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Peterson, John | Potential Therapeutic Inhibition of Epigenetic Modulator LSDI in Glioblastoma Multiforme | Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor in adults, and while advances in surgery, radiation, and standard chemotherapies have improved survival in this disease marginally over the years, the outcomes for most patients remain disappointing (Bhat, 2013). Recent studies have identifie... | ||
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Livnat, Yotam | A Less Obvious Connection: the Relationship Between Religious Coping and the Development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder in a Military Sample | While there has been a well-documented negative correlation between religious coping and post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder in military samples, there has been little research in to potential reasons for this relationship. It has been proposed that in many ways religion wo... | Post-traumatic stress disorder - Patients - Religious life | |
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Lillquist, John | Active Cadence Braking (ACB) for Safer Recreational Rehabilitation | Recreational rehabilitation is a proven way to provide a therapeutic experience and enhancement of quality of life for individuals with disabilities. The Mountain Chair is a device developed for individuals with high level traumatic spinal cord injuries (HL-SCI) to provide them with a system compara... | ||
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Ellingson, Lily ann | Relative: Identity, Portraiture, and Human Connection | Our relationships with others define us more than we realize. Our connections to family and community shape the ideas we have about ourselves in ways we dont notice until we step back and analyze them. The people we spend time with, how we relate tot hem, and how we define those relationships clarif... | ||
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Blair, Coral Dean | Snakes as a possible winter reservoir for Western equine encephalitis virus | viruses; equine; snakes | 1964 | |
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Webb, Andrew | Legal instability and societal breakdown in La mort le roi Artur | The death of King Arthur and the twilight of his empire are attributed by many scholars to the adulterous love affair between Queen Guinevere and Lancelot. Indeed their adulterous relationship seems to set off a chain of events that leads to the inglorious demise of almost all of the Knights of the ... | Legend of King Arthur; Arthurian law | 1991 |
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Rhodewalt, Lauren | Personality and emotion regulation contributions to executive function | A growing body of evidence suggests a relationship between personality characteristics and cognition. Additionally, coping styles, which themselves are related to personality traits, also appear to be related to cognition. Two coping styles are of particular relevance; these are (1) Cognitive Reappr... | Psychology | 1991 |
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Seal, Laurie Michelle | Energy in Willa Cather's My Antonia and O Pioneers!: a union of landscape, personalities, and art | The primary texts for this essay are My Antonia and O Pioneers!. Using My Antonia I establish the existence of an energetic essence that quickens the land and various characters of these novels. The influence of this wild energy is manifest mainly through color and movement. I focus specifically on ... | Willa Cather; Energetic essence; American literature | 1997-12 |
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Jackson, Dale Jay | Aerodynamic mixing losses and discharge coefficients due to film cooling from a symmetric turbine airfoil in transonic flow | Aerodynamic losses and discharge coefficients are obtained for two different Pratt and Whitney axisymetric turbine airfoils with film cooling holes. Blade 3 results are given for the blowing ratios, of 0.42, 0.73, and 1.28. The pressure ratios are 1.18, 1.45, and 2.07 for the "ambient" tests and 1.1... | Mechanical Engineering | 1998-12 |
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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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Coronado, Yvette Sonia Gonzalez | The pedagogy of sistahood : Living in this skin in the classroom | Historical and contemporary social dynamics have constructed a 'commonsense' of Latina youth as submissive characters to el macho (the male), in addition to portrayals as sexually promiscuous, destined for marriage and pregnancy, quiet, resistant learners, and as lacking in ambition. These deficit m... | Hispanic American teenage girls; Social conditions | 2009 |
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Meier, John E. | An evaluation of the quality of contemporary ray tracing methods on architectural materials | Predictive computer graphics can be used to visualize the appearance of an object or scene from a virtual design. A seminal experiment in that field was performed in 1984 to evaluate the perceptual quality of computer graphics images with a physical model of the scene. The original study was limited... | Ray tracing algorithms | 2009-05 |
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Lanier, Deandra | I am: the wake of postpostmodernism | The goal of this "essay," a compilation of the genres of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, is to figure out where contemporary fiction is headed and what postmodernism might be leaving in its wake. This essay is an attempt to push critique through the lens of fiction. It seems that the progre... | 2011 | |
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Guernsey, Michael | Mclr is not solely responsible for pigmentation variation among domestic pigeons | Feather pigmentation in the domesticated rock pigeon, Columba livia, is stunningly diverse. Plumage pigmentation in this, and other, columbid (pigeon and dove) species plays an important role in mate choice and thus is a driving factor in the process of sexual selection. To study the genetic basis o... | 2012 | |
