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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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(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 ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: <Major>Congenital heart defects affect 40,000 US births per year, half of which require surgical intervention. Individual differences in surgical outcomes including mortality and complications are not well understood but may be ...
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(2020-03-26)Department: PhysicsAs demand for technology with more power in smaller form factors continues to rise, meta-optics provide a unique solution for ultra-compact and customizable performance where naturally occurring materials cannot. In order ...
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(2014-06-23)Department: Environmental EngineeringArid adapted taxa have evolved to live in some of the harshest environments on Earth, yet the adaptations that allowed them to transition from mesic to arid landscapes is poorly understood. Members of Camelidae (camels, ...
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(2013-09-23)Department: Cancer BiologyInflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which affects 1 in 600 Americans, is characterized by severe and chronic inflammation, a known contributor to cancer. As such, the risk for cancer is increased in patients with IBD compared ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...