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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-08-30)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)This short guide is designed to speak to the novice urban educator that has limited training and experience on how to best meet the needs of a culturally diverse classroom, regardless of subject or grade taught. Through ...
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(2023-05)Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the science of behavior, often used with children and adults. Neurodivergent people are often consumers of ABA through school, community, and clinical settings across the lifespan. To ...
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(2005-07-26)Department: Civil EngineeringSingle-plate connections, also called shear tabs, are an economical and efficient way to transfer load from one member to another, and are often found in steel-frame buildings. One type of shear tab is the extended shear ...
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(2019-07-23)Department: PsychologyRecent research has found evidence of a domain-general object recognition ability, called o, which is distinct from general intelligence and other cognitive and personality constructs. In a first study, we used latent ...
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(2013-07-18)Department: PsychologyBehavioral and Neural Indices of Auditory Temporal Processing in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders JENNIFER H. FOSS-FEIG Dissertation under the direction of Professors Wendy L. Stone and Bruce Compas Sensory ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)In the literature of psychology and economics it is frequently observed that individuals tend to conform in their behavior to the behavior of similar individuals. A fundamental question is whether the outcome of such ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: Biological SciencesThis dissertation examines the natural history, potential adaptations, and tradeoffs of fecal cases of Neochlamisus leaf beetles. Fecal cases begin as wrappings around eggs. Each larva maintains and expands its case ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2006)This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime. It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We explore the potential for correlated equilibrium to capture conformity to norms and the coordination of behavior within social groups. Given a partition of players into social groups we propose properties that one may ...
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(Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2015)Although government agencies increasingly use behavioral irrationalities as a justification for government intervention, the paradox is that these same government policies are also subject to similar behavioral inadequacies ...
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(2006-04-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers individuals’ behavioral responses to two major forms of public investment in education designed to increase educational opportunities: Head Start and reductions in class size. Head Start ...
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(2011-04-18)Department: Computer ScienceDomain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) are specialized languages tailored with concepts and features of a particular domain. The abstractions offered by DSMLs allow designers of software systems to ignore implementation ...
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(New York University Law Review, 2015)A decade of war has meant a decade of writing on war powers. From the authority to start a war, to restrictions on fighting wars, to the authority to end a war, constitutional lawyers and scholars have explored the classic ...
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(2008-09-08)Department: SpanishThis study explores the criollo voice present in four of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s plays. Informed by the most recent studies on criollo literature, particularly of 17th-century writers born in New Spain, as José Antonio ...
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(The Reformed Review, 2004)
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(2014-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesI investigated the stereotypes of Brazilians identified as black using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods–unobtrusive observation, 12 informal interviews, and a content analysis of 33 newspaper issues ...
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(Journal of Law and Policy, 2013)This article aims to provide some legal context to the Authorship Attribution Workshop (“conference”). In particular, I want to offer some pragmatic observations on what courts will likely demand of forensic linguistics ...
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(Homiletic, 2002)