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(Florida Law Review, 2001)The field of law and biology is growing rapidly, and the good scholarship typically has much to do with Owen Jones... The general message that Professor Jones disseminates in his articles is important. Law cannot reach ...
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(Mercer Law Review, 2011)This contribution to the Brain Sciences in the Courtroom Symposium identifies and discusses issues important to admissibility determinations when courts confront brain-scan evidence. Through the vehicle of the landmark ...
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(2015-11-19)Department: NeuroscienceDue to the escalating obesity epidemic in the United States, an important public health concern is the comorbidity of metabolic disorders and mental illness. Mounting clinical evidence supports the comorbid nature of mental ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCell division requires proper coordination of chromosome segregation and cytokinesis. Mitotic checkpoints enforce proper coordination of these two events by stalling the core cell cycle machinery when unforeseen mistakes ...
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(2020-08-14)Department: History"Branching Out: Banking, Credit, and the Globalizing US Economy, 1900s–1930s" In the 1890s, there was virtually no such thing as a US international banker. By the 1920s, the economic position of the United States had shifted ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-08-21)
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(Texas Law Review, 2016)For much of the past 80 years courts have fixated on dual sovereignty as the organizing federalism paradigm under New Deal era energy statutes. Dual sovereignty’s reign emphasized a jurisdictional “bright line,” with a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Graduate Center for Latin American Studies, 1969-03)
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(2012-12-07)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyThis project is concerned with how the recently discovered paramyxovirus, human metapneumovirus (HMPV), interacts with host cells to initiate entry. In this dissertation I explore whether the HMPV fusion protein interacts ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-05)
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Breaking the Silence: Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities Speak-Up About Their Support Needs (2024-02-26)Sibling relationships are important in that they can help predict the social-emotional development, understanding, and outcomes, and help shape the relationship between them. Due to these multi-facet predictors, it is ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringSurgery is a primary treatment option for breast cancer patients; the majority of these patients are recommended for breast conserving surgery. Unfortunately, patient positional changes between imaging and surgery cause ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1996-04-12)
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(Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
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(2020)The authors of this essay (David Furbish, Douglas Jerolmack and Rachel Glade) offer an updated view of the state of affairs in the brickyard described in B. K. Forscher’s popular 1963 allegorical letter to Science, “Chaos ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: SociologyResearch on social movement consequences has overwhelmingly focused on social movement-induced political or policy change. In this paper, I draw on data from interviews with LGBT activists at a Christian university to ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019)As the demographic characteristics of college students in the United States have shifted and expanded, so have the patterns of student mobility across international borders. Study abroad opportunities have also become ...
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(2019-06-17)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation is comprised of three studies that examine the likelihood of exiting the college-going pipeline, test the framing of a text messaging intervention, and explore the transition and enrollment experience for ...