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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2005-09-23)
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(Stetson Law Review, 1998)Statutory and case law make it clear that corporate officers and directors have very wide discretion to direct reasonable amounts of corporate resources toward artistic, educational, and humanitarian causes, even if those ...
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(Columbia Law Review, 2014)The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC is widely considered a major roadblock for campaign finance reform, and particularly for limiting third party spending in federal elections. In response to the decision, ...
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(2019-06-24)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsMOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS Contrast-Enhanced Optical Coherence Tomography Using Gold Nanorods Andrew Gordon Dissertation under the direction of Professor John S. Penn Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is ...
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(2007-12-19)Department: PsychologyA sample of 2,409 intellectually talented adolescents (top 1%) who were assessed on the SAT by age 13 was tracked longitudinally for more than 25 years. Their creative accomplishments, with particular emphasis on literary ...
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(2012-10-30)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesHistorically, spelling has been considered an academic skill that relies primarily on visual memory. Recent research indicates that spelling skill is also dependent on linguistic knowledge. However, the contribution of ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: Molecular Pathology & ImmunologyT cells of the immune system are critical for an adaptive immune response to infection. T cells are unique among immune cells in that they require an intermediate cell, termed antigen presenting cell (APC), to process and ...
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(2016-07-18)Department: Special EducationChildren who exhibit language deficits and behavior problems often underachieve. However, interventions that target children with behavior problems primarily focus on changing behavior, and interventions that aim to improve ...
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(Medicine, 2019-06)Studies investigating the association between transforming growth factor (TGF-beta-509C/T, rs1800469) promoter polymorphism and myocardial infarction (MI) risk reported inconsistent results. The aim of our study was to ...
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(2006-12-01)Department: Cancer BiologyTransforming Growth Factor-β (TGF-β) is a cytokine involved in the regulation of multiple cellular responses, and it is accepted that the TGF-β signaling pathway is implicated in both tumor-suppressing and tumor-promoting ...
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(2017-11-29)Department: NeuroscienceContributions of Metallo-Beta-Lactamase Domain Containing Protein 1 (MBLAC1) to the Neurobiological Actions of Ceftriaxone Cassandra Lynn Retzlaff Dissertation under the direction of Professor Randy Blakely, PhD Recently ...
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(2011-09-02)Department: Biological SciencesThis project explores the synthesis of heterogeneous G1-3T yeast telomere sequences by the enzyme telomerase. I demonstrate that a mutant in the essential N-terminal TEN domain of Est2p (telomerase reverse transciptase), ...
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(2019-02-12)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyReplication of our genes requires unwinding of DNA and generating the new complementary strands for both leading and lagging parental strands. The DNA polymerases that generate the complementary strands require a short ...
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(D. Appleton and Company, 1873)
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(Cornell Law Review, 2013)Apologies usually help to repair social relationships and appease aggrieved parties. Previous research has demonstrated that in legal settings, apologies influence how litigants and juries evaluate both civil and criminal ...
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(2017-05-10)Department: Electrical EngineeringTraditional upper extremity prostheses are comprised of an elbow joint and a terminal device (often either a split-hook or a hand) and have typically been limited to a single control input. In the case of a myoelectric ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis thesis describes the control and assessment of a powered transfemoral prosthesis for improving amputee stair ascent. It begins with motivation for the work and a description of current lower-limb prosthetic technology. ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: Computer ScienceIn the past decade, distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems have emerged as an interesting and challenging class of target applications within the mission critical software domain. Examples of existing DRE systems ...
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(2019-07-15)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWearable, powered lower-limb orthoses have begun to emerge as viable assistive devices for individuals with mobility impairments. Control approaches for powered lower-limb orthoses have focused on leg kinematics rather ...
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(2014-05-15)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation describes the development and testing of control systems for powered transfemoral prostheses. The work is divided into seven chapters, with five distinct contributions. Chapter I provides introductory ...