Browsing Duke Dissertations by Title
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A 3D Active Microwave Imaging System for Breast Cancer Screening
(2008-12-11)A 3D microwave imaging system suitable for clinical trials has been developed. The anatomy, histology, and pathology of breast cancer were all carefully considered in the development of this system. The central component ... -
3D Microwave Imaging through Full Wave Methods for Heterogenous Media
(2011)In this thesis, a 3D microwave imaging method is developed for a microwave imaging system with an arbitrary background medium. In the previous study on the breast cancer detection of our research group, a full wave inverse ... -
A "Trinitarian" Theology of Religions? An Augustinian Assessment of Several Recent Proposals
(2007-05-04)Contemporary theology is driven by a quest to make the doctrine of the Trinity “relevant” to a wide variety of concerns. Books and articles abound on the Trinity and personhood, the Trinity and ecclesiology, the Trinity ... -
A comparison of reported experiences associated with different styles of hypnosis
(1981)Reported experiences were compared for subjects undergoing a traditional style of hypnosis, a cognitive behavioral style of hypnosis, and a "waking imagination" procedure similar to hypnosis but explicitly labeled "non- ... -
A Dangerous Undertaking: Appropriation Art, Intellectual Property, and Fair Use Since the 1990s
(2017)This dissertation is a historical examination of the broad and multifaceted role of appropriation in twentieth and twenty-first century American art. It argues for the complementarity of research in legal and art theory ... -
A Formal Framework for Designing Verifiable Protocols
(2017)Protocols play critical roles in computer systems today, including managing resources, facilitating communication, and coordinating actions of components. It is highly desirable to formally verify protocols, to provide a ... -
A Framework for Dissecting and Applying Bacterial Antibiotic Responses
(2017)An essential property of microbial communities is the ability to survive a disturbance. This is readily observed in bacteria, which have developed the ability to survive every antibiotic treatment at an alarming rate, ... -
A mitotic DNA damage response requiring FANCD2 enables mitosis with broken DNA
(2017)In order to maintain genome integrity cells employ a set of well conserved DNA damage checkpoints. DNA damage checkpoints are active during interphase and serve to prevent mitosis with broken DNA. Mitosis with broken DNA ... -
A Multi-Disciplinary Systems Approach for Modeling and Predicting Physiological Responses and Biomechanical Movement Patterns
(2017)It is currently an exciting time to be doing research at the intersection of sports and engineering. Advances in wearable sensor technology now enable large quantities of physiological and biomechanical data to be collected ... -
A New Hybrid Free-Wake Model for Wind Turbine Aerodynamics with Application to Wake Steering
(2017)Wind energy has emerged as one of the most promising and rapidly growing renewable energy technologies in the United States and over the world. The offshore wind energy is of special interest because it has more consistent ... -
A Novel Vascular Graft Diagnostic and Reversible Aptamers for the Purification of Therapeutic Cells
(2017)Creation of novel tools for biomedical applications is critical for the improvement of patient diagnostics and therapeutics. Two particularly important needs lie in (1) improved in vitro testing and increased performance ... -
A novel, non-apoptotic role for Scythe/BAT3: a functional switch between the pro- and anti-proliferative roles of p21 during the cell cycle.
(PLoS One, 2012)BACKGROUND: Scythe/BAT3 is a member of the BAG protein family whose role in apoptosis has been extensively studied. However, since the developmental defects observed in Bat3-null mouse embryos cannot be explained solely ... -
A PK2/Bv8/PROK2 antagonist suppresses tumorigenic processes by inhibiting angiogenesis in glioma and blocking myeloid cell infiltration in pancreatic cancer.
(PLoS One, 2013)Infiltration of myeloid cells in the tumor microenvironment is often associated with enhanced angiogenesis and tumor progression, resulting in poor prognosis in many types of cancer. The polypeptide chemokine PK2 (Bv8, ... -
A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
A Precision Measurement of Neutral Pion Lifetime
(2018)The neutral pion decays via chiral anomaly and this process historically led to the discovery of the chiral anomaly. The $\pi^0$ decay amplitude is among the most precise predictions of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at low ... -
A Q-Learning Approach to Minefield Characterization from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(2012)The treasure hunt problem to determine how a computational agent can maximize its ability to detect and/or classify multiple targets located in a region of interest (ROI) populated with multiple obstacles. One particular ... -
A Republic of the Arts: Constructing Nineteenth-Century Art History at the Musée national du Luxembourg, 1871-1914
(2014)Before the rise of the ubiquitous MOCA (museum of contemporary) there was the Musée national du Luxembourg that since its foundation in 1818, served as the first museum anywhere dedicated to contemporary art. Yet the ... -
A Systems Thinking, Community-Based Exploration of Health Equity and Agency: Women’s Migraine as a Paradigmatic Case
(2017)Background. Creating health equity—“the attainment of the highest level of health for all people”— is a core tenet of public health (American Public Health Association, 2015; United States Department of Health and Human ... -
A tale of two metallophosphatases: biochemical and functional characterization of novel substrates of PP1 and MESH1
(2017)Addition and removal of phosphate is an important post-translational modification involved in cellular signaling. The enzymes responsible for removing this phosphorylation mark, called phosphatases, play a vital role in ... -
A test of interactional power theory : the effects of sibling-status upon dependence, power, and influence success in sibling pairs
(1976)The application of interactional power theory to sibling relationships was tested in a study of sibling pairs in middle childhood. Hypotheses were posed about sibling-status effects upon influence success, power, and ...
