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Approaches to action
The objective of this thesis is to introduce recent philosophy of mind to philosophy of action in an attempt to evaluate the three currently dominant theories of action. These theories each concur with the general consensus in philosophy of action that the acts of an agent are causally derived. …
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Modern Approaches to NAGPRA
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act compliance methodologies and how institutions overcame the challenges inherent in the act. The research focused on how professionals performing repatriations perceived their efforts and …
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Metabolomic Approaches in Parasitology
Metabolic pathways and networks are crucial for maintaining cellular functions and sustaining life. Understanding these pathways in parasites may reveal novel targets for therapeutic application if they are sufficiently different from mammalian systems. My work investigated two such pathways: …
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Transdiagnostic Approaches to Neurodevelopment
Neurodevelopmental difficulties can have a substantial impact on children’s lives and often have lasting effects in adult life. The scientific study of the causes and consequences of neurodevelopmental difficulties has arguably been slowed by the overreliance on case-control designs, which fail to …
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Holistic Approaches to Introspective Healing
… it be demonstrated that many of these healing approaches involve the mind, body and spirit and prove interconnectedness among human beings as well as to earth and its rich rewards? I began asking questions about how might one improve their own interconnectedness but also heal the spirit that …
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Teacher Educators' Approaches to Assessment
… capability involves teacher educators’ approaches to assessment: “teacher candidates’ repertoire of effective teaching practices depends on the beliefs about learning and the approach to assessment espoused by the respective teacher educator” (2016, p. 17). This study examines Canadian …
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NUTRITION AND IMMUNITY: MOLECULAR APPROACHES
Nutrition plays an important role in modulating livestock species immunity. Therefore, this thesis aimed at evaluating the effects of different dietary molecules used in animal nutrition on mammalian and avian immunity. Both, in vitro functional analyses and OMIC technologies (proteomics and …
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Effective Approaches for Teaching Revision
Beyond the grammatical slip, punctuation error, or misspelled word, revision is a fundamental skill that resides at the very heart of the writing and thinking process. This thesis project highlights concerns over students’ and teachers’ similar disdain for the revision process in composition. It …
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Intelligent Approaches for Communication Denial
… settings. Furthermore, we develop intelligent approaches for communication denial that employ novel machine learning techniques to attack the victim either at the physical layer, the MAC layer, or the network layer. We rigorously investigate whether or not these learning techniques enable the …
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Statistical approaches to population genetics
This paper is concerned with the statistical approach to population genetics. The genetical characteristics of the population under consideration are the population size and the gene frequencies. The limitations on the population are (a) the individuals are either all haploids or all diploids; (b) …
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Nonpharmacological Approaches in Dementia Care
… members about the benefits of nonpharmacological approaches in the management of challenging dementia-related behaviors and to encourage their use, is relative as the education is necessary before improvement can be expected to begin.</p>
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Participative Approaches to Hedgerow Conservation
This thesis demonstrates how systems ideas and grounded theory have been applied to provide a broader approach to researching hedgerows in England, drawing on the idea that holistic thinking brings together different people’s relationships with hedgerows and with each other concerning hedgerows. …
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Chemical Approaches to Dynein Inhibition
<p>Cells utilize energy to maintain order within the cytoplasm. Motor proteins are the enzymes that convert the chemical energy contained in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) into directed movement along polarized filaments of actin and tubulin within cells. Dyneins are the primary enzymes that drive …
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Symbolic Approaches for Boolean Synthesis
… using mainly search-based and also symbolic approaches, especially those using Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), an acyclic directed graph that maps the solutions for a boolean formula to its paths. Scalability challenges also rose as exponential memory blowups occurred in handling large-scale …
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