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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 ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: PhysicsVanadium dioxide (VO2) is an exemplary phase-transition material due to its insulator-to-metal transition, which boasts sharp changes in its lattice vectors (~1%), electrical resistivity (~5 orders of magnitude), and optical ...
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(2015-03-25)Department: ChemistryThe surface chemistry of nanocrystals of different semiconductor materials is characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the charge carrier dynamics of graded alloy quantum dots are investigated. The ...
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(2011-02-15)Department: Special EducationTest accessibility is defined as the extent to which a test and its constituent item set permits the test-taker to demonstrate his or her knowledge of the target construct. The proposed study used a 2 x 4 experimental ...
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(2016-06-27)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe purpose of this study was to quantify the rate of apoptosis and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) signaling in vocal fold epithelial cells in response to increasing time-doses and cycle-doses of vibration. 20 New ...
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(2022-07-28)Department: Electrical EngineeringCarbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) are an emerging alternative semiconductor technology. CNTFETs are a Schottky barrier transistor where the channel between a metal source/drain is a carbon nanotube (CNT) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-15)A reliable and valid neurophysiological index of error-monitoring ability is an eventrelated potential (ERP) known as “error-related negativity” (ERN), which is evoked following an error response. Individuals with schizophrenia ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-28)Research on the cognitive and psychosocial effects of treatment for childhood brain tumors has consistently found deficits in these areas. However, the connections between these deficits, as well as their biological basis, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)Many victimized children suffer negative psychological outcomes as a result of being bullied. One prominent consequence is that of depression. In a cross-sectional study about childhood victimization and depression among ...
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(2013-06-18)Department: PsychologyThe present study tested predictions derived from the Dual Representation Theory (DRT) of memory intrusions in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It was hypothesized that engagement in a visuospatial task after watching ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)To investigate attentional biases in drug addiction, the Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm was used to study opioid-dependent patients undergoing inpatient withdrawal treatment at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. ...
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(2022-11-08)Department: Molecular Pathology & ImmunologyThe inflammasome is a multi-protein signaling pathway in immune and epithelial cells important for activation of the innate immune system and protection from pathogens. We previously showed that caspase-1 signaling in ...