irregular; problems
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4128. s7526973h5v
      • author: Patrick Boyd
      • title: Investigating Early Regulators of Injury and Regeneration in the Zebrafish Retina
      • date: 2022
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Multiple iron homeostasis genes are differentially regulated within Müller glia prior to retinal cell death suggesting that iron might be a key regulator of retinal cell death and the Müller glia response. Additionally, I demonstrate that iron contributes to retinal cell death, with chelation resulting in significantly less photoreceptor death during light treatment, and decreased Müller glia proliferation.
      • keywords: cell; death; glia; iron; müller; retinal; zebrafish
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4129. s7526973h66
      • author: Taylor Higgins
      • title: Characterization, Estimation, and Realization of Human Intent for Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking
      • date: 2022
      • words: 443
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This dissertation seeks to provide fundamental advances in support of physical HRI by addressing how to model exoskeleton-assisted gait mechanics, and to characterize, estimate, and realize human gait intentions. Existing strategies of modeling unassisted human gait have been useful for informing the control of bipedal robots in the past, but it is unclear how well these models characterize the salient features of exoskeleton-assisted gait.
      • keywords: exoskeleton; gait; human; intentions; physical; robots; signals
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4130. sb397655n30
      • author: Joseph E. Lammersfeld
      • title: Implementing Four-Dimensional Triangulations in CGAL
      • date: 2011
      • words: 130
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: implementation; package; triangulation
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4131. sb397655n4b
      • author: William Anthony Pilcher
      • title: High Strain Rate Testing of Bovine Trabecular Bone
      • date: 2004
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: If the failure occurs in the posterior portion of the vertebral body, spinal canal occlusion can occur and ejected trabecular bone can impact the spinal cord resulting in serious injury. Because trabecular bone is soft, typical Hopkinson pressure bar experimental techniques used for high strain rate testing of harder materials cannot be applied.
      • keywords: bone; burst; fractures; pressure; spinal; strain; trabecular
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4132. sb397655n5p
      • author: Carlos Mariano Lisoni
      • title: Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns: Voter Mobilization Strategies in Argentine Provinces
      • date: 2012
      • words: 295
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This dissertation explores the particular mechanisms by which political parties attempt to win people's votes by embarking on specific electoral campaign strategies. This dissertation produces an argument in which the campaign strategies political parties use are influenced by, not only district factors such as socioeconomic development and electoral competitiveness, but also by party factors such as candidate nomination compromises and the dispersion of power within parties.
      • keywords: campaign; comparative; dissertation; factors; parties; strategies; study
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4133. sb397655n61
      • author: Jenica Abrudan
      • title: A First Glance at the Phlebotomus papatasi Transcriptome and Genome and Pipeline for Validating Predicted G-Coupled Protein Receptors
      • date: 2013
      • words: 831
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The reservoir differs with different vector species. Also in Chapter 2, we identify new proteins potentially involved in digestion and immune response and study their expression levels across different life stages and different feeding conditions.
      • keywords: available; chapter; control; different; disease; flies; fly; genome; host; leishmaniasis; library; parasite; reservoir; sand; species; vector; world
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4134. sb397655n8q
      • author: Robert Anthony Perera
      • title: Examining Simultaneous Power in Structural Equation Modeling
      • date: 2013
      • words: 165
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This project examined four ways for simultaneously testing structural coefficients in structural equation modeling in the special case of two exogenous latent variables. This expresses the need to explore ways to improve simultaneous power other than increasing sample size.
      • keywords: power; simultaneous; statistical; structural
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4135. sb397655n92
      • author: Joel Kirk
      • title: Potential Disturbance Interactions With a Single Igv in an F109 Turbofan Engine
      • date: 2008
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The investigation included velocity measurements upstream of the fan, addition of an airfoil shaped probe upstream of the fan on which surface pressure measurements were acquired, and measurement of the velocity in the interaction region between the probe and the fan. This investigation sought to characterize the response on the upstream probe due to the fan potential field and the interaction between a viscous wake and the potential field; as such, all test conditions were for subsonic fan speeds.
      • keywords: engine; fan; potential; pressure; source; surface; upstream
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4136. sb397655p08
      • author: Leon Scott Downing
      • title: The Hybrid Membrane Biofilm Process: A Novel System for Achieving Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater
      • date: 2008
      • words: 926
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Nitrification in the HMBP was sensitive to the bulk liquid BOD concentration, with BOD concentration as low as 0.5 g m-3 impacting nitrification rates. A combination of experimental and modeling results were used to assess the impact of bulk liquid BOD concentration on nitrification in a MAB.
      • keywords: biofilm; bod; bulk; concentrations; high; hmbp; liquid; m-3; mab; membrane; nitrification; nitrite; oxygen; rates
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4137. sb397655p1m
      • author: Natalia Maria Imperatori-Lee
      • title: The Use of Marian Imagery in Catholic Ecclesiology Since Vatican II
      • date: 2008
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Her desire to return Mary to her proper place within the communion of saints, a symbol Johnson uses to describe the Church, forges a new direction in the link between mariology and ecclesiology. This is among the first significant attempts to link mariology and ecclesiology in the wake of Vatican II.
      • keywords: balthasar; church; council; ecclesiology; mariological; mariology; vatican
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4138. sb397655p2z
      • author: Edward J O'Neil
      • title: Synthesis and Study of Membrane Active Compounds
      • date: 2010
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Several types of conjugates were constructed including fluorescent versions suitable for microscopy, multivalent receptors designed for increased membrane affinity, and lipophilic derivatives. This dissertation describes the design, synthesis, and activity of molecules that interact specifically with vesicle or cellular membranes.
      • keywords: activity; derivatives; dissertation; membrane; synthesis
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4139. sb397655p39
      • author: Samuel Landon Sanchez
      • title: The Intersection Of English Folk Song and Wind Band Composition of Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Percy Grainger
      • date: 2011
      • words: 28
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This paper explores the environmental factors that influenced Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Percy Grainger in their wind band compositions and their use of English Folk Song.
      • keywords: song
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4140. sb397655p6b
      • author: Ewa Misiolek
      • title: Efficient Algorithms for Simplifying Flow Networks
      • date: 2003
      • words: 89
      • flesch: 64
      • summary: Computing maximum flow in a flow network is one of the important areas of research with many practical applications. In this thesis, we present several algorithms for removing such edges.
      • keywords: flow
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4141. sb397655p81
      • author: Andrew A Dreyfuss
      • title: The Mean Curvature Flow of Polar Action Orbits
      • date: 2009
      • words: 109
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Mean curvature flow describes the process by which a submanifold is deformed in the direction of its mean curvature vector. A polar action is noteworthy in this context because it admits complete submanifolds called sections that intersect each orbit orthogonally.
      • keywords: flow; mean
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4142. sb397655q8b
      • author: Chen Qu
      • title: Structural Dynamics of Weak Polyelectrolytes in Aqueous Solution
      • date: 1904
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Along with the study of single polyelectrolyte in aqueous solution, the research was furthered to a more practical form, polyelectrolyte brushes, in ionic environments. These groups dissociate in aqueous solutions (water), making the polymers charged.
      • keywords: aqueous; brushes; conformations; polyelectrolytes; polymers; solution; study; weak
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4143. sb397655v3v
      • author: Thomson Guster
      • title: The Clone Saga Omnibus, Volume 1
      • date: 1904
      • words: 45
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: THE CLONE SAGA OMNIBUS, VOLUME 1 presents a distorted literary adaptation of the oft-derided Marvel Comics Spider-Man storyline of the same name that explores the empty paranoia of identity, the portability of content across genres and platforms, and the limits of fan fiction.
      • keywords: fiction
      • versions: original; plain text
4144. sb397656c2f
      • author: Cody Narciso
      • title: Interrogating Three-Dimensional Structure and Response to Exogenous Stimuli in Multicellular Systems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 319
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Finally, the optical clearing strategies employed in Chapter 4 were modified to optically clear human blood clots and enable deep 3D imaging (Chapter 5). Further, this device led to the creation of an automated platform for staining and imaging tissue biopsy samples in 3D (Chapter 4).
      • keywords: calcium; chapter; clots; development; device; organ; stimuli
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4145. sb397656c9v
      • author: Robert E. McFadden
      • title: A Tale of Ciceronian Christians: Spiritual Exercises and Friendship in the Cassiciacum Dialogues of St. Augustine
      • date: 1904
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: According to Pierre Hadot, ancient philosophers saw the Socratic Method as well as the oratio perpetua (continuous speech) as spiritual exercises, that is to say, exercises of reason (Philosophy as a Way of Life, 59).In the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero used these exercises as a means to become friends with Wisdom so that his fellow Romans could learn how to accept death and form philosophical friendships. Augustine adopted Cicero's Tusculans for his own purpose and utilized the Socratic Method and the oratio perpetua as spiritual exercises.
      • keywords: augustine; community; exercises; reason; spiritual
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4146. sb397656h93
      • author: Reyes Ruiz Gonzalez
      • title: Political Economy of Subnational Institutions: Essays on Subnational Institutional Framework, Public Policies and Their Impact on Economic Outcomes
      • date: 2019
      • words: 461
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: 3.The Adverse Consequences of Implicit Obligations: The Case of Mexican States Chapter 1 analyzes the short-term effects on violence of implementing the Justice Reform in Mexico at the municipal level. The exposed framework, inspired by Mexican States, provides a setup such that it is optimal for a sovereign to acquire both off and on-balance-sheet liabilities, through banks and contractors.
      • keywords: default; electoral; funds; justice; level; mexican; pension; reform; states; violence
      • versions: original; plain text
4147. sb397656j7q
      • author: Katherine R. Comeau
      • title: The "Hinge" in Humanitarian Development: How Groups Affect the Work of NGOs in Cross-Cultural Settings
      • date: 2019
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: During these trips, groups from the United States travel to a foreign country and usually work on construction projects, provide orphan care, deliver medical services, or implement environmental improvement initiatives. My dissertation explains how group styles affect engagement with beneficiaries.
      • keywords: development; group; humanitarian; organizations; styles
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4148. sb397656k5b
      • author: Anna M. McDermott
      • title: Mechanical Regulation of Progenitor Cell Differentiation during Endochondral Ossification
      • date: 2019
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: This is the dominant pathway of bone formation in both long bone development and fracture healing and has emerged as an attractive tissue engineering template to address the lack of angiogenesis and poor engraftment seen in current intramembranous engineering approaches. Together these results suggest that mechanical loading is necessary to induce successful endochondral progression for bone tissue engineering.
      • keywords: bone; endochondral; engineering; formation; loading; mechanical; tissue; vivo
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4149. sb397656v5t
      • author: Hongjie Li
      • title: Bayesian Methods for Magnitude Estimation in Earthquake Early Warning Application
      • date: 2023
      • words: 481
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: Results demonstrate the value of the formal implementation of Bayesian model updating for the calibration of predictive models for Earthquake Early Warning applications, as it accommodates a more comprehensive incorporation of the different sources of uncertainty/error impacting the development and implementation of these models. For developing robust predictive models, the resultant variability needs to be explicitly and formally considered in the model calibration stage.
      • keywords: bayesian; calibration; classical; data; earthquake; effects; hierarchical; model; predictive; wave
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4150. sf268338x2q
      • author: Nathan James Regola
      • title: Flockfs: A Moderated Collaboration System for Weakly Connected Workgroups
      • date: 2009
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Simultaneous modifications of the same file can either be addressed by requiring all other users to wait for updates to be completed or by using optimistic protocols that allow each user to independently operate on the various components of the project without cooperation with other group members. My prototype exhibits acceptable file system performance and update propagation latency.
      • keywords: copies; copy; file; flockfs; group; updates; users
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4151. sf268338x32
      • author: Baoyang Deng
      • title: Bifurcations and Symmetries of Optimal Solutions for Distributed Robotic Systems
      • date: 2011
      • words: 398
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: One goal of this thesis is to exploit symmetries in distributed control systems to reduce the computational effort to determine solutions for optimal control of such systems. The bifurcation parameter is the relative weight given to penalizing the deviation from the desired formation versus control effort.
      • keywords: control; multiple; optimal; optimization; problem; solutions; system
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4152. sf268338x8s
      • author: Steven Dale Foutch, Jr.
      • title: The Pinnacle
      • date: 2010
      • words: 182
      • flesch: 90
      • summary: My art is about story telling and myth building and the role that memory plays in these two things. I have found joy in both telling and listening to stories all of my life.
      • keywords: story; telling
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4153. sf268338z52
      • author: Micaela Anne Larkin
      • title: Labor's Desert: Mexican Workers, Unions, and Entrepreneurial Conservatism in Arizona, 1917-1972
      • date: 2008
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This dissertation explores how struggles among labor unions, Mexican workers, and Sunbelt entrepreneurs shaped modern conservatism. Chronicling the business culture of Arizona in the twentieth century, I argue that an anti-labor ideology formed out of conflicts among entrepreneurs, labor unions, and Mexican workers before World War II, led to the politicization of many Arizona entrepreneurs, and the enshrinement in the local business culture and politics of an anti-labor ideology that contributed to the rise of modern conservatism.
      • keywords: anti; arizona; conservatism; labor; mexican; workers
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4154. sf268338z6d
      • author: Matthew Joseph Breiding
      • title: The Role of Observed Hostility and Observed Dominance as Mediators of Husbands' Gender Role Conflict and Outcomes for Wives
      • date: 2003
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Each couple completed measures of gender role conflict, marital adjustment, and depressive symptomatology. Husbands who evidenced gender role conflict were more likely to engage in hostile behaviors during a marital interaction, and were also rated as being more critical in general.
      • keywords: conflict; gender; husbands; role
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4155. sf268338z83
      • author: Amber Handy
      • title: The Specula Principum in Northwestern Europe, A.D. 650-900: The Evolution of a New Ethical Rule
      • date: 2011
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Including collections of aphorisms, the deathbed speeches of literary figures, formal manuals on courtly behavior and other texts in Old Irish and Latin, these advice manuals offer insight into several aspects of early medieval European culture. Also addressed is the Christian influence on these mostly traditional texts, as well as the changing nature of idealized masculinity revealed within the advice on leadership and personal behavior.
      • keywords: addresses; advice; carolingian; christian; influence; irish; specula; texts
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4156. sf268339018
      • author: Sergio Bejar
      • title: Party Systems, Information Flows,and Vote Buying in Latin America
      • date: 2011
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: As such, my study makes important contributions to the extant literature on clientelism and vote buying, parties and party systems, electoral fraud, and democratization In contrast to previous studies, my research not only explains how and why the nature of the party system influences the candidates' decision to engage in vote buying in some elections and not others, but also under what conditions voters are more likely to exchange votes for money.
      • keywords: buying; party; phenomenon; research; vote
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      • author: Madan Lamichhane
      • title: Development and Applications of Real-Space Electrostatic Interaction Methods for Charge-Multipoles in Condensed Phase Environments
      • date: 1904
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The energies, forces, and torques calculated from the GSF method agree with the Ewald's result and produce excellent conservation of energy in MD simulations. Similarly, the GSF and TSF method are natural extensions of the original Damped Shifted Force (DSF) method developed.
      • keywords: electrostatic; force; method; real; shifted; space
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      • author: Peter Deak
      • title: Inhibitors for Allergic Reactions to Peanuts and Drugs: Epitope Analysis, Molecule Design and Characterization
      • date: 1904
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This dissertation describes the design, synthesis and characterization of a novel type of molecule for the inhibition of allergic reactions to food proteins and drug molecules. We characterized these molecules in chapter 3 by demonstrating their effectiveness in preventing allergic reactions to small molecule drugs.
      • keywords: allergic; allergies; chapter; molecules; reactions
      • versions: original; plain text
4159. sf26833944j
      • author: Andrew McNally
      • title: Ex Vivo and Computational Assessment of a Novel Modular Anastomotic Valve Device for the Improvement of Vascular Access
      • date: 1904
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: IH has been associated with locations of low oscillatory wall shear stress (WSS) in the vein. Hemodialysis (HD) is required for patients experiencing end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
      • keywords: access; mavd; patients
      • versions: original; plain text
4160. sf268339m9m
      • author: Michael J. Lubben
      • title: Ionic Liquids for Separation of Aromatics and Aliphatics: Extraction and Solvent Regeneration Using CO2
      • date: 1904
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: aromatic; extraction; gas; liquid; process; separation
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4161. sf268339n3v
      • author: Christopher Eugene Shuck
      • title: Microstructure-reactivity Relationship for Gasless High-energy Density Materials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The reactivity, including ig- nition and combustion parameters, for different RNCs was analyzed using high-speed infrared imaging. K. It was shown that this reaction proceeds solely due to solid state mechanisms.
      • keywords: energy; ignition; milling; parameters; reaction; rncs; solid; system
      • versions: original; plain text
4162. sf268339n5j
      • author: Katherine Grein
      • title: Resource and Resilience: Proactive Coping as a Protective Factor for Effects of Potentially Traumatic Events and Discrimination on Well-Being
      • date: 1904
      • words: 158
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Despite established negative effects of directly experienced potentially traumatic events (PTEs), intergenerational effects of parental PTEs, and perceived discrimination on mental health, many individuals maintain positive functioning. It was hypothesized: 1) Interpersonal and non-interpersonal PTEs, parental PTEs, and discrimination would predict lower well-being.
      • keywords: ptes; social
      • versions: original; plain text
4163. sf268339s95
      • author: Jacob J. Gerace
      • title: Improving Molecular Simulation through Accessibility and Capability
      • date: 2019
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: MAPS provides a graphical user interface platform for users to conduct their entire simulation workflow cradle-to-grave, including visual system construction, force-field selection/application, simulation code selection. Logistically, popular molecular simulation codes require users to develop their own complex multi-step workflow.
      • keywords: cassandra; difficulty; maps; molecular; popular; simulation; users
      • versions: original; plain text
4164. sf268339w00
      • author: Yenan Cao
      • title: Characterization and Simulation of Near-Fault Ground Strains and Rotations, and Effects on Engineering Structures
      • date: 2019
      • words: 433
      • flesch: 18
      • 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.
      • keywords: fault; ground; near; response; rotations; seismic; slip; strains; torsional; wave
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4165. sf26834005d
      • author: Angela Silski-Devlin
      • title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Small-Molecule Self-Assembly
      • date: 2020
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In addition, these findings may contribute to the fundamental understanding between molecular structure and supramolecular structure, a question of interest in the fields of crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry. Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is used to investigate the self-assembly behavior of small organic molecules on metal surfaces at ultra-high vacuum conditions.
      • keywords: assembly; behavior; mass; molecules; self; small; structure
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4166. sf268340282
      • author: Subhash Srinivas Pidaparthi
      • title: Energy Dissipation in Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) Switching
      • date: 2022
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This dissertation is a theoretical study of energy dissipation in molecular QCA cells during switching. We then introduce molecular reorganization energy to an open two-state system.
      • keywords: dissipation; energy; molecular; qca; reorganization; state; switching; system
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4167. sf26834038c
      • author: Steven Dabelow
      • title: Cell Lineage Modeling of Stem and Progenitor Cells
      • date: 2022
      • words: 637
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Most adult organs retain a population of stem cells that can respond to changes in physiological conditions or injury by producing new cells to maintain tissue homeostasis or repair damage. Upon division, stem cells can produce stem cells or progenitor cells, i.e. cells that can then differentiate into more specialized cells.
      • keywords: cells; depletion; division; feedback; impact; models; progenitor; state; stem; time
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4168. sj13902265k
      • author: Daniel James Bates
      • title: Theory and Applications in Numerical Algebraic Geometry
      • date: 2008
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: 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.
      • keywords: continuation; homotopy; new; way
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4169. sj13902266x
      • author: Daniel Marcelo Brinks
      • title: Legal Tolls and the Rule of Law: The Judicial Response to Police Killings in South America
      • date: 2004
      • words: 289
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Beginning with a heuristic model of the process of legal decision-making, and deriving implications for legal effectiveness from this model, the dissertation argues that disparate outcomes across cases are caused primarily by gaps in the supply of information to the legal system, compounded in certain systems by normative failures on the part of key decision-makers. The dissertation addresses such key themes as equality before the law, access to justice, judicial independence and legal reform.
      • keywords: dissertation; information; key; law; legal; systems
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4170. sj139022678
      • author: Jackson Stewart Zorn
      • title: Your Vessel Sucks: The Inconvenience of Being Human
      • date: 2012
      • words: 28
      • flesch: 68
      • summary: A Guide to Thesis Drawings of Jackson S. Zorn. Which is a visualization of the temptation to exist within the physical world, and the problems that this presents.
      • keywords: zorn
      • versions: original; plain text
4171. sj13902268m
      • author: Kimberly Anne Wilson
      • title: Conserved Functional Dynamics in the Cell Signaling Protein Pin1: Investigations by Bioinformatics and NMR
      • date: 2013
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In the past few years, several functional site prediction methods have been introduced that aim to predict the biologically relevant amino acids in proteins based purely off of a multiple sequence alignment. Residues known to participate in conformational dynamics associated with substrate binding, as observed experimentally by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, are compared to those residues highlighted by the prediction methods.
      • keywords: dynamics; functional; methods; prediction; residues; sequence
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4172. sj139022705
      • author: Rory Carmichael
      • title: Scaling Collaborative Bioinformatics
      • date: 2013
      • words: 161
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: This document describes contributions to bioinformatics ranging from collaborative frameworks to the automation of common workflows to the development of novel algorithms. We begin by describing Biocompute, a web portal that overcomes challenges in user interface design and resource sharing to facilitate collaborations between systems programmers, bioinformatics software developers, and biologists.
      • keywords: bioinformatics; biologists; common; workflows
      • versions: original; plain text
4173. sj13902271h
      • author: Pablo Francisco Ros
      • title: Rosana's Dream
      • date: 2007
      • words: 11
      • flesch: 95
      • summary: A novel about the dream of catching up to the past.
      • keywords: past
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4174. sj13902272v
      • author: Stephanie Pocock Boeninger
      • title: 'Submarine Roots:' The Drowned Body and Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Literature
      • date: 2011
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: This dissertation examines depictions of drowning or the drowned body in Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, arguing that rather than simply being the marginal detritus of these island literatures, drowned bodies have been central to the project of postcolonial writing in Ireland and the Caribbean, providing a focal point for a transatlantic discussion of memory. This dissertation argues that postcolonial Irish and Caribbean writers express their ambivalence towards memory in general and places of memory in particular in their representations of drowned bodies.
      • keywords: bodies; body; caribbean; desire; memory; places; postcolonial
      • versions: original; plain text
4175. sj139022736
      • author: Matthew David Lynx
      • title: An Investigation into 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythymidine Toxicity: Inhibtion of Thymidine Phosphorylation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: From this work, an alternative mechanism for AZT toxicity was proposed, wherein AZT's inhibition of thymidine phosphorylation leads to a depletion of the TTP pool, which causes mitochondrial DNA depletion. The toxicity of AZT is hypothesized to be due to AZT-5'-triphosphate (AZT-TP) inhibition of the mitochondrial DNA polymerase &gamma;, leading to mitochondrial DNA depletion.
      • keywords: azt; cells; dna; mechanism; mitochondrial; toxicity
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4176. sj13902274j
      • author: Raymond Jensen
      • title: Integral Boundary Invariants for Conformally Compact Einstein Manifolds and Generalizations
      • date: 2010
      • words: 77
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: It is shown that the invariants under weakening to constant scalar curvature condition are different in general from those under Einstein condition. We then look at some cases of constant scalar curvature condition involving the measure of Chang, Gursky and Yang.
      • keywords: condition; curvature
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4177. sj13902275w
      • author: Hesham Abdel Ghafar Othman Bekhit
      • title: Experimental Study of Absolute Instability over a Rotating Disk
      • date: 2007
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The lower amplitude produced wave packets with linear amplitude characteristics that agreed with linear-theory wall-normal eigenfunction distributions and spatial growth rates. Ensemble averages conditioned on the air pulses revealed wave packets that evolved in time and space.
      • keywords: air; amplitude; growth; linear; packets; wave
      • versions: original; plain text
4178. sj13902278x
      • author: Kit Brandon Hoffman
      • title: The 'Dark Side'' of Self-Esteem: Examining the Relation Between Overly-Positive Self-Perceptions and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents
      • date: 2003
      • words: 95
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: We examined both cross-sectional and longitudinal relations, and looked at both change in individual differences and individual differences in change. The current study examined the relation between aggressive behavior and self-perceptions in an adolescent population (grades 7-12).
      • keywords: perceptions; self
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4179. sj13902280g
      • author: Susan Myers
      • title: 'Come, Hidden Mother': Spirit Epicleses in the Acts of Thomas
      • date: 2003
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: The composite nature of the Acts of Thomas is emphasized, and it is suggested that the author of the unified second half of the work also edited the discrete tales that appear in the first half. Finally, the dissertation compares the epicleses in form and content with other prayers from the ancient world, and discusses their emphasis on a revelatory figure who is present in ritual action and who provides her adherents with a glimpse of an otherworldly reality.
      • keywords: acts; dissertation; epicleses; prayers; spirit; thomas
      • versions: original; plain text
4180. sj13902281t
      • author: Yan He
      • title: The Effect of N-Type Doping on the Optical Spectra of Dilute Nitrides: Possible Applications
      • date: 2011
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This dissertation investigates the effect of n-type doping on the optical spectra of the dilute nitride GaAsN alloy system. This model allows us to explain several debated issues, like the existence of quantum dots and the additional splitting of the photoreflection spectra, in a self-consistent way.
      • keywords: alloys; dilute; doping; effect; nitride; photoluminescence
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4181. sj13902283h
      • author: J.T. Matta
      • title: Exotic Nuclear Excitations: The Transverse Wobbling Mode in 135Pr
      • date: 1904
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Additionally, a possible two-phonon wobbling band has been observed and its nature has been partially confirmed by measuring the I=1; E2 nature of the nw=2 to nw=1 interband transitions. In this model, the quasiparticle aligns with an axis perpendicular to the axis with maximal moment of inertia (in contrast to previous theories, which aligned the quasiparticle with the axis with maximum moment of inertia).
      • keywords: nature; theory; wobbling
      • versions: original; plain text
4182. sj13902290s
      • author: Luan T. Nguyen
      • title: In-situ Studies of Catalysts for Understanding of Catalytic Reactions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Understanding of catalysis requires in-situ/operando studies of catalysts in their working condition. The results reveal a dynamic atomic packing at the step edge of the Pt(111) surface which suggests restructuring of step edges of metal catalysts under reaction conditions and during catalysis.
      • keywords: catalysis; gap; pressure; situ; studies; surface
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4183. sj139022x22
      • author: Joshua A. Mason
      • title: SGK-1 as a Regulator of Metabolism and Survival of ECM-Detached Cells
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Successful metastasis requires cancer cells to overcome both anoikis - caspase-dependent cell death triggered by extracellular matrix (ECM) detachment - and ECM-detachment-induced metabolic defects (namely loss of glucose uptake and ATP generation) that compromise cell survival. However, the precise signaling pathways utilized by cancer cells to overcome anoikis and promote ATP generation remain poorly understood.
      • keywords: anoikis; atp; cancer; detachment; ecm; generation
      • versions: original; plain text
4184. sj139022z11
      • author: Luning Sun
      • title: Numerical Simulation of Irregular Wave Run-Up on a Beach
      • date: 1904
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Therefore, properly simulating this process is a supplement of in-situ field measurement and is of great importance for coastal structure design. Moreover, the momentum flux transported onshore can also exert forces on beaches and coastal structures.
      • keywords: coastal; directional; flux; height; momentum; run; wave
      • versions: original; plain text
4185. sj139023306
      • author: Michael T. Humbert
      • title: Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electrolyte Solutions for Next Generation Batteries
      • date: 2019
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Adaptive biasing force was also used to calculate the free energy of association between lithium polysulfide in solution. The second half of this thesis looks at the molecular structures in electrolyte solutions for lithium sulfur-batteries.
      • keywords: batteries; electrolyte; lithium; polysulfide; solution; sulfur; thesis
      • versions: original; plain text
4186. sj13902386t
      • author: Jason R. Devlin
      • title: Structural and Biophysical Characterization of Cancer-Relevant T Cell Receptor–Peptide/MHC Interactions
      • date: 2020
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The ability of T cells to recognize cancer establishes the basis for immunotherapies, which are approaches in which living immune cells infiltrate the tumor and kill tumor cells. T cells can also recognize tumor-associated or tumor-specific peptide/MHCs on cancer cells.
      • keywords: cells; tumor
      • versions: original; plain text
4187. sj13902391d
      • author: Galen H. Harden
      • title: Improvements in Optical Spectroscopy: Rotationally Asymmetric Multipass Cells and Progress toward Optically Pumped Deep-UV Semiconductor Lasers
      • date: 2020
      • words: 512
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Optical detection methods are particularly useful because they are nondestructive, non-contact solutions, and can be used for standoff detection. In this work we present our work towards increasing the sensitivity of optical detection methods.
      • keywords: beam; cells; detection; gain; length; methods; optical; quantum; raman; spectroscopy; work
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4188. sj13902392r
      • author: Michael G. Yankoski III
      • title: Building Peace in the Anthropocene: The Practical Wisdom of Hospitality amidst Climate Violence
      • date: 2020
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Ultimately I argue that while the practice of intentional hospitality toward vulnerable others in the context of anthropogenic climate change is unlikely to be sufficient—that is to say, the needs are likely to far exceed the capacities of different communities to sustain the offer of hospitality—the practice of hospitality toward the vulnerable other is a vital practice that is worth engaging in pursuit of peace amidst the Anthropocene. In response to this question I argue that the tradition and practice of intentional hospitality toward the vulnerable other found within the larger Christian tradition is a practice that contains rich resources which may help empower communities that seek to welcome the vulnerable other in the context of anthropogenic climate change.
      • keywords: anthropogenic; change; climate; hospitality; practice
      • versions: original; plain text
4189. sj139023d62
      • author: Liao Chen
      • title: Point-of-Need Pipette Droplet Microfluidics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 739
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: An advantage of the pipetting generated uniform droplets is that the diameters of the droplets are usually larger than 150 um which allows imaging of droplets by smartphone cameras. The effective method takes advantage of the common pipette liquid handling process and simply by replacing the commercial round-orifice pipette tips with elliptical-orifice tips, uniform droplets could be generated via pipetting aqueous liquid into the oil phase.
      • keywords: chapter; ddpcr; droplets; elliptical; generation; imaging; microfluidics; need; orifice; pipette; pipetting; point; technologies; tips; uniform
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4190. sn009w05g44
      • author: Cara Cesario
      • title: Syntheses of Carbocyclic Nucleosides and Relevant Biomolecules: Palladium(0)/Indium iodide-mediated Allylations and Ti(III)-promoted N-O Bond Reductions
      • date: 2010
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: The carbocyclic scaffolds are further functionalized to afford biologically significant molecules, including carbocyclic uracil polyoxin C analogs, carbocyclic aminonucleosides and (-)-epi-4'-carbocyclic puromycin. The cis-2',3'-aminoalcohol moiety is installed by employing an osmium-catalyzed tethered aminohydroxylation reaction to afford functionalized carbocyclic substrates with complete regio- and diastereocontrol.
      • keywords: acylnitroso; alder; carbocyclic; diels; hetero
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4191. sn009w05g5g
      • author: Guillermo Montt
      • title: Socioeconomic school composition effects on student outcomes
      • date: 2012
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: I find that the decomposition of socioeconomic composition effects is a useful way to understand the dynamics of composition effects: a student benefits from attending an advantaged school, but is simultaneously hurt by his lower relative status position. This dissertation analyses school socioeconomic composition effects by decomposing them into contagion and frog-pond effects and analyzes how the strength of these composition effects varies according to the way schools and school systems organize themselves by promoting cross-status relationships, differentiating opportunities to learn and providing information about students' possibilities of greater educational attainment.
      • keywords: composition; effects; pond; school; socioeconomic; status
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4192. sn009w05h02
      • author: Jin Xu
      • title: Mining and Modeling the Open Source Software Community
      • date: 2007
      • words: 677
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: community; data; developers; mining; models; network; oss; projects; research; social; study; web
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4193. sn009w05h7g
      • author: Brandon Vaidyanathan
      • title: Living in a Secular Age: Work, Lifestyle, and Religion in Bangalore and Dubai
      • date: 2013
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: Second, focusing on particular empirical cases of transnational capitalism and Roman Catholicism in Bangalore and Dubai, I argue that the overall relationship between religion and capitalism here is one of 'muted symbiosis': they predominantly enable one another, often inadvertently, despite providing mutual constraints. Specifically, I examine the relationship between 'mercenary professionalism' in the transnational corporate workplace, 'neoliberal consumerism' in the lifestyles of transnational professionals, and the 'Devoted' Christianity of religiously committed professionals.
      • keywords: capitalism; global; realms; relationship; religion; secular; transnational
      • versions: original; plain text
4194. sn009w05h8t
      • author: Benjamin Paul Bockstege
      • title: The Motion-Based Gaming Peripheral Management (MBP-M) Framework for Robust and Accurate Program-Device Interaction
      • date: 2014
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Unfortunately, developing applications capable of reliably and robustly collecting data from such devices involves non-trivial complexities that must be accounted for. Explored in the thesis are examples of the use of gaming peripherals in non-gaming efforts and the core guiding principles, architecture, and data processing flow of the framework.
      • keywords: data; framework; gaming
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4195. sn009w05j0c
      • author: Patrick Murren
      • title: Development and Implementation of a Design-Driven Harmony Search Algorithm in Steel Frame Optimization
      • date: 2011
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Additionally, DDHS is implemented in optimizations in which frame sections and beam fixities are variable and the objective function considers the high cost of moment connections. When paired with standard harmony search in a two-phase method proposed herein, DDHS consistently identifies optimal designs for such connection topology optimizations.
      • keywords: ddhs; designs; harmony; search
      • versions: original; plain text
4196. sn009w05j3d
      • author: Kejia Wang
      • title: MBE Growth and Characterization of Indium Nitride for Device Applications
      • date: 2010
      • words: 283
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The transport properties of InN have been studied using Hall effect measurements. A close correlation is found between the structural quality and the electron transport properties of InN. Magnetic field dependent Hall effect measurements were performed and a quantitative mobility spectrum analysis (QMSA) was used to extract the mobility spectrum for electrons in InN. With photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy measurements, the optical band gap of InN was found to be ~ 0.67 eV. To study the conduction band offset between InN and GaN, n-n isotype InN/GaN heterojunction diodes were grown and fabricated.
      • keywords: band; effect; gan; inn; measurements; quality; structural
      • versions: original; plain text
4197. sn009w05k6r
      • author: Andrew Anil DeVries
      • title: Feasibility of Sulfite-Based Autotrophic Denitrification in Wastewater Treatment
      • date: 1904
      • words: 207
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Past research has addressed the potential of elemental sulfur (S0) and reduced sulfur compounds such as thiosulfate (S2O32-) and sulfide (S2-) to serve as electron donors for denitrification in wastewater treatment systems. Unlike S0, SO32- is soluble in water and could be applied to existing suspended growth systems, while avoiding the drawbacks of elevated costs and handling risks associated with other reduced sulfur compounds.
      • keywords: autotrophic; denitrification; donor; electron; sulfur
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4198. sn009w06925
      • author: Suzanne M. Neidhart
      • title: Exploration of Interfacial Thermal Conductance of Gold Nanoparticles Using Molecular Dynamics
      • date: 2019
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The interfacial thermal conductance of various particle morphologies, as well as the thermal conductivity of nanoarrays, display trends of how heat transport is affected by particle size, shape, and volume fraction of a system. I examine the effect of particle size, ligand layer rigidity, and surface gold vibrational freedom.
      • keywords: conductivity; gold; heat; layer; ligand; particle; thermal; transport
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4199. sn009w06c96
      • author: Haylie L. Lobeck
      • title: Transformation of Uranyl Phases to Nanoscale Cage Clusters and Hydrothermal Behavior of Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters
      • date: 2019
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: The first area of research examines the transformation of poorly soluble uranyl peroxide studtite, [(UO2)(O2)(H2O)2](H2O)2, into soluble uranyl peroxide nanoscale cage clusters U24, [(UO2)(O2)(OH)]2424-, and U28, [(UO2)(O2)1.5]2828-. Uranyl peroxides formed under many of the experimental conditions examined including solid studtite and soluble uranyl peroxide cage clusters containing as many as 28 uranyl ions.
      • keywords: cage; clusters; peroxide; solution; studtite; uranyl
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4200. sn009w06d0d
      • author: Alison Deatsch
      • title: Subcellular Nanoparticle Size Distributions from Light Transmission Spectroscopy
      • date: 2019
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Power law behavior, where , was observed in the PSD of both cell types, with average power law exponents of 3.04 ± 0.06 for normal human oral cells, 2.84 ± 0.06 for cancer human oral cells, and 2.96 ± 0.08 for spinach cells. A description of the physical and organizational properties of the cytoplasm can be realized from measurements of the particle size distribution (PSD), or the number density (N) of objects as a function of particle size (D).
      • keywords: cancer; cells; density; lts; number; oral; particle; psd; size
      • versions: original; plain text
4201. sn009w06d85
      • author: Minju Kwon
      • title: Blacklisted Rebels: Commitment to Child Rights in Armed Conflict
      • date: 2019
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: First, I argue that rebel groups consider their legitimacy in the eyes of domestic and international audiences throughout the phases of violating child rights, as well as signing and complying with UN action plans. The sequence of rebel groups' commitment to UN action plans is divided into four phases: violating child rights, listing violators, signing UN action plans, and complying with UN action plans.
      • keywords: child; groups; international; law; rebel
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4202. sn009w06m2z
      • author: Dominique Aurilla Vargas
      • title: Decolonial Continental Consciousness: Coalition and Performance in Multi-Ethnic Women's Literature after NAFTA
      • date: 2021
      • words: 242
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This project theorizes nonrepresentational and nonverbal discourses, in the form of gestures, embodied cartography, and rituals, which provide a basis for new forms of realism and continental coalition. Applying performance studies to prose and poetry by Claudia Hernández, Rosario Sanmiguel, Ana Maurine Lara, Achy Obejas, Dahlma Llanos Figueroa, Toni Morrison, Karen Tei Yamashita, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ana Castillo, Janet Campbell Hale, Jeannette Armstrong, and Calixta Gabriel Xiquín, I find embodied responses that constitute a framework for understanding emergent forms of realism and continental coalition.
      • keywords: coalition; continental; economic; forms; free; political; realism
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4203. sn009w06n0k
      • author: Andrew D. Hoyt
      • title: Sensemaking and Organizational Change at a Locally Elite High School
      • date: 2022
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: The locally elite independent school is defined as an ideal type, and its legitimating idea and organizational form create the conditions for the appropriation of resources by organizational actors and also for overlapping identities that blur the boundaries between work and personal roles, especially in the boarding school setting. Comparing the predictions of market and institutional theories for reform initiatives, this dissertation finds that a school leader crafts a legitimacy project using both selective isomorphism and market elements, but also that actors in the institutional environment add legitimacy to new reforms while demand-side forces from organizational stakeholders constrain innovation.
      • keywords: dissertation; environment; organizational; school; sensemaking
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4204. sn009w06p6z
      • author: Gabriel Bravo-Palacios
      • title: Engineering Mechanical Intelligence in Legged Robots
      • date: 2023
      • words: 682
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Moreover, often to alleviate the computational complexity, the consideration of isolated scenarios (i.e., tasks and environments) at design time ignores the uncertainty that legged robots need to face to operate in the real world. This dissertation aims to contribute toward the design of legged robots embodied with mechanical intelligence via the concurrent design (co-design) of their mechanical and control systems.
      • keywords: animals; control; design; dissertation; efficiency; energy; intelligence; mechanical; robots; robustness; scenarios
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4205. sq87br88r7p
      • author: Timothy Paul Ruggaber
      • title: Detection and Control of Combined Sewer Overflows Using a Distributed Wireless Embedded Network and the In Situ Treatment of Wastewater Using Enzymatic Processes and Hydrogen Peroxide
      • date: 2010
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: This thesis examined two possible means to reduce the impact of combined sewer overflow events: to use a novel, inexpensive, distributed, decentralized, real-time network of wireless nodes called CSONet to maximize upgradient storage potential during wet weather and to create an in situ treatment method that could treat the stored wastewater to below wastewater treatment plant standards. The hydrogen peroxide reduced the E. coli concentration in combined wastewater by over 5 log units and reduced the total suspended solids concentration by up to 10%.
      • keywords: situ; storage; treatment; wastewater
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4206. sq87br88r81
      • author: Ryan James Hooper
      • 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
      • date: 2004
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 66
      • 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.
      • keywords: dimuon; mass
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4207. sq87br88r9c
      • author: Bryan Christopher Pilkington
      • title: The Problem of Human Dignity
      • date: 2012
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Though difficult to solve, the problem of human dignity is relatively easy to articulate: What is dignity and why should we take it seriously? A look at the debate over dignity illustrates that many critics are guilty of a lack of care in analyzing the concept and in assessing different accounts of dignity, and of, what is more egregious, failing to notice a central tension within the concept between its meritorious and egalitarian elements.
      • keywords: account; concept; critics; dignity; human
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4208. sq87br88s0k
      • author: Ruiwen Zhen
      • title: Enhanced Raw Image Capture and Deblurring
      • date: 2013
      • words: 186
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Experiments demonstrate that the accelerometer-based deblurring algorithm on raw image data can generate improved results. However, the effectiveness of these algorithms has been limited by lack of access to unprocessed raw image data obtained directly from the image sensor.
      • keywords: algorithms; blur; data; image
      • versions: original; plain text
4209. sq87br88s28
      • author: Moushumi Hossain
      • title: Molecular Description of How MART-1 Specific T-Cell Receptors Recognize Structurally Diverse Melanoma Antigens
      • date: 2013
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The MART-1/HLA-A2 antigens - the nonamer, AAGIGILTV (AAG) and the decamer, EAAGIGILTV (EAA) - differ only by one amino acid, yet adopt strikingly different conformations when bound, therefore making this system ideal to study cross reactivity. T cell cross-reactivity is important for initiation of immune responses against pathogens and tumors.
      • keywords: cross; reactivity; tcr
      • versions: original; plain text
4210. sq87br88s3m
      • author: Janay C Cody
      • title: Mistaking Conservatives for Racists and Racists for Conservatives: Threat and the Intertwining of Racial Resentment and Ideology
      • date: 2015
      • words: 297
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: I demonstrate that while political ideology, particularly conservatism, powerfully influences racial attitudes, the liberal-conservative distinctions in racial resentment evaporate under a perceived racial threat, making liberals who perceive such threats indistinguishable from conservatives. I argue that the anxiety produced by the threat of racially egalitarian changes in the status quo conditions the relationship between conservatism and racial resentment, ultimately increasing opposition to racial policies.
      • keywords: conservatism; political; racial; relationship; resentment; threat
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4211. sq87br88s4z
      • author: Barrett Kai-Bong Duan
      • title: Studies of Metal/Gallium Nitride Gas Sensors: Sensing Response, Morphology and Sensing Applications
      • date: 2012
      • words: 501
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The potential utility of high surface area porous GaN was realized by decorating the confined nanopores with metal (Pt), thus increasing the surface area available for sensing and lowering the LOD. In discontinuous Pt films, increasing Pt surface area also increases the CO signal when the Pt/GaN interfacial area remains constant.
      • keywords: area; gan; high; metal; porous; sensing; surface
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4212. sq87br88s59
      • author: Shyamkumar Thoziyoor
      • title: A comprehensive memory modeling tool for design and analysis of future memory hierarchies
      • date: 2008
      • words: 396
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: Thus with CACTI-D, modeling of the complete memory hierarchy with consistent models all the way from SRAM based L1 caches through main memory DRAMs on DIMMs becomes possible. CACTI-D also supports the modeling of main memory DRAM chips.
      • keywords: caches; cacti; data; dram; memory; modeling; sram
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4213. sq87br88s6n
      • author: Mirco Junker
      • title: In Vivo and In Vitro Folding and Secretion Studies of an Autotransporter Protein from Bordetella pertussis
      • date: 2008
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Sequence analysis reveals that, despite size, sequence, and functional diversity among autotransporter passenger domains, >97% are predicted to form parallel Ì_å_-helices, indicating this structural topology may be important for secretion. In vivo, slow folding would prevent premature folding of the passenger domain in the periplasm, before OM secretion.
      • keywords: autotransporter; folding; pertactin; secretion; terminus
      • versions: original; plain text
4214. sq87br88s70
      • author: Celestine Chukumba
      • title: University License Agreements, Faculty Disclosures, Start-Ups, Entrepreneurship, Financial Market Conditions and Technology Transfer
      • date: 2011
      • words: 484
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This paper examines the factors contributing to university royalties and equity universities receive from commercializing technology to private industry. I show that characteristics of university technology transfer offices (TTOs), financial market conditions and venture capital spending affect gross royalties.
      • keywords: association; capital; data; faculty; start; technology; university; venture
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4215. sq87br88t0w
      • author: Matthew C. Halteman
      • title: The Problem of Transcendence in Heidegger and Derrida
      • date: 2003
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Chapter one motivates the project in view of the contentious standing of the problem in continental philosophy as it is characterized in the competing narratives advanced by Richard Rorty, John Caputo, and Rodolphe Gasch . This dissertation seeks to clarify the import of the transcendence problem in Heidegger and Derrida.
      • keywords: derrida; early; heidegger; problem; time; transcendence
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4216. sq87br88t2k
      • author: Stacey S. Tiberio
      • title: Stochastic and Deterministic Differential Equation Modeling: The Accuracy of Recovering Dynamic Model Parameters of Change
      • date: 2005
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In addition, the major advantages of utilizing continuous time differential equation models will be illustrated, and the classification criteria of such models will be discussed. Results are summarized in terms of practical implications and general guidelines for employing these two types of continuous time differential equation modeling techniques.
      • keywords: change; differential; equation; models
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4217. sq87br88t3x
      • author: Christine Lynn Monteleon
      • title: Investigating ARF6 Depletion in Glandular Organization and Matrix Remodeling
      • date: 2011
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Tissue development and maintenance rely upon choreographed cell signaling, dynamic cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, and a precise interplay between the matrix and the cells to promote intercellular organization, differentiation, and cell survival. Cellular depletion of ARF6 expression results in the formation of inverted glandular units, although individual cell polarity remains unperturbed.
      • keywords: arf6; cell; epithelial; laminin; matrix; microenvironment; progression; tissue
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4218. sq87br88t79
      • author: Hongsheng Lu
      • title: Improving the Scalability Performance of Dedicated Short Range Communications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 194
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: These messages, without regulation, may saturate the channel, leading to significant packet loss and reduced message throughput. We leveraged adaptation of several control parameters including transmission power, message rate of a DSRC device to prevent channel from being saturated.
      • keywords: channel; dissertation; dsrc; messages; safety; traffic
      • versions: original; plain text
4219. sq87br88v2w
      • author: Alexander Diaz-Lopez
      • title: Root Systems of Reflection Systems, and W-Graphs over Non-Commutative Algebras
      • date: 1904
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Secondly, we generalize the notion of W-graphs, and use the path algebras associated to these graphs to construct representations of Hecke algebras on quotients of these path algebras. We study two objects commonly associated to Coxeter systems: root systems and Hecke algebras.
      • keywords: algebras; groups
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4220. sq87br88z66
      • author: Matteo Bianchetti
      • title: Infinite Time Computation: Strong and Weak Infinite Time Turing Machines
      • date: 1904
      • words: 103
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Hamkins and Lewis have used infinite time Turing machines to extend the operations of Turing machines to infinite ordinal time. This project investigates some applications of these machines to basic operations and relations over the reals.
      • keywords: machines
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4221. sq87br89g2r
      • author: Jennifer Arceo
      • title: Metabolomic Analysis of Complex Biological Samples via Capillary Zone Electrophoresis – Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry and MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
      • date: 1904
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In this work, I present the development of CZE-ESI-MS and MALDI-TOFMS methods to investigate the spatial and temporal alterations in metabolism in complex biological samples: breast cancer models and during key stages during early embryonic development. The metabolome of an organism at a given time is a snapshot of the phenotypical expression of biomolecules in response to environmental and biological events.
      • keywords: biological; mass; metabolome; spectrometry; studies
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4222. sq87br89h3d
      • author: Lin Yang
      • title: New Deep Learning Based Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation and Related Problems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: While biomedical image segmentation is in close relation to natural scene image segmentation, general deep learning methods for natural scene images may not work well on biomedical applications because of two unique properties of biomedical images. First, biomedical images can be true 3D volumetric images, which post significant challenges on computational approaches and computation resources, while most natural scene images are 2D images.
      • keywords: biomedical; images; learning; scene; segmentation
      • versions: original; plain text
4223. sq87br89p5n
      • author: Annunziata Pirro
      • title: Dynamics of Waves and Currents in the Bay of Bengal during Summer Monsoons
      • date: 2019
      • words: 174
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The results suggest that variability and dynamics of ocean currents may have implication on the atmosphere, which in turn affect monsoon variability over the BoB. To this end, in-situ data collected during the ASIRI and MISO-BoB field campaigns by research vessels in 2015 and 2018, respectively, are used along with satellite products, laboratory experiments, model outputs and theoretical arguments Considering that monsoons are a strongly coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon, a better understanding of the upper ocean dynamics and air-sea interactions is needed for improving monsoons forecasting skills.
      • keywords: bob; economic; indian; monsoons; ocean
      • versions: original; plain text
4224. sq87br89p91
      • author: James Cotton
      • title: Destruction: A Renaissance Ideal from Spenser to Dryden
      • date: 2019
      • words: 165
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Through the metaphor of destruction, poets addressed the problem of social change, attacked opposing ideas, or held up an instructive mirror of warning for England. When they portrayed destruction as tragic, they likened it to a hostile attack on human life with the loss of unrecoverable beauty or cultural heritage.
      • keywords: destruction; dryden; poets; spenser
      • versions: original; plain text
4225. sq87br89v0g
      • author: Michael A. Hartman
      • title: Engineering Evaluation of Nearshore Bathymetric Change Using Remotely Sensed Data
      • date: 2020
      • words: 450
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In the third study, hydrographic surveys are used to develop an improved metric of navigation channel availability that considers channel navigability, instead of by the shallowest observed depth in the channel. The case studies illustrated the ability of this automated vessel routing algorithm to contribute to an objective assessment of navigation channel availability that more closely aligns with real-world observations.
      • keywords: airborne; channel; closure; depth; lidar; navigation; sandy; shorelines; studies; surveys; wave
      • versions: original; plain text
4226. sq87br89w6v
      • author: Meghanne Tighe
      • title: Development of Low-Cost Methods for Rapidly Measuring Environmental Contaminants
      • date: 2021
      • words: 485
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: While the detrimental health effects of lead poisoning have been known for many decades, progress in identifying and remediating the sources of lead has been slow. Even though the major sources of lead in the environment and human exposure routes are fully understood, the current way to identify lead in the environment is to simply wait until a child exhibits symptoms of lead poisoning.
      • keywords: environment; health; high; kit; lead; risk; use; water
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4227. sq87br89w76
      • author: Luis Alfredo Morales
      • title: Study of the 20Ne (α, γ)24Mg Reaction in Inverse Kinematics with the St. George Recoil Separator
      • date: 2021
      • words: 121
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: The reaction rate of 20Ne (α, γ)24Mg is important in advanced burning stages in massive stars such as carbon, neon and silicon burning. St. George rejects the un-reacted 20Ne beam and sends the 24Mg recoils into a particle identification detection system using the time-of-flight versus residual energy approach.
      • keywords: 20ne; γ)24
      • versions: original; plain text
4228. sq87br89z23
      • author: Vijay Kumar Naidu Velagala
      • title: Mechanisms of Crosstalk and Signal Integration of Calcium Signaling in Epithelial Tissues
      • date: 2023
      • words: 1423
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: A key motivation for this work is the long-term goal of inferring cell/tissue/organ states from dynamic measurements of a few 'hubs' within cell signaling networks that can capture a large percentage of the whole information processing network within cell systems. Epithelial tissues transduce key biochemical signals into specific cellular responses through second messenger dynamics such as calcium.
      • keywords: addition; biochemical; calcium; cellular; chapter; development; dissertation; drosophila; epithelial; folding; growth; gαq; key; mechanisms; morphogenesis; processes; signaling; signals; studies; study; systems; tissue; wing
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4229. st74cn72165
      • author: Daniel Payton McInnis
      • title: Transport of Humic Substances in Porous Media: Experimental and Modeling Approaches
      • date: 2014
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: By explicitly considering differences in the transport rates of different HS fractions, the CTRW model captured HS transport behavior more accurately than the conventional advection-disperision equation (ADE) under all conditions examined. Approaches are needed to cut through this complexity to develop reliable conceptual and quantitative models of HS behavior.
      • keywords: behavior; different; fractions; size; transport
      • versions: original; plain text
4230. st74cn7217h
      • author: Dirk Van Bruggen
      • title: Studying the Impact of Security Awareness Efforts on User Behavior
      • date: 2014
      • words: 228
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: First, a survey study is conducted which measures perceptions surrounding security threats and safeguards. These correlations point to the importance of considering individual motivations and perceptions surrounding security threats and safeguards.
      • keywords: awareness; individual; security; threats
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4231. st74cn72223
      • author: Deborah Thomas
      • title: Strategies for improving recognition performance from video using multiple frames
      • date: 2010
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 64
      • summary: We exploit the fact that there are many such frames available in a few seconds of video data. Face recognition from video is an important theme in biometric research today.
      • keywords: approaches; dataset; face; video
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4232. st74cn7229h
      • author: Huadong Sam Chen
      • title: Error Analysis of Camera-Space Manipulation
      • date: 2007
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Eventually we can implement verified principles and effective measures into practice, and (ideally) realize robustly any desired level of end precision of a CSM system. There are several factors that can mitigate the effect of the three major error sources and ensure sufficient precision, factors such as 'preplan-trajectory' design (parameter initialization), robot end-tool cue configuration, and cue-data-weighting scheme.
      • keywords: csm; error; major; precision; system
      • versions: original; plain text
4233. st74cn7230q
      • author: Kyle Bruce Wheeler
      • title: Exploiting Locality with Qthreads for Portable Parallel Performance
      • date: 2009
      • words: 242
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Portable abstractions are needed that provide basic lightweight thread control, synchronization primitives, and topology information to enable scalable application development on the full range of shared memory parallel system designs. This thesis discusses the implementation of scalable software for massively parallel computers based on locality-aware lightweight threads and lightweight synchronization.
      • keywords: lightweight; memory; need; parallel; synchronization
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4234. st74cn7232d
      • author: Cora Fernandez Anderson
      • title: The Impact of Social Movements on State Policy: Human Rights and Women Movements In Argentina, Chile And Uruguay
      • date: 2011
      • words: 289
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: In addition, the social movement needs political allies in power for the issues to move forward: for bills, once introduced, to be debated and passed in Congress, for government programs to be implemented, and for institutions to be created that address the movements' demands. Non-bread-and-butter issues such as those espoused by the social movements studied here are not considered a priority by public opinion in developing countries, and thus have a hard time reaching the political agenda if no movement mobilizes behind them.
      • keywords: demands; issues; movement; political; social
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4235. st74cn7248s
      • author: Cole Carnesecca
      • title: Fate of the Gods: State Formation, Secularization and the Emergence of Religious Modernities in China and Japan
      • date: 1904
      • words: 236
      • flesch: 22
      • 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.
      • keywords: factors; process; religious; revolutionary; state; symbolic
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4236. st74cn72r3n
      • author: Taehyun Ahn
      • title: Happiness in Aristotle: Individual, Friends, and the City
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Indeed, for Aristotle happiness is a composite good that includes ethical virtue and political pursuit. Presumably, could it be because happiness, whether it be theoretical or ethical, involves practical pursuit and because practical virtue somehow enables the achievement of happiness?
      • keywords: aristotle; happiness; happy; virtue
      • versions: original; plain text
4237. st74cn7346c
      • author: Jinyang Li
      • title: Compound Semiconductor Oxidation for Single-Mode High-Index-Contrast Ridge Waveguide and Quantum Cascade Lasers
      • date: 2021
      • words: 434
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Through extensive optimization of lithography, etching and OEWTO processes, single mode HIC RWG diode lasers are demonstrated for the first time. Notably, a circularly symmetric output beam HIC RWG laser is achieved for the first time, overcoming the traditional asymmetric, highly elliptical beam divergence limitation of edge-emitting lasers and well surpassing the ~2 mW maximum power of current symmetric single mode vertical cavity surface emitting lasers.
      • keywords: beam; hic; high; lasers; low; mode; oewto; optical; oxide; process; rwg; single; width
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4238. st74cn73540
      • author: Taylor Ball
      • title: Various Special Fiber Ring Problems
      • date: 2021
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 67
      • summary: Consider a rational map from projective d-1 space to projective m-1 space given by m many degree δ forms, g_1,...,g_m, in d variables. We then use this to give previously unknown bounds on the number of cusps for fixed splitting types.
      • keywords: case; ideal; ring; special
      • versions: original; plain text
4239. st74cn7365n
      • author: Zachary M. Miksis
      • title: Sparse-Grid Implementation of Fixed-Point Fast Sweeping WENO Schemes for Eikonal Equations
      • date: 2022
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: As other types of fast sweeping schemes, fixed-point fast sweeping methods use the Gauss-Seidel iterations and alternating sweeping strategy to cover characteristics of hyperbolic PDEs in a certain direction simultaneously in each sweeping order. Moreover, an advantage of fixed-point fast sweeping methods over other types of fast sweeping methods is that they are explicit and do not involve inverse operation of any nonlinear local system.
      • keywords: equations; fast; methods; point; schemes; sweeping; weno
      • versions: original; plain text
4240. st74cn7371k
      • author: Abigail M. Staysa
      • title: Aristotle on Pleasure and Prudence in the Nicomachean Ethics
      • date: 2022
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This project strives to understand the significance of pleasure and pain in Aristotle's presentation of moral virtue and prudence in his Nicomachean Ethics. The central question of my analysis pertains to the manner in which pleasure and pain operate in moral virtue and how this is essential for the operation of prudence, the intellectual virtue that pertains to the legislative art and political science.
      • keywords: moral; pain; pleasure; prudence; virtue
      • versions: original; plain text
4241. st74cn7372x
      • author: Jake P. Leporte
      • title: Control and Dataflow in 28 nm CMOS for a FeFET-Based Compute-in-Memory Tensor Algebra Accelerator
      • date: 2022
      • words: 173
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This thesis presents a design for a digital control and dataflow system in 28 nm CMOS supporting a FeFET-based Compute-in-Memory (CIM) core designed by the Intelligent Microsystems Lab (IMSL) at the University of Notre Dame. This design includes a circuit for per-ADC asynchronous capture and forwarding of CIM outputs, a re-configurable adder tree taking advantage of the naturally ternary FeFET array weights, a memory system which uses banking and shift-registers to interface at high-bandwidth to the CIM array, and an abstracted programming interface suitable for further exploration of accelerator-algorithm co-design.
      • keywords: cim; control; design; fefet; memory
      • versions: original; plain text
4242. sx61dj55998
      • author: Katherine Elizabeth Wilbanks
      • title: Phase behavior of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the ionic liquid 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide
      • date: 2010
      • words: 125
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Noticeable enhancement was seen at pressures greater than 30 bar and was quantified by calculating enhancement factors and showing ternary diagrams. Measurements were carried out at equilibrium pressures from 18.7 to 72.5 bar and feed compositions of 25, 35, and 50 mole percent oxygen with the balance being carbon dioxide.
      • keywords: carbon; dioxide; phase
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4243. sx61dj55b0g
      • author: Guangyue Han
      • title: Space Time Coding with Multiple Antenna Systems
      • date: 2004
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This dissertation analyzes and designs suitable signal constellations for such systems. In this dissertation we derive general upper bounds on the diversity sum and the diversity product for unitary constellations of any dimension and any size using packing techniques on a compact Lie group.
      • keywords: codes; constellations; decoding; diversity; signal; structure; systems
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4244. sx61dj55b1t
      • author: Cameron Wade Harvey
      • title: Collective Movement in Myxobacteria: Modeling and Experiments with Myxococcus xanthus
      • date: 2013
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: How cells coordinate movement is fundamental to many important areas of study from development biology where cells must form patterns and differentiate with precise timing to topics like infectious diseases where bacterial cells can colonize surfaces and infect tissue. A remarkable example of how patterns of movement and organization in populations of bacterial cells emerge from individual level interactions is seen with Myxobacteria.
      • keywords: cells; movement; patterns; properties; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4245. sx61dj55b25
      • author: Sachidananda Krishnamurthy
      • title: Graphene Based Assemblies: Electron Transfer Processes and Energy Conversion Applications
      • date: 2014
      • words: 613
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This charge transfer interaction results in the reduction of GO to reduced graphene oxide (RGO) as well as storage of electrons in the carbon network. Furthermore emission quenching of colloidal CdSe QDs was found to be dependent upon the extent of GO reduction.
      • keywords: carbon; cdse; composites; electron; graphene; materials; metal; nanomaterials; nanoparticles; oxide; properties; qds; rgo; semiconductor; transfer
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4246. sx61dj55b4v
      • author: Laura K. Taylor
      • title: Does Violence Beget Violence? Factors Moderating Trajectories of Youth Aggression in a Context of Political Conflict
      • date: 2013
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: A common assumption is that a violent environment produces violent youth; this project interrogated this assertion in two ways examining if exposure to intergroup antisocial behavior increases youth aggression, and in turn, if changes in general youth aggression are related to participation in intergroup conflict. Regarding the continuation of intergroup conflict, being female and having a more cohesive family negatively predicted youth participation in sectarian acts, whereas the trajectory of general aggression (i.e., intercepts and linear slopes) predicted significantly more youth engagement in out-group antisocial behavior.
      • keywords: aggression; antisocial; behavior; conflict; intergroup; youth
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4247. sx61dj55b56
      • author: Dustin Gregory Coleman
      • title: Towards a Low-Order Dynamic Stall Model using a Parametric Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
      • date: 2015
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: For the first model, the airloads of a candidate airfoil, one where the unsteady surface pressure field is desired for a given pitching trajectory, are shown to be reconstructed using the same 5 reference PPOD modes plus an additional spatial mode calculated from the candidate airfoil?s steady pressure field. This method provides a systematic and quantitative framework by which to elucidate common and disparate features of the light and deep dynamic stall processes and provides a bridge to the development of low-order models for the prediction of unsteady airloads, such as the normal force and quarter-chord pitching moment.
      • keywords: airfoil; field; model; pitching; pressure; reference; unsteady
      • versions: original; plain text
4248. sx61dj55b6j
      • author: Aranda R. Slabbekoorn Duan
      • title: The Study of the Interactions of Tau with Microtubules
      • date: 2012
      • words: 536
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Tau has been widely studied both in its normal interactions with MTs and in its formation of Tau filaments that lead to hallmark disease-related aggregation. Through fluorescence microscopy, we reveal the novel presence of Tau filaments forming within the context of MTs during a cosedimentation assay.
      • keywords: affinity; binding; filaments; mts; tau; tau&ndash;mt; tubulin
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4249. sx61dj55b7w
      • author: Joseph Robert Teller
      • title: Members of His Body: Christ's Passion and Community in Early Modern English Poetry, 1595-1646
      • date: 2010
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: In examining the Passion as a set of discursive strategies visible in a variety of texts across confessional lines, this study challenges traditional scholarly accounts of devotional poetry in Renaissance England, accounts which typically isolate Catholic and Protestant writers from one another and which privilege theological or confessional identities over shared representational strategies. This dissertation studies representations of the most significant event of Christian history--the Passion of Christ--in English devotional poetry in the post-Reformation period.
      • keywords: accounts; confessional; england; passion; period; poetry; writers
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4250. sx61dj55b87
      • author: Vilma C. Balmaceda
      • title: The Human Rights Ombudsman in the Central Andes
      • date: 2010
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Instead of simply assuming the independence of ombudsman head officers based on the autonomy formally accorded to them in their respective constitutions and laws, this study analyzes and measures the actual behavioral independence demonstrated by the individuals that have served as ombudsman chief officers since the creation of the agency in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. This dissertation's most important theoretical contribution to the field of comparative politics and to Latin American politics is that formal institutional arrangements did not explain the significant degrees of variance in effectiveness and in behavioral independence of ombudsman chief officers.
      • keywords: funding; head; independence; officers; ombudsman; relation
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4251. sx61dj55b9k
      • author: Elena V Malofeeva
      • title: A Meta-Analysis of Mathematics Instruction with Young Children
      • date: 2007
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In addition, interventions including controlling task difficulty, additional explanations provided about taught concepts, sequencing activities, and small group games showed larger effect sizes than interventions not including these techniques. On average, the mean weighted effect size for the difference between the experimental and control groups was .467.
      • keywords: effect; size; studies; type; weighted
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4252. sx61dj55c2g
      • author: Eric Hill Matlis
      • title: Controlled Experiments on Instabilities and Transition to Turbulence on a Sharp Cone at Mach 3.5
      • date: 2003
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: An experiment was conducted which was aimed at documenting the linear and nonlinear development of pairs of oblique waves over a 7-degree half-angle cone in the Mach 3.5 'quiet' tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center. Azimuthal measurements showed these two modes to have azimuthal amplitude variations which were consistent with helicalmode pairs.
      • keywords: amplitude; azimuthal; excitation; hot; khz
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4253. sx61dj55c45
      • author: Asako Melody Yamamuro
      • title: Relationships Between Benthic Organic Matter and Invertebrates in Sand Substrates of Northern Michigan Streams
      • date: 2005
      • words: 147
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: bom; habitats; sand; streams
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4254. sx61dj55c5h
      • author: Seth Brian Oelbaum
      • title: fat girl [elizabethan sonnets]
      • date: 2012
      • words: 49
      • flesch: 66
      • summary: fat girl [elizabethan sonnets] is a composed entirely of elizabethan sonnets. The subject matter derives from numerous Holocaust, Nazi, and World War II books.
      • keywords: elizabethan; sonnets
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4255. sx61dj55j0b
      • author: Trevor Kane
      • title: Examination of a New Virulence Factor in a Select Strain of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
      • date: 1904
      • words: 475
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In this dissertation, we examine the emergence of a streptolysin S like gene cluster (sag) gene cluster that has appeared in a select strain of MRSA. Conditioned media from the wt and ΔsagB strain do not result in any growth inhibition of S. pyogenes, E. coli, or S. epidermidis.
