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(2017-05-16)Over the years, research has attempted to understand the etiology and pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), as well as the key risk factors involved in pathogenesis. While the underlying biology of AD is better ...
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(2017-05-15)The central question for this paper is: what should we do when the interests of our family members conflict with the interests of strangers? There has been a heated debate within the Chinese philosophy community on this ...
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(2017-05-15)Thomas Crichlow and Julie Martin, graduate research assistant in the Assessment & User Experience Department, conducted a usability test on the Duke University Libraries current Borrowing webpage on April 27, 2017 from ...
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(2017-05-15)The narrative is a fundamental, ubiquitous mode of human communication. A story – an account of events with emphasis on personal perspective or connection, employing dramatic tension – is among the most widespread and ...
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(2017-05-15)The 2015 refugee crisis brought 1.3 million migrants to Europe; of those, one million sought asylum in Germany, bringing profound social and political repercussions. Germany is now challenged with aiding and integrating ...
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(2017-05-14)Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) provide a safer, cheaper and more efficient means of collecting and, with accompanying software, processing scientific data compared to conventional survey techniques. Marine Scientists are ...
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(2017-05-14)Despite adamant resistance from Southerners in Congress, 1964 saw the passage of a comprehensive Civil Rights Act. One of the key components of the Act was a section that mandated equal employment opportunity in the private ...
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(2017-05-13)Humans subjected to starvation early in development are especially prone to a wide variety of diseases such as cancer, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease later in life. Here, we use the model system C. elegans in ...
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(2017-05-12)Immune effector functions often depend on the fragment crystallizable (Fc) region of antibodies binding with Fc receptors (FcRs) on immune cells to trigger various responses. Polymorphisms in both Fc and FcR genes in humans ...
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(2017-05-12)Over 240,000 new breast cancer cases were estimated to be diagnosed cases in 2016. Beyond this, an estimated 40,000 deaths were due to breast cancer last year. Of these deaths, over half are due to recurrence of the disease ...
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(2017-05-12)Past research concludes that race affects people’s perspectives of the police as defined by their perceived fairness, trust, and confidence in law enforcement in which blacks tend to have more negative perceptions of the ...
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(2017-05-12)Parasites with complex life cycles require transmission from their intermediate host to their definite host to reach sexual maturity. In some parasite-host systems, parasites manipulate the behavior of their intermediate ...
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(2017-05-12)To expand social programs and access nontraditional streams of funding in fiscally conservative times, advocates have turned to use the Pay for Success (PFS) mechanism. In Salt Lake County, Utah, Pre-K advocates from ...
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(2017-05-12)This thesis explores in the form of a critical biography the life trajectory of Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (1913-1978). As sports administrator under the Vichy regime, author, feminist, and Socialist activist under Pres. François ...
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(2017-05-12)FtsZ assembles in vitro into protofilaments (pfs) that are one subunit thick and ~50 subunits long. In vivo these pfs assemble further into the Z ring, which, along with accessory division proteins, constricts to divide ...
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(2017-05-11)How, who, and why are western young adults within the United States and the European Union attracted to modern radical Islamic movements such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)? How have technology and social ...
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(2017-05-11)This thesis discusses the controversial doctor-patient relation problem in contemporary China. The key issue it aims to address is how to improve the doctor-patient relation with efforts from multiple levels. This thesis ...
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(2017-05-11)Migrant workers are often seen as the archetypical excluded figure. This image becomes even more vivid and convincing when the worker is identified as woman, non-white, and poor. In response to this excluded figure, public ...
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(2017-05-11)Professional sports are a billion-dollar industry, with player salaries accounting for the largest expenditure. Comparing results between the four major North American leagues (MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL) and examining data ...
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(2017-05-11)Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, dense sheets of extracellular matrix found covering most tissues in multicellular organisms. In some instances, BMs of adjacent tissues can become linked and attach tissues together. A ...
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