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Several consequences of aneuploidy
… copy number alterations. Thus, understanding the consequences of aneuploidy has broad relevance for human health and development. To that end, I have studied several distinct aspects of aneuploid cell biology. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, I demonstrated that single-chromosome …
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Spatial consequences over time
The primary aim of this thesis is to understand contradictions between the actual use by residents and the patterns chosen by the designers. The case chosen is Warren Gardens which is a moderate income housing project located in Roxbury, Mass. The project, built in 1968, revealed over time …
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Charitable Giving: Motivations, Deterrents & Consequences
<p>Charitable giving has been suggested to be beneficial to everyone involved in the activity. This study has shown charitable giving can be costly to involved participants. Motives, deterrents and outcomes of charitable giving will be discussed in this paper. Implications for future practice and …
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Economic consequences of family dissolution
… of the dissertation is to what extent economic consequences following separation and divorce in families with children have changed between the 1980s and the 2000s in Germany and the United States. The second research question of the dissertation regards the differences in dissolution outcomes …
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The Consequences of Job Categorization
… information. Study 2 considered the affective consequences of job categorization. Subjects read job descriptions which associated the job with one of two alternative job categorizations. An additional piece of information was then provided which was intended to evoke (a) category-based …
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The political consequences of trauma
… a handful of studies have considered the consequences of major events like wars, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters for political behavior, we lack a comprehensive understanding of how and why trauma affects one’s orientations toward government and their engagement with politics. …
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Basalt alteration and its consequences
My thesis explores the geochemical consequences of basalt alteration in three distinct Earth environments using reactive transport modelling coupled to geochemical analyses. The weathering of basalt creates unique chemical environments that can drive carbonate mineral precipitation and other …
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VAT consequences of digitised products
This article will-look at whether the South African Value Added Tax Act (VAT) is up to the challenge of electronic commerce. The main question is 'can the South African Value Added Tax Act which is based on the physical economy, be flexible enough to embrace the virtual economy?' In order to answer …
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Cheap talk and costly consequences
In this thesis, we use data on political interactions between country pairs to predict changes in trade. We implemented and applied a new feature selection algorithm called Boruta to build a compact set of predictor variables for this task. After finding a consistent set of features we used a …
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Consumer Consequences of Economic Inequality
… research has largely overlooked the downstream consequences of economic inequality, despite its undeniable impact on individuals' consumption decisions and experiences. This dissertation endeavors to bridge this knowledge gap by uncovering two novel consumer consequences of economic inequality. …
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Priming consequences of Homophone Confusion
I investigate how reading a homophone (e.g. "bye")"a word that sounds the same as another but has different spelling and meaning"can prime judgments and behaviors related to the complementary homophone (e.g. "buy"). Initial reading processes use word sound, not word spelling, to activate word …
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Evaluations and Consequences of Tumour Evolution
Somatic mutations detected in cancer genomes are the result of mutation accumulation since the fertilized egg. Select mutations, as the result of mutagenic processes or defects in DNA damage repair, confer growth advantages by enabling hallmark capabilities of cancer. By the principles of clonal …
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Cardiovascular consequences of anabolic steroid use
With the increase in the prevalence of anabolic steroid (AS) use for non-medical performance and image enhancement purposes, the impact of AS on cardiovascular health is an issue of growing public concern. AS use has long been associated with a number of negative CV outcomes such as acute …
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The Automatic Consequences of Religious Priming
<p>Little is understood concerning the cognitive processing of religious attitudes. The limited research in this area applies schema theory to describe religious attitudes, but in doing so neglects specific cognitive processes. The present study applies cognitive processing theory to the domain of …
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The Affective Consequences of Grade Retention.
… students’ perceptions of the affective consequences of grade retention and to uncover possible social and academic effects of grade retention on students’ subsequent elementary school experience. The participants were kindergarten through eighth grade students from a county in a rural …
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Causes and consequences of lacunar stroke
Introduction Lacunar strokes are both common and disabling; they cause up to 52 strokes per 100,000 people per year and 29-46% of survivors are disabled. Lacunar stroke is part of the spectrum of small vessel disease (SVD) which also causes cognitive impairment and gait disturbance; together these …
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Socio-economic Consequences of Climate Change
… to make a contribution to understanding of its consequences by quantifying the magnitude and significance of the influence of climatic factors on conflict and migration.<br/><br/>An overview of the thesis is provided in the first chapter.<br/><br/>The main aim of the second chapter is to provide …
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Nonprofit Market Structure and Its Consequences
… related to nonprofit market structure and its consequences. I begin with an essay that examines how the recent boom of nonprofit organizations affects giving using the context of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). I find that the nonprofit boom has not increased donations to nonprofit …
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