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(2010-04-10)Department: PharmacologyGABA functions as the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. In hippocampus, GABA serves multiple roles during development and throughout adulthood, which include: 1) orchestrate synapse maturation ...
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(2020-07-23)Department: NeuroscienceA lack of animal models representing adequately epilepsy syndromes has hindered advancing treatment for patients. Epileptic encephalopathies are a severe subset of epilepsies associated with a high probability of impaired ...
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(2023-01-06)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceInfrared (IR) optics form the basis for many important applications, including thermal imaging, long-wave communications, chemical spectroscopy for pharmaceuticals, medical testing, environmental monitoring, automotives, ...
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(2014-06-25)Department: Community Research and ActionWhile an uncontested symbol of the “American dream” is homeownership, only members of the higher echelons of society can achieve this dream with ease. Lower-income populations take the greatest risk and suffer the most ...
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(2022-01-18)Department: Computer ScienceThe continuous advancement of computation and storage technology has been incentivizing the deep digitalization of human daily life for decades. This leads to a surge of mission-critical information systems centered on ...
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(2012-07-30)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Systems Engineering and Operations ResearchHigh-speed rail (HSR) planning models have not considered the response of airline operations to introducing high-speed rail to their commercial transportation networks. While considering the decision processes of travelers ...
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Gamma total ionizing dose impact on the control performance of integrated point-of-load converters (2014-07-31)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe growing demand for commercial off the shelf (COTS) electronic components in radiation environments has driven the need for researching the total ionizing dose (TID) degradation of these components. Most relevant systems ...
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(2012-01-25)Department: SociologyIt has long been known that structural conditions impact crime and delinquency, including gang involvement. Youth living in neighborhoods characterized by concentrated disadvantage, including deep impoverishment, ...
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(2017-04-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringLow frequency noise measurements have been widely used to investigate the nature of defects in semiconductor devices. Characterization of low frequency noise performance at different gate bias along with the temperature ...
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(2023-04-13)Department: Community Research & ActionAs society evolves and increases to recognize the fluidity of identity in terms of demographic classification, the domain of research will be faced with the crucial choice of how to capture an individual’s ever-changing ...
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(2021-01-13)Department: Electrical EngineeringGaussian Process Manifold Learning is a novel model based machine learning method that uses a probabilistic approach to represent a set of data as a manifold. The manifold structure contains information about the constraints ...
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(2012-07-10)Department: Political ScienceGAVELS DEFYING GUNS: THE JUDICIAL CONTROL OF STATE POWER IN AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS By Rodelio Dela Cruz Manacsa ABSTRACT When do judges rein in those ...
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(2017-03-31)Department: GermanThis dissertation investigates the grounds for the West-German writer’s politicization during the 1960s with its most prominent manifestation being the brief alliance between the authors and the Social Democratic Party. ...
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(2020-08-25)Department: PsychologyTwo online experiments investigate how alternative forms for reference to individuals—first, last, and full names—affect inferences about the gender of the referent. Given distributional correspondences between first names ...
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(2016-07-19)Department: PsychologyWhen there is a gender effect, women perform better than men in face recognition tasks. Prior work has not documented a male advantage on a face recognition task, suggesting that face recognition is a unitary domain for ...
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(2021-10-13)Department: PsychologyWomen in the United States earn 81.5 cents for every dollar earned by men. While known determinants of this discrepancy have been identified (including occupations chosen and preferences for time allocation) appreciable ...
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(2007-04-25)Department: ReligionThis project is concerned with exploring how gender socialization affects males, females, and causes gender-conflict on masculinity. I apply a pastoral care approach for treating perpetrators of military domestic violence ...
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(2013-11-19)Department: SociologyThis paper navigates the gendered landscape of international migration by estimating and examining age-standardized gender ratios of foreign-born stocks in 56 countries for years ranging from 1960 to 2008 in order to gauge ...
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(2010-12-17)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyCommon, complex diseases are not caused by a single gene mutation but rather have genetic and environmental components. As a subset, autoimmune diseases also possess robust gene expression signatures that have both genetic ...
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(2007-07-30)Department: NeuroscienceIn order to form synaptic connections, an individual neuron needs to coordinate the activities of a large number of proteins. The neuron can modulate the activity of these proteins in a variety of ways. For instance, ...