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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Antidote"”.
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Structure based design of a ricin antidote
… extensive efforts have been underway to develop antidotes against this deadly poison. The catalytic A subunit of the heterodimeric toxin has been biochemically and structurally well characterized, and is an attractive target for structure-based drug design. Aided by computer docking simulations, …
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Inhabitants Within Threshold (Threshold as Antidote for Urban Density)
The objective of my thesis is to explore and re-define the relationship between threshold and urban density. Threshold is an architectural medium, which divides and bridges spaces with certain meanings. Density is the defining character of the urban condition expressed consistently at different …
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Bureaucratic Modernity and the Erosion of Practical Reason: A Rhetorical Education as an Antidote
<p>To what extent and in what ways does modernity reveal itself through the bureaucratic? This project aims at an interpretive understanding of <em>bureaucratic modernity</em>. The rationalization of society and action in the (late) modern world requires that an increasing number of human …
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The antidote to willfulness: Manufacturing dissent, KONY 2012, and propaganda as a technology of governance
This dissertation presents a new definition of propaganda using the massively viral internet video KONY 2012 as an example. KONY 2012 was produced by the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Invisible Children, which was founded by three young Americans in order to inform the American public about …
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The neglected sound: music “re-invented”, Luciano Berio Sequenza lll the “antidote” for vocal technique
“…but the voice is maybe not an instrument; it is a collection of technical and expressive possibilities that one must discover every time.”1 This paper undertakes the "rediscovery" of the neglected sounds that makes up the “language” of human vocal expression; exploring the barrier between music …
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Wilderness, A Spiritual Antidote to the Everyday: A Phenomenology of Spiritual Experiences in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
… of the experiences, especially as a spiritual antidote to their everyday lives.
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Wilderness, A Spiritual Antidote to the Everyday: A Phenomenology of Spiritual Experiences in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
… of the experiences, especially as a spiritual antidote to their everyday lives.
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Toxicity, selectivity, uptake, distribution and site of action of EPTC in corn (Zea mays L.) as affected by a herbicide antidote
… to 60% in 'XL55' cultivar. Apparently, herbicide antidote R-25788 conjugated or otherwise delayed movement of ¹⁴C toward the shoot by concentrating ¹⁴C in seed of highly tolerant compared to shoot of 'XL55', a highly susceptible cultivar. Therefore, susceptibility of 'XL55' is apparently due to …
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Control of blood clotting using gold nanorods
… TBA that binds and inhibits thrombin, and an antidote consisting of a complementary ssDNA sequence that binds to TBA and restores thrombin activity. Both the TBA and the antidote are loaded onto NRs with different aspect ratios. This enables us to use laser excitation at one wavelength to …
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Satire in Contemporary Catholic Authors
… and satire will continue to be the logical antidote, for "satire is born to scourge the persistent and ever-recurrent follies of the human creature as such."
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Art -Science Integration: Portrait of a Residency
… that while integration in theory can offer an antidote for fragmentation of the school curriculum, in practice it is difficult to execute in a way that is meaningful to children and makes sense from their perspective. Findings seem to indicate the need for rethinking the manner in which arts …
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Shift Happens, but When? The Timing of Language Shift in Immigrant Generations
This study provides an antidote to the assumption in prior research that the process of language shift is entirely the outcome of mother-tongue shift, an intergenerational process. It is not a simple matter of mother-tongue shift, nor is it a process experienced in the same way by all immigrant …
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A systems toxicology framework for improving the identification of paracetamol overdose
… effects of various combinations of APAP and its antidote, N’Acetylcysteine (NAC), on in vitro hepatocyte functionality. Subsequently, in chapter 4, the effect of the antidote (NAC) is incorporated into the PKPD model structure, and an additional toxicity measure is defined, describing severe loss …
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Alcoholics Polyphonous: Wittgenstein's Linguistic Philosophy in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
… notion of the "language-game" as an antidote to the epistemological and existential solipsism entailed by the private referential or mentalistic paradigm of language, while the fourth concludes with a look at the formal implications of Wallace's use of Wittgenstein for what has …
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Illustrated Nonfiction in the Screen Age
… how the genre can serve as one possible antidote to the infinite scroll. I examine the qualities of three illustrated nonfiction texts: Abbi Jacobson’s I Might Regret This, Shaina Feinberg and Julia Rothman’s How We Got By, and Nora Krug’s Diaries of War. The essay considers how the …
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Disaster and Hope in the Comic Universe of 'Gardening in the Tropics'
… To contrast, I use his idea of comedy as the antidote to domination — a way of thinking that might inspire collaboration with the natural world. I will explore the comic with, predominately, Olive Senior’s <em>Gardening in the Tropics</em>, alongside Jamaica Kincaid’s gardening studies and …
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STUDIES ON THE REACTION OF HIGH-DOSE HYDROXOCOBALAMIN AND ASCORBIC ACID WITH CARBON MONOXIDE: IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
… and ascorbic acid as an injectable antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Embracing the Air: The Sensory Experience of Hemp-Lime Architecture
… properties of hemp-lime construction as an antidote to the overly visual experience of contemporary architecture. I begin design from the material and elaborate on the senses involved with the dynamics of hemp walls: the airy trio of humidity, thermal and sound. I dissolve the complexity of …
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In silico investigation of the mechanism of ricin-catalysed depurination reaction and design of novel ricin inhibitors
… be treated due to the absence of an effective antidote. The primary objective of this thesis is to describe the catalytic mechanism of ricin using computational reaction dynamics. For an accurate simulation of the ricin-catalysed reaction, a reasonable model of the target natural substrate is …
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“Life Out of Death": Poisons, Antidotes, and the Medical Marketplace in Christina Rossetti's “Goblin Market"
… understandings of toxicology, poisons, and antidotes and cloaking her critique of the medical marketplace of Victorian England and Victorian male medical professionals in allegorical and fantastical elements. This unique combination of literal and allegorical is seen through Rossetti’s …
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