While current antibiotic agents provide suitable and cost effective means of inhibiting bacterial infiltration of biomedical devices, they are slowly becoming obsolete as microbial species …
In the wake of the American Civil War, Southerners faced a cultural crisis. Emancipation and military defeat ensured that the slave economy, which had formed …
As CMOS downscaling continues, new materials and devices are needed in order to meet the requirements of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). The …
High-temperature, pressure-shear plate impact experiments were conducted in order to measure the plastic response of high-purity aluminum at high strain rates (106 s-1) and at …
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the effect of hospital type on hospital-physician relations from a social exchange perspective. The data consist of …
This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who …
Traditional analyses in nutritional epidemiology relate single nutrients or foods to disease risk. Dietary pattern analysis is increasingly preferred to analysis of single nutrients as …
2009 Animal sacrifice, the ritualized slaughter and consumption of an animal in dedication to a divinity, is one of the most pervasive religious acts in …
JC virus (JCV) is the causative agent of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, a fatal demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). This disease is caused …
Beginning from Mark Payne's recent argument that Theocritean fiction does not adhere to real-world patterns, this study contends that Theocritus use of fiction is consistently …
"Apostolic Memories: Religious Differentiation and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Syriac Missionary Literature" is a dissertation project on Syriac hagiography and apocryphal narrative. I argue …
This thesis aims to elaborate the theory of ultrasonic vibration potential imaging as well as to propose and implement new electro-acoustic imaging methodology for biomedical …
Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii infection is principally mediated by the activation of CD8+ T cells producing the protective cytokine IFN-?. To characterize primary CTL activation, …
The confluence of ubiquitous, high-performance networking and increased availability of online information has led to the emergence of a new class of large-scale stream processing …
This thesis work is motivated by the specific challenges in analyzing data from clinical trials in behavioral medicine. Specifically, smoking cessation and physical activity trials. …
Durban, South Africa contains the most pervasively planned areas of racial and economic exclusion in the world. Apartheid's effectiveness was not just in segregating race …
Today bone defects such as bone fractures, osteoporosis or bone cancers represent a common and significant clinical problem. However, traditional micron size implant materials have …
This dissertation presents and analyzes the letters that Françoise de Graffigny wrote to her long-time correspondent François-Antoine Devaux, concerning the highly successful production of her …
A Monte-Carlo Simulation is presented for Radiation Transport in water. This process is of outmost importance, having applications in oncology and therapy of cancer, in …
Vehicle surveillance is the task of measuring moving road vehicles to automatically obtain information about vehicle shape, appearance, identity, path of motion, and, ultimately, driver …