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(2008-06-06)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThis Master’s Thesis project had as its objectives: (1) to optimize algorithms for solvent-accessible surface area (SASA) approximation to develop an environment free energy knowledge-based potential; and, (2) to assess ...
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(2019-01-17)Department: PharmacologyG-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent the largest family of membrane proteins and the most heavily targeted classes of proteins for therapeutic intervention. Relatively little is known about the structure of these ...
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(2010-12-21)Department: Human GeneticsGrowing interest and burgeoning technology for discovering genetic mechanisms that influence disease processes have ushered in a flood of genetic association studies over the last decade, yet little heritability in highly ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: SociologyThis qualitative study explores various toolsets Korean ethnic churches provide to Korean immigrant entrepreneurs. Based on twenty-four in-depth interviews with Korean business owners and co-owners, I question how immigration ...
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(2020-01-02)Department: Biological SciencesColorectal cancer (CRC) cells release protein-laden extracellular vesicles (EVs) that can alter the tumor microenvironment and spread drug resistance. I compared long RNAs of cells and matched EVs from isogenic CRC cell ...
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(2017-04-14)Department: Biological SciencesThere is growing evidence for the regulatory roles of extracellular RNAs (exRNAs) in mediating cell-to-cell communication. To test whether exosomal RNA might also contribute to changes in gene expression in recipient cells, ...
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(2023-03-28)Department: Community Research & ActionRefugee populations exhibit high rates of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and psychological distress, but are less likely to receive care than the general population. Perceptions among the Kurdish refugee community about causes ...
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(2017-03-16)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsKv1.1 voltage-gated potassium channels serve as key regulators of neuronal function and mutations in Kv1.1 lead to the human movement and epilepsy-related disorder, Episodic Ataxia type-1 (EA1). Transcripts encoding Kv1.1 ...
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(2011-08-15)Department: MathematicsIndices are analytical invariants to some elliptic operators and an index formula provides a way to interpret the analysis quantity using the topological invariants. The thesis computes the L2-index of a properly supported ...
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(2022-07-12)Department: SpanishThis dissertation sustains that Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s The Florida of the Inca (1605), a chronicle on the expedition led by Hernando de Soto to Florida (1539-1542), constituted a model for the Spanish conquest of ...
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(2015-10-29)Department: SpanishEsta trabajo de investigación tiene como origen la identificación dentro de las letras contemporáneas españolas de una serie de obras que comparten dentro de su temática central el extravío existencial del sujeto contemporáneo. ...
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(2020-07-20)Department: SpanishBetween 1956 and 1962, Spanish writers Alfonso Grosso and Juan Goytisolo traveled extensively in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. As a result of these travels, Grosso published Por el río abajo (1960), and A poniente ...
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(2008-08-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe need to develop highly sensitive, selective, and cost-effective biosensors spans the areas of medicine, the environment, food safety, and homeland security. Accurate and reliable detection of trace quantities of small ...
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(2019-03-20)Department: FrenchThis study shows how the romance plots in Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne de Lafayette’s three novellas, La Comtesse de Tende (1724), La Princesse de Montpensier (1662), and La Princesse de Clèves (1678), subtly engage ...
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(2019-07-18)Department: Special EducationChallenging behavior (CB) is prevalent among young children with disabilities and may stem from a reduced ability to clearly communicate their wants and needs. Functional communication training (FCT) is an evidence-based ...
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(2020-03-10)Department: ReligionA prominent female voice, that of the personification of “Daughter Zion,” emerges from the poetry of Lamentations 1-2, demanding divine justice in the wake of disaster. Using a theoretical framework that draws upon reception ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: GeologyEARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LAND USE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHOSPHORUS LOADING IN AN IMPAIRED STREAM, MILL CREEK, TENNESSEE VENA JONES Thesis under the direction of Professor Kaye Sawyer Savage Located in Middle Tennessee’s ...
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(2010-07-28)Department: ReligionThis study proposes that Deuteronomic debt release (Deuteronomy 15:1-11) in its contours and its performance is an extra-economic compulsion functioning as a legal paradigm for socio-economic organization in the struggle ...
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(2017-06-21)Department: GermanPinpointing the significance of places in the works of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Einar Schleef is the objective of a close reading that seeks to contextualize their social, historical, economical, technological, and ...
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(2014-06-20)Department: Teaching and LearningTeaching, Learning, and Diversity Language as an Identification Resource in Secondary English Teacher Preparation: An Analysis of Discourses Frank Blake Tenore Dissertation under the direction of Professors Kevin M. ...