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(2002-04-29)Department: Political ScienceThe effects of global market integration on the economies of advanced capitalist countries have revived a debate in the comparative literature over the relationship between income redistribution and economic growth. Despite ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-03-20)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-02)
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(2006-12-11)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesLEADERSHIP AND POLICY STUDIES GLOBAL LEADERS: DEFINING RELEVANT LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY BRADLEY STEVEN GRAY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Robert L. Crowson After an age of leadership defined by ...
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(LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH, 2019-08)Background Influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus are the most common viruses associated with acute lower respiratory infections in young children (<5 years) and older people ...
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(Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, 2012)Scholars and commentators have long argued that issue linkages provide a way to increase cooperation on global public goods by increasing participation in global institutions, building consensus, and deterring free-riding. ...
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(2010-04-07)Department: Computer ScienceThe construction of a collaborative sensor web that integrates sensor networks around the globe promises unprecedented advantages for today's scientists in studying and predicting weather, natural disasters, and climate ...
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(2011-07-21)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe <i>C. elegans</i> genome has been completely sequenced, and the developmental anatomy of this model organism is described at single-cell resolution. Here we utilize strategies that exploit this precisely defined ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2008-09-15)
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(Berkeley Business Law Journal, 2004)In the United States, the remuneration packages of top executives are characterized by a strong emphasis on pay-for-performance and by a highly lucrative "upside." There is much discussion of the possibility that executive ...
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(2009-07-27)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies the effect of globalization, specifically increased international trade and financial integration, on various aspects of the international business cycle.The second chapter, "Globalization and ...
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(2015-11-27)Department: EnglishThis thesis traces the history of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” story across three iterations and three decades of world development—the “Enders Game” novella (1977), the Ender’s Game novel (1985) and the subsequent ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-04-24)There is a large emphasis on intensive control of blood glucose in the ICU, but how accurate are the monitors we use to follow glucose? This episode reviews someof the limitations of deploying an instrument designed for ...
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(2022-05-11)Department: Molecular Pathology & ImmunologyMetabolism determines cell function and fate across tissues and disease states. Proliferative cells upregulate anabolic metabolism to support cell growth, division, and other activities. Glucose and glutamine are critical ...
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(2015-11-19)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe heart must function properly to perform its essential role in supplying the body with the oxygen and nutrients required for survival. Over the course of a lifetime the heart will eventually be exposed to conditions of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-17)All surgical residents know that glutamine is the amino acid known as the fuel for the gut. But what is all the fuss about? The episode will look at the data on glutamine. Does glutamine improve outcomes, and if so and ...
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(2015-10-20)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsDiabetes is characterized by excess levels of glucose and lipid in the blood, which have been proposed to directly and negatively impact islet β cells, exacerbating symptoms and promoting disease progression. Our understanding ...
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(2009-07-27)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation, I argue that the shifting cultural signification of food in early-nineteenth-century England generates literary responses which frame crucial debates of Romanticism. As the emphasis of eating moves ...
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(2005-03-24)Department: Computer ScienceVersatile model-based design demands languages and tools which are suitable for the cre- ation, manipulation, transformation, and composition of domain-specific modeling languages and domain models. The Meta Object Facility ...