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(2019-07-22)Department: ChemistryThe metabotropic glutamate receptor 2/4 (mGlu2/4) heterodimer is a recently discovered receptor that displays unique pharmacology with respect to both mGlu2 and mGlu4 homodimeric receptors. Additionally, in vivo work has ...
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(2016-11-22)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceSince the development of batteries by Edison and Volta, energy storage has become an integral part of our technology. As the energy storage devices we manufacture, research and develop new energy storage systems has been ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-04)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2003-05-09)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2004-05-14)
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(2009-07-08)Department: Teaching and LearningThis dissertation represents an attempt to uncover, understand, and unmake the structure of racism and its place in Master Narratives of education. This dissertation presents a counter-narrative to Master Narratives of ...
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(2008-06-19)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis work will focus on giving a perceptual system the ability to detect changes while maintaining its understanding of the environment. Most change detection systems can only perceive the change in the environment. They ...
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(2019-09-17)Department: PharmacologyThe sympathetic nervous system is a major efferent pathway through which the central nervous system controls peripheral organ function. Genetic and pharmacologic evidence in mice indicated that stimulation of the β2 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-01)This study explored the roles that vision and proprioception play in learning while throw a ball repeatedly to a fixed location. In two experiments, participants threw a baseball to a target 12 meters away while wearing ...
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(2011-09-09)Department: PsychologySelf-efficacy has been conceptualized in two ways in the context of chronic pain—both as people’s beliefs that they can function and cope emotionally despite the pain (functional self-efficacy) and as people’s beliefs that ...
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(PLOS MEDICINE, 2019-06)Background Most countries have formally adopted the World Health Organization's 2015 recommendation of universal HIV treatment ("treat all"). However, there are few rigorous assessments of the real-world impact of treat ...
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(BMJ Open, 2019-06)Objectives (1) To compare changes in vulnerability after hospital discharge among older patients with cardiovascular disease who were discharged home with self-care versus a home healthcare (HHC) referral and (2) to examine ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-10-07)
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(Cleveland State Law Review, 2021)A cornerstone of First Amendment doctrine is that counterspeech - speech that responds to speech, including disfavored, unpopular, or offensive speech - is preferable to government censorship or speech regulation. The ...
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(2022-05)Higher education closes achievement gaps between socioeconomic levels in our society, especially for historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups (Webb, 2016). However, with the downturn in enrollment and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-05)
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(Instituto di studi storici, Facoltà di scienze politiche, Università degli studi di Milano, 1989)
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(American Law and Economics Review, 2009)This article investigates the determinants of the blockbuster punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. As of the end of 2008, there had been 100 such awards with an average value of $3.0 billion. The U.S. Supreme ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Teaching and LearningThis dissertation presents the first iteration of a design study that investigates an instructional setting that I call Walking Scale Geometry (WSG). WSG tasks are geometry problems that are meant to be solved at very large ...