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[M]form : Symbiotic Design and Fabrication for Casting of Modular Systems
(2012-09-13)Mechatronics is a concurrent field blending mechanical (mecha) and electronics (tronics) engineering used for the development of interactive design and manufacturing. It opens a portal for information to flow between the ... -
Ma: Space Where Flows Meet
Time is a critical factor in the construction of space. Renowned Japanese architect, Arata Isozaki, writes about “Ma, space-time,” the “natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity … giving rise to ... -
Macaque Personality: Structure, Development, and Relationship to Social Behavior
In this work, we use behavioral observations to quantify individual differences in infant and adult macaques. We demonstrate that these differences, which we refer to as temperament in infants and personality in adults, ... -
Maccabees on the Baltic: the Biblical apologia of the Teutonic Order
(1989)This study examines the religious and historical literature of the Teutonic Order, the brotherhood of warrior-monks whose northern crusade subdued and converted the eastern Baltic region during the late Middle Ages.Chapter ... -
Machinability of Aerospace Tooling Materials for Composite Repairs
(2014-04-30)Tooling used to cure composite laminates in the aerospace and automotive industries must provide a dimensionally stable geometry throughout the thermal cycle applied during the part curing process. This requires that the ... -
Machine learning and data decompositions for complex networked dynamical systems
Machine learning has become part of our daily lives. Its applications include personalized advertisements, stock price predictions, and self-driving cars. The goal of this thesis is to study ways to apply machine learning ... -
Machine learning as massive search
(1997)Machine learning is the inference of general patterns from data. Machine-learning algorithms search large spaces of potential hypotheses for the hypothesis that best fits the data. Since the search space for most induction ... -
Machine Learning based Attacks and Defenses in Computer Security: Towards Privacy and Utility Balance in Emerging Technology Environments
The growth of smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) is driving data markets in which users exchange sensor streams for services. In most current data exchange models, service providers offer their functionality ... -
Machine Learning of Spatiotemporal Bursting Behavior in Developing Neural Networks
Experimental investigation of the collective dynamics in large networks of neurons is a fundamental step towards understanding the mechanisms behind signal and information processing in the brain. In the last decade, the ... -
Machines for Living
This thesis describes A Machine for Living In, a digital media artwork using newly available computational and sensing tools to study the home as a site of intimate life. The title invokes Le Corbusier's modernist framing ... -
Macroeconomic Dynamics of Market Risk Capital Requirements and Credit Supply Interdependence
The 2008 global financial crisis revealed serious weaknesses in the worldwide banking system and financial regulatory regime. Concerns arose about the possible procyclical effects of risk-sensitive capital requirements ... -
Macrophage ADAM17 deficiency augments CD36-dependent apoptotic cell uptake and the linked anti-inflammatory phenotype
(2013-07-23)<italic>Rationale:</italic> Phagocytosis of apoptotic cells (efferocytosis) is mediated by apoptotic cell receptors and is essential for resolution of inflammation. In chronic inflammation, apoptotic cell clearance is ... -
Macrophage infiltration of human adipose tissue and its association with systemic inflammation, obesity, and metabolic disease
(2013-04-17)Macrophages accumulate in expanding adipose tissue where they produce and secrete inflammatory cytokines known to impair insulin action. "Classically activated" (i.e., pro-inflammatory) adipose tissue macrophages (ATM) are ... -
Macrophage interactions with biomaterial surfaces and their effects on endothelial cell activation
(1998)This research project focused on the development of in vitro models to study cell reactions with material surfaces and how materials exert their influence on cell-cell interactions. Macrophage inflammatory cytokine release ... -
Magia oculta, cuerpo celeste: Representaciones de lo sobrenatural en Los desengaños amorosos de María de Zayas
In early modern Spain, when María de Zayas published Parte segunda del sarao y entretenimineto honesto, more commonly known as Los desengaños amorosos (1649), the existence of magical and supernatural forces was considered ... -
Magic in the Music? Music Programming in Art Museums
(2013-07-25)In an effort to attract new audiences, a number of art museums have turned to participation-building programming as a mechanism for getting new audiences in the door (Harlow et al., 2011). Music programming is a widespread ... -
Magic, morality and medicine: madness and medical pluralism in Java
(2007)Javanese language and culture privilege the notions of order and disorder, act to preserve hierarchy and promote social harmony. Mental and physical illness are often diagnosed as the result of disturbances to order, insult ... -
Magmatic accretion of the upper oceanic crust
(1998)The focus of this work is the temporal and spatial evolution of upper oceanic crust accreted at the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge (JdFR), an intermediate rate spreading center. The area of concentrated study is along the ... -
Magnetic Devices and Techniques for the Study of Viscoelasticity of Biomaterials and Myocardial Forces
Magnetic microdevices comprise a set of popular tools to study a number of properties of biological systems. In particular, magnetic microdevices are useful as methods to apply force to systems, and to measure the force ... -
Magnetic Nanoparticles for Targeted Cancer Theranostics
Nanotechnology has given scientists new tools for the development of advanced materials for the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) in particular have been ...