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(2018-03-23)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) permits Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce reimbursement to hospitals with excess 30-day unplanned readmissions. Diabetes disproportionately impacts ...
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(2007-08-03)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThis Masters Thesis project had as its objectives: (1) to provide Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH) with computerized tools for monitoring microbiological data; (2) to provide the VUH Infection Control Service with tools ...
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(2022-11-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringReplication of healthy knee behavior after amputation requires prosthetic knees to provide active and resistive stance behaviors, as well as ballistic and non-ballistic swing behaviors. Current state-of-the-art prosthetic ...
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(2014-07-30)Department: Biomedical InformaticsProcess mining corresponds to a collection of methodologies designed to extract knowledge from event logs (e.g., time-stamped events) and provide a description about the underlying processes of a system. Various approaches ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: Computer ScienceAs a parallel data processing framework, MapReduce has been proved to be one of the most popular topics in the age of Cloud Computing since it was firstly proposed by Google. Despite its advantages such as scalability, ...
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(2022-08)This capstone project is a program evaluation of a peer tutoring and mentoring program that targets mathematics courses offered at a community college located in Northwest Florida. Social constructivist understandings of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)The paper argues that multiple equilibria-whether non-stationary or stationary- are a generic property of dynamic rational expectations models. In light of this, this paper proposes a selection criterion for choosing between ...
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(2006-07-28)Department: PsychologyThis longitudinal study investigated the cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in a high-risk sample across three years (i.e., 6th, 7th, and 8th grade), using traditional, additive, weakest link, and keystone ...
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(2022-02-16)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyWhen an organism is injured, the damaged tissue recognizes the presence and severity of the wound and rapidly responds to repair the injury and restore proper tissue functionality. But how do cells first detect the presence ...
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(2012-12-26)Department: HistoryThis project examines attempts to study and define public opinion in postwar Germany by two institutions: the Frankfurt School and the Allensbach Institute. I show how opinion researchers responded to theoretical frameworks ...
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(2008-04-21)Department: Computer ScienceFault diagnosis is crucial for ensuring the safe operation of complex engineering systems. Many present-day systems combine physical and computational processes, and are best modeled as hybrid systems, where the dynamic ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Mechanical EngineeringAn experimental analysis of a novel two-dimensional lid-driven cavity flow is presented. The system that is developed and tested contains six movable boundary sections that can be driven in pairs to generate complex flow ...
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(2021-05-12)Department: SociologyOver the past few decades, multiple actors, including clinicians, researchers, activists, intersex adults, and parents of intersex children, have engaged in debates over what intersex is and how—or whether—it should be ...
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(2008-02-11)Department: Electrical EngineeringSingle-event transients (SETs) due to terrestrial or space radiation exposure have become a growing concern in modern high-speed analog and mixed-signal electronics. Recent work with computer circuit-level simulation ...
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(2016-07-06)Department: Electrical EngineeringCubeSats have become an attractive platform for university-based spacecraft designs because they are cheaper and quicker to launch than full-scale satellites. One way of keeping costs for CubeSats low is using commercial ...
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(2019-07-22)Department: Electrical EngineeringA radiation-hardened by design (RHBD) D flip-flop is presented that demonstrates a tolerance to radiation induced single-event upsets while maintaining desirable electrical performance characteristics over a wide range of ...
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(2011-08-04)Department: PhilosophyMy dissertation tackles the question of how to theorize the democratic commitment that collective decisions must accommodate the voices and interests of those subject to them. The rigorous demands of this democratic ...
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(2009-07-20)Department: Computer ScienceTraffic signals provide the key mechanism to regulate traffic, and promote safe and efficient traffic flow at intersections. However, incidents of red light running can compromise the safety of the system. Research shows ...
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(2014-11-26)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyMitotic kinesins represent the new age targets of spindle-poisoning chemotherapies. The kinesin-5 Eg5 is one such example, as kinesin-5 inhibitors (K5Is) induce a lethal mitotic arrest from failed spindle assembly. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We introduce a perfect price discriminating (PPD) mechanism for allocation problems with private information. A PPD mechanism treats a seller, for example, as a perfect price discriminating monopolist who faces a price ...