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Showing 1 to 20 of 405 for “"Hearts"”.
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Hearts and Trees
The process of creating art is a visceral experience for me. Each piece is born from an inherent need to visually express and understand my experiences and emotions. I use a variety of materials to create mixed media sculptures, books, and two-dimensional images. Maps and trees are the common …
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In the Hearts of Palms
In the Hearts of Palms is a novel, in which the alternating narratives of two characters' lives meet in the most consequential of circumstances. A young girl's coming of age journey collides with a man's grief and search for healing and reaches a tragic denouement within a week of the novel's …
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Paper Hearts Can Beat Forever
Essays and poetry.
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Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories
… are a portion of my unfinished novel, Twelve Hearts of Clay, as well as a few of my favorite short stories. "Calluses," my foray into experimental writing, is perhaps the most completed piece in the collection, having found publication in the October 2010 issue of Blue Crow Magazine, an …
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Enhancing Metabolism of Donor Hearts for Cardiac Transplantation
… pool relates to the poor ischemic tolerance of hearts removed and stored prior to implantation. Currently used heart preservation techniques involve storage of the organ near 0ºC to minimize donor organ metabolism and limit ongoing deterioration of the organ during storage prior to implantation …
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Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity and Urbanization in Vietnam
<p>My dissertation analyzes how and why volunteers joined or established grassroots Buddhist charities in Ho Chi Minh City. I spoke with approximately 400 members of 25 charities, focusing on seven main groups that shared an overlapping network of volunteers. My research includes perspectives from …
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An Effective Transcutaneous Energy Transfer (TET) System for Artificial Hearts
… implantable medical devices such as artificial hearts can require up to 30 W which is not suitable to be supplied from a battery. These devices are currently powered by an external power supply consisting of a wire passing through the skin and directly connecting to the artificial heart. However …
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Optical method of recording electrical activity in isolated rabbit hearts
… to record electrical activity from isolated hearts stained with voltage-sensitive dyes. This optical technique generates recordings of transmembrane potential from excitable myocardial tissue, and remain free from stimulus artifacts that accompany electro stimulation and hinder all standard …
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Development of a cardiac patch for the regeneration of infarcted hearts
The inflammation that occurs after cardiac ischemia/reperfusion leads to high levels of oxidative stress, which produces deleterious effects that ultimately limit regeneration of the myocardium. This stress response can be prolonged, thereby affecting various stages of cardiac repair remodelling. …
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Local coherence of hearts in the derived category of a commutative ring
… to the module theoretic characterisation of the hearts have been achieved, providing evidence of the usefulness of the t-structures in the representation theory of R. In 2020, following a research line promoted by many other authors, Saorin and Stovicek proved that the heart of any compactly …
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Building child safe communities with children and young people at their hearts
This is the thesis component of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Published Works at the University of Salford, United Kingdom (UK). The overall submission is a portfolio of seven published works supported by five associated publications and a critical appraisal focusing on the contribution that …
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The electrophysiology of the atrioventricular node in normal and failing rabbit hearts
Conduction abnormalities affect prognosis in chronic heart failure (CHF). Previous investigators have observed abnormal delay in atrioventricular (AV) conduction in a rabbit model of left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) due to apical myocardial infarction. In this model, AV conduction time increased …
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The Effects of Irradiation and Antioxidants on Myoglobin Derived From Beef Hearts
… color, myoglobin (Mb) was extracted from beef hearts. Mb was treated with one of four antioxidants (control, citric acid (CA), ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) or propyl gallate (PG)) and irradiated at 0.00, 1.25 or 2.50 kGy. Samples were then evaluated for thiobarbituric reactive …
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Transcending Private Friendships to Public Hearts: Implications of Interracial Friendships for Public Life
… to developing and disciplining our public hearts.</p><p> While long standing philosophical conceptions and more recent social science perspective of friendship are examined, friendship is conceptualized here using Emerson's notion of "truth" and "tenderness."
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Detection of perfusion defects in murine hearts with MRI at low magnetic fields
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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The role of framing in counterinsurgency/counterterrorism operations the status of hearts and minds
te with their public. Framing offers insights into terrorist and insurgent operations that are only recently being addressed but still not widely capitalized on by current U.S. Army operations in Iraq. My focus is on the role of framing in the U.S. counterterrorism effort, and I will demonstrate …
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