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Daily assessment of psychological distress in breast surgery patients

Ryburn, Nancy Elizabeth (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2003)

Breast surgery is extremely stressful since women are facing the possibility of a cancer diagnosis. Even though 80% of the women will not have cancer, the breast surgery experience creates elevated levels of psychological ...

"Dashtana -- 'ki derekh nashim li'": A study of the Babylonian rabbinic laws of menstruation in relation to corresponding Zoroastrian texts

Secunda, Samuel Israel (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2008)

For over half a century, academic scholarship of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) has focused primarily on the dynamics of this work's internal textual (lower and higher criticism) and hermeneutical phenomena. This dissertation ...

DAVID RAZIEL, THE MAN AND HIS TIMES

LEVINE, DANIEL (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1969)

Daycare quality and children's sociomoral development

Berlin, Nancy G. (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991)

The relationship of daycare quality to children's sociomoral knowledge and behavior was investigated. Caregivers' forms of verbal responses to children's sociomoral behavior was examined in relation to program quality. Six ...

DAYDREAMS OF DEPRESSIVE AND AGGRESSIVE CHILDREN

BICK, FRANCES IRENE (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)

The purpose of this investigation was to compare the daydreams of depressed/withdrawn, aggressive, and normal children. Differences were explored with respect to the level of object representation, daydreaming style, ...

Debt collection in absentia: Halakhah in a mobile and commercial age

Rosensweig, Michael S. (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1996)

The Talmud reflects a predominantly agricultural and sedentary life style. Halakhic activities that presupposed physical presence operated efficiently in this world. The shift to a commercial and mobile society in the ...

DECALAGE AMONG OBJECT TYPES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OBJECT CONCEPT

BEPKO, RAYMOND ALBIN (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)

This study explored the relationship between type of object and the development of object permanence. The framework for the study was Piaget's six stage theory of object concept development. Alternatives to this theory and ...

DECAYS OF HADRONS

WEISS, HERBERT (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1970)

Deciphering neuronal dysfunction in Tau pathology

Polydoro, Manuela (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2010)

A hallmark feature of Alzheimer's disease pathology is the presence of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which are intracellular aggregates of conformationally abnormal and hyperphosphorylated tau. Tau function is important ...

Deciphering the Regulation of Cytoplasmic Dynein's Attachment to Microtubules

Nicholas, Matthew P. (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2013)

Cytoplasmic dynein is a homodimeric microtubule (MT) motor responsible for most MT minus-end-directed transport in eukaryotes. Its function is critically important to both health and disease.;Unlike other cytoskeletal motor ...

Deciphering the role of SF3B1 in hematopoiesis

De La Garza Sauceda, Adriana (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017)

Hematologic malignancies claim the lives of many people every year, yet we lack a complete understanding of the mechanisms of pathogenesis behind them. Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are a group of hematologic malignancies ...

Deciphering the Transcriptional Networks Regulated by Two Hematopoietic Master Regulatory Transcription Factors, PU.1 and GATA-1

Wontakal, Sandeep Nagaraj (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2011)

Lineage-specification involves the activation of lineage-specific genes and the inhibition of alternative lineages by master regulatory transcription factors (MRTFs). Previous work from our lab showed PU.1, a MRTF of ...

DECISION MAKING IN SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

ZINMAN, ARNOLD (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)

Decision making by school psychologists was studied to determine the influence of referral information and test data as well as psychologists' age, sex, education, and experience on clinicians' diagnoses and recommendations. ...

Decision-making and service recommendations in child protective services

Juliao Nunez, Mayra (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2005)

An examination of the CPS decision-making process is of great importance to child welfare practice because of the need to better understand factors affecting the recommendations for service made by CPS workers. This study ...

Decision-making in Jerusalem high schools

Gordon, Tova (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991)

This treatise examines the policy- and decision-making process in the secondary school system in Israel. The study considers the functioning of schools in a centralized system, and attempts to determine the leading elements ...

DECOMPOSITION THEOREMS FOR DIFFERENTIAL FORMS ON HILBERT SPACES

GOLDRING, THOMAS (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1977)

Deconstructing nicotine cue reactivity: cortical control, PKG-dependent maintenance, and incentive-withdrawal interaction

Scott, Daniel (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2011)

Tobacco smoking represents a major health crisis worldwide. Nicotine is a major component of tobacco that induces dependence. In dependent smokers, cues associated with smoking contribute to persisted smoking, craving, and ...