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(2015-03-31)Department: PsychologyThe Social Deafferentation (SDA) hypothesis explains the presence of delusions and hallucinations in schizophrenia as the outcome of hyperactive social brain network triggered by prolonged social isolation in vulnerable ...
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(2007-07-30)Department: SociologyThis project is concerned with the abrogation of granny midwives in South Carolina from 1900 to 1940. Using exploratory qualitative analysis, I analyzed journal articles for persecutory comments or opinions and South ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: AnthropologySettlement pattern research – the study of the spatial distribution of settlement across a landscape – is a fundamental aspect of archaeological investigations. This dissertation is a study of ancient Maya settlement on ...
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(2017-03-31)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceColloidal semiconductor nanocrystals have become one of the most versatile systems for studying the fundamental properties of nanoscale materials and their applications. The ternary I-III-VI2 semiconductors hold particular ...
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(2012-07-18)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY THE PHENOMENON OF MEANING AND HEIDEGGER’S ONTOLOGY DAVID G. FRAHM Thesis under the direction of Professor Michael Hodges The thesis is presented that the “ontological meaning” of an individual thing (a being) ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: Human GeneticsWhile genetic association studies have been able to elucidate the importance of genetics in human disease outcomes, these studies are limited by the necessity of collecting specifically tailored cohorts and that they ...
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(2006-12-05)Department: PhysicsThe coolest white dwarfs known with effective temperatures below 5000K are among the oldest stars in the Milky Way. As they define the cutoff in the white dwarf luminosity function, they may be used as cosmochronometers. ...
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(2014-04-25)Department: PharmacologyMutations in SCN5A encoding the cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV1.5) can result in severe life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias such as long QT syndrome (LQTS). However, the molecular basis for arrhythmia susceptibility ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)Bribery, it has been argued, allocates resources efficiently. We show that this conclusion need not hold in a dynamic extension of a simple static model in which it does. When permits are awarded over time and applicants ...
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(2017-01-30)Department: Community Research and ActionForced removals of black, colored, and Indian people from urban areas is ubiquitous in South Africa’s history. In Cape Town, displacements, evictions, and exclusions from the affluent, historically white city center continue ...
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(2016-08-18)Department: NeuroscienceThe perceptual binding of sensory signals from different sensory modalities is essential for the development of a coherent perception of the world. The behavioral benefits of multisensory interactions are readily evident ...
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(2007-04-11)Department: GermanThis dissertation proposes a new interpretation of the concept of mimesis, viewed through a recent paradigm derivative of the natural sciences: complexity theory. The apparent universality of what are considered complex ...
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(2018-03-27)Department: GermanSince its inception in the South Bronx in the 1970s, rap music has been characterized by a high degree of reflection on the media of its reproduction, and this media reflection has consequences for the poetics of rap lyrics. ...
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(2012-07-05)Department: ReligionRELIGION THE POETICS OF EMBODIMENT IN ISLAMIC MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY KATHARINE DENISE LOEVY Thesis under the direction of Professor William Franke What modes of reading can be provoked by reading different kinds of texts ...
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(2014-07-30)Department: EnglishWhat does it mean to be constituted as “an object in the midst of other objects”? With these (in)famous lines Frantz Fanon prompts the readers of Black Skin, White Masks (1960) to engage with several problems of social, ...
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(2022-06-20)Department: Political ScienceIndividuals have sought refuge from extrajudicial punishment as early as ancient Greece when Cylon sought supplication at the Altar of Athena. Today, more than 1% of the global population is displaced. Putin’s invasion of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This paper explores the political economy of anti-discrimination legislation during the ascendancy of the Civil Rights Movement. It traces the diffusion of state-level fair employment legislation and evaluates the relative ...
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(2006-12-20)Department: AnthropologyAnthropologists have long sought to understand the political organization of complex societies. Investigations into the inter-site hierarchy of the Late and Terminal Classic in the Belize Valley have revealed evidence of ...
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(2017-08-08)Department: Political ScienceUsing authority delegated to their agencies by law, civil servants make and implement policies that influence virtually all aspects of modern life. Importantly, policymaking and implementation are only the final steps in ...