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Constitutions, Cleavages and Coordination: A Socio-Institutional Theory of Public Goods Provision.
(2009)
Why do some developing democracies outperform others in the provision of health and education? This dissertation explores a socio-institutional theory of why politicians choose to allocate resources either broadly across ...
Functional Significance of Androgen Receptor Mutations in Prostate and Breast Cancer.
(2009)
Hormone-dependent tumors of the prostate and breast are the most commonly diagnosed tumors today. Therapy for metastatic disease directly targets the steroid hormone receptors. Therefore it is critical to understand the ...
The Role of CC Chemokine Receptor 7 During Pulmonary Invasive Aspergillosis.
(2009)
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a serious, life-threatening disease caused by the mold Aspergillus fumigatus (A. fumigatus). IA primarily affects immunocompromised individuals, and is especially common among hematopoietic ...
Race, Socioeconomic Position and Depression: The Mental Health Costs of Upward Mobility.
(2009)
The relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and depression among African Americans was explored in this dissertation. Several SEP indicators, specifically household income, education, parental education, net ...
Perfusion Estimation in Volumetric Imaging of Ultrasound Contrast Agents.
(2009)
This dissertation presents research involving the investigation of perfusion measured using volumetric imaging of ultrasound contrast agents. Ultrasound contrast agents are micrometer-sized gas bubbles that track the blood ...
The Impacts of Concentrated Ambient Particulates on Heart Rate Variability Rats in Detroit, Michigan and Steubenville, Ohio.
(2009)
Epidemiological studies indicate that inhalation of fine ambient air particulates less than 2.5µm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) are linked to heart rate variability (HRV) and can exacerbate cardiovascular disease in ...
Mechanisms of Prediction and Potential Causation of Organophosphate Induced Delayed Neurotoxicity.
(2009)
Organophosphorus (OP) compounds, used in insecticides, pharmaceuticals, and weapons of biochemical warfare inhibit serine hydrolases. Exposure to OP compounds has shown that a phosphylation of certain serine esterases ...
American Dreams, Latino Realities: Interrogating the Intersections of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Nativity on Select Acculturative Stressors and Depressive Symptoms among Mexican-Origin Adults.
(2009)
A main tenet of American Dream narratives is the desire to improve one’s socio-economic status. Less central to these dream narratives however, are considerations regarding the costs and consequences not fulfilling one’s ...
Role of Noradrenergic Signaling in the Basolateral Amygdala in Habituation to Repeated Stress.
(2009)
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is an important stress-responsive system, but overactivity of the HPA axis can be detrimental to the physiological and psychological health of the organism. HPA activity ...
Talking About Patients: Nurses' Language Use During Hand-offs.
(2009)
Miscommunication during end of shift hand-offs between hospital nurses has been implicated as a source of errors in patient care, yet little research evaluates the structure of language during communication in an attempt ...