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Jowers, Jackson F. | Sustainable support for America's children: the expanded child tax credit of 2021 and the pressing need to implement a bipartisan, long-term child allowance policy in the United States | The United States has a vested interest in providing support for families raising children. Over the past 25 years, the country has used a tax code provision known as the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to provide financial assistance to parents raising children. This paper presents a synthesis of relevant p... | | 2022 |
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Terrell, Makenna | Symptom Experiences of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer | Background/Objectives: Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are a patient population that is oftentimes overlooked. The symptoms that they experience as a result of their cancer and cancer treatment negatively impact their quality of life. The purpose of this study was to analyze the prio... | | 2019 |
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Reece, Eric J. | Synthesis and Characterization of Proton Conducting Silica Nano-Particles for use in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells | One of the fastest growing fields in scientific research is alternative energy. This has led to an investigation into the various aspects of fuel cells and their components due to their highly efficient energy conversion and low CO2 emissions. The efficiency of fuel cells is highly dependent on the ... | | 2019 |
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Cantrell, Rachel Lou-La Vonne | Synthesis of Antibiotic Scaffolds Inspired by the Tan 1057-D Biologically Active Natural Product Through the Utilization of Ullmann Copper(I) and Gold Cyclization Chemistry | As bacterial resistance to drugs continues to rise, the search for new antibiotics is of paramount importance. One key element to finding successful antibiotics is to uncover small molecules that act through novel mechanisms of action in order to decrease the risk of cross-resistance and provide ant... | | 2020 |
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Domagala, Drue | Synthesis of protacs to inhibit toll-like receptors | The immune system is the body's defense against pathogens. Since it has to be able to withstand the fast-evolving nature of microscopic invaders, the immune system has a variety of mechanisms to recognize and destroy them. One way that pathogens are recognized is through toll-like receptor (TLR) sig... | | 2022 |
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Randolph, Charlotte | Synthesis of VLC-Pufas relating to macular degenerative diseases | Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (VLC-PUFAs) are non-dietary fatty acids that are more than 24 carbons long and include more than one double bond. The specific compound we have focused on is 32:6 n-3: a 32-carbon molecule having 6 cis alkenes with the alkenes beginning at the omega 3 carb... | | 2022 |
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Javdan, Shwan | Targeted HPMA copolymer-gemcitabine conjugates for the treatment of ovarian carcinoma | Each year in the United States, over 14,000 women die from ovarian cancer. Anthracyclines-a class of chemotherapeutics-have long been the primary treatment for this and many other cancers, yet they often leave patients with cardiotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, and a number of other adverse effects. Polym... | Ovaries -- Cancer -- Treatment; Polymeric drug delivery systems; Polymer-drug conjugates; pHPMA | 2015-12 |
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Harris, Maxene | Targeting generational segmentations in advertisements through psychoraphic attributes: the coca-cola company | Millennials have become the largest segment of consumers in the United States as of 2019, surpassing the Baby Boomer generation by over half a million people. Generation Z, while not as large in size, has become a driving influence in targeted marketing segmentation because of how influential their ... | | 2021 |
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Pierce, Curtis | Technology Adoption as a Predictive Measure of Financial Performance | This study examines the connection between technology adoption and the financial performance of firms measured as daily stock returns. Using an event study methodology, I test the hypothesis that technology adoption is a statistically significant predictor of abnormal returns. Specifically, I analyz... | | 2017 |
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Judd, David Paul | Telomere proteins of Drosophila melanogaster: HipHop and MSK81 | DNA molecules encoding two proteins, HipHop and MSK81, were cloned into bacteria so as to make large amounts of these proteins that bind to telomeres of Drosophila (fruit fly) chromosomes. The goal was to determine whether known DNA binding motifs are present in HipHop and MSK81. Understanding how t... | Biology | 2012-05 |
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Lusted, Kitsel | Temperature dependence of leptospirillum ferriphilum during biooxidation of pyrite | Rare earth elements have properties that make them useful in advanced electronics, magnets, and batteries. However, they are difficult to isolate from their constituent elements, which results in an environmentally costly operation to refine them. An environmentally friendly alternative extraction m... | | 2023 |
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Gallafent, Jessica | The Temperature Sensitivity of Leaf Litter Breakdown in Streams and Rivers with Variable nutrient Supply | A significant fraction of terrestrial carbon is processed and stored in surface waters. Elevated global temperature and eutrophication are major changes that influence the processing of carbon in streams and rivers through the breakdown of organic matter. Independently, increases in temperature and ... | | 2019 |
