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(Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 2021)In the world of music-copyright litigation, “feel” has lately become a controversial word. Musical feel, some have argued, is becoming too propertized. When a jury in 2015 found the writers of the hit song “Blurred Lines” ...
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(2019-08-13)Department: FrenchThis dissertation, entitled “Tondues, Rasées, Voilées, Défrisées: The Therapeutic Re-memberings of Francophone Women’s Hairstories,” asks the question: How do women’s personal narratives about their hair overlap and interplay ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-07-06)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-26)
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)As Robert Bennett's article illustrates, the "counter-majoritarian difficulty" remains--some forty years after its christening--a central theme in constitutional scholarship. [See Robert W. Bennett, "Counter-Conversationalism ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 2018)To build resilience within the financial system, post-Crisis regulation relies heavily on banks to fund themselves more fully by issuing equity. This reserve of value should buttress failing banks by providing a mechanism ...
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(2018)In June 2017, Spain's Banco Popular, the country's fifth largest bank, failed in an orderly fashion-vindicating, it seemed, the rules put in place to manage such insolvencies following the 2008 Financial Crisis.' Weighed ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-05-12)
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(George Washington Law Review, 2018)Law is generally represented through text, and lawyers have for centuries classified large bodies of legal text into distinct topics — they “topic model” the law. But large bodies of legal documents present challenges for ...
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(2011-05-23)Department: MathematicsWe consider shift-invariant spaces with extra invariance, namely translation-invarianr or 1/nZ--invariant for some n > I. In general a shift invariant space does not possess .any invariance other than translation by ...
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(2011-12-15)Department: EconomicsThe main focus of this thesis is the study of distributional aspects of income and other dimensions of well-being. The first two essays pertain to the use of multidimensional poverty techniques. In the third essay I discuss ...
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(2006-07-07)Department: EconomicsI consider a situation wherein a research lab has developed a process innovation and wants to sell licenses to members of an industry. The literature has mostly considered the sale of exclusive licenses. I demonstrate, ...
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(2021-07-08)Department: PhysicsThe non-trivial vacuum structure in QCD leads to addition of an extra term to its Lagrangian. This term serves as the source of CP violation in QCD. Introducing a new pseudoscalar particle called axion can retain the CP ...
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(2014-05-27)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis, we prove the existence of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for a logarithmic diffusion equation can be established when the boundary datum satisfies a certain condition. We also show that if the boundary ...
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(Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1810)
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(2012-09-04)Department: NeuroscienceIdentification of homologous primate visual areas and common organizational strategies among visual areas are essential to determining if a basic plan for primate visual cortex and visual areas exists. In this dissertation, ...
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(2013-04-09)Department: MathematicsGromov asked whether an asymptotic cone of a finitely generated group was always simply connected or had uncountable fundamental group. We prove that Gromov's dichotomy holds for asymptotic cones with cut points as well ...
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(2021-08-12)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis, we construct the first examples of finitely presented groups with quadratic Dehn function which contain a finitely generated infinite torsion subgroup, answering a problem of Ol'shanskii. These examples are ...
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(American Law and Economics Review, 2007)This article analyzes tort liability litigation costs using the Texas Department of Insurance Commercial Liability Insurance Closed Claim database for the years 1988–2004. Insurer costs to defend claims in which a suit was ...