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Padgett, Andrew A. - An inaugural dissertation on normal digestion

Padgett, Andrew A. (1860-01-01)

Pain and Suffering: Damages in Search of a Sounder Rationale

Viscusi, W. Kip (Michigan Law & Policy Review, 1996)

Compensation for non-pecuniary losses is one of the most controversial components of tort liability. Newspaper headlines routinely feature occasionally extreme awards, such as the $2.9 million award to the women who spilled ...

Pain Management after Total Joint Replacement

Driessnack, Richard P.; Alan, Debbie (Vanderbilt Medical Center, 2010-04-13)

Richard Driessnack, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The most common reason for putting off having hip or knee replacement is the fear of pain. ...

PAIN: a four letter word

Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-08-21)

The management of pain is a key element of the care of all patients-- ICU or not. Often providers have little understanding of the concepts and medications of pain management. This episode serves as an introduction

Paleoecology and sedentism of early coastal hunter-gatherers in north Chile

Franco, Teresa Cristina de Borges (2015-04-10)

Department: Anthropology

During the early-middle Holocene (7500-4000 BP) on the west coast of South America, the intense exploitation of a changing marine environment led to sedentism and an increase in social complexity (e.g., Moseley 1975, 1988; ...

Paleontology and -ichnology of the Late Ediacaran Nasep-Huns transition (Nama Group, southern Namibia)

Turk, Katherine Antonia; 0000-0001-5436-7367 (2020-10-15)

Department: Earth & Environmental Sciences

The Nasep and Huns Members of the Urusis Formation (Nama Group), southern Namibia, preserve some of the most diverse trace fossil assemblages known from the latest Ediacaran worldwide, including potentially the world’s ...

Palimpsestos modernistas. Apropriación simbolista en Rubén Darío, T. S. Eliot, Pere Gimferrer y Luis Antonio de Villena

Martínez Diente, Pablo (2012-07-30)

Department: Spanish

This dissertation explores both the Hispanic and Anglo-American modernist traditions from the common standpoint of the palimpsest. Central to the diverse body of modernist writings is the appropriation of French symbolism, ...

Pampered Bureaucracy and Trade Liberalization

Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Ben (Vanderbilt University, 2010)

This paper shows how a nation's elite maintain ownership of their wealth by creating a `pampered bureaucracy.' The elite thus divert part of an otherwise entrepreneurial middle class from more productive manufacturing ...

Pampered Bureaucracy, Political Stability, and Trade Integration

Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin (Vanderbilt University, 2011)

This paper shows how, under threat of revolution, a nation's elite are able to maintain political stability and hence ownership of their wealth by creating or expanding a `pampered bureaucracy.' The elite thus divert part ...

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