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Modeling, simulation, and verification of biochemical processes using Stochastic Hybrid Systems
(2009-04-08)
Formal modeling and analysis methods hold great promise to help further discovery and innovation for biochemical systems. Domain experts from physicians to chemical engineers can use computational modeling and analysis ...
Building an online community to support local cancer survivorship: combining informatics and participatory action research for collaborative design
(2009-04-14)
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the collaborative design of an online community for cancer survivorship in middle Tennessee. The four primary aims of this qualitative study were to define the local cancer ...
Outcomes and Assessment in Teacher Education: Contradictions, Tensions, and Implications for Educating Preservice Teachers
(2009-03-30)
This study investigated the experiences of preservice teachers within a program of teacher education and considered the interaction of the spaces and discourses therein during a semester of student teaching. The study built ...
Psychological Distress in Mothers and Fathers of Children with Cancer: Posttraumatic Stress, Depression, and Anxiety Symptoms
(2009-03-30)
The current study examined posttraumatic stress (PTSS), depression, and anxiety symptoms in a sample of mothers and fathers of children with cancer. Mothers (n = 153) and fathers (n = 76) of 154 children with cancer completed ...
Examining Power in Health and Human Service Organizations: A Case Study
(2009-04-21)
This thesis uses Foucault’s conceptualization of power to examine power dynamics in two health and human service organizations. Foucault suggests that power should be observed by assessing relationships, cultures, and ...
Compartmental Tissue Characterization using NMR Relaxometry
(2009-04-20)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its sensitivity to a wide array of contrast mechanisms in soft tissue. Unfortunately, the physiological and/or microanatomical characteristics that give rise to this contrast ...
Spiritual Regeneration and Ultra-Nationalism: The Political Thought of Pedro Albizu Campos and Plínio Salgado in 1930s Puerto Rico and Brazil
(2009-04-13)
This research explores the political thought of two Latin American intellectuals and party leaders of the 1930s, Pedro Albizu Campos from Puerto Rico and Plínio Salgado from Brazil. During a decade of economic depression ...
The relevance of Royce’s applied ethics: studies in war, business, and environmental ethics
(2009-03-31)
A major focus in recent studies of Josiah Royce has been on his relevance to applied ethics—to ethics in the public sphere. These accounts have shown, in numerous ways, the historical and ongoing relevance of Royce’s ethics. ...
"'Bloody Breathitt': Power and Violence in the mountain South"
(2009-04-20)
Dissertation under the direction of Professor David L. Carlton
This project deals with political violence involving white southerners in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the circumstances through which ...
New insights into the total dose response of fully-depleted planar and FinFET SOI transistors
(2009-04-21)
In this thesis, we examine the total dose response of planar fully depleted planar SOI MOSFETs fabricated in a FinFET technology as functions of both drain bias and gate length. The ID for negative Vgf increases with the ...