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(2015-04-14)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) has massive potential to help reduce gender and SES disparities in health, yet low-SES white men overwhelmingly oppose the policy. This paper argued white men are hurt by their negative racial ...
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(2022-03-09)Department: PsychologyParent-child interaction plays a critical role in the outcomes that emerge from a given shared activity. However, there are clear context effects on the kinds of behaviors that determine a high-quality interaction between ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)It has been claimed that the deviations from purchasing power parity are highly persistent and have quite long half-lives under the assumption of a linear adjustment of real exchange rates. However, inspired by trade cost ...
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(2011-12-09)Department: ChemistryThe experimental elucidation of protein structures is one of the central tasks of structural biology. The structure of a protein defines its function within a cell helping us to understand the biology of organisms. Protein ...
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(2015-05-21)Department: Mechanical EngineeringAs the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide, gastric cancer is a global issue. Screening programs have had a significant impact on reducing mortality but are unavailable to most people in in low- and middle-income ...
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(2011-08-23)Department: Biomedical EngineeringAssessment of the restoration of load-bearing function is the central goal in the study of bone fracture healing. However, bone fracture calluses are inhomogeneous and irregular materials and this complexity has led to ...
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(2010-04-10)Department: NeuroscienceABSTRACT Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder predominantly afflicting the striatum. It is clear that an expansion of a glutamine encoding CAG triplet-repeat in the Huntingtin ...
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(2016-08-12)Department: ChemistryComputational approaches have become important tools in drug discovery. Computational technologies have been developed for application in all aspects of the drug discovery process including target identification, lead ...
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(2015-05-26)Department: PsychologyMediation analysis has become one of the most popular statistical methods in the social sciences. However, currently available effect size measures for mediation have limitations that restrict their usage to special cases. ...
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(2009-12-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringA major challenge in endocrine surgery is the intraoperative identification of parathyroids during both thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Current localization techniques are mostly preoperative and are imprecise. Optical ...
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(2012-04-06)Department: Biomedical EngineeringA major challenge in endocrine surgery is the intraoperative identification of parathyroid during both thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Current localization techniques are mostly preoperative and are imprecise. Optical ...
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(2009-12-08)Department: Biomedical EngineeringWe present a multi-dye ratiometric method for the correction of optical artifacts and unequal illumination encountered by researchers that utilize complex microfluidic systems. Using a novel chemotaxis system that provides ...
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(2022-03-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringIn 2017 the sclerostin targeting monoclonal antibody Romosozumab was approved as a treatment for post-menopausal osteoporosis (PMO) despite cardiovascular side effects discovered in clinical trials. Previous studies indicated ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: Cancer BiologyExosomes are extracellular vesicles that carry a variety of RNA and protein cargos, including growth factors, transmembrane proteins, angiogenic factors, proteinases, and microRNA. However, the mechanisms that regulate ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceThe popularity of online social networks has grown at an exponential scale since they connect people all over the world enabling them to remain in touch with each other despite the geographical distance among them. These ...
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(2001-05)Department: ReligionThe dissertation is a history covering the years from 1912-1963 of the Women's Department of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). COGIC, the largest African American Pentecostal denomination, founded in 1897, has a Women's ...
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A Pedagogy of Horror: The Counter-hegemonic Discourse of Latin American Short Narratives (1830-1920) (2020-05-14)Department: SpanishI examine the political function of short narratives during the period of nation formation in Latin America (1830-1920). I focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba as case studies to show that the genre was a prominent platform ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Special EducationLimited social interaction typically occurs between high school students with autism and their general education peers unless programming is introduced to promote interaction. However, few published social interaction ...
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(2018-03-13)Department: Latin American StudiesStarting in 1960, a 36-year Civil War ravaged Guatemala ultimately leaving 200,000 people dead and 45,000 people disappeared. The violence that drove Guatemalans from the country during the war eventually saw a boomerang ...
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(2021-03-29)Department: Computer ScienceCurrent solutions for software deployment in cloud computing and high performance computing (HPC) incur a significant amount of storage overhead in order to allow scalability while guaranteeing reproducibility. Containerization, ...