Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2022-07-18)Department: PsychologyEmbodiment deficits were central to early theories of schizophrenia and remain at the phenomenological core of the disorder. Contemporary evidence confirms disturbances of the bodily self as central to schizophrenia and ...
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(2022-07-28)Department: Electrical EngineeringCarbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) are an emerging alternative semiconductor technology. CNTFETs are a Schottky barrier transistor where the channel between a metal source/drain is a carbon nanotube (CNT) ...
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(2022-07-12)Department: ChemistryPreparation of Oligosaccharides and Related Structures Cleo Sabrina Evans Thesis under the direction of Professor Steven D. Townsend Aeromonas veronii is a gram-negative bacterial species known to cause disease in humans ...
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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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(2022-07-13)Department: Cancer BiologyIntegrins, the principal extracellular matrix (ECM) receptors of the cell, promote cell adhesion, migration, and proliferation, which are key events for cancer growth and metastasis. To date, most integrin-targeted cancer ...
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(2022-08-10)Department: Political ScienceThrough a combination of formal models and multiple regression analysis, this dissertation demonstrates how relative policy or geostrategic positioning between multiple parties influence how and whether leaders or states ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Special EducationVisual impairment fundamentally impacts students’ access to information and instruction. The field of visual impairment (VI) has touted assistive technology (AT) as a vital tool for addressing students with VI’s access ...
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(2022-07-15)Department: Cancer BiologyVascular endothelial cells (ECs) are specialized components in the tumor microenvironment (TME) that line the inner walls of blood vessels and serve as precursors for new blood vessel formation (angiogenesis). Compared to ...
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Motor and Cognitive Influences on Speech Production in Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease (2022-07-18)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Motor speech and cognitive dysfunction are both common clinical symptoms in the degenerative diseases of Huntington’s disease (HD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Though there is variability in speaking rate in both ...
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(2022-07-11)Department: EpidemiologyTo date, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified common genetic variants at approximately 200 loci for breast cancer risk. GWAS have been predominately conducted among women of European ancestry, and the ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: HistoryIn between the 1960s and 1970s, reformers pushed federal courts and policymakers to treat alcoholic citizens with medicine and therapy rather than carceral punishment. In doing so, advocates attempted to fundamentally ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringLong-term, sustained drug release utilizing an injectable delivery vehicle in localized, chronic diseases is a therapeutic strategy with the potential to extend the action of drugs, reduce drug off-target side effects, and ...
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(2022-07-14)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe abdominal organs, such as liver, spleen, pancreas, and kidneys are crucial organ systems and the relationships between spatial form and function are important area of study. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen is ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation investigates the relationship between defense spending and alliance reliability. I begin with a formal, game theoretic model in which a targeted member of a military alliance anticipates a challenge and ...
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(2022-07-29)Department: HistoryMuch of scholarship on Early Modern England widely acknowledges the central importance of the Bible for understanding the period while also noting that it has often been neglected by scholars. This work situates itself ...
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(2022-07-09)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines Black and White women’s experiences as complainants and defendants in South Carolina’s county-level criminal courts between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsHantaviruses are high-priority emerging pathogens carried by rodents and transmitted to humans by aerosolized excreta or, in rare cases, person-to-person contact. While sporadic in North and South America, many infections ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Computer ScienceImage segmentation has been increasingly applied in medical settings as recent developments have skyrocketed the potential applications of deep learning. Urology, specifically, is one field of medicine that is primed for ...
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(2022-07-07)Department: Biological SciencesIn the past two decades, human gut microbiome variation has been associated with numerous biological processes as well as beneficial and deleterious health outcomes. While many interrelated, environmental factors contribute ...
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(2022-08-04)Department: PsychologyIntolerance of uncertainty (IU) is the tendency to react negatively to uncertain situations due to negative beliefs about uncertainty. IU demonstrates robust associations with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder ...