Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2022-05-16)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMuch of the energy consumed by the world’s industrial sectors is lost as waste heat. Concurrently, manufacturing facilities also require vast, valuable quantities of compressed air, air that is most often produced from ...
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(2022-05-10)Department: Electrical EngineeringThere are few technologies that hold as much promise as autonomous Cyber-physical systems (CPS) in re-orienting the way we move around, explore new environments, distribute resources, and conduct complex missions. To bring ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsAntibiotic resistance is a growing global health threat. According to the CDC, nearly 2.8 million drug-resistant infections occur every year, killing 35,000 people annually. While research has focused on the acquisition ...
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(2022-05-03)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyPatients who have undergone radiation therapy for brain metastases often have latent lesions such as recurrent tumor or radiation necrosis. Differentiating these lesions in vivo is critical for providing adequate care, but ...
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(2022-05-03)Department: Biomedical EngineeringFocused ultrasound (FUS) is a non-invasive therapeutic technology that can use ultrasonic energy to precisely target tissue deep inside the body without incisions or radiation. However, for the safety and credibility of ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: <Major>Precision medicine will likely fail to redress disproportionately high rates of chronic conditions without equitable approaches for the collectivization and sharing of genomics and health data from American Indian and ...
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(2022-05-06)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceReproducibility and validation of scientific work by others is a key tenet of the scientific process and is absolutely necessary to increase confidence in the validity of said work. In practice, however, it can be quite ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Chemical Engineering--
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(2022-05-16)Department: ChemistryKnowledge of peptide and protein structure is critical for understanding how they carry out their biological roles. In this dissertation, I describe how two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy coupled with isotope ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: PhysicsRegardless of its remarkable success, the standard model (SM) of particle physics is unable to explain experimental observations like dark matter (DM), or conceptual problems, like the hierarchy problem. Supersymmetry ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: PsychologyImproving the accuracy of medical image interpretation can improve the diagnosis of numerous diseases. We compared different approaches to aggregating repeated decisions about medical images to improve the accuracy of a ...
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(2022-03-30)Department: OtherSmall cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive disease, characterized by a signature “tumor recurrence” during treatment, wherein after initial favorable response, tumors re-establish themselves and no longer respond ...
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(2022-05-03)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I propose a framework for evaluating a minimally adequate egalitarian theory of justice. I argue that the minimum adequacy requirements for such a theory are that the theory must be (1) clearly an ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: Latin American StudiesConditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have been implemented in several countries around the world as a tool for building human capital. There is significant evidence to suggest that CCTs have helped get more children ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: PharmacologyThyroid cancer incidence is rapidly increasing in the United States, with over 45,000 patients projected to be diagnosed in 2022. While the vast majority of patients respond well to first line treatment, approximately 20% ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyIn 2020 the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Racial Equity Task Force was created in order to dismantle structural racism and grapple with the institution’s historical injustices that were brought to the forefront ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Latin American StudiesHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the largest public and global health problems. In 2015 the World Health Organization (WHO) put forth the Treat All recommendation for HIV, which officially states that countries ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThis thesis examines youth mental health before and after the pandemic to find out how social determinants influence rates of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents. It aims to inform policymakers about the ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: Latin American StudiesArgentine and Brazilian contemporary cinema provide thorough documentation of the avenues through which neocolonialism rears its head in modern Latin America. In the following work, four films are given treatment to provide ...
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(2022-03-25)Department: Chemical EngineeringMore than 50% of adults in the United States are afflicted with musculoskeletal disease or injury, with bone fractures being the most common musculoskeletal condition requiring medical resources. While fracture repair is ...