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(2022-03-25)Department: PharmacologyAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by neurodegeneration, memory loss and cognitive impairment. Sporadic late-onset AD is the most common form of the disease; it makes up approximately ...
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(2021-05-06)Department: BiostatisticsClinically meaningful variables are increasingly becoming available in observational databases. However, these data can be error-prone, giving misleading results in statistical inference. Data validation can help maintain ...
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(2007-12-05)Department: Biomedical EngineeringRecent years have seen an explosive increase in the use of lasers for medical applications, particularly in the field of dermatology where they are commonly used to achieve aesthetic, surgical, and therapeutic clinical ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Biomedical EngineeringRecent studies have demonstrated that organotypic raft cultures serve as an excellent model for the optical behavior of actual tissues. Other studies in our lab have demonstrated that Raman spectroscopy can discriminate ...
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Using Protein Flexibility to Model Viral Glycoprotein Mutation Tolerances and Sites of Vulnerability (2020-06-16)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyBioinformatic and epitope mapping approaches have been successful, but are reactive, in determining the mutation preferences and commonly targeted B-cell epitopes of viral fusion proteins. The primary motivation of this ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-09-15)This paper investigates the process and benefits of Readers Theater in order to determine its usefulness within a variety of instructional settings. It discusses ways that Readers Theater has been implemented in real ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)Spurred by its successful delivery of credit to poor borrowers in diverse areas of the developing world, joint liability lending has caught the imagination of development theorists and practitioners. Various theories have ...
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(2016-07-08)Department: Special EducationParent-school communication is a highly valued type of involvement for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but parents continue to report poor communication as a barrier to working with the schools ...
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(2021-06-08)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologySignal transduction is the process by which an external signal is transmitted into a cell to induce a cellular response. Cells have evolved robust mechanisms to interpret and respond to these external signals as they modify ...
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(Boston University Law Review, 1997)We propose that plaintiffs in securities fraud actions should use state inspections statutes to obtain discovery about potential securities fraud cases. First, we argue that the Private Securities Law Reform Act has ...
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(2014-07-16)Department: BiostatisticsShotgun proteomics has become a widely used technology for identifying a large number of peptides and proteins in complex biological samples. However, any single score function from most search algorithms to evaluate the ...
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Using Stay-Play-Talk To Increase Levels Of Initiations And Responses For Children With Social Delays (2023)Children with social delays may engage in lower rates of reciprocal peer interactions that can affect social communication development due to the lack of opportunity, deficits in play skills and joint attention. Researchers ...
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(2015-05-27)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe spliceosome is a dynamic macromolecular machine composed of five different small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), the Nineteen Complex (NTC), RNA helicases, and other proteins that catalyze the removal of introns ...
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Using Students' Native Languages in the Classroom: Rationale and Strategies for Monolingual Teachers (Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-03-01)The number of English Language Learners in American public schools is increasing every year, yet these students are not achieving academic or English proficiency as measured by standardized assessments. Researchers have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)In this article, benchmark Taylor rules are obtained as the solution to a dynamic programming problem in which interest rates are chosen to minimize the discounted sum of observed inflation and output variations. The ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-03-04)The Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP) takes the traditional pencil-and-paper geometry class and transforms it into a dynamic learning environment. By using the tool's dragging features, students can observe countless examples of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)
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(2023)Prompting procedures such as Constant Time Delay (CTD) are effective in teaching various skills to young children however there exists limited evidence on the use of time delay procedures to teach children different ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2007-08-24)This project includes research about teaching Shakespearean texts and the implementation of that research in the form of a unit plan for Romeo and Juliet. Several key issues discovered in research and considered in the ...
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Using Virtual Coaching to Teach Caregivers to Support the Play of Their Children with Disabilities (2021-08-12)Department: Special EducationPlay provides a developmentally appropriate context for children to participate in meaningful activities, learn and develop skills across domains, and develop friendships (Barton & Wolery, 2008; Barton et al, 2018; Ginsburg, ...