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GED Student Achievement Trajectories and Predictors: Using the Latent Class Growth Model to Understand Heterogeneous Learning Patterns
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-06)
Each year, 500,000 adults take the General Education Development (GED) exam, the
gateway to a high school equivalency diploma. Nearly 40 percent fail. Little research exists on
the relation between preparation experiences ...
A Closer Look at Enhanced Ebooks: Compatible Versus Distracting Games
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)
The current literature on eBooks contains conflicting results for enhanced eBooks containing games and hot spots as effective reading tools for children. This study investigated different types of interactivity within ...
First observation of the direct detection of positive D-meson into anti-K-long + 3 pions and negative D-meson into K-long + 3 pions with the Fermilab FOCUS experiment
(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)
In this thesis the decays of positive D-mesons into neutral anti-K-mesons and
three charged pions and of negative D-mesons into neutral K-mesons and three
charged pions are reconstructed in both long and short neutral ...
The quadratic approximation for quintessence with arbitrary initial conditions
(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)
We examine models of quintessence in which a minimally-coupled scalar field
phi evolves near a
local extremum of its potential V ( phi) at phi_*. Assuming that (1/V
)(dV/dphi) is small and w ~ -1, we
Taylor expand the ...
Emittance and entropy of electron beams
(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)
Creating high-brightness electron beams, which have many practical
applications, is done with cathodes in regions with large electric
field by field emission. The brightness is high when the current is
high and the ...
In Defense of Reputation: The Duel of Honor and Royal Authority in Jacobean England
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-25)
Tracking the Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Negative Self-Cognitions in Children: A Longitudinal Approach to Approximating Causality
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
This study investigates the effect of targeted peer victimization (TPV) on negative self-cognitions as a function of victimization type through a three-wave longitudinal study. Measures of TPV and cognitions were collected ...
Exploring Men "On the Down Low": Race, Sexuality, and HIV in the Twenty-First Century
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2014-04-28)
The Anorexic Aesthetic: An Analysis of the Poetics of Glück, Dickinson, and Bidart
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)
My argument acknowledges the complex liminal space within which the artist creates—one in which art may constitute an act of self-assertion or a deliberate pattern of self-sabotage, among other non-symptomologic, aesthetic ...
Comparing the Performance Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Measures in Toddlers
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-05-15)
The current study represents a preliminary investigation of a new screening measure, the
Vanderbilt Scales for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This measure’s psychometric
performance in toddlers referred for developmental ...