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(The Disciple, 2000)
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(2015-11-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringAcoustic neuroma surgery is a procedure in which a benign mass is removed from the Internal Auditory Canal (IAC). Currently this surgical procedure requires the manual drilling of the temporal bone followed by exposure and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-12-18)
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(2015-04-14)Department: HistoryThe othering of Welsh persons was a recurrent feature of English “home tour” travelogues throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet, in the eighteenth-century English popular imaginary, the Welsh landscape ...
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(2013-07-30)Department: MathematicsWe investigate two subjects in asymptotic analysis. The first focuses on a class of rational functions called Padé-orthogonal approximants. We study the relation of the convergence of poles of row sequences of Padé-orthogonal ...
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Two problems in Computational Mathematics: Multiple Orthogonal Polynomials and Greedy Energy Points (2010-05-25)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis we investigate the asymptotic behavior of greedy energy sequences on locally compact metric spaces and Euclidean spaces, and the asymptotic behavior of multiple orthogonal polynomials associated with measures ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: MathematicsIn this dissertation, we present the results of two projects, both related to equations over groups and each concerning a particular generalization of hyperbolic groups. Their abstracts are presented below. A subgroup of ...
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(1980)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-10-22)
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(2022-06-29)Department: Neuroscienceγ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A receptors (GABARs) are ligand-gated Cl- channels that mediate the bulk of inhibitory neurotransmission in the mature brain. Disruptions in GABAergic signals underlie a significant portion ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2004)
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(Scientific Reports, 2019-08-29)Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder with 22 disease-causing genes reported to date. In some FA genes, monoallelic mutations have been found to be associated with breast cancer risk, while the risk ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2004-05-18)
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(PLOS Genetics, 2019-06)Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that infect arthropod species worldwide and are deployed in vector control to curb arboviral spread using cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI kills embryos when an infected male ...
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(2021-07-15)Department: PhysicsThe successful isolation and characterization of graphene opened a new dimension for experimental materials research. And though graphene possesses an assortment of attractive mechanical, optical, and electrical properties ...
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(2021-05-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringTwo-dimensional (2D) materials, from graphene to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have attracted tremendous attention from researchers in various fields owing to their exceptional properties. This dissertation ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015)
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2012)In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, the Supreme Court reinterpreted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to permit judges to dismiss claims at the very outset of a case whenever they think the claims ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2007-10-22)