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(2021-08-11)Department: Political ScienceOn average, women are both higher-quality candidates and stronger performers in political office, compared to their male colleagues. Yet, men and women perform equally well at the ballot box. Is this because high-achieving ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Law School, 2008-04-24)"Maniates contends that suggestions that small sacrifices by average citizens alone are enough to cure global warming and other environmental problems underestimate the problem. He argues that essential sacrifices like ...
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(Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 2003)Social norms scholarship faces the challenge of becoming a mature discipline. Norms theorists have proposed several elegant, widely applicable theories of the origin, evolution and function of norms. For the most part, ...
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(Indiana Law Journal, 2011)Sexual harassment law and family leave policy originated as feminist reform projects designed to protect women in the workplace. But many academics now ask whether harassment and leave policies have outgrown their gendered ...
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(Michigan State DCL Law Review, 2003)Regulatory agencies are increasingly adopting ex ante rules to set market access terms and conditions for network industries. At the same time, in industries such as telecommunications and electric power transmission and ...
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(Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, 2020)Despite the heavy emphasis in legal scholarship on federal and state governance of environmental policy, cities have had their champions as well. Legal scholars who stand out as having defined a position for local governance ...
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(Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, 2010-03-09)Tom Reynolds suggests a reframing of what we consider “normal” and outlines how that reframing might alter how we think about the act of inclusion at the Disabilities, Religion, and Spirituality Special Lecture on March ...
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(Homiletic, 2000)
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(2024)Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a disease with major symptoms including difficulties with memory, language, problem-solving, and other thinking skills. Given the current efforts in advocacy, policy, diagnosis, treatments, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)This essay explores several obstacles that a student brings into a high school history classroom. Since the main goal of history is to develop abstract reasoning, it is troublesome that a student's cognitive development ...
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(2021-07-20)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation examines the relationship between social structure, production, and economic systems at the Late Classic site of Tamarindito in Guatemala. Maya economies, especially those involving obsidian, have ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2022)Within the past several years, Teach For America Greater Chicago-Northwest Indiana (TFA-GC) has adopted a strengthened desire to extend the development of alumni members who have completed their initial two-year commitment. ...
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(2023-08)This capstone project explored the possibilities for St. Joseph's Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis, to strategically leverage the organizational narratives in and around its storied athletics program. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-04)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)
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(Theological Studies, 2001-03)
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(Texas Law Review, 2019)The focal point of the modern trial is the witness. Witnesses are the source of observations, lay and expert opinions, authentication, as well as the conduit through which documentary, physical, and scientific evidence is ...
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(2017-11-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study explores the necessity and validity of including cultural competence as a dimension of the construct of quality teaching and classroom community. Through an analysis of existing measures, cultural competence ...