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(2021-06-16)Department: MathematicsThis thesis is composed of two independent parts: Part I is for high-order low-bit quantization on fusion frames. Fusion frames provide a mathematical setting for representing signals in terms of projections onto a redundant ...
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(2016-01-12)Department: Electrical EngineeringCyber-physical systems (CPS) represent a class of complex engineered systems where functionality and behavior emerge through the interaction between the computational and physical domains. Simulation provides design ...
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(2008-04-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn low-end microcontroller systems task scheduling is often not done, performed using very ad-hoc methods, or using a high-overhead RTOS. In this paper we offer an alternative: the design-time generation of high-precision ...
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(2014-04-17)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThis thesis involves the development of an overnight high-resolution 3D diffusion kurtosis imaging protocol for ex vivo whole rat brain imaging. MRI acquisition parameters were optimized in order to obtain high-resolution, ...
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(2011-08-08)Department: Biomedical EngineeringAchieving micron resolutions in magnetic resonance imaging is constrained first by limitations in available signal strength as voxel sizes decrease, and second, by acceptable acquisition times due to the large data sets ...
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(2010-12-04)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe spatiotemporally dynamic distribution of instructive ligands within embryonic tissue, and their feedback antagonists, including inherent stabilities and rates of clearance, are affected by interactions with cell surfaces ...
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(2007-12-27)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCancer is a complex and adaptable disease, and knowledge of the mechanisms that cause its progression is vital to creating and monitoring anti-cancer therapies. As a tumor grows beyond a few mm3, blood vessels are recruited ...
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(2023-08)This quality-improvement project examines why families choose one high school over another in Southwest Washington School District (SWSD), which is in a relatively affluent, educated and homogenous area. The goal was to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
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(2020-06-29)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesHigh schools across the United States have rapidly adopted online course systems to provide instruction to their most marginalized students. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how students interact with and ...
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(2022-09-14)Department: BiochemistryStaphylococcus aureus infections pose a serious threat to human health with the increasing incidence of microbial resistance to last-line antibiotics such as daptomycin. Many S. aureus infections present as a biofilm wherein ...
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(2009-01-08)Department: Chemical EngineeringA study of the high temperature oxidation of silica formers in dissociated oxygen is presented in this dissertation. Flowing an O2/Ar gas mixture through a microwave discharge before it entered a flow reactor generated ...
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(2022-08-10)Department: Chemical EngineeringThe brain exerts centralized control over a body’s other organs by receiving inputs from peripheral tissues and responding by regulating various sensations. It accounts for 2% of body weight but consumes 20% of glucose. ...
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(2020-08-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe reliability of the digital integrated circuits has been one of the most important topics, and multiple studies have been carried out to increase the reliability of digital integrated circuits. High-current state triggered ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)Electron microscopy has been the recent subject of molecular imaging due to the strength of the electrons' interaction with the target molecule making for a detailed pattern at a small scale.[1] To achieve the best 4D ...
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(2011-08-26)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation aims to augment our understanding of the fine-grain neural architecture and functionality of object-selective regions of the ventral-temporal brain and, especially, the highly face-selective Fusiform Face ...
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(2005-04-06)Department: PhysicsDevelopment of a scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope system with interchangeable sensor configurations for imaging magnetic fields of room-temperature (RT) samples with sub-millimeter ...
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(2020-01-21)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyPathogen-specific human B cells represent a rich source of antibodies that have been selected for by the process of affinity maturation. In the last few decades, a number of approaches have been developed for the identification ...
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(2008-07-26)Department: PhysicsIn this dissertation, we explore the magnetic fields associated with action potential propagation in the spiral fiber structure of a rabbit’s cardiac apex. We use optical imaging, SQUID microscopy, monodomain and bidomain ...
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(2009-08-04)Department: ChemistryBiological systems are extremely complex and new tools are necessary to effectively enhance our knowledge and understanding of their underlying mechanisms. Mass spectrometry has proven to be an essential technology for ...