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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-05)
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(2018-04-04)Department: SociologyThis dissertation focuses on the classic Durkheimian theme of community within the context of emerging forms of work and shifting employment relations. The data derive from seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork, ...
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(Astronomical Journal, 2023-02-01)We present high-precision radial velocities (RVs) from the HARPS-N spectrograph for HD79210 and HD79211, two M0V members of a gravitationally-bound binary system. We detect a planet candidate with a period of 24.421(-0.0 ...
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(Harvard Law & Policy Review, 1995)I view my task in this Article to be proving that history is indeterminate. The rest of the Articles from this Panel may discuss what to do about the indeterminacy. I would like to put aside the normative questions and a ...
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(2017-04-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAs efforts are made in pre-kindergarten settings to design and model high quality programs, there is a growing need to attend to the aspects of the local context that may influence the ways that teachers and staff make ...
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(2014-03-17)Department: HistoryThis project investigates the impact of the Spanish conquest on the indigenous populations of Espanola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the subsequent rise of an Indian slave trade and diaspora throughout the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1978)
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(2011-12-10)Department: Political ScienceIn my dissertation, I argue that democratic theory harbors a paradox of personhood in which theorists hinge human equality to the concept of personhood, but then invest personhood with a cluster of cognitive requirements ...
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(2006-07-24)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThe purpose of this paper is to challenge current understandings about the nature of community and individual relationships held by development theory. Recently, development theorists have challenged the idea that economic ...
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(2022-06-30)Department: EpidemiologyLong-term health effects following exposures to mixed high- and low-linear energy transfer (LET) ionizing radiation received at low dose-rates are unclear, and uranium processing workers represent a population of relatively ...
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(UCLA Law Review, 2008)The individual and household sector generates roughly 30 to 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is a potential source of prompt and large emissions reductions. Yet the assumption that only extensive government ...
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(2016-05-25)Department: PsychologyThis study examined concurrent maternal and child correlates of maternal coping socialization messages using a cross-informant, multi-method design. Maternal responsive/warm parenting behaviors were also examined as a ...
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Individual Differences in Rhythm and Grammar Phenotypes and Potential Underlying Genetic Influences (2022-03-27)Department: NeuroscienceThis dissertation studied the associations between musical rhythm and grammar phenotypes and underlying polygenic architecture that might influence these traits. These associations were explored using individual approaches ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-15)
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(Rutgers Law Review, 1996)If all people were fully rational and cognizant of all the risks they faced, then they would always select an efficient level of safety in all their activities and other choices. Thus people would trade off the potential ...
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(2006-07-28)Department: EnglishENGLISH INDIVIDUALISM POSSESSED: THE SUPERNATURAL MARRIAGE PLOT, 1820-1870 MELANIE BUTLER HOLLADAY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Cecelia Tichi This project focuses on the supernatural marriage plot, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
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(2008-12-31)Department: ChemistryIndomethacin (INDO) has been a commercially available non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug since 1963. As such, INDO has well-defined toxicology and pharmacokinetics that allow it to serve as a known molecular scaffold ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: Computer ScienceThesis under the direction of Dr. Jules White This thesis investigates the use of iBeacon fingerprinting as a localization technique for indoor navigation systems. Fingerprinting uses machine learning to generate a signature ...
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 2004)If "justice delayed" is "justice denied,"justice is often denied in American courts. Delay in the courts is a "ceaseless and unremitting problem of modem civil justice" that "has an irreparable effect on both plaintiffs ...