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(2017-02-15)Department: ChemistryThis work describes three separate projects, for which Density Functional Theory (DFT) computations provide a unifying theme. The DFT approach gives a theoretically sound way to model the chemical and physical properties ...
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(2015-12-16)Department: ChemistryOrthosomycins are highly decorated oligosaccharides with potent activity against a variety of Gram-positive bacteria including methicillin-resistant staphylococci and vancomycin-resistant enterococci. The research in this ...
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(2018-03-26)Department: ChemistryPolyunsaturated fatty acids can be liberated from phospholipids in the membrane bilayer and enzymatically converted to oxygenated bioactive lipid compounds that contribute to the pathology, or in some cases, the resolution ...
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(2016-04-06)Department: PsychologyAttention and awareness are tightly coupled phenomena that describe how particular information is selected for processing and subsequently experienced. Many contemporary theories of both processes posit that there are ...
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(2020-01-17)Department: PharmacologyDeficits in social interaction (SI) are a core symptom of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), however treatments for social deficits are notably lacking. Elucidating brain circuits and neuromodulatory signaling systems that ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: PhysicsSynthesis and single crystal growth methods for Li-containing chalogenides, specifically LiIn1-xGaxSe2, single crystals are discussed. This study elucidates the possibility of improving neutron detection by reducing the ...
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(2016-07-28)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityFor the past decade science education has increasingly advocated for student participation in the practice of science. However, current representations of scientific practice often under-represent and under-theorize the ...
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(2015-11-27)Department: ChemistryVanadium dioxide (VO2) is a material that undergoes a phase transition at 68 °C which corresponds to interesting changes in its optical and electronic properties, including a decrease in resistivity of up to five orders ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2004)Head Start is a comprehensive, early childhood development program designed to augment the human capital and health capital levels of disadvantaged children. Grossman's (1972) health capital model suggests that early ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-02-12)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)Traditionally, adult ESL education has been dominated by rote memorization of cultural and language facts, audio-lingual drillings, and delivery of frequent daily conversations, while students’ social identities and their ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)There is a presumption in the literature that price or exchange rate uncertainty, or uncertainty in the monetary conditions underlying them, will have a negative effect on investment. Some argue that this negative effect ...
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(U.C. Irvine Law Review, 2018)The triangular interface between trade, intellectual property (IP) and human rights has yet to be fully formed, both doctrinally and normatively. Adding investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) to the mix increases the ...
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(2021-04-20)The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is the preeminent art museum in the city of Detroit. The museum is looking to continue to increase its relationship with the community and grow its education program to best match its ...
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(Texas Law Review, 2016)This article, the most comprehensive study of judicial participation in plea negotiations since the 1970s, reveals a stunning array of new procedures that involve judges routinely in the settlement of criminal cases. ...
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(2016-08-17)Department: EnglishWith a series of technological innovations in cotton cultivation and production, a booming transatlantic cotton economy sprang into life in the early decades of the nineteenth century, an economy that depended on the forced ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Anthropology and CMAPDespite the push in contemporary anthropology to challenge or dispel the “naturalness” of gender associations, Aymara women are emphasizing their embodied relationship to the land within their environmental protest activity ...
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(2019-07-24)Department: NeuroscienceAs of the year 2016, an estimated 50% of the United States’ population living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) is at least 50 years or older, due to the success of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) steadily ...
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(2020-06-03)Department: Electrical EngineeringAn estimated 50% of the electricity in the world is controlled by power semiconductor devices, with silicon carbide power devices superior to silicon power devices due to higher breakdown electric fields, increased thermal ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-03-05)