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Investigating and Improving Designs for Supporting Professional Development Facilitators’ Learning (2015-07-22)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation reports on a retrospective analysis of a design study conducted in partnership between researchers and the leaders of a large U.S. urban district to investigate and support the development of professional ...
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Investigating Biochemical Interactions Relevant To Human Health Using Backscattering Interferometry (2013-07-17)Department: ChemistryThis project is concerned with the characterization of biomolecular interactions that are pertinent to human health using backscattering interferometry (BSI). In this dissertation, I used the unique ability of BSI to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03)Anxiety and depressive symptoms can be dissociated into anxious-misery and fear components; however, little is known about how these two symptom dimensions differ in terms of brain network properties. Thus, the purpose ...
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(2012-12-11)Department: PhysicsLiving tissues are active, non-linear viscoelastic materials that move drastically, often in concert, during embryogenesis. In many cases, the mechanics of this motion remain unknown. Using a combination of laser ...
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Investigating Factors Associated With Offspring’s Coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress. (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-25)Abstract: Objective: In this study, I investigated (1) how age is related to reported levels of coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress in offspring; (2) how measures of disease progression in parents are directly ...
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(2014-08-01)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityRecently, the field of science education has advocated for systematic explorations of the affordances of an integrated STEM education. Accordingly, in this three-paper dissertation I investigate how students build conceptual ...
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(2012-12-03)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyiASPP (inhibitory member of the apoptosis stimulating protein of p53 family) is known to inhibit the important tumor suppressors p53 and p73. Indeed, iASPP is over-expressed in several cancer types and is associated with ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2003-04-18)
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(2022-11-02)Department: NeuroscienceThis dissertation aimed to investigate behavioral symptoms commonly encountered in conditions that present with motor symptoms. These studies primarily focused on the pathophysiology of impulsive and compulsive behaviors ...
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Investigating Kinesin-based Mitotic Spindle Assembly Backup Mechanisms Using Single Molecule Methods (2018-04-02)Department: Chemical EngineeringMolecular motors are essential to sustain life, carrying out cellular processes that require directed motion over diffusion. Kinesins are motors that use ATP hydrolysis to perform mechanical work. Mitotic kinesins generate ...
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(2011-12-01)Department: Human GeneticsAbnormal regulation of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate pools can lead to mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes, a set of genetic diseases associated with depletion of mitochondrial DNA. Besides mitochondrial ...
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(2010-09-21)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThis dissertation project was aimed at elucidating cellular and molecular responses to myocardial infarction. Our work identified canonical wnt signaling as a molecular pathway that is induced in the healing (granulation ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: Computer ScienceAlongside the ever-growing influence of convolutional neural networks(CNN) in the image classification task, its capability for working robustly with noisy images will become more critical. A practical classification system ...
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(2019-10-17)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyEmerging viruses, such as coronaviruses (CoVs), continue to pose a threat to human health, and few countermeasures have been approved to treat these infections. Two CoVs have emerged to cause severe disease in humans within ...
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(2023-12)Live the Life South Florida (LTLSF) is a faith-based nonprofit headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida. The organization focuses on creating healthy relationships through education programs for adults and teenagers. Our area ...
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(2017-02-23)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyBacteria use two-component system (TCS) signaling to sense and respond to their ever-changing surroundings. While most TCSs have been reported to interact solely as a cognate partner pair, one sensor kinase phosphorylating ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversitySeveral studies have identified positive relationships between strong principal instructional leadership and improved student outcomes. However, few researchers have examined how principals influence the nature of ...
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(2019-07-11)Department: PsychologyDirect and indirect self-harm behaviors frequently co-occur, suggesting possible common factors in their etiology. Theoretical models of two such behaviors, nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and disordered eating (DE), implicate ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceAmmonia (NH3) is a vital chemical to the agricultural and explosives industries, and it may very well play a central role in the emerging hydrogen economy. The Haber-Bosch process has long been the method used to synthesize ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-05)This project was a one-year investigation of the implementation of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Initiative in the Metro Nashville Public School System. Interviews with STEAM teachers, ...