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(2017-08-09)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyOver the past several years, increasing the adoption of interoperable EHRs has been one of central goals of the US healthcare system. This study is the first known state-wide assessment of adoption rates of EDRs and certified ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)This Capstone project consists of a backwards design format unit plan based on corresponding units from a specific traditional Algebra I textbook. The student goals that I have identified are closely aligned with standards ...
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(2009-07-27)Department: Biomedical InformaticsClinical decision support in electronic prescribing (e-Rx) systems can improve patient safety and quality of care. Despite the availability of drug information knowledgebases and decision support modules, users often disable ...
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(2022-12-09)Department: Biomedical InformaticsSuicide is a significant threat to public health. In the United States, 47,500 people died from suicide in 2019, a 10-year increase of 30%. Informaticians studying suicide are working on improved ways to analyze suicide ...
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(2021-08-16)Department: Political ScienceSocial network analysis (SNA) has recently become a key approach for migration scholars to understand how immigrants socialize and build personal connections in new environments, while maintaining ties to their former ...
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(2008-03-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringPatient safety and emergency department functionality are compromised when inefficient coordination between hospital departments impedes ED patients’ access to inpatient cardiac care. The objective of this dissertation ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyLiving in a food desert is associated with worse health outcomes, and consequently there has been an increasing amount of intervention research on how improve access to and consumption of healthy foods among people who ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-08)The object of this study was to test individual differentiation between the emotions Hope and Challenge/Determination in terms of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components. The former emotion requires a more ...
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(Stanford Law Review, 2001)Before "Apprendi", prosecutors using recidivism as a club could, and did, regularly insist that defendants admit aggravating facts as part of the plea or face additional time. When the prosecutor's threats of added time ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011)Character education is the intentional effort to develop core ethical and performance values that are widely affirmed across all cultures in young people (Character Education Partnership, 2010). Benefits of character ...
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Approach to the Global Human Trafficking Crisis: Analyzing Applications of Social Network Analysis (2022-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietySocial network analysis is an analytical tool for studying people, their relationships, and their social networks. The methodology has been used to study criminal enterprises, enabling researchers to understand crime ...
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(Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2017)Background: Clinical genome and exome sequencing (CGES) is primarily used to address specific clinical concerns by detecting risk of future disease, clarifying diagnosis, or directing treatment. Additionally, CGES makes ...
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(2015-06-05)Department: ChemistryHemiketal D2 and hemiketal E2 are eicosanoids identified by Schneider and coworkers in 2011. These novel arachidonic acid metabolites are cross-over products of the enzymes 5-LOX and COX-2, previously assumed to be operating ...
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(2020-11-16)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement seeks to disrupt dominant cultural patterns and norms both through the use of traditional movement tactics, such as protest, and through the strategic and intentional integration of ...
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(CF '19 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING FRONTIERS, 2019-04-30)We introduce Approximate Unrolling, a compiler loop optimization that reduces execution time and energy consumption, exploiting code regions that can endure some approximation and still produce acceptable results. Specifically, ...
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(Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2000)The Court in Apprendi v. New Jersey, ___ U.S. ___ (2000), held as a matter of due process that any fact, other than a prior conviction, that increases the penalty for an offense beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must ...
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(2022-08-02)Department: BiochemistryAquaporin-5 (AQP5) regulates osmotic balance and transparency of the ocular lens through facilitated diffusion of water and represents an integral component of the lens microcirculation system, which convects nutrients to ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2010)A bill currently pending in Congress would render unenforceable mandatory arbitration clauses in all employment contracts. Some perceive these provisions as employer efforts to deprive employees of important legal rights. ...
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(2016-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThis study seeks to understand the ways in which colonial settlements, located within the Municipality of Gurupá, in the Lower Amazon Basin in Brazil, played a key role in the formation of ribeirinho culture. The term ...
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(Edmonston and Douglas, 1873)