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Method For Analyzing Juvenile Growth Data Across Populations
Donnelly-Boyce, Courtney ( 2008-06 )Comparing growth data across populations is one way to assess health differences among people. However, judging these populations based on raw data does not accurately reflect differences until data is standardized. A ... -
A Method for Assessing Attentional Bias in Anxious Rats
Osher, David ( 2006-08 )A popular theory regarding the etiology of anxiety disorders asserts that they are developed and maintained by an attentional bias towards threat cues. The present study attempts to develop an animal model that parallels ... -
Methodology for independent control of multiple near-surface microscopic agents with uniform magnetic fields
Osborne, Emily ( 2021-05 )Microscale robotics have numerous applications in engineering and the biomedical sciences, as the manipulation of small cells or microparticles is necessary for a variety of tasks. However, scaling robotics down to the ... -
Methylation is Involved in Arabidopsis thaliana Recovery from Geminivirus and Prevention of Geminivirus Seed Transmission
Sanville, Bradley ( 2008-06 )While most plant viruses are RNA viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm of the host cells, members of the Geminiviridae family are unique in that they are DNA plant viruses. Geminiviruses possess either monopartite or ... -
Methylene Blue Reduced Brain Edema, Neuroinflammation, and Behavioral Deficits associated with a Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury
Skendelas, John ( 2013-05 )Treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI) is aimed at mitigating the inflammatory response and subsequent complications present immediately after injury as well as the chronic behavioral complications that can persist ... -
Mexican Immigrants' Views of the Spanish Dialects in Mexico: A language attitudes study
Stockler, Sarah ( 2012-06 )Since the 1960s, sociolinguists have been examining the social factors that influence language variation and the attitudes speakers have towards those variations. In this study, the language attitudes about the perceived ... -
Michael Henchard, the Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Hysterical Character
Kenney, Adelle ( 2018-05 )Michael Henchard's character is the subject of disparate readings within Hardy scholarship. This paper uses the modern DSM diagnosis of Histrionic Personality Disorder to unify these readings, critique the DSM, and argue ... -
Microbial Volatilization: Bioremediation of Soils Contaminated with Arsenic
Verdell, Kenneth ( 2008-06 )Arsenic pollution is a serious issue that leads to thousands of deaths each year. Bioremediation methods for the removal of arsenic from streams and soils need to be developed. One bioremediation method that has shown ... -
Microcystin Concentrations in Lake Erie Walleye and Implications for Public Health
Sikon, Kelsey ( 2015-05 )Lake Erie’s cultural and economic resources, which are enjoyed by millions of people, are now threatened by cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs). Microcystis, the most common cyanobacteria in these HABs, produces ... -
Microevolutionary Response in Lower Mississippian Camerate Crinoids to Predation Pressure
Thompson, Jeffrey ( 2013-05 )Crinoids were relatively unaffected by the end-Devonian Hangenberg event, but the major clades of Devonian durophagous fishes suffered significant extinctions. These dominant Devonian fishes were biting or nipping predators. ... -
Microglia and Neuroimmune Alterations during the Peripartum Period
Julian, Dominic ( 2016-05 )The transition into motherhood is a period of drastic biological changes, especially within the brain and the peripheral immune system. Central adaptations have been documented in multiple cell types, such as neurons and ... -
Microglia and Perineuronal Net Interactions in the Limbic Regions of Male and Female Juvenile Rats
Lichtenstein, Hannah ( 2022-05 )Early life stress (ELS) in humans is associated with vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders, but the mechanisms that lead to stress-induced vulnerability are not fully understood. ELS- may activate microglia, the ... -
microRNA in Macrophage Polarization and Spinal Cord Injury
Jablonski, Kyle ( 2013-12 )Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a leading cause of disability among young adults. SCI is the result of trauma to the spinal cord, and most commonly occurs due to motor vehicle accidents. Treatment options for SCIs are limited ... -
MicroRNA-21 deficiency promotes the early Th1 immune responses and resistance towards visceral leishmaniasis
Holcomb, Erin ( 2020-12 )MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) is known to inhibit IL-12 expression and impair the development of a Th1 immune response necessary for control of Leishmania infection. It has been recently shown that Leishmania infection induces ... -
MicroRNA-9 Targets the Neuroprotective Enzyme Glutamate Oxaloacetate Transaminase
Briggs, Zach ( 2016-05 )Glutamate serves multifaceted physiological functions in the CNS as the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter and under pathological conditions as a potent neurotoxin. Elevated extracellular glutamate is known to play ... -
Microsatellite Instability is Present in a Subset of Follicular Thyroid Carcinomas
Genutis, Luke ( 2018-05 )Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a term used to describe the somatic addition or loss of bases within repetitive DNA sequences called microsatellites and is characteristic of certain cancer types- specifically endometrial ... -
The Mid- to Late Pleistocene Ice Rafted Debris record at IODP Site 1308, Central North Atlantic
Whyte, Colin ( 2014-05 )Eighty-seven samples from cores recovered at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site 1308 in the central North Atlantic Ocean have been studied to create a record of ice-rafted debris (IRD) abundance and composition downcore, ... -
Migrant Farmworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The Paradox of being Essential and Vulnerable
Fulay, Zarah ( 2021-12 )The status of migrant Farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida during the pandemic created a paradox: they are both essential and vulnerable as their work remained necessary, but they were provided no protection. Longstanding ... -
Migration and Stability of Multi-Planet Circumbinary Systems
Fitzmaurice, Evan ( 2021-05 )Of the known circumbinary planets, most are single planets observed just outside of the zone of instability caused by gravitational interactions with the binary. Migration is the preferred mechanism of getting circumbinary ... -
Migration in the Era of Retrenchment: How Rising Ethnic Diversity Shapes Attitudes toward the Welfare State
Mayorga, Alexandra ( 2014-05 )The welfare state has long been sustained by public opinion. For ethnically-diverse countries like the United States, however, the literature points to a waning support due to an increasing racialization of welfare. In ...