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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-03)Since the start of the War in the Donbas in 2014, the miners of the Donetsk Coal Basin have suffered immensely due to economic and political destabilization, mine flooding, mine closures, intermittent shelling, mounting ...
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(Vanderbilt University Special Collections, 2012-03-21)
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(Washington University Law Review, 2011)Judges in Japan share the prevailing communitarian orientation of their society, an orientation that rejects Manichean choices and moral or "scientific" absolutes, but instead relies on their collective and individual ...
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(The Yale Law Journal, 2007)The Supreme Court regularly upholds federal legislation on grounds other than those stated by Congress. Likewise, an appellate court may affirm a lower court judgment even if the lower court's opinion expressed the wrong ...
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(Marquette Law Review, 2007)In this Essay, I address the question of which branch of state government ought to have the authority to negotiate interstate compacts - a question of state separation of powers. Recent case law interpreting state constitutions ...
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(Cornell Law Review, 2017)Christopher Serkin and Nelson Tebbe take an inductive and empirical approach to constitutional interpretation and elaboration. They ask whether attributes of the Constitution justify interpretive exceptionalism--that is, ...
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(Harvard Law Review, 2001)This Note has examined the consequences of a shift in the equal protection context - a move from a traditional particularized harm perspective to a constitutional risk perspective focused on systemic harms. It has also ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2005-09-22)
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(Virginia Law Review, 2012)Few questions in the field of Federal Courts have captivated scholars like the question of whether Congress can simultaneously divest both lower federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court of jurisdiction to hear federal ...
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(University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 2009)Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
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(Duke Law Journal, 2018)In recent years, the federal government’s efforts to open up competitive electricity markets have transformed how we think about the regulation of energy. In many respects, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: PhysicsUltra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated by the most energetic processes in the universe. Upon entering Earth’s atmosphere they produce particle showers known as extensive air showers (EASs). Observatories ...
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Constraining the Galaxy-Halo Connection Through Accurate Modeling of Small-Scale Galaxy Clustering (2022-03-23)Department: AstrophysicsThe Universe consists of structures of a wide variety of physical sizes. Over the last few decades, astronomers have succeeded in extensively cataloging this structure, both at the (relatively) small scales of stars within ...
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(2012-03-25)Department: PhysicsThe last decade has transformed the field of cosmology into a precision science. We now know to great accuracy that the matter content of the Universe consists of approximately 85% in the form of the mysterious dark matter ...
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(2018-01-22)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPatterns of genetic variation along the human genome provide insight into functional and evolutionary constraints on different loci. Quantifying these patterns of constraint improves our ability to identify functional ...
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(2006-04-14)Department: Computer SciencePlanning and Scheduling are well-recognized research areas in the field of AI that address goal directed problem solving. They deal with choosing a course of action to achieve a goal contingent upon some sequencing and ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: Special EducationDissertation under the direction of Professor Donald L. Compton In contrast to conventional static assessments measuring what students have learned, dynamic assessments (DA) measure how well students can learn; that is, ...
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(2008-04-22)Department: Teaching and LearningThis micro-ethnographic research project examines discussions of "race" among African American secondary students. More specifically, this project focuses on how "race" is constituted in school settings, and the ways in ...
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(2022-07-07)Department: EnglishConstructing Alternate Identities unearths moments where early modern English writers engage with the Moorish identity to produce racially nonconforming identities via drama, lyric poetry, and travel literature. In early ...
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(2018-11-19)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyForce generation at the cellular level is critical for eukaryotic development, homeostasis, and the progression of force dependent diseases such as cancer. Molecular motors coordinate with cytoskeletal elements, such as ...