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Indoor Localization And Tracking Using Binary Information, Li Geng Dec 2015

Indoor Localization And Tracking Using Binary Information, Li Geng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Real-time localization and tracking of people and assets within buildings is in high demand in many applications. These tasks are very challenging in indoor environments due to the physics of signal propagation and the multi-path interference. Satellite-based technologies such as the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are notoriously unreliable in indoor environments. As a result, a variety of novel technologies have been developed to fill this gap. This dissertation focuses on the use of binary information for indoor localization and tracking, and in particular, on the use of the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. RFID is a …

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Co-Design Of Wireless Power Transfer And Data Links For Next Generation Passive Devices, Jinghui Jian Dec 2015

Co-Design Of Wireless Power Transfer And Data Links For Next Generation Passive Devices, Jinghui Jian

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Microsystems that harvest ambient power for their operation have been present in RFID technology and implantable medical devices (IMDs) for couple of decades. With the recent applications under the framework of the Internet of Thing (IoT) and with miniaturization of implantable devices interest in these devices has significantly grown. Two of the critical subjects in the passive devices technology are wireless power transfer (WPT) and data link. The focus of this work is on two distinct applications: design of wireless power transfer for IMDs and backscatter-based tag-to-tag (BBTT) communication system. Our goal in the design of WPT to IMDs is …

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Smart Sensing: Mixed-Signal Vlsi Implementation Of Gradient Flow Localization And Separation, Shuo Li Dec 2015

Smart Sensing: Mixed-Signal Vlsi Implementation Of Gradient Flow Localization And Separation, Shuo Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Acoustic source localization and separation are two crucial components in the acoustic signal processing field, which can be utilized in many applications such as smart hearing aids, tracking and surveillance devices. The small form factor of these applications urge the use of miniature sensor arrays. Nonetheless, the performance of traditional localization and separation techniques deteriorate with small-form-factor sensor arrays and they require higher sampling frequency to compensate for the performance loss, which means higher noise floor and more power consumption. Gradient flow is a technique for localization of an acoustic source using miniature microphone arrays by relating temporal and spatial …

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From Sensor Networks To The Cloud: Smart System For Data Sensing, Matching And Storage, Ying Li Dec 2015

From Sensor Networks To The Cloud: Smart System For Data Sensing, Matching And Storage, Ying Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

With the drastic growth of attention in crowed sensing and wireless based social network applications, it is in desperate need to establish a comprehensive infrastructure that can efficiently sense the data, then accurately matches and delivers the gathered information to the various parties of interests in a timely manner. On the other end of the picture, the huge amount of user data needs to be reliably stored with easy and fast access at anytime and from anywhere. These inter-connected challenging problems form a complete information service framework of my thesis. In this thesis, we first introduce a set of adaptive …

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Hot Carrier Study Of Mosfet At 300k And 77k, Jie Ma Dec 2015

Hot Carrier Study Of Mosfet At 300k And 77k, Jie Ma

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Electronics operate at cryogenic temperature are drawing more and more attention in recent years in both aerospace area and high energy physics area. Better noise performance of cryogenic electronics than electronics at room temperature makes it a great choice for high sensitivity detectors. While typical lifetime requirement for electronics is 20 years, whether cold electronics have the required lifetime in cryogenic environment is a critical question. With regards to lifetime, the major failure mechanisms such as negative bias temperature instability (NBTI), electromigration (EM), stress migration (SM), time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) and thermal cycling (TC) scale with temperature in favor of …

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Super-Hydrophobic High Throughput Electrospun Cellulose Acetate (Ca) Nanofibrous Mats As Oil Selective Sorbents, Chao Han Dec 2015

Super-Hydrophobic High Throughput Electrospun Cellulose Acetate (Ca) Nanofibrous Mats As Oil Selective Sorbents, Chao Han

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The threat of oil pollution increases with the expansion of oil exploration and production activities, as well as the industrial growth around the world. Use of sorbents is a common method to deal with the oil spills. In this work, an advanced sorbent technology is described. A series of non-woven Cellulose Acetate (CA) nanofibrous mats with a 3D fibrous structure were synthesized by a novel high-throughput electrospinning technique. The precursor was solutions of CA/ acetic acid-acetone in various concentrations. Among them, 15.0% CA exhibits a superhydrophobic surface property, with a water contact angle of 128.95°. Its oil sorption capacity is …

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Observation Of Ferroelastic Toughening In Ceramic Oxides By Polarized Raman Spectroscopy, Amanda Brooke Schubert Dec 2015

