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(Journal of Patient Experience, 2019-06)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-13)Current education practice puts little focus on conflict resolution strategies. This essay argues that, in light of the inevitability of conflict both in the classroom and in our society, teachers must teach students how ...
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(Atmosphere, 2019-07)Household air pollution (HAP) is of public health concern, with 3 billion people worldwide (including >15 million in the US) exposed. HAP from coal use is a human lung carcinogen, yet the epidemiological evidence on ...
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Estimates of the Prevalence of Speech and Motor Speech Disorders in Adolescents with Down syndrome (CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS, 2019-08)Although there is substantial rationale for a motor component in the speech of persons with Down syndrome (DS), there presently are no published estimates of the prevalence of subtypes of motor speech disorders in DS. The ...
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(Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2008)We estimate rates of time preference using a utility-based choice experiment administered to a nationally representative sample of 2,914 respondents. For the full sample, the rate of time preference is very high for ...
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(2020-06-05)Department: BiostatisticsMany scientific questions focus on estimating the correlation between two variables. When the two variables are times to events, one or both of the variables may be censored. For example, when estimating the correlation ...
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(Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 2019-09)Background: Patients with gastrointestinal cancers and brain metastases (BM) represent a unique and heterogeneous population. Our group previously published the Diagnosis-Specific Graded Prognostic Assessment (DS-GPA) for ...
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(Clinincal Epidemiology, 2020)Purpose: Mortality among first-year hemodialysis (HD) patients remains unacceptably high. To address this problem, we estimate the proportions of early HD deaths that are potentially preventable by modifying known risk ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2004)Recently Chen and Fan (2003a) introduced a new class of semiparametric copula-based multivariate dynamic (SCOMDY) models. A SCOMDY model specifies the conditional mean and the conditional variance of a multivariate time ...
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(2022-11-19)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe overarching goal of this dissertation is to improve robotic, minimally invasive surgery with image guidance and advanced sensing techniques. Both of these approaches can provide valuable information to a surgeon to ...
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(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998)Using survey data on consumer product purchases, this paper introduces an approach to estimate jointly individual utility functions and risk perceptions implied by their decisions. The behavioral risk beliefs reflected in ...
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(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)Abstract-Surveys of individual's risk-dollar tradeoffs illuminate not only the local tradeoff rates but also can be used to address more fundamental questions about the structure of utility functions. This largely unexplored ...
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Estimation, Control and Modeling of Steerable Needles for Transendoscopic Deployment into the Lung (2022-11-16)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation focuses on the use of estimation and modeling methods to control ultra-flexible needles deployed through endoscopes for the purposes of targeting nodules in the periphery of the lung. We develop estimation ...
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(2019-08-20)Department: EpidemiologyOne of the well-established risk factors for breast cancer (BC) is high level of endogenous estrogen, which could be influenced by both genetic and non-genetic factors. Few studies have investigated estrogen related ...
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(2020-11-18)Department: Cancer BiologyThe American Cancer Society estimates that over 250,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States. Subtyping breast cancer and the identification of targeted therapies have greatly ...
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(2018-11-21)Department: BiochemistryThe ATR kinase controls cell cycle transitions and the DNA damage response. Budding yeast contain three activators of Mec1ATR; however, only TOPBP1 is known to activate ATR in vertebrates. We identified ETAA1 as a replication ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-10-01)
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(Genome Research, 2011)In 2007, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) established the Electronic MEdical Records and GEnomics (eMERGE) Consortium (www.gwas.net) to develop, disseminate, and apply approaches to research that ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)