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(North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation, 2011)In the search and seizure context, the United States is much more heavily wedded to warrants and exclusion than European countries and in the interrogation setting requires more robust warnings than most nations in Europe. ...
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(2016-06-27)Department: NeuroscienceThe trigeminal somatosensory system conveys the sense of touch to the face. Most mammals have specialized tactile hairs, or whiskers, on their cheeks and chin that mediate tactile exploration of their environment. These ...
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(Blackwell Publishing, 2006)"We must not doubt that stories were told and enjoyed long before humans learned how to transpose what the ear hears into what the eye sees. Whether brief or developed, transmitted verbatim or embellished, these tales were ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs a redistributive income tax schedule and provides a public input into ...
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(2013-04-03)Department: NeuroscienceInsights into the organization of vertebrate nervous systems have often arisen through systematic examinations of specific behaviors and their possible neural substrates. This approach is even more effective when diverse ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)The results of our comparison of U.S. and Australian contracts offer some interesting contrasts with several earlier studies that compare U.S. and U.K. CEO compensation. In those prior studies, the authors conclude that ...
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(2019-06-18)Department: Special EducationUsing data to inform instructional decisions is a pillar of special education practice. Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is a systematic, ongoing assessment framework that allows special educators to monitor the progress ...
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(2010-10-21)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative effects of a commenting intervention and a commenting plus trials intervention for teaching preschool children letter naming during play activities. For each intervention, ...
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Comparing the Performance Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Measures in Toddlers (Vanderbilt University, 2014-05-15)The current study represents a preliminary investigation of a new screening measure, the Vanderbilt Scales for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This measure’s psychometric performance in toddlers referred for developmental ...
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(2007-05-08)The classical Thatcher effect (TE) is experienced when global inversion of a face makes it difficult to notice the local inversion of its parts (Thompson, 1980). The TE can be quantified by comparing the ease with which ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)Systematic phonics instruction is a very prominent discussion topic among teachers and researchers today. This type of instruction relies on teaching letter-sound correspondence and applying these relationships to beginning ...
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(2011-07-24)Department: Special EducationYule’s Q (YQ) and Contingency Space Analysis (CSA) are two methods of quantifying response-stimulus relations that have not been compared previously. YQ is a statistic derived from the odds ratio and is a measure of the ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringSegmentation, or delineation of the boundaries of a region of interest, is an integral part of implementing intraoperative image guidance for kidney tumor resection. Results are affected by the kidney's physiology and ...
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(2021-10-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringSilicon avalanche photodiodes (Si APDs) are semiconductor p-n junction devices that convert photons into amplified electrical current by enhancing generated charge via avalanche. They are intrinsically immune to magnetic ...
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(2011-12-06)Department: Electrical EngineeringSingle Event Effects (SEE) in combinational logic circuits, caused due radiation particle strikes are a major concern for modern high-speed devices. The frequency dependence of SEE in state-of-the-art 40 nm circuits is ...
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(2013-12-09)Department: Biomedical EngineeringTuberculosis infects one out of three individuals worldwide. In order to control tuberculosis infection, accurate diagnostics are needed at the point-of-care. An ideal point-of-care diagnostic for tuberculosis would include ...
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(2019-09-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringSensitive volumes are useful models for predicting error rates of devices in radiation environments. A heavy ion and pulsed laser induced collected charge sensitive volume is developed for an epitaxial silicon diode from ...
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Comparison of Interfacial Shear Strength measurements for Bonded materials and Composite materials (2008-09-23)Department: Civil EngineeringComposite materials play an important role in today’s engineering structures. These types of materials are made of two or more individual material components with weak interfaces in-between different material types. Since ...
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(2008-07-30)Department: Special EducationThe present study examined the effectiveness and efficiency of two instructional arrangements using the progressive time delay (PTD) procedure with 5 young children with autism. An adapted alternating treatment design was ...