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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(1987)
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(2023-03-10)Department: Chemical EngineeringMonolayer film coatings show promise as a means to lubricate mechanical devices with nanoscale separation. These monolayers have many optimizable parameters, such as its film composition and terminal groups, that can ...
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(2022-08-23)Department: PhysicsA search for Supersymmetry (SUSY) produced via electroweak vector boson fusion (VBF) processes using proton-proton collision data is presented. This analysis probes compressed mass spectrum SUSY scenarios in which the mass ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: PhysicsThe focus of this thesis is a search for a heavy fourth neutrino by targeting heavy neutrino production via vector boson fusion (VBF) processes. This type of process includes two vector bosons (radiated from quarks involved ...
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A search for supersymmetric top quarks in CMS 8TeV data in the b/τ + jets + met + muon final state (2016-04-05)Department: PhysicsThis dissertation examines data recorded in 2012 by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to search for supersymmetric top quark decay. In order to reduce the substantial backgrounds ...
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(2012-08-01)Department: EnglishThis dissertation recovers the long nineteenth-century history of the magic-portrait story, a forgotten genre of prose fiction that climaxed in 1890 with Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I argue that the history ...
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(2006-06-07)Department: Computer ScienceModel-Integrated Computing (MIC) is an approach for model-based design of embedded software and systems. MIC places strong emphasis on the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) and model transformation techniques ...
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(2023-07-19)Department: Computer ScienceModel-driven engineering (MDE) has been applied extensively to Cyber-physical systems (CPS) in which the functionality emerges from the interactions of computational and physical processes. The CPS design of autonomous ...
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(2007-12-27)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation, I conceive of three interlocking developments in geography: the revolution of infrastructure, the circulation of goods and print, and the completion of the map of the world. The enclosure of lands and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper proposes a fully nonparametric test for cointegrating rank which does not require estimation of a vector autoregressive model. The test exploits the fact that the degeneracy in the moment matrix of the variables ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper analyzes a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit market imperfections. We examine the relative roles of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, and history ...
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(2021-06-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringQuantitative MRI phantoms allow researchers to test the accuracy and precision of their methods on simplified chemical systems. While several well-defined phantoms exist for reproducible T1, T2, diffusion, and magnetization ...
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(2010-11-11)Department: Environmental EngineeringIn arid environments, spatiotemporal variations in the processes of erosion and deposition are strongly coupled with the structure and dynamics of plant communities as well as the specific life behavior of individual plants. ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: BiostatisticsIn phase 1 clinical trials, dose escalation is an iterative process whereby a maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is identified for subsequent testing. Patients are treated with escalating dose levels to determine which may result ...
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A Solid Black Hyphen: Race, Religion, Identity, and the Black Power Activism of Gayraud S. Wilmore (2020-03-30)Department: ReligionIn 1963 the United Presbyterian Church appointed black minister Gayraud S. Wilmore as head of its new racial justice commission. In that post, as the top racial justice official for one of the largest, wealthiest, most ...
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(2010-04-28)Department: Creative WritingA Special Relativity is the story of a family living in Orange County, California. The novella takes place during one summer. Vanden West—beautiful and cruel—has just returned home from college on the East Coast to find ...
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(2022-09-21)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHistorically, the vast majority of prescribed transfemoral prostheses have been passive or modulated passive devices, which is to say that they are from the user’s perspective net energy negative. Such devices have proven ...