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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 ...
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Explainable AI in Medical Imaging: Interpreting Multi-Modality Inference with Neuroimaging and EHR (2022-11-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringMedical image processing is the art and science of extracting clinically meaningful information from medical images. One exciting facet of this field is multi-modal modeling: combining various sources of medical data into ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)If we look at convergence through the lens of the Risk Adjustment Theory, then international pay convergence will only occur if U.S. and foreign CEOs' firm-specific risk levels converge. Empirically, this is a difficult ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)Wright (1990) presents evidence on the factor content of trade that indicates the United States tended to export goods that were raw materials intensive. Using factor per unit of output ratios derived from the United States ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)On average, more than a quarter of all entering first-time, full-time students do not return to their institution for a second year. One in five fail to persist at all. Yet, “of the 45 percent of students who start college ...
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 2018)In recent decades, legal scholars have advanced sophisticated models for understanding prejudice and discrimination, drawing on disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and economics. These models explain how inequality ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)"Most-favored-nation" (hereafter, MFN) clauses have been used in analyses of international trade, durable goods monopoly pricing, and franchise contracting to address a repeat player's time-inconsistency problem. Recent ...
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(2006-04-24)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents the research on four advanced topics concerning the pneumatic servo-actuation through multi-input control. The first topic is Nonlinear Model Based Pulse Width Modulated Control of Pneumatic Servo ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: Mechanical EngineeringShoulder and back pain are two of the most common work-related injuries in the world. Many occupations require hours of continuous and prolonged leaning, bending over, stooping, and reaching. This leaves workers with ...
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(2019-04-11)Department: NeuroscienceThe pulvinar is the largest thalamic subdivision in primates and has deep integration with cortical areas involved with visual perception. Unlike the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), which acts as the primary relay in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-04)Independent schools are private schools not dependent upon any outside organization for governance or financing. They are truly independent with regard to operations and finances, and they follow a mission that drives ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-05)This exploratory study of Greek life was conducted in response to a request by Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where administrators are interested in learning more about fraternity and sorority life at the College. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-05-20)Stacey Kendrick talks with Kelly Stewart, from Nashville Hiking Meetup about opportunities for group hiking and some of the active pleasures that can be found from hiking.
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(2022-05)Hausmann et al. (2007) define a sense of belonging as "the psychological sense that one is a valued member of the college community" (p. 804). This definition suggests that students who feel welcomed and supported on campus ...