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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-05)The purpose of this program evaluation is to provide the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University with a comprehensive evaluation of their Teaching Certificate program, which is in its third year of existence. As a ...
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(2014-07-26)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores the contest for the Lower Mississippi Valley from 1765 to 1800. During this era, Spain held Louisiana. Conflict over the Lower Mississippi Valley has been characterized as a competition among ...
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(2019-03-26)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyOpen in Emergency (OiE) is the 2016 fall/winter special issue of the Asian American Literary Review (AALR), a small, arts non-profit based out of Washington D.C. Described as an arts- and humanities-based intervention into ...
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(2019-03-14)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I look into the issue of the politics of language in the early Christian movement through reception analysis, contextual-theoretical analysis, socio-historical analysis, and exegetical analysis. The ...
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(2021-02-08)Department: PsychologyChildren encounter novel words and referents across variable contexts that are defined by a great deal of perceptual chaos. Context variability may affect word learning, making it more difficult for children to link a label ...
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Context of Reception Reimagined: The Hispanic Second-Generation’s Educational Outcomes and Mobility (2023-11-17)Department: SociologyStudies on immigrant incorporation tend to exclusively focus on first-generation immigrants. Additionally, the context of reception immigrant’s experience their incorporation within has typically been dichotomized in prior ...
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(2023-08-15)Department: Molecular Physiology & BiophysicsCCN2 is a matricellular protein that stimulates beta-cell mass expansion during situations of sub-optimal beta-cell mass such as during embryogenesis, after beta-cell ablation, and during pregnancy. It was hypothesized ...
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(2018-11-20)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe human auditory system locates sound sources in the horizontal plane using differences in the interaural arrival time and intensity level of the signal (ITD and ILD, respectively). Because these two cues are the primary ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: PsychologyThis study examined the cultural validity of the Child Behavior Checklist, by employing an Item Response Theory analysis to determine measurement inequivalence in both the items and scales for 1st grade African-American ...
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(2018-03-20)Department: SociologyLatinos and Asians are the two largest and fastest-growing panethnic groups in the United States. Scholars have traced the origins of these panethnic categories, used panethnic identification to predict social and political ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: PsychologyThe visual system is sensitive to differences in features, like orientation or luminance, over space. Local differences in features allow us to detect boundaries in the environment – a critical step for segmenting and ...
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(2023-03-22)Department: Latin American StudiesThe goal of this research and thesis is to recover and compare archaeological, historical and ethnographic evidence to better understand the impacts of economic exchange between more complex societies and less complex ...
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(2023-03-26)Department: SociologyA well-established body of research across academic disciplines has systematically documented the diverse ways sexual orientation is linked to a wide range of life outcomes from early childhood to the tomb. Yet, less ...
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(2019-02-18)Department: Computer ScienceDiseases of the optic nerve affect millions of Americans each year. These diseases include a wide range of conditions such as glaucoma, thyroid eye disease, optic neuritis, papilledema, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(2016-06-29)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation studies the representation of national identity in twenty-first-century Argentine culture. I examine how and to what extent the 2001 economic and political crisis, often understood as a turning point in ...
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(2006-04-28)Department: ChemistryMonolayer-protected clusters (MPCs) have become a focus of interest due to their unique optical, electronic, and electrochemical properties rendering them good candidates for use in nano- or molecular electronics. ...
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(Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, 2017)This short Essay describes the circularity of support between the ICRC and the Pre-Trial Chambers of the ICC. Its successive sections describe the problematic potential of extending the substantive coverage of Common Article ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: EnglishReading the language of New Kashmir and Sheikh Abdullah in apposition to Jawaharlal Nehru’s “pictures” of his native land illuminates the frontiers of thought that predetermine what an emergent Kashmiri state, always ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2005-09-23)