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Testing category-specific spatial frequency adaptation
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
This study examined representational overlap between faces and scenes by means of spatial frequency adaptation. The results show that adaptation to faces and scenes in either low or high spatial frequencies affect the ...
The Effect of Encouragement on Defensive Pessimism as an Anxiety Amplifier
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
The past literature indicates that performance is disrupted for defensive pessimists by encouragement. The goals of this research were to replicate this phenomenon, and then examine the mechanisms underlying it. Specifically, ...
Writing the Vampire: Constitutions of Gender in Carmilla, Dracula, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-22)
Examination of the constitutions of gender and sexuality in three texts centered on vampires.
"All thinking things" and "Objects of all thought": Materiality and Thought in Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-20)
The Israel Lobby?: The Influence of American Jewish Groups on the Carter Administration's Middle Eastern Policy
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2009-04-24)
A politics of singularity : identity, responsibility, and storytelling in a new political ethics
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-03)
An interdisciplinary thesis on identity politics, ethics, storytelling, and responsibility. Draws heavily from Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and Adriana Cavarero, as well as other historical theorists.
The Effects of Safety Behaviors on Health Anxiety: Conceptualizing Hypochondriasis as an Anxiety Disorder
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
Research in the anxiety disorders has shown that safety behaviors function to maintain pathological anxiety by preventing the disconfirmation of inaccurate threat beliefs. The present study examined if such safety behaviors ...
Data Logistics and the CMS Analysis Model
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)
The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) at CERN has brilliant prospects for uncovering new
information about the physical structure of our universe. Soon
physicists around the world ...
Micro Programmable Object Navigation Gadget (micro-PONG) for Studying Electroosmotic Flow in PDMS Microchannel
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)
Precise control of fluid delivery in analytical devices may be achieved by harnessing electroosmotic flow (EOF) in oxidized
poly(dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic channels fabricated via soft lithography. However, the ...