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(2018-08-17)Department: HistoryUtilizing aspects of social, cultural, political, military and environmental history, this dissertation details the cycles of possession and dispossession of the lands of the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. It ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a study of the pneumatologies of Augustine and Karl Barth, and argues that pneumatology is the performative discourse of participation in Jesus Christ. I claim that for both theologians trinitarian ...
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(2013-07-31)Department: Biomedical EngineeringPoint-of-care diagnostics suitable for the resource-limited environment should be low-cost and simple-to-use while maintaining a clinically meaningful performance capability. This thesis explores harnessing the hydrodynamics ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: PhilosophyMy thesis aims to defend Wittgenstein’s concept of the “ordinary” as a unique conception of “home” which can model a form of political subjectivity crucial for our complex form of contemporary life. I use the term of the ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Man: Vladimir Nabokov and the Scandal of Posthumous Publication (2014-07-15)Department: EnglishIn 2009, the text that would have been Vladimir Nabokov’s final novel, The Original of Laura, was published against the late author’s explicit instructions. Although the controversy surrounding Laura’s publication ostensibly ...
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(2009-05-01)Department: ReligionThe focus of this dissertation is Michelangelo’s late-life development in his art and his life. While the recent decades in religion and personality have included more work on gender and ethnicity, there remains relatively ...
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(2012-03-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis thesis presents the design, implementation and testing of a lower limb exoskeleton that allows paraplegic patients to stand and walk. The device is supplemented with functional electrical stimulation (FES) at the ...
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(2009-07-25)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe human leg serves as the primary mechanism to provide locomotion and general mobility, both of which require significant power generation at the joints. Today, commercial lower limb prostheses are generally passive ...
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(2018-03-23)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) permits Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce reimbursement to hospitals with excess 30-day unplanned readmissions. Diabetes disproportionately impacts ...
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(2007-08-03)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThis Masters Thesis project had as its objectives: (1) to provide Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH) with computerized tools for monitoring microbiological data; (2) to provide the VUH Infection Control Service with tools ...
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(2022-11-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringReplication of healthy knee behavior after amputation requires prosthetic knees to provide active and resistive stance behaviors, as well as ballistic and non-ballistic swing behaviors. Current state-of-the-art prosthetic ...
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(2014-07-30)Department: Biomedical InformaticsProcess mining corresponds to a collection of methodologies designed to extract knowledge from event logs (e.g., time-stamped events) and provide a description about the underlying processes of a system. Various approaches ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: Computer ScienceAs a parallel data processing framework, MapReduce has been proved to be one of the most popular topics in the age of Cloud Computing since it was firstly proposed by Google. Despite its advantages such as scalability, ...
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(2022-08)This capstone project is a program evaluation of a peer tutoring and mentoring program that targets mathematics courses offered at a community college located in Northwest Florida. Social constructivist understandings of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)The paper argues that multiple equilibria-whether non-stationary or stationary- are a generic property of dynamic rational expectations models. In light of this, this paper proposes a selection criterion for choosing between ...
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(2006-07-28)Department: PsychologyThis longitudinal study investigated the cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in a high-risk sample across three years (i.e., 6th, 7th, and 8th grade), using traditional, additive, weakest link, and keystone ...
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(2022-02-16)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyWhen an organism is injured, the damaged tissue recognizes the presence and severity of the wound and rapidly responds to repair the injury and restore proper tissue functionality. But how do cells first detect the presence ...
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(2012-12-26)Department: HistoryThis project examines attempts to study and define public opinion in postwar Germany by two institutions: the Frankfurt School and the Allensbach Institute. I show how opinion researchers responded to theoretical frameworks ...
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(2008-04-21)Department: Computer ScienceFault diagnosis is crucial for ensuring the safe operation of complex engineering systems. Many present-day systems combine physical and computational processes, and are best modeled as hybrid systems, where the dynamic ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Mechanical EngineeringAn experimental analysis of a novel two-dimensional lid-driven cavity flow is presented. The system that is developed and tested contains six movable boundary sections that can be driven in pairs to generate complex flow ...