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(2018-07-16)This dissertation revitalizes and revisits the historical category of polemic by arguing for the existence of a distinct subgenre within polemic that was constructed as oral university-style disputation. It does by first ...
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(2020-11-10)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of complex neurodevelopment disorders with a strong genetic basis. Large scale sequencing studies have provided strong evidence for dozens of ASD risk genes. However, it is estimated ...
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(2018-07-22)Our brain network, as a complex integrative system, consists of many different regions. Each region has its own task and function and simultaneously shares structural and functional information. With the developed imaging ...
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(2011-08-08)The purpose of this study was to experimentally investigate the behavioral correlates of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation and their relation to speech (dis)fluency in preschool-age children who do (CWS) and do ...
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(2013-04-18)From the 1920s to the 1940s, 350 colleges and more than 2,000 public schools throughout the South were using in their courses curricular materials designed to stress African-American achievements and point out the many ...
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(2014-06-25)The methylation state of DNA is important for gene expression, gene imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, and transposon silencing in mammals and plants. DNA methylation is established by methyltransferases to mark a ...
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(2013-12-05)Many recent studies have identified rare variants that contribute to common, complex disease. It is believed that rare variants likely have a larger effect size (compared to GWAS findings) and can act alone, in concert ...
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(2009-01-02)This work consists of constructing a model that combines an understanding of physical transport processes and the biological mechanisms involved in the uptake, transport and sequestration of contaminants by a hyperaccumulator, ...
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(2013-06-17)A BIPHASIC ROLE FOR THE VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL SCN5LAB IN CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT OF ZEBRAFISH JEFFREY S. BENNETT Dissertation under direction of Professor Dan M. Roden, M.D. Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) play ...
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(2019-07-30)The British coffeehouse has been the recipient of immense scholarly attention since Jürgen Habermas identified it as the paradigm of his public sphere, a space in which private and public interests intersected. But all of ...
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(2008-08-04)With shrinking device feature sizes, integrated circuits are becoming more vulnerable to Single-Event Transients (SETs). Characterizing error rates due to SETs is essential for choosing appropriate hardening techniques ...
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(2011-12-10)The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a Responsiveness-to-Intervention (RTI) Tier II tutoring program on first grade students who are at risk for reading disabilities. Ten students (8 boys and 2 girls) ...
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(2015-07-28)In this paper, I examine the press of Rio de Janeiro in August and September 1922 to argue that Brazil’s centennial celebrations represented a novel, yet culturally conservative, attempt by Brazilian and Portuguese political ...
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(2019-03-25)Mental health and illness on college and university campuses have become major topics of concern in recent years. The following study consists of a qualitative investigation of student and faculty perspectives about mental ...
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(2014-04-11)Adaptation planners and water managers around the world are faced with the increasingly difficult challenge of allocating scarce water resources in a world of climate change and dynamic social pressures. Sri Lanka serves ...
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(2010-07-15)Wnt/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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(2016-11-23)Staphylococcus 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)As 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)This 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 ...