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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"National Institutes of Health"”.
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The social contract for science : Congress, the National Institutes of Health, and the boundary between politics and science
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1993.
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Does decreased research funding from the National Institutes of Health to local academic hospitals cause an increase in industry sponsored research funding?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been the stalwart of research funding at universities and academic teaching hospitals. However, since the start of the last decade NIH funding has contracted in real terms. Anticipating future Federal Government fiscal austerity, the situation appears …
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Characteristics of Disfluency Clusters in Stuttering and Normally Fluent Preschool Children: A Longitudinal Study
… supported by grant number R01-DC05210 from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
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Characteristics of Disfluencies of Preschool Children Who Stutter: A Longitudinal Study Regarding Persistence and Recovery
… was supported by grant #R01-DC00459 from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Principal Investigator: Ehud Yairi.
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The Disfluency Loci of Stuttering and Nonstuttering Mandarin -Speaking Preschool Children and Adults
… partly supported by grant # R01-DC00459 from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Principal Investigator: Ehud Yairi.
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The Relation Between Stuttering and Phonological Ability: A Longitudinal Investigation
… by research grant number R01-DC00459 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health; principal investigator, Ehud Yairi.
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Mimicry of Cocaine by Anti -Idiotypic Antibodies: Molecular Basis and Antagonist Drug Design
[M. Ho was supported by National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship F31-DA14484 from the National Institutes of Health, University of Illinois Fellowship (1-1-10742) and On-Campus Dissertation Research Grant (1-2-16449). This work was supported by NIDA research grant R15-DA10367 and …
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Exploration of the effectiveness of Apple ios devices and bluetooth low-energy nodes in the evaulation of stroke patient rehabilitation and recovery
The goal of this study is to help establish a foundation for cost effective stroke patient telerehabilitation by examining the efficacy of off-the-shelf consumer motion sensors. This paper examines the practical implications of utilizing Apple iOS mobile devices and Variable Technology KORE NODE …
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Synthesis of naphtho{2,3-c}pyrans including the aphin-derived quinone A'
Chapter One describes the synthesis of a trifluoroethylnaphtho-1, 4-quinone via a regiospecific trifluoroacetylation of an appropriately substituted naphthalene. Chapter Two describes the synthesis of the methyl ethers of the naturally occurring quinones A and deoxyquinone A for evaluation of their …
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Wikipdf - A Tool To Help Scientists Understand The Literature Of The Biological, Health, And Life Sciences
… with expertise outside that sub-discipline often have difficulty understanding information the author is trying to convey. The WikiPDF project that is the subject of this thesis helps readers understand the biological sciences literature by automatically generating a customized glossary for …
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Grief and Healing Sanctuary
My thesis is an exploration of the emotional connection we have with architecture. The inspirations for the Grief and Healing Sanctuary were the healing experienced at quiet spaces of reflection and my father's stories as a Navy Vietnam shipboard combat veteran. I designed a building to provide a …
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Investigating Seasonal and Occupational Trends of Five Organophosphate Pesticides in House Dust in the Lower Yakima Valley, WA
… Seasonal and Occupational Trends of Five Organophosphate Pesticides in House Dust in the Lower Yakima Valley, WA</bold> Katie M McDonald Organophosphate pesticides (OPs) are a class of insecticides and pesticides that have become widely used. Adult exposure routes and health …
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A NEW QUANTITATIVE METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF REGIONAL RATES OF CEREBRAL PROTEIN SYNTHESIS FROM L-[1 −11C]LEUCINE PET IMAGES
… a collaboration between the Bioengineering group of the University of Padova and the Section of Neuroadaptation and Protein Metabolism (SNPM).<br/>SNPM is an integral part of the Neuroscience Research community at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary United States Federal agency …
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"""I'm Not Dead Yet"": Gay Male Narratives in the Age of AIDS"
"For the purposes of this dissertation, I began my study by narrowing the focus to the years between and including 1985 to 1994, a seemingly arbitrary decision, though one which, upon reflection, makes sense to me. Few works existed prior to 1985 on the topic of AIDS and thus earlier works were …
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Abandoned minds : the escalating crisis of geriatric mental illness
… the elderly remain a vastly underserved segment of the population in both mental health research and care. They are not underrepresented in numbers, however: the National Institutes of Health place the population of adults 65 and older "on the threshold of a boom," predicting that the age group …
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Tisagenlecleucel, Blinatumomab, and Clofarabine for Treatment of B-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
… lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a common type of adolescent and young adult leukemia in the United States (U.S.). Patients who are refractory or relapsed after receiving two or more lines of systemic therapy have the option of taking tisagenlecleucel. Due to the high cost of this treatment, a …
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Evuloção cognitiva e funcional de pacientes pós-acidente vascular cerebral - AVC
… aimed to investigate the functional evolution of individuals in the first six months post-stroke. METHOD: Longitudinal study with 42 stroke patients. The functional independence measure (FIM) and The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) were used by multidisciplinary staff 3 times …
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ARE GRADUATE STUDENTS RATIONAL? MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT AND COMPLETIONS IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget doubling from 1998 through 2003 stimulated demand for biomedical scientists, increasing both relative wages and employment. However, because research doctorates in these fields may take six years or more to complete, there is a substantial lag in the …
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Evaluation of Emotion Regulation and Associated Characteristics in Foster Children Using the Dyadic Parent-Child Coding System and Caregiver-Report Measures
The main purposes of this study were to: (a) explore the validity of a relatively new behavioral observation coding system in young children referred for treatment of disruptive behavior, (b) explore which specific foster parent behaviors are most associated with child emotion regulation, and (c) …
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The Prevalence of Obesity in Selected Hutterite Colonies
The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of obesity in selected South Dakota Hutterite Colonies. It was a secondary data analysis of the 285 adult Hutterites who participated in the Linkage Studies of Asthma: Search for Susceptibility Loci, a grant funded by the National Institutes …
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