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(Wake Forest Law Review, 2000)Over the past decade, executive compensation has become a controversial topic. Increasingly, corporate boards of directors are confronted by angry shareholder groups over the size and composition of executive pay packages. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)We utilize a previously untapped data source, Gwendolyn Hall (1999), to examine the market for slaves in Louisiana, both in New Orleans and outside of New Orleans. We are able to study the process of price determination ...
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The Determinants of the Disposition of Product Liability Claims and Compensation for Bodily Injury (The Journal of Legal Studies, 1986)The frequency and severity of products liability lawsuits have become a matter of increasing importance and concern to the public at large and to American business in particular. The number of product liability cases filed ...
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(2012-08-06)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe structural analysis of the sodium-calcium exchanger NCX1.1 is presented in this thesis. I explore the background information and previous research detailing NCX1.1 and its mechanism. I also explain some of the technical ...
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(2018-04-10)Department: Environmental EngineeringFor hydropower systems under regulatory requirements, high-fidelity water quality models are useful tools for advance prediction of water quality outcomes subject to operating schemes; however, when considered alongside ...
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(2011-12-08)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe adaptor protein ankyrin-R interacts via its membrane binding domain with the cytoplasmic domain of the anion exchange protein (AE1) and via its spectrin binding domain with the spectrin based membrane skeleton in human ...
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(2019-07-24)Department: NeuroscienceFoxg1 Disorder is a rare yet devastating neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by intellectual, motor, and social deficits as well as seizures. It is accompanied by neuroanatomical abnormalities. The protein ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-04)
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(2021-04-27)This thesis examines the relationship between law and the media by looking at two important and politicized health issues, abortion and HIV/AIDS, in New York and Tennessee. In order to achieve this goal, legislative ...
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(2020-08-24)Department: AstrophysicsSolar coronal jets are small-scale, energetic eruptions, characterized by a column-like spire and a bright, dome-shaped base. Jets are often associated with notable changes in the underlying photospheric magnetic field ...
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(2011-04-29)Department: Biological SciencesThe ability of SV40 to activate the DNA damage response raises the question of whether the virus also induces DNA damage. Broken nuclear DNA in SV40-infected BSC40 cells could be detected at 5 hours post infection (hpi) ...
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(2018-08-15)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsRecent observations have challenged the long held concept that all β cells are eventually destroyed in type 1 diabetes (T1D). Indeed, many individuals with T1D produce small amounts of C-peptide long after disease onset ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Fundamentally, this paper is about the value of information. Whenever a cost-benefit analysis has to be undertaken using benefits that are estimated from household survey data the size of the survey sample must be specified. ...
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(2012-04-26)Department: Human GeneticsHUMAN GENETICS DETERMINING THE ROLE OF GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR-6 (GDF6) IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CORONAL SUTURE DAWN ELIZABETH CLENDENNING Dissertation under the direction of Professor Douglas P. Mortlock Growth ...
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(2016-03-25)Department: PharmacologyThe most widely prescribed antidepressant medications are serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), believed to provide therapeutic benefit by antagonizing the serotonin transporter (5-HT; SERT), which acts to ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: PathologyThe endometrium is the tissue lining the inner cavity of the uterus in which nidation and pregnancy maintenance occurs. To date, there are no physiological models that recapitulate the human endometrial microenvironment; ...
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(2013-12-09)Department: Human GeneticsThe clinical course of multiple sclerosis (MS) is highly variable, and research data collection is costly and time-consuming. Much is known about the genetic risk of acquiring MS, but little is understood about the effect ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2011)The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weaknesses in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for environmental catastrophes more broadly. This Article proposes a new liability ...
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(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)This Article examines the interaction between direct regulation of pharmaceuticals under the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and the indirect regulation of pharmaceuticals provided by common law tort incentives. ...
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(2022-08)Schools throughout the country are grappling with the notion of tracking versus detracking students in math based on their achievement in grade six or lower. Ambrose Academy, a pseudonym, chose to detrack seventh-grade ...