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Gabapentin for Use on Patients with Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: An Integrative Review of the Literature
(2013)<bold>Problem:</bold> Up to 2 million Americans suffer from alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) each year. Alcoholism contributes to a significant number of co-morbidities and mortality (Enoch & Goldman, 2002). Some of the ... -
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Gaining Pragmatic Competence in English as a Second and a Foreign Language: The Effects of the Learning Environment and Overall L2 Proficiency
(2009)This study explores the influence of the learning environment and overall L2 proficiency on the development of pragmatic competence, with reference to grammatical competence. Participants were three groups of English ... -
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Galileo's Assayer: Sense and Reason in the Epistemic Balance
(2018)Galileo’s The Assayer, published in 1623, represents a turning point in Galileo’s philosophicalwork. A highly polemic “scientific manifesto,” The Assayer was written afterhis astronomical discoveries of the moons of Jupiter ... -
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Galois descent, cohomology, and conjugacy
(2021)We give a concise exposition on the application of non-abelian Galois cohomology to descent problems in algebra, as developed by A. Borel, J.-P. Serre, and others in the late fifties and early sixties. Although its origins ... -
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Galvanic interactions between minerals
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1986)Galvanic interactions between minerals can occur during hydrometallurgical leaching operations, during flotation where the surface potential is altered and during long-term geochemical reactions. If we are reliably able ... -
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Game Theoretic approach applied in Cybersecurity Information Exchange Framework
(2020)In CYBersecurity Information Exchange (CYBEX) framework, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is shared among multiple organizations with a view of creating situationalawareness. But there is a possibility of malicious organizations ... -
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Gamifying Nature: the aesthetic experience of science as a puzzle-game
(2020)The aesthetic judgements scientists make influence which theories, models, and experiments they use and adopt. To better understand the role these judgements play in how science progresses, I examine more closely the role ... -
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Gas-Phase Reaction of Methyl Isothiocyanate and Methyl Isocyanate with Hydroxyl Radicals under Static Relative Rate Conditions
(2014)Gaseous methyl isothiocyanate (MITC), the principal breakdown product of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium N-methyldithiocarbamate), is an inhalation exposure concern to persons living near treated areas. Inhalation ... -
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Gastric Motility and Integrity of Interstital Cells of Cajal in Early Postoperative Ileus in Mice: A Pilot Study
(2011)Postoperative ileus (POI) is a surgically-induced decrease in gastric and/or intestinal motility. It is a common and expected consequence of surgical procedures consisting of abdominal wall lesioning with or without ... -
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Gata4 is required for Testicular Development
(2011)Sex differentiation occurs at embryonic day 10.5 (E10.5) in the mouse. In the XY mouse embryos, appearance of testis cords at E11.5 marks the onset of testis formation. The primary testis cords subsequently undergo further ... -
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Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
(2022)This dissertation explores how the predictive futures unintentionally imagined in speculative fiction can inspire new systems of surviving the climate crisis. While environmental literature warned of this crisis, climate ... -
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GEAR UP Aspirations Project Evaluation
(2013)The purpose of this study was to conduct a formative evaluation of the first two years of the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Aspirations Project (Aspirations) using a Context, ... -
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Gender Differences in Somatic Symptoms and Sleep Problems: The Mediating Effects of Financial Stress
(2021)Women are more likely than men to experience financial stress, somatic symptoms, and sleep problems, yet the reasons why are unclear. This thesis focuses on the relationships among financial stress and gender differences ... -
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Gender Differences in Superhero Characters' Roles, Appearances, and Violence as Portrayed in Superhero Movies
(2012)Because many members of society have seen movies involving one or more superheroes, individuals begin, possibly unknowingly, to create stereotypes of what people should look or act like. These stereotypes help establish ... -
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Gender Differences, Marriage, and Mental Health
(2010)Women consistently exhibit more psychological distress than men. This study addresses the gender gap in psychological distress by using a stress process approach to examine the effects of stressors and resources within ... -
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Gender in Entrepreneurship: Conflict Styles, Self-Efficacy, Gender Traits, and Financial Decision-Making
(2018)While approximately half the workforce in the United States is female, the proportion of female entrepreneurs is much less than that of the male entrepreneurs (36% small businesses owned by women verses 64% by men). There ... -
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Gender Role Strain, Hookup Culture, and Sexual Violence
(2019)Sexual violence on college campuses is a pervasive public health issue that can result in a range of long-term mental and physical health consequences. The following multi-step study examined the precursors of being a ... -
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Gender, Violence, and Piety: Performance of Masculinity in Colonial Potosi
(2023)The Imperial Villa of Potosí since its inception was a unique place. The enormous wealth produced by the silver mines created a peculiar environment in which a heterogenous, ethnically diverse group of men congregated in ... -
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Gender-Specific Programs for Female Juvenile Offenders: Purpose, Practice, and Perceived Success
(2010)Female juvenile offenders have increasingly and disproportionately become involved with the juvenile justice system, often as a result of running away, drug use, truancy, and other misdemeanor offenses. Many of these ... -
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Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Racial Battle Fatigue, and Intergenerational Learning with Three Generations of Black Women
(2020)This dissertation investigated the experiences of three generations of Black women with intergenerational transmission of trauma and learning as it relates to (gendered) racial microaggressions, racial macroaggressions, ...