Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2023-11-22)Department: PhysicsNanostructures and quantum emitters in optical cavities are examined using novel light-matter coupling approaches. Treating light and matter on equal first-principles footing has not be necessary to advance the fields of ...
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(2023-11-27)Department: Community Research & ActionYoung people have long played an important role in challenging and dismantling racism and white supremacy. However, little is known about what explains how some adolescents come to hold antiracist attitudes and engage in ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesAs concern grows about teacher attrition and the resulting teacher shortages, one underexplored solution is the return of teachers who previously left. These papers provide an updated descriptive and comparative look at ...
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(2023-08-31)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyThe ductus arteriosus (DA) is a muscular artery which helps to define the fetal pattern of the circulatory system. After birth, the DA undergoes muscular constriction and remodeling which establish the adult division between ...
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(2023-09-22)Department: Molecular Pathology ImmunologyIdentifying molecular circuits that control adipose tissue macrophage (ATM) function is necessary to understand how ATMs contribute to tissue homeostasis and obesity-induced insulin resistance. In this study, we found that ...
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(2023-08-21)Department: NeuroscienceIn this dissertation, we used multiple complementary approaches to understand how the sense of interoception develops from childhood to adulthood and how this relates to the types of interoceptive challenges commonly ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation comprises three essays on the LGBTQ+ candidate entry process in Brazil. The first essay seeks to gauge how individuating information about a gay candidate may affect approval of gay people’s right to run. ...
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(2023-10-23)Department: Computer ScienceAlthough cloud-native frameworks like Kubernetes (K8s) have become the de facto solutions to orchestrate containerized, cloud-native deep learning (CNDL) applications, five unresolved challenges exist in realizing ...
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(2023-10-30)Department: BiochemistryGlycans play an essential role in biological processes, but our knowledge of their structure and function is limited as compared to other biological molecules. Glycan structure is highly variable. In vivo, glycan structure ...
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(2023-08-15)Department: Molecular Physiology & BiophysicsCCN2 is a matricellular protein that stimulates beta-cell mass expansion during situations of sub-optimal beta-cell mass such as during embryogenesis, after beta-cell ablation, and during pregnancy. It was hypothesized ...
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(2023-11-14)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThis three-paper dissertation explores the teaching of dramatic improvisation (“improv”)—either improv itself, or improv integrated with other instructional goals—in three different contexts: in an after-school program at ...
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(2023-11-08)Department: Chemical EngineeringDeveloping reliable methods to predict the thermodynamic properties and phase behavior of complex fluids is essential for accurate process modeling. Specifically, process modeling of greener alternatives to traditional ...
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(2023-10-16)Department: Computer ScienceThe use of autonomous systems such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in civilian and military operations has drastically increased over the last 10 years, requiring significant advances in health management technologies ...
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(2023-11-21)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta faces a combination of climate and geopolitical factors that threaten to undermine elevation stability across the coastal region. This region, which is home to ~57 million people, ...
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(2023-08-15)Department: Nursing ScienceBackground: Mind-body therapies can improve mental and physical health outcomes for women with trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, greater awareness of body sensations can lead to adverse responses ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesThe Ora Ignimbrite (~275 Ma) is a crystal-rich (~40%), heterogeneous, supereruption-sized (~1,300 km3) rhyolite in northern Italy and the final eruptive product of the Athesian Volcanic Group (289 - 274 Ma), the largest ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: MathematicsThis thesis introduces and studies a natural generalization of the distortion function that applies to not necessarily finitely generated subgroups of finitely generated groups. We begin by computing this function in several ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: Special EducationSocial emotional learning (SEL) is critical for early childhood development. The Pyramid Model (PM) offers practitioners evidence-based practices to support young children’s social emotional development. Coaching has been ...
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(2023-11-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringTranscranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a noninvasive, therapeutic modality that can precisely focus sound through the skull. tFUS is clinically approved for thermal ablation, but there is growing interest in its nonthermal ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: HistoryThe history of how science professionalized in the nineteenth century is also the history of empire, class, and transnational networks. British geography and its most visible enterprise, Nile exploration, played a central ...