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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2020)"Wicked problems." It just says it all. Persistent social problems--poverty, food insecurity, climate change, drug addiction, pollution, and the list goes on--seem aptly condemned as wicked. But what makes them wicked, and ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016)It is a pleasure and a privilege to write an introduction to this Symposium celebrating Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's important new book, The Case Against the Supreme Court. Chemerinsky is one of the leading constitutional ...
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(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
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(University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how to rank order, by blameworthiness, wrongs that involve physical harms, takings of property, or deception in exchanges. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-06-05)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 1999-10-22)
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(2023-06-05)Department: PharmacologyBrown adipose tissue (BAT) has in recent times been rediscovered in adult humans, and together with work from preclinical models, shown to have the potential of providing a variety of positive metabolic benefits. These ...
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(2016-10-12)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyEnterocytes, epithelial cells of the small intestine, exhibit remarkable apical-basal polarity. The apical surfaces of enterocytes display an array of tightly packed microvilli termed the brush border. Microvilli are ...
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(2013-09-04)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study investigated the teaching and learning of the interpretation and production of thematic maps and map argument performances with young people. Research was conducted across three phases: (a) collection and analysis ...
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Investigating and Improving Designs for Supporting Professional Development Facilitators’ Learning (2015-07-22)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation reports on a retrospective analysis of a design study conducted in partnership between researchers and the leaders of a large U.S. urban district to investigate and support the development of professional ...
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Investigating Biochemical Interactions Relevant To Human Health Using Backscattering Interferometry (2013-07-17)Department: ChemistryThis project is concerned with the characterization of biomolecular interactions that are pertinent to human health using backscattering interferometry (BSI). In this dissertation, I used the unique ability of BSI to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03)Anxiety and depressive symptoms can be dissociated into anxious-misery and fear components; however, little is known about how these two symptom dimensions differ in terms of brain network properties. Thus, the purpose ...
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(2012-12-11)Department: PhysicsLiving tissues are active, non-linear viscoelastic materials that move drastically, often in concert, during embryogenesis. In many cases, the mechanics of this motion remain unknown. Using a combination of laser ...
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Investigating Factors Associated With Offspring’s Coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress. (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-25)Abstract: Objective: In this study, I investigated (1) how age is related to reported levels of coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress in offspring; (2) how measures of disease progression in parents are directly ...
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(2014-08-01)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityRecently, the field of science education has advocated for systematic explorations of the affordances of an integrated STEM education. Accordingly, in this three-paper dissertation I investigate how students build conceptual ...
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(2012-12-03)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyiASPP (inhibitory member of the apoptosis stimulating protein of p53 family) is known to inhibit the important tumor suppressors p53 and p73. Indeed, iASPP is over-expressed in several cancer types and is associated with ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2003-04-18)
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(2022-11-02)Department: NeuroscienceThis dissertation aimed to investigate behavioral symptoms commonly encountered in conditions that present with motor symptoms. These studies primarily focused on the pathophysiology of impulsive and compulsive behaviors ...
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Investigating Kinesin-based Mitotic Spindle Assembly Backup Mechanisms Using Single Molecule Methods (2018-04-02)Department: Chemical EngineeringMolecular motors are essential to sustain life, carrying out cellular processes that require directed motion over diffusion. Kinesins are motors that use ATP hydrolysis to perform mechanical work. Mitotic kinesins generate ...
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(2011-12-01)Department: Human GeneticsAbnormal regulation of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate pools can lead to mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes, a set of genetic diseases associated with depletion of mitochondrial DNA. Besides mitochondrial ...