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(2014-06-27)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesChildren with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) can present with deficits in receptive, expressive, or both modalities of vocabulary. Although typically developing children demonstrate vocabulary generalization from the ...
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(2015-07-16)Department: PsychologyThe neural ‘dysconnectivity’ hypothesis of schizophrenia proposes that core symptoms of schizophrenia arise from abnormal connectivity between distinct brain regions. While this hypothesis is supported by a mounting number ...
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(2014-12-05)Department: SociologyThis research examines the cross-border utilization of Mexican health care services by Hispanic border residents. Using data from a community survey conducted in Webb County, Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, this study ...
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(2011-03-14)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyIn the course of this dissertation a software EM-Fold was developed that combines de-novo protein structure prediction and medium resolution cryoEM density maps. It can be applied to proteins containing α-helices and ...
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(2006-11-01)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsAdenovirus (Ad) vectors are promising vehicles for vaccine delivery and gene therapy, but vector development has been hampered by the lack of an atomic structure of the intact virion. In this work, cryoEM single particle ...
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(2016-12-19)Department: ChemistrySemiconductor nanocrystals are a desirable class of nanomaterials for electronic, energy conversion, and biomedical applications. The work presented in this thesis aids in the understanding of the fundamental chemistry ...
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(2014-09-16)Department: PsychologyThe current study aimed to apply the Bayesian cue integration paradigm to examine spatial cue interaction in human navigation. Participants completed a triangle completion task either in an immersive virtual environment ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityDual Language Immersion (DLI) language education programs are complex spaces that have the potential to support greater educational equity. However, achieving this potential requires DLI teachers who are prepared to disrupt ...
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(2020-07-31)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySocioeconomic and demographic factors have been linked to clinical markers of health and general feelings of well-being in healthcare settings. Current conceptualizations of the social determinants of health and how such ...
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(2007-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesCultural factors affecting food preference and tarwi consumption in three departments of the Peruvian Andes were evaluated. This study suggests that tarwi consumption in Peru is location specific. Moreover, the contact ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: History1. This study provides an analysis of attempts by the Instituto Superior de Estudos Brasileiros (ISEB – Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies) to interpret and/or defend Brazilian culture as written by Nelson Werneck ...
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(2021-08-13)Department: BiostatisticsTime-varying confounding is a commonly encountered challenge in longitudinal observational studies that seek to evaluate the causal effect of a time-dependent treatment. Because a time-varying confounder is influenced by ...
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(2019-04-16)Department: Biological SciencesAnimal body plans, olfaction, immune response, and, neuronal connectivity, among many others, traits that in addition to being highly polymorphic, are driven by clusters of tandemly duplicated genes (CTDG). CTDGs are not ...
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(2011-03-21)Department: Mechanical EngineeringFriction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining technique that is rapidly expanding to a wide range of industries. In this thesis, custom low-cost force measurement methods developed specifically for use with FSW are ...
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(2010-12-21)Department: Biological SciencesCircadian rhythms are intrinsic biological rhythms that have a period close to 24 hours. Prokaryotic cyanobacteria are the simplest organisms that show robust circadian rhythms, and are the only organisms that have a ...
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(2018-10-01)Department: EnglishThis thesis examines Jennifer Egan’s 2012 Twitter story, “Black Box,” and specifically its relevance to evolving concerns on the contemporary literary and cultural scene, including theories of new humanism, the role of ...
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(2006-04-28)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyProstaglandin G/H synthases (PGHS), commonly referred to as cyclooxygenases (COX-1 and COX-2), catalyze a key step in the synthesis of biologically active prostaglandins (PGs), the conversion of arachidonic acid (AA) into ...
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(2021-11-19)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyDiabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Chronic low-grade retinal inflammation is an essential contributor to the pathogenesis of DR, as it is known to drive many of the ...
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(2005-12-05)Department: NeuroscienceOur aged population is poised to expand dramatically within the next decade. In Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis studies, the end point hallmarks or lesions are known and well studied; however, the exact processes leading ...
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(2015-11-12)Department: HistoryThe case of Czeslaw Milosz’s exile is significant because the writer epitomizes a 20th century intellectual torn among different loyalties, threatened by the totalizing claims of the Nazi or communist regimes, finally ...