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(NPJ Genomic Medicine, 2019-08-23)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a genetically heterogeneous condition, caused by a combination of rare de novo and inherited variants as well as common variants in at least several hundred genes. However, significantly ...
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(Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019-07)Background. The US National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan depends on additional providers to expand hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment capacity in order to achieve elimination goals. Clinical pharmacists manage treatment and ...
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(2015-07-14)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Cancer PharmacologyEwing sarcoma is the second most common malignant bone tumor of childhood with a poor overall survival rate of 55%. This tumor is dependent on the activity of the oncogenic transcription factor EWS-FLI1 for cell survival. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-12-06)Massive black hole binaries (MBHB) produce gravitational waves (GW) that will be detectable with pulsar timing arrays within the next few years. We determine the properties of the host galaxies of MBHB at the time they are ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Management of TechnologyIndustries plagued by lengthy development times have always resorted to ad hoc resource allocation and expediting in an effort to reduce the development times. Instead of decreasing the time to market, these well meaning ...
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(2018-08-27)Department: ChemistryNatural products remain valuable sources for modern drug discovery, yet natural product discovery is hindered by poor production in lab cultivated organisms and/or poor observability from complex microbial extracts. We ...
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(2015-08-21)Department: NeuroscienceAlzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a progressive and inexorable loss of cognitive function most likely attributable to the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide in the ...
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(2022-02-11)Department: Nursing ScienceBackground: Despite newer research and professional organizational recommendations supporting shared decision-making and vaginal breech birth as a reasonable option for appropriately screened candidates, planned vaginal ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityIn 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education across the country, requiring a quick re-organization of instruction on a large scale and changing the nature of teaching and learning for years to come. In this ...
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(2022-12-12)The purpose of this paper was to determine the following research questions: (1) What are the demographics of TVIs in Tennessee (eg. caseload size, professional setting years from retirement) (2a) What is the average burnout ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2022)At the request of Model University administration, a team of Vanderbilt University EdD students in Higher Education Leadership and Policy investigated the impacts of Model’s Residential Community (RC) system on students ...
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(2007-10-03)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an historical and critical study of sound as spiritual power in Qawwali, the Islamic devotional music of the Chishtiyya Sufi order of South Asia. My intention is to show that music and religion are, ...
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(2022-05)This research study examines the use of experiential learning in accounting education at Jesuit Universities in the United States. As they embark on a major redesign of their accounting curriculum to include more experiential ...
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(2016-11-11)Department: Environmental EngineeringBed load sediment particles move as complex motions over the surface of a stream bed, accelerating and decelerating in response to the near-bed turbulence and due to particle-bed interactions. Detailed measurements of ...
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(2012-07-27)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe mineral zircon (ZrSiO4) is a particularly robust geochronometer and arguably one of the most important minerals available to study the evolution of the Earth’s crust. Despite a high preservation potential, zircon grains ...
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(2017-02-09)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDiffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) techniques have demonstrated the ability to non-invasively assess normal and pathological neural tissue. Recently-developed advanced DWI methods have the potential to provide quantitative ...
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(Scientific Reports, 2019-09-06)The goal of this study is to experimentally and computationally investigate combination trastuzumab-paclitaxel therapies and identify potential synergistic effects due to sequencing of the therapies with in vitro imaging ...
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(2008-04-03)Department: ChemistryThis research project was directed at improving the performance and expanding the application of backscattering interferometry (BSI). It will be shown that several steps, including the implementation of sample and reference ...
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(Seton Hall Law Review, 2008)This article, written for a symposium on "Guilt v. Guiltiness: Are the Right Rules for Trying Factual Innocence Inevitably the Wrong Rules for Trying Culpability?," argues that the definition of expertise in the criminal ...