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(2007-04-06)Department: Cancer BiologyIntegration of receptor tyrosine kinase, integrin, and cadherin activities is crucial for normal cell growth, motility and adhesion. Here, we describe novel roles for p120 catenin (p120) and p190RhoGAP that coordinate ...
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(2015-12-09)Department: Cancer BiologyIn vertebrate epithelia, p120-catenin mediates E-cadherin stability and suppression of RhoA. Genetic ablation of p120 in various epithelial tissues typically causes striking alterations in tissue function and morphology. ...
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(2015-04-10)Department: AnthropologyDuring the early-middle Holocene (7500-4000 BP) on the west coast of South America, the intense exploitation of a changing marine environment led to sedentism and an increase in social complexity (e.g., Moseley 1975, 1988; ...
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(2020-10-15)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Nasep and Huns Members of the Urusis Formation (Nama Group), southern Namibia, preserve some of the most diverse trace fossil assemblages known from the latest Ediacaran worldwide, including potentially the world’s ...
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(2012-07-30)Department: SpanishThis dissertation explores both the Hispanic and Anglo-American modernist traditions from the common standpoint of the palimpsest. Central to the diverse body of modernist writings is the appropriation of French symbolism, ...
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(2017-08-28)Department: MathematicsTwo projects in classical analysis and two projects in computational mathematics applied to biology are considered. First a necessary and sufficient condition for the continuity at a point of minima for parabolic variational ...
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(2014-06-18)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsDiabetes mellitus has been a disease of increasing prevalence for nearly a century and is attributed to a dysregulation of hormones secreted from the pancreatic Islets of Langerhans; insulin from β-cells and glucagon from ...
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(2011-10-12)Department: ReligionThis dissertation takes its lead from the neglect in the field of pastoral theology to reflect on and respond to the role and ambiguities of everyday sexual experience in human suffering, healing, and flourishing. I speculate ...
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(2019-07-25)Department: AnthropologyOver the last decade açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), a palm fruit traditionally eaten as a staple food in the Brazilian Amazon has become a popular health food for global consumers. Marketed as an exotic tropical berry ...
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(2012-05-08)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe COPII machinery is the primary mediator of ER-to-Golgi transport and mutations in different COPII (Coat Protein II complex) paralogs are associated with diverse human diseases. Each tissue has vastly different requirements ...
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(2012-03-25)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe objective of this dissertation is to estimate the location and characteristics of concentrated heating sources on a surface. The heating sources are transient as they may be moving and varying temporally in magnitude. ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: PsychologyObserved mothers with and without a history of depression interacting with their adolescent children in a positive and a stressful task to determine possible mechanisms for the transmission of the effects of maternal ...
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(2018-01-18)Department: PsychologyChildren and adolescents of depressed parents are at increased risk for psychopathology compared to children of parents without a history of depression. Two powerful source of risk for internalizing and externalizing ...
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(2024-05-28)Department: PsychologyParental depression symptoms are a highly prevalent risk factor for youths’ development of psychological problems. Additionally, the effects of parenting behaviors and physiological stress reactivity have been examined as ...
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(2024-05-28)Department: PsychologyParental depression symptoms are a highly prevalent risk factor for youths’ development of psychological problems. Additionally, the effects of parenting behaviors and physiological stress reactivity have been examined as ...
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(2009-03-30)Department: PsychologyPrevious research has shown that both having a parent with depression and economic disadvantage are chronically stressful and lead to poorer outcomes in children and adolescents, but these stressors have never been studied ...
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(2022-07-12)Department: PsychologyParents vary substantially in the frequency and complexity of the math support that they provide to their children and this variability is often related to their children’s math knowledge, at least for numeracy. The Parent ...
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(2008-07-18)Department: Nursing ScienceApproximately 14% of US preschoolers are overweight. Examining parental perceptions of child body weight is crucial because successful prevention and treatment of childhood obesity is linked to parental awareness of child ...
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(2019-10-29)Department: Nursing ScienceParents of children recovering from hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) experience significant distress due to unpredictable and potentially life-threatening complications. Distress is heightened by intensive caregiving ...
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(2014-04-29)Department: PsychologyResearch has long documented significant anxiety and depression symptom co-occurrence across the lifespan, which suggests that these symptoms may share a common etiology. Stringent tests of specificity may elucidate those ...