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(2006-11-01)Department: NeuroscienceCommon diseases with a genetic basis are likely to have a very complex etiology, in which the mapping between genotype and phenotype is far from straightforward. A new comprehensive statistical and computational strategy ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: Biomedical EngineeringClinical translation of siRNA therapeutics has been limited by the inability to effectively overcome the rigorous delivery barriers associated with intracellular-acting biologics. Here, in order to address both potency and ...
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(2008-08-14)Department: EnglishJohn Dennis’s Liberty Asserted is an early English effort to dramatize conquest and assimilation in divided North America. The play centers on an Iroquois abducted Huron mother and son whose affiliations with the French ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2007-09-25)
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(2006-04-12)Department: PsychologyThe current working model of primate auditory cortex describes a centrally located core region, encompassed by a narrow belt region comprised of some seven putative subdivisions. The anatomical and physiological properties ...
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(2012-07-16)Department: PsychologyThese studies are part of a larger effort to understand how the human brain evolved by specifically addressing questions about the evolution of the visual system in early primates and closely related mammals. Both cortical ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: NeuroscienceAlcohol use disorder (AUD) affects over 15 million Americans and remains exceptionally difficult to treat, with the majority of individuals relapsing within a year of initiating treatment. Much of this difficulty is thought ...
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(2015-11-20)Department: PsychologyCurrent theories of the relationship between personality and depression largely ignore conscientiousness and grit, leaving little conceptual framework for investigation. Among the handful of studies having investigated ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2007-05-04)
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(Internatinal Journal of Audiology, 2019-09)Objective: Provide recommendations to audiologists for the management of children with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) and for needed research that can lend further insight into important unanswered questions. Design: An ...
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(2009-08-11)Department: NeuroscienceDissertation under the direction of Professor Edwin J. WEeber Apolipoprotein E (apoE) interacts with lipoprotein receptors in the hippocampus. These receptors are intimately involved in the modulation of synaptic plasticity, ...
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(2008-10-22)Department: Biological SciencesOne of the greatest factors contributing to the worldwide decline in biodiversity is habitat destruction leading to the loss and fragmentation of populations of many species. Knowledge of the genetic and demographic factors ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2007-04-18)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper considers the general problem of testing multiple inequality moment restrictions against an unrestricted alternative. We first introduce a test based on a maximum statistic and show how, via a partially recentered ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: Political ScienceIn this dissertation, I present and test a political theory of mass indiscriminate violence (i.e. genocide or politicide). Extant scholarship explains mass indiscriminate violence as a counter-guerrilla strategy. Almost ...
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(AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 2019-06)The Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS) was established in 2014 to facilitate large-scale collaborative research on the human metabolome and its relationship with disease etiology, diagnosis, and prognosis. COMETS ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-03)Since the start of the War in the Donbas in 2014, the miners of the Donetsk Coal Basin have suffered immensely due to economic and political destabilization, mine flooding, mine closures, intermittent shelling, mounting ...
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(Vanderbilt University Special Collections, 2012-03-21)
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(Washington University Law Review, 2011)Judges in Japan share the prevailing communitarian orientation of their society, an orientation that rejects Manichean choices and moral or "scientific" absolutes, but instead relies on their collective and individual ...