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  • Timescales and tectonics of oceanic plateaus : long-term evolution of Ontong Java Nui and Rio Grande Rise

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    Davidson, Peter C.
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    Oceanic plateaus are regions of overthickened oceanic crust and are often thought to form from the interaction of mantle plumes with oceanic lithosphere. These regions can cover vast areas of the ocean basins and represent a highly elevated magmatic flux relative to normal mid-ocean ridge spreading. Oceanic plateaus are considered...
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    Java Plateau; PETM: Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum; Pl-To: Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary event; P

  • Adolescent Suicide Through the Lens of 13 Reasons Why: A Corpus Based Study

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    Ware Zooi, Rachel
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    With growing recognition of adolescence as the time in which suicidal thoughts and behaviors first occur, early identification and intervention systems in schools have become an international priority. Understanding and incorporating language indicators associated with the core psychological and interpersonal processes of adolescent suicidality could provide promising tools for school...
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    . To my esteemed committee members, Drs. Gene Eakin, Abraham Cazares-Cervantes, Mary Aguilera, and

  • Boosting Intracellular Delivery of mRNA Therapeutics

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    Patel, Siddharth D.
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    Intracellular delivery of mRNA holds great potential for vaccine and therapeutic discovery and development. This is realized by the preeminent role mRNA is playing in the record-breaking pace of SARS-CoV-19 vaccine development. Recent advances in chemical modifications of mRNA have enabled high-efficiency gene expression with superior spatiotemporal control while eliminating...
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    asthma and other lung diseases, enhance intracellular mRNA delivery in vitro (over 3-fold, p < 0.005

  • Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

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    Devan-Song, E. Anne
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    Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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    amazing master’s advisor and lifelong collaborator, David Bickford, Sheila Poo, Scott Buchanan, Mary

  • Application of Infrared Spectroscopy for Determination of Wood Natural Durability

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    Lipeh, Shahlinney
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    Natural durability remains one of the most attractive characteristics of wood, and helps wood obtain a premium price. A worldwide shift towards the use of younger trees from intensively managed forests has created greater concerns about wood quality, especially the wood’s resistance to fungi and insects. Wood durability is assessed...
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    time of the year when the tree is felled (Hill 2006; Miller 2010). In addition to durability

  • Predicting the Relationships between High School Characteristics and High School Community College Enrollment Rate Using the Oregon Promise.

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    Murray-Jensen, Julie
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    Background: Legislators, policy-makers, and leaders in higher education and within communities, are increasingly turning to place-based scholarships, or “promise programs”, to encourage college enrollment and address growing public concerns regarding college affordability. One such program, the Oregon Promise, was implemented across the state of Oregon in the fall of 2016....
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    30 percent will require at least some college or an associate’s (Office of the Press Secretary, p

  • Knowledge Appropriation and Inventive Productivity

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    Choi, Yohan
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    Innovation is critical for firm growth and survival. Thus, how much value firms create and capture from their innovative activities has been an interest of scholars. This dissertation explores three important questions on this topic to which extant literature has paid little attention. First, I examine how the external threat...
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    activities (D'Aveni 1989; Chen and Miller 2007; Hayward and Shimizu 2006; Iyer and Miller 2008; McDonald

  • Just a tool after all? No evidence for tool-use effects on the body representation across virtual and real environments

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    Bell, Joshua D.
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    While human tool-use proficiency helped define our history, the cognitive and perceptual mechanics of how humans use tools are not fully understood. This question is of great value to the design of hand-held tools and prosthetics. A prominent theory, tool embodiment, suggests that tool use is facilitated by a flexible...
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    , 2017; Miller et al., 2014). They process this new extension as if it were an actual part of the body

  • New Treatments for HIV and Cancer: Uncovering Bioactive Compounds from Small Molecule Sources

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    Overacker, Ross D.
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    Small molecule drugs have been instrumental in our fight against diseases, beginning when some of the earliest ancient cultures used plant remedies to treat illnesses. More recently, the skill of isolating and characterizing the active ingredients within bioactive plants and microbial extracts has led to the isolation and design of...
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    .; Herrmann, A.; Strother, J. A.; Brack-Werner, R.; Blakemore, P. R.; Loesgen, S. Biorg. Med. Chem. 2019, 27

  • New Graphite Intercalation Chemistry with Alkaline Earth Metals

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    Xu, Wei
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    Novel graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) and associated chemistry have been explored, specifically: (1) containing alkyl- substituted imidazolium cations; (2) a series containing alkaline earth metal (Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) cations with ethylenediamine (en) co-intercalates; (3) showing reversible intragallery M-M bonding and (4) via electrochemical intercalation of Mg cations with potential...
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    Teaching Assistant Award (2019), Bruce Graham Memorial Fellowship (2019), David P. & Clara B. Shoemaker