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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which ...
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(2023-11-15)Department: Biological SciencesCircadian clocks are intrinsic biological timers with a period of about 24 hours that can be synchronized to the environmental daily cycle and allow for prediction and anticipation of important cyclic events. These clocks ...
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(2011-04-14)Department: Electrical EngineeringPower is a critical issue in digital system design, especially with the emphasis on the portability of electronic devices. However, decreasing power does not necessarily lead to energy efficiency; designers need to consider ...
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(2022-11-14)Department: PsychologyJust as the perception of simple events such as clapping hands requires a linkage of sound with the movements that produce the sound, the integration of more complex events such as describing how to give an injection often ...
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(2021-02-12)Department: BiochemistryHuman cells are constantly exposed to endogenous and exogenous sources of DNA damage that cause thousands of DNA lesions in each cell every day. Accurate repair of these lesions ensures maintenance of genome stability and ...
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(2009-10-15)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe objective of this dissertation is to understand the circumstances under which non-experimental methods yield unbiased estimates of the effect of magnet school attendance on student achievement. This dissertation has ...
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(2014-09-22)Department: Biological SciencesThis research utilizes aphids to address some of the emerging themes in social evolution. To begin to address these themes, I identified traits to measure sociality in aphids. I found that for the ecological and behavioural ...
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(2004-06-15)Department: PsychologyStudies show that children with autism demonstrate impairments in their emotion-expression abilities. In the current study, one aspect of emotion-related expression was examined in these children: the production of laughter. ...
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(2005-04-21)Department: Management of TechnologyThe Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified error reporting systems as important components of patient safety improvement. Medical error reporting systems historically has been accomplished by disparate paper based ...
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(2017-06-20)Department: BiostatisticsOncology phase II clinical trials are used to evaluate the initial effect of a new regimen to determine if there warrants further study in a phase III clinical trial. Two-stage designs with an early futility stop are ...
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(2009-07-28)Department: Biomedical InformaticsUse of Bayesian networks (BN) has increased in medicine. Traditionally, BNs have been developed by experts or from the current literature. Several applications implement "off the shelf" BN structure learning algorithms, ...
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(2019-10-15)Department: PsychologyCorrelations and correlation matrices are common in quantitative research. As researchers move away from p-values to reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals, appropriate confidence interval techniques for multiple, ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Special EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION A COMPARISON OF DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT AND PROGRESS MONITORING IN THE PREDICTION OF READING ACHIEVEMENT FOR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE ERIN CAFFREY Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyEmotion differentiation is emerging as a focus in emotion research due to its potential for enhancing regulation strategies, social functioning, and other valuable life outcomes. These studies aim to explore whether the ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is a method that can be used to quantitatively and qualitatively assess physiological characteristics of tissue. Quantitative DCE-MRI requires an estimate of ...
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(2018-08-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Communication Disorders and Neurodevelopmental DisabilitiesThis study investigated the extent to which parental language input to children with hearing loss (HL) differs from input to children with typical hearing (TH). A 20-minute parent-child interaction sample was collected for ...
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(2005-12-19)Department: Biomedical InformaticsIn biomedical and biological domains, researchers typically study continuous data sets. In these domains, an increasingly popular tool for understanding the relationship between variables is Bayesian network structure ...
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(2009-07-20)Department: Special EducationStudents at risk for developing externalizing behavior disorders (EBD) are among the most challenging students to teach. The combination of instructional and behavioral demands that students at risk for EBD place on their ...
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(2017-03-01)Department: Environmental EngineeringThe environment, health, and safety properties of thorium-uranium-based (“thorium”) fuel cycles are estimated and compared to those of analogous uranium-plutonium-based (“uranium”) fuel cycle options using a structured ...
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(2015-07-15)Department: Special EducationVideo modeling (VM) is an evidence-based intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this study was to analyze the relative effect of video modeling with versus without play narrations for ...