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(2019-03-22)Department: ReligionKate Cumming(1835-1909) was an Confederate woman who lived in Alabama from 1840 until 1909. During her life she was a nurse, teacher, author, and was very devoted to the Episcopal Church. Through research into her private ...
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(2023-05)The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the field of education. This capstone project explored a phenomenon: amidst the many pandemic-related stressors weighing heavily on teachers, institutional survey results ...
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(2016-07-19)Department: PsychologyPrevious research on the development of infant tool use learning in the second year of life has provided contrary evidence as to how infants select among differentially effective tools following independent exploration, ...
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(2009-07-27)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation I examine the impact that international migration has on immigrant parents and their family arrangements through the study of Chinese transnational families residing in Nashville, Tennessee. I argue ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2010-04-30)
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(2023-03-23)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityInstruction that centers and develops students’ agency supports academic and social-emotional success, yet educators increasingly teach in settings that restrict their opportunities to design such instruction. Agency-supportive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-01-20)
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(2020-10-26)Department: EnglishThough autotheory more formally entered feminist critical discourse with the publication of Maggie Nelson’s 2015 text The Argonauts as a practice that takes on first-person, subjective, autobiographical perspectives to ...
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(2014-06-26)Department: EnglishIconoclash is an act of creation that originates in destruction. This paper explores the role of iconoclash in the movement of art objects and the intimacy between collector and collected in Henry James’ The Spoils of ...
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(Christian Century, 1989)
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(American Journal of Criminal Law, 2018)The phrase “the criminal justice system” is ubiquitous in discussions of criminal law, policy, and punishment in the United States — so ubiquitous that almost no one thinks to question the phrase. However, this way of ...
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(American Journal of Criminal Law, 2018)The phrase "the criminal justice system " is ubiquitous in discussions of criminal law, policy, and punishment in the United States-so ubiquitous that, at least in colloquial use, almost no one thinks to question the ...
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(Beacon Press, 1999)
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(2015-07-28)Department: HistoryIn this paper, I argue that Brazilian abolitionists dialogued with French ideas regarding slavery and its imminent demise to a much greater degree than has previously been acknowledged by historians, and that French support ...
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Identidades sin frontera: rupturas y continuidades en la narrativa de la Onda y la narrativa chicana (2010-03-05)Department: SpanishThis project focuses on how the novels of the so called Literatura de la Onda and Chicano narratives of the sixties and seventies challenged the legacy of Mexican revolutionary nationalist discourse through the voice of ...
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(2011-03-31)Department: Human GeneticsLow-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglyceride (TG) levels are well known independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Other lipoproteins, such as Lp(a), ...
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(2017-08-26)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsHaploinsufficiency of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is the most common monogenetic obesity syndrome in humans. This syndrome is associated with a reduction in autonomic tone, bradycardia, hyperinsulinemia and a reduced ...
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(2014-07-03)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyProstaglandin glycerol esters (PG-Gs) are produced by the oxygenation of the endocannabinoid, 2-arachidonoylglycerol, by cyclooxygenase 2. Understanding the role that PG-Gs play in a biological setting has been difficult ...
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(2013-09-13)Department: NeuroscienceCoordinated neurotransmission of fast acting neurotransmitters like glutamate (GLU) and neuromodulators such as dopamine (DA) is critical for the proper execution of complex behaviors such as cognition, locomotor control, ...
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(2007-04-17)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyVirus cell entry is a multi-step process that often requires independent receptors for attachment and internalization. Reovirus infection is initiated by attachment to cell-surface carbohydrate and junctional adhesion ...