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    • Induced Litigation 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E. (Northwestern University Law Review, 2004)
      If "justice delayed" is "justice denied,"justice is often denied in American courts. Delay in the courts is a "ceaseless and unremitting problem of modem civil justice" that "has an irreparable effect on both plaintiffs ...
    • Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before "Powell v. Alabama" 
      Mayeux, Sara (Iowa Law Review, 2014)
      Isabella Nitti-the first woman sentenced to death in Illinois-was national news in her time. Today she is remembered (if at all) as one of the notorious "husband killers" who inspired the Broadway play Chicago. Less well ...
    • Inefficient Trade Patterns: Excessive Trade, Cross-Hauling, and Dumping 
      Eden, Benjamin (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      I study an example of a competitive environment in which trade occurs in a sequential manner. In this example, a country with a stable demand may suffer from trade with a country with unstable demand, there may be too much ...
    • Inequality in Child Academic Achievement in Single Parent Households: Evidence from Brazil 
      Horowitz, Andrew W.; Souza, Andre Portela (Vanderbilt University, 2004)
      In this paper we compare the intra-household dispersion of children's education achievement in single female-parent households with two-parent households. We find significantly more dispersion across children in households' ...
    • Infant Behavior During Sticky Mittens Training: What It Can Tell Us About Infant Learning 
      Malley, Lauren (Vanderbilt University, 2023-04)
      Infant exploratory behavior is critical for stimulating proper development and has implications on numerous developmental domains. The sticky mittens paradigm has been shown to enhance object exploration skills in infants, ...
    • Infant Tool Use and Executive Function 
      Detherage, Ashley (Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
      How do toddlers’ executive function skills relate to abilities to use familiar tools in unfamiliar ways? What method might encourage infants to employ executive function skills to override their prepotent, or automatic, ...
    • Infants' Anticipations and Grasps of Familiar and Unfamiliar Tools 
      Halligan, Taylor (Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)
      Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than ...
    • Infants' use of category labels and intonation in reference resolution 
      Osina, Maria Alexandrovna (2014-11-25)
      Department: Psychology
      The purpose of the current two studies is to investigate infants’ access to and their use of two sources of information when establishing common ground with the speaker. In study 1, I investigate infants’ access to shared ...
    • Infection susceptibility and alternative approaches to combating drug-resistant infections 
      Pham, Ly Huong; 0000-0001-5980-2102 (2021-11-15)
      Department: Microbe-Host Interactions
      Despite significant advances in medical care, infectious diseases continue to be a leading cause of death worldwide. It is estimated that infectious diseases account for a quarter of reported deaths annually. The majority ...
    • The Inference from Authority to Interpretive Method in Constitutional and Statutory Domains 
      Stack, Kevin M. (Cornell Law Review, 2017)
      Should courts interpret the Constitution as they interpret statutes? This question has been answered in a wide variety of ways. On the one hand, many scholars and jurists understand constitutional and statutory interpretation ...
    • Inference on partially identified parameters: with applications to the evaluation of heterogeneous treatment effects 
      Park, Sang Soo (2008-06-17)
      Department: Economics
      My dissertation focuses on partial identification of the distribution function of treatment effects. When treatment effects are believed to be heterogeneous, policy evaluation often requires knowledge of the distribution ...
    • Inferring Desire 
      Clarke, Jessica A. (Duke Law Journal, 2013)
      In the course of debates over same-sex marriage, many scholars have proposed new legal definitions of sexual orientation to better account for the role of relationships in constituting identities. But these discussions ...
    • Inferring Desire 
      Clarke, Jessica A. (Duke Law Journal, 2013)
      In the course of debates over same-sex marriage, many scholars have proposed new legal definitions of sexual orientation to better account for the role of relationships in constituting identities. But these discussions ...
    • Inferring Structural Properties of Objects from Intentional Gestures in Infancy 
      Jacobson, John D. (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
      In this study, we were interested in what 9-month-olds understood about the physical properties of an object after seeing an intentional gesture made toward the object. Specifically, we asked whether infants could make ...
    • “Infested with piratts”: piracy and the Atlantic slave trade 
      Sutton, Angela Christine (2015-10-14)
      Department: History
      Drawing on the extensive records of the Royal Africa Company as well as eyewitness reports by important actors in the slave trade, this paper addresses current assumptions held about piracy and the Atlantic slave trade. ...
    • Inflammation and accumulating risk for developing psychiatric disorders 
      Money, Kelli Marie (2016-10-20)
      Department: Neuroscience
      The immune system and brain are intricately intertwined in both development and adult function. Unfortunately, this relationship can lead to dysfunction when balance in either system is disturbed. Inflammation does not ...
    • Inflammatory cytokines, cachexia and symptoms in patients with head and neck cancer 
      Schultze, Benjamin Stuart (2015-07-15)
      Department: Nursing Science
      The precise cause of cancer cachexia is unknown. It is a syndrome associated with weight loss, lipolysis, muscle wasting, anorexia, chronic nausea and asthenia. Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) are particularly ...
    • Inflammatory Mediators promote the development and progression of metaplasia in the stomach 
      Petersen, Christine Pope (2016-03-30)
      Department: Cell and Developmental Biology
      Spasmolytic polypeptide-expression metaplasia (SPEM) develops in the atrophic stomach and progresses to an intestinalized SPEM in the setting of inflammation. Different immune deficient mouse models determined that T-cells, ...
    • Inflation Income Redistribution and Optimal Central Bank Independence 
      Weymark, Diana N.; Reeves, Daniel (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      The problem of monetary policy delegation is formulated as a two-stage non-cooperative game between the government and the central bank. The solution to this policy game determines the optimal combination of central bank ...
    • Inflation Targeting in Canada: An Expected Loss Analysis in a DSGE Model with Trade Costs 
      Yilmazkuday, Hakan (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      This paper develops an open economy DSGE model with an emphasis on trade costs to evaluate the performance of the Bank of Canada in the Canadian inflation targeting experience. For model parametrization, the New-Keynesian ...