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Macrophage Phenotype Differentiation in the Rat Uterus during Normal and Diabetic Pregnancies
(2011-05-19)Macrophages are the most common type of immune cell in the pregnant uterus. Depending on the tissue microenvironment, macrophages assume one of two broad phenotypes. In general, M1 macrophages destroy extracellular pathogens ... -
Macrophage-Mediated Efferocytosis in Rat Uterine Remodeling
(2018-06-21)Macrophages are professional phagocytes that survey the body for pathogens and secrete biomolecules relevant to many cellular processes. Our lab identified the presence of macrophages around the rat uterine lumen and within ... -
Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanocubes - The Effect of Substrate Modification, and Post Assembly Manipulation on the Formation of a Monolayer
(2021-07-14)Over the last decade, nanoparticles have become particles of great research interest because of their inherent chemical compositions such as size, shape, ability to be coated by other molecules, and control over their ... -
Making Bridge Accessible To The Visually Impaired
(2012-06-20)Bridge is an entertaining card game enjoyed by many, particularly senior citizens. In addition to being enjoyable, playing bridge involves a large amount of strategy and challenges the player's memory. Studies have shown ... -
Making My Way Throuh Mumbai: The Experiences of an Impact Documentation Intern in India
(2018-03-26)Have you ever had to ride a motor bike, walk through a river and trek through muddy fields to get to work? I have. This past summer, I worked as an impact documentation intern for Under the Mango Tree, a small socially ... -
The Making of the Black Woman
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Manifestations of the Gothic in Jewish Literature
(2021-05-25)The Jewish experience is a prime landscape for the gothic to erupt. Our constant instability as a people—our homelessness, our oppression, our ancestry—is ripe for a gothic reading. I found that the Jewish gothic predicates ... -
Manipulation of Individual Magnetic Domain Walls with a Local Circular Field
(2012-05-07)Understanding domain wall (DW) motion in nanoscale ferromagnetic structures reveals intriguing physics, with tremendous potential applications in logic devices and racetrack memory. Work has been done to move a series of ... -
Many Voices, Multiple Communities, One Framework
(2015-08-24)Bees are essential to agriculture, pollinating important food crops ranging from apples to zucchini. The social enterprise Under the Mango Tree in India provides beekeeping training and supplies to marginalized farmers in ... -
Mapping a Genetic Mutation involved in Larval Fat Body Remodeling Disruption in Drosophila melanogaster
(2020-06-04)Tissue remodeling plays an important role in the development of many multicellular organisms. It is also a key process in wound healing and tumor metastasis, and studying the control of tissue remodeling could lead to ... -
Mapping Emotions: Visualizing Affective Impact on Our Internal Framework
(2014-07-02)Specific mental and physical phenomena activate our experience of emotions. In response, our bodies attempt to counteract and overcome the heightened affective state that results from these forcible episodes. Through ... -
The Marketable Swamp People: The Effects of Commodification on Louisiana’s Cajun Culture
(2012-05-11)The Cajuns are a cultural group that lives almost exclusively in Southwest Louisiana. Today they are portrayed in mainstream media through reality television shows and cook books, but how did this 'Cajun fever' emerge? ... -
Marking Time on Material: An Artist s Investigation of Natural Processes
(2011-02-16)Material is impermanent. This fact is the key point to my artistic investigation of time. In time, everything decays, breaks down and becomes something else. Through my artwork, I try to visualize the changing qualities ... -
Marriage Migration in Singapore and South Korea Reflections on Field Research
(2014-06-06)There are various motivations that compel individuals to move from one place to another. Within the last few decades, there has been a surge of women primarily from Southeast Asia migrating to marry men in other economically ... -
Matrices in Motion
(2011-02-16)This thesis studies the patterns found in contra dance, representable by manipulations of 2x2 matrices, and investigates their use onstage in performance dance idioms. On March 26 and 27, 2010, eight dancers explored these ... -
A Matter of Medical Faith: The Anti-Vaccination Debate from 1880 to 1910
(2018-06-25)The History Department thesis “A Matter of Medical Faith: The Anti-Vaccination Debate from 1880 to 1910,” explores the first anti-vaccination movement in the United States, and its eventual culmination in the 1905 Supreme ... -
The meaning of symbolism in tattoos: A qualitative inquiry into the relationship between individuals and their body art
(2017-06-29)This study investigated the nature of the relationships between individuals and their own tattoo(s). Through considering the personal construction of symbolic meaning involved with getting and having a tattoo, this research ... -
Measuring Charge of Individual Quantum Dots
(2013-05-28)Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) have been a subject of interest for many years due to their favorable optoelectronic properties arising directly from their small size through quantum confinement ... -
Measuring forest biomass using AIMS lidar and aerial high-resolution imagery
(2012-05-18)Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are a leading cause of climate change (Malhi et al. 2002). At least half of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon is stored in forest biomass (Gower et al. 1996) by the ... -
Mechanical characterization of modulus-tunable and surface-modifiable polydimethylsiloxane with AFM
(2015-07-14)In this study we investigated two polymeric reaction systems to fabricate stiffness-tunable and surface-modifiable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a biomaterial commonly used in microfluidic devices for medical diagnostics ...