Observation Of Ferroelastic Toughening In Ceramic Oxides By Polarized Raman Spectroscopy, Amanda Brooke Schubert

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The lifetime and efficiency of turbine engines for applications such as aerospace and power generation rely on the use of thermal barrier coatings (TBC). The TBC provides a thermal barrier between the metallic turbine engine components and the high temperature gas produced by the turbines combustion. They prevent oxidation as well as thermo-mechanical damage of the underlying metallic components. 7-8 weight-% yttria stabilized zirconia (7-8YSZ) is the industry standard material for thermal barrier coatings due to its high melting temperature, high toughness, low thermal conductivity, and high coefficient of thermal expansion which similar to that of the underlying metallic engine …

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Observation Of Ferroelastic Toughening In Ceramic Oxides By Polarized Raman Spectroscopy, Amanda Brooke Schubert Dec 2015

Observation Of Ferroelastic Toughening In Ceramic Oxides By Polarized Raman Spectroscopy, Amanda Brooke Schubert

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The lifetime and efficiency of turbine engines for applications such as aerospace and power generation rely on the use of thermal barrier coatings (TBC). The TBC provides a thermal barrier between the metallic turbine engine components and the high temperature gas produced by the turbines combustion. They prevent oxidation as well as thermo-mechanical damage of the underlying metallic components. 7-8 weight-% yttria stabilized zirconia (7-8YSZ) is the industry standard material for thermal barrier coatings due to its high melting temperature, high toughness, low thermal conductivity, and high coefficient of thermal expansion which similar to that of the underlying metallic engine …

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Exact Results In Supersymmetric And Superconformal Quantum Field Theories, Wolfger Peelaers Dec 2015

Exact Results In Supersymmetric And Superconformal Quantum Field Theories, Wolfger Peelaers

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this dissertation we perform exact, non-perturbative computations in supersymmetric and superconformal quantum field theories. In the first part, we show that the conformal bootstrap equations, which implement the requirement that in a conformal quantum field theory any four-point function should be crossing symmetric, have an exactly solvable truncation in theories with extended supersymmetry. As a result, we introduce a new 4d/2d correspondence that assigns to any four-dimensional N =2 superconformal quantum field theory, Lagrangian or non-Lagrangian, a two-dimensional chiral algebra, and subsequently explore its structure in the context of theories of class S. In the second part, we extend …

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Exploring Model Error Through Post-Processing And An Ensemble Kalman Filter On Fire Weather Days, Michael Jon Erickson Dec 2015

Exploring Model Error Through Post-Processing And An Ensemble Kalman Filter On Fire Weather Days, Michael Jon Erickson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The proliferation of coupling atmospheric ensemble data to models in other related fields requires a priori knowledge of atmospheric ensemble biases specific to the desired application. In that spirit, this dissertation focuses on elucidating atmospheric ensemble model bias and error through a variety of different methods specific to fire weather days (FWDs) over the Northeast United States (NEUS). Other than a handful of studies that use models to predict fire indices for single fire seasons (Mölders 2008, Simpson et al. 2014), an extensive exploration of model performance specific to FWDs has not been attempted. Two unique definitions for FWDs are …

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Multi-Marker Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping Of Quantitative Trait Loci, Soyoun Lee Dec 2015

Multi-Marker Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping Of Quantitative Trait Loci, Soyoun Lee

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Background: Genome-wide associations have been studied for years to infer relationships between biological traits and their underlying genetic causes, known as quantitative traits loci (QTL), in a process known as QTL mapping. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are commonly used genetic markers, are usually in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with each other within a small genetic region. Both single- and double-marker-based LD mapping methods have been developed by taking advantage of LD structure. Method: In this thesis, a more general LD mapping framework with an arbitrary number of markers has been developed in order to improve LD mapping and its detection …

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Groundwater Nitrate Contamination Remediation Through Permeable Reactive Barriers On The Forge River, Long Island, New York, Amy Bronwan Pritt Dec 2015

Groundwater Nitrate Contamination Remediation Through Permeable Reactive Barriers On The Forge River, Long Island, New York, Amy Bronwan Pritt

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Forge River on the south shore of Long Island is contaminated by nitrate. The Forge River leads into Moriches Bay. Nitrate contamination in the river leads to algal blooms, hypoxia of the river and eventually fish kills. The area surrounding the Forge River is largely residential and not sewered with the residents relying on septic systems for sewage disposal. Nitrate from even small septic systems has been found in groundwater as far as 100m down gradient. Other investigators have shown the occurrence of submarine groundwater discharge on Wills Creek, a tributary of the Forge River and my study site. …

