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(2020-05-14)Department: PhysicsIntercalation, the process of inserting atoms or molecules into host materials, has been extensively researched in graphite for energy storage and reaction catalysis applications. The recent ability to isolate graphite ...
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ATP Citrate Lyase and mitochondrial membrane potential regulate hematopoietic cell fate and function (2023-03-23)Department: Molecular Pathology & ImmunologyIn addition to their role in bioenergetic homeostasis, mitochondria are increasingly appreciated as regulators of hematopoietic cell fate and function. Here, we demonstrate the role of ATP citrate lyase (ACLY) on murine ...
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(2019-05-09)Department: SpanishIn this dissertation, I explore the practice of provocation as a recurrent feature and strategy present in Puerto Rican cultural production of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. I study provocation as ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-02-19)Atrial fibrillation is a common problem in ICU patients, but it is a problem with many potential causes, and not always a well defined treatment.
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(Virginia Law Review, 2012)For a generation since Margaret Jane Radin’s classic article Property and Personhood, scholars have viewed personhood as a conception of property that affirms autonomy, dignity, and basic civil rights, a progressive ...
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(2013-03-26)Department: PsychologyObjective. This study tested the Attachment-Diathesis Model of Chronic Pain (Meredith, Ownsworth, & Strong; 2008) in a group of adolescents and young adults with a history of pediatric functional abdominal pain (FAP). We ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: PsychologyStressful experiences in early life can adversely influence long-term behavior, including in ways that propagate to individuals’ offspring. The mechanisms by which early life stress exerts effects that span generations are ...
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(2020-07)This project was an investigation into safety and security measures implemented by Heads of School within the South Carolina Independent School Association (SCISA). Interviews and an open-ended survey were conducted with ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: ReligionPastoral theological response to families facing disabilities must be shaped by a critically-understood concept of care that both clarifies disability experiences in families, church, and society, and is attentive to ...
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(2022-12)The New England Charter School (NECS; a pseudonym) is a public charter school located in New Haven, Connecticut. I used an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, which involved collecting survey data first followed ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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(2018-04-18)Department: NeuroscienceA significant body of research has indicated that acuity of the neurocognitive system used to represent numerical magnitudes, often referred to as the approximate number system (ANS), serves a foundational role in the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...
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(2008-06-06)Department: PsychologyChronic abdominal pain (CAP) is common in youth and has been associated with poor social and emotional adjustment. Theory and research suggest that the nature of children’s adaptation to chronic or recurrent pain is ...
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(2023-08)The U.S. Military Veteran experience in the context of their transition toward civilian life after military service has received a vast amount of research attention. Recently, the U.S. exit from the 21-year long war in ...
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(2018-12-03)Department: NeuroscienceIt is now a well-established finding that the human brain has a ``small-world' architecture, which is characterized by densely connected modules and a highly-connected hub network. It has been hypothesized that this ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Information about 586 individuals who matriculated into 27 economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2002 is used to estimate first and second year attrition rates. After two years, 26.5 percent of the initial cohort had left, ...
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(Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019-11)Background. Loiasis is mostly considered a relatively benign infection when compared with other filarial and parasitic diseases, with Calabar swellings and eyeworm being the most common signs. Yet, there are numerous reports ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2011)Patent law is constantly evolving to accommodate advances in science and technology. But, for a variety of reasons, some aspects of patent doctrine have not evolved over time leading to a growing disconnect between the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1992)