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Nakano, Jamie | Tennis players and bowlers: the historical sociology of the CIA | Early CIA case officers recruited during the 1950s were characterized by similar upper-class backgrounds: wealthy families from the Northeast, preparatory school education, a degree from an Ivy League, and previous employment in white collar occupations. Anecdotal evidence reported that the next gen... | | 2023 |
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Roestenburg, Jessica | Testing the Perceptual Salience of Spectral Content in Zebra Finch Song | Birds actively adjust the resonance properties of the upper vocal tract during singing, which results in specific harmonic structures of song elements. To what degree upper vocal tract filtering is relevant for the perceptual salience of song is poorly understood. This research utilizes (1) a biolog... | | 2018 |
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Kimmel, Julianne | Text analysis of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents and young adults | Suicide is a public concern for adolescents and young adults (AYAs), with rates rising across the United States. This generation often uses social media platforms to express suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The three-step theory (3ST) of suicide finds that strong suicide ideation progresses to actio... | | 2021 |
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Woolf, Katie | There's Something About Syria: Using Foreign Military Intervention in the Syrian Civil War to Assess Predictabilityin International Relations | This paper utilizes three strands of International Relations (IR) theory: realism, constructivism, and leadership theory to inform the actions of the United States and Russia in their intervention in the Syrian Civil War. First, a brief overview of the case is presented along with a review of the th... | | 2020 |
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Johnson, Rhiannon | Thermal modulation of the semicircular canal afferent response in the oyster toadfish, opsanus tau | Current cochlear implant devices provide limited hearing ability to the deaf through electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. Recent studies have shown that pulsed infrared (IR) radiation can also be used to stimulate the inner ear neurons and has the potential to be used in prostheses to help ... | Biomedical Engineering | 2012-05 |
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Atalaya, Candelaria | Time and light souvenirs | I was a young photography student in my home country of Peru when I built my first Pinhole camera as one of the many school assignments, and long before I came to United States. For my very first picture, I placed the Pinhole camera on the school patio the elements of the composition for the project... | Photography, Pinhole; Photography, Artistic | 2014-12 |
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Harrell, Haylee | To whom it may concern: a one act | What am I? My child you are caramel. You are white sugar, you are brown sugar, you are milk and butter and vanilla all heated into one. Sweet on the lips but strong and sticky-you are a treat, you are a gift, my child you are a decadence. But they call me mulatto…Mama don't like that word, best no... | American drama - 21st century | 2014-05 |
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Savage, Erica | Total Factor Productivity in the Construction Industry | Conventional wisdom asserts productivity growth within the construction industry has been in decline for decades in comparison to other US industries. If productivity is indeed low, there is an enormous opportunity for construction firms to create value. The purpose of this study is to test the conv... | | 2018 |
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Bunting, Abraham | Towards water sustainability - improving water usage disclosure | As the amount of interest and capital invested in sustainable companies, indices, and funds has ballooned, the demand for sustainability data on which to base investment has increased significantly. Investors, companies, and regulators have all petitioned the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC... | | 2023 |
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| Traction estimation and control for mobil robots using wheel slip velocity | Mobile robots are used to venture through types of environments, at low wheel speeds, where wheel slip is a threat. Wheel slip is a hazard to mobile robots in that it introduces error in dead reckoning measurement and in some instances causes the robot to halt its forward progress. To compensate ... | Robots; Motion;Traction | 2008-12 |
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Kirkegaard, Matthew | Transboundary water conflict, cooperation, and regional integration: Mercosur and the La Plata Basin | Water politics become diplomatic concerns when watersheds cross international borders. But how do these relationships between states change when the nature of these international borders themselves change through economic and political integration? The purpose of this study is to consider the relati... | MERCOSUR (Organization); Water-supply - South America; Water-supply - Political aspects | 2016-05 |
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Wang, Karissa M. | Transcription factor NFATc1's signaling pathway and role in cardiomyocyte function | Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. It affects as many as 6.1 million people in the United States and increases their risk of stroke by 4-5 times. AF is evidently a very serious condition, but the scientific community does not yet fully understand its underlying mechani... | | 2020 |
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Corcoran, James | Transfers in professional soccer: how they create value | Soccer, the world's most popular sport, continues to see immense growth. Clubs, now with more money at their disposal than ever before, seek any marginal advantage they can get over their competitors. One such way clubs seek to gain an advantage is by acquiring players through transfers. For teams c... | | 2024 |