      • keywords: aureus; cluster; gene; jkd6159; mrsa; sag; strain; δsagb
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4256. sx61dj5618q
      • author: Jennifer Zupkosky
      • title: Analyzing ARF6 and Non-Exosomal Extracellular Vesicles in the Context of Macrophages Infected with M. tuberculosis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 435
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The objective of this project centers around two major aims: 1) characterizing the role of ARF6 in host signaling and phagosome-lysosome fusion in macrophages upon M.tb infection and 2) characterizing both composition and function of microvesicles after infection. Exosomes have been well characterized in the context of mycobacterial infection; however, macrophages also release microvesicles, which are derived from the budding of the plasma membrane, and these vesicles have not been characterized in this manner.
      • keywords: arf6; cells; exosomes; infection; m.tb; macrophages; microvesicles; role
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4257. sx61dj56777
      • author: Melissa R. Hoffbauer
      • title: The Synthesis and Reactivity of [PC(sp2)P] Complexes of Iron and Palladium
      • date: 2019
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In particular, the development of ligand systems capable of participating in metal ligand cooperativity (MLC) has become a popular area of research in the organometallic community. Credited for their tunability, tridentate, chelating pincer ligands are well-known for their ability to participate in MLC-type reactivity on a variety of different metal centers.
      • keywords: carbene; complexes; ligand; metal; pc(sp2)p}pd(pme3; reactivity; system
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4258. sx61dj5681g
      • author: Thomas A. Zirkle
      • title: A Parallel Single-Electron Box Array Scanning Probe
      • date: 2019
      • words: 215
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The two most common scanning CPD methods to date are electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) and Kelvin force probe microscopy (KFPM). These two methods, however, require relatively large potentials between the tip and the sample (1-3 V for KFPM).
      • keywords: charge; efm; kfpm; microscopy; scanning
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4259. sx61dj56d7s
      • author: Shelby Brantley
      • title: A Molecular Dynamics View of Counterionic Effects on Structural Dynamics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 535
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Fluoroethylene carbonate is studied in this thesis by adding 5% by volume to a 1:1:1 mass ratio mixture of dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, and ethylene carbonate and simulating the mixture with fluoroethylene carbonate, the mixture without fluoroethylene carbonate, and a pure fluoroethylene carbonate solution. The addition of fluoroethylene carbonate also alters the structural orientation of ethylene carbonate in the mixture, which could cause the change in the overall solution behavior.
      • keywords: carbonate; charge; counterions; dna; dynamics; fluoroethylene; hoechst; mixture; molecular; sodium; structural
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4260. sx61dj56g2p
      • author: Spencer D. Golze
      • title: A Hybrid Nanofabrication Route for the Synthesis of Highly Ordered Large-Area Arrays of Planar and Chiral Nanostructures
      • date: 2022
      • words: 526
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Alternative low-cost lithographic processes have been devised in attempts to improve the accessibility and throughput of array-based nanostructures, but likewise fall short in the ability to generate complex structures in organized arrays with true long-range order. This process is demonstrated through the synthesis of large-area arrays of Au structures on sapphire substrates using plasmon-mediated liquid-phase syntheses to grow hexagonal and triangular nanoplates on the substrate surface, as well as chiral nanostructures exhibiting a spiral geometry.
      • keywords: ability; control; crystalline; high; nanostructures; phase; plasmonic; processes; structures; substrate; surface; syntheses
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4261. sx61dj56g31
      • author: Kaden Ivy
      • title: Closet Drama, Literary Form, and Politics in Early America
      • date: 2022
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Questions such as these about closet drama have been explored by scholars in the contexts of early modern and Romantic England, and this dissertation seeks to explore them in the context of early America. We can see closet drama operating in situations and with opportunities as diverse as early America.
      • keywords: american; closet; dissertation; drama; early; theater
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4262. sx61dj56h3b
      • author: Tyler S. Moore
      • title: Legal Interpretation's Disputed Terrain
      • date: 2022
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Instead, originalists properly contend that the end of the first, re-creative step of interpretation is to identify the Constitution's original communicative content. This dissertation is structured around three recurring questions about legal interpretation.
      • keywords: application; chapter; interpretation; legal; purpose; theory
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4263. sx61dj56h9d
      • author: Abigail Jorgensen
      • title: Epistemologies of Motherhood: Investigations of Political Behavior, Visual Productive Methods, and Anticipatory Identity
      • date: 2023
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; drawings; motherhood; non; researchers; understandings; women
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4264. sx61dj56j0m
      • author: Ashley N Burk
      • title: Friends Unlike Me: Affective Political Polarization, Hidden Heterophily, and the Work of Negotiating Boundary Conflict
      • date: 2023
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Participants' reflection on their relationships in these interviews showed difficulty in reconciling their identities, group memberships, and existing relationships with those they disagree with politically. As result, they retained the relationships as weaker ties.
      • keywords: relationships; ties
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4265. t148ff38k89
      • author: Claire Michelle Brown
      • title: Supererogation for a Virtue Ethicist
      • date: 2011
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The contemporary discussion of supererogation and how it fits within particular moral theories is strikingly thin when it comes to the question of whether or how virtue ethics can make room for supererogation. Indeed, whereas the debates about how utilitarianism and Kantianism ought approach the supererogatory are well-developed, although by no means exhaustive, to date there is but one article-length treatment of the topic of virtue ethics and supererogation.
      • keywords: chapter; ethics; supererogation; supererogatory; virtue
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4266. t148ff38k9n
      • author: Robert Daniel Gustin
      • title: Kant's Argument for the Transcendental Ideality of Time
      • date: 2015
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: This dissertation presents a unified account of Kant's argument for the transcendental ideality of time as put forward in the Transcendental Aesthetic and the First Antinomy of the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant's transcendental ideality thesis for both space and time is that time and space are not fundamentally real entities but rather forms of intuition by which we are able to experience the world.
      • keywords: ideality; kant; transcendental
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4267. t148ff38m47
      • author: Guanjun Zhang
      • title: Robust Scalable Video Compression Using Multiple Description Coding
      • date: 2008
      • words: 493
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Network video, such as digital video broadcasting, streaming, or surveillance, involve various networks and diverse clients. In the effort to increase robustness of multiple description video streams, a modified multiple state video coding scheme is introduced for better error concealment results.
      • keywords: clients; coding; description; error; layered; multiple; networks; quality; robust; scalable; video
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4268. t148ff38n1h
      • author: Lindsey Alison Esbensen
      • title: The Centrality of Jesus Christ for Moral Theology: A Critical Appraisal of the Distinctively Religious-Moral Theology of Bernard H?ring
      • date: 2008
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: For H?ring, Christian moral formation and development requires ongoing conversion to the life of Jesus Christ. The call-and-response model serves as the recurring motif throughout H?ring's work that underscores the significance of Jesus Christ for moral theology, because Jesus Christ is the invitation of God and, at the same time, the response of humanity to God's offer of grace.
      • keywords: christian; h?ring; jesus; moral; theology
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4269. t148ff38n2v
      • author: Christopher Dennis Middendorff
      • title: Multi-Biometric Approaches to Ear Biometrics and Soft Biometrics
      • date: 2009
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: We perform recognition using soft biometric features extracted from video. We find that using clothing color and height yield modest performance results that can be extended on their own or applied to other biometric systems.
      • keywords: biometric; parts; recognition
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4270. t148ff38n7k
      • author: Gergana T Ugrinova
      • title: Characterization of a novel microtubule binding protein CLIPR76
      • date: 2007
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Some CLIPR76 isoforms localize to the endoplasmic reticulum and their overexpression affect the morphology of ER and ERGIC membrane compartments, while others localize to microtubules or subsets of microtubules and cause alterations in microtubule organization when expressed at higher levels. These results imply a role for CLIPR76 proteins in membrane transport and ER microtubules interactions.
      • keywords: clipr76; different; isoforms; membrane; microtubules; motor; organelles; proteins; transport
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4271. t148ff38p0g
      • author: Yvonne S. Mikuljan
      • title: Lichama and Limu: Approaches to Impairment in Anglo-Saxon England
      • date: 2015
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: Drawing on modern disability theories, the chapters of this dissertation examine the material evidence, religious discourses, and literary representations of impairment and disability in order to highlight the dominant cultural perceptions concerning impairment and the treatment of people with impairment and disabilities. These prejudiced views of the past appear in modern histories of disability and have perpetuated the popular assumptions that illnesses and impairments were believed to be the result of sin or supernatural forces and that people with disabilities were marginalized, abused, and oppressed by the their societies.
      • keywords: disabilities; disability; dissertation; impairment; people
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4272. t148ff38q0s
      • author: Laura Bland
      • title: Unfriendly Skies: Science, Superstition, and the Great Comet of 1680
      • date: 1904
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: After an introduction, four thematic chapters explore responses to the comets of the 1680s in England, Spain, North America, and Spanish America respectively. These works appeared in England, Spain, North America, and the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru.
      • keywords: america; comets; england; religious; spain; spanish
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4273. t148ff38s9h
      • author: Laura Woods
      • title: Design and Synthesis of Novel Cancer Therapeutics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 599
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: There are six essential hallmarks of cancer that are targeted by current therapies to overcome the progression and metastasis of cancer cells. One such strategy to overcome these limitations that has been implemented involves targeting multiple sites within cancer cells.
      • keywords: activity; atpase; cancer; cell; enzyme; epothilone; inhibitor; natural; novel; synthesis; treatment
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4274. t148ff39b9r
      • author: Scott Martin Hanson
      • title: Cold Hardiness of Aedes Albopictus Eggs
      • date: 1904
      • words: 64
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: cold
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4275. t148ff39h4k
      • author: Sudip Vhaduri
      • title: Reliable Discovery of Places of Importance and Behavioral Patterns from Mobile Crowdsensed Datasets
      • date: 2019
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 25
      • 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).
      • keywords: data; location; mechanism; personal; places; segmentation; segments; user; work
      • versions: original; plain text
4276. t148ff39p44
      • author: Dylan S. Belton
      • title: The Sojourning Animal: An Anthropology of Detachment and Attunement
      • date: 2020
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: I offer what I call a biological-metaphysical account of habitus as the means by which the human comes to inhabit or be at home in both its body and its correlate umwelt or lifeworld. By developing a biological-metaphysical account of habitus in relation to the unique form of human embodiment, this project also provides a theoretical framework for further theological engagements with social theory and the social sciences that do not bypass the life sciences.
      • keywords: account; habitus; home; human
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4277. t148ff39q2r
      • author: Karlie E. Cox
      • title: Using Small Molecule Adjuvants to Combat Bacterial Resistance Mechanisms
      • date: 2021
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: One such approach, is the identification of antibiotic adjuvants that re-sensitize resistant bacteria to an antibiotic, broaden the spectrum of an antibiotic, or decrease the needed antibiotic dose, while possessing limited or no antimicrobial activity itself. Next, this work expands on the concept of using natural products, such as meridianin D, as antibiotic adjuvants.
      • keywords: activity; adjuvants; antibiotic; meridianin; natural; resistant; sar; smegmatis; work
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4278. t148ff39r7s
      • author: Jake McGinnis
      • title: Disturbance Ecologies: Antebellum U.S. Travel Writing and Environmental Thinking
      • date: 2022
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: environmental; form; literary; sense; travel; world; writing
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4279. t435gb21w1r
      • author: Amber Marie Grundy
      • title: Change in Maternal Knowledge Over the Transition to Adolescence
      • date: 2007
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The results indicated that there was a high degree of rank-order stability in knowledge but that there was mean change over time. The present paper examined multiple ways to measure change in maternal knowledge over the transition to adolescence.
      • keywords: adolescent; change; knowledge; maternal; modeling; time
      • versions: original; plain text
4280. t435gb21w23
      • author: Maria-Elena D. Diaz
      • title: Hawaiian Men and Income Attainment: A Human Capital Analysis
      • date: 2005
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Using 1990 U.S. Census Five Percent Public Use Microsample data for Hawaii and California, I examine the income attainment process for understudied Hawaiian men compared to white, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and African American men, using a human capital model with multivariate analysis. Possible theoretical explanations for income attainment are explored, including assimilation, cultural and structural theories, internal colonialism, and discrimination.
      • keywords: attainment; capital; human; income
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4281. t435gb21w3f
      • author: Megan Elise Komorowski
      • title: This is why we can't have nice things
      • date: 2013
      • words: 9
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Poetry collection about childhood occurrences in a domestic space.
      • keywords: poetry
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4282. t435gb21w4s
      • author: Clare Brogan
      • title: The Leuktra Tropaion: A Case Study in Ancient Greek Victory Monuments
      • date: 2014
      • words: 36
      • flesch: 61
      • 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.
      • keywords: victory
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4283. t435gb21w6g
      • author: Dorrell McCalman
      • title: Simulation of Aqueous Phase NOx Reduction Over Pd Catalysts
      • date: 2013
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: One implication of this work is that there might be some ratio of nitric oxide: hydrogen binding energy which will allow high nitric oxide coverage for desired selectivity as well as sufficient hydrogen adsorption for reaction. Nitrous oxide is most likely formed by reaction of NH with nitric oxide followed by water assisted deprotonation.
      • keywords: atomic; nitric; nitrogen; nitrous; oxide; water
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4284. t435gb21w7t
      • author: Thomas David Scheiding
      • title: Paying to Publish: Using the Author Charge to Fund the Scholarly Journal
      • date: 2006
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Chapter one outlines the elements of the economics of science and the economics of scholarly communication research agendas and the methodological changes both have endured over the past fifty years. These three chapters argue that paying for the scholarly communication process is more than just an economics problem and outline a framework for a revised economics of scholarly communication research agenda.
      • keywords: communication; economics; process; research; scholarly
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4285. t435gb21w85
      • author: Kathleen Nanette Bergman
      • title: Disentangling Patterns of Influence: Marital Conflict and Adolescent Adjustment
      • date: 2013
      • words: 226
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: The characteristics of destructive marital conflict were examined to probe the nature of destructive conflict between couples; of particular interest in this regard was the concept of active and passive types of conflict. In addition, the present study moved beyond the traditional focus on internalizing and externalizing behavior problems to also examine the impact of exposure to destructive marital conflict on adolescents?
      • keywords: adjustment; conflict; destructive; marital; study
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4286. t435gb21w9h
      • author: Deborah Kirubai Thomas
      • title: Face recognition from surveillance-quality video
      • date: 2010
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: We show that we can exploit temporal continuity of video data to improve the reliability of the matching scores across probe frames. We conduct a study that compares face recognition performance using two different types of probe data and acquiring data in two different conditions.
      • keywords: face; recognition; video
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4287. t435gb21x0q
      • author: Xochitl Bada
      • title: Sociopolitical Remittances, Rural Development, and Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations: The Shifting Nature of Transnational and Trans-Local Connections in the Chicago-Michoacan Corridor
      • date: 2010
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 16
      • 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.
      • keywords: associations; dissertation; hometown; htas; mexico; migrant; organizational; practices; society; work
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4288. t435gb21x12
      • author: William David Haynes
      • title: Reliable Asymmetric Phase Stabilty Computations using Interval Analysis
      • date: 2005
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; case; equilibrium; global; model; phase; problem; stability; vapor
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4289. t435gb21x43
      • author: Deqiang Chen
      • title: Diversity and Spectral Efficiency in Wireless Relay Networks
      • date: 2007
      • words: 514
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: In this dissertation, we propose efficient relaying protocols for two types of wireless networks, ie, networks with one destination, one relay and multiple sources, and networks with one destination, one source and multiple relays. We then focus on low-complexity, efficient algorithms for a multihop network with one destination, one source and multiple relays.
      • keywords: gains; hop; multihop; multiple; multiplexing; network; optimum; relay; routing; wireless
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4290. t435gb21x5f
      • author: Nathan Allen Konopinski
      • title: meeting the computation demands for data driven biology at vectorbase
      • date: 2011
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Along with providing genomic data to users, the site also makes available several sequence analysis tools. Complex computer systems are involved in keeping the site operational.
      • keywords: data; genomic; site
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4291. t435gb21x6s
      • author: Thomas Francis Clarke
      • title: Rare Codon Clusters: Enrichment, Functional Effects, Non-Random Localization and Conservation
      • date: 2009
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Rare codon clusters can impede ribosome translation of the rare codon sequence and are not distributed randomly throughout genes: rare codons are enriched at the 5' and 3' termini of genes from E. coli and other prokaryotes. However, rare codons persist, presumably due to neutral drift.
      • keywords: clusters; codons; genes; rare
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4292. t435gb21x74
      • author: Steve Douglas Owen
      • title: The Chalk Tree: A Novella and Stories
      • date: 2013
      • words: 6
      • flesch: 87
      • summary: No abstract needed for MFA thesis.
      • keywords: thesis
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4293. t435gb2231w
      • author: Yuanxing Wang
      • title: Cation Exchange Reactions for Varieties of Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Nanomaterials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 291
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Then, we elucidate the use of cation exchange to modify layered 2D SnS2 NSs to non-layered Cu2SnS3 NSs. Our work provides potential values for fundamental microscopic insights for photocatalysts in H2 generation field.
      • keywords: cation; cdse; exchange; layered; nss
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4294. t435gb22k6z
      • author: Pietro Bocchia
      • title: Religion, Politics, and Art: Pier Paolo Pasolini and 1968
      • date: 1904
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: By providing some of the sources through which Pasolini became acquainted with the American political and cultural situation, I demonstrate how Pasolini regarded certain American political realities as revolutionary, including the student movement SNCC (Social Non-violent Coordinating Committee). In keeping with his religious views, Pasolini saw the religiosità of some members of the SNCC, as well as their idea of anti-community––understood as the locus of authentic and real exchange between individuals of different races and education levels––as conducive to authentic democracy.
      • keywords: american; democracy; dissertation; pasolini; political; religiosità; religious
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4295. t435gb22r6h
      • author: Corinne Dorais
      • title: Enhanced Analytical Capabilities for Nuclear Forensic Applications
      • date: 2019
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: The work presented in this dissertation aims to contribute to the efficacy of nuclear forensic science by developing reference materials that allow for rapid analytical techniques to be implemented in nuclear forensic investigations. In order to be effective, nuclear forensic scientists must be able to rapidly achieve highly-accurate and -precise physical, chemical, and isotopic measurements of illicit nuclear materials.
      • keywords: forensic; materials; measurements; nuclear; rapid; reference; uranium; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
4296. t435gb22z3b
      • author: Martin Imre
      • title: GPU-Accelerated Summarization and Reconstruction Techniques for Big Data Analysis and Visualization
      • date: 2020
      • words: 537
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: In this dissertation, I describe several ways to summarize and reconstruct time-varying multivariate, vector field data, and graph data. In this dissertation, I focus on data analysis using isosurface rendering, a commonly used volume visualization technique.
      • keywords: analysis; data; dissertation; graph; humans; multivariate; time; vector; visualization
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4297. t435gb2303x
      • author: Wenzhao Li
      • title: Numerical Studies of Vortex Dynamics in Superconductivity
      • date: 2021
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The behavior of vortex matter is critical to the applications of superconductivity and the effective control of Abrikosov vortices can lead to higher dissipation-free current carrying capacity (critical current). Furthermore, with the large scale computing methods, we show that the system stability depends on the container symmetry, container size and vortex number.
      • keywords: channels; critical; current; flow; network; pinning; study; vortex; vortices
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4298. t435gb23079
      • author: Joshua Boggs
      • title: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Considering Matthew Shepard
      • date: 2021
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: These and other related social themes are demonstrated in Considering Matthew Shepard, a modern oratorio influenced by the Passion form. If Considering Matthew Shepard highlights the tension between viewpoints surrounding these difficult topics, its overwhelming conclusion is one of love, acceptance, unity, and the humanity in all of us.
      • keywords: christian; gender; matthew; sexuality
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4299. t435gb2315x
      • author: Giorgi Piriashvili
      • title: The Effects of Government Policies on Market Structure in the Presence of Dynamic and Imperfect Competition
      • date: 2022
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This finding suggests that restricting M&amp;A without further analysis of its role in long-run growth might have unintended consequences on productivity growth. However, when market concentration is low such a shift has the opposite effect.
      • keywords: concentration; cost; firms; market; power; run
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4300. t435gb2332h
      • author: Cedric W. Williams
      • title: Chemo-Thermo-Mechanical Modeling of Heterogeneous Reactive Materials
      • date: 2023
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: However, these efforts are often limited by issues with thermodynamic consistency, the inherent nonlinearity of the relevant fields of interest (chemical species, temperature, deformation, etc.), and complex physical coupling between said fields. To this end, this dissertation develops a chemo-thermal-mechanical model that considers phase transition phenomena, heat generation due to chemical reactions and mechanical deformations, and finite strain elasto-plastic behavior.
      • keywords: dissertation; fields; finite; model; modeling; systems
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4301. t722h70550r
      • author: Robert Portada
      • title: The Dissident Cross: The Catholic Church and Political Confrontation in Cuba
      • date: 2011
      • words: 278
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: I build a new paradigm for comparing confrontational church strategies by articulating new definitions and offering a theory about what conditions and factors lead to the adoption of certain confrontational strategies. Placing the Cuban Church in comparative analysis with the national churches of Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua, Poland, and Venezuela, I argue that a combination of regime type, institutional church reforms, and the world-historical time period during which the church began its contentious activities have a direct influence on the church's choice of confrontational strategy.
      • keywords: catholic; church; confrontational; cuban; new; strategies
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4302. t722h705513
      • author: Callan Maire Driscoll
      • title: The Characterization of the Influence of Cations on the Surface Motility of P. aeruginosa and the Utilization of Novel Imaging Techniques.
      • date: 2015
      • words: 420
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: aeruginosa; affect; biofilms; calcium; conditions; dependent; motility; starvation; surface; tfp
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4303. t722h70556t
      • author: Hao Zhou
      • title: Synchronization in OFDM Systems
      • date: 2008
      • words: 396
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This dissertation addresses one of the critical issues in the development and implementation of OFDM systems, namely, synchronization. It is shown that the CFO estimation can benefit from receiver diversity gain under the setting of MIMO systems.
      • keywords: cfo; channel; estimation; mimo; ofdm; performance; synchronization; systems; timing
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4304. t722h70564f
      • author: Wenjie Chen
      • title: Defects in Emerging III-V Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications
      • date: 2013
      • words: 462
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: well (MQW) photodiodes for mid-IR detection and GaAs-based MOSFETs using InAlP native oxide and Al2O3 as gate dielectrics for microwave-frequency circuit applications, are studied using several characterization techniques, with an eye towards using this information in order to further improve device performance. A 'buried channel' approach with an InGaP layer between the dielectric and channel was used to reduce the impact of defects on device performance.
      • keywords: deep; device; inalp; layer; mqw; performance; photodiodes; quantum; structures; study
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4305. t722h705695
      • author: Lica Abu-Esba
      • title: Studies of Multivalent Probes as Bacterial Imaging Fluorophores and Agglutination Agents
      • date: 2009
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Firstly, binding assays with planktonic bacteria show this probe to selectively bind cells best during the log phase of the cell cycle, with up to 99% binding efficiency. Selectivity to the bacteria and cross linking was observed even when treating bacteria in the presence of mammalian cells.
      • keywords: assays; bacteria; cells; gram; znii
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4306. t722h705722
      • author: M. Windy McNerney
      • title: No Stressing About Memory: An Investigation of Allopregnanolone and Nitric Oxide Effects on Long-Term Potentiation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The second experiment used fluorescence microscopy to create a temporal analysis of nitric oxide synthesis in response to high-frequency stimulation and found that the concentration of nitric oxide increased at two separate time periods following the induction of long-term potentiation. Future research should utilize the methods created in this study to further increase the knowledge of long-term potentiation, as well as determine the mechanisms behind abnormal nitric oxide levels found in various neurological diseases.
      • keywords: long; potentiation; term
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4307. t722h70577s
      • author: Benjamin J. Clifford
      • title: Genomic and Regulatory Divergence between Sister Species of Daphnia
      • date: 1904
      • words: 240
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: What follows in this text are an introductory chapter, three data chapters, and a conclusion, concerning the diversity and divergence among North American Daphnia pulex and Daphnia pulicaria. In this doctoral thesis, I overview the empirical and theoretical consequences of evolution by drift and/or natural selection, as it acts upon lineages during ecological speciation.
      • keywords: chapter; daphnia; data; divergence; lineages
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4308. t722h70582c
      • author: Emily A. Ransom
      • title: Redeeming Complaint in Tudor and Stuart Devotional Lyric
      • date: 1904
      • words: 403
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Complaint poetry with its characteristic pathos and suspension of resolution was an ideal medium for this cross-confessional discourse about theologically ambiguous topics in which doctrine and imagination are often in tension. This dissertation explores an emerging fascination with devotional complaints in Tudor and Stuart poetry, written in the voice of the Preacher from Ecclesiastes, Peter, Christ, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene.
      • keywords: complaint; devotional; early; henry; mary; mode; modern; poetic; poetry; poets; william
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4309. t722h705w1m
      • author: Laura E Grieneisen
      • title: Social, Environmental, and Genetic Predictors of Microbiome Composition in Wild Baboons
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: However, our understanding of the factors that shape gut microbial composition, and the relative importance of these forces across scales, is limited. And, furthermore, do the contributions of these factors change across scales, from individual hosts, to their societies and populations?To address these questions, I used behavioral, environmental, microbial, and genetic analyses to investigate predictors of gut microbial heterogeneities at the level of the host individual, the social group, the population, and the host species.
      • keywords: group; gut; host; microbial; microbiome; population; scales; social
      • versions: original; plain text
4310. t722h705w39
      • author: Matthew J. Chandler
      • title: Civil Resistance and the Processes of Contentious Politics in Egypt, 2010-2015
      • date: 1904
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Therefore, this dissertation shifts the analytical perspective to the processes of contentious political transitions in which civil resistance campaigns are embedded. It finds that civil resistance in Egypt operated through multiple mechanisms that interacted dynamically over time and were sensitive to changes in the wider structure of political relations.
      • keywords: campaigns; civil; egypt; resistance
      • versions: original; plain text
4311. t722h706176
      • author: Angela M. Kurth
      • title: A Micro-Level Examination of Infant Regulation Predicts Behavior Regulation in Early Childhood
      • date: 2019
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Results showed that micro-level emotion regulation during the reunion segment was predictive of behavior regulation at age four. The current study examined both emotion and behavior regulation within the context of the parent-child relationship.
      • keywords: behavior; child; regulation
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4312. t722h70618j
      • author: Michael Lee Wood
      • title: Three Essays in Culture and Cognition
      • date: 2019
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: I test this hypothesis using a combination of interview and survey data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, and I find that the concreteness with which adolescents discuss their religious beliefs and practices is positively correlated with the frequency of religious attendance when they are young adults. Drawing on contemporary cognitive linguistics, I argue that by measuring concreteness in language, interviews and text data more generally can give access experiential traces linked to past and future action.
      • keywords: age; appropriateness; cognitive; culture; data; essay; reasoning
      • versions: original; plain text
4313. t722h70625t
      • author: Kelsey DiPietro
      • title: Adaptive Moving Mesh Methods for Partial Differential Equations
      • date: 2019
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: We provide a boundary mapping between a fixed, uniform rectangular domain to an adaptive, curved physical domain that is applicable to convex and select non-convex domains. Recent develops in moving mesh methods have shown wide applicability of the methods for resolving fine scale features such as shocks and singularities in nonlinear partial differential equations.
      • keywords: adaptive; equation; mesh; methods; moving; order; solution
      • versions: original; plain text
4314. t722h70634s
      • author: Clair E Mesick
      • title: Paul and the "Interlopers": Apostleship and Antagonism in the Corinthian Correspondence
      • date: 2019
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: apostles; community; corinthians; interlopers; jewish; paul
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4315. t722h70680z
      • author: Martin Fevre
      • title: Optimization and Robustness of Dynamic Biped Robots
      • date: 2020
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Some groundbreaking advances provide glimpses of natural agility and efficiency, but practical challenges still limit the ability of dynamic biped robots to achieve their envisioned potential. Finally, robustness is improved using a novel gait switching method that enables dynamic biped robots to switch gaits autonomously following unexpected disturbances.
      • keywords: biped; control; dofs; dynamic; gaits; hzd; robots; unactuated
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4316. t722h706c2k
      • author: Abigail Justice Mancinelli
      • title: A 'Clean' Slate: Public Financing and Representation in American State Legislatures
      • date: 2023
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: To analyze these relationships, I use legislature and candidate data spanning from 1976 to 2020, as well as interviews with legislators in Arizona, Connecticut, and Hawaii. This project examines the electoral and policy impacts of public financing on representation in American state legislatures.
      • keywords: candidates; electoral; legislatures; public
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4317. tb09j388f3b
      • author: David Hoekman
      • title: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects in a Detrital Food Web: The Pitcher Plant Inquiline Community as a Model Food Web
      • date: 2010
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Ecologists have long been interested in understanding factors that regulate food web dynamics. This suggests that temperature may be an important regulator of top-down effects and that climate change can have major effects on biological communities.
      • keywords: detritus; effects; food; temperature; web
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4318. tb09j388f4p
      • author: Branden James Moore
      • title: Exploiting Large Shared On-Chip Caches for Chip Multiprocessors
      • date: 2005
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Concurrency is achieved through ports gained from creating a multi-banked cache, and multiple paths to main memory. The off-chip memory organization impacts performance to a lesser degree, with providing multiple paths to memory outperforming a wider memory bus.
      • keywords: cache; chip; memory; results
      • versions: original; plain text
4319. tb09j388f51
      • author: Eric Stefan
      • 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
      • date: 2013
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 24
      • 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.
      • keywords: access; development; dissertation; ether; formation; synthesis; tertiary; transfer
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4320. tb09j388f6c
      • author: Keshia Kuhn
      • title: Distributions and bioavailabilities of iron and other trace metals associated with environmental colloids
      • date: 2014
      • words: 542
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Bioavailability of Fe associated with mineral colloids, including the clay mineral montmorillonite (MMT; Chapter 5) and two phases of the nanomineral ferrihydrite (Fh; Chapter 6) was also investigated in abiotic dissolution and biotic growth/Fe acquisition experiments. These biotic experiments confirmed the bioavailability of NOM-bound Fe and further demonstrated that while siderophores can be useful for Fe acquisition from NOM, they are not required, most likely because P. mendocina has a cell-associated reductant with the potential to reduce NOM-bound Fe.
      • keywords: acquisition; biotic; chapter; colloids; experiments; line; metals; nom; siderophores
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4321. tb09j388f82
      • author: Michael J. McCourt
      • title: Dissipativity Theory for Hybrid Systems with Applications to Networked Control Systems
      • date: 2015
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; hybrid; physical; results; switched; systems
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4322. tb09j388f9d
      • author: Jarett T DeAngelis
      • title: Spin-Valve Interface for Magnetic Quantum Dot Cellular Automata
      • date: 2010
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: To move forward in the real-life implementation of new computing technologies, some new engineering will be necessary to bridge the gap between extant CMOS computing technology and this new area of magnetic logic and storage. CMOS technology is reaching its physical limits in terms of scaling, and this is leading many researchers to investigate alternative computing technologies.
      • keywords: computing; new; technologies; technology
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4323. tb09j388g0m
      • author: Matthew Ryan Wilson
      • title: Synthesis, Conformational Analysis, and Biological Evaluation of the Potent Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents, (&#8211;)-Zampanolide and (&#8211;)-Dactylolide
      • date: 2015
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: bioactive; c17me; conformation; dactylolide; ether; low; molecular; synthesis; zampanolide
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4324. tb09j388g1z
      • author: Abhishek Tripathi
      • title: Molecular Characterization of Endoplasmic Reticulum Deficient-2 (ERD2) in Toxoplasma gondii
      • date: 2011
      • words: 494
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: ERD2 receptors help in maintaining protein homeostasis by retrieving mistargeted ER luminal proteins from the post ER compartment (mainly the Golgi) to the ER. In T. gondii, the PERLs are structurally similar to TgERD2, which functions in retrograde transport of proteins from the Golgi back to the ER.
      • keywords: analysis; characterization; erd2; gondii; important; parasite; proteins; studies; tgp51; toxoplasma
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4325. tb09j388g29
      • author: Jacob Allen Cress
      • title: Optical Aberrations Caused by Coherent Structures in a Subsonic, Compressible, Turbulent Boundary Layer
      • date: 2010
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: A statistical model is derived using the 'extended' Strong Reynolds Analogy that allows the total temperature to vary and also presumes pressure fluctuations in the boundary layer are negligible compared to temperature fluctuations. Two-dimensional wavefronts through a single boundary layer are presented along with average correlation length results.
      • keywords: boundary; fluctuations; layer; optical
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4326. tb09j388g3n
      • author: Claudio Ugalde
      • title: The 19F(a,p)22Ne Reaction and the Nucleosynthesis of Fluorine
      • date: 2007
      • words: 125
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The 19F(a,p)22Ne reaction is considered to be the main source of fluorine depletion during the Asymptotic Giant Branch and Wolf-Rayet phases in stars. Several resonances were found in the energy range Elab=792-1990 keV and their energies and reduced width amplitudes have been determined in the context of the R-matrix theory of nuclear reactions.
      • keywords: fluorine; new; rate; reaction
      • versions: original; plain text
4327. tb09j388g40
      • author: Shiliang Liu
      • title: Design and Modeling for Nanomagnet Logic Circuits and Architectures
      • date: 2013
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: As much of NML studies need designs and simulations, an NML layout design methodology using energy states tackles the side effect of next nearest neighbor couplings in NML circuits, and a software package developed for assisting simulation is practical and effective for automating NML sim- ulation processes and saving time. To leverage the benefits of NML, the research in this dissertation has helped advance the state of the art of design and modeling of NML circuits and architectures.
      • keywords: cmos; designs; dipole; magnetic; mei; nml
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4328. tb09j388g6p
      • author: Scott Christley
      • title: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Limb Chondrogenesis
      • date: 2007
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Simulations show that spot and stripe patterns (which also correspond to the nodules and bars of the developing limb skeleton in vivo), are close in parameter space and can be generated in multiple ways with single parameter variations. We discuss these modes of pattern formation in relation to available experimental evidence for the in vitro system, as well as their implications for understanding limb skeletal patterning during embryonic development.
      • keywords: agent; cells; diffusion; dynamical; experimental; limb; model; patterns; scales
      • versions: original; plain text
4329. tb09j388g71
      • author: Krishnan Padmanabhan
      • title: Multi-User Communication over Wireless Channels with Unknown Fading
      • date: 2011
      • words: 447
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The transmitters and receivers are distributed through space (in two or three dimensions) and the channels between any transmitter receiver pair are non-coherent Rayleigh block fading channels. An optimal receiver is presented and various simplified receiver schemes are proposed whose achievable rate is very close to the constrained capacity for both block fading and correlated fading models.
      • keywords: channel; dissertation; fading; information; rate; receiver; system; user
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4330. tb09j388g8c
      • author: John Travis Shafer
      • title: Major Element, Trace Element, and Isotopic Composition of Emperor Seamount Chain and Ontong Java Plateau Basalts
      • date: 2008
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: ESC seamounts have been assumed to undergo similar stages of development as their younger Hawaiian counterparts despite the paucity of non-dredge samples. The investigation of a greater than 300 km thick sequence of basement from Nintoku Seamount confirms that a typical ESC volcano develops in a similar manner to modern Hawaiian volcanoes.
      • keywords: element; esc; hawaiian; icp; largest; ojp; pge; plateau
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4331. tb09j388g9q
      • author: Mayra Alejandra Duarte
      • title: An Applied Holistic Model for the Development of Strong Ethnic Identities
      • date: 2013
      • words: 3
      • flesch: 62
      • summary: no abstract available
      • keywords: available
      • versions: original; plain text
4332. tb09j388h49
      • author: Kelsey Blomeke
      • title: Identification of Facial Expressions in Depression: Identifying Emotions of Strangers and Romantic Partners
      • date: 1904
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 21
      • 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.
      • keywords: amp; depressed; depression; expressions; people; unfamiliar
      • versions: original; plain text
4333. tb09j388n2v
      • author: Michael J. Grigalunas
      • title: The Development and Application of the a-Alkenylation of Enolates and Related Multicomponent Reactions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The Pd-catalyzed procedure was used as a platform to develop new multicomponent reactions to rapidly access complex molecules from readily available starting materials. The improvement and discovery of new chemical reactions can provide a way to more rapidly access fine chemicals.
      • keywords: alkenylation; catalyzed; reactions
      • versions: original; plain text
4334. tb09j388n36
      • author: Steven R. Brus
      • title: Efficiency Improvements for Modeling Coastal Hydrodynamics through the Application of High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Solutions to the Shallow Water Equations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 505
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In addition to replacing low-order algorithms, many fundamental aspects of traditional surge modeling techniques must be reconsidered in order to fully realize the potential performance improvements of high-order methods for real-world problems. Additionally, the computational meshes and parameter sets that describe a given model domain must incorporate high-order representations of the underlying data in order to maintain consistency with the accuracy of the numerical method.
      • keywords: accuracy; coastal; computational; high; low; methods; models; numerical; order; resolution; surge
      • versions: original; plain text
4335. tb09j389c19
      • author: Rodolfo Mario Capdevilla Roldan
      • title: Unveiling New Physics through Angular Distributions in Dilepton and Diboson Final States at the LHC
      • date: 2019
      • words: 70
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: This thesis focuses on searches for new physics effects using angular distributions in particle colliders. Small deviations in dilepton distributions due to the presence of quantum interference effects involving dark matter particles, and 2.
      • keywords: distributions; effects
      • versions: original; plain text
4336. tb09j389h7m
      • author: Ala Fink
      • title: Re-Forming Righteousness: Milton's Hebraic Poetics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In each of the major poems, Hebraic righteousness serves as a model for the main characters' actions: In Paradise Lost, the Son reminds the Father that divine justice is also divine righteousness by calling upon Abraham's conversation with God regarding the destruction of Sodom, and Adam and Eve exercise their righteousness through discourse and hosting the angel Raphael; in Paradise Regained, the Son employs his understanding of Job's perfect righteousness and of Moses' mistake to sustain his rebuttals to Satan; and in Samson Agonistes, Samson's development is modeled after Psalmic repentance that requires a belief that a retrieval of personal righteousness is always available through appeal to divine righteousness. Where earlier scholarship has focused on righteousness from a soteriological perspective, I argue that Milton turned instead to the narratives, and the language, of the Hebrew Bible.
      • keywords: bible; hebrew; milton; poems; righteousness
      • versions: original; plain text
4337. tb09j389j88
      • author: Arin S. Preston
      • title: Synthesis, Shape Control, and Preservation of Novel Noble Metal Plasmonic Nanostructures
      • date: 2021
      • words: 648
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: It is demonstrated that the faceting of dewetted metallic structures can be enhanced by subjecting them to a liquid-phase chemical environment in which metal ions are reduced and deposited on the nanostructure surface in a manner that leads to facet formation. Alumina-hafnia laminates provide optimal thermal protection against oxidation and morphology altering surface diffusion, to temperatures as high as 600 °C.Strategic application and removal of ALD alumina is then used to facilitate the synthesis of advanced nanogap structures.
      • keywords: capabilities; chemical; control; enhanced; faceting; metallic; morphology; nanogap; nanostructures; placement; plasmonic; properties; structures; substrate; thermal
      • versions: original; plain text
4338. tb09j389k3v
      • author: Bingyu Shen
      • title: New Approaches in Data for AI-Driven Forensics Applications
      • date: 2021
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 50
      • 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.
      • keywords: algorithms; data; forensics; process; scene; synthetic; text; training
      • versions: original; plain text
4339. tb09j389m7j
      • author: Michael VandenBerg
      • title: Supramolecular Engineering of Self-Assembled Biomaterials: Hierarchical Biomimetic Systems and the Controlled Delivery of Insulin for Type 1 Diabetes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 582
      • flesch: 39
      • 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?.
      • keywords: chapters; human; level; list; material; medicine; molecular; need; systems; threats; world
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4340. tb09j389n4t
      • author: Alejandra Cartagena Sierra
      • title: Plio-Pleistocene and Early to Middle Pleistocene Sea Surface Temperature, Productivity and Salinity Based on Organic Biogeochemical Proxies from Site U1475
      • date: 2023
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: We suggest shifting westerly winds may exert a stronger influence over Agulhas Leakage variability than latitudinal migrations of the STF. This northward migration not only affected the upper water column hydrology and biogeochemistry at the Agulhas Plateau but significantly reduced Agulhas leakage during the period between 3.3 - 3.15 Ma.
      • keywords: agulhas; leakage; ocean; pleistocene; stf; water
      • versions: original; plain text
4341. td96k071q2h
      • author: Francisco Javier Gracia
      • title: Experimental Studies and Monte Carlo Simulations of the State of the Surface During Oxidation Reactions on Supported Pt Catalysts
      • date: 2004
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: The state of the catalytic surface during oxidation reactions on supported Pt catalysts has been investigated by kinetic studies and in-situ infrared (IR) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopies. IR results show that chlorine significantly reduces the amount of CO adsorbed on metallic Pt sites.
      • keywords: activity; catalysts; oxidation; results; surface
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4342. td96k071q3v
      • author: Kishori T Deshpande
      • title: Nanoscale Advanced Materials Using Aqueous Combustion Synthesis
      • date: 2005
      • words: 783
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Specifically, for LaxSr1-xCrO3 system used in solid oxide fuel cell interconnects, it is shown that synthesis of perovskites under the self-propagating high-temperature mode produced powders with high specific surface area (~40 m2/g) and well defined crystalline structure. For direct methanol fuel cell anodes, using the above synthesis method and a high throughput screening approach, a variety of high surface area catalysts including perovskites and oxides are synthesized and tested as anode catalysts.
      • keywords: approach; aqueous; area; cells; direct; fuel; high; iron; materials; methanol; oxide; perovskites; powders; surface; synthesis
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4343. td96k071q8k
      • author: Scott James Hagele
      • title: 'I Fain Would Tell Thee What I Am; But Dare Not!': Metadrama and Political Identity in Coleridge's Remorse
      • date: 2010
      • words: 70
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: By having his play demonstrate the fluidity of political identity, Coleridge also presents a defense against the charge of 'political apostasy.' I argue that Coleridge employs metadrama in the form of Spain, Napoleon, the Gothic, the Incantation scene, and the main character's multitude of disguises in order to reveal the indeterminate nature of political identity.
      • keywords: identity; political
      • versions: original; plain text
4344. td96k071r66
      • author: Jake J Beaulieu
      • title: Controls on greenhouse gas emissions from headwater streams
      • date: 2007
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Although N2O emissions from streams have received more attention than CH4, I found that CH4 emissions induced by anthropogenic activity had a global warming potential 12 times that of N2O. Methane emission rates were highest in streams affected by agriculture and urbanization, likely because the accumulation of fine sediments in these streams promoted sediment anoxia and methane production. My dissertation research demonstrates that headwater streams are sources of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but that N2O emissions have been overestimated while CH4 emissions have been overlooked.
      • keywords: anthropogenic; atmosphere; ch4; emissions; gases; n2o; streams
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4345. td96k071s1s
      • author: Zhanwei Sun
      • title: Performance Metrics, Sampling Schemes, and Detection Algorithms for Wideband Spectrum Sensing
      • date: 2013
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: We investigate the aliasing patterns inherent in sub-Nyquist sampling and identify two extremes, specifically, uniform aliasing and periodic aliasing, and develop corresponding detection algorithms that allow tradeoffs between primary protection and secondary opportunities relevant to the goal of channel detection characterized Pm, the probability of missed detection, and Pf, the probability of false alarm, as well as the goal of wideband detection characterized by PISO and PEIO. We suggest two narrower band Nyquist sampling schemes with correspondingly much lower rates than wideband Nyquist rate, i.e., partial-band Nyquist sampling (PBNS) and sequential narrow band Nyquist sampling (SNNS), and establish a unified sub-Nyquist sampling structure, within which we study several important sub-Nyquist sampling schemes in literature.
      • keywords: detection; nyquist; performance; sampling; sensing; spectrum; sub; wideband
      • versions: original; plain text
4346. td96k071t44
      • author: Belen Vicens Saiz
      • title: Negotiating Power and Privilege: Written Law, Monarchy, and the Nobility in Medieval Aragon
      • date: 1904
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In demonstrating that the Vidal Mayor arose as a product of negotiation between varied political forces, not as an imposition from the crown, this dissertation further deepens our understanding of how law was negotiated at the local level and the fundamental role it played in mediating relations between the crown and the nobility. While the crown aimed at centralizing its power, the nobility struggled to preserve its customary privileges and patrimonial assets against the influx of ideas about unrestricted royal power coming from the universities.
      • keywords: aragon; crown; law; mayor; nobility; vidal
      • versions: original; plain text
4347. td96k072d9d
      • author: Chonghyun Choi
      • title: Democracy and Distribution: How Democracy Affects Inequality of Market Income
      • date: 1904
      • words: 407
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: However, the almost exclusive focus on redistribution obscures the fact that market income distribution is logically and temporally prior to redistribution and, as such, shapes the policy leeway available for taxes and transfers. In highlighting the significance of democracy's effect on market income distribution, this study seeks to improve our understanding of the challenges and opportunities in redressing inequality in democracies.
      • keywords: bargaining; democracy; income; inequality; market; wage
      • versions: original; plain text
4348. td96k072f40
      • author: Li Li
      • title: Exosomes Released during a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Can Activate Endothelial Cells
      • date: 1904
      • words: 695
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The upregulation of gene expression extended to protein level as flow cytometry data indicated enhanced expression of immune response-related proteins such as VCAM1, TLR2 and CCL2, when endothelial cells were treated with exosomes derived from M.tb-infected macrophages compared to cells treated with exosomes derived from non-infected macrophages. This dissertation aims to characterize the interaction between endothelial cells and exosomes derived from M.tb-infected macrophages.
      • keywords: cells; endothelial; exosomes; immune; infected; infection; m.tb; macrophages; response; serum
      • versions: original; plain text
4349. td96k072f5b
      • author: Ryan Scott Walker
      • title: Addita Fati Peioris Manifesta Fides: Poetic Prodigies in Tacitus' Neronian Annals
      • date: 1904
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Through an examination of Tacitus' narrative in the Neronian Annals, particularly those passages describing portents, the current study aims to demonstrate that Tacitus' depiction of Neronian omens are meant to paint a picture of Nero's reign as a harbinger of civil war. In the process, this study also aims to show that Tacitus alludes to a number of poets, including Vergil and especially Lucan, to make his portent passages poetic.
      • keywords: narrative; passages; study; tacitus
      • versions: original; plain text
4350. td96k072n6j
      • author: Marisol Fonseca Malavasi
      • title: Más allá del panóptico: movilidades y modelos visuales alternativos en la literatura de mujeres del Cono Sur
      • date: 2019
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: En sus trabajos, las escritoras María Luisa Bombal, Alfonsina Storni, Marosa di Giorgio, Silvina y Victoria Ocampo y la fotógrafa Grete Stern emplean diferentes tácticas para recibir, negociar y parodiar la sujeción de las mujeres al panóptico. Tales modelos también permiten retratar la movilidad de las mujeres por diferentes espacios; a saber: la ciudad, el jardín y la casa.
      • keywords: las; marosa; silvina; storni
      • versions: original; plain text
4351. td96k072p0s
      • author: David Benirschke
      • title: Realization of a Low-Cost, Spectroscopic, Mid-Infrared Imaging Platform for Explosives Detection and Thermal Time-Harmonic Imaging
      • date: 2019
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The laser-flash method is one method commonly used for measuring thermal properties of materials. This is due to the unique and strong absorption characteristics of many materials in this region.
      • keywords: detectors; imaging; method; signal; thermal; time
      • versions: original; plain text
4352. td96k072s6s
      • author: Coleton Lunt
      • title: Creatures of the Mud
      • date: 2021
      • words: 194
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Together they create a complex system of interdependent relationships where the individual and the collective depend upon one another. I seek to parallel the evolution of my craft with biological evolution as both are engaged in a constant state of becoming.
      • keywords: evolution; process; relationships
      • versions: original; plain text
4353. td96k072t2q
      • author: Niraja Suresh
      • title: Omics Profiling and Spatio-Temporal Consequences of Mutations of PfKelch13 in Artemisinin Drug Resistance
      • date: 2020
      • words: 498
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Expansion of these vesicles (containing pathways of protein proteostasis and the UPR) might confer resistance by disseminating resistance intermediates to mitigate the promiscuous artemisinin-induced proteopathy throughout the infected erythrocyte. Through the use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of artemisinin resistant parasites, mutations in pfkelch13 (K13) were shown to be associated with resistance both in vitro and in vivo.
      • keywords: artemisinin; k13; malaria; parasite; pi3p; polymorphisms; protein; resistance; upr; vesicles
      • versions: original; plain text
4354. td96k072t63
      • author: Jacob E. Olson
      • title: Surface-Enhanced Raman and Hyper-Raman Scattering: From Fundamentals of Nonlinear Light Scattering to Practical Analytical Detection
      • date: 2021
      • words: 398
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The relationship of structure to SEHRS response is elucidated through experiment resonant SEHRS scans and computations to analyze the effect of chromophore symmetry. The character of these vibrational modes have dependencies on the resonance conditions and molecular surface orientation, making them challenging to understand.
      • keywords: detection; lower; phe; response; sehrs; study; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
4355. td96k072v3c
      • author: Doan Le
      • title: On the Coisotropic Subalgebras of a Complex Semisimple Lie Algebra
      • date: 2021
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: By studying the Lagrangian subalgebras of g+g, she generalizes Zambon's work by constructing a more general class of isolated coisotropic subalgebras in g.Motivated by Kroeger's method of studying coisotropic subalgebras, in this dissertation, we classify coisotropic subalgebras in the subset L_{G} of the Lagrangian subalgebras of g+g. Kroeger shows in her paper that coisotropic subalgebras give rise to Lagrangian subalgebras of g+g.
      • keywords: coisotropic; lagrangian; subalgebras
      • versions: original; plain text
4356. td96k072w10
      • author: Kristin M. Haas
      • title: The Theology of Louis Bouyer as Foundation for Catholic Ecological Theology
      • date: 2022
      • words: 180
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The chapters of Part Two of this dissertation interpret Bouyer's thought in relation to the thought of G. W. F. Hegel and to the ecological theological frameworks of Jürgen Moltmann and Catherine Keller. The dissertation thus demonstrates Bouyer's importance as a major Catholic figure who represents an alternative to the paradigms of Moltmann and Keller in terms of grounding ecological theology.
      • keywords: bouyer; chapters; dissertation; theology
      • versions: original; plain text
4357. th83kw5505q
      • author: Rumit Pancholi
      • title: Fist & Urn
      • date: 2010
      • words: 14
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: A collection of poems that encapsulate the coming-of-age of a bicultural American.
      • keywords: american
      • versions: original; plain text
4358. th83kw5507d
      • author: Dan Liu
      • title: Genomic exploration of bacterial habitat adaptation
      • date: 2013
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 18
      • 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.
      • keywords: environments; genetic; habitat; markers
      • versions: original; plain text
4359. th83kw5508r
      • author: Timothy J Vasen
      • title: Investigation of III-V Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors
      • date: 2014
      • words: 387
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Here, a second generation device architecture was explored with a raised drain to reduce parasitic resistances, and a buried channel, in an effort to mitigate high interface trap densities at the semiconductor/gate oxide interface. A maximum current of 277 &#956;A/&#956;m was achieved at VDS = 0.5 V, showing the promise of the GaSb/InAs heterojunction in delivering high current density.
      • keywords: current; device; gasb; geometry; inas; performance; tcad; tfets; vds
      • versions: original; plain text
4360. th83kw55109
      • author: Anna Katelynn Rogers
      • title: The Temple of Roma and Augustus: Monumental Negotiations of Identity on the Athenian Acropolis
      • date: 2015
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: It was framed to offer a symbolic message appealing to Rome but in a context that glorified Athens. This paper attempts to show that while the construction of the monument was commissioned by the imperial cult, its design and location were influenced by the art and architecture of Augustan Rome.
      • keywords: augustus; monumental; temple
      • versions: original; plain text
4361. th83kw5511n
      • author: Hilal Omar Al Jamal
      • title: Colectivo Acciones de Arte: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Art Actions of CADA
      • date: 2012
      • words: 246
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Applying trauma theory in this analysis of CADA's art actions, I argue that these public interventions essentially promoted the development of a social discourse that would mediate between the official 'truth' proposed by General Augusto Pinochet's authoritarian regime and a truth generated from below, from the margins of Chilean culture, from the people, those exposed to hunger, poverty, brutal repression, alienation, and other oppressive realities. This investigation takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of CADA's work, drawing from the literature in the fields of social psychology, sociology, and political science, among others, in order to develop the argument that, as a social movement, CADA's art actions promoted democratization and may have even had a therapeutic effect on those who participated in CADA's collective action project
      • keywords: actions; art; cada; chilean; social; state; violent
      • versions: original; plain text
4362. th83kw55120
      • author: Ana Velitchkova
      • title: Esperanto, Civility, and the Politics of Fellowship: A Cosmopolitan Movement from the Eastern European Periphery
      • date: 2014
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Ironically, while attempting to overcome established unfair distinctions based on differential accumulation of political and economic capital, the Esperanto movement creates and maintains new distinctions and inequalities based on cultural capital accumulation. In the course of several decades, the movement established a new global field based on the logic of equal communication through Esperanto and on the accumulation of cultural capital.
      • keywords: capital; civility; cultural; eastern; esperanto; european; field; movement
      • versions: original; plain text
4363. th83kw5513b
      • author: Nathaniel Marx
      • title: Ritual in the Age of Authenticity: An Ethnography of Latin Mass Catholics
      • date: 2013
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Personal sincerity and continuity with tradition are both essential to how Latin Mass Catholics evaluate authenticity in liturgical prayer and cultivate authenticity in their own selves. In particular, this study seeks a better understanding of the motives of contemporary Latin Mass Catholics in America.
      • keywords: catholics; conciliar; latin; liturgical; mass; prayer; tridentine
      • versions: original; plain text
4364. th83kw5514p
      • author: Melissa Ann Mitchell
      • title: Precision of testing the indirect effect for mediation studies
      • date: 2012
      • words: 162
      • flesch: 58
      • 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.
      • keywords: planning; sample; size
      • versions: original; plain text
4365. th83kw55151
      • author: Dana Wheeler
      • title: Optical Interference Logic in Silicon-on-Insulator Substrates
      • date: 2011
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In this work, a novel means of realizing optical logic, called interference logic, using passive silicon-on-insulator waveguiding elements is described and demonstrated. The invention of the laser in 1958 generated great interest in optical logic, as a source of coherent light was now available.
      • keywords: electronics; light; logic; optical
      • versions: original; plain text
4366. th83kw5516c
      • author: Duminda A. Dewasurendra
      • title: Evidence Filtering and its Distributed Implementation on Grid Sensor Networks
      • date: 2008
      • words: 245
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: A new framework named Evidence Filtering for processing multi-modality sensor data, and a novel distributed method to implement spatio-temporal filtering applications in grid sensor networks is presented. This approach yields significant advantages in distributed processing of information in grid sensor networks, and supports local actuation in response to local events.
      • keywords: evidence; filtering; grid; method; sensor; temporal
      • versions: original; plain text
4367. th83kw55182
      • author: Emma Cohen de Lara
      • title: The Lawgiver and the Physician: Medical Imagery in Plato's Laws
      • date: 2010
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 61
      • 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.
      • keywords: lawgiver; medical; soul
      • versions: original; plain text
4368. th83kw5519d
      • author: Brendan T. McGrail
      • title: Reactions and Electronic Structure of Actinyl Peroxide Complexes
      • date: 2014
      • words: 377
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: This dissertation examines the mechanisms that lead to the formation of actinyl peroxide cage clusters, the mechanism of aggregation of actinyl peroxide cage clusters, the photochemical generation of actinyl peroxide complexes in nonaqueous solution, and the electronic structure of the neptunyl peroxide cluster {Np24}. Finally, a mechanistic study describing the formation of actinyl peroxide cage clusters in nonaqueous solvents is undertaken and shown to involve the photochemical of bridging (&#956;2) hydroxide ligands of a dinuclear actinyl complex with concomitant evolution of dihydrogen.
      • keywords: actinyl; cage; clusters; formation; mechanism; peroxide; raman; solution
      • versions: original; plain text
4369. th83kw5520m
      • author: Yu Cao
      • title: Studies of MBE-Grown Single and Multiple AlN/GaN Heterojunctions
      • date: 2007
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: The large polarization difference between AlN and GaN provides extremely high electron densities at the interface of AlN/GaN heterojunctions. In this work the growths of high-quality single AlN/GaN heterojunctions with RFMBE are reported, which leads to high-conductivity two-dimensional electron gases.
      • keywords: aln; densities; gan; heterojunctions; high; sheet
      • versions: original; plain text
4370. th83kw5521z
      • author: Ronghua Wang
      • title: High Speed InAl(Ga)N-Barrier HEMTs
      • date: 2013
      • words: 313
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: While the conventional AlGaN-barrier GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) gradually matured in the past fifteen years, one of the recent research interests is focused on highly scaled structures to achieve high current gain and power gain cut-off frequency fT/fmax for high speed and power amplifying applications. In this dissertation, advanced epitaxial designs have been investigated in order to obtain excellent transport properties, good scalability, and improved electron confinement for high speed electronics.
      • keywords: barrier; dielectric; gate; high; ohmic; passivation; resistance
      • versions: original; plain text
4371. th83kw5525b
      • author: Ryne Patrick Clos
      • title: A Long Road to Canaan: The Capuchin Missionaries and the Rise of Liberation Theology in Eastern Nicaragua, 1939-1979
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Dozens of other missionaries in Latin America experienced similar vocational crises. The revisionist portrait of liberation theology emphasized here challenges existing understandings of the way this religious movement arose throughout Latin America.
      • keywords: capuchins; dissertation; latin; liberation; nicaragua; theology; way
      • versions: original; plain text
4372. th83kw55349
      • author: Rebecca A. Flaherty
      • title: The Role of Streptolysin S in the Induction of Keratinocyte Death and Inflammatory Signaling during Group A Streptococcal Infection
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Furthermore, our studies provide evidence that therapeutic targeting of this inflammatory signaling cascade may be a useful strategy to reduce SLS-mediated cell death and tissue destruction during the early stages of invasive GAS skin infection. To address the physiological impact of increased IL-1β production, we performed in vitro studies in human keratinocytes as well as in vivo assessments in a humanized mouse model of GAS subcutaneous infection.
      • keywords: cascade; gas; host; infection; inflammatory; keratinocytes; production; sls; studies
      • versions: original; plain text
4373. th83kw5565k
      • author: Lawrence W. Funke
      • title: Synthesis and Control of Planar Morphing Mechanisms for Industrial Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Work in using these morphing mechanisms as morphing dies in polymer extrusion is then presented. The structures of many revolutionary technologies, such as aircraft wings, antennas, wind turbine blades, and dies for polymer extrusion, have remained largely unchanged for decades.
      • keywords: approach; degree; extrusion; freedom; mechanisms; polymer; work
      • versions: original; plain text
4374. th83kw55r15
      • author: Richard F. Klee
      • title: Religion in Migration: Second Temple Worship According to Tobit
      • date: 1904
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The exile of Tobit's community and the journey of Tobias and Sarah is thus an account of religion in migration, narrating how religious traditions develop with respect to foreign lands and experiences, written so as to guide Jewish life abroad. It is contended that Tobit is globally formed as a narrative by reference to Amos, and the Book of Tobit as a whole affirms prophesy as an interpretive guide for diaspora life.
      • keywords: acts; amos; book; chapter; narrative; text; tobit
      • versions: original; plain text
4375. th83kw55s4h
      • author: Scott G. Hefelfinger
      • title: Common Goods and the Laws of Nations
      • date: 2018
      • words: 428
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The third chapter continues by showing how the primary sense of common good as a good, one in number and sharable by many, gives rise to an ordered array of various common goods, to which correspond various societies. Taken together, these first three chapters argue for and then carry out a retrieval of the framework developed within the Leonine renewal and a rejoining of this tradition with the recent revival of common good thinking in broadly Thomistic circles.
      • keywords: chapter; common; conciliar; good; international; law; tradition
      • versions: original; plain text
4376. th83kw55x3d
      • author: Christopher J. Flanagan
      • title: Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution, 1774-1795
      • date: 2019
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Shifting concepts of empire allowed American leaders to combine power and liberty in a way that allowed imperial expansion alongside free government. I argue that American state-building was shaped by specific political debates of the period, fought within the intellectual constraints of empire, and forced to reconcile empire with republican government.
      • keywords: american; debates; empire; imperial; republican; states; united
      • versions: original; plain text
4377. th83kw56368
      • author: Richard Marcantonio
      • title: Environmental Violence in the Earth System and the Human Niche
      • date: 2021
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The focus of this dissertation is human-produced hazardous pollution that harms human health, which I call environmental violence (EV). I define EV as direct and indirect harm experienced by humans due to toxic and non-toxic pollutants put into a local—and concurrently the global—ecosystem through human activities and processes.
      • keywords: critical; earth; human; niche; pollution; system
      • versions: original; plain text
4378. th83kw56457
      • author: Rafael Rodrigues Da Silva
      • title: Active Perception and Control of Intelligent Systems
      • date: 2021
      • words: 308
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: We separate discrete task planning and continuous motion planning on-the-fly and harness highly efficient Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and trajectory optimization solvers to find dynamically feasible trajectories that satisfy non-convex specifications for high-dimensional systems. Much recent progress towards this goal has been made through an automatic controller synthesis from temporal logic specifications.
      • keywords: belief; high; intelligent; logic; planning; specifications; systems; temporal
      • versions: original; plain text
4379. th83kw5652h
      • author: Aaron Forbes
      • title: Computational Studies Toward the Development of Virtual Screening Tools
      • date: 2022
      • words: 452
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: In examining modern ligands that induce high selectivity in hydrogenation reactions to use within TSFF for the prediction of selectivity, ferrocene based ligands show high promise and a necessary inclusion in virtual screens. Asymmetric catalysis is fundamentally important in the creation of molecules that contain chiral centers, which is the case for many biologically active molecules.
      • keywords: chiral; field; force; high; hydrogenation; ligands; process; reaction; screening; selectivity
      • versions: original; plain text
4380. tm70ms3884f
      • author: Eric Warner Chambers
      • title: Development of Genetic Markers and Genetic Analysis of Brugia malayi Susceptibility in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti
      • date: 2006
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In the third aim of this study we employed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers to analyze an advanced intercross line for quantitative trait loci associated with Brugia malayi susceptibility. Additionally, most A. aegypti microsatellites are closely associated with repetitive elements, accounting for our and other researchers limited success in developing an extensive panel of microsatellite marker loci.
      • keywords: aegypti; markers; microsatellite; pcr; single; species; vector
      • versions: original; plain text
4381. tm70ms3885s
      • author: Keith Eugene Hubbard
      • title: The notion of vertex operator coalgebra: a construction and geometric interpretation
      • date: 2005
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The notion of vertex operator coalgebra is presented, which corresponds to the family of correlation functions modeling one string propagating in space-time splitting into n strings in conformal field theory. Finally, we explicitly calculate the vertex operator coalgebra structure and unique bilinear form for the Heisenberg algebra case, which corresponds to considering free bosons in conformal field theory.
      • keywords: algebra; notion; operator; vertex
      • versions: original; plain text
4382. tm70ms3890c
      • author: Kathryn Lisa Hunter
      • title: On the Breath of God
      • date: 2010
      • words: 21
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This is a collection of original poetry and translations exploring the mutability of human identity, language and conceptions of the divine.
      • keywords: divine
      • versions: original; plain text
4383. tm70ms38984
      • author: Sergio Jesus Almaraz Calderon
      • title: Study of Resonances in Light Nuclei for Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 514
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Nuclear reactions proceed through resonance states in exotic nuclei. The calculated reaction rate is compared with statistical methods traditionally used in the calculations of such reaction rate.
      • keywords: decay; exotic; mev; rate; reaction; resonances; results; states
      • versions: original; plain text
4384. tm70ms38b3q
      • author: Kevin Matthew Whitton
      • title: Creation of Dedicated Radiation Dose Calculation Hardware
      • date: 2011
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Radiation dose calculation is an important step in the treatment of patients requiring radiation therapy. In this thesis, two different methods of radiation dose calculation have been implemented in hardware.
      • keywords: calculation; convolution; dose; radiation
      • versions: original; plain text
4385. tm70ms38g5n
      • author: Erica R. Machulak
      • title: 'Is he a clerk, or noon?': Arabic Sources,Vernacular Aristotelianism, and Authorial Responses to the Evolving Social and Intellectual Context of Later Middle English Literature
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Much like today's young humanities PhDs, university graduates in the fourteenth century faced a landscape in which the traditional trajectory of the professional scholar began to shift, and many sought to re-contextualize the status and utility of their training within new environments. Unable to procure a shrinking number of benefices, clerks flooded into secular communities and found new occupations.
      • keywords: arabic; aristotelian; authors; knowledge; langland; new; sources; tradition
      • versions: original; plain text
4386. tm70ms38g60
      • author: Casey Ferris
      • title: Investigations into Agent-Based Malaria Transmission Models
      • date: 1904
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: However, with an ever increasing ability to share information, it is becoming more common for many researchers one model that can be modified to fit many research purposes. Agent-based models allow for more descriptive results than simpler mathematical models, especially for the individuals that reside and interact within the model.
      • keywords: disease; models; research
      • versions: original; plain text
4387. tm70ms39016
      • author: Linda M. Kawentel
      • title: The Intersection of Religion, Gender, and Family among U.S. Catholics: A Quantitative Analysis of the Relation of Religious Orthodoxy to Attitudes and Practices Concerning the Family
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: My findings illustrate how adherence to particular religious beliefs and religious practices inform family ideologies, as well as how family arrangements affect the religiousness of U.S. Catholics. In the second empirical chapter, I examine the relationship between full-time employment and the religious commitment of U.S. mothers, specifically investigating the moderating effect of religious tradition – the Catholic tradition included.
      • keywords: beliefs; catholic; family; religious; tradition; u.s
      • versions: original; plain text
4388. tm70ms39078
      • author: Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
      • title: In a Prudent Way and without Rashness: Reclaiming Francisco Suárez's Theories of Legal Engagement
      • date: 1904
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: I then use Suárez's theory of law to point out how understanding law as developed in a dialectical process between the sovereign and the people can protect against the abuses that come from any one person or group's control over the law, and can also provide more possibilities for constructive communal engagement with law. In this dissertation, I argue that contemporary political theology struggles to hold together a commitment to the rule of law, a conviction that Christians should work to make law more just, the value of individual discernment of conscience, and the promotion of the common good.
