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(2014-02-20)Department: Human GeneticsAlzheimer’s Disease is an irreversible, degenerative disease of the brain that accounts for a majority of dementia cases each year, in both the general population and in patients with Down Syndrome. The advancement of in ...
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(Cells, 2023-01-13)Age-related protein truncation is a common process in long-lived proteins such as proteins found in the ocular lens. Major truncation products have been reported for soluble and membrane proteins of the lens, including ...
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(2015-08-17)Department: NeuroscienceThe hippocampus is a medial temporal lobe structure involved in learning and memory. Several magnetic resonance imaging methods exist to investigate hippocampal structure and function in vivo. Some of these methods provide ...
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(2017-03-03)Department: ChemistryDisease is characterized by signature molecular changes in affected tissues and organs. Diseases cause disruption and dysregulation of a number of biological molecules, including proteins, lipids, metal, and small molecules. ...
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(2014-07-07)Department: ChemistryDiabetic nephropathy (DN) leads to progressive decline in renal function and is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease. Much still remains unknown about the pathogenesis of this disease. This project investigates the ...
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(2020-08-14)Department: ChemistryInfection and disease are rooted in chemical changes at or below the cellular level. Many of the causative chemical changes that result in potentially deadly conditions localize to specific structures or cells within tissues ...
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(2010-04-12)Department: Biomedical EngineeringImaging protocols for detection of breast cancer metastases to bone in clinical imaging have long been standardized, but to date small animal imaging still uses a variety of imaging modalities and protocols. Although imaging ...
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(2014-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesThis paper creates a contextualized narrative of the history of Amazonian development projects. This project will examine understandings and representations of nature and the Amazon, and how these representations, and their ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-08-22)Rammanohar Lohia was a failed politician. By the time he was finally to the Lok Sabha -- India’s lower house of parliament -- in 1963, it was clear that his Socialist Party would never be a major force in Indian politics. ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: EnglishThis thesis maps the conflation of Cuban authors Juan Francisco Manzano and Placido in John Greenleaf Whittier's The Stranger in Lowell. Through an inadvertent synthesis of the lived experiences of the two poets, the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)Traditional research papers cannot stand as the lone measuring stick for how well students can present their knowledge and thoughts. Their very essence goes against much of what recent pedagogy says about teaching research ...
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(2013-08-16)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation is intended as an intervention in the interminable and apparently antinomical philosophical exchange between political theories of radical democracy descended from Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and ...
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(2023)The English Language Center (ELC) team have prepared this guide to assist students as they prepare for, work on, and submit their Immersion Vanderbilt project. This guide will also connect students with additional ELC ...
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(2023)The English Language Center (ELC) team have prepared this guide to assist students as they prepare for, work on, and submit their Immersion Vanderbilt project. This guide will also connect students with additional ELC ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-15)The paper describes the growing number of immigrant students in secondary schools and discusses how these students present teachers with particular challenges and resources in teaching the civic education needed to sustain ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2003-04-10)
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(Human Rights, 2019)There is a long history of the intersection of immigration, race, and civil rights in America. Immigration laws have operated in a manner to maintain homogeneity to the exclusion of immigrants of color. Immigration laws ...
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(Georgia State University Law Review, 2021)Black immigrants are invisible at the intersection of their race and immigration status. Until recently, conversations on border security, unlawful immigration, and national security obscured racially motivated laws seeking ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)