Hijacking Germ Cells for Cancer: Examining a ‘Dead End’ in Male Germ Cell Development by Matthew Simon Cook Department of Cell Biology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Blanche Capel, Supervisor ___________________________ Sally Kornbluth ___________________________ Chris Nicchitta ___________________________ Jack Keene An abstract of a dissertat...

This work is part of the ICS project (Intelligent Commerce System) whose aim is to design and implement an effective B2B E-commerce system based on mobile and intelligent agents. The ICS lifecycle is based on five phases: User Modeling, Matchmaking, Negotiation, Contract Formation and Contract Fulfillment. We propose here an automated process for the Contract Formation and Fulfillment phases. W...

Socioeconomic Stress by Dopamine Receptor 2 Gene Interactions in the Development of Obesity by Michael Vicente Stanton Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Redford Williams, Supervisor ___________________________ Richard Surwit ___________________________ Gary Bennett ___________________________ Timothy Stra...

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 RISK VERSUS RESILIENCE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEV...

Later-life Effects of Mitochondrial DNA Damage During Development in the Whole Organism Model Caenorhabditis elegans by Maxwell C. K. Leung Environment Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Joel N. Meyer, Supervisor ___________________________ Shawn Ahmed ___________________________ Jonathan H. Freedman ___________________________ David E. Hinton An ...

Health behavior change may prevent many fatal diseases, and may be influenced by social and motivational constructs. We assessed the interaction effect of future time perspective and basic psychological need fulfillment on positive and negative health behaviors. Future time perspective was associated with more positive, and less negative, health behaviors. Need fulfillment was associated with o...

DEVELOPMENT OF FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR APPLICATIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY by Anjul Maheshwari Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Dr. Joseph A. Izatt, Supervisor ___________________________ Dr. Glenn Edwards ___________________________ Dr. Nirmala Ramanujam ______________________...

The Role of FGF Signaling During Granule Neuron Precursor Development and Tumorigenesis by Brian Andrew Emmenegger Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Date: _________________________ Approved: ______________________________ Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, Supervisor ______________________________ Dennis J. Thiele ______________________________ Ann Marie Pendergast ___________...

Regulation of Tcra/Tcrd locus conformation during thymocyte development by Han-Yu Department of Immunology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Michael Krangel, Supervisor ___________________________ Yuan Zhuang, Chair ___________________________ Shyam Unniraman ___________________________ Qijing Li ___________________________ Kenneth Kreuzer ______...