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Prenatal diagnosis has given doctors the ability to predict problems before a child is even born. But what happens when the information gleaned from these tests is that the child is fatally sick? Doctors call these "futile" ...

Introduction: James Joyce is perhaps the most talked about and least read major writer in the English language. Virtually every modernist class and every book or article on Joyce eventually reaches a point where the professor ...

The field of dentistry has earned a reputation for being more prone to misdiagnosis and overtreatment than other medical subspecialties. This is driven, at least in part, by a professional culture that has traditionally ...

This thesis presents I-Views, a system that permits individuals to use published, communally owned media clips to author narratives by assembling clips, and to build communities of similar interests based on comparing these ...

In this thesis, we address two problems involving partial differential equations. In the first problem, we reformulate the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations into an equivalent pressure Poisson system. The new system ...

In Part I of this thesis, we propose moment closure methods to simulate the chemical kinetics of surface reactions. For systems with static disorder in the rate constants and short-range correlation in the densities of ...

Part I: An brief introduction to dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is provided including a discussion of polarization mechanisms and development of new polarization methods in a historical context. Efficient synthesis of ...