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(2022-03-27)Department: Community Research & ActionAlthough community and environmental psychologists have examined stigma against mentally and intellectually disabled people for decades, we rarely extend this analysis to wheelchair users. In addition, we tend to overlook ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringConcentric tube robots are needle-diameter robots consisting of multiple precurved, nested, superelastic tubes. They can be made to controllably elongate and bend by grasping the tubes at their bases and applying axial ...
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(2015-06-15)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis work contributes to an ongoing conversation about how practice-based teacher education might be designed to support preservice teachers’ professional judgment, particularly in the area of writing instruction. By ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)This paper explores the use of concept maps in early childhood literacy classroom, with particular emphasis on specific methods that teachers can apply. Concept maps--as visual organizers that can enrich students' understanding ...
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(JCO CLINICAL CANCER INFORMATICS, 2019-06-21)In this work, we present a conceptual framework to support clinical trial optimization and enrollment workflows and review the current state, limitations, and future trends in this space. This framework includes knowledge ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Blair School of Music, 2011-03-25)
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(The Divinity Library, The Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, 1987)
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(2023-04-19)Department: PsychologyThe association between physiological and emotional responses over time, often termed concordance, has been theorized decades, yet empirical evidence has been mixed. The assessment of underlying biological mechanisms and ...
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(2014-05-28)Department: PsychologyThe present longitudinal study examined the concurrent and prospective relations among the executive functions of working memory and cognitive flexibility, coping strategies, and symptoms of depression in children. ...
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(2015-05-26)Department: PsychologyIdentifying cognitive and emotional risk factors that contribute to the onset, maintenance, and recurrence of depression is crucial for developing interventions for treatment and prevention. Poor executive function skills ...
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(2006-03-08)Department: PsychologyUsing a sample of depressed adults taken from the NIMH Treatment for Depression Collaborative Research Program (TDCRP), I examined the concurrent and incremental validity of using depression diagnoses, diagnostic components, ...
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(2018-03-30)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation seeks to shed further light on the issue of concussions in athletics—a topic that has garnered increased attention over the past decade. Chapter 1 examines youth sports concussion laws, which have now ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)Should religious landowners enjoy special protection from eminent domain? A recent federal statute, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), compels courts to apply a compelling interest test to ...
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(Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2011)This brief Essay, part of a Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium on eminent domain in New York, argues that there is a seldom-recognized purpose to eminent domain: preserving the ability of elected representatives to respond ...
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(2017-08-03)Department: BiostatisticsIn this thesis, we apply and adapt a new method to assess conditional associations in a large dataset from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Electronic Health Record (EHR). We estimate pairwise rank correlations ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: Political ScienceOver the last two decades, Latin American countries have adopted conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs as their primary means of providing social assistance to their citizens living in poverty. Political scientists have ...
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(BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016)As biobanks play an increasing role in the genomic research that will lead to precision medicine, input from diverse and large populations of patients in a variety of health care settings will be important in order to ...
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(2016-09-02)Department: PsychologyMusic conductors use hand-arm gestures to shape the sound that their musicians produce. Six series of experiments are conducted in order to understand the nature of such cross-modal links between observed hand gestures and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-09-02)No one wants to think about a disaster hitting close to home, but being prepared for that possibility is important, especially in a medical facility. Emma Mills speaks with Pam Hoffner, Director of Emergency Preparedness ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1999-04-16)