Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2024-03-20)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit deficits in performance on auditory-based tasks, especially in the presence of background noise, as compared to neurotypical peers. Speech perception-in-noise ...
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Generality as an Interaction between Recombinative Generalization and Derived Relational Responding (2024-03-25)Department: Special EducationRecommendations for achieving generalized instructional outcomes often overlook the capacity for generative learning. We sought to demonstrate how decontextualized and logically organized instruction would lead to derived ...
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(2024-03-19)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyA TALE OF TWO STROMAL COMPONENTS: INFLUENCE OF FIBROBLASTS, INNATE LYMPHOID CELLS TYPE 2, AND INTERLEUKIN 13 IN STOMACH METAPLASIA Gastric cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer mortality worldwide, however, key ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringProcedures to treat occlusive vascular diseases, such as stenting, angioplasty, and bypass grafting, often fail due to intimal hyperplasia (IH), where contractile vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) dedifferentiate to ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: BiochemistryBeyond their essential functions in many cellular processes, type II topoisomerases are the primary targets of some of the most widely prescribed anticancer and antibacterial therapies in the world. These drugs stabilize ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Health Policy & Health Services ResearchLGBTQ+ (including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other-non heterosexual) middle and older age adults have significantly worse health outcomes than their non-SGM counterparts. This includes higher prevalence ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation focuses on the idea that although much canonical research on political participation focuses on either voting or participation outside the voting booth, it leaves questions about the relationship between ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityDual Language Immersion (DLI) language education programs are complex spaces that have the potential to support greater educational equity. However, achieving this potential requires DLI teachers who are prepared to disrupt ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: EconomicsThe first dissertation essay, “Feeling Blue and Seeing Red from Yellow Dust: The Effect of Air Pollution on Adolescent Mental Health” investigates the causal effect of air pollution on Korean adolescent mental health. Less ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Computer ScienceIn an era where software and system architectures grow increasingly complex and globally interconnected, the challenge of safeguarding against malicious actors becomes ever more daunting. This dissertation unveils the ...
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Predictors of Multiple Document Comprehension Among Third-Grade Students with Reading Difficulties (2024-03-22)Department: Special EducationFor many academic, occupational, and civic purposes, readers must search for, select, evaluate, and integrate information from multiple document sources. Indeed, most current conceptions of functional literacy are defined ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Environmental EngineeringElectric arc furnace (EAF) slags, the by-product of steel production, have been applied in the residential use as ground cover, raising concerns regarding human health risks and environmental impacts from release and uptake ...
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(2024-03-24)Department: ReligionThis dissertation examines theological and ecclesiological approaches to Christian community, identity, and belonging from an Asian/American and postcolonial feminist perspective. Specifically, I examine how the Kachin ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Electrical and Computer EngineeringThe advancement of Deep Neural Network (DNN) technologies and their verification methodologies has not fully extended to the realm of time-series neural network (NN) applications, a domain integral to safety-critical ...
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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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(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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(2023-12-12)Department: Biomedical InformaticsCircadian rhythms are near 24-hour patterns produced by endogenous molecular oscillators, or clocks to coordinate systemic processes such as metabolism, sleep, and immunity. Studies extensively use genome-scale data with ...
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(2024-03-04)Department: Human GeneticsDevelopmental stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by disruption in the forward movement of speech. This disruption includes part-word and single-syllable repetitions, prolongations, and involuntary tension that ...
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(2024-01-03)Department: Biological SciencesGlobally, severe fungal infections in humans cause serious disease and kill millions of people annually, but fungal infections remain understudied and poorly understood. The genus Aspergillus includes several hundred species ...
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(2024-01-30)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyGastric cancer presents a significant global health challenge. This thesis explores the interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic factors driving gastric metaplasia, a precursor to gastric cancer. It particularly focuses on the ...