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(2012-07-23)Department: ChemistryProgress toward the total synthesis of marineosins A and B, prodigiosin-like alkaloids with novel spiroiminal centers, is described. The synthesis of the proposed biosynthetic precursor was completed and the viability of ...
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(2015-12-22)Department: ChemistryUpenamide is a marine alkaloid natural product isolated in 2000 from the marine sponge Echinochalina sp. Protolithospongia. Spectral analysis of the marine alkaloid by the Scheuer group determined the structure upenamide ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008-04)While this project did not successfully produce a working photovoltaic device, significant progress has been made in the individual components of the system. This thesis describes two of those components: fabrication of ...
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(2007-08-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn this thesis, firstly a real-time gait intent recognition approach for use in controlling a fully powered transfemoral prosthesis is described. Rather than utilize an “echo control” as proposed by others, which requires ...
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(2010-04-12)Department: ChemistryThis thesis covers the work done in our lab towards the synthesis of two unique natural products. The first project is the work towards Baumycin in an attempt to elucidate some structural information. We have worked on ...
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(2012-07-27)Department: ChemistryMitomycin C is a clinically used antitumor natural product isolated from <i>Streptomyces caespitosus</i>. The biological activity and synthetic challenge of mitomycin C has generated broad interest in its chemical synthesis. ...
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(FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE, 2019-07-11)Indirect traumatic optic neuropathy (ITON) is a condition that is often associated with traumatic brain injury and can result in significant vision loss due to degeneration of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons at the time ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Special EducationChildren’s behavior can be influenced by several dimensions of reinforcement. However, assessments used to inform behavioral interventions often focus on reinforcer quality, rather than response effort, reinforcement rate, ...
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(Stanford Law Review, 1995)Robin West has written a book that every constitutional scholar would like to like. In Progressive Constitutionalism, she promises us a new and historically accurate interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment that will ...
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(2012-04-11)Department: HistoryI am submitting two theses. "Progressive Scientism" provides an intellectual biography of labor economist Paul Schuster Taylor, author of one of the first studies of Mexican life and labor in the United States. I examine ...
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(2021-11-19)Department: Computer ScienceAccurate Multivariate Time Series (MTS) prediction supports a multitude of decision making tasks that impact our daily lives. However, current auto-regression-based approaches and deep learning models cannot deal with MTS ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-08-30)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-03)For my capstone experience, I designed a project-based learning (PBL) unit for implementation as an after-school enrichment program in an urban, low-income girls’ public school in Karachi, Pakistan, specifically, Government ...
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(JAMA Network Open, 2019-06)IMPORTANCE Implementation of pharmacogenetic testing to guide drug prescribing has potential to improve drug response and prevent adverse events. Robust data exist for more than 30 gene-drug pairs linking genotype to drug ...
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(Cancer Contol, 2019-07-22)The population size and projected demographics of Vietnam's 2 largest cities, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and Hanoi, will change dramatically over the next decade. Demographic changes in an aging population coupled with income ...
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(Lockwood Press, 2013)Professor Sasson inspects "versions of the prologues to the Gilgamesh Epic (GE), thereby hoping to uncover their foundation, report on their secrets, and experience their meaning over time."
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(Earths Future, 2019-09)Food, energy, and water (FEW) are primary resources required for human populations and ecosystems. Availability of the raw resources is essential, but equally important are the services that deliver resources to human ...