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(2013-01-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringAvionics systems play a critical role in many aspects of aircraft flight control. As the complexity of these systems increase, the chances of in-flight malfunctions are also likely to increase. This drives the need for ...
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(2017-08-07)Department: English“Never give up your lands you now possess, for it is your right by God and nature, for the ‘earth was given to the children of men.’” Quoting Psalm 115-16, the Jamaican preacher Robert Wedderburn announces a political order ...
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A Piezoelectric Ink Jet Printing Platform to Engineer Microparticles for Drug Delivery Applications (2018-07-18)Department: Chemical EngineeringMicroparticles are widely researched for use as drug delivery vehicles for numerous applications due to their ability to eliminate side effects and decrease dose frequency. However, there lacks a comprehensive technology ...
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(2015-05-13)Department: ReligionI propose that five socio-ecclesial codes as an integrative homiletic-hermeneutic are essential in rendering Asian/Korean American diasporic Protestant preaching culturally relevant, theologically rich, and communicatively ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: BiostatisticsIn the field of high-throughput drug screening, particularly in relation to drug combinations, synergy scores have traditionally dominated as the most used method to determine the efficacy of drug pairs. However, for ...
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(2018-08-17)Department: HistoryUtilizing aspects of social, cultural, political, military and environmental history, this dissertation details the cycles of possession and dispossession of the lands of the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. It ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a study of the pneumatologies of Augustine and Karl Barth, and argues that pneumatology is the performative discourse of participation in Jesus Christ. I claim that for both theologians trinitarian ...
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(2013-07-31)Department: Biomedical EngineeringPoint-of-care diagnostics suitable for the resource-limited environment should be low-cost and simple-to-use while maintaining a clinically meaningful performance capability. This thesis explores harnessing the hydrodynamics ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: PhilosophyMy thesis aims to defend Wittgenstein’s concept of the “ordinary” as a unique conception of “home” which can model a form of political subjectivity crucial for our complex form of contemporary life. I use the term of the ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Man: Vladimir Nabokov and the Scandal of Posthumous Publication (2014-07-15)Department: EnglishIn 2009, the text that would have been Vladimir Nabokov’s final novel, The Original of Laura, was published against the late author’s explicit instructions. Although the controversy surrounding Laura’s publication ostensibly ...
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(2009-05-01)Department: ReligionThe focus of this dissertation is Michelangelo’s late-life development in his art and his life. While the recent decades in religion and personality have included more work on gender and ethnicity, there remains relatively ...
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(2012-03-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis thesis presents the design, implementation and testing of a lower limb exoskeleton that allows paraplegic patients to stand and walk. The device is supplemented with functional electrical stimulation (FES) at the ...
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(2009-07-25)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe human leg serves as the primary mechanism to provide locomotion and general mobility, both of which require significant power generation at the joints. Today, commercial lower limb prostheses are generally passive ...
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(2018-03-23)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) permits Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce reimbursement to hospitals with excess 30-day unplanned readmissions. Diabetes disproportionately impacts ...
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(2007-08-03)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThis Masters Thesis project had as its objectives: (1) to provide Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH) with computerized tools for monitoring microbiological data; (2) to provide the VUH Infection Control Service with tools ...
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(2022-11-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringReplication of healthy knee behavior after amputation requires prosthetic knees to provide active and resistive stance behaviors, as well as ballistic and non-ballistic swing behaviors. Current state-of-the-art prosthetic ...
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(2014-07-30)Department: Biomedical InformaticsProcess mining corresponds to a collection of methodologies designed to extract knowledge from event logs (e.g., time-stamped events) and provide a description about the underlying processes of a system. Various approaches ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: Computer ScienceAs a parallel data processing framework, MapReduce has been proved to be one of the most popular topics in the age of Cloud Computing since it was firstly proposed by Google. Despite its advantages such as scalability, ...
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(2022-08)This capstone project is a program evaluation of a peer tutoring and mentoring program that targets mathematics courses offered at a community college located in Northwest Florida. Social constructivist understandings of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)The paper argues that multiple equilibria-whether non-stationary or stationary- are a generic property of dynamic rational expectations models. In light of this, this paper proposes a selection criterion for choosing between ...