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Entanglement In Disordered Quantum Xy Chains, Houssam Abdul Rahman Jan 2016

Entanglement In Disordered Quantum Xy Chains, Houssam Abdul Rahman

All ETDs from UAB

HC2 is conservative under both

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Structural Basis For Lipid-And Calmodulin-Mediated Akt Activation In Breast Cancer Cells, Constance Agamasu Jan 2016

Structural Basis For Lipid-And Calmodulin-Mediated Akt Activation In Breast Cancer Cells, Constance Agamasu

All ETDs from UAB

Growth and survival signals initiated at the cell surface by receptor-ligand interactions often involve a downstream activation of Akt, a serine/threonine kinase critical in regulating cell survival, apoptosis and oncogenesis. Hyper-activation of Akt is a common tumorigenic event, thereby making the Akt activation pathway a prime target for cancer therapy. The translocation of Akt to the plasma membrane (PM) for phosphorylation is a critical step in the Akt activation pathway. It has been established that membrane binding of Akt is mediated by direct interactions between its pleckstrin homology domain (PHD) and membrane lipid phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate [PI(3,4,5)P3]. There is now emerging …

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Mechanisms Of Innate And Adaptive Immune Function In Parkinson Disease, Heather Elizabeth Allen Jan 2016

Mechanisms Of Innate And Adaptive Immune Function In Parkinson Disease, Heather Elizabeth Allen

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Parkinson disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative movement disorder characterized pathologically by loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and aggregation of alpha-synuclein (α-syn) into large inclusions. The association of mutations and gene multiplications in SNCA, the gene encoding α-syn, with rare familial forms of PD led to the discovery that α-syn plays a key role in the pathogenesis of PD. The mechanism by which α-syn mediates its toxicity remains uncertain. A leading hypothesis states that the toxic effects of α-syn are mediated by activation of both the innate and adaptive immune systems within the central nervous system. Supporting …

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Stepwise Generation Of Retinal Progenitor Cells From Human Embryonic Stem Cells On Defined Matrix Coatings, Jessica Patterson Antipenko Jan 2016

Stepwise Generation Of Retinal Progenitor Cells From Human Embryonic Stem Cells On Defined Matrix Coatings, Jessica Patterson Antipenko

All ETDs from UAB

Membrane proteins imperative for cell signal transduction, G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are critical for drug discovery. Unfortunately, sufficient amounts of quantifiable protein cannot be produced using existing expression systems. Nature has an ideal solution—rhodopsin; the GPCR rhodopsin is efficiently and abundantly expressed in rod outer segments (ROS) of photoreceptor cells. As part of this study, human embryonic stem cells (hESC) were cultured on extracellular matrix (ECM) derived substrates and differentiated towards a photoreceptor lineage using conventional basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and novel NM23 growth factor methods. NM23 is the natural ligand of MUC1*, which is surface accessible on stem …

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Pattern Formation And Semilinear Evolution Equations In Function Spaces, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour Jan 2016

Pattern Formation And Semilinear Evolution Equations In Function Spaces, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour

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predictors, and find that under the test of group differences, MacKinnon and White’s HC2

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Patient Engagement Functionalities Facilitated By Health Information Technology: An Examination Of The Adoption Rate And Financial Performance Among U.S. Hospitals, Oghale Elijah Asagbra Jan 2016

Patient Engagement Functionalities Facilitated By Health Information Technology: An Examination Of The Adoption Rate And Financial Performance Among U.S. Hospitals, Oghale Elijah Asagbra

All ETDs from UAB

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) meaningful use requirement, as well as documented evidence suggest that health information technology (HIT) has the potential to promote patient engagement and consequently improve quality and reduce cost. This prompts a better understanding of hospital adoption of HIT for patient engagement. The purpose of the three papers presented in this dissertation is to examine hospital adoption of health information technology (HIT) to facilitate patient engagement. Emphasis is placed on the functionalities (i.e., functions or capabilities) offered by these technologies that have been determined to allow patients be more involved in their care because …

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Low Power Oscillator Based Sensor Signal Monitoring System, A K M Arifuzzman Jan 2016

Low Power Oscillator Based Sensor Signal Monitoring System, A K M Arifuzzman

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With the advances in the integrated circuit technologies, various types of micro- and nano-sensors are increasingly being utilized in different fields such as medical monitoring, wireless health monitoring, structural health monitoring, where low power consumption, small dimensions, multi-signal sensing capabilities and wireless telemetry are required. Various types of bio-electrical signals are used in the medical sensor systems for diagnostics as well as therapeutic interventions. Usually, bio-signals have the common features of low frequency, and low amplitude level. In this work, a low current sensor signal monitoring system has been proposed and developed, which possesses several merits in terms of high …

