UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Structural Priming and Non-surface Representations A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The Effects of Distance on Lexical Bias: Sibilant Harmony in Navajo Compounds A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles A Comparison Study of JPRESS and COSY for Quantitation of 2D Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Inverse Compton Scattering and Characterization of the Source at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Accelerator Test Facility A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Physics by

A Review of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on Potential Clinical Applications Towards Diagnosing Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading cancers in the world and early-screening is still the best method of cancer patient survival. However, colonoscopy as the current gold standard is not without flaws and an emerging technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) coupled with machine learning is a possible candidate that could be applied in parallel with colonoscopy. This...

A Review of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on Potential Clinical Applications Towards Diagnosing Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading cancers in the world and early-screening is still the best method of cancer patient survival. However, colonoscopy as the current gold standard is not without flaws and an emerging technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) coupled with machine learning is a possible candidate that could be applied in parallel with colonoscopy. This...