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  • Local Signal Detection on Irregular Domains with Spatially Varying Coefficient Model

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    Zhang, Chengzhu
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    In areas such as spatial analysis and time series analysis, it is essential to understand and quantify spatial or temporal heterogeneity. In this dissertation, we focus on a spatially varying coefficient model, in which spatial heterogeneity is accommodated by allowing the regression coefficients to vary in a given spatial domain....
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    Detection on Irregular Domains with Spatially Varying Coefficient Model Abstract approved: Lan Xue In

  • Behavior-based mobility prediction for fast handoffs in wireless LANs

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    Wanalertlak, Weetit
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    Wireless Networks have been widely adopted into a major part of today's network infrastructure. They have become a popular technology to not only expand the coverage of wired networks but also to interconnect a large wireless network, i.e., wireless mesh networks. As they allow more flexible communication than traditional wired-networks...
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    handoffs are added or deleted to reflect the chang- ing conditions. In addition, the Pre-Authentication

  • Genome-enabled discovery and characterization of type III effector-encoding genes of plant symbiotic bacteria

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    Kimbrel, Jeffrey A.
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    Symbiosis is the close and protracted interaction between organisms. The molecular interactions that occur during symbiosis are complex with multiple barriers that must be overcome. Many Gram-negative, host-associated bacteria use a type III secretion system to mediate associations with their eukaryotic hosts. This secretion system is a specialized apparatus for...
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    Effector- encoding Genes of Plant Symbiotic Bacteria. Abstract approved: Jeff H. Chang

  • Alternative splicing in the obligate biotrophic oomycete pathogen, Pseudoperonospora cubensis

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    Cumbie, Jason S.
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    Oomycetes are some of the most devastating pathogens, causing upwards of billions of dollars of damage each year to plants. They also diminish ecological diversity and health through the destruction of trees and shrubs. The genome sequence of Pseudoperonospora cubensis, an obligate plant pathogen and causative agent of downy mildew...
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    : __________________________________________________________ Jeff H. Chang Oomycetes are some of the most devastating pathogens, causing upwards of

  • Disaggregating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Data: Cardiovascular Health, Neighborhood Factors, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Among Older Adults

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    Đoàn, Lan N.
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    Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in the United States (US) and research suggests that CVD morbidity and mortality disproportionately impacts Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) older adults. However, the prevalence on CVD and underlying mechanisms for CVD disparities among disaggregated Asian American...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Lan N. Đoàn for the

  • Inkjet-Printed Metal Halide Semiconductors for Wearable Electronics

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    Li, Shujie
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    There is an emerging interest in developing wearable electronics as a platform, which provides the flexibility of a wearable while maintaining its promising functionality as smart textiles. Metal-halide semiconductors are attractive materials with tunable optical and electrical properties. Researchers have widely studied and applied it for advanced photonics and optoelectronic...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Chih-Hung Chang There is an

  • Identification and characterization of type III effector proteins in plant-associated bacteria

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    Thomas, William J.
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    Symbioses between microbes and multicellular eukaryotes are found in all biomes, and encompass a spectrum of symbiotic lifestyles that includes parasitism and disease, commensalism, and mutually beneficial interdependent host-microbe relationships. Regardless of outcome, these symbiotic lifestyles are governed by a complex molecular "courtship" between microbe and potential host. This courtship...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Jeff H. Chang Symbioses between microbes and multicellular eukaryotes are found in all

  • Characterization of the pathogenicity and phylogeny of members of the Rhodococcus genus

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    Creason, Allison L.
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    Plant pathogenic Rhodococcus species are persistent pathogens able to cause severe growth deformities on a large range of hosts. The most well studied species, R. fascians is predicted by current models to synthesize a mixture of cytokinins that act to directly perturb the hosts' hormone balances, which results in abnormal...
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    . Chang Plant pathogenic Rhodococcus species are persistent pathogens able to cause severe

  • Analytical chemistry of pentazocine metabolites produced by the greyhound

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    Xiao, Guang
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    This thesis concerns itself mainly with analytical methods development and analytical applications in the field of drug metabolism studies. The determination of the analgesic pentazocine and its metabolites in the greyhound are studied. Pentazocine and all of its possible metabolites are isolated from the greyhound urine by a the multi-solvent...
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    by the greyhound AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Guanq Xiao for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

  • Effects of selected family characteristics on interrelated components of household asset portfolios

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    Xiao, Jing-jian
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    The effects of selected family characteristics on interrelated components of household asset portfolios over a three-year time period were investigated. Specifically, this study attempted to conceptually define mental accounts, to identify own-adjustment and cross-adjustment characteristics of these mental accounts, to explore influences of selected family characteristics on these mental accounts,...
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    interrelated components of household asset portfolios AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jing-jian Xiao for the