      • keywords: common; good; law
      • versions: original; plain text
4389. tm70ms3912v
      • author: Miao Yang
      • title: Optimizing Ridge Generalized Least Squares for Structural Equation Modeling
      • date: 1904
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: For the formulas and corrections to have a wide scope of applicability, they are calibrated using Monte Carlo simulation with many conditions on population distribution, sample size, number of variables and model structure. Empirical results showed that, with nonnormally distributed data, parameter estimates by RGLS can be much more accurate than those by the traditional methods.
      • keywords: formulas; matrix; parameter; rgls
      • versions: original; plain text
4390. tm70ms39523
      • author: Jake McCabe
      • title: Passengers
      • date: 2019
      • words: 7
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Passengers is a collection of short stories.
      • keywords: passengers
      • versions: original; plain text
4391. tm70ms3968g
      • author: Jize Zhang
      • title: Iterative/Adaptive Kriging Surrogate Model Development for Uncertainty Quantification Analysis
      • date: 2019
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: For the design under uncertainty task implementation to both single-objective and multi-objective problems are examined, in all instances adopting metamodel development in the augmented input space, so that uncertainty propagation and design optimization are simultaneously supported. Metamodels – simple, data-driven approximations of the input/output relationship of complex models – are widely used to approximate the response of computationally-intensive engineering simulations.
      • keywords: adaptive; convergence; design; development; different; iterative; metamodel; respect; task; uncertainty
      • versions: original; plain text
4392. tm70ms39b7c
      • author: Yichao Li
      • title: Asymptotic Expansions of Solutions of the Yamabe Equation near Isolated Singular Points
      • date: 2020
      • words: 63
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Then, we study the existence of solutions with prescribed asymptotic expansions near singular points and an arbitrarily high order of approximation. We study asymptotic behaviors of positive solutions to the Yamabe equation near isolated singularities and establish expansions up to arbitrary orders.
      • keywords: solutions; work
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4393. tm70ms39b8q
      • author: Sara Judy
      • title: The Same Field by Different Light
      • date: 2020
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The Same Field By Different Light is both ekphrasis and prayer--a visual and spiritual response to growing up as a part of the legacy of settler colonialism through mission work in Canada, a legacy which is deeply troubled by violence and oppression, but a rejection of which cannot fully account for the human relationships that make up the author's personal history, or her father's acts of service and witness within the Indigenous community. This collection contemplates issues of faith and doubt, race and witness, and meditates on the necessity of continuing to return to and interrogate the landscapes that both shape and exceed us.
      • keywords: community; father; indigenous
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4394. tm70ms39g1j
      • author: Katherine J. Woolard
      • title: Synthesis and Derivatization of Compounds for the Treatment of Salmonella enterica Infections
      • date: 2023
      • words: 568
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This lead compound was found to work effectively both in vitro in human and mouse macrophages and in vivo in mouse models of S. Typhimurium infection. This work seeks to expand the number of treatment options for patients suffering from acute cases of S. Typhi and S. Typhimurium infection.
      • keywords: bacteria; biofilm; chronic; ciprofloxacin; compound; infection; lead; parent; salmonella; typhimurium
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4395. tq57np21j79
      • author: Trevor M Cickovski
      • title: Interacting Domain-Specific Languages With Biological Problem Solving Environments
      • date: 2010
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: Although PSEs have proven effective, they still enforce some communication overhead between biologists refining their models through repeated comparison with experimental observations in vitro or in vivo, and programmers actually implementing model extensions and modifications within the computational layer. Iteratively developing a biological model and verifying results with lab observations has become standard practice in computational biology.
      • keywords: biological; computational; layer; level; model; observations; pse
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4396. tq57np21j8n
      • author: Katherine Cole Young
      • title: Utilization of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Substrates by Bacteria
      • date: 2005
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: bacterial; isolates; molecular; nom; properties; study; weight
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4397. tq57np21j90
      • author: Amy Kathleen Nuttall
      • title: An Examination of the Curvilinearity of Maternal History of Filial Responsibility and Child Adjustment in the Context of Difficult Child Temperament
      • date: 2013
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 1
      • summary: Maternal history of excessive filial responsibility poses a risk to child adjustment in the next generation. A moderate amount of filial responsibility is normative whereas too much or too little filial responsibility is a pathological family dynamic.
      • keywords: child; filial; responsibility
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4398. tq57np21k06
      • author: Matthew J. Smith
      • title: Publishing as the Critical Practice of Graphic Design
      • date: 2014
      • words: 170
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: critical; design; practice
      • versions: original; plain text
4399. tq57np21k2w
      • author: Lauro VazquezRueda
      • title: Composiciones
      • date: 2013
      • words: 6
      • flesch: 73
      • summary: A poetry collection by Lauro Vazquez.
      • keywords: vazquez
      • versions: original; plain text
4400. tq57np21k37
      • author: Daniel Kofi Banini
      • title: Regional Security Initiatives and Intrastate Peace and Stability: Appraising the Economic Community of West Africa's Convention on Non Proliferation of Small Arms
      • date: 2015
      • words: 110
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Despite a number of the few initiatives to limit small arms proliferation, the ECOWAS region is still awash with small arms. This hypothesis is based on the following premises: that effective nonproliferation regime should (a) have the political will and support at the state, and at the regional level; that (b) small arms trade is a multifaceted global problem, as such, a global cooperation with nonproliferation regimes is also vital for the success of such regimes.
      • keywords: arms; proliferation; small
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4401. tq57np21k4k
      • author: Huade Tan
      • title: Topography optimization of thin walled structures subject to blast loading
      • date: 2010
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The Hybrid Cellular Automata (HCA) framework has been adapted to develop improved designs of the target and supporting structures under blast loading. In the following work an innovative optimization scheme is developed which couples finite element blast simulations with a spatially decomposed design methodology.
      • keywords: blast; designs; methodology; protection; structures
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4402. tq57np21k5x
      • author: Krystin L Krause
      • title: Supporting the Iron Fist: The News Media and Public Attitudes Towards Crime in Latin America
      • date: 2013
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Using Guatemala, El Salvador, and Argentina as cases for a focused comparison, this dissertation relies on extensive content analysis of newspaper coverage of crime, an original survey experiment, and data from the AmericasBarometer surveys to tests the relationship between crime news and support for authoritarian crime control measures. Crime news also influences attitudes towards crime through its mediated relationship with citizen support for authoritarian crime control measures via its effects on fear of crime and self-reported victimization.
      • keywords: authoritarian; control; crime; news; public; support
      • versions: original; plain text
4403. tq57np21k68
      • author: Kirsten Melanie Prior
      • title: Novel community interactions following species' range expansions
      • date: 2011
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Overall, my dissertation contributes to our understanding of the community context of range expansions. I found systematic differences in native enemy effects among prey types.
      • keywords: community; effects; enemy; range; species; success
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4404. tq57np21k7m
      • author: Brian P Dunn
      • title: Delay Constrained Multimedia Communications:Comparing Source-Channel Approaches for Quasi-Static Fading Channels
      • date: 2008
      • words: 215
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: We consider successive refinement source coding utilizing superposition channel coding and show that in the high SNR limit it offers significantly improved performance relative to standard digital techniques. We analyze the performance of uncoded and rate-optimized digital transmission over both a single channel and parallel channels.
      • keywords: channel; coding; distortion; performance; source
      • versions: original; plain text
4405. tq57np21k8z
      • author: Adam Thomas Biggs
      • title: How Prior Information Influences the Guidance of Attention
      • date: 2011
      • words: 411
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In the low load condition, guidance by ancillary color information was predicted to be reflected by a reduction in distractor interference in the color mismatch condition relative to the color match condition. In the high load condition, guidance by ancillary color information was predicted to be reflected by an increase in distractor interference in the color match condition relative to the color mismatch condition.
      • keywords: ancillary; color; condition; distractor; information
      • versions: original; plain text
4406. tq57np21m0h
      • author: B. Lee Blackburn Jr.
      • title: The Mystery of the Synagogue: Cyril of Alexandria on the Law of Moses
      • date: 2009
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: This is perhaps most evident in the way in which Cyril's exegetical account of the impurity of Jewish moral character supplies the theoretical underwriting for the strict separation of church from synagogue, a separation demanded by his incipient notion of Jewish space as marginal, polluted, and estranged from the divine presence localized in the church, the true tabernacle. Although many of Cyril's criticisms of the limitations of the law clearly stem from his Pauline theological commitments, certain motifs that figure prominently in his exegesis, such as that of Jewish pollution, are not without extra-theological implications.
      • keywords: church; cyril; exegetical; god; jewish; law; people
      • versions: original; plain text
4407. tq57np21m1v
      • author: Ahmed Eltaweel
      • title: Numerical Investigation of Tandem-Cylinder Aerodynamic Noise and Its Control with Application to Airframe Noise
      • date: 2013
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: With validated flow field and acoustic solver, acoustic analysis is performed for the tandem-cylinder configuration to extend the experimental results and understand the mechanisms of noise generation and its control. The key to noise reduction is a full understanding of the underlying noise source mechanisms.
      • keywords: acoustic; control; cylinder; flow; noise; plasma; reduction; tandem
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4408. tq57np21m26
      • author: John Paul Siegenthaler
      • title: Guidelines for Adaptive-Optic Correction Based on Aperture Filtration
      • date: 2009
      • words: 159
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This dissertation presents and charts the development of a set of analytic formulas for judging and predicting the effectiveness of adaptive-optic corrective systems applied over finite apertures. This includes some simplified formulas and benchmarks as guides for the minimum requirements a system will need to meet to be effective, and the maximum degree of effectiveness such systems can reasonably achieve.
      • keywords: aberration; aperture; scale
      • versions: original; plain text
4409. tq57np21m3j
      • author: Jean-Baptiste Thibault
      • title: Iterative Image Reconstruction for Multi-Slice X-Ray Computed Tomography
      • date: 2007
      • words: 196
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: image; imaging; methods; ray; reconstruction
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4410. tq57np21n6w
      • author: Christopher L. Weaver
      • title: Knowing Right from Wrong: The Role of Moral Confidence in Political Decision-Making
      • date: 1904
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: I contend that one's perceived level of moral knowledge, which I call moral confidence, accounts for this variation in respondents' willingness to translate their moral beliefs into legal positions. As a result, moral issues frequently play a critical and divisive role in U.S. politics.
      • keywords: issues; legal; moral; positions
      • versions: original; plain text
4411. tq57np21r75
      • author: Vipin Vijayan
      • title: Novel Algorithmic Contributions and Evaluation Frameworks for Network Alignment with Applications in Computational Biology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Network alignment (NA) aims to find a node mapping between networks that identifies topologically or functionally similar network regions. It is hypothesized that MNA might lead to deeper biological insights than PNA, because MNA can simultaneously capture conserved regions between more networks than PNA, though at the expense of higher computational complexity.
      • keywords: biological; mna; networks; pna; species; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
4412. tq57np2286r
      • author: Weixin Huang
      • title: Chemical Transformations of Hybrid Perovskites under Environmental Conditions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 556
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The reversible cation exchange process opens up new possibilities of using post-synthetic cation interaction to flexibly and rationally tune the optical and structural properties of perovskite materials, bringing greater tailored functionalities to these materials. These optical changes are attributed to the reversible structural transformation of perovskite NCs between three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) layered crystalline forms through cation exchange.
      • keywords: applications; cation; ch3nh3pbi3; changes; conditions; films; hybrid; light; ncs; perovskite; properties; solar
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4413. tq57np22b09
      • author: David A. Dik
      • title: The Cross-Talk between Cell-Wall Recycling and Antibiotic Resistance of the Gram-Negative Pathogen
      • date: 2018
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: My research addresses the nexus between the detection of these antibiotics and the initiation of resistance mechanisms by this bacterium. A mainstay of chemotherapy of P. aeruginosa infection of the skin (following burns) and the lungs (in cystic fibrosis) is the penicillin-class of antibiotics.
      • keywords: aeruginosa; antibiotics; bacterium; cell; resistance
      • versions: original; plain text
4414. tq57np22p3f
      • author: Ya Su
      • title: She Left He Left: Marriage at the Crossroad in Contemporary China
      • date: 2021
      • words: 292
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Drawing on a probability sample of 1064 divorce litigation records and 33 in-depth interviews in a northern midsize city of China, my research demonstrates pronounced gender differences in motivations, experiences, and outcomes of divorce litigations. This dissertation investigates the role of gender in generating and processing divorce litigation.
      • keywords: courts; divorce; gender; likely; marriage; women
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4415. tq57np22q12
      • author: Steven Theo Savides
      • title: Unsettling the Settler Colonial Imagination: Decoloniality as a Theological Hermeneutic in South Africa?
      • date: 2022
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: It investigates whether decoloniality can disrupt the settler colonial imaginary that developed from Eurocentrism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and exploitative capitalist practices. Anchored in Reformed theology, this study draws on the theory of coloniality/decoloniality, settler colonial studies, the study of religion, and the theological concentrations of ecclesiology and missiology.
      • keywords: chapter; decoloniality; hermeneutic; imaginary; settler; south; theological
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4416. tt44pk04t61
      • author: Christopher V. Mirus
      • title: Aristotle's Teleology and Modern Mechanics
      • date: 2004
      • words: 123
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In chapters four and five, I then consider the recent 'systems' or 'cybernetic' view of goal-directedness, along with some basic features of mechanical systems and laws more generally, in light of Aristotle's teleology. This dissertation addresses teleology in the writings of Aristotle and in relation to modern mechanics.
      • keywords: aristotle; teleology
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4417. tt44pk04t7c
      • author: Brian L. Kramer
      • title: Protestant Civic Art
      • date: 2005
      • words: 771
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Forced in the last century to seriously question its every bedrock precept, the Church has practiced the strategy of holding tight to its most central core beliefs, while allowing other important beliefs to be nearly lost or forgotten, or at least held so loosely that they are rarely seen by Christians as having immediate relevance in the actual activities of the Church. If the Church can reacquaint itself with its lost values, it can simultaneously restore both its own internal culture, and aid in the restoration of art, architecture and other cultural activities inside and outside of the Church.
      • keywords: architecture; art; beliefs; church; cultural; culture; macintyre; nietzsche; protestant; tradition; values
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4418. tt44pk04v2z
      • author: Jaelyn Renee Farris
      • title: Adolescent Parenting, Subthreshold Neglect, and Infant Attachment
      • date: 2007
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: On average, teen mothers were more neglectful than low-resource and high-resource adult mothers; however, the rates of insecure and disorganized attachment did not differ significantly between teens and adults. Specifically, mothers who were more neglectful were more likely to have children with an insecure-avoidant attachment pattern.
      • keywords: attachment; neglect; subthreshold
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4419. tt44pk04w0k
      • author: Jonathan Reed Lyon
      • title: Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Avoidance: Family Relationships in the House of Andechs, ca. 1100-1204
      • date: 2004
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This dissertation proposes a new model for examining the political strategies of noble families during the central Middle Ages. Part III proposes a series of new directions in the study of medieval noble houses.
      • keywords: andechs; chapter; family; house; medieval; noble
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4420. tt44pk04w59
      • author: Stephen Adam Seagrave
      • title: Beyond Ancients and Moderns: Solving the Puzzle of Natural Justice
      • date: 2010
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Natural rights and natural law, or modern and pre-modern orientations in moral and political philosophy more broadly, need not be characterized in terms of opposition or even an order of priority; they are, rather, complementary elements that join to form a true conception of natural justice. Natural rights, such as the rights to one's life, liberty, and external property, are primarily justified by human beings' self-ownership through self-consciousness.
      • keywords: human; law; natural; ownership; rights; self
      • versions: original; plain text
4421. tt44pk04x8n
      • author: Ashley L. Greene
      • title: Narratives of Power: History Education and Statecraft in Uganda
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Tracing the development of history curricula through Uganda's transition from British colony to independent state, I explore how political elites have appropriated history education in their quests to win the hearts, minds, and votes of young people. Narratives of Power examines the interaction between history education and statecraft in Uganda since 1925.
      • keywords: curriculum; education; history; narratives; past; political; state; uganda
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4422. tt44pk0518v
      • author: Enrique Colón
      • title: Visual Expressions to Counter Digital Misinformation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 171
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Given the serious ramifications of digital misinformation, this study advances a new subcategory of Internet memes, identified as infoMemes, as viable countermeasures: The objective is to empower practitioners such as journalists and activists with a better understanding of the techniques, tools, and skills required to produce content capable of countering the adverse effects of digital misinformation.
      • keywords: digital; exposure; individuals; misinformation
      • versions: original; plain text
4423. tt44pk05j3s
      • author: Hyunjin Deborah Kwak
      • title: Building and Burning Bridges: Solidarity and Contention among Peace Activists in Mindanao
      • date: 1904
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Organizational focus constrains group action over time, and differences in foci among activist groups often lead to tensions when they try to cooperate within the same network. Civil society organizations and networks of Christian, Moro, and Indigenous peace activists played a critical role in the peace accord negotiations and social reconciliation efforts.
      • keywords: action; activists; attention; foci; groups; peace
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4424. tt44pk05j9v
      • author: Ronald Mau
      • title: Financial Intermediation, Monetary Policy, and Macroeconomics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Chapter 1 investigates the role commercial banks play in this relationship by (i) providing business cycle facts for commercial bank balance sheet items (quantities) and balance sheet shares (allocation) along with standard macroeconomic business cycle facts and (ii) characterizing commercial bank responses to monetary policy shocks using local projection methods. A key result is the substitution by commercial banks between liability types in response to monetary policy shocks.
      • keywords: balance; bank; commercial; financial; model; monetary; policy; sheet; shocks
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4425. tt44pk05q3b
      • author: Aurelio Valarezo-Dueñas
      • title: 'Para el bien universal y quietud de esta república y provincia': Political Culture, Representation and Policy Making in Seventeenth-Century Northern Andes
      • date: 2019
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: I try to deepen knowledge on Morga´s career in an attempt to understand four aspects of political culture in the Real Audiencia in Quito in the seventeenth century:political practices, factions, means of political representation, and social inclusion. That Spanish authorities negotiated obedience with locally powerful and particular interests is not a new idea, but I contribute to the field by revealing and describing patterns of political behavior in the audiencias.
      • keywords: allegiance; antonio; audiencia; morga; political; quito; spanish; system
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4426. tt44pk05r29
      • author: Andrew Mach
      • title: Claiming America: Irish-Catholic Memory and the Nation, 1865-1925
      • date: 2019
      • words: 267
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: By placing Irish Catholics at the center of analysis, this study further advances the scholarship on Civil War memory in three significant ways. The narrative begins in the war's immediate aftermath and continues up to 1925, after which time interest in memorialization ebbed as a new generation who came of age during World War I took on leadership roles within Irish America.
      • keywords: catholics; dissertation; irish; study; war
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4427. tt44pk05x2v
      • author: Ben Middleton
      • title: A New Solution to the Curry Paradox
      • date: 2020
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Second, I prove completeness for BQLCDR, the extension of BQLCD obtained by only allowing reflexive worlds to serve as counterexamples to logical consequence. First, I construct a canonical model for constant domain basic first-order logic (BQLCD), the logic obtained model-theoretically by dropping the requirement on the Kripke models for constant domain intuitionistic first-order logic that the accessibility relation is reflexive.
      • keywords: bqlcdr; logic; model
      • versions: original; plain text
4428. tt44pk05x36
      • author: Numan Sirin
      • title: Interaction of Down-Valley Flow with Ambient Flow in Complex Terrain
      • date: 2020
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Flow near the land surface is primarily driven by topography and temperature, whereas ambient flows aloft are primarily pressure driven. The study investigates and analyzes the complex interaction between the land surface, near-surface down-valley flow, and ambient flow aloft.
      • keywords: break; flow; interface; surface; valley
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4429. tt44pk05z9k
      • author: Pedro Henrique Amorim Valenca
      • title: Nonequilibrium Trajectory Sampling (NETS): A New Unrestricted Trajectory Sampling Method
      • date: 2021
      • words: 123
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This method is based on tracking the initial and final positions of unrestricted trajectories that are launched in short simulations. This tracking populates a transition matrix, where each matrix entry corresponds to predetermined states defined in the initial step of the method.
      • keywords: matrix; method; transition
      • versions: original; plain text
4430. tt44pk0601d
      • author: Grant Lee James Keller
      • title: Computational Characterization of Peptide-Majorhistocompatibility Complex Antigen Structure
      • date: 2022
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: As a consequence of the extreme diversity of peptide-MHC antigens, T cell receptors are paradoxically capable of cross-reacting to chemically and structurally distinct peptide-MHC.Research into the biophysical and structural underpinnings of T cell receptor antigen specificity and cross-reactivity have revealed some correlates and dependence on structural features, however our understanding remains too limited to develop immunotherapeutics intended to recruit T cells to a tumor in a patient-specific manner. A critical component of this is the recognition by T cell receptors of peptide antigen presented on major histocompatibilty complex (MHC) proteins.
      • keywords: mhc; peptide; specificity
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4431. tx31qf8839m
      • author: Stephanie Klem
      • title: 'Peace and War' by Peter Paul Rubens
      • date: 2011
      • words: 411
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: 'The Allegory of Peace and War' (National Gallery, London) by Peter Paul Rubens was painted as a gift for King Charles I during the artist's diplomatic sojourn in England from 1629 to 1630. 'Peace and War' has been understood as a means of celebrating the success of the peace negotiations between Spain and England and encouraging Charles I to quickly ratify the peace treaty once it was delivered to England.
      • keywords: charles; england; gift; painting; peace; war
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4432. tx31qf8840t
      • author: Robert Eugene Brenneman
      • title: Faith and the Foreigner: Exploring the Impact of Religion on Immigration Attitudes
      • date: 2005
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: attitudes; hypotheses; immigrants; level
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4433. tx31qf88415
      • author: Ling Sheng
      • title: Thermodynamic Modeling of U(VI) Adsorption onto Bacteria: Implications for Quantifying Bioavailability Relationships
      • date: 2013
      • words: 513
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The successful use of surface complexation modeling to relate U speciation to enzymatic reduction rates in this study may enable predictions of enzymatic U(VI) reduction kinetics or bioavailability of uranium to bacteria in complex geologic settings. The goal of this dissertation research is to test if metal adsorption onto bacteria controls the bioavailability of metals to bacteria and whether it is possible to use a SCM approach to predict metal bioavailability.
      • keywords: adsorption; bacteria; reduction; study; surface; u(vi; uranyl
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4434. tx31qf8842h
      • author: Jordan Leslie Scott
      • title: A Biochemical Investigation of Mechanisms of Peripheral Phosphoinositide-Binding Proteins
      • date: 2014
      • words: 291
      • flesch: 29
      • 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.
      • keywords: cellular; domains; ebola; lipid; membranes; protein; virus
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4435. tx31qf88446
      • author: Glen P Ryland
      • title: Translating Africa for Germans: The Rhenish Mission in Southwest Africa, 1829-1936
      • date: 2013
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This dissertation examines German Protestant missionaries in Southwest Africa, their networks in Germany, and their notions of race. They took part in the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1907) and remained in Southwest Africa after Germany lost its colonies during World War I. After 1916, the Rhenish Mission struggled to regain support.
      • keywords: africa; germany; home; missionaries; period; rhenish; southwest
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4436. tx31qf8845j
      • author: Xiaoyi Zhang
      • title: 'Il Sommo piacere' - The Crescendo of Love in the Commedia
      • date: 2015
      • words: 48
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: piacere
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4437. tx31qf8846w
      • author: Kortny Daniel Hall
      • title: Potential Flow Model for Plasma Actuation as a Lift Enhancement Device
      • date: 2005
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: This thesis describes potential flow models as first-order design tools for the application of plasma actuation as plasma flaps on airfoils and wings. The premise for this work is born from research indicating that a constant increment of lift enhancement can be achieved through the use of plasma actuation on the surface of airfoils.
      • keywords: actuation; doublet; flow; plasma
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4438. tx31qf88477
      • author: Kristi Marie Bray
      • title: Investigating the Role of Cdc42 in Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer
      • date: 2013
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Using novel conditional knockout (KO) and overexpression (OE) mouse MG models, my studies revealed for the first time critical roles for Cdc42 in mammary epithelial proliferation, migration, adhesion, stromal interactions, and morphogenesis and support a working hypothesis for how Cdc42 is functioning during MG development. Altered expression of the Rho GTPases and their regulators is associated with breast cancer.
      • keywords: cancer; cdc42; development; mammary; normal; polarity
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4439. tx31qf8848k
      • author: Anselma Dolcich-Ashley
      • title: Precept, Rights and Ecclesial Governance: A Moral-Theological Analysis of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis in the U.S.
      • date: 2011
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: In performing this task, church governance must pass the test of plausibility in practical application and of consistency with Catholic moral principles and doctrinal commitment in order to be effective and authentic. The Sixth Commandment demands well-functioning communal sexual boundaries, which in turn require protection of the community's members, a key task of church governing authority.
      • keywords: authority; church; community; crisis; governance; human; moral; sexual; sixth
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4440. tx31qf8849x
      • author: Diana Cruz
      • title: Fibrinogen and Plasminogen:Their Roles Beyond Hemostasis
      • date: 2008
      • words: 476
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Furthermore, Pg activation by SK is highly species specific with activity towards human Pg (hPg), but exhibiting no activity against mouse plasminogen (mPg). In the second part of this dissertation, we utilized a biochemical approach to study the role of plasminogen (Pg) in the pathogenic mechanisms of Group A streptreptococcus (GAS).
      • keywords: coagulation; early; fg-/mice; hpg; human; inflammatory; responses; species; study
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4441. tx31qf88504
      • author: Lei Wang
      • title: Identification and Characterization of Protein Enhancers of Antifreeze Proteins from Overwintering Beetle Larvae Dendroides Canadensis
      • date: 2007
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Therefore, glycerol enhances activity by stimulating interactions between DAFPs and between DAFPs and enhancer proteins, such as the thaumatin-like protein. A yeast two-hybrid screen was performed using certain hemolymph DAFPs as'bait' to identify endogenous protein enhancers.
      • keywords: dafps; enhancers; point; proteins; tha
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4442. tx31qf8852t
      • author: Ann Staudt
      • title: Identification of Environmental Factors Critical to the Production of Exopolysaccharides by Rhizobium tropici
      • date: 2010
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: However, many aspects of this organism's growth and EPS production remain uncharacterized, including the influence of environment and culturing conditions upon the growth of R. tropici and the chemical structure of EPS material being formed. Changes to the carbon source were found to significantly impact EPS production, in terms of yield as well as EPS chemical composition.
      • keywords: eps; growth; production; tropici
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4443. tx31qf88535
      • author: Ann Catherine Johnson
      • title: The Effects of the Cortisol Response to Acute Stress on Executive Functioning Among Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
      • date: 2013
      • words: 202
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Current theory suggests multiple pathways to the onset of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and comorbid Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder based on evidence of variation in the impairments observed within this population. However, mothers? ratings of ADHD inattentive symptoms and aggression were predictive of cortisol as indicated by area under the curve with respect to ground.
      • keywords: adhd; cortisol; executive; functioning
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4444. tx31qf8854h
      • author: Trevor Mendo Cickovski
      • title: BioLogo, a Domain-Specific Language for Morphogenesis
      • date: 2004
      • words: 126
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: BioLogo is a domain-specific language (DSL) which we use to provide a higher level of abstraction to the framework with understandable syntax for morphogenesis researchers, further improving extensibility of the software. Many of the patterning instabilities that result from cell interaction with membrane bound chemicals can be described by mathematical models.
      • keywords: biologo; framework; morphogenesis
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4445. tx31qf8869j
      • author: Caitlin Mills
      • title: A Real-Time Mind Wandering Intervention during Reading
      • date: 1904
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: When this was the case, the person was asked to self-explain and potentially re-read parts of the text in order to improve their conceptual understanding of what they just read. However, little is known about whether interventions can help prevent these cascading negative effects.
      • keywords: condition; mind; reading; self; wandering
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4446. tx31qf88t4d
      • author: David W. Everson
      • title: Red Power, White Discourse: Privilege Narratives and the American Indian Movement, 1973-2015
      • date: 1904
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This discursive field shift is argued to be an outcome of a sociocultural process whereby disrupted narratives of privilege encouraged the dominant culture's privileging of narrative in order to more effectively delegitimize AIM grievances. Theoretically, I outline a model of discursive field shift to aid in the understanding of how dominant group bystanders discursively reconstruct social movements over time.
      • keywords: aim; discursive; field; movement
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4447. tx31qf88v52
      • author: Ingrid Luna López
      • title: Carnaval, fiesta popular y cultura letrada en la región andina
      • date: 1904
      • words: 426
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Analizo crónicas, novelas, filmes y pinturas producidas en los siglos XX y XXI, a propósito de cuatro carnavales y fiestas populares de la región andina, a saber: Yawar Fiesta (Perú), Carnaval de Blancos y Negros (Colombia), Carnaval de Oruro (Bolivia), y Semana Santa (Perú). Partiendo de los postulados de críticos como Mikhail Bakhtin, Jesús Martín Barbero, Roberto Da Matta, William Rowe and Vivian Schelling, a lo largo de esta disertación estudio cómo distintas representaciones literarias y visuales de carnavales y fiestas populares responden a dicha instrumentalización.
      • keywords: blancos; carnaval; como; fiestas; las; los; negros; oruro; perú; popular; populares; representaciones
      • versions: original; plain text
4448. tx31qf88w2b
      • author: Jared W. Coughlin
      • title: Time-Dependent Dark Energy and the Flux Power Spectrum of the Lyman α Forest
      • date: 2018
      • words: 457
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: First, dark energy is estimated to be responsible for approximately 70% of the energy content in the Universe, which means that we cannot have a complete model for the evolution of the structure in the Universe without understanding dark energy. Second, the current Standard Model of physics does not provide an explanation for dark energy.
      • keywords: alpha; dark; energy; expansion; lyman; models; power; spectra; universe
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4449. tx31qf8963r
      • author: Garrett R. FitzGerald
      • title: Pluriversal Peacebuilding: Decolonial Dialogue, Democracy, and the Epistemic Politics of Peace
      • date: 2020
      • words: 406
      • flesch: 10
      • summary: Focusing on the work of two Western democratic theorists—Chantal Mouffe and James Tully—who draw on similar Wittgensteinian resources to engage with non-Westernized forms of democratic theory and practice, the project indicates the potential risks and rewards of using these resources as a method of approaching pluriversal dialogue around specific connectors from a Westernized positionality. However, recurrent failures within the field of peacebuilding to engage in sufficiently equitable dialogue with non-Westernized understandings of peace indicate an urgent need for new theoretical and practical resources to enable Westernized scholars and practitioners to participate in genuinely pluriversal dialogue.
      • keywords: decolonial; dialogue; non; peacebuilding; pluriversal; project; westernized
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4450. tx31qf89794
      • author: Dayane Alfenas Reis
      • title: Circuits and Architectures for Data-Centric Computing
      • date: 2021
      • words: 428
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Second, the high volume of data movement may result in a slowdown in the performance of data-intensive programs, and high energy consumption due to the various memory accesses needed by the application. As applications become highly data-centric, there are major challenges associated with (i) the limitations of CMOS technology for the design of on-chip (fast access, dense) memories, (ii) the practicality of transferring high volumes of data between the processor and main memory, and (iii) the security and privacy of client's data stored in external servers, which have become a very popular demand in the last years.
      • keywords: chip; cmos; computing; data; energy; high; memory; security; technologies
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4451. v118rb71c84
      • author: Carlos D Tavares
      • title: Why Can't We Be Friends: Why Religious Congregational-Based Social Contact Matters for Close Interracial Friendships Among Adolescents
      • date: 2009
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I also expect increased interracial social contact in schools and neighborhoods to increase the likelihood of adolescent close interracial friendships. The findings suggest that increased intteracial social contact in religious congregations has a significant positive effect on close adolescent interracial friendships.
      • keywords: congregations; friendships; interracial
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4452. v118rb71c9g
      • author: Luca B Cottini
      • title: The Translation of The Sentimental Journey by Ugo Foscolo, or The Beginning of Italian Literary Modernity
      • date: 2011
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In confronting the world of the English novel, Foscolo sees a serious and concrete possibility for the renewal of Italian literary world, through the introduction of a foreign work in the literary marketplace of Italy as well as of a new prose for discussing the problems of the present. In imitating and re-creating SterneÌøåÀå_s Journey, Foscolo discovers also a critical discipline in translating and a candid engament in criticism, rooted in VicoÌøåÀå_s historicism, which will deeply renovate the motionless Italian debate.
      • keywords: foscolo; literary; sterneìøåàå_s
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4453. v118rb71d42
      • author: Ted Alan Bryant
      • title: Linguistic And Non-Linguistic Control Of Visual Attention: An Examination Of Space-Based, Color-Based, And Form-Based Selection
      • date: 2008
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Costs for non-spatial cues when compared to spatial cues are best accounted for by a binding hypothesis that posits a necessary binding of location information when non-spatial cues are being used to direct spatial attention. A variety of setup times, SOAs, and target displays are utilized in order to thoroughly examine any differences in how space, color, and form symbolic cues direct attention from a cue to a target.
      • keywords: cues; experiment; non; spatial
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4454. v118rb71f2p
      • author: Melissa Renee Ward George
      • title: Parent-Child Attachment Security and Children's Socio-Emotional Adjustment During the Early School Years
      • date: 2010
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 8
      • summary: Analyses indicated insecurity with mother was associated with externalizing behavior and school adjustment difficulties, while insecurity with father was associated with friendship difficulties; the interaction was not associated with adjustment. Research has supported the prominent influence of attachment security on many facets of adjustment; however, findings are primarily based in examining attachment with mother in infancy.
      • keywords: adjustment; attachment; mother
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4455. v118rb71f7d
      • author: Alanna Elizabeth Sedgwick
      • title: Cellular Mechanisms of Tumor Cell Invasion
      • date: 2013
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: arf6; cancer; cell; gaps; invasion; microvesicles; signaling; tumor
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4456. v118rb71k5z
      • author: Landon Lehman
      • title: Counting Operators in Effective Field Theories
      • date: 1904
      • words: 237
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This problem can be extended beyond the Standard Model effective field theory to encompass generic effective field theories and the question of writing down a minimal Lagrangian at some desired mass order. First, I calculate the set of dimension-7 operators in the Standard Model effective field theory by hand.
      • keywords: effective; field; standard; theory
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4457. v118rb7241t
      • author: Brendan J. Mahoney
      • title: Understanding Response Mechanisms of Post-Translational Phosphorylation in Signaling Proteins
      • date: 1904
      • words: 282
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Enhanced understanding of the atomic-level response mechanisms to post-translational phosphorylation may lead to principles important in emulative drug design. Proper maintenance of the cell cycle relies on regulation via pathways of signaling proteins.
      • keywords: cell; function; phosphorylation; pin1; proteins; ptms; residues
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4458. v118rb7259w
      • author: Michael T Moran
      • title: Verification of Recoil Separator Properties through Direct Reaction Measurements
      • date: 2018
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Utilization of the separator for measuring cross sections of astrophysical interest that were not considered during the design phase is an additional benefit of the commissioning work and expands the potential domain of study for the separator. The St. George recoil separator is designed to measure (α,γ) cross sections of astrophysical interest in inverse kinematics.
      • keywords: cross; george; properties; separator
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4459. v118rb7286s
      • author: Shreejan Shrestha
      • title: Nepali Vernacular Aesthetics in New Light
      • date: 2019
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: My thesis aims to explore the potential of translating the vernacular traditional aesthetic of my home country Nepal into contemporary objects that promote cultural and emotional resonance, primarily through the medium of light fixtures. Our distinct Nepali aesthetics have been passed down through generations by skilled artisans in the form of handicrafts and religious objects.
      • keywords: adventure; aesthetics; artistic; nepali; objects; vernacular
      • versions: original; plain text
4460. v118rb72g6n
      • author: Sebastian Sensale Rodriguez
      • title: DNA Kinetics and Resistive Signals in Nanopore Devices
      • date: 2020
      • words: 425
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: A theory for the resistive signal of DNA molecules translocating through a charged nanopore is developed, which is extensively tested against finite element method simulations. In consistency with molecular dynamics simulations, it also shows that DNA molecules can adsorb into the pore walls, leading to higher current drops (and slower translocation times) than when translocating through the bulk.
      • keywords: dna; dynamics; high; molecular; molecules; nanopore; technologies; theory; throughput; use
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4461. v118rb72g8b
      • author: Mitsugu Hasegawa
      • title: Micro-Fiber Coatings for Bluff Body Flow Control
      • date: 2020
      • words: 483
      • flesch: 51
      • 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.
      • keywords: coating; fiber; micro; point; separation
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4462. v118rb72m15
      • author: Maura R. Kraemer
      • title: Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding How Parental Racial Socialization Operates within Schools as Racialized Organizations
      • date: 2023
      • words: 248
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: I find a significant difference in engagement in PRSOC between racial groups, whereby Black students, on average, engage in significantly higher levels of PRSOC than White students. Further, I find a significant interaction between engagement in PRSOC and the racialized school context for Black students, highlighting the mediating impact of PRSOC on Black students' GPA.
      • keywords: black; engagement; prsoc; students; white
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4463. v405s754p13
      • author: Karen C Chan
      • title: The Conclusion to the Practical Syllogism: A Comparison of the Aristotelian-Thomistic and Contemporary Analytic Traditions
      • date: 2012
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: At the heart of this dissertation, then, is an in-depth study of St. Thomas Aquinas's theory of practical reasoning, which shows how the faculties of will and intellect co-operate in the act of practical reasoning and are both causes of action (will as efficient cause, intellect as formal cause). The practical syllogism, classically considered to be the dominant model of practical reasoning, has fallen out of favor in contemporary academic moral philosophy.
      • keywords: action; conclusion; practical; reasoning; syllogism
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4464. v405s754p2f
      • author: Ajay Kumar Gupta
      • title: High-Bandwidth, High-Dynamic Range Signal Generation Using 1-bit Digital-to-Analog Conversion
      • date: 2005
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: The best prior art generates 68 dB at similar frequencies with 1 GS/s (albeit real-time) and employs quadrature upconversion for higher frequency signal generation. This dissertation provides hardware results for the generation of clean, high-dynamic range 1-tone and 2-tone signals over a wide range of sampling frequencies.
      • keywords: algorithm; dissertation; osr; problem; sfdr; sigmadelta$; tone
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4465. v405s754p3s
      • author: Leila Amery Galang Ranis
      • title: Synthesis and Characterization of Group VI Metal Complexes for Non-Classical Oxygenation Reactions
      • date: 2014
      • words: 473
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Reaction of the molybdenum and tungsten complexes, M(DOPOCat)2, with excess Me3NO gives MO2(DOPO)2, with both DOPO ligands in the fully oxidized quinonoid form, in addition to paramagnetic products. Reaction of M(DOPOCat)2 with a weaker amine N-oxide such as NMO only gives traces of MO2(DOPO)2, with the major product being H(DOPOQ) and paramagnetic products.
      • keywords: complexes; dopo; enterobactin; formation; h(dopoq; ligands; metal; pb(dopoq)2; procedure; reaction; tert; transfer
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4466. v405s754p44
      • author: Grady Charles Crahan
      • title: Turret Optimization Using Passive Flow Control to Minimize Aero-Optic Effects
      • date: 2014
      • words: 426
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The investigation shows that the virtual duct technique is an effective passive flow-control approach for dealing with aero-optic flows on spherical turrets in subsonic to transonic flows. By the use of optimization techniques along with experimental validation, it is shown that significant increases of delaying flow separations up to an elevation angle of 162.4&#176; while maintaining a critical Mach number over 0.7 can be attained on a hemispherical turret without a downstream fairing.
      • keywords: aero; approach; flow; investigation; optic; optical; shear; systems; turrets
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4467. v405s754p6t
      • author: Sean Joseph Murphy
      • title: Metal Nanoparticle-Graphene Oxide Composites: Photophysical Properties and Sensing Applications
      • date: 2013
      • words: 451
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: Metal nanoparticles have been used for their optical properties in many applications including stained glass, cancer therapy, solar steam generation, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and catalysis. Complexation and adsorption are corroborated with demonstration that the composite nanomaterials act as effective SERRS sensors taking advantage of localized surface plasmon resonance of metal nanoparticles and the ability of RGO to interact with molecular and ionic species.
      • keywords: absorption; applications; composite; graphene; interaction; metal; nanomaterials; nanoparticles; porphyrin; properties; silver
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4468. v405s754p75
      • author: James David Cotton
      • title: Lavoro di Unificazione: Calvino's Nationalizing Fiabe
      • date: 2014
      • words: 106
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: As 'lavoro di unificazione,' the Fiabe work to create a linguistic reality and participate in reforming and uniting Italian identity. In the second and main part, I focus on various ways the Introduction suggests, alludes to, and defines an Italian national tradition through folktales.
      • keywords: italian; thesis
      • versions: original; plain text
4469. v405s754p8h
      • author: Virgil Petrisor Andronache
      • title: APOC and ADE: Theory And Practice in the Design Of Architectures for Behavior-Based Agents
      • date: 2005
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 51
      • 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.
      • keywords: ade; agent; apoc; architecture
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4470. v405s754p9v
      • author: Nelson Eugene Walls
      • title: Modern Forms of Prejudice in a Social Dominance Theoretical Framework: Positively Valenced Attitudes as Hierarchy-enhancing Legitimizing Myths
      • date: 2006
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 5
      • summary: Using ambivalent sexism and modern heterosexism as exemplars, the dissertation finds mixed support for the hypothesis that modern forms of prejudice function as hierarchy-enhancing legitimizing myth as suggested by social dominance theory. Additionally, the dissertation uncovers a pattern whereby the opposition to equality subdomain of social dominance orientation predicts opposition to ameliorative public policies, but not subdomains of hostile or modern forms of prejudice.
      • keywords: dominance; forms; modern; prejudice; social
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4471. v405s754q02
      • author: Jacob Morley Carson
      • title: Computational Complexity of Automatic Structures
      • date: 2011
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: automatic; equivalence; isomorphic; structures
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4472. v405s754q1d
      • author: Thomas Ethan Klepach
      • title: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Saccharide Structure
      • date: 2008
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 14
      • 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.
      • keywords: conformational; couplings; diversity; experimental; molecular; spin; structural; theoretical
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4473. v405s754q2r
      • author: Nicholas Eugene Kottenstette
      • title: Control of Passive Plants with Memoryless Nonlinearities over Wireless Networks
      • date: 2007
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: In particular we show how to: 1. synthesize discrete time passive, strictly-input passive, and strictly-output passive systems from their continuous counterparts using a inner-product equivalent sample and hold (IPESH) block (with an optional passive observer), 2. create a data-drop out, and delay tolerant l2-stable digital control network for a continuous passive plant in which: (a) the continuous passive plant can also be subject to various memoryless nonlinearities such as actuator saturation, (b) the digital controller only needs to be run when passive data is received over the wireless network, (c) the entire control network has been simulated on a theoretically validated wireless ring token network, (d) a new 'power junction' is introduced in which multiple plants and controllers can interact while preserving passivity, (e) a new distortion measure is used to evaluate these control networks, 3. determine the capacity, and mean delays of a wireless ring token network. This dissertation shows how to develop wireless networked embedded control systems (wnecs) in which the controller and the plant are isolated and can only interact over a wireless network.
      • keywords: control; network; new; passive; wireless
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4474. v405s754q4f
      • author: Sarah Loretto Houser
      • title: Loving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Age of the Cosmopolis
      • date: 2009
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Patriotism is seen as something positive in our common political discourse; however, among political philosophers it is often seen as an unreflective and irrational love of the familiar. Secondly, I explore the concept of 'constitutional patriotism,' particularly in the work of Jan-Werner MÌÄå_ller.
      • keywords: concept; constitutional; patriotism; political
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4475. v405s754q5s
      • author: Katherine Sorrell
      • title: The Conditions of Legitimacy: Perceptions of Religion Among Elite Scientists in the United Kingdom
      • date: 2013
      • words: 281
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In keeping with the dominant literature on legitimacy, I find that scientists are interested in preserving the status quo authority relationship between religion and science. However, conflict narratives and narratives portraying science and religion as mutually exclusive are not adequate to describe the relationship between religion and science in the UK.
      • keywords: legitimacy; religion; science; scientists
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4476. v405s754q64
      • author: Pamela E Crane
      • title: An Investigation of Data Collection Methods Applicable in Groundwater Research in Rural Regions of Developing Nations
      • date: 2008
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: It is hoped that these results will be applied to address the growing disconnect between the current direction of groundwater research and the great need for such research and monitoring in rural regions of developing nations. These studies were cased within the framework of three progressions: the progression of analytical methods (POAM), the progression of sampling strategies (POSS), and the progression of expertise (POE).
      • keywords: groundwater; low; progressions; sampling; studies; study
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4477. v405s754q7g
      • author: Tasha Keiko Matsumoto
      • title: Dyslexicon
      • date: 2010
      • words: 3
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: Creative Writing Thesis
      • keywords: creative
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4478. v405s754w1z
      • author: Samuel D. Jones
      • title: Embedded Large Eddy Simulation for High Pressure Turbine Tip Clearance Analysis
      • date: 1904
      • words: 245
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: This research proposes to study the effect of tip gap leakage flow in a High Pressure Turbine by means of a high resolution Embedded Large Eddy Simulation. These vortical structures affect the flow separation from the walls of the inter-turbine duct in multi-stage turbines.
      • keywords: high; model; simulation; structures; turbine; vortical
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4479. v405s755j6v
      • author: Patrick Graff
      • title: Teachers in Transition: The Effect of Teacher Turnover on Math Achievement
      • date: 2019
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: Reports in recent years have demonstrated math teacher shortages in hard-to-staff school contexts due to high rates of teacher turnover. I find that students grow only 57% and 76% as much in their math scores in years they are exposed to new and new-to-school teachers, respectively, as compared to years they are assigned to returning math teachers.
      • keywords: math; new; school; teachers
      • versions: original; plain text
4480. v405s755k5t
      • author: Keith J. Roberts
      • title: Unstructured Mesh Generation and Dynamic Load Balancing for Coastal Ocean Hydrodynamic Simulation
      • date: 2019
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The toolkit is used to investigate the design of unstructured mesh resolution and its impact on the modeling of barotropic tides along the United States coastlines. This work examines and improves the efficiency of numerical modeling of tides, storm surge and associated flooding on unstructured meshes.
      • keywords: coastal; computational; mesh; meshes; modeling; numerical; resolution; shoreline; simulations; unstructured
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4481. v405s755r2b
      • author: Xian Wu
      • title: Deep Learning for Sensory and Behavioral Time Series Analysis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 216
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: To address this challenge, we propose three new learning architectures which capture temporal dynamics from different perspectives, including predefined resolution-aware forecasting, automated resolution-aware forecasting and customized forecasting. The key challenge in time series data is to comprehensively capture the underlying temporal pattern from sequential historical observations.
      • keywords: data; forecasting; learning; series; temporal; time
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4482. v405s755s7c
      • author: J. Columcille Dever
      • title: The God of Israel: A Theological Reading of Tertullian's Adversus Marcionem
      • date: 2021
      • words: 627
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: I structure Chapters 5 and 6 in light of Tertullian's subtle distinction between God's uniqueness, or singularity (the claim that there is only one God) and God's unity, or simplicity (the claim that God is one). For Tertullian it is Christ, the Word made flesh, Son of God and Son of man, who reveals in all its fullness God's commitment to and involvement in creation from the beginning to the hoped-for end.
      • keywords: account; chapter; creator; god; marcion; narrative; reading; tertullian; understanding
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4483. v405s755t4n
      • author: Ilana Rothkopf
      • title: Constituting Peace: Foreign Actors, Constitution-Making, and Armed Conflict
      • date: 2022
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: I find that contrary to my expectations, peace agreements are not necessary for international involvement in constitution-making and that there is only limited evidence of an association between international actors and constitutional substance, using the substantive case of constitutional federalism. Both CRCs and international involvement are, however, associated with reduced conflict recurrence.
      • keywords: actors; conflict; constitution; crcs; international; involvement; making
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4484. v405s755w17
      • author: Yuanyuan Qian
      • title: Design, Synthesis, Evaluation and Mechanistic Elucidation of Antibacterial Agents for Gram-Positive Bacteria
      • date: 2023
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Oxadiazoles discovered in our lab were found to kill the bacterial cell and interfere with spore germination, which enable oxadiazoles to halt colonization by vegetative bacteria and spores. An additional SAR study of the oxadiazoles that weighed on spore germination inhibition were also explored.
      • keywords: activity; difficile; germination; oxadiazole; sar; spore; study
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4485. v692t437z0s
      • author: Mostafa Khoshnevisan
      • title: Intermittent Communication
      • date: 2014
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: One structure determines the transmitted codeword through exhaustive search, and the other structure rst detects the locations of codeword symbols and then uses them to decode. We formulate a model for intermittent communication that can capture bursty transmissions or a sporadically available channel, where in either case the receiver does not know a priori when the transmissions will occur.
      • keywords: achievable; codeword; communication; intermittent; model; symbols; system
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4486. v692t437z14
      • author: Martha E. Precup
      • title: Affine Pavings of Hessenberg Varieties for Semisimple Groups
      • date: 2013
      • words: 117
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: As a consequence, we generalize results of Tymoczko asserting that Hessenberg varieties for regular nilpotent elements in the classical cases and arbitrary elements of gl_n(C) are paved by affines. We provide a partial reduction from paving Hessenberg varieties for arbitrary elements to paving those corresponding to nilpotent elements.
      • keywords: elements; hessenberg
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4487. v692t437z6v
      • author: Tom M Trinidad
      • title: The Word of God in Ecclesial Rites and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Comparison of Karl Barth and Louis-Marie Chauvet
      • date: 2008
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This dissertation compares the theologies of Roman Catholic Louis-Marie Chauvet (b. 1942) and Reformed Protestant Karl Barth (1886-1968) on the relationship between the Word of God and ecclesial rites (sacraments), and the impact these have upon the founding and formation of Christian faith and identity. It culminates in an assessment of the particular contributions each makes to sacramental theology, suggestions towards an ecumenical sacramental theology informed by both, and a pastoral evaluation.
      • keywords: barth; chauvet; ecclesial; sacramental; theology
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4488. v692t43804r
      • author: Zachary Zikoski
      • title: A Parallel Adaptive Wavelet Method for Multidimensional Simulations of Hypersonic Propulsion
      • date: 2011
      • words: 287
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: grid; high; method; near; singularities; solution; wamr; wavelet
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4489. v692t43809g
      • author: Christian David McConnell
      • title: Baptism in Visigothic Spain: Origins, Development and Interpretation
      • date: 2006
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: During this period, Spanish baptismal rites underwent dynamic change, a process that is followed in light of several main features of initiation rites. Spanish authors' rich range of interpretive motifs include a combination of regeneration language (both as rebirth and as recreation) with a Paschal context, and a seeming preference for Johannine language, all in a way that presents Paschal baptism as having a much wider range of meaning than Romans 6.
      • keywords: baptismal; historical; period; rites; spanish
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4490. v692t43812c
      • author: Carmen J. Burlingame
      • title: Reexamining Young Americans' Political Participation: An Optimistic Outlook for America's Future
      • date: 2015
      • words: 222
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: concern; participation; people; young
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4491. v692t43822p
      • author: Jesse M. Coffman
      • title: Wake Orientation and Its Influence on the Performance of Diffusers with Inlet Distortion
      • date: 1904
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The other wake generator was a D-shaped cylinder which produced a wake with high turbulence intensity and large length scales. Distortion at the inlet to diffusers is very common in internal flow applications.
      • keywords: diffuser; inlet; pressure; velocity; wake
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4492. v692t438t8k
      • author: Rachel M. Wiltshire
      • title: Genomic Analyses of Anopheline Mosquitoes: Micro- and Macro-Geographic Population Structure of Two Important Malaria Vectors
      • date: 2019
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This dissertation explored how the genetic and bionomic behaviors of two important anophelines might respond to alternative control interventions in attempts to interrupt sustained malaria transmission. A genome-wide approach to the analysis of population structure has the power to identify genetic processes (such as restricted gene flow or an insecticide-resistant genotype) and the genomic regions that regulate them, providing greater insight into how these mechanisms will impact upon control interventions.
      • keywords: analysis; control; farauti; genetic; malaria; mosquitoes; populations; sugar; vector; yeast
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4493. v692t438w4t
      • author: Uryan Isik Can
      • title: Investigation of Co-Culture Patterning and Electrophysiological Assessment Methods for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications
      • date: 2019
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Finally, we design electrical circuit components utilizing cardiac cells, fabricate them using micropatterning techniques and characterized through electrophysiological assessment methods. We both electrically characterize and stimulate heart cells and report our results.
      • keywords: cell; electrophysiological; heart; methods
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4494. v692t439208
      • author: Gurdip Uppal
      • title: Evolution and Control of Microbial Cooperation and Specialization in Dynamic Fluids
      • date: 2020
      • words: 389
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: At intermediate nutrient distributions, slow microbes evolve to hitchhike on faster ones, leading to a tragedy of commons where there are no longer fast microbes left to exploit. Finally, when nutrient sources are distributed far apart, fast microbes evolve to adhere to each other, and cooperate to reduce their hydrodynamic drag, benefiting the whole population.
      • keywords: evolution; flow; life; microbes; organisms; physical; simple; social
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4495. v692t43946z
      • author: Janice Gunther Martin
      • title: Unburdening the Beasts: The Equine Doctors of Early Modern Castile
      • date: 2022
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Despite the social and symbolic significance of equids and the dependence of Castile and so many other human societies on their health, historians have attended far less to veterinary compared to human medicine. I investigate what made these practitioners distinctive: their licensing and social organization, growing canon of texts and assertion of status, roles in legal medicine, and surgical skills.
      • keywords: chapter; equine; human; medical; medicine; sixteenth; treatises
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4496. v979v12173x
      • author: WonJae Shin
      • title: Learning Grammar via Statistical Mechanism
      • date: 2013
      • words: 112
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: The results indicate that token and category contingencies are learnable regardless of training conditions, but higher-order constituent contingency was only learnable in conditions that facilitated initial learning of bigram and trigram word frequencies. A novel word-by-word prediction paradigm, which employs a task similar to the one given to Elman's (1990, 1991, 1993) simple recurrent networks, is used in the current study to investigate whether adults exhibit learning higher-order contingencies corresponding to structural contingencies.
      • keywords: contingencies; order; word
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4497. v979v121748
      • author: Kathleen Ann Tonry
      • title: William Caxton and the Labor of Literature in Fifteenth Century England
      • date: 2005
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Focusing on the figure of William Caxton, the project analyzes the ways in which the advent of print intersected with late-medieval theories of literary production, and demonstrates that through his prologues, editorial interventions, and textual selections, Caxton sustained a rich and markedly literary dialogue with not only the new terms of printed production, but the complex political, economic and legal horizons of his enterprise. Thus, this project will focus on the years of Richard III's reign (1483-85) as crucial ones in understanding how Caxton constructed literary work within the new form of print, and how the role of incunables might emerge against the backdrop of fifteenth century politics.
      • keywords: caxton; literary; moment; new; print; production; richard
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4498. v979v12175m
      • author: Mary Fashbaugh
      • title: Vulnerability inVisibility
      • date: 2014
      • words: 144
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The retreat from a more physical engagement with others and the world around us provokes me to explore and test personal boundaries of interaction, to question the integrity of sight, and to alter the viewer's relationship and role in art from visual observer to visual participant. As Western culture grows more and more touch-averse, we seem to rely on visual representation to navigate a majority of our interactions.
      • keywords: desire; viewer; visual
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4499. v979v12176z
      • author: Victor A Ocasio
      • title: Computability in the class of Real Closed Fields
      • date: 2014
      • words: 535
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: We examine RCF and the non-elementary subclass of RCF composed of archimedean real closed fields, ARCF, from a computable structure theory perspective. Then K < ARCF.A computable structure
      • keywords: alpha; categorical; class; closed; computable; delta; field; rcf; real
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4500. v979v12178n
      • author: Susan M Gundersen
      • title: How Do Word Meanings in One's First Language Influence Learning of Similar Words in a Second Language?
      • date: 2013
      • words: 293
      • flesch: 35
      • 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).
      • keywords: general; participants; words
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4501. v979v121790
      • author: Ryan A. Dombkowski
      • title: Effects of Hydrogen Sulfide in Vertebrate Smooth Muscle
      • date: 2008
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: These studies found; (1) hypoxia and H2S produce temporally and quantitatively identical responses; (2) responses to hypoxia and H2S are mutually exclusive, the presence of one stimulus, substantially or completely eliminates the response to the other; (3) H2S is synthesized by SM; (4) increasing [substrate] for H2S production increases vessel response to hypoxia; and (5) inhibition of H2S synthesis inhibits responses to hypoxia. [Cl-]o) and blocking Cl- channels altered the mechanical responses of lamprey, trout, and rat vessels to H2S. Changes in Po2 elicit a variety of responses in SM to match physiological requirements.
      • keywords: h2s; hypoxia; phasic; relaxation; responses; trout; vessels
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4502. v979v121806
      • author: Bo Yang
      • title: Micromachining of GaN using photoelectrochemical etching
      • date: 2006
      • words: 418
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: It offers several advantages over conventional power sensors by allowing it to be easily integrated with low-loss coplanar transmission lines and GaN-based transistors. GaN and related materials have excellent electrical, optical and chemical properties for a wide range of applications including high power, high temperature electronics, LEDs and lasers, sensors, and MEMS in harsh environments.
      • keywords: etching; fabrication; gan; high; materials; pec; power; related; surface
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4503. v979v12181j
      • author: Justin Biddle
      • title: Socializing Science: On the Epistemic Significance of the Institutional Context of Science
      • date: 2008
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Given that scientific knowledge is intrinsically social, the question of how research should be organized takes on added epistemic significance. The second part of the dissertation is an attempt to do this, particularly in the area of pharmaceutical research.
      • keywords: epistemic; knowledge; research; scientific; social
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4504. v979v12182w
      • author: Cheng Wang
      • title: Three Essays on Triadic Evolution in a Large-scale Mobile Phone Network
      • date: 2012
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Real social networks are often compared to random graphs in order to assess whether their typological structure could be the result of random processes. I also review various theories of triangle formation and persistence &ndash; balance theory, predisposition theory, tie strength theory, status homophily theory and embeddedness theory &ndash; and assess the extent to which reported findings are consistent with these theories.
      • keywords: formation; graph; processes; random; real; theory; triadic; triangle
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4505. v979v12184k
      • author: John Dana Rothlisberger
      • title: Human-mediated dispersal of aquatic nonindigenous species: impacts and interventions
      • date: 2009
      • words: 629
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: aquatic; ecological; impacts; introduction; likely; nis; pathway; region; species; spread
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4506. v979v121868
      • author: Prasad Sarangapani
      • title: Experimental Investigation of Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics in Dense Colloidal Liquids
      • date: 2010
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In the second part of this work, we focus exclusively on heterogeneous dynamics and methods to extract dynamic length scales associated with spatially heterogeneous dynamics. Additionally, we examine how sensitivity to dynamic length scales is dependent on the sizes of tracers embedded in matrix suspensions that are close to the colloidal glass transition.
      • keywords: chapter; colloidal; confinement; dynamics; heterogeneous; length; spatially
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4507. v979v12187m
      • author: Patrick Douglas Shirey
      • title: An interdisciplinary approach to inform ecological restoration and environmental policy: Merging ecology, history, and law
      • date: 2013
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This approach can be used as an example of interdisciplinary work that is relevant to informing environmental policy and ecosystem restoration efforts. Upon completing a law degree focused on environmental and natural resources law, I sought a Ph.D. program to combine my background in ecology and environmental policy &#8212; the Global Linkages of Biology Environment and Society (GLOBES) NSF-IGERT fellowship program at the University of Notre Dame.
      • keywords: chapter; ecology; endangered; law; policy; river; species
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4508. v979v12188z
      • author: Jacob Matthew Plummer
      • title: Development of New Phenanthroline-Based Chiral Ligands, Asymmetric Additions to Lactams, and the Completion of the Synthesis of Trichostatin A
      • date: 2010
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Therefore, only a limited number of chiral 1,10-phenanthroline derivatives have been synthesized and used in asymmetric reactions. Finally, the Helquist lab has been pursuing a gram-scale synthesis of the naturally occurring compound, trichostatin A.
      • keywords: addition; asymmetric; ligands; phenanthroline; reactions; synthesis
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4509. v979v121899
      • author: Juan Andres Moraes
      • title: Party Competition and Political Representation in Uruguay
      • date: 2010
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This comparative analysis allows me to map the type of party competition for each country in the region, as well as the predominant type of representation provided by parties in the form of policy or service. Political parties and other agents, such as factions and individual politicians, represent citizens by providing either policies or particularistic services.
      • keywords: parties; policy; political; representation; service; type
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4510. v979v121d86
      • author: Mallory K. Smith
      • title: Chasing Triaxiality: Probing Structure in the A ~ 110 Region via Lifetime Measurements of 109Ru and 109Tc with Fast Timing
      • date: 1904
      • words: 392
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This long-proposed axially asymmetric deformation has recently been the focus of many experimental and theoretical efforts, and while a handful of triaxial nuclei have been observed, rigid triaxial deformation in the nuclear ground state has not been established. Signatures of shape-phase transitions, triaxial deformations, shape coexistence and oblate configurations have been reported within a small window of the nuclear landscape, from both theory studies and experimental measurements.
      • keywords: deformation; level; lifetimes; new; nuclear; shape; states; structure; transition; triaxial
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4511. v979v121x8v
      • author: Holly T. Ferguson
      • title: A Semantic Graph Based Approach for Automating Big Spatial Data Interoperability Used in Decision Support
      • date: 1904
      • words: 1068
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Created a Linked Data View methodology for automating data extraction using established semantic mappings; this approach enables information from several data schemas to be simultaneously translated into pattern-based RDF making interoperable spatial data. Resilience, Energy, LCA, and Built Environment Contributions: LD Views were used to automate semantic graph population with spatiotemporal data; these are implemented and in use currently for BIM, CityGML, OGC, IFCXML, and GBXML, but the method is extensible to other spatial data schema.
      • keywords: analysis; applications; data; decision; engineering; environment; graphs; industry; information; knowledge; methods; model; modern; platform; processing; semantic; spatial; support; use; work
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4512. v979v121z4s
      • author: Baoxu Shi
      • title: Improving Knowledge Graph Quality with Network Representation Learning
      • date: 1904
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In this work, I present a representation learning-based approach to improve the quality of knowledge graphs through a process called Knowledge Graph Completion. I also propose a relaxed version of the knowledge graph completion task called Open-world Knowledge Graph Completion to complete and extend knowledge graphs with unobserved entities.
      • keywords: completion; graph; knowledge; tasks
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4513. v979v121z6g
      • author: Jason M. Grant
      • title: Analysis of Crowd Behavior Based on Optical Flow: Detection, Classification, and Clustering
      • date: 1904
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: analysis; behavior; crowd; dominant; incidents; method; motion; optical
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4514. v979v121z9h
      • author: Tyler Duane Gardner
      • title: Writing Reality: The Master Chord and Wider Views in Antebellum America
      • date: 1904
      • words: 292
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Comparing Stowe's attempt to convince the nation to prioritize the master chord of Christianity with Thoreau's push towards wider views of the universe, Writing Reality illustrates the range of appeals to a higher law and recasts the antebellum crisis as a conflict over the nature of reality itself. While some politicians attempted to continue the nation's founding protocol of compromising around the principle of unity, others decided that the only way out of the bog was locating a solid foundation—a higher law than the Constitution that could provide a transcendent standard from which to regulate national policy.
      • keywords: bog; constitution; law; nation; reality; stowe; thoreau
      • versions: original; plain text
4515. v979v122120
      • author: Mark J. Summe
      • title: Inkjet Printed Chemically-Patterned Polymeric Nanomaterials for Aqueous Membrane Separations
      • date: 2018
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Furthermore, printing enables the patterning of different, opposing chemistries onto a single support, which can engender different transport phenomena that either individual component. The focus of this study was charge-patterned mosaic membranes, which contain bicontinuous, discrete domains of opposite charge.
      • keywords: charge; different; membranes; patterning; printing; processes; transport
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4516. v979v12251w
      • author: Hallie Nuzum
      • title: Validity of Personality Ratings from the Self, Informants, Interviews, and Documents
      • date: 2019
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated the strength of within-source associations, with modest incremental contributions from other sources. In this study, I examined personality trait assessments from multiple sources—the self, informants, interviewers, and written documents—each of which provides information from a different perspective, and therefore has its own validity, biases, and limitations.
      • keywords: agreement; measurement; personality; self; sources; validity
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4517. v979v122945
      • author: John William Nelson
      • title: The Geography to Command a Continent: Native Peoples, Europeans, and the Chicago Portage
      • date: 2020
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 28
      • 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.
      • keywords: american; chicago; geographic; indigenous; interior; local; native; north; u.s
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4518. v979v12295h
      • author: Scarlett Wardrop
      • title: THE CREEK GENERATOR
      • date: 2020
      • words: 19
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: A collection of poems that spins together flora, technology, and ritual, along with a computer program that generates poetry.
      • keywords: poetry
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4519. v979v122976
      • author: Foteini Dimakopoulou
      • title: Solubility Studies of the Lead Uranyl Oxyhydrate Mineral Curite
      • date: 2020
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Curite is a member of the uranyl oxyhydrate mineral family and these in general impact uranium release and transport in the environment (Plasil, 2014). Curite is one of several Pb uranyl oxyhydrate minerals that form during the initial stages of alteration of uraninite that contains radiogenic lead (Plasil, 2014).
      • keywords: curite; oxyhydrate; uranyl
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4520. v979v122b5t
      • author: Anton (Povzner) Lahaie
      • title: Bonds and Boundaries: Constructions of Community in Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Colonies
      • date: 2021
      • words: 237
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The conclusion briefly revisits the case studies in formulating a counter to nationalist appropriations of early colonial community visions. This dissertation surveys a range of community visions from the early stages of British colonization of North America.
      • keywords: colonial; communal; community; early; john; political; studies; visions
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4521. v979v122b96
      • author: Nicholas J. Zak
      • title: Use of Bimetallic Nanoparticles in the Catalytic Hydrogel Membrane Reactor to Treat Nitrate in Drinking Water
      • date: 2021
      • words: 355
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The primary goal of this thesis was to expand the CHMR technology to successfully treat nitrate (NO3-) in water by using bimetallic catalysts. The type of bimetallic and synthesis procedure affected NO3- removal and selectivity.
