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(2023-12)Live the Life South Florida (LTLSF) is a faith-based nonprofit headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida. The organization focuses on creating healthy relationships through education programs for adults and teenagers. Our area ...
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(2017-02-23)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyBacteria use two-component system (TCS) signaling to sense and respond to their ever-changing surroundings. While most TCSs have been reported to interact solely as a cognate partner pair, one sensor kinase phosphorylating ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversitySeveral studies have identified positive relationships between strong principal instructional leadership and improved student outcomes. However, few researchers have examined how principals influence the nature of ...
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(2019-07-11)Department: PsychologyDirect and indirect self-harm behaviors frequently co-occur, suggesting possible common factors in their etiology. Theoretical models of two such behaviors, nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and disordered eating (DE), implicate ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceAmmonia (NH3) is a vital chemical to the agricultural and explosives industries, and it may very well play a central role in the emerging hydrogen economy. The Haber-Bosch process has long been the method used to synthesize ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-05)This project was a one-year investigation of the implementation of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Initiative in the Metro Nashville Public School System. Interviews with STEAM teachers, ...
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(2012-07-31)Department: Chemical EngineeringThe conversion of plant biomass to fermentable sugars is a primary option for the production of biofuels. Cellulases, the enzymes that break down recalcitrant plant cellulose materials into fermentable sugars, can be ...
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(2022-05)Moonshot Academy (MSA) Beijing is an innovative boarding high school that offers Chinese-English Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) program. The school finds that the current practices of the CLIL program do ...
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(2009-04-13)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates the relationship between power and wealth in past societies by examining the economic networks through which wealth was distributed at K’o, Guatemala from the Terminal Preclassic through the ...
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(2011-10-31)Department: BiochemistryThe integrity and propagation of the genome depends upon the fidelity of DNA processing events such as replication, damage recognition, and repair. Requisite to the numerous biochemical tasks required for DNA processing ...
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(2016-04-08)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Analytical PharmacologyEicosanoids, such as prostaglandins, leukotrienes, hydroxy- and epoxy-derivatives of arachidonic acid (AA), are lipid autacoids that regulate constitutive as well as inflammatory processes. Prostaglandins (PGs) and ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Cancer BiologyLung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is a heterogeneous group of tumors associated with different survival rates, even when detected at an early stage. While screening programs have proven to significantly increase the chance of ...
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(2023-11-09)Department: Human GeneticsCoronary artery disease (CAD) and depression are highly prevalent and frequently comorbid. Approximately 40% of adults who are initially diagnosed with either CAD or depression will also develop the other condition. Moreover, ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyHuman casein kinase 1 delta (CK1δ) and epsilon (CK1ε) are members of a conserved family of ubiquitously expressed serine/threonine kinases that regulate multiple cellular processes including endocytosis, circadian rhythm, ...
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(2014-11-24)Department: Psychology“Groupitizing,” or the ability to quickly enumerate an array of items that is grouped into subitizable subsets, has recently been shown to predict children’s symbolic math skills. It has been proposed that groupitizing ...
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(2009-04-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringReal-time search techniques have been used extensively in the areas of task planning and decision making. In order to be effective, however, these techniques require task-specific domain knowledge in the form of heuristic ...
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(2023-09-26)Department: PharmacologyThe plasticity of the adult mammalian brain is determined by the number and proliferation capacity of neural stem cells (NSCs). The pool of NSCs responsible for populating the adult brain is established during prenatal ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesAccording to the Habitat Amount Hypothesis, the total amount of habitat in a landscape should be the main determinant for species richness, but how does the quality of the habitat and the surrounding landcovers (termed the ...
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(2014-05-27)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe ubiquitin-like protein LC3 is a central component of the autophagy pathway where it functions in autophagosome formation and cargo selection. LC3 has an extensive network of interacting proteins, but little is known ...
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(2023-08)This capstone explores the impact of organizational change and institutional role transition as experienced by the student affairs department of an international university in Florence, Italy. An explorative qualitative ...