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Start Over Graduate Program Bioengineering Year 2008

2. An Investigation of Three-Dimensionality in the Penn State Pulsatile Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device

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Open Access
Author:
Roszelle, Breigh Nonte
Title:
An Investigation of Three-Dimensionality in the Penn State Pulsatile Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
particle image velocimetry
pediatric ventricular assist device
fluid mechanics
File:
Download MastersThesisFinal.pdf
Committee Members:
Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

5. EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF KINESIN-2 MECHANOCHEMISTRY

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Open Access
Author:
Muthukrishnan, Gayatri
Title:
EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF KINESIN-2 MECHANOCHEMISTRY
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
stochastic simulation
run length
ATP hydrolysis
optical tweezers
quantum dots
biophysics
kinesin
microtubules
File:
Download FinalThesis_041408.pdf
Committee Members:
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Mary Elizabeth Willilams, Committee Member

6. MECHANISMS OF SHEAR-INDUCED ADAPTIVE RHEOLOGY IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS

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Open Access
Author:
Dangaria, Jhanvi H.
Title:
MECHANISMS OF SHEAR-INDUCED ADAPTIVE RHEOLOGY IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
mechanotransduction
particle tracking
viscoelasticity
atherosclerosis
cell mechanics
File:
Download Dangaria_JH_PhD_2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Member

7. SURFACE-MEDIATED MOLECULAR EVENTS IN MATERIAL-INDUCED BLOOD-PLASMA COAGULATION

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Open Access
Author:
Chatterjee, Kaushik
Title:
SURFACE-MEDIATED MOLECULAR EVENTS IN MATERIAL-INDUCED BLOOD-PLASMA COAGULATION
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
blood coagulation
contact activation
protein adsorption
intrinsic coagulation cascade
factor XII
plasma proteases
File:
Download thesis_kaushik_chatterjee.pdf
Committee Members:
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Alan J Stenger, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member

8. CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY OF MICROTUBULES AND MANIPULATION OF KINESIN DRIVEN MICROTUBULE MOTION

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Open Access
Author:
Uppalapati, Maruti Chandra Mouli Varma
Title:
CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY OF MICROTUBULES AND MANIPULATION OF KINESIN DRIVEN MICROTUBULE MOTION
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
protein patterning
microfabrication
AC electrokinetics
microtubule
kinesin
mitosis
File:
Download MarutiPhDThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Ryan S Clement, Committee Member

9. Multimodal microspectroscopy for noninvasive, quantitative, and multiscale studies of biological systems

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Open Access
Author:
Yu, Qianru
Title:
Multimodal microspectroscopy for noninvasive, quantitative, and multiscale studies of biological systems
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
two-photon
FLIM
mitochondria
microscopy
FCS
File:
Download masterThesis_yu.pdf
Committee Members:
Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

10. The Detection of Microemboli in Blood using Doppler Ultrasound: Signal Analysis and Detector Performance

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Open Access
Author:
Ballakur, Sowmya Gowri
Title:
The Detection of Microemboli in Blood using Doppler Ultrasound: Signal Analysis and Detector Performance
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
Microemboli
Doppler Ultrasound
Signal Processing
time-frequency
parametric methods
time-scale
File:
Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
William Joseph Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger Paul Gaumond, Committee Member
Nadine B Smith, Committee Member
Ryan S Clemet, Committee Member
Russell Scaduto Jr., Committee Member