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(2010-06-08)Department: Computer ScienceAnalysts, scientist, engineers, and multimedia professionals require massive processing power to analyze financial trends, create test simulations, model climate, compile code, render video, decode genomes and other complex ...
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(2005-08-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMany research initiatives are currently underway to improve the performance of thermoelectric coolers (TECs). The primary drawback of TECs is their inefficiency. Most of the ongoing research concentrates on various ...
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(2009-08-04)Department: Computer ScienceEarly detection and isolation of faults is crucial for ensuring system safety and efficiency. Online diagnosis schemes are usually integrated with fault adaptive control schemes to mitigate these fault effects, and avoid ...
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(2010-03-23)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis project is aimed at developing a system allowing Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) to perform distributed tasks within a fault-tolerant context, called the Distributed Apt Resource Transference System (DARTS). By creating ...
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(Journal of Legal Analysis, 2021)As consolidated multidistrict litigation has come to dominate the federal civil docket, the problem of how to divide attorney fees among participating firms has become the source of frequent and protracted litigation. For ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04)
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(2009-06-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies the distributions of treatment effects in switching regimes models (SRMs). First, we propose a general class of SRMs and provide simple estimators of average treatment effects. Second, we establish ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation explores the way in which the poetry and plays of Ferreira Gullar (Brazil, 1930-2016), Miguel Piñero (Puerto Rico/New York, 1946-1988), and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950-) go about imagining utopian ...
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(Southern California Law Review, 2019)For the past century, property rights-and in particular development rights-have been circumscribed and largely defined by comprehensive local land use regulations. As any student of land use knows, zoning across the country ...
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(Colorado Law Review, 2004)There is a peculiar point of agreement between prominent defenders of originalist and dynamic interpretive methods, that their preferred interpretive approach applies not just to statutes or to the Constitution, but to ...
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(Genome Research, 2022-10)There is increasing appreciation that, in addition to being shaped by an individual's genotype and environment, most complex traits are also determined by poorly understood interactions between these two factors. So-called ...
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(2017-11-16)Department: NeuroscienceNeurons are specialized cells that communicate through electrochemical signals: a neuron receives input through dendrites and sends information through a single axon. The receptive field for each neuron is defined by sister ...
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(2007-12-04)Department: Biological SciencesIn recent years it has become apparent that microRNAs (miRNAs) are common feature of eukaryotic genomes. The functional products of these non-canonical genes are small, ~22nt RNAs that negatively regulate translation. ...
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(Clinical Law Review, 2019)The demographics of clinical law faculties matter. As Professor Jon Dubin persuasively argued nearly twenty years ago in his article Faculty Diversity as a Clinical Legal Education Imperative, clinical faculty of color ...
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(2020-12)A study of the Federal Government Agency through a socio-ecological model was conducted to examine the causes for the low Hispanic representation rate. At the Individual level, it was found that salary, benefits, job ...
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(2023)Dataset and supplementary materials for Millager et al. (in preparation).
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)The number of students of color in urban and suburban areas continues to increase (Howard, 1999, Irvine 2003,). In 2001 forty percent of students enrolled in public schools were students of color (Irvine, 2003). In some ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-06-19)
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(2013-07-29)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyIn many organisms, a cytokinetic ring directs daughter cell separation following mitosis. While conserved molecular participants in this process have been defined, the signaling events controlling cytokinetic ring function ...
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(2009-01-08)Department: Political ScienceAlthough it is well-established, at least since Aristotle, that high levels of economic inequality produce political instability, the underlying mechanism by which this link works has been largely underspecified. By placing ...