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Deletion of FMR1 results in sex-specific changes in behavior.
(2016-12-01)
Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by excessive trinucleotide (CGG) repeats in the FMR1 gene coding for fragile x mental retardation protein (FMRP). In humans, this disorder is characterized ...
Are jurors persuaded by the "concreteness of truth"? : the impact of eyewitness concreteness, juror instructions, and visualization on juror decision making.
(2016-07-11)
I investigated the impact of eyewitness use of linguistic concreteness on juror decision making. Mock jurors read a summary of an ambiguous criminal case that included a concrete or abstract version of an eyewitness’s ...
The sign of the ineffable in twentieth century literature.
(2016-08-03)
This study establishes a critical foundation for understanding the unique sacramental dynamic inherent to literature and to narrative art more generally, demonstrating how Derrida’s deconstructive method leaves room for ...
Antecedents to turnover intention : examining organizational learning culture and leader member exchange.
(2016-04-04)
Turnover intention is an important variable for organizations seeking to retain employees and reduce costs associated with hiring and training new employees. While variables such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction, ...
Assessment of shaped film cooling holes at high density ratios for gas turbine cooling using S-PIV and PSP.
(2016-02-27)
During film-hole cooling, relatively cold air is extracted from the compressor of a gas turbine engine and forced through the turbine airfoils in order to lower their surface temperatures. To investigate the effects of ...
Religion and economic growth : an analysis at the city level.
(2016-05-02)
This paper looks at the effect of religious beliefs on economic growth using a Brazilian city-level survey data as opposed to the more popular country-level data, thus separating the effect from different social and ...
Unimolecular decomposition kinetics at resolved internal energies.
(2016-12-01)
The kinetic behavior of microcanonical unimolecular decomposition reactions involving clusters formed by the electrostatic interaction between transition metal cations and simple organic molecules has been measured at ...
Understanding the dragon's theatre : an Anglophone historiography of Vietnamese theatre.
(2016-08-03)
Anglophone scholarship on Vietnamese theatre has a complex history; its authors range from British and American explorers to current day Asian theatre scholars. The evolution of English-language scholarship on Vietnamese ...
Maternal memorable messages in understanding femininity.
(2016-02-29)
The messages a mother communicates to her children play an important role in the attitudes they develop toward their own self-identity and toward their mindsets concerning femininity (Bem, 1983; Colaner & Rittenour, 2015; ...
Glazman-Krein-Naimark theory, left-definite theory, and the square of the Legendre polynomials differential operator.
(2016-02-27)
As an application of a general left-definite spectral theory, Everitt, Littlejohn and Wellman, in 2002, developed the left-definite theory associated with the classical Legendre self-adjoint second-order differential ...