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(2022-03-28)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyIn 2020 the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Racial Equity Task Force was created in order to dismantle structural racism and grapple with the institution’s historical injustices that were brought to the forefront ...
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(2024-5)This Final Project explains depression from a biopsychosocial and spiritual framework and therefore requires a holistic approach to healing. Research literatures on depression have often assumed a divide between the spiritual ...
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(2024-03-08)Department: Computer ScienceComputational risk detection holds promise for shielding particularly vulnerable groups from online harm. A thorough literature review on real-time computational risk detection methods revealed that most research defined ...
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(2022-10-03)Department: Civil EngineeringClimate change is creating more frequent and more severe weather events across the world and the reality is that this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. As a result, society must prepare for these impacts and ...
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(2009-03-12)Department: Human GeneticsEvaluating epistasis in whole-genome association studies is an important challenge in human genetics, as many common diseases are thought to have complex underlying genetic architectures that include small independent ...
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(2009-12-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMost bionanotechnology-based agents require careful control of surface properties to improve vascular circulation time, control delivery characteristics and provide biocompatibility, especially when used for diagnostics ...
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(2022-11-16)Department: SociologyScholars have recently examined the cost of activism for activists, paying particular attention to burnout experiences in social justice spaces, yet we still know very little about the role of White supremacy to burnout ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Structural Composite MaterialsConcrete dry casks are currently the primary storage solution for spent nuclear fuel in the United States. These above-ground storage chambers may be used for a century or more, and are subject to degradation by environmental ...
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(2022-08-01)Department: PsychologyThe current study explored individual and gendered differences in Black students’ motivation for learning mathematics using three key Situated Expectancy-Value Theory (SEVT) constructs (expectancies of success, utility ...
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(2013-04-11)Department: EpidemiologyStaphylococcus aureus is the leading cause of invasive infections and skin and soft tissue infections in the United States. Athletes have higher risk of infection with S. aureus than the general population. Though carriage ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Integrated Computational Decision ScienceMy overarching modeling goal for my dissertation is to maximize generalization – some function of data and knowledge – from one sample, with its observations drawn independently from the distribution D, to another sample ...
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(2011-04-16)Department: Biomedical InformaticsMolecular medicine encompasses the application of molecular biology techniques and knowledge to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders. Statistical and computational models can predict clinical ...
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(2014-09-29)Department: NeuroscienceThe essential micronutrient manganese is enriched in brain, especially the basal ganglia. We sought to identify neuronal signaling pathways responsive to neurologically relevant manganese levels, as previous data suggested ...
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(2020-11-24)Department: EnglishDuring a discussion of her novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward recalls her experience of Hurricane Katrina: “I sat on the porch, barefoot and shaking. The sky turned orange and the wind sounded like fighter jets” (Ward ...
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(2012-06-25)Department: MathematicsThere is evidence that cancer develops when cells acquire a sequence of mutations. This sequence determines a hierarchy among the cells, based on how many more mutations they need to accumulate in order to become cancerous. ...
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(2015-06-25)Department: Political ScienceMany political decisions have actual life or death consequences. I examine how rhetoric used to discuss these life or death consequences, along with personality predispositions, influence political attitudes. In my first ...
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(2009-07-23)Department: Political ScienceThis project seeks to understand the meaning and importance of judicial independence. The capacity of a judicial system to administrate justice without outside influences is a necessary requisite for the consolidation of ...
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(2019-03-29)Department: MathematicsThis work is motivated by the problem of recovering the magnetization M of a rock sample from a given set of measurements for the magnetic field it generates. Modeling the magnetization by an R 3 -valued measure, we focus ...
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(2014-08-04)Department: PathologyCystic fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating, multi-organ, autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations leading to absence of functional cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in epithelial cells. Chronic ...