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(2020-06-12)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyThe overall goal of this dissertation is to develop and evaluate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to characterize peripheral nerve microstructure and pathologies in vivo in humans. More specifically, we assessed ...
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(2015-03-20)Department: PhysicsThe azimuthal correlations of charged particles produced in lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV and proton-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV have been measured using multiparticle correlations. ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringInfrared neural stimulation (INS) is a label-free method that uses infrared light to excite neural tissue. INS has high spatial specificity and artifact-free stimulation, offering distinct benefits compared to traditional ...
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(2016-11-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDue to the need to acquire a series of T2-weighted images, quantitative T2 mapping protocols in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suffer from long scan times. In order to alleviate this problem, fast spin-echo (FSE) imaging ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)Today's American schools are in a constant battle. In the context of standardization and accountability, educators must attempt to produce measurable results on State-mandated tests, while at the same time educating the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-08-18)This comprehensive essay addresses the issue of literacy in language arts and in science as it relates to learners and learning, the learning environment, curriculum and instructional strategies, and assessment in the ...
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(2019-08-20)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe investigation of the Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) helps further our understanding of how vast amounts (>1,000 km3) of melt are generated, stored, and erupted from the shallow crust. As the last eruptive product of a slab ...
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(2008-11-20)Department: PhysicsMULTIPLE QUANTUM COHERENCES EXPERIMENT, SIMULATIONS AND APPLICATIONS ARMAN SAINOVITCH KUSSAINOV Dissertation under the direction of Professor Daniel F. Gochberg This dissertation discuses the intermolecular Multilpe ...
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(2014-04-17)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe roles for ascorbic acid (ASC) in regulation of its transporter, in neurotransmitter synthesis, and in brain endothelial cell barrier permeability were investigated in the brain. First, during mouse development, levels ...
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(2009-04-01)Department: NeuroscienceIn the spinal cord, most oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cell type of the CNS, and motor neurons arise from common, ventral, olig2-expressing precursors called pMN cells. In the hindbrain, the degree to which motor neurons ...
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(2011-08-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceSilicon photonic crystal (PhC) cavities have attracted great interest recently due to their ability to highly confine light both spatially and temporally. The small mode volumes and long photon lifetimes associated with ...
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(2008-10-14)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesA multiple-proxy study for borehole sediments from the Bengal Basin reveals stratigraphic, paleoenvironmental, and provenance data which suggest repeated event deposition, river avulsion and abandonment, and shifting ...
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Multiplex biomaterial matrix cues regulate redox status and stemness in human mesenchymal stem cells (2014-04-26)Department: Biomedical EngineeringHuman mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) offer therapeutic potential for clinical applications but exhibit a decline in overall health when isolated from aging patients or serially expanded in vitro. hMSCs have been shown to ...
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(Scientific Reports, 2019-08-06)Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is the gold standard for the molecular diagnosis of many infectious diseases, including RNA viruses, but is generally limited to settings with access to trained ...
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(2006-03-27)Department: MathematicsLattices of reducing subspaces of multiplication operators acting on the Bergman space induced by finite Blaschke products are studied. A complete description of the lattices of reducing subspaces of multiplication operators ...
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(2022-03-30)Department: AstrophysicsBinary stars serve as the astrophysical laboratory in the extraction of stellar and orbital parameters and as calibration sites for stellar evolution theory. These systems come in three flavors, spectroscopic eclipsing, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04-27)Current models of nuclear structure describe nuclear states in terms of collective vibrations and rotations of a ground state. - One such quadrupole vibrational band is the gamma-band formed by vibrations of the short ...
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(2019-02-21)Department: Civil EngineeringPeriodic composites with tailored microstructures and material properties such as phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials exhibit extraordinary capabilities in controlling elastic waves by manipulating band gaps that ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: Civil EngineeringThe dissertation develops a new reduced order homogenization model named “multiscale discrete damage theory” (MDDT) for failure analysis of composite materials. MDDT adopts discrete representation of fracture process within ...
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(2012-08-13)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation presents a novel multiscale computational framework for simulating failure and damage accumulation in brittle composites. A reduced-order multiple spatial scale methodology is developed to efficiently ...