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(2023-12)Small private institutions of higher education face challenges related to enrollment, long-term financial viability, and declining public opinion. Strategic thinking and planning are critical to institutional sustainability. ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation I examine the origins, influences and features of Caribbean carnivals as cultural festivals that developed and expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly during moments of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-11-13)
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(2002-11-03)Department: PhysicsThis dissertation describes research on the application of intense, tunable, ultrafast lasers to studies of the silicon-dielectric system. Recently developed and now commercially available ultra-fast lasers are excellent ...
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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2014)It has been over a hundred years since George Bernard Shaw wrote that “[a]ll professions are a conspiracy against the laity.” Since then, the number of occupations and the percentage of workers subject to occupational ...
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(2006-04-07)Department: Computer ScienceA large body of traditional animation exists, both from television and film, which contains many interesting characters and animation sequences. This dissertation shows how to incorporate that body of animation into motion ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-02-26)
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(2022-06-21)Department: MathematicsA neural network is a supervised machine learning model based on how the brain acquires and stores knowledge. Due to the availability of large amounts of training data and improvements in computing power, neural networks ...
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(California Law Review, 2020)In their article in this issue, Professors Peter Menell and Ryan Vacca describe a federal court docket that is overloaded and unable to process cases efficiently. As they depict it, justice in the federal courts is either ...
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(California Law Review, 2020)In their article in this issue, Professors Peter Menell and Ryan Vacca describe a federal court docket that is overloaded and unable to process cases efficiently. As they depict it, justice in the federal courts is either ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2014)Scholars have long lamented that the growth of modern finance has given way to a decline in debt governance. According to current theory, the expansive use of derivatives that enable lenders to trade away the default risk ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2007-04-25)
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(Environmental Law, 1997)Almost as soon as it was invented in the early 1970s, the United States' modern environmental law framework has been the subject of calls for reform. Six divergent reform approaches predominate that debate today, and behind ...
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(2023-08)The Northeastern State University System (NESUS) has been experiencing decreased rates of enrollment, retention and graduation. In an effort to combat this issue, NESUS Office of Community Colleges (NESUS OCC) decided to ...
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(2021-04-04)Junyi School of Innovation is a private school located in the rural township of Taitung on the southeast coast of Taiwan. The school is proud to offer a robust English curricular program and hire native English-speaking ...
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(Tax Law Review, 2001)Proposals for reforming the federal corporate income tax are neverending and ever-multiplying. They range from those that merely tinker around the edges, such as most recent proposals attacking the various perceived abuses ...