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(2018-07-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation revitalizes and revisits the historical category of polemic by arguing for the existence of a distinct subgenre within polemic that was constructed as oral university-style disputation. It does by first ...
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(2020-11-10)Department: BiostatisticsAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of complex neurodevelopment disorders with a strong genetic basis. Large scale sequencing studies have provided strong evidence for dozens of ASD risk genes. However, it is estimated ...
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(2018-07-22)Department: BiostatisticsOur brain network, as a complex integrative system, consists of many different regions. Each region has its own task and function and simultaneously shares structural and functional information. With the developed imaging ...
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(2011-08-08)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe purpose of this study was to experimentally investigate the behavioral correlates of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation and their relation to speech (dis)fluency in preschool-age children who do (CWS) and do ...
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(2013-04-18)Department: HistoryFrom the 1920s to the 1940s, 350 colleges and more than 2,000 public schools throughout the South were using in their courses curricular materials designed to stress African-American achievements and point out the many ...
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(2014-06-25)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe methylation state of DNA is important for gene expression, gene imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, and transposon silencing in mammals and plants. DNA methylation is established by methyltransferases to mark a ...
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(2013-12-05)Department: Human GeneticsMany recent studies have identified rare variants that contribute to common, complex disease. It is believed that rare variants likely have a larger effect size (compared to GWAS findings) and can act alone, in concert ...
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(2009-01-02)Department: Environmental EngineeringThis work consists of constructing a model that combines an understanding of physical transport processes and the biological mechanisms involved in the uptake, transport and sequestration of contaminants by a hyperaccumulator, ...
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(2013-06-17)Department: Human GeneticsA BIPHASIC ROLE FOR THE VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL SCN5LAB IN CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT OF ZEBRAFISH JEFFREY S. BENNETT Dissertation under direction of Professor Dan M. Roden, M.D. Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) play ...
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(2019-07-30)Department: HistoryThe British coffeehouse has been the recipient of immense scholarly attention since Jürgen Habermas identified it as the paradigm of his public sphere, a space in which private and public interests intersected. But all of ...
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(2008-08-04)Department: Electrical EngineeringWith shrinking device feature sizes, integrated circuits are becoming more vulnerable to Single-Event Transients (SETs). Characterizing error rates due to SETs is essential for choosing appropriate hardening techniques ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a Responsiveness-to-Intervention (RTI) Tier II tutoring program on first grade students who are at risk for reading disabilities. Ten students (8 boys and 2 girls) ...
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(2015-07-28)Department: HistoryIn this paper, I examine the press of Rio de Janeiro in August and September 1922 to argue that Brazil’s centennial celebrations represented a novel, yet culturally conservative, attempt by Brazilian and Portuguese political ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyMental health and illness on college and university campuses have become major topics of concern in recent years. The following study consists of a qualitative investigation of student and faculty perspectives about mental ...
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(2014-04-11)Department: Environmental EngineeringAdaptation planners and water managers around the world are faced with the increasingly difficult challenge of allocating scarce water resources in a world of climate change and dynamic social pressures. Sri Lanka serves ...
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(2010-07-15)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyWnt/β‐catenin signaling plays a critical role in metazoan development, stem cell maintenance, and human disease. The multicomponent β‐catenin destruction complex maintains low cellular β‐catenin in the absence of a signal ...
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(2021-04-02)Department: NeuroscienceManganese (Mn) is a biologically essential metal, critical as a cofactor for numerous enzymes such a glutamine synthetase and kinases such as ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM). Similar to other essential metals, such as ...
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(2016-11-23)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyStaphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen that contributes to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. In order to successfully colonize the host, S. aureus requires heme as a nutrient iron source and as a ...
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(2015-07-14)Department: Community Research and ActionAs conflicts surrounding the global Muslim community and other religious divisions continue to capture the attention of the media and public audiences, scholars and community practitioners increasingly extol the benefits ...
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(2019-04-01)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an empirical study of neoliberal urban redevelopment in the U.S. It considers how race, class, and gender shape twenty-first century cities. While neoliberal urban redevelopment has pronouncedly negative ...