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(2018-05-15)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents the design, manufacturing, control, and validation of actuation systems and robotic platforms to deploy the concentric tube robot under magnetic resonance image (MRI) guidance for neurosurgical ...
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(The Green Bag Almanac & Reader, 2009)In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship (11 Green Bag 2d 19 (2007)) we began the study of the collaboration network in legal academia. We concluded that the central figure in the network ...
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(2016-04-09)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyBrown adipose tissue (BAT) known to function in a non-shivering thermogenic capacity, also performs as an endocrine organ, and assists with glucose homeostatsis and insulin sensitivity. Positron emission tomography ...
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(2013-04-11)Department: BiochemistryThe Myeloid Translocation Gene (MTG) family was first discovered through the (8;21) translocation that leads to acute myeloid leukemia by fusing nearly all of Myeloid Translocation Gene 8 (MTG8) to an N-terminal portion ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-29)The Channel Islands have been dogged with accusations of collaboration while other historians have rushed to their defense and sought to contextualize the Islanders actions in ways that emphasized their resistance. However, ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Electrical EngineeringELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Multi -Atlas Guided Automatic Tract Reconstruction of White Matter Fibers Xuan Wang Dissertation under the direction of Professor Bennett A. Landman Tractography based on diffusion MRI (Magnetic ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)This paper studies a bargaining model where n players play a sequence of (n-1) bilateral bargaining sessions. In each bilateral bargaining session, two players follow the same bargaining process as in Rubinstein's (1982). ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)Consider a multilateral bargaining problem where negotiation is conducted by a sequence of bilateral bargaining sessions. We are interested in an environment where bargaining protocols are determined endogenously. During ...
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(2014-04-28)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe ability to generalize information from examples has been the driving force behind decades of statistical modeling and machine learning research. Building on this fundamental concept, this dissertation addresses the ...
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(2012-10-05)Department: Civil EngineeringThe modeling and risk management of fatigue crack growth is a problem of critical importance in any mechanical system. The work presented in this study demonstrates two efficient methods for the modeling of non-planar ...
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(2013-07-31)Department: Electrical EngineeringCyber-Physical Systems pair discrete-event computational components with physical components--like electronic circuits--which are governed by continuous-time dynamics. If we are able to simultaneously model the computational ...
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(2014-04-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringTo apply MWI techniques to excised, fixed rodent brains, multi-exponential T2 (MET2) data were acquired at high (7T) and ultra-high (15.2T) fields with and without tissue doping with Gadolinium to increase SNR efficiency. ...
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(2019-04-02)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation develops a novel approach for fusing information from physics models of different levels of fidelity in the Bayesian estimation of system parameters. In order to balance computational effort and accuracy, ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Health Policy & Health Services ResearchLGBTQ+ (including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other-non heterosexual) middle and older age adults have significantly worse health outcomes than their non-SGM counterparts. This includes higher prevalence ...
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(2003-07-24)Department: Electrical EngineeringOxygen vacancies have long been known to be the dominant intrinsic defect in amorphous SiO2 . They exist, in concentrations dependent on processing conditions, as neutral defects in thermal oxides without usually causing ...
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(2004-04-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe sensory abilities of humanoid robots are progressing every year with the development of advanced and complex sensors. At the same time, humanoid robots are learning to coordinate sensory events in their environments ...
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(2018-11-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe measurement of functional connectivity within the spine based on detecting resting-state fluctuations in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals potentially provides a new tool for assessing spinal cord ...
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(2006-10-17)Department: Computer ScienceAs the multi-robot community strives towards greater autonomy, there is a need for systems that allow robots to autonomously form teams and cooperatively complete assigned missions. The corresponding problem with software ...