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The dialogical understanding of framing: the Cherokee Nation’s struggle to retain Indian Territory (2006-11-14)Department: SociologyThe focus of my paper is on the frames and counterframes used by the Cherokee Nation and the United States federal government and lobbyists, respectively, in the conflict over the fate of the Indian Territory. Applying ...
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(2020-07-27)Department: AnthropologyMy dissertation, “The Diet of Sovereignty: Bioarchaeology in Tlaxcallan”, explores the role of foodways and food sovereignty in contexts of imperial resistance. As the Aztec Empire spread across Late Postclassic Central ...
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(2013-07-18)Department: PsychologyThis thesis presents three experiments examining 7- to 9-month-old infants’ use of category knowledge of 3-dimensional objects to perceive 2-dimensional exemplars from the same category. In all experiments, infants failed ...
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(2013-02-12)Department: Political ScienceThe number of children adopted into families that do not share their race, ethnicity, and national origin has steadily increased as families in developed states have turned to foreign countries for children to adopt. I ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(2022-08)ATS shapes the industry of theological education, and this quality improvement project engaged with two values that ATS and its schools hope to embody: diversity and justice. Porter studied the Cultivating Educational ...
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(2009-02-04)Department: BiochemistryThe work presented in this dissertation examines the DNA cleavage activity of human topoisomerase II. Type II topoisomerases are required for removing DNA knots and tangles and are important chemotherapy drug targets. The ...
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(2010-08-06)Department: EnglishThis project links the modern American environmental movement, typically thought to have its origins in the social upheaval of the 1970’s, with the earlier postwar period. I argue that the same domestic “turn” which ...
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(2020-01-20)Department: GermanThe Double Logic of Touch is a work that focuses on various artistic practices, including sculpture, film, print literature, electronic literature, and photography, and the ways in which technology, from etching needles ...
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(2013-05-02)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis project is concerned with clinician and family communication in critical care. In this thesis I address the development of expectations by clinicians and family members in critical care settings, the processes involved ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: ReligionHistorical actors of all ages, races, and genders have grappled with connection between religion and nation since before America existed. But when scholars have studied this connection between religion and nation, specifically ...
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(2011-06-08)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation explored a puzzle in visual object categorization: you usually spot the dog fastest; but in a glance, you spot the animal faster. The basic-level advantage (e.g., categorizing dog faster than animal or ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
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(2017-11-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe Eclipse Ballooning Project was a National Space Grant initiative to send as many balloon to the stratosphere during the August 2017 Eclipse. A Vanderbilt team was formed to take part in the initiative. With admission ...
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(2023-07-20)Department: EconomicsRadon, a radioactive noble gas, ranks as the second leading cause of lung cancer. A data-generating process model is constructed to capture the underlying factors driving indoor radon exposures, enabling the development ...
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(2012-07-27)Department: EconomicsIron deficiency reduces productive capacity in adults and impairs cognitive development in children. The effects of childhood iron deficiency might extend into adulthood, manifested as lower income or heighted risk of ...
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(2021-08-13)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation evaluates the health and economic consequences of state laws that required children to be vaccinated against smallpox to attend school in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...
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(2022-07-07)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation examines the economic and social consequences of breakthrough Black mayors using modern microeconometric methods. The first essay explores the relationship between the election of Black candidates and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)The Housing Act of 1949 established a federally subsidized program that helped cities clear areas of existing buildings for redevelopment, rehabilitate deteriorating structures, complete comprehensive city plans, and enforce ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)This essay describes methodological approaches and pitfalls common to studies of the economic impact of colleges and universities. Such studies often claim local benefits that imply annualized rates of return on local ...