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Machine Learning Based Prediction and Classification of Properties of Engineered Composite Materials (2020-04-03)Department: Civil EngineeringIn an engineered composite material, the behavior of different phases and their interactions determine the response of the material as a whole. Data-driven machine learning techniques have emerged as a promising tool for ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: Computer ScienceClonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) is characterized by genetic mutations within blood-forming stem cells, leading to the emergence of mutated blood cell populations. Associated with elevated risks of ...
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(2019-03-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringCochlear Implants (CIs) are neural prosthetics that are used to treat patients with profound hearing loss. In surgery, an electrode array is threaded into the cochlea. Post-operatively, the CI needs to be programmed. In ...
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(2021-08-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis dissertation introduces several innovative machine learning-based techniques for medical image registration and segmentation and a technique for patient-customized placement of cochlear implant electrodes. We have ...
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(2016-09-15)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neuro-developmental disorder with a high prevalence rate of 1 in 68 children in the U.S. Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) is being continuously explored as a potential efficacious ...
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(2022-06-20)Department: Biological SciencesRare genetic diseases affect more than 300 million people around the world; however, the causative genes and variants have not been identified for most. The Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) was established to help elucidate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-10-07)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-10-22)
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(2012-04-10)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesRace to the Top is a new policy lever in the struggle for authority in educational governance among various levels of government, and it provides an opportunity to examine the state-level policymaking context. Tennessee ...
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(Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2010)Drawing on the recent financial crisis, we introduce the concept of macro-risk. We distinguish between micro-risks, which can be managed within conventional economic frameworks, and macro-risks, which threaten to disrupt ...
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(2015-07-16)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsReduced pancreatic β cell mass is a hallmark of diabetes, which makes the ability to increase or restore β cell mass a major therapeutic goal. While testing the hypothesis that increased endothelial cell signaling would ...
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(2007-12-13)Department: SpanishThis study examines the comic vision of Miguel de Cervantes as manifested in his masterpiece, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Employing theories stemming principally from Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Foucault, I look at how Cervantes ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-11-19)
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Magical Objects in Victorian Literature: Enchantment, Narrative Imagination, and the Power of Things (2015-07-27)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the representation of magical objects in Victorian literature. The Victorian period is often characterized as a time of increased secularity. Scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists in the ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...