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(2019-04-17)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe current obesity public health crisis is linked directly with liver health through a parallel epidemic of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD has direct effects on liver health while acting as an independent ...
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(2015-03-25)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased dramatically in parallel with excess caloric intake and sedentary lifestyles. Insulin resistance precedes the development of type 2 diabetes. The liver is a major insulin-responsive ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 2003)Professor Waldron and Professor Michelman have presented us with two interesting, but very different, views on what procedural components might contribute to the integrity of lawmaking. I will focus on a different aspect ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis reinterprets the writings of the Brazilian Catholic intellectual Alceu Amoroso Lima, in particular, his work in the 1930s. A leading Catholic intellectual and one of the most important laymen in the country, ...
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(Constitutional Commentary, 1988)In the past twenty years, historians have greatly enriched our knowledge of the eighteenth-century ideas that underlie the Constitution. Much of this scholarship has been devoted to rediscovery of eighteenth century ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 2005)This Article considers, first, available economic, social, and cultural analyses of the impact of intellectual property protection in developing countries. Economics provides a useful set of analytical tools and are directly ...
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(Michigan Journal of International Law, 2019)Investor-state dispute-settlement (ISDS) clauses give multinational investors (corporations) a right to sue a state in a binding proceeding before an independent arbitration tribunal. This jurisgenerative right to file a ...
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(1999-04-07)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Information TechnologyThis work offers a new paradigm for building intelligent software systems that facilitate on-line learning. The research investigated effects of adopting intelligent agent techniques to an on-line learning environment. ...
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(2015-12-03)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by difficulties in social communication as well as repetitive and atypical patterns of behaviors. According to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), an ...
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(2016-11-22)Department: PsychologyIndividuals with schizophrenia consistently display social functioning deficits with underlying emotion recognition impairments. Simulation of other’s emotional expressions facilitates recognition. Emotional states are ...
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(2018-04-10)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe three papers in this dissertation contribute to research that seeks to characterize the complex and multi-dimensional relation between the physical environment and human learning. The first paper outlines a new approach ...
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(2017-11-08)Department: PhysicsTwo-dimensional materials are one of the most intensively studied systems in the modern solid state physics. Among the broad variety of currently known 2D materials, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are ...
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(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2019-08-20)Background-alpha Carboxyl terminus 1 (alpha CT1) is a 25-amino acid therapeutic peptide incorporating the zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1)-binding domain of connexin 43 (Cx43) that is currently in phase 3 clinical testing on ...
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(2013-03-01)Department: Mechanical EngineeringInteractions between fluids and solid structures of small thickness can be found in many applications, e.g., aerodynamics of the membranous wings of insects, hydrodynamics of fish fins, human heart valves, flags and tree ...
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(2016-08-05)Department: BiochemistryProstaglandin E2 (PGE2), a cyclooxygenase metabolite that generally acts as a systemic vasodepressor, has been shown to have vasopressor effects under certain physiologic conditions. Previous studies have demonstrated that ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: PhysicsThe focus of this dissertation is the interaction of gold (Au) plasmonic structures and the phase change material vanadium dioxide (VO2). Vanadium dioxide modifies the local surface plasmon resonance of an Au nanoparticles ...
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(2011-07-29)Department: BiochemistryAll living organisms encode at least one type II topoisomerase. These enzymes help to regulate the superhelical density of the bacterial chromosome and remove knots and tangles from the double helix. Previous studies ...
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(2017-06-12)Department: PsychologyPsychopathy is a pervasive and persistent personality disorder comprised of combination of a broad range of personality traits. These traits include low fear, diminished empathy, and a propensity to be manipulative, mixed ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-22)By the time students reach high school, many parents do not feel equipped to assist their children with homework. However, research shows that even through high school parent involvement in homework can lead to positive ...
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(iScience, 2020-01-24)Visualization plays a central role in the analysis of biochemical network models to identify patterns that arise from reaction dynamics and perform model exploratory analysis. To facilitate these analyses, we developed ...