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(2007-12-31)Department: PsychologySchizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder with a prominent genetic component. The search for susceptibility genes that confer liability for schizophrenia has been hampered by the heterogeneous nature of the illness and ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: ReligionThe vision for personalized medicine is rooted in the hope that omics-based laboratory technologies will be used to tailor medical care to the individual needs of patients, including by providing patients with direct access ...
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(2010-08-13)Department: MathematicsThis thesis discusses recent and classical results concerning the asymptotic properties (as N gets large) of ``ground state' configurations of N particles restricted to a compact set A of Hausdorff dimension d interacting ...
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(2015-10-13)Department: HistoryDuring the Great Depression, leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention interacted with the idea and the problem of leisure in indirect and subtle ways. The SBC sought to avoid problematic uses of leisure through its ...
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(2016-11-28)Department: EnglishIn light of the effluence of Islamophobia, targeted violence against black peoples, and hate speech against the Other monopolizing contemporary US political rhetoric, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice seems disturbingly ...
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(2016-04-20)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyEvents that have occurred in the past can be traced along a historical trajectory that is evident in our present day, and those decisions greatly influence the success of future posterity. The construction of interstate-40 ...
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(2017-07-31)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe removal of sediment mass to deposition in sedimentary systems creates predictable patterns of downstream fining and facies changes. Using Holocene lithology and stratigraphic architecture from a dense borehole network, ...
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(2012-10-08)Department: Biological SciencesThe adult vertebrate forebrain is responsible for a diverse set of behaviors, and as such exhibits complex anatomy. This complexity is generated during embryogenesis whereby a specific spatiotemporal sequence of transcriptional ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)This paper measures the housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws in the 1960s using household-level and census-tract data. State-level "fair-housing" laws attempted to bar discrimination on the basis ...
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(2009-04-22)Department: PhysicsThis thesis summarizes the research I have done during my graduate tenure at Vanderbilt University. The core of the thesis is a model of glueballs as tightly knotted or linked chromoelectric flux tubes. The model is based ...
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(2017-08-14)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesCharter school policy is driven by a combination of empirical concerns about their effectiveness as well as ideological motivations. However, there has thus far been a relative lack of evidence on the latter, making it ...
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(2008-10-10)Department: ReligionIn early Christian texts, the image of Christ the Miracle Worker was a critical component in the development of the faith. In treatises and sermons of the church fathers, the subject of Christ’s healings and miracles were ...
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(2022-08)Prior research reveals that community gardens have the propensity to impact wellness outcomes in underserved communities. A study of a community garden in Wharton, Texas sponsored by a non-profit organization, Hesed House, ...
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(2023-08)Houston Independent School District (HISD) and 8 Million Stories (8MS), a non-profit organization dedicated to "transform[ing] the lives of vulnerable youth through education, skills training, employment, and authentic ...
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(2015-04-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringEpilepsy vocalization feature, defined as the sound patients produce when undergoing a seizure/Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizure (PNES), is one of the features used to diagnose epilepsy/PNES. This study tries to analyze ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)The impact of changing an individual's skill level on the solution to a finite population version of the Mirrlees optimal nonlinear income tax problem with quasilinear-in-leisure preferences is investigated. It is shown ...
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(2019-06-26)Department: SociologyPrevious research shows that more positive attitudes toward condoms can increase their likelihood of use. Current CDC statistics show that the rate of sexually-transmitted infections is on the rise in the US, especially ...