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(The RAND of Economics, 1994)Risk regulations directly reduce risks, but they may produce offsetting risk increases. Regulated risks generate a substitution effect, as individuals' risk-averting actions will diminish. Recognition of these effects ...
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(2016-06-30)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates how new forms of burial involving the placement of mummies in above-ground sepulchers impacted, and were shaped by, processes of identity formation and political change during the Late ...
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(2016-07-28)Department: ReligionIt is well known that the early Stuart and Interregnum periods witnessed an explosion of interest in the organizing potential of covenantal ideas. This study attempts to explain and interpret this interest by integrating ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 2001)Who is the most powerful Supreme Court Justice? In 1996 we measured voting power on the Court according to each Justice's ability to form five-member coalitions. From the set of all coalitions formed by the Court during ...
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(Constitutional Commentary, 2007)In this essay, our third and last in a series, we employ our previously developed techniques to measure the power of the Justices in the Rehnquist Court over its full 11 year run. Once again, Justice Kennedy rises to the ...
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(Southern California Law Review, 1996)We analyze the relative voting power of the Justices based upon Supreme Court decisions during October Term 1994 and October Term 1995. We take two approaches, both based on ideas derived from cooperative game theory. One ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-15)This thesis examines Anglo-American relations in 1973, an especially turbulent year in the history of the post-World War II "special relationship." It draws on a wide range of documentary evidence and telephone transcripts ...
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(Vanderbilt Medical Center, 2010-04-13)Ginger Holt, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Find out what makes a good candidate for joint replacement surgery. Dr. Holt will explain this as ...
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(2012-08-13)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesMother-infant attachment is a connection between a child and his/her mother that is dependent upon maternal sensitivity and accessibility. This relationship is well studied in children with typical development as well as ...
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(2010-01-04)Department: PsychologyThe objective of the study was to 1) understand the inter-relationships among variables of mother-child communication, maternal distress and illness-related stressors and 2) to isolate maternal distress and coping behaviors ...
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(Disciples Divinity House (University of Chicago), 1993)
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(Vital Theology, 2004-04-12)
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(Journal of Family Ministry, 2002)
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(2007-04-20)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn this dissertation I utilize Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973), Helena Parente Cunha’s Mulher no Espelho (1983), Rosario Ferré’s Vecindarios excéntricos (1999), and Carmen de Monteflores’s Singing Softly / Cantando bajito ...
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(2017-02-20)Department: PsychologyThe present study integrated and expanded upon two previously separate lines of research on stress and coping processes endemic to mothers faced with two significant sources of stress: mothers coping with a child’s cancer ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringRobot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) presents patients with the benefits of reduced pain and shortened recovery time at a cost of perception deficiency to surgeons. In contrast to MIS, surgeons manually manipulate ...
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(2022-05-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringManagement of ophthalmic diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, age-related macular degeneration, and glaucoma often require surgical intervention in order to prevent vision-loss and blindness. In ...
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(2021-03-09)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation examines belief formation in a variety of decision-making settings. Chapter One explores how individuals manage to view themselves as altruistic even though they behave selfishly. In particular, I present ...
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(2009-07-25)Department: PsychologyCurrently, the production of electricity in the United States is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide. As such, a growing number of scientists and policy-makers have argued that efforts to reduce the ...