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(2009-08-04)Department: ChemistryBiological systems are extremely complex and new tools are necessary to effectively enhance our knowledge and understanding of their underlying mechanisms. Mass spectrometry has proven to be an essential technology for ...
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(2020-11-18)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyFor over 30 years, an HIV-1 vaccine has remained elusive due to the high mutability and tremendous levels of genetic diversity exhibited by the virus. Current research efforts have focused on understanding B cell-encoded ...
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(2021-05-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringGaN-based HEMTs are increasingly popular for use in space-based, high-power, high-voltage and high temperature applications due to the large band gap, high breakdown electric field, low carrier generation rate by thermal ...
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(2021-06-13)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThis dissertation features three studies that span several topics linked to graduate education: the predictors of graduate school enrollment, the job prospects for master’s recipients, and unionization within academia. In ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2010-04-28)
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(2024-01-24)Department: Civil EngineeringAccurately and efficiently predicting the mechanical behavior of structures made of polycrystalline materials presents many challenges and complications. Because of highly complex evolution laws that govern viscoplastic ...
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(2014-11-26)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceCurrent generation infrared (IR) photodetection requires a tradeoff between sensitivity and practicality. For applications requiring high sensitivity, the available options require varying levels of expensive and bulky ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2010-03-07)Dr. Melanie Swift, Medical Director of the Occupational Health Clinic, uncovers the confusion associated with good and bad cholesterol and gives tips on how to improve your numbers.
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(2014-07-26)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesMathematical descriptions of sediment transport are essential for our understanding of the evolution and form of Earth's surface. Recent work has highlighted the potential strengths of a nonlocal mathematical description ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)Children's understanding of death is likely to mediate how effectively they cope with the experience of the death of loved ones, or in the case of severely ill children, their own impending deaths. In order to develop the ...
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(2018-09-28)Department: EnglishHip-Hop music has undergone a major transition from its inception in the late 1970s to the 21st-century. The genre shifted from being an underground counter-culture, to being at the center of the mainstream. This transition ...
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(2024-01-25)Department: PsychologyThe ability of organisms to learn and form memories based on experience and to use these memories flexibly in different situations is a hallmark of cognitive evolutionary processes. The neural basis for this ability, ...
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(2023-05)ABC Public Schools is a school district on Cape Cod. While the region is known for vacationers and retirees, who are predominantly white, the working population (and therefore student population) is continuing to diversify. ...
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(2014-12-03)Department: HistoryThis paper explores the connections between Bourbon Royalism and the death of paternalism during the Restoration Era and the July Monarchy in Martinique. Martinican planter Pierre Dessalles meticulously recorded his opinions ...
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(2010-01-06)Department: SpanishIn 1909, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928), a Spanish journalist, radical politician and acclaimed realist and naturalist writer, made a trip to Argentina that would transform him into an internationalist and separate him ...
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(2017-12-12)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe ability of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) fiber tractography to non-invasively map the three-dimensional (3D) network of the human brain has proven to be a valuable neuroimaging tool, improving our ...