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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)
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(2013-12-03)Department: PhilosophyThough Deleuze, Derrida, and Badiou each center their ethical thinking on the event, there has been no systematic investigation of the relationships between their work on the subject. After interpreting each thinker ...
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(Bible Review, 1999)
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(2019-07-12)Department: EnglishThis project brings Victorian literature and twentieth-century moral philosophy into conversation to argue that thinking about ethics also implies thinking about subjectivity. The critique of Enlightenment subjectivity as ...
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(Christian Century, 2000)
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(2008-04-21)Department: Political ScienceUsing the Latin American cases of Bolivia and Guatemala, this dissertation has produced findings in four different areas related to the relationship between ethnic identities and national politics: First, the definition ...