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(2023-07-18)Department: Anthropology and CMAPDespite the push in contemporary anthropology to challenge or dispel the “naturalness” of gender associations, Aymara women are emphasizing their embodied relationship to the land within their environmental protest activity ...
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(2019-07-24)Department: NeuroscienceAs of the year 2016, an estimated 50% of the United States’ population living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) is at least 50 years or older, due to the success of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) steadily ...
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(2020-06-03)Department: Electrical EngineeringAn estimated 50% of the electricity in the world is controlled by power semiconductor devices, with silicon carbide power devices superior to silicon power devices due to higher breakdown electric fields, increased thermal ...
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(2021-07-20)Department: Political ScienceThe fall of Saddam Hussein created a power vacuum in Iraq, heightened by a deepening sectarian divide. The state of security in Iraq became more complicated as militias emerged spontaneously as means to support the ruling ...
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(2009-12-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringWe demonstrate a flexible, tunable scheme for synthesizing multifunctional, ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (USPIOs) and its application to the area of magnetic relaxation switches. USPIO cores (10nm) ...
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(2015-03-30)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe impacts of total ionizing dose (TID), temperature and RF bias on the DC and RF performance of a commercial 32 nm RF SOI CMOS technology are presented. Temperature dependence is shown to be the overwhelmingly dominant ...
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(2016-07-07)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to extend the literature on word-problem performance by using a crossed random-effects item response model to bring together two lines of research, namely irrelevant information and person ...
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(2019-07-23)Department: SociologyThe family of origin is the primary agent of socialization, with family resources having a profound impact on children’s development. Families vary in the economic and relational resources available, which lead to stratified ...
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(2015-07-06)Department: PsychologyFeedback can be a powerful learning tool, but its effects vary widely. Research suggests that feedback may have positive effects for those with low prior knowledge, but neutral or negative effects for those with higher ...
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(2020-10-14)Department: Special EducationYounger biological siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (sibs-ASD) are at a heightened risk for developing communication disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder or language impairment. Two strategies that ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyA long-standing debate is whether awareness is dissociable from attention. Previous work in support of a dissociation between stimulus-driven attention and awareness has used spatial-cueing paradigms. A critical review of ...
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(2016-08-18)Department: PsychologyA long-standing debate is whether awareness is dissociable from attention. Previous work in support of a dissociation between stimulus-driven attention and awareness has used spatial-cueing paradigms. A critical review of ...
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(2004-07-26)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study explores the reasoning that emerged among eight high school juniors and seniors as they participated in a classroom teaching experiment addressing stochastic conceptions of sampling and statistical inference. ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: ChemistryMalaria is a disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum which kills 1-2.7 million people per year. Parasite resistance to widely available anti-malarial treatments such as Chloriquine is spreading rapidly, and ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: SpanishIn the Spanish Caribbean and its diaspora, the cultural consequences of “not belonging” predominate works by Cuban authors Zoé Valdés and Oscar Hijuelos, Dominican authors Junot Díaz and Loida Maritza Pérez, and Puerto ...
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(2011-12-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringI reduced the reaction volume in microfabricated suspended-membrane titration calorimeters to nanoliter droplets and improved the sensitivities to below a nanowatt with time constants of around 100ms. The device performance ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Community Research & ActionInclusive education examines the ways in which educational policies and practices construct and respond to difference. Policies and practices for inclusive education challenge the spatial segregation of difference, emphasizing ...
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(2023-07-17)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyTransgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people are at a greater risk of experiencing poor mental health than their cisgender peers (Carter et al., 2020). These mental health disparities are exacerbated by unsupportive ...
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(2023-07-17)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyTransgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people are at a greater risk of experiencing poor mental health than their cisgender peers (Carter et al., 2020). These mental health disparities are exacerbated by unsupportive ...
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(2014-11-18)Department: SociologyPopular media often portray college hookups (i.e., casual sexual encounters with no expectation or guarantee of commitment) as harmful to young women and beneficial to young men. Research indicates that hookups tend to be ...