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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-10-07)
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(Cleveland State Law Review, 2021)A cornerstone of First Amendment doctrine is that counterspeech - speech that responds to speech, including disfavored, unpopular, or offensive speech - is preferable to government censorship or speech regulation. The ...
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(2022-05)Higher education closes achievement gaps between socioeconomic levels in our society, especially for historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups (Webb, 2016). However, with the downturn in enrollment and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-05)
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(Instituto di studi storici, Facoltà di scienze politiche, Università degli studi di Milano, 1989)
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(American Law and Economics Review, 2009)This article investigates the determinants of the blockbuster punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. As of the end of 2008, there had been 100 such awards with an average value of $3.0 billion. The U.S. Supreme ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Teaching and LearningThis dissertation presents the first iteration of a design study that investigates an instructional setting that I call Walking Scale Geometry (WSG). WSG tasks are geometry problems that are meant to be solved at very large ...
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The Changing Meaning of "Gift": An Analysis of the Tax Court's Decision in "Carson v. Commissioner" (Vanderbilt Law Review, 1979)The complexity of detail that characterizes the Internal Revenue Code (Code) has been the subject of intense criticism and only faint praise. Yet, one of the more striking anomalies of the Code is that its often suffocating ...
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(2009-08-26)Department: Political ScienceContinuity tends to characterize political attitudes with parents tending to transmit their opinions to their offspring. Given these orthodox conceptions, why have attitudes towards lesbians and gays liberalized in recent ...
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(2018-07-27)Department: SociologyHow do individuals enact careers within our increasingly precarious economic system? Examining workers in artistic careers can bring insight into this question, given their history of precarity and non-traditional employment. ...
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(Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019-08-29)Bacteria, like all cells, must precisely duplicate their genomes before they divide. Regulation of this critical process focuses on forming a pre-replicative nucleoprotein complex, termed the orisome. Orisomes perform two ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 2003)A number of high-profile toxic tort cases, such as silicone breast implants, have followed a familiar and disturbing path: Early studies suggest a link between a suspected substance and a particular illness. Based on these ...
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(2021-08-07)Active Minds, a leading, nationwide nonprofit dedicated to improving adolescent and young adult mental health awareness and advocacy, endeavors to de-stigmatize discussions about mental health with its numerous programs, ...
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(2011-04-15)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that religious and cultural media are socially organized technologies of power that reproduce, maintain, circulate, and exchange historical myths on black womanhood, which black women and girls ...
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(2020-10-05)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThis study provides a counternarrative to deficit-based studies on high school dropout by focusing on factors that help students be resilient and persist to graduation in a non-traditional high school despite adversity. ...
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(2023-11-21)Department: Molecular Physiology & BiophysicsPancreatic islet insulin secretion is impaired during diabetes pathogenesis, due in part to disruption of β-cell Ca2+ handling. TALK-1 K+ channels are key regulators of ꞵ-cell electrical excitability, Ca2+ entry, and ...
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(2017-03-29)Department: ReligionThe dissertation begins with an autoethnographic account of my own experiences as a CPE chaplain resident and current PRN hospital chaplain in order to explore wider relationships between pastoral care and dominant health ...
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(2018-04-02)Department: MathematicsThis dissertation presents some new results in certain areas of structural graph theory. In particular we are concerned with graph minors, and classes of graphs characterised in part by forbidding certain minors. There are ...
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(2021-04)The current study explores the vocal interactions of parents and children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) through a novel measure of hierarchical acoustic clustering in order to better understand the specific ...