<p>Many implanted devices fail due to the formation of an avascular capsule. Fat is known to promote healing and vascularization. It is possible that isolating and attaching ASCs (adipose stem cells) to an implanted ...
<p>Adolescence is a behaviorally well-defined developmental period during which experimentation with illicit drugs such as marijuana is common. While the lasting effects of adolescent marijuana use have been studied in ...
<p>Adolescence is a critical period for drug addiction in humans. Most lifelong drug addiction is initiated during adolescence and the progression from initial drug use to the expression of addictive behaviors occurs more ...
<p>Continuous nanostructures, such as electrospun nanofibers, embedded with proteins may synergistically present the topographical and biochemical signals to cells for tissue engineering applications. In this dissertation, ...
<p>There is an urgent need to develop practical and effective systems to detect diseases, such as cancer, infectious diseases and cardiovascular diseases.</p><p>Nanotechnology is a new, maturing field that employs specialized ...
<p>The modelling and analysis of complex stochastic systems with increasingly large data sets, state-spaces and parameters provides major stimulus to research in Bayesian nonparametric methods and Bayesian computation. ...
<p>Complex artificial materials (metamaterials) strongly interact with light and can be used to fabricate structures which mimic a material response that has no natural equivalent. Classical tools for the design of optical ...
<p>In addition to the adverse effects of high blood pressure (HBP) on cardiovascular disease, HBP is also associated with increased risk of stroke, dementia, and neurocognitive dysfunction. Although aerobic exercise and ...
<p>This dissertation explores the aeroelastic stability of a folding wing using both theoretical and experimental methods. The theoretical model is based on the existing clamped-wing aeroelastic model that uses beam theory ...
<p>Affects are not reducible to feelings or emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before </p><p>Spinoza investigates the extent to which affects exceed, reconfigure and reorganize </p><p>bodies and subjects. Affects are ...
<p>Emotions are pervasive in daily life, and a rich literature has documented how emotional stimuli and events disrupt ongoing processing and place heightened demands on control. Yet the executive control mechanisms that ...
<p>Antivascular targeting is a promising strategy for tumor therapy. This strategy overcomes many of the transport barriers and has shown efficacy in many preclinical models, but targeting epitopes on tumor vasculature can ...
<p>According to everyday folk psychology, our deliberate goals and intentions, together with our character traits, explain much of our overt behavior. These ways of explaining behavior are pervasive. According to ...
<p>"The Afterlives of King Philip's War" examines how this colonial American war entered into narratives of history and literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and investigates how narrative representations ...
<p>This dissertation explores the concept of <italic>agential abjection</italic> through Jean Genet's involvement with and writings about the struggles of disenfranchised and pathologized peoples. Following Julia Kristeva, ...
<p>Growing "old" in contemporary American society often means being seen as a problem: you threaten the stability of Social Security and Medicare; cutting-edge science seeks a cure for what ages you; cosmetic companies and ...
<p>Normal cells require input from extrinsic growth factors to control proliferation and survival. Recent studies have demonstrated that these same extrinsic signals also regulate cellular metabolism to ensure that ...
Despite our intuition, birds are no smaller than mammals when the constraints of a
flying body plan are taken into account. Nevertheless, the largest mammals are ten
times the mass of the largest birds.
Allometric ...
<p>Social media and mobile technology now provide consumers with the opportunity to continuously document or reflect on their moment-to-moment internal and external experiences. For instance, "tweets" are often written ...
<p>Ube3a is a HECT domain E3 ubiquitin ligase originally recognized for its role in degrading p53 in the presence of the human papilloma virus protein E6. Loss of maternal Ube3a expression causes Angelman syndrome, a ...