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DESIGN, MODELING AND CONTROL OF CONTINUUM ROBOTS FOR MULTI-SCALE MOTION AND OCT-GUIDED MICRO-SURGERY (2021-08-01)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe applications of Continuum Robots in surgery have seen a rapid growth in the last two decades. The design of these robots requires unique electro-mechanical architectures of Actuation Units and their end- effector that ...
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(2020-03-28)Department: Mechanical EngineeringAffordable diagnostic endoscopy is a growing need worldwide. Gastric cancer (GC) is the third most deadly cancer; it accounts for over 10% of cancers and more than 70% of these cases are concentrated ...
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(2008-09-24)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents the design, modeling, simulation, fabrication, and experimental characterization and model validation of a free liquid-piston engine compressor (FLPC). The FLPC is a proposed device that utilizes ...
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(2015-03-12)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis work presents the design, first-principles model, and experimental setup of a Stirling pressurizer. The Stirling pressurizer is a Stirling engine with an independently controlled displacer piston. The directly controlled, ...
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(2020-07-17)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents a model informed design methodology to evaluate and refine innovative hydraulic pump concepts. This methodology is demonstrated on three very different applications: 1) industrial and mobile ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2023-11-03)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe overarching goal of this dissertation is to advance the capabilities of continuously flexible robots through new design, sensing, and control strategies, with a focus on medical applications. Continuously flexible ...
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(2006-03-28)Department: ChemistryThe projects described herein show the effect of double bond geometry on the ƒÒ-fragmentation of biologically relevant methyl octadecadienoate peroxyl radicals and analogous pentadecadiene peroxyl radicals. From these ...
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(2009-12-02)Department: ChemistryConjugation of targeting, imaging and drug molecules to nanoparticles has been a developing area of interest over the last 10-15 years. Although great strides have been made, characterization and activity of functionalized ...
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(2015-08-18)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study focuses on the learning of preteen children who must repeatedly spend periods of several days or weeks in a hospital setting because they require treatment for Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic disease. Hospitalized ...
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(2022-05)COVID-19 changed the business practices for many organizations as “safer at home” and closure mandates abruptly made many work forces transition from an in-office employee presence to full-time telecommuting at home. This ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2014)Administrative law needs to adapt to adaptive management. Adaptive management is a structured decision-making method the core of which is a multi-step iterative process for adjusting management measures to changing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-15)Intergenerational literacy programs (i.e. family literacy programs) seek to raise the literacy level of both parent and child by linking their education and treating them as a learning unit. Though intergenerational ...
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(2016-03-15)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityClinical simulations are a promising approach to preparing preservice teachers for culturally responsive teaching. These simulations use actors to portray the role of students, parents, and coworkers in common problems of ...
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Designing Cities & Men: Post-WWII Urban Renewal, Black Masculinity, and African American Aesthetics (2016-07-24)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the relationship between post-WWII urban renewal programs in the United States and aesthetic representations of black masculinity in 20th century African American literature. I argue that urban ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCorneal wound healing is a complex, and highly coordinated process of cell-cell signaling, cell spreading, migration, proliferation, and cell-extracellular matrix interaction. The main limitation in natural wound healing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-04-16)While other traditional schools and types of education place more emphasis on subject content and discipline knowledge, the purpose of Waldorf education is not to train students for the future professional world, but to ...
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(2010-04-13)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Systems EngineeringThis dissertation develops and applies an integrated framework for embedding flexibility in an engineered system architecture. Systems are constantly faced with unpredictability in the operational environment, threats ...