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(2019-12-13)Department: Mechanical EngineeringComputational material models for analyzing aerodynamic loads on metallic supersonic and hypersonic aircraft panels rarely include plastic deformation. In this study, the Multi-Yield Surface Plasticity model is introduced ...
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(2006-06-07)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPreventive care measures including vaccinations are underutilized. The Emergency Department (ED) environment has been recommended to be a feasible environment to offer pneumococcal vaccination; however, the ED is a challenging ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: English“A Connected Idea of the Lesson”: Teaching and Learning in African American Literature, examines depictions of the classroom in African American literature in order to understand how well-known writers and activists from ...
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(2020-10-12)Department: EnglishThis study details the construction of the intellectual infrastructure of “culturally relevant teaching” (CRT) by African-American women educators from 1873 to 1913. While CRT is understood to have roots in the pedagogies ...
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(2020-03-10)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyTwo goals motivate treating diseases with drug combinations: reduce off-target toxicity by minimizing dose (synergistic potency), and improve outcomes by escalating effect (synergistic efficacy). Surprisingly, current drug ...
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(2014-12-22)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityIn program evaluation research, measures of realized classroom instruction are often referred to as fidelity measures. Although there is a wide consensus that fidelity measures should be grounded in the program theories ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: HistoryThis paper explores how encounters with European empire shaped American missionary and travel writing about the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I break with the way that scholars in the humanities, ...
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(2009-12-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThere has been considerable research devoted to control and experimental realization of bipedal locomotion with the aim to develop a fully functional humanoid robot. Similar to humans, such a robot should be able to walk ...
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(2014-07-26)Department: PsychologyPrevious attempts to influence food intake have fallen short as rates of obesity continue to increase. Contributing to the increase are the myriad of factors that influence food intake including physiology, emotion, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(2014-07-16)Department: Civil EngineeringA coupled Eulerian- Lagrangian (CEL) formulation is presented to model moving interface problems and damage transport in hyperelastic materials when subjected to large deformations. This formulation is based on Eulerian ...
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(2022-02-10)Department: EpidemiologyPostpartum contraceptive uptake reduces short interpregnancy intervals, unintended pregnancies, and their negative sequalae: poor maternal and fetal outcomes. Healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy in people with HIV also ...
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(2016-04-21)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyDespite being the racial/ethnic group that is disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, African Americans are underrepresented in HIV/AIDS clinical trials. The reasons for the inadequate participation of African Americans ...
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A Critique of Christian Development as Resolution to the Crisis in U.S. Protestant Foreign Missions (2009-12-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that development has failed in fulfilling one of the primary tasks that it set for itself as an expression of Christian mission. Christian development failed to resolve the crisis in Christian ...
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(2015-03-23)Department: Computer ScienceCyber-security for Internet-connected applications has become a critical area of research. Applications are continually under attack and finding ways to better defend them is a critical concern. This thesis explores a newer ...
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(2020-09-18)Department: BiostatisticsIn observational studies, the propensity score method is often used as an approach to handle the confounding by indication bias. Among other methods, inverse probability of treatment weighting uses weights based on the ...
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(2011-12-09)Department: Computer ScienceMobile devices, such as smartphones, are becoming increasingly common in everyday life, and enable the development of dynamic, data driven applications which weren’t possible prior to the advent of the smartphone. This ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe decision to migrate is complex and is often influenced by a combination of economic, social, political, and environmental pressures. Seasonal, internal migration is a common strategy for livelihood diversification in ...
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(2021-07-16)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: <Major>Extracting biological knowledge from experimental data continues to be one of the main challenges toward a mechanistic understanding of cellular processes. Mathematical models can provide mechanistic insights into the ...