      • keywords: catalysts; chmr; hydrogel; nanoparticles; selectivity
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4522. v979v122c3f
      • author: Julian Breandán Dean
      • title: Postcolonial Tragedy: Sacrifice, Failure, and the Resiliency of Hope
      • date: 2021
      • words: 238
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This dissertation looks at the legacy of tragedy in the postcolonies to ask questions about the interaction of form and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Engaging with and pushing back against the model of tragedy prescribed by Aristotle, these postcolonial tragedies open up new ways of thinking about hope and resiliency in the catharsis of staged tragedy.
      • keywords: century; hope; study; tragedy; twentieth
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4523. v979v122f32
      • author: Lisa M. Hom
      • title: A Role for Fibroblast-Derived SASP Factors in the Activation of Pyroptotic Cell Death in Mammary Epithelial Cells
      • date: 2023
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Greater characterization of the context, cell type and senescence inducer specific effects of SASP from senescent cells will be important in informing the use of therapeutic avenues such as senolytics, which selectively eliminate senescent cells. Senescent cells exhibit alterations in gene expression and are characterized by substantial changes in their secretome; termed the senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP).
      • keywords: cells; epithelial; factors; fibroblasts; normal; sasp; senescence
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4524. vd66vx04h2g
      • author: Robert J Kane
      • title: Hydroxyapatite-Reinforced Collagen Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
      • date: 2012
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Scaffolds have been fabricated from a wide variety of materials and most have showed some success, either as bone graft substitutes or as tissue engineering scaffolds. Biomimetic approaches to scaffold design using the two main components of bone tissue, collagen and hydroxyapatite, resulted in scaffolds with superior biological properties but relatively poor mechanical properties and scaffold architecture.
      • keywords: bone; collagen; porogen; properties; scaffold; tissue
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4525. vd66vx04h3t
      • author: Damien Gadomski
      • title: Investigations Into the Presence Of PCDDs in Ball Clay Exhibiting the 'Natural Formation' Profile
      • date: 2005
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Samples exhibiting this PCDD/F 'natural formation' profile include ball clay and kaolin from different regions throughout the world. Although the PCDD/Fs found in ball clay and kaolin are thought to be of natural origin, no definitive evidence has been brought forward to explain their presence in this specific environmental matrix.
      • keywords: analysis; ball; clay; cores; pcdd; profile; samples
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4526. vd66vx04h8j
      • author: Arun Ramachandran
      • title: The effect of flow geometry on shear-induced particle segregation and resuspension
      • date: 2008
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: In chapters 2 through 4, we investigate the impact of these secondary currents on the concentration profiles developed in suspension flow through conduits of arbitrary geometry, and in resuspension flow through a tube. This flow is identical to that produced in loading suspensions on to a parallel plate viscometer and thus the concentration inhomogeneities generated during the loading phenomenon may play a role in the well known scatter of torque measurements in this system.
      • keywords: concentration; currents; flow; mechanism; particle; secondary; suspensions; thesis
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4527. vd66vx04j4g
      • author: Charles Gray Lawrence
      • title: Dissecting the Role of Dectin-1 in the Interaction Between Mycobacteria and Macrophage
      • date: 2010
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Recent studies in our laboratory indicate that Dectin-1 is also engaged upon macrophage infection with non-pathogenic mycobacteria and is required for the optimal macrophage pro-inflammatory response. Previous studies indicate that infection of macrophages with pathogenic mycobacteria like M. tuberculosis and M. avium result in limited production of pro-inflammatory mediators relative to cells infected with attenuated or non-pathogenic mycobacteria.
      • keywords: mycobacteria; pathogenic
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4528. vd66vx04j65
      • author: Timothy Ian Morrow
      • title: Development and application of molecular dynamics methods to the study of ionic liquids
      • date: 2006
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Many of the current computational methods for the prediction of phase equilibrium properties rely upon trial particle insertion/deletion steps or particle transformation steps. It is shown that dynamic particle transformations are nearly an order of magnitude more efficient than standard MC-type transformations.
      • keywords: equilibrium; ils; ionic; liquids; molecular; particle; phase; prediction; properties; transformations
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4529. vd66vx04k1r
      • author: Sarah Marie Ward
      • title: The Role of Inhibitor of DNA Binding 2 (ID2) in the Mammalian Circadian Clock
      • date: 2010
      • words: 495
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: It appears the most critical property of circadian clocks is the ability to anticipate environmental changes which can enable organisms to adapt and organize their physiology and behavior such that it occurs at biologically advantageous times of the day. Chapter 3 illustrates that ID2 has a role within the liver tissue as a regulator of clock output.
      • keywords: behavior; chapter; circadian; clock; id2; mammalian; molecular; physiology; role; system
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4530. vd66vx04k4s
      • author: Wenting Lu
      • title: The Development of 93Zr/93Nb Isobar Separation Technique for Future 93Zr AMS Measurement
      • date: 2015
      • words: 387
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: 93Zr and the stable Zr isotopes (except 96Zr) are traditionally thought to be mainly produced by the s-process in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and secondarily, by the r-process in massive stars. The main challenges in the AMS measurement of the 93Zr isotope are the separation of 93Zr from stable Zr isotopes (limited by the facility infrastructure) and the separation of 93Zr from its stable isobar 93Nb (one atomic number difference).The development of a technique for future 93Zr AMS measurements has been performed at the Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL) of the University of Notre Dame.
      • keywords: 93zr; ams; cross; detector; isotopes; nuclear; sections; sensitivity; stable
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4531. vd66vx04m43
      • author: Allison Edgren
      • title: The Needy, the "Lazy," and the "Lying": Beggars and Begging in Late Medieval Germany
      • date: 1904
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: As most of the early German begging legislation sought to regulate which people could beg and where they could do so, this section examines how perceptions of beggars were reflected spatially in attempts to regulate permissible begging locations, and then considers how and why medieval donors discriminated among the poor. The final chapter then reverses these donor-centered approaches to charity and considers almsgiving from the perspective of a beggar, as the begging poor were also active participants in medieval charitable exchanges.
      • keywords: beggars; begging; dissertation; german; medieval; poor
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4532. vd66vx0569c
      • author: David P. Squires
      • title: A Defense of Aristotle's Constituent Ontology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: My first chapter is an introduction that contextualizes the arguments of my dissertation by reviewing the definitions of constituent and relational ontology and highlighting the features of constituent ontology that will be the focus of the main chapters. What can be said in defense of the coherence and truth of constituent ontology?
      • keywords: aristotle; chapter; constituent; defense; ontology; truth
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4533. vd66vx0580w
      • author: Sam VandenHeuvel
      • title: Exploring Reaction Versatility of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters
      • date: 1904
      • words: 65
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: cluster; groundwork
      • versions: original; plain text
4534. vd66vx05b7x
      • author: Ju-Young Kim
      • title: Tandem Optical Detection Strategies Based on Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Spectroscopy
      • date: 2019
      • words: 426
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: By analyzing the spectra with multivariate curve resolution analysis, SPR-SERS spectroscopy demonstrated its potential to distinguish specific binding signals from the net sensorgram, thereby expanding the capabilities of SPR spectroscopy. First, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy is correlated with SERS in the Kretschmann configuration, as demonstrated by successfully recording SPR sensorgram and SERS spectra separately and simultaneously, which is introduced in Chapter 2.
      • keywords: bis; msb; raman; sers; single; spectra; spectroscopy; spr; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
4535. vd66vx05c9x
      • author: Zehao Pan
      • title: Focused Electric Field: Nanoscale Hotspot and Droplet Electrokinetics for High-Resolution Bioanalysis
      • date: 2019
      • words: 574
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In contrast, enhancing the shear rate of a flow field by the same factor would require a bulky mechanical micropump with high pressure and high precision. As an alternative approach to the conventional flow-based microfluidic methods, electrokinetics offers new possibilities to tackle the current issues in high resolution bioanalysis.
      • keywords: bioanalysis; chapter; cost; electric; field; high; iace; issues; microfluidic; molecular; nanopore; new; resolution; technologies
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4536. vd66vx05d8w
      • author: Ruth Carmi
      • title: The Israeli Kidnapped Prince – A Glance into the Phenomenology of Ethiopian Ethnicity, and Discrimination in Israel
      • date: 2019
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: On December 2013, a seven-justice panel of the Israeli Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that a three-year-old Ethiopian toddler would remain with his foster non-Ethiopian family rather than being adopted by his Ethiopian aunt. This supposedly specific case of adoption and the Israeli regulations and practices surrounding adoption work together to marginalize Ethiopian Jews under the cover of the law, and it proclaims to neutrality.
      • keywords: adoption; case; court; decision; ethiopian; israel
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4537. vd66vx05f6h
      • author: Lydia R. Wermer
      • title: Dual-Pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown for Ignition Applications
      • date: 2019
      • words: 619
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: For SPLIB, the hot plume region increased with increasing incident pulse energy. The breakdown perimeter, temperature, and electron number density all increase with increasing total laser pulse energy for DPLIB and SPLIB.
      • keywords: breakdown; dplib; energy; flame; flow; ignition; propagation; pulse; regime; time
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4538. vd66vx05p8c
      • author: Mohsen Darayi
      • title: Investigation of the Buckling Instabilities in Multilayer Systems under Constraints, Focusing on the Mechanics of Brain Folding
      • date: 2022
      • words: 176
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: The process of gyrification, by which the brain develops the intricate pattern of gyral hills and sulcal valleys, results from biological and mechanical interactions during brain development. In addition to innovative experimental studies to answer these questions, researchers have developed various mathematical models to research aspects of brain development.
      • keywords: brain; development; folding; pattern; process
      • versions: original; plain text
4539. vh53ws87s5s
      • author: Steven M. Asiala
      • title: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for Characterization of Particles in Solution
      • date: 2014
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Auto- and cross-correlation of the time dependent SERS signal allows for the monitoring of diffusion dynamics for particles ranging in radius from 50 to 500nm while simultaneously rejecting extraneous signal fluctuations. This dissertation focuses on the development of a 2D planar Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrate and demonstrates its utility through in situ detection and the monitoring of the dynamics of macromolecular particles via correlation spectroscopy.
      • keywords: diffusion; particles; sers; signal; substrate; surface
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4540. vh53ws87s64
      • author: Dylan R. Reed
      • title: By and By: Short Stories
      • date: 2006
      • words: 2
      • flesch: 77
      • summary: Short Stories
      • keywords: short
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4541. vh53ws87s7g
      • author: Elizabeth M. Planalp
      • title: Determinants of Father Involvement with Young Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Birth Cohort)
      • date: 2014
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Mother play and father play were related, and fathers increased in play over time at a faster rate with girls than boys. The current study used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Birth Cohort) to explore determinants of father involvement.
      • keywords: caregiving; father; involvement; play; time
      • versions: original; plain text
4542. vh53ws87s8t
      • author: Anjin Guo
      • title: Coverage Performance in Cellular Networks: Spatial Stochastic Model Fitting and Asymptotic Deployment Gain
      • date: 2014
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: To demonstrate the usefulness of the ADG for the characterization of the coverage, we investigate the coverage probabilities and the ADGs for different point processes and fading statistics by simulations. Second, we consider the very general class of motion-invariant point processes as models for the BSs and theoretically analyze the behavior of the outage probability.
      • keywords: bss; coverage; fitting; point; probability; process
      • versions: original; plain text
4543. vh53ws87t0c
      • author: Matthew Van Antwerp
      • title: Temporal and Topological Analysis of Open Source Software Networks
      • date: 2014
      • words: 115
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: One aspect of this study is the nature of developer ties, how repeat ties affect long-term project popularity and development on SourceForge, as well as the distributions of various temporal measurements. This document presents work examining Open Source Software (OSS) project and developer networks, built from Concurrent Versions System (CVS) log data, from topological and temporal perspectives.
      • keywords: developer; network; oss; temporal
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4544. vh53ws87t1q
      • author: David Aaron Deen
      • title: Fabrication of Ultra-Shallow Channel AlN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors
      • date: 2007
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Lower quality AlN barriers have large dislocation densities and are easy to form ohmic contacts on, however with higher crystalline quality AlN, conventional methods of forming ohmic contacts seem to be of little value. Conventional and unconventional ohmic contact experiments to high quality AlN have been performed and discussed.
      • keywords: aln; gan; high; ohmic; quality
      • versions: original; plain text
4545. vh53ws87t22
      • author: Heidi Oberholtzer Lee
      • title: Appetite and Desire in Early American Travel Narratives
      • date: 2006
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: In this dissertation, I take a comparativist American Studies approach to argue that travel writers from both North and South America, including the Caribbean, from the mid-seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century, read and write their environments through a hermeneutic of appetite. Early American travel writers record through a language of food and eating the physical transformations that they believe confirm their religious piety, their economic viability, their visions of themselves as citizens of a civilized nation, and the success of their nation's imperialist projects.
      • keywords: american; century; early; hermeneutic; language; mid; travel; writers
      • versions: original; plain text
4546. vh53ws87t3d
      • author: Iliya Todorov
      • title: Aromatic, conjugated and polymeric species of Sn in the solid state.
      • date: 2008
      • words: 270
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: A few noteworthy examples are: 1) Na8BaSn6 and Na8BaPb6 with aromatic pentagonal rings of Sn56- and Pb56-, respectively, that are isostructural and isoelectronic with the cyclpentadienyl anion, C5H5 -; 2) Li9-xEuSn6+x, Li5Ca7Sn11, L i6Eu5Sn9 with trimers, hexamers and infinite conjugated chains of Sn, in addition to aromatic pentagonal rings; 3) LiMgEu2Sn3 and LiMgSr2Sn3 with infinite conjugated chains of Sn and single atom anions; 4) Na4CaSn6 with channels built of cyclohexane-like units of Sn6 6-; 5)Li2Ln5Sn7 (Ln = Ce, Pr, Sm, Eu) with branched polymeric 1D chains. All of the above-mentioned compounds nicely illustrate the delicate balance between packing efficiency and electronic requirements, which explains the stabilization of these novel tetrel clusters, which are inaccessible in pure binary systems.
      • keywords: chains; compounds; novel; rings; systems
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4547. vh53ws87t4r
      • author: Everaldo Marques de Aguiar Jr.
      • title: Private and Oblivious Set and Multiset Operations
      • date: 2012
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This work describes the design and implementation of a comprehensive suite of multi-party protocols for set and multiset operations that are composable and optimized to have small interactive round complexities, making this approach highly suitable to secure outsourcing. With the recent advent of cloud computing and the constant maturing of computation outsourcing techniques, incentives for the adoption of such technologies have reached an all-time high.
      • keywords: computing; operations; outsourcing; protocols; set
      • versions: original; plain text
4548. vh53ws87t6f
      • author: Zoltan Dezso
      • title: The Topology and Dynamics of Complex Networks
      • date: 2005
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: We start with a brief introduction about the topological properties of real networks. The scale-free nature of real networks leads to unexpected properties such as the vanishing epidemic threshold.
      • keywords: epidemic; law; networks; power; real; scale
      • versions: original; plain text
4549. vh53ws87t84
      • author: Christian Wolfgang Koller
      • title: Analysis and Design of Asymptotically Good Concatenated Coding Schemes
      • date: 2012
      • words: 525
      • flesch: 37
      • 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.
      • keywords: channel; code; coding; distance; ensembles; growth; minimum; multiple; rate; rlnc
      • versions: original; plain text
4550. vh53ws87t9g
      • author: Michael Young Thompson
      • title: Stratified flow past a hill: application of the dividing streamline concept
      • date: 2013
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: A new analytical solution for Sheppard?s formula is presented and compared with iterative solutions based on numerical computations, and the simple H_s/h=(1-Fr) formula based on the restrictive assumption of homogeneity of flow. The demarcation between the two types of flow is signified by the dividing streamline, and its height H_s from the ground is related to the Froude number Fr=U_&#8734;/(N_&#8734; h) , where U_&#8734;, N_&#8734; and h are the characteristic velocity and buoyancy frequency of the upstream flow and the topographic height respectively.
      • keywords: dividing; flow; formula; height; streamline
      • versions: original; plain text
4551. vh53ws87v0p
      • author: Glenn Joseph Bradford
      • title: A Framework for Implementation and Evaluation of Cooperative Diversity in Software-Defined Radio
      • date: 2010
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This thesis focuses on cooperative diversity, a concept that obtains spatial diversity via relaying. Cooperative diversity encompasses a broad range of issues, from the physical layer through network layer, making the emerging reconfigurable technology of software-defined radio ideal for experimentation.
      • keywords: cooperative; diversity; layer
      • versions: original; plain text
4552. vh53ws87v11
      • author: Nathan James Regola
      • title: Infrastructure For Big Data
      • date: 2012
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The modern day challenge of big data is occurring because many advancements in computer system performance occurred in the arena of CPU performance and massive parallelism. However, increased I/O performance alone will not address all of the issues with analysis systems.
      • keywords: analysis; data; performance; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
4553. vh53ws87v3q
      • author: Laura M. Herder
      • title: Nucleation of Surface Platinum Oxide on Pt(111)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 472
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: An understanding of conditions leading to different O phases, and interactions of O phases with reactant and product molecules could more accurately describe and even predicting the behavior of Pt catalysts. Higher chemisorbed O coverages (0.25-0.75 ML) or oxide overlayers (0.75 ML and higher) can be obtained either by annealing in \ce{O2} or by utilizing ozone, atomic O, or \ce{NO2}.
      • keywords: atoms; coverages; different; fcc; interactions; phases; sites; surface
      • versions: original; plain text
4554. vh53ws87v6r
      • author: Megan J. Hall
      • title: Learning and Literacy Outside the Convent: Early Middle English Women Readers and the Ancrene Wisse
      • date: 1904
      • words: 475
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: A new look at textual evidence previously considered by scholars, together with my presentation of new evidence, reveals that the early anchoresses would have understood the Latin in the Ancrene Wisse and were heavily involved in manuscript culture. This study builds on previous scholarship but goes beyond it in close textual and codicological analysis to argue for a greater Latinity and participation in manuscript culture by thirteenth century anchoritic readers of the Ancrene Wisse than has been demonstrated before in the scholarship.
      • keywords: ancrene; latin; manuscripts; nero; readers; wisse; women
      • versions: original; plain text
4555. vh53ws87w00
      • author: Matt Pelkey
      • title: Sad Young Men on Bikes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 16
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: A collection of short stories that explores contemporary artistic subcultures in Chicago and other American cities.
      • keywords: cities
      • versions: original; plain text
4556. vh53ws88h47
      • author: Erich W. Kinder
      • title: Gating of Two Dimensional Materials Using Solid Polymer Electrolytes and Ferroelectrics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: By tuning the Erich Kinder glass transition temperature of the SPE, the EDL retention time can be increased by six orders of magnitude at room temperature while still achieving charge carrier densities in excess of 10^14 cm^−2 , enabling unique hardware security. While most properties can be characterized by measuring the unmodified materials, many electrical properties require the charge state of the material to be modulated.
      • keywords: charge; dielectric; edl; electrical; material; properties; spe
      • versions: original; plain text
4557. vh53ws88j1h
      • author: Sam Glaser
      • title: Strategic Cadre-Building in American Party Formation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 320
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: I show that these variables are not easily specified and do not appear to distinguish between new party success and failure. As a result, new party success often has a surprisingly limited impact on the political order.
      • keywords: formation; new; parties; party; political; strategic; success
      • versions: original; plain text
4558. vh53ws88j8x
      • author: Mary M. Glover
      • title: The Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Speciation in Walnut-Infesting Flies
      • date: 2018
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: However, ongoing climate change is presently shifting species distributions and changing interspecific interactions, which may in turn influence the future existence of species. In my dissertation, I investigated the factors driving speciation in the walnut-infesting Rhagoletis suavis species group to understand 1) how and where species diverged in the past, 2) how climate change is affecting present species distributions and interactions, and 3) what evolutionary and ecological mechanisms are involved in reproductively isolating species.
      • keywords: change; distributions; past; present; speciation; species; walnut
      • versions: original; plain text
4559. vh53ws88q74
      • author: Yingying Chen
      • title: Study of High Energy Levels of 26Mg through the (d,p) Reaction and Its Implications for the Neutron Source in Nuclear Astrophysics
      • date: 2019
      • words: 514
      • flesch: 43
      • 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..
      • keywords: capture; energy; neutron; rates; reaction; talwar; work
      • versions: original; plain text
4560. vh53ws88v7c
      • author: Kirsten Vail Aguilar
      • title: Debris
      • date: 2020
      • words: 11
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: A collection of short stories exploring grief, sex and natural disaster.
      • keywords: disaster
      • versions: original; plain text
4561. vh53ws88x1x
      • author: Tyler J. Thomas
      • title: Reason Reborn: Descartes, Philosophy, and the General Good of Men
      • date: 2021
      • words: 398
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This study attempts to establish the public relevance of Cartesian philosophy. Whereas the French theorists were primarily interested in the social effects of Cartesian philosophy, that is, the reduction of the authority of Aristotle and the Catholic Church, this study takes as its starting point the question of Descartes's own intentions in publishing his philosophy in the forms he chose.
      • keywords: cartesian; descartes; method; philosophy; public; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4562. vh53ws88x9p
      • author: Lauren Partin
      • title: Multitask and Multifidelity Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Networks
      • date: 2022
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: First, we characterize the properties of the noise generated from undersampled 4D flow MRI Fourier space data. For the multifidelity fusion, we consider data regimes with varying input and output dimensionality.
      • keywords: convolutional; data; mri; relative
      • versions: original; plain text
4563. vm40xp71248
      • author: Nicholas Salvatore Geraci
      • title: Profiling of Host Immune Responses to Leishmania Parasites and Phlebotomine Arthropod Vectors via Investigations of microRNA Regulation and Acquired Immunity
      • date: 2015
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The host:vector interface was examined through analyses of anti-sand fly salivary gland proteins using blood plasma antibodies from persons residing in differentially endemic regions of Phlebotomus papatasi vectors. Target reporter experiments confirmed miR-155's ability to target SMAD1, while quantitative Western blot analysis found a greater down-regulation of SMAD1 protein in L. donovani infection samples compared to L. major samples.
      • keywords: dcs; donovani; fly; host; leishmania; major; mirnas; parasites; sand
      • versions: original; plain text
4564. vm40xp7125m
      • author: Richard Marc Majerus
      • title: Let's Talk About Race: Racial Teacher Matching and Student Achievement Growth
      • date: 2010
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: To answer this question, piecewise achievement growth models are fit to all seven data points in the Early Childhood Education Longitudinal Study in a test of the racial matching hypothesis, which posits that African American students experience greater rates of achievement growth when they have African American elementary school teachers. Should public school districts purposefully recruit African American teachers to help close the racial achievement gap?
      • keywords: achievement; growth; matching; racial; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4565. vm40xp71306
      • author: Jialin Zhao
      • title: Engineering of Silicon and Germanium Tunnel Diodes for Integrated Circuit Application
      • date: 2008
      • words: 290
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: A self-aligned lateral fabrication process, which forms the junction perpendicular to the substrate plane, has also been successfully developed and yielded backward Si tunnel diodes with peak current densities of 30 nA/ÌÂm2. To the author's knowledge, these accomplishments are the first demonstration of lateral Si tunnel diodes using spin-on diffusants and rapid thermal processing.
      • keywords: approach; current; densities; diodes; processing; tunnel
      • versions: original; plain text
4566. vm40xp71368
      • author: Xiaofeng Wang
      • title: Event-Triggering in Cyber-Physical Systems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 263
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Based on these results, distributed event-triggering is considered in networked control systems with packet loss and transmission delays. We first study event/self-triggering in embedded control systems.
      • keywords: event; subsystem; systems; triggering
      • versions: original; plain text
4567. vm40xp7138z
      • author: Kevin Moore Cherry
      • title: Aristotle's First Critique: The Eleatic Stranger and the Politics
      • date: 2007
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The Eleatic articulates a view of nature which is hostile toward human life; therefore, he argues that the end of political life is primarily preservation. Moreover, it shows resemblances between the political theory of the Eleatic Stranger and that of modernity, which lends credence to neo-Aristotelian critiques of contemporary political life.
      • keywords: aristotle; eleatic; life; political; politics
      • versions: original; plain text
4568. vm40xp7143j
      • author: Badri Nath Tiwari
      • title: Antenna-Coupled Unbiased Detectors For LW-IR Regime
      • date: 2011
      • words: 461
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The third part of this research focuses on the effect of DC read-out interconnects on polarization characteristics of the planar dipole antennas. The major drawbacks of MOM-based devices include hard-to-control fabrication processes, generally very high zero-biased resistances, and vulnerability to electrostatic discharges, leading to unstable electrical characteristics.
      • keywords: antenna; dependent; different; ends; open; polarization; research; temperature
      • versions: original; plain text
4569. vm40xp7146k
      • author: Sheila McCarthy
      • title: Healing the Body of Christ: Liturgy, Trauma, and the Works of Mercy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 90
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This dissertation shows how Aquinas, Augustine, and leaders of the Liturgical Movement (Virgil Michel, Dorothy Day, and Ade Bethune), offer a robust sense of mercy, accessed through the Eucharistic Liturgy, and practiced in the Works of Mercy, which allow those who have experienced trauma to know their deification. In the face of guilt and shame afflicting the morally injured, psychology has acknowledged there must be spiritual healing.
      • keywords: mercy; trauma
      • versions: original; plain text
4570. vm40xp7155j
      • author: Liyuan Sun
      • title: Investigation of Ionic Liquids for Electrochemical Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 419
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Further investigation on the effect of addition of lithium AHA salts on the transport properties of the lithium salt/IL mixtures showed that lithium ions, although with a smaller size, diffuse slower than the cation and anion of the IL, which is a strong indicator of the existence of complexes formed by lithium and anions. Consistent with previous studies, significant increase in viscosity and decrease in ionic conductivity with addition of lithium salts were observed for the three AHA RTIL based mixtures.
      • keywords: applications; chromium; ils; ionic; liquids; lithium; mixtures; properties; reduction; rtils
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4571. vm40xp7156w
      • author: David Charles Rozek
      • title: Unpacking Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Effects of Completing a Thought Record on Affective and Neuroendocrine Responses to Stress
      • date: 1904
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Theoretically, cognitive change is an important mechanism of CBT that is targeted through cognitive restructuring by clinicians using a variety of treatment techniques throughout therapy. This research provides a novel examination of the causal effects of completing a thought record on physiological responses to a psychosocial stressor in a laboratory study.
      • keywords: cbt; condition; record; techniques; thought; treatment; tsst
      • versions: original; plain text
4572. vm40xp7258v
      • author: Shuo Yang
      • title: Seismic Response of Bridges Crossing Strike-Slip Fault Rupture Zones
      • date: 2021
      • words: 468
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: To investigate the effects of fault crossing conditions and structural properties on the seismic response of bridge structures crossing strike-slip faults, a parametric study of ordinary and seismically isolated bridges is presented by performing NLRHA using actual near-fault ground-motion records from earthquakes of different magnitudes and by varying the fault crossing angle, fault crossing location, pier height, and span length. This dissertation focuses on (a) developing and validating a simple method for generating across-fault seismic ground motions for the analysis of bridges crossing strike-slip faults, (b) investigating the sensitivity of the seismic response of bridge structures crossing strike-slip faults to different parameters and conditions by means of nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA), and (c) evaluating the accuracy of the fault rupture-response spectrum analysis (FR-RSA) method against NLRHA in estimating the peak response of bridges crossing strike-slip faults for different fault crossing conditions.
      • keywords: bridges; crossing; fault; ground; response; seismic; slip; strike
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4573. vm40xp7266g
      • author: Seol Baek
      • title: Selective Ion Transport Control and Single Molecule Dynamics in Nanopore Electrode Arrays
      • date: 2021
      • words: 570
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In the third topic, NEAs are used in a bifunctional zero mode waveguide (ZMW) configuration that combines electrochemistry with spectroscopy for single enzyme molecule studies. The work in this dissertation addresses three main topics: the development of massively parallel NEAs for selective ion/molecular transport control, sensitive electrochemical detection, and spectroelectrochemical single enzyme molecule studies in nanoconfined geometries.
      • keywords: bcp; charge; electrochemical; membrane; nanopores; neas; pka; potential; redox; single; structures; transport
      • versions: original; plain text
4574. vm40xp72801
      • author: Matthew Vale
      • title: Christian Vijñānavāda: Yogācāra, Nondual Cognition, and Christian Theology
      • date: 2022
      • words: 425
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The result is a critical philosophical basis for wider Christian theological receptions of these Buddhist accounts of nondual cognition, from Yogācāra, to Indo-Tibetan Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen, to the East Asian Buddhist traditions likewise indebted to Yogācārin teachings. Chapter 6 uses all the foregoing to develop a Christian reception of Yogācārin accounts of nondual cognition.
      • keywords: accounts; ancient; buddhist; chapter; christian; cognition; indian; late; nondual; reception; yogācārin
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4575. vq27zk54b7n
      • author: Natalie Anna Wasio
      • title: Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of organometallic molecules on Au(111): Mixed valence states and quasicrystalline ordering
      • date: 2014
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Generally, neutral molecules show a symmetric electronic charge distribution whereas MV molecules show an asymmetric charge distribution in STM images. Pulse deposition of molecules on a substrate removes bulk solvent and the charge-transfer properties of the molecules of interest can be studied.
      • keywords: assembly; charge; electronic; molecules; neutral; stm; structure
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4576. vq27zk54b80
      • author: Carrie S. Erlin
      • title: Pathways to Parenthood: An Assessment of Family Structural Context Over the Transition to Parenthood
      • date: 2010
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: This research also compares the family experience of adding a child into these three main structures to determine whether family experience, initial family structure, or an interaction between the two has a greater impact on marital quality variables. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANCOVA) results indicate that while family experience, in the form of the transition to parenthood, appears to impact later values of marital quality variables, initial family structure has an effect on initial starting values which also impact later marital functioning.
      • keywords: family; marital; quality
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4577. vq27zk54b9b
      • author: Rebecca Y. M. Cheung
      • title: Linking Parental Depressive Symptoms and Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Mediating Roles of Family Emotional Expressiveness, Interparental and Family Conflict, and Adolescent Emotional Insecurity
      • date: 2014
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Assessments included mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms and family emotional expressiveness when their adolescent children were in 7th grade, interparental and family conflict and emotional insecurity when the adolescents were in 8th grade, and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems in 9th grade. Guided by the family systems theory (Cox & Paley, 1997) and emotional security theory (Davies & Cummings, 1994), the present study examines multiple mediators linking parental depressive symptoms and adolescent behavior problems.
      • keywords: adolescents; emotional; family; model
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4578. vq27zk54c0j
      • author: Josephine K. Dru
      • title: In Light and Shadow of Multiple Wholes: How Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon Read Joel among the Twelve as Scripture
      • date: 2014
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: While both interpreters treat Joel texts as simultaneously belonging to multiple contexts, they do so in strikingly different ways. Chapters 2-3 explain the book of Joel as an example of specificity deliberately blurred, a leading member of the Twelve, and a densely intertextual part of multiple collections.
      • keywords: case; contexts; different; interpreters; joel; multiple; prophets
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4579. vq27zk54c27
      • author: elisabetta drudi
      • title: Lucan's Bellum Civile: The Struggle of Poetic Writing under the Imperial Autocracy
      • date: 2015
      • words: 131
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Their noticeable number and expressive content are marks of Lucan's rhetorical and poetical novelty, and therefore represent compelling keys to understanding the poet's conception of imperial autocracy, and his ability to engrain it in a literary discourse. In this thesis I propose a reading of how Lucan's Bellum Civile responds to its contemporary historical and political environment, the reality of the Roman imperial regime, and offers a reflection on the meaning of writing literature under imperial rule.
      • keywords: imperial; lucan; poet
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4580. vq27zk54c3k
      • author: Ozlem Kayhan Pusane
      • title: Insurgencies, Counterinsurgencies, and Civil-Military Relations: When, How, and Why Do Civilians Prevail?
      • date: 2009
      • words: 462
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Most scholars of civil-military relations argue that the presence of domestic security threats increases the role of the military in politics. However, domestic security threats do not always increase the political involvement of the armed forces.
      • keywords: armed; civilian; forces; military; policy; political; relations; security; threats
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4581. vq27zk54c4x
      • author: Jacqueline Marie Den Hartog
      • title: A 'Wild and Ambiguous Medium': Letters and Epistolary Fictions in Early America, 1780-1830
      • date: 2006
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: American authors recognized the ambiguities inherent in the epistolary form and used letters to complicate and destabilize the teleological narrative of national destiny that characterized political documents and popular rhetoric. At the same time, the expansion of print culture changed the ways in which letters were read and interpreted, paradoxically investing the handwritten form with greater authority and meaning than it signified a century earlier.
      • keywords: american; early; epistolary; form; letters; novels; popular; print
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4582. vq27zk54c58
      • author: Cheman Rachel Roy
      • title: With Universal Applause: The Exotic and Eighteenth Century Afterpieces
      • date: 2008
      • words: 283
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Anglo-Irish dramatists such as John O'Keeffe drew heavily upon models of exoticism as a means of highlighting their parallels to the Britain's treatment of Irish Catholics. James Cobb, future Secretary of the East India Company show how afterpieces could be used as a means of harnessing popular support for the military actions of the East India Company even as he fundamentally questions its motivations and its claims of the right to rule in India.
      • keywords: afterpieces; britain; british; empire; irish; means; popular
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4583. vq27zk54c6m
      • author: Jing Huang
      • title: State Estimation and PEV Scheduling in Smart Grids
      • date: 2012
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: In this dissertation, we show that centralized scheduling algorithms can help the parking lot owner to balance distribution system load with quality of charging service. This dissertation studies state estimation (SE) and scheduling algorithms for modeling and managing smarter electric power systems.
      • keywords: charging; dissertation; distribution; state; studies; system
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4584. vq27zk54c89
      • author: Chad D. Mano
      • title: Defending against Malicious Rogue System Threats
      • date: 2006
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In addition, rogue threats in less traditional types of network environments, such as peer-to-peer and personal area networks, will be addressed in order to provide protection from all means of electronic rogue system attacks. The future direction of this work includes applying these techniques to newly identified threats for the purpose of gauging the effectiveness of the proposed methods and to aid in discovering new means of defending against rogue system attacks.
      • keywords: attacks; detection; network; purpose; rogue; system; threats; wireless
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4585. vq27zk54d0v
      • author: Karen M. Hooge
      • title: Religion, Gender, and Body Satisfaction Among Emerging Adults
      • date: 2013
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This is suggested to be due to both an increased importance in body satisfaction for young women and increased religious salience for young women. The effects of being religious vary by gender, with stronger positive coefficients for young women than for young men.
      • keywords: body; satisfaction
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4586. vq27zk54d16
      • author: Mark Hamilton Ross
      • title: Tip Clearance Flow Interaction with Circumferential Groove Casing Treatment in a Transonic Axial Compressor
      • date: 2013
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Extending the axial momentum model to include the influence of a CGCT showed that circumferential grooves reduce the tip leakage flow axial momentum through radial transport. The axial position of this line moved upstream with decreasing flow coefficient in both the experiments and computations.
      • keywords: axial; flow; flux; groove; leakage; momentum; tip
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4587. vq27zk54d3w
      • author: David AJ Trujillo
      • title: Jerry Spagnoli, Mark Osterman, and the Rebirth of Photographic Theory
      • date: 2012
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: The post-historical photographic movement, a loosely affiliated group of photographers who use historical photographic processes to explore contemporary themes, have sparked this need for a new approach to photographic discourse. Modernist photographic theory holds the art object dear, while postmodernist approaches believe the photograph to be a vehicle for the transference of power between larger cultural institutions.
      • keywords: modernist; photographic; postmodernist; theory
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4588. vq27zk54d5k
      • author: Daniel Escher
      • title: Unmoving People, Removing Mountains: Coal Mining, Cultural Matching, and Micro-mobilization in Central Appalachia
      • date: 1904
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: I discovered the presence of cultural matching and mismatching in recruitment and enrollment: Social movement organizations tended to recruit participants who already fit culturally with the existing group's mobilizing style—a set of understandings, tactics, and modes of interacting that cohered around a group's theory of social change; local residents tended to join and support an organization on the congeniality of its mobilizing style. Mobilizing styles had semiotic import, most noticeably by placing social movement organizations on a relationally-defined scale of insider–outsider.
      • keywords: cultural; local; mobilization; residents; social; style
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4589. vq27zk54d78
      • author: Raju R. Rayavarapu
      • title: Mechanisms Utilized During the Survival of Extracellular Matrix Detached Mammary Epithelial Cells
      • date: 2015
      • words: 588
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: ErbB2 and Ras are two oncogenes that have been implicated in the ability of cancer cells to avoid anoikis. Previous studies in our laboratory have found a direct correlation between upregulation of survival pathways in ECM detached cells and expression of ErbB2.
      • keywords: anoikis; cells; detached; ecm; egfr; erbb2; ras; signaling; studies
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4590. vq27zk55263
      • author: Han Du
      • title: Testing Variance Components in Linear Mixed Modeling Using Permutation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: boundary; different; permutation; tests; variance
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4591. vq27zk5528s
      • author: Aaron Wells
      • title: Reason and Reality in Kant
      • date: 1904
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: On a standard reading, a major result of Kant's critical philosophy is the demotion of theoretical reason to a merely ideal and regulative role. This essay seeks to do justice to the systematic ambition of Kant's positive account of theoretical reason.
      • keywords: kant; real; reason; theoretical; use
      • versions: original; plain text
4592. vq27zk5546q
      • author: Anton Protasov
      • title: The UN Security Council and the Settlement of the Syrian Crisis: Vetos and Post-Veto Scenarios
      • date: 2019
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Chapter 1 analyzes all the twelve draft resolutions vetoed by Russia and China regarding the crisis in Syria, along with relevant Security Council meeting records. In particular, we identify the conditions under which the UN Security Council becomes paralyzed because of the veto power and analyze how draft resolutions develop after being vetoed.
      • keywords: council; security; veto
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4593. vq27zk55530
      • author: Jorge Morales Ferreiro
      • title: Experimental and Simulation Study of Electron and Phonon Properties in Crystalline Materials
      • date: 2019
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Our estimation of thermal conductivity of 13.5 W/mK, are in good agreement with the in-plane thermal conductivity obtained from experiments, where the thermal conductivity is measured to be 14 ± 5 W/mK at room temperature. Regarding phonon transport, we applied first-principles lattice dynamics and semi-empirical Boltzmann transport to study the phonon properties and lattice thermal conductivity of NbSe2.
      • keywords: conductivity; electrical; materials; properties; snse; study; thermal; transport
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4594. vq27zk55817
      • author: Eryn L. Pritchett
      • title: Sex and the Senses: The Poetic Process in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae
      • date: 2019
      • words: 437
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: The connection between the sex and senses which is established by chapter one creates subtle expectations for the audience, which Aristophanes is able to challenge in the assembly scene, so that gender identity is always unstable, always unsure. This thesis offers a new interpretation of the Thesmophoriazusae which further explores the transvestment of characters within this comedy.
      • keywords: chapter; foley; relationship; revermann; senses; sex
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4595. vq27zk55g3s
      • author: Elizabeth Williams
      • title: Transgender Inclusion and Exclusion within the Women's March
      • date: 2021
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: The March claimed to be open to all in support of its cause; but this biological imagery centered an essentialist, binary understanding of womanhood. Based on 22 interviews with transgender individuals, this thesis will focus on this symbol, with special attention to the intersection of race and gender.
      • keywords: focus; march; women
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4596. vq27zk55h02
      • author: Patrick K. Kirkland
      • title: Characterizing Mature Number Sense and Its Association To Other Constructs in Middle School Students
      • date: 2022
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Students with mature number sense make sense of numbers and operations, use reasoning to notice patterns, and flexibly select the most effective and efficient problem-solving strategies (McIntosh et al., 1997; Reys et al., 1999; Yang, 2005). Then, using our developed measure, we analyzed 129 middle school students' scores on our brief assessment of mature number sense and measures of several related constructs, including grade-level mathematics achievement and rational number knowledge.
      • keywords: mathematics; mature; measure; number; sense; students
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4597. vq27zk55h95
      • author: Cale Harnish
      • title: An Adaptive Wavelet Method for Multiscale Modeling with Applications in Dynamic Damage
      • date: 2022
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The novel N-dimensional algorithm exploits the multiresolution nature of wavelet basis functions to solve initial-boundary value problems on finite domains. The implementation of this algorithm is verified, establishing mathematical correctness with spatial convergence in agreement with the theoretical estimates.
      • keywords: algorithm; basis; novel; problems; spatial; wavelet
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4598. vq27zk55j84
      • author: Marie-Claire Klassen
      • title: Spring of Living Waters: A Theological Ethnography of Palestinian Liberation Theology: The Liberative Faith Practices of Women and Laypeople at Sabeel
      • date: 2023
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: What becomes clear through this study is that ongoing liberative practices, which constitute Palestinian liberation theology, allow for new responses to these questions to emerge in the ever-shifting political context. To date, research on Palestinian liberation theology has focused on texts.
      • keywords: liberation; palestinian; theology
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4599. vt150g37m7v
      • author: Vince Lombardo
      • title: The Total Synthesis of 20-Deoxyapoptolidinone
      • date: 2012
      • words: 227
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Apoptolidin purportedly targets mitochondrial F0F1-ATPase (F-ATPase) and induces apoptosis selectively in cells transformed with the adenovirus oncogene, leaving normal cells unaffected. Apoptolidin retains activity in concentrations as low as 10nM; normal cells remain unaffected at concentrations as high as 80åµM. Unfortunately, Wender and Sulikowski independently demonstrated the ring expansion-isomerization of apoptolidin A via an acyl migration of the C20-hydroxyl group to form a less active congener, isoapoptolidin.
      • keywords: activity; apoptolidin; atpase; c20; cells
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4600. vt150g37n2f
      • author: Stephen A. Luke
      • title: A New Approach for Modeling Gravitational Radiation from the Inspiral of Two Neutron Stars
      • date: 2008
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 38
      • 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.
      • keywords: approach; cfc; equations; general; gravitational; metric; neutron; radiation
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4601. vt150g37n8h
      • author: Amy Rohly
      • title: Role of Membrane Tubulation in NPC1-Mediated Cholesterol Efflux
      • date: 2010
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: In order to determine the role of TVMs in cholesterol transport, TVM-associated proteins including EHD1 and Rabs7-9 were investigated in NPC1 TVMs through transfection of wild type and mutant constructs and immunoprecipitation studies. Preliminary studies have shown that wild type NPC1 localizes to tubulovesicular membranes (TVMs) that move rapidly between membrane compartments, whereas NPC1-I1061T mutant localizes primarily to immobile spherical vesicles.
      • keywords: cholesterol; npc1; rab8; tvms; type
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4602. vt150g37p02
      • author: Dirk Van Bruggen
      • title: A Modular Software Packet Router for Android
      • date: 2012
      • words: 122
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Current methods for evaluation of network protocols include network simulators and mobile testbeds but suffer from inaccurate models of physical interactions and time consuming network programming. Our work aims to create an easy to use, highly configurable software framework which will allow for the quick implementation of network experiments on mobile devices utilizing features such as packet interception, modification and injection.
      • keywords: cellular; mobile; network
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4603. vt150g37p33
      • author: Syed Tariq Ahmad
      • 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
      • date: 2006
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: degeneration; drosophila; genes; mutants; ninag; norpa; retinal; rh1; rhodopsin
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4604. vt150g37p5s
      • author: Kathryn Veeman
      • title: Sende Ì_is booke ageyne hoome to Shirley: John Shirley and the Circulation of Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century England
      • date: 2011
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: While extant scholarship on Shirley tends to narrowly focus on his biography or on the codicology of his manuscripts, this dissertation connects his life and works to larger discourses of literary history. Integrating manuscript studies and literary history, this project provides new insight into the profound transformations in the meanings of literature, authorship, canonicity, and pre-print publishing in fifteenth-century England.
      • keywords: dissertation; england; english; literary; manuscripts; shirley
      • versions: original; plain text
4605. vt150g37r3q
      • author: Antonio J. Lepore
      • title: Redox Active and Redox Neutral Transformations of Titanocene and Phosphorus
      • date: 2016
      • words: 246
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Our group focuses on the one-pot construction of these centers by employing underdeveloped reactivity of phosphorus and inexpensive transition metals. In 1990, German Professor Dieter Seebach explained in his Angewandte editorial the necessity of furthering the field of organic chemistry and the downfalls to accepting this field as a mature sciences stating the following: We have not witnessed the discovery of a new aldol, Beckman, Claisen, Cope, Diels -Alder, Mannich, Michael, or Wittig reactions; even the exploitation of strain effects in small rings and the broader application of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, dithiane methodology, ortho metallation, the acyloin, the pinacol condesations, photochemical and radical reactions, nucleophilic substitution, and umpolung reactivity took place without the discovery of new modes of reactivity.
      • keywords: centers; discovery; new; reactions; reactivity; transition
      • versions: original; plain text
4606. vt150g37t20
      • author: Zonggen Yi
      • title: Optimizing Battery Electric Transportation: Energy and Infrastructure Considerations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 399
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Spatio-temporal models have been constructed to essentially describe three-dimensional (location and time) features of energy demand. Two different optimization requirements are addressed in this dissertation: maximum number of reachable households and minimum overall energy consumption.
      • keywords: consumption; demand; electric; energy; infrastructure; models; optimal; optimization; sustainable; transportation
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4607. vt150g38b38
      • author: Katrina A Button-Simons
      • title: Genomics and Computational Techniques Facilitate Understanding Antimalarial Drug Mechanisms of Action and Mechanisms of Resistance
      • date: 1904
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Pathway-based networks analysis of genomic variation data and gene expression data from published studies of artemisinin resistance can provide a more complete understanding of the mechanism underlying artemisinin resistance. However, these gains are threatened by the emergence of artemisinin resistance in Southeast Asia.
      • keywords: acts; artemisinin; drugs; moa; mor; profiling; resistance; understanding
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4608. vt150g38h3t
      • author: Francisco R. Fields
      • title: From Plants to Pores: Selection, Design, and Optimization of Antimicrobial Peptide Scaffolds from Putative Bacteriocins
      • date: 2019
      • words: 564
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Traditionally, antimicrobial peptides are designed from naturally occurring eukaryotic peptides. The library parent peptide, coined syn-safencin, was discovered to be an alpha-helical membrane targeting AMP with preferential antimicrobial activity towards Gram-negative plant pathogens with minimal mammalian cell cytotoxicity.
      • keywords: activity; antimicrobial; bacteriocins; biophysical; library; linear; membrane; peptides; safencin; syn
      • versions: original; plain text
4609. vt150g38k0d
      • author: Mina Asghari Heidarlou
      • title: Synthesized WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors and Process for Steep Transistors
      • date: 2019
      • words: 382
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The epitaxy of two-dimensional materials has been advanced in the past 5 years to enable device research to move from exfoliated to grown channels, from customized electron beam patterning to stepper lithography, from back gates to deposited top gate dielectrics, and from single device processes to full batch processes. Atomically-thin two-dimensional semiconductors present new opportunities for minimizing transistor channel thickness and improving gate efficiency.
      • keywords: channel; device; doping; fets; gate; layer; methods; process; research; thickness; wse2
      • versions: original; plain text
4610. vt150g38p7r
      • author: Lauren A. Trichtinger
      • title: Bootstrap Methods for Testing P-Technique Factor Analysis
      • date: 2020
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: P-technique factor analysis is a factor analysis model with time series data. We illustrate the test with an empirical study and explore its statistical properties with simulated data.
      • keywords: adjacent; data; points; time
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4611. vt150g38q0n
      • author: Martin Lukindu
      • title: Molecular Tools and Genetic Approaches for Studying the Genetic Structure of Major Malaria Vectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
      • date: 2020
      • words: 884
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Knowledge generated in this research will not only help improving existing vector control strategies but also lay a foundation for implementation of novel vector control. In addition, the hypothesized roles of inversions (especially in An gambiae) in enhancing behaviors that may impact vector control approaches in sub-Sahara Africa are still largely unknown.
      • keywords: africa; control; funestus; gambiae; genetic; high; inversions; islands; lake; malaria; populations; region; saharan; study; sub; vector; victoria
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4612. vt150g38q6q
      • author: Zhe Feng
      • title: Microstructure-Based Modeling of Highly Nonlinear Behaviors of Cytoskeletal Proteins
      • date: 2022
      • words: 512
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Spectrin is characterized as the entropy dominated nonlinear elastic protein chain, which is the most important component of inner layer of red blood cell membrane. The modelings of microtubule and spectrin are closely associated with study of the biological function of cellular flow sensing and erythrocyte membrane modeling that can capture red blood cell nonlinear behaviors underneath large deformation.
      • keywords: blood; cilia; deformation; erythrocyte; flow; model; modeling; network; nonlinear; proteins; shear; spectrin
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4613. vt150g38q9r
      • author: Prasanna Siddireddy
      • title: Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson to a Muon and a Tau Lepton or to an Electron and a Tau Lepton
      • date: 2021
      • words: 132
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: This dissertation presents searches for lepton flavor violating decay of the standard model Higgs boson into a muon and a tau lepton or to an electron and a tau lepton. The observed (expected) upper limits on the branching fraction of Higgs boson decaying into a muon and a tau lepton were set at 0.15 (0.15)% at 95% CL and the branching fraction of Higgs boson decaying into an electron and a tau lepton were set at 0.22 (0.16)% at 95% CL.
      • keywords: lepton; tau
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4614. vt150g38r2n
      • author: Matyas Abel Tsegaye
      • title: Non-Canonical Regulation and Function of Anti-Apoptotic Protein c-FLIP
      • date: 2021
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The metastasis of cancer cells to distant sites accounts for over 90% of cancer related deaths. In order to metastasize, cancer cells must be able to survive during extracellular matrix (ECM) detachment, namely by blocking anoikis (a caspase-dependent cell death) and restoring metabolic deficiencies.
      • keywords: cancer; cells; ecm; flip; role; signaling; tumor
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4615. vt150g38r4b
      • author: Christopher R. Mooney
      • title: Iustitia Fidei: The Development of Augustine's Account of Justification by Faith
      • date: 2021
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Justification is therefore ascribed to a trusting, Christoform faith; righteousness consists in charity, but it abides in faith. First, faith receives divine instruction, expresses trust in grace, and conforms one to Christ's humility.
      • keywords: augustine; christ; faith; justification
      • versions: original; plain text
4616. vt150g38r8q
      • author: Nelia Martsinkiv
      • title: Unlikely Dissenters: Origins and Development of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement from Khrushchev to Gorbachev
      • date: 2021
      • words: 432
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Those historians—both Western and in the post-Soviet Ukraine as well—viewed Ukrainian intellectuals as anti-Soviet activists who sought Ukraine's secession from the USSR. My argument is based on the extensive personal materials of Ukrainian dissidents, their personal and official correspondence, interviews, and documents from KGB archives.
      • keywords: dissidents; intellectuals; regime; research; soviet; ukraine; ukrainian; ussr
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4617. vt150g38t28
      • author: Carissa DiPietro
      • title: The Interactive Effects of Sleep and Retrieval on Retention
      • date: 2022
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 44
      • 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.
      • keywords: feedback; memory; practice; retrieval; sleep; study
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4618. vt150g38t8b
      • author: Ebaa Elkalamawi
      • title: How a Government's Operationalization of the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement Influences Drug Pricing – A Case Study on Hepatitis C Prescription Drugs in Public Health Systems in the United States of America and Egypt
      • date: 2023
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: However, there is a need for a more in-depth, long-term change in the structure of granting patents in countries facing high treatment costs due to its patent laws. This research concludes that it is important to reassess drug pricing under each country's patent granting laws and how such pricing influences the affordability of treatment in respective countries.
      • keywords: countries; country; laws; sofosbuvir; treatment
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4619. vx021c20w7d
      • author: Kathryn M Docherty
      • title: Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Biodegradability of Novel Green Chemicals: Imidazolium and Pyridinium Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2008
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Before industrial release of ILs into the environment, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the toxicity, mutagenicity and microbial biodegradability of ILs in order to provide guidelines for further green chemical synthesis. This information will aid in the design of novel green chemicals and provide a guide for future collaborative research.
      • keywords: analysis; biodegradation; green; ils; industrial; mutagenicity; pyridinium; test; toxicity
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4620. vx021c20w93
      • author: Changde Cheng
      • title: Ecological and Functional Genomics of Chromosomal Inversions in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae
      • date: 2014
      • words: 484
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: However, ecological physiology and genetics of inversions in An. gambiae was not well explored, in contrast to numerous population studies of correlation of inversion frequency with ecological and environmental factors. Frequencies of inversions have been associated with multiple climate factors including aridity along transects starting from rain forests in southern Nigeria and Cameroon to arid savannas in the north.
      • keywords: blood; ecological; environments; factors; frequencies; gambiae; genes; genetic; inversions; malaria; multiple; traits
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4621. vx021c20x09
      • author: Erica Frances (Pirnie) Fisker
      • title: Induced and Controlled Horizontal Flow in the Vadose Zone
      • date: 2010
      • words: 255
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Specifically this work demonstrates that through the use of suction-cup lysimeters, water can be injected / withdrawn from continuous zones of fine sediments, bordered by coarse sediments, without inducing significant vertical flux through underlying coarser sediments. A combination of laboratory experiments and numerical studies were utilized to demonstrate that horizontal flow can be induced and controlled in fine sediment lenses / layers within the vadose zone.
      • keywords: experiments; fine; flow; sand; sediments
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4622. vx021c20x20
      • author: Hudda Omar Ibrahim
      • title: The Role Of The Traditional Somali Model In Peacemaking: Why Reconciliation Was Maintained In Somaliland, But Disintegrated In The South Of Somalia
      • date: 2015
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: This comparative thesis examines peacemaking processes used by traditional elders in the North today in their efforts to build peace while the greater parts of Somalia remain chaotic. A thorough study of the two conflicts reveals that the conflict in the South of Somalia was far more intractable than in the North.
      • keywords: elders; somalia; traditional
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4623. vx021c20x4p
      • author: Megan Elisabeth McGann
      • title: Wear Characteristics and Crosslinked Properties of Articular Cartilage
      • date: 2015
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: As mechanical wear is an important component of cartilage disease, the primary objective of this project was to investigate the wear characteristics of articular cartilage and factors that may improve the tissue's wear resistance. In developing test parameters for cartilage wear, two different cartilage surface geometries were compared: smaller flat specimen and larger curved specimens that made contact in the center but not at the edge.
      • keywords: cartilage; disease; factor; genipin; modulus; surface; tissue; wear
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4624. vx021c20x51
      • author: Brad D. Weldon
      • title: Behavior, Design, and Analysis of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Coupling Beams
      • date: 2010
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: beam; behavior; concrete; coupling; design; post; precast; results; tensioning
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4625. vx021c20x6c
      • author: Zengxiao Jin
      • title: Fabrication and Measurement of Molecular Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA) Device
      • date: 2006
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 67
      • summary: The fabrication of the device mainly involves the following steps: The formation of the P+ window, the deposition of metal pads and wires, the growth of the SET, and the growth of molecules. The principle of this experiment is to detect the switching activity of molecules using a single electron transistor (SET).
      • keywords: molecules; set
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4626. vx021c20x7q
      • author: Naomi Vanessa Ekas
      • title: Toddlers' Behavioral Strategies with Mothers and Fathers
      • date: 2010
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Results suggested moderate consistencies in toddler affect and strategy use, across mothers and fathers. One hundred and sixteen toddlers participated in a frustrating situation in a laboratory setting, with each parent, during which parents were instructed to ignore their child.
      • keywords: parent; strategies; toddlers
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4627. vx021c20x82
      • author: Allison Elizabeth Gaffey
      • title: Oxytocin effects on human affect and cognition
      • date: 2012
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: OT inhibited working memory and did not affect emotional memory. The hormone oxytocin (OT) has been associated with stress-reduction and social affiliation, and influences cognition and memory.
      • keywords: hormone; memory
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4628. vx021c20z0m
      • author: Natalie A Kautz
      • title: Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of reactive gas-phase interactions with alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers
      • date: 2010
      • words: 405
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Molecules positioned along surface defects (domain boundaries, gold-terrace step edges) are preferentially removed before molecules located in close-packed areas. While the overall net reaction is to remove the octanethiol SAM, molecules remaining on the gold surface undergo significant rearrangement: domain boundaries anneal into close-packed areas, film defects diffuse to monolayer edges, and molecules located along the edge of close-packed features reorganize and change the shape of the remaining monolayer.
      • keywords: adatom; alkanethiol; close; features; gold; molecules; monolayer; surface
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4629. vx021c20z29
      • author: Marjorie Rose Willner
      • title: Metal Removal by Sodium Graphene Oxide
      • date: 2012
      • words: 124
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Graphene oxide (GO) is a phenomenal nano-adsorbent for heavy metal cations; however, its acidic properties limit its practical application. Titration data revealed that the preparation of SGO did not alter the surface sites of GO.
      • keywords: adsorption; graphene; sgo
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4630. vx021c20z3n
      • author: Victoria K. Lam
      • title: Regulation and Development of the Drosophila Hematopoietic Progenitor Niche
      • date: 2015
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Lastly, during the study of blood cell lineages in Drosophila, I created a novel tool for developmental biologists. Taken together, this signifies novel roles for bantam, SOCS36E, and EGFR in the PSC and provide a mechanism and pathway in which bantam operates during blood development.
      • keywords: bantam; blood; cell; development; hematopoietic; mirnas; niche
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4631. vx021c20z5b
      • author: Anthony Patrick McDonald
      • title: Between Philosophy and the Muse: A Fifteenth Century Versification of Boethius's 'Consolatio Philosophiae'
      • date: 2013
      • words: 113
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: In this thesis, I began the process of identifying and commenting on the fifteenth century Venetian codex, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library, cod. The first was to draw young students back to Boethius in the face of strong criticism from humanists.
      • keywords: dame; fifteenth; notre
      • versions: original; plain text
4632. vx021c20z71
      • author: Eli T. Plopper
      • title: Protestants and the Acceptance of Contraceptives in Britain and the U.S.A.
      • date: 1904
      • words: 483
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: At its heart was a desire to assist the wider social acceptance of contraceptives and a deep doubt about the plausibility of sexual abstinence within marriage. By the Lambeth Conference of 1930 an intense controversy had emerged, in which advocates for contraception pressed their case: self-restraint within marriage was untenable and unnatural; contraceptives could be a regular part of a healthy marriage.
      • keywords: acceptance; century; conference; contraceptives; control; council; marriage; self; sexual
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4633. vx021c2104k
      • author: Michael S. McConnell
      • title: Effect of Platinum Oxidation and Reduction on Single Electron Transistors Fabricated by Atomic Layer Deposition
      • date: 1904
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Furthermore, comparison of devices at low temperatures (~4 K) showed that annealed devices displayed much closer to the ideal behavior (i.e., constant differential conductance) outside of the Coulomb blockade region and that untreated devices showed nonlinear behavior outside of the Coulomb blockade region (i.e., an increase in differential conductance with source-drain voltage bias). To test this theory, devices were exposed to forming gas at room temperature, which also reduces platinum oxide, and a decrease in resistance was observed, as expected.
      • keywords: conductance; devices; electron; layer; ozone; platinum; water
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4634. vx021c21099
      • author: Michelle Comas
      • title: Mother-Child Play in Maltreating and Nonmaltreating Families During the Preschool Years: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial
      • date: 1904
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: At post, however, mothers and children in the RET treatment condition demonstrated significantly more positive engagement and responsiveness in play. Together, these results provide critical information for informing and optimizing treatment and policy aimed at restoring adaptation for maltreated children and their families.
      • keywords: baseline; child; children; play; post
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4635. vx021c21m45
      • author: Patrick E. Rothstein
      • title: Nucleophilic Palladium Carbenes Utilizing Metal-Ligand Cooperativity Towards Small Molecule Activations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: carbenes; metal; palladium; production; reactivity; transition
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4636. vx021c21m8j
      • author: Bobby Habig
      • title: Social Dominance in Male Baboons and Other Vertebrates: Benefits, Costs, and Evolutionary Implications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: My research revealed that high parasite risk may be an unappreciated cost of high rank while reduced parasite risk might be a benefit of social subordination. Whether high rank confers more benefits or costs than low rank remains an open question.
      • keywords: high; individuals; male; parasitism; rank; social; status
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4637. vx021c21n03
      • author: Corey Pennycuff
      • title: Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Graph Grammars
      • date: 1904
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: My work has focused on using time-series data and the Hyperedge Replacement Grammars graph generation model to model graphs as they grow and change over time. Yet, we know that graphs are often not static; they evolve, and this feature is absent from many generative models.
      • keywords: data; generation; graph; model
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4638. vx021c21n5t
      • author: Michael David Planer
      • title: Measurement of the Higgs Boson Cross-Section and Couplings in the Two Photon Decay Channel
      • date: 1904
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: boson; higgs; production
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4639. vx021c22234
      • author: Austyn Wohlers
      • title: Hothouse Bloom
      • date: 2022
      • words: 6
      • flesch: 105
      • summary: This is a work of fiction.
      • keywords: fiction
      • versions: original; plain text
4640. w089280459q
      • author: Kevin Twain Lowery
      • title: Constructing a More Cognitivist Account of Wesleyan Ethics
      • date: 2004
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Hopefully, the end result will be a version of Wesleyan ethics that is a more faithful development of Wesley's own thought and can withstand the scrutiny of higher intellectual standards. I suggest that Wesleyan ethics needs to be recast in a schema that more adequately emphasizes the cognitive aspects of religious knowledge and moral development.
      • keywords: doctrines; ethics; framework; new; wesley; wesleyan
      • versions: original; plain text
4641. w089280462m
      • author: Anthony E Clemons
      • title: Conserved Developmental Cues of Aedes aegypti and their Impact on the Mosquito Vector
      • date: 2014
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: I found the smaller less susceptible Moyo-R subpopulation expresses higher levels of jnk at all stages of development when compared to the larger more susceptible Moyo-S subpopulation (Chapter 5). Sequencing of the Ae. aegypti genome has made possible the characterization of many genes, but analysis of developmental genes has proven challenging, largely as a result of technical difficulties encountered when manipulating mosquito embryos.
      • keywords: aegypti; chapter; development; embryos; genes; mosquito; techniques
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4642. w0892804649
      • author: Wei He
      • title: The Synthesis of Side-by-Side Iron Phthalocyanine Dimer and Its Surface Attachment on Gold
      • date: 2010
      • words: 497
      • flesch: 60
      • summary: Finally, we synthesized a new 4,4'-dipyridyl disulfide ligated version of 1a and 3a and tried to used the disulfide functional group to attach phthalocyanine molecules onto Au. STM images of 4,4'-dipyridyl disulfide ligated 1a show the linkage of the pc to the Au, which confirms that this is a viable strategy for covalent linkages of phthalocyanines to gold. We observed a decrease of the mobility of 3a molecule at low temperature, and its oval shape was observed at 77 K under UHV.
      • keywords: data; electrochemistry; iron; phthalocyanine; pyridine; qca
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4643. w0892804707
      • author: Jonathan P Rager
      • title: Real-Time Detection of Plume Boundaries in a Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Event
      • date: 2010
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Real-time plume evolution had previously been tracked through either physical detection of the plume by embedded sensors or by predictions made using simplified computational models. During a chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) event, there is an immediate need for information on the transport of the agent so that evacuation and containment protocols can be executed.
      • keywords: field; plume; real; time
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4644. w089280472x
      • author: Katelyn Jean Grayshan
      • title: Analysis of a Family of Shallow Water Waves
      • date: 2012
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: We study a family of shallow water wave equations called the b-family equation. We show that the periodic and non-periodic Cauchy problem for the b-family equation is well-posed in Sobolev spaces with exponent greater than 3/2.
      • keywords: continuous; equation; family
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4645. w089280475z
      • author: Sarah Louise MacMillen
      • title: The Trace of the Other: An Ethnography of Grief
      • date: 2006
      • words: 158
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: At the group-level, the author discusses the interplay of communitas and diff rance as well as the norms of sincerity and authenticity in support groups. After a year of fieldwork and interviews with members of support groups in a medium-sized Midwestern city, the author explores the meanings of death in an American cultural and political context.
      • keywords: author; context; group; level; meanings
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4646. w089280525p
      • author: Aleksandar Dimkovikj
      • title: Examining the Influence of the Nutritional Environment on Antibiotic Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
      • date: 2019
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This form of resistance has been linked to membrane-based two-component systems, which act as efflux pumps for the antibiotic when calcium is present. Antibiotic resistance is a crucial problem facing modern society as all pathogens inevitably evolve resistance to known antibiotics.
      • keywords: antibiotic; calcium; susceptibility
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4647. w0892805966
      • author: Tyson W. Lager
      • title: Using Pluripotent Stem Cells to Identify Embryonic Mechanisms Mediating Cancer Aggressiveness Reveals a Novel Role for Cell Surface GRP78 in Regulating Critical Stem Cell and Cancer Functions
      • date: 2021
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Lastly, we demonstrate that cell surface GRP78 is a specific and effective targeting moiety on stem cells and cancer cells, by developing a novel liposome nanoparticle drug delivery system for cancer therapeutic and regenerative medicine applications. Identifying the specific stem-like mechanisms utilized by cancer cells, and devising strategies to target these mechanisms, remains an ongoing challenge.
      • keywords: cancer; cells; like; mechanisms; stem
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4648. w0892805b0f
      • author: Mengfei Li
      • title: Characterizing the Viscoelastic Behavior of Biofilm: Modeling and Experimental Studies
      • date: 2021
      • words: 393
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Because biofilm deformation affects the flow regime, and because biofilms behave as complex heterogeneous viscoelastic materials, few models are able to predict biofilm deformation in these highly coupled systems. In this study, we firstly developed a phase‐field (PF) continuum model coupled with the Oldroyd‐B constitutive equation and used this model to simulate biofilm deformation.
      • keywords: biofilm; deformation; heterogeneity; heterogeneous; mechanical; model; properties; systems; viscoelastic
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4649. w0892805b86
      • author: Casey Duchesne Stefanski
      • title: Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Regulates ABC Transporters and DNA Repair Mechanisms to Cause Doxorubicin Resistance
      • date: 2022
      • words: 370
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: To investigate the intracellular DOX accumulation, we measured the amount of DOX intracellular fluorescence and found decreased intracellular DOX retention with APC loss. Taken together, APC loss decreased intracellular DOX accumulation through increased efflux and decreased DOX-induced DNA damage.