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Observation Of Ferroelastic Toughening In Ceramic Oxides By Polarized Raman Spectroscopy, Amanda Brooke Schubert Dec 2015

Observation Of Ferroelastic Toughening In Ceramic Oxides By Polarized Raman Spectroscopy, Amanda Brooke Schubert

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The lifetime and efficiency of turbine engines for applications such as aerospace and power generation rely on the use of thermal barrier coatings (TBC). The TBC provides a thermal barrier between the metallic turbine engine components and the high temperature gas produced by the turbines combustion. They prevent oxidation as well as thermo-mechanical damage of the underlying metallic components. 7-8 weight-% yttria stabilized zirconia (7-8YSZ) is the industry standard material for thermal barrier coatings due to its high melting temperature, high toughness, low thermal conductivity, and high coefficient of thermal expansion which similar to that of the underlying metallic engine …

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Marine Acoustics And Habitat Mapping In The Peconic Estuary, Ny, Michael Patrick White Dec 2015

Marine Acoustics And Habitat Mapping In The Peconic Estuary, Ny, Michael Patrick White

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As coastal populations grow, there is an increasing need for better spatial management of the seafloor. Multibeam backscatter data can be a powerful tool for habitat mapping and segmenting large areas of the seabed, based on similar physical characteristics. In order to increase the effectiveness of backscatter data sets, MBES data from the Peconic Estuary, NY, is reprocessed using newly developed software. These mosaics are less noisy compared to prior results. The relationship between grain size and backscatter is found to have a good correlation in the Peconic Estuary and a simple regression is used to predict mean phi size …

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Space Acquisition Strategies Of Zostera Marina, Bradley Thomas Furman Dec 2015

Space Acquisition Strategies Of Zostera Marina, Bradley Thomas Furman

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Seagrasses are a diverse group of clonal marine macrophytes. Their decline in recent decades has been an alarming component of estuarine urbanization, with large portions of historical coverage lost or degraded. Understanding patterns of dispersal and recruitment within and among the remaining populations is now critical to predicting the form and pace of recovery. Working in a developing eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadow in Shinnecock Bay, we combined field manipulations, genotypic surveys and correlative analyses to understand how vegetative growth and seedling recruitment contribute to space acquisition. First, we explored clonal foraging behavior and its effect on patch growth using subterranean …

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Denitrifying Bioreactors: A Solution To Groundwater Nitrate Pollution At The Forge River?, Christine Jean Gurdon Dec 2015

Denitrifying Bioreactors: A Solution To Groundwater Nitrate Pollution At The Forge River?, Christine Jean Gurdon

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Denitrifying bioreactors are an approach to remediate groundwater contaminated with nitrate. Their popularity as a remediation system has increased due to their unnecessary maintenance, low cost, and longevity. While field trials on their performance have been conducted, few have been completed in a marine coastal environment. In this study, a denitrification wall was designed to be installed and monitored along the shore of a coastal environment, namely, the Forge River, New York. Prior to the design phase, a groundwater plume of elevated nitrate-nitrite concentrations needed to be identified. Groundwater nitrate-nitrite concentrations ranged from 0.01-17.68 mg/L along Riviera Drive, a road …

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Structure And Dynamics Of The Gulf Stream's Interannual Migration East Of Cape Hatteras, Alejandra Sanchez Franks Dec 2015

Structure And Dynamics Of The Gulf Stream's Interannual Migration East Of Cape Hatteras, Alejandra Sanchez Franks

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Gulf Stream's (GS) main mode of interannual variability, its latitudinal migration, has been shown to be atmospherically forced by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), taking a 2 year lag into account. Observational and model data were used here to examine the structure of the GS's migration and the dynamics linking it to atmospheric forcing. The structure of the GS's interannual variability was investigated from different measures of GS position and transport at 38°N and 27°N (i.e. the Florida Current). Using a zonally averaged index, the local measurements of GS position at 38°N proved good representations of overall meridional shifting …

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Ideological Asymmetries In Unconventional Political Participation, Raynee Sarah Gutting Dec 2015

Ideological Asymmetries In Unconventional Political Participation, Raynee Sarah Gutting

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

There is a long-standing ideological asymmetry in protest activity that is observed world-wide. Individuals on the left are far more likely to engage in protest activity than those on the right. This asymmetry is especially important in an era in which young people are far more likely than their elders to engage in various forms of protest and non-electoral activity. But somewhat surprisingly, there has been no careful investigation of this asymmetry to date, a deficiency which I remedy in my dissertation project. I argue that authoritarians, who are more commonly found on the political right than left, help to …

