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Flammability Evaluation Of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene And Polyethylene With Montmorillonite Nanoclay Additives, Satya Vaddi Jan 2008

Flammability Evaluation Of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene And Polyethylene With Montmorillonite Nanoclay Additives, Satya Vaddi

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Self-Efficacy To Resist Smoking As A Mediator Between Nicotine Dependence And Quit Attempt In Adolescent Smokers In Alabama, Isam G. Vaid Jan 2008

Self-Efficacy To Resist Smoking As A Mediator Between Nicotine Dependence And Quit Attempt In Adolescent Smokers In Alabama, Isam G. Vaid

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Involvement Of O-Glcnacylation In Lens Development And Cataract Formation, Kai Wang Jan 2008

Involvement Of O-Glcnacylation In Lens Development And Cataract Formation, Kai Wang

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Enabling The Direct Simulation (Monte Carlo) Of Physical Vapor Deposition, Ramprasad Venkataraman Jan 2008

Enabling The Direct Simulation (Monte Carlo) Of Physical Vapor Deposition, Ramprasad Venkataraman

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Fluorescence Based Optical Sensor For Protein Detection, Kailiang Sun Jan 2008

Fluorescence Based Optical Sensor For Protein Detection, Kailiang Sun

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Contribution Of Magnocellular And Parvocellular Pathways To Visual Attention, Patricia A. Taylor-Cooke Jan 2008

Contribution Of Magnocellular And Parvocellular Pathways To Visual Attention, Patricia A. Taylor-Cooke

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Structural And Functional Studies Of Human Bile Acid Coa:Amino Acid N-Acyltransferase (Hbat), Erin Mary Shonsey Jan 2008

Structural And Functional Studies Of Human Bile Acid Coa:Amino Acid N-Acyltransferase (Hbat), Erin Mary Shonsey

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The Effects Of Catastrophizing And Acceptance On Functional Interference In Persons With Chronic Pain: Laboratory Findings, Subjective Reports, And The Moderating Role Of Acceptance, Elizabeth J. Richardson Jan 2008

The Effects Of Catastrophizing And Acceptance On Functional Interference In Persons With Chronic Pain: Laboratory Findings, Subjective Reports, And The Moderating Role Of Acceptance, Elizabeth J. Richardson

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Adaptive Procedures To Detect Treatment Effects Under Unexpected Treatment-Covariate Interactions, Nitin K. Nair Jan 2008

Adaptive Procedures To Detect Treatment Effects Under Unexpected Treatment-Covariate Interactions, Nitin K. Nair

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Dna Methylation Patterns In The Ultraviolet Radiation - Exposed Skin And Tumors: Chemopreventive Role Of Phytochemicals, Vijayalakshmi Nandakumar Jan 2008

Dna Methylation Patterns In The Ultraviolet Radiation - Exposed Skin And Tumors: Chemopreventive Role Of Phytochemicals, Vijayalakshmi Nandakumar

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Enhancement Of Bonding To Enamel And Dentin Prepared By Er,Cr:Ysgg Laser, Ali Obeidi Jan 2008

Enhancement Of Bonding To Enamel And Dentin Prepared By Er,Cr:Ysgg Laser, Ali Obeidi

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Modulation Of Lipoprotein Metbolism And Atherosclerosis By The G Protein-Coupled Receptor, G2a, Brian W. Parks Jan 2008

Modulation Of Lipoprotein Metbolism And Atherosclerosis By The G Protein-Coupled Receptor, G2a, Brian W. Parks

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Nonlinear Second Order Parabolic And Elliptic Equations With Nonlinear Boundary Conditions, Nsoki Mavinga Jan 2008

Nonlinear Second Order Parabolic And Elliptic Equations With Nonlinear Boundary Conditions, Nsoki Mavinga

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Intracellular Signaling Mechanisms Underlying Muscarinic Dependent Plasticity In Visual Cortex And The Impact Of Cholinergic Degeneration, Portia Anne Mccoy Jan 2008

Intracellular Signaling Mechanisms Underlying Muscarinic Dependent Plasticity In Visual Cortex And The Impact Of Cholinergic Degeneration, Portia Anne Mccoy

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The Role Of Neighborhood Residency In The Decision To Evacuate, Naya S. Mcmillan Jan 2008

The Role Of Neighborhood Residency In The Decision To Evacuate, Naya S. Mcmillan

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Provision Of Rapid Hiv Testin G And Nevirapine Administration In Zambian Labor Ward S To Im Prove Population Antiretroviral Coverage Of Hiv-Infected Women And Their Hiv-Exposed Infants, Karen M. Megazzini Jan 2008

Provision Of Rapid Hiv Testin G And Nevirapine Administration In Zambian Labor Ward S To Im Prove Population Antiretroviral Coverage Of Hiv-Infected Women And Their Hiv-Exposed Infants, Karen M. Megazzini

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Green Collar Jobs, Yvonne Sims Murray Jan 2008

Green Collar Jobs, Yvonne Sims Murray

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Biomimetic Self-Assembled Nanomatrix For Drug Eluting Stent Application, Meenakshi Kushwaha Jan 2008

Biomimetic Self-Assembled Nanomatrix For Drug Eluting Stent Application, Meenakshi Kushwaha

