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Younger siblings of children with autism: Cognitive, language, and social skills
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
Autism has a known genetic linkage shown by increased prevalence of the syndrome in probands. Research has shows that those who do not necessarily fit the clinical diagnosis of autism may display sub-threshold traits, ...
The relation of family and neighborhood socioeconomic status to symptoms and disability in pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-04)
Objective Investigated the relation of family and neighborhood socioeconomic status to
symptoms and disability in pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain. Hypothesis This study tested the hypothesis that measures ...
Hindu and Christian children's concepts of life, death, and afterward
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
Children's understanding of death is likely to mediate how effectively they cope with the experience of the death of loved ones, or in the case of severely ill children, their own impending deaths. In order to develop 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, ...
Parental syntactic complexity and children's observed behavior in communication about children's recent cancer diagnoses
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-05-20)
The current study addresses the relationship between the parent's ability to speak about
cancer related issues in a syntactically appropriate level for the child's age on the child's distress and coping as seen in the ...
Exploring the Local Association : a nearby, young kinematic stream of stars in the solar neighborhood
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008)
During the course of my Honors Research Project, I worked with Dr. David
James to determine whether a group of target stars are members of the Local Association.
I did this by reducing spectroscopic data, taken by Dr. ...
Ghosts from the Past: Richard Nixon, the 1970 Cambodian Incursion, and a Re-Evaluation of His "Plan" to End the Vietnam War
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2004-04-16)
Women's Cultural Agency in British India: Challenging Indian Culture with Female Education
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2001-04-13)
The Paradox of Freedom: Thomas Jefferson, Simon Bolivar and Slavery in the New World
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2003-04-01)
" 'Building Biafrans': The Role of Propaganda in Creating the Biafran Nation"
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2007-04-30)