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(Genome Research, 2014)Genomic researchers increasingly are faced with difficult decisions about whether, under what circumstances, and how to return research results and significant incidental findings to study participants. Many have argued ...
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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2005)Due process requires courts to make decisions based on the evidence before them without regard to information outside of the record. Skepticism about the ability of jurors to ignore inadmissible information is widespread. ...
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Can Mentoring Promote Self-esteem and School Connectedness? An Evaluation of the Mentor-UP Project (Psychological Inervention, 2020-04)Research in the United States has shown that youth mentoring is a promising strategy for increasing self-esteem and school connectedness in at-risk youth. There has been little confirmation of those findings internationally. ...
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(Michigan Journal of Race & Law, 2007)In 2003, the Supreme Court of the United States held that public universities - and the University of Michigan in particular - had a compelling reason to use race as one of many factors in their admissions processes: to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)We examine the long-run effects of micro-credit on development in an occupational choice model very similar to Banerjee and Newman (JPE, 1993). Micro-credit is modeled as a pure improvement in the credit market that opens ...
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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2012)States amass troves of information detailing the regulated activities of their citizens, including activities that violate federal law. Not surprisingly, the federal government is keenly interested in this information. It ...
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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2012)States amass troves of information detailing the regulated activities of their citizens, including activities that violate federal law. Not surprisingly, the federal government is keenly interested in this information. It ...
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(2009-01-08)Department: ReligionRELIGION CAN THESE BONES LIVE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF IMAGES OF THE BLACK CHURCH CHARLES EDWARD BOWIE Dissertation under the direction of Professor Victor Anderson This project is concerned with images ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2003-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We investigate which of the students who entered economics Ph.D. programs in fall 2002 were more likely to earn a Ph.D. within five years, and which were more likely to have dropped out. Students enrolled in Top-15 ranked ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-10-02)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-03-25)
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(Brillhttp://www.umich.edu/~aos/index.html, 1966)
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(2022-04)Background Preventive healthcare screenings and tests aid the process of diagnosing and improving one’s overall health by identifying a disease before symptoms are felt or seen by an individual. Within preventive ...
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(2004-12-17)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation, I argue that cancer support groups may be usefully reconceptualized as subcultures with three distinct characteristics: ideology, norms and coping assistance. Ideology offers participants an alternative ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)A desirable property of a voting procedure is that it be immune to the strategic withdrawal of a cadidate for election. Dutta, Jackson, and Le Breton (Econometrica,2001) have established a number of theorems which demonstrate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)A voting procedure is candidate stable if no candidate would prefer to withdraw from an election when all of the other potential candidates enter. Dutta, Jackson, and Le Breton have recently established a number of theorems ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Law & EconomicsThis dissertation is the first to examine the effects of cannabis access laws on sleep, all auto accidents and substitution trends between medical and recreational purchases. In chapter 1, using a difference-in-difference ...
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(2015-12-04)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyMyocardial infarction (MI) causes irreversible tissue damage, leading to heart failure. Our laboratory found canonical Wnt signaling and the Wnt10b ligand are strongly induced in mouse and human hearts after MI. Wnt10b ...
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(2017-09-14)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis thesis focuses on radiation effects of multi-fin MOS capacitors with high-K dielectrics built in Ge and InGaAs FinFET technologies. Capacitance-frequency (C-f) measurements are applied to provide lower-bound estimates ...