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(2013-09-24)The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of lactate released from contracting muscle on breast cancer cell growth. It is well known that during exercise, contracting muscle releases many different substances, ...
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(2012-05-04)Rotavirus (RV) causes more than 2 million diarrhea incidents and more than 600,000 deaths around the world every year. In order to prevent and treat this fatal disease, we must study, in depth, the mechanisms and pathogenesis ...
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Recent research has shown people are lying averse; it is as if they suffer monetary costs from not telling the truth. By using a game proposed by Repullo (1985) we study the differential effect of lying aversion and direct ...
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(1978)This report describes the develpment of a direct, spectrophotometric assay for arginase. The assay may be conveniently used at high substrate concentrations (8Km) for assaying crude sources of arginase, and for steady-state ...
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(1986)A novel method for making discretionary interconnections involves direct writing on wafer using a precision laser beam and metallization using the lift off process. After experimenting with several line thicknesses, ...
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The goal of this research work is to explore the potential of directed energy deposition (DED) as an additive manufacturing process for pharmaceuticals. DED is a process commonly used in 3D printing of metals, in which a ...
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(1998)In recent research, validity of Big Five personality measures has been questioned. Specifically, the question of social comparison targets needs research. When persons evaluate themselves on personality dimensions, implicit ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Many Victorian novelists sought to promote the importance of the individual by placing their characters in situations that allowed them to go outside society's pre-established boundaries. In spite of these novelists' ...
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(2009-08-11)World War II was waged on an unprecedented scale, and the peace which followed was equally unprecedented. The Allies did more than simply call for an armistice; they made their goal the complete destruction of the German ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-05-06)Government transfer programs to distribute food, water, or electricity at low or no cost have been widespread during the COVID-19 global health crisis. How does program design affect the efficiency and distributional ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-09-30)The first warnings from health officials of an oncoming wave of infections began in late 2019. As the Covid-19 public health crisis rapidly spread, it was often followed by deep economic downturns that disproportionately ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-04-28)Looking beyond today’s fiscal problems in the U.S., the debate about the how to best incorporate the well-being of subsequent generations in current public policy discussions continues. Authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. ...
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(1996)I hope to affirm the need for creativity in our lives by defining it as a necessary part of the inner workings of out minds. By looking at the actual creative process and what happens both biologically and psychologically, ...
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(2006-12-13)This research was meant to discover whether, amid accusations they have become the super branch, the judiciary envisioned by the Founders is mirrored today. Reviewing constitutional origins led to the discovery that the ...
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(2011-08-08)Research has suggested that when an individual acts in a manner inconsistent with his or her stated attitudes there is likely some form of "implicit attitude" driving the behavior. However, another possibility is that ...
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(2014-12-08)The motivation behind this research stems from a need for reform in American education. Students who are currently graduating U.S. schools are failing in many basic skills needed for the real world. Today’s classrooms are ...
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(2013-09-24)In this project I will create a philosophically rigorous assessment of what it means to be in the 21st century. I will conceptualize the human subject in relation to the primary signifier of the contemporary age: rapid ...
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Patent ductus arteriosu is a condition wherein is a condition wherein the ductus arteriosus, or the natural port between the aorta and pulmonary artery during canine fetal development, fails to spontaneously close shortly ...
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(2015-10-02)The Ras-EGFR-MAPK signaling axis is chronically up-regulated in colon cancer, and pharmacological inhibition of signaling through Ras and/or EGFR has been shown to prevent colon tumor formation. Recent evidence suggests ...
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In many strains of contemporary feminist theory, the sex/gender distinction is an elementary conception. Across its decades of paradigmatic prevalence within the discipline, the distinction consistently contextualizes the ...