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Laboratory evolution and natural transformation in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1
(2016-09-14)The bacterium Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 has been proposed as a next-generation chassis for genome engineering due to its high natural transformation rates and metabolic proficiency. Development of ADP1 for biotechnological ... -
Engineering and evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for muconic acid production
(2016-09-14)The advent of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology has resulted in a proliferation of microbial cell factories capable of producing valuable chemical products in diverse microbial hosts. This promises to provide a ... -
The effect of rationale on classroom engagement : moderation by perceived competence
Pervasive evidence suggests that students’ classroom engagement in science tends to decline both within a school year and across school years. Motivation theory and research grounded in self-determination and expectancy-value ... -
Divine programming : religion and prime-time American television production in the post-network era
(2016-09-15)This dissertation addresses how religion weaves through industrial practices of prime-time American television including programming, marketing, and content creation in the twenty-first century. Through a focus on the ... -
Lightweight offload engines for worklist management and worklist-directed prefetching
The importance of irregular applications such as graph analytics is rapidly growing with the rise of Big Data. However, parallel graph workloads tend to perform poorly on general-purpose chip multiprocessors (CMPs) due to ... -
Adherence to disease modifying therapies in patients with multiple sclerosis
(2016-09-15)Adherence to disease modifying therapy (DMT) is a challenge for many patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). This three-study dissertation explored factors associated with DMT adherence, which may guide future interventions ... -
Perovskite oxide electrode materials for energy conversion and storage
(2016-09-16)The development of renewable energy conversion and storage technologies has become a leading focus of the fields of Materials Chemistry and Electrochemistry, with the ultimate goal of converting energy generated by renewable ... -
Dependence in operations : modeling and applications
(2018-06-28)Operations Management is replete with examples where dependence in risk has large financial consequences. Modeling dependence in multi-dimensional systems is a hard problem. Traditional models of dependence suffer from the ... -
On the atomization of fuel in diesel engines
(2018-09-22)The atomization of fuel spray in internal combustion engines depends mainly on the dynamic effect of the air on the fuel particles and perturbations of the fuel flow in the nozzle. The influence of the first factor was ... -
Model reference adaptive control for nonminimum phase aerospace systems
(2016-08-12)Adaptive control techniques are often avoided in aerospace systems due to stringent plant structural requirements and validation difficulties. This dissertation seeks to broaden the range of aerospace engineering applications ... -
Improving asthma management : patient-pharmacist partnership program in enhancing therapy adherence
(2016-08-16)Adherence to long-term asthma controller medications is an important factor in effective asthma management. Suboptimal adherence to asthma controller medications is prevalent. This three-study dissertation presents a ... -
Transcription factor networks and chromatin remodeler function in gene regulation on the eukaryotic genome
Numerous events – from histone modification and transcription factor binding to gene expression – take place on eukaryotic chromatin, while cells are constantly exposed to dynamic stimuli ranging from spatial and temporal ... -
Differential metal enrichment and dust synthesis in the aftermath of supernova explosions
(2016-08-12)Emerging from the Big Bang, the Universe contained hydrogen, helium, and lithium. Heavier elements were synthesized in stars and stellar explosions. The first stars formed when the Universe was about a hundred million ... -
Reconstruction of tensor product spline surfaces to integrate surface-surface intersection geometry and topology while maintaining inter-surface continuity
(2016-08-12)In the field of Computer-Aided Geometric Modeling (CAGD) stands one critical problem that plagues not only users of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications, but all downstream uses of a geometric model, namely, computational ... -
The roots of legislative durability : how information, deliberation, and compromise create laws that last
The central question of this dissertation is “What makes law last?” I argue that when legislators seek out diverse sources of information, engage in deliberation, and reach a substantive compromise, they pass the most ... -
“The most famous Indians in all the Indies are those from Chile, called Araucos. The next in New Spain, called Guachichiles or Chichimecs, who are now conquered.” : pacification projects in two frontiers of the New World’ Spanish Empire : New Galicia and Chile (1529-1626)
This dissertation seeks to unravel some of the most interesting and least known characteristics of the early Spanish Empire in the New World borderlands: the origin and application of the first policy of non-violent ... -
Psychopathology, alcohol use, deployment history and IPV : the mediating effects of adverse childhood experiences and allostatic load
The phenomenon of family violence is complex and multidimensional; to date prevalence rates show a rise in cases of family violence despite significant efforts on behalf of practitioners, researchers, and the criminal ... -
The politics of prioritization
Political agenda-setting research primarily studies how political institutions direct policy attention and gives little consideration to individual decision-making (Baumgartner and Jones 2009; Kingdon 1995; Baumgartner et ... -
People like you : the culture wars and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
In the half-century since Lyndon Johnson’s creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), no other Great Society program has been so bitterly and perpetually contested. PBS and NPR, the two institutions founded ... -
Three songs for Hindustani vocalist, soprano and sinfonietta
(2018-06-25)This musical work by Tara (Akshaya) Avril Tucker was premiered on March 21, 2018 by Saili Oak, Suzanne Lis and the prismatx ensemble. The three songs each explore a different melody from Hindustani Khyal singing, interpreting ...
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