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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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(Park Ridge Center (Ill.), 1990-01)
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(Constitutional Commentary, 1989)GENDER JUSTICE is an avowedly liberal tract on the problems of gender discrimination in our society. It seeks to provide an alternative to the visions of both conservatives and radical feminists. The book fails in its ...
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(Law and Inequality, 1986)The breadth and variety of the topics discussed at the 1985 NAWJ Convention raise a troubling question: is there any longer a need for an association of women law judges? While a few of the discussions center around "women's ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2003-10-31)
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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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(Journal of Legislation, 2018)Ex-offenders are subject to a wide range of employment restrictions that limit the ability of individuals with a criminal background to earn a living. This Article argues that women involved in the criminal justice system ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)Literature circles have been used extensively for the past few decades at the elementary level for the purposes of increasing engagement and motivation through peer-led discussion. Some researchers, however, have found ...
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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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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)This thesis explores the complicated relations between the ontology of race and its gendered aesthetic representations within the phenomenon of techno-Orientalism, the prevailing tendency in textual and visual culture to ...
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(PLOS Genetics, 2019-07)Major depression is a common and severe psychiatric disorder with a highly polygenic genetic architecture. Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified multiple independent genetic loci that harbour variants ...
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(Metabolites, 2022-11-29)This study aimed to evaluate whether the single nucleotide polymorphisms of ATP-binding cassette subfamily G member 2 (ABCG2) and solute carrier family 2 member 9 (SLC2A9) affect individual blood uric acid levels using ...
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(Metabolites, 2022-11-29)This study aimed to evaluate whether the single nucleotide polymorphisms of ATP-binding cassette subfamily G member 2 (ABCG2) and solute carrier family 2 member 9 (SLC2A9) affect individual blood uric acid levels using ...
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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, ...
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(2010-04-12)Department: Biomedical InformaticsAnswering questions such as “Which genes are related to breast cancer?” usually requires retrieving relevant publications through the PubMed search engine, reading these publications, and manually creating gene lists. This ...
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Gene-Environment Interactions Between Manganese Toxicity and Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease Genes (2015-03-26)Department: NeuroscienceParkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative, motor disorder that is characterized by selective dopaminergic cell loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta. About 10-20% of PD cases have genetic causes; nonetheless, ...
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(2011-07-28)Department: PharmacologyHuntington’s disease is a fatal autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by an expansion of CAG repeats in the DNA of the Huntingtin gene. The length of the repeat is inversely related to the age of disease ...