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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2007-10-22)
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(Iowa Law Review, 2018)A number of states, as well as foreign jurisdictions, impose a community property regime. Under this regime, regardless of the title to property, each spouse is deemed to own a fifty percent interest in assets. When a ...
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(Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1992)Interest groups have played a dominant if not determinative role in the "greening of America." Thus, that Lettie Wenner, a political scientist who has devoted much of her career to studying environmental issues (The ...
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(2012-04-10)The research described herein was performed in an effort to determine how federal transportation expenditures benefit the freight industry. This study focused on two objectives: 1) determining relevant federal investments ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-05-30)
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(Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020-01)Historically, medical therapy for ulcerative colitis (UC) was limited to corticosteroids. Excitingly, over the past just 1-2 decades, the options for medical therapy have expanded and include biologics and small molecules, ...
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(2012-01-26)This dissertation focuses on the colloidal synthesis, and size-dependent optical & magnetic properties of several nanocrystals, such as EuX (X=O, S, Se, Te), Eu2O2S, and Te nanoparticles and nanorods. Significant Néel ...
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(2010-04-16)The oxides of rare-earth elements (rare-earth sesquioxide: RE2O3) are known for their optical and dielectric properties. Europium oxide is known for characteristic red luminescence and gadolinium oxide has excellent ...
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(2012-03-31)I identified and used a large catalog of ultra-wide binaries to investigate observationally two related questions in low-mass star astrophysics: (1) What is the frequency and distribution of ultra-wide binary systems, and ...
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(2020-03-31)Colloid quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals that can be tuned to emit specific wavelengths of light based upon their size. Maintaining long-term brightness of QDs is crucial towards their applications. Achieving ...
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(2008-11-18)Since the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR), the spin of the electron has attracted significant interest in the field of microelectronics. Spintronics, which involves manipulating both quantum spin states of ...
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(2008-07-27)This dissertation is mainly focused on the femtosecond pump probe spectroscopy of the (6, 5) single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). There are three advantages in this experiment, first, we upgrade the optical parametric ...
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(2020-10-28)In this dissertation we seek to present a comprehensive fluence and wavelength dependent ultrafast pump-probe transmission study of graphene supported on a soda-lime glass substrate for a range of pump fluences that enable ...
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(2014-11-25)Three previously unreported photo-carrier relaxation pathways are presented and discussed in GaAs-based systems. In bulk GaAs, a transient bleach of the spin-split exciton transition 1s->2p is reported following photo-excitation ...
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(2010-01-21)Due to the declining availability of fossil-fuels and the adverse environmental affects of the same, the world has begun a move to more efficient and longer-lasting solid-state lighting. Ultrasmall CdSe nanocrystals ...
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(2018-03-30)Zinc oxide is a wide band gap (3.37 eV) semiconductor with a high exciton binding energy (60 meV), of interest for optoelectronic applications due to both its ultraviolet (UV) and visible emissions. This dissertation shows ...
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(2014-07-22)Traditional amide synthesis employs a nucleophilic amine, which is reacted with an electrophilic activated carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid surrogate. Recently, colleagues in the Johnston lab introduced an unconventional ...
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(2012-12-03)UMPOLUNG AMIDE SYNTHESIS: APPLICATIONS IN ENANTIOSELECTIVE PEPTIDE SYNTHESISDAWN M. MAKLEYDissertation under the direction of Professor Jeffrey N. JohnstonThe development and application of the novel Umpolung Amide Synthesis ...
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(Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, 2007)A pesar de la creciente ubicuidad de la tecnología digital, la crítica literaria apenas ha explorado de manera práctica las posibilidades expositivas del hipertexto cibernético, especialmente en lo que hace a la utilización ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)