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(2013-04-16)Department: Political ScienceWhat factors lead to the support of female political candidates in the Latin American and Caribbean region? I focus on one part of this broader question by examining the relationship between gender stereotypes and perceptions ...
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(2013-04-01)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation project is concerned with corruption in higher education as a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. In this study, I defined corruption in higher education and developed a conceptual ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)Two aspects of corruption are examined theoretically: its effect on macroeconomic variables, and its determination from the political environment. Corruption is defined in an occupational choice model as the extra fees or ...
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(2016-11-09)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesPurpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate cortical associates of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation (as indexed by the amplitude of evoked response potentials [ERP]) in young children who do ...
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(2017-11-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesIt is well documented that noise has a detrimental effect on speech processing and that speech-in-noise perception abilities continue to develop into adolescence. However, our understanding of the mechanism by which ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesRemote microphone (RM) systems are assistive listening devices that improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to the user, facilitating children’s speech perception in noisy environments. As a result, these devices are widely ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyThe brain is a highly dynamic system, performing complex operations at the millisecond scale. Cognitive processes studied in human participants manifest the same dynamicity through behavioral observations. Electrophysiology, ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyThe brain is a highly dynamic system, performing complex operations at the millisecond scale. Cognitive processes studied in human participants manifest the same dynamicity through behavioral observations. Electrophysiology, ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyThe brain is a highly dynamic system, performing complex operations at the millisecond scale. Cognitive processes studied in human participants manifest the same dynamicity through behavioral observations. Electrophysiology, ...
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(2004-12-03)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThis dissertation covers research regarding the use of laser range scanning (LRS) during neurosurgery. Impetus for this work stems from the desire to provide relevant intraoperative data regarding the position and motion ...
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(2013-09-30)Department: NeuroscienceObesity and obesity-associated disease together are a leading cause of death worldwide. Recent research demonstrates striking similarities between obesity and addiction in their dysregulation of brain dopamine systems. ...
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(2010-03-31)Department: PharmacologyStriatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs) receive glutamatergic afferents from the cerebral cortex that synapse onto the spine head and dopaminergic inputs from the substantia nigra which synapse onto the necks of dendritic ...
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(Value in Health, 2020-01)Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of multigene testing (CYP2C19, SLCO1B1, CYP2C9, VKORC1) compared with singlegene testing (CYP2C19) and standard of care (no genotyping) in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients ...
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(BJPsych Open, 2019-01)Background As depression has a recurrent course, relapse and recurrence prevention is essential. Aims In our randomised controlled trial (registered with the Nederlands trial register, identifier: NTR1907), we ...
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(2013-07-02)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation is a grounded theoretical analysis and design study of adults and youth counter-mapping their neighborhoods. Counter-mapping involves residents making claims to resources for the future by leveraging the ...
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(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)The real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism--it's nationalist oligarchy. Here's how American foreign policy should change.
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(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)The challenge we face today is not one of authoritarianism, as so many seem inclined to believe, but of nationalist oligarchy. This form of government feeds populism to the people, delivers special privileges to the rich ...
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(Harvard Law Review, 2008)Few think of counterinsurgency as linked to constitutional design. Counterinsurgency is bottom-up; constitutional design is top-down. Counterinsurgency is military; constitutional design is political-legal. Counterinsurgency ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2009)Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military strategists, historians, soldiers, and policymakers have made counterinsurgency's principles and paradoxes second nature, and they now expect that counterinsurgency operations ...