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(Arizona Law Review, 2015)In this Article, I give a status report on the life expectancy of class action litigation following the Supreme Court’s decisions in Concepcion and American Express. These decisions permitted corporations to opt out of ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009)For many years, courts and commentators have been concerned about a phenomenon in class action litigation referred to as objector "blackmail." The term "blackmail" is used figuratively rather than literally; so-called ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-23)
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(Virginia Law Review, 2000)This article argues that mental illness should no longer be the basis for a special defense of insanity. Instead, mental disorder should be considered in criminal cases only if relevant to other excuse doctrines, such as ...
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(2023-07-10)Department: EnglishEnd-Holocene Realism: The Contemporary Novel between Epochs gathers a body of contemporary fiction that mobilizes the sensitive instrument of the realist novel toward the work of epochal attunement, a process that presents ...
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(2018-04-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringDelineation of CT abdominal anatomical structure, especially spleen segmentation is essential for measuring tissue volume and biomarkers, so that it can be utilized not only as liver diseases and infection diagnosis purposes, ...
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(Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1998)This article examines some of the perverse consequences of the structure of the Endangered Species Act, namely that it deters property owners from conserving threatened species and lacks proactive measures.
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(Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2004)One of the mysteries of environmental policy in the Bush Administration will be how and why it squandered an opportunity to continue market-based administrative reforms of the Endangered Species Act begun, ironically, in ...
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(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2012)Thirty-five years ago, the Endangered Species Act ("ESA") had as auspicious a debut in the U.S. Supreme Court as any statute could hope for. In Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, a majority of the Court proclaimed that ...
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(2016-08-01)Department: NeuroscienceCannabinoid receptors have been examined as potential targets to alleviate the negative consequences of anxiety, trauma-related, and stress-related disorders. However, in preclinical animal studies, synthetic cannabinoids ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: NeuroscienceThe endocannabinoid (eCB) system, which consists of the cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1R) and its endogenous ligand, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), as well as key synthesis and degradation enzymes, can promote bidirectional, ...
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(2020-02-03)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsFunctional coupling between the amygdala and the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPRC) has been implicated in the generation of negative affective states under stressful conditions in both humans and rodents; however, the ...
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(2008-12-30)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyIdentification of multipotent cardiac progenitors has provided fresh insight into the mechanisms of myocardial lineage specification, yet has done little to clarify the origin of the endocardium. Despite its essential role ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines a model in which growth takes place through investment-specific technological change, which in turn is determined endogenously through research spending. In particular, the role of the degree of ...
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(2012-10-09)Department: NeuroscienceThe epithalamus of the zebrafish contains the dorsal habenulae (Dh), a bilateral pair of nuclei characterized by significant left-right asymmetries in gene expression, anatomy, and connectivity. A screen for mutations that ...
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(2019-02-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe need for medical technologies that improve patient access to diagnostic techniques and treat pathological conditions in a minimally invasive approach is capitalized in this dissertation with the development, characterization, ...
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(2014-07-03)Department: PharmacologyCardiac tissue undergoes renewal with low rates. Although resident stem cell populations have been identified to support cardiomyocyte turnover, the source of the cardiac stem cells and their niche remain elusive. Using ...
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(2013-12-04)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyBloodstream spread is an essential step in the pathogenesis of many viruses. However, mechanisms that promote viremia are not well understood. Reoviruses are neurotropic viruses that disseminate systemically through the ...
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(Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, 2019-07)Objective- Activation of coagulation FXI (factor XI) by FXIIa (activated factor XII) is a prothrombotic process. The endothelium is known to play an antithrombotic role by limiting thrombin generation and platelet activation. ...
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(2011-08-08)Department: PharmacologyThe field of research into endothelial progenitor cells is complex and difficult to interpret. There are a number different investigators working on specific subpopulations that are isolated in unique ways using unique ...