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(2014-10-15)Department: PharmacologyAstrocytes are one type of glia in the central nervous system, and they provide metabolic and structural support to neurons. Following injury astrocytes undergo an injury stress response known as reactive gliosis. Gliosis ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringBreast cancer is the second-highest cancer occurrence in women in the United States and is the most prevalent cancer worldwide, with many studies dedicated to understanding its characteristics. In addition to examining ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringBreast cancer is the second-highest cancer occurrence in women in the United States and is the most prevalent cancer worldwide, with many studies dedicated to understanding its characteristics. In addition to examining ...
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(2021-03-16)Department: PsychologyTypes and subtypes of peer victimization (PV) behaviors have long been identified among school-age children and adolescents. However, such typologies have not been established for older adolescents and young adults who are ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)We document the types of undergraduate colleges and universities attended by those who earned a doctorate in economics from an American university from 1966 through 2003 and examine relationships between type of undergraduate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
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(2024-07-16)Department: EnglishAlongside white supremacy’s long history of death and erasure is an equally long shadow history of its preserving black lives for its own economic and ideological ends. Drawing a line from nineteenth century artifacts ...
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(2020-11-18)Department: Special EducationGraphic organizers have been found to have significant positive outcomes for struggling readers. However, there is often a gap between research and practice, and even though a practice has been proven effective in research, ...
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(2021-01-19)Department: Biomedical EngineeringA cell’s biophysical properties control changes in its shape that drive important biological processes, such as cell division, development, and migration. Changes in the mechanical properties of cells and tissues can also ...
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(2012-12-13)Department: EconomicsWhen implementing social programs, governments are seeking ways of targeting individuals who are chronically deprived. Most developing countries lack panel data required to identify the chronically poor with standard chronic ...
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(2018-07-26)Department: Biomedical InformaticsAltered kinase signaling is one of the hallmarks of cancer that has previously been studied at the genomic and transcriptomic level. However, phosphoproteomic data are an increasingly popular way to study global cell ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: Mechanical EngineeringIt is well known in the field of engineering that pneumatic actuation has certain advantages over electromagnetic actuation, although the latter is far more commonly fielded in both mobile and stationary devices. The aim ...
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(2024-5)This project explores the use of spirituality in fostering resilience among Generation Z college students. Eighteen to twenty-nine -year-old brains, are more suspectable to mental illness and increased use of negative ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThough there is widespread evidence that teachers matter, a more challenging problem exists in attempting to measure teacher effectiveness. It can be argued that student feedback is an important consideration in any teacher ...
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(2019-08-19)Department: Latin American StudiesI argue in this thesis that the massive flow of Venezuelan emigration started after 2015 must be understood as a non-voluntary kind of migration because of the similar patterns that this ongoing process shares with previous ...
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(2018-05-17)Department: EnglishThis dissertation explores representations of monstrous bodies in Victorian literature, culture, and scientific discourse through a posthuman lens. I argue that Victorians were fascinated by bodies that violated the norms ...
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(2023-03-06)Department: ReligionReligion The Violence of the Enchanted Souls: A Genealogical Approach to Sufi Debates in Premodern Iran (9th-15th cent) Ashkan Bahrani Dissertation under the direction of Professor Richard J. McGregor This is an ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: PhilosophyIn “White Mythology,” Jacques Derrida claims that the structure of metaphor reveals the impossibility of constructing complete theories of meaning. He targets two metaphors—the metaphor of metaphor, and the metaphor of ...
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(2008-12-01)Department: EnglishThe American Way of Life as a suburban experience not only appears to be on its downward slope in the energy-starved early twenty-first century, it appears to be unsustainable. This dissertation identifies the everyday ...
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(2009-06-05)Department: EnglishThis dissertation is a study of the interplay of regionalism and globalization in the work of William Faulkner (1897-1962) and Derek Walcott (1930-). Through a survey of contemporary criticism delineating a common ...