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(2013-12-03)Department: BiochemistryEngineered biocatalysts have become increasingly sought after as replacements for individual chemical synthetic steps. However, their implementation in multistep sequences as biosynthetic pathways has proven to be a ...
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Biosynthetic Derivatization of Antimicrobial Orthosomycins to Engage a Unique Ribosomal Binding Site (2021-02-19)Department: ChemistryAntimicrobial resistance is a critical threat to human health that results in an estimated 100,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to the World Health Organization. This growing crisis demands the development ...
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(2011-02-17)Department: ChemistryThe dissertation contained herein describes biosynthetic investigations of the peptide natural products K-26 and anthramycin. Unified by their peptidic nature, K 26 and anthramycin are potent biologically active metabolites ...
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(2013-09-19)Department: PharmacologyBiosynthesis of lipid mediators including the leukotrienes, lipoxins, eoxins, resolvins, and protectins entails the lipoxygenase (LOX) catalyzed synthesis of an allylic epoxide intermediate, designated as leukotriene A4 ...
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(2008-06-24)Department: ChemistryMass spectrometry is a powerful technique that can be used at every stage of natural product studies, from discovery and structural characterization of new compounds to biosynthetic enzyme identification and manipulation. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Evidence from the psychology and sociology literature suggests that earlier-born children tend to ...
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(Fortress Press, 2000)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2005-02-11)
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(2020-07-27)Department: English and Comparative Media Analysis and PracticeI analyze the performances of contemporary African American and Asian American comedians to explore how they create and deploy personae that complement their critiques of structural oppression. I examine how these personae ...
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(2011-06-30)Department: EnglishInstead of thinking of jazz in the hackneyed vocabulary of “canon-building,” I explore jazz as a technological construction very much built to reshape spatial and temporal boundaries across the African Diaspora. Jazz technê, ...
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(Saint Louis University Public Law Review, 2010)This essay explores how the past Civil Rights Movement and discrimination against persons of color, mainly Latinos and African Americans, can help to address current forms of discrimination in our country. In particular, ...
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(2017-09-21)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityMy research questions pertain to (1) how Black undergraduate students—who were interested in STEM at college entrance—perceive influences on their choice of a STEM or non-STEM major and (2) to how students’ lived experiences ...
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(Wisconsin Law Review, 1996)Using Census data and the Survey of Income Program participation (SIPP), the authors use social science methodology to show that blacks pay more federal income tax than whites at the same income levels.
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(2013-04-09)Department: ReligionBlack authenticity is a false concept created by early European thinkers to overpower African people. Later the New Negro intellectuals used this misconception to compete with whiteness. However, their connotations of black ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-07-21)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)Throughout history, Black children have been dehumanized, criminalized, and sexualized. Additionally, though education can be a transformative and liberative tool, Black children have been deprived of quality and equitable ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)Although research on Black students disproportionality in suspensions and expulsions has been conducted since the 1970s, it has mainly centered Black male students (Smith-Evans et al., 2014). For decades, there has been ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Creative WritingBlack Holes & Their Feeding Habits is a collection of poems that centers around themes of addiction, identity, nature, various conceptions of home, and the ubiquitous negotiations between the self and the external world. ...
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(2020-12)This capstone project is studying the Black male experiences that completed and did not complete the program. Specifically, this project explores 5 Black men's experiences and the ecological and sociological barriers faced ...