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(2015-07-16)Department: PsychologyThe neural ‘dysconnectivity’ hypothesis of schizophrenia proposes that core symptoms of schizophrenia arise from abnormal connectivity between distinct brain regions. While this hypothesis is supported by a mounting number ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2001-09-24)
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(Minnesota Law Review, 2007)Scholars describe the one-drop rule--the idea that any African ancestry makes a person black--as the American regime of race. While accounts of when the rule emerged vary widely, ranging from the 1660s to the 1920s, most ...
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(2014-12-05)Department: SociologyThis research examines the cross-border utilization of Mexican health care services by Hispanic border residents. Using data from a community survey conducted in Webb County, Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, this study ...
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(Homiletic, 1988)
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-08-19)Earthquakes are horrible natural events causing loss of lives in the thousands. Following earthquakes, building collapses, and cave-ins, large number of victims will suffer from renal failure and death following crush syndrome.
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(2011-03-14)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyIn the course of this dissertation a software EM-Fold was developed that combines de-novo protein structure prediction and medium resolution cryoEM density maps. It can be applied to proteins containing α-helices and ...
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(2006-11-01)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsAdenovirus (Ad) vectors are promising vehicles for vaccine delivery and gene therapy, but vector development has been hampered by the lack of an atomic structure of the intact virion. In this work, cryoEM single particle ...
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(2016-12-19)Department: ChemistrySemiconductor nanocrystals are a desirable class of nanomaterials for electronic, energy conversion, and biomedical applications. The work presented in this thesis aids in the understanding of the fundamental chemistry ...
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(2014-09-16)Department: PsychologyThe current study aimed to apply the Bayesian cue integration paradigm to examine spatial cue interaction in human navigation. Participants completed a triangle completion task either in an immersive virtual environment ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2007-03-01)
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(2020-07-31)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySocioeconomic and demographic factors have been linked to clinical markers of health and general feelings of well-being in healthcare settings. Current conceptualizations of the social determinants of health and how such ...
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(2007-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesCultural factors affecting food preference and tarwi consumption in three departments of the Peruvian Andes were evaluated. This study suggests that tarwi consumption in Peru is location specific. Moreover, the contact ...
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(Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 2006)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)Established within the context of adolescent literacy and its challenges, this review of literature presents the case for developing culturally responsive literacy instruction to meet the needs of African American adolescents. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1996)
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(2023-08)The purpose of this capstone project was to support the leadership team of the partner organization with the intentional review of the organization's philosophies, policies, structures, and practices through a racial equity ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)This paper explores the concept of culturally relevant instruction based mainly on the research and study of Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, and Sonia Nieto. It explores the problems of the achievement gap and skewed ...
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(2023-12)The African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence at Morehouse School of Medicine (AABH CoE), established in 2020, aims to address behavioral health disparities among African Americans. Recognizing the challenges ...