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(2005-06-01)Department: EconomicsThis study contributes to the scarce empirical literature on dollarization by investigating the short and long-run effects of dollarization on the dynamics of prices at the macro and the micro level. This study also presents ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: BiochemistryReplication Protein A (RPA) is the primary eukaryotic ssDNA binding protein utilized in preventing secondary structure formation and re-annealing of unwound DNA strands, thereby controlling access to DNA templates in diverse ...
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(2006-06-05)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis dissertation proposes a novel approach, applicable in the design-time analysis and verification of computer-based systems. The proposed approach, platform modeling, constructs analysis models capturing the system's ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-09)Each year, thousands of abused Hispanic immigrant women struggle to balance their personal safety with competing goals such as family unity, financial security, and cultural loyalty. While domestic violence poses difficulties ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. ...
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(2014-10-10)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Dominant and Context-Specific Control of Endodermal Organ Allocation by Ptf1a Spencer Gaffney Willet Dissertation under the direction of Professor Christopher V.E. Wright The timing and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)A necessary and sufficient condition for dominant strategy implementability when preferences are quasilinear is that, for any individual i and any choice of the types of the other individuals, all k-cycles in i's allocation ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, 2013)Forget hard cases: "bad" cases make bad law. DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Bauman, which never should have been filed in a California federal court, has the potential to make very bad law. It is a paradigmatic example of egregious ...
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(2022-05-13)The intersection of gender and Blackness as it pertains to transgender identity has long been a contested site. The ontologies and epistemologies of Black trans individuals have complicated and interrogated the gender ...
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Don't make the same mistake twice: Examining the relationship between memory for errors and learning (2018-06-27)Department: PsychologyCommitting errors is a common part of the learning process, and current evidence suggests that committing errors can be beneficial for learning, at least for adults. Further, recent evidence in the adult cognition literature ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2010-01-15)
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(2008-02-26)Department: NeuroscienceDOPAMINE AND THE POSITIVELY REINFORCING PROPERTIES OF AGGRESSION MARIA H. COUPPIS Dissertation under the direction of Professor Craig H. Kennedy Aggression is a necessary behavioral response aimed at securing survival. ...
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(2007-07-31)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsMOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS DOPAMINE DEPLETION ALTERS THE BALANCE BETWEEN CA2+/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II AND PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE I ABIGAIL M. BROWN Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2011-12-04)Department: NeuroscienceEmbryonic dopamine (DA) receptor (DR) expression in the medial frontal cortex (mFC) coincides with the formation of neural circuits during the period of axon pathfinding but the signaling properties of DRs and their effect ...
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(2016-04-04)Department: Biomedical EngineeringInsulin resistance together with insufficient insulin secretion leads to the development of type II diabetes mellitus. Glucose-stimulation of insulin secretion has been extensively studied, but other pathways that regulate ...
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(2011-08-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe superior material properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) such as high aspect ratio, high surface area, superb mechanical properties, thermal and chemical stability have generated enormous research activities to push for ...
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(Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, 2010-03-05)Gregg Stanwood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Investigator, presented at the Developmental Disabilities Grand Rounds on March 3, 2010.