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(2018-08-27)Department: PsychologyMediation analysis is an increasingly popular statistical method in the social sciences. However, currently available effect size measures for mediation have substantial limitations. In particular, complex mediation models ...
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(2011-08-01)Department: Computer ScienceThis thesis introduces graph class C, a recognition algorithm for graphs in the class, and shows that some problems are NP-complete on the class. Class C is a generalization of chordal graphs. Informally, a graph is in ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: MathematicsThis thesis introduces and studies a natural generalization of the distortion function that applies to not necessarily finitely generated subgroups of finitely generated groups. We begin by computing this function in several ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: MathematicsThis thesis introduces and studies a natural generalization of the distortion function that applies to not necessarily finitely generated subgroups of finitely generated groups. We begin by computing this function in several ...
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(2009-08-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringA reliability concern of growing interest in the microelectronics community is the deleterious effect of ionizing radiation. The so-called "single events" – single particles which can penetrate semiconductor material ...
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(2012-08-13)Department: Computer ScienceAs the complexity of software systems rises, designers are often faced with the challenge of identifying potential design solutions from a large space of possible design alternatives before the actual implementation. Design ...
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(2013-09-30)Department: Teaching and LearningIn this dissertation, I drew on analytical frames found in genre theory to examine digital storytelling as a cultural practice with historically developed genre features, practices, and structures. A central concern was ...
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(2014-07-30)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation proposes a graphical analysis and presentation system for fitting, evaluating, and reporting longitudinal models in social sciences. The graphical innovations demonstrated here address practical issues ...
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(2009-04-08)Department: Community Research and ActionMuch ink has been spilled over the question of whether or not there is a “culture war” going on in the United States between religious conservatives and liberals (Hunter, 1991). This thesis examines the possibility of ...
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(2012-04-19)Department: SociologySOCIOLOGY “A HEADSCARF AMONG THE TURBANS”: HOW POLICY ENTREPRENEURS OPTIMIZE FOCUSING EVENTS SANDRA C. ARCH Thesis under the direction of Holly J. McCammon In their Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report), the ...
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(2023-10-16)Department: Computer ScienceThe use of autonomous systems such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in civilian and military operations has drastically increased over the last 10 years, requiring significant advances in health management technologies ...
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(2023-05-03)Department: PsychologySchizophrenia is a severe mental illness that was first characterized by disruption in one’s sense of core self, including disrupted embodiment. A sense that the self is embodied (i.e., contained within the physical ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe state of Meghalaya in NE India is a vibrant landscape where people’s livelihoods are intimately tied to the regional geology and seasonal climate. The climate of Meghalaya is defined by the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM), ...
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(2014-06-27)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe use of immersed-boundary methods to solve complex/moving-boundary flow problems, especially those in biofluid dynamics, has been popular in recent years. Such methods typically employ a stationary structured grid, e.g., ...
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(2019-07-25)Department: AstrophysicsThe Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) is an ongoing, wide-field, all-sky, time-domain photometric survey built to discover new transiting extrasolar planets of high scientific value orbiting bright host stars. ...
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(2015-03-26)Department: PhysicsNuclear Breast Imaging (NBI) addresses the need for improved screening and diagnostic imaging to better identify disease in women with mammographically dense breast tissue. High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) cameras are an ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyIn 2020 the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Racial Equity Task Force was created in order to dismantle structural racism and grapple with the institution’s historical injustices that were brought to the forefront ...
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(2024-03-08)Department: Computer ScienceComputational risk detection holds promise for shielding particularly vulnerable groups from online harm. A thorough literature review on real-time computational risk detection methods revealed that most research defined ...
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(2022-10-03)Department: Civil EngineeringClimate change is creating more frequent and more severe weather events across the world and the reality is that this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. As a result, society must prepare for these impacts and ...
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(2009-03-12)Department: Human GeneticsEvaluating epistasis in whole-genome association studies is an important challenge in human genetics, as many common diseases are thought to have complex underlying genetic architectures that include small independent ...