Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2023-11-17)Department: Human GeneticsUterine fibroids (UF) are common benign tumors of the uterus affecting majority of females over their lifetime and are the number one cause of hysterectomies in the United States. Genetics are known to influence UF risk ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: HistoryThis dissertation project centers on the overlooked work of activists whose organizing efforts during the Black Power era converged with their subsequent initiation into African diasporic religions like Haitian Vodou or ...
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(2024)Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a disease with major symptoms including difficulties with memory, language, problem-solving, and other thinking skills. Given the current efforts in advocacy, policy, diagnosis, treatments, and ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Human GeneticsDNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that is essential for proper multi-lineage cellular differentiation, though the connection between patterned regions of hypomethylation and phenotype is poorly understood. Over ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Human GeneticsDNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that is essential for proper multi-lineage cellular differentiation, though the connection between patterned regions of hypomethylation and phenotype is poorly understood. Over ...
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(2023-08-15)Department: NeuroscienceThe insular cortex (IC) integrates sensory and interoceptive cues to inform downstream circuitry executing adaptive behavioral responses. The IC communicates with areas involved canonically in stress and motivation. IC ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityWithin this dissertation, I use design-based research along with discourse and interaction analysis to study classroom groups of mathematical learners to better understand and design for group structures and cultures that ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Mechanical EngineeringAs modern engineering challenges grow more complex, the demand for novel methods of sensing the world around us and more accurate models to explain that world grow in tandem. This dissertation seeks to advance the state ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Community Research & ActionThis dissertation aims to contribute to research on the causes and responses to homelessness by centering race in analyses of the macro-level forces that drive homelessness and by exploring the strategies homelessness ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: ChemistryInterleukin-6 (IL-6) is an inflammatory cytokine involved in the immune response but when dysregulated becomes problematic. We are interested in IL-6 due to its involvement in preterm birth, musculoskeletal infection, and ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyActin-based protrusions are found on the surface of all eukaryotic cells, where they support diverse biological activities essential for life. Models of protrusion growth hypothesize that actin filament assembly provides ...
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(2023-11-22)Department: Computer ScienceHumans have the ability to form strategies when faced with novel tasks, and different people often form different strategies for the same task. Most AI systems, on the other hand, do not exhibit this level of fluidity. ...
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(2023-11-15)Department: Political ScienceIn this project, I argue that social media platform governance drives variation in online political extremism at the community level. My argument makes two claims: first, social media platforms are a kind of private ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Molecular Pathology & ImmunologyGenomic and transcriptomic analysis have revolutionized our understanding of many cancers. However, genomic understanding of thyroid cancer has lagged behind other tumors; currently, thyroid cancer management is largely ...
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(2023-11-14)Department: Biological SciencesInfectious diseases pose a continuous risk to the health and longevity of human, animal, and plant communities. Fortunately, immune systems are equipped to identify and eradicate these invading parasites. However, an ...
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(2023-11-09)Department: Community Research & ActionThe way that women of color make sense of adverse experiences such as intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization affects the way that they respond to the situation. Cultural contexts provide a frame for making sense of ...
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(2023-11-15)Department: Biological SciencesDue to human demographic history and the action of natural selection, most genetic variation in present-day humans is of recent origin. However, a smaller number of variants have persisted over hundreds of thousands of ...