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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)I study the real effects of bubbles in a price-settingenvironment. Bubbles cause price dispersion and overinvestment in assets that are overvalued. And when they pop some goods are not sold and capacity is not fully utilized. ...
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(2014-11-26)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCerebellar growth and foliation require the Hedgehog-driven proliferation of granule cell precursors (GCPs) in the external granule layer (EGL). However, that increased or extended GCP proliferation generally does not ...
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(2013-12-03)Department: Cancer BiologyInactivation of STK11/LKB1 is one of the most common genetic events in lung cancer, and understanding the cellular phenotypes and molecular pathways altered as a consequence will aid the development of therapeutic strategies ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThe history and significance of the black population in Argentina has only begun to be researched in earnest in the last four decades. This work will focus on mestizaje and blackness in Argentina, analyzing the experiences ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: Spanish and PortugueseDefining the culture produced during the Spanish Transition following the Francoist dictatorship as hedonist and apolitical has become one of the most repeated commonplaces in contemporary Spanish cultural studies. By ...
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(2019-04-12)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesLobbyists attempt to influence legislation on behalf of their clients. While there is no shortage of research on lobbying and interest groups in political science, few education researchers have examined how lobbyists ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: Biomedical EngineeringOsteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating and prevalent chronic joint disease. Matrix metalloproteinase 13 (MMP13) is a key driver of OA, as it degrades collagen type 2 (CII), a key structural ECM component of cartilage. CII ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesGeographic college access is inequitable in the United States, yet few studies examine how limited college options constrain students’ college choices and influence attainment. The first chapter of the dissertation examines ...
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(2014-07-23)Department: Community Research and ActionAttracting affluent households and skilled labor has long been a component of local development across U.S. cities. Place attractiveness has, however, taken on a new significance over the past forty years as the diffusion ...
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(2022-10-21)Department: Community Research & ActionIn the sociology of institutions, most scholarship has focused on how institutions influence social action. Increasingly, there is interest in the reciprocal relationship, or at least in actors’ purposive efforts to influence ...
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(Columbia Law Review, 2007)This Article proposes that local governments should be able to decide for themselves how to protect private property, and then be held to that choice as if it were a local constitutional pre-commitment. Specifically, the ...
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(2009-04-08)Department: PathologyPATHOLOGY LOCAL SIGNALING MICRODOMAINS IN EXCITABLE CELLS: DEFINING NOVEL ROLES FOR ANKYRIN-B IN ION CHANNEL TARGETING AND REGULATION CRYSTAL FAITH KLINE Dissertation under the direction of Professor Peter J. Mohler The ...
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(2021-03-22)Department: Biological SciencesAmmonia is one of the principal kairomones originating from humans and plays an essential role in host-seeking/preference and other behaviors of the anthropophilic malaria vector mosquito Anopheles coluzzii. Despite its ...
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(2006-04-07)Department: NeuroscienceLOCALIZATION AND TRAFFICKING OF THE CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER (DAT-1). PAUL W. MCDONALD Dissertation under the direction of Professor Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D. Reuptake of dopamine (DA) through the ...
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Locally Embedded Artistic Careers: Career Satisfaction and Intrinsic Rewards in Creative Core Cities (2021-03-24)Department: SociologyHow does residence in major cultural cores affect job satisfaction among creative workers? Focusing on two major American creative core cities, New York City and Los Angeles, this paper aims to answer this question using ...
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(Yale Journal of International Law, 2010)This Article considers the extent to which there may be an international interest in how intranational disputes over cultural property are settled. Drawing on the norms underlying recent global scrutiny of states’ destruction ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-10-26)
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(2011-08-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis work is focused on creating an autonomous location recognition system that is capable of determining its location based on the percepts observed in the environment. This process involves segmenting the percepts in ...
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(2022-08-10)Department: Political ScienceThrough a combination of formal models and multiple regression analysis, this dissertation demonstrates how relative policy or geostrategic positioning between multiple parties influence how and whether leaders or states ...
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(UCLA Law Review, 2003)This Article argues that corporate status became popular in the nineteenth century as a way to organize production because of the unique manner in which incorporation permitted organizers to lock in financial capital. ...