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(2011-05-05)Department: HistoryForging the Masculine and Modern Nation: Race, Identity, and the Public Sphere in Cuba and Mexico, 1890s - 1930s David C. LaFevor This dissertation explores the gendered, nationalist, and racial ideas around the introduction ...
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(2015-04-09)Department: ReligionRELIGION FORGIVE US, AS WE FORGIVE: A REFORMED POSITION ON THE VISIBLE HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH SARAH GRACE SANDERSON-DOUGHTY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Paul DeHart This project in constructive theology ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)At the first World's Fair with it's own women's pavillion, chaired by a woman, designed by a woman, and decorated by a woman at a time when sewing was the predominate activitiy for women, why were no quilts in the Women's ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2019-04-30)As the most notorious drug in China, opium is repeatedly taught in school, and nearly all Chinese people could list its harmful effects. Yet instead of being taught in biology class as an addictive drug, it is introduced ...
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(University of Colorado Law Review, 1992)The attention and hand-wringing lavished on race relations by Aleinikoff and many others obscures the fact that by every measurement of formal equality, and by many measures of substantive equality, white women are further ...
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(2004-10-15)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyComparative genome analysis implied that a progressively more elaborate regulation of gene expression rather than invention of new genes is responsible for the organismal complexity, and that a constrained organization of ...
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(Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2020)This Essay outlines a simple heuristic that will enable public and private policymakers to focus on the most important climate change mitigation strategies. Policymakers face a dizzying array of information, pressure from ...
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(Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, 2015)The Supreme Court’s widely anticipated decision last term in Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc.1 did little to change the fundamental landscape of securities fraud litigation in the United States. Rule 10b-52 class ...
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(2014-06-13)Department: Computer ScienceModel-Integrated Computing is increasingly used for designing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), since it increases productivity and product quality through simulators, automated testing, code generators and verification tools. ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: BiochemistryCollagen IV networks are essential for animal viability, providing a stable extracellular foundation for tissue functioning. These networks contain sulfilimine bonds that covalently crosslink the C-terminal NC1 interfaces ...
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(2011-04-06)Department: PharmacologyPHARMACOLOGY FORMATION AND METABOLISM OF 15-DEOXY-{Delta}12,14-PROSTAGLANDIN J2 IN VIVO KLARISSA D. HARDY Dissertation under the direction of Professor L. Jackson Roberts, II 15-Deoxy-{Delta}12,14-prostaglandin J2 ...
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(2018-09-18)Department: BiochemistryThe preservation of DNA replication is requisite for cellular integrity and prevention of tumor formation and cell death. The Y-family DNA polymerases (Pol eta, kappa, iota, and REV1) are crucial in this process because ...
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(The New Republic, 2011)Any serious program for Wall Street reform should start with two words: “term out.” “Terming out” is a financial term of art, but its meaning is easily grasped. It simply means funding your business with long-term financing ...
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(2019-07-22)Department: EnglishBy pulling together science fiction written in English from around the world and drawing from the fields of narrative, postcolonial, and world literary studies, this project intervenes in discussions about the relationship ...
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(2017-03-31)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe reaction generated by the ignition of energetic materials is usually solely tuned by chemical composition. With advances in 3D printing technology, the reaction can be controlled through the construction of custom ...
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(2013-12-04)Department: Chemical EngineeringThere is a compelling clinical need for grafts with initial bone-like mechanical properties that remodel and promote healing of bone defects. This dissertation describes the development and characterization of biodegradable ...