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Fight Or Flight: Mobility, Political Behavior, And Nativism In The United States, Yamil Velez Dec 2015

Fight Or Flight: Mobility, Political Behavior, And Nativism In The United States, Yamil Velez

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In recent decades, communities across the United States have seen increases in hostility toward immigrants. Prevailing theories in political science hold that responses to immigration are, in part, a function of local area demographics. However, assessments of these theories suffer from the critique that local area demographics and immigration preferences may be endogenous due to residential self-selection. Recent efforts sidestep this problem by using clever modeling strategies or experiments. Rather than viewing self-selection as a nuisance, however, this article develops and tests a theory that treats migration and political behavior as strategies residents invoke in the presence of local immigration. …

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American Literary Regionalism And The Sister Arts: Local Color Outside The Lines, Brandi Dawn So Dec 2015

American Literary Regionalism And The Sister Arts: Local Color Outside The Lines, Brandi Dawn So

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Abstract of the Dissertation American Literary Regionalism and the Sister Arts: Local Color Outside the Lines by Brandi So Doctor of Philosophy in English Stony Brook University 2015 American literary regionalism was partitioned off from literary realism in a manner that marginalized a movement dominated by women. The gendering of the genre stems in part from the unprecedented integration of women authors into the mainstream market. Conversely, the masculinization of literary ekphrasis still actively shapes its relative discourse. Traditional characterizations of ekphrasis imagine a masculine and aggressive act upon a disempowered, voiceless, feminized object. The timbre of this conversation is …

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Reflected Scenes: Ekphrastic Tension In The Allegory Of Chastity, Joshua Mathai Dec 2015

Reflected Scenes: Ekphrastic Tension In The Allegory Of Chastity, Joshua Mathai

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis aims to explore the tension with how Edmund Spenser uses images and the method of ekphrasis and how they lead to interpretive tension on the part of the reader in the epic poem The Faerie Queene. Close readings of selected passages within Book III of The Faerie Queene as well as discussion of secondary scholarship pertaining to the piece will be used in this research. The study will conclude with how Spenser as the author was able to use interpretive tension to serve his pedagogical aims in writing this work. | 39 pages

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Development Of A Novel Double Neural Network And Its Applications, Hao Chen Dec 2015

Development Of A Novel Double Neural Network And Its Applications, Hao Chen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Artificial neural network model is a powerful method that has been widely applied in many different areas. It is essentially a nonlinear statistical model, empirically proved with good prediction accuracy, and has been applied in both regression and classification problems. One challenge in applying artificial neural network models is constructing proper structure adaptive to specific problems. This thesis work is to introduce a novel, double-layered feed-forward neural network (DNN) model with special link patterns. Its applications to genome-wide association studies and stock price prediction in high frequency time scale have been explored. Detecting gene-gene interactions in traditional Genome-wide associate studies …

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Implications Of Early-Onset Psychiatric Symptoms For Peer Functioning In Middle-Childhood: A Validity And Clinical Significance Approach, Allison Pennock Danzig Dec 2015

Implications Of Early-Onset Psychiatric Symptoms For Peer Functioning In Middle-Childhood: A Validity And Clinical Significance Approach, Allison Pennock Danzig

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Recent findings indicate that preschoolers experience psychiatric symptoms at rates similar to that of older children and adolescents. However, there are limited data examining the impact of early-onset psychiatric symptoms on subsequent peer functioning. To support the validity and clinical significance of early-emerging symptoms, it is necessary to demonstrate that youth with elevated symptom levels experience significant later difficulties across various domains. Most research linking these constructs has examined the impact of externalizing symptoms on peer functioning cross-sectionally, without consideration of internalizing symptoms. The goals of this study were to derive multiple-informant middle-childhood peer factors, examine the longitudinal impact of …

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Development Of Novel Nuclear Imaging Systems For Bioscience Applications, Tuoyu Cao Dec 2015

Development Of Novel Nuclear Imaging Systems For Bioscience Applications, Tuoyu Cao

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Biological systems are incredibly complex and their scientific study can be facilitated by the assessment of multiple independent parameters from the same location, ideally in way that provides quantitative and time-synchronized data, with high spatial sampling, and throughout a living subject. Our group has advanced this in vivo, quantitative, multimodal imaging approach by developing and combining various nuclear imaging modalities that provide complementary data to better understand the physiology of humans, animal models, and even plants. Multi-modality imaging in clinical and pre-clinical settings has been shown to provide better diagnostic interpretation compared to stand-alone imaging systems. In recent years, combining …

