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(2011-12-02)Department: EnglishThe writing and commentary of Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean women writers such as Maryse Conde, Jamaica Kincaid, and Merle Hodge, will be discussed in this thesis as critiques of colonialism and within the context ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-07-17)
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-07-17)
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Caring for veterans after a suicide attempt: a description of behavioral health treatment delivery (2013-07-31)Department: Nursing ScienceSuicide is a serious public health issue that especially affects veterans of the US Armed Forces. Increased risk for suicide is associated with a history of suicide attempt, psychiatric illness, and recent psychiatric ...
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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)