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(Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 2021)Privacy and free speech are often described as oppositional forces. This Essay analyzes First Amendment jurisprudence emphasizing the ten years after Sorrell vs. IMS Health was decided in 2011. In this Essay, Hans ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-29)
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(2019-07-15)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I adapt Aristotle and neo-Aristotelian philosophers to argue that (a) a virtue of playfulness exists, and (b) playfulness is necessary for achieving happiness. Playfulness helps people, uniquely and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)The idea that "justice is blind" has been called into question by some reports that attractiveness affects judgments of punishment and guilt. However, such studies are handicapped by a number of limitations, which this ...
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"No papers, no fear": The boundary politics of undocumented immigrant youth activists in Tennessee (2014-07-25)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis dissertation focuses on the ways in which undocumented immigrant youth in Tennessee contest their marginalization and challenge various forms of social injustice arising from their immigration status and other facets ...
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(2013-08-20)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines Mexican and Anglo race relations in the Texas borderland during the decade of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920. The outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 led to hostilities between Anglos ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-01)
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(2017-12-04)Department: MathematicsDiscretizing a manifold is a far reaching subject throughout the mathematical and physical sciences. This thesis has two principal foci. We present and analyze a variety of algorithms for generating point configurations ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-06-08)
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(2019-11-19)Department: Computer ScienceMedical ultrasound is a noninvasive, affordable, portable, and real-time diagnostic modality that provides a cross-sectional view of tissues. Ultrasound beamforming is a widely used approach to acquire and process ultrasound ...
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(Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2012)n 2007, researchers from the National Center for State Courts and Vanderbilt University Law School reported the findings from a study of litigation in 2384 randomly selected, non-capital habeas cases, approximately 6.5% ...
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(2019-06-11)Department: Biomedical EngineeringTransarterial chemoembolization (TACE) treatment of liver tumors aims to reduce tumor perfusion and therefore relies on accurate perfusion imaging to monitor and evaluate treatment response. Although effective, contrast-enhanced ...
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(Scientific Reports, 2019-09-10)Trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is an important yet variably effective treatment for management of hepatic malignancies. Lack of response can be in part due to inability to assess treatment adequacy in real-time. ...
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(Scientific Reports, 2019-09-10)Trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is an important yet variably effective treatment for management of hepatic malignancies. Lack of response can be in part due to inability to assess treatment adequacy in real-time. ...
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(2020-08-14)Department: Mechanical EngineeringPassive non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques that utilize temperature measurements can be widely applied due to the many processes that either directly involve heat transfer or output heat as a by-product. Two ...
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(2021-11-18)Department: Civil EngineeringAdditive manufacturing has grown in popularity due to its advantages over more traditional forms of manufacturing. However, it remains unreliable for mainstream manufacturing due to its high prevalence of flaws. Quality ...
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(2007-08-01)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis we consider the distribution of poles of meromorphic and multipoint Padé approximants to the sum of a rational function and a Cauchy transform of a complex measure.
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(2017-07-31)Department: PhysicsGraphene is the simplest crystalline membrane and therefore the ideal material to test mechanics at the ultimate, atomic thickness limit. It is well known from experiments performed at high stress that graphene is one of ...
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(2022-06-28)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyStroke is caused by stenosis, occlusion, or rupture of a blood vessel supplying the brain, and is a leading cause of adult disability and death in the United States. However, due to advancements in therapies to prevent ...