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(2012-12-26)Department: HistoryThis project examines representations of women in German advertising posters from the 1870s to 1914. I focus on the connection of these gendered images to two spaces at the forefront of social and cultural change in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-09-23)
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(2012-07-27)Department: ReligionAlthough the ideal of sexual renunciation was gaining popularity within many Christian groups in the second and third centuries, Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian stand out as two early Church Fathers who defended ...
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(2015-02-24)Department: Civil EngineeringFor effective bridge management, monitoring its health and repairing the detected damages efficiently are essential. The first part of this study uses acoustic emission (AE) technique for real-time health monitoring. For ...
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(Nutrition & Diabetes, 2019-09-02)Background: Aerobic exercise training is known to have beneficial effects on whole-body glucose metabolism in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The responses of the liver to such training are less well understood. The ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018)In an effort to mitigate the potentially catastrophic effects of human consumption on the environment, many researchers are driven to understand the mechanisms underlying sustained engagement in pro-environmental behavior ...
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(2017-05-16)Department: PsychologyAffect labeling, the act of putting one’s feelings into words, is a form of emotion regulation that can be applied in multiple therapeutic contexts. However, it is unclear if affect labeling provides a general down-regulating ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-09-12)With a goal of exploring the impact of English language learners' (ELLs) affective and social needs on academic achievement, this paper examines the issue from four frameworks: the learner, the learning environment, the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) co-occur at rates much higher than chance. Because of overlapping risk factors and higher rates of comorbidity than other anxiety disorders, researchers ...
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(2012-08-02)Department: EnglishThis dissertation argues that the literature of a fading, Atlantic-imperial system of mines and plantations had a decisive and under-examined impact upon twentieth-century globalization. Adopting a world-systems perspective, ...
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(2009-05-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies affiliation and entry in first-price auctions, accomplishing three goals. First, it develops a simple approach to test for affiliation among bidders' private information and applies the approach ...
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(Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, 2013)This Essay, prepared for the 2012 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, argues that social obligation theories in property generate previously unrecognized obligations on the State. Leading property scholars, like ...
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(2014-04-09)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy of Christian ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: ChemistryAflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a carcinogenic mycotoxin produced by the common agricultural contaminant A. flavus, has been implicated in the high rates of hepatocellular carcinoma observed in some developing countries. Upon ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)Past research has shown that depressive symptoms and race/ethnicity separately impact parenting behaviors, although the latter is often confounded with other contextual variables. This study examined the association of ...
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(2011-04-13)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis study provides information about the socialization experiences of African American college students within historically Black and predominantly White institutional contexts. Drawing on Weidman’s (1989) conceptual ...
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(Black Theology, 2016)
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(Genome Biology, 2019-04-26)BackgroundAfrica is the origin of modern humans within the past 300 thousand years. To infer the complex demographic history of African populations and adaptation to diverse environments, we sequenced the genomes of 92 ...
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(2007-12-27)Department: ChemistryThree constructs of African Swine Fever Virus DNA polymerase X (pol X) were expressed and purified. Buffers containing sodium acetate, sodium cacodylate or 0.5 M NaCl provided good solubility for the enzyme at micromolar ...
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(2020-08-22)Department: Creative WritingStriking The Match: Transitioning From Stasis to Agency