Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2024-03-22)Department: ChemistryHuman breast milk is the gold standard in infant nutrition. It supplies the developing neonate with nutrients, bioactive molecules, and microbes that confer total health to the infant. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Law & EconomicsWomen- and Minority-Businesses (WMB) encounter persistent barriers to participate in government construction contracts in the United States. Despite longstanding policies aimed at increasing WMB participation, various ...
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(2024-03-11)Department: PsychologyAsking questions is one way that young children elicit word-related input. Children appear to be well-positioned to use questions as a tool for learning words. However, whether and how children’s questions impact their ...
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(2024-03-08)Department: Computer ScienceComputational risk detection holds promise for shielding particularly vulnerable groups from online harm. A thorough literature review on real-time computational risk detection methods revealed that most research defined ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityEffective language practices are crucial for children's oral language and reading development in early childhood education (ECE), yet they are often underutilized in pre-K classrooms. Published curricula provide a potential ...
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(2024-03-06)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityIn today’s digitally interconnected world, one’s ability to collaboratively create with others and compose multimodal texts is essential. Yet, high-stakes standardized assessments that value individualistic print centric ...
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(2024-03-06)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThis study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community-based, dual language narrative intervention on young, Spanish-English Dual Language Learners’ (DLLs’) oral language skills. Additionally, this study assessed the extent ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityPervasive beliefs that mathematics is race-neutral inhibit faculty awareness of and responsiveness to racial issues in postsecondary mathematics departments. However, research inquiries exploring mathematics content and ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three papers that examine issues related to economic mobility and equitable and efficient public good provision. The first chapter studies the effects of exposure to negative labor demand ...
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(2024-03-04)Department: Biomedical EngineeringTriple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive BC subtype with limited molecularly targeted therapies. Aberrant activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/ mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/mTOR) pathway ...
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Synthetic Strategies Toward Complex Molecule Synthesis: from Glycan Mimetics to Complex Terpenoids (2024-03-08)Department: ChemistryGlycans are ubiquitously expressed on the surface of cells and are responsible for mediating a host of critical cellular interactions. Specifically, bacteria have evolved to produce a diverse array of carbohydrate structures ...
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(2024-03-11)Department: NeuroscienceThe posterior parietal cortex (PPC), generally refers to the part of parietal cortex posterior to Brodmann’s Areas 3, 1, and 2 of the somatosensory areas, is a prominent feature of primate brains. PPC emerged in early ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Community Research & ActionThis dissertation investigates the complex relationship between community violence and school environments in Nashville, Tennessee, through the lenses of social disorganization theory and routine activities theory. It ...
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(2024-03-11)Department: EconomicsIn this dissertation, I study some of the factors that determine schooling decisions in middle-income economies in Latin America. In the first chapter, I examine the impacts of a large-scale program in Colombia that installs ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: BiochemistryApurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are one of the most frequent DNA lesions in mammalian cells. HMCES (5-hydroxymethylcitosine, embryonic cell specific) is an evolutionarily conserved protein found at replication forks that ...
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(2023-12-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringArbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) are not typically feasible as subsystems on integrated circuits due to their size and complexity, but they are versatile circuits that are broadly useful. The purpose of this work is ...
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(2024-03-15)Department: Biomedical InformaticsImproving health outcomes and achieving health equity requires that researchers have access to large and diverse datasets. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and other privacy legislation permit ...
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Effects of Particle Hydrodynamic Behaviors on the Electrochemical Performance of Slurry Electrodes (2024-03-15)Department: Mechanical EngineeringIn flowable slurry electrodes, charge is transferred from stationary electrodes to particle clusters through hydrodynamic interactions; however, so far little is known about the particle dynamic behavior under continuous ...
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(2024-03-15)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyAll organisms have developed strategies to respond to injury. Some tissues induce compensatory proliferation of surrounding cells which migrate into and invade the wound site. However, alternative strategies exist such as ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe identity and arrangement of atoms determine the properties of all crystalline solids, and when the identity of the atoms is the same, multiple arrangements and different crystalline structures can still exist. These ...