      • keywords: apc; damage; dna; dox; intracellular; loss; mdr1
      • versions: original; plain text
4650. w0892805c44
      • author: Huacheng Ye
      • title: High-Performance Back-End-of-Line Compatible Indium Tungsten Oxide (IWO) Transistors for Monolithic-3D Application
      • date: 2022
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: This approach can provide higher transistor density without scaling the transistor size and higher bandwidth due to its high-density MIVs. Moreover, an IL-free IWO ferroelectric transistor, based on our first proposed W-sacrificial-layer process, was also demonstrated, which showed the highest memory window, endurance, and read/write speed, as compared to other AOS ferroelectric transistors.
      • keywords: aos; gate; high; iwo; layer; memory; performance; transistor
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4651. w0892805d1d
      • author: Lindsay Heldreth
      • title: The Only Sexuality That Excludes Trans People Is Bigot: In Pursuit of Inclusivity
      • date: 2023
      • words: 237
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Given that these identities are gaining more visibility and there are more people claiming these identities in recent years, this raises a wide range of questions for sociologists, both in terms of how these identities are understood by the dominant culture, and how the inner dynamics of the community have been altered as a result of this increased visibility. Scholars have pointed out previously that sexualities that fall under the multisexual spectrum and transgender identities fundamentally unsettle the assumptions made about gender sexuality that allow people to be neatly sorted into categories.
      • keywords: identities; people; transgender
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4652. w3763487f90
      • author: Gloria Ruth Frost
      • title: Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings
      • date: 2009
      • words: 317
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The kind of necessary propositions that this dissertation concerns are essential propositions, such as Man is an animal or Dogs are sentient. The aim of this dissertation is to give an account of Aquinas's thinking on the ontological grounds of necessary propositions about creatures.
      • keywords: aquinas; necessary; propositions
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4653. w3763487g1j
      • author: Mark Ojonugwa Enemali
      • title: The Danger of Transgression against Divine Presence: The Case of the Ark Narrative (1 Samuel 4:1b-7:1; 2 Samuel 6)
      • date: 2014
      • words: 289
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: The ark, as the visible representation of divine presence, is a functional equivalent of ancient Near Eastern cultic statues, and thus should be construed not just as a symbol, but as something closely interwoven with the being of the God of Israel. The significance of divine presence in ancient Near Eastern cultic statues will be investigated in order to pinpoint its bearing on the understanding of divine presence in the ark.
      • keywords: ark; cultic; divine; presence
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4654. w3763487g2w
      • author: Jonathan David Hauenstein
      • title: Regeneration, local dimension, and applications in numerical algebraic geometry
      • date: 2010
      • words: 171
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Algorithms in the field of numerical algebraic geometry provide numerical methods for computing and manipulating solution sets of polynomial systems. The algorithms presented in this thesis are applied to problems arising in kinematics and partial differential equations.
      • keywords: algorithms; numerical; witness
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4655. w3763487g4k
      • author: Sara Troyani
      • title: Italian America: Latin America as Italy in the Post-Unification Emigration Literature of Edmondo De Amicis
      • date: 2015
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 7
      • summary: Composed during the decade following his 1884 transatlantic journey to visit Italian emigration settlements in Latin America, De Amicis' Italian-Latin American emigration narratives highlight the hardships faced by the author's emigrant compatriots. Concerned that mass emigration threatened efforts to project a geographically cohesive Italian nation that would attest to Italian political and economic parity with leading European powers, they supported imperialist plans to redirect Italian emigrants to state-sponsored colonial settlements and accommodate all Italian citizens on what had traditionally been Italian soil.
      • keywords: american; amicis; emigration; italian; italy; latin; national; post
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4656. w3763487g68
      • author: Carrie Ann Weaver
      • title: Assessing the Structure of Psychopathology Using the SNAP and the MMPI-2 Restructured-Clinical Scales
      • date: 2015
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: The current study aims to contribute to this work by examining the joint structure of well-known measures of 'Axis I' psychopathology, the MMPI-2 (Butcher et al., 2001) Restructured-Clinical (RC) Scales (Tellegen et al., 2003), and 'Axis II' personality pathology, the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP; Clark, 1993; Clark, Simms, Wu, & Casillas, in press) using a series of 'top-down' factor analyses, termed the 'bass-ackwards approach' (Goldberg, 2006). Empirical studies of the structure of personality and psychopathology have demonstrated the importance of hierarchical modeling for extending our understanding of relations among mental disorders, as well as between and among abnormal personality traits and dimensions of psychopathology.
      • keywords: clark; personality; psychopathology; simms
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4657. w3763487g8z
      • author: Konrad Jacob Kulacki
      • title: Proactive aquatic ecotoxicology: A hazard assessment of room-temperature ionic liquids
      • date: 2010
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Interval analysis and Monte Carlo techniques were used to examine the effects of data variability on model projections, and showed that variation in C. reinhardtii growth rates had larger effects on model outcomes than that of D. magna feeding rates. 'Green' chemicals are those that minimize waste, maximize efficiency, and/or reduce toxicity; an emerging group of such green chemicals are room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs), which are under development to replace traditional volatile organic solvents.
      • keywords: chemicals; development; effects; environmental; feeding; model; rates; reinhardtii; research
      • versions: original; plain text
4658. w3763487g99
      • author: Sally Brooke Cameron
      • title: Bonds Between Women: Gender and Economics in Late-Victorian Literature
      • date: 2008
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 38
      • 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.
      • keywords: authors; bonds; chapter; consumption; economy; new; representations; women
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4659. w3763487h0h
      • author: Keke Lai
      • title: Meta-Analyzing Structural Equation Models with Study-Level Moderators: Explaining the Systematic Heterogeneity Among Covariance Structures
      • date: 2012
      • words: 199
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: However, this is an unrealistic assumption because different studies usually have their own characteristics and a set of relationships usually behave differently in different situations. To investigate a certain phenomenon of interest, different researchers may carry out different SEM studies and report (seemingly or not) different results.
      • keywords: different; meta; sem; studies
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4660. w3763487h26
      • author: Michael Eugene Hawkins
      • title: Development of Polymers for Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Implants
      • date: 2005
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Minimally invasive implants are introduced and discussed. Nanometer sized barium sulfate was added to the blends replacing conventional sized barium sulfate.
      • keywords: acrylic; cement; fibers; implants; invasive; polymer
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4661. w3763487h4w
      • author: Yong Li
      • title: Multimodal Image Registration through Iteratively Searching Correspondences of Keypoints and Line Segments
      • date: 2012
      • words: 532
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This work addresses the problem of multimodal image registration. The iterative framework is also applied to keypoint mappings.
      • keywords: image; keypoint; line; mappings; reference; similarity; test; transformation; triplets
      • versions: original; plain text
4662. w3763487h57
      • author: Sahand Golnarian
      • title: Energy-Efficient and Queue-Aware Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDM Systems for Wireless M2M Communication
      • date: 2014
      • words: 216
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Due to battery limitations of devices in most M2M applications, energy efficiency, defined as the number of information bits transmitted per unit energy, is utilized as a utility function instead of a sum-throughput, a traditional utility function for network utility maximization problems. It is well-known that for a bandlimited communication system, the price for achieving high energy efficiency is delay, i.e. spreading the total energy over a long time interval.
      • keywords: efficiency; energy; system; utility
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4663. w3763487h7x
      • author: Margaret Emma Brandl
      • title: Gods and Nagasaki: Two Novellas
      • date: 2013
      • words: 35
      • flesch: 57
      • summary: Two novellas: Gods and Nagasaki, a chorus of voices in and around Nagasaki, and Morning Sky, the story of a seventh-grade girl who deals with trauma by escaping into the world of Sailor Moon.
      • keywords: nagasaki
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4664. w3763487k04
      • author: Glen Ray Hood
      • title: Sequential Divergence and the Multiplicative Origin of Community Diversity
      • date: 1904
      • words: 451
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Results from a meta-analysis of 64 studies suggests that species differences in the timing of a key life cycle event, oviposition, into shared insect hosts may be an important life history strategy mediating competition between parasitoid species in general and allowing for multiple taxa to co-exist on shared hosts. In addition interspecific competition between wasp species for limited resource during larval development inside fly hosts is mitigated by their temporal subdivision of the shared host fly resource.
      • keywords: biodiversity; divergence; host; nature; new; organisms; parasitoid; process; sequential; species
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4665. w3763487k1g
      • author: Edward Burkard
      • title: First Steps in Homotopy Results for Symplectic Embeddings of Ellipsoids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 110
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: We identify a loop of symplectic embeddings E(a,b) U E(a,b) --&gt; B^4(R) which is contractible when R &gt; a+b and which is non-contractible when 2a &lt; R &lt; a+b, provided that b &lt; 2a. The space of symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids has been an object of great study in recent years.
      • keywords: space; symplectic
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4666. w3763488600
      • author: Charles Mueller
      • title: Evidence for a Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top Quark Pair and Decaying to Leptons
      • date: 1904
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: The observed 95% CL upper limit on the signal strength is 2.9 times the Standard Model prediction, compared to the expected upper limit of 1.0&lt;sup&gt;+0.5&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-0.3&lt;/sub&gt; A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top quark pair is presented, using the full pp collision dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; collected by the CMS experiment at a center of mass energy of &amp;radic;s = 13 TeV. MVA-based event reconstruction techniques are used to identify final states where the Higgs boson decays to either a W, Z or tau pair by selecting events with two isolated same-sign leptons, and b-jets.
      • keywords: model; observed; standard
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4667. w3763488d3w
      • author: Isaac Kimmel
      • title: Rah Rah Ritual: Emotional Energy, Symbolic Salience, and Collective Identity in High School Athletics
      • date: 2019
      • words: 172
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: basketball; emotional; high; school
      • versions: original; plain text
4668. w3763488k9h
      • author: Anna B. Holdorf
      • title: A Harvest for Heaven and Earth: Agricultural Missionaries and the Religious Roots of U.S. International Development in Latin America
      • date: 2021
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: When the U.S. government began to embrace development as a foreign policy objective during the Cold War, state actors turned to agricultural missionaries for advice and used their projects as models for their own development programs. When government-run programs increasingly took an approach that favored large-scale modernization and top-down economic aid, agricultural missionaries distanced themselves from the state and its model of development, which they criticized for exacerbating political instability, socioeconomic inequality, and environmental problems.
      • keywords: agricultural; development; international; missionaries; programs; u.s
      • versions: original; plain text
4669. w3763488m43
      • author: Peter Dore
      • title: Pulse
      • date: 2022
      • words: 122
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Our failure to successfully to teach and therefore habituate stress management skills during the recovery process is the locus for many of the challenges individuals struggling with addiction recovery face. We are failing to address the many shortcomings in the treatment, definition, and conceptualization of Substance Abuse Disorder.
      • keywords: addiction; recovery; stress
      • versions: original; plain text
4670. w3763488m5f
      • author: Tong Zhao
      • title: Learning to Augment Data in Graphs
      • date: 2022
      • words: 235
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Given the omnipresence of graph-structured data, graph machine learning has copious applications in multifarious fields such as social media, e-commerce platform, cyber-physical system, or chemical synthesis. Such learn-to-augment approaches are able to achieve superior downstream task performance as well as alleviate the above-mentioned challenges in graph machine learning.
      • keywords: augmentation; data; graph; learning; machine; models
      • versions: original; plain text
4671. w6634170r13
      • author: Ryan Durward Hutchinson
      • title: Generic Properties of Convolutional Codes
      • date: 2006
      • words: 225
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: More specifically, ideas from linear systems theory and algebraic geometry are used to 1. give an affirmative answer to the conjecture in~cite{gl03r} that convolutional codes possessing both the MDP and sMDS properties exist for arbitrary code parameters over finite fields of every prime characteristic and 2. In this dissertation, convolutional codes possessing the maximum distance profile (MDP) and strongly maximum distance separable (sMDS) properties are studied.
      • keywords: codes; convolutional; mdp; superregular
      • versions: original; plain text
4672. w6634170r44
      • author: Theodore John Hoffman Williams
      • title: Compliant Flow Designs for Optimum Lift Control of Wind Turbine Rotors
      • date: 2014
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: An optimization approach was formulated to determine geometric designs that are most compliant to flow control devices. A trailing edge retrofit with the plasma actuator located on the pressure side was able to achieve the target passive lift increase while using plasma flow control to reduce the lift to below the original design.
      • keywords: design; lift; optimization; plasma; turbine; wind
      • versions: original; plain text
4673. w6634170r6t
      • author: Jeffrey Michael Seymour
      • title: 'Dry' Laws in the American South: A Social Context of Sustained Policy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Within the context of the new temperance era, it is found that religious institutions and measures of social homogeneity are positively related to the likelihood that a county will sustain dry policy. Despite Prohibition's repeal, a significant proportion of Americans still reside in counties that prohibit the retail sale of distilled spirits.
      • keywords: alcohol; county; paper; social
      • versions: original; plain text
4674. w6634170s2r
      • author: Kalsea J. Koss
      • title: Interparental Conflict, Emotional Security, and Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Family-wide Risk and Protective Factors
      • date: 2010
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: The current study examined the role of family cohesion, conflict, and emotional expressiveness; moderated mediation was conducted to examine if the strength of the paths in the model differed depending on family functioning. At the same time, results largely supported the notion that these processes did not differ as a result of broader family functioning, suggesting the robustness of emotional security as an explanatory mechanism.
      • keywords: emotional; family; processes
      • versions: original; plain text
4675. w6634170s4f
      • author: Roman V Kazban
      • title: Effect of Tool Parameters on Residual Stress and Temperature Generation in High-Speed Machining of Aluminum Alloys
      • date: 2007
      • words: 544
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Force measurements show that at this speed, on the upper boundary of the range of cutting velocities for high-speed machining not high enough to be very-high speed or ultra-high speed cutting, the role of momentum is negligible and the cutting event is dominated by material deformation, making the fluid model less applicable. Namely, a potential flow solution is used to model the behavior of the material around a tool tip during machining at high speeds, i.e. greater than or equal to 100 $m/s$. It is carefully argued that the potential flow solution is relevant and can be used as a first approximation to model the behavior of a metal during high-speed, very high-speed or ultra-high-speed machining events.
      • keywords: cutting; flow; high; machining; solution; speed; temperature; tool; ultra
      • versions: original; plain text
4676. w6634170s7g
      • author: Sichem Guerrero-Ruz
      • title: Activity, In-Situ IR and EXAFS Spectroscopy Studies, and Monte Carlo Simulation of the Preferential Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide on Nb-Promoted Pt/Al2o3 Catalysts and Pt-Free Metal Oxides Catalysts
      • date: 2007
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The PROX reaction on Pt-free metal oxides shows that when copper is supported on TiO2 nanotubes, the activity to CO oxidation is similar to that of Pt-based catalysts. It was found that the Nb promoted Pt-catalysts stabilize Pt+2
      • keywords: active; catalysts; oxidation; prox; reaction; species
      • versions: original; plain text
4677. w6634170t0c
      • author: Yihua Zhang
      • title: Secure and Verifiable Outsourcing of Computation and Storage
      • date: 2015
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Therefore, it is essential to protect the privacy of sensitive data used in outsourced computation, and verify the integrity of computational results and data storage outsourced to the cloud. However, the top impediment that lies on the way of harnessing all of the benefits of cloud computing is security and privacy considerations that prevent users from placing their data or computations on the cloud.
      • keywords: cloud; computation; computing; data; outsourced; storage; users
      • versions: original; plain text
4678. w6634170v2c
      • author: Kristofor E. Glinton
      • title: The Fibrinogen Dependent Interaction between Group A Streptococcal M Protein and the Human Fibrinolytic System in Virulence
      • date: 1904
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) was employed to the study binding affinity of M protein for Fg. A Streptococcal M-like protein (PAM) or indirect, which requires fibrinogen (Fg) to directly bind various M proteins to mediate Pg binding.
      • keywords: activity; binding; proteins
      • versions: original; plain text
4679. w6634170z1z
      • author: Lainey Virginia Bristow
      • title: Effects of Warming on the Endangered Karner Blue Butterfly: An Exploration of the Sensitivity of Life History Stages and Traits
      • date: 1904
      • words: 48
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) is an endangered species living in fragmented landscapes within the Midwest and Eastern U.S. Being a specialist feeder and ectotherm, the Karner blue may be highly susceptible to climate change. Therefore, we pursued several experiments to explore its climate change sensitivity.
      • keywords: change; climate
      • versions: original; plain text
4680. w6634171g3k
      • author: Felicia Moralez
      • title: From Immigrants to Citizens: Mexicans and Settlement Houses in Gary, Indiana, 1919-1965
      • date: 1904
      • words: 302
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: city; gary; importance; mexicans; public; religious; settlement
      • versions: original; plain text
4681. w6634171g89
      • author: Michael Rubbelke
      • title: A Constant Closeness to This God: Reconsidering Karl Rahner's Mystical Theology
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Rather than a mysticism of everyday life, Karl Rahner advances an understanding of mysticism rooted in the ongoing historical interactions of human freedom with the life of the God of Jesus Christ. In Chapter Five, I offer a synthetic account of Rahner's approach to mysticism and situate it in relation to his theological system, with special attention to the relation of human freedom and knowledge, salvation and revelation history, as well as Christology and ecclesiology.
      • keywords: approach; chapter; god; human; mysticism; rahner; understanding
      • versions: original; plain text
4682. w6634171n65
      • author: Danae Jacobson
      • title: Spiritual Geographies: How Nuns Changed the U.S. West
      • date: 2019
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Catholic missions were not just run by male priests and brothers bent on saving souls. I probe these women's spiritual geography, which was both material and spiritual—it involved bodies, the land, and souls.
      • keywords: catholic; nuns; spiritual; story
      • versions: original; plain text
4683. w6634171p0d
      • author: Danny Orton
      • title: Cluster Structures on the Affine Space of Rectangular Matrices
      • date: 2019
      • words: 186
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Combinatorial conditions are given for when there exists a sequence of cluster mutations relating such cluster structures on the space of matrices of size n by m and the space of matrices of size (n-1) by m. This aforementioned sequence of mutations is an important ingredient in showing that the corresponding upper cluster algebra is isomorphic to the ring of regular functions on the space of matrices of size n by m. It has been conjectured that there exists a classification of regular cluster structures on simple complex Lie groups that is parallel to the Belavin-Drinfeld classification of Poisson-Lie Brackets.
      • keywords: cluster; matrices; poisson; space
      • versions: original; plain text
4684. w6634171t41
      • author: Pei Li
      • title: Studying Unconstrained Degraded Face Recognition and Redaction with Applications in Real Surveillance Environment
      • date: 2020
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: First, a more reliable facial keypoint detector needs to specifically curated for LQ face images, contour or template matching could be applied when not detailed information on the face could be catching due to the image degradation. We address the challenges compared to a redaction system for HQ face images in video frames.
      • keywords: dataset; deep; dissertation; face; recognition; surveillance; task
      • versions: original; plain text
4685. w6634171v8q
      • author: Ahmad Aljawad
      • title: On a Surface-Edge
      • date: 2021
      • words: 4
      • flesch: 118
      • summary: It's a story.
      • keywords: story
      • versions: original; plain text
4686. w9504x54118
      • author: Jennifer Lynn Anthony
      • title: Gas Solubilities in Ionic Liquids: Experimental Measurements and Applications
      • date: 2004
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This work explores the solubility and associated thermodynamic properties, such as Henry's law constants, and enthalpies and entropies of absorption, of a variety of gases in various ionic liquids, mainly those with 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium as the cation and [PF6], [BF4], and [Tf2N] as the anions. Ionic liquids, organic salts that are liquids in their pure states at ambient conditions, have many properties that are similar to conventional organic solvents.
      • keywords: gases; ils; ionic; liquids; organic; properties; solvents; vocs
      • versions: original; plain text
4687. w9504x5413z
      • author: Sarah Catherine Reiff
      • title: Radiation Induced Chemical Activity at Iron and Copper Oxide Surfaces
      • date: 2015
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: Slurries of varying amounts of water were also examined for hydrogen production, and they showed yields that were greater than the yield for bulk water. However, the yields of hydrogen from the copper compounds were much lower than those of the iron suggesting that the copper oxides are relatively inert to radiation induced damage to nearby water.
      • keywords: hydrogen; oxides; spectroscopy; surfaces; water
      • versions: original; plain text
4688. w9504x54149
      • author: Joseph R Geary
      • title: In-situ Optical Sensing for the Detection and Quantification of Pathogen Indicator Organisms
      • date: 2010
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Additionally, it is found fluorescent reagents facilitate the induction of GUS in EC; increases in GUS activity per culturable EC cell in marine water is likely due to breakdown of cell wall and release of intracellular enzymes; EC GUS expression in natural waters does not significantly correlate to initial physiochemical water parameters or EC concentrations. Benefits of this research include a better understanding of GUS production in natural waters; a better understanding of GUS expression in typical sensor growing conditions; the characterization of a soluble fluorescent reagent ideal for in-situ optical sensing; the use of an optical sensor for the detection and partial quantification of pathogen indicator organisms.
      • keywords: concentrations; fluorescent; gus; natural; sensor; situ; water
      • versions: original; plain text
4689. w9504x54160
      • author: Nicholas Andrew Jaffa
      • title: Unsteady Measurement Techniques for Turbomachinery Flows
      • date: 2015
      • words: 246
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The uncertainty analysis provided estimates for the uncertainty in the measurements as well as showing the sensitivity to various sources of error. The combined uncertainties for the measurements were quantified using uncertainty estimates from investigations into the elemental error sources.
      • keywords: hot; method; phase; uncertainty; validation; wire
      • versions: original; plain text
4690. w9504x5418p
      • author: Matthew Charles Bean
      • title: Lament of the Cyclops
      • date: 2015
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: My video installation, Lament of the Cyclops, evokes this anxiety we feel from our current mode of body understanding. A feedback loop exists between body images, especially medical images for this discussion, and the information coded into our understanding of others.
      • keywords: body; loop; thesis; understanding
      • versions: original; plain text
4691. w9504x54207
      • author: Stephanie Ann Storer
      • title: Temporal Effects of Capture Zone Geometry in Fractured Rock
      • date: 2010
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Capture zone delineation is a critical step toward sound wellhead protection plans ensuring groundwater safety where a community's sourcewater is groundwater. Well capture zone delineation is difficult where there is fractured rock in the subsurface, as the fractures transport the majority of the water and fracture location often includes substantial uncertainty.
      • keywords: capture; density; fracture; zone
      • versions: original; plain text
4692. w9504x5421k
      • author: Ardea Caviggiola Russo
      • title: Behind the Heavenly Door: Earthly Liturgy and Heavenly Worship in the Apocalypse of John
      • date: 2010
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 40
      • 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.
      • keywords: century; christian; dissertation; evidence; liturgical; worship
      • versions: original; plain text
4693. w9504x5422x
      • author: Akaa Daniel Ayangeakaa
      • title: Exotic Modes of Collective Excitations: Nuclear Tidal Waves and Chirality
      • date: 2013
      • words: 266
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The extracted reduced transition probabilities, B(E2), for the yrast band display a monotonic increase with spin, in agreement with the interpretation based on rotation-induced condensation of aligned d-bosons, and the observed constant B(E2)/J ratios imply that the gain in angular momentum originates from the increase of the wave amplitude (deformation). Two exotic modes of collective excitations of nuclei have been investigated in this work: the multiphonon excitations in the vibrational nucleus, 102Pd and the phenomenon of chirality in the 133Ce nucleus.
      • keywords: 102pd; nucleus; phenomenon; tidal; vibrational; wave; yrast
      • versions: original; plain text
4694. w9504x5424m
      • author: John C Tan
      • title: The Dynamic Structural Genome of Plasmodium falciparum
      • date: 2008
      • words: 393
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This approach identifies significant genomic changes of various types which may have implications for drug response and genome evolvability. Currently there is no approved vaccine to combat malaria, and drug resistance of parasites to antimalarial drugs is a real and growing concern.
      • keywords: aim; changes; falciparum; genome; genomic; information; malaria; parasite; sequences; significant; tandem
      • versions: original; plain text
4695. w9504x54269
      • author: Sheina Biason Sim
      • title: The Frontier of Ecological Speciation: Investigating Western Populations of Rhagoletis pomonella
      • date: 2014
      • words: 571
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Lastly, we suggest the concept of 'invasivory,' meaning to eat invasive species, as a novel method for control of invasive species populations. Lastly, though 'invasivory' is an interesting experiment, the act of eating invasive species is unlikely to result in changes in invasive species populations.
      • keywords: evidence; host; introduction; invasive; pomonella; populations; result; species; west; western
      • versions: original; plain text
4696. w9504x5427n
      • author: Travis Charles Douville
      • title: The Effect of Gap Size and Reynolds Number on Turbine Blade Flat and Suction-Side Squealer Tip Flowfields
      • date: 2011
      • words: 158
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: blade; loss; pressure; tip; total
      • versions: original; plain text
4697. w9504x5429b
      • author: Patrick Corbitt Kerr
      • title: Astronomical Tide, Hurricane Storm Surge, Coastal Inundation, and Wind-Wave Modeling and Response Sensitivities
      • date: 2013
      • words: 315
      • flesch: -6
      • summary: Presented herein is a treatise on the application and model response sensitivities of coastal and ocean models that solve the diverse and multi-length-, -time-, and -energy-scales of astronomical tides, hurricane storm surge, coastal inundation, and wind-waves. This Gulf of Mexico region specific study included: 1) a performance assessment in terms of skill and execution speed for leading coastal and ocean models at simulating astronomical tides, hurricane storm surge, coastal inundation, and wind-waves; 2) an investigation of the National Weather Service's operational forecast model, SLOSH, with respect to its internal wind model performance and sensitivity to domain size; 3) an evaluation of coastal and ocean model response sensitivity to mesh resolution and wave bottom friction formulation; 4) an analysis of the spatial and temporal contributions of wave radiation stress gradients and non-linear advection terms and a scaling of other components of the shallow water equations; and 5) an examination of the mechanistic role that anthropogenic features, discharge, and wetlands play in the generation and propagation of riverine storm surge.
      • keywords: coastal; hurricane; inundation; model; ocean; storm; tides; waves; wind
      • versions: original; plain text
4698. w9504x54r24
      • author: Jennifer L. Meloche
      • title: Development of New C-C/C-N Bonds: Formation of Highly Substituted Centers in Diarylheptanoids and Indole Alkaloids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 429
      • flesch: 20
      • 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.
      • keywords: carbon; chemical; cores; method; natural; products; quaternary; spirooxindole; synthesis; titanocene
      • versions: original; plain text
4699. w9504x54r4t
      • author: Christopher J. Dekker
      • title: The Organ Works of Bert Matter
      • date: 1904
      • words: 138
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: The compositions of Matter deserve greater attention due to their high motivic development which often combines traditional forms with modern techniques. This paper seeks to shed light on this important composer through a look at his life, teaching, and compositions, with particular attention on three of his most notable works.
      • keywords: matter; netherlands; works
      • versions: original; plain text
4700. w9504x54r55
      • author: Bo Wu
      • title: Formal Methods for Control of Markov Decision Processes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: The goal is to establish a fundamental understanding of design principles in systems modeled as MDPs and to develop adaptive, scalable and provably correct solutions for diverse applications. Then we go on to consider the privacy problem in MDP control, which first makes use of the existing notion of opacity and later we propose our own notion defined in the belief state.
      • keywords: applications; correct; decision; framework; learning; mdp; model; robot
      • versions: original; plain text
4701. w9504x54r9j
      • author: Yiyuan Li
      • title: Molecular Evolution of Gene Families under Selection and Mitochondrial-Nuclear Interactions in Arthropods
      • date: 1904
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This growing genomic data provides a great opportunity to study arthropod gene family evolution. Because of the different niches arthropods live in, arthropods are great organisms for studying gene family evolution.
      • keywords: arthropod; evolution; family; gene; nuclear; species
      • versions: original; plain text
4702. w9504x55346
      • author: Magda Ivette Collazo Simonet
      • title: Il fu Mattia Pascal: Humanity, Corporeality, and Bureaucracy in Pirandello's Narrative
      • date: 2020
      • words: 39
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: My thesis aims to explore Luigi Pirandello's ideas on the nature of humanity, and how Pirandello represents the human through elements outside of corporality, whether it be through boundaries incorporated by law or through the perceptions of others.
      • keywords: pirandello
      • versions: original; plain text
4703. w9504x5545v
      • author: Yueh-Fu Wu
      • title: Evidence That CLIP-170 Induces Formation of Biomolecular Condensates to Promote Microtubule Polymerization, and Binds to Actin to Mediate Actin-Microtubule Crosstalk
      • date: 2021
      • words: 1048
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In this dissertation, I will discuss my two key findings and the hypotheses that were drawn from them: (1) A major +TIP called CLIP-170 can induce biomolecular condensate containing other members of +TIP network, which leads to the hypothesis that biomolecular condensates play a role in promoting MT polymerization. We suggest that these condensates serve as a polymerization chaperone to promote MT polymerization.
      • keywords: actin; binding; biomolecular; clip-170; condensates; crosstalk; eb1; mts; network; patches; tip; tips
      • versions: original; plain text
4704. w9504x5553g
      • author: Aubrey Jeffries
      • title: Rhodium Bimetallic Alloys for Furfural Hydrogenation
      • date: 2021
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Platinum group metals are known for high catalytic activity in hydrogenation reactions, though, rhodium remains understudied compared to platinum, palladium, and ruthenium. Experimental results show second metal modifiers, metal molar ratio, and solvent environment influence the activity of furfural hydrogenation.
      • keywords: biomass; catalytic; chemicals; furfural; hydrogenation
      • versions: original; plain text
4705. w9504x5568h
      • author: Patrick J. Fasano
      • title: Ab initio Nuclear Structure and Electroweak Properties from Chiral Effective Field Theory
      • date: 2023
      • words: 259
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: We confirm that the inclusion of χEFT corrections is necessary to obtain the correct physics for light nuclei. We implement and evaluate χEFT operators in light nuclei (A ≤ 17) using the Low Energy Nuclear Physics International Collaboration (LENPIC) formalism, with special attention paid to consistency of regulators, power counting, and low-energy constants (LECs).
      • keywords: body; corrections; nuclear; nuclei; problem; χeft
      • versions: original; plain text
4706. wd375t37939
      • author: Jeffrey M Squyres
      • title: A Component Architecture for the Message Passing Interface (MPI): The Systems Services Interface (SSI) for LAM/MPI
      • date: 2004
      • words: 251
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Previous versions of LAM/MPI, as well as other MPI implementations, are based on monolithic software architectures that -- regardless of how well-abstracted and logically constructed -- are highly complex software packages, presenting a steep learning curve for new developers and third parties. Each component framework was designed from analysis of prior monolithic implementations of LAM/MPI and represents a major functional category: run-time environment startup, MPI point-to-point communication, MPI collective communication, and parallel checkpoint/restart.
      • keywords: component; implementations; lam; monolithic; mpi; system
      • versions: original; plain text
4707. wd375t3796b
      • author: Yueh-Ju Lin
      • title: Connected sum construction of constant Q-curvature manifolds in higher dimensions
      • date: 2014
      • words: 99
      • flesch: 29
      • 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 $N#M$.
      • keywords: constant; q$-curvature
      • versions: original; plain text
4708. wd375t37b0k
      • author: James Hallowell
      • title: Donor Intervention Strategy in Peacebuilding and Impact on Program Outcomes: A Case Study of AusAUID Australia
      • date: 2015
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Donor exit strategy has major implications for post-war peacebuilding process. Second, it posits that dialogue among stakeholders assists coordination, facilitates successful service delivery and cultural understanding among peacebuilding actors.
      • keywords: aid; critical; peacebuilding; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4709. wd375t37b4z
      • author: Sujin Khomrutai
      • title: Regularity of Singular Solutions to Sigma_k-Yamabe Problems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: We prove some regularity results for singular solutions of $sigma_k$-Yamabe problem, where the singular set is a compact hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold. Apart from their importance in conformal geometry, the blow-up solutions along a hypersurface or the boundary of a manifold have also received much attention in the study of AdS/CFT correspondence in physics.
      • keywords: problem; singular; solutions
      • versions: original; plain text
4710. wd375t37b6n
      • author: Richard N Besingi
      • title: The N-Terminus of the Yersinia pestis yapV Autotransporter Protein Destabilizes the Entire Passenger Domain In Vitro: Implications for In Vivo Secretion
      • date: 2012
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The AT outer membrane (OM) secretion mechanism is deceptively simple, in part because major determinants for AT OM secretion are contained within the AT sequence itself. Here we have characterized a new Yersinia pestis AT protein with which to broaden our current understanding of the connection between AT passenger domain folding and OM secretion.
      • keywords: domain; passenger; protein; secretion; terminal; yapv
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4711. wd375t37b9p
      • author: Lijuan Wang
      • title: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Transient Events
      • date: 2007
      • words: 564
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: This observation served as a key role in the development of a simulation methodology for non-stationary processes that preserves both amplitude and frequency modulation features of the process. Various attempts to realize numerical simulation of non-stationary random processes have been reported in the literature where non-stationarity in the frequency contents of target processes is often neglected due to modeling convenience.
      • keywords: events; frequency; ground; modeling; non; processes; random; simulation; stationary; time; transient; wind
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4712. wd375t37c2k
      • author: Zhen Tong
      • title: Power Control and Full-Duplex Communication in Wireless Networks
      • date: 2015
      • words: 612
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Therefore, efficient MAC schemes are of great importance to achieving good performance of wireless networks. This thesis also investigates the throughput for wireless networks with full-duplex radios using stochastic geometry.
      • keywords: control; duplex; interference; mac; networks; power; self; thesis; throughput; wireless
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4713. wd375t37h4h
      • author: Eric C. Hansen
      • title: Development and Applications of Quantum to Molecular Mechanics (Q2MM)
      • date: 1904
      • words: 207
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Transition state force fields generated by the Quantum to Molecular Mechanics (Q2MM) method can describe the stereoselecting transition states involved in reactions of interest to synthetic chemistry with the accuracy of electronic structure methods but the speed of force field calculations. The capabilities of Q2MM are demonstrated in a study of the conformations of sulfones and sulfonamides, which were investigated using high level electronic structure methods.
      • keywords: force; screening; state; transition
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4714. wd375t3809v
      • author: Francesco Pancaldi
      • title: Mathematical Models of Bacteria Polarity and Fibrin Network Mechanics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Two novel mathematical models are described and used in this thesis to study important biological problems of blood clot formation and cell polarity during division. First, a model of Myxococcus xanthus internal protein dynamics is presented and its relation with the motility based bacterial polarity is discussed.
      • keywords: mathematical; model; polarity; protein
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4715. wd375t3814f
      • author: Kaveesha J. Wijesinghe
      • title: Exploring Structural and Functional Properties of Marburg Virus Matrix Protein-VP40
      • date: 1904
      • words: 438
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Although a wealth of information is available on how Ebola virus matrix protein-VP40 (eVP40) interacts with the plasma membrane to assemble the viral matrix and form VLPs, information on mVP40 plasma membrane interactions were scarce. Next, we investigated if mVP40 membrane association induced structural changes in mVP40 using Hydrogen-Deuterium exchange Mass spectrometry (HDX-MS).
      • keywords: marburg; matrix; membrane; mvp40; plasma; protein; region; viral; virus
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4716. wd375t3859d
      • author: Nathaniel T. Blanchard
      • title: Quantifying Internal Representation for Use in Model Search
      • date: 2019
      • words: 560
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: A drawback with this evaluation is that internal behavior is defined in accordance with input similarity. Traditionally, a machine learning model is evaluated for generalizability by testing it on unseen data, unseen inputs.
      • keywords: behavior; data; evaluation; inputs; internal; model; similarity; unseen
      • versions: original; plain text
4717. wd375t38760
      • author: Shikang Liu
      • title: Heterogeneous Network Approach for Analyzing Nethealth Data: Linking Individuals' Social Interaction, Personality, Physical Health, and Mental Health Data
      • date: 2019
      • words: 548
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: With this hypothesis, in a follow-up study, we fairly evaluate whether using dynamic social network data has more power than using static social network data in the task of predicting mental health. Since the existing RS methods work on static network data and extending them to dynamic network data is non-trivial, our constructed HIN aggregates the dynamic social network data from the considered study time period into a static network.
      • keywords: data; dynamic; health; individuals; mental; network; social; study
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4718. wd375t38f0s
      • author: Jaylexia Clark
      • title: Structuring Gig Work: An Investigation of the Relationship between Racial Residential Segregation and Labor Participation in the Gig Economy within U.S. Counties between 2010-2018
      • date: 2021
      • words: 183
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: To investigate this phenomenon, I ask the following question: Does variation in income inequality, unemployment rates, and racial segregation predict variation in the growth of labor participation in the gig economy across U.S. counties from 2010 to 2018. Through a fixed effect panel model, I find that racial residential segregation and income inequality do predict growth in labor participation in the gig economy, but I do not find evidence that unemployment rates predict growth in labor participation in the gig economy.
      • keywords: economy; gig; income; participation
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4719. wd375t38f8j
      • author: Chenguang Zhang
      • title: Micro/Nanofluidics for Isolation and Quantification of Extracellular Nucleic Acids and Extracellular RNA Carriers
      • date: 2022
      • words: 405
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: In recent years, extracellular nucleic acids and extracellular RNA carriers have been demonstrated as promising biomarkers for cancer diagnostics, treatment, and prognostics. The sensitivity and specificity of nucleic acid quantification also can be improved through the development of extraction methods with better yield and purity.
      • keywords: acids; chapter; extracellular; isolation; membrane; nucleic; quantification; rna; sensitivity; yield
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4720. wh246q20k3v
      • author: Abdelmaged Hafez Ibrahim Essawey
      • title: Microparticle Detachment from Surfaces by Fluid Flow
      • date: 2004
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Quantitative information on the increase of flow velocity at which 50 % of the microparticles detached (U_th) at different controlled conditions are presented. Microparticles of different sizes, materials and shapes (mostly microspheres) were deposited as monolayers onto the substrates under controlled conditions.
      • keywords: conditions; detachment; flow; microparticles; model; surface; u_th
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4721. wh246q20k5j
      • author: Brian Patrick Dunkle
      • title: Nocturna Lux Viantibus: The Methods, Meaning, and Mystagogy of Ambrosian Hymnody
      • date: 2015
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Engaging the mass of literature on Ambrose, early Christian hymns and poetry, and doctrinal dispute in the fourth century, I make several contributions to the scholarship in the course of my dissertation. Third, close attention to the early reception of Ambrose's hymns illuminates both Ambrose's methods and the influences shaping the expansion of popular hymns and learned Christian poetry in the early Latin church.
      • keywords: ambrose; century; early; fourth; hymnodic; hymns; mystagogical
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4722. wh246q20k6w
      • author: Jerod Patzner
      • title: Metal-Mediated Ring Opening Reactions of Acylnitroso Cycloadducts: Inter- and Intramolecular Enolate Additions and Application to Carbocyclic Nucleoside Synthesis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 50
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Methodology was developed on a library of cycloadducts derived from a Diels-Alder reaction involving acyl nitroso species using enolate species under varying conditions. Also, a palladium catalyzed decarboxylation reaction was developed as a key step in a new process to synthesize homoaristeromycin, a carbocylic nucleoside possessing anti-viral activity.
      • keywords: reaction; species
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4723. wh246q20k8k
      • author: Jessica M. Blaxton
      • title: A Process-Oriented Perspective Examining the Relationships Between Daily Coping, Stress, and Affect
      • date: 2015
      • words: 195
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Daily Altering the Situation related to lower negative affect and higher positive affect. The mean effect of Dispelling the Negative Effects of stress related to higher negative affect.
      • keywords: affect; daily; higher; negative
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4724. wh246q20m04
      • author: Laura Rominger Porter
      • title: From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals and the Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-century Upper South
      • date: 2013
      • words: 306
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: This dissertation argues that as regulatory bodies in their own right, churches were both sites of political conflict over what constituted 'sin' and local, voluntary governing institutions that fostered resistance to the political tactics and statist paternalism of moral reformers. This dissertation examines the complex interconnections among local church discipline, competitive party politics, and the ordering of public morality in the nineteenth-century upper South, illuminating southern evangelicals' once-ambivalent view of the state and their contested path to supporting moral legislation.
      • keywords: church; local; moral; morality; political; public; religious; state
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4725. wh246q20m35
      • author: Jonathan Paul Renn
      • title: Folding and Secretion of the E. coli Pet Autotransporter
      • date: 2010
      • words: 477
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Yet more than 97% of AT proteins are predicted to contain right-handed parallel &#946;-helical structure, and the four of the five crystal structures available for AT passenger domains each contain a long right-handed parallel &#946;-helix. Stable core structure in the &#946;-helix of AT passenger domains could be important for efficient OM secretion of the passenger domain.
      • keywords: core; domain; passenger; pet; secretion; stability; stable; terminal
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4726. wh246q20m4h
      • author: Maryam Meechka Zomorodian
      • title: 'History Couched in a Play': Performing the Past on the Early Modern Stage
      • date: 2013
      • words: 169
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: I argue that the relationship between the playhouse and historical culture was reciprocal: just as the theater contributed to an awareness and understanding of the past, historical matter helped legitimize theater in early modern England. This dissertation treats the contribution of the public playhouse to the development of early modern historiography and historical culture.
      • keywords: early; historical; historiography; modern
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4727. wh246q20m66
      • author: Kevin Goodman
      • title: Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth & Characterization of Nitride Nanowires
      • date: 2010
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: Due to large lattice mismatch between materials with bandgaps near those needed for green emission and popular epitaxial substrates, dislocations prevent fabricating materials with high optical efficiencies. This research focuses on growing Nitride nanowires as a potential material solution to this challenge.
      • keywords: green; ingan; material; nanowires; nitride; silicon; time
      • versions: original; plain text
4728. wh246q20m97
      • author: Xiaomei Liu
      • title: Optimizations In Iris Recognition
      • date: 2008
      • words: 322
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: We utilized an active contour model to refine the noise detection results and optimized the matching stage to compensate for the possible inaccuracy in iris segmentation and noise detection, which leads to another 0.95% increase in the rank one recognition rate and 0.85% decrease in the equal error rate. This research demonstrates that a more accurate iris segmentation helps to improve the overall system performance, and that the inaccuracy of iris segmentation and noise detection could be partly compensated for with optimizations in the matching stage.
      • keywords: baseline; ice; iris; rate; recognition; segmentation
      • versions: original; plain text
4729. wh246q20n1s
      • author: Jessica Baron
      • title: Reforming the Raj: Florence Nightingale's Biomedical Liberalism in British India
      • date: 2015
      • words: 198
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: But by contextualizing Nightingale's program within the colonial structure of nineteenth-century India, I also seek to discuss her work in terms of the history of Indian policy and political thought. Nightingale's suggestions came in the form of a systematic social reform, intertwining liberal politics, land rights, technological innovation, and health care.
      • keywords: century; health; nightingale; social
      • versions: original; plain text
4730. wh246q21940
      • author: Yuan Wang
      • title: Understanding the Molecular Basis for an Alloreactive T-Cell Receptor to Achieve Peptide and MHC Specificity
      • date: 1904
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: In contrast with current theories of alloreactivity (MHC-centric or peptide-centric), our structural and biophysical data suggests that high specific allorecognition is critically depend on the unique features of allogeneic MHC and the antigen peptide, relatively. More importantly, our findings emphasize that the peptide features working together with the distinctive surface chemistry of allogeneic MHC, can direct the specificity of allorecognition.
      • keywords: allorecognition; cells; centric; mhc; peptide; self; specificity; tcrs
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4731. wh246q2195b
      • author: Steven C. McDowell
      • title: Dynamics of Settlement Failure and Litigation in Interstate Territorial Disputes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: To remedy these shortcomings, I propose a theory of the timing of litigation in territorial disputes that focuses on the events that determine the ripeness of a dispute for the use of legal settlement methods. This means that current theories of litigation in territorial disputes provide relatively little information regarding when litigation is likely to occur, especially when a dispute lies dormant for an extended period of time.
      • keywords: disputes; failure; legal; litigation; settlement; states; territorial
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4732. wh246q21h3h
      • author: Sarah Hickam
      • title: Expanding Actinyl Peroxide Chemistry through Dissolution of Uranium-Based Materials and Studies of Neptunyl Peroxide Compounds
      • date: 2019
      • words: 284
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: The most numerous of these reported structures are known as actinyl peroxide clusters: the first uranyl and neptunyl peroxide clusters were discovered in 2005, and in the years since, more than 70 unique structures have been described. These studies reveal interesting characteristics, such as ordering of Np(V) in specific sites on the cage in the solid state and lower solubility in water relative to uranyl peroxide clusters.
      • keywords: chemistry; clusters; neptunyl; peroxide; uranium
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4733. wh246q21h7w
      • author: Huijie Lu
      • title: Boundary Integral Simulations of a Red Blood Cell Squeezing through a Sub-Micron Slit under Prescribed Inlet and Outlet Pressures
      • date: 2019
      • words: 451
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: A variety of cell shapes have been observed when they transmigrate the microfluidic slit, such as small tip, Jellyfish shape, half-moon shape and whale-tail shape. In addition, we found that the surface-area-to-volume ratio has a vita effect on cell front shapes.
      • keywords: area; bilayer; boundary; cell; integral; internal; membrane; pressure; rbc; rbcs
      • versions: original; plain text
4734. wh246q21n74
      • author: Sana Khan
      • title: #ShowHerstory
      • date: 2021
      • words: 93
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: #ShowHerstory is a design intervention that consists of a multifaceted campaign which uses advocacy channels and guerilla marketing tactics to stir conversations about the limited portrayals of Pakistani women in local TV series. In this thesis, I will deconstruct the stereotypes of women that dominate contemporary Pakistani TV series.
      • keywords: pakistani; women
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4735. wh246q21q1p
      • author: Stephen W. Adams
      • title: Thermodynamics of Ionic Bonding with Crown Ethers in Aqueous Solution
      • date: 2021
      • words: 165
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: Concerns about lithium supply and battery waste have prompted interest in lithium recycling methods. It was found that 12-crown-4 did not form stable complexes with lithium in aqueous solution due to the binding geometry which was prone to interference by surrounding water molecules.
      • keywords: crown-4; lithium; solution
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4736. wh246q21q83
      • author: Jun Han
      • title: Deep Learning for Scientific Data Representation and Generation
      • date: 2022
      • words: 289
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In scientific data generation, I introduce a comprehensive pipeline for variable selection and translation through feature learning, translation graph construction, and variable translation. In this dissertation, I develop novel deep learning methods to enable more effective and efficient frameworks for scientific data representation and generation.
      • keywords: core; data; framework; learning; scientific; scivis; surface; translation
      • versions: original; plain text
4737. wh246q21s5p
      • author: Jiachen Zhang
      • title: Spatial-Temporal Methods and Models for Climate Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification
      • date: 2023
      • words: 621
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: approach; arabia; energy; future; gaussian; high; non; process; renewable; resolution; simulations; spatial; wind; work
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4738. wm117m03v5m
      • author: Matthew Jamin Asay
      • title: Characterization of the GABAB receptor in the brain of the adult male bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana
      • date: 2005
      • words: 323
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Cloning of GABAB receptor subunits with PCR and RACE yielded cDNA fragments for the GABAB1 and GABAB2 receptor subunits. Very little information about the GABAergic properties of the amphibian brain is available and even less is known about amphibian GABAB receptors.
      • keywords: 3h]cgp54626a; binding; brain; gabab; like; mammalian; receptor; subunits
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4739. wm117m03v8n
      • author: Nicholas M Contento
      • title: Micro and Nanoscale Electrochemical Systems for Reagent Generation, Coupled Electrokinetic Transport and Enhanced Detection
      • date: 2014
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Finally, redox cycling of electroactive species at recessed ring-disk nanoelectrode arrays is described with a focus on the use of finite element calculations to predict electrode performance as a function of electrode geometry. Unfortunately, much is still not understood about the coupling of multiple electrode driven processes in a confined environment nor about the fundamental changes in device performance that occur as geometries approach the nanoscale regime.
      • keywords: chemical; devices; electrochemical; electrode; fundamental; microanofluidic; nanoscale; sample; structures; surface
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4740. wm117m03w06
      • author: Kai Sun
      • title: Optical Investigations of Semiconductor Quantum Dots with High Spatial Resolution
      • date: 2010
      • words: 404
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Two alternate techniques were utilized to break through the optical diffraction limit in order to obtain high spatial resolution: near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), and nano-fabrication. Second, e-beam lithography was used to fabricate metallic nano-apertures or nano-mesas on the sample surface, allowing the measurement of the optical properties from these structures with high spatial resolution using a simple micro-PL measurement.
      • keywords: dependent; high; qds; resolution; spatial; study; temperature
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4741. wm117m03w2w
      • author: Benjamin Wickes Merritt
      • title: The Effect of 1,4-Diaminoanthraquinone as a Conductive Linker in Chromophore Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles
      • date: 2007
      • words: 143
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Using AM1 calculations of the relative energies of the excited state of the light harvesting portion of the dye and the conduction band of colloidal AuNP in solution, a multi-component dye where electrons would be more likely to flow through this conductive linker than to follow other undesired deactivation pathways was designed. Chromophore functionalized gold nanoparitcles (AuNP) have been useful as light harvesting dyes in DSSCs, however one persistent problem is charge recombination which adversely affects the final electrical output of these systems.
      • keywords: aunp; dye; linker; output
      • versions: original; plain text
4742. wm117m03w68
      • author: Tom Edgar
      • title: Dominance and regularity in Coxeter groups
      • date: 2010
      • words: 217
      • flesch: 56
      • summary: In the current work, we consider generalized length functions in Coxeter systems and show that these length functions lead to a larger family of finite state automata, which in turn recognize a larger class of natural subsets of Coxeter groups. This allows us to deduce some consequences about the growth type of Coxeter systems.
      • keywords: coxeter; dominance; dyer; subsets; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
4743. wm117m03w8z
      • author: Alexander G. White
      • title: Selective Recognition of Bacterial Infection Using Fluorescent Probes Containing the Zinc(II)-Dipicolylamine Affinity Ligand
      • date: 2008
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Molecular probes composed of Zn-DPA ligands linked to a near-infrared fluorophore have utility in detecting bacterial infections in vivo. Imaging studies of murine models infected with Staphylococcus aureus show that bacterial infections can be detected using whole animal imaging equipment within three hours of treatment with the molecular probe.
      • keywords: bacterial; dpa; imaging; probes
      • versions: original; plain text
4744. wm117m03w99
      • author: Teng Wu
      • title: Nonlinear Bluff-Body Aerodynamics
      • date: 2013
      • words: 369
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Current models set in the conventional analysis framework are reviewed to understand their ability in simulating nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics; also, an improved model within the same framework is proposed. (3) What is the ability of existing nonlinear models to capture nonlinear and unsteady effects?
      • keywords: aerodynamics; bluff; body; effects; framework; nonlinear; unsteady; wind
      • versions: original; plain text
4745. wm117m03x1v
      • author: Qing Liu
      • title: Quilt Packaging: A Novel High Speed Chip-to-Chip Communication Paradigm for System-in-Package
      • date: 2007
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: As state-of-the-art transistor features continue to shrink and the incorporation of high-k, low-k isolation dielectric materials and strained and SiGe layers on silicon becomes common, chip density and performance are improved. As a result, several technologies, such as system-on-chip, system-in-packaging and system-on-packaging, have been actively pursed to meet the demands of low power, high I/O counts and fast chip-to-chip communication.
      • keywords: chip; high; low; nodules; packaging; performance; system
      • versions: original; plain text
4746. wm117m03x4w
      • author: Pornthip Tongying
      • title: Nano-hetero Functional Materials for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation
      • date: 2015
      • words: 409
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: To extend my study beyond 1D CdSe NWs, 2D CdSe nanosheets (NSs) have been synthesized. This is motivated by (a) the fact that CdSe NWs absorb light from the UV to the near infrared (b) the NW morphology simultaneously enables us to explore the role of nanoscale dimensionality in photocatalytic processes (c) a CdS coating can enhance photogenerated carrier lifetimes, and (d) metal nanoparticles are catalytically active and can also enhance charge separation efficiencies.
      • keywords: cdse; charge; heterojunctions; metal; nss; nws; photocatalytic; semiconductor; separation
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4747. wm117m03z15
      • author: Sebastian Snowberger
      • title: Crystal Synthesis and Optical Properties of Cesium Lead Halide Solar Cells
      • date: 1904
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Fully-inorganic cesium lead halide (CsPbX3) perovskite is stable at higher temperatures than organic perovskite, allowing for control of the crystal structure through formation temperature, and potentially improving longevity in an active solar cell. Solar cells made with partially organic perovskites, such as methylammonium lead iodide, have surpassed 20% efficiency; but have been observed to degrade under high temperatures and after long-term light exposure.
      • keywords: cells; halide; lead; perovskites
      • versions: original; plain text
4748. wm117m03z6w
      • author: Elizabeth Jordan Daly
      • title: The Dimensionality and Structure of Trait Narcissism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Although trait narcissism has been studied empirically since 1980, there is still much debate and uncertainty about its conceptualization and assessment. Therefore, the current study concludes that trait narcissism itself is an antagonism-based construct, and that its noted manifestations and forms vary based on the amount of general personality pathology present.
      • keywords: forms; narcissism; pathology; personality; scales; vulnerable
      • versions: original; plain text
4749. wm117m04263
      • author: Genevieve Vigil
      • title: Label-Free and Super-Resolution Multiphoton Microscopy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 563
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: depth; disease; excitation; extit{in; hbs; imaging; microscopy; mpm; resolution; scd; studies; super; tissue
      • versions: original; plain text
4750. wm117m04m2p
      • author: Gray Laughlin
      • title: DFT Comparison of Exact and Approximate Free Energy Calculations for Polyatomic Adsorbates
      • date: 1904
      • words: 131
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Finally, we will quantify the differences in adsorbate free energy approximations by means of direct comparison and by looking at the sensitivity of model results to free energy calculation method. Furthermore, we show the impact of free energy model choice on equilibrium predictions of a catalytic reaction model involving polyatomic adsorbates.
      • keywords: energy; free; model
      • versions: original; plain text
4751. wm117m04z03
      • author: Sarah Elizabeth Coogan
      • title: Chosen Homelands: Nostalgia and National Identity in the British and Irish Modernist Epic
      • date: 2020
      • words: 585
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The recent surge of nostalgia in American politics and popular culture has motivated scholars across humanities disciplines to ask whether the emotion can be a means of creatively redefining national identity, or if it inevitably reinforces reactionary visions of cultural heritage. The text juxtaposes everyday experience with ancient epic, thereby sidestepping a xenophobic account of national heritage while retaining the resonance of mythic parallels; in other words, it rejects an unhealthy obsession with the past through its use of nostalgia.
      • keywords: boym; cultural; culture; epic; heritage; modernist; national; nostalgia; past; politics; relationship; scholars
      • versions: original; plain text
4752. wm117m04z8v
      • author: Isabel Hanisch
      • title: Essays on Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy
      • date: 2021
      • words: 699
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The first chapter analyzes the implications of the recent rise in bank concentration for the effectiveness of monetary policy. I study how the structure of the banking system affects the transmission of monetary policy for stabilization and the credit cycle.
      • keywords: balance; bank; central; chapter; exogenous; interest; model; monetary; output; policy; rate; sheet; term
      • versions: original; plain text
4753. wm117m0509s
      • author: Nicolas C. Garcia
      • title: High-efficiency, Wideband Beam-scanning GRIN Lenses For Millimeter Wave Communications
      • date: 2022
      • words: 395
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: We identify two primary research tasks: 1) designing flat lens systems with high aperture efficiency over a wide bandwidth and 2) designing flat lens systems with wide-angle beam-scanning. The goal of this thesis is to provide a framework for designing flat GRIN lens systems that simultaneously demonstrate high instantaneous bandwidth, high aperture efficiency, and high beam-scanning capability in a practical form-factor.
      • keywords: aperture; beam; efficiency; flat; grin; high; lens; loss; systems
      • versions: original; plain text
4754. wme17m04r1k
      • author: Margaret Hutchison McMillan
      • title: I Improve This Opportunity to Write to You: Hawaiian Writers to American Readers in the Nineteenth Century
      • date: 2019
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: In each instance in which Native Hawaiians addressed an American audience through the medium of print, they provided a corrective to false representations of Pacific Islanders as uncivilized and passive—deconstructing expansionist rhetoric through the content as well as the context of their self-representations. Yet as the nineteenth century progressed and western literacy spread throughout the Pacific, such fictional portraits of Pacific Islanders did not reflect the complex, increasingly hybrid culture that became the reality of a globalized—and in many cases, forcefully colonized—Oceania, whose inhabitants survived despite all the forces poised for their annihilation.
      • keywords: fate; fictional; hawaiians; islanders; native; pacific; print; western
      • versions: original; plain text
4755. wp988g8745d
      • author: Angela Wentz Faulconer
      • title: Civic Excellence: Citizen Virtue and Contemporary Liberal Democratic Community
      • date: 2004
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 52
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; citizen; civic; liberal; virtues
      • versions: original; plain text
4756. wp988g87473
      • author: Cassandra Buchheit
      • title: Elucidating cell death mechanisms in extracellular matrix-detached epithelial cells
      • date: 2015
      • words: 248
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: When mammary epithelial cells become detached from the extracellular matrix (ECM), they undergo programmed cell death. Over the past twenty years, our knowledge regarding various mechanisms utilized by cancerous epithelial cells to overcome ECM-detachment-induced death has grown.
      • keywords: cells; detachment; ecm; induced
      • versions: original; plain text
4757. wp988g8748f
      • author: Daniel Dominique Leger
      • title: The Third Way of Neoconservatism: An Analysis of the Political, Strategic, Moral, Philosophical and Epistemological Basis to Neoconservatism
      • date: 2010
      • words: 546
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: foreign; modern; moral; neoconservatism; policy; political; sense; states; strategic; thesis; war
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4758. wp988g87500
      • author: Kevin Patrick McCabe
      • title: Capacities and Capax Dei: Theological Anthropology and Intellectual Disability
      • date: 2015
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: I build upon Rahner's framework in order to show how freedom emerges through relations of dependence, and how vulnerable human relationships differ from fundamental human dependence on God. What emerges is a spiritual vision of human beings as creatures oriented to the infinite mystery of God.
      • keywords: dependence; freedom; human
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4759. wp988g8752p
      • author: Nil Valls
      • title: Searches for Z' and Higgs Bosons Decaying into Hadronic Tau Pairs at CMS/LHC
      • date: 2013
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Searches for the SM Higgs boson production in association with top-quark pairs will provide additional information on the likely SM Higgs boson detection by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC in 2012, as well as the only means of directly measuring its coupling to top quarks. An elegant solution to the mystery of electroweak symmetry breaking and the origin of mass was proposed in the 1960s, yet it has taken several generations of particle accelerators and detectors to discover the first strong candidate for the so-called Higgs boson, which is implied by the theory.
      • keywords: boson; cms; higgs; model; pairs; tau
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4760. wp988g8754c
      • author: Apryle Marie O'Farrell
      • title: Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Small Molecules as Potential Inhibitors of Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis
      • date: 2011
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The small molecules were analyzed for in vivo antibacterial activity utilizing minimum inhibitory concentration determination. Since the use of penicillin during World War II, the cell wall biosynthesis pathway has been a target for antibiotic treatment.
      • keywords: activity; molecules; pathway; small
      • versions: original; plain text
4761. wp988g8755q
      • author: Jason Todd Nightingale
      • title: Geometric Analysis and Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems
      • date: 2012
      • words: 449
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Geometric analysis and control of underactuated mechanical systems is a multidisciplinary field of study that overlaps diverse research areas in engineering and applied mathematics. This thesis contains contributions to modeling, analysis and algorithm design for underactuated mechanical systems.
      • keywords: affine; control; form; formulation; geometric; mechanical; systems; unactuated; underactuated; velocity
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4762. wp988g87562
      • author: Richard J Oosterhoff
      • title: Mathematical Culture in Renaissance Paris; University, Print, and the Circle of Lef&#232;vre d'Etaples
      • date: 2013
      • words: 356
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Joining the histories of the book and mathematical practice, it contributes to the history of manuscript and print, and the history of mathematics in early modern science. Part two examines Lef&#232;vre's goals for mathematics.
      • keywords: dissertation; lef&#232;vre; manuscript; mathematics; print; textbooks; traditional; university
      • versions: original; plain text
4763. wp988g8758r
      • author: Jorge Alfredo Ferrer Perez
      • title: Thermal Study of a GaN-Based HEMT
      • date: 2012
      • words: 324
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Simultaneous electron and lattice temperature maps, which have not been reported until now, provide a valuable tool for the study of hot spot formation within devices. If hot spots can be moved by changing operating conditions, it would be possible to decrease temperature peaks in regions where electrical performance is crucial.
      • keywords: device; electron; heat; hot; lattice; regions; temperatures
      • versions: original; plain text
4764. wp988g8761n
      • author: Chi Z+D760hang
      • title: A Comparative Study of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation and Continuous Phase Modulation
      • date: 2008
      • words: 130
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: This thesis also presents an idea of nonuniform QAM constellations, which can potentially improve bit-error-rate performance in the presence of phase noise. Both analytical results and simulation results show that nonuniform constellations are superior to uniform constellations in the presence of phase noise.
      • keywords: modulation; phase; presence; techniques
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4765. wp988g8763b
      • author: Andrew Scott Paluch
      • title: Efficiently Modeling the Solution Phase Behavior of Soluble Solid Solutes via Molecular Simulation and Solution Theory
      • date: 2014
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Next, it is demonstrated how solution theory may complement molecular simulation, and reduce the computational demand required to make solubility predictions. Not only would this allow for solubility predictions to be made, but molecular level insight into why a drug is soluble or insoluble can be obtained.
      • keywords: chemical; design; method; molecular; phase; simulation; solubility; solution
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4766. wp988g87771
      • author: Karen Ostdiek
      • title: Measurement of the Half-Life of 60Fe for Stellar and Early Solar System Models Using the Direct Decay of 60mCo and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
      • date: 1904
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: The presence of these isotopes (specifically 60Fe) can identify progenitors of SNe, give evidence for nearby SNe, and can be used as a chronometer for ESS events. The 60Fe half-life, which has been in dispute in recent years, can impact calculations for the timing of ESS events, the distance to nearby SNe, and the brightness of individual, non-steady state 60Fe gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy.
      • keywords: 60fe; half; life; sne
      • versions: original; plain text
4767. wp988g87b6m
      • author: Kyle Lambelet
      • title: ¡Presente! Political Theology at the Gates of Ft. Benning
      • date: 1904
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Each chapter examines a different dilemma that SOA Watch activists face and examines how the coordination of these three dynamics impacts that dilemma. Through the course of this study I construct a political theology that coordinates the dynamics of messianism, liturgy and practical reason.
      • keywords: chapter; claim; dead; liturgy; political; presente
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4768. wp988g87v2w
      • author: Pierre Miranda
      • title: Precipitation of Antibodies Using the Nucleotide Binding Site
      • date: 1904
      • words: 131
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: Antibodies have generated a breakthrough within the biotechnology industry over the past decades in both pharmaceutical areas for treatment of immunological, cancer and cardiovascular diseases, as well as endless applications for biomedical research specifically for molecular diagnostics, cellular imaging, among others. However, the production is still maintained at a high cost mainly due to the current purification method used based on the use of packed columns with proteins A / G.In this way, the present study shows a variant to a method proposed in the scientific literature based on the precipitation of the antibodies through the formation of complexes and their precipitation with ammonium sulfate.
      • keywords: antibodies; method; precipitation; site
      • versions: original; plain text
4769. wp988g87v68
      • author: Justin Christy
      • title: Aspects of Visual Awareness
      • date: 1904
      • words: 354
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: For example, the spatial orientation of an object relative to the subject who sees it can make a difference to her experience, and some naïve realists have argued that this is grounds for construing visual experience not as a two-place relation between a subject and an object, but as a three-place relation between a subject, an object, and the subject's standpoint on the object. I argue that the former conception of visual experience can account for all of the facts that allegedly militate in favor of the latter conception.
      • keywords: consequences; experience; object; subject; visual
      • versions: original; plain text
4770. wp988g8868b
      • author: Anna Vincenzi
      • title: Imagining an Age of Revolution? Interpretations of the American Revolution in the Italian States, 1765–1799
      • date: 2020
      • words: 268
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: For the notion of an Age of Revolution to emerge, the French Revolution had to happen, introducing a radically new notion of revolution: revolutionary change as a radical break from the past and an occasion to establish a new, truly egalitarian and democratic society. On this basis, this study criticizes narratives of the Age of Revolution that present the age as a single process originating from North America.
      • keywords: age; american; revolution; revolutionary
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4771. wp988g8869p
      • author: Henriette Balinda
      • title: Elucidation of MLK3 Signaling in Tumor Cell Invasion
      • date: 2020
      • words: 177
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: MLK3 is a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K) that more recently has been recognized as an important regulator of tumor invasion and metastasis. We outline a pathway involving BRAFV600E Hsp90 and Cdc37 that impacts ERK activation, Wnt signaling and regulators of extracellular matrix invasion including the levels and spatial distribution of matrix metalloproteinases.
      • keywords: invasion; kinase; melanoma; mlk3
      • versions: original; plain text
4772. wp988g88790
      • author: Elizabeth A. Sunshine
      • title: Intercession and Reconciliation: A Canonical Reading of Exodus 32–34
      • date: 2021
      • words: 245
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: I argue that all the accounts of Moses' intercession in Exodus 32–34 were original to the story, forming a framework into which other passages could be inserted. One such insertion is the non-P tent of meeting in Exodus 33:7–11, which was added because it connects on the one hand to God's refusal to dwell among the Israelites and on the other hand to the unique relationship between God and Moses that leads God to overcome that refusal.
      • keywords: approach; exodus; god; story
      • versions: original; plain text
4773. wp988g88b15
      • author: Boyang Li
      • title: Proof-of-Deep-Learning Consensus in Blockchain Systems
      • date: 2022
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: To further improve the consensus, I enhanced the feasibility to exploit the computation power of blockchain for deep learning algorithms. In the series of my work, I aim to recycle the waste resources to train deep learning models which powered many applications behind the scenes in our daily lives.
      • keywords: blockchain; consensus; deep; learning; proof; work
      • versions: original; plain text
4774. ws859c70d7n
      • author: Paul Giesting
      • title: Uranyl Complexes with Organic Ligands: Classification, Crystal Structures, and Applications
      • date: 2006
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: complexes; ion; organic; oxalates; structure; uranyl
      • versions: original; plain text
4775. ws859c70f0j
      • author: Fanghui Fan
      • title: Risk Management of Energy Commodities &mdash; Valuation and Optimization of an Energy Swap for a Flexible Fuel Process and Energy Commodity Storage
      • date: 2015
      • words: 478
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: In this dissertation, two problems in energy risk management are considered. One is 'valuation of an energy swap for a flexible fuel process' and the other is 'valuation and optimization of energy commodity storage'.
