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Does Learnability Predict Syntactic Universals? An Investigation Using Artificial Languages
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Universals in natural language have long been a focus of the generative syntactic and typological literature. However, the source of these universals is not clear. Within Chomskyan generative syntactic literature, it is ...
The Constitutional Limits of Military Reform: Ottoman Political Writing During the Times of Revolutionary Change, 1592-1807
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The laws regulating the affairs of Ottoman Janissaries and other communities consisted of divine laws of sharia as interpreted by the jurists, and “immemorial” “ancient” laws of different communities, kanun. The ...
Power and Solidarity in Moral, Affective, and Epistemic Positioning: Constructing Identities in Everyday Vietnamese Family Discourse
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Expanding scholarship on Vietnamese interaction (e.g., Luong, 1990; Sidnell and Shohet, 2013) and discursive identity construction in families (e.g., Tannen, Kendall, and Gordon, 2007), this study explores everyday ...
Hippocampal Microcircuit Alterations in Early Amyloid Pathology: A Selective Impairment of Parvalbumin-Expressing Basket Cells During Sharp Wave Ripple Events
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Memory disruption in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is poorly understood, particularly at early stages preceding neurodegeneration. In mouse models of AD, there are disruptions to sharp wave ...
Venlafaxine Induces a Matrix Metalloproteinases-9-Dependent Remodeling, Leading to Increased Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Though the mechanisms that underlie the efficacy of antidepressants in responsive individuals is not yet fully understood, it is known that antidepressant drugs that target monoamines induce structural remodeling in the ...
Effects of Education on Public Perception and Knowledge of Midwives in Rural Kansas
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study assessed the Grant County, Kansas, public’s current perception and knowledge of the role of the midwife and determined the influence of education on their perception and knowledge. A pre and posttest design was ...
Proteomic Biomarkers, NeuroQuant® Data, and Symptoms of Brain Neuronal Injury in Adults with Subjective Cognitive Impairment
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Acquired brain neuronal injury is one of the most significant healthcare problems nationally and globally. Acquired brain neuronal injury results from hypoxemia, biotoxin or ribotoxin exposure, or pressure shifts in the ...
Influencing Collaborative Maternity Care Through Obstetric Hospitalist Education
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The importance of collaboration in maternity care in the U.S. is apparent with deficits in both care disparities and quality, despite disproportionate expenditures to improve care. Utilization of experienced, well-trained ...
When Are Bipartisan Senators More Effective?
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This research explores the legislative incentives for bipartisanship in the United States Senate using the Lugar Center’s bipartisan index and the Center for Effective Lawmaking’s legislative effectiveness score. I accept ...
Shear Thickening of Silica Rod Suspensions
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Colloidal particles in a liquid such as silica rod suspensions exhibit non-Newtonian behaviors like continuous shear thickening (CST) and discontinuous shear thickening (DST). These rheological behaviors of suspensions of ...