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Elements of Comprehensive Musicianship: A Survey Addressing the Attitudes and Approaches of Middle School and High School Choral Directors

Baccala, Allison (2020-05-05)

This study included an anonymous online questionnaire and investigated the attitudes and opinions of middle school and high school choral directors regarding the use of comprehensive musicianship components in their ...

Elicitation of Teacher Beliefs Related to School Garden Experiences

Taylor, Shelaine (2021-08-03)

This elicitation study focused on teacher beliefs about the school garden and how that relates to school garden experiences. The Extended Technology Acceptance Model (Venkatesh & Davis, 2000) was used as a theoretical model ...

Elizabeth Acevedo: Traducción e identidad

Garcia Burgos, Julia Lourdes (2022-05-10)

El objetivo de esta tesis es investigar la traducción de la obra literaria de Elizabeth Ace- vedo, poeta neoyorquina de origen dominicano nacida en 1988, así como el motivo de la enorme importancia de la realización de ...

Elucidate the Neuro-Pharmacodynamic Actions of 3-Hydroxypterostilbene

Kadannagari, Surekha (2022-11-29)

Pterostilbene (dimethyl ether analog of resveratrol) is a metabolically stable natural bioactive and has exhibited substantial pharmacological activities. 3-Hydroxypterostilbene is a natural pterostilbene analog and an ...

Elucidating Biological Questions with Bioinformatics Tools, with a Case Study of Tube Worm Hemoglobin

Waits, Damien (2015-07-24)

The goal of my Master’s Thesis research was to utilize sequenced data in conjunction with new data to investigate the sulfur binding hemoglobin of the annelid family Siboglinidae. To accomplish this, multiple bioinformatic ...

Elucidating Interactions within Photoautotroph-Methanotroph Cocultures at Both Systems and Molecular Levels

Badr, Kiumars (2021-07-20)

In the US, the biogas produced from anaerobic digestion (AD) of industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste streams has a great potential as a renewable feedstock. To tap into the immense biogas potential while reducing ...

Elucidating the Cognitive Deficits following Doxorubicin treatment

Alhowail, Ahmad (2014-12-11)

Chemotherapeutic drugs are effective in the treatment of various types of tumors; however, the optimal clinical effectiveness is limited due to secondary effects including cognitive impairment, also known as “chemobrain”, ...

Elucidating the dopaminergic neurotoxicity of kainic acid

Alghenaim, Fada (2020-08-21)

Dopamine is an essential catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central and peripheral nervous system. This monoaminergic neurotransmitters is required for the maintenance of several physiological functions (control of ...

Elucidating the flavin reductase mechanism in the alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system from Escherichia coli

Gao, Benlian (2006-12-15)

The two-component alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system from Escherichia coli is comprised of an FMN reductase (SsuE) and a monooxygenase enzyme (SsuD) that together catalyze the oxidation of alkanesulfonate to the corresponding ...

Elucidating the Neurotoxic Effects of Piperazine Derivatives in Human Neuroblastoma Cells through Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Apoptosis

Katz, Daniel (2015-07-24)

Designer drugs are synthetic structural analogues/congeners of controlled substances with slightly modified chemical structures intended to mimic the pharmacological effects of known drugs of abuse so as to evade drug ...

Elucidating the Role of Integrin Linked Kinase Pathway in Moderate Drinking Prenatal Alcohol Exposed Rat Model

Bhattacharya, Dwipayan (2015-11-18)

Alcohol and nicotine are well known teratogen which has been reported to have large scale effect on developing fetus. Prenatal alcohol cause many deleterious effect during fetal development which either persist throughout ...

Elucidation of Cognitive Deficits Associated with Doxorubicin Treatment and Ameliorating Effects of Phenyl-2-Amino-Ethyl Selenide (PAESe)

Alhowail, Ahmad (2017-04-25)

A growing body of evidence suggests that acute and chronic cognitive impairments are a common side-effect of chemotherapy. In fact, chemotherapy induced cognitive deficits or “chemobrain” are known to occur in up to 75% ...

Elucidation of Cyclophilin Inhibition through Free Energy Perturbation Simulations and the Development of Custom Ionic Liquid Force Fields

Somisetti, Venkata Sambasivarao (2011-07-27)

Cyclophilins (Cyp) are a family of cellular enzymes possessing peptidyl-prolyl isomerase activity which catalyze the cis-trans interconversion of proline-containing peptide bonds. The two most abundant family members, CypA ...

Elucidation of Genomic Structure, Biological Properties, and Functional Status of Canine MDA-7 and Its Receptors

Sandey, Maninder (2012-05-08)

Human melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24) is a tumor suppressor gene with interleukin properties. Ectopic expression of MDA-7 protein causes growth suppression and induces apoptosis in ...

Elucidation of the Cellular and Molecular Events Associated with Bovine Uterine Development and Disruptive effects of Tamoxifen

Davolt, Meghan L. P. (2015-12-10)

Development of the bovine uterus begins prenatally and is completed postnatally with the formation of endometrial glands. Adenogenesis, uterine gland formation, is steroid hormone-sensitive and is required for proper ...

Elucidation of the mechanism of learning and memory deficits in adolescent offspring due to prenatal cannabinoid exposure

Pinky, Priyanka (2020-07-21) ETD File Embargoed

Cannabis is now one of the most commonly used illicit substances among pregnant and lactating women. This is particularly concerning given that developmental exposure to cannabinoids has been demonstrated to induce enduring ...