Browsing by Subject "development"
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A Critique of Christian Development as Resolution to the Crisis in U.S. Protestant Foreign Missions (2009-12-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that development has failed in fulfilling one of the primary tasks that it set for itself as an expression of Christian mission. Christian development failed to resolve the crisis in Christian ...
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(2012-08-06)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyMesothelium is a simple squamous epithelium that forms the surface layer of all coelomic cavities and organs. Despite its widespread localization, mesothelial development has been studied almost exclusively in the heart. ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyCardinality, the ability to state the quantity of a set, is an important skill in the development of precise numerical reasoning abilities. This set of studies investigates the limits of cardinal number knowledge and the ...
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(2011-09-09)Department: PsychologySelf-efficacy has been conceptualized in two ways in the context of chronic pain—both as people’s beliefs that they can function and cope emotionally despite the pain (functional self-efficacy) and as people’s beliefs that ...
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(2005-11-01)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe work contained in this document provides the first description and characterization of Bves, a gene product identified by our laboratory, in epithelial cell types. Studies addressed a central hypothesis that Bves plays ...
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(2015-05-26)Department: PsychologyIdentifying cognitive and emotional risk factors that contribute to the onset, maintenance, and recurrence of depression is crucial for developing interventions for treatment and prevention. Poor executive function skills ...
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(2017-11-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesIt is well documented that noise has a detrimental effect on speech processing and that speech-in-noise perception abilities continue to develop into adolescence. However, our understanding of the mechanism by which ...
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(2006-04-28)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyProstaglandin G/H synthases (PGHS), commonly referred to as cyclooxygenases (COX-1 and COX-2), catalyze a key step in the synthesis of biologically active prostaglandins (PGs), the conversion of arachidonic acid (AA) into ...
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(2017-11-16)Department: NeuroscienceNeurons are specialized cells that communicate through electrochemical signals: a neuron receives input through dendrites and sends information through a single axon. The receptive field for each neuron is defined by sister ...
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(2007-12-04)Department: Biological SciencesIn recent years it has become apparent that microRNAs (miRNAs) are common feature of eukaryotic genomes. The functional products of these non-canonical genes are small, ~22nt RNAs that negatively regulate translation. ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyInternational migration of highly-skilled persons, commonly referred to as "brain drain", has long plagued the Global South. The phenomenon of brain drain has devastated the healthcare infrastructure of many source countries, ...
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(2011-12-04)Department: NeuroscienceEmbryonic dopamine (DA) receptor (DR) expression in the medial frontal cortex (mFC) coincides with the formation of neural circuits during the period of axon pathfinding but the signaling properties of DRs and their effect ...
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(2016-12-05)Department: PathologyExtracellular matrix (ECM) functions as the insoluble scaffold of tissues that controls cellular behaviors and regulates environmental cues that are essential for many aspects of biology. Basement membranes (BMs) are ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-05)
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(2011-12-12)Department: NeuroscienceSonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling regulates cell growth during embryonic development, tissue homeostasis and tumorigenesis. Concentration-dependent cellular responses to secreted Shh protein are essential for tissue patterning. ...
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(2020-08)Although labor market dynamics are highly complex, workforce development programs typically attempt to remediate unemployed or underemployed individuals through trainings focused on “soft skills,” or nontechnical skills ...
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(2010-04-10)Department: PharmacologyGABA functions as the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. In hippocampus, GABA serves multiple roles during development and throughout adulthood, which include: 1) orchestrate synapse maturation ...
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(2014-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesThis paper creates a contextualized narrative of the history of Amazonian development projects. This project will examine understandings and representations of nature and the Amazon, and how these representations, and their ...
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(Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2019-07)Irritability is garnering increasing attention in psychiatric research as a transdiagnostic marker of both internalizing and externalizing disorders. These disorders often emerge during adolescence, highlighting the need ...
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(2011-06-28)Department: Biological SciencesBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES KCTD12 PROTEINS REGULATE ULK2 TO CONTROL THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASYMMETRIC HABENULAR NEUROPIL ROBERT W. TAYLOR Dissertation under the direction of Professor Joshua T. Gamse The habenular nuclei (Hb) are ...