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(2005-03-09)Department: EnglishOnce considered the great listeners and tellers of a community's stories of illness and recovery, physicians have ostensibly been displaced from their role and have therefore become less effective practitioners of empathetic ...
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Interventions to prevent iatrogenic anemia: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices systematic review (Critical Care, 2019-08-09)Background As many as 90% of patients develop anemia by their third day in an intensive care unit (ICU). We evaluated the efficacy of interventions to reduce phlebotomy-related blood loss on the volume of blood lost, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)Dr. Michael Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is one of the leading scholars in his field. He is a specialist 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2007-06-19)
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InterVU: Vanderbilt experts discuss Supreme Court nominee's confirmation process, new brain research (Vanderbilt News Service, 2008-09-30)
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Intestinal epithelial cell-derived components regulate transcriptome of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (Frontiers In Microbiology, 2023-01-04)IntroductionIntestinal epithelial cells (IECs) provide the frontline responses to the gut microbiota for maintaining intestinal homeostasis. Our previous work revealed that IEC-derived components promote the beneficial ...
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(2022-03-18)Department: EpidemiologyWe assessed the methods used to account for clustering between individuals due to respondent driven sampling, quantified the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and psychological distress, and conducted a ...
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(2017-12-13)Department: SociologyChinese international students represent the largest group of foreign students within the United States. Although research has investigated the vulnerabilities and career aspirations of this population, literature regarding ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
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(2012-04-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringIn this work, I examined, developed, and validated methods for intra-operative registration in minimally invasive kidney surgery. One of these methods uses a conoscopic laser that can be inserted through a small trocar ...
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(2005-07-23)Department: Chemical EngineeringGlycolysis and apoptotic cell death are integrated by the binding of hexokinase to the mitochondria where it has been reported that hexokinase phosphorylates glucose more efficiently and impedes apoptotic protein release ...
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(2017-09-25)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyCerebrovascular disease (CVD) encompasses conditions that affect the blood supply to the brain. CVD results in hemodynamic impairment, and when the brain can no longer compensate for decreased oxygen delivery to tissue, ...
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(2011-04-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringA typical image-guided neurosurgery system (IGNS) presents images acquired pre-operatively to the surgeons to assist in planning and executing the procedure. The major issue with IGNSs is the fact that the brain shifts ...
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(2002-11-03)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe objective of this research was to design and develop a system capable of displaying cortical brain function during image-guided neurosurgery. Brain function was determined using a cortical stimulator, classified according ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-28)Intraosseous vascular access was was developed for use in adult trauma patients over 80 years ago. Only recently has this technique regained popularity for rapid and safe access to the vascular space in patients in extremis.
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(2015-04-06)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis thesis seeks to contextualize current high levels of HIV/AIDS stigmatization (H/A stigma) by applying a structural functionalist perspective to the study of stigmatization and of apartheid. I argue that the latent ...
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 2011)The modern trend is for investors to diversify. Shareholders who own one S&P 500 firm tend to own many of the others as well. This trend casts doubt on the traditional compensation and deterrence rationales for legal rules ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024)We apply novel deep learning algorithms to T2-weighted MRI to test hypotheses regarding arachnoid granulation (AG) hypertrophy in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Using this method, we identify AG protruding into ...