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(2015-07-16)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsReduced pancreatic β cell mass is a hallmark of diabetes, which makes the ability to increase or restore β cell mass a major therapeutic goal. While testing the hypothesis that increased endothelial cell signaling would ...
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(2007-12-13)Department: SpanishThis study examines the comic vision of Miguel de Cervantes as manifested in his masterpiece, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Employing theories stemming principally from Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Foucault, I look at how Cervantes ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-11-19)
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Magical Objects in Victorian Literature: Enchantment, Narrative Imagination, and the Power of Things (2015-07-27)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the representation of magical objects in Victorian literature. The Victorian period is often characterized as a time of increased secularity. Scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists in the ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2015-08-06)Department: Mechanical EngineeringOver the last decade, researchers have started exploring the design space of Medical Capsule Robots (MCRs): devices that can operate within the human body performing functionalities such as diagnosing, monitoring, and ...
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(2018-07-31)Department: Electrical EngineeringMagnetic actuation is currently the most promising approach for actively and wirelessly manipulating capsule endoscopes (CEs) inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Actively actuated CEs have the potential to transform ...
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(2020-01-24)Department: OtherThis work presents developments in and applications of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) of the liver. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a highly prevalent pathology whose pathogenesis and longitudinal ...
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(2008-06-13)Department: PsychologyThis study examined the cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in a sample of adolescents at varying risk for depression based on their mother’s depression history. Adolescents’ negative cognitions were examined ...
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(2023-06-08)Department: Political ScienceBureaucratic agencies need sufficient capacity to implement the programs and policies delegated to them by Congress and the president. Scholars have long predicted that elected officials have sufficient incentives to build ...
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(American Oriental Societyhttp://www.umich.edu/~aos/index.html, 1987)"This article welcomes M. Fox's, The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs; but it also critically reviews his initial assumptions regarding the relationship between Hebrew and Egyptian love poetry. It then ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation addresses the philosophical problems of meaning and identity in the context of major depression. I provide a phenomenological account of the depressive’s intrapsychic and intersubjective life that is ...