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Evaluating the Use of Entropy Field Decomposition in Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis
(2017)
The study of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data has been the subject of increasing academic interest over the past decade. Despite a growing understanding of the base activity networks ...
Establishment of a 3D In Vitro Model to Accelerate the Development of Human Therapies against Corneal Diabetes
(PLos One, 2016-12-22)
Purpose To establish an in vitro model that would mirror the in vivo corneal stromal environment in diabetes (DM) patients. Methods Human corneal fibroblasts from Healthy (HCFs), Type 1DM (T1DM) and Type 2DM (T2DM) donors ...
Expressing the kami (deities): A study of Washinomiya Saibara Kagura
(2010)
This dissertation explores WASHINOMIYA SAIBARA KAGURA as a communication site where religious beliefs, values, and ways of life are interwoven with human expression. The kagura is one of the oldest forms of Shinto folk ...
SHIFTS OF SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN ALASKAN TUNDRA IN RESPONSE TO LONG-TERM WARMING
(2016-08)
Permafrost regions store about 33% of the world’s soil organic carbon, and are believed to rapidly respond to global warming. The degradation and release of previously stored organic carbon stocks lead to positive feedbacks, ...
Automatic picking and classification of acoustic emission event arrivals
(2010)
Accurate automatic classification and picking of arrival times of events from acoustic emission (AE) signals is of considerable importance for rapid identification and location of seismic events. Due to the large number ...
RADICAL REACTIONS: THE FIRST RED SCARE IN THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, 1918-1920
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation will focus on the First Red Scare in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The First Red Scare was a wave of mass panic and hysteria directed against suspected radicals, leftists, anarchist, and Communist ...
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BRINE IN CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS AND ITS PERFORMANCE IN ARTIFICIAL LIFT SYSTEMS
(2018)
Understanding the behavior of water in oil emulsions can prevent flow assurance problems and the conditions at which these two fluids can mix. The stability and rheology of water in crude oil emulsions was studied for three ...
ANHYDRITE NUCLEATION AND GROWTH AT LOW TEMPERATURES: EFFECTS OF FLOW RATE, ACTIVITY OF WATER, AND MINERAL SUBSTRATES
(2017-05)
Understanding calcium sulfate mineral formation is crucial to understanding depositional environments and diagenetic conditions on and near the martian surface where calcium sulfates with varying hydration states have been ...
Revising the Western: Connecting Genre Rituals and American Western Revisionism in TV’s Sons of Anarchy
(Cultural Studies ‚Üî Critical Methodologies, 2014-06-01)
In this article, I analyze the TV show Sons of Anarchy (SOA) and how the cable drama revisits and revises the American Western film genre. I survey ideological contexts and tropes that span Western mythologies like landscape ...
Galaxy Clusters Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
(2016-12)
Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe.
From radio to X-ray, we have observed these objects across the electromagnetic
spectrum. Formation theories suggest that clusters even emit ...