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(2017-07-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe in-migration of relatively affluent households into disinvested central city neighborhoods—commonly referred to as gentrification—is increasingly common across the United States. There is limited quantitative evidence, ...
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(2013-03-11)Department: ReligionIn this project, I use extended case studies of two Protestant churches to explore the sources and dynamics of congregational conflict around theological issues. My thesis is that at the heart of congregational conflict ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-07-01)Stephanie Dean, LPC, Assistant Manager of Work/Life Connections-EAP and Ellen Clark, LCSW, discuss the changes in family expectations, behaviors, interactions, rules and roles when the young adults return after being on their own.
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(2010-04-12)Department: PsychologyThe information we seek to communicate to learners is often conveyed by symbols, and the symbols we choose may directly affect cognition independently of the instructional strategies that we apply. The current series of ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: SociologyFounded in 2006 by Brandon Wade, CEO, SeekingArrangement.com currently claims over five million active members. The website criticizes traditional relationships for being too one-sided, and it claims that arrangements offer ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: Political ScienceIn the most recent wave of democratization, local reformers have drawn upon participatory democracy to inspire solutions to persistent issues of inequality and social justice. One of the better-known examples of this trend, ...
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(2011-06-24)Department: PsychologyUsing data from a 40-year longitudinal study, the authors examined three related hypotheses about the effects of grade skipping on future educational and occupational outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-04)
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(Columbia Law Review, 2005)The research reported in this Essay examines process discounts-differences in sentences imposed for the same offense, depending upon whether the conviction was by jury trial, bench trial, or guilty plea-in five states that ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Political ScienceSexual violence against women occurs among all social cleavages in American society, affecting women of every race, socioeconomic status, sexuality, and age group. While we know that surviving sexual violence affects the ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Political ScienceSexual violence against women occurs among all social cleavages in American society, affecting women of every race, socioeconomic status, sexuality, and age group. While we know that surviving sexual violence affects the ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: Biological SciencesThe ends of most linear chromosomes are protected by protein-bound repetitive sequences termed telomeres. Telomerase is the reverse transcriptase that extends the TG-rich 3’ overhang of telomeres. Rarely, telomerase acts ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: PsychologyMost theories of emotion distinguish negative emotions and generalize positive emotions. However, appraisal theory differentiates among emotions by describing the distinctive feelings, goals, thoughts, and action tendencies ...
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(2022-07-11)Department: EnglishBlack Tomboys intervenes in scholarship that prioritizes a general (white) reading of the cultural significance of tomboyism in constructions of womanhood. In this project, I historically trace and place the Black tomboy ...
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(2023-05)City Year Inc. is the partner organization for this project. City Year has overseen a significant increase in its recruitment of Black women leaders into Senior Vice President roles throughout the organization. However, ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: AnthropologyMy research, centered at the Early Classic (350-450 AD) site of La Sufricaya, located in the Holmul region of Peten, Guatemala, examines a contested topic in Ancient Maya history –the nature of cross-cultural interaction ...
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(2017-04-05)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySince the attacks on September 11, 2001, Muslims in the United States and United Kingdom have been the targets of Islamophobia: unwavering scrutiny, discrimination, and being made to feel like “others.” I use mixed methods ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-08-08)
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(2019-11-15)Department: NeuroscienceReading comprehension (RC) is a complex neural task that requires coordination across multiple brain systems. The majority of neurobiological research to date has focused on how “sounding out” words (i.e. decoding ability) ...