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(2010-08-06)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe brain is continuously processing many sources of sensory information. One of the key strategies it uses to determine what stimuli are associated with one another is the temporal delay between multisensory inputs. ...
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(2010-08-05)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyMutations in human microcephalin (MCPH1) result in a form of autosomal recessive primary microcephaly, a disorder of fetal brain growth characterized by a severely reduced cerebral cortex and head size with mental retardation. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)Medieval representations of death can illuminate how individuals conceptualised the experience. The poem "A Disputacione Betwyx The Body and Wormes" is a productive lens through which to consider contemporary notions of ...
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(2016-08-24)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation examines the injustices perpetrated against Indigenous people in Canada within the explicit framework of democratic theory. I examine the ability of Deweyan democracy as a purported problem-solving mechanism ...
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(2014-02-21)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation offers ways that the dexterity and guidance associated with image-guided robotic surgery can be delivered without automation. The overall objective is to provide highly capable instruments to surgeons, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-10-02)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-12)Dr. Melanie Swift speaks to Dr. Tom Elasy about Reducing Diabetes Risk
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-12-10)In the second of a two part series, Dr. Swift, the Medical Director of Occupational Health, speaks with Dr. Tom Elasy, Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Eskind Diabetes Center to how individuals can reduce their risk of ...
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(Vanderbilt Medical Center, 2010-04-09)
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(2013-04-17)Department: FrenchThis dissertation focuses on the representations of the human body in versions of the Histoires tragiques written between 1559 and 1648 by Pierre Boaistuau, François de Rosset, and Jean-Pierre Camus. Within the framework ...
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(Routledge, 2018)
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(2021-05-01)Department: PsychologyBackground: The genetic mechanisms associated with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) are often used to study biological models of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Data are limited, however, on the rates and characteristics of ...
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Diagnosing Serial and Parallel Processing of Cues and Targets in the Explicit Task-Cuing Procedure (2007-07-18)Department: PsychologyThe current studies used the explicit task cuing procedure in which subjects performed parity and magnitude judgments on target number words as indicated by a cue word that appeared on each trial. In two task switching ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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(1860-01-01)
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(2011-04-08)Department: PsychologyToddlers and young preschoolers rapidly learn new information from social partners around them. However, they do not learn efficiently from people who appear on video (Anderson & Pempek, 2005). Dialogic reading, a ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: ReligionA critical field of memoirs that has not had the mainstream academic or popular attention afforded to many environmental narratives is the hunting memoir. Hunting is a well-established cultural icon among more conservative ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Divinity School, 2012-07-20)
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(Global Health Action, 2019-01)The emigration of physicians and scientists from resource-constrained countries decreases the country's ability to undertake research. Re-establishing research environments and increasing capacity reduced by these losses ...
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(2016-04-04)Department: ReligionDiaspora is a term applied varyingly in the Humanities and Social Sciences to individuals, communities, spaces and historical events. Jewish history and experience were formative in popularizing and expanding the nomenclature ...