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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-08)
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Exploring school sequences as a new unit of analysis for intradistrict school finance equity studies (2006-12-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation used student and school-level data to create school assignment sequences at the student level; evaluated the distribution of resources across those sequences; and compared findings from equity analysis ...
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(2023-05)This SERVQUAL study aims to identify areas for improvement and measure the service quality gaps perceived by the employees at a Neighborhood Health Action Center (“Center”) as part of a major metropolitan public health ...
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(2006-09-13)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis study weaves together strands of knowledge from a range of disciplines including anthropology and physics to explore power and leadership from a paradigm of synergy. Due to a desire to develop a phenomenological ...
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(2020-06-14)Department: PharmacologyNo current pharmacologic treatments stop the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common major neurocognitive disorder. High levels of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGFA) are ...
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(2011-08-04)Department: Biological SciencesThe work presented in this dissertation focuses on a how the telomerase complex assembles both in vivo and in vitro and begins to explore how one member of the telomerase enzyme in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: Biological SciencesThe work presented in this dissertation focuses on the temporal regulation of telomerase complex assembly in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as mediated by protein degradation of a core subunit during G1 phase of the ...
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(2020-10-19)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMyocardial infarction (MI) induces an intense injury response which ultimately generates a collagen-dominated scar. While required to prevent ventricular rupture, the fibrotic process is often sustained in a manner detrimental ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityDual language (DL) programs have become increasingly popular in the US over the last decade, particularly among higher-income, predominantly English-speaking populations. While there is concern that this increased demand ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(2023-03-15)Department: PsychologyChildren’s understanding for the order of numbers, referred to as ordinality, has been identified as a critical early number skill for children to develop (Lyons et al., 2014; Xu & LeFevre, 2021). However, research on how ...
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(2015-08-11)Department: NeuroscienceAdenosine-to-Inosine RNA editing (A-to-I editing) has evolved as an important process for generating transcript diversity in metazoans. Several editing events which effect transcripts encoding proteins important for CNS ...
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(2008-09-30)Department: Special EducationPractitioners are increasingly expected to provide reading instruction to students with cognitive disabilities to help them become literate. Whereas a phonics-based approach to reading instruction is regarded as a “best ...
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(2021-08-10)"In recent years, political, economic, demographic, and technology forces have impacted healthcare at an ever-increasing pace, and healthcare leadership teams are desperate to keep up. This study aimed to support an inaugural ...
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(2016-10-03)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsMOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY & BIOPHYSICS Exploring the Function of G6PC2 in Pancreatic Islet Beta Cells Kayla Boortz Dissertation under the direction of Professor Richard O’Brien, Ph.D. G6PC2 encodes an islet-specific ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Human GeneticsLate-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with a strong genetic component. APOE is a well-established risk gene for LOAD, and several other genes have also been identified. However, at ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Human GeneticsUterine fibroids (UF) are common benign tumors of the uterus affecting majority of females over their lifetime and are the number one cause of hysterectomies in the United States. Genetics are known to influence UF risk ...
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(2012-09-27)Department: Biological SciencesTraversal of the hemocoel, avoiding or surviving interactions with the insect’s innate immune system, invasion of the female mosquito’s salivary glands, and injection into the vertebrate host, are necessary steps for disease ...
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(Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law, 2019)This article reviews the application of several IP rights (copyright, patent, sui generis database right, data exclusivity and trade secret) to Big Data. Beyond the protection of software used to collect and process Big ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008)During the course of my Honors Research Project, I worked with Dr. David James to determine whether a group of target stars are members of the Local Association. I did this by reducing spectroscopic data, taken by Dr. ...