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Retentive Strength At The Zirconia Implant Abutment And Titanium Base Interface With Different Surface Treatments, Celin Arce Jan 2016

Retentive Strength At The Zirconia Implant Abutment And Titanium Base Interface With Different Surface Treatments, Celin Arce

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Screw-retained zirconia implant crowns with an internal titanium base have favorable mechanical properties compared to single piece zirconia implant crowns; however, they require adequate bonding between the zirconia crown and the titanium base. This study measures the retention between a titanium base and a full contour zirconia implant crown following different surface treatments of their bonded surfaces. Full contour zirconia implant crowns were fabricated to fit a 3.5mm titanium base. The crowns were bonded to the titanium bases following 4 protocols (n=15): no surface treatment (Group 1), MDP-primer on the intaglio of crown and exterior of base (Group 2), alumina …

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Property And The Roberts Court, John G. Sprankling Jan 2016

Property And The Roberts Court, John G. Sprankling

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Was Dissent Being Displayed During The Sochi Olympics? Examining The #Sochi2014 Hashtag For Dissent, Matthew Blaszka, Evan L. Frederick, Timothy J. Newman, Ann Pegoraro Jan 2016

Was Dissent Being Displayed During The Sochi Olympics? Examining The #Sochi2014 Hashtag For Dissent, Matthew Blaszka, Evan L. Frederick, Timothy J. Newman, Ann Pegoraro

Global Sport Business Journal

During the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games various issues came to light including Russia’s anti-gay stance and construction issues. This study explored the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games official hashtag (#Sochi2014) through the theoretical lens of framing to see if dissent was being displayed. To examine those tweets, the software, Leximancer was used to explore conceptual and relational analysis on words that are written as well as visual text. Tweets were collected before, during, and after the Olympics to determine if dissent was being displayed. Results found five themes that emerged with at least 25% connectivity. Those themes were gold, Olympics, Sochi, …

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The Use Of Minecraft As An Educational Tool To Improve Student Performance In The Classroom, James Roberts Jan 2016

The Use Of Minecraft As An Educational Tool To Improve Student Performance In The Classroom, James Roberts

Graduate Research Papers

While the author will be speaking directly of his experiences in a classroom and district setting, he argues that these same ideas can be carried out by others who would perform the same tests that he does. The idea behind exploratory class is to give students in grades 6 through 8 the opportunity to see what kinds of classes that are offered at Panorama schools as well as introduce them to possible career choices like automotive repair or construction trades that they might find interesting and wish to pursue later in life. Since there are over 60 students in each …

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Conformational Changes And Chiroptical Switching Of Enantiopure Bis-Helicenic Terpyridine Upon Zn2+ Binding, Helena Isla, Monika Srebro-Hooper, Marion Jean, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Thierry Roisnel, Jamie Lunkley, Gilles Muller, J. Gareth-Williams, Jochen Autschbach, Jeanne Crassous Jan 2016

Conformational Changes And Chiroptical Switching Of Enantiopure Bis-Helicenic Terpyridine Upon Zn2+ Binding, Helena Isla, Monika Srebro-Hooper, Marion Jean, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Thierry Roisnel, Jamie Lunkley, Gilles Muller, J. Gareth-Williams, Jochen Autschbach, Jeanne Crassous

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

The molecular conformation of a bis-helicenic terpyridine system is strongly modified upon binding to Zn(II) ion, a process that is accompanied by large changes in the optical and chiroptical properties. This system affords a new type of helicene-based chiroptical switching.

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“Yellow Crowfoot In The Pond,/Not Lotus, Not Lily”: Mapping The River, Mapping Voices, Pamela J. Rader Jan 2016

“Yellow Crowfoot In The Pond,/Not Lotus, Not Lily”: Mapping The River, Mapping Voices, Pamela J. Rader

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

This paper examines the prosody of Chin’s eponymous poem, "The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty," through an eco-critical lens. While it does not dismiss the hybrid cultural influences of the poem, it focuses on the ways the non-human agents, or the figures in the poem’s landscape, “speak.” Poetry, like the poem’s terraced gardens, traces tension between the controlling human forces experienced by the narrating female I personas and the natural world’s affective inclinations.

