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(2018-09-25)Department: Mechanical EngineeringDescribed herein are rehabilitative intervention methods that: 1) enable paraplegics to ascend and descend stairs with a lower limb exoskeleton; 2) enhance exoskeleton assisted walking with supplemental FES to overcome ...
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(2015-04-14)Department: Mechanical EngineeringPhysiologic control of purposeful movement requires continuous interactions between the sensory and motor systems. When physiological control loops are disrupted, as is the case in individuals with limb amputations or ...
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(2017-08-24)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents the motivation, development, and evaluation of controllers for powered lower limb prostheses. This document contains five chapters, three of which discuss individual contributions. Chapter I ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-09-24)A great deal is being presented and published on control of blood sugar in the ICU as well as the postoperative period. How much control is enough and what is the data?
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(2006-09-18)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents three control methodologies for pneumatic applications in both free space and constrained environment with system and environmental uncertainties. First, a model reference adaptive controller ...
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(2020-02-17)Department: Biological SciencesIn the nervous system, Wnts act as potent regulators of synaptic connectivity, architecture, neurotransmission strength and activity-dependent plasticity. As the founding Wnt, Drosophila Wingless (Wg) has key roles at the ...
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(2013-04-18)Department: Mechanical EngineeringNew surgical paradigms such as natural orifice surgery and single port access surgery present technological challenges such as indirect routes of access, constrained workspace, sensory presence, higher degrees of freedom ...
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(2016-09-12)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceNanomaterials have enabled significant breakthroughs in energy storage capabilities. In particular, the use of nanoscale components in lithium-sulfur and lithium-oxygen batteries have generated energy densities 2-3x greater ...
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(2011-04-27)Department: Chemical EngineeringHigh performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has become an essential tool in biotechnology. Numerous proteins have been separated by HPLC for analytical and preparative separation purposes. The main challenge in protein ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe origins of gravel bearing sediments in the upper Holocene stratigraphy of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River in northern Bangladesh are explored in this thesis through sediment geochemistry analyses and characterization of ...
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(2021-04)This study surveys clinicians’ hypothyroidism diagnosis and treatment practices and their opinions on current diagnostic standards. By distributing a redcap survey, the study ascertained whether practicing clinicians ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Graduate School, 2009-03-30)Nanofluids are solutions of a small fraction of suspended nanoparticles in a bulk fluid. Nanofluids have shown great promise as heat transfer fluids over typically used bulk fluids and fluids with micron sized particles. ...
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(Homiletic, 1997)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-10-21)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-03-03)
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(2017-08-14)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSome works of fiction by Puerto Rican authors present characters that have one surprising characteristic in common: a void of individuality. What would constitute the core of these personae has been displaced to the point ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-08-21)