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Showing 1 to 20 of 220 for “"biomedicine"”.
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Protein Engineering for Biomedicine and Beyond
Many applications in biomedicine, research, and industry require recognition agents with specificity and selectivity for their target. Protein engineering enables the design of scaffolds that can bind targets of interest while increasing their stability, and expanding the scope of applications in …
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Optical deformability : micromechanics from cell research to biomedicine
When a laser beam is incident on the surface of a transparent object, the optical surface forces, generated by the interaction of the light with the material, are directed away from the denser material and normal to its surface. This physical phenomenon can be used to probe the mechanical …
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Ethical Aspects of Human Subject Research in Biomedicine (Medical Ethic)
This dissertation attempts to provide grounds for subjecting the practice of human subject research (HSR) to ethical scrutiny, thereby supporting the need for regulative intervention of some sort, and then attempts to specify how HSR can meet ethical requirements. The study examines the areas in …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
This dissertation uses sociocultural studies approaches to investigate the multimodal practices of reception that patients and medical professionals use in their everyday lives as they engage health-related information. People demonstrate their active uptake of professional writing through …
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Innovative microphysiological systems for long-term real-time imaging in biomedicine
The discovery and development of new drugs is a complex and highly regulated process that, since its dawn, is afflicted by an intrinsic and fundamental problem: how to maintain cells or tissues alive out of human body in such a way they could behave like in vivo. So far, identification and …
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Sonoptics : applications of light and sound in the context of biomedicine
Ultrasound, applied in combination with microbubbles, has potential as a means to enhance the uptake of therapeutic agents, which could include drugs and nucleic acids, into biological cells. This process is commonly referred to as 'sonoporation', and the enhanced uptake can be caused through the …
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Distributional and relational inductive biases for graph representation learning in biomedicine
… priors into machine learning methods for biomedicine. We present contributions in two parts with the aim to foster research in this multidisciplinary domain and present novel methods that achieve strong performance through the use of distributional and relational inductive biases operating …
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Image analysis for diagnostic support in biomedicine: neuromuscular diseases and pigmented lesions
Esta tesis presenta dos sistemas implementados mediante técnicas de procesamiento de imagen, para ayuda al diagnóstico de enfermedades neuromusculares a partir de imágenes de microscopía de fluorescencia y análisis de lesiones pigmentadas a partir de imágenes dermoscópicas. El diagnóstico de …
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Doped ZnO nanoparticles in biomedicine: their role as stimuli-responsive anticancer agents
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Matrix completion algorithms with applications in biomedicine, e-commerce and social science
… completion algorithms with applications in biomedicine, e-commerce and social science. In general, matrix completion algorithms work well for low rank matrices. Such matrices find many applications in recommender systems and social network analysis. On the other hand, biological networks …
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Mechanisms driving the formation and success of collaborations between scientists in biomedicine
"Despite decades of research into human social behavior, mechanisms that allow collaborations between scientists to form and thrive are not well understood. Surveys, interviews, and studies of laboratories inform most of what is known about collaboration; yet each method has limited scalability. …
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Evolution of natural medicine and biomedicine and their future roles in health care
… investigates whether the natural medicine and biomedicine professions could cooperate for the benefit of patients within an integrated medical model. The investigation contains a substantive narrative and historical overview of the evolution of medicine. This provides a background to the …
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Barcoding tools to track development and function of stem cell constructs for biomedicine
Biological regeneration has long been explored as a breakthrough modality for human therapy. Degenerative diseases, a majority of which are a related to ageing, manifest as a wide variety of pathologies: cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and Alzheimer to name a few. Consequently, the idea of a …
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Technologies of living substance : tissue culture and cellular life in twentieth century biomedicine
This thesis is a historical and cultural analysis of the development of tissue culture, that is, techniques for growing living cells and tissues outside of the bodies of complex organisms. The development of these techniques represents an important epistemological shift in biology from in vivo to …
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Synthesis of Complex Plasmonic Nanostructures for Applications in Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Biomedicine
… surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: SERS) and biomedicine. Many of these potential applications are made possible by the strong localized surface plasmon resonance: LSPR) of noble-metal nanostructures, which is heavily influenced by the particle's morphology. The first part of this work focuses …
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Design and Evaluation of Network Algorithms and Deep Learning Models in Systems Biology and Biomedicine
… problems in network biology and computational biomedicine. The first two address methodological challenges in network biology, while the latter two focus on applications of network-based computational modeling in therapeutics. (i) We introduce a provenance tracing framework for random …
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Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Polyethers and Polypeptides for Use in Biomedicine and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Copolymers that contain terminal or pendent functional groups have great potential in the biomedical area due to their biocompatibility and tunable properties.1-3 In this research, two vinyl functional epoxides, vinyldimethylsilylpropyl glycidyl ether (VSiGE) and ethoxy vinyl glycidyl ether (EVGE), …
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A rhetorical analysis of patient decision aids for genetic testing: Scientific knowledge, embodiment, and problematic integration in biomedicine
I consider how patient decision aids—technical communication documents created by biomedical practitioners—work to help people decide whether they should request genetic tests. I sample a genre of non-commercial patient decision aids that I term gateway documents developed by representatives of …
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