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(2013-03-29)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Health Services Research and PolicyAfter almost thirty years of world-wide use, there is still an ongoing debate about the effectiveness of using a single session of Psychological Debriefing (PD) after a potentially traumatic experience (high-risk event) ...
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(2009-03-30)Department: PsychologyThe current study examined posttraumatic stress (PTSS), depression, and anxiety symptoms in a sample of mothers and fathers of children with cancer. Mothers (n = 153) and fathers (n = 76) of 154 children with cancer completed ...
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(2018-07-09)Department: SociologyUsing the stress process model and symbolic interaction, I investigate the relationship between childhood adversity and self-concept in young adults. I also examine if this relationship varies by religiosity. Data for this ...
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(2009-12-10)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis dissertation addresses the problem of how to make technology-based intervention tools for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect-sensitive. Two computer-based cognitive tasks are designed to elicit the ...
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(2023-07-10)Department: PsychologyThe social defeat theory (Selten et al., 2007) predicts psychosis-risk would be elevated in immigrants. The focus of this thesis is on comparing Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) populations by generational status, ...
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(2009-03-28)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines the substance use risk associated with pubertal development among adolescent girls, focusing on the reasons why and how this relationship occurs. Three empirical studies are presented using data ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: Political ScienceWhat determines climate change concern, prioritizing environmental protections, or preferences over environmental policy? While scholarship on these topics has grown in recent years, in this dissertation I work to broaden ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the ways in which religious and political debates at the heart of the Henrician Reformation played out in public ways during the crisis period of 1537–1540. It explores the complex and often ...
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(2024-03-06)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThis study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community-based, dual language narrative intervention on young, Spanish-English Dual Language Learners’ (DLLs’) oral language skills. Additionally, this study assessed the extent ...
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(2016-04-06)Department: PhysicsBiomechanical analysis of the developing Drosophila embryo has historically focused on the role of individual cells. Cells translate genetic information into protein machinery that is capable of generating forces. With ...
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(2008-01-21)Department: Electrical EngineeringPulsed-laser irradiation is used to simulate dose-rate effects in discrete devices. A methodology is established to correlate laser pulse energy results to an equivalent dose rate value without LINAC validation. It is ...
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(2015-07-16)Department: PsychologyPulvinar is the largest thalamic nucleus in primates, with extensive connections with visual cortical areas. In simian species, two retinotopic maps have been reported in the lateral (PL) and inferior (PI) pulvinar ...
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(2010-03-19)Department: Biological SciencesType-IV P-type ATPases are putative phospholipid flippases that translocate specific phospholipid substrates from the exofacial to the cytosolic leaflet of membranes to generate phospholipid asymmetry. However, flippase ...
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(2008-07-22)Department: SociologySweeping changes in 1996 to the national welfare system prioritized “work first” policies and restricted educational opportunities for mothers in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. The purpose of ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThis thesis examines the tensions between the social determinants of health framework and structural competency in medical education. It proposes an online assessment tool that can be used to measure one’s ability to ...
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(2015-03-27)Department: PhilosophyAgainst non-analytic naturalism and quietist realism, I defend a robust form of non-naturalism. The argument proceeds as follows: In the face of extensional underdetermination, quietist realism cannot non-question-beggingly ...
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(2015-11-16)Department: PsychologyLanguage is a powerful cognitive tool. For example, labeling objects or features of problems can support categorization and relational thinking. However, little is known about their role in making inferences about the ...
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(2023-08-21)Department: NeuroscienceIn this dissertation, we used multiple complementary approaches to understand how the sense of interoception develops from childhood to adulthood and how this relates to the types of interoceptive challenges commonly ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe Opioid Epidemic continues to spread throughout the United States. Fatalities due to overdose, addiction, and secondary consequences escalate every year, with the death toll predicted to reach approximately 72,000 in ...
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(2006-04-12)Department: BiochemistryNon-enzymatic modification by glucose of proteins induces protein damage through the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). AGEs have been implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases including ...