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(2022-12)The New England Charter School (NECS; a pseudonym) is a public charter school located in New Haven, Connecticut. I used an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, which involved collecting survey data first followed ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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(2018-04-18)Department: NeuroscienceA significant body of research has indicated that acuity of the neurocognitive system used to represent numerical magnitudes, often referred to as the approximate number system (ANS), serves a foundational role in the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...
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(2008-06-06)Department: PsychologyChronic abdominal pain (CAP) is common in youth and has been associated with poor social and emotional adjustment. Theory and research suggest that the nature of children’s adaptation to chronic or recurrent pain is ...
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(2023-08)The U.S. Military Veteran experience in the context of their transition toward civilian life after military service has received a vast amount of research attention. Recently, the U.S. exit from the 21-year long war in ...
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(2018-12-03)Department: NeuroscienceIt is now a well-established finding that the human brain has a ``small-world' architecture, which is characterized by densely connected modules and a highly-connected hub network. It has been hypothesized that this ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Information about 586 individuals who matriculated into 27 economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2002 is used to estimate first and second year attrition rates. After two years, 26.5 percent of the initial cohort had left, ...
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(Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019-11)Background. Loiasis is mostly considered a relatively benign infection when compared with other filarial and parasitic diseases, with Calabar swellings and eyeworm being the most common signs. Yet, there are numerous reports ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2011)Patent law is constantly evolving to accommodate advances in science and technology. But, for a variety of reasons, some aspects of patent doctrine have not evolved over time leading to a growing disconnect between the ...
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 1993)Numerous legal academics and practitioners have criticized the handling by plaintiffs' attorneys of large-scale class action and derivative lawsuits. These critiques point out attorneys' abuse of the legal system, ranging ...
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(2019-09-16)Department: NeuroscienceCochlear implants (CIs)-widely considered the most successful neuroprosthetic devices-afford over half a million users worldwide access to sound perception following severe-to-profound hearing loss. However, visual cues ...
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(2014-12-08)Department: PsychologyAn individual’s auditory cortical processing of speech sounds is substantially influenced by one’s native language experiences. Over the course of development, the brain becomes specialized to process speech sounds that ...
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(2020-03-31)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesMotion, as a cue for creating a perceptual difference between a desired (i.e. target) signal and background noise (i.e. distracters), has been investigated previously with limited success. A new approach was taken to ...
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(2015-12-04)Department: GermanWhen Marcel Proust wrote his major novel, À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, he kept reworking it to the last moment of his life (He died in 1922). In this dissertation I argue, that the German translators and others working ...
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(2017-09-25)Department: Biomedical InformaticsBarriers faced by patients with diabetes can prevent them from adhering to their prescribed plan of care. An aspect of the clinical encounter that detracts from patient-provider engagement is the work required for a provider ...