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(2018-03-30)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation seeks to shed further light on the issue of concussions in athletics—a topic that has garnered increased attention over the past decade. Chapter 1 examines youth sports concussion laws, which have now ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)Should religious landowners enjoy special protection from eminent domain? A recent federal statute, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), compels courts to apply a compelling interest test to ...
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(Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2011)This brief Essay, part of a Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium on eminent domain in New York, argues that there is a seldom-recognized purpose to eminent domain: preserving the ability of elected representatives to respond ...
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(2017-08-03)Department: BiostatisticsIn this thesis, we apply and adapt a new method to assess conditional associations in a large dataset from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Electronic Health Record (EHR). We estimate pairwise rank correlations ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: Political ScienceOver the last two decades, Latin American countries have adopted conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs as their primary means of providing social assistance to their citizens living in poverty. Political scientists have ...
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(BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016)As biobanks play an increasing role in the genomic research that will lead to precision medicine, input from diverse and large populations of patients in a variety of health care settings will be important in order to ...
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(2016-09-02)Department: PsychologyMusic conductors use hand-arm gestures to shape the sound that their musicians produce. Six series of experiments are conducted in order to understand the nature of such cross-modal links between observed hand gestures and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-09-02)No one wants to think about a disaster hitting close to home, but being prepared for that possibility is important, especially in a medical facility. Emma Mills speaks with Pam Hoffner, Director of Emergency Preparedness ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1999-04-16)
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(Fordham Law Review, 2020)First, we like you, reject the purported divide between a legal academy and law practice observed and bemoaned by prominent American jurists like Judges Harry Edwards and Richard Posner. Elite academics like those in this ...
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(2012-12-11)Department: EnglishThis dissertation traces confessional speech as a performative mode of social subject formation in English dramatic texts and non-fiction accounts from the early modern period. I explore the confessional speeches that ...
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(Insights, 2010)
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(Green Bag 3d, 2017)Confidentiality in the tenure review process.
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(2011-03-21)Department: Computer ScienceDistributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems are constructed by allocating software tasks to hardware. This allocation, called a deployment plan, must ensure that design constraints, such as quality of service (QoS) ...
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(2016-04-08)Department: ChemistryDeveloping plasma-mediated methods to achieve local control of materials deposition at moderate temperatures is a topic of current interest. We report a novel method of obtaining crystalline coatings on soft substrates, ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Cognitive Psychology in ContextPreviously, we found that theory of mind predicts the moral understanding of fiction films – despite negatively predicting reflection on those films. The present study addresses this paradoxical finding. Importantly, the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Graduate Center for Latin American Studies, 1971-10)
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(2023-12-12)Department: BiochemistryDNA replication and transcription occur in all living cells across all domains of life. Both essential processes occur simultaneously, on the same template, leading to conflicts between their macromolecular machines. Head-on ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-09-23)