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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 ...
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(2009-12-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMost bionanotechnology-based agents require careful control of surface properties to improve vascular circulation time, control delivery characteristics and provide biocompatibility, especially when used for diagnostics ...
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(2022-11-16)Department: SociologyScholars have recently examined the cost of activism for activists, paying particular attention to burnout experiences in social justice spaces, yet we still know very little about the role of White supremacy to burnout ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
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(2018-05-16)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Structural Composite MaterialsConcrete dry casks are currently the primary storage solution for spent nuclear fuel in the United States. These above-ground storage chambers may be used for a century or more, and are subject to degradation by environmental ...
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(2022-08-01)Department: PsychologyThe current study explored individual and gendered differences in Black students’ motivation for learning mathematics using three key Situated Expectancy-Value Theory (SEVT) constructs (expectancies of success, utility ...
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(2013-04-11)Department: EpidemiologyStaphylococcus aureus is the leading cause of invasive infections and skin and soft tissue infections in the United States. Athletes have higher risk of infection with S. aureus than the general population. Though carriage ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Integrated Computational Decision ScienceMy overarching modeling goal for my dissertation is to maximize generalization – some function of data and knowledge – from one sample, with its observations drawn independently from the distribution D, to another sample ...
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(2011-04-16)Department: Biomedical InformaticsMolecular medicine encompasses the application of molecular biology techniques and knowledge to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders. Statistical and computational models can predict clinical ...