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(2010-09-06)Department: PhilosophyThe core commitment of liberalism is that individual liberty is in some sense primary. There is, however, much disagreement over the concept of liberty itself. In this dissertation, I attempt to determine which conception ...
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(2009-06-24)Department: Community Research and ActionProstitution, drug addiction, and their surrounding issues have long been topics of political, theoretical, and practical import. Furthermore, they offer a particularly insightful lens through which to interrogate concepts ...
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(2011-07-25)Department: PhilosophyThis project will concern itself with crafting an argument in favor of the legalization of assisted suicide as a viable medical treatment. It will do this in two ways; first by comparing the physical and experiential ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Graduate Center for South American Studies, 1963-08)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-28)
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(2015-10-13)Department: HistoryThis paper explores the activities and experiences of a small group of American missionaries, Southern Baptists, who went to Rhodesia to spread their faith, but often found themselves caught between the movement for majority ...
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(2022-03-30)Department: HistoryFormerly enslaved women sought to secure and define freedom for themselves during the course of the American Civil War. Taking advantage of the chaos of war, which fractured the stability of the institution of slavery in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2004-04-14)
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(Dipartimento di storia della società e delle istituzioni, Università degli studi di Milano, 1992)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-01-15)
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(Trends in Hearing, 2020-01)Multiple studies have shown significant speech recognition benefit when acoustic hearing is combined with a cochlear implant (CI) for a bimodal hearing configuration. However, this benefit varies greatly between individuals. ...
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(Covenant Network of Presbyterians, 2006)
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(2015-04-23)
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(2018-07-12)Department: Environmental EngineeringThis dissertation explores the freshwater resources in the coastal region of Bangladesh. Freshwater serves as a major link between Bangladesh's particularly complex and unstable coupled human and natural systems. The coastal ...
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(Scholars Press, 1979)
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(2023-03-27)Department: Mechanical EngineeringDissimilar material joining by welding poses unique challenges due to mechanical and chemical incompatibilities between materials. Alternatives such as fasteners and adhesives add cost and weight. Friction Stir Extrusion ...
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(2014-03-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringFriction stir spot welding (FSSW) presents automotive manufacturers with a process that is capable of joining light-weight aluminum alloys. The desire to eliminate the keyhole, a product of the process, is the main motivation ...
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(2010-08-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringFriction Stir Welding is a solid state joining process that has been shown to successfully join Mg alloys. However the presence of FSW Mg AZ31B in a lap joint configuration in the literature is largely underrepresented ...