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(2022-08)As part of its efforts to assess the extent to which the institution’s mission is being accomplished, Providence Christian College requires its students during their final year of college to complete the Capstone. The ...
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(2011-12-15)Department: Special EducationFor purposes of this study, I developed an OTL measurement tool called the Instructional Learning Opportunities Guidance System (MyiLOGS) to quantify the extent to which students with disabilities have the opportunity to ...
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(2017-03-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe optic nerve is a vital bundle of axons which carries all visual information from the retina posterior to the brain for higher order processing. The optic nerve and eye orbit are affected by many devastating diseases ...
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(2023-04-19)Department: NeuroscienceSynaptic transmission forms the basis of neural communication, yet much of its fundamental mechanisms remains to be elucidated. In particular, evoked neurotransmitter release (which occurs in response to an action potential) ...
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(2013-04-01)Department: Biomedical EngineeringInfrared neural stimulation (INS) uses pulsed infrared light to directly stimulate neural tissue with high spatiotemporal precision and is well documented for peripheral nerve applications; however, prior to this dissertation, ...
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(2016-03-30)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMetabolism-driven changes in cell cycle status introduce a high degree of cellular heterogeneity within a tumor, presenting challenges with evasion from drug treatment and increased likelihood of tumor recurrence. Accordingly, ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe optical redox ratio (fluorescence intensity of NADH divided by that of FAD), was acquired for a panel of breast cancer cell lines to investigate how overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) ...
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(2012-07-10)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsA refined wavelength-dependent biophysical model of the relationship between corneal thickness, refractive index, and tissue hydration is presented in this dissertation. This model provides a more accurate description of ...
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(2016-06-06)Department: Biomedical EngineeringOptimized therapies and methods to resolve treatment response could improve quality of life and survival for head and neck cancer patients. Optical metabolic imaging presents an advantageous method to address these needs ...
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Optical spectroscopy for the evaluation of surgical margin status following breast cancer resection (2009-12-23)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe presence of tumor within 1-2 millimeters of the surgical margin following partial mastectomies is strongly correlated with the risk of local breast tumor recurrence; thus, there is a need to develop a non-invasive, ...
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(2012-12-20)Department: Chemical EngineeringSince their invention in 1970, optical traps have been used for a wide variety of applications including microrheolgy, dna stretching, as well as being a useful tool for gaining insight on the mechanics of molecular motors. ...
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(2009-07-21)Department: Civil EngineeringDecision makers often confront an inability to understand the consequences of interactions within systems of systems (SoS), which can have physical and human components and exhibit hybrid (continuous and discrete) dynamics. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)Optimal nonlinear taxation of income and savings is considered in a two-period model with two individuals who have additively separable preferences and who only differ in their skill levels. When the government can commit ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)Optimal nonlinear taxation of income and savings is considered in a two-period model with two individuals who have additively separable preferences and who only differ in their skill levels. When the government can commit ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)A model of firm-level optimal pricing under stochastic inflation and fixed costs of adjusting prices is solved and characterized. In this model, inflation alternates stochastically between some positive rate g and zero ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper identifies a new terms-of-trade externality that is exercised through tariff setting. A North-South model of international trade is introduced in which the number of countries in each region can be varied. As ...
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(Medicine, 2019-06)Higher trait optimism and/or lower cynical hostility are associated with healthier behaviors and lower risk of morbidity and mortality, yet their association with health care utilization has been understudied. Whether these ...
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(2011-12-15)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyAcetycholine is one of the major neurotransmitters that regulate various functions ranging from cognition to motor. It activates muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs), which are highly expressed in the brain. mAChRs ...
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(2004-12-07)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe optimization of a pulsed source-sink micromixing device (PSSMD) is presented in this thesis. In particular the behavior of pulsed source-sink pairs activated to produce mixing in a thin rectangular chamber is ...
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(2017-08-02)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyOne of the basic tenets of biology and biochemistry is that form meets function; this axiom is applicable to all levels of life. Structural data on large classes of proteins, such as membrane proteins (MPs), is largely ...