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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 ...
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(2005-07-23)Department: Biomedical InformaticsTrait heterogeneity, which exists when a trait has been defined with insufficient specificity such that it is actually two or more distinct traits, has been implicated as a confounding factor in traditional statistical ...
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(2014-03-29)Department: Special EducationThe association made between the meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of a word has been shown to help children remember the meanings of words. The present study addressed whether the presence of a target word in braille ...
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(Neurobiology of Disease, 2020-02)Over 1250 mutations in SCN1A, the Navl.1 voltage-gated sodium channel gene, are associated with seizure disorders including GEES +. To evaluate how a specific mutation, independent of genetic background, causes seizure ...
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(2009-04-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its sensitivity to a wide array of contrast mechanisms in soft tissue. Unfortunately, the physiological and/or microanatomical characteristics that give rise to this contrast ...
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(2016-07-14)Department: Political ScienceMy dissertation uses several different methods to examine the role of compassion in politics, both at the citizen and elite level. I explore elite appeals to compassion through a content analysis of a selection of ...
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(The American Economic Review, 1998)Women have largely been excluded from analyses of compensating differentials for job risk since they are predominantly employed in safer, white-collar occupations. New data reveal that their injury experience is considerable. ...