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A Tale of Two Poisons: Overcoming deleterious anticancer side effects and antibacterial resistance (2022-03-28)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyThe type II topoisomerases are the targets of both anticancer and antibacterial therapies. These enzymes perform critical actions in the cell, including unwinding, unknotting, and untangling the genome, through the ...
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(2018-03-29)Department: NeuroscienceThe prefrontal cortex (PFC) is most commonly defined as the frontal cortical area receiving a mediodorsal (MD) thalamic innervation, however other have put forth that the PFC in the zone of convergent innervation from the ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: HistoryIn 1873, the capture of a private American vessel, the Virginius, by a Cuban warship almost brought the United States and Spain to war. The Spanish warship the Tornado seized the Virginius as it ran arms and ammunition to ...
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(2023-11-13)Department: SociologyIn recent decades college degrees have become both more necessary and less affordable, resulting in a growing crisis of college affordability. This study examines two very different and prominent approaches to this crisis. ...
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(2020-08-18)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityAlthough extensive research has focused on young children’s writing and identified the importance of early writing experiences, there is a limited amount of writing occurring in some early childhood classrooms. Furthermore, ...
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(2014-05-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringMuons produced by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere can induce single event upsets in modern technology nodes. Consequently, errors caused by muons have become a concern in certain terrestrial applications. Testing for ...
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(2007-04-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe failure of synthetic vascular grafts due to de-endothelialization of the lumen as a result of exposure to fluid-induced shear stress prevents the widespread use of such grafts as small-diameter vessel replacements. ...
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(2008-04-25)Department: Computer ScienceThis thesis describes the design and implementation of a thread-safe meta-programmable data model that can be used in a multi-threaded environment without the need for user defined synchronization. The locking mechanisms ...
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(2014-09-25)Department: Biological SciencesThe zebrafish epithalamus, which includes the dorsal habenular nuclei and pineal complex, displays robust molecular and anatomical asymmetries. The full elaboration of molecular and anatomical differences between the left ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyInformation flow in nervous systems depends on the asymmetric organization of neurons; neurotransmitters are released from presynaptic domains and stimulate receptors localized to postsynaptic regions. These specialized ...
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(2021-03-18)Department: Chemical EngineeringDespite the potency of most first-line anti-cancer drugs, non-adherence to these drug regimens remains high and is attributable to the prevalence of “off-target” drug effects that result in serious, adverse events (SAEs) ...
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(2010-12-13)Department: PhilosophyA TRIAL OF PHILOSOPHY JOEL C. BEAUPRÉ Dissertation under the direction of Professor David C. Wood This “trial of philosophy” is of whether suffering, through a reading of Job, can arraign philosophy. I examine the form ...
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(2009-03-27)Department: Computer ScienceEmerging applications in the realm of Intelligent Transportation systems, such as traffic congestion management and vehicle rerouting, weather alerts, and infotainment via multimedia streaming, require timely and reliable ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This article establishes versions of Moulin's [On strategy-proofness and single peakedness, Public Choice 35 (1980), 31-38] characterizations of various classes of strategy-proof social choice functions when the domain ...
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(2018-07-11)Department: MathematicsLet V be a unitary vertex operator algebra (VOA) satisfying the following conditions: (1) V is of CFT type. (2) Every N-gradable weak V -module is completely reducible. (3) V is C2-cofinite. Let Rep(V)be the category of ...
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(2008-12-06)Department: ReligionA United Methodist theology of service is developed in the general context of United Methodist sacramental theology. Baptism, as a sign of covenant with God, marks the entry into a Christian life of service in the world. ...
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(2011-07-29)Department: Mechanical EngineeringIn conventional internal combustion engines, valves are opened and closed using a cam surface. The cam is kinematically related to the piston positions through the crankshaft and timing belt. In contrast, there is no ...
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(2007-07-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutonomous robots are intelligent machines capable of performing tasks in the real world without explicit human control for extended periods of time. A high degree of autonomy is particularly desirable in fields where ...
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(2018-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesIn the antebellum American South, slaves and free blacks from across the Atlantic World went to court to petition for their freedom from illegal enslavement. US legal officials primarily cared whether or not slaves could ...
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(2021-06-11)Department: EnglishThis dissertation intervenes in discussions about the development of fictionality during the eighteenth century by examining how British authors experimented with fictional practices through the oriental tale. While the ...