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Engineering in vitro models of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Author(s):Davidson, Matthew David
Date Issued:2017
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
Decreased resources and a scarcity of affordable, healthy food is contributing to rising obesity rates throughout the world. Consequentially, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which is highly correlated with ...
Engineering a biomimetic periosteum on cortical bone allografts for the reconstruction of critical-sized bone defects in mice
Author(s):Romero, Raimundo
Date Issued:2017
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
Load bearing bone allografts suffer from clinical failure due to low allograft-host tissue integration. Removal of the periosteum, a thin tissue layer on bone with a high regenerative capacity, is responsible for bone ...
Mathematical and experimental studies in cellular decision making
Author(s):Lyons, Samanthe Merrick
Date Issued:2017
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
The biological sciences are undergoing an epistemological revolution. Mathematical modeling, quantitative experiments and data analysis, machine learning and other methods of "big-data" modeling are slowly but surely ...
Effect of rear wheel suspension on tilt-in-space wheelchair shock and vibration attenuation
Author(s):Hischke, Molly
Date Issued:2017
Format:born digital; masters theses
Suspension systems are designed to reduce shock and vibration exposure. Prior to the QuadshoX LLC suspension kit (Fort Collins, CO), manual tilt-in-space wheelchairs did not have rear wheel suspension available for use. ...