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Designing Cities & Men: Post-WWII Urban Renewal, Black Masculinity, and African American Aesthetics (2016-07-24)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the relationship between post-WWII urban renewal programs in the United States and aesthetic representations of black masculinity in 20th century African American literature. I argue that urban ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCorneal wound healing is a complex, and highly coordinated process of cell-cell signaling, cell spreading, migration, proliferation, and cell-extracellular matrix interaction. The main limitation in natural wound healing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-04-16)While other traditional schools and types of education place more emphasis on subject content and discipline knowledge, the purpose of Waldorf education is not to train students for the future professional world, but to ...
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(2010-04-13)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Systems EngineeringThis dissertation develops and applies an integrated framework for embedding flexibility in an engineered system architecture. Systems are constantly faced with unpredictability in the operational environment, threats ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-07-29)The ArtQuest gallery is a space at the intersection of informal learning and arts education, built for all ages, but especially for young children. At first glance, it appears to be highly successful at achieving some of ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThis is an empirical, ethnographic study about middle school students’ mathematical joy in a formal math classroom. This study is situated in a year-long Research Practice Partnership with 6th grade mathematics teacher and ...
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(2021-04-27)The Freedom Fellows Institute recruits and trains school leaders of color to found their own charter schools in marginalized communities. This quality improvement project sought to help the executive director of Freedom ...
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(2021-10-21)Department: ChemistryCatalytic C-O cleavage via ether silylation holds promise for the generation of valueadded, and biologically relevant molecules from renewable biomass-derived feedstocks. Current catalysts for secondary C-O cleavage lack ...
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(2020)This Article contributes to the development of adaptive governance theory by articulating and situating the role of formal law and government as the facilitator, but not central controller, of adaptive governance. To advance ...
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(2024-04-01)Department: Computer ScienceUnderstanding how both normally sighted and visually impaired users perceive space when wearing immersive mixed reality (MR) displays is essential for developing effective applications to the widest audience possible. This ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-22)Latino immigrant students and families are among the fastest growing populations in the United States, but are among the most academically vulnerable groups. Though they initially enter the country brimming with hope and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)
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(2014-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis research examines a teacher’s design of a classroom system of multimedia composition, in the form of collaborative video essays, and students’ responses to the teacher’s design. The teacher designed a project in which ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)The Sterling Ranch Development Company is developing 3,400 acres of land in Douglas County, Colorado. This open range along the Colorado Rocky Mountains will be home to 40,000 people and 12,000 homes at its full development. ...
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(2021-08-11)The California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO) provides tactical training and education for law enforcement in California. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering information, knowledge, and resources ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: ReligionThis dissertation proposes a novel way of reconceptualizing the nature, origins, and theological significance of egoic self-consciousness that successfully eludes the deeply-rooted impulse to ground the “self” circularly ...
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(2014-06-24)Department: EnglishOthello by William Shakespeare exists in two early printed versions, as a 1622 Quarto and a 1623 Folio. Despite their differences, they have only recently been regarded as two distinct plays worthy of their own interpretations. ...
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"The Details of Change": African Americans in High School American History Textbooks From 1970-1991 (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1994-04-15)
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(2006-04-17)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThis thesis describes the development and evaluation of a computerized algorithm for detecting patients with acute asthma exacerbations who present to a pediatric emergency department (ED). A rule-based algorithm was ...
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(2016-03-22)Department: PsychologyCluster bias in a multilevel item response model can be investigated by testing whether the within-level item discriminations are equal to the between-level item discriminations. However, in most multilevel item response ...