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(2013-08-06)Department: Special EducationPerseverative speech is the inability to adapt topics of conversation along with the social context and continuing with one topic even after it has ceased to be socially appropriate (Sandson & Albert, 1984). Perseverative ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: PhysicsAsteroids are remnants of the formation of the Solar System and provide insight into its formation, evolution and how life may have begun. An important issue is determining which meteorite composition is representative ...
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Using Informatics to Facilitate Home-Clergy Hospital Pastoral Care Visits: A Proof Of Concept Study (2011-08-24)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThis Master’s Thesis project sought to address the problem of facilitating pastoral care visits for patients from clergy by whom patients want to be visited. The project: (1) assessed the potential utility of a model, ...
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(Journal of the Medical Librarian Association, 2019-04)Objective: Entrepreneurship and innovative product design in health care requires expertise in finding and evaluating diverse types of information from a multitude of sources to accomplish a number of tasks, such as securing ...
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(2019-07-24)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesGentrification is a polarizing and elusive type of neighborhood change that disproportionately threatens our community’s most vulnerable populations. The lived consequences of gentrification have merited a substantial ...
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(2021-12)This quality improvement project explores how leaders at the Virginia Museum of Natural History define impact, how leaders use data to inform decision making, and what museum stakeholders identify as opportunities for ...
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(2009-03-28)Department: Electrical EngineeringData processing in scientific and workflow-oriented computing is carried out as analysis campaigns, which consist of an input dataset and a set of interdependent jobs. Traditionally, these massively parallel computations ...
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(2022-03-25)Department: PharmacologyAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by neurodegeneration, memory loss and cognitive impairment. Sporadic late-onset AD is the most common form of the disease; it makes up approximately ...
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(2021-05-06)Department: BiostatisticsClinically meaningful variables are increasingly becoming available in observational databases. However, these data can be error-prone, giving misleading results in statistical inference. Data validation can help maintain ...
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(2007-12-05)Department: Biomedical EngineeringRecent years have seen an explosive increase in the use of lasers for medical applications, particularly in the field of dermatology where they are commonly used to achieve aesthetic, surgical, and therapeutic clinical ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Biomedical EngineeringRecent studies have demonstrated that organotypic raft cultures serve as an excellent model for the optical behavior of actual tissues. Other studies in our lab have demonstrated that Raman spectroscopy can discriminate ...
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Using Protein Flexibility to Model Viral Glycoprotein Mutation Tolerances and Sites of Vulnerability (2020-06-16)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyBioinformatic and epitope mapping approaches have been successful, but are reactive, in determining the mutation preferences and commonly targeted B-cell epitopes of viral fusion proteins. The primary motivation of this ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-09-15)This paper investigates the process and benefits of Readers Theater in order to determine its usefulness within a variety of instructional settings. It discusses ways that Readers Theater has been implemented in real ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)Spurred by its successful delivery of credit to poor borrowers in diverse areas of the developing world, joint liability lending has caught the imagination of development theorists and practitioners. Various theories have ...
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(2016-07-08)Department: Special EducationParent-school communication is a highly valued type of involvement for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but parents continue to report poor communication as a barrier to working with the schools ...
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(2021-06-08)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologySignal transduction is the process by which an external signal is transmitted into a cell to induce a cellular response. Cells have evolved robust mechanisms to interpret and respond to these external signals as they modify ...
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(Boston University Law Review, 1997)We propose that plaintiffs in securities fraud actions should use state inspections statutes to obtain discovery about potential securities fraud cases. First, we argue that the Private Securities Law Reform Act has ...
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(2014-07-16)Department: BiostatisticsShotgun proteomics has become a widely used technology for identifying a large number of peptides and proteins in complex biological samples. However, any single score function from most search algorithms to evaluate the ...
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Using Stay-Play-Talk To Increase Levels Of Initiations And Responses For Children With Social Delays (2023)Children with social delays may engage in lower rates of reciprocal peer interactions that can affect social communication development due to the lack of opportunity, deficits in play skills and joint attention. Researchers ...
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(2015-05-27)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe spliceosome is a dynamic macromolecular machine composed of five different small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), the Nineteen Complex (NTC), RNA helicases, and other proteins that catalyze the removal of introns ...