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B Cell Memory, CD23, and Lipid Metabolism: A Preliminary Study
(2012)We each receive vaccinations throughout our lives, which protect us from many pathogens and gives long-term protection through generating a subset of memory lymphocytes. This study explores whether CD23 (Fcε receptor) ... -
B-coming: Time's Passage in the B-theory Blockworld
(2013)I defend what is routinely held to be an incompatible combination of views: the idea that time passes and the idea that the universe is a four-dimensional manifold without an objective present. Almost all philosophers of ... -
“Baby Miles”: Reproductive Rights, Labor, and Ethics in the Transnational Korean Reproductive Technology Industry
(2018)This dissertation examines the transnational circuits of the assisted reproductive technology (ART) industry in South Korea to demonstrate how the concepts of reproductive rights and labor have been contested, negotiated, ... -
Bach in a New Light: Reimagining Three Keyboard Partitas for Double Reed Quartet
(2020)My project is an arrangement and recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Keyboard Partitas Nos. 1, 3, and 4 (BWV 825, 827, and 828) for two oboes, English horn, and bassoon. I used the Bach Gesellschaft score to create the ... -
BACH TO BASICS: A PERFORMANCE STUDY OF THE SUITES FOR SOLO CELLO BY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, BWV 1007-1012
(2009)This dissertation project focuses on J.S. Bach's Six Suites and explores the ideology of the Suites as etudes versus concert pieces. It is my belief that the evolution of the rank of the Suites in a cellist's repertoire ... -
Bach's Cello Suites and the French Bass Viol Tradition
(2020)The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the tradition of soloistic bass viol music, popular in France from c.1660-c.1747, and Bach's suites for unaccompanied violoncello, BWV 1007-1012, which scholars ... -
THE BACH/KODÁLY LEGACY: THE SOLO CELLO'S THREE-HUNDRED-YEAR EVOLUTION
(2013)This dissertation project is comprised of three recitals that share similar qualities: all the works performed are unaccompanied, employing implied or actual bass accompaniment under lyrical lines, open-string sonorities, ... -
BACK AND FORTH : (Re) Weaving and (Re) Knitting Locust Point IntoThe Fabric of Baltimore City.
(2004-09-07)The identity of cities were defined by gothic cathedrals in the middle ages in the same way that industrial "palaces" of the industrial age codified a sense of identity for many major cities. These infrastructure that were ... -
Back to Earth: Molecular Approaches to Microbial Ecology Must Consider Soil Morphology and Physicochemical Properties
(2015)This project studied the influence of different long-term agricultural management regimes on soil microbial communities, and compared survival strategies of individual prokaryotic OTUs in diverse soils subjected to long-term ... -
Back to the basics : an investigation into preservation trades education
(2010-05)There is a growing shortage of workers trained in the preservation crafts (e.g. timber framing, masonry, plastering, etc.). This final project examines the state of the preservation trades education system in the United ... -
Back-Action Evading Measurements of Nanomechanical Motion Approaching Quantum Limits
(2009)The application of quantum mechanics to macroscopic motion suggests many counterintuitive phenomena. While the quantum nature of the motion of individual atoms and molecules has long been successfully studied, an equivalent ... -
"Backing Away from the Cliff": A Theory of Education for Sustainability in the Postsecondary Classroom
(2014)Despite growing efforts for Education for Sustainability (EfS), little empirical research documents EfS in the postsecondary classroom and the ways in which sustainability is defined in these classrooms. The purpose of ... -
Backlash Control via Redundant Drivers: An Experimental Verification
(1992)In this paper, a novel concept for the control of backlash in geared servo-mechanisms is demonstrated with a prototype manipulator. The concept utilizes unidirectional redundant drives to assure positive coupling of gear ... -
BackProp: A Tool for Learning About Connectionist Architectures.
(1988)This paper provides an implementation, in Common Lisp, of an "epoch learning algorithm," a simple modification of the standard back-propagation algorithm. This implementation is not intended to be a general purpose, high ... -
Backstepping Control Design for the Coordinated Motion of Vehicles in a Flowfield
(2011)Motion coordination of autonomous vehicles has applications from target surveillance to climate monitoring. Previous research has yielded stabilizing formation control laws for a self-propelled vehicle model with first-order ... -
Backward Error Analysis of Factorization Algorithms for Symmetric and Symmetric Triadic Matrices
(2006-01-13)We consider the $LBL^T$ factorization of a symmetric matrix where $L$ is unit lower triangular and $B$ is block diagonal with diagonal blocks of order $1$ or $2$. This is a generalization of the Cholesky factorization, and ... -
Backward Error Bounds for Approximate Krylov Subspaces
(2001-05-10)Let $A$ be a matrix of order $n$ and let $\clu\subset\comp^{n}$ be a subspace of dimension $k$. In this note we determine a matrix $E$ of minimal norm such that $\clu$ is a Krylov subspace of $A+E$. (Cross-referenced ...