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(2022-04-04)Department: BiostatisticsUterine fibroids (UF) are common pelvic tumors in women, heritable, and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ~30 loci associated with increased risk in UF. Using summary statistics from a previously ...
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(2014-08-06)Department: EpidemiologyUterine fibroids are benign tumors associated with an increased risk of irregular vaginal bleeding and abdominal pain. Disease severity can be described in the context of total fibroid volume, number of tumors, and growth ...
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(The American Economic Review, 1990)Taylor's series and logarithmic estimates of health state-dependent utility functions both imply that job injuries reduce one's utility and marginal utility of income, thus rejecting the monetary loss equivalent formulation. ...
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(Pulmonary Therapy, 2022-12-08)Adults with obesity may develop asthma that is ineffectively controlled by inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta-adrenoceptor agonists. Mechanistic and translational studies suggest that metabolic dysregulation that ...
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(2022-05)Utilizing free campus resources can help pre-health college students successfully matriculate into health professions schools. Understanding the perspectives of pre-health students can help advising units address the ...
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(2021-07-22)Department: Human GeneticsThe goal of this dissertation was to utilize genetic techniques to understand the relationships between lung cancer, COPD, and comorbid conditions using DNA biobanks linked to electronic health records. In the first aim, ...
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(2020-09-23)Department: NeuroscienceHuman induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) and derived models are increasingly being used to model gene-environmental interactions relevant to neurodegenerative diseases as well as reveal novel functions of apoptotic ...
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(2022-08)Registered nursing is a profession of caring that affords its members with an opportunity to serve others. Registered nurses (RNs) perform many of the duties that allow hospitals to operate. Shortages in the field are ...
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(2020-12)To illuminate the relationship between onboarding practices and employee engagement and retention, this capstone combines novel data from a large, urban school district with a review of research focused on employee engagement, ...
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(2023-08)This capstone project examined the perceived impact of WIDA’s professional learning offerings (PLOs) on K-12 educators for multilingual learners across its consortium of 41 U.S. states, territories, and federal agencies. ...
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(Finnish Exegetical Society, 2006)
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(Cambridge University Press, 1998)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)The valence of parental descriptions of their child’s personality may be an indicator of child difficulties as well as the nature of caregiving behavior within that parent–child relationship. The present project examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2001-04-13)
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(2016-07-20)Soft tissue calcification, including both dystrophic calcification and heterotopic ossification, may occur following injury. These lesions have variable fates as they are either resorbed or persist. Persistent soft tissue ...
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(2010-09-23)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDiffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides an indirect measure of tissue structure on microscopic scales. To date, DTI is the only imaging method that provides such information in vivo, and it has proven to be a valuable tool ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDiffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides a unique approach to probing the microstructure of biological tissues noninvasively and DTI-based tractography is an irreplaceable tool to measure anatomical connectivity in human ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringClinically compatible ultra-short echo time (UTE) imaging sequences for quantitative T2-based bound and pore water imaging in bone were implemented and validated on a 3T human scanner and a 4.7T small bore system. Pore ...
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(2022-08)The goal of this capstone project is to help an organization solve a problem of practice. We partnered with Southfield School, an independent elementary and middle school, struggling with increased attrition rates as the ...
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(Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012)This article addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) ...