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(2016-10-03)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsMOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY & BIOPHYSICS Exploring the Function of G6PC2 in Pancreatic Islet Beta Cells Kayla Boortz Dissertation under the direction of Professor Richard O’Brien, Ph.D. G6PC2 encodes an islet-specific ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Human GeneticsLate-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with a strong genetic component. APOE is a well-established risk gene for LOAD, and several other genes have also been identified. However, at ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Human GeneticsUterine fibroids (UF) are common benign tumors of the uterus affecting majority of females over their lifetime and are the number one cause of hysterectomies in the United States. Genetics are known to influence UF risk ...
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(2012-09-27)Department: Biological SciencesTraversal of the hemocoel, avoiding or surviving interactions with the insect’s innate immune system, invasion of the female mosquito’s salivary glands, and injection into the vertebrate host, are necessary steps for disease ...
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(Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law, 2019)This article reviews the application of several IP rights (copyright, patent, sui generis database right, data exclusivity and trade secret) to Big Data. Beyond the protection of software used to collect and process Big ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityEffective language practices are crucial for children's oral language and reading development in early childhood education (ECE), yet they are often underutilized in pre-K classrooms. Published curricula provide a potential ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008)During the course of my Honors Research Project, I worked with Dr. David James to determine whether a group of target stars are members of the Local Association. I did this by reducing spectroscopic data, taken by Dr. ...
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(2022-08)The Military Interstate Children’s Compact Commission (MIC3) advocates for military children in academic, social, and emotional transitions. This quality improvement project explored the main contributing factors to ...
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(2013-02-21)Department: Biological SciencesInsects are able to detect a wide range of volatiles through a family of cell-surface odorant receptors (ORs), which are activated by specific odorants and relay the signal to the brain. Insect ORs function as heteromultimeric ...
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(North Carolina Law Review, 1998)The politics behind tax legislation are explored in order to demonstrate that, rather than being surprising or unexpected, it is easily predictable that federal tax laws would favor whites over blacks.
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(2016-05-19)Department: PsychologyParticipants respond to the target stimulus faster in a visual search task when the target item “pops out” among distractor stimuli. Priming of pop-out refers to cases in which repetition of the pop-out feature (e.g., ...
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(2023-03-13)Department: EpidemiologyCatatonia is a poorly understood form of brain dysfunction characterized by marked and at times contradictory changes in muscle tone, motor behavior, affect and volition. It has been described in the context of non-affective ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)This study looked at the positive emotions of gratitude, pride, and happiness. Sixty-three Vanderbilt University undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions assessing their appraisals, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large ...
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(2020-03-28)Department: Molecular Physiology & BiophysicsG6PC2 encodes a glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit that is highly expressed in pancreatic islet beta cells. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have shown that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the G6PC2 ...
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(2020-03-18)Department: Community Research & ActionMyriad studies describe the link between media use and youth sexual attitudes, intentions, and behaviors, but little is known about its influence on sexual development across adolescence, and about how factors, such as ...
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(2018-10-16)Department: Special EducationMeta-analyses examining professional development efforts to enhance the quality of language instruction in preschool classrooms found that such trainings result in small, non-significant effects on child vocabulary (Cunningham ...
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(2021-08-16)Department: PsychologyAs there are innumerable variations of real-world images, visual object recognition poses a highly complex problem. That said, humans can reliably identify objects across a variety of challenging viewing conditions. Despite ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityPervasive beliefs that mathematics is race-neutral inhibit faculty awareness of and responsiveness to racial issues in postsecondary mathematics departments. However, research inquiries exploring mathematics content and ...
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(2018-03-22)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCardiac development is a tightly controlled, step-wise process, as the heart is one of the first functional organs to develop. The major cell type of the heart is the cardiomyocyte and is known to be the work horse of the ...