      • keywords: control; energy; owner; price; problem; process; stochastic; storage; utility
      • versions: original; plain text
4776. ws859c70f27
      • author: Cody Daniel Christopherson
      • title: Addiction and volition in problematic Internet use among college students
      • date: 2010
      • words: 164
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Participants were assessed according to a battery of Internet addiction scales to determine which, if any, of the tests can predict lack of volitional control of Internet use. Addiction, or lack of volitional control, is central to the fervor over Internet use and mental health.
      • keywords: internet; use; volitional
      • versions: original; plain text
4777. ws859c70f4x
      • author: Andrew J Lombardi
      • title: Closed-Loop Dynamic Stall Control Using a Plasma Actuator
      • date: 2011
      • words: 402
      • flesch: 49
      • summary: A closed-loop plasma actuated control scheme which relies on the ability to detect incipient flow separation is presented. When the signal reaches a sufficiently high value, set by an adjustable threshold, the actuator is triggered to a high-powered ``Control State' with more flow control authority.
      • keywords: actuator; closed; control; flow; pressure; scheme; stall
      • versions: original; plain text
4778. ws859c70f89
      • author: Ryan Nicholas Lichtenwalter
      • title: Beyond Static Data: Tackling Class Imbalance and Concept Drift in Data Streams, Link Persistence and Prediction in Dynamic Networks, and Autonomous Composition in Computer Music
      • date: 2010
      • words: 138
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This is the first work to formally cast the problem of link prediction as a class imbalance problem, and it greatly outperforms a number of contemporary and popular methods. Bach chorales are first uniquely transformed into a feature vector space, and then a sliding window approach is used to generate classifiers for subsequent autonomous music composition.
      • keywords: different; link; problem
      • versions: original; plain text
4779. ws859c70g0v
      • author: Steven John Battin
      • title: Intercommunal Ecclesiology: Re-Envisioning the Church as God's Response to Intergroup Disunity
      • date: 2013
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: This correlation is the basis for the central thesis of this dissertation: Within God's plan of historical salvation, the Church functions as God's communal response to intercomunal disunity, a role it fulfills with integrity only when and where it enacts itself as a counterperformance to aggression, conflict, and indifference between human communities. This dissertation offers a soteriological reimagining of the Church in light of the reality of intergroup relationship.
      • keywords: chapter; church; dissertation; god; human; intergroup; salvation
      • versions: original; plain text
4780. ws859c70g16
      • author: Joshua Edwin Dinsman
      • title: Breaking Institutional Isomorphism: Urban Branding in Four American Cities
      • date: 2014
      • words: 392
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Because cities are in competition with one another for low-cost residents, new investors, and tourists, urban branding is used by local leaders as a political-economic tool to ensure that their city is an attractive destination for these target audiences. Although many studies recognize this phenomenon, most of them are purely descriptive and fail to provide an explanation for why cities adopt such similar approaches to urban branding.
      • keywords: actors; branding; cities; explanation; organizational; similar; urban
      • versions: original; plain text
4781. ws859c70g3w
      • author: Hye Young Lee
      • title: The 18F(&#945;,p)21Ne Reaction and Its Astrophysical Implications
      • date: 2008
      • words: 178
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The statistical model predicted that the 18F(Ì_å±,p)21Ne reaction can compete with the Ì_å_+-decay at high helium density and temperatures. In this scenario, the 14N from preceding CNO burning is converted to 18F, via the reaction 14N(Ì_å±,&gamma;)18F and subsequent Ì_å_+-decay forms 18O, which then produces neutrons via 18O(Ì_å±,n) or 18O(Ì_å±,&gamma;)22Ne(Ì_å±,n) reactions.
      • keywords: model; process; reaction; site; supernova
      • versions: original; plain text
4782. ws859c70g6x
      • author: Nara Pavão
      • title: The Failures of Electoral Accountability for Corruption: Brazil and Beyond
      • date: 1904
      • words: 294
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This dissertation sheds light on why accountability for corruption fails and corrupt politicians survive democratic elections. Rather than working just like accountability for other components of government performance, accountability for corruption follows a particular dynamic, one that is distinct from accountability for other electoral issues.
      • keywords: accountability; corruption; dissertation; issues; politicians; voters
      • versions: original; plain text
4783. ws859c70h36
      • author: Yong-Siou Chen
      • title: Organometal Halide Perovskites and Gold Nanoclusters for Solar Energy Conversion
      • date: 1904
      • words: 502
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The solar to hydrogen conversion efficiency of this device is 2.5 % under simulated sunlight illumination. This emerging light absorber composed of inexpensive, earth-abundant elements and can be prepared using low-cost solution processes, has already demonstrated its ability of delivering power conversion efficiency of 20 % in TiO2 supported nanostructures.
      • keywords: conversion; device; efficiency; gold; hydrogen; light; nanoclusters; nanostructures; sensitized; solar; systems; tio2
      • versions: original; plain text
4784. ws859c71494
      • author: Abigail Burns
      • title: Storied Women
      • date: 1904
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: At the heart of the novella is a desire and failure to write new philosophies of love—new poetry—free from unnecessary gendered binaries and their patriarchal cultural contexts. Modeled after work by Roland Barthes, Maggie Nelson, and Marguerite Duras, among others, Storied Women pushes against the limits of auto-fiction, combining critical and theoretical writing with fictional narrative.
      • keywords: duras; marguerite; roland
      • versions: original; plain text
4785. ws859c7193m
      • author: Kevin X. Rodriguez
      • title: Carbenoid Strategies for the Development of Fully Substituted Carbon Centers
      • date: 2019
      • words: 145
      • flesch: 27
      • 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.
      • keywords: importance; natural; products; strategies
      • versions: original; plain text
4786. ws859c71h24
      • author: Jeremy C. Graham
      • title: A Tale of Two Dilemmas: Military Coups and Interstate Conflict
      • date: 2020
      • words: 206
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Leaders need the armed forces to protect the state from external threats. Increasing the capacity of the military increases the ability to deal with external threats also increases the threat of the military as a challenger.
      • keywords: conflict; dilemma; military; threats
      • versions: original; plain text
4787. ws859c71j44
      • author: Evan Schultz
      • title: Self-Knowledge in Plato's Apology and Charmides
      • date: 2021
      • words: 325
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In Chapter 1, I use the Apology to sketch an outline of Socratic philosophy, and argue that Socrates' so-called human wisdom—what is therein portrayed as something at the center of the sort of examined life Socrates evangelizes throughout the dialogues—is a complex form of self-knowledge. In Chapter 2, I explore how Socrates' method induces this self-knowledge in others—specifically, I argue that his portrait of it in the first half of the Charmides, wherein Socrates compares himself to a therapist or doctor of the whole soul, indicates that Socrates conceives of his practice as having the power to generate in his interlocutors positive progress with respect to self-knowledge.
      • keywords: charmides; knowledge; self; socrates
      • versions: original; plain text
4788. ws859c71j75
      • author: Jessica R. Carney
      • title: Elucidating the Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Severity
      • date: 2021
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Results indicate that child maltreatment ACEs predict PTSS significantly better than household dysfunction ACEs, controlling for past-year IPV. This study explored the relationship between ACEs and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in adult pregnant women (N = 137) who had experienced past-year intimate partner violence (IPV), and examined the moderating effects of the age, frequency, and duration of ACEs exposure.
      • keywords: aces; dysfunction; ipv; ptss
      • versions: original; plain text
4789. ws859c71k2r
      • author: Tanner J. Corrado
      • title: Development of Iptycene-Containing Polysulfones And Ladder Polymers for Gas Separation Membranes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: To combat these challenges, molecular level design of polymer membranes to incorporate bulky structures that disrupt chain packing, linkages that rigidify the backbone, and introduction of shape-persistent architectures containing configurational free volume elements is a promising strategy. This tradeoff originates at the molecular level, where undesired free volume architectures (small, indiscriminate microcavities) arising from random chain packing in glassy polymer membranes makes it difficult to simultaneously achieve fast and selective gas transport.
      • keywords: architectures; free; gas; membranes; pentiptycene; permeability; polymer; separation; triptycene; volume
      • versions: original; plain text
4790. ww72b853p7q
      • author: Michelle Abadilla Favila
      • title: Host and Pathogenic Features That Drive Cellular Immune Response to Leishmania spp. Infection
      • date: 2013
      • words: 662
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Remarkably, human DCs exhibit a dynamic range in IL-12 production in response to Leishmania infection. IL-12 is generally enhanced during L. major infections, in contrast to, L. donovani infections which do not induce IL-12.
      • keywords: cell; dcs; host; human; ifn; il-12; il-12p40; infection; leishmania; lpg; major; production; response; type
      • versions: original; plain text
4791. ww72b853p9d
      • author: Lorna Louise Whyte
      • title: Role of Clusterin in Murine Mammary Gland Development and Progression of Human Breast Cancer
      • date: 2005
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: All of these characteristics are common to the highly aggressive phenotype observed in late stage breast cancer patients. Although clusterin in the mammary gland has not been extensively studied, clusterin has been implicated in mammary gland development and in breast cancer progression.
      • keywords: cancer; clusterin; development; gland; mammary; phenotype
      • versions: original; plain text
4792. ww72b853q0m
      • author: Shaoping Shen
      • title: Optical and Transport Studies of Magnetic Semiconductor
      • date: 2010
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 49
      • 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.
      • keywords: cd1; magnetic; magneto; mcd; nano; optical; splitting
      • versions: original; plain text
4793. ww72b853q29
      • author: Elizabeth Anne L'Arrivee
      • title: Converting the Soul from Politics to Philosophy: The Philosophic Way of Life in Plato's Republic
      • date: 2015
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: In contrast to Plato's Laws, which is intended to show the degree to which philosophy can transform existing political communities, the Republic (1) depicts three identifiable moments in the experience of philosophic conversion, and (2) connects this experience to the founding of a new, philosophic community. This thesis argues that Plato's Republic provides an outline of conversion to the philosophic way of life, and in doing so founds a new kind of community that is distinct from the political community and its way of life &mdash; the philosophic community.
      • keywords: community; life; philosophic; way
      • versions: original; plain text
4794. ww72b853q40
      • author: Elizabeth Margaret Springer
      • title: The Development and Syntheses of Nitroreductase Triggered Releasable Linkers for Use in Siderophore Drug Conjugates
      • date: 2015
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: After this proof of principle, a first generation linker was prepared, however a nitroreductase assay suggested that linkers with adjusted reduction potential might be necessary for drug release. Initially, test molecules were synthesized and reduced to demonstrate the feasibility of triggered drug release.
      • keywords: conjugates; drug; linkers; molecules; nitroreductase; siderophore
      • versions: original; plain text
4795. ww72b853q6p
      • author: Kristina M. Peterson
      • title: An Ecological Momentary Investigation of Spousal Interactions and Affect in Couples with Chronic Low Back Pain
      • date: 2011
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Results from lagged models of criticism and depressed affect suggested that there are bidirectional relationships between spouse criticism and spouse depressed affect; as well, they highlighted the role of spouse depressed affect in predicting patient criticism. These results highlight the implications of being critical and providing support as well as the role of spouse affect in generating marital conflict.
      • keywords: affect; criticism; depressed; patient; spouse; support
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4796. ww72b853q71
      • author: Michael George Mawson
      • title: Christ Existing as Community: The Ethics of Bonhoeffer's Ecclesiology
      • date: 2012
      • words: 402
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Chapter Three explores how Bonhoeffer uses the doctrine of creation as a basis for appropriating from existing social theory, and for developing his own 'specifically Christian social-philosophy and sociology.' It argues that this dogmatic structure is crucial for understanding Bonhoeffer's engagement with social theory and his account of the church.
      • keywords: bonhoeffer; chapter; church; engagement; social; theory
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4797. ww72b853q8c
      • author: Julia T Philip
      • title: Development of a yeast-based sensor for environmental monitoring
      • date: 2013
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Part 2: Yeast-based Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring The development of small continuous culture devices for growing yeast and their application as environmental sensors is described. Part 1: MTBindingSim MTBindingSim is a program that simulates binding curves for proteins binding to microtubules.
      • keywords: experimental; mtbindingsim; program
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4798. ww72b853r0x
      • author: Sharon Irene Gundersen
      • title: Conjugation of Methoxypolyethylene Glycol to Bovine Red Blood Cells as a Potential Universal Oxygen Therapeutic
      • date: 2007
      • words: 360
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: blood; brbcs; mpeg; oxygen; pegylated; spa; surface; therapeutic
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4799. ww72b853r3z
      • author: Stephen Louis Armet
      • title: Intrinsic Religion: The Relationship Between Religious Socialization and Identity Formation in Adolescents of High Tension Religion
      • date: 2008
      • words: 137
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: A line of inquiry explored by Smith and Sikkink emphasizes the effect of socialization and identity formation on religious outcomes, finding correspondence to Marcia's typology based on commitment and exploration. The Second Wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion was used to test for the effects of parenting styles and youth autonomy on religious outcomes.
      • keywords: religious; socialization; youth
      • versions: original; plain text
4800. ww72b853r5n
      • author: Guojing Liu
      • title: The interaction between heavy metals and NOM during drinking water treatment processes
      • date: 2008
      • words: 288
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: This research addresses the important issue of how interactions between select heavy metals and NOM affects their ultimate fate during drinking water treatment processes. The results suggest that the presence of Cu(II) in raw waters can facilitate NOM removal by coagulation.
      • keywords: coagulation; nom; presence; raw; water
      • versions: original; plain text
4801. ww72b854d8v
      • author: Shaunasee M. Kocen
      • title: miRNA Biomarkers from Human Cardiac Stress Model
      • date: 1904
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Cardiac disease models superior to current human and animal models are necessary to advance our understanding of cardiac diseases and biomarkers. This thesis offers a proof of concept disease model using induced cardiomyocytes differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells to mimic the ischemia and reperfusion stresses the human heart endures during an AMI.
      • keywords: cardiac; cells; disease; hours
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4802. ww72b854s0h
      • author: Chuxu Zhang
      • title: Learning from Heterogeneous Data
      • date: 2020
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Extending from the fusion learning, we further investigate the principles and methodologies for label-efficient fusion learning from heterogeneous data, with the emphasis on the applications of web personalization and knowledge graph reasoning. Besides the difficulty of extracting and representing useful information from such complex data, it is hard to fuse the extracted knowledge in a unified and customized manner so as to facilitate various applications.
      • keywords: complex; data; graph; heterogeneous
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4803. ww72b854t5j
      • author: Xue Li
      • title: Ensemble Finite Element Solvers for Cardiovascular Modeling under Uncertainty
      • date: 2021
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 13
      • summary: In this dissertation, we show how an explicit-in-time ensemble cardiovascular solver offers superior performance with respect to the embarrassingly parallel solution with implicit-in-time algorithms, typical of an inner-outer loop paradigm for non-intrusive uncertainty propagation. Computational models are increasingly used for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
      • keywords: cardiovascular; computational; models; uncertainty
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4804. x059c536z9s
      • author: Rachel Elizabeth Kasuboski-Polando
      • title: The role of pattern recognition receptors in host cell signaling and phagosome maturation during infection with Leishmania
      • date: 2010
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Our data is the first step toward characterizing a role for macrophage receptors and their influence on phagosome maturation. Thus, receptor engagement and opsonization both influence Leishmania phagosome maturation and potentially parasite survival.
      • keywords: cr3; leishmania; macrophages; maturation; phagosome; receptor
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4805. x059c53702z
      • author: Ashley Nicole Ferreira
      • title: Dissecting brain circuitry of fear and anxiety: The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)- Amygdala- periaqueductal grey (PAG) circuit
      • date: 2015
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Comparison of mPFC neurons projecting to the PAG versus amygdala revealed significant differences in intrinsic properties, local circuitry, and neuromodulation by stress peptides. In the central amygdala (CeA), neurons projecting to the PAG (CeA-PAG neurons) expressed different levels of hyperpolarization-activated current.
      • keywords: amygdala; cea; neurons; pag
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4806. x059c53704n
      • author: Brenna M. Casey
      • title: The Map Precedes the Territory: Essays of Place
      • date: 2010
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: In short, these essays, I think, encapsulate revelatory moments enjambed in everyday life, singular experiences that imbue all else. 'Such maps require us to distance ourselves,' writes the cartography scholar Michael Gaudio, 'from modern mapping practices with their 'transparent' schematizations of objective space, so that we can recognize this cartography for what it is -- 'not a primitive version of our own but a positive form of organizing space in a world in which signs are not tied to their referents and meanings are never final.'
      • keywords: essays; maps; personal; space
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4807. x059c53706b
      • author: Jing Yang
      • title: Characterization of the Drosophila ninaB And ninaD Genes Involved in Rhodopsin Chromophore Biosynthesis
      • date: 2006
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Immunohistochemical analysis verified that ninaD is expressed in the adult fly optic lobe and brain. To determine the cell types responsible for ninaB activity, I constructed and analyzed a transgenic fly strain carrying ninaB promoter driving GAL4 (pninaB-GAL4).
      • keywords: analysis; chromophore; fly; gene; ninad; retinal; rhodopsin
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4808. x059c53710k
      • author: Jiyun Zu
      • title: Robust Procedures for Mediation Analysis
      • date: 2009
      • words: 172
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: To circumvent these problems, this dissertation proposes to utilize robust methods for parameter estimation, and then to evaluate the mediated effect based on robust estimates. Theoretical details of robust procedures for mediation analysis are provided.
      • keywords: analysis; estimates; mediation; robust
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4809. x059c537128
      • author: Jillian M Mueller
      • title: Conservation Management Under Climate Change: On Tropical Drought Resistance, Non-native Species Response to Increasing Disturbance, and Assisted Migration
      • date: 2009
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Non-native species had traits indicative of higher growth rate, but not plasticity, than native species, suggesting that disturbance may promote non-native species. To further predictions of species response, I examine plant functional traits in tropical forests with two goals: 1) identify traits indicative of resistance to projected drought in native seedlings, and 2) ascertain if non-native species can capitalize on disturbance over native species through high growth rates and plasticity.
      • keywords: native; non; species; traits
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4810. x059c53713m
      • author: Juan Pablo Pavissich Bartolozzi
      • title: Effects of Biofilm Morphological and Mechanical Heterogeneity on Treatment Systems: An Assessment via Experiments and Modeling
      • date: 2014
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: In this study, three novel topics were addressed regarding biofilm heterogeneity: effects of morphological heterogeneity on counter-diffusional biofilms, the development of a biofilm model capable of predicting deformation and detachment, and the determination of spatial distribution of biofilm mechanical properties. A novel biofilm model was developed using an energetic variational approach and phase-field method to simulate biofilm mechanical response to fluid flow.
      • keywords: biofilm; deformation; detachment; diffusional; heterogeneity; mechanical; model; properties
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4811. x059c537159
      • author: Annette Fernandez Raigoza
      • title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers
      • date: 2012
      • words: 250
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: At equal octanethiol-to-DTC ratios, molecular exchange hinders octanethiol monolayer formation. Defects in the octanethiol monolayer are prime sites for molecular exchange.
      • keywords: dtc; molecular; monolayer; octanethiol; surface
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4812. x059c53718b
      • author: David Russell Komline
      • title: The Common School Awakening: Education and Religion, 1800-1848
      • date: 1904
      • words: 334
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The American reformers who used these innovations consistently framed their goals in terms of introducing their students to a broad, nonsectarian ChristianityIn the late 1820s, the same reformers who had earlier imported European teaching methods began to look to European educational models as ways to organize systems of government sponsored schools. From about 1800 to about 1828, school reformers of various sorts experimented with different methods of schooling that they had imported from abroad.
      • keywords: american; dissertation; nonsectarian; reformers; school; teaching
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4813. x059c537604
      • author: Majd Alshoufi
      • title: It's Easier to Blame: Emotion Avoidance in Victim-blame/derogation in Just World Theory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 163
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: Typically, people are expected to empathize with innocent victims, yet many resort to victim-blaming and derogation. According to Just World Theory, a belief in a just world drives the blaming and derogation of innocent victims.
      • keywords: avoidance; emotion; world
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4814. x059c537q6v
      • author: Cristal R. Thompson
      • title: Deciphering the Role of N-Terminal Acetylation in Pathogenic Mycobacteria
      • date: 1904
      • words: 406
      • flesch: 33
      • 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.
      • keywords: esx-1; mycobacterial; nta; protein; terminal; virulence
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4815. x059c537x2b
      • author: Rieti G. Gengo
      • title: Biosociality and Political Economy of Waiting at Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
      • date: 2019
      • words: 456
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Refugee camps and other settlements have consistently operated under an ideology of biopolitical humanitarian governance, characterized by enforced dependency on humanitarian agencies for basic necessities of food and shelter, curtailed human rights, restrictions on movement, severely limited access to quality education and healthcare, and idleness. As global political and economic conditions that cause people to flee their homes continue to intensify and become entrenched, millions of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons occupy managed settlements for years or decades.
      • keywords: active; health; life; miraa; practices; refugee; settlements; stress; turkana; wait; waiting
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4816. x059c53822v
      • author: Natasha Ali
      • title: Santander
      • date: 2020
      • words: 2
      • flesch: 120
      • summary: A novella.
      • keywords: novella
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4817. x059c538325
      • author: Allan Leishman
      • title: Measuring Energetics of Magnetic Vortices Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
      • date: 2021
      • words: 458
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Superconducting vortices and magnetic skyrmions are two types of mesoscale magnetic vortices that arrange themselves into periodic lattices in condensed matter systems. By modelling this hysteresis with a simple Preisach free energy and comparing it with atomistic spin simulations, the activation barrier is found to be several eV/ skyrmion.
      • keywords: barrier; crystal; current; energy; lattices; magnetic; phase; sans; skl; skyrmions
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4818. x059c53840s
      • author: Lauren Green
      • title: Glial Cells at the Border of the CNS During Development and Disease
      • date: 2021
      • words: 444
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Together, this work expands on our current understanding of the interactions between the CNS and PNS cells that aid in the construction of the CNS/PNS boundary during normal development and homeostasis. and further reveals crucial roles CNS and PNS cells play in reconstructing this crucial immune protected CNS/PNS boundary.
      • keywords: boundary; cells; cns; development; glial; interactions; pns
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4819. x059c53843t
      • author: James J. Ostrander
      • title: The Self, Or Stranger
      • date: 2022
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: These juxtapositions foreground the tensions inherent to the performance of self, and enable exploration of those forms of cultural inscription which drive identity formation. Within these scenes, grotesque bodies emulate cultural roles, producing situations that are alternately humorous and serious, disturbing and tender, realistic and idealized.
      • keywords: cultural; historical; self; works
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4820. x059c53860d
      • author: Md Raju Kalam
      • title: Inside Violence Violence Inside
      • date: 2023
      • words: 66
      • flesch: 63
      • summary: This is likely a study or remedial study of violence that seeks resolution for existing trauma or justice for a half-dead mother, and/or is exhausted by experiencing different forms of violence. These poems not only talk about gun violence but also domestic and climate violence.
      • keywords: violence
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4821. x346d22079m
      • author: Ali Snedden
      • title: Evolution of Baryons in Cosmic Large Scale Structure
      • date: 2015
      • words: 280
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: We also show that much of the star formation above a redshift z = 3 occurs in low contrast regions of filaments, but as the density contrast increases at lower redshift, star formation switches to high contrast regions or the inner parts of filaments. We vary the structure measure threshold to probe the complex inner structure of star forming regions in poor clusters, filaments and voids.
      • keywords: clusters; filaments; regions; star; structure
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4822. x346d220815
      • author: Justin Michael Dubas
      • title: Exchange Rate Misalignment: Causes and Consequences
      • date: 2005
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: My dissertation explores the often neglected aspect of exchange rate misalignment in such a context. Using the same sample and improved measure of misalignment from the first chapter, the second chapter employs standard growth regressions to determine how exchange rate misalignment affects economic growth.
      • keywords: countries; exchange; growth; misalignment; rate; regime
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4823. x346d22082h
      • author: Hilary Anne Davidson
      • title: Checks and Balances: Family Structure and Religious Financial Giving
      • date: 2010
      • words: 146
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: Though some progress has been made in ascertaining how family structure impacts giving, the extant literature offers limited insight into how decisions about religious financial giving are made at the household level. Religious financial gifts are crucial to the survival of religious institutions; parishioners collectively supply upwards of 90% of the annual revenue at three-quarters of American congregations (Chaves 2004).
      • keywords: congregation; financial; giving; religious
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4824. x346d220846
      • author: Thomas R Gohndrone
      • title: Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism of the Absorption of CO2 in Amine-Functionalized Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2015
      • words: 542
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: This study examines the reactive properties of amine functionalized ionic liquids and their use as a solvent for absorbing CO2. Therefore, this work determines how the ILs behave at temperatures above room temperature in the presence of CO2.
      • keywords: activation; cation; co2; energies; ils; mol; rate; reaction; second
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4825. x346d22086w
      • author: Jessica Marie Morrison
      • title: Actinyl Ion Crystal Chemistry and Its Impact on Structural Topologies and Environmental Fate
      • date: 2015
      • words: 256
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: This research demonstrated (1) the structural differences between U(VI) uranyl germanates and silicates by introducing new (VI) uranyl germanate compounds with uncommon structural features, like cation-cation interactions and chains of GeO5 tetrahedra; and (2) the potential for structural incorporation to play a role in neptunium mobility in the subsurface by showing that calcite has a higher affinity for neptunium than gypsum during synthetic growth. Here two major themes are presented in which one explores the structural properties of U(VI) uranyl germanates as they relate to U(VI) uranyl silicates and the emergence of cation-cation interactions as a structural feature, and the other offers a glimpse at the behavior of Np(V) and U(VI) during the growth of rock- forming minerals for the purpose of understanding the inorganic controls of crystal growth on environmental remediation.
      • keywords: actinide; cation; structural; study; u(vi; uranyl
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4826. x346d22088k
      • author: Joshua Bandoch
      • title: On Political Particularism: De l'sprit des lois and the Politics of Statecraft
      • date: 2012
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: I will argue in this study that Montesquieu's primary purpose in writing De l'Esprit des lois is to educate legislators by giving them practical advice that will teach them how to address the following question: How is it possible to advance universal goals like security, liberty, and prosperity in the context of particular societies that change over time? He wants to instruct legislators how to understand particular societies in order to effect positive change (by making them more secure, free, and prosperous), or in order to maintain a state's goodness once the state has achieved it.
      • keywords: legislators; particular; political; society
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4827. x346d22089x
      • author: Joshua David Mengers
      • title: Slow Invariant Manifolds for Reaction-Diffusion Systems
      • date: 2012
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: The results cast into doubt the SIM as a robust rational reduction technique for reaction dynamics. The extension of SIMs to adiabatic reaction systems is also considered, and results are shown for the Zel'dovich mechanism.
      • keywords: diffusion; length; mechanism; projection; reaction; sim; systems; technique
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4828. x346d220904
      • author: Sarah Dawson Ellison
      • title: Until the Resurrection: Poetic Fame and the Future of the Body in English Renaissance Lyric, 1590-1641
      • date: 2014
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Resurrection would make poetic fame superfluous, but in the mean time, the poem could anticipate resurrection, providing an image or foretaste of eternity. This study explores how English lyric poets between 1590 and 1641, facing the question of whether and how their poems might escape Time's threat to destroy every material thing, brought together classical tropes of poetic immortality with the Christian expectation of bodily resurrection.
      • keywords: classical; immortality; lyric; poetic; poets; resurrection; time
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4829. x346d22092t
      • author: Timothy David Hall
      • title: Performance Enhancement of Low Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells by Catalyst and Support Layer Modifications
      • date: 2007
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Possible enhancement of low temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) or direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) was investigated by modifying catalyst and support layers. The best prepared electrode for the anode in a DMFC consisted of a pulse plated Pt catalyst loading of ~0.2
      • keywords: catalyst; electrode; layer; methanol; mwnf; nuvant; system
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4830. x346d22095v
      • author: Senem Suzek
      • title: The Decoration of Cave Churches in Cappadocia under Selcuk Rule
      • date: 2010
      • words: 166
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: These churches not only mark the strangeness of a Christian community under Muslim rule, but have also provided historians an outlet for views regarding the Greek community and their acculturation under Turkish rule. The churches of interest to this present study belong to an 'exotic' and ambiguous group as they are not only located in the enigmatic province of Cappadocia but also date to the Selcuk period.
      • keywords: cappadocia; churches; rule; selcuk
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4831. x346d22097j
      • author: Julia Agnes Schneider
      • title: Theology and Liturgy in De mysterio missae: A thirteenth-century Commentary on the Mass Attributed to Albertus Magnus
      • date: 2011
      • words: 337
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: In addition, it contains a comparison of De mysterio missae with liturgical commentaries by Innocent III, William of Melitona, Hugh of St. Cher, and Guerric of St. Quentin; Innocent III's commentary was extremely influential on Albertus' own and that of others; those written by the other three of these demonstrates its relationship to the work of fellow thirteenth-century mendicant theologians. De mysterio missae has received relatively little recent scholarly attention from liturgical historians and theologians.
      • keywords: albertus; liturgical; missae; mysterio; text
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4832. x346d220997
      • author: Robert L'Arrivee
      • title: The Roots of Islamic Political Philosophy: A Comparative Study of Al-Farabi's Virtuous City and Political Regime
      • date: 1904
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: The Virtuous City contains a political teaching aimed at citizens that depicts the universe as governed by reason and promotes the freedom to pursue virtue in civic life. Thus, while the Virtuous City presents the sensible and the intelligible as a harmonic whole for the education of citizens, the Political Regime raises questions about the harmony of the whole for those who would embark on the philosophic life.
      • keywords: city; political; virtuous
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4833. x346d220c13
      • author: Haley M. Gedek
      • title: Effects of Family Conflict on Adolescent Adjustment: Testing the Effectiveness of an Intervention Targeting Family Communication
      • date: 1904
      • words: 153
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: Family conflict was directly related to both internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and indirectly related to internalizing symptoms through the adolescent's insecurity about the family and marital relationships. The intervention was effective at increasing constructive conflict behaviors, decreasing destructive conflict behaviors, and increasing the degree of resolution families reached in an in-lab problem-solving task; however, no differences were found between treatment conditions.
      • keywords: adolescent; conflict; family
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4834. x346d220z63
      • author: Stephen M. Mattingly
      • title: Stress during Survival Memory Retrieval: Adaptive or Not?
      • date: 1904
      • words: 319
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Within source memory, stress increased survival memory, as well as incorrectly identifying moving encoded words as survival words. If stress impairs survival memory retrieval to a lesser degree relative to non-survival memory, it would suggest that survival information is accessible when it is needed most, in stressful or dangerous situations.
      • keywords: memory; relevant; retrieval; stress; survival
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4835. x346d22100m
      • author: Mingming Cai
      • title: Modeling and Mitigating Beam Squint in Millimeter Wave Wireless Communication
      • date: 1904
      • words: 380
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Analysis shows that beam squint decreases channel capacity, and therefore, path selection should take beam squint into consideration. However, the gain provided by a phased array is frequency dependent in the wideband system, an effect called beam squint.
      • keywords: array; beam; capacity; channel; spectrum; squint; system
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4836. x346d221029
      • author: Sara Esfahani
      • title: Essays on Agricultural Productivity and Economic Development
      • date: 1904
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: And since poor countries allocate a large share of their economic resources to the agricultural sector, understanding the sources of low agricultural productivity in these countries is key to understanding underlying reasons for low agricultural incomes. The first chapter studies how agricultural productivity can be increased by a more efficient allocation of resources.
      • keywords: agricultural; chapter; countries
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4837. x346d221071
      • author: Philip Alan Smith Jr.
      • title: Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Uranyl and Neptunyl Coordination Complexes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 319
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: Several classes of ionic liquids were employed to develop coordination compounds and hybrid materials that expand on the topological diversity of solid-state uranyl structures and systematically investigate, through judicious selection of incorporated moieties, the importance and role of various structure directing factors (i.e. steric affects, hydrogen bonding, pH, temperature, etc.)A second area of research investigates transuranic cyanometallates, and demonstrates marked differences between pentavalent neptunium and hexavalent uranium chemistry. The goal of this research is to design and synthesize coordination complexes that demonstrate rich chemical and structural diversity of the 5f-elements at a nexus with ionic liquids, protonated amines, and a variety of N-, O- and h2-(N-O) donor ligands.
      • keywords: chemistry; compounds; coordination; ionic; liquids; research; structural; uranyl; work
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4838. x346d22163h
      • author: Jacob Thomas Schepers
      • title: Making Do: Towards a Poetics of Limit through Technological and Embodied Means
      • date: 2019
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 15
      • 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.
      • keywords: material; poetic; poets; work
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4839. x346d221d21
      • author: Jonathan Wells
      • title: Thermodynamic Behavior of a Weakly Compressible Shear Layer
      • date: 2021
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: The objectives of this research are to explore the validity of solutions from commercial solvers with respect to WCSL physics and to continue investigation into the Weakly Compressible Model (WCM), which was developed and used at the University of Notre Dame to model the behavior of such weakly compressible flows. To model such flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is often used to save time and money compared to the cost of full-scale experiments.
      • keywords: compressible; flows; model; weakly
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4840. x346d221g19
      • author: Jenna N. Sjoerdsma
      • title: Multivalent Design in Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutic Targeting, and Inhibitor Development
      • date: 2023
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Second, this work studies multivalent nanomedicines in the design and optimization of targeted nanoparticle systems for delivering chemotherapeutics to cancer. In chapter four, multivalent inhibitor designs are evaluated in vitro for two protein allergy systems: peanut and HDM.
      • keywords: chapter; multivalent; nanomedicines; nanoparticles; systems; therapeutics; vivo
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4841. x633dz03j12
      • author: Jared Edward Miller
      • title: The Effect of Auditory Entrainment on the Allocation of Visual Attention
      • date: 2011
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: We examined how entraining auditory attention to a rhythm affects the allocation of visual attention. Saccade latency was fastest for the in-synch condition, indicating that entraining auditory attention similarly entrains visual attention such that both are maximized concurrently.
      • keywords: attention; auditory
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4842. x633dz03j43
      • author: Gary Frederick Gerlach
      • title: Development of the Zebrafish Pronephros: Cellular and Genetic Analysis of Nephron Tubulogenesis and Segment Patterning
      • date: 2015
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: These studies provide a foundation for further analysis of MET during nephrogenesis and have implications for understanding nephron epithelial cells during kidney disease and regeneration. pax2a knockdown was sufficient to rescue ectopic tubule gene expression in prkc&#953;/&#950; morphants.
      • keywords: disease; epithelial; expression; kidney; nephron; patterning; polarity; prkc&#953;/&#950; pronephros; tubule
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4843. x633dz03j6s
      • author: Elizabeth D. Willis-Kochly
      • title: Advances in Carbocation Chemistry: Carbocations in Ionic Liquids, beta-Silyl Cyclopropyl Carbocations, and beta- and gamma-silyl Cyclobutyl Carbocations
      • date: 2010
      • words: 383
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Carbocation formation in ionic liquids, which are polar aprotic solvents, was studied. In fact, some of the ionic liquids under investigation were found to have an ionizing power similar to that of CF3CH2OH, a commonly used solvent for carbocation formation.
      • keywords: beta; carbocation; effect; ionic; liquids; silyl; stabilization
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4844. x633dz03j8g
      • author: Michael Loren Dickens
      • title: Surfer: Any-core Software Defined Radio
      • date: 2012
      • words: 207
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Surfer leverages commodity processing devices such as those on a typical laptop to allow heterogeneous processing. Within a waveform graph consisting of processing blocks, each connection is a buffer that holds the data being generated by one block and consumed by others.
      • keywords: processing; runtime; scheduling; waveform
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4845. x633dz03k2q
      • author: Joseph Raphael Zepeda
      • title: Descartes and his Critics on Space and Vacuum
      • date: 2010
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: This study is an interpretation of Descartes' theory of space and vacuum. This dissertation comprises a comprehensive interpretation of Descartes' treatment of space and vacuum, particularly in the Principles of Philosophy (1644).
      • keywords: descartes; position; space; theory; vacuum
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4846. x633dz03k4d
      • author: Alexandri Gregor Zavodny
      • title: Change Detection in LiDAR Scans of Urban Environments
      • date: 2012
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Modern acquisition platforms facilitate data collection rates of over two billion points per hour, enabling the collection of massive datasets with ease. To correct for this, we utilize a variety of point cloud alignment techniques, including a novel point descriptor, to bring overlapping pieces of data into alignment.
      • keywords: acquisition; collection; datasets; large; lidar; point
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4847. x633dz03k5r
      • author: Yingjie Li
      • title: Analysis of Ion-Enhanced Field Emission and Field Emission-Driven Microdischarges
      • date: 2014
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: breakdown; discharge; distribution; emission; field; microscale
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4848. x633dz03k7f
      • author: Julia Ann Henkels
      • title: Abrasion Resistance Screening of Fibers for Woven Materials Using Atomic Force Microscopy
      • date: 2008
      • words: 138
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The goal of this project was to characterize the relative abrasive wear of several polymer fibers of different diameters that are suitable for in vivo use, including polyetheretherkeytone (PEEK), polypropolyene, and polyethylene fibers. With every loading, fibers in woven materials encounter micro-scale sliding and potential abrasion.
      • keywords: fibers; flow; materials; woven
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4849. x633dz03m21
      • author: Jeffrey Fisher
      • title: Nothing in Excess: The Ethics of Measure and the Mean in Plato and Aristotle
      • date: 1904
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Aristotle's doctrine of the mean is one of a handful of ancient philosophical theories that is widely known among philosophers generally. By contrast, Plato's discussions of measure are hardly known even among ancient philosophy specialists.
      • keywords: aristotle; doctrine; mean; measure; plato
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4850. x633dz03m7r
      • author: Sheri A. Sanders
      • title: Conservation Transcriptomics of Ambystomatid Salamanders and Their Polyploid Hybrids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: I found that different genomic copies within the polyploids maintain their own regulation patterns under normal conditions, but are disrupted in disease conditions. These polyploids may be particularly susceptible to disease, but little is known about vertebrate response to polyploidy.
      • keywords: chytrid; conditions; disease; little; polyploids; response; salamanders
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4851. x633dz0435p
      • author: Katherine Flood Elliot
      • title: Personal Transformation in the Theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez: Seeds for a Theology of Liberating Vulnerability
      • date: 1904
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Therefore, if, as Gutiérrez himself argues, macro-level, structural justice depends upon micro-level, interior healing, then it follows that being vulnerable in primary personal relationships is essential for liberation theology in practice. This dissertation focuses on an aspect of Gutiérrez's turn to historical realities as important for theology that has been largely overlooked or downplayed by commentators: his insistence that personal transformation, i.e., the conversion of an individual's heart and mind, is a requisite for the transformation of societal meta-structures; that healing of persons poor and rich on the micro-level goes hand-in-hand with healing on the macro-level.
      • keywords: dissertation; gutiérrez; healing; liberation; personal; theology; transformation
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4852. x633dz0481v
      • author: Henry M. Vu
      • title: Extreme Temperature Resilience Conferred by Antifreeze Biomolecules in Distant Taxa
      • date: 1904
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: One possible explanation for increased winter high temperature survivorship could be the presence of antifreeze proteins in D. canadensis. With the decreased high temperature tolerance as the season progresses from winter to summer, it was observed that environmental temperatures are closest to upper lethal temperatures in spring.
      • keywords: antifreeze; beetle; canadensis; larvae; proteins; summer; temperatures; ults; winter
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4853. x633dz04888
      • author: Erin E. Hillard
      • title: Testing a Self-Affirmation Intervention to Improve Healthy Eating Behavior in Mothers of Elementary School Children
      • date: 1904
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: However, health information combined with targeted application of psychological principles surrounding behavior change holds much promise for improving health. Public education increases knowledge about health, yet often fails to motivate healthier behavior.
      • keywords: affirmation; eating; health; information; self
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4854. x633dz04d75
      • author: Heather Stanfiel
      • title: Imperial Heritage: Empire and Commemoration in Pre-Independence Ireland
      • date: 2019
      • words: 335
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Yet historians of Irish memory have focused on particular memorial cultures in isolation either geographically or socially from the broader history of the island, thus marginalizing the central role of imperialism in the development of Irish memorial culture. This dissertation recovers that centrality by analyzing the development and shifts of memorial culture and conflict as Ireland progressed from a British imperial territory to a pair of multifaceted European nation states.
      • keywords: culture; development; identity; ireland; irish; memorial; memory; role
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4855. x633dz04p80
      • author: Zhiyi Wei
      • title: Essays on Incomplete Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
      • date: 2022
      • words: 167
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: According to the model, the observed long-term trends in the US credit market can be explained by a steady improvement of uncollateralized lending in mitigating financial frictions. The model that combines the costly state verification model and collateral constraints suggests that the credit market favors the type of debt that mitigates the credit frictions more efficiently.
      • keywords: costly; credit; market; model
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4856. x920ft86t1b
      • author: Kai Zhao
      • title: Kinematic Synthesis of Planar, Shape-Changing Mechanisms
      • date: 2014
      • words: 296
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: This same idea is also applied to the design of path generating compliant mechanisms whose complete output paths are examined within a two-objective GA. The mechanization process is reformulated so that a group of single degree-of-freedom solution mechanisms that trade off minimizing matching error with maximizing mechanical advantage can be found efficiently from a genetic algorithm (GA) optimization.
      • keywords: body; change; compliant; mechanisms; optimization; rigid; shape
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4857. x920ft86t31
      • author: Keith G. Calkins
      • title: Absolute Optical Frequency Measurements of the Cesium D1 Transitions and Their Effect on Alpha, The Fine-Structure Constant
      • date: 2005
      • words: 343
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: Although known precisely via experiments in each subfield, there is disagreement within and between subfields. The fine-structure constant or electromagnetic coupling constant, &#945;e, is a dimensionless ratio which unites many physics subfields.
      • keywords: 945;e; cesium; experiments; frequency; measurements; precise; transition; value
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4858. x920ft86t4c
      • author: Deanna M O'Donnell
      • title: Short-Lived Aqueous Benzoate Redox States Examined by Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
      • date: 2010
      • words: 478
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: To date there has been little understanding of the vibrational spectra, structure and electronic absorption of these transients in water. Chem. 1971, 75, 1186.] has shown that a mixture of three benzoate hydroxycyclohexadienyl radical isomers: ortho-, meta- and para- are formed upon electron irradiation of N2O saturated benzoate solution.
      • keywords: absorption; benzoate; dissertation; electron; hydroxycyclohexadienyl; radical; raman; resonance; structure; transient
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4859. x920ft86t62
      • author: Shailaja Kunda
      • title: Structural and functional properties of N-methyl-d-aspartate-receptor specific antagonistic peptides from the conus species of marine snails
      • date: 2015
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: The Gla residues are integral for their structure, function, and subunit-selective antagonism of ion channels of the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors (NMDAR). Local disruption of the &#945-helix backbone in Con-G on the introduction of HyP, differs from that of ConRl-B. Additionally, Con-G[10 &#9660;O] loses selectivity towards ion channels containing the GluN2B subunit.
      • keywords: conantokins; conrl; gla; hyp; peptides; properties; structure
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4860. x920ft86t8r
      • author: Maria Cowan
      • title: The Effect of Creep on Steel Columns at Elevated Temperatures
      • date: 2015
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: With knowledge of the general framework for high temperature creep models, a creep model for ASTM A992 steel is proposed. The model is calibrated to high temperature experimental creep data and then used to assess the differences in steel column behavior when creep is included in the analysis.
      • keywords: creep; high; steel; temperatures
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4861. x920ft86v09
      • author: Matthew F. Dowd
      • title: Astronomy and Compotus at Oxford University in the Early Thirteenth Century: The Works of Robert Grosseteste
      • date: 2003
      • words: 319
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: The first portion of the dissertation provides an intellectual and institutional context for Grosseteste's work, outlining the translation movement and the rise of the universities, especially Oxford, as they pertain to the questions of this dissertation. By the end of the dissertation, it is suggested that Grosseteste's time spent in Hereford was formative for his later work in astronomy and compotus, and that his work in these areas was important for the development of natural philosophy at Oxford.
      • keywords: astronomy; compotus; dissertation; grosseteste; work
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4862. x920ft86v1n
      • author: Collin Lines
      • title: Simulations and Experiments of Photon Propagation in Biological Tissue and Liquid Crystal Waveguides
      • date: 2014
      • words: 688
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: As one of the strongest chromophores in human tissues, hemoglobin concentrations in human tissue greatly affect the MFP of photons in visible wavelengths (i.e. bruising). The development of non-invasive methods to probe human tissue is an ongoing challenge in biomedical optics.
      • keywords: chapter; hemoglobin; human; invasive; levels; liquid; model; non; properties; reflectance; tissue; transmission; trauma; use
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4863. x920ft86v20
      • author: David Allen Wood
      • title: Shifting Science, Shifting Politics: Understanding Conservative Illustrations of the Science Cultural Object, 1975&ndash;2000
      • date: 2015
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 11
      • summary: I document how conservative elites' depictions of science changes as milestones occur in United States history, while also documenting the way in which the discourse grows increasingly nuanced to the concepts of science: how 'science' and 'academia' occasionally intertwine, how depictions of science collide with conservative opinions on journalism and mass media, and how the 'scientific community' becomes estranged from the cultural object of science itself. In this thesis I lay out the hypothesis that the concept of science is a cultural object whose 'meaning' transitioned since the 1970's in depictions by conservative cultural elites.
      • keywords: cultural; object; science
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4864. x920ft86v4p
      • author: Ping Wang
      • title: Electrokinetic Pumping and Spraying at Microano Level
      • date: 2007
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Additionally, DC electrospray has been exploited as a novel coating method to deposit carbon nanotubesafion suspensions upon target electrodes. (1) Nonlinear AC electrokinetic flow has been observed based on electric field induced mobile charges at the interfaces of fluid/electrode.
      • keywords: electrodes; electrokinetic; field; flow; high; phenomena
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4865. x920ft86v9d
      • author: Katherine Elizabeth Cornwell
      • title: Tides
      • date: 2012
      • words: 51
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: From Publishers Marketplace: eighteen-year-old Noah moves to New Hampshire's remote Isles of Shoals for the summer, where he learns of his grandmother's romance with a selkie woman, falls for the selkie's daughter, and works with her to save her siblings from his mentor's cruel experiments.
      • keywords: selkie
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4866. x920ft87135
      • author: Meredith Meagher
      • title: Ireland, The United States and The Nation of Immigrants, 1914 - 1965
      • date: 1904
      • words: 368
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: Éamon de Valera's fundraising and speaking tour of the United States between 1919 – 1920 on behalf of the Republic of Ireland reflected the compatibility between Irish anti-colonial republicanism and the Wilsonian embrace of national self-determination after World War I. However, changes to United States immigration policy – in particular, the national origins quota system within the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act challenged many of the assumptions amongst the Irish about the legitimacy and recognition they sought for Irish-American ethnic nationalism in the United States. This dissertation argues that this popular movement culminated in the radical changes to United States immigration policy within the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Services Act.
      • keywords: american; century; immigration; ireland; irish; national; nationality; states; united
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4867. x920ft87r10
      • author: Aliyah Abu-Hazeem
      • title: Bound by Narrative: An In-Depth Exploration of the Effects of Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Scripts on Black Boys' Socialization in and out of School Contexts
      • date: 2019
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: These findings reveal the bounded masculinity that gets propagated within school and has implications for Black boys' consequent socialization outside of school contexts. Using data collected from surveys, 32 in-depth interviews, and over 40 hours of classroom observations within an all-boys-all-Black high school, The Brotherhood Academy, this project explores two critical questions: 1) how do schools shape narratives of hypermasculinity and 2) how do these narratives inform Black boys' performance and understanding of what it means to be man?
      • keywords: black; boys; narratives; school
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4868. x920ft87z7x
      • author: Brian Lowell Catron
      • title: Filtering of Acoustic Information from Aero-Optical Measurements
      • date: 2022
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: One of the primary sources of signal noise in these measurements, is acoustics. With development of new airborne optical systems, there is a significant amount of effort being put into maximizing the farfield performance of these optical systems.
      • keywords: able; band; filter; noise; optical; signal; tunnel; wind
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4869. x920ft8807h
      • author: Eva M Gulotty
      • title: Elucidation of Reactive Intermediates and Bonding in [4+1]-cycloadditions and Ionic Liquid Materials
      • date: 2022
      • words: 414
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Second, I will present my work probing the intermolecular bonding driving thermoresponsive ionic liquid phase separation, material properties leveraged for use in the fields of energy storage, desalination, separations, and refrigeration. Rather than size, the effective nuclear charge of the anion paired in balance with the hydrophobic pocket provided by the alkyl chain, to control the temperature and nature of IL phase separations.
      • keywords: anion; composition; development; formation; phase; phosphonium; separations; series; substrate; work
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4870. x920ft8813f
      • author: Mariana Alifa
      • title: Data and Model Improvements to Quantify the Impacts of Air Pollution in Health and Environmental Justice
      • date: 2023
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 6
      • summary: Lastly, we propose an expansion of the information entropy method for the study of socioeconomic disparities in the correlations between air pollution levels, epidemiological effects, and mortality assessment uncertainties, highlighting the important influence of minority representation in the uncertainty reduction of air pollution health assessments. These impacts are often disproportionally suffered by marginalized populations, and even in regions where air pollution has decreased with time, the same groups experiencing higher exposures a few decades ago are still overexposed today.
      • keywords: air; effects; health; impacts; pollution; populations; temporal; uncertainty
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4871. xd07gq70334
      • author: Michael Albert Tomchaney
      • title: Examination of the Developmental Neurogenetic Basis of Sexual Dimorphism in Aedes aegypti
      • date: 2014
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Whole mount in situ hybridization was used to both validate the microarray experiment and to identify regions of the brain with dimorphic gene expression. In many cases, dimorphic gene expression was localized to the optic lobe of the brain.
      • keywords: aegypti; brain; dets; dimorphic; expression; gene; metabolism; sex; specific
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4872. xd07gq70365
      • author: Wenzhao Sun
      • title: A Computational Model for Developmental Biology with Parallel Implementation on Graphical Processing Unit
      • date: 2015
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Epithelial cells appear as polygon-shaped in model simulations as a result of mechanical interaction. The model provides a flexible representation for cellular geometry, without imposing assumption of polygon cell shape.
      • keywords: cells; cellular; epithelial; growth; model; polygon; proliferation; regulation
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4873. xd07gq7038v
      • author: Sara B. Quinn
      • title: Algorithmic Complexity of Algebraic Structures
      • date: 2008
      • words: 376
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Another idea explored in the present work is that of comparing the complexity of the classification problem for various classes of structures, using the notion of a Turing computable embedding.oindent extbf{Definition}.A Turing computable embedding of $K$ into $K'$ is an operator $Phi = varphi_e$ such that egin{enumerate}item for each $mathcal{A}in K$, there exists $mathcal{B}in K'$ such that $varphi_e^{D(mathcal{A})} = chi{D(mathcal{B})}$, anditem if $mathcal{A},mathcal{A}'in K$ correspond, respectively, to $mathcal{B},mathcal{B}'in K'$, then $mathcal{A}congmathcal{A}'$ if and only if $mathcal{B}congmathcal{B}'$. end{enumerate}oindentThe ordering of classes of structures that arises from this embedding allows us to compare the complexity of the classification problem for those classes. In the present work, we give characterizations for the classes of structures that embed into the class of equivalence structures, as well as into the class of reduced Abelian $p$-groups of various lengths.
      • keywords: complexity; computable; index; set; structures
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4874. xd07gq7040d
      • author: Simone J. Hamrick
      • title: 'An Amalgamation of Incompatibles': Sydney Owenson, Gaelic Ireland and the National Tale
      • date: 2014
      • words: 174
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: I also argue that Owenson's writings have important implications for the unresolved issues relating to the contemporary political relationships between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain. This dissertation argues for a new interpretation of Sydney Owenson's national identity and her national tale novels.
      • keywords: irish; national; novels; owenson; tale
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4875. xd07gq7044s
      • author: Brian J Miller
      • title: Not All Suburbs Are Created Equal: The Dynamic Development, Interaction, and Character of Three Chicago Suburbs
      • date: 2010
      • words: 112
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: This study answers three questions: how these communities began with similar features and arrived at very distinct outcomes in terms of population, wealth, prestige, character, and other traits; how suburbs, particularly railroad suburbs, mature over time; and how the interaction between these three towns and other suburbs influence their development. I draw upon three paradigms in urban sociology, the Chicago School, the political economy model, and the Los Angeles School, to answer these questions and develop an approach that emphasizes deep studies of small groups of suburbs due to their unique histories, character, and growth trajectories.
      • keywords: character; chicago; suburbs
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4876. xd07gq7046g
      • author: Ying Zhou
      • title: A Case Study of Collecting PDA-Based Geo-Tagged Malaria-Related Survey Data, and an Agent-Based Entomological Model With Two Applications
      • date: 2013
      • words: 426
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: This dissertation proposes another application of the above model that evaluates the late-life-acting insecticides and instant-acting insecticides in terms of malaria control and evolution-proof of insecticide resistance. Due to the Anopheles gambiae's pivotal role in malaria transmission, modeling its population dynamics can assist in finding factors in the mosquito life cycle that can be targeted to decrease malaria transmission to a lower level.
      • keywords: control; insecticides; life; llas; malaria; model; mosquito; resistance; transmission
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4877. xd07gq7047t
      • author: Ashley Lynn Hill
      • title: The Development of Effortful Control: Links with Parenting, Infant Emotion Regulation, and Social Competence in Early Childhood
      • date: 2004
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that infants who showed more regulation during the stranger approach later showed higher effortful control scores, compared to infants who showed more reactivity to the stranger approach. Relationships among effortful control, parenting strategies, and social behavior were examined contemporaneously for 4- and 5- year- olds.
      • keywords: control; effortful; regulation
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4878. xd07gq7049h
      • author: Dustin Mix
      • title: Empowerment Model for Post-Earthquake Reconstruction of Urban Housing in Haiti
      • date: 2014
      • words: 150
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: For the first time in human history, the majority of the world?s population lives in urban areas and of the 15 most populated cities, 11 are located in developing countries. The latter half of the thesis details the design of the new system, as well as constructability issues in urban Haiti.
      • keywords: haiti; system; thesis; world
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4879. xd07gq7052d
      • author: Yugon Kim
      • title: Imagining the Radical Middle: Asian Philosophy and Contemporary American Avant-garde Poetry
      • date: 1904
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Reflecting this transpacific turn in academic research, I examine four contemporary American poets whose literary innovations are rooted in the Buddhist and Daoist lineages of Asian philosophy. Ultimately, through the experimental texts of four American poets, I seek to provide a new reading model for transnational literary studies by taking the transpacific as an important site for literary innovation.
      • keywords: american; literary; poets; studies; texts; transpacific
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4880. xd07gq70543
      • author: Victor A. Hernandez-Huerta
      • title: Post-Election Disputes in Democracies: Challenging the Outcome of the Election as a Negotiation Strategy
      • date: 1904
      • words: 291
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: Using an original dataset that codes the behavior of runner-up candidates in 180 presidential elections (1974-2012) and 966 years of electoral legislation, I find evidence that, in democracies, losing parties with an unfavorable negotiating position in Congress are more prone to dispute presidential election outcomes, even after controlling for the quality of the election and the margin of victory. The cases of the presidential elections in Venezuela in 1978 and Indonesia 1979 illustrate how the distribution of seats in congress is connected with election disputes.
      • keywords: democracies; election; national; parties; presidential
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4881. xd07gq70930
      • author: M. Itrat B. Shams
      • title: Photo-Induced Tunable/Reconfigurable Terahertz Circuits and Components
      • date: 1904
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Such functional THz devices are still scarce but in high demand for sophisticated circuits and systems needed in advanced THz sensing, imaging and communications. In this thesis, a novel approach to realize tunable/reconfigurable THz circuits and systems based on optical THz spatial modulation (OTSM) using photo-induced free carriers in semiconductors has been investigated.
      • keywords: advanced; approach; circuits; components; imaging; modulation; photo; reconfigurable; thz; tunable
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4882. xd07gq70s9d
      • author: James Joseph Wright
      • title: Drama and Devotion at Chiesa Nuova: Translating Anerio's Teatro Armonico to Jazz Oratorio
      • date: 1904
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: To this end, this thesis presents a study of Anerio in his historical context, a study of influential examples of jazz sacred music, as well as an analysis of the cultural politics relative to the music of Counter-Reformation Rome and Post-Vatican II America. In these works, I am following the examples of jazz musicians Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, and Dave Brubeck, who all bridged jazz and sacred music in the twentieth century.
      • keywords: anerio; jazz; music; project; study; teatro; vatican
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4883. xd07gq70t3n
      • author: Rodrigo Castro Cornejo
      • title: Do Campaigns Matter (in New Democracies)? Campaign Effects, Strategic Behavior, and Party System Institutionalization
      • date: 1904
      • words: 110
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This research challenges conventional wisdom in comparative political behavior in two important ways. It finds that partisanship in Latin America is not as weak as prior comparative studies have suggested.
      • keywords: comparative; information; partisans
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4884. xd07gq70t5b
      • author: Justin M. Luningham
      • title: Evaluating Psychometric and Imputation-Based Methods for Data Integration
      • date: 1904
      • words: 316
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: IDA is an alternative to meta-analysis, which synthesizes summary statistics (such as effect sizes or standardized parameter estimates) from multiple studies. Because there are millions of genetic markers, and because even true gene associations have extremely tiny effect sizes, genome-wide searches are often combined across multiple studies to increase statistical power.
      • keywords: chapter; data; genome; ida; meta; searches; studies; wide
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4885. xd07gq70v7b
      • author: Jiayun Hu
      • title: Whole-Cell Bacterial Detection Using a Versatile Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing Platform
      • date: 2018
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Bacterial sensing is gaining lots of interest in the scientific community as well as health and food industries due to its profound impact in human health. The whole-cell bacterial sensing platform developed in this work exhibits (i) rapid detection (~3 h) with minimal sample preparation, (ii) extraordinary sensitivity – down to the level of a singlePseudomonas aeruginosa cell and 80 Acinetobacter baumannii cells, (iii) a broad, yet clinically relevant, linear range (10 – 106 cfu mL-1), (iv) excellent selectivity over other tested bacteria, (v) versatile detection (simply switch pathogen specific-affinity reagents), and (vi) long shelf-life (2 weeks to 2 months) when stored in ambient conditions.
      • keywords: acinetobacter; bacterial; cell; health; range; resistance; sensing; sensor
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4886. xd07gq7170m
      • author: Toan Q. Nguyen
      • title: Improving Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages
      • date: 2021
      • words: 364
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: On data, I propose two simple methods to improve NMT performance by better exploiting training resources. The second one is a simple data augmentation via concatenation which can yield on average +1 BLEU on several language pairs.
      • keywords: data; low; neural; nmt; performance; resource; simple; training
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4887. xd07gq7176p
      • author: Bradley W. Ellis
      • title: Development of a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Myocardium on a Chip and Its Use to Diagnose and Treat Ischemic Reperfusion Injury in Cardiovascular Disease
      • date: 2022
      • words: 492
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Due to an extreme limit on viable human hearts available for transplant, let alone research, the use of animal models has become a common alternative for CVD study. In recent decades, tissue engineering has developed model tissues utilizing human derived cells to better mimic human physiology in vitro.
      • keywords: able; cvd; deaths; heart; human; model; relevant; reperfusion; tissue; transplant
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4888. xg94hm53c35
      • author: Christopher A. Morrissey
      • title: Peace or War? Religion in the Debate Before the Iraq War
      • date: 2012
      • words: 315
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Additionally, I analyze patterns of discourse that differentiated between war supporters and war opponents' war supporters used less secular discourse than war opponents. In this dissertation, I analyze religious actors debating the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 as well as the religious cultural dimensions of the larger public discussion.
      • keywords: advocates; positions; religion; religious; war
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4889. xg94hm53c5v
      • author: Karrie-Ann Kubatko
      • title: Crystallography, Hierarchy of Crystal Structures and Chemical Thermodynamics of Select Uranyl Phases
      • date: 2005
      • words: 359
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: The primary objectives of the research presented herein are to (1) expand the current foundation of uranyl crystal chemistry, (2) collect calorimetric data to assess the enthalpies of formation of environmentally relevant uranyl phases and (3) examine the relationship between crystal chemistry and chemical thermodynamics of select uranyl phases. Despite their environmental importance, the crystallography and chemical thermodynamics of uranyl phases remains largely unexplored.
      • keywords: crystal; enthalpies; formation; minerals; oxide; phases; structures; uranium; uranyl
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4890. xg94hm53c66
      • author: Joshua Alan Enszer
      • title: Verified Probability Bound Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 345
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Process models frequently involve uncertain parameters and inputs. Such process models are often represented by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs).
      • keywords: approach; box; engineering; mathematical; models; process; uncertainties
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4891. xg94hm53c8w
      • author: Aaron S Mann
      • title: Reading Military Character in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Phil Klay's Redeployment
      • date: 2015
      • words: 140
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I propose that O'Brien and Klay present an alternative to plot structure as a means of presenting the experience of the combat soldier in war literature. If we are to embrace the belief that war's inherent confusion, anxiety, and resistance to coherent storytelling makes a construction of narrative through the traditional modes of plot unsatisfying, then what do O'Brien and Klay present as an alternative?
      • keywords: alternative; plot; war
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4892. xg94hm53d24
      • author: Andrew John Locock
      • title: Crystal Chemistry of Uranyl Phosphates, Arsenates and Oxysalts of Chromium(V): Implications for Remediation
      • date: 2005
      • words: 336
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Of the refined structures, twenty-five are uranyl phosphates, twenty-seven are uranyl arsenates, and four are uranyl chromium(V) oxysalts. Study of the crystal chemistry of uranium minerals and compounds can help to lead to effective approaches to remedy uranium contamination in the environment, and aid in the development of reliable strategies for the long-term disposal of spent nuclear fuel nuclear waste.
      • keywords: arsenates; chromium(v; compounds; crystal; phosphates; structures; uranium; uranyl
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4893. xg94hm53d3g
      • author: Jan Hryniewiecki
      • title: Stress Analysis in Automotive Vacuum Booster
      • date: 2005
      • words: 151
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The master cylinder which provides hydraulic pressure to the components on the wheels, is mounted directly on the booster shell using threaded bolts. The numerical model was validated by direct comparison of meridional strains to experimental measurements at selected locations.
      • keywords: bolts; booster; numerical
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4894. xg94hm53d4t
      • author: Arnold Bertron Kidd IV
      • title: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Organometallic Compounds to Activate NO2 and Organic Compounds.
      • date: 2014
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Boronic acids and electron rich boronic pinacol esters typically do not need a catalyst to form the nitro-deboronation product, but the less reactive boronic acid pinacol esters and electron poor boronic acids seem to need a catalyst to form the desired product. Ipso nitration of boronic acids and boronic acid pinacol esters can be achieved using NO2 (g).
      • keywords: boronic; elimination; reductive; tert
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4895. xg94hm53d6h
      • author: Limin Yuan
      • title: The Effect of Foundation Flexibility on the Dynamic Behavior of a Rigid Block
      • date: 2005
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: A parameter study is conducted separately for two types of earthquake ground motions: pulse-type (near-source) and random-type earthquake ground motion. Preliminary studies verify the full nonlinear equations of motion when a rigid block sits on two-spring-dashpot foundation, and highlights the importance of foundation flexibility on rigid body overturning.
      • keywords: flexibility; foundation; ground; motion; overturning; rigid; type
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4896. xg94hm53d9j
      • author: Michael Austin Kuelbs
      • title: The Role of Complement Protein C1q in Mycobacterial Pathogenesis
      • date: 2010
      • words: 5
      • flesch: 66
      • summary: Master's Thesis - No Abstract
      • keywords: master
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4897. xg94hm53f13
      • author: Edward Peace Trefts
      • title: Ascending/Descending
      • date: 2012
      • words: 8
      • flesch: 71
      • summary: This thesis is a collection of short stories.
      • keywords: stories
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4898. xg94hm53g4f
      • author: Tomás Aquino
      • title: Lagrangian Random Walk Methods in Hydrologic Settings
      • date: 1904
      • words: 129
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Specifically, we address solute reactions and mixing in the presence of nonuniform background flow fields, mixing through bioturbation in freshwater systems, tracer tests in river and stream transport, and broad return time distributions in hydrologic and other settings. Multiscale heterogeneity is ubiquitous in hydrologic systems.
      • keywords: heterogeneity; hydrologic; scales; systems
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4899. xg94hm5489k
      • author: Mark Edward Therrien
      • title: Origen's Theology in the Context of Valentinian Gnosticism: A Comparative Essay
      • date: 2019
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: In this dissertation, I call into question an interpretative trend that assimilates Origen's theology to Valentinian Gnosticism. I argue that Origen's discussion of incorporeality is foundational for his theology, especially in the context of Gnosticism.
      • keywords: christ; creation; god; origen; return; theology
      • versions: original; plain text
4900. xg94hm5493t
      • author: David B. Green
      • title: Qualitative and Quantitative Modeling of Molecules by Corralling Electronic States
      • date: 2019
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Our approach can measure charge-density, bond order, bond length, and other molecular properties. Using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to perform atomic manipulation, we present techniques that confine electrons into quantum corrals and demonstrate real molecular properties.
      • keywords: bond; electrons; hydrogen; molecules; real; surface; techniques
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4901. xg94hm54f7f
      • author: Jiaqi Ma
      • title: The Talking Dead: Characterization through Deceased Speakers in Hellenistic Funerary Epigrams
      • date: 2020
      • words: 66
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Focusing on voice and characterization, I approach these text through both intellectual and embodied models of reader-response, and argue that deceased's voices employ diverse strategies to evoke multifaceted responses from the readers and present particularly individualized and affective self-characterization. This thesis focuses on select Hellenistic funerary epigrams from Book 7 of The Greek Anthology that feature the deceased as a first-person speaker.
