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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 ...
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The Changing Meaning of "Gift": An Analysis of the Tax Court's Decision in "Carson v. Commissioner" (Vanderbilt Law Review, 1979)The complexity of detail that characterizes the Internal Revenue Code (Code) has been the subject of intense criticism and only faint praise. Yet, one of the more striking anomalies of the Code is that its often suffocating ...
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(2009-08-26)Department: Political ScienceContinuity tends to characterize political attitudes with parents tending to transmit their opinions to their offspring. Given these orthodox conceptions, why have attitudes towards lesbians and gays liberalized in recent ...
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(2018-07-27)Department: SociologyHow do individuals enact careers within our increasingly precarious economic system? Examining workers in artistic careers can bring insight into this question, given their history of precarity and non-traditional employment. ...