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(2021-12-21)Department: PharmacologySevere injury is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, affecting over 3 million individuals in the U.S. yearly. Early complications of severe injury include bleeding, thrombosis and organ dysfunction, and if ...
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(2018-10-31)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsmicroRNAs (miRNA) have been shown to be critical players in metabolism. While most miRNAs studies have focused on their functional role within cells, miRNAs are also found extracellularly and have been proposed to participate ...
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(2005-12-14)Department: Biomedical InformaticsDealing with a cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment involves communication among clinicians, patients, families, friends and others affected by the illness. The hypothesis for this research is that an informatics system ...
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(2003-11-10)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCytokinetic actomyosin ring formation (CAR) in S. pombe requires two independent actin nucleation pathways, one dependent on the Arp2/3 complex and another involving the formin Cdc12p. Here we investigate the role of the ...
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(2021-08-15)Department: PsychologyColleges and universities are increasingly concerned about respect for diversity and tolerance of individual differences on their campuses. Nevertheless, no comprehensive measure of peer victimization has been developed ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: PsychologyThe Social Deafferentation (SDA) hypothesis explains the presence of delusions and hallucinations in schizophrenia as the outcome of hyperactive social brain network triggered by prolonged social isolation in vulnerable ...
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(2007-07-30)Department: SociologyThis project is concerned with the abrogation of granny midwives in South Carolina from 1900 to 1940. Using exploratory qualitative analysis, I analyzed journal articles for persecutory comments or opinions and South ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: AnthropologySettlement pattern research – the study of the spatial distribution of settlement across a landscape – is a fundamental aspect of archaeological investigations. This dissertation is a study of ancient Maya settlement on ...
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(2017-03-31)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceColloidal semiconductor nanocrystals have become one of the most versatile systems for studying the fundamental properties of nanoscale materials and their applications. The ternary I-III-VI2 semiconductors hold particular ...
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(2012-07-18)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY THE PHENOMENON OF MEANING AND HEIDEGGER’S ONTOLOGY DAVID G. FRAHM Thesis under the direction of Professor Michael Hodges The thesis is presented that the “ontological meaning” of an individual thing (a being) ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: Human GeneticsWhile genetic association studies have been able to elucidate the importance of genetics in human disease outcomes, these studies are limited by the necessity of collecting specifically tailored cohorts and that they ...
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(2006-12-05)Department: PhysicsThe coolest white dwarfs known with effective temperatures below 5000K are among the oldest stars in the Milky Way. As they define the cutoff in the white dwarf luminosity function, they may be used as cosmochronometers. ...
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(2014-04-25)Department: PharmacologyMutations in SCN5A encoding the cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV1.5) can result in severe life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias such as long QT syndrome (LQTS). However, the molecular basis for arrhythmia susceptibility ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)Bribery, it has been argued, allocates resources efficiently. We show that this conclusion need not hold in a dynamic extension of a simple static model in which it does. When permits are awarded over time and applicants ...
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(2017-01-30)Department: Community Research and ActionForced removals of black, colored, and Indian people from urban areas is ubiquitous in South Africa’s history. In Cape Town, displacements, evictions, and exclusions from the affluent, historically white city center continue ...
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(2016-08-18)Department: NeuroscienceThe perceptual binding of sensory signals from different sensory modalities is essential for the development of a coherent perception of the world. The behavioral benefits of multisensory interactions are readily evident ...
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(2007-04-11)Department: GermanThis dissertation proposes a new interpretation of the concept of mimesis, viewed through a recent paradigm derivative of the natural sciences: complexity theory. The apparent universality of what are considered complex ...
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(2018-03-27)Department: GermanSince its inception in the South Bronx in the 1970s, rap music has been characterized by a high degree of reflection on the media of its reproduction, and this media reflection has consequences for the poetics of rap lyrics. ...
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(2012-07-05)Department: ReligionRELIGION THE POETICS OF EMBODIMENT IN ISLAMIC MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY KATHARINE DENISE LOEVY Thesis under the direction of Professor William Franke What modes of reading can be provoked by reading different kinds of texts ...