      • keywords: characterization; deceased
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4902. xg94hm54h9r
      • author: Sara Judy
      • title: Singing in the Late Season: Prophetic American Poetry in the Post-War Period
      • date: 2022
      • words: 535
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: While critical conversations commonly identify these poets in the traditional vein of American prophetic poetry, my dissertation questions the foundational assumptions of that tradition, providing new insight into the ways in which these poets actively work both within and against the category of American prophecy. This dissertation shows how social protest poetry written in the U.S. after the second World War, by Robinson Jeffers, Muriel Rukeyser, and Jorie Graham, challenges and complicates traditional notions of prophecy in American poetry.
      • keywords: american; critical; critique; poetry; poets; prophet; self; social; work
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4903. xg94hm54j30
      • author: Martin Figura
      • title: Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Decentralized Networks
      • date: 2022
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: This dissertation aims to address two challenges in decentralized cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, a new training paradigm that features scalability and privacy guarantees for cooperative agents. In the first part, we study the behavior of the cooperative agents in a network that includes adversarial agents.
      • keywords: adversarial; agents; communication; cooperative; multi; policy
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4904. xk81jh36n5x
      • author: David Michael Borrok
      • title: Predictive Modeling of Metal Adsorption Onto Bacterial Surfaces in Geologic Settings
      • date: 2005
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: These studies are successful in bringing us closer than ever before to predicting the true extent of bacterial surface adsorption reactions in real systems. (Ch. 3 & 4) Do consortia of bacteria from natural and contaminated systems exhibit universal adsorption behavior?
      • keywords: adsorption; bacterial; models; reactions; systems
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4905. xk81jh36n8z
      • author: Lisa E Cole
      • title: Bisphosphonate-functionalized gold nanoparticles as a targeted X-ray contrast agent for breast microcalcifications
      • date: 2015
      • words: 279
      • flesch: 30
      • 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.
      • keywords: breast; cancer; contrast; microcalcifications
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4906. xk81jh36p0h
      • author: Deborah Kraklow
      • title: Unmasking Heterogeneity: The Impact of Three Increasingly Complex Family Typologies on Academic Achievement
      • date: 2010
      • words: 139
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Further research on nationally representative data is needed to test whether it is important to pursue issues of family structure heterogeneity or whether measures of family processes may reduce the potential need for more complex family structure typologies. Because family structure is increasingly complex, it is important to examine whether its effects on achievement are from the structure itself or from processes within families.
      • keywords: family; structure
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4907. xk81jh36p26
      • author: Magdalena Nerio
      • title: Morally Speaking: Anglo-American Women's Life Writing and the Literature of Social Concern, 1844-1877
      • date: 2014
      • words: 856
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The nonfiction of these women also exhibits formal concerns relating to the limitations of the prophetic voice and the difficulty of sustaining the aspiration toward critical objectivity while elaborating a moral rhetoric of rights sensitive to the plight of women and other marginalized, or disenfranchised Victorian social groups. In chapter three, 'Man (and woman too) has a soul to unfold: Florence Nightingale's Suggestions for Thought,' I read Nightingale's sprawling religious manuscript (privately printed in 1860) largely as a failed experiment within existing modes of self-expression: namely, with sage discourse, religious rhetoric, the novel, and literary criticism.
      • keywords: american; chapter; dissertation; fuller; life; literary; martineau; nightingale; public; reformer; rhetoric; self; social; victorian; voice; women; writing
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4908. xk81jh36p88
      • author: Brandon Reed Peterson
      • title: 'Being Salvation': A Reinterpretation of Rahner's Christ as Savior
      • date: 2014
      • words: 106
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: While Christ's salvific role as 'primal Sacrament' is a widely documented part of Karl Rahner's soteriology, another major and yet underappreciated part is Christ's identity as 'Representative' (both our representative before God and God's before us). It gives special attention to Rahner's early studies of and writings on the Church Fathers, particularly Rahner's own untranslated and recently published dissertation, E latere Christi ('From the Side of Christ').
      • keywords: christ; rahner
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4909. xk81jh36p9m
      • author: Sally M Vance-Trembath
      • title: The Pneumatology of Vatican II with Particular Reference to Lumen gentium and Gaudium et spes
      • date: 2003
      • words: 330
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: This trajectory indicates which ideas acquired increasing importance and which ideas and concepts consistently lost in importance. Using pneumatology as a basis of measurement, we shall study the varying understandings of the Holy Spirit of the Council members, their theologian advisors, the powerful Vatican Cardinals and, of course, the two Popes of the Council, John XXIII and Paul VI.
      • keywords: church; council; event; pneumatology; study
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4910. xk81jh36q15
      • author: Allison Janette Cross
      • title: Catalyst Design for Hydrogen Production from Ethanol
      • date: 2015
      • words: 276
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: activity; catalysts; chapter; reaction
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4911. xk81jh36q3v
      • author: Daniel Immerman
      • title: Now That's a No Know! The Best Arguments for External World Skepticism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 210
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: I conclude that the two best types of argument for external world skepticism are (i) arguments that turn on claims about the nature of evidential support and (ii) arguments that turn on the prevalence of lottery-like situations. I also conclude that the best arguments for external world skepticism target relations that are eitherinternal (i.e. reflectively accessible) or maximal (i.e. at the extreme point along a certain scale).
      • keywords: external; world
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4912. xk81jh36q46
      • author: Yiji Zhang
      • title: Static Probabilistic Slicing and Its Application in Fault Localzation
      • date: 2015
      • words: 253
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In this model, some data dependencies are more likely to occur than others and control dependencies are less likely than data dependencies to propagate effects (e.g., errors). Static slicing is a popular program analysis used in software engineering to find which parts of a program affect other parts.
      • keywords: likely; program; slicing; static
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4913. xk81jh36q6w
      • author: Maria B. Fahs
      • title: The-Author-Who-Lived: J. K. Rowling's Refusal to Accept the Death of the Author in the Internet Age
      • date: 1904
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: She has recently released enhanced digital editions of Harry Potter, another Cormoran Strike novel, a redesigned Pottermore website, and new information about the Fantastic Beasts movie and the Cursed Child play. J. K. Rowling's prominent online presence reveals her fear that she will be forgotten as the Harry Potter phenomenon continues to grow.
      • keywords: experience; potter; rowling; texts
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4914. xk81jh37c1b
      • author: Kevin Estep
      • title: Opting Out: How Political Context, Political Ideology, and Individualistic Parenting Contribute to Vaccine Refusal in California, 2000-2015
      • date: 1904
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: This dissertation addresses three important puzzles related to vaccine refusal: How can we explain the sharp increase in vaccine refusals over the past 15 years? I conclude that the combination of increased residential segregation by political orientation, higher rates of PBEs in Republican contexts, and electoral pressures on Republican lawmakers to relax compulsory vaccination laws could lead to dangerously low vaccination rates in communities where most residents share neoliberal conservative values.
      • keywords: compulsory; issue; particular; political; vaccinations; vaccine
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4915. xk81jh37c5q
      • author: Melika Sharifironizi
      • title: Determination of Thermodynamic Properties of Select Uranyl Compounds
      • date: 1904
      • words: 521
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: In the second component of this work, I studied the chemical thermodynamics of selected members of the family of nanoscale uranyl peroxide cage clusters. Uranyl nanoclusters, that are proposed to be energetic intermediates between dissolved aqueous uranyl species and uranyl minerals, have potential importance in an advanced nuclear fuel cycle and environmental transport of actinides following nuclear accidents.
      • keywords: family; formation; members; nuclear; peroxide; properties; state; thermodynamic; uranium; uranyl; work; zippeite
      • versions: original; plain text
4916. xk81jh37k47
      • author: Graham Clay
      • title: Hume on Knowledge
      • date: 2019
      • words: 226
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Second, I argue that knowledge infallibilisms like Hume's—views that maintain that a knower could not err with respect to what she knows—are compatible with the negation of external world skepticism, contrary to the consensus in the field. First, I argue that Hume runs afoul of the widespread contemporary dogma that knowledge entails belief, both in cases involving sense perception and in cases involving abstract philosophical reasoning.
      • keywords: demonstrations; hume; knowledge; position
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4917. xk81jh37k8m
      • author: Amanda Daniela Cortez
      • title: Framing Women and Animals: Visibility, Multispecies Care, and Photography Tourism in Cusco
      • date: 2019
      • words: 385
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: I argue that relational visibility occurs while humans and animals walk with one another in-ayllu (in-community) and through pacha (spacetime).In the first section, I argue that by participating in photography tourism and photographic refusal, Quechua women work to make themselves visible and known as Indigenous women on their own terms. I trace what it means for Quechua women to make themselves visible in Cusco city's tourism industry and for Quechua women and animals to care for one another as they do so.
      • keywords: care; multispecies; quechua; women
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4918. xk81jh37r85
      • author: Elizabeth H. Trudeau
      • title: The Anatomy of a Social Justice Field: The Growth, Collaboration, and Dissonance of the Modern U.S. Anti-Trafficking Movement
      • date: 2021
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 39
      • 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.
      • keywords: anti; chapter; field; human; movement; organizations; social; trafficking
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4919. xk81jh37s2d
      • author: Sejoo Kim
      • title: American Postcolony: Imperial Citizenship and the Rise of Garment Metropolis in the Pacific, 1944-1999
      • date: 2021
      • words: 379
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Furthermore, their multilayered interactions in the Marianas suggest that histories of U.S. territories are not reduced to the metropole-colony binary but unfold in larger regional and global contexts that give distinct meanings to places like the Marianas. My dissertation explicates why and what followed after the Northern Marianas, a dependent territory under the UN trusteeship, renounced sovereignty at the height of anticolonial movements around the globe and joined the U.S. political union in 1976.To answer these questions, my dissertation traces the long lineage of the Marianas garment industry, one of the most controversial byproducts of the Marianas' membership in the U.S. political union.
      • keywords: capital; dissertation; garment; industry; marianas; northern; territorial; u.s
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4920. xk81jh37v6d
      • author: Daniel Erickson
      • title: Mammalian N-Glycosylation of Monoclonal Antibody Trastuzumab in Middle Silk Gland of Bombyx mori Silkworms
      • date: 2023
      • words: 412
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Co-expression of MGAT2/B4GALT1 and anti-HER2 mAb produced only higher levels of biantennary N-acetylglucosamine (Gnt2) terminal ends on N-glycosylated mAb. We hypothesize misfolding of mAb decreased C1q binding, and either steric hindrance of the mAb Asn-297 hydrophobic pocket or competition of other target substrates for B4GALT1 prevented significant galactosylation of anti-HER2 in B. mori MSG.
      • keywords: anti; b4galt1; expression; gland; her2; mab; mgat2; mori
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4921. xp68kd19x58
      • author: Loukas S Tsagalas
      • title: Production of porous electrodes for Fuel Cells supports
      • date: 2008
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Three different fabrication methods were explored, namely through the use of a High Internal Phase Emulsion (HIPE) template, use of Polystyrene microspheres, as well as Photolithographic methods. Fabrication of a porous catalyst support (made out of Ni) by photolithography methods was successful.
      • keywords: methods; microspheres; porous; structure; support; template
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4922. xp68kd19x7z
      • author: Brian J. Miller
      • title: Redeveloping the Cabrini-Green Housing Project: A Sociological Perspective, 1989-2004
      • date: 2010
      • words: 155
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: These theories also uncover three major issues underlying the Cabrini-Green narrative: the problems of moving public housing residents to new mixed-income neighborhoods, the issue of affordable housing in the Chicago metropolitan area, and the efforts of the public housing residents to shape their own future through collective action. In this paper, we utilize theories of poverty concentration to explain the protracted conflict at Cabrini-Green, illustrate why proposed policies have been met with opposition, and provide insights for future action that might ease the skirmish.
      • keywords: cabrini; chicago; green; housing
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4923. xp68kd19x89
      • author: Prerna Bihani Juhlin
      • title: Fine Structure of Dependence in Superstable Theories of Finite Rank
      • date: 2010
      • words: 232
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: We prove that LDP is equivalent to the Canonical Base Property (CBP) of Moosa and Pillay for every superstable theory of finite rank. Our main results prove that LDP holds in superstable theories of finite rank under additional assumptions.
      • keywords: finite; ldp; rank; superstable
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4924. xp68kd19z0v
      • author: Cheng-Zong Bai
      • title: On the Application of Relative Entropy in Sequential Detection and Cyber-Physical Security
      • date: 2015
      • words: 431
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: By partitioning the state space for sensor selection into three regions, we propose a novel approach that solves the on-line sensor selection problem by minimizing the cost-to-go at every step. In particular, a special class of problems in which the algorithm has complexity that is linear in the number of sensors is identified.
      • keywords: detection; line; optimal; probability; problem; selection; sensor; sequential; sss
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4925. xp68kd19z2j
      • author: Tuan Hoang
      • title: Ideology in Urban South Vietnam, 1950-1975
      • date: 2013
      • words: 362
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Instead of the socialist person as advocated by communist revolutionaries, urban South Vietnamese promoted a bourgeois petit vision of the postcolonial person. The last aspect has to do with the relationship with Americans: The views of urban South Vietnamese on the U.S. were generally positive during the early years of the RVN.
      • keywords: dissertation; south; urban; vietnamese; vision; war
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4926. xp68kd19z47
      • author: Thomas Butler
      • title: Writing at the Edge of the Person: Lyric Subjectivity in Cambridge Poetry, 1966-1993
      • date: 2005
      • words: 367
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Like Prynne, she deals with perceptual multiplicity through experiential reflection, which allows her in her poetry to assert subjective identity and a willingness to meet the challenges to stable lyric form and self-identity. Her most recent poetry is deeply invested in contemporary painting in part because painting's ability to have colors bleed into one another suggests to her the active, constructive symbiosis of disparate identities.
      • keywords: cambridge; lyric; poetry; poets; prynne; riley; subjectivity
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4927. xp68kd19z5k
      • author: Margaret Windy McNerney
      • title: An Evaluation of the Realization of Delayed Intentions Using Task Switching
      • date: 2010
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: The goal of the first experiment was to test the efficacy of prospective memory models under increasing attentional demands, by comparing prospective memory performance in conditions with and without task switching, and determine which component of prospective memory is effortful. The goal of the second experiment was to create an examination of the relationship between task switching and prospective memory, by including consecutive prospective trials.
      • keywords: memory; prospective; task
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4928. xp68kd19z6x
      • author: Louisa Catharina Schneider
      • title: Fabrication of Single Electron Transistors using Atomic Layer Deposition
      • date: 2014
      • words: 128
      • flesch: 47
      • 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.
      • keywords: cmos; oxides; set; tunnel
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4929. xp68kd19z78
      • author: Richard Sunil Gejji
      • title: Using Continuous Limit Techniques and Stochastic Computational Modeling to Predict the Biological Behavior of Aggregating Cells
      • date: 2010
      • words: 291
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: In this thesis, results on modeling the predatory bacteria myxococcus xanthus and the slug forming amoeba dictyostelium discoideum are presented as well as results on random placement of non-overlapping cells in an individual based model, and continuous limits of discrete stochastic systems. A connection is described between a one dimensional cell-based stochastic model of reversing non-overlapping bacteria and a non-linear diffusion equation.
      • keywords: able; amoeba; bacteria; cell; densities; non
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4930. xp68kd19z8m
      • author: Thomas M Durcan
      • title: Centrosome duplication in mammalian cells arrested prior to entry into S phase and the role of tektin 2 in centrosome duplication, mid body formation and cytokinesis
      • date: 2007
      • words: 481
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: However, studies in sea urchin and yeast found that the centrosome could duplicate in cells that did not transit into S phase, providing support for the G1 phase possessing the necessary factors required for duplication. When cells were arrested in G1 with mimosine, both individual and multiple rounds of duplication was observed in 97% of cells.
      • keywords: cells; centrosome; duplication; phase; studies; tektin
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4931. xp68kd20018
      • author: Utsaw Kumar
      • title: Network Communications with Feedback via Stochastic Approximation
      • date: 2009
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In addition to being simple, the strategies can be shown to provide doubly exponential error decay in the case of noiseless feedback and appealing tradeoffs between effective transmission rate and reliability in the case of noisy feedback. This thesis first develops a new class of coding schemes for additive white noise channels with feedback corrupted by additive noise, focusing much of the results and discussions on additive white Gaussian noise channels.
      • keywords: channels; feedback; noisy; schemes
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4932. xp68kd2003z
      • author: Sarah Miglio
      • title: 'Civilizing the World': Progressive Religion and Politics from Chicago to the Middle East, 1890-1925
      • date: 2012
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 14
      • summary: I follow the pathways of practical Christian reform from Chicago to Turkey, where American missionaries and philanthropists provided disaster relief for Armenians as they suffered considerable violence from the 1890s-1920s. Just as Chicago practical Christians labored to civilize their immigrant neighbors and encourage their adoption of Christian and American habits, Americans worked to Christianize and modernize Armenians and the Middle East.
      • keywords: american; chicago; christians; international; practical; reform; social; world
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4933. xp68kd2005n
      • author: William E. West
      • title: Multi-Scale Drivers of Lake Methane Dynamics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 310
      • flesch: 16
      • summary: However, influence of phytoplankton carbon on methanogenesis and subsequent CH4 emissions from lakes has hardly been studied, and the only evidence of the influence of eutrophication on CH4 emissions is derived from weak correlations between lake trophic status and CH4 emission (Huttunen et al., 2003; Juutinen et al., 2003; Bastviken et al., 2004; Sepulveda-Jauregui et al., 2014). Since eutrophic lakes have the potential to absorb greater quantities of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2; a greenhouse gas), eutrophic lakes might be a benefit in terms of carbon burial and mitigating climate warming (Finlay et al., 2009; Lazzarino et al., 2009; Balmer and Downing 2011).
      • keywords: ch4; emissions; eutrophication; lakes; research
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4934. xp68kd20467
      • author: Xufei Wu
      • title: The Role of Multi-Carrier Interaction in Thermal Transport and Energy Conversion in Crystal Materials
      • date: 1904
      • words: 372
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: It is so far the most accurate approach and is essential for the prediction of thermal conductivity in crystal materials. This helps providing a general guideline for the design of high thermal conductivity materials.
      • keywords: applications; conductivity; crystal; high; lattice; materials; phonon; thermal; transport
      • versions: original; plain text
4935. xp68kd20n8k
      • author: Arial Joy Shogren
      • title: The Transport, Retention, and Fate of Novel Materials in Flowing Waters
      • date: 1904
      • words: 213
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: A significant amount of material is continuously exported from headwater streams, and via advection can be moved long distances downstream prior to processing. A new focus in ecology is understanding how novel materials are transported, retained, and persist in stream and river ecosystems.
      • keywords: downstream; materials; stream; transport
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4936. xp68kd20p66
      • author: Kaijun Feng
      • title: Mid-Infrared Sub-Diffraction Optical Resonators in Polar Semiconductors and Hyperbolic Metamaterials
      • date: 2018
      • words: 235
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: Optical resonator is an essential element in modern optical and optoelectronic devices. The advances in the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) requires high quality optical resonators that goes beyond the diffraction limit of light.
      • keywords: devices; experimental; hmm; optical; resonators; results
      • versions: original; plain text
4937. xp68kd20x3b
      • author: Tianze Peng
      • title: Thermodynamic Feedback of Sea Spray at Air-Sea Interface
      • date: 2019
      • words: 206
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: With high-fidelity simulations with mono- and poly-dispersed droplet size distributions, the dissertation covers topics on: (1) the sensitivity of air-sea heat fluxes on various droplet and flow parameters; (2) fundamental assumptions on the microphysics and the poly-dispersity of spray droplets using bulk air-sea algorithms; and (3) potential improvements and corrections to the bulk algorithms on parameterizing spray effects. However, questions regarding the appropriate method for modeling the effects of spray on air-sea fluxes still exist due to untested assumptions in existing models and low fidelity in the measurements.
      • keywords: air; effects; fluxes; sea; spray
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4938. xp68kd21157
      • author: Ian Klupar
      • title: Strong N and P Co-Limitation Constrains Community Composition and Productivity of Post-Fire Tundra
      • date: 2020
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Since historic research has shown that low nutrient soils largely limit the composition of undisturbed tundra, we hypothesize that the trajectory of post-wildfire community composition will be controlled by the availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in post-burn soils and that changes in composition will lead to changes in community productivity. However, we observed a marked shift in community composition towards more deciduous vegetation as a result of combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization which, consequently, stimulated community productivity.
      • keywords: community; composition; productivity; wildfire
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4939. xp68kd21304
      • author: Donghao Li
      • title: Structural Optimization of Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes
      • date: 2022
      • words: 390
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Fluorescence imaging experiments in cells and animals compared the shielded heptamethine dyes (and several peptide and antibody bioconjugates) to benchmark heptamethine dyes in Chapter 5, and found that the shielded systems possess an unsurpassed combination of photophysical, physiochemical and biodistribution properties that greatly enhance bioimaging performance. The study in Chapter 7 shows how supramolecular encapsulation of a newly designed series of cyanine dyes by cucurbit[7]uril (CB7) can alter the π-electron distribution within the cyanine chromophore alter fluorescent properties.
      • keywords: chapter; cyanine; deuterated; dyes; fluorescence; heptamethine; icg; properties; shielded; water
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4940. xp68kd2131g
      • author: Jonathan W. L. Kusnerek
      • title: Nature of Longing
      • date: 2022
      • words: 110
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: ideas; queer; work
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4941. xp68kd2147v
      • author: Alexander Carmen
      • title: When the Unexpected Becomes Reality
      • date: 2023
      • words: 89
      • flesch: 79
      • summary: Upon the spring of 2021 my life would be altered forever, this spring would bring the sudden passing of my grandmother and mother. The life I once knew crumbled right in front of my eyes.
      • keywords: life
      • versions: original; plain text
4942. xp68kd21486
      • author: Kevin M. Scott
      • title: A Foundational Theory for Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
      • date: 2023
      • words: 192
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Alongside this claim, some have argued that moral philosophy should also require a regard for absolute moral prohibitions. In this dissertation, I seek to develop the existing work on Neo-Aristotelian ethics to better address the reconciliation of a eudaimonistic account of morality with certain absolute moral prohibitions.
      • keywords: aristotelian; ethics; moral; neo
      • versions: original; plain text
4943. xs55m90367s
      • author: Shuliang Li
      • title: Lipid- and Polymer-Based Drug Delivery Vehicles
      • date: 2008
      • words: 429
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Evaluation of the in vitro cytotoxicity of paclitaxel-polymersome formulations showed that the ability of paclitaxel-loaded polymersomes to inhibit proliferation of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells was less compared to free paclitaxel. Liposome based drug delivery vehicles were created by encapsulating a polymeric actin matrix.
      • keywords: actin; afm; circulatory; delivery; drug; leachb; liposomes; paclitaxel; peo; polymersomes; vehicles
      • versions: original; plain text
4944. xs55m90370p
      • author: Tian Jiang
      • title: Krylov Implicit Integration Factor WENO Methods for Stiff Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations
      • date: 2015
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: In complex systems (e.g. advection-diffusion-reaction (ADR) systems), the highest order derivative term can be nonlinear, and nonlinear non-stiff terms and nonlinear stiff terms are often mixed together. When we are dealing with time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) with linear high order terms and stiff lower order nonlinear terms, implicit integration factor (IIF) methods are often a good choice as a class of efficient 'exactly linear part' time discretization method.
      • keywords: iif; methods; nonlinear; order; step; weno
      • versions: original; plain text
4945. xs55m90372c
      • author: Sean Timothy O'Brien
      • title: Irish Prison Writing and the Victorian Penitentiary
      • date: 2010
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The literary analysis of prison writing reveals the ambitious scale of this technology by depicting its human consequences. Chapter three analyzes The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Oscar Wilde's two other post-prison publications discursive understanding of penal discipline, arguing that after prison Wilde refined and redefined his aesthetics to concentrate on the conflict between individuals and the mechanism of the penitentiary.
      • keywords: chapter; institution; penitentiary; prison; social; study; technology; wall
      • versions: original; plain text
4946. xs55m903742
      • author: Joseph Sarro
      • title: DROSOPHILA MODELS OF HUMAN CANCERS ASSOCIATED WITH MODULATION OF DCC/FRAZZLED SIGNALING
      • date: 2014
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: In order to determine whether fra/DCC is a tumor suppressor we generated fra loss of function clones in Drosophila eye discs. From this we determined that fra is a tumor suppressor and that second site mutations in addition to loss of fra/DCC, result in highly invasive carcinomas.
      • keywords: chapter; dcc; fra; loss; suppressor; tumor
      • versions: original; plain text
4947. xs55m903800
      • author: Peggy Sue Keller
      • title: Parenting and Marital Functioning as Possible Mediators between Parental Problem Drinking and Child Adjustment
      • date: 2003
      • words: 135
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: The present study proposes to explore dimensions of parenting and marital functioning as possible mediators of the relationship between parental problem drinking and child adjustment. Results indicate that marital functioning, rather than parenting, may be the primary pathway through which parental problem drinking adversely affects child development.
      • keywords: drinking; functioning; marital
      • versions: original; plain text
4948. xs55m90381b
      • author: Lideth Ortega-Villalobos
      • title: Initial development of the Multicultural Supervision Inventory: Exploring Validity and Reliability
      • date: 2004
      • words: 119
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: MSI scores yielded adequate reliability coefficients (supervisor MSI &gamma; = .88, supervisee MSI &gamma; = .92) for both samples. Exploratory factor analyses yielded distinct underlying factor structures for the supervisor and supervisee versions.
      • keywords: msi; multicultural; supervisee
      • versions: original; plain text
4949. xs55m90385q
      • author: Michael J. Deem
      • title: Norms and Nature: Engagements between Ethics and the Biological Sciences
      • date: 1904
      • words: 193
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Chapter 1 enters into an on-going debate over whether evolutionary explanations for widespread patterns of basic evaluative judgments threaten certain kinds of normative realism. I argue that normative realism can be shown to be compatible with a plausible view of the evolution of human evaluative judgment.
      • keywords: chapter; evaluative; human; normative; realism
      • versions: original; plain text
4950. xs55m90394p
      • author: Chris Holdaway
      • title: CODE: Equinox
      • date: 1904
      • words: 136
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Just as the Anthropocene lives at both molecular &amp; planetary scales (CO2 &amp; the climate), our myopic digital activities are inextricably related to global human devastation. Graphic novels such as Transmetropolitan &amp; The Invisibles, as well as anime series such as Serial Experiments Lain &amp; Neon Genesis Evangelion, serve as models of quasi-spiritual relationships to technology, &amp; points from which to consider how to mediate our present.
      • keywords: amp; anthropocene; graphic
      • versions: original; plain text
4951. xs55m903b0m
      • author: Tamuto Takakura
      • title: Entropy Generation in the Tip Region of a High-Pressure Turbine
      • date: 1904
      • words: 200
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Unshrouded tips of turbine blades are subject to a pressure-driven flow phenomenon from the pressure to suction surface. Metrics such as corrected mass flow rate, total-to-total pressure and temperature ratios, and various efficiencies were examined.
      • keywords: flow; loss; pressure; tip; turbine
      • versions: original; plain text
4952. xs55m904014
      • author: Monica M. Schroll
      • title: Analysis of Nutrient Based Intervention for Colorectal Cancer Treatment Using Mass Spectrometry
      • date: 2018
      • words: 271
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Nutritional intervention is used as a method to combat disease by itself as well as in tandem with current cancer treatments. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, in the past several decades the incidence of colorectal cancer has decreased, yet the overall mortality of colorectal cancer has remained unchanged.
      • keywords: cancer; colorectal; intervention; nutritional; treatment
      • versions: original; plain text
4953. xs55m904c4k
      • author: Dmytro Voloshyn
      • title: Multiple Generalized Cluster Structures on D(GLn)
      • date: 2022
      • words: 95
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: We produce a large class of generalized cluster structures on the Drinfeld doubles of GLn and SLn compatible with a large class of Poisson brackets given by Belavin-Drinfeld classification. The program naturally extends to Poisson duals and Drinfeld doubles of simple Poisson-Lie groups.
      • keywords: drinfeld; poisson
      • versions: original; plain text
4954. xs55m904d26
      • author: Christopher F. Cain
      • title: Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Compounds Harboring Unusual Hydroxamate or Proline Amino Acid Residues
      • date: 2022
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: This work explores the synthesis of two natural products possessing unusual amino acid residues, as well as a bioinspired unnatural prolyl residue. It also exhibits a 10-fold lower rate of spontaneous resistance in S. pyogenes RNAP compared to rifampicin (Rif).
      • keywords: acid; dipeptide; natural; oxapip; pum; residues; rnap; synthesis; trans
      • versions: original; plain text
4955. xw42n586g72
      • author: Hubert C George
      • title: Studies of Light Illumination and Substrate Material Effects on Aluminum Single Electron Transistors: Towards an Understanding of Background Charge
      • date: 2011
      • words: 240
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Among the most important outcomes of this study is the realization of the significant influence that the substrate material has on SET devices. Based on the results of this study, we developed a fabrication processes for producing SETs on wide bandgap insulating substrates (quartz and sapphire), and the fabrication of metal shields on top of the SET devices (which demonstrates the possibility of post-processing of SETs).
      • keywords: charge; fabrication; nanoscale; objects; sets; study
      • versions: original; plain text
4956. xw42n586g9r
      • author: Dale Lee Kling
      • title: Conformationally Constrained Aminoglycosides: Ribosomal Binding Probes and Potential Antibiotics
      • date: 2006
      • words: 51
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: conformational
      • versions: original; plain text
4957. xw42n586h0z
      • author: Brett Wescott Peters
      • title: Evaluating Strategies for Controlling Invasive Crayfish Using Human and Fish Predation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: Furthermore, the optimal fish species for controlling crayfish populations has never been rigorously identified. This thesis investigates ways to improve both crayfish trapping techniques and the manipulation of predatory fish communities to control crayfish populations.
      • keywords: bass; crayfish; invasive; management; populations; predatory; rock; scale; species
      • versions: original; plain text
4958. xw42n586h2n
      • author: Yifan Wang
      • title: An Industrial Design Proposal Responding to Unmet Transportation Needs in the United States
      • date: 2015
      • words: 285
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: These extremely limited choices of supplemental transportation has exacerbated public's perception about personal safety and security concerning two-wheelers, and statistical evidence supports the fact that two-wheeled supplemental transportation can be unsafe. Thus a more reliable, sustainable, efficient and affordable means of supplemental transportation, residing between the car and the motor scooter, could provide a solution.
      • keywords: available; car; motor; public; supplemental; transportation
      • versions: original; plain text
4959. xw42n586h4b
      • author: Kelly Martin
      • title: Effect of Counter-Diffusion, Fluid Dynamics, and Biofilm Morphology on Membrane-Supported Biofilms
      • date: 2014
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: MBfR biofilms exhibit unique behavior due to substrate counter-diffusion, where the electron donor and acceptor enter the biofilm from opposing sides. This research used mathematical modeling to study the behavior of a denitrifying, hydrogen-based MBfR. A number of numerical counter-diffusional biofilm models were developed, including a one-dimensional, pH-dependent, multi-species model and a more sophisticated two-dimensional, particle-based model coupled to solution of fluid dynamics and mass transport.
      • keywords: biofilm; counter; denitrification; diffusion; dimensional; mbfr; membrane; srb; substrate
      • versions: original; plain text
4960. xw42n586h61
      • author: Dimitar Borisov Iliev
      • title: Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern (PAMP)-Modulated Gene Expression in Mononuclear Phagocytes of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
      • date: 2006
      • words: 357
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: These observations, together with additional data from in vitro and in silico analyses, led to the hypothesis that the mechanisms for endotoxin recognition, that have been described in mammals, may not be present in non-mammalian vertebrates. On the other hand, innate immunity relies on a restricted number of genotypically encoded molecules such as TLRs, integrins, scavenger receptors etc. (known as pattern recognition receptors, PRRs) to recognize and respond to pathogens or their pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs).
      • keywords: expression; immune; mammalian; mammals; receptors; recognition; vertebrates
      • versions: original; plain text
4961. xw42n586h7c
      • author: Anna Rita Salamone
      • title: Kinetics of a Perchlorate-Reducing Bacterium that Accumulates High Levels of Chlorate
      • date: 2006
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Perchlorate reduction rates appear to increase and chlorate accumulation appears to decrease with co-cultures of HCAP-C with conventional PCRB and chlorate-reducing bacteria. Dechloromonas sp. HCAP-C and Dechloromonas sp. HCAP-1 accumulate chlorate at around 20 % and 13 % of the initial perchlorate concentration, respectively; conventional PCRB accumulate less than 3% chlorate.
      • keywords: mgvss; pcrb; perchlorate
      • versions: original; plain text
4962. xw42n586h8q
      • author: Juan Camilo Medina
      • title: Optimization under Uncertainty: Adaptive Variance Reduction, Adaptive Metamodeling, and Investigation of Robustness Measures
      • date: 2014
      • words: 320
      • flesch: 11
      • 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.
      • keywords: adaptive; approach; computational; model; optimization; probabilistic; system
      • versions: original; plain text
4963. xw42n586h92
      • author: Benjamin Emery Mertz
      • title: Refinement, Validation, and Implementation of Lumped Circuit Element Model for Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators
      • date: 2010
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Finally, the utility of the model was demonstrated by simulating the use of actuators for flow control of the flow over a circular cylinder and a modified blunt trailing edge wind turbine blade. Single dielectric barrier discharge (SDBD) plasma actuators have been applied to a wide variety of aerodynamic flow control applications ranging from stall suppression of airfoils at high angles of attack to reducing tip leakage in jet engine turbine blades.
      • keywords: actuators; current; dielectric; flow; model; plasma; work
      • versions: original; plain text
4964. xw42n586j08
      • author: Latasha Chanell Marshall-Scott
      • title: Jacobs and Slave Law: Psychoanalyzing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
      • date: 2003
      • words: 23
      • flesch: -4
      • summary: Placed in historical context conventional of 19th-century sentimental narration, this paper explores a psychoanalytic approach to understanding Harriet Jacobs' gothic slave narrative.
      • keywords: narrative
      • versions: original; plain text
4965. xw42n586j39
      • author: Edit Varga
      • title: Experimental Study of New Magnetic Circuit Elements Built from Nanomagnets for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Logic Applications
      • date: 2009
      • words: 257
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: In this thesis, we perform a shape study of asymmetric magnets for MQCA gate design, and we demonstrate for the first time room temperature operation of a programmable MQCA majority-logic gate, i.e. the basic majority gate, with different length of the driver magnet. Magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) systems are networks of closely-spaced, dipole-coupled, single-domain nanomagnets designed for digital computation.
      • keywords: gate; magnetic; majority; mfm; mqca; nanomagnets; programmable; temperature
      • versions: original; plain text
4966. xw42n586j50
      • author: Jiyoon Lee
      • title: Foreigner's Folly: A Tale of Attempted Project
      • date: 2012
      • words: 178
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: These poems are not in traditional poetic form, for the nature of foreign is impossible to contain; there are constant intrusions of various voices: voice of standard English, sometimes manifested as an entity called 'Spellcheck machine'; voice of coy foreigner; voice of mimicry; voice of Death drive; voice of seductress; voice of unidentifiable Machines in these poems, which I seemingly have failed to contain in the form of a Singular Project with a sense of coherency; writing a Project poetry, a collection of poems with coherence, with a definite sense of singular motive, a driving force of certainty is impossible for a foreigner. Thus I call this Foreigner's Folly: A Tale of Attempted Project.
      • keywords: foreigner; poems; voice
      • versions: original; plain text
4967. xw42n586j7p
      • author: Scott B. Hagaman
      • title: Content and Justification: Prospects for Epistemological Rationalism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: This conception of content requires a view on which a cognizer's representing a proposition is utterly distinct from an experience's having representational content. Finally, I conclude by arguing that those committed to the existence of representational content (in short, most of us) must allow for something very close to a priori justification---what I term `reflective justification'--- for believing contingent propositions which concern the mind-independent world.
      • keywords: conception; content; representational; revisionary
      • versions: original; plain text
4968. xw42n586k0k
      • author: Samuel RW Hulett
      • title: Boron Abundances and Isotope Systematics of Carbonatites from Worldwide Sources
      • date: 1904
      • words: 285
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The origin of carbonatites and their associated alkaline silicate rocks has been linked to metasomatized upper mantle sources and related to mantle plume activity. The latter may be sampled by carbonatite melts associated with mantle plume activity, and their corresponding emplacement ages coincide with major tectonic events in Earth's history; these are linked to episodes of supercontinent formation and consequently significant periods of subduction at a global scale.
      • keywords: boron; carbonatite; isotope; mantle; sources; values; δ11b
      • versions: original; plain text
4969. xw42n586k4z
      • author: Erik Larsen
      • title: American Vitalism: Life, Matter, and the Crisis of American Liberalism
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: American Vitalism refocuses analysis of the social crises that challenged antebellum American liberalism by investigating their connection to representations of physical nature that sharply differentiated living organisms from dead matter. Situating its discussion of racial difference within an interdisciplinary discourse on the status of life and matter, American Vitalism recasts the crisis of American liberalism as one inextricably linked to human violence against non-human nature.
      • keywords: american; dead; dick; human; life; living; matter; nature; vitalism
      • versions: original; plain text
4970. xw42n586k9p
      • author: Margarita Konaev
      • title: Power and Purpose: The Durable Settlement of Self-Determination Conflicts
      • date: 1904
      • words: 358
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: More specifically, why do some governments and ethnonational groups striving for greater autonomy or independence revert to violence, while others manage to avoid repeat civil conflicts? The findings have important policy implications for intrastate conflict resolution and international security.
      • keywords: civil; conflicts; determination; dissertation; ethnonational; groups; international; peace; self
      • versions: original; plain text
4971. xw42n58766h
      • author: Kevin G. Vance
      • title: American Religious Liberty Jurisprudence in Comparative Perspective
      • date: 1904
      • words: 298
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: While the Founders generally agreed that there was a natural right to religious liberty, they disagreed about how much government should accommodate religion from otherwise valid laws. Therefore, the German court does not forbid government from showing favor to religion in general, so it avoids a contradiction with its generous approach to religious accommodations.
      • keywords: court; jurisprudence; liberty; religion; religious
      • versions: original; plain text
4972. xw42n58782r
      • author: Adrian A. Valverde
      • title: Precision Measurements to Test the Standard Model and for Explosive Nuclear Astrophysics
      • date: 2018
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Finally, a new facility is under development at the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System to allow for precision measurements necessary for the determination of the r-process path around the N=126 shell closure. First, the precision determination of the Ft value in T=1/2 mixed mirror transitions is discussed.
      • keywords: 11c; determination; important; mass; measurement; new; precision; process; value
      • versions: original; plain text
4973. xw42n587f1z
      • author: Nicolas Daniel Kamas
      • title: Humbert of Silva Candida and the Byzantine Rite
      • date: 2019
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The first examines Humbert's life in the Abbey of Moyenmoutier and his work under Popes Leo IX, Victor II, Stephen IX, and Nicholas II. This dissertation concludes first, that Humbert was strongly influenced by the preoccupations of the reformation movement in the Western Church and the tradition of Latin liturgical exegesis in his approach to the Byzantine rite, and second, that his evaluation of these liturgical topics is nuanced and well-informed, if strongly biased in favor of his own tradition.
      • keywords: humbert; liturgical; moyenmoutier; today
      • versions: original; plain text
4974. xw42n587m1h
      • author: Valerie Vargas
      • title: House of Oranges
      • date: 2021
      • words: 8
      • flesch: 71
      • summary: A collection of poems and poems in translation
      • keywords: poems
      • versions: original; plain text
4975. xw42n587m5w
      • author: Kirsten H. Anderson
      • title: Gregory of Nyssa on Evil and Freedom
      • date: 2021
      • words: 312
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: He sees the production of evil as a function of the powers of the soul, not decreased or out of commission, but employed in new directions, contrary to the good, serving the actualization of something new. Gregory's response to the problem of theodicy is thus not to evacuate evil of positive ontological standing, as though to free God, the creator of positive beings, from responsibility for its existence.
      • keywords: evil; good; gregory; non; privation
      • versions: original; plain text
4976. xw42n587n0g
      • author: Minami Hattori
      • title: Exploratory Factor Analysis of an Incomplete Correlation Matrix
      • date: 2022
      • words: 400
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: There are currently no methods of factor analyzing incomplete correlation matrices. Incomplete correlation matrices whose observed elements spread across rows and columns allowed identifying larger models than those matrices whose observed elements are clustered.
      • keywords: bootstrap; correlation; efa; elements; factor; incomplete; matrices; matrix
      • versions: original; plain text
4977. z029p269r94
      • author: Michael C. Kochly
      • title: Validation of Global Positioning Systems for Monitoring Civil Infrastructure Systems: Performance Assessment and Removal of Multipath Effects
      • date: 2011
      • words: 275
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: The final issue is of most concern, as it poses the largest untreatable error source for GPS monitoring in dense urban zones. While GPS has been successfully applied in full-scale deployments, several practical considerations must be assessed, including: nonstationarity of the GPS reference site, the use of multi-reference processing, potential accuracy loss in real time kinematic (RTK) mode and the effects of multipath errors.
      • keywords: effects; gps; monitoring; practical; shm; static; use
      • versions: original; plain text
4978. z029p269s21
      • author: Yang Yang
      • title: Network Dynamics: A Social Influence Perspective
      • date: 2015
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 35
      • 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.
      • keywords: influence; network; social
      • versions: original; plain text
4979. z029p269s4q
      • author: Lisa Workman Gloege
      • title: An Analysis of Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination in Wages in Firms Unlikely to Comply with Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 341
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Statistical discrimination by education is then shown to be more pronounced for black males employed by firms that are unlikely to actively comply with equal employment opportunity legislation. Federal antidiscrimination regulations differ by size and type of firm, resulting in lower costs to discrimination in firms not subject to the laws or less likely to be prosecuted under them.
      • keywords: discrimination; firms; information; legislation; males; statistical
      • versions: original; plain text
4980. z029p269s6d
      • author: Edoth M Mukasa
      • title: 'Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.' The Grace of the Law: A Study of Augustine's Enarratio in Psalm 118
      • date: 2015
      • words: 179
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: In particular, the study highlights the use of the notion of the Totus Christus, through which Augustine develops the description of the Church as a people walking on the way of the Lord that is Christ, the end of law. Augustine's commentary on this Psalm of the law thus becomes the narratio of a Church graced with God's guidance and mercy in Christ.
      • keywords: augustine; commentary; psalm
      • versions: original; plain text
4981. z029p269t2b
      • author: Nyrée Valeah McDonald
      • title: Diffusion Interactions for a Pair of Reactive Spheres
      • date: 2005
      • words: 347
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Various source and sink reaction types, reaction rates, and size differences are considered. The mutualism study, when both the sink and source are impenetrable, produced a surprising maximum in sink reaction as it approaches the larger source when the sink is very reactive and much smaller than the source.
      • keywords: bispherical; competition; problem; reaction; sink; source
      • versions: original; plain text
4982. z029p269t3p
      • author: Thomas R. Szarek
      • title: On the Use Of Microcontrollers for Data Acquisition in an Introductory Measurments Course
      • date: 2003
      • words: 157
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: A microcontroller-based, miniature data acquisition system was developed for use in a sophomore-level Introduction to Measurement course. The details of the electronic board, rocket, and boat design, along with the results of the experiments carried out by the students, will be presented.
      • keywords: acquisition; data; rocket
      • versions: original; plain text
4983. z029p269t5c
      • author: Guowang Li
      • title: Nitride Channels on Aluminum Nitride: Materials and Devices
      • date: 2015
      • words: 480
      • flesch: 50
      • 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.
      • keywords: aln; channel; density; devices; gan; hemts; high; hole; nfets; nitride; polarization; power; work
      • versions: original; plain text
4984. z029p269v0z
      • author: Sarah Michelle Bobby
      • title: Probabilistic Performance-Based Topology Optimization of Structural Systems
      • date: 2015
      • words: 353
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The use of deterministic topology optimization methods for structural design leads to structures with reduced redundancy when inefficient material is removed since the structures are essentially pushed to their limiting capacities. To address this need, this thesis presents a series of methods that are a first effort towards the development of a topology optimization framework for structural design that rigorously includes the effect of the uncertain and stochastic nature of the structural design problem using first excursion probabilities.
      • keywords: design; methods; optimization; problem; structures; topology
      • versions: original; plain text
4985. z029p269z90
      • author: Haiyan Meng
      • title: Improving the Reproducibility of Scientific Applications with Execution Environment Specifications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The time and space overheads to preserve and reproduce applications, and the correctness of preserved artifacts are evaluated through applications from high energy physics, bioinformatics, epidemiology and scene rendering. This dissertation proposes two broad approaches for improving the reproducibility of scientific applications and explore their feasibility and applicability for both single-machine scientific applications and complex scientific workflows.
      • keywords: applications; environment; execution; reproducibility; results; scientific
      • versions: original; plain text
4986. z029p270h9q
      • author: Mark A. Hawk
      • title: RIPK1-Dependent Mitophagy: A Novel Mechanism to Eliminate ECM-Detached Cells
      • date: 2018
      • words: 218
      • flesch: 12
      • summary: For cancer cells to survive during extracellular matrix (ECM) detachment, they must inhibit anoikis and rectify metabolic deficiencies that cause non-apoptotic cell death. Here, we uncover a role for receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) in the modulation of mitochondrial ROS levels and cell viability during ECM detachment.
      • keywords: cell; death; detachment; ecm; mitophagy; ripk1
      • versions: original; plain text
4987. z029p270n5k
      • author: Samuel F. Murray
      • title: Vigilance: Self-Control for Planners
      • date: 2019
      • words: 242
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: In particular, the theory of vigilance outlined here explains self-control limitations without appealing to limited resource consumption. This opens up the need for a capacity to manage psychological resources implicated in acting over time.
      • keywords: agency; limitations; psychological; time; vigilance
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4988. z029p270p4j
      • author: Angela J. Lederach
      • title: Feel the Grass Grow: The Practices and Politics of Slow Peace in Colombia
      • date: 2019
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 28
      • 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.
      • keywords: everyday; grassroots; life; maría; montes; peace; peacebuilding; times
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4989. z029p270x4q
      • author: Ruth Nelly Solarte Gonzalez
      • title: La escena del crimen: violencia contra la mujer, paisajes tanatológicos y una nueva crítica de la misoginia
      • date: 2022
      • words: 574
      • flesch: 20
      • summary: Basada en teorías del psicoanálisis y la antropología feminista, esta disertación propone el término violencia patriarcal primigenia para designar una forma de violencia contra la mujer, inserta en el continuo histórico de dominación patriarcal y tangible en regímenes autoritarios, conflictos armados y otros contextos de violencia estructural en Latinoamérica durante los siglos XX y XXI. El estudio tiene en cuenta otras formas de violencia contra la mujer como lo son la explotación laboral, el destierro y la imposición de un duelo por causa de la desaparición forzada de sus seres queridos.
      • keywords: alejandro; arce; esta; estudio; gaviria; lawner; los; luz; obregón; otros; para; patriarcal; que; study; una; violence; violencia; víctor; women
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4990. z029p271007
      • author: Vince Kurtz
      • title: Scalable Autonomy for High-Degree-of-Freedom Robots
      • date: 2023
      • words: 511
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: This dissertation addresses scalability challenges in locomotion, manipulation, and task planning. For task planning, we focus on specifications expressed in temporal logic.
      • keywords: contact; dynamics; high; locomotion; manipulation; optimization; planning; robot; simulation; task
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4991. z316pz5319s
      • author: Yongqin Gao
      • title: Computational discovery in evolving complex networks
      • date: 2008
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 26
      • 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.
      • keywords: methodology; network; process; research
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4992. z316pz5321b
      • author: Rebecca Ann Bryant-Fritz
      • title: Sense of Control: Differential Effects on the Outcomes of Assault and Theft
      • date: 2010
      • words: 130
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: The current research seeks to clarify the relationship between sense of control and the criminal outcomes of theft and assault for an adult sample, using the 1992 Oklahoma City Survey. Previous research has considered different ways an individual's sense of control may influence his or her propensity to commit crime, mostly by focusing on a perceived lack of control and juvenile delinquency.
      • keywords: control; sense
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4993. z316pz5324c
      • author: Sarah Edmands Martin
      • title: The Princess & The Beast: Worlds of Storied Experience in the Ribbon City
      • date: 2015
      • words: 168
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Using methods of subversive fantasy as defined by Freud, and folklore as defined by Jack Zipes, this paper argues that graphic design and storytelling can function as mechanisms for change in communities of long-standing de-personalization and stereotype. In an effort to combat isolated, inflated, and artificial images of misrepresented marginal identities, particularly those of the Potawatomi Native Americans of Northern Indiana, this paper hypothesizes a design practice that intervenes as a world of storied experience.
      • keywords: design; exhibit; experience; paper
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4994. z316pz53262
      • author: Megan Rogers
      • title: Conceptualizing and Measuring Religion in China: Theory and Measures Appropriate for the Case
      • date: 2013
      • words: 220
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: China, however, complicates efforts to apply standard sociological definitions of religion in two main ways: the Chinese government's official conceptualization of religion has dominated Chinese religious discourse over the past century, and the exclusive, belief-centric, and congregational conceptualizations of religion developed in the Western, Judeo-Christian context are of little use in understanding the largely local, ritual-based practices common in places like China. In short, such complications illustrate the fact that we will never understand and measure 'religion' in China well until we theorize 'religion' well, and understanding religion in China requires adequate measures that are appropriate for the case.
      • keywords: case; china; chinese; religion; religious
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4995. z316pz5328r
      • author: Maxim M Suvorov
      • title: Regulation of Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Resistance to Antibiotics
      • date: 2008
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: One such mechanism is production of Ì_å_-lactamases, enzymes that hydrolyze Ì_å_-lactam antibiotics. In some Gram-positive bacteria expression of Ì_å_-lactamases is induced by Ì_å_-lactam antibiotics.
      • keywords: antibiotics; biosynthesis; cell; expression; wall; ì_å_-lactamases
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4996. z316pz53293
      • author: Benjamin F Jones
      • title: On the Singular Chern Classes of Schubert Varieties Via Small Resolution
      • date: 2008
      • words: 87
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: We use these formulas for CSM classes to prove new cases of a positivity conjecture of Aluffi and Mihalcea. We compute the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson (CSM) class of a Schubert variety in a Grassmannian using a small resolution introduced by Zelevinsky.
      • keywords: class; csm
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4997. z316pz53309
      • author: Michael T. Westrate
      • title: Under the Falling Red Star: Living Soviet in Kharkiv, Ukraine From the 1960s to the Present
      • date: 2014
      • words: 715
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: The study of these men, their families, and their contemporaries&#8212;as individuals&#8212;provides insights into Soviet society and the continuing transition of that society in eastern Ukraine, especially in the areas of gender, ethnicityationality, and religion. As their history shows, a diaspora is not always created by the movement of people; in post-Soviet Ukraine, it was possible to be a transnational individual without ever travelling.
      • keywords: life; like; men; military; political; post; society; soviet; state; study; ukraine; ussr
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4998. z316pz5331n
      • author: Clint C. Elison
      • title: Disharmony: Premarital Relationship Dissolution
      • date: 2010
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Using data from the RELATE Institute, this dissertation explores three aspects of premarital relationship dissolution: 1) the experience of breaking up; 2) the occurrence of positive breakups; and 3) a comparison of the factors that lead some couples to break up and others to stay together or marry. Relationship dissolution occurs primarily because of dissatisfaction with the relationship and some individual partner characteristics, especially extraversion, difference in religious affiliation, and difference in substance use.
      • keywords: breakup; difference; experience; partner; premarital; relationship
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4999. z316pz53320
      • author: Amaresh V Malipatil
      • title: Novel Approaches to Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering and Their Applications to Communications
      • date: 2005
      • words: 250
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Practical systems often encounter nonlinearities which call for techniques for the compensation of nonlinear systems and/or signals. UKF is based on the concept of Unscented Transformation (UT), which is a deterministic sampling method to determine the statistics of a random variable undergoing nonlinear transformation.
      • keywords: ekf; filtering; nonlinear; systems; techniques; ukf
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5000. z316pz53351
      • author: Goal Auzeen Saedi
      • 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
      • date: 2009
      • words: 149
      • flesch: 32
      • 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.
      • keywords: health; iranians; mental
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5001. z316pz5337q
      • author: Raé Nicole Lundy
      • title: Dimensions of Racial Identity as Moderators of the Depression-Discrimination Relationship in Blacks
      • date: 2012
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Additionally, at low levels of depression, men were less likely to perceive discrimination than women in the relationship between mental health functioning and perceived discrimination. The purpose of this study was to better understand the relationship between mental health functioning and the perception of discrimination in Blacks.
      • keywords: depression; discrimination; racial; relationship
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5002. z316pz5339d
      • author: Priya Mishra
      • title: Antiviral Hammerhead Ribozyme Strategy for Developing Transgenic Suppression of Arboviruses
      • date: 1904
      • words: 415
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Engineered transgenic mosquitoes having high resistance to CHIKV replication can be potentially utilized in population replacement strategies to achieve elimination of endemic CHIKV. TCID50 analysis confirmed complete suppression of CHIKV replication at an MOI of 0.0001 and 0.001 confirming the advantage of maxizyme over hRzs.
      • keywords: analysis; chikv; hrzs; maxizyme; mosquitoes; pcr; suppression; tcid50; transgenic
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5003. z316pz5340m
      • author: Roberto Iván Canales Muñoz
      • title: Liquid-liquid Separation of Aromatics from Ionic Liquids Using CO2
      • date: 1904
      • words: 340
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: binary; ionic; liquid; p66614][tf2n; phase; toluene
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5004. z316pz53518
      • author: Jacob L. Weidman
      • title: Development of Next-Generation Membrane Platforms from Self-Assembled Block Polymer Precursors
      • date: 1904
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The efficient removal of heavy metal ions shows the applicability to critical separations needed in our society today. In this dissertation, the development of a new membrane technology that can be utilized as a template for separation devices in a broad variety of fields is discussed.
      • keywords: ability; membranes; research; self; separations
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5005. z316pz53s0h
      • author: Brittany R. Hanrahan
      • title: Exploring Land Cover and Other Controls on Ecosystem Function in Open-Canopy Streams
      • date: 1904
      • words: 386
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: Finally, I found that planting cover crops increased N and P retention in agricultural fields thereby preventing nutrient loss to adjacent streams and downstream systems. These findings emphasized the role that managing benthic substrate can play in restoring ecosystem function to agricultural streams, particularly in the face of increasing disturbance events.
      • keywords: agricultural; cover; ecosystem; hydrologic; land; nutrient; removal; streams; substrate
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5006. z316pz53s26
      • author: Andrew S. Clement
      • title: Updating Perception and Action across Real-World Viewpoint Changes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 254
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: These effects were not due to viewpoint dependence, and occurred for different types of movement, including rotations of the body and minimal changes in viewpoint. While this movement has consequences for how spatial knowledge is updated at new viewpoints, it is unclear whether action-specific distortions are similarly influenced by movement.
      • keywords: new; participants; viewpoint
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5007. z316pz53s7x
      • author: Christopher Haw
      • title: Monotheism and the Paradox of Intolerance: The Refusal to Divinize Victims and the Mosaic Distinction
      • date: 1904
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Discussions of monotheism's political consequences often emphasize either its intolerance of other gods and religions as a source of bigotry and conflict, on the one hand, or emphasize monotheism as a source of pacific, universalistic, transcendent tolerance on the other. I argue that monotheism's intolerance opens up historic potentials that are both enlightening and dangerous: it dissolved the ancient link between God and the political sphere, helped us see past the distortions of divinized politics, and deepened concern for the victims of politics—while it nonetheless makes possible a uniquely absolutist, violence.
      • keywords: intolerance; monotheism; political; source
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5008. z316pz54657
      • author: Dimitrios Patsialis
      • title: Exploring Modeling Fidelity for Computationally Efficient Seismic Performance Assessment
      • date: 2022
      • words: 381
      • flesch: 15
      • summary: These methodological advancements supported additional advances across two different earthquake engineering practical applications: a) design of seismic protective devices (SPDs), focusing on the impact of the fidelity of the structural response estimation on the device effectiveness; b) accuracy of seismic performance assessment within a Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) setting, examining the potential vulnerabilities of alternative approaches to achieve computational efficiency by approximating either the uncertainty propagation or the fidelity of the structural response estimation A multi-fidelity Monte Carlo (MFMC) framework for seismic risk assessment is also proposed to guarantee unbiased predictions.
      • keywords: assessment; fem; fidelity; nonlinear; response; rom; seismic; structural
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5009. z316pz5476w
      • author: Chelsea Weibel
      • title: Developmental Origins of Reproductive Timing, Health, and Aging in Wild Baboons
      • date: 2023
      • words: 477
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: The developmental constraints model posits that organisms experiencing poor early environments make tradeoffs that promote survival in early life. Discovering which model dominates is critical to understanding evolved responses to early adversity in long-lived species, and how early-life environments shape individual life-history trajectories, health, aging, and fitness.
      • keywords: adaptive; adversity; aging; data; developmental; early; life; long; survival
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5010. z603qv36b4f
      • author: Christopher Michael Romick
      • title: On the Effect of Diffusion on Gaseous Detonation
      • date: 2015
      • words: 272
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The inclusion of viscosity in the model, delays instability to a higher activation energy and enlarges the activation energy range of the bifurcation process that leads to chaotic detonation. The development and propagation of detonations is examined in the presence of diffusive processes.
      • keywords: activation; detonations; dimensional; energy; flame; viscous
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5011. z603qv36b64
      • author: Daniel Aaron Warner
      • title: Utopia/Dystopia: An Experiment in Design Journalism
      • date: 2010
      • words: 287
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In its initial pages, this paper also traces foundational connections between design, design journalism, and values capable of guiding design activities. The exhibition work involves motion animation pieces, including sound, as well as print work, all surrounding the theme of bio-technological innovation.
      • keywords: bio; design; engineer; exhibition; technological; utopia; visual
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5012. z603qv36b8t
      • author: Shashi Rani Regmi
      • title: Civil Military Relation in Nepal: Drawing Lessons from Mozambique and El Salvador
      • date: 2014
      • words: 128
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Amid this situation, through structured focused comparative case studies of El Salvador and Mozambique, this paper draws lesson to improve CMR in Nepal in terms of civilian control and military professionalism. The debate over integration of former rebel combatants in the Nepalese Army remained at heart of the peace process.
      • keywords: army; military; national; process
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5013. z603qv36c4r
      • author: Brian Gloor
      • title: Development of a Fluorescence Anisotropy Assay for Measuring the TCR-pMHC Interaction
      • date: 2008
      • words: 289
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: MHC proteins are expressed on the surface of cells and display fragments of molecules from invading microbes or dysfunctional cells to the TCR. The T cell receptor (TCR) is a molecule found on the surface of T cells that is responsible for recognizing antigens presented by major histocompatability complex (MHC) proteins.
      • keywords: cells; mechanism; pmhc; surface; tcr
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5014. z603qv36c53
      • author: Thad Botham
      • title: Rendering Free Will Intelligible: A Defense of Agent-Causation
      • date: 2006
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: I attempt to get very clear about several pre-theoretic features of free action. Although widely discussed at the pre-theoretic level, scholars rarely use the notion of ultimate origination when constructing rigorous arguments for, against, or in defense of particular theories of free action.
      • keywords: action; agent; causal; causation; cause; free; theory
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5015. z603qv36c7s
      • author: Stefanie Israel
      • title: Pacification of Rio's Favelas and the Pacification of the Pacifying Police: The Role of Mediation in Community Policing
      • date: 2014
      • words: 252
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Not only does the Residents' Association cooperate with the UPP by sharing its knowledge of the community, its residents, and its norms, but it receives complaints from residents regarding offensive police behavior. The Residents' Association and other informal mediators ease the acculturation of officers to the community who would otherwise be oblivious to community norms and likely to offend residents by their actions.
      • keywords: community; police; program; residents
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5016. z603qv36h9q
      • author: Joseph James Fillion
      • title: Physical and Chemical Properties of Ionic Liquids: Application for Co-Fluid Vapor Compression Refrigeration Cycle
      • date: 1904
      • words: 610
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Due to the enormous ways ionic liquids can be designed, they offer great opportunity to be adjusted to meet the needs of various applications. For applications that require CO2 to have a chemical reversible reaction with the anion, our group has proposed using ionic liquids with Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions (AHAs).For those applications, trihexyltetradecylphosphonium ([P66614]) cations tend to be used most often because they are thermally stable and generally make ionic liquids that do not have a melting point.
      • keywords: ionic; liquids; lower; no2pyra; p66614][4; triz; viscosity
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5017. z603qv36j18
      • author: Xiaofeng Wang
      • title: Application of Controlled Radical Polymerization in the Development of Polymers with Branched Architectures
      • date: 1904
      • words: 230
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The target of this body research is mainly focused on development of new methodologies for synthesis of hyperbranched polymers and hyperbranched-star (hyperstar) polymers with controlled structures and site-specific functionalities via controlled radical polymerization (CRP) techniques. Research progress on the use of radical polymerization to introduce branching points into polymers via CRP methods is discussed in the introductory chapter.
      • keywords: chapter; hyperbranched; hyperstar; polymerization; polymers; radical; transfer
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5018. z603qv3728m
      • author: Mimi Ensley
      • title: Re-Forming the Past: The Medieval Romance Book as a Dynamic Site of Memory
      • date: 1904
      • words: 329
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: After Chapter One grounds my research theoretically, methodologically, and historically, the dissertation's remaining chapters examine four sites of material romance memory: the library, the manuscript, the monument, and the museum. In Chapter Two, I study the act of building a collection or library as a means by which readers could materially fashion their own versions of literary history.
      • keywords: chapter; history; medieval; past; readers; romance
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5019. z603qv3735w
      • author: Kaitlin Fondren
      • title: Maternal Speech Quality and Child Language in the Context of Maltreatment
      • date: 2018
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: Further, maternal speech quality did not significantly mediate the association between maltreatment and child language skill. Maltreated children tend to have deficits in language skill throughout childhood, regardless of socioeconomic status.
      • keywords: children; language; skill
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5020. z603qv37g28
      • author: Roy A. Stillwell
      • title: Real-Time Handheld Frequency-Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy
      • date: 2021
      • words: 332
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy (fdNIRS) provides quantitative noninvasive measurements of tissue optical absorption and scattering, as well as a safe and accurate method for characterizing tissue composition and metabolism. Optical property accuracy was compared to a traditional network analyzer-based system and was found to be within 10\% over a range of attenuating tissue-simulating phantoms.
      • keywords: fdnirs; high; optical; property; real; speed; system; time; tissue
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5021. z603qv37g6n
      • author: Karla Adriana Gonzalez-Serrano
      • title: Nanoscale Solid Polymer Electrolytes in Metal–Insulator–Conductor Systems for Logic and Neuromorphic Devices
      • date: 2022
      • words: 652
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: It is important to understand the EDL formation and dissipation speeds, polymer thickness limitations, and forms of ion encapsulation to enable further lithography. This research aims at using ions to add new functionality to semiconductor devices.
      • keywords: carbon; charge; csclo4; devices; eels; electric; films; ion; layer; metal; peo; polymer; semiconductor; thickness
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5022. z603qv37j2w
      • author: Jordan Roach
      • title: Investigations into the Solution Combustion Synthesis of Uranium Oxides and Their Mechanisms
      • date: 2023
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Electrospraying of reactive solutions generate thin uniform oxide films. Spin coating of precursor solutions onto aluminum backings and subsequent heat treatment produce uniform thin films.
      • keywords: combustion; films; mechanism; methoxyethanol; oxide; phase; scs; system; thin; unique; uranium; uranyl
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5023. z890rr19m1f
      • author: Florence Francoise Morel
      • title: Synthesis of 10-Membered Ring Analogues of Epothilone
      • date: 2004
      • words: 3
      • flesch: 62
      • summary: No abstract available
      • keywords: available
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5024. z890rr19m2s
      • author: Jiyun Zu
      • title: Examining Nonlinear Changes of Coefficients in Time-Varying Dynamic Factor Models
      • date: 2008
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: To better investigate complex nonstationary multivariate time series, the current thesis aims to extend earlier work on using time-varying dynamic factor models to represent linear changes of coefficients to nonlinear cases. Results suggest that (i) the EKS recovered dynamics of latent factors and time-varying coefficients rather faithfully; (ii) the GML and the bootstrap worked well, expect for certain parameters in the dynamic model; (iii) the amplitude of changes of the time-varying coefficient played a crucial role in whether the coefficient can be assumed to be fixed and the accuracy of estimates.
      • keywords: coefficients; factors; latent; time
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5025. z890rr19m4g
      • author: Patrick Flavin
      • title: Political Inequality in the American States
      • date: 2010
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: I also construct an original Political Inequality Index that ranks the states according to the degree to which the opinions of citizens with low incomes are neglected in state policies compared to the opinions of the middle class and the wealthy. First, I assess political and behavioral explanations and find that representation is more equal in states that have more competitive legislative elections, where the poor turn out to vote at higher rates, and states with a larger interest group community, provided that the community is not dominated by for-profit interests.
      • keywords: citizens; explanations; opinions; policy; political; representation; states
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5026. z890rr19m65
      • author: Lai Wei
      • title: Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes and Cooperative Communication
      • date: 2015
      • words: 645
      • flesch: 31
      • 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.
      • keywords: ary; binary; code; cooperation; decoding; ensembles; latency; ldpc; partner
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5027. z890rr19m8v
      • author: Marcos Eric Perez-Blanco
      • title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquids: Interfacial and Transport Properties
      • date: 2013
      • words: 438
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: This thesis discusses the applications of molecular dynamics simulations to ionic liquids (ILs). A viscosity screening study has been performed to identify ionic liquids with low viscosity for use in refrigeration systems.
      • keywords: co2; interface; interfacial; ionic; liquid; molecular; properties; structure; viscosity
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5028. z890rr19n0d
      • author: Todd Russell Hanneken
      • title: The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses
      • date: 2008
      • words: 264
      • flesch: 43
      • 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.
      • keywords: apocalypses; genre; jubilees; use; worldview
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5029. z890rr19n1r
      • author: Weiming Li
      • title: Micromorphic Theory of Multiphase Mixtures
      • date: 2010
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: average; balance; equations; general; micromorphic; mixture; phase
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5030. z890rr19n23
      • author: Sara Skiles
      • title: Aesthetic Taste Expression and Symbolic Boundary Work
      • date: 2014
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: I also analyze respondents' perception of solidarity with the groups they were told about, and find that differences in taste between respondents and the group are a stronger predictor of the perception of social distance than were differences in status (measured by education and occupation). One of cultural sociology's most important contributions to the study of social inequality has been the explication of the role that the possession of cultural resources plays in the ordering of society and social groups.
