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Views on the Black Megachurch: Du Bois, the Tuskegee Machine and World Changers Church International (2015-11-25)Department: EnglishIn his study, The Negro Church, published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois prophesized the black church as the driving force behind racial uplift. Subsequently, he posited the Negro preacher as the prominent figure in obtaining ...
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(International Journal of Stem Education, 2019-10-29)Background: Many undergraduate students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields lack experience in collaborative thinking, limiting their effectiveness as they enter careers in academic ...
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(Brown University, Brown Judaic Studies, 2000)"Of one thing we can be sure: BC in its present form does not coincide with village law. We confront the text now as literature, the product of urbanites. Even if it reflects laws that are thought to be the result of ...
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(2011-04-14)Department: PharmacologyThis project is concerned with mechanisms underlying osteoblast differentiation, a critical process during bone remodeling and repair. In this dissertation I explored novel regulators for osteoblast differentiation by ...
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(Dipartimento di storia della società e delle istituzioni, Università degli studi di Milano, 1998)
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(Dipartimento di storia della società e delle istituzioni, Università degli studi di Milano, 1992)
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(2014-08-21)Department: GermanThis is an investigation into contemporary literary reactions to the oftentimes violent aspects of globalization, under the overarching theme of border crossings. My textual analyses are grounded in an extensive theoretical ...
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(2006-11-01)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyMammalian reoviruses serve as important models for studies of viral replication and pathogenesis. These viruses have been isolated from many mammalian species, including humans, and cause disease primarily in the very ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-08-13)The paper briefly describes the construction of self organizing nanoparticles that can be designed to detect and record arbitrary intracellular events. The basic design captures nucleic acids. The design utilizes a single ...
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(2010-04-28)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation examines the relative instructional efficiency of virtual fraction manipulatives and physical fraction manipulatives. More specifically, this dissertation uses a randomized experiment to determine if ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-03)This paper discusses the impact of virtual coaching to provide additional mentorship, and instructional coaching for beginning mathematics teachers.
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(2011-04-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringImpairments in social communication skills are thought to be core deficits in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In recent years, several assistive technologies, particularly Virtual Reality (VR), have been ...
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(2006-04-07)Department: ReligionRELIGION VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE: THE REPRESENTATIONS OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN BLACK THEOLOGY, AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CRITICISM, AND BLACK GAY MEN’S LITERATURE ROGER ALEX SNEED Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2017-06-26)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesOver the past number of years, postsecondary students have increasingly enrolled in online courses. In this dissertation, I use human capital theory and Bayesian statistical analyses to investigate how students choose these ...
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(2017-07-25)Department: EnglishWhat does “virtue” have to do with “the virtual,” in any senses of these terms we now recognize? While the virtual seems a contemporary term and preoccupation, this dissertation argues that through the prism of virtue, ...
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(2005-12-09)Department: Biomedical EngineeringTwo attractive features of ELISA are the specificity of antibody-antigen recognition and the sensitivity achieved by enzymatic amplification. We describe the development of a non-enzymatic virus detection platform based ...
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(2007-08-03)Department: Biomedical EngineeringNon-specific antibody binding limits the sensitivity of antibody-based detection technologies. We explore the use of logical operations among DNA logic tags associated with antibodies to increase specificity and sensitivity. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2022)Given the rapid change across the globe – technological, political, environmental, economic, etc. – many independent schools, which rely almost exclusively on tuition and private donations for revenue, are in challenging ...