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(2023-07-11)Department: MathematicsThis thesis focuses on the existence of constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics on complex surfaces and does so in two main ways. The first uses the approach of Tonnesen-Friedman and the momentum construction of Hwang-Singer ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: MathematicsThis thesis focuses on the existence of constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics on complex surfaces and does so in two main ways. The first uses the approach of Tonnesen-Friedman and the momentum construction of Hwang-Singer ...
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(2008-01-16)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyA conserved biological feature of sexual reproduction in animals is that oocytes arrest in meiotic prophase and resume meiosis in response to extra-ovarian signals. While meiotic maturation signals activate highly conserved ...
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(Michigan Law Review, 2000)This essay discusses the legal implications of bio-behavioral underpinnings to norms, morality, and economic order. It first discusses the recent book "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social ...
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(2009-01-19)Department: NeuroscienceThis project is concerned with the functional roles of the sensory arrestin genes, arr1 and arr2, in the regulation of dipteran olfactory signal transduction. Specifically, I have examined the sensory arrestins of the fruit ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2008-10-30)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2004-12-02)
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(2010-03-25)Department: PhysicsThis thesis addresses the origin of the High Velocity Clouds (HVCs) observed around the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies. Such clouds are likely created through a combination of galactic fountains, galaxy interactions, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)In the last three decades, career academies have grown in popularity as a mechanism to bolster high school students’ college and career readiness. Career academies offer small learning communities, project-based/work-based ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)In this paper, we study several general equilibrium models in which the agents in an economy must decide on the appropriate level of immigration into the country. Immigration does not enter directly into the native agents' ...
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(Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution, 2022-12-20)Studies of Rancho La Brea predators have yielded disparate dietary interpretations when analyzing bone collagen vs. enamel carbonate-requiring a better understanding of the relationship between stable carbon isotopes in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This paper analyzes a game of trade policy (called Bilateralism) between three countries in which each country chooses whether to liberalize trade preferentially in the form of a Customs Union (CU), multilaterally, or not ...
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(2006-11-01)Department: PsychologyFor the empirical test of the effectiveness of mental health treatment and for the monitoring of outcomes in practice settings the youth mental health field relies heavily on outcome measures that are based on self-report ...
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(2005-06-15)Department: ReligionThis project examines how the controversy on Confucian religiosity has shaped the conceptualization of Confucianism and of religion, and how it has contributed to the understanding of Chinese tradition and modernity in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2010-08-06)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)In the era of No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Waiting for Superman, it is clear that our nation is keenly focused on the academic achievement of students in urban schools. At the same time, the economy is in ...
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(Eisenbrauns, 2002)
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(2020-03-27)Department: ReligionThis dissertation develops a theological address to capitalism’s problematic work-ethics by extending the recent work of political Augustinianism into the economic sphere. In particular, I argue that a doctrinally coherent ...
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(2012-04-19)Department: PhysicsI studied the effectiveness of the MultiTrack Validator to determine whether or not it could distinguish between primary and secondary vertexes in the Phase 1 Tracker Upgrade of the Super Large Hadron Collider, as finding ...
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(Ege Publications, 2010)