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The Myt1 and Ngn3 feed-forward expression loop drives pancreatic islet differentiation in the mouse (2009-11-30)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyIn humans, the proper growth and homeostasis of endocrine islets in the pancreas is of great medical importance, in that loss and dysfunction of islet cells result in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. One of the major ...
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(2011-12-12)Department: History of ArtThe artistic medium must be thought of not simply in terms of the materials of art-making, but rather as the condition of the possibility of certain modes of expression, and in this regard one can only identify the medium ...
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(2016-12-12)Department: PhysicsOptical nanostructures are becoming an increasingly important aspect of modern technology. As a result high-resolution experimental techniques as well as nanoscale computational methods have become increasingly important ...
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The NCLB Choice Provisions and Effects of Mobility: A Review of the Literature and Research Designs (2017-04-24)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis paper explore the choice provisions contained within the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Examining the literature around student mobility in the context of school choice, the paper discusses the possible expectations ...
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(2018-03-14)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentGentrification—commonly understood as the transformation of areas with high levels of affordable housing into areas targeting middle and upper income uses—provokes a range of losses. People may lose their homes, neighbors, ...
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(2005-04-07)Department: PsychologyPSYCHOLOGY THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF EXPLICIT CATEGORIZATION MARCI A. FLANERY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Thomas J. Palmeri Understanding categorization has been the goal of an extensive amount of ...
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(2011-08-30)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation aims to investigate the neural mechanisms of intertemporal and risky economic choices and the relationships between choice preferences and impulsivity. Previous research has revealed a role for the ...
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(2008-12-11)Department: PsychologyThe amount of information that we can extract from a visual scene and maintain in visual short-term memory (VSTM) over a short period of time is severely limited. VSTM is capacity limited in terms of the rate of consolidating ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: NeuroscienceThis thesis advances our understanding of the neurochemistry of higher cognitive functions in 5 different projects. In the first project, the utility of a neurochemical sampling tool is demonstrated through novel in vivo ...
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(2016-04-01)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explains how the performance of the New York Stock Exchange has become vitally important to the methods by which a majority of Americans finance retirement. In 1974, the US Congress passed the Employee ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)This article provides an introduction to the normative approach to multidimensional inequality measurement. Multivariate generalizations of the procedures used to construct univariate inequality indices from social evaluation ...
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(2020-03-30)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesThis study evaluated the feasibility and construct validity of four parallel measures of listening comprehension and reading comprehension for individuals with Down syndrome and peers with typical developmental histories. ...
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(2019-07-22)Department: MathematicsWe prove that the Novikov conjecture is satisfied by any discrete torsion-free group admitting an isometric and metrically proper action on a non-positively curved complete simply-connected Hilbert manifold with enough ...
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(2010-05-10)Department: PsychologyAre the same object representations used in visual attention and visual memory? This dissertation summarizes three projects that have examined different aspects of this question. First, dual-task methods were used to ...
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(2013-01-14)Department: PsychologyA half-century's worth of research has established the existence of numerous event-related potential (ERP) components measuring different covert cognitive operations in humans including preparing responses to anticipated ...
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(2012-04-10)Department: ReligionThis project focuses on the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz and it’s critique of Enlightenment rationality or “technical reason.” I examine Metz’s critique of the Enlightenment and his counter to its defective ...
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(2016-04-29)Department: ReligionDissertation under the direction of Dr. Victor Anderson: The one and the many has been the perennial philosophical problem from Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas to H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic, Radical Monotheism and Western ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: PsychologyThe Internet provides a new arena in which social support operates. After surveying the in-person literature, we created the Online Social Support Scale, which measures four kinds of social support online: esteem/emotional, ...
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(2022-11-17)Department: Cancer BiologyThe emergence of immunotherapy as a new pillar of cancer treatment is due to the success of immune checkpoint blockade drugs. However, many patients receiving checkpoint blockade fail to respond, and consensus evidence ...