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(Johns Hopkins University Presshttp://www.press.jhu.edu/, 2009)
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(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2005-09)Through an analysis of public discourse surrounding two different controversies featuring professional race car driver, Deborah Renshaw, this article foregrounds contemporary relationships between gender and (auto)mobility. ...
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(2018-08-27)Department: MathematicsFirst-order asymptotics of a class of functionals with the Riesz kernel $ |s x - s y|^{-s} $, equipped with an external field and a weight, is obtained. Characterization of the weak$ ^* $ limit of the discrete minimizers ...
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(2023-02-21)Department: Biological SciencesAccurate duplication of the genome is critical to maintain genomic stability and failures in DNA replication can result in a host of diseases. DNA replication is a coordinated and tightly regulated process; however, much ...
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(2022-06-09)Department: Biological SciencesSuccessful duplication of the genome requires the accurate replication of billions of base pairs of DNA within a relatively short time frame. Regulation of DNA replication and copy number are necessary to promote genome ...
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(California Law Review Circuit, 2010-08)In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court, in a powerful and eloquent majority opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy, vindicated the right of a non-U.S. citizen, held in custody at a military base outside the United States, ...
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(Seton Hall Law Review, 2010)This article appears in a symposium issue of Seton Hall Law Review on courtroom epistemology. In Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science and Speculation in Adjudicating Culpability and Dangerousness, I argued that ...
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(2010-04-10)Department: ReligionRELIGION RIGHTEOUS GENTILE AND DIVINE DAUGHTER: AN ANALYSIS OF BAT PHARAOH’S CHARACTER AND IDENTITY IN ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, AND MODERN TIMES DANIELLA PRESSNER Thesis under the direction of Professor Annalisa Azzoni This ...
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(Law and Social Inquiry, 1992)Mary Ann Glendon has written a powerful and persuasive diagnosis of the ills besetting modern American society. Unlike many other commentators, Glendon refuses to lay the blame on any single group or institution but spreads ...
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(2014-04-08)Department: Latin American StudiesDuring the past ten years, Mexico has witnessed incredible progress in the fight for rights of its gay and lesbian citizens. In 2009, Mexico City became the first city in Latin America to legally permit same-sex marriage. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper studies price setting within a chain of grocery stores, using a scanner database that contains observations of retail prices for 435 products within 75 stores over 121 weeks. We find price dispersion within the ...
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(2018-11-16)Department: HistoryThis dissertation offers a new interpretation of Oliver Cromwell’s rule as Lord Protector (1653-58). English Catholics, a minority religious community maligned on both religious and political grounds, are the analytic ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Blair School of Music, 1969-12-09)
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(2018-03-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn the last decade, the field of silicon photonics has emerged as a promising optical platform for applications such as optical-interconnects, telecommunications and sensing. In order to advance these technologies, development ...
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(2020-03-26)Department: AnthropologyWhen autonomous rural people are forced to reorganize their lives to accommodate extractive capitalism, they remake their families, communities, and identities. In Colombia’s La Guajira region, the Cerrejón Coal Company ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)We use data from the manuscript censuses of manufacturing for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 to study the dispersion of average monthly wages across establishments. We find a marked increased in wage inequality over the period, ...
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(2013-04-26)Department: PsychologyThis study examined emotional intelligence and emotionality among adolescent siblings. Data were collected via a national, online survey, yielding responses from 97 parent-sibling pairs. Results showed that siblings of ...
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(The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000)Risk equity serves as the purported rationale for a wide range of inefficient policy practices, such as the concern that hypothetical individual risks not be too great. This paper proposes an alternative risk equity concept ...