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(2014-07-25)Department: ChemistryPhotosystem I is a photoactive membrane protein found in higher plants, some algae, and cyanobacteria. It is part of the solar energy conversion mechanism that fuels most life on the planet. It has been shown that photocurrents ...
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(2005-04-25)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental ManagementINTEGRATION OF TRANSPORTATION AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: IDENTIFYING CRITICAL INTERFACES, OBSTACLES, AND OPPORTUNITIES KRISTEN E. SHEPHERD Dissertation under the direction of Professor Mark D. Abkowitz Transportation and ...
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(American Journal of Criminal Law, 2003)On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates took the lives of her five children by drowning them, one by one, in a bathtub. At her trial on capital murder charges nine months later, she pleaded insanity. Despite very credible evidence ...
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(BMC Medical Genomics, 2019-09-18)Background Although APOBEC-mutational signature is found in tumor tissues of multiple cancers, how a common germline APOBEC3A/B deletion affects the mutational signature remains unclear. Methods Using data from 10 cancer ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-05)
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(2021-09-01)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologySecondary active transporters are integral membrane proteins that harness the potential energy stored in electrochemical ion gradients to import and export substrates across cell membranes. Transporters with the LeuT-fold ...
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Integrative statistical approaches to gain biological insights from genome-wide association studies (2021-06-11)Department: Human GeneticsThis paper
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(2014-03-27)Department: Biomedical EngineeringFibrotic disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is characterized by the transition of resident fibroblast cells into active myofibroblasts, identified by their expression of alpha smooth muscle actin. ...
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(2019-04-17)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe current obesity public health crisis is linked directly with liver health through a parallel epidemic of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD has direct effects on liver health while acting as an independent ...
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(2015-03-25)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased dramatically in parallel with excess caloric intake and sedentary lifestyles. Insulin resistance precedes the development of type 2 diabetes. The liver is a major insulin-responsive ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 2003)Professor Waldron and Professor Michelman have presented us with two interesting, but very different, views on what procedural components might contribute to the integrity of lawmaking. I will focus on a different aspect ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis reinterprets the writings of the Brazilian Catholic intellectual Alceu Amoroso Lima, in particular, his work in the 1930s. A leading Catholic intellectual and one of the most important laymen in the country, ...
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(Constitutional Commentary, 1988)In the past twenty years, historians have greatly enriched our knowledge of the eighteenth-century ideas that underlie the Constitution. Much of this scholarship has been devoted to rediscovery of eighteenth century ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 2005)This Article considers, first, available economic, social, and cultural analyses of the impact of intellectual property protection in developing countries. Economics provides a useful set of analytical tools and are directly ...
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(Michigan Journal of International Law, 2019)Investor-state dispute-settlement (ISDS) clauses give multinational investors (corporations) a right to sue a state in a binding proceeding before an independent arbitration tribunal. This jurisgenerative right to file a ...
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(1999-04-07)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Information TechnologyThis work offers a new paradigm for building intelligent software systems that facilitate on-line learning. The research investigated effects of adopting intelligent agent techniques to an on-line learning environment. ...
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(2015-12-03)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by difficulties in social communication as well as repetitive and atypical patterns of behaviors. According to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), an ...
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(2016-11-22)Department: PsychologyIndividuals with schizophrenia consistently display social functioning deficits with underlying emotion recognition impairments. Simulation of other’s emotional expressions facilitates recognition. Emotional states are ...
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(2018-04-10)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe three papers in this dissertation contribute to research that seeks to characterize the complex and multi-dimensional relation between the physical environment and human learning. The first paper outlines a new approach ...
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(2017-11-08)Department: PhysicsTwo-dimensional materials are one of the most intensively studied systems in the modern solid state physics. Among the broad variety of currently known 2D materials, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are ...