Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2024-03-18)Department: Civil EngineeringIn modern architectural settings, the resilience of reinforced concrete cladding panels is paramount, particularly in regions where they might be subjected to projectile impacts or blast loadings. This research is centered ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsThe B cell compartment of the adaptive immune system plays a critical role in the generation of antibodies in a variety of immune settings. As humans, we experience repeated exposure to viral antigens through infection and ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a significant public health threat and the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Studying the antibody response in the context of HIV-1 infection and multivalent ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: EconomicsIn today’s big data world, we have witnessed rapidly increasing popularity of machine learning methods in empirical studies, such as random forests, lasso, post-lasso, elastic nets, ridge, deep neural networks, and boosted ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsThis thesis explores the intricate mechanisms by which the human immune system generates antibodies to fend off diseases, focusing on the response to Influenza Type B virus. The ability of the immune system to produce ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: NeuroscienceAlcohol use disorder (AUD) and sleep disorders are commonly comorbid, where individuals with AUD frequently report insomnia, poor sleep quality and daytime sleepiness. The locus coeruleus (LC) promotes wakefulness via ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsCoronaviruses (CoVs) are single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses that infect a wide variety of species including birds, reptiles, and mammals. SARS-CoV-2 is only the latest coronavirus to jump from animals into humans ...
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Defining the Relationship Between Channel Interaction and Outcomes in Adult Cochlear Implant Users (2024-03-25)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Cochlear implant (CI) recipients demonstrate deficits in performance on spectral-dependent tasks, such as speech understanding in noise and music perception. Channel interaction, or the stimulation overlap between ...
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(2024-03-28)Department: Computer ScienceDespite current AI's human-like behavior, super efficiency, and unbelievable ability to handle clearly-defined complex tasks, it shows no sign of creativity, originality, or novelty outside its training set when facing ...
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(2024-03-11)Department: Chemical EngineeringInspired by swarming motion of living organisms in nature, active particles use the stored energy in the environment to initiate self-propulsion. Successful use of active particles in different applications, including cargo ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Cancer BiologyClear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is characterized by dysregulated hypoxia signaling and a tumor microenvironment (TME) highly enriched in myeloid and lymphoid cells. Loss of the von Hippel Lindau (VHL) gene is a ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesGeographic college access is inequitable in the United States, yet few studies examine how limited college options constrain students’ college choices and influence attainment. The first chapter of the dissertation examines ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: ChemistryPreterm birth (PTB) constitutes 10% of births and is the global leading cause of death in children under the age of 5. Unfortunately, a complete understanding of the mechanisms precluding PTB is lacking, making prediction ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: English“A Connected Idea of the Lesson”: Teaching and Learning in African American Literature, examines depictions of the classroom in African American literature in order to understand how well-known writers and activists from ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: ReligionAudre Lorde wrote A Litany for Survival where she posited that “it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive” and that in the end what we are seeking is “a now that can breed futures”. The ability to ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Nursing ScienceDelirium is a distressing and common condition among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), with known associations with poor long-term outcomes in select patient populations. Little is known about this condition after ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: Biological SciencesThe ends of most linear chromosomes are protected by protein-bound repetitive sequences termed telomeres. Telomerase is the reverse transcriptase that extends the TG-rich 3’ overhang of telomeres. Rarely, telomerase acts ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Community Research & ActionAn approach to addressing complex social issues that has become ubiquitous in recent decades is the establishment of community coalitions and collaboratives. Prevailing theories of community coalition action suggest that ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Community Research & ActionAn approach to addressing complex social issues that has become ubiquitous in recent decades is the establishment of community coalitions and collaboratives. Prevailing theories of community coalition action suggest that ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Special EducationAlthough function-based treatments have been proven to decrease challenging behavior, it is unclear whether these results translate to socially significant outcomes. In fact, researchers rarely analyze what happens outside ...