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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Usher"”.
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Modeling human Usher syndrome during Drosophila melanogaster development
Human Usher syndrome is a severe and congenital form of syndromic deafness that affects 1 person in 25,000 people in the world population. Normally the stereocilia, microvillar protrusions of the apical membrane of inner ear hair cells, are organized into coherent bundles. This precise organization …
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Molecular Genetics of Usher Syndrome: Mutation Screening Studies and Discovery of the Usher Syndrome Type IIC Gene, the Very Large G-Protein Coupled Receptor (VLGR1).
Usher Syndrome is an inherited human disease of progressive visual impairment diagnosed as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) combined with congenital sensorineural hearing loss and manifests as one of 3 recognized clinical subtypes. Usher I patients (USHI) are deaf with no vestibular responses. Usher II …
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Senses lost : the impossible dilemma of Usher Syndrome, and its possible solutions
Usher Syndrome is an inherited disease that leads to the progressive loss of hearing and vision (retinitis pigmentosa). Increasingly, genetic testing, either through panels or whole exome sequencing, lets people know which of the twelve genes identified to date is responsible for the loss of their …
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Pilus biogenesis in uropathogenic Escherichia coli : An electrophysiology study on the PapC usher
… of different subunits. The chaperone/usher pathway is a bi-component secretion system that is dedicated to the biogenesis and export of pili to the cell surface. It is comprised up of a periplasmic chaperone protein and an outer membrane usher protein that functions as the site of …
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Becoming “so terribly altered”: Reading transformations of the self in “The Fall of the House of Usher”
… of Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Whereas critics have read Poe while considering authorial intent and biography, and while limiting effect to emotion, I argue that the reader determines meaning and effect which can impose on identity. This inquiry deals directly with the …
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Expression of Usherin in Human Tissues: Implications for Diagnostics and Pathology
Usher Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease that results in varying degrees of hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa. Three types of Usher Syndrome (1,11, and III) have been identified clinically with Usher type II being the most common. Usher type !! has been localized to three different …
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The Devil in the Belfry a rhapsody for viola and orchestra & Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Debussy, and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
… unfinished opera, La Chute de la Maison Usher. The Devil in the Belfry is a rhapsody for viola and orchestra based on Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of the same title. It contains quotations from the few sketches that Debussy left for his unfinished work, Le diable dans le beffroi. Quoting …
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Retinal function in deaf-blind syndromes
… final visual outcome could vary considerably. Usher syndrome is a group of autosomal recessively inherited disorders. The three clinical phenotypes (Usher types 1, 2, and 3) have variability in onset, progression, and severity of the three characteristics: RP, sensory neural hearing loss, and …
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Dark Houses: Navigating Space and Negotiating Silence in the Novels of Faulkner, Warren and Morrison
Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," as early as 1839, reveals an uneasiness about the space of the house. Most literary scholars accept that this anxiety exists and causes some tension, since it seems antithetical to another dominant motif, that of the power of place and the home as sanctuary. …
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Paradigms of reality in Poe's mad narrative
… "The Black Cat," and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Using Walter Fischer's theoretical communication framework, the Narrative Paradigm, the four stories are examined for narrative fidelity and narrative probability in an effort to more fully understand Poe's treatment of madness in first …
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Unravelling the genetic relationships between auditory processing and speech and language
… focus upon candidate genes related to Usher syndrome, a recessive disorder leading to hearing and vision loss resulting from dysfunctional neurosensory cells in the inner ear and retina (hair cells and photoreceptor cells respectively). Analyses indicate that there is no one single risk …
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The history of Sutter's Fort, 1839-1931
… that its existence was necessary to protect and usher into full City-hood, the infant Sacramento, then known as New Helvetia.</p>
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Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama
… over time, and how crisis narratives are used to usher in these doxastic transformations. I explore the elections of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama as markers of such shifts. In chapter one, I provide a statement of purpose and justification for my study, along with a …
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RIGHTS AS PRAXIS: SARTRE AND THE POLITICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
… why the human rights discourse has failed to usher in an age where the rights of man are respected, and what might be changed in order to facilitate such an age. We move from a discussion of the classical and contemporary versions of the human rights discourse to a critical examination of it …
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From Neoliberalism to Socialism: Reimagining Socialism in Africa
… These austerity measures were designed to usher in an era of financial growth that would enable Africa to join the ranks of developed countries. However, these neoliberal policies, while further integrating African states into the global economy, had the adverse effect of exacerbating …
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The French Response to the Genius of Edgar Allan Poe
… as "The Gold Bug," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "William Wilson"; and who had already served as editor of The Southern Literary Messenger.
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Revisão do gênero Aspidodera Railliet & Henry, 1912 (Nematoda: Heterakoidea) com novas sinonímias e chave de classificação
… 1970 n. syn., A. diaz-ungriai Masi Pallarés & Usher, 1971 n. sy n. and A. vicentei Pinto, Kahn, Fernandes, Mello, 1982 n.sy n.); A. an sirupt a Proentia, 1937; A. vazi Proença, 1937 and A. lacom beae Vicente, 1964. Parasitize Marrsupialia, Edentata and Rodent ia in the Neotropical Re9 i on. …
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Death of a Journalist
… whose job is to shed the weight of the past and usher in a new, modern era. My objective was not to speak for an entire generation, but to add to the discussion of the complex, symbiotic relationship our present and future moments have with our pasts.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov: Image of a Modern Man
… of the modern novel, and, indeed, he helped usher in the new stream-of-consciousness form of writing. He believed that within the complexities and depths of man lay the knowledge of life and knowledge of Christ. Therefore, Dostoevsky's world view is man-centered. He sees man as …
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The influence of structure formation on the evolution of the universe
The next generation of telescopes will usher in a new era of precision cosmology capable of determining key parameters of a cosmological model to percent level and beyond. For this to be effective, the theoretical model must be understood to at least the same level of precision. A range of subtle …
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