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(2004-12-03)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThis dissertation covers research regarding the use of laser range scanning (LRS) during neurosurgery. Impetus for this work stems from the desire to provide relevant intraoperative data regarding the position and motion ...
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(2013-09-30)Department: NeuroscienceObesity and obesity-associated disease together are a leading cause of death worldwide. Recent research demonstrates striking similarities between obesity and addiction in their dysregulation of brain dopamine systems. ...
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(2010-03-31)Department: PharmacologyStriatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs) receive glutamatergic afferents from the cerebral cortex that synapse onto the spine head and dopaminergic inputs from the substantia nigra which synapse onto the necks of dendritic ...
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(Value in Health, 2020-01)Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of multigene testing (CYP2C19, SLCO1B1, CYP2C9, VKORC1) compared with singlegene testing (CYP2C19) and standard of care (no genotyping) in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients ...
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(BJPsych Open, 2019-01)Background As depression has a recurrent course, relapse and recurrence prevention is essential. Aims In our randomised controlled trial (registered with the Nederlands trial register, identifier: NTR1907), we ...
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(2013-07-02)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation is a grounded theoretical analysis and design study of adults and youth counter-mapping their neighborhoods. Counter-mapping involves residents making claims to resources for the future by leveraging the ...
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(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)The real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism--it's nationalist oligarchy. Here's how American foreign policy should change.
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(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)The challenge we face today is not one of authoritarianism, as so many seem inclined to believe, but of nationalist oligarchy. This form of government feeds populism to the people, delivers special privileges to the rich ...
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(Harvard Law Review, 2008)Few think of counterinsurgency as linked to constitutional design. Counterinsurgency is bottom-up; constitutional design is top-down. Counterinsurgency is military; constitutional design is political-legal. Counterinsurgency ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2009)Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military strategists, historians, soldiers, and policymakers have made counterinsurgency's principles and paradoxes second nature, and they now expect that counterinsurgency operations ...
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(iScience, 2020-01-24)We investigated whether a task requiring concurrent perceptual decision-making and response control can be performed concurrently, whether evidence accumulation and response control are accomplished by the same neurons, ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyOver the past century, grief has transformed from a necessarily non-pathological experience into an object of psy-discipline expertise to be clinically defined, tracked, diagnosed, and treated. Even as care for the painful ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2006-05-25)
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(2007-07-31)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceSemi-classical transport models based on Boltzmann and Fermi-Dirac statistics have been very effective in identifying the pertinent physical parameters responsible for thermoelectric performance in bulk materials. Reliance ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: PhysicsI present proof-of-principle applications of time-dependent coupled-cluster theory in the framework of nuclear physics, demonstrating that both energy and observables that commute with the Hamiltonian are conserved within ...
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(2019-07-23)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThis dissertation explores the paleoecology of mammalian communities in North America at different spatial and temporal scales. Paleoecology uses the fossil record as a tool to develop and test models of species’ response ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2002-04-04)
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(Homiletic, 2000)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Cournot's 1838 model of strategic interaction between competing firms has become the primary workhorse for the analysis of imperfect competition, and shows up in a variety of fields, notably industrial organization and ...