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(2011-11-08)Department: Cancer BiologyDysregulation of the Notch signaling pathway plays an important role in lung cancer pathobiology. The Notch3 receptor is overexpressed in ∼40% of resected non-small cell lung cancers, and its suppression results in loss ...
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(2008-12-01)Department: PathologyThe focus of this project is determining if an ankyrin-G-dependent pathway controls the membrnae expression of the voltage-gated sodium channel 1.5 in cardiomyocytes. Disruption of the normal localization of Nav1.5 can ...
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(2015-03-24)Department: Cancer BiologyLung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States despite a significant number of advancements in the molecular diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Recent genome wide expression ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: PathologyRSK is a family of four Ser/Thr protein kinases activated by ERK1/2 signaling. RSK is often misregulated in a variety of cancers, including breast and prostate. More recently, RSK1 and RSK2 have been shown to promote ...
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(2022-07-15)Department: Cancer BiologyVascular endothelial cells (ECs) are specialized components in the tumor microenvironment (TME) that line the inner walls of blood vessels and serve as precursors for new blood vessel formation (angiogenesis). Compared to ...
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(2014-08-04)Department: HistoryThis paper argues that the image of masses of Communist soldiers resisting the tyranny of Communism associated with “voluntary repatriation” was one of the most tenacious myths in the Cold War. The image that Truman and ...
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(2016-11-30)Department: PhilosophyTax policy discussions are dominated by economic theories, and do not often involve philosophical analysis. Because tax is applied distributive justice, it makes sense to bring the insights of philosophy to bear on the ...
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(2009-03-13)Department: Biological SciencesThe existence of anatomical differences along the left-right (L-R) axis in the brain and visceral organs is an evolutionarily conserved feature of the vertebrate lineage. Although much is known about the molecular pathways ...
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(2019-05-15)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation study examined teacher and child verbal behaviors during guided play sessions that were designed to increase preschool children’s knowledge of target vocabulary. Classroom videotapes that were gathered ...
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(2023-07-14)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe literature documents the importance of teachers for student outcomes as well as the challenges of supporting teacher development, recruitment, and retention. This dissertation examines policies and conditions that ...
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(2010-01-06)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesTexas’ recently completed Governor’s Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) went against the grain somewhat by encouraging participating schools to design their own merit pay plans within state-provided parameters. Seldom have ...
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(2016-12-06)Department: Special EducationAmple evidence supports functional behavioral assessments (FBA) and function-based behavior intervention plans (BIP) as an efficacious intervention method under controlled and supportive research conditions for general ...
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(2011-12-08)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation focuses on teacher retirement systems. The defined benefit pension plans that cover K-12 public school teachers in most states face two major problems: they may not be financially sustainable as large ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Special EducationTeachers’ oral language use may be an important factor in student performance, particularly for students with problem behavior and low language skills. To determine whether teachers use features of language that may impede ...
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(2021-03-17)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityResearchers have argued that students’ experience of mathematics education—especially students from historically marginalized backgrounds—is often characterized by a violence that teaches students that they are not ...
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(2005-07-23)Department: Teaching and LearningProbability and statistical inference are important ideas with a remarkably wide range of applications. However, psychological and instructional studies conducted in the last two decades have consistently documented poor ...
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Teaching Reciprocal Imitation Training (RIT) to Puerto Rican Parents of Young Children with Autism (2023-03-23)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesProviding early intervention and continuous service provision to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families in Puerto Rico can be complex due to multiple factors including limited resources, difficulty ...
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(2010-06-24)Department: Special EducationAs young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are particularly vulnerable to being taken advantage of, safety training is needed to teach appropriate responding to lures from strangers. This study ...
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(2020-11-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis work provides a high-speed flash-analog-to-digital converter with an increased resistance to ionizing radiation, specialized for use in sub-50 nm Silicon-On-Insulator technology nodes. When applying Radiation Hardened ...
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(2008-12-09)Department: AnthropologyIn this dissertation I use the theoretical framework of ritual economy combined with ceramic analysis to understand the function and meaning of the introduction of orange slipped pottery to the Holmul Region during the ...