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(2010-07-15)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyWnt/β‐catenin signaling plays a critical role in metazoan development, stem cell maintenance, and human disease. The multicomponent β‐catenin destruction complex maintains low cellular β‐catenin in the absence of a signal ...
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(2021-04-02)Department: NeuroscienceManganese (Mn) is a biologically essential metal, critical as a cofactor for numerous enzymes such a glutamine synthetase and kinases such as ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM). Similar to other essential metals, such as ...
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(2016-11-23)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyStaphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen that contributes to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. In order to successfully colonize the host, S. aureus requires heme as a nutrient iron source and as a ...
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(2015-07-14)Department: Community Research and ActionAs conflicts surrounding the global Muslim community and other religious divisions continue to capture the attention of the media and public audiences, scholars and community practitioners increasingly extol the benefits ...
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(2019-04-01)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an empirical study of neoliberal urban redevelopment in the U.S. It considers how race, class, and gender shape twenty-first century cities. While neoliberal urban redevelopment has pronouncedly negative ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which ...
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(2023-11-15)Department: Biological SciencesCircadian clocks are intrinsic biological timers with a period of about 24 hours that can be synchronized to the environmental daily cycle and allow for prediction and anticipation of important cyclic events. These clocks ...
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(2011-04-14)Department: Electrical EngineeringPower is a critical issue in digital system design, especially with the emphasis on the portability of electronic devices. However, decreasing power does not necessarily lead to energy efficiency; designers need to consider ...
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(2022-11-14)Department: PsychologyJust as the perception of simple events such as clapping hands requires a linkage of sound with the movements that produce the sound, the integration of more complex events such as describing how to give an injection often ...
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(2021-02-12)Department: BiochemistryHuman cells are constantly exposed to endogenous and exogenous sources of DNA damage that cause thousands of DNA lesions in each cell every day. Accurate repair of these lesions ensures maintenance of genome stability and ...
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(2009-10-15)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe objective of this dissertation is to understand the circumstances under which non-experimental methods yield unbiased estimates of the effect of magnet school attendance on student achievement. This dissertation has ...
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(2014-09-22)Department: Biological SciencesThis research utilizes aphids to address some of the emerging themes in social evolution. To begin to address these themes, I identified traits to measure sociality in aphids. I found that for the ecological and behavioural ...
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(2004-06-15)Department: PsychologyStudies show that children with autism demonstrate impairments in their emotion-expression abilities. In the current study, one aspect of emotion-related expression was examined in these children: the production of laughter. ...
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(2005-04-21)Department: Management of TechnologyThe Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified error reporting systems as important components of patient safety improvement. Medical error reporting systems historically has been accomplished by disparate paper based ...
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(2017-06-20)Department: BiostatisticsOncology phase II clinical trials are used to evaluate the initial effect of a new regimen to determine if there warrants further study in a phase III clinical trial. Two-stage designs with an early futility stop are ...
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(2009-07-28)Department: Biomedical InformaticsUse of Bayesian networks (BN) has increased in medicine. Traditionally, BNs have been developed by experts or from the current literature. Several applications implement "off the shelf" BN structure learning algorithms, ...
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(2019-10-15)Department: PsychologyCorrelations and correlation matrices are common in quantitative research. As researchers move away from p-values to reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals, appropriate confidence interval techniques for multiple, ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Special EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION A COMPARISON OF DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT AND PROGRESS MONITORING IN THE PREDICTION OF READING ACHIEVEMENT FOR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE ERIN CAFFREY Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyEmotion differentiation is emerging as a focus in emotion research due to its potential for enhancing regulation strategies, social functioning, and other valuable life outcomes. These studies aim to explore whether the ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is a method that can be used to quantitatively and qualitatively assess physiological characteristics of tissue. Quantitative DCE-MRI requires an estimate of ...