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Tackling the NFL: An analysis of the role of the government in workplace safety
(2014-01-06)This research analyzes how the federal government can play a role in solving the concussion crisis in the National Football League (NFL). The government has intervened in private sector industries in the past on the grouunds ... -
Tagging Red Drum in North Carolina: Esitmating Exploitation, Mortlaity, Tag Retention, and Tag Reporting Rates for Increased Accuracy of Stock Assessments
(2017-04-21)Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) is the largest inshore game fish in North Carolina, making it highly valuable to the state’s economy. In the 1980’s red drum were overfished due to lack of regulations, causing stock assesssments ... -
Tailored Scalable Dimensionality Reduction
(2018)Although there is a rich literature on scalable methods for dimensionality reduction, the focus has been on widely applicable approaches which, in certain applications, are far from optimal or not even applicable. Dimenssionality ... -
Tailoring renewable portfolio standards to achieve disparate economic and environmental goals
(2008-12-05)Within the United States, Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) programs have become a popular public policy initiative for states to enact in order to encourage the use of renewable resources for meeting state energy demannd. ... -
Tailoring Water Services in Remote and Isolated Indigenous Australian Communities
(2018-04-27)Freshwater is an essential global resource, but climate change and human development have degraded the quality and quantity of freshwater. A large percentage of the global population is experiencing water stress from watter ... -
Taking Another Look at Multilateral Aid Flows: Reconsidering the Dynamics of the U.S.'s Strategic Use of Development Aid
(2011-04-25)Previous studies in the development aid literature have concluded that bilateral aid flows have been dominated by strategic objectives of major donors. Similar analysis of multilateral aid flows has determined that thesee ... -
TAKING STOCK: Community perception of a mangrove restoration and alternative livelihood program in the Verde Island Passage, Philippines
(2015-04-23)Community-based management has a long history in the Philippines, especially when it comes to marine resources. The Verde Island Passage (VIP), located in the northern Philippines and dubbed the “center of the center” off ... -
Taking the Plunge: How Aquariums Can Help Build a Public Constituency for the Ocean
(2012-04-25)It is widely accepted that America’s oceans are in crisis. They face a barrage of daily threats including habitat degradation, overfishing, and increased run-off from coastal development. However, progress instituting ... -
Talisman’s Sudanese Oil Investment: The Historical Context Surrounding Its Entry, Departure, and Controversial Tenure
(2007-04-16)Oil is a driving force. It drives our cars, subways, planes, trains, and boats, our entire transportation system. It drives our economy and investments and our role in international affairs. It drives up our gas pricess. ... -
Taming Amour-Propre: A Study of Book IV of Rousseau's Emile
(2014)Amour-propre is a crucial concept of Rousseau's philosophy. Although recent studies have confirmed its moral ambiguity, they paid insufficient attention to Rousseau's account of amour-propre in his Emile and thus failed ... -
Taming the Dragon: The Modernization of the Chinese Equity Markets and its Effects on IPO Underpricing
(2011-04-18)The extreme underpricing of Chinese Initial Public Offerings in the early days of the Chinese equity markets was reduced by several reforms instituted by the Chinese government from around 2000 to 2002. These reforms redduced ... -
Tangled Lines: the Origins, Performance, and Effects of Commercial and Recreational Fishing Discourses in Carteret County, North Carolina
(2012)Through a case study of Carteret County, North Carolina, this research explores historic and contemporary narratives about fishery resource-use issues (e.g., conflicts over ocean spaces and species, disputes over fisheriies ... -
Target-Specific Microwave Antenna Optimization for Pre-Clinical and Clinical Bladder Hyperthermia Devices
(2012)We have yet to establish the optimum combination of hyperthermia with radiation and/or chemotherapy for effective treatment of bladder cancer. Convenient and affordable microwave applicators capable of well-loccalized ... -
Targeted Gene Repression Technologies for Regenerative Medicine, Genomics, and Gene Therapy
(2016)Gene regulation is a complex and tightly controlled process that defines cell function in physiological and abnormal states. Programmable gene repression technologies enable loss-of-function studies for dissecting gene ... -
Targeting Ectopic Hsp90 in Breast Cancer
(2014)On the surface heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is an unlikely drug target for the treatment of any disease, let alone cancer. Hsp90 is highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed in all cells. There are four major isoformss ... -
Targeting Histone Deacetylases in Advanced Prostate Cancer
(2015)The androgen receptor (AR) signaling axis is a well-established therapeutic target in prostate cancer, due to its central role in tumor maintenance and progression. Although patients respond initially to androgen deprivvation ... -
Targeting Inducible Heat Shock Protein 70 in Cancer and Dengue Virus Pathogenesis with a Novel Small Molecule Inhibitor
(2015)Inducible Heat shock protein (Hsp70i) is a protein chaperone that is utilized during tumorigenesis and viral infections for efficient propagation. Overexpression of Hsp70i is observed in a wide spectrum of human tumors, ... -
Targeting Potential Conservation Sites for Swallow-tailed Kites (Elanoides forficatus) in Levy County, Florida
(2009-04-24)The Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus) is facing population declines due to habitat loss and fragmentation across much of its remnant range. Current population estimates suggest that fewer than 5000 of these gracceful ... -
Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions for Disruption of LSD1 (KDM1A) Complexes
(2017)Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1/KDM1A) regulates transcriptional events by post-translational modifications of histone H3 tails at residues K4 an K9. This enzyme plays a vast number of roles in both normal cellular ffunctions ... -
Targeting T Cells for the Immune-Modulation of Human Diseases
(2015)Dysregulated inflammation underlies the pathogenesis of a myriad of human diseases ranging from cancer to autoimmunity. As coordinators, executers and sentinels of host immunity, T cells represent a compelling target poppulation ...
