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(2016-07-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesHigh payments and default on undergraduate debt have consequences. These high payments and defaults are national concerns if aversion to those consequences deters students from making optimal postbaccalaureate decisions ...
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(2005-11-02)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation reports results of five studies designed to assess the validity of the VaNTH Observation System (VOS), which was developed to assess the implementation of “How People Learn” (HPL) (Bransford, Brown, & ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: GeologyNew whole-rock Pb isotopic data combined with existing Pb, Sm-Nd, and U/Pb zircon data from the Blue Ridge and the Mid-Continent Granite Rhyolite terrane support recent suggestions that the southern and central Appalachian ...
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(2009-02-23)Department: Mechanical EngineeringA general computational model for describing the stress state for any shape tooth under any loading conditions is presented. The model is constructed based on tooth type, dimensions, materials, loads, boundary conditions, ...
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(2004-07-29)Department: Community Research and ActionCollaborations are increasingly looked to for the resolution of social problems, in the establishment of market dominance on local and global levels, and within organizations as a method for increasing efficacy. Generally ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe purpose of this study was to objectively characterize speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) language science knowledge. We investigated language science knowledge in the domains of (a) explicit phonemic awareness, which ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: EpidemiologyThis dissertation researched on important epidemiologic and prevention intervention components of three crucial stages of the HIV care continuum, including HIV testing/diagnosis, linkage-to-care and antiretroviral therapy ...
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(2016-04-11)Department: Nursing ScienceAn Exploration of Nurse Manager Work Activities in Acute Care Settings Amanda Stefancyk Oberlies Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ann F. Minnick The nurse manager has been described as one of the most important ...
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(2018-04-13)Department: Computer ScienceThis thesis presents an extensible visual language for constraint specification in domain-specific modeling environments. As the language is designed within a modeling language itself, the metamodel and visual syntax are ...
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(2008-03-04)Department: Human GeneticsAs the field of genetics explores beyond mapping single-site disease susceptibility loci, epistasis between genes is being considered in disease models. These hypotheses present new problems for investigators as they search ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012)
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(2011-04-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe human active visual perception is closely related to a “fixation-move-fixation” rhythm. In recent past, the scientists adopted this concept with the expectation that camera-equipped robot can interact with the environment ...
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(2020-03-31)Department: Environmental EngineeringMagnesium hydroxide has the potential to develop into an essential component of water and wastewater treatment. Its non-hazardous classification and low cost makes it a preferable source of alkalinity for existing processes. ...
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(2016-04-14)Department: Environmental EngineeringAn integrated systems approach framework was developed that defines the performance of a near surface low-level radioactive waste disposal facility as a system of three components (or subsystems): the engineered component ...
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(2018-04-10)Department: Biological SciencesPreterm birth (PTB), or birth before 37 completed weeks of gestation, is the leading cause of newborn death worldwide. Despite its toll on human lives and economies, however, our understanding of its pathogenesis and ...
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(2015-03-24)Department: Computer ScienceRobotic systems have proven effective with recent deployments of unmanned robots in numerous missions. Teaming multiple agents requires efficient coalition formation, which is an NP-complete problem that is also hard to ...
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(2013)
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(2008-08-06)Department: Mechanical EngineeringFriction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining process developed by The Welding Institute (TWI) in 1991. The large axial forces associated with this process are typically cited as one of the major obstacles to its ...
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(2006-07-29)Department: Special EducationUsing a sample of children seen at two Tennessee Centers of Excellence for Children in State Custody (COE’s), this study examined characteristics of abused children with disabilities compared to abused children without ...
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(2023-05)The US Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Schools awarded grants to state educational agencies (SEAs) for the purpose of providing local educational agencies (LEAs) with emergency relief funds to ...