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    • Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Cornell Law Review, 2007)
      How do judges judge? Do they apply law to facts in a mechanical and deliberative way, as the formalists suggest they do, or do they rely on hunches and gut feelings, as the realists maintain? Debate has raged for decades, ...
    • Fuller, Jack (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
      The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Emory Law Journalwww.law.emory.edu/elj, 2004)
      This paper provides an analysis of sixty-four punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. Based on an inventory of these cases, there is evidence that these blockbuster awards are highly concentrated geographically, ...
    • Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-06-14)
      When should a patient receive a transfuse of blood? What is an acceptable hemoglobin concentration in an ICU patient and should we use EPO? Summer is a time when the blood banks often have a single day's worth of blood. ...
    • Sasson, Jack M. (American Oriental Society, 1994)
    • McNaughton, Candace Dorothy (2016-05-27)
      Department: Epidemiology
      Hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factors for stroke, cardiovascular disease, and renal failure, and it affects more than 30% of all adult Americans. The prevalence of hypertension is increasing, ...
    • Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-09-30)
      Blood products: pRBCs, fresh frozen plasma, platelets, cryoprecipitate when and how should we use it? What are the risks? You may order them like IV fluids but do you really know how these potentially deadly products ...
    • Thompson, Joshua James (2019-09-19)
      Department: Cancer Biology
      Blood vessel epicardial substance (BVES or POPDC1) is a tight junction-associated adhesion molecule that regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition and is downregulated in colorectal cancer via promoter hypermethylation, ...
    • Hutton, Thomas Robert Clendenen (2009-04-20)
      Department: History
      Dissertation under the direction of Professor David L. Carlton This project deals with political violence involving white southerners in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the circumstances through which ...
    • Blue Run 
      Somerville, Mary Flannery (2017-07-13)
      Department: Creative Writing
      My thesis explores landscape and memory as thin places—the meeting places between opposites, particularly between humanity and divinity. My initial poem, “Memory Palace,” both praises the brain’s power and acknowledges ...
    • Meyer, Timothy; Sitaraman, Ganesh (The Great Democracy Initiative, 2018-12)
      In this paper, we offer ten recommendations on how to reform American trade policy. These reforms respond to three fundamental challenges: (1) our trade bureaucracy is poorly designed to craft and execute a trade policy ...
    • Pegg, Samantha; Ethridge, Paige; Shields, Grant S.; Slavich, George M.; Weinberg, Anna; Kujawa, Autumn (Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019-08-07)
      Exposure to social stress is a well-established risk factor for the development and recurrence of depression. Reduced neural responsiveness to monetary reward has been associated with greater symptoms following stress ...
    • Hover, Laura Debra (2015-12-16)
      Department: Pathology
      Improved therapies for high grade gliomas (HGG) are urgently needed, as the median survival for grade IV gliomas is just 15 months after treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Recently, bone morphogenetic ...
    • Lowery, Jonathan Wayne (2010-04-22)
      Department: Cell and Developmental Biology
      Bone morphogenetic protein (Bmp) signaling is critical for vascular development and homeostasis. Defects in this pathway lead to multiple vascular diseases, including Heritable Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (HPAH), which ...
    • Li, Yina (2007-02-28)
      Department: Cell and Developmental Biology
      The trachea and esophagus are respectively respiratory and digestive organs that originate from a common foregut endoderm during development. Perturbed patterning in this endodermal tissue can result in a variety of foregut ...
    • Bylund, Jeffery B. (2017-04-05)
      Department: Pharmacology
      Heart development depends on coordinated proliferation and differentiation of cardiac progenitor cells, but how the two processes are synchronized is not well understood. The data herein show that the secreted BMP antagonist ...
    • Flook, Elizabeth A.; Feola, Brandee; Avery, Suzanne N.; Winder, Danny G.; Woodward, Neil D.; Heckers, Stephan; Blackford, Jennifer Urbano (Neuroimage, 2020-04-15)
      The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is emerging as a critical region in multiple psychiatric disorders including anxiety, PTSD, and alcohol and substance use disorders. In conjunction with growing knowledge of ...
    • LeBherz, Dana (2021-08-02)
      This paper explores the current and needed identities and competencies of a small but growing environmental nonprofit organization, the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center. The current board is neither designed nor ...
    • Blair, Margaret M., 1950- (Seattle University Law Review, 2015)
      In June of 2014, the board of directors of Demoulas Supermarkets, Inc.-better known as Market Basket, a mid-sized chain of grocery stores in New England-decided to oust the man who had been CEO for the previous six years, ...