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(2006-04-24)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents the research on four advanced topics concerning the pneumatic servo-actuation through multi-input control. The first topic is Nonlinear Model Based Pulse Width Modulated Control of Pneumatic Servo ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: Mechanical EngineeringShoulder and back pain are two of the most common work-related injuries in the world. Many occupations require hours of continuous and prolonged leaning, bending over, stooping, and reaching. This leaves workers with ...
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(2019-04-11)Department: NeuroscienceThe pulvinar is the largest thalamic subdivision in primates and has deep integration with cortical areas involved with visual perception. Unlike the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), which acts as the primary relay in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-04)Independent schools are private schools not dependent upon any outside organization for governance or financing. They are truly independent with regard to operations and finances, and they follow a mission that drives ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-05)This exploratory study of Greek life was conducted in response to a request by Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where administrators are interested in learning more about fraternity and sorority life at the College. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-05-20)Stacey Kendrick talks with Kelly Stewart, from Nashville Hiking Meetup about opportunities for group hiking and some of the active pleasures that can be found from hiking.
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(2022-05)Hausmann et al. (2007) define a sense of belonging as "the psychological sense that one is a valued member of the college community" (p. 804). This definition suggests that students who feel welcomed and supported on campus ...
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(2012-07-05)Department: Biomedical InformaticsMany medications have potentially serious adverse effects detected only after FDA approval. After 80 million people worldwide received prescriptions for the drug rofecoxib (Vioxx), its manufacturer withdrew it from the ...
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(2023-05-01)A prevalent problem in the American education system is that schools are facing extreme shortages of qualified special education teachers, specifically teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs). TVIs are leaving their jobs ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityNew initiatives in computing education call for the integration of computational thinking (CT) across subjects in K-12 schools. At the same time, researchers do not have a strong consensus about what CT is and how it is ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)During infancy, consistent exposure to frequent, responsive speech is fundamental for optimal language development to occur, but there is a great amount of variability in the language that infants hear across the first ...
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(Journal Of Clinical And Translational Science, 2022-11-15)Background:Text message-delivered interventions for chronic disease self-management have potential to reduce health disparities, yet limited research has explored implementing these interventions into clinical care. We ...
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(2009-07-31)Department: Special EducationWe conducted two studies to explore a newly constructed dynamic assessment (DA) intended to tap inference making skills which we hypothesize will be predictive of future comprehension performance, and more specifically, ...
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(2021-08-10)This study was conducted in collaboration with the Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFECS), a research-practice partnership whose mission is to use collaboration and research to further the mission to ...
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(2021-12)This quality-improvement study sought to examine perceptions of high-impact feedback as provided through teacher observation and evaluation practices within a large public school district, and how high school administrators, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Undergraduate Students were evaluated for nicotine dependence, on measures of coping styles, and emotional intelligence. The key aim for the study was to correlated emotional intelligence measures to levels of nicotine ...
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(2023-07-30)Department: Computer ScienceSignificant efforts have been directed toward integrating machine learning into visual recognition tasks in medical domain, especially for medical image segmentation. Image segmentation provides pixel/voxel-wise localization ...
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(2024-05)This study explores the factors associated with the persistence of Black males at Nashville State Community College by examining the relationships between student engagement, college GPA, and persistence using longitudinal ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05)