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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 ...
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(2007-02-16)Department: Chemical EngineeringCHEMICAL ENGINEERING A STATISTICAL ASSOCIATING FLUID THEORY FOR POLAR AND ELECTROLYTE FLUIDS HONGGANG ZHAO Dissertation under the direction of Professor Clare McCabe The ability to accurately predict the thermodynamic ...
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(2019-11-21)Department: BiostatisticsIn basic science experiments, there is a tendency to utilize group-specific control measures in the creation of normalized quantities for comparison across groups. The desire is to compare relative knockout and wild-type ...
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(2020-11-17)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyLung cancer remains the leading cause of all cancer-associated mortalities within the United States. A contributing factor to the high mortality rate is heterogeneous patient response to cancer treatment. This work ...
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(2023-01-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe human brain is the most complex organ containing billions of neurons that communicate with each other to share information systematically. Learning its behavior through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) led ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05-01)Ackerman and Barnett (2005) suggest that "future academic success is dependent on being ready to learn and participate in a successful kindergarten experience" (p. 1). More importantly, a quality preschool experience has ...
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(2013-01-04)Department: Electrical EngineeringNanoporous dielectric and metallic materials have recently attracted a great deal of attention for chemical and biological sensing applications. Compared to conventional solid material based sensors, porous materials provide ...
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(2005-08-12)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis thesis describes the details and rationale of a study exploring particular organizations that work to address structural inequalities in our society, local labor unions. The purpose of this study was to explore local ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWhile carbon fiber spring prostheses remain the standard in transtibial prostheses, an increasing number of multifunctional prostheses – those that provide different behaviors than a simple spring, such as hydraulic damping ...
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(2013-08-12)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe aims of this dissertation are to develop synthesis techniques for carbon nanomaterials, to investigate their electrical and optical properties, and to explore their applications in energy conversion and biological ...
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(2008-01-17)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsSmall heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are a ubiquitous family of chaperones that protect unfolded proteins from irreversible aggregation in the cell. Human sHSPs are associated with the pathology of a variety of diseases. The ...
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(2018-09-14)Department: Mechanical EngineeringModeling Friction Stir Welding (FSW) has proven elusive over the past two decades since being patented by The Welding Institute in 1991. One promising model developed by Nandan et al. explains material flow through a ...
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(2014-07-26)Department: ChemistryAs part of a long-range project to develop inexpensive, earth-abundant alternatives to the use of rare-earth metals in catalysts, it was discovered that an unusual color is generated when solutions of Ca[1,3-(SiMe3)2C3H3]2(thf)2 ...
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(2013-07-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMECHANICAL ENGINEERING A STUDY OF THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES AND GOLD NANOWIRES KYLE OTTE Thesis under the direction of Professor Deyu Li The thermal properties ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)We introduce a subsidized Vickrey auction for cost sharing problems. Although the average, marginal, and serial cost sharing mechanisms are budget-balanced, they are not allocatively efficient and they do not induce players ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: EnglishThis paper examines Herman Melville’s Pierre, and the novel’s critical reception, in order to investigate and theorize the relevance of Melville’s work for Caribbean writers and historians. This work will contend that the ...