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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-18)Virtually all patients on ventilators are on PEEP. PEEP has several interactions with various organ systems and some can result in profound complications. An understanding of PEEP and auto-PEEP are required before we can ...
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(2019-06-13)Department: PhilosophyWe intuitively think and talk about health care as a human right. Moreover, we tend to talk about health in the language of basic rights or human rights without a clear sense of what such rights mean, let alone whose duty ...
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(2009-04-20)Department: Computer ScienceComponent middleware has become increasingly important in distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. DRE systems are characterized by resource constraints and stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Growing ...
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(2015-08-25)Department: SpanishSilvina Ocampo belonged to a prestigious intellectual group in Argentina that had its heyday in the 1930s with the foundation of Sur, the most important intellectual magazine in Latin America until the 1950s. The writers ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAlthough a large body of research has examined the processes of writing, much less is known about how adolescents compose with multiple modes in digital environments. This qualitative study explores how students collaboratively ...
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(Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2019-09-18)Solid-state batteries employ composite electrodes which contain a solid ion conductor, a solid active material, a conductive additive, and a binder. The electrode microstructure fundamentally differs from electrodes in ...
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(2014-04-14)Department: PharmacologyThe macromolecular assembly of protein serine/threonine phosphatase•kinase complexes mechanistically enhances the speed and fidelity of cell signaling events. These signaling modules allow for acute regulation of substrates ...
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(2018-08-27)Department: GermanComposition, Variation, Edition as Interpretation: On Publishing Poetry Collections Clara Fisher Dissertation under the direction of Professor Barbara Hahn Around the turn of the century into the 20th, a phenomenon ...
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(2011-04-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringHigh confidence embedded control system software often requires formal analyses to ensure design correctness. Detailed models cover numerous design concerns such as controller stability, timing requirements, fault tolerance, ...
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(2016-10-11)Department: Electrical EngineeringCyber-physical systems are complex engineering systems that integrate computational, communication, and control components with physical components in many applications such as automotive systems, aeronautical systems, ...
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(2023-03-10)Department: Electrical EngineeringOptical metasurfaces, based on subwavelength structuring, offer a compact platform for manipulation of the amplitude, phase and polarization state of light. Independent control over these properties, however, is hindered ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-03-01)Teaching reading comprehension is vitally important to students understanding that reading is a meaning making process. Unfortunately, a review of many teachers' reading comprehension instruction shows that no instruction ...
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(2017-03-16)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe spatial distribution of genetic variation within proteins is shaped by evolutionary constraint and thus can provide insights into the functional importance of protein regions and the potential pathogenicity of protein ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: EpidemiologyHigh prevalence of dyslipidemia in the United States results in elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. Identifying genetic factors associated with serum lipid regulation may improve treatment and prevention of cardiovascular ...
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(2021-02-22)Department: MathematicsIn modern digital systems, the efficient representation of data becomes an important consideration. The encoding and decoding process of digital signals can be computationally expensive and can often induce significant ...
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(2018)These files consist of topographic profile data, images from an acoustic hillslope experiment, and python codes to read the data and analyze the Fourier transforms of the profiles. There are four folders containing ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(2016-06-30)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the battle between various ideas—psychiatric and feminist in particular—surrounding sexual violence in the 1980s. Women’s advocates worked tirelessly in the 1980s to redefine rape as an act of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-04)There has been considerable published research concerning the marginalized experiences of racial minorities and women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, the experiences of ...