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(2015-07-29)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesEnglish learners (Els), defined as students who are identified as needing support learning English in school, are a rapidly growing and underperforming segment of the public school population. Schools in new immigrant ...
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(2010-08-05)Department: PsychologyAttributional theories of depression (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978; Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) are often applied to children. However, these theories do not consider how children’s understanding of causal ...
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(2021-08-18)Department: PsychologyHighly funded social movements aim to improve the lives of persons with disabilities. The “Person-first Language” movement (1980s) has not been empirically revisited to account for recent progress in the treatment of persons ...
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(Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2004)Drawing upon a recent study of felony jury sentencing in Kentucky, Virginia, and Arkansas, this essay highlights some of the similarities and differences between jury sentencing in capital cases and jury sentencing in ...
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(2008-11-25)Department: Special EducationThe first objective of the current study was to determine if early childhood teachers receive feedback about their classroom practices, and the second objective was to determine if feedback predicts teachers’ use of ...
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(2020-09)Since the early 2000s, First American tribes in Oklahoma began establishing tribal tourism departments within their sovereign government structures to promote tribal businesses and tribal territories as travel and tourism ...
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How Do Housing Interventions for Families Experiencing Homelessness Affect Children’s Functioning? (2021-08-16)Department: Community Research & ActionFamily homelessness remains a persistent social problem and is associated with worse child outcomes, though individual outcomes vary widely. Little is known about whether the main intervention approaches used to re-house ...
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(American Law and Economics Review, 1999)A sample of almost 100 judges exhibited well-known patterns of biases in risk beliefs and reasonable implicit values of life. These biases and personal preferences largely do not affect attitudes toward judicial risk ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-03)Persons who are blind participate in a wide number of sports, ranging from the various competitions in track and field, to goal ball and baseball. How is it, we asked, that persons know how to throw a ball? Learning ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018)
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(2018-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyTransgender people encounter many obstacles to receiving quality health care, including lack of access to gender transition-related care, health care providers’ unfamiliarity with how to provide appropriate care, and ...
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(2023-10-03)Department: PsychologyHumans relate to their spatial environment according to their interpretation of physiological signals (e.g., hunger, temperature, gastrointestinal symptoms). Therefore, changes inside the body operate to serve ‘one’s ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2003)This Article is divided into three Parts. The first Part is devotedto an example demonstrating that, while double taxation may be gratuitous in a purely domestic context, it invariably becomes necessary in a multinational ...
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(2015-04-01)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySouthern African American middle-aged men have high rates of obesity and premature mortality due to chronic illnesses. Different sources were brought together to perform a critical literature review to better understand ...
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(Michigan Law Review, 2002)Professors George and Pushaw review Maxwell L. Stearns’ book, "Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court decision making." In his book, Stearns demonstrates that the U.S. Supreme Court fashions ...
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(2014-08-05)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesFederal, state and local policymakers have expanded the use of fiscal recruitment initiatives to recruit high quality teachers to districts with hard-to-staff subjects and locations. Yet, sparse empirical research has ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2008-11-10)
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(2019-07-19)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis phenomenological qualitative study explores the implications of the 2016 United States presidential election of Donald Trump on the lives of immigrant-origin (first- and second-generation) youth. Through dyadic ...
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(Mercer Law Review, 2013)It is a great honor to be asked to deliver the second Annual Brainerd Currie Lecture at Mercer University School of Law. Brainerd Currie was an immensely influential law professor who is recognized as the leading scholar ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-03-18)