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(2011-04-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis dissertation presents studies on, and from, the development of algorithms for the automatic segmentation of the structures of the ear. Many otological procedures would benefit from a system that automatically identifies ...
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(2006-06-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe procedure currently used for cochlear implantation can be improved with the aid of techniques developed in medical imaging. A suitable path accessing the cochlea can be determined before the operation by locating a ...
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(2005-04-21)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn the past few decades unprecedented advances have been made in the field of medical imaging. Various imaging technologies such as Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, etc. have emerged to assist the visualization ...
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(2014-03-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringA cochlear implant (CI) is a neural prosthetic device that restores hearing by directly stimulating the auditory nerve using an electrode array surgically placed in the cochlea. Conventional CI implantation techniques ...
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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 ...