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    • Foreign Bodies and Anti-Bodies: Queer Transformativity in Post-World War II Literature and Film 
      Seymour, Nicole (2008-08-04)
      Department: English
      In this project, I examine a selection of literary and filmic texts produced between 1946 and 1995, a period I refer to as late modernism. I show how, in offering instances of bodily transformativity that we might call ...
    • Foreign Official Immunity Determinations in U.S. Courts: The Case Against the State Department 
      Wuerth, Ingrid Brunk (Virginia Journal of International Law, 2011)
      The immunity of foreign states from suit in U.S. courts is governed by a federal statute, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). This statute does not apply to the immunity of individual foreign officials, however, ...
    • Foreign Students and Scholars and the United States Tax System 
      Williams, David, 1948- (Journal of Law & Education, 1994)
      During the 1992-1993 school year, more than 425,000 students from other countries were studying in the United States. In addition, hundreds of foreign nationals were in the United States as research scholars, visiting ...
    • Forensics, , Chicken Soup, and Meteorites: A Tribute to Michael Risinger 
      Cheng, Edward K. (Seton Hall Law Review, 2018)
      Michael Risinger's scholarship has had a profound impact on our field. And while his work has run the gamut in evidence law, I think it is clear that Michael's true love has always been expert evidence, and more specifically, ...
    • Foresight Bias in Patent Law 
      Seymore, Sean B. (Notre Dame Law Review, 2015)
      Much of patent reform has focused on efforts to make it harder to obtain and enforce low-quality patents. The most straightforward way to achieve this goal is to raise the substantive standards of patentability. What is ...
    • The Forest and the Trees 
      Bressman, Lisa Schultz (Vanderbilt Lawyer, 2002)
      Ask those who carefully follow the Supreme Court, and they will tell you that--for good or bad, depending on their perspective--the current Supreme Court has reduced to near rubble the metaphorical wall separating church ...
    • Foreward to Revisiting the Public Utility 
      Ricks, Morgan; Rossi, Jim (Yale Journal on Regulation, 2018)
      This foreword introduces "Revisiting the Public Utility," a series of essays published in a special issue of Yale Journal on Regulation. We cluster the contributions to this issue around public utility regulation’s core ...
    • Foreword: Is Justice Just Us? 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Hofstra Law Review, 2000)
      This is a review of JUSTICE, LIABILITY AND BLAME, by Paul Robinson and John Darley. The book is a summary of 18 studies which surveyed lay subjects about their attitudes toward various aspects of criminal law doctrine, ...
    • Forging Ethnic Identity Through Faith: Religion and the Syrian-Lebanese Community in São Paulo 
      Pitts Jr., Montie Bryan (2006-08-01)
      Department: Latin American Studies
      Since 1871, approximately 150,000 Syrians and Lebanese have immigrated to Brazil, struggling to preserve their Arabic culture and identity even as they have assimilated to Brazilian society. Previous scholars have ...
    • Forging the Masculine and Modern Nation: Race, Identity, and the Public Sphere in Cuba and Mexico, 1890s - 1930s 
      LaFevor, David Clark (2011-05-05)
      Department: History
      Forging the Masculine and Modern Nation: Race, Identity, and the Public Sphere in Cuba and Mexico, 1890s - 1930s David C. LaFevor This dissertation explores the gendered, nationalist, and racial ideas around the introduction ...
    • Forgive Us, As We Forgive: A Reformed Position on the Visible Holiness of the Church 
      Sanderson-Doughty, Sarah Grace (2015-04-09)
      Department: Religion
      RELIGION FORGIVE US, AS WE FORGIVE: A REFORMED POSITION ON THE VISIBLE HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH SARAH GRACE SANDERSON-DOUGHTY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Paul DeHart This project in constructive theology ...
    • Forgotten at the Fair: Quilts at Chicago's World's Columbia Exposition 
      Harmer, Crickett (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      At the first World's Fair with it's own women's pavillion, chaired by a woman, designed by a woman, and decorated by a woman at a time when sewing was the predominate activitiy for women, why were no quilts in the Women's ...
    • The Forgotten Crusaders: Western Missionaries in the Chinese Anti-Opium Movement 
      Guan, Tianyuan (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2019-04-30)
      As the most notorious drug in China, opium is repeatedly taught in school, and nearly all Chinese people could list its harmful effects. Yet instead of being taught in biology class as an addictive drug, it is introduced ...
    • The Forgotten Victims 
      Sherry, Suzanna (University of Colorado Law Review, 1992)
      The attention and hand-wringing lavished on race relations by Aleinikoff and many others obscures the fact that by every measurement of formal equality, and by many measures of substantive equality, white women are further ...
    • Forkhead transcription factor regulates prostate-specific gene expression and prostatic morphogenesis: a functional interaction with androgen signaling 
      Gao, Nan (2004-10-15)
      Department: Cell and Developmental Biology
      Comparative genome analysis implied that a progressively more elaborate regulation of gene expression rather than invention of new genes is responsible for the organismal complexity, and that a constrained organization of ...
    • Forks in the Road 
      Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Gilligan, Jonathan M. (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2020)
      This Essay outlines a simple heuristic that will enable public and private policymakers to focus on the most important climate change mitigation strategies. Policymakers face a dizzying array of information, pressure from ...
    • Form vs. Function in Rule 10B-5 Class Actions 
      Rose, Amanda M. (Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, 2015)
      The Supreme Court’s widely anticipated decision last term in Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc.1 did little to change the fundamental landscape of securities fraud litigation in the United States. Rule 10b-52 class ...
    • Formal Semantic Specification of Domain-Specific Modeling Languages for Cyber-Physical Systems 
      Simko, Gabor (2014-06-13)
      Department: Computer Science
      Model-Integrated Computing is increasingly used for designing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), since it increases productivity and product quality through simulators, automated testing, code generators and verification tools. ...
    • Forman lecture with Carl Wieman: "Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Physics to Teach Physics" 
      Wieman, C. E. (Carl Edwin) (Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-10)
    • Formation and Function of Collagen IV Sulfilimine Bonds 
      Cummings, Christopher Franklin (2013-04-15)
      Department: Biochemistry
      Collagen IV networks are essential for animal viability, providing a stable extracellular foundation for tissue functioning. These networks contain sulfilimine bonds that covalently crosslink the C-terminal NC1 interfaces ...