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Lgr5-Positive Supporting Cells Generate New Hair Cells in the Postnatal Cochlea
(Elsevier, 2014)Summary The prevalence of hearing loss after damage to the mammalian cochlea has been thought to be due to a lack of spontaneous regeneration of hair cells, the primary receptor cells for sound. Here, we show that supporting ... -
LHC Searches for Non-Chiral Weakly Charged Multiplets
(Springer Verlag, 2011)Because the TeV-scale to be probed at the Large Hadron Collider should shed light on the naturalness, hierarchy, and dark matter problems, most searches to date have focused on new physics signatures motivated by possible ... -
LHX2 Interacts with the NuRD Complex and Regulates Cortical Neuron Subtype Determinants Fezf2 and Sox11
(Society for Neuroscience, 2017)In the developing cerebral cortex, sequential transcriptional programs take neuroepithelial cells from proliferating progenitors to differentiated neurons with unique molecular identities. The regulatory changes that occur ... -
A Liber Precum in Sélestat and the Development of the Illustrated Prayer Book in Germany
(College Art Association, 1991)The twelfth century marks a turning point in the history of the prayer book. During the first Christian millenium, pictures played only a limited role in prayer and in narrative imagery almost none, but by the later Middle ... -
Liberalism, Self-Respect, and Troubling Cultural Patterns in Ghettos
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Liberating Last Rites: Ritual Rescue of the Dead in Tibetan Buddhist Discourse
(2018-05-08)This dissertation examines Tibetan funerary manuals based on the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra (SDP), an Indian Buddhist work first translated into Tibetan in the eighth century. I trace the transmission and study of the ... -
Librarians and Statistics: Thoughts on a Tentative Relationship
(2012)Librarians are not trained as original researchers during library school. As a result, librarians as authors may succumb to common statistical misconceptions and use errors, thus it is important for librarians to know how ... -
Libraries and Fake News: What’s the Problem? What’s the Plan?
(Portland State University Library, 2019)This article surveys the library and information science (LIS) response to the problems of fake news and misinformation from the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the end of 2018, focusing on how librarians and other ... -
The Libraries of Alexandria and Pergamon as Classical Models
(1998)This inquiry concerns the Library of Pergamon, not so much as a place or institution, but as an idea or concept, a classical model. This model, I hope to show, is a historical reality in its own right. I start by looking ... -
Licensing of Floating Nominal Modifiers and Unaccusativity in Japanese
(Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2014)Licensing of VP-internal floating nominal modifiers (FNMs), including numeral quantifiers, has been used as a diagnostic test for unaccusativity in Japanese, under the assumption that FNMs and their associates must be in ... -
"Licit Magic": The Touch And Sight Of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls
(2014-06-06)The following study traces the production and history of the talismanic scroll as a medium through a Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk historical periods. My dissertation understands the protocol of manufacturing and utilizing ... -
Life at the Front of an Expanding Population
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Environmental changes have caused episodes of habitat expansions in the evolutionary history of many species. These range changes affect the dynamics of biological evolution in multiple ways. Recent microbial experiments ... -
Life Chances: Infant Mortality, Institutions, and Inequality in the United States
(2015-05-19)The dissertation explores variation in socio-demographic inequalities in infant mortality in the U.S. with three empirical chapters. The first empirical chapter focuses on inequalities in the likelihood of infant mortality ... -
Life Forms: A Keyword Entry
(University of California Press, 2010)We deliver a “keyword” account of the term life form as it has been used in natural philosophy and biology over the last two hundred years, beginning with its appearance in German as Lebensform. We argue that life form ... -
Life Historical Perspectives on Human Reproductive Aging
(New York Academy of Sciences, 2010)A commentary is offered on the chapters that comprise the section on Theoretical Foundations, emphasizing novel contributions of each. Three additional points are then made. First, while the biology of reproductive aging ... -
The Life History Significance of Human Breast Milk: Immune and endocrine factors as indicators of maternal condition and predictors of infant health and growth
(2015-05-15)This dissertation explores the relationships between maternal energetic condition, four bioactive compounds in milk, and infant health and growth outcomes through the lens of human life history theory. Research was conducted ... -
A Life of Learning
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Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology
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Life-Course Disparities in Dementia Risk: Disentangling the Contributions of Socioeconomic Status and Vascular Risk Factors
(2022-09-09)Disproportionately high risk of dementia among racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. has been attributed to life-course exposures to adverse conditions such as lower educational attainment, and prevention strategies ... -
Life-Cycle Labor-Force Participation of Married Women: Historical Evidence and Implications
(University of Chicago Press, 1989)The seven-fold increase, since 1920, in the labor force participation rate of married women was <i>not</i> accompanied by a substantial increase in average work experience among employed married women. Two data sets giving ...