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(2016-09-12)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceNanomaterials have enabled significant breakthroughs in energy storage capabilities. In particular, the use of nanoscale components in lithium-sulfur and lithium-oxygen batteries have generated energy densities 2-3x greater ...
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(2011-04-27)Department: Chemical EngineeringHigh performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has become an essential tool in biotechnology. Numerous proteins have been separated by HPLC for analytical and preparative separation purposes. The main challenge in protein ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe origins of gravel bearing sediments in the upper Holocene stratigraphy of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River in northern Bangladesh are explored in this thesis through sediment geochemistry analyses and characterization of ...
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(2021-04)This study surveys clinicians’ hypothyroidism diagnosis and treatment practices and their opinions on current diagnostic standards. By distributing a redcap survey, the study ascertained whether practicing clinicians ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Graduate School, 2009-03-30)Nanofluids are solutions of a small fraction of suspended nanoparticles in a bulk fluid. Nanofluids have shown great promise as heat transfer fluids over typically used bulk fluids and fluids with micron sized particles. ...
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(Homiletic, 1997)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-10-21)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-03-03)
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(2017-08-14)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSome works of fiction by Puerto Rican authors present characters that have one surprising characteristic in common: a void of individuality. What would constitute the core of these personae has been displaced to the point ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-08-21)
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-10-09)
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(2020-12)Significant literature exists investigating the importance of clinical teaching during a teacher candidate’s development – specifically, the clinical teaching placements of teacher candidates. However, an important perspective ...
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(2016-06-30)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation examines how warfare engendered new forms of sociality and mediated political relationships during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1450) in the Colca Valley of the southern Peruvian highlands. I ...
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(2022-05-03)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I propose a framework for evaluating a minimally adequate egalitarian theory of justice. I argue that the minimum adequacy requirements for such a theory are that the theory must be (1) clearly an ...
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(2014-06-30)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsAMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a serine-threonine kinase that exerts control over mediators of metabolic flux. The structure of AMPK permits the sensing of changes in energy status. The dissertation examines the ...
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(2006-04-07)Department: Nursing ScienceNURSING SCIENCE COPING AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS HONGXIA LIU Dissertation under the direction of Professor Kathleen Dwyer Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...