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(2018-03-22)Department: SociologyGay men in contemporary Western societies invest a considerable amount of time and energy into their physical appearance. Both scholars and popular press attribute this to gay male culture's heightened emphasis on physical ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: Special EducationStudents at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) typically receive support to improve their social and behavioral needs. There has been relative limited attention paid to these students’ academic needs. Students ...
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(2012-07-30)Department: ReligionThesis under the direction of Professor Shaul Kelner This thesis investigates how evangelicals accommodate doubt into a theology that more or less demands certainty. By interviewing members from two area evangelical ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: ReligionKate Cumming(1835-1909) was an Confederate woman who lived in Alabama from 1840 until 1909. During her life she was a nurse, teacher, author, and was very devoted to the Episcopal Church. Through research into her private ...
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(2016-07-19)Department: PsychologyPrevious research on the development of infant tool use learning in the second year of life has provided contrary evidence as to how infants select among differentially effective tools following independent exploration, ...
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(2009-07-27)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation I examine the impact that international migration has on immigrant parents and their family arrangements through the study of Chinese transnational families residing in Nashville, Tennessee. I argue ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityInstruction that centers and develops students’ agency supports academic and social-emotional success, yet educators increasingly teach in settings that restrict their opportunities to design such instruction. Agency-supportive ...
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(2020-10-26)Department: EnglishThough autotheory more formally entered feminist critical discourse with the publication of Maggie Nelson’s 2015 text The Argonauts as a practice that takes on first-person, subjective, autobiographical perspectives to ...
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(2014-06-26)Department: EnglishIconoclash is an act of creation that originates in destruction. This paper explores the role of iconoclash in the movement of art objects and the intimacy between collector and collected in Henry James’ The Spoils of ...
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(2015-07-28)Department: HistoryIn this paper, I argue that Brazilian abolitionists dialogued with French ideas regarding slavery and its imminent demise to a much greater degree than has previously been acknowledged by historians, and that French support ...
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Identidades sin frontera: rupturas y continuidades en la narrativa de la Onda y la narrativa chicana (2010-03-05)Department: SpanishThis project focuses on how the novels of the so called Literatura de la Onda and Chicano narratives of the sixties and seventies challenged the legacy of Mexican revolutionary nationalist discourse through the voice of ...
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(2011-03-31)Department: Human GeneticsLow-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglyceride (TG) levels are well known independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Other lipoproteins, such as Lp(a), ...
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(2017-08-26)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsHaploinsufficiency of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is the most common monogenetic obesity syndrome in humans. This syndrome is associated with a reduction in autonomic tone, bradycardia, hyperinsulinemia and a reduced ...
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(2014-07-03)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyProstaglandin glycerol esters (PG-Gs) are produced by the oxygenation of the endocannabinoid, 2-arachidonoylglycerol, by cyclooxygenase 2. Understanding the role that PG-Gs play in a biological setting has been difficult ...
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(2013-09-13)Department: NeuroscienceCoordinated neurotransmission of fast acting neurotransmitters like glutamate (GLU) and neuromodulators such as dopamine (DA) is critical for the proper execution of complex behaviors such as cognition, locomotor control, ...
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(2007-04-17)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyVirus cell entry is a multi-step process that often requires independent receptors for attachment and internalization. Reovirus infection is initiated by attachment to cell-surface carbohydrate and junctional adhesion ...
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(2015-07-23)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Identification and characterization of MAFA coregulators: MLL3/4 and its role in mouse and human islet β-cells David William Scoville Dissertation under the direction of Professor Roland ...
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(2019-12-09)Department: BiochemistryTriple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer that does not respond to endocrine therapy or human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-targeted therapies. Individuals with TNBC experience ...
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(2016-04-04)Department: Cancer BiologySalivary adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is prone to perineural invasion, late recurrence, and distal metastases, with 20-year survival of only 10%. Research defining new targets in ACC has lagged largely due to a dearth ...
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(2016-03-01)Department: PharmacologyAcetylcholine controls or modulates virtually every physiological process from the regulation of skeletal and smooth muscle contraction, to learning and memory (Sellers & Chess-Williams, 2012). Consequently, alterations ...