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(2012-08-06)Department: Electrical EngineeringCancers in the head and neck region account for approximately 3 percent of all cancers in the United States, as it is reported by the American Cancer Society. Depending on the location and stage of the cancers, surgery, ...
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(2016-01-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe human abdomen is an essential, yet complex body space clinically. Computational tomography (CT) scans are routinely taken for the diagnosis and prognosis of abdomen-related diseases, such as the pathological injuries ...
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(2018-04-23)Department: Electrical EngineeringCochlear Implants (CIs) are neural prosthetic devices that provide a sense of sound to people who experience severe to profound hearing loss. Recent studies have demonstrated a correlation between hearing outcomes and the ...
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(2015-03-20)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesDue to the climate effects and aviation threats of volcanic eruptions, it is important to accurately locate ash in the atmosphere. This study aims to explore the accuracy and reliability of training a neural network to ...
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(2010-04-26)Department: PsychologyWhat is the consequence of calling objects by their names? Lupyan (2008) suggests that overtly naming objects at the basic-level impairs subsequent recognition memory because naming shifts the memory representation towards ...
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(2007-04-17)Department: Computer ScienceDistributed computing infrastructures, such as middleware and virtual machines, are designed to be highly flexible and feature-rich to support a wide range of applications and product lines in multiple domains. Applications ...
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(Southern Economic Journal, 2007)This article uses several within-sample tests to assess whether current seatbelt usage decisions are consistent with the stated preferences of survey respondents. The expressed survey values of statistical life are positively ...
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(2009-04-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringRecent goals in space missions require innovative technologies to develop and to build infrastructure for space exploration. NASA plans to have robots construct modular systems and habitats and prepare them for life support ...
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(2019-03-26)Department: Computer ScienceAutonomous driving has the potential not only to transform people's lives, but also save them. Fully understanding state of the art autonomous driving architectures, however, requires a wide breadth of knowledge on available ...
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(2006-10-09)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologySelf-reactive B lymphocytes are frequently produced as a consequence of B cell antigen receptor rearrangement. Autoreactive B cells that are not eliminated or inactivated by tolerance mechanisms survive and mature in the ...
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(2005-12-16)Department: PharmacologyADAR2 is a double-stranded RNA-specific adenosine deaminase involved in the editing of mammalian RNAs by the site-selective conversion of adenosine to inosine. Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-04-30)The 1998 discovery that the universe was accelerating in its expansion has yet to be explained theoretically, meriting the continual theoretical and observational study of this phenomena. In this thesis, we undergo a ...
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(Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2015)This essay refocuses the debate over autonomous weapons systems to consider the potentially salutary effects of the evolving technology. Law does not exist in a vacuum and cannot evolve in the abstract. Jus in bello norms ...
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(Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1988)If the sole object of our tax law is certainty, then the quest for a bright-line, mechanical test would appear to be justified. Fairness, however, is an equally important objective. If fairness is sacrificed in our rush ...
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(Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2015)This essay refocuses the debate over autonomous weapons systems to consider the potentially salutary effects of the evolving technology. Law does not exist in a vacuum and cannot evolve in the abstract. Jus in bello norms ...
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(2012-12-12)Department: PsychologyCardiovascular responses to acute stress have been examined for mediation and moderation of the stress-illness relation, but few studies of functional abdominal pain (FAP) have evaluated cardiovascular responses with none ...
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The "Background Principles" of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services--Did Lucas Open Pandora's Box? (Land Use & Environmental Law, 2007)In his majority opinion in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, Justice Scalia established the relevant background principles of state property law as the reference point for testing whether public regulation or private ...
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(Ecology Law Quarterly, 2010)One of the principal, if unexpected, results of the Supreme Court's 1992 decision in "Lucas v. South Carolina" Coastal Commission is the rise of background principles of property and nuisance law as a categorical defense ...