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(2017-03-24)Department: Environmental EngineeringThis research integrates geospatial and social datasets to understand the adaptive strategies employed by individuals, communities, and institutions during periods of drought. I apply dimension reduction techniques to ...
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(N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, 2008)Agriculture has long been the Rubik's Cube of environmental policy. Although agriculture is a leading cause of pollution and other environmental harms, it has been resistant to regulation and remarkably successful at ...
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(Environs Environmental Law & Policy Journal, 2002)Three very powerful and widely disseminated myths, what I call the Three Myths, have obscured the reality that agriculture is a leading source of environmental harm in our nation. Until we can divorce the dialogue on ...
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(2012-04-23)Department: Latin American StudiesIn 1968, a military coup surprised Panama, placing political power in the hands of populist leader General Omar Torrijos Herrera. Recuperation of the Panama Canal remained a high priority to the government, and Torrijos ...
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(2006-04-20)Department: Computer ScienceThesis under the supervision of Professor Douglas C. Schmidt: Historically enterprise distributed, real-time and embedded (DRE) systems were developed atop of operating systems and protocols. These traditional methods ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)State Medicaid home and community-based waiver programs for persons with AIDS (PWAs) were implemented with the expectation that PWAs would use home and community-based services in lieu of more expensive hospital-based care. ...
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(2017-01-23)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyMechanisms driving persistent airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are incompletely understood. As secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) deficiency in small airways has been reported in COPD ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-20)Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is not a new mode of mechanical ventilation, but it seems to be gaining a great deal of popularity lately. Many people find this mode very complicated and think that it is reserved ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2009-04-03)
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(International Journal of Moledular Sciences, 2019-06-01)The PI3K/Akt pathway plays a crucial role in the survival, proliferation, and migration of macrophages, which may impact the development of atherosclerosis. Changes in Akt isoforms or modulation of the Akt activity levels ...
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(International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019-06-01)The PI3K/Akt pathway plays a crucial role in the survival, proliferation, and migration of macrophages, which may impact the development of atherosclerosis. Changes in Akt isoforms or modulation of the Akt activity levels ...
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(2008-04-28)Department: Cancer BiologyWe have identified a novel signaling pathway, AKT/IKKα/VAV1, which induces endothelial cell survival and motility. Ang1/Tie2 and VEGF/VEGFR signaling activates Akt and induces cell survival. Akt and IKKƒÑ both induce ...
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(American Schools of Oriental Research, 1993)
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(2018-03-27)Department: Cancer BiologyMetastasis persists as a significant unsolved hurdle in cancer treatment, with greater than 90% of cancer-related deaths attributed to metastasis. In order for cells to successfully metastasize, they must dynamically ...
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(2016-11-28)Department: PharmacologyUnacceptable pharmacokinetics (PK) relating to aldehyde oxidase (AO) metabolism have resulted in clinical failure of several promising drug candidates, yet reliable and standardized methods to predict the human PK and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-14)This paper addresses the argument that algebra should be viewed as a civil right and mode for social justice. The framing question addressed is, “How and why is algebra a civil right?” The goal of the paper is to discuss ...