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The Role Of Centaurins In Vesicular Trafficking And Neuronal Differentiation, Jennifer Lynn Larimore Jan 2008

The Role Of Centaurins In Vesicular Trafficking And Neuronal Differentiation, Jennifer Lynn Larimore

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Human Leukocyte Antigen Supertypes In Relation To Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Populations Of African Ancestry, Aleksandr Lazaryan Jan 2008

Human Leukocyte Antigen Supertypes In Relation To Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Populations Of African Ancestry, Aleksandr Lazaryan

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Brake Drum Production By Centrifugal Casting, Timothy Charles Lebeau Jan 2008

Brake Drum Production By Centrifugal Casting, Timothy Charles Lebeau

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Progression Through The Cell Cycle Is Regulated By Dynamic Chloride Dependent Changes In Cell Volumes, Christa Whelan Habela Jan 2008

Progression Through The Cell Cycle Is Regulated By Dynamic Chloride Dependent Changes In Cell Volumes, Christa Whelan Habela

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The Relationship Of Adolescent Cognitive Ability To Adult Physical Health: Socioeconomic Status And Health Behavior As Mediating Variables, Timothy M. Hale Jan 2008

The Relationship Of Adolescent Cognitive Ability To Adult Physical Health: Socioeconomic Status And Health Behavior As Mediating Variables, Timothy M. Hale

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Evaluation Of Commuter Air Quality, Jason Edward Howanitz Jan 2008

Evaluation Of Commuter Air Quality, Jason Edward Howanitz

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A Statistical Approach Identifying And Limiting The Effect Of Influential Observations In Linear Regression, Tamekia L. Jones Jan 2008

A Statistical Approach Identifying And Limiting The Effect Of Influential Observations In Linear Regression, Tamekia L. Jones

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Diet -Induced Changes In Intra -Abdominal Adipose Tissue And Cardiovascular Disease Risk In African American And European American Women, Konstantina Katsoulis Jan 2008

Diet -Induced Changes In Intra -Abdominal Adipose Tissue And Cardiovascular Disease Risk In African American And European American Women, Konstantina Katsoulis

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Regulation Of Tau Functions By Posttranslational Modifications Of Tau And Histone Deacetylase 6, Huiping Ding Jan 2008

Regulation Of Tau Functions By Posttranslational Modifications Of Tau And Histone Deacetylase 6, Huiping Ding

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disease, is pathologically characterized by senile plaques composed of amyloid β peptide and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated and aberrantly cleaved microtubule-associated protein tau. Numerous studies have demonstrated the critical importance of tau in AD pathogenesis; however, the mechanisms involved in the regulation of tau functions by posttranslational modifications of tau and by other cellular factors need to be further elucidated. The first part of my study focused on how posttranslational modifications of tau, specifically, site-specific phosphorylation and C-terminal cleavage, regulate its physiological function in associating with cytoskeleton, binding to and stabilizing microtubules …


High Field Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging In The Awake, Behaving Primate: Cortical Networks Involved In Vergence Eye Movements, Matthew K. Ward Jan 2008

High Field Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging In The Awake, Behaving Primate: Cortical Networks Involved In Vergence Eye Movements, Matthew K. Ward

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Animals with eyes positioned towards the front of the head are capable of making saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements to fixate an object at a given distance. These eye movements are conjugate (i.e. both eyes move the same amount in the same direction). To fixate objects at different distances, such animals are also capable of making vergence eye movements in which both eyes move the same amount in opposite directions i.e. disconjugately. While purely conjugate or vergence eye movements rarely occur in daily life, it is useful to study these types of eye movements separately due to the relative …


A Dual-Action, Armed Replicating Adenovirus For The Treatment Of Bone Metastases Of Breast Cancer, James Joseph Cody Jan 2008

A Dual-Action, Armed Replicating Adenovirus For The Treatment Of Bone Metastases Of Breast Cancer, James Joseph Cody

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Most patients with advanced breast cancer develop osteolytic bone metastases, which have numerous complications. Because current therapies are not curative, new treatments are needed. Conditionally replicating adenoviruses (CRAds) are anti-cancer agents designed to infect and lyse tumor cells. For increased efficacy, CRAds have been armed with therapeutic transgenes. Osteoprotegerin (OPG), an inhibitor of osteoclastic bone resorption, represents a promising candidate with which to arm a CRAd intended to treat osteolytic bone metastases. We hypothesize that a CRAd armed with OPG will inhibit breast cancer bone metastasis and reduce tumor burden in the bone by directly lysing tumor cells and by …


Mesenchymal Stem Cell Interaction With Nanostructured Biomaterials For Orthopaedic Applications, William Charles Clem Jan 2008

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Interaction With Nanostructured Biomaterials For Orthopaedic Applications, William Charles Clem

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Orthopaedic implants fail when bone loss around the anchoring region of the prosthesis causes the components to loosen. A revision surgery is needed to replace worn components, and bone grafting is often required to fill the void caused by osteolysis. A solution for the problem of osteolysis may be the improvement of wear resistance at the articulating surfaces by substituting materials with greater hardness. This dissertation describes two strategies for increasing the surface hardness of titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) implants, without increasing surface roughness or compromising osseointegration. The first strategy utilizes microwave plasma to induce titanium nitride formation by nitrogen diffusion. …