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(2020-11-18)Department: PsychologyA fundamental question in decision-making is how instructions can be used to influence behavior. Nowhere is this question more important than in the legal system, in which the fate and lives of individuals are in the ...
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(2012-03-29)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsObesity is closely linked to many metabolic diseases such as insulin resistance (IR), type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. In the past decade, it has been established that immune cells are recruited to ...
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(2008-12-15)Department: Electrical EngineeringWe have studied the effects of moisture exposure and total dose irradiation on MOS low frequency noise. We compare the effects of moisture on the 1/f noise of nMOS and pMOS devices and how the noise changes for each with ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)Research on embodied emotions suggests that our ability to simulate bodily emotions enables us to better understand others’ emotions. Music has been shown to influence emotion processing, and music therapy is effective in ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesFor this dissertation, primary aims included investigating the effects of musical training on attention, working memory, and auditory stream segregation as they relate to music perception and speech understanding in noise. ...
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(2016-04-05)Department: BiochemistryTopoisomerase II plays many essential roles in genome maintenance. To carry out its physiological functions, the enzyme generates transient double-stranded breaks in the DNA to help resolve topological problems that occur ...
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(2022-06-15)Department: NeuroscienceHearing-in-noise is a complex auditory task that is critical for effective communication in the presence of competing sounds. Damage to the inner ear caused by noise exposure can alter the representation of sounds in the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
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(2017-07-11)Department: Special EducationImpulsivity may be conceptualized as the choice of a smaller, sooner reward (SSR) at the cost of a larger reward available after a delay. Progressive delay training (PDT) has been used to teach people with a variety of ...
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(Frontiers in Pyhsiology, 2019-08-23)Orthostatic intolerance commonly occurs after prolonged bed rest, thus increasing the risk of syncope and falls. Baroreflex-mediated adjustments of heart rate and sympathetic vasomotor activity (muscle sympathetic nerve ...
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(2015-07-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringHigh frequency RF and microwave communications systems for military, space, and telecommunications applications require efficient power amplifiers with high power density. Gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors ...
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(American Criminal Law Review, 1994)In "Powers v. Ohio," the Court held that a peremptory challenge based on race violates the equal protection right of the challenged veniremember not to have her opportunities for jury service determined by her skin color. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-26)Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)Research in the anxiety disorders has shown that safety behaviors function to maintain pathological anxiety by preventing the disconfirmation of inaccurate threat beliefs. The present study examined if such safety behaviors ...
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(2006-03-27)Department: EconomicsA criminal case is disposed by a series of selection processes – the prosecutor’s indictment, the defendant’s plea choice, and the judge’s or jury’s trial verdict. This study examines how each selection process shapes the ...
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(2009-02-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringSub-100 nm technologies are more vulnerable than older technologies to single event effects (SEE) due to Moore's Law scaling trend. The increased SEE vulnerability has been attributed to the decrease in nodal charge for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)The purpose of the study was to analyze the different contexts in which the social sharing of emotion occurs and the comparative benefits associated with two different contexts of emotion sharing. Previous research has ...
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(2015-08-03)Department: PsychologyIndividuals with schizophrenia (SZ) have been shown to exhibit deficits in detecting human agents against background noise, such that the signal-to-noise ratio of biological motion perception is significantly reduced. Such ...
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(2009-04-22)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThis study examines how coupled geomorphic and biologic processes influence the potential for hillslope soils to store organic carbon. A mass-balance model of soil organic carbon on hillslopes is developed by combining ...
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(2017-11-20)Department: PsychologyThrough reaching out, grasping, and playing with objects, infants can learn how to interact efficiently and effectively with their surroundings as well as learn about causality, the contingency between their actions and ...