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(2020-02-28)Department: Special EducationReading Curriculum-Based Measurement (R-CBM) is a commonly used type of assessment yet recent research questions it is psychometrically sound. Chapter 1 investigated the passage equation using the Decoding System Measure ...
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(2014-05-27)Department: Chemical EngineeringPhase transitions (i.e. transitions from one state to another) play a crucial role in most natural processes, as well as industrial operations such as evaporation. Molecular simulation has emerged as an important tool for ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to examine the role of a dynamic assessment (DA) of decoding in predicting responsiveness to Tier 2 small group tutoring in a response-to-intervention model. First-grade students (n=134) who ...
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(2016-04-01)Department: Special EducationYoung children with expressive language delays present with a variety of risk factors related to their delayed language acquisition including later use of gestures, genetic factors, and environmental variables (Hawa & ...
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(2021-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyDermatology, a specialty that focuses on skin, is not exempt from health disparities based on race. I argue that the low rate of representation of darker skin in dermatology education in medical school negatively impacts ...
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(2011-04-07)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesOver the past 80 years, many scholars and higher education professionals have attempted to better understand college student persistence and the institutional characteristics which are most strongly associated with an ...
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(2017-08-03)Department: Human GeneticsLung cancer is a leading cause of cancer in the United States and accounts for more deaths than prostate, breast, and colorectal cancers combined. Genetic variation has been known to play a role in lung cancer survival and ...
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(2012-12-11)Department: Biological SciencesPhosphorylation of the C-terminus of cAR1 is thought to provide a role in the ability of cells to adapt to cAMP and respond to spatial gradients that span several orders of magnitude. It has been demonstrated that ...
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(2024-02-23)Department: PsychologyHow do people decide what is true and what is false? Decades of psychological research shows that one factor affecting these judgements is repetition: the more a person sees a statement, the more likely they are to believe ...
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(2017-08-08)Department: Human GeneticsUnderstanding the genetic and environmental factors contributing to blood pressure is an important step in elucidating the causes of hypertension, a disease of high blood pressure. African Americans experience the highest ...
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(2024-01-03)Department: Biological SciencesGlobally, severe fungal infections in humans cause serious disease and kill millions of people annually, but fungal infections remain understudied and poorly understood. The genus Aspergillus includes several hundred species ...
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(2015-10-20)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsAnalysis of MafB-/- mice suggested that this transcription factor was essential to islet α- and β-cell formation during development, although the postnatal physiological impact could not be studied because these mutants ...
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(2023-07-14)Department: PsychologyThe hemodynamic response function (HRF) model is used in neuroimaging studies to characterize the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response to a stimulus (typically assumed to be neuronal activity). Recent work utilizing ...
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(2018-04-24)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyAnti-science movements are groups that oppose, either in behavior or ideology, normative allopathic medicine or science. Conventional medicine typically either rejects these groups or attempts outreach that often fails to ...
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(2019-03-26)Department: Special EducationSuccessful transition outcomes for youth with disabilities necessitate collaboration within and beyond the school system. Ideally, this collaboration entails a wide range of professionals across school systems, service ...
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(2023-05)Challenging behavior (CB) is a concern for many parents, especially as CB can have negative impacts on child development. It is critical for parents to receive supports to help address their child’s CB. The FBSApp is a ...
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(2020-03-26)Department: Special EducationAntecedent-based interventions (ABIs) have been effective in reducing challenging behavior of children with and without disabilities. Structural analysis (SA) is a systematic method of identifying contextual variables that ...
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(2009-11-09)Department: PhysicsDiffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that can be used to quantify the rate of self-diffusion of water molecules. In biological tissues the mobility of water molecules ...
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(2013-12-10)Department: PhysicsThe very-long-term (weeks to years) timing properties of high mass X-ray bina- ries (HMXBs) featuring black holes, particularly the so-called ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs), could be linked to the coupled precession ...