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Regulation of Leydig Cell Differentiated Function by the Industrial Chemical Bisphenol A (BPA)

Ketumaranahalli Nanjappa, Manjunatha (2012-08-02)

Exposure of the population to bisphenol A (BPA) is significant due to its extensive use in the manufacture of a wide variety of consumer products, including polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. However, there is concern ...

Regulation of Potassium Channel in Ventricular Myocytes of Rat Following Volume Overload

Gao, Hui (2009-04-13)

Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of death in the US. Among the deaths of patients with HF, up to 50% are sudden and unexpected. The sudden deaths have been related to the lethal ventricular arrhythmias such as ...

The Regulation of Release of Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV from Healthy and Diabetic Skeletal Muscle

Neidert, Leslie (2017-07-25)

Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) is a multifaceted enzyme that can be shed from skeletal muscle membrane via matrixmetalloproteinases (MMPs). Tissue inhibitors of MMPs (TIMP) within the extracellular matrix (ECM) modulate ...

Regulation of SLC19A3 thiamin transporter by HIF-1α

Yooket, Pattanin (2016-08-04)

Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is a master transcription factor that regulates gene expression in response to hypoxia, including SLC19A3, thiamine transporter 2, a facilitative carrier that mediates intracellular uptake ...

Regulation of the p62 promoter by oxidative damage in neurodegenerative disease and aging

Du, Yifeng (2009-06-30)

Oxidative stress is regarded as the damage to a biological system caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) when the prooxidant overwhelms the antioxidant defense and repair ability. Growing evidence reveals that oxidative ...

Rehabilitation Counselors’ Perceptions of Transition Programs, Services, and Practices for Youth with Disabilities

Dotson, Courtney K. (2015-09-29)

Rehabilitation counselors are oftentimes the only link that students with disabilities, transitioning from school to their post-school desires, have to employment; therefore, rehabilitation counselors’ perceptions of ...

Reinforcement Learning with Reasoning for Long-horizon Robotic Tasks

YU, ZHITAO (2023-04-09)

Recent developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehi- cles (UGVs) have attracted intensive research interest from both academia and industrial areas. Although Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are ...

The Reinforcing Value of Alcohol in a Drinking to Cope Paradigm

Rousseau, Glenna (2008-12-15)

The present research was conducted to explore the relationship between negative mood and the reinforcing value of alcohol, while clarifying the role of coping motives. Participants with a history of recent alcohol use ...

Reinstatement interacts with interpolation interval to determine the effectiveness of counterconditioning

Powell, Elizabeth (2013-04-05)

Extinction and counterconditioning have been used extensively as applied techniques that attenuate conditioned fear. Relapse through the form of renewal, reinstatement, and spontaneous recovery present challenges for these ...

Rejecting and Embracing the Past: The Challenge of Post-Troubles Identity Construction in Contemporary Northern Irish Novels

Lindsey, Peggy (2016-04-27)

The conflict known as The Troubles which has dominated both real and fictional narratives from and about Northern Ireland since it began in the late 1960s characterizes Northern Ireland as a place steeped in ceaseless and ...

Relapse Phenomena from Appetitive-to-Aversive and Aversive-to-Appetitive Counterconditioning within a Human Predictive Learning Task

Sauer, R. Alexander (2015-07-24)

Counterconditioning (CC, Sherrington, 1947) involves training of a single cue with two different outcomes (i.e., cue-O1 then cue-O2) of opposite valence (e.g., appetitive and aversive). Thus, CC can be conducted in either ...

Relating Preschoolers Coping Tactics during Resource-Based Conflicts to Social Competence

Hartwick, Olivia (2016-12-07)

As early exposure to center-based care continues to rise, infants and young children are introduced to a broad array of social dynamics and are immersed in peer networks in ways that were not common a generation ago. The ...

The Relation of School and Campus Violence to Students’ Perceptions of Safety and Precautionary Behaviors

Miller, Kanessa N. (2011-08-05)

The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct an examination of the relations between exposure to high school and college campus violence to post-secondary students’ perceptions of safety and precautionary behaviors. The ...

Relational Aggression in Emerging Adulthood: Association with Social Intelligence and the Moderating Role of Empathy

Loflin, Della C. (2018-07-24)

Relational aggression is intended to harm others through manipulating and damaging their relationships using traditionally indirect means (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). Evidence has shown that social intelligence and empathy ...

Relational Deception: 'Til Facebook Due Us Part

McNelis, Melissa (2013-04-05)

The purpose of this study was to investigate romantic relational deception that occurs on Facebook based on participants’ gender, relationship status, and their amount of time spent on Facebook per week. Millennials as ...

Relational Peer Victimization in Emerging Adulthood: The Effects of Self-Compassion and Normative Beliefs about Relational Aggression

Loflin, Della (2020-07-28) ETD File Embargoed

Relational peer victimization has been consistently associated with psychosocial maladjustment in emerging adulthood, including depression (Leadbeater, Thompson, & Sukhawathanakul, 2014). Researchers have attempted to ...