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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-01-25)
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(Molecular Neurobiology, 2019-08)Autism and epilepsy are diseases which have complex genetic inheritance. Genome-wide association and other genetic studies have implicated at least 500+ genes associated with the occurrence of autism spectrum disorders ...
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(BMC Developmental Biology, 2019-07-08)BackgroundThe Tet protein family (Tet1, Tet2, and Tet3) regulate DNA methylation through conversion of 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine which can ultimately result in DNA demethylation and play a critical role ...
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(2012-12-12)Department: EnglishThis dissertation pairs fictional texts with periodicals in four time periods that span the nineteenth century to compare the changing narrative perspectives encoded in the editorial “We,” or as Anthony Trollope called it, ...
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(Cells, 2020-01)Exploring the interactions between the Ca2+ binding protein calmodulin (CaM) and its target proteins remains a challenging task. Members of the Munc13 protein family play an essential role in short-term synaptic plasticity, ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are very common, the disease severity can encompass a broad range of clinical diagnoses, including acute cystitis, pyelonephritis, catheter-associated infection, and asymptomatic bacteriuria. ...
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(2008-03-19)Department: Cancer BiologyGastric adenocarcinoma is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the world, and infection with Helicobacter pylori is the strongest known risk factor for this malignancy. Adherence of H. pylori to gastric ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: NeuroscienceStress is critical to every organism’s ability to adapt and survive. This dissertation reviews the history of stress research and reviews stress physiology across a variety of organ systems. Neurocircuitry that is involved ...
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(2009-11-13)Department: Cancer BiologyGastric adenocarcinoma is strongly associated with the presence of H. pylori. Microbial factors of H. pylori and host responses induced by the interactions of H. pylori with gastric epithelial cells play important roles ...
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(2018-11-20)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to examine whether the Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) Telepractice Program was effective for teaching caregivers to implement EMT language support strategies and whether changes in caregiver ...
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(2023-07-14)Department: Biomedical EngineeringGene editing unlocks the source code of life—DNA—for human engineering. This could enable treating myriad diseases, with huge academic and industrial efforts ongoing towards treatments for numerous cancers, neurodegenerative ...
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(Springer, 2012-12)As systemic cancer therapies improve and are able to control metastatic disease outside the central nervous system, the brain is increasingly the first site of relapse. The blood–brain barrier (BBB) represents a major ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2005-06-14)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2005-04-05)
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(Journal of Legal Studies, 2006)This paper uses a unique data set to examine how parties in civil litigation choose whether to demand a jury trial or to waive this right and whether trial forum influences the probability of trial versus settlement. ...
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(2023-03-17)Department: Nursing ScienceBackground: Like other older adults, people living with dementia (PLWD) experience pain. However, due to changes associated with dementia, reporting on their own pain becomes more difficult, and PLWD rely more on family ...
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(Alabama Law Review, 2018)Since the 1930s, corporate law scholarship has focused narrowly on the public corporation and the problem of the separation of ownership and control — a problem many now believe has been mitigated or even solved. With rare ...
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(2007-04-05)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis ethnographic study begins by outlining two competing conceptions of democracy, the participatory and representative views. These conceptions frame an analysis of the practices for socialization for democratic citizenship ...
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(University of Cincinnati Law Review, 2007)This essay was presented as the 2006 William Howard Taft lecture at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. It suggests that the conflation of politics and law - the view that judges are not legal experts but rather ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)We examine the role of visibility in influencing government resource allocation across multiple public goods. In an electoral framework, outcomes are defined to be less visible in tasks if it is harder to assess government ...