Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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(2023-11-07)Department: BiostatisticsReal world observational pharmacokinetic (PK) data, e.g., from Electronic Health Records or measurements collected during routine care, require additional analysis considerations relative to traditional PK trials. These ...
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(2023-11-28)Department: SociologySince the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade (1973), antiabortion activists have organized efforts to protest the legality of abortion and prevent women from obtaining abortions by physically blocking the ...
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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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(2023-11-17)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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(2023-11-17)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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(2023-10-30)Department: GermanThis dissertation explores the resonance between Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) philosophical discourse and U.S.-American superhero comics. Its five chapters examine the evolving relationship between superheroes in ...
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(2023-08-24)Department: ChemistryProteomics, the large-scale study of proteins and their functions, has furthered understanding of disease and generated new biology hypotheses. Analytical instrumentation such as mass spectrometry is widely utilized in ...
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(2023-09-20)Department: Civil EngineeringUnderstanding complex traffic dynamics, characterized by the interplay between vehicle automation technologies, human drivers, and diverse transportation modes, presents significant challenges for transportation research. ...
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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 ...
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(2023-09-26)Department: Computer ScienceIn CPS design process, the presence of computationally complex slow evaluation processes such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) acts as bottlenecks in the design iteration. To overcome these bottlenecks and accelerate ...
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(2023-11-07)Department: BiostatisticsReal world observational pharmacokinetic (PK) data, e.g., from Electronic Health Records or measurements collected during routine care, require additional analysis considerations relative to traditional PK trials. These ...
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Context of Reception Reimagined: The Hispanic Second-Generation’s Educational Outcomes and Mobility (2023-11-17)Department: SociologyStudies on immigrant incorporation tend to exclusively focus on first-generation immigrants. Additionally, the context of reception immigrant’s experience their incorporation within has typically been dichotomized in prior ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: EnglishReading the language of New Kashmir and Sheikh Abdullah in apposition to Jawaharlal Nehru’s “pictures” of his native land illuminates the frontiers of thought that predetermine what an emergent Kashmiri state, always ...
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(2023-11-18)Department: ReligionIn this thesis, I examine legal documents of the Jewish community in the Cairo Geniza from c.1000 to 1150 CE to investigate the gap between loan agreements and actual repayment streams in medieval Egypt under Fatimid rule. ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringGlaucoma is characterized by degeneration of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), which can be assessed by thickness measurement on optical coherence tomography (OCT) B-scans. However, detecting early-stage glaucoma remains ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: BiostatisticsIn the field of high-throughput drug screening, particularly in relation to drug combinations, synergy scores have traditionally dominated as the most used method to determine the efficacy of drug pairs. However, for ...
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(2023-11-14)Department: PsychologyAttentional allocation towards threat has been theorized to play a maintaining role in social anxiety disorder (SAD). However, it is unclear if both attentional focus towards internal threats (i.e., interoceptive signals ...