      • keywords: group; respondents; status; taste
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5031. z890rr19n3f
      • author: Mohmmad Tanvir Alam
      • title: Design, Fabrication and Modeling of Clocked Nanomagnet Logic Circuit Elements
      • date: 2010
      • words: 286
      • flesch: 39
      • summary: Although current carrying wires can generate magnetic fields, it is not trivial to generate strong enough magnetic fields required for the excitation of prototype NML devices and gates. With proper design and material selection, magnetic fields were obtained that are strong enough to switch individual nanomagnets as well as NML gates and data paths, without using excessive current.
      • keywords: clock; fields; gates; lines; logic; magnetic; nml
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5032. z890rr19n4s
      • author: Nicole M Windmon
      • title: The Development of Novel Heteroatom-Activated Acylating Agents: Potential Beta-Lactam Mimics
      • date: 2014
      • words: 338
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: It had been previously demonstrated that isoxazolidines appended with a phenyl acetyl side chain exhibited antibacterial activity when tested against a strain of bacteria sensitive to &#946;-lactam antibiotics such as E. coli X580. This moiety was believed to activate the Weinreb amide carbonyl towards acylation in the same way that monobactams such as oxamazin and aztreonam are activated by adjacent heteroatoms.
      • keywords: 946;-lactam; activity; antibacterial; antibiotics; chains; heteroatom; strategy
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5033. z890rr19n7t
      • author: Yong Tang
      • title: Experimental demonstration of radio frequency quantum-dot cellular automata devices
      • date: 2009
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: This dissertation is focusing on investigating the time evolution of the binary state in QCA logic devices, as well as experimentally verification of the high-speed capabilities of clocked QCA devices. As transistor size approaches nanometer range, many problems such as device interconnection, power dissipation and short-channel effects become increasingly hard to overcome and degrade device performance.
      • keywords: binary; cells; device; dot; electron; qca; speed; switching; transistor
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5034. z890rr19n9h
      • author: Gilbert Saint Jean Jr
      • title: The Effects of Geography and Host Plant Relationships on the Population Genetics of Fruit Flies in the Rhagoletis cingulata (Diptera: Tephritidae) Sibling Species Group
      • date: 2015
      • words: 1027
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: My thesis therefore focused on R. cingulata flies as a model system for comparing how population divergence is affected by different process associated with ecological adaptation and geography. In particular, patterns of genetic differentiation were compared within and among pairs of R. cingulata populations that have likely alternately diverged via sympatric host shifting versus allopatric speciation modes.
      • keywords: chapter; cherry; cingulata; cytoplasmic; different; divergence; flies; fruit; genetic; group; host; indifferens; microsatellite; mtdna; populations; reproductive; rhagoletis; speciation; species
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5035. z890rr19q32
      • author: Christopher Galeucia
      • title: The Effect of a Secondary Task's Location on Lane Position
      • date: 1904
      • words: 223
      • flesch: 40
      • summary: Across both experiments, the average lane position of drivers was biased away from the location of the secondary task on straight and curved sections of roads, and the additional objects in Experiment 2 magnified this effect. The current experiments examined how using a secondary task to orient the cognitive and visual attention of drivers towards locations to the left of, in front of, or to the right of the driver affected their ability to keep a car in the middle of their lane on straight and curved sections of roads.
      • keywords: attention; drivers; road
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5036. z890rr19t30
      • author: Moiz Hasan
      • title: Foundations of Science in the Post-Classical Islamic Era: The Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Significance of Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī's (d. 1413) Project
      • date: 1904
      • words: 389
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: This dissertation examines the foundations of scientific knowledge, and its philosophical, historical, and historiographical significance, in the relatively understudied post-classical Islamic era (post-1100 CE). By focusing on the epistemological underpinnings of science, such a study can reveal much about the nature, attainability, and justifiability of scientific knowledge.
      • keywords: classical; epistemological; foundations; islamic; jurjānī; knowledge; post; scientific; study
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5037. z890rr2098t
      • author: Jeehoon Han
      • title: The Effect of Food Assistance Programs on the Behavior and Well-being of Low-income Individuals and Families
      • date: 1904
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: In the final chapter, I investigate whether waiving SNAP work requirements affects the labor supply of low-income Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) by exploiting variation in the areas waiving work requirements as well as the age criteria for the work requirement. In chapter one, I examines whether expanding SNAP eligibility reduces material hardships of low-income households.
      • keywords: chapter; eligibility; evidence; income; low; program; snap; work
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5038. z890rr20b22
      • author: Caleb R. Wenzel
      • title: Sebastian Knüpfer's Super Flumina Babylonis: Dramatic and Homiletic Expressivity in the Seventeenth-Century Sacred Vocal Concerto Genre
      • date: 1904
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: From among this collection of works, I closely examine one Latin psalm concerto, Super flumina Babylonis, from the perspective of musical language and theological content. Scholars and performers of seventeenth--century music have long been aware of Sebastian Knüpfer (1633-76) and his place in the history of the city of Leipzig and its famous Thomaskirche.
      • keywords: city; history; knüpfer; music; place; sacred; works
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5039. z890rr20j5z
      • author: Paola Uparela Reyes
      • title: Mirada, poder y genitalidad: cuerpos coloniales y la emergencia visual del género
      • date: 2019
      • words: 528
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: A partir de teoría crítica pertinente sobre poder, género y representación visual (Zavala, Irigaray, Butler, Foucault, Derrida, Preciado, et al.), esta tesis estudia cómo los regímenes gineco-escópicos se han articulado con experiencias de colonialismo y neo colonialismo, desigualdad de género y violencia, pero también con lo que José Rabasa llama los desafíos contra-coloniales al legado colonial de nuestro presente. Examino cuatro paradigmas de los regímenes gineco-escópicos coloniales y el surgimiento moderno de subjetividades de género.
      • keywords: capítulo; case; chapter; colonial; colonialismo; como; con; del; escópicos; gender; genitales; género; indigenous; las; los; regímenes; sexual; sobre; visual
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5040. z890rr20k89
      • author: Jun Ren
      • title: Photo-Induced Tunable and Reconfigurable Terahertz Circuits and Components Based on Waveguide Configurations
      • date: 2019
      • words: 623
      • flesch: 17
      • summary: Those devices are critical for the implementation of unique functionalities and superior system performance for THz applications such as advanced THz imaging and adaptive high-speed wireless communications at THz band. Despite the large strides made in those fields, there is still a lack of progress in the development of high-performance tunable and reconfigurable THz circuits and components.
      • keywords: band; circuits; ebg; high; imaging; optical; performance; reconfigurable; sensing; structures; thz; tunable; waveguide
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5041. z890rr20p56
      • author: Anna H. H. de Bakker
      • title: Writing the Cistercian Office in the Thirteenth Century Low Countries
      • date: 2020
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: First, this study considers the techniques for office writing present in the office for the order's most prominent early saint, Bernard of Clairvaux. Offices for Katherine and Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins compiled at the convent of Beatrice of Nazareth demonstrate that embellishment and arrangement of borrowed material was also a method of office-writing available to new Cistercian convents.
      • keywords: arnulf; century; cistercian; dissertation; office; order; study; writing
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5042. z890rr20r65
      • author: Astghik Mkhitaryan
      • title: Essays on Sovereign Debt
      • date: 2022
      • words: 304
      • flesch: 52
      • summary: We study the impact that such borrowing from China has on the equilibrium quantities and prices for marketable sovereign debt. However, standard models of sovereign debt cannot jointly explain the debt-to-output ratio and the default frequency observed in the data.
      • keywords: china; debt; default; lenders; model; sovereign
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5043. z890rr20r8v
      • author: Elvis A. Eugene
      • title: Foundations of Molecular-to-Systems Design: Frameworks for Data-Driven Multiscale Process Systems Engineering
      • date: 2022
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: I briefly discuss how this work provided the impetus for data-driven design of dynamic experiments which sped up membrane characterization experiments. 2. Data-driven design of experiments utilizes nonlinear parameter estimation and leverages time-series data from dynamic experiments to fit differential-algebraic equation models for the system.
      • keywords: data; experiments; framework; materials; models; novel; process; scale; systems
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5044. z890rr20t3r
      • author: Jiacheng Liu
      • title: Lithium-Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes with Ion Clusters
      • date: 2023
      • words: 224
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: But ionic conductivity in common polymer electrolytes, such as poly(ethylene oxide)-based polymer electrolytes, is limited by the segmental relaxation of the polymer matrix that is solvating the lithium cation. Polymer electrolytes are non-flammable, processable, and more inert towards lithium metal and electrochemical side reactions.
      • keywords: cluster; electrolytes; ionic; lithium; polymer; transport
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5045. zc77sn02w60
      • author: Qili Liu
      • title: Turbulent Combustion in High Mach Number Flows
      • date: 2015
      • words: 363
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Flow structures visualized using this novel technique depict that the jet-induced secondary flows significantly affect the subsequent flow structures. The turbulence levels in flows are measured qualitatively and quantitatively using Rayleigh scattering and Pitot probe, respectively.
      • keywords: flow; freestream; high; mach; model; rayleigh; scramjet; structures; turbulence
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5046. zc77sn02w8p
      • author: Christian Andre DeLeon
      • title: Documenting the Impermanence of Clay
      • date: 2010
      • words: 55
      • flesch: 55
      • summary: With a background including Horticulture, Landscape Design, Multimedia Design and Ceramics, my work has paved a concept around a system of lifecycles. This concept is universal and through the use of scale, abstraction, movement and sound, I have achieved not only new visuals for clay as material but for the nature of our own existence.
      • keywords: design
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5047. zc77sn02x07
      • author: Yan Zhou
      • title: Optimization of Fiber Shapes in Biocomposites
      • date: 2005
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Also, the fatigue life of VDF reinforced bone cement was significantly longer than that of CSF reinforced cement. Results demonstrated that both the stiffness and the fatigue life of VDF reinforced bone cement are significantly improved compared with the unreinforced cement.
      • keywords: bone; cement; fiber; mechanical; reinforced; shape; vdf
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5048. zc77sn02x69
      • author: Christopher M Hocut
      • title: Multi-Scale Flow and Turbulence in Complex Terrain Under Weak Synoptic Conditions
      • date: 2013
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Turbulence in slope and valley flows, upslope flow separation, flow collisions and interactions between different types of flow are discussed in this thesis, with particular emphasis on quantitative results of consequence for numerical modeling. Once calibrated, these probes can measure from mesoscale flow down to the Kolmogorov scale.
      • keywords: flow; grid; hot; interactions; mesoscale; probes; scale; slope; terrain; valley
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5049. zc77sn02x7n
      • author: Christopher Ryan Rodriguez
      • title: Hail to the Chief: Presidents as Goal-Seeking Actors in the Nineteenth Century
      • date: 2007
      • words: 342
      • flesch: 19
      • summary: The case studies show how pre-modern executives exploited the dynamics of American party politics by using strategic tools for policy action. Researchers for the most part have incorrectly applied modern theories to the pre-modern presidency, devising inaccurate empirical indicators for presidential activity in the nineteenth century.
      • keywords: century; modern; nineteenth; office; politics; pre; presidents; seeking
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5050. zc77sn02x9b
      • author: Goal Auzeen Saedi
      • title: A Qualitative Study of Islamophobia Post 9/11 in the United States: Building a Theoretical Model of Identity Development of Muslim American Youth Ten Years Following the Aftermath
      • date: 2012
      • words: 348
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Nine students (3 females, 6 males) participated in the current study, and represented undergraduate (4) and graduate students (5). It was defined by four interconnected dimensions: connection with a spiritual community; a sense of uniqueness and pride; appraisal of student attitudes; and overcoming challenges and barriers.
      • keywords: identity; model; muslims; participants; present; students; study
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5051. zc77sn02z4x
      • author: Lailatul Fitriyah
      • title: Muslim Peacebuilders of Ambon: Story of Building Peace after Interreligious Violence
      • date: 2015
      • words: 512
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The third finding is concerned with the development of interreligious discourse among Muslim community in Ambon that is limited to some elite circles, such as scholars and peace activists. My argument is that, to achieve a deeper level of interreligious dialogue between Muslim and Christian communities in Ambon, the discourse of interreligious dialogue in Muslim community must be expanded to include the grass-root level of participation.
      • keywords: activists; ambon; community; conflict; interreligious; islamic; muslim; peacebuilding; thesis
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5052. zc77sn03333
      • author: Jing Wang
      • title: Essays on International Trade and Financial Frictions
      • date: 1904
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: This dissertation studies the role of firm heterogeneity in (1) explaining the impact of unilateral trade liberalization on industry labor productivity, (2) reconciling micro estimates that attribute an important effect of credit constraints on export collapse with macro findings that the impacts are minimal, and (3) interpreting the relationship between firm productivity and liquidity management when financing is costly. The first chapter theoretically and empirically investigates the impact of trade liberalization on industry labor productivity (i.e. output per worker).
      • keywords: capital; firm; impact; industry; labor; liberalization; productivity; trade
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5053. zc77sn03m12
      • author: Jennifer R. Weidman
      • title: Triptycene as an Architectural Motif in the Macromolecular Design of Polyimides for Gas Separation Membranes
      • date: 1904
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Polymer membranes offer a more energy-efficient method for separations compared to many typical industrial techniques, such as distillation. This challenge can be combatted at the macromolecular level by strategically designing the polymer backbone to have bulky moieties and/or rigid, tortuous elements to disrupt polymer chain packing and increase the fractional free volume of the material.
      • keywords: backbone; free; gas; membranes; polymer; rigid; triptycene; volume
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5054. zc77sn03r92
      • author: Hannah K Freeman
      • title: Going Beyond
      • date: 2019
      • words: 203
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Referring to the history of landscape painting and abstraction, I will analyze how artists have used visual languages to respond to times of change and uncertainty. I will also explain how I have been influenced by Romantic landscape painting and abstraction to reinforce the conceptual basis of my paintings.
      • keywords: conceptual; painting; world
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5055. zc77sn03s81
      • author: Umamaheswara Rao Tida
      • title: Through-Silicon-Via Inductor in Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits: Modeling and Design for On-Chip Applications
      • date: 2019
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: However, different from conventional 2-D spiral inductors, TSV inductors are fully buried in the lossy substrate, thus suffering from low quality factor at high frequencies. Towards this, we propose to use TSV inductor instead of the spiral inductor to reduce the inductor area overhead.
      • keywords: chip; inductor; resonant; spiral; tsv
      • versions: original; plain text
5056. zc77sn03t6n
      • author: Homayoon Hatami
      • title: An Absorbing Set Analysis of Quantized LDPC Decoders
      • date: 2019
      • words: 395
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: For LDPC codes, the attenuated min-sum algorithm (AMSA) and the offset min- sum algorithm (OMSA) are known to outperform the conventional min-sum algorithm (MSA) at low SNRs, i.e., in the waterfall region of the FER curve. Therefore, we introduce a novel modification of the MSA for quantized decoding of LDPC codes, called the threshold attenuated min-sum algorithm (TAMSA) (or the threshold offset min-sum algorithm (TOMSA)) with the aim of outperforming theMSA, AMSA, and OMSA at both low and high SNRs.
      • keywords: algorithm; amsa; error; ldpc; omsa; snrs
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5057. zc77sn0418g
      • author: Brandon Moskun
      • title: The Student Body and Covid-19: An Anthropological Perspective on Higher Education Organization During a Pandemic
      • date: 2022
      • words: 273
      • flesch: 46
      • summary: Rhythms consist of time, space, and energy according to Henri Lefebvre. I conclude that covid-19 has highlighted the growing relationship between physical and digital spaces within academia, with discussion of how trends identified in fieldwork are cited in other literature.
      • keywords: campus; covid-19; space; university
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5058. zg64th8653h
      • author: Lionel Sebastien Belveze
      • title: Modeling and Measurement of Thermodynamic Properties of Ionic Liquids
      • date: 2004
      • words: 152
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: As a first step towards modeling the phase behavior of IL solutions, we will show how the electrolyte nonrandom two-liquid model can be applied to model activity coefficients of quaternary ammonium salts (potentially interesting ILs) in water. Modeling and measuring their phase behavior with water and organic solvents is vital for evaluating their many potential uses.
      • keywords: ils; model; phase; water
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5059. zg64th8654v
      • author: Dongyoung Shin
      • title: Molecular Genetics and Genomics of the Meiotic Drive System in Aedes aegypti
      • date: 2011
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The third aim in this dissertation describes mapping transcripts statistically significant for T37 expression, based on whole transcriptome microarray analysis, to pathways by gene function and subsequent construction of gene networks. Primary libraries showed tissue-, stage- specific gene expression such as reproduction and larval development while the subT37 transcripts were associated with signal transduction, development, reproduction, metabolic process and cell cycle functions.
      • keywords: aim; chromosome; development; drive; expression; gene; genetic; markers; meiotic; population
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5060. zg64th86556
      • author: Lora A Smitham
      • title: Re-Evaluating the Microanalytic Relationship between Reassurance Seeking and Rejection in Marriage
      • date: 2010
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: The existing literature on reassurance seeking suggests that this behavior leads to interpersonal rejection (Joiner, Alfano, & Metalsky, 1992; Joiner & Metalsky, 1995). Observed reassurance seeking was associated with observed rejection by spouses in both depressed and non-depressed husbands and wives.
      • keywords: reassurance; rejection
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5061. zg64th8656j
      • author: Samantha D. Schalk
      • title: Physical Education
      • date: 2010
      • words: 42
      • flesch: 64
      • summary: This book of poems represents work created during the 2008-2010 school years for the Notre Dame Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. The book attempts to tackle issues of race, gender, and sexuality in personal, narrative, image-drive poems.
      • keywords: book
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5062. zg64th86587
      • author: Vishwanatha K Chandrahas
      • title: Sequence Diversity in Streptokinase and M-Proteins, Their Co-Inheritance and Functional Relationships in Group A Streptococcal Virulence
      • date: 2015
      • words: 618
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: These studies demonstrate that GAS virulence in different bacterial strains can be dictated by differences in the hPg activation properties of SK2a and SK2b. To perpetuate in its host and cause disease, GAS employs several virulence factors that assist GAS in adherence, invasion, immune evasion, and colonization in distal tissues within the host, e.g., M or M-like proteins, hyaluronic acid capsule, fibronectin binding protein, streptokinase, streptolysins, and streptococcal pyogenic exotoxins.
      • keywords: gas; hpg; hpm; like; pam; sk2b; strains; virulence
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5063. zg64th8660s
      • author: Joongol Kim
      • title: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Concept of Number
      • date: 2004
      • words: 106
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: As regards the latter, the basic concepts of arithmetic are explicated in terms of pure logic alone, and all the truths of arithmetic are shown to follow from those explications solely by logical means. A conception of numbers as modes of existence, that is, ways or manners in which things exist, is introduced and defended instead.
      • keywords: conception; numbers
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5064. zg64th8663t
      • author: Timothy J Dysart
      • title: It's All About the Signal Routing: Understanding the Reliability of QCA Circuits and Systems
      • date: 2010
      • words: 303
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: This is used to identify how reliable the components should be to achieve a target circuit or system reliability and to identify which components are the most critical to circuit reliability. Due to a variety of factors, a significant challenge when building a system from any of these devices is how to produce a reliable, predictable system from unreliable components with unpredictable behavior?
      • keywords: components; dissertation; qca; reliability; reliable; system
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5065. zg64th86645
      • author: Jodi Lynn Bruhn
      • title: Polity and Cosmogony: A Study of Three Myths
      • date: 2007
      • words: 134
      • flesch: 41
      • summary: The myths and societies examined are Enuma Elish in the context of ancient Mesopotamia, Genesis 1 &ndash; 2:4a in that of ancient Israel, and two modern myths &ndash; Thomas Mann's Roman der Seele and the National Socialist myth of Volk, Reich, and FÌ_hrer &ndash; in the context of modern Germany. This dissertation addresses the formative power of myth from the standpoint of political philosophy.
      • keywords: context; myth; ndash; political
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5066. zg64th8665h
      • author: Sean Patrick Mannion
      • title: Celtic Arc Light: The City, Technology, and Irish Modernism
      • date: 2011
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: By demonstrating how impoverished, underdeveloped Dublin could cultivate modernism, I argue for need to attend to the social meanings of urban technologies within specific cultures as a prerequisite for pursuing a truly global modernist studies. I place Ireland's experience of technology within the context of its colonial history, a history that undermines the electric light's traditional association with urban modernity.
      • keywords: colonial; dublin; history; irish; modernism; modernity; technological; urban
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5067. zg64th8666v
      • author: Margaret Martin Dudley
      • title: Microbial Ecology of Perchlorate-Reducing Bacteria that Accumulate High Levels of Chlorate
      • date: 2007
      • words: 154
      • flesch: 28
      • summary: Based on these kinetic parameters, these novel perchlorate reducers are unlikely to play a significant role in perchlorate reduction at concentrations below 200 mg/L, but may contribute to faster degradation at high concentrations. In this study, it was estimated that these novel perchlorate reducers have similar qmax values to conventional PCRB (8.3mgClO3-/mgX-day and 11.5mgClO4-/mgX-day) and much higher K values (58.3mg/L for chlorate and 192.6mg/L for perchlorate).
      • keywords: day; pcrb; perchlorate; reducers
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5068. zg64th8669w
      • author: Annabella España Nájera
      • title: Party Systems and Democracy after the Conflicts: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua
      • date: 2009
      • words: 349
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: To explain the development of these systems, I propose a path dependent argument that identifies the transition process as a critical juncture (Pierson 2000:75; Collier and Collier 1991:29). Early decisions shaped future possibilities and self-reinforcing mechanisms make the probability of departing from the set pattern increasingly unlikely (Pierson 2000:74-6; Collier and Collier 1991:29-31).
      • keywords: chapter; collier; parties; party; system; transition
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5069. zg64th86854
      • author: Robert W. Mowry
      • title: The Embodiment of Protest: How Gender Moderates the Individual-Level Effects of Demonstration Participation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 185
      • flesch: 14
      • 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.
      • keywords: empowerment; moderates; participation; political
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5070. zg64th86c21
      • author: Han Xia
      • title: Thermal Analysis and Thermal Hazard Analysis of Ionic Liquids
      • date: 1904
      • words: 339
      • flesch: 41
      • 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.
      • keywords: applications; crucibles; different; high; ils; potential; temperature; thermal
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5071. zg64th86w00
      • author: Horacio Vela III
      • title: The Inner Human Being: The Transformation of a Platonic Metaphor in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
      • date: 1904
      • words: 265
      • flesch: 45
      • summary: Paul blends Hellenistic motifs and apocalyptic expectations in his exposition of his ministry and example of suffering and transformation. The Stoics and later philosophers in the Platonic tradition also created their own unique images of the soul in order to explain, teach, and instill moral values.
      • keywords: hellenistic; images; paul; plato; soul
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5072. zg64th86w4c
      • author: Kevin A Mueller
      • title: Out-of-Plane Strength, Stability, and Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Bearing Walls during and after Elevated Temperatures from Fire
      • date: 1904
      • words: 373
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Through this investigation, it was found that RC walls can withstand long periods of time under fire. Accordingly, the overall objective of this dissertation is to develop experimental evidence on the behavior of RC bearing walls under one-sided fire, which is the most probable fire exposure for wall structures.
      • keywords: design; fire; gravity; lateral; load; plane; specimens; wall
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5073. zg64th86w62
      • author: Hongfei Zhu
      • title: Design of Thin-Walled Metastructures for Advanced Elastic Wave Management
      • date: 1904
      • words: 606
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Consequently, this thesis proposes a single-material based thin-walled system with carefully tailored internal geometries while providing the same level of elastic wave control capabilities enabled by multi-material designs, therefore introducing the concept of elastic \ extit{metastructure}. This is a key aspect to maintain structural integrity and to be able to transfer metamaterial concepts to structural element design.
      • keywords: acoustic; concept; design; elastic; experimental; geometric; material; refraction; resonant; structural; systems; thin; walled; wave
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5074. zg64th86x82
      • author: Weijing Liu
      • title: Functionalized Porous Membranes for Rapid Protein Capture and Digestion Prior to Mass Spectrometry Analysis
      • date: 2018
      • words: 371
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: Such coatings yield membranes that bind up to 120 mg of lysozyme per mL of membrane, which is double the capacity of commercial ion-exchange beads. We created membranes containing mimotope peptides which could specifically isolate Herceptin from human serum with a binding capacity up to 10 mg per mL of membrane.
      • keywords: adsorption; analysis; digestion; membranes; peptides; porous; protein
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5075. zg64th87215
      • author: Kathryn S. Van de Loo
      • title: Practice What You Preach: A Consideration of Augustine's Rhetorical Style in Enarrationes in Psalmos 69
      • date: 2019
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 59
      • 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.
      • keywords: augustine; preaching; styles; theory
      • versions: original; plain text
5076. zg64th8737j
      • author: Marcela Vega
      • title: Enhancing Selection for Perchlorate-Reducing Bacteria in Presence of Competing Electron Acceptors
      • date: 2019
      • words: 577
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: Before chlorate addition, nitrate and perchlorate were reduced to low levels, but after 17 days sulfate reduction took place, leading to a decrease in perchlorate reduction. Sulfate reduction has also been related to inhibition of perchlorate reduction.
      • keywords: addition; chlorite; mbfr; nitrate; perchlorate; prb; reduction; selective; sulfate
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5077. zg64th87513
      • author: Yolanda Bonita
      • title: Bimetallic Phosphide Catalysts for Biomass Upgrading Reactions
      • date: 2020
      • words: 250
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: Meanwhile, bimetallic RuMoP favors the hydrogenation of C=O bond due to its surface electronics in combination with surface crowding by the products that prevents C=C adsorption. This thesis focuses on the synthesis and detailed characterizations of various bimetallic phosphides as well as their catalytic evaluation for hydrodeoxygenation and hydrogenation reactions of oxygenated biomass compounds.
      • keywords: bimetallic; bond; hydrogenation; phosphides; surface
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5078. zg64th87873
      • author: Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
      • title: Log Discovery, Log Custody, and the Web Inspired Approach for Open Distributed Systems Troubleshooting
      • date: 2021
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 36
      • 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).
      • keywords: distributed; resources; system; troubleshooting
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5079. zg64th8791b
      • author: Christopher Romanoski
      • title: Compliant Wall Motion Effects on the Unsteady Surface Pressure in a Turbulent Boundary Layer
      • date: 2021
      • words: 156
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: Increases in unsteady pressure magnitude up to 7 dB were observed with passive wall motion. The objective was to observe how the pressure spectra change due to a section of wall that is vibrating.
      • keywords: membrane; pressure; unsteady; wall
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5080. zg64th87b09
      • author: Vivek S. Moorthy
      • title: The Economics of Life and Death
      • date: 2022
      • words: 994
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: In my second chapter, Blue Collar Booms and American Mortality: Evidence from US Counties, which is joint work with Paul Shaloka, we study whether a long-run technology-induced increase in economic opportunity for prime aged men can reverse rising mortality trends in the U.S. Around the turn of the 21st century, the U.S. has experienced a precipitous rise in mortality driven by suicides, drug overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease for lower-skilled men, coined 'deaths of despair.' GE soy adoption had opposite effects on male employment in agriculture, increasing men's and overall family earnings.
      • keywords: agriculture; change; data; day; earnings; earth; economic; effects; evidence; family; fertility; fracking; gender; life; lower; men; mortality; quality; soy; technological
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5081. zk51vd69f89
      • author: Jie Liu
      • title: Design Problems in Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems
      • date: 2015
      • words: 388
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: First, we set up the problem of locations and price optimization for commercial charging stations. We model the problem as a static price competition between competing charging stations with the customers deciding among the stations based on their own utility function.
      • keywords: communication; equilibrium; game; multi; problem; stations; study; system
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5082. zk51vd69g0v
      • author: Heather L. Holleman
      • title: Early Adversity and Severe Events: Sensitizing Factors for Depression
      • date: 2010
      • words: 69
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Examining the contribution of early adversity and current life stress to recurrent depression. Consistent with the kindling hypothesis (Post, 1992), stressful life events were found to be more important for first lifetime episodes of depression than for recurrent episodes.
      • keywords: depression; early
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5083. zk51vd69g2j
      • author: Alberto Lo Pinto
      • title: 'Des enfantements estranges et contre nature': In Search of a Meaning in Primo Levi's Early Fiction
      • date: 2012
      • words: 19
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: Primo Levi's short stories collections Storie Naturali and Vizio di Forma, and the topics of 'creation' and 'invention'.
      • keywords: invention
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5084. zk51vd69g3w
      • author: Matthew Salafia
      • title: Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River, 1787-1851
      • date: 2009
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 61
      • summary: The Ohio River split the North from the South on a map, but at this periphery of slavery and freedom, these fundamental nineteenth century dichotomies behaved more like rivers than static ideals. By 1816 Americans established a border that separated slave states from free states, and a river that divided bound labor between slavery on the southern bank and servitude on the northern one.
      • keywords: americans; borderland; freedom; ohio; river; slavery
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5085. zk51vd69g8m
      • author: Jason Lee Quinn
      • title: Photometry of Astronomical Sources: A Search for New Members of the Eta Chamaeleontis Open Cluster and the Case for a Light Echo for Type Ia SN 1995E
      • date: 2008
      • words: 208
      • flesch: 54
      • summary: We compare the properties of the known Type~Ia supernova echoes and test various models of light echoes. If confirmed, this echo brings the total number of observed non-historical Type Ia light echoes to three --- the others being SN 1991T and SN 1998bu --- suggesting they are not uncommon.
      • keywords: echo; light; ngc; supernova; type
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5086. zk51vd69g9z
      • author: Bren Christopher Mochocki
      • title: The Impact of Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling on the Energy Consumption, Schedulability and Predictability of Real-Time Embedded Systems
      • date: 2008
      • words: 243
      • flesch: 48
      • summary: Next, the applicability of DVFS as a power-management technique for real-time 3D graphics applications on portable embedded systems is evaluated and an effective graphics-workload prediction technique used to facilitate DVFS is introduced. Jitter constraints are also met through DVFS to increase the stability and predictability of such systems.
      • keywords: constraints; dvfs; real; systems; voltage
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5087. zk51vd69h1h
      • author: Kerry Mina Bauer
      • title: Using Quantitative Transcriptomic and Proteomic Methodologies to Interrogate Biomarkers in Colon Cancer
      • date: 2014
      • words: 239
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: Colon cancer is a common and deadly disease characterized by aberrant genetic alterations. We are using quantitative tools to measure biological macromolecules that are altered in expression between different states associated with colon cancer.
      • keywords: cancer; colon; data; disease; mass; prognosis; quantitative; studies
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5088. zk51vd69h2v
      • author: Evan Bryson
      • title: Prisoner Exchange
      • date: 2015
      • words: 28
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: After a not-particularly gentle break-up in the winter of 2011/12, Ethan, a graduate student, ruminates on war, friendship, desire, his many books, and the contemporary moment.
      • keywords: moment
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5089. zk51vd69h4j
      • author: Melissa Ann Mayus
      • title: Accepting Fate and Accepting Grace: Conceptions of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon Poetry
      • date: 1904
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: Yet rather than just borrow ideas about free will, fate, providence, and grace from both Germanic sources and Christian sources, Old English poetry weaves all of these ideas together so thoroughly that at times they stop being distinguishable and become something new. In Anglo-Saxon literature the concept of free will is particularly complicated by both a Christian tradition carried over from the continent as well as a cultural Germanic tradition.
      • keywords: anglo; free; ideas; poetry; saxon
      • versions: original; plain text
5090. zk51vd69h67
      • author: Lindsey Sargent Reisinger
      • title: Contemporary Evolution and Parasitism Alter the Ecological Impacts of an Invasive Crayfish
      • date: 2015
      • words: 351
      • flesch: 24
      • summary: My research also indicates that parasitism affects O. rusticus invasion success and impacts. Finally, I used a survey of anglers to investigate whether a change in Missouri policy to prevent crayfish introductions would have the intended consequences of protecting game fish populations and the fishing industry.
      • keywords: contemporary; crayfish; evolution; growth; impacts; rusticus; success
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5091. zk51vd69j56
      • author: Leslie Elva MacColman
      • title: Explaining Feelings of Safety in Honduras: Demographic Vulnerabilities, Perceptions of Local Order, and Organizational Participation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 189
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: Despite this, little scholarly attention has been given to how safe (or unsafe) the residents of such neighborhoods feel and how their levels of fear vary based on demographic attributes, perceptions of disorder, social relationships, and participation in local organizations. I then turn to the issue of collective efficacy, showing that individuals with higher levels of participation in community organizations are less likely to express feelings of fear, with this effect being the strongest for state-oriented - rather than civic or religious - organizations.
      • keywords: fear; honduras; income; neighborhoods; organizations
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5092. zk51vd69n1r
      • author: Jingling Li
      • title: Characterization of the Roles of ADAM17a and ADAM17b during Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration
      • date: 1904
      • words: 326
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: In response to retinal cell loss caused by injury or disease, zebrafish Müller glial cells re-enter the cell cycle to produce neuronal progenitor cells that continue to proliferate and differentiate into any retinal neuronal type that was lost. Intravitreal injection of the soluble TNFα into light-damaged retinas rescued Müller glia proliferation in adam17b morphant retinas, which produced proliferating neuronal progenitor cells (NPC).
      • keywords: adam17b; morphant; müller; neuronal; retina; tnfα
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5093. zk51vd69n54
      • author: Weijia Wang
      • title: Closure Operator And Lattice Property of Root Systems
      • date: 1904
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 51
      • summary: First we consider the signed groupoid set, a concept which was developed by Dyer and generalizes many notions including Coxeter groups, Coxeter groupoids and Coxeter-like groupoid studied by Brink and Howlett. In particular it is a crucial tool for understanding Coxeter groups and various groupoids which demonstrate Coxeter like properties.
      • keywords: affine; coxeter; groups; root; sets; weyl
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5094. zk51vd7055j
      • author: Maggie Shum
      • title: The Politics of Policy Diffusion: Party Organization versus Individual Motivations in the Diffusion of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil
      • date: 1904
      • words: 515
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: On the other hand, weak party organizations are characterized by a decentralized structure and a lack of formal communication channels that link members from different levels. Characterized by a hierarchical structure, institutionalized channels that connect members both horizontally and vertically, a clear and consistent platform, high level of internal cohesion and discipline, strong party organizations have the prerogative over their members' behavior and decision-making power.
      • keywords: brazil; decision; diffusion; members; party; platform; policy; politicians
      • versions: original; plain text
5095. zk51vd70k1w
      • author: Ilia M. Pavlovetc
      • title: Super-Resolution Photothermal Infrared Imaging and Its Applications in Materials Science
      • date: 2021
      • words: 221
      • flesch: 22
      • 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.
      • keywords: imaging; infrared; phi; technique; thesis; understanding
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5096. zk51vd70k6m
      • author: Reagan Meredith
      • title: Design and Application of MA'AT Analysis, a New Method for Conformational Analysis of Molecules in Solution
      • date: 2021
      • words: 318
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: These studies developed new equations that describe the Karplus-like relationships between molecular conformation and coupling magnitudes as determined by DFT. Finally, Chapter 9 describes a computational study on the torsional dependence of non-conventional coupling pathways for O-glycosidic linkages.
      • keywords: chapter; coupling; ma'at; method; spin; structures
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5097. zk51vd70m0v
      • author: Kevin G. Sanchez
      • title: Transcriptional Regulation of the Mycobacterial Weapons System
      • date: 2022
      • words: 260
      • flesch: 34
      • 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.
      • keywords: espm; expression; mycobacterial; substrates; system; whib6
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5098. zk51vd70m3w
      • author: John Varkey
      • title: Adiabatic Clocking Circuit
      • date: 2022
      • words: 212
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This thesis will describe the clocking circuit's ability to recover energy that is lost in traditional CMOS logic through adiabatic reversible logic. The adiabatic reversible logic is implemented using Split-rail Charge Recovery Logic.
      • keywords: adiabatic; energy; heat; logic
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5099. zp38w952q53
      • author: Cory Allen McElrath
      • title: Experimental Investigation of Suction on the Boundary Layer Flow Over a Rotating Disk
      • date: 2009
      • words: 197
      • flesch: 50
      • summary: Thus, an understanding of the transition to turbulence in flow on the rotating disk can help in future research and development of laminar flow control on swept wings. This same crossflow instability is evident in boundary layer flow over the leading edge of a swept wing.
      • keywords: boundary; disk; flow; layer
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5100. zp38w952q6f
      • author: Matthew Becker
      • title: Toward the Structural Understanding and Improved Performance of Quantum Dot Solar Cells
      • date: 2012
      • words: 424
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: In this dissertation, three aspects of quantum dot solar cells are addressed with the objective of understanding the nature of the nano-materials utilized and improving efficiencies of the devices based on those nano-materials. Using x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), the identity of deposited species is shown to depend on the order in which the Cd and Se are deposited, and the interface is only affected during the first few cycles of deposition.
      • keywords: cdse; cells; layer; nano; pedot; pss; quantum; solar; species
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5101. zp38w952q7s
      • author: Elizabeth Hope Blodgett Salafia
      • title: The Roles of Parents, Peers, and the Individual in Predicting Adolescent Girls' Bulimic Symptoms: A Four-Year Longitudinal Investigation
      • date: 2010
      • words: 279
      • flesch: 33
      • summary: Body dissatisfaction would then lead to dieting behaviors and depressive symptoms, which in turn would predict the development of bulimic symptoms. This study therefore examined the role of parents, peers, and the individual in predicting bulimic symptoms during the transition to adolescence.
      • keywords: bulimic; girls; peers; symptoms
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5102. zp38w952q84
      • author: John David Wallbaum
      • title: Computability of Algebraic Structures
      • date: 2010
      • words: 211
      • flesch: 71
      • summary: First we consider computable free groups. Finally, we study presentations of partial orders.
      • keywords: computable; copy; group
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5103. zp38w952r0p
      • author: Paul William Schermerhorn
      • title: The Cost of Communication: Efficient Coordination in Multi-agent Territory Exploration Tasks
      • date: 2008
      • words: 261
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: A subsequent analysis of the results establishes constraints on the cost of communication must be satisfied in order for it to provide a benefit in relative performance} (i.e., absolute performance scaled by agent cost), required for communication to evolve. To address this shortcoming, an extensive series of simulations is presented that explore the effect of such parameters on the utility of communication for coordinating agent behaviors in the multi-agent territory exploration (MATE(n))
      • keywords: communication; coordination; mate(n; performance
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5104. zp38w952r2c
      • author: Yang Zheng
      • title: Size-Dependent Cutoff Methods for Molecular Dynamics
      • date: 2011
      • words: 249
      • flesch: 59
      • summary: This results in a large number of 'extra' solvent interactions due to the fact that solvent molecules greatly outnumber solute molecules. In a typical biological system studied using computer simulations, a few large solute molecules are scattered in a bath of tiny solvent molecules.
      • keywords: cutoff; methods; molecules; solvent; system
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5105. zp38w952r5d
      • author: Daniel John Robertson
      • title: New Measurements for the Astrophysically Important 40Ca(&#945;,&#947;)44Ti Reaction
      • date: 2010
      • words: 219
      • flesch: 42
      • 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.
      • keywords: 44ti; facility; new; production; reaction; supernova
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5106. zp38w952r6r
      • author: Jacob Robert Heidenreich
      • title: Stability Theory Modulo a Predicate
      • date: 2008
      • words: 106
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: We analyze this relation in a nice setting (where every formula has PMR) in terms of the eight axioms of stability theory. In this thesis we develop the analysis of the structure of a model, modulo the structure induced by a part of the model interpreting a predicate, P. We develop the 'Morley Rank Modulo a Predicate', PMR, and define an independence relation based on this rank.
      • keywords: model; pmr
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5107. zp38w952r73
      • author: Craig Nolan Brewer
      • title: Mixed Genre and the Politics of Early Modern Romance
      • date: 2011
      • words: 365
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Finally, Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania looks at the mastery of political genre in fiction, using generic mixture to articulate a rhetorical control and literary autonomy over the rhetoric of political genre to compensate for her lack of political agency in her life. The particular authors I discuss show a growing attention to the relationship between political content and political form in romance.
      • keywords: culture; early; genre; literary; political; romance; sophisticated; writers
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5108. zp38w952r8f
      • author: Tori M Forbes
      • title: The Crystal Chemistry of Neptunium Compounds: Structural Relationships to U6+ Mineralogy
      • date: 2007
      • words: 305
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: A similar hierarchy has been constructed here for Np5+crystal chemistry, providing a tool to evaluate the structural topologies of Np5+and U6+ compounds. This lack of knowledge poses a problem in regards to accurately describing and interpreting the physical and chemical properties of neptunium compounds.
      • keywords: cation; chemistry; compounds; crystal; neptunium
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5109. zp38w952s1b
      • author: Michael R Olson
      • title: New Methods for Assembly and Validation of Large Genomes
      • date: 2009
      • words: 141
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The pipeline is successful in finding structural variation, but less so in improving assembly quality. This thesis presents a mate-pair based method of validating assemblies and identifying structural variation that relies on already existing draft assemblies.
      • keywords: assembly; dna; pipeline
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5110. zp38w953f1h
      • author: Olivia Choudhury
      • title: Expediting Analysis and Improving Fidelity of Big Data Genomics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 416
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: Genomics, or the study of genome-derived data, has had widespread impact in applications including medicine, forensic science, human evolution, environmental science, and social science. We also design novel, accurate, and efficient algorithms to impute missing data and correct erroneous data in emerging genomic applications.
      • keywords: accurate; analysis; applications; data; efficient; genome; genomic; optimal; science; utilization
      • versions: original; plain text
5111. zp38w953f36
      • author: Dustin Crummett
      • title: Committing to Equality: Essays on Distributive Justice, Community, and Economics
      • date: 1904
      • words: 352
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: The political implications of this conclusion will be most obvious for utilitarians and others who think that distributive justice is intimately related to making people better off, but I'll also discuss some reasons why other people should find this conclusion interesting, even if they don't think it justifies preventing people from becoming extremely rich. Chapter II begins by arguing that being too rich probably tends to be bad for people.
      • keywords: chapter; inequality; reasons; rich
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5112. zp38w953g25
      • author: Hector Alfonso Melo Ruiz
      • title: Rebeliones urbanas: narrativas sobre la violencia popular latinoamericana
      • date: 1904
      • words: 403
      • flesch: 23
      • summary: Esta disertación sostiene, por tanto, que estas obras sobrecodifican la violencia popular dentro de un campo de sentido intelectual, y que esta literatura es posible leer una serie de ansiedades letradas sobre las transformaciones demográficas, raciales y políticas, de la ciudad latinoamericana del siglo XX. y El Caracazo (1989).
      • keywords: como; del; disertación; esta; josé; popular; serie; una; urban; violence; violencia
      • versions: original; plain text
5113. zp38w953m2d
      • author: Nicole A. Perez
      • title: At the Crossroads of America: New Latino Immigrants in Northern Indiana
      • date: 2019
      • words: 241
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: I find immigrants interfaced with educational contexts that had never considered the needs of this new Latina/o demographic presence. Latina/os are increasingly represented in new immigrant destinations, where educational institutions are poorly equipped to handle the unique challenges immigrants bring with them.
      • keywords: educational; immigrant; k-12; latina; new; school
      • versions: original; plain text
5114. zp38w953s9c
      • author: Wendy V. Alvarez Barrios
      • title: Multidisciplinary Investigation Identifies Novel PTEN-Dependent Mechanism of Selective Tumor Cell Survival to Shear Stress Mediated by Mitochondrial Dynamics
      • date: 2020
      • words: 434
      • flesch: 22
      • summary: We found that during mechanical arrest single tumor cells experience extreme morphological deformations, an increase in membrane stress, and increased mitochondrial fission, all dependent on the magnitude of fluid shear stress applied. Although at all of these stages surviving tumor cells hold a potential for colonization, mechanical arrest is particularly important since cell entrapment is absolutely necessary for tumor outgrowth.
      • keywords: arrest; cells; ctcs; mechanical; mitochondrial; shear; stress; tumor
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5115. zp38w953t28
      • author: Dianna Tran
      • 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
      • date: 2020
      • words: 178
      • flesch: 24
      • 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.
      • keywords: child; families; partner; support
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5116. zp38w953v3x
      • author: Maryam Rokhideh
      • title: The Political Economy of Insecurity: Livelihoods, Mobilities, and Social Networks of Women Traders on the Congo-Rwanda Border
      • date: 2021
      • words: 366
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Importantly, women traders have cultivated important social safety nets in the absence of social protection mechanisms and institutional support systems. Through a mobile ethnography, my dissertation demonstrates how women traders have been at the forefront of food and service provision providing for the needs and welfare of their families and communities and developed important social safety nets to prevent and mitigate risks.
      • keywords: border; cross; economic; insecurity; research; social; trade; traders; women
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5117. zs25x636101
      • author: James Benn
      • title: The L^2 Geometry of the Symplectomorphism Group
      • date: 2015
      • words: 204
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: Our primary objective is to describe the structure of the set of singularities of associated weak Riemannian exponential mapping, which are known as conjugate points. Finally, using the Fredholm properties of the exponential mapping, we give a new characterization of conjugate points along stationary geodesics in terms of the linearized geodesic equation and coadjoint orbits.
      • keywords: conjugate; group; points; symplectic
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5118. zs25x63614d
      • author: Ricky Garza Villarreal
      • title: Laboratory Experiments on Dispersive Transport Across Interfaces: the Role of Flow Cell Edges and Corners
      • date: 2013
      • words: 201
      • flesch: 26
      • summary: Contrary to solutions given by the advection dispersion equation, asymmetric break through curves dependent upon flow direction have been experimentally produced for the conceptual system of two equal length sections of different homogeneous porous media separated by a sharp, macroscopic interface perpendicular to flow. A second experiment was conducted featuring glass balls of reduced diameter while retaining the same diameter ratio across the interface.
      • keywords: break; curves; diameter; flow; interface
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5119. zs25x63615r
      • author: Matthew Nathan Holbreich
      • title: Between Sovereignty and Freedom: Tocqueville and the Project of French Liberalism
      • date: 2011
      • words: 306
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: French liberalism after Rousseau sought to empower popular sovereignty so as to enable political freedom, while also restraining political power so as to ensure individual freedom. Indeed, the French Revolution revealed that the constituent power that made political freedom possible also endangered individual liberty.
      • keywords: freedom; french; individual; political; sovereign
      • versions: original; plain text
5120. zs25x63620b
      • author: Jessica Lynn Anderson
      • title: Tunable Ionic Liquids for Gas Separation: Solubility Studies for Thermodynamic Analysis
      • date: 2008
      • words: 361
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Additionally, even common ILs like 1-hexyl-3-methyl-imidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([hmim][Tf2N]) were found to have excellent selectivity for CO2 relative to N2 and other components in flue gas based on pure physical absorption. These efforts have resulted in a ten fold increase in the carrying capacity of ILs for CO2 while maintaining good selectivity relative to other flue gas components.
      • keywords: absorption; anion; co2; gases; ils; interest; physical; properties; volatile
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5121. zs25x63621p
      • author: Teresa Leann Reeve
      • title: Luke 3:1&ndash;4:15 and the Rite of Passage in Ancient Literature: Liminality and Transformation
      • date: 2007
      • words: 311
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: This study explores ways in which the anthropological model of rite of passage is useful for interpreting the portrayal of Jesus' baptism and wilderness experience in Luke 3:1&ndash;4:15, and for considering the place of this account in the narrative of Luke-Acts. After considering recent interpretations of the place of the passage in the work of Luke-Acts, a review of the last one hundred years of rite of passage studies and their application to biblical text provides the groundwork for establishing the approach of the study.
      • keywords: acts; jesus; luke; passage; ritual
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5122. zs25x63623c
      • author: Major Gooyit
      • title: Gelatinase Inhibition as a Therapeutic Approach for Treatment of Diseases of Matrix
      • date: 2013
      • words: 444
      • flesch: 34
      • summary: The high water solubility, metabolic stability, lack of toxicity, and favorable PK properties make the thiirane class of selective gelatinase inhibitors suitable for iv administration in treatment of acute gelatinase-dependent neurological diseases. Pharmacokinetics and brain distribution of gelatinase inhibitors were explored to correlate with the in vivo efficacy of SB-3CT in animals models of neurological diseases.
      • keywords: alpha; brain; diseases; gelatinase; inhibitors; nd-322; neurological; position; sb-3ct; selective; solubility
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5123. zs25x63624q
      • author: Brandon E Bruning
      • title: The Making of the Mishkan: The Old Greek Text of Exodus 35-40 and the Literary History of the Pentateuch
      • date: 2014
      • words: 350
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: Part Two (Chapters Four and Five) defines and applies literary edition as the mode of transmission responsible for the two Hebrew forms of 35-40: OG Exodus attests a Hebrew text that is prior to, and the basis of, subsequent editions of Exodus represented by MT and SP and thus closer to, and more reliable evidence for, the formation of the Pentateuch and its precursors (Chapter Six). Now, in light of similar cases of pluriform textual transmission documented among the Dead Sea Scrolls, textual critics claim that the Greek text of Exodus is a single translation representing its Hebrew Vorlage to a high degree of detail.
      • keywords: exodus; greek; hebrew; text; translation
      • versions: original; plain text
5124. zs25x636283
      • author: Timothy W. Rodts
      • title: Welded-Woven Fabrics for Use as Synthetic, Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic Implants
      • date: 1904
      • words: 331
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The wear rates were significantly reduced and the lifespan of the fabrics was markedly improved due to surface welding. The wear performance was benchmarked against identical fabrics without welding reinforcement.
      • keywords: cartilage; compressive; dimensional; fabrics; reinforcement; surface; wear; welding
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5125. zs25x636341
      • author: Lindsey Bantel Turnbull
      • title: Whole Genome Expression Profiling to Assess Transcriptional Plasticity in the Malaria Parasite Species Plasmodium falciparum
      • date: 1904
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 35
      • summary: Recent reports from the Thai/Cambodia border clearly show the emergence of artemisinin resistance, re-emphasizing an urgent need to prevent or slow the spread of drug resistance. Gene expression is a crucial step in the process of turning DNA into observable phenotypes like drug resistance.
      • keywords: adaptation; chapter; drug; expression; gene; malaria; parasite; resistance; variation
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5126. zs25x636372
      • author: Yi Gu
      • title: Big Data Visualization Using Graph-Based Representations
      • date: 1904
      • words: 659
      • flesch: 44
      • summary: This entails a heavy burden on users to identify interesting graph features and make connections to data features. Nowadays, with the extensive use of computers, huge amount of data are generated everyday.
      • keywords: challenge; data; dissertation; features; graph; image; patterns; relationships; second; time; users; visual
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5127. zs25x63638d
      • author: Joseph S. Khalil
      • title: What Has Ur of the Chaldeans to Do with Sinai? The Abrahamic and Sinaitic Covenants in Second Temple Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts
      • date: 1904
      • words: 314
      • flesch: 42
      • summary: Paul pointed to God's covenant with Abraham to justify his position, quoting Gen 15:6 in his Epistle to the Galatians (3:6). The primary aim of this project is to study how three Jewish texts in the Second Temple period portrayed the relationship between God's covenant with Abraham and God's covenant with Israel at Sinai.
      • keywords: abraham; bce; covenant; gen; god
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5128. zs25x636n1z
      • author: Jianxu Chen
      • title: New Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation, Cell Tracking and Related Applications
      • date: 1904
      • words: 186
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: In this dissertation, we will introduce new deep learning based segmentation algorithms for 2D and 3D biomedical images, and new tracking algorithms for identifying the motion of bacterial cells as well as other related applications (i.e., visible feature based iris recognition). When applied to biomedical images, general computer vision algorithms for segmentation or tracking may not achieve satisfactory results, due to special characteristics of biomedical images (e.g., highly anisotropic dimensions of 3D biomedical images).
      • keywords: biomedical; images; new; segmentation; tracking
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5129. zs25x636r58
      • author: Ryan P. Egan
      • title: Does Rumination Have Adverse Interpersonal Consequences? A Test of an Emotion-Dysregulation Extension to Stress-Generation Theory in Depression
      • date: 2018
      • words: 148
      • flesch: 25
      • 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.
      • keywords: friends; individuals; stress
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5130. zs25x63730x
      • author: Cana Short
      • title: Sympathy and Empathy for a Rival Lover: A Comparative Study of Chariton's Callirhoe and the Acts of Andrew
      • date: 2020
      • words: 309
      • flesch: 36
      • summary: This thesis contributes to the comparative study of ancient novelistic literature by examining the characterization of the primary rival lover figure in Chariton's Callirhoe and the Acts of Andrew, two Greek novels dated to the first through third centuries CE. In my analysis of empathy, I adopt the recent cognitive approach to narrative immersion, which refers to the reader's mental state of being absorbed in the narrative world such that she may experience it as if it were the actual world.
      • keywords: acts; ancient; lover; novels; rival; study
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5131. zs25x63732m
      • author: Daniel J. Simmons
      • title: An Experimental Investigation of Smooth-Body Flow Separation
      • date: 2020
      • words: 426
      • flesch: 32
      • summary: Although the geometry and incoming flow in these experiments are spanwise two-dimensional in the mean, oil-film surface flow visualization shows that in each case separation is three-dimensional in character while reattachment is two-dimensional. It is found that this pattern is an ubiquitous feature of flow separation.
      • keywords: curvature; dimensional; flow; layer; pattern; scale; separation; streamwise; studies; surface; turbulent
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5132. zs25x637407
      • author: Emily Pitts Donahoe
      • title: Propaganda and Deliberation: The Rhetoric of the Early Modern English Public Theater
      • date: 2021
      • words: 572
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Scholars frequently consider early modern drama in terms of rhetoric, detailing how rhetorical education influenced the composition of plays, how playwrights employed rhetorical tropes and figures, and how they thought about rhetorical ethics. In dramas that are designed to reveal and subvert the strategies of theatrical propaganda and that employ rhetorical tools like the argumentum in utramque partem (or the argument on both sides of a question), playwrights seek to develop their audiences' political judgment.
      • keywords: early; education; mass; modern; playwrights; political; public; rhetorical; theater; tools
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5133. zs25x637527
      • author: Jessica Hocking
      • title: Internalization of Media Appearance Ideals and Academic Intrinsic Motivation: Indirect Effects through Self-Objectification and Appearance Monitoring
      • date: 2022
      • words: 188
      • flesch: 3
      • summary: Specifically, the internalization of media appearance ideals was associated with increased trait self-objectification, which was in turn associated with increased appearance monitoring. While previous research has evaluated internalization of media appearance ideals, trait self-objectification, and appearance monitoring as they relate to various domains of cognitive performance, no study has examined their potential relationship with academic intrinsic motivation.
      • keywords: appearance; monitoring; objectification; self
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5134. zs25x637558
      • author: Robert Douglas Neal
      • title: Advances in Catalysis and Functional Surfaces Utilizing Plasmonic Noble Metal Nanomaterials
      • date: 2022
      • words: 398
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: The critical role of sodium borohydride as not just a reducing agent but as a promoter of ligand desorption during the 4-nitrophenol reaction and recommended best practices for catalytic testing, and 3. The work presented in this dissertation focuses on two key areas of research, namely i) the use of 4-nitrophenol reduction as a model reaction for benchmarking the performance of metallic nanoparticle catalysts, especially with regards to developing best practices for catalytic benchmarking as well as developing a holistic mechanistic understanding of the reaction and ii) the development of advanced fabrication techniques towards the synthesis of periodic arrays of substrate-immobilized plasmonic gold hexagonal and triangular nanoplates.
      • keywords: catalytic; contributions; fabrication; field; nanoplates; nitrophenol; reaction; research; substrate
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5135. zs25x63768m
      • author: Stefano Toso
      • title: One, Two, Many Nanocrystals: Characterizing Lead Halide Nanostructures from Single Particle to Bulk
      • date: 2023
      • words: 328
      • flesch: 27
      • summary: Over the past few decades colloidal chemistry has provided access to a growing variety of inorganic nanostructures with diverse and customizable properties, which can be tailored to many different applications. Colloidal nanocrystals of previously unknown lead chalcohalide phases are used to demonstrate strategies for solving the structure of novel inorganic materials by means of combined electron and X-ray diffraction techniques.
      • keywords: colloidal; diffraction; halide; inorganic; lead; nanocrystals; nanoscale; structure
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5136. zw12z319876
      • author: Jonathan C Silver
      • title: The Acoustics and Unsteady Wall Pressure of a Circulation Control Airfoil
      • date: 2014
      • words: 229
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: The focus of this work can be divided up into three main categories: characterizing the unsteady surface pressures, characterizing the radiated sound, and understanding the acoustics from surface pressures. The primary goal of the present work was to study the radiated sound and unsteady surface pressures of a CC airfoil.
      • keywords: airfoil; pressures; surface; unsteady
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5137. zw12z31988j
      • author: Michelle Marie Bertke
      • title: The Role of Sumoylation in Early Development of Xenopus laevis and Regulation of 5S Ribosomal RNA Genes
      • date: 2014
      • words: 397
      • flesch: 30
      • summary: Pathways enriched for differentially expressed genes were identified using the extensive MetaCore(R) database and include; non-canonical Wnt signaling and regulation of cytoskeleton remodeling (shortened axis and open blastopore), regulation by Yin Yang 1 (heart defects), Twist/Snail regulation of the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (open blastopore and neural tube), and Ets-1 regulation of transcription factors E2F1/E2F4 (heart defects and open blastopore). Gam1-induced decrease in SUMOylation activity relieves repression of the oocyte 5S rRNA genes and is correlated with a decrease in methylation of H3K9 and H3K27.
      • keywords: analysis; blastopore; genes; oocyte; regulation; rrna; sumoylation; tfiiia
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5138. zw12z31989w
      • author: Jennifer Lynn Jensen
      • title: The Grounding Objection to Molinism
      • date: 2010
      • words: 269
      • flesch: 47
      • summary: I suggest that there are broadly two kinds of grounding objections: truthmaker-style grounding objections and causal-style grounding objections. However, with respect to both kinds of grounding objections, I argue that the Molinist can satisfactorily reply.
      • keywords: causal; objections; style; truthmaker
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5139. zw12z319903
      • author: Ryan R Bantz
      • title: Remanufactory
      • date: 2010
      • words: 70
      • flesch: 53
      • summary: The installed works are analyzed for their significance to ceramics as well as the subject matter of reuse of urban industrial sites that informed their creation. Remanufactory is the title given to the ceramic sculpture exhibition created by Ryan Bantz at the Snite Museum of Art that was shown March 28, 2010 to May 16, 2010.
      • keywords: creation; remanufactory
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5140. zw12z31992s
      • author: Shannon Shamiel Carothers
      • title: Implementation Strategies for Adventures in Parenting
      • date: 2006
      • words: 175
      • flesch: 21
      • summary: The current study was designed to assess the differential impact of three intervention conditions, utilizing Adventures in Parenting, on knowledge of RPM3 principles, parenting behaviors, and children's behavior. Pretest father involvement and maternal adjustment were consistent predictors of posttest measures of knowledge of intervention principles and maternal parenting behavior.
      • keywords: knowledge; parenting; principles; rpm3
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5141. zw12z31994g
      • author: Peggy Sue Keller
      • title: Parental Depressive Symptoms and Children's Emotional Security
      • date: 2006
      • words: 274
      • flesch: 9
      • summary: Because parental depressive symptoms are associated with parenting and marital problems, this study hypothesized that parental depressive symptoms would predict children's emotional insecurity about parent-child relations (attachment insecurity) and insecurity about marital relations, leading to greater emotional and behavioral problems. These results indicate that (1) children's emotional security about multiple family relationships may serve as important explanatory processes for the link between parental depressive symptoms and children's maladjustment; (2) the marital relationship was somewhat more sensitive to parental depressive symptoms, undermining children's sense of security about the marital relationship; and (3) fathers' depressive symptoms were more disruptive to children's emotional security than mothers' symptoms.
      • keywords: children; depressive; marital; relations; symptoms
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5142. zw12z31997h
      • author: Carolyn Anna Heitzmann
      • 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
      • date: 2010
      • words: 142
      • flesch: 45
      • 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.
      • keywords: cancer; dif; item
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5143. zw12z31998v
      • author: Charles Raymond Anthony
      • title: Effects of Fe on the Absorbance, Fluorescence, and Molecular Weight of Natural Organic Matter
      • date: 2010
      • words: 181
      • flesch: 48
      • 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.
      • keywords: fluorescence; molecular; nom; weight
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5144. zw12z319996
      • author: Xiaomin Liu
      • title: Identification, Segmentation and Analysis of Objects in Biomedical Images
      • date: 2011
      • words: 187
      • flesch: 25
      • summary: In this dissertation, we present algorithms for the identification, segmentation and analysis of biomedical objects in several problems, most of which pose difficulties because of their high dimension, high quantity and high complexity. Our approaches either provide tools for automatic and reliable analysis, or significantly reduce the human effort involved in interactive analysis.
      • keywords: algorithms; analysis; biomedical; high; objects; quantitative
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5145. zw12z319b0d
      • author: John Geoffrey Turner
      • title: Selling Jesus to Modern America: Campus Crusade for Christ, Evangelical Culture, and Conservative Politics
      • date: 2005
      • words: 344
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: Through their willingness to retain only a small number of theological essentials and continually adapt themselves to cultural change, evangelicals kept their gospel an attractive product in the marketplace of modern American religion. Campus Crusade exemplifies the contribution of these parachurch organizations to evangelical vitality, the ability of evangelicals to adapt quickly to changes in popular culture, and the theological pragmatism and fundraising prowess central to modern evangelicalism.
      • keywords: american; campus; crusade; culture; evangelicals; gender; mainstream; organizations; university
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5146. zw12z319b3f
      • author: Alec Pawling
      • title: Data Warehousing for Social Networking and Human Mobility Research and Detecting Real-World Events in Space and Time Using Feature Clustering
      • date: 2010
      • words: 160
      • flesch: 18
      • summary: In this dissertation, we address two problems associated with the development of an emergency response system that utilizes a cell phone network as a sensor network to facilitate the initiation and online validation of predictive simulations. The detection and alert system provides an automatic mechanism for initiating the simulation system without intervention by emergency response managers.
      • keywords: data; emergency; response; system
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5147. zw12z319b6g
      • author: Qian Li
      • title: Measurement of the 14N(p,γ)15O Reaction in the CNO Cycle
      • date: 1904
      • words: 231
      • flesch: 58
      • summary: In stars more massive than the Sun, the density and temperature is high enough for the CNO cycles to dominate energy production over the pp chains. During the main-sequence stage, stars generate energy through hydrogen burning: the pp chains and the CNO cycles.
      • keywords: cno; cross; energy; production
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5148. zw12z319c9t
      • author: Jonathan D. Schwarz
      • title: Lost in Translation: Elite College Admission and High School Differences in Letters of Recommendation
      • date: 1904
      • words: 238
      • flesch: 29
      • summary: The shared language between teachers and counselors at privileged high schools and admission officers at elite universities has implications for the inter-generational transmission of advantage through the process of effectively maintained inequality. Using a corpus of 17,000 letters of recommendation written on behalf of high school applicants to an elite university, this research shows that letters of recommendation from private (non-religious) high schools are longer, in some circumstances more positive, and contain more of the information that admissions officers look for in letters of recommendation.
      • keywords: applicants; elite; high; schools; universities
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5149. zw12z32004f
      • author: Jonathan M. Kaltenbach
      • title: Christ the Priest in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
      • date: 1904
      • words: 346
      • flesch: 36
      • 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.
      • keywords: chapter; christ; priest; summa; theologiae; thomas
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5150. zw12z32010c
      • author: Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos
      • title: The Quest for Material Progress in Global Perspective: Colombia 1840s-1900s
      • date: 1904
      • words: 247
      • flesch: 31
      • summary: I argue that Colombian progress brokers sought models of material and intellectual progress from among other Latin American countries between the 1840s and the 1900s, an issue largely ignored in the historiography on Colombia and on Latin America in general. Thus, although the way Colombians conceived of progress was to some extent linked with ideological principles, the traditional conservative-liberal dichotomy does not work to circumscribe a group of scattered Colombians looking for models of material progress in a global perspective.
      • keywords: century; latin; liberal; nineteenth; progress
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5151. zw12z320153
      • author: Ali Shahbazi
      • title: Computer Vision-Based Approaches to Neural Circuit Tracing at Scale
      • date: 1904
      • words: 467
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: New imaging technologies and tissue preparation techniques are enabling such studies at an unprecedented scale, allowing the same neural volume to be imaged in vivo and ex vivo. This approach generalizes across different modalities and sample targets, including serially-sectioned scanning electron microscopy (sSEM) of genetically labeled and contrast enhanced processes, spectral confocal reflectance (SCoRe) microscopy, and high-energy synchrotron X-ray microtomography (μCT) of large tissue volumes.
      • keywords: data; different; high; imaging; learning; method; microscopy; modalities; neural; resolution; volume
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5152. zw12z320540
      • author: James Martin Kelly
      • title: Precision Measurements and Development of a Spectrometer to Determine Atomic Masses of High Impact for the Astrophysical r-Process
      • date: 2019
      • words: 390
      • flesch: 38
      • summary: Understanding the formation of one of these r-process hallmarks, the rare-earth abundance peak, could shed light on the astrophysical sites because this peak is uniquely sensitive to underlying nuclear properties, particularly to nuclear binding energies which have so far been largely derived from theoretical mass models. Finally, a new experimental facility in development at Argonne National Laboratory will allow for Penning trap mass spectrometry on a swath of N=126 isotopes previously inaccessible, and of critical importance for understanding the r-process.
      • keywords: abundance; atomic; earth; mass; masses; process; rare; tof
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5153. zw12z32063z
      • author: Xiao Bo
      • title: Improving Human Action Recognition Using Regression Analysis and Data Cleaning
      • date: 2019
      • words: 234
      • flesch: 43
      • summary: The performance of a HAR system depends on data quality and sensing and processing parameters to control data processing. However, to the best of our knowledge, the user-provided data is prone to human error, and the impact of each input parameter on classification performance is not fully understood.
      • keywords: action; data; har; performance; processing
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5154. zw12z320f4g
      • author: Anyastassia Seboldt
      • title: Numerical Methods and Analysis for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems
      • date: 2022
      • words: 307
      • flesch: 37
      • summary: The proposed schemes are then analyzed for stability and convergence and their performance is investigated in numerical examples. Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems help to describe many physical phenomena in our world, including topics such as aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, geophysical flows, engineering, and biomedical applications.
      • keywords: conditions; fluid; problems; robin; solid; structure
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