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Domestic Violence In Lac Su’S I Love Yous Are For White People: A Sociological Criticism Approach, Quan-Manh Ha Jan 2016

Domestic Violence In Lac Su’S I Love Yous Are For White People: A Sociological Criticism Approach, Quan-Manh Ha

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

This article employs sociological criticism to examine domestic violence, parenting, and communication behavior in Lac Su’s Vietnamese American memoir. The book debunks the seemingly positive myth of Asian Americans as a model minority, substantiates certain negative stereotypes of Asian men, and challenges some of the classic Asian values that apparently have shaped the Asian American identity. I argue that Su’s memoir is a critique of structural inequalities, urban poverty, unemployment, inaccessibility to a support network, and the intersection between class, gender, and race in the contexts of war and its aftermath.

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Police Bias In The Enforcement Of Drug Crimes: Evidence From Low Priority Laws, Gregory Deangelo, R. Kaj Gittings, Amanda Ross, Anne Walker Jan 2016

Police Bias In The Enforcement Of Drug Crimes: Evidence From Low Priority Laws, Gregory Deangelo, R. Kaj Gittings, Amanda Ross, Anne Walker

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

We consider the impact of adoption of a low priority initiative in some jurisdictions within Los Angeles County on police behavior. Low priority initiatives instruct police to make the enforcement of low level marijuana possession offenses their “lowest priority.” Using detailed data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and a difference-indifferences strategy, we show that the mandate resulted in a lower arrest rate for misdemeanor marijuana possession in adopting areas. However, the lower relative arrest rate is driven by a spike in the arrest rate in areas not affected by the mandate rather than a reduction in adopting areas.

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Does The Presence Of Professional Football Cause Crime In A City? Evidence From Pontiac, Michigan, Hyunwoong Pyun, Joshua C. Hall Jan 2016

Does The Presence Of Professional Football Cause Crime In A City? Evidence From Pontiac, Michigan, Hyunwoong Pyun, Joshua C. Hall

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

We empirically explore the relationship between the National Football League (NFL) and crime using daily panel data from Detroit. We exploit the natural experiment of the Detroit Lions movement from Pontiac MI to downtown Detroit in 2002 to examine the impact of NFL games on crime in a jurisdiction. Pontiac is used as a treatment city and other suburban cities are used as a comparison group. Employing a triple difference-in-difference approach, we find little to no change in crime on a home game day in Pontiac compared to other suburban cities. There is no difference in crime between the football …

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Designing Policies To Spur Economic Growth: How Regional Scientists Can Contribute To Future Policy Development And Evaluation, Carlianne Patrick, Amanda Ross, Heather Stephens Jan 2016

Designing Policies To Spur Economic Growth: How Regional Scientists Can Contribute To Future Policy Development And Evaluation, Carlianne Patrick, Amanda Ross, Heather Stephens

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Policymakers at all levels of government try to design policies to promote economic growth. Many of these policies have a goal of attracting new businesses to an area, as new businesses are considered a key driver of local economic growth. An emerging literature suggests that such policies have heterogeneous effects on economic growth, both in terms of how the effect of the same policy may vary across locations as well as how different policies spur different types of growth. In this chapter, we discuss the insights provided by the existing literature on the effect of government policy on local economic …

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Tax Expenditures: A Review And Analysis, Joshua C. Hall Jan 2016

Tax Expenditures: A Review And Analysis, Joshua C. Hall

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

This paper originally appeared as a policy report for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. While these publications are in the public domain, they often disappear when the chair of the committee changes and this report is no exception. As this publication is no longer available in print or electronic form, I have provided this version for those interested in obtaining a copy of the paper. At the time of publication I was a policy analyst for the Joint Economic Committee working for the Vice Chairman Jim Saxton.

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Does The Median Voter Or Special Interests Determine State Highway Expenditures? Recent Evidence, Joshua C. Hall, Shree Baba Pokharel Jan 2016

Does The Median Voter Or Special Interests Determine State Highway Expenditures? Recent Evidence, Joshua C. Hall, Shree Baba Pokharel

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Using cross-sectional data from fifty states of the United States and the District of Columbia for two different time periods, this paper examines the degree to which special interests or the median voter determines state highway expenditures. In addition to finding that previous estimates of the determinants of state highway expenditures are robust, we find that that special interests that were important in 1984 were no longer significant nearly 20 years later. Like the previous literature, we conclude that the reduced form median voter model performs well in explaining state highway expenditures.

