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(2005-07-12)Department: NeuroscienceThis dissertation describes pharmacological studies of the functional consequences of the Cys23Ser single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in two different edited versions of the human 5-HT2C receptor as well as evaluation ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: Electrical EngineeringA key goal in machine vision is to understand how the actions of sentient agents such as humans are processed, identified, and understood. The most apparent challenge is the need to segment a continuous set of visual ...
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(2013-12-19)Department: Electrical EngineeringSuicide is a major health problem in the US, and has become an important topic of study. Recently, psychiatrists have reported hearing a particular sound or tonality in the voices of subjects that are at high risk of ...
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(2022-10-27)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsRift Valley fever virus (RVFV) and Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) are two lethal viruses that impact human health. Little is known about the human antibody response to either virus. In this work, I show that ...
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(2018-04-02)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyAnnual outbreaks of influenza A viruses in humans are one of the major health problems worldwide, causing more than 250,000 deaths every year. In addition to yearly epidemics, novel influenza viruses that cross the species ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)This paper studies the allocation of skilled and unskilled workers with different human capital levels between locations: city and rural area. In the city, activities are congregated thus there is externality in production. ...
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(2007-10-03)Department: Biological SciencesDNA damaging agents have been shown to stimulate the localization of human DNA helicase B (HDHB) in nuclear foci, suggesting that HDHB might participate in DNA damage response. In the first part of this dissertation, we ...
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(2012-01-09)Department: Biological SciencesCorrect and faithful genome duplication is crucial for preserving genomic integrity. Genome duplication is, therefore, highly regulated through a complex network of proteins that accomplish DNA replication in addition to ...
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(2004-09-29)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe purpose of this research is to study and quantify the effects of system and human factors on objective workload, subjective workload and physiological stress in residents and attending physicians working in an emergency ...
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(Ecology Law Quarterly, 1994)The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) is scheduled for reauthorization in the spring of 1995, and Congress must decide either to continue the Superfund program in its current ...
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(2011-06-09)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyMICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY HUMAN HEMOGLOBIN AS AN IRON SOURCE OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS GLIB PISHCHANY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Eric P. Skaar Staphylococcus aureus is a tremendous human pathogen ...
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(2022-03-02)Department: Molecular Pathology & ImmunologyOne-third of all humans, more than 1.5 billion people living in developing countries, are suffering from helminth infection. A vigorous type 2 immune response, characterized by highly elevated levels of IgE, is the hallmark ...
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(NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2019-08-02)Human memory is thought to depend on a circuit of connected brain regions, but this hypothesis has not been directly tested. We derive a human memory circuit using 53 case reports of strokes causing amnesia and a map of ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: ChemistryStreptococcus agalactiae (Group B strep, GBS) is a common infant pathogen that causes sepsis and meningitis. Human milk provides nutrition for the developing infant, and breast milk consumption leads to critical modulation ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: ChemistryThe increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance coupled with a dramatically slowed rate of novel antibiotic discovery has created an environment wherein antimicrobial resistance is one of the most serious threats to ...
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(2022-03-21)Department: ChemistryStreptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus, GBS) is an opportunistic bacterium that is commonly isolated from the female gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts. GBS colonization of the rectovaginal mucosa during ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Institute for Global Health, 2008-07-21)