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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 ...
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(2014-09-29)Department: NeuroscienceThe essential micronutrient manganese is enriched in brain, especially the basal ganglia. We sought to identify neuronal signaling pathways responsive to neurologically relevant manganese levels, as previous data suggested ...
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(2020-11-24)Department: EnglishDuring a discussion of her novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward recalls her experience of Hurricane Katrina: “I sat on the porch, barefoot and shaking. The sky turned orange and the wind sounded like fighter jets” (Ward ...
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(2012-06-25)Department: MathematicsThere is evidence that cancer develops when cells acquire a sequence of mutations. This sequence determines a hierarchy among the cells, based on how many more mutations they need to accumulate in order to become cancerous. ...
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(2015-06-25)Department: Political ScienceMany political decisions have actual life or death consequences. I examine how rhetoric used to discuss these life or death consequences, along with personality predispositions, influence political attitudes. In my first ...
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(2009-07-23)Department: Political ScienceThis project seeks to understand the meaning and importance of judicial independence. The capacity of a judicial system to administrate justice without outside influences is a necessary requisite for the consolidation of ...
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(2019-03-29)Department: MathematicsThis work is motivated by the problem of recovering the magnetization M of a rock sample from a given set of measurements for the magnetic field it generates. Modeling the magnetization by an R 3 -valued measure, we focus ...
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(2014-08-04)Department: PathologyCystic fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating, multi-organ, autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations leading to absence of functional cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in epithelial cells. Chronic ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: PathologyFactor XI (FXI) is the zymogen of a protease (FXIa) that contributes to blood coagulation by activating factor IX (FIX). This thesis presents several novel observations regarding the structure and function of FXI that will ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: ChemistryJohnston and coworkers recently reported a novel amide bond forming reaction wherein the amine acts as the electrophile and the carbon donor acts as the nucleophile (Umpolung Amide Synthesis). In the following study, the ...
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(2010-06-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study synthesizes what is known about strategic reading pedagogy through a meta-analysis of research on multiple comprehension strategies instruction (MCSI) for young adolescents in grades 4-8. The average effect of ...
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(2003-12-17)Department: PsychologyCognitive impairment represents a core feature of schizophrenia and a major impediment to social and vocational rehabilitation. First generation antipsychotic (FGA) medications do not elicit robust cognitive changes, but ...
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(2006-08-01)Department: Education & Human DevelopmentThis meta-analysis reviews research published between 1966 and 2001 that explores the effects of various reading treatments on the reading fluency of elementary school students. The literature search, coding schemes and ...
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A Method for Automated Performance Evaluation and Tuning of Neural Oscillation Detection Algorithms (2021-11-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringThere are numerous methods to detect and characterize transient oscillatory events found in electrical signals from the brain representing local activity. These events can be used to time electrical stimulation to modulate ...
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(2009-07-29)Department: PhysicsA METHOD FOR MEASURING INTRUSION INTO CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS CONTAINING PARAMAGNETIC SUBSTANCES USING µCT WITH CONTRAST AGENT PATRICK MICHAEL MARINE Thesis under the direction of Professor Michael Stabin ,Professor David ...