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Parker, Braden | The internet's informal influence on newspaper writing and presentation | For over two hundred years, newspapers served as America's primary text based news medium. That began to change in the 1990's with the advent of the internet. Today, newspapers compete with an expanding array of internet based news sources. This competition has caused some newspapers to fail and oth... | Newspapers - United States; Writing - Technique; Writing - Technological innovations | 2012-01 |
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Loftus, Patrick D. | Agonist binding of herg K+ channels inhibits epithelial cell extrusion but not apoptosis in MDCK monolayers; providing possibilities to cancer metastasis regulation | Metastasis is commonly referred to as cancerous cell movement from an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body. When these moving cancerous cells are malignant, an individual's chance of survival is decreased. In order for epithelial cells to move they are detached from the epitheliu... | Biomedical Engineering | 2012-01 |
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Gallegos, Morgan | Her | This creative exploration is a study of how a girl comes to identify herself in an increasingly judgmental and harsh world. Her is a collection of short stories that are linked together through one character. The stories are intentionally fragmented to display the fragmentary nature of identity. Eac... | American fiction - 21st century | 2012-05 |
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Parker, Dwight | From the margins to the middle: a patient-centered approach to primary care for refugees in Utah | In a country where even English-speaking minorities are often at a disadvantage, refugees' circumstances - especially as a result of social instability, language and cultural differences, level of education, and income - can render the American health care system frightening, inaccessible, incompreh... | Immigrants - United States; Health care - United States | 2012-05 |
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Johnston, Jessica Faith | From nanoscience to astrophysics: using high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy of carbonaceous chondrites to understand planet formation | In the field of astrophysics, there currently exists an outstanding gap of knowledge in understanding planet formation dynamics. At the formation scale ranging from millimeters to meters, astrophysicists debate as to how solar nebulae form larger masses-planets and other kilometer-sized bodies-from ... | Physics & Astronomy | 2012-05 |
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Pham, John V. | The function of the protein VCP/CDC48-associated mitochondrial stress-responsive 1 in mammals | Although mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to many human diseases, mitochondrial interacting proteins and protein quality controls are just beginning to be understood. The objective of our study was to characterize the function of the VMS1 protein in mammals. We determined the role of Vms1 o... | Mitochondrial disorders; Mitochondrial diseases - genetics; VMS1 | 2012-05 |
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Bartlett, Sarah | How minority parties can increase voter mobilization and affect national elections in a two-party system | The American electoral system inhibits minority parties from gaining sufficient power to affect national politics or elections. This claim is proved by U.S. history and the lack of minority parties holding major offices. This paper studies the religious right movement, a minority group in America, t... | Elections - Research - United States; Republican Party (U.S. :1854 - ) - Religion - 21st century; Green Party (U.S); Minorities - Political activity - United States | 2012-05 |
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Christensen, David S. | Harmonization of EU-U.S. regulatory standards: challenges and opportunities | The prevailing trend of lower tariffs over the past half century has dramatically increased global trade flows and has exposed many previously invisible non-tariff barriers to trade, including trade-distorting regulatory practices. In this paper, I provide a broad overview of current practice and th... | United States. Trade Development.; Eurupoean Union trade relations; Harmonizing standards | 2012-05 |
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Porter, Louis-Bassett | Perceived stress and ambulatory blood pressure: an analysis of potential health behavior mechanisms | Ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) has been linked to perceived stress. However, research is needed on the more specific processes that might be responsible for such a link. In the present study, we examined how potential health behavior mechanisms (weekly exercise, weekly alcohol consumption, and smok... | Ambulatory blood pressure measurement; stress management | 2012-05 |
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Alexander, Amanda | Parental conflict with adult children | Parental conflict with adult children is something that is well known anecdotally, but has rarely been studied in light of other, more serious conflicts between parents and their children. However, parental conflict with adult children (adult being defined as between the ages of 18 and 25) is someth... | Adult children - Family relationships; Adult children - Psychology | 2012-05 |
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Kenney, Devin | Monumental failure: the navajo tribe and radiotoxic wastes | The extraction of uranium has a troubled history in the Navajo Nation, a history born of lack of representation, lack of interest, and ultimately, lack of regard for human life. The United States government failed to carry out their obligation to protect the health and economic well-being of the Nav... | Navajo Tribe - Government relations; Uranium mines and mining - Environmental aspects - United States; Uranium mines and mining - Waste disposal - Navajo Indian Reservation | 2012-05 |