Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2024-03-21)Department: Cognitive Psychology in ContextLanguage experience is one way of measuring a person’s language proficiency, such that the more exposure a person has to various phrase structures in a given language, the better they will be at reading and comprehending ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesWe explore the potential of Passive Microwave (PMW) sensors for analyzing volcanic ash plumes from explosive eruptions. Utilizing data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) and the Special ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Cognitive Psychology in ContextPreviously, we found that theory of mind predicts the moral understanding of fiction films – despite negatively predicting reflection on those films. The present study addresses this paradoxical finding. Importantly, the ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringAngiogenesis is the generation of new blood vessels from existing vasculature and is essential for growth and development of the human body. However, it also plays a role in many pathological processes, such as tumor growth. ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Chemical EngineeringMembrane technologies can offer an order of magnitude greater energy efficiency than thermally driven separations such as distillation. The fabrication of robust, solvent-stable active layers on inexpensive supports is ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Computer ScienceGenerative models represent a cornerstone in the field of machine learning, tasked with synthesizing data that mimics the distribution of real-world examples. Among these models, diffusion models such as Denoising Diffusion ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: ChemistrySince the discovery and induction of antibiotics in the 1940s, human lifespan and survival has seen drastic increases. Today, the critical tools largely responsible for those improvements are rapidly becoming obsolete due ...
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(2024-03-07)Department: BiostatisticsThis study uses a Bayesian approach and survival models to analyze a large observational data set obtained from electronic health records. We model the association between DPP4 and SGLT2 diabetes therapies and major adverse ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Computer ScienceEthereum's current Gasper consensus mechanism, which combines the Latest Message Driven Greediest Heaviest Observed SubTree (LMD-GHOST) fork choice rule with the probabilistic Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget (FFG) ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: BiostatisticsThe aim of this thesis is to present and compare approaches for estimating the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve. Primarily, our focus is on parametric and semiparametric methods. We also present and apply a ...
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(2024-03-11)Department: Electrical and Computer EngineeringWhite matter signals in resting state blood oxygen level dependent functional magnetic resonance (BOLD-fMRI) have been largely discounted, yet there is growing evidence that there are intrinsic low-frequency signals which ...
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(2024-02-16)Department: Biomedical InformaticsAfter the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) created penalties for blocking the delivery of information to patients, medical centers now release test results to patients immediately. VUMC achieved compliance with Cures Act ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: BiostatisticsThere has been a growing criticism of hypothesis testing. Neuroimaging analysis almost exclusively focuses on hypothesis testing. Recent research has developed methods to use confidence sets instead, to draw conclusions, ...
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(2024-03-19)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe neural mechanisms involved in pain processing in the lumbar spinal cord are complex, but understanding these mechanisms is crucial for managing and interpreting the pathological processes of neuropathic pain. Functional ...
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(2024-02-12)Department: PsychologyPregnancy is a period of profound biological transformation, characterized by extensive physiological and hormonal adjustments. Approximately 85% of human females give birth in their lifetimes, we know remarkably little ...
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(2024-04-04)Department: ChemistryTransition metal allyl complexes are a class of compounds that are both historically important and currently relevant. The parent allyl ligand (C3H5-) can be modified with sterically bulky R groups (R = trimethylsilyl. ...
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(2024-04-01)Department: SociologyThis study seeks to examine how the U.S. Army legitimizes and pursues the expansion of its regime on Instagram. In order to continue to justify its legitimate existence and multidimensional expansion in the forms of increased ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2024-05-07)This mixed-methods study aims to investigate the experiences of Black Male senior leaders at educational nonprofits, focusing on safety, sense of belonging, and organizational culture. This quality improvement project is ...
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(2024-04-25)At a March 31, 1965, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) executive leadership meeting, Hosea Williams proposed a summer voter registration project, called SCOPE, that recruited hundreds of student volunteers ...
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(2024-05)There is an increasing interest in horizontally structured grassroots organizations, but there is a lack of in-depth case study analyses of how such organizations function and evolve - especially in the geographic context ...