Retrospective administrative claims database studies provide real-world evidence about treatment patterns, healthcare resource use, and costs for patients and are increasingly used to inform policy-making, drug formulary, ...

Mild, moderate, and vigorous physical activity are associated with decreased risks of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and a decreased infarct from stroke. Physical activity increases neurogenesis in the hippocampus ...

The two-pore domain K+ channel, TALK-1 modulates pancreatic β- and δ-cell Ca2+ ([Ca2+]c) entry and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+ ([Ca2+]ER) handling thereby impacting hormone secretion and glucose tolerance. To investigate ...

This dissertation examines topic of taboo social and psychological issues in Caribbean literature and culture and how they inform the relationship between France and its former colonies in the region. It argues that the ...

Recent controversies over identity claims have prompted questions about who should qualify for affirmative action, who counts as family, who is a man or a woman, and who is entitled to the benefits of U.S. citizenship. ...

CHILDREN AT RISK serves as a non-profit research, policy, and advocacy group focused on improving the quality of life for Texas’s children. The capstone aims to support CAR’s goal in better understanding their organizational ...

One topic that has gone largely unexplored in the long debate over how best to select judges is whether there are any ideological consequences to employing one selection method versus another. The goal of this study is to ...

This essay, written in honor of the economic historian Robert Higgs, surveys the economic history of African Americans from the end of slavery to the present day. This history, I argue, was largely one of convergence. ...

Tandem mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics has become a widespread technology for analyzing complex protein mixtures. A number of database searching algorithms have been developed to assign peptide sequences to ...