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(2007-06-13)Department: PsychologyPSYCHOLOGY EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND COPING IN SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA LAURA KEYS CAMPBELL Dissertation under the direction of Professor Bruce Compas The current study examined executive ...
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(2016-12-08)Department: PsychologyExecutive function (EF) skills are correlated with school readiness and academic achievement (i.e. Blair & Razza, 2007; Best, Miller, Naglieri, 2011; Lan, Legare, Ponitz, Li, & Morrison, 2011); however, less is known about ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)The present study examined the concurrent associations among executive functioning, coping, maternal depression history, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The sample included 82 adolescents between the ages of 12 and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-03-30)While new treatments have increased the survival rate of pediatric patients with brain tumors, they have also left this population with many adverse cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Prior research provides ...
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(2023-06-01)Department: PsychologyElucidating disorder- and domain-specific deficits within psychiatric and medically ill populations is a primary focus in the field of neuropsychology. Comparing overlapping and distinct patterns of cognitive functioning ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04)Patients of Huntington’s Disease experience decreased capacity for executive functioning. Moreover, HD patients also experience increased levels of impulsivity and risk-taking behaviors. Consequences of these behaviors ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)John F. Kennedy maintains a reputation in American memory with respect to civil rights that he does not deserve. He campaigned for presidency advocating the end of racial discrimination, but once he took office his interests ...
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(2022-05)This capstone project documents the identity and role exploration process for Episcopal Church bishops. The Rt. Rev’d David E. & Helen R. Richards College for Bishops and the "Living Our Vows" program help the new bishops ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyEmpathy is a therapeutic part of any clinical encounter and doctor-patient relationship. Clinical empathy, the term used for empathetic practice in medicine, is defined as the clinician’s ability to identify a patient’s ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(2017-07-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis thesis presents the design and dynamic model for a prototype pneumatic boost converter, a device developed to be an energetic equivalent to the electrical boost converter. The design of the system selects pneumatic ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01)We consider a general equilibrium economy with public goods and externalities. Following Boyd and Conley (1997), we treat externality markets directly instead of indirectly through Arrovian commodities. Because such direct ...
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(New York University Law Review, 2009)This Article identifies property law's special protection for existing uses, explores possible justifications for this protection, and argues that none can support the strong protection that existing uses currently enjoy. ...
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(NPJ Genomic Medicine, 2019-08-23)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a genetically heterogeneous condition, caused by a combination of rare de novo and inherited variants as well as common variants in at least several hundred genes. However, significantly ...
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(Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019-07)Background. The US National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan depends on additional providers to expand hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment capacity in order to achieve elimination goals. Clinical pharmacists manage treatment and ...
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(2015-07-14)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Cancer PharmacologyEwing sarcoma is the second most common malignant bone tumor of childhood with a poor overall survival rate of 55%. This tumor is dependent on the activity of the oncogenic transcription factor EWS-FLI1 for cell survival. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-12-06)Massive black hole binaries (MBHB) produce gravitational waves (GW) that will be detectable with pulsar timing arrays within the next few years. We determine the properties of the host galaxies of MBHB at the time they are ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Management of TechnologyIndustries plagued by lengthy development times have always resorted to ad hoc resource allocation and expediting in an effort to reduce the development times. Instead of decreasing the time to market, these well meaning ...
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(2018-08-27)Department: ChemistryNatural products remain valuable sources for modern drug discovery, yet natural product discovery is hindered by poor production in lab cultivated organisms and/or poor observability from complex microbial extracts. We ...