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(2009-04-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringReal-time search techniques have been used extensively in the areas of task planning and decision making. In order to be effective, however, these techniques require task-specific domain knowledge in the form of heuristic ...
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(2023-09-26)Department: PharmacologyThe plasticity of the adult mammalian brain is determined by the number and proliferation capacity of neural stem cells (NSCs). The pool of NSCs responsible for populating the adult brain is established during prenatal ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesAccording to the Habitat Amount Hypothesis, the total amount of habitat in a landscape should be the main determinant for species richness, but how does the quality of the habitat and the surrounding landcovers (termed the ...
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(2014-05-27)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe ubiquitin-like protein LC3 is a central component of the autophagy pathway where it functions in autophagosome formation and cargo selection. LC3 has an extensive network of interacting proteins, but little is known ...
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(2023-08)This capstone explores the impact of organizational change and institutional role transition as experienced by the student affairs department of an international university in Florence, Italy. An explorative qualitative ...
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(2011-03-14)Department: PharmacologyKCNE4 is a potassium channel modulating protein that can dramatically inhibit distinct potassium currents, but we lack a clear understanding its mechanism for doing so and its physiologic significance. In this project we ...
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(2017-05-26)Department: Human GeneticsLung cancer is classified into two main types: small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). NSCLC has several subtypes, but the two most commonly occurring subtypes are lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) ...
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(2006-04-18)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsMultiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neuroimmunological and neuro-degenerative disease. Despite substantial evidence for polygenic inheritance, the MHC is the only region that clearly and consistently demonstrates ...
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(2022-11-19)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe inflammatory response within the brain and spinal cord is a key biological response to disease, infection, and injury. Chronic pain and blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) are negatively impacted by the role ...
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(2022-01-14)Department: Civil EngineeringThe COVID-19 pandemic has left no sector of society untouched since first emerging in December 2019. Transportation, as one such sector, has been dramatically impacted. The switch to telecommuting completely changed the ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Cognitive Psychology in ContextLanguage experience is one way of measuring a person’s language proficiency, such that the more exposure a person has to various phrase structures in a given language, the better they will be at reading and comprehending ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe tumor microenvironment is a dynamic system of cellular and extracellular components that vary in composition and interactions within and across patients. This work particularly explores the extracellular matrix (ECM) ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe tumor microenvironment is a dynamic system of cellular and extracellular components that vary in composition and interactions within and across patients. This work particularly explores the extracellular matrix (ECM) ...
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(2013-07-11)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyNeurodegenerative diseases are characterized by inappropriate death of distinct neuronal populations. Although symptoms vary, these diseases share pathogenic features such as age-dependent onset and progressive death of ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyThe microtubule network in cells continuously remodels to facilitate its vital functions in cell division, cell motility and intracellular transport. Organization of the microtubule network is enabled by regulation of the ...
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(2011-12-01)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation takes a detailed look at two seemingly well-established procedures in Monte Carlo research. Part I closely examines the 3rd and 5th order polynomial transforms and the g-and-h distribution, all designed ...
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(2016-09-22)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetization transfer (MT) imaging has emerged as a viable alternative to conventional structural MRI indices. It has been shown to be remarkably sensitive to changes in myelin associated with pathologies such as multiple ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04-12)Prosocial behavior is defined as any voluntary social behavior performed to benefit others. While many studies have found that prosocial behavior protects against depressive symptoms and negative emotions, few have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024)Dispositional accommodative efficacy (DAE) is the general belief in one’s ability to adjust to an unwanted or unchangeable situation. Previous research has shown that this efficacy has a strong, positive relationship to ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyTuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a multi-organ genetic disorder caused by mutations in either TSC1 or TSC2 which encode hamartin and tuberin, respectively. Hamartin and tuberin form a protein complex that indirectly, ...