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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"Alyssa"”.
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Graduate voice recital: Alyssa Holley, soprano
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Visualising Human Migrations in Cape Town The story of three ships through ‘time’, ‘space’ and ‘memory’
… Michael Taussig (1993); James Clifford (1988); Alyssa Grossman (2013); and Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz (2005) who make a case for the technique of ‘visualising anthropology’ in the field of ethnographic enquiry. Furthering the case of observational filming as a sensory form of investigation, …
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Multiple Myeloma and Its Treatment Alter Peripheral Nervous System Structure and Function
… SYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION </strong></p> <p>Alyssa Katarina Kosturakis, BA</p> <p>Supervisory Professor: Patrick M. Dougherty, PhD</p> <p>Peripheral neuropathy is among the most deleterious side effects of frontline chemotherapeutics used to treat prevalent cancers. Chemotherapy-induced …
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Age-associated Changes in the Germinal Centre Response Upon Vaccination
… Germinal Centre Response upon Vaccination Name: Alyssa Silva Cayetano Vaccination efficacy is reduced in older individuals due to diminished immune system function with advancing age. The germinal centre (GC) response plays a crucial role in generating protective immunity upon vaccination through …
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Beyond dialogue : different literary and artistic strategies to represent the unspeakable in three francophone plays : Wajdi Mouawad's Incendies, Groupov's Rwanda 94, and Milo Rau's Hate Radio /
The concept of representation is an ancient one, and as such it has acquired multiple meanings throughout time. However, when the representation in question is that of an "unspeakable" event, such as war and genocide, it must contend with the difficulty posed by the inadequacy of language to …
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Fluence-limited burnup as a function of fast reactor core parameters
The limiting factor in current designs for fast reactors is not only the reactivity, but also the maximum permissible fast-neutron fluence in the cladding, especially for reduced uranium enrichment cores using high-albedo MgO reflectors. The intent of this thesis was to determine the best design …
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EXAMINING WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT AND PARENTING STRESS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER THROUGH THE LENS OF BOUNDARY AND CONSERVATIONS OF RESOURCES THEORIES
<p>Understanding the challenges parents of children with disabilities face when seeking to balance work and family is a real concern; however, these challenges have not been well studied. Parents of children with disabilities experience excess challenges in the home domain as a result of their …
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SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE ROLE OF PKMζ IN DRUG SELF-ADMINISTRATION AND PREFRONTAL CORTEX SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY
Neuroadaptations associated with addiction are hypothesized to involve the same glutamatergic cellular mechanisms that underlie learning and memory. Further, there are clear sex differences in both rates of diagnosis and symptom severity in substance use disorder which may result from sexually …
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Self-Actualization Wellness: A Developmental Approach to Predicting and Reducing College Student Stress Related to Person and Environment Variables
Despite the growing recognition on the importance of mental health and wellbeing, college students’ mental health and wellbeing continue to decline. Given this information, research is needed to explore potential predictors of college student stress. Utilizing a theoretical model of …
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The Impact that COVID-19 has on Athletes and Sports Retention
During the spring of 2020, everyone around the world was introduced to COVID and forced to lockdown due to the pandemic. Student-athletes then had to figure out who they were without their sports and find new ways to stay in love with the sport they had grown to love, while also maintaining their …
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Teaching and Learning about Diverse Cultures in Africa
This qualitative study examined how third grade teachers are teaching about diverse cultures in Africa, and how students in Upstate New York have learned about these diverse cultures. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase One included lesson activities taught to a classroom of fourth grade …
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The Role Of Pdgf C And Its Splice Variant In Breast Cancer
<p>The PDGF family consists of four members; while PDGF A and B are secreted as active dimers, PDGF C and D are secreted as latent dimers that undergo serine protease-mediated extracellular proteolytic activation. Gene expression analysis of breast cancer cell lines showed that PDGF C expression is …
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Ultra-processed foods, plant and animal source, and all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in older adults in the United States: results from the Cardiovascular Health Study
Background: Ultra processed food (UPF) consumption is associated with adverse health outcomes. Plant- and animal-sourced UPF have a unique nutritional composition to improve palatability which may impact health, but evidence is limited. The objective of this study aimed to investigate the …
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Characterizing perinatal depression and its impact on infant outcomes and maternal-nurse SMS communication in a cohort of Kenyan women
Objective: To examine the prevalence and correlates of perinatal depression, to determine the association between antenatal depression and infant morbidity/mortality, and to compare SMS communication patterns between women with and without perinatal depression.Background: Perinatal depression is …
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How Love is Like Drowning
<p>This thesis contains the first two acts of a novel about a young girl named Isabeau Jones. After the mysterious drowning death of her mother, Isabeau attempts to find her place as a girl, as a student, as a preternaturally gifted baseball player and as an outsider in a rural East Texas community …
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