Browsing by Subject "Development"
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Identification of Transforming Growth Factor-beta as an Extracellular Signal Required for Axon Specification in Embryonic Brain Development
(2009)The specification of a single axon and multiple dendrites is the first observable event during neuronal morphogenesis and such structural specialization underlies neural connectivity and nervous system function. Numerous ... -
Information as an Environmental Policy Instrument: Examining Household Response to Arsenic in Tube-Well Water in Araihazar, Bangladesh
(2011)This dissertation examines the potential of information-provision in motivating behavior that reduces human exposure to arsenic in drinking-water in Bangladesh. In chapter 2, the longer-term effects of the countrywide ... -
Later Life Consequences of Subteratogenic Exposure to a Complex PAH Mixture in the Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)
(2015)Subteratogenic and other low-level chronic exposures to toxicant mixtures are an understudied threat to environmental and human health. It is especially important to understand the effects of these exposures for contaminants, ... -
Making “The Girl Effect” Real: Evaluating Strategies to Help Girls Complete Primary School and Continue onto Secondary School, A Case Study of the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER) program in the Nyanza Province of Southwestern Kenya
(2013-04-24)Increasing girls’ education in low-‐income communities is proven to be one of the most effective ways to alleviate global poverty, yet millions of girls around the world still struggle to complete a basic primary school ... -
Molecules to Mind: the Construction of Emotion
(2009)In recent years, there has been increasing scientific interest in the biological basis of emotion. By characterizing the neural and genetic basis of affective functioning, new research has the potential to contribute to ... -
Neuroimmune and Developmental Mechanisms Regulating Motivational Behaviors for Opioids
(2016)Opioid drug abuse represents a serious public health concern with few effective therapeutic strategies. A primary goal for researchers modeling substance abuse disorders has been the delineation of the biological ... -
Prioritizing Conservation & Development in Durham, NC
(2021-04-30)Durham, North Carolina is one of the most densely forested cities in the southeastern U.S. but is also part of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the region. Development is occurring at a rapid pace and often without ... -
Roles of CTCF and YY1 in T Cell Receptor Gene Rearrangement And T Cell Development
(2016)Diversity of T cell receptors (TCR) and immunoglobulins (Ig) is generated by V(D)J recombination of antigen receptor (AgR) loci. The Tcra-Tcrd locus is of particular interest because it displays a nested organization of ... -
Segregating and Patterning Mesoderm from Endoderm: Emerging Roles for Hedgehog and FoxA
(2007-12-13)One of the fundamental questions in developmental biology is how cells communicate during embryonic development to pattern the animal with defined axes and correctly placed organs. There are several key signal transduction ... -
Selection and Constraint: Population Genetic Approaches to Understanding the Evolution of Sea Urchin Development
(2011)Changes in the expression and function of genes active during metazoan development have played a critical role in the evolution of morphological differences between species and phyla, yet the origins of these changes remain ... -
Technology and Development: The Political Economy of Open Source Software
(2010)This dissertation examines the role of governments in adopting Open Source Software (OSS) for their needs and tries to explain the variation in adoption and implmentation, among both developing and developed countries. The ... -
The End(s) of the End of Poverty
(2014)This dissertation explores the emergence of Millennium Development and the promise to end poverty by 2015. After exploring the global scale phenomena, the project turns to the implementation of the "end of poverty" in the ... -
The Puzzle of Mobile Money Markets: An Example of Goldilocks Conditions
(2017-05-04)This paper investigates the supply-side and demand-side factors that explain the success of mobile money markets. Namely, we argue that there exists a set of Goldilocks conditions that best supports mobile money services. ... -
Through the Lenses of Q’eqchi Maya: (Re)Framing the Story of Development in a Guatemalan Indigenous Community Through Participant-Created Photographs
(2016-08-24)The question of evaluations of development projects has been widely debated within the field of international development, with scholars and development practitioners calling for increased community-driven evaluations. ... -
Understanding Patterns and Impacts of Electricity Quality and Access in Northern India
(2019-04-26)Indians have suffered from rolling outages and blackouts even as millions of citizens have gained access to electricity in recent years, which has led to concerns about electricity quality and its impacts. We conducted an ... -
Water for the Masses: An Analysis Urban Water Distribution Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-11)In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of urban residents received water piped into their homes by their city’s central water utility11. The remaining 67% of urban residents rely on small-scale or informal water providers to meet ... -
Young children are more willing to accept group decisions in which they have had a voice.
(J Exp Child Psychol, 2018-02)People accept an unequal distribution of resources if they judge that the decision-making process was fair. In this study, 3- and 5-year-old children played an allocation game with two puppets. The puppets decided against ...
