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(2011-12-10)Department: PhysicsThis work explores the complex plasmonic phenomena generated by Archimedean nanospirals. Arrays of gold nanospirals are fabricated with varying arm spacings and arm widths, as well as winding numbers ranging from 2 to 4π, ...
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(2009-09-21)Department: ReligionThis study employs qualitative methods to describe black South African women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS in two Pentecostal church communities. It analyzes beliefs and practices, connecting gender roles and divine healing ...
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(2013-10-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which preschool teachers use complex syntax in their verbal interactions with preschool children. Of interest was whether the amount of complex syntax preschool teachers ...
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(2021-06-08)Department: MathematicsWhile close connections between recursively bounded $\mathrm{DNR}$ sequences and complex sequences have been well-documented, explicit bounds on growth rates in these results has not been possible due to the nature of ...
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(Duke Law Journal, 1996)This article is the first in my series of articles exploring the application of complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to legal systems. It builds the basic model of CAS and maps it onto legal systems, offering some suggestions ...
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(2021-01-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe goal of this dissertation is to develop tools for surgeons that provide better access, dexterity, and performance during minimally invasive surgery. This work focuses on a class of thin, flexible devices called continuum ...
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(2020-07-19)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation performs an examination of the role played by religion – conceptually and semantically – in the debate over the best conception of public reason. The public reason debate has recently been revitalized by ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2009-08-04)What horrible things can happen with central lines once they have been inserted.
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-18)Virtually all patients on ventilators are on PEEP. PEEP has several interactions with various organ systems and some can result in profound complications. An understanding of PEEP and auto-PEEP are required before we can ...
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(2019-06-13)Department: PhilosophyWe intuitively think and talk about health care as a human right. Moreover, we tend to talk about health in the language of basic rights or human rights without a clear sense of what such rights mean, let alone whose duty ...
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(2009-04-20)Department: Computer ScienceComponent middleware has become increasingly important in distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. DRE systems are characterized by resource constraints and stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Growing ...
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(2015-08-25)Department: SpanishSilvina Ocampo belonged to a prestigious intellectual group in Argentina that had its heyday in the 1930s with the foundation of Sur, the most important intellectual magazine in Latin America until the 1950s. The writers ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAlthough a large body of research has examined the processes of writing, much less is known about how adolescents compose with multiple modes in digital environments. This qualitative study explores how students collaboratively ...
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(Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2019-09-18)Solid-state batteries employ composite electrodes which contain a solid ion conductor, a solid active material, a conductive additive, and a binder. The electrode microstructure fundamentally differs from electrodes in ...
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(2014-04-14)Department: PharmacologyThe macromolecular assembly of protein serine/threonine phosphatase•kinase complexes mechanistically enhances the speed and fidelity of cell signaling events. These signaling modules allow for acute regulation of substrates ...
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(2018-08-27)Department: GermanComposition, Variation, Edition as Interpretation: On Publishing Poetry Collections Clara Fisher Dissertation under the direction of Professor Barbara Hahn Around the turn of the century into the 20th, a phenomenon ...
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(2011-04-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringHigh confidence embedded control system software often requires formal analyses to ensure design correctness. Detailed models cover numerous design concerns such as controller stability, timing requirements, fault tolerance, ...
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(2016-10-11)Department: Electrical EngineeringCyber-physical systems are complex engineering systems that integrate computational, communication, and control components with physical components in many applications such as automotive systems, aeronautical systems, ...
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(2023-03-10)Department: Electrical EngineeringOptical metasurfaces, based on subwavelength structuring, offer a compact platform for manipulation of the amplitude, phase and polarization state of light. Independent control over these properties, however, is hindered ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-03-01)Teaching reading comprehension is vitally important to students understanding that reading is a meaning making process. Unfortunately, a review of many teachers' reading comprehension instruction shows that no instruction ...