Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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(2003-01-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringIonizing radiation poses a serious threat to semiconductor integrated circuits that are required to operate reliably in radiation-intensive environments, for example, circuits used in space electronics. Numerical modeling ...
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(2003-02-20)Department: PharmacologyThe serotonin transporter (SERT) mediates clearance of the neuromodulator serotonin (5-HT) following its release. The clinical efficacy of antidepressant drugs that block SERT activity indicates that serotonin transporter ...
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(2003-02-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringChemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond or related carbon materials are excellent materials for electron field emitters. However, the key factor to successful exploitation of CVD diamond for vacuum microelectronic applications ...
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(2003-02-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe Vanderbilt University Free Electron Laser (FEL) is a tunable source of pulsed infrared radiation with pulse characteristics unlike those of most laser systems. A primary objective of the research presented in this ...
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(2003-02-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe continuous demand for higher packing density and faster operating speeds in modern digital CMOS circuits has driven the scaling of the metal-oxide-silicon field effect transistors. The use of scaling schemes which do ...
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(2003-04-02)Department: Biomedical EngineeringSudden cardiac death is the primary cause of mortality in the industrialized world. Ventricular tachycardia and lethal arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation are believed to be the result of reentrant electrical ...
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(2003-04-10)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe objective of this dissertation is to investigate the accuracy of point and surface based image space to physical space registration performed using a spatially tracked A-mode ultrasound transducer to localize features ...
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(2003-04-10)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn this dissertation, two decorrelation techniques are proposed for the application of lossless and lossy image compression. The basic concept of the proposed methods is based on interpolative subband decomposition. The ...
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(2003-04-14)Department: PhysicsThe description of the properties of nuclei far from stability presents a big challenge in Nuclear Physics theory. It demands the development of sophisticated algorithms suitable for describing the complex many-body ...
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(2003-04-14)Department: MathematicsA residuated lattice is an algebraic structure that has a lattice and a monoid reduct, such that multiplication is residuated with respect to the order. Residuated lattices generalize many well studied algebras including ...
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(2003-04-15)Department: PhysicsThe studies described in this work take advantage of a unique infrared light source that allowed the exploration of previously uninvestigated vibrational modes and excitation densities, plus other laser systems that allowed ...
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(2003-04-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn robotics, we need robots which have the ability to understand what a human wants and can respond accordingly. On the other hand, robot should be able to provide information that is easy for a human to understand. ...
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(2003-04-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringNumerical process and device simulation tools are used in this work to analyze the physical mechanisms that contribute to catastrophic failure of power Schottky diodes exposed to an electron beam pulse. Simulations suggest ...
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(2003-04-22)Department: Political SciencePOLITICAL SCIENCE CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS AND THE NUCLEAR ISSUE 1945-1985: A MODEL OF PRESSURES AND CONSTRAINTS KATHA MILLER-WINDER Dissertation under the direction of Professor George J. Graham This work examines the ...
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(2003-06-25)Department: Management of TechnologyMANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC DECISION BIAS BY ROLE IN FAILED TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS KENNETH ROSSON PENCE Thesis under the direction of David M. Dilts This empirical research examines how personnel, from different ...
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(2003-07-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe correlation between the stiffness and health of tissue is an accepted form of organ disease assessment. As a result, there has been a significant amount of interest in developing methods to image elasticity parameters ...
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(2003-07-24)Department: Electrical EngineeringOxygen vacancies have long been known to be the dominant intrinsic defect in amorphous SiO2 . They exist, in concentrations dependent on processing conditions, as neutral defects in thermal oxides without usually causing ...
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(2003-11-10)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCytokinetic actomyosin ring formation (CAR) in S. pombe requires two independent actin nucleation pathways, one dependent on the Arp2/3 complex and another involving the formin Cdc12p. Here we investigate the role of the ...
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(2003-11-25)Department: Teaching and LearningAlthough prior research as shown that generating explanations encourages students to learn new content with deeper understanding and to monitor their own comprehension more effectively, helping students learn how to explain ...
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(2003-12-01)Department: Education & Human DevelopmentThis study is based on pilot work that suggested that what makes hobbies engaging for adults is the opportunity to create an artifact that can be customized and shared. Further pilot studies showed that these same ...