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THE EFFECTS OF AGING ON MYOSTATIN PATHWAY ACTIVITY AFTER THREE SEQUENTIAL BOUTS OF RESISTANCE EXERCISE
(2010)
Background. Myostatin signaling serves to regulate skeletal muscle mass by influencing genes responsible for regulating satellite cell activity and by participating in glucocorticoid induced skeletal muscle atrophy; however ...
FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA INVOLVED IN THE CATALYSIS AT THE WATER-OIL INTERFACE OF NANOHYBRID-STABILIZED EMULSIONS
(2012)
The development of reactive-separation processes in which products are separated from the reaction media (i.e. reactants and catalysts) in a single reaction unit is prized by energy and chemicals industries for its simplicity ...
A High Cadence Study of Stellar Variability: Searching for Habitable Planetary Companions Orbiting White Dwarfs with the DECam Minute Cadence Survey
(2019-07)
One outstanding question in astronomy is what happens to planetary systems as their host star evolves. Though indirect evidence such as metal polluted white dwarf atmospheres and debris disks around white dwarfs, and recent ...
Reproducing (Dis)Advantage: The Role of Family-based, School-based, and Cumulative-based Processes
(2012)
Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social reproduction (Bourdieu 1973; Bourdieu and Passeron 1977) offers a model that can be used to explain the existence of persistent educational stratification in the United States, ...
Paint/Write: A Heuristic Journey
(2013)
Two research questions guided this research: (1) How does paint/write unfold in my personal experience? (2) How might extended interactions with paint/write influence my painting and writing abilities and therefore my ...
Essays in Chinese Security Issuance and Privatization
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays which study the impacts of different types of government ownership on a firm’s post-privatization performance, the underlying cause for the change in Chinese share-issue ...
Howard Ferguson's Contributions to Piano Literature and Pedagogy
(2011)
Howard Ferguson's myriad contributions to piano literature and piano pedagogy are the focus of this document. Ferguson actively engaged in the twentieth-century British classical music scene and his influence has reached ...
Viral Metagenomics and Anthropology in the Americas
(2015-05-08)
Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth. As humans, we could not exist without them. For billions of years they have been the unseen mediators of microbial and multicellular life. They are ...
A MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF WETTABILITY IN SHALE KEROGEN WITH VARYING MATURITY LEVELS AND ITS ROLE IN GOVERNING FLUID DISTRIBUTION
(2014-12)
Kerogen is defined as the insoluble macromolecular organic matter in sedimentary rocks and is a complex mixture of organic chemical compounds. The process of kerogen maturation is accompanied by the loss of functionalized ...
A REDUCIBILITY PROBLEM FOR EVEN UNITARY GROUPS: THE DEPTH ZERO CASE
(2019-05-10)
We study a problem concerning parabolic induction in certain p-adic unitary groups. More precisely, for $E/F$ a quadratic extension of p-adic fields the associated unitary group $\mathrm{U}(n,n)$ contains a parabolic ...