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(2020-12)Since 2014, philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and local government in the Charlotte, NC area have been deeply focused on a national study that placed the region 50 out of 50 for economic mobility. Reemprise Fund, a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
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(2007-04-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringThere is an ever increasing concern about security threats as embedded systems are moving towards networked applications. Model based approaches have proven to be effective techniques for embedded systems design. However, ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityScience education is increasingly organized around engaging students in scientific practices, positioning them as makers of knowledge. However, there is significant uncertainty both about how to initiate students into these ...
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(2022-07-14)Department: EpidemiologyCarbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) are a group of antimicrobial-resistant organisms (AROs) that primarily cause healthcare-associated infections. Patient movement across healthcare facilities has been shown as a ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: Biological SciencesThe immune and circulatory systems are functionally integrated in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. This functional integration is exemplified by a subpopulation of hemocytes called periostial hemocytes that ...
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(2013-06-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe aim of dissertation is to develop a cognitive robotic system by integrating imitation learning with cognitive control and evaluate its performance using object manipulation tasks. The robotic imitation learning framework ...
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(2022-06-15)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyCheminformatics and computer-aided drug design (CADD) have matured substantially in the last decade. CADD is no longer the niche approach of a subset of specialists, but rather an integral component of the drug discovery ...
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(2014-07-25)Department: ChemistryPhotosystem I is a photoactive membrane protein found in higher plants, some algae, and cyanobacteria. It is part of the solar energy conversion mechanism that fuels most life on the planet. It has been shown that photocurrents ...
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(2005-04-25)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental ManagementINTEGRATION OF TRANSPORTATION AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: IDENTIFYING CRITICAL INTERFACES, OBSTACLES, AND OPPORTUNITIES KRISTEN E. SHEPHERD Dissertation under the direction of Professor Mark D. Abkowitz Transportation and ...
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(American Journal of Criminal Law, 2003)On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates took the lives of her five children by drowning them, one by one, in a bathtub. At her trial on capital murder charges nine months later, she pleaded insanity. Despite very credible evidence ...
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(BMC Medical Genomics, 2019-09-18)Background Although APOBEC-mutational signature is found in tumor tissues of multiple cancers, how a common germline APOBEC3A/B deletion affects the mutational signature remains unclear. Methods Using data from 10 cancer ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-05)
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(2021-09-01)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologySecondary active transporters are integral membrane proteins that harness the potential energy stored in electrochemical ion gradients to import and export substrates across cell membranes. Transporters with the LeuT-fold ...
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Integrative statistical approaches to gain biological insights from genome-wide association studies (2021-06-11)Department: Human GeneticsThis paper
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(2014-03-27)Department: Biomedical EngineeringFibrotic disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is characterized by the transition of resident fibroblast cells into active myofibroblasts, identified by their expression of alpha smooth muscle actin. ...
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(2019-04-17)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe current obesity public health crisis is linked directly with liver health through a parallel epidemic of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD has direct effects on liver health while acting as an independent ...
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(2015-03-25)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased dramatically in parallel with excess caloric intake and sedentary lifestyles. Insulin resistance precedes the development of type 2 diabetes. The liver is a major insulin-responsive ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 2003)Professor Waldron and Professor Michelman have presented us with two interesting, but very different, views on what procedural components might contribute to the integrity of lawmaking. I will focus on a different aspect ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis reinterprets the writings of the Brazilian Catholic intellectual Alceu Amoroso Lima, in particular, his work in the 1930s. A leading Catholic intellectual and one of the most important laymen in the country, ...