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Coherent Raman Scattering: Methods Towards Imaging with High Sensitivity.
(2012)
Coherent Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for molecular identification. For imaging applications, Raman spectroscopy techniques have offered a way of achieving endogenous chemical contrast without the need for fluorescent ...
Investigations into the Optically Stimulated Luminescence Response of Various Materials.
(2011)
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimetry involves the illumination of an irradiated sample of an appropriate material to produce a stimulated emission of light whose intensity is indicative of the radiation dose. ...
Virtual Sky Surveys and Multi-wavelength Investigations of Galaxy Clusters.
(2010)
The advent of large and overlapping sky surveys brings promise of a new era in the study of galaxy clusters and dark energy. Clusters have been used for decades as faithful buoys of space-time, tracing cosmic evolution ...
Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Neuronal Network Dynamics: Relating Topology to Function.
(2010)
Within the brain, the interplay between connectivity patterns of neurons and their spatiotemporal dynamics is believed to be intricately linked to the bases of cognition, learning, and memory. In order to understand these ...
Formation of Embedded Nitride Semiconductor Nanocrystals.
(2012)
In this thesis, the formation, phase selection, and spatial positioning of GaAs:N
(InAs:N) nanocomposite layers produced by N-implantation, focused ion beam (FIB)
irradiation, and rapid thermal annealing (RTA) of GaAs ...
Non-Canonical Scalar Fields and Their Applications in Cosmology and Astrophysics.
(2010)
In this thesis we will discuss several issues concerning cosmological applications of non-canonical scalar fields, which are generically referred to as k-essence. First, we consider two examples of k-essence. These are the ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
Ultrasound-triggered Drug Delivery Using Acoustic Droplet Vaporization.
(2010)
The goal of targeted drug delivery is the spatial and temporal localization of a therapeutic agent and its associated bioeffects. One method of drug localization is acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV), whereby drug-laden ...
Probing Biological Systems using Reflectance and Fluorescence Spectroscopy.
(2010)
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a leading cause of cancer death with a five-year survival rate of only 5%. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA), the current diagnostic standard, cannot reliably rule ...
Enhanced Light Collection from Single Trapped Ions.
(2011)
Long-range transport of quantum information across a network is most readily achieved through the use of photons as the information carriers. The nodes of such a quantum network are most naturally a quantum memory or ...