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A Lasting Effect Of The Hiv/Aids Pandemic: Orphans And Pro-Social Behavior, Bryan C. Mccannon, Zachary Rodriguez Jan 2016

A Lasting Effect Of The Hiv/Aids Pandemic: Orphans And Pro-Social Behavior, Bryan C. Mccannon, Zachary Rodriguez

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has caused numerous deaths. One unfortunate consequence of this is the deterioration in family structure and the prevalence of orphanhood. We investigate whether individuals who were orphaned as a child suffer long-term consequences through a underinvestment in their social capital. We conduct a framed field experiment in rural, southern Uganda where the HIV/AIDS pandemic hit hardest. In the experiment, subjects made decisions to contribute to a public good. Results indicate that adults who were orphaned as a child free ride more contributing less to the public good. We explore the mechanism through which their background operates. We …

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Voting Behavior On Carbon Pollution From Power Plants, Joshua C. Hall, Elham Erfanian, Caleb Stair Jan 2016

Voting Behavior On Carbon Pollution From Power Plants, Joshua C. Hall, Elham Erfanian, Caleb Stair

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Environmental regulation is a polarizing issue. In 2014, a bill came to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives that would limit the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency. This empirical note identifies the characteristics that influenced the voting behavior of House Representatives on this bill. Political party, educational background, the location quotient of the mining industry in the representative’s state, and the amount of emissions in the Representative’s state are considered. A member’s political party is the primary factor influencing voting behavior but the location quotient of the mining industry also plays an important role.

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Bringing Active Learning Into High School Economics: Some Examples From The Simpsons, Joshua C. Hall, Alex Peck, Marta Podemska-Mikluch Jan 2016

Bringing Active Learning Into High School Economics: Some Examples From The Simpsons, Joshua C. Hall, Alex Peck, Marta Podemska-Mikluch

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

In this brief educational note, we provide several examples of directed classroom activities for the high school economics classroom using the long-running television show The Simpsons. In doing so, we provide an overview of the scholarly literature on using popular culture to teach economics. Our examples highlight how popular culture can be successfully employed at the secondary level to engage and teach students through active learning. We conclude with some thoughts for secondary social studies teachers looking to enhance economic instruction.

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Can Liberalization Of Local Food Marketing Channels Influence Local Economies? A Case Study Of West Virginia’S Craft Beer Distribution Laws, Trey Malone, Joshua C. Hall Jan 2016

Can Liberalization Of Local Food Marketing Channels Influence Local Economies? A Case Study Of West Virginia’S Craft Beer Distribution Laws, Trey Malone, Joshua C. Hall

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Over the past decade, local food systems have been identified as having a significant influence on regional economies. Using a recent change in West Virginia’s craft beer distribution laws as a case study, we show that although employment might not experience a statistically significant change due to additional legalized marketing channels, wages did experience a significant increase. Our findings suggest that state economies might benefit from reducing restrictions on small, local producers.

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Georgia Library Association - Academic Library Division Call For Papers, Sofia A. Slutskaya Jan 2016

Georgia Library Association - Academic Library Division Call For Papers, Sofia A. Slutskaya

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Book Review - Breaking Ground: My Life In Medicine, Kathy Davies Jan 2016

Book Review - Breaking Ground: My Life In Medicine, Kathy Davies

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Armstrong State Volleyball Sortable Statistics, Armstrong State University Jan 2016

Armstrong State Volleyball Sortable Statistics, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Volleyball News (Archived)

Armstrong State Volleyball Sortable Statistics.

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The Future Of Islam And Jesuit Universities, Amir Hussain Jan 2016

The Future Of Islam And Jesuit Universities, Amir Hussain

Theological Studies Faculty Works

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Human Capacities And The Problem Of Universally Equal Dignity: Two Philosophical Test Cases And A Theistic Response, Matthew R. Petrusek Jan 2016

Human Capacities And The Problem Of Universally Equal Dignity: Two Philosophical Test Cases And A Theistic Response, Matthew R. Petrusek

Theological Studies Faculty Works

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Professor Joseph T. O’Connell: A Remembrance, Amir Hussain Jan 2016

Professor Joseph T. O’Connell: A Remembrance, Amir Hussain

Theological Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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Worlds Colliding: Competition Policy And Bankruptcy Asset Sales, Max Huffman Jan 2016

Worlds Colliding: Competition Policy And Bankruptcy Asset Sales, Max Huffman

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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