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Measurement Of The Elliptic And Triangular Flow In Ultra-Relativistic Cu+Cu And Au+Au Collisions At Sqrt(S_Nn) = 200 Gev, Damian Lee Reynolds Dec 2015

Measurement Of The Elliptic And Triangular Flow In Ultra-Relativistic Cu+Cu And Au+Au Collisions At Sqrt(S_Nn) = 200 Gev, Damian Lee Reynolds

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Differential measurements of the elliptic and triangular flow Fourier coefficients are reported for charged hadrons as a function of transverse momentum and collision centrality for Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_NN}$ = 200 GeV measured with the PHENIX detector located at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The flow coefficients, an important probe in the investigation of the quark-gluon plasma, are measured using a long-ranged two-particle correlation method where the azimuthal angles of particles about midrapidity in the central arm detectors are correlated with hits in detectors located at forward rapidity, ensuring a large pseudorapidity gap to prevent …

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A Multi-Method Assessment Of Error Sensitivity And Anxiety In Childhood And Adolescence, Alexandria Meyer Dec 2015

A Multi-Method Assessment Of Error Sensitivity And Anxiety In Childhood And Adolescence, Alexandria Meyer

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Anxiety disorders are the most frequent form of psychopathology in children and adolescents and often result in chronic impairment. Therefore, there is a critical need to identify markers that characterize normative versus anxious trajectories of development. One promising biomarker of anxiety is altered brain activity in response to errors, as reflected by the event-related potential (ERP), the error-related negativity (ERN). The ERN occurs around the time of error commission and is generated in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). An increased ERN has been consistently found in adults with anxiety disorders. Although the ERN is smaller in children and changes across …

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Regulation Of Wingless Transcription In The Drosophila Blastoderm Embryo, Kimberly Bell Dec 2015

Regulation Of Wingless Transcription In The Drosophila Blastoderm Embryo, Kimberly Bell

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Drosophila anterior/posterior segmentation pathway is a robust system for investigating transcription regulation in an in vivo setting. Runt, the founding member of the Runx family of transcription factors, is a master regulator of gene expression during development. Distinct combinations of Runt and other pair-rule factors act at two recently identified cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) DESE and PESE, to generate the initial 14-stripe sloppy paired 1 (slp1) pattern (Swantek & Gergen, 2004; Prazak et al, 2010). Each CRM alone drives a subset of the slp1 pattern, but their combined action recapitulates early expression of slp1 in a manner not expected from …

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The Effect Of Cognitive Load On Lexical Activation And Competition, Xujin Zhang Dec 2015

The Effect Of Cognitive Load On Lexical Activation And Competition, Xujin Zhang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Current models of spoken word recognition suggest that multiple lexical candidates are activated in parallel upon hearing an utterance, with these lexical hypotheses competing with each other for recognition. This dissertation includes a set of priming experiments that investigate the effect of cognitive load on multiple lexical activation and competition. The lexicality of the primes (i.e. | Non-Word vs. Word) and the demands of two primary tasks (i.e. | Rhyme vs. Association) were manipulated. In six experiments, I tested performance on the two primary tasks under conditions with no additional cognitive load, or with secondary tasks that either imposed phonological …

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Long-Term Seizure And Psychosocial Outcomes Of Vagus Nerve Stimulation For Intractable Epilepsy, Vibhangini S. Wasade, Lonni Schultz, Karthik Mohanarangan, Aryamaan Gaddam, Jason M. Schwalb, Marianna Spanaki-Varelas Dec 2015

Long-Term Seizure And Psychosocial Outcomes Of Vagus Nerve Stimulation For Intractable Epilepsy, Vibhangini S. Wasade, Lonni Schultz, Karthik Mohanarangan, Aryamaan Gaddam, Jason M. Schwalb, Marianna Spanaki-Varelas

Neurology Articles

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a widely used adjunctive treatment option for intractable epilepsy. Most studies have demonstrated short-term seizure outcomes, usually for up to 5 years, and thus far, none have reported psychosocial outcomes in adults. We aimed to assess long-term seizure and psychosocial outcomes in patients with intractable epilepsy on VNS therapy for more than 15 years. We identified patients who had VNS implantation for treatment of intractable epilepsy from 1997 to 2013 at our Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and gathered demographics including age at epilepsy onset and VNS implantation, epilepsy type, number of antiepilepsy drugs (AEDs) and seizure …

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Dwayne Rieco V. Moran Dec 2015

Dwayne Rieco V. Moran

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