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(2023-03-13)Department: EpidemiologyCatatonia is a poorly understood form of brain dysfunction characterized by marked and at times contradictory changes in muscle tone, motor behavior, affect and volition. It has been described in the context of non-affective ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)This study looked at the positive emotions of gratitude, pride, and happiness. Sixty-three Vanderbilt University undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions assessing their appraisals, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large ...
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(2020-03-28)Department: Molecular Physiology & BiophysicsG6PC2 encodes a glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit that is highly expressed in pancreatic islet beta cells. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have shown that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the G6PC2 ...
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(2020-03-18)Department: Community Research & ActionMyriad studies describe the link between media use and youth sexual attitudes, intentions, and behaviors, but little is known about its influence on sexual development across adolescence, and about how factors, such as ...
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(2018-10-16)Department: Special EducationMeta-analyses examining professional development efforts to enhance the quality of language instruction in preschool classrooms found that such trainings result in small, non-significant effects on child vocabulary (Cunningham ...
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(2021-08-16)Department: PsychologyAs there are innumerable variations of real-world images, visual object recognition poses a highly complex problem. That said, humans can reliably identify objects across a variety of challenging viewing conditions. Despite ...
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(2018-03-22)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCardiac development is a tightly controlled, step-wise process, as the heart is one of the first functional organs to develop. The major cell type of the heart is the cardiomyocyte and is known to be the work horse of the ...
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Exploring the role of the pulvinar-cortical interactions in vision: a tale of maps, loops and gates (2013-12-03)Department: NeuroscienceThe pulvinar is a dorsal thalamic nucleus strongly associated with the visual system, but of uncertain function. One of the central mysteries of the pulvinar is the direction and quality of the information sent from the ...
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(2022-1)This project focuses on the ways subject librarians contribute to eBook purchasing processes. It includes factors subject librarians find important when deciding what to acquire given their budget allocations. In the ...
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(2017-08-02)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsType 2 diabetes (T2D) is characterized by hyperglycemia, which arises due to insulin resistance and beta cell failure and/or decreased beta cell mass. Genome-wide association studies have shown that single nucleotide ...
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(2023-08)Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education and Human Development in Nashville, TN, serves as the school of education for Vanderbilt University. The Leadership and Organizational Performance Program (LOP) and ...
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(2018-01-11)Department: Chemical EngineeringSkin plays the vital role in human physiology of providing a barrier from the external environment. This barrier function is localized to the lipid matrix of the outermost layer, the stratum corneum. While much has been ...
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(2006-07-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis thesis explores the usefulness of micropolitical theory to explain and predict teacher reaction to performance pay incentives. Drawing from the research traditions of rationalism, culturalism and structuralism, a ...
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(2017-11-21)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe reduced cost of sequencing has made it feasible to acquire multi-tissue site expression data from the same patient. In the field of cancer research, this has caused an accumulation of cancer type specific tumor with ...
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(2019-01-18)Department: BiochemistryType II topoisomerases are enzymes that transiently cut the DNA to regulate supercoiling and remove knots and tangles from the genome. Although they are essential for cell survivability, these enzymes are potentially ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringAlthough siRNA-based therapeutics hold great promise for systemic cancer treatment, polyplex nanocarrier systems face many intravenous challenges that limit their pharmacokinetic potential and therefore reduce tumor ...
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(Oxford University Presshttp://www.oup.com, 2003)
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(American Theological Library Association, 2019)
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(2022-03-17)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyRhabdoid tumors (RT) are rare and deadly pediatric cancers driven by loss of SMARCB1, which encodes the SNF5 component of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler. Loss of SMARCB1 is associated with a complex set of phenotypic ...