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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-11-11)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2022)Established by the Education Amendments of 1972, Title IX is an important statute of legislation that was enacted to protect individuals when discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex was prevalent in American ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-05)James Popham, a leading figure in educational test development and criterion-referenced measurements sums up the power of formative assessment in this way: "The goal of formative assessment is to supply assessment-elicited ...
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(2013-08-01)Department: ReligionThis study aims to provide a novel interpretation of discipleship as presented in the Gospel of Mark. Traditional Markan scholarship on this theme has emphasized the disciples’ failure to know Jesus’ identity and follow ...
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(2007-12-13)Department: Community Research and ActionThis study examines factors related to employee attrition in a state social service organization (SSSO) that administers welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 132 ...
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(Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, 2009-12-17)
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(2023-05)The digital divide has been defined historically as those who have physical access to a computer with internet and those who do not. However, the idea of access is far more complex than availability of the technology. ...
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(2015-03-27)Department: Community Research and ActionResearch suggests that youth civic engagement is beneficial for individuals and democratic societies, and research in this field has proliferated in recent decades. This abundance of research, however, has also come with ...
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(2015-06-09)Department: English"Understanding Criticism" argues that the dominant narrative of the disciplinary history of literary studies has thwarted an analysis of the entanglement of anti-blackness and literary criticism. In the 1940s and 1950s, ...
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(2020-09)Business process reengineering (BPR) is a management strategy appropriatefor the leadership at Pilot Express to use to meet the demands of reshaping and improving the way they run their operations. ...
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(2022-1)Across America, church attendance is declining. Every Nation (EN), a growing North America based ministry of 84 churches, is interested in better understanding the decline so they can share practices for increasing church ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: Biomedical InformaticsIntensive insulin therapy (IIT), a nurse-driven protocol combining frequent blood glucose testing and insulin administration to tightly control blood glucose, became the standard of critical care following a 2001 study. ...
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(2018-02-19)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyTargeted therapy is an effective standard of care in BRAF-mutated malignant melanoma. However, tumor remission varies unpredictably among patients and relapse is almost inevitable. Surprisingly, most of our current knowledge ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-05-11)Many studies have examined price regulations in the pharmaceutical industry in developed countries and found a negative relation between price control and pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). Nevertheless, the ...
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Understanding Enrollment at Hoosac Valley Regional School District: Who Stays, Who Leaves, and Why? (2023-08)This improvement project was designed in collaboration with Hoosac Valley Regional School District, a rural Massachusetts school district facing a cycle of enrollment decline that is adversely affecting their ability to ...
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(2020-03-20)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyThe hormone erythropoietin (Epo) is required for erythropoiesis, yet its molecular mechanism of action remains poorly understood. To investigate how Epo modulates the erythroid genome, I performed epigenetic profiling using ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)We study good-by-good deviations from the Law-of-One-Price for over 5,000 goods and services between European Union countries for the years 1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990. We find that between most countries there are roughly ...
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(2013-05-10)This paper is a discussion of the intuitive biological thought processes that interfere with the understanding of evolution, mainly essentialism and teleology. I compare the aspects of these thought processes with Darwin’s ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: PhysicsAs astronomy expands into the era of Big Data, with increased data capture and storage capabilities and enhanced computing power, the large data sets that will become accessible need to be properly understood to maximize ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Human GeneticsDNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that is essential for proper multi-lineage cellular differentiation, though the connection between patterned regions of hypomethylation and phenotype is poorly understood. Over ...