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(2016-12-13)Department: BiostatisticsThis dissertation consists of three papers related to causal inference about the evenly matchable units in observational studies of treatment effect. The first paper begins by defining the evenly matchable units in a sample ...
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(2020-07-13)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityMany schools and districts are implementing one-on-one coaching as a strategy for supporting mathematics teachers in improving their instructional practices. While some studies have found that one-on-one coaching can support ...
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(mSphere, 2019-07)The genetic stability of every living organism depends on accurate DNA replication and repair systems. Here, we investigated the Aspergillus fumigatus MSH2 mismatch repair (MMR) gene MshA and how it impacts virulence and ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Spanish and Comparative Media AnalysisThis dissertation explores logics of erasure and invisibility in Latin America’s historical and cultural record during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Attuned to recent frameworks in decolonial, critical Indigeneity, ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Spanish and Comparative Media AnalysisThis dissertation explores logics of erasure and invisibility in Latin America’s historical and cultural record during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Attuned to recent frameworks in decolonial, critical Indigeneity, ...
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(2007-07-31)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe spindle pole body, the yeast analog of the centrosome, serves not only to nucleate and organize microtubules but also as a signaling center to coordinate events in mitosis and cytokinesis. It does so by localizing ...
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(2021-08-10)Due to the accelerated growth of a newly launched private, Reggio-inspired preschool, the administrator of the school had not found an opportunity to conduct a formal assessment of the school’s alignment between its mission, ...
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(2014-12-05)Department: Electrical EngineeringSystem security often focuses on the software, causing hardware security to be overlooked. Such oversight allows for attacks that can completely undermine the use of hardware as the root of trust. During the design of an ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Teaching and LearningAbstract This dissertation study focuses on children’s development of causal mechanistic reasoning (Machamer, Darden, & Craver, 2000; Russ, Scherr, Hammer, & Mikeska, 2009; Shultz, 1982) in the area of simple mechanics. ...
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(2021-08-09)AVID is a national nonprofit organization that takes a multifaceted approach on school campuses to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society. Since the AVID ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-10-10)In 2000, the National Reading Panel named fluency one of the five pillars of reading instruction. As a result, schools across America adopted a variety of fluency assessments. More recently, one-minute fluency assessments ...
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(2021-12)To combat the issues of social inequity and health outcomes disparity at the graduate medical education level, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) developed ...
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(2019-03-28)Department: Nursing SciencePatients with severe cognitive impairment experience undertreated pain because health care providers assessments rely on the gold standard of self-report. Observational tools that use behaviors indicative of pain are ...
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(2014-10-29)Department: Computer ScienceIn the field of image registration there is a pressing need for techniques that can assess the quality of a registration. Currently there is no widespread method to determine error in an image registration, a weakness of ...
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(2018-11-30)Department: BiostatisticsRisk scores developed from risk prediction models assist clinicians and patients as a decision support tool. Additionally, well supported risk scores can also be used as an adjusting risk factor in clinical research. ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesWhile the impact of various voice disorders on patient quality of life has been well characterized, the mechanisms leading to the development of voice disorders are not well understood. There is anecdotal evidence that ...
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(2011-12-09)Department: BiochemistryBIOCHEMISTRY ASSESSING THE COMPONENTS OF THE eIF3 COMPLEX AND THEIR PHOSPHORYLATION STATUS ADAM RICHARD FARLEY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Andrew J. Link The eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is ...
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(2021-04-21)This assessment looks at the educational landscape at One World Surgery (OWS), a Non-Government Organization that provides volunteer surgical and medical services to at-risk populations in Honduras and the Dominican Republic. ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individualized interventions for young children with persistent challenging behavior. Three children between the ages of 4 and 5 years participated in the ...