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(2014-06-09)Department: MathematicsGeneralizing E-theory for C*-algebras of A. Connes and N. Higson, we defined E-theory for Lp algebras - a bivariant K-theory for closed algebra of bounded linear operators on some Lp(µ) space. We showed that our theory has ...
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(2008-07-31)Department: PsychologyRecent findings confirm an association between major depressive disorder (MDD) and altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, with elevated plasma cortisol concentrations. Prolonged exposure to glucocorticoids ...
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Early Events in RNA Virus Infection: Profiling the Pre-Replicated Interactome of Chikungunya Virus (2020-11-05)Department: BiochemistryThe race between RNA virus replication and the host innate immune response begins immediately after viral infection. While awaiting transcriptional upregulation of interferons and antiviral genes, cells must rely on mRNAs ...
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(2015-03-26)Department: PhysicsWe study the structure and evolution of dark matter halos from z = 300 to z = 6 for two cosmological N-body simulation initialization techniques. While the second-order Lagrangian perturbation theory (2LPT) and the ...
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(2010-09-15)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThis project is concerned with the relationship between type-1 diabetes and auditory pathology. In this dissertation I compared hearing sensitivity, cochlear function, and peripheral auditory neural function (afferent and ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: PsychologyPast research has established disrupted physiological reactivity to stress and poor coping and emotion regulation (ER) as mediators between early life adversity (ELA) and later psychopathology. However, most studies have ...
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(2013-11-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesDespite improvements in amplification technology, the vocabulary growth of children with cochlear implants lag behind that of typically developing children. Maternal input may influence opportunities for children with ...
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(2009-07-30)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis study examines the cultural cross-pollination occurring between Spain and Portugal during the early modern period. More specifically, it argues that a number of Portuguese authors––including Manuel de Faria e Sousa, ...
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(2007-08-02)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe transcription factor Pdx1 is expressed throughout the pancreas early, but selectively in insulin-producing cells postnatally. Previous studies showed that conserved regulatory regions, Areas I and II (Pdx1PB), directed ...
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(2015-02-09)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY Echoing Demystified Aspirations: Human Flourishing and the Dialectic of Happiness Patrick Joseph Ahern Dissertation under the direction of Idit Dobbs-Weinstein The question of the possibility or even the ...
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(2004-03-26)Department: PsychologyThe prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity in the United States is increasing at alarming rates and these rates vary between ethnicities. It was hypothesized that using an ecological model, childhood predictors leading ...
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(2010-12-10)Department: Community Research and ActionEmpirical investigations that examine mortgage default tend to frame studies with theory that emphasizes individual financial factors and minimizes ecological factors, which may influence defaulters' opinions of their homes ...
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(2010-05-10)Department: Biological SciencesEcological speciation is defined as the process by which reproductive isolation arises between populations as a result of ecologically based divergent selection between environments. Selection is ecological when individual ...
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(2006-09-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation employs high-frequency data and techniques to examine various topics in financial markets. Chapter 1 compares forward regression model with eight statistical/practical trading exchange rate models in terms ...
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(2019-07-10)Department: EconomicsStrategic interactions change the outcome and the duration of a trade agreement, but it is hard to estimate their effects. First, countries chose their partners in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) based on other countries’ ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation uses Python-based programming to retrieve and analyze a sample of approximately 400,000 material contracts that companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission between 2001 and 2013, focusing ...
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(2015-07-16)Department: English“Economies of Entanglement” argues that the Victorian period is an essential context for understanding anglophone Caribbean literature. It frames the ongoing relationship between Britain and the Caribbean in terms of ...
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(2017-07-27)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesWe perform Ediacaran-style decay experiments on both sea anemones (Condylactis gigantea) and sea hares (Dolabella auricularia) in order to test between several proposed models of control on ‘death mask’ style preservation. ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: SociologyThe United States has experienced a dramatic growth and recent stabilization in incarceration rates. Within the past 40 years, the prison population increased five-fold. Today, the rate of incarceration in America surpasses ...
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(2014-03-29)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe purpose of this dissertation is to examine the shifting trends in the provision and funding of non-government schools in developing countries over the past 20 years, with an emphasis on the rise of low-cost private ...