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(2010-08-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation investigates the incorporation of Photosystem I (PSI), a supramolecular protein complex that participates in the light reactions of photosynthesis, into electrochemical systems intended for the conversion ...
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(2016-03-28)Department: Mechanical EngineeringSurface plasmons, coherent oscillations of electrons in metals that can be excited with electromagnetic waves, are a key component in routing and manipulating light-matter interaction at nanometer length scales. Because ...
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(2016-08-03)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix are dynamic and change during biological processes such as disease progression and wound healing. Most synthetic (or man-made) tissue scaffolds have static properties. ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: Biological SciencesSex is a major challenge to evolutionary theory, because of the apparent paradox of its ubiquity among multicellular eukaryotes with the substantial evolutionary costs associated with it. The past four decades have seen ...
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(MBIO, 2019-07)Phylosymbiosis is defined as microbial community relationships that recapitulate the phylogeny of hosts. As evidence for phylosymbiosis rapidly accumulates in different vertebrate and invertebrate holobionts, a central ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyAcousto-Optical Imaging (AOI) is an emerging hybrid multi-modal imaging technique that combines the high spatial resolution of ultrasound with the versatile molecular sensitivity of optical detection to improve upon the ...
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(2006-04-12)Department: Chemical EngineeringThis dissertation examines fundamental aspects towards the incorporation of Photosystem I (PSI) into a photoelectrochemical device. Previous research at Vanderbilt University demonstrated that PSI adsorbs to high-energy ...
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Physical Mechanisms Affecting Hot Carrier-Induced semi-ON State Degradation in Gallium Nitride HEMTs (2015-11-06)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceGallium Nitride or GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) is currently the most promising device technology in several key military and civilian applications due to excellent high-power as well as high-frequency ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-01-06)
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(2016-01-19)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation examines the fundamental physical properties and material processing methods required to design and fabricate the next generation of optical modulators based on the vanadium dioxide metal-insulator ...
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(2022-11-17)Department: Computer ScienceIn the last few decades, with the introduction of machine learning, research on the design and monitoring of civil structures and mechanical systems has evolved into a new era. One of the main challenges in developing ...
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(2022-03-25)Department: Civil EngineeringThe purpose of uncertainty quantification in the system response prediction is to support decision-making under uncertainty. For complex engineering systems, recent efforts have focused on using computational models for ...
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(2018-05-18)Department: Biological SciencesMosquitoes transmit pathogens that cause deadly and debilitating diseases. When a pathogen invades the hemocoel (body cavity) of Anopheles gambiae, a primary vector of malaria, innate immune responses are activated. A ...
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(2020-03-25)Department: NeuroscienceAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and interaction. Many individuals with ASD experience significant psychological and physiological stress during peer interactions. ...
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(2009-01-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringRecent advances in robotics and intelligent systems are expected to usher in a new era where the need for machines to “understand” humans becomes increasingly important. It should permit more meaningful and natural ...
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(2019-08-30)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by social interaction deficits, verbal and non-verbal communication skill deficits, repetitive behaviors, and fixed interests. Given the limited availability of professionals ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Blair School of Music, 1967-11-05)
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(California Law Review, 2002)In this essay, Professors Edelman and Sherry explain the mathematics behind the allocation of congressional seats to each state, and survey the different methods of allocation that Congress has used over the years. Using ...
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(2018-11-20)Department: PhysicsVanadium dioxide (VO2) exhibits an insulator-to-metal phase transition and an associated change from a monoclinic (M1) to a rutile (R) crystal structure. Despite fifty years of research, there are important unresolved ...