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(2023-05)During the first decade of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), Army Special Operations Aviation (ARSOA) recruited from a large population of combat-experienced Army aviators. However, following the troop drawdowns in Iraq ...
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(2022-05-05)The nature of trust between the government and the American public has been a topic of interest for decades, however, with the onset of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, analyzing the intricate nature of trust is ...
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(2023-08)The goal of the high school course placement process is to accurately identify and place students according to their academic abilities. Misplaced students can suffer academic disengagement or the loss of future opportunities. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-05)
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(2021-12)The East Asia Regional Council of Schools (EARCOS) is an international regional association sponsored by the U.S. State Department offering in-service professional opportunities to the teachers and leaders of international ...
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(2010-04-09)Department: Environmental EngineeringThis thesis is the result of an investigation of the effectiveness of incorporating risk education into the curriculum of early adolescents, notably students enrolled in fifth grade. As these students explore different ...
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(2022-03-16)Department: Human GeneticsDepression is a common psychiatric disorder characterized by decreased mood, anhedonia, irritability, or suicidal thoughts. In the clinic, laboratory testing provides physicians with targeted biochemical measurements, ...
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(2021-08-05)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training plus Practice-Based Coaching (PBC), delivered via text message, on teacher use of targeted Pyramid Model (PM) practices. A multiple baseline design ...
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(2015-04-05)Department: EconomicsI study India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) which guarantees up to a hundred days of employment in public works to rural households that demand work under the program. I exploit the cross-district ...
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(2013-07-26)Department: Law and EconomicsAlthough Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963 to promote public health and welfare, there has been relatively little research into the effectiveness of its monitoring and enforcement. This dissertation investigates ...
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(2014-10-24)Department: PsychologyThe main theoretical vehicle that explains performance in the stop signal paradigm is the Independent Race Model (Logan & Cowan, 1984; Logan, Van Zandt, Verbruggen, & Wagenmakers, 2014), which suggests that a go process ...
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(2011-07-27)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPilot studies have demonstrated the feasibility of using mobile technologies as a platform for electronic patient-centered medication management. Such tools may be used to intercept drug interactions, stop unintentional ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial ...
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(2019-03-14)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThis study evaluates evidence of validity of multiple vocal measures purported to assess vocal development in young children with autism spectrum disorder in the early stages of language learning. Participants include 87 ...
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(2006-07-29)Department: PsychologyTherapeutic alliance, the helping relationship that develops between client and therapist, is the most commonly studied process variable in mental health treatment. In child/adolescent treatment, the relationship that ...
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(2021-11-19)Department: BiostatisticsObservational studies with time-to-event outcomes in electronic healthcare records have been widely used to estimate the effects of treatments, exposures, and medical interventions on health outcomes in a typical clinical ...
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(2021-01-11)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe ability to estimate musculoskeletal dynamics (e.g., forces, stress and motion of individual muscles, bones and tendons) provides numerous scientific, societal, and clinical opportunities. Over the past few decades, new ...
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(2019-03-26)Department: Special EducationMany students with severe disabilities are included in the general education classroom for some part of their instructional day. General educators rarely receive strong training to support these students and need guidance ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-25)The Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory is a widely used three-dimensional psychometric measure to assess parenting behaviors as reported by children and parents. Parent-child dyads tend to report discrepant ...