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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"novel studies"”.
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Novel Studies of Transition Metal Dimers
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Novel studies of fat and nutrient intakes and the risk of human cancers
Three unique human studies were conducted to explore the relationship between nutritional factors and cancer. <italic>In vivo</italic> lipid peroxidation was compared in post-menopausal women following a low-fat diet or a low-fat diet supplemented with 3% of energy from omega-3 fatty acids; the …
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Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel: Studies in Form and Meaning from James Joyce to Anne Enright
This dissertation examines how the modern Irish novel negotiates shifting cultural conceptions of death and dying across the twentieth century. Analyzing a cross-section of important novels — James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room, Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies, John McGahern’s The …
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Novel studies of the dynamics of mineral N species transformations and their mobilities relevant to assessing risks to drainage water.
ABSTRACT The biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen has been studied in detail at a predominantly acid grassland nature reserve, Hob Moor, just outside the city of York in the UK. Because of the risk of more frequent and/or extended summer droughts as a potential consequence of climate change, …
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A stochastic tractography system and applications
… diffusion throughout the brain. Many comparative studies of white matter architecture utilize spatially localized comparisons of diffusion characteristics. White matter tractography enables studies of fiber bundle characteristics. Stochastic tractography facilitates these investigations by …
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the production of shame, 1680-1753
… shame. Where the conduct manual and the moral novel demonize the shameless female subject, women writers such as Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, and Charlottle Lennox consistently decouple shame from virtue to expose the limitations of the virtuous principles in the world of the conduct manual and …
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Cunning Authors and Bad Readers: Gendered Authorship in "Love in Excess"
Although the works of eighteenth-century novelist Eliza Haywood have attracted scholarly attention in the past several decades, the number of thorough analyses of her individual works remains low. This thesis aims to help fill this gap by providing a close reading of Haywood’s first novel, Love in …
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ON THE METABOLIC AND MECHANICAL DEMANDS OF WALKING: THE EFFECTS OF SLIDING FRICTION, LIMB SWING WORK, AND BOUT DURATION.
… efficiency of locomotion; I then present three novel studies that examine how the bioenergetics and mechanics of human locomotion are linked. The first study investigates walking in a virtual reality emulator, where participants slide their feet on the surface of a multidirectional treadmill. In …
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Understanding the embodied teacher : nonverbal cues for sociable robot learning
… the attention of robot learners. I conducted two novel studies that examined the use of embodied cues in human task learning and teaching behavior. These studies motivated the creation of a novel data-gathering system for capturing teaching and learning interactions at very high spatial and …
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Effects of 5��-Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) on Mouse Gut Microbiome– A Study of Sex Differences and Hormonal Effects on Gut Microbiome Composition
… susceptibility and diet. Over the past decade, novel studies have placed a higher significance on the role of gut microbiome in T1D pathogenesis. Furthermore, diabetic mouse models have shown higher incidence of T1D in females compared to males, attributed to the differences in gut microbial …
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The Ergogenic Effects of Oxygen Supplementation on Cycling Performance
… on repeat sprint cycle performance. Studies 2 and 3 followed on with aims to investigate mechanisms that underlie these performance enhancements. Next, we aimed to determine how the exact timing of oxygen supplementation could potentially influence repeated sprint performance (study …
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Exercise and free radical induced damage to human skeletal muscle
This thesis reports five novel studies investigating exercise and free radical induced damage to human skeletal muscle, with a review of related literature. It has been proposed muscle adapts to eccentric exercise by increasing its resting length. The first study investigated the effects of …
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Joint analysis of user-generated content and product information to enhance user experience in e-commerce
… experience in e-commerce, we propose a series of novel studies based on joint analysis of user-generated content and product information; in this dissertation, user-generated content includes user reviews and social media text data, and product information includes product descriptions and product …
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Noninvasive Multi-Modality Studies of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Mechanics, and Anatomical Substrate in Healthy Adults, Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, and Heart Failure
… on the epicardium. This thesis applies ECGI to novel studies of human heart function and disease and explores new combinations of ECGI with additional imaging modalities.</p><p>ECGI was applied in combination with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) scar imaging MRI in patients with arrhythmogenic …
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Algorithms for enhanced spatiotemporal imaging of human brain function
Studies of human brain function require technologies to non-invasively image neuronal dynamics with high spatiotemporal resolution. The electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetoencephalogram (MEG) measure neuronal activity with high temporal resolution, and provide clinically accessible signatures of …
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Colonic metabolism of dietary grape seed extract: Analytical method development, effect on tight-junction proteins, tissue accumulation, and pan-colonic pharmacokinetics
… metabolism occurs. The objectives of these studies are to better understand the roles and activities of PCs in the lower gastrointestinal tract. First, a new high-throughput Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry method was developed to efficiently analyze PCs and …
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Clinical Trial Enrollment In A Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer
… Sixty-seven percent enrolled in laboratory studies, 18% quality of life studies, 13% novel studies, and 3.7% procedural studies. On MVA, men seen in later years (p < 0.0001) were more likely to enroll in trials. The proportion of men enrolling increased from 38.9% to 84.3% (p<0.0001) after …
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Novel methods within a randomised controlled trial in respiratory disease
… This thesis aimed to explore a series of novel methods as solutions in respiratory medicine.<br/><br/>Methods:<br/>A number of studies were embedded within the CLEAR bronchiectasis trial. Studies investigated remote data collection in lung function using patient-led technology, the use of …
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Evaluation and management of hospital antibiotic use
… methods. A series of drug utilisation research studies were implemented as the basis of research methods that, in combination of previously described methods, provided novel studies. <br/><br/>No single measure can currently capture all of the aspects of hospital antibiotic use. However, a …
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