Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2020-11-17)Pneumonia is a major cause of hospitalization and death in both children and adults. An early diagnosis of pneumonia using low-cost chest X-rays can help improve the chance of survival. However, analyzing the X-rays requires ...
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(2020-11-13)There is little descriptive information regarding health services research variables in ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). This study’s purpose was to describe working conditions, licensed nursing personnel functions, and ...
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(2020-11-18)Critical infrastructure systems provide essential services that support modern society. However, these systems are deteriorating and becoming more vulnerable to multiple hazards. In order to improve their resilience (i.e., ...
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(2020-11-18)Graphic organizers have been found to have significant positive outcomes for struggling readers. However, there is often a gap between research and practice, and even though a practice has been proven effective in research, ...
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(2020-10-29)Adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) catalyze adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing to expand the diversity of genomically-encoded transcripts and proteins by hydrolytic deamination of genomically-encoded adenosine ...
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(2020-11-14)The metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 (mGlu7) is a G protein-coupled receptor that plays important roles in synaptic transmission and plasticity in the brain. mGlu7 is expressed presynaptically on excitatory and inhibitory ...
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(2020-10-28)In this dissertation we seek to present a comprehensive fluence and wavelength dependent ultrafast pump-probe transmission study of graphene supported on a soda-lime glass substrate for a range of pump fluences that enable ...
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(2020-11-06)Worldwide, millions of people are supporting political candidates who promise to upend “politics as usual.” Frequently referred to as “populists,” their election to power has become increasingly common: citizens have ...
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(2020-11-16)The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement seeks to disrupt dominant cultural patterns and norms both through the use of traditional movement tactics, such as protest, and through the strategic and intentional integration of ...
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(2020-11-14)Inspired by Hermano Vianna's 1996 book, O Mistério do Samba, that details the intersection of music, culture and politics, as well as the appropriation and nationalization of Samba in service to Getulio Vargas' government, ...
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(2020-11-17)Lung cancer remains the leading cause of all cancer-associated mortalities within the United States. A contributing factor to the high mortality rate is heterogeneous patient response to cancer treatment. This work ...
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(2020-11-13)Degradation of materials poses a significant threat to the safety and stability of both man-made and natural materials and structures, and is generally driven by coupled chemical and physical processes. Complementary to ...
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(2020-10-29)Over the past decade, teachers in the United States have felt an increase in the linguistic demands of the classroom due to three fundamental shifts: the curricular, the demographic, and the critical. The language demands ...
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(2020-11-17)PHYSICS Development of a scintillation-based CMOS Quantitative Autoradiography imager for Safeguard Applications Ardelia Michelle Clarke Dissertation under the direction of Professor Todd Peterson This dissertation ...
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(2020-11-10)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of complex neurodevelopment disorders with a strong genetic basis. Large scale sequencing studies have provided strong evidence for dozens of ASD risk genes. However, it is estimated ...
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(2020-11-18)Object recognition is an essential task for computer vision in which deep learning models trained on large-scale datasets have made remarkable achievements. However, while datasets like ImageNet often span large numbers ...
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(2020-10-21)The prism over a graph G is the cartesian product of G with K2, i.e., the graph obtained by taking two copies of G and adding a perfect matching joining the two copies of each vertex by an edge. The graph G is called ...
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(2020-10-28)Exposure of cells to diverse types of stressful environments differentially regulates cell fate. Although many types of stresses causing this differential regulation are known, it is unknown how changes over time of the ...
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(2020-11-17)Transportation contributes to almost one-quarter of the current energy related greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Electrification of the transportation sector is key to meet the emissions criteria set by the ...
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(2020-11-18)Logistic regression models are used in the majority of genomic studies to analyze the genetic data linked to electronic health record (EHR) data, and do not take full usage of the time-to-event information available in ...