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(2016-01-07)Department: Nursing ScienceFather involvement research has shown that fatherhood is important to the behavioral and physiological development of children. Children with involved fathers have lower rates of teenage delinquency and pregnancy, improved ...
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(2020-07-13)Department: Biological SciencesRetina regeneration has been proposed as a potential treatment for retinal diseases. Unlike mammals, zebrafish are capable of naturally regenerating the retina in response to damage. This has led to a concerted effort to ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2005-12-17)
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(2015-04-08)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesAcross US colleges and universities as a whole, commuter students account for the majority of undergraduate and graduate students. Despite their majority status, commuter students represent an overlooked majority in terms ...
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(2021-08-02)College foundational courses (aka introductory courses) traditionally serve as a gateway to the major and/or discipline. They enroll large numbers of students and/or a significant percentage of first- and second-year ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-08-30)
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(2021-03-16)Department: Special EducationThe positive effects of mathematics intervention on elementary students' academic ability often fade out during the years following intervention. One theory to explain the fadeout of intervention effects is that once ...
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(Columbia Law Review, 2021)This Article shows that Treasury market structure is fragile, weakened by a regulatory model poorly suited to match its design. First, public oversight of Treasuries is fragmented, divided between five or more agencies. ...
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Failson (2022-07-28)Department: EnglishThe poems in FAILSON have to do with being an adolescent caregiver of a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. Politics, parenting, mentoring, protection, guidance, nurturing – I'm working with these problems, often using form.
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(2021-09-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn the light of recent attacks, making the power grid more resilient has become one of the top national priorities. One way of increasing the grid resiliency is by enriching the grid operators with efficient online management ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation develops a general methodology for probabilistic prediction of railroad wheel failure life considering uncertainties from several possible sources. The two most dominant failure types, shattered rim and ...
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(Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 2008)Informed consent is a common law concept rooted in the idea that "[e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body."' Its aim is to ensure that each patient ...
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(2015-11-25)Department: Civil EngineeringFiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites present a significant opportunity for increas- ing performance and energy efficiency in a number of technology sectors, most notably the automotive and aerospace industries. In ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2004-04-23)
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(1860-01-01)
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(Vanderbilt University, 1803)
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(2011-08-05)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I endeavor to bring to life Kathryn Tanner’s way of framing theology as a cultural practice within which ad hoc, context specific modes of Christian discourse (everyday theologies) and more specialized, ...
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Faith in the World Community: Sue Bailey Thurman and Black Women's World Reconstruction, 1920-1950 (2023-07-19)Department: HistoryScholars have demonstrated that during the first half of the twentieth century, African American women were at the vanguard of the international struggle for Black liberation. Through their international travel, political ...
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(Princeton Theological Seminary, 1997-11)The purpose of this article is to characterize and evaluate the phases through which feminist positions on the family have evolved in recent history and to suggest feminists in Christian and Jewish theology and religious ...