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Showing 1 to 20 of 214 for “"Long-term Goal"”.
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How Want vs Need Self-Talk Facilitates Goal-Directed Behavior
… involves avoiding temptations or striving toward long-term goals. When attempting to exert self-control, the way people address themselves (e.g., self-talk) is important. This study examined how self-talk strategies want and need affected behavioral self-control outcomes in a temptation situation …
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The Impact of Water on Girls' Formal Education: A Study of Kenyan Secondary Schools
… a baseline for iteration and expansion, with the long-term goal of developing a greater understanding of the ways in which water development projects and the smarter provision of basic resources can be used as strategies for achieving gender equality in both education and civic participation.</p>
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What is the best timing for post-conflict elections? : the cases of the First and Second Liberian Civil War
… is that if the circumstances are to permit the long-term goal of democratization, then post-conflict elections should follow a protracted transition period prior to holding the election.
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Toward an intelligent multimodal interface for natural interaction
… design or cognitive science perspective. The long-term goal of our research is to build an intelligent multimodal interface for natural interaction that can serve as a testbed for enabling the formulation of a more principled system design framework for multimodal HCI. This thesis focuses on …
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Pragmatic and cultural information in a Chinese-English learner's dictionary
… speakers, or designed for non-Chinese but long out of date. This dissertation, by addressing some of the lexicographical issues surrounding the inadequacy of presently available bilingual dictionaries, seeks to serve as a steppingstone to a long-term goal of producing a state-of-the-art …
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Computational and laboratory investigations of a model of blood droplet flight for forensic applications
… can be extracted using tracking software. The long-term goal is to develop an accurate framework for forensic Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA).
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A large strain piezoelectric microactuator by folding assembly
… by which that amplification can be increased, along with a method to reduce parasitic out of plane bending present in prior designs. Fabricated actuator triplets demonstrated peak unblocked displacement of 15 [mu]m, 3% total contraction by length, with an estimated blocking force of [approx.] …
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FUNCTIONALIZATION OF A NOVEL ELASTOMERIC BIOMATERIAL FOR VASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING
… engineered scaffold for an artery graft. The long-term goal of this project was to develop a functionalized PFC scaffold for use as a small diameter vascular graft that would facilitate cellular infiltration and aid in the recruitment of circulating endothelial progenitor cells. To achieve …
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A deep learning approach to estimate replicative lifespans from yeast cell images
… for cellular aging. A common metric for determining the lifespan of budding yeast cells is the replicative lifespan (RLS), how many times a mother cell divides in its lifetime. Traditionally, determining the RLS of yeast cells is a tedious manual process. To address this challenge, our …
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Developing a System to Produce Uniform Micropropagated Horseradish (Armoracia Rusticana) Plants in Vitro
… considered the first step toward achieving our long term goal to develop a certified root program to deliver disease free horseradish plants to growers. We expect that achieving this goal could solve the current production disease problems, restore the yields, and help Illinois remain the …
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Synthesis and self-assembly of multiblock and Janus particles
… colloids in liquid suspension, towards the long-term goal of developing the practical capability to make a colloidal structure, or any colloidal material, that is “assemblable”. Two levels of efforts are included in this thesis, first, the fabrication of patchy colloidal particles on demand, …
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Characterization of Hemocytes in Amblyomma americanum and Investigation of TRAF6’s Role in Proliferation of Hemocytes in Response to Infection
… americanum</em> immune system, with the long-term goal of determining how human pathogens evade detection in this vector.</p>
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Genetics of the Arabidopsis Inflorescence Replacement Program
The long-term goal of this project is to characterize the genes responsible for IRP variation in Arabidopsis. The research presented here began by surveying accessions from a collection of geographically diverse Arabidopsis accessions. Five major phenotypic clusters within 85 accessions were …
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ATRAP Buffer-Gas Positron Accumulator
… simplest antimatter atom, since 2002 and has a long-term goal of performing precision laser spectroscopy on these antihydrogen atoms. ATRAP has produced antihydrogen by positron cooling of antiprotons and by a laser-controlled charge-exchange process. Both methods require large numbers of …
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Entrepreneurial high school: An evaluation and feasibility study of a conceptual school model
<p>The long-term goal of this project was to inform the design of an entrepreneurial-focused charter school utilizing school-based enterprises (SBEs) to anchor a project-based learning (PBL) curriculum. The study was two parts: 1) to determine the extent of schools utilizing this innovative …
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Identification and Characterization of Novel Kinases that Regulate BRCA1 Expression and Function
… screening assays for three selected kinases determined whether siRNA-mediated knockdown of the kinases caused an expression or function defect of BRCA1. Repair capacity and cell survival after DNA damage were characterized following siRNA-mediated knockdown of these three kinases. Our long term …
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Quantitative biological Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive blood analysis
The long term goal of this project is the measurement of clinically-relevant analytes in the blood tissue matrix of human subjects using near-infrared Raman spectroscopy, with the shorter term research directed towards glucose measurements for diabetic patients. This optical technique enables …
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Software development of the Automated Law Review Submission System
… communications are the most important goals of any submission system. The submission process used by law professors and law review journals severely fails to meet those goals. The Automated Law Review Submission System (ALRSS) has been developed in order to meet those goals. Many …
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Nonlinear ultrasonic guided waves for quantitative life prediction of structures with complex geometries
… generation for propagating elastic waves. The long term goal of this study is to investigate the non-linear elastic propagation in parts with complex geometry. Cellular Automata is introduced as a new simulation method, in order to develop new analysis on quadratic non-linearities. An existing …
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Role of TLS Polymerases in Replication of DNA Lesions in Human Cells
… with base pairing and are cytotoxic. The long-term goal is to understand the mechanisms by which replication through such ubiquitous lesions occurs in human cells. Tumorigenesis is a multistep process associated with accumulation of mutations. Understanding of the biochemical basis of …
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