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(2013-06-28)Department: Environmental EngineeringRiparian top soil layer, rich in organic carbon, act as a source provider of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to its adjacent stream, but the hydrological factors that control the dynamics of DOC from terrestrial sources to ...
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Hydrophilic Poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate) Films on Tygon Tubing to Reduce Surface Protein Adhesion (2023-03-27)Department: Chemical EngineeringExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines are used for critically ill patients who are afflicted by respiratory or cardiac complications. During prolonged operation, surface contact between human blood and the ...
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(2021-03-22)Department: Biomedical EngineeringChronic wounds are wounds that have failed to progress through the stages of wound healing properly and become stalled in a prolonged state of inflammation. There is increasing need of treatments that not only help progress ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: Biomedical EngineeringSmall interfering RNA (siRNA) can potently and specifically suppress translation of any gene, including intracellular targets traditionally considered “undruggable”. However, emergence of translational siRNA therapies has ...
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(2018-07-31)Department: ChemistryVanadium dioxide (VO2) is a unique transition metal oxide that undergoes a first-order phase transition at 68°C from a semiconducting monoclinic phase (M) to a metallic rutile phase (R). This has made VO2 of great interest ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMECHANICAL ENGINEERING HYDROXYL TAGGING VELOCIMETRY (HTV) IN HIGHLY ACCELERATED FLOWS AMBER PERKINS Thesis under the direction of Professor Robert Pitz Hydroxyl tagging velocimetry (HTV) is applied to evaluate its use ...
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(2010-12-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringSupersonic air flow over a wall cavity with a rear ramp both with and without an upstream strut was studied with Hydroxyl Tagging Velocimetry (HTV). HTV is a non-intrusive means of measuring gas velocity by producing a ...
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(2005-12-14)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHydroxyl tagging velocimetry (HTV) in supersonic flow over a cavity flameholder is presented in this thesis. HTV is an “unseeded”, non-intrusive method to measure gas velocity that produces a hydroxyl tag from water vapor ...
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(2018-05-30)Department: MathematicsIt is customary in geometric group theory to study groups as metric spaces. The standard way to convert a group G into a geometric object is to fix a generating set X and endow the Cayley graph Ga(G,X) with the corresponding ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-08-13)A potentially life-threatening electrolyte problem that commonly finds its way into the ICU as well as on exams.
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(2014-04-27)Department: PhilosophyThe present discussion considers how chaos theory might become positioned to subsume modal categories of necessity, determinism, free will and contingency. The strategy is to: (1) propose a theory of transfinite probability ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2009-01-12)Hyperkalemia is a very common and potentially dangerous electrolyte disorder that commonly occurs in ICU patients.
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2009-02-12)Evaluation and treatment of elevated serum sodium is presented.
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(2014-07-17)Department: PharmacologyPHARMACOLOGY Hypo-osmotic Effects in Cardiovascular Controls: Hepatic and Renal Mechanisms Underlying the Osmopressor Response. Patients with baroreflex impairment experience a robust increase in blood ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2009-02-07)Hyponatremia or a low serum sodium is a common electrolyte problem that is dangerous if ignored or treated improperly.
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(2021-09-17)Department: Cancer BiologyHypoxia is a common feature in tumors and induces signaling that promotes tumor cell survival, invasion, and metastasis. Questions remain, however, about the role of HIF signaling in tumor cell dissemination to bone and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2009-02-15)Understanding the root cause of hypoxia will allow for more appropriate treatment.
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(2022-07-11)Department: Electrical EngineeringConventional control methods include voltage-mode and current-mode control for power supply engineers to learn and study. Hysteretic control topologies and their advantages are less well known. A pure hysteretic control ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
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(2018-03-22)Department: SociologyGay men in contemporary Western societies invest a considerable amount of time and energy into their physical appearance. Both scholars and popular press attribute this to gay male culture's heightened emphasis on physical ...