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  • Engineering an Ex-Vivo System to Study Transport Phenomena in the Human Intervertebral Disc

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    Shalash, Ward
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    Back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, entailing a significant socioeconomic impact. A primary source of back pain can be attributed to intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration allowing nerve ingrowth, facet joint arthritis, disc bulging, and osteophyte formations that press on nearby nerve roots or the spinal cord. While...
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    Ph.D. study. I would like to extend my appreciation to my committee members, Dr. Adam Higgins, Dr

  • Computational Elucidation of the Regulatory SNPs in the Non-Coding Regions of the Human Genome

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    Yao, Yao
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    We describe a series of novel computational models, CERENKOV (Computational Elucidation of the REgulatory NonKOding Variome) and its successors CERENKOV2, CERENKOV3, and Convolutional CERENKOV3, for discriminating regulatory single nucleotide polymorphisms (rSNPs) from non-regulatory SNPs within non-coding genetic loci. The CERENKOV models are designed for recognizing rSNPs in the context of...
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  • Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

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    Rueben, Matthew R.
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    This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human-robot interaction, which we call "privacy-sensitive robotics." Our understanding of "privacy" is very broad, including not just information privacy but also physical, psychological, and social privacy. We begin by surveying the scholarly literature on privacy and talking about why it applies to interactions...
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    society. In fact, humans want to share their lives with others—just not too much. Adam Moore offers an

  • Advances in Freshwater Cyanobacterial Genomics

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    Brown, Nathaniel M.
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    Limnology is undergoing a transition to high-throughput -omic analysis of freshwater bacterial communities. An important first step in making the transition is to characterize several genomes that can be used as references to guide metagenome assembly and analysis. Here I characterize four new freshwater cyanobacterial genomes, a pair of lake...
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  • Terahertz imaging and spectroscopy of carbon-based and semiconductor nanostructures

    Creator:
    Tomaino, Joseph L.
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    This thesis will cover work that I have completed relating to the field of terahertz (THz) science. My work has consisted of generating tunable, narrowband THz pulses in a table-top optical setup and using both narrow- and broadband THz pulses to study various material systems. Broadband THz pulses were used...
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  • Women in Forest Sector Leadership: A Qualitative, Multi-country Study

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    Larasatie, Pipiet
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    Generally presented as a preferred social norm based on both ethical considerations and legislative demands, gender equality has been highly encouraged in recent years. For instance, The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 call out achieving gender equality and empowerment of women. However, although there are multiple efforts to...
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    -Lang, Jacqueline. 2011. “A Study of Women, Career Advancement, and Mentoring in Lumber Related

  • Photostability of organic semiconductors : from bulk to nanoscales

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    Quist, Nicole Arianne
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    Organic semiconductors have attracted considerable attention due to their applications in low-cost, solution-processable (opto)electronic devices. An important class of high-performance organic semiconductors is pentacene derivatives, which exhibit high charger carrier mobilities in field-effect transistors and ultrafast singlet fission in photovoltaic devices. These derivatives have served as benchmark materials for systematic...
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    , Danielle, Kepler, Jacqueline, Nathaniel, and Alexandra for their unwavering support, constant

  • Algorithms for massive biological datasets

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    Bryant, Douglas W. (Douglas Wesley)
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    Within the past several years the technology of high-throughput sequencing has transformed the study of biology by offering unprecedented access to life's fundamental building block, DNA. With this transformation's potential a host of brand-new challenges have emerged, many of which lend themselves to being solved through computational methods. From de...
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  • An inquiry into the bases and effects of teacher militancy through an analysis of collectively bargained contracts in Oregon's largest school districts

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    Logan, Charles Allen
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    movement was the deceptively attractive new capitalistic philosophy of laissez-faire advanced by Adam

  • 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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