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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
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1992-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-04-17)
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(2013-07-17)Department: EnglishOctavia Butler’s Kindred and Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring are African diasporic texts that trouble the boundaries of nation, home, time, and genre, as they are traditionally defined. This thesis argues that ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1990)When organizing this Symposium on the topic of "Law, Literature, and Social Change," we asked whether current trends in literature and in literary, social, and legal theory actually could play a role in bringing about ...
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(2010-08-16)Department: EnglishMuch recent historically-focused scholarship has revealed the ways in which the deviant criminality in the work of Edgar Allan Poe can be read as ideologically conservative. This criticism is understandably concerned with ...
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(Constitutional Commentary, 2000)Congress should repeal 28 U.S.C. § 1332 in its entirety, abolishing diversity jurisdiction altogether.