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(2013-07-02)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation is a grounded theoretical analysis and design study of adults and youth counter-mapping their neighborhoods. Counter-mapping involves residents making claims to resources for the future by leveraging the ...
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(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)The challenge we face today is not one of authoritarianism, as so many seem inclined to believe, but of nationalist oligarchy. This form of government feeds populism to the people, delivers special privileges to the rich ...
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(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)The real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism--it's nationalist oligarchy. Here's how American foreign policy should change.
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(Harvard Law Review, 2008)Few think of counterinsurgency as linked to constitutional design. Counterinsurgency is bottom-up; constitutional design is top-down. Counterinsurgency is military; constitutional design is political-legal. Counterinsurgency ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2009)Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military strategists, historians, soldiers, and policymakers have made counterinsurgency's principles and paradoxes second nature, and they now expect that counterinsurgency operations ...
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(iScience, 2020-01-24)We investigated whether a task requiring concurrent perceptual decision-making and response control can be performed concurrently, whether evidence accumulation and response control are accomplished by the same neurons, ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyOver the past century, grief has transformed from a necessarily non-pathological experience into an object of psy-discipline expertise to be clinically defined, tracked, diagnosed, and treated. Even as care for the painful ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2006-05-25)
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(2007-07-31)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceSemi-classical transport models based on Boltzmann and Fermi-Dirac statistics have been very effective in identifying the pertinent physical parameters responsible for thermoelectric performance in bulk materials. Reliance ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: PhysicsI present proof-of-principle applications of time-dependent coupled-cluster theory in the framework of nuclear physics, demonstrating that both energy and observables that commute with the Hamiltonian are conserved within ...
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(2019-07-23)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThis dissertation explores the paleoecology of mammalian communities in North America at different spatial and temporal scales. Paleoecology uses the fossil record as a tool to develop and test models of species’ response ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2002-04-04)
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(Homiletic, 2000)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Cournot's 1838 model of strategic interaction between competing firms has become the primary workhorse for the analysis of imperfect competition, and shows up in a variety of fields, notably industrial organization and ...
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(The New Republic, 2009)Camp Julien is surrounded by reminders of Afghanistan’s past. The coalition military base— which sits in the hills south of Kabul, just high enough to rise above the thick cloud of smog that perpetually blankets the city—is ...
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(Arizona Law Review, 2001)This Article critically examines the existing social science evidence on the relative importance of various individual factors on judicial behavior and adds to that evidence by considering the influence of prior academic ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2003-09-30)
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(2023-03-22)Department: Chemical EngineeringRetinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) is a cytosolic pattern recognition receptor (PRR) that potently activates antiviral innate immunity in response to binding 5’ triphosphate double-stranded RNA (3pRNA). Accordingly, ...
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(2022-03-21)Department: BiochemistryType II topoisomerases are necessary enzymes that regulate the topological state of DNA by creating transient double-stranded breaks. Topoisomerase II poisons act by stabilizing the covalent enzyme-cleaved DNA complex, ...