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(2005-11-02)Department: BiochemistryTopoisomerase II is an essential enzyme that controls DNA topology. This enzyme generates a protein-linked DNA break as a catalytic intermediate. This intermediate, known as the cleavage complex, is present in very low ...
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(2022-06-20)Department: Biological SciencesDNA replication is a fundamental challenge of life. In order to proliferate, every organism must be able to replicate and divide its DNA into daughter cells. Defects in DNA replication can cause in mutations that can result ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: ChemistrySince the advent of molecular beacon technology, much attention has been directed toward understanding RNA expression at a single-cell level. Our laboratory has designed an approach that harnesses the advantages of both ...
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(2010-04-30)Department: BiochemistryDiepoxybutane is a mutagenic and carcinogenic oxidation product of the important industrial chemical and environmental contaminant butadiene. The mutagenic potential of diepoxybutane is thought to be due in part to its ...
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(Journal of Law & Economics, 2020)The emergence of appraisal arbitrage as an investment strategy has focused attention on the role of judicial appraisal in mergers and acquisitions deals. Our study-Boone, Broughman, and Macias (2019)-contributes to this ...
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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2010)Class action lawyers are some of the most frequently derided players in our system of civil litigation. It is often asserted that class action lawyers take too much from class judgments as fees, that class actions are ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-29)The present study investigates if 4-year-old children use people’s pragmatic competence as a standard for learning from them. In this study we define a person’s pragmatic competence by their ability to adhere to the Gricean ...
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(Wisconsin Law Review, 2009)Federal appellate courts have promulgated divergent legal standards for pleading fraud in securities fraud class actions after the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA). Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court issued ...
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(Harvard Business Law Review, 2020)Black & Gilson (1998) argue that an IPO-welcoming stock market stimulates venture deals by enabling VCs to give founders a valuable "call option on control." We study 18,000 startups to investigate the value of this option. ...
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(Harvard Business Law Review, 2020)Black & Gilson (1998) argue that an IPO-welcoming stock market stimulates venture deals by enabling VCs to give founders a valuable "call option on control." We study 18,000 startups to investigate the value of this option. ...
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(2006-02-28)Department: PsychologyExisting research demonstrates that peer relationships are an important part of children's social contexts, with different types of peer interactions related to different benefits and risks as children develop. However, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-13)What is the role of giving an adult steroids to prevent stridor or reintubation following extubation. This epidose looks at the data.
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(Oxford University Presshttp://www.oup.com/us/, 1991)Closed-ended questions dominate most interview schedules. Yet the almost exclusive use of this form did not arise because open-ended questions, its major competitor, proved to be weak indicators of public opinion. Instead, ...
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(Journal of Law and Economics, 2019)An estimated ten million American households borrow on payday loans each year. Despite the prevalence of these loans, little is known about the effects of access to this form of short-term, high-cost credit. We match ...
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(MDPI: Religions, 2017-07-27)Although numerous studies have shown that discrimination contributes to poorer mental health, the precise mechanisms underlying this association are not well understood. In this paper, we consider the possibility that ...
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(Journal of Political Economy, 1990)This paper uses a national survey of 3,119 individuals to examine the effect of lung cancer risk perceptions on smoking activity. Both smokers and nonsmokers greatly overestimate the lung cancer risk of cigarette smoking, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-02-01)The results of the CORTICUS trial are discussed.
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)We introduce the real exchange rate volatility curve as a useful device to understand the relationship between price stickiness and the fluctuations in Law of One Price deviations. In the presence of both nominal and real ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)In many locales, the average price of existing home sales is used as an of indicator home prices. This information is then used to establish the value of the property for tax purposes. A simple example is presented here ...