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(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2005)"Dred Scott v. Sanford", "Plessy v. Ferguson", "Brown v. Board of Education" and "Grutter v. Bollinger" all demonstrate that law alone is not enough to make social change. Instead, lawyers interested in social change must ...
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(2017-04-03)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyDisease advocacy organizations are important political actors and knowledge producers. Since the late 1990s, colorectal cancer (CRC) advocacy organizations have emerged as part of a health social movement focused on ...
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(2021-04-21)The Center for Supportive Schools (CSS) in an organization committed to reengaging students and ending high school dropout through their Peer Group Connection program, which is designed with the goal of engaging students ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2002-04-19)
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(Duke Law Journal, 1998)Professor W. Kip Viscusi argues for a move away from the adversarial approach to tobacco regulation, an approach that is currently embodied in class action lawsuits and the proposed broadening of FDA regulatory power over ...
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(Journal of Law and Economics, 1985)A recurring issue in the economic analysis of risk regulation agencies is whether these efforts have had any significant favorable effect on safety. Although the existence of such an effect would not necessarily imply that ...
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2017)This article provides a side-by-side comparison of payday lending and consumer litigation funding in order to aid policymakers. Funding has similarities with payday lending because they are both alternative financial ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(2020-07-24)Department: SociologyAlthough numerous studies have found positive associations between listening to rap music and substance use behaviors, the question as to whether and to what extent music that contains substance use references is associated ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)Abstract: The paper investigates the role of the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution () in determining the equity premium. This is done in an overlapping generations economy populated by agents that live for 2 periods ...
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(Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy, 2006)
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(Christian Century, 1991)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-05)The purpose of this program evaluation is to provide the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University with a comprehensive evaluation of their Teaching Certificate program, which is in its third year of existence. As a ...
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(2014-07-26)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores the contest for the Lower Mississippi Valley from 1765 to 1800. During this era, Spain held Louisiana. Conflict over the Lower Mississippi Valley has been characterized as a competition among ...
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(2019-03-26)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyOpen in Emergency (OiE) is the 2016 fall/winter special issue of the Asian American Literary Review (AALR), a small, arts non-profit based out of Washington D.C. Described as an arts- and humanities-based intervention into ...
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(2019-03-14)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I look into the issue of the politics of language in the early Christian movement through reception analysis, contextual-theoretical analysis, socio-historical analysis, and exegetical analysis. The ...
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(2021-02-08)Department: PsychologyChildren encounter novel words and referents across variable contexts that are defined by a great deal of perceptual chaos. Context variability may affect word learning, making it more difficult for children to link a label ...
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Context of Reception Reimagined: The Hispanic Second-Generation’s Educational Outcomes and Mobility (2023-11-17)Department: SociologyStudies on immigrant incorporation tend to exclusively focus on first-generation immigrants. Additionally, the context of reception immigrant’s experience their incorporation within has typically been dichotomized in prior ...
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(2023-08-15)Department: Molecular Physiology & BiophysicsCCN2 is a matricellular protein that stimulates beta-cell mass expansion during situations of sub-optimal beta-cell mass such as during embryogenesis, after beta-cell ablation, and during pregnancy. It was hypothesized ...
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(2018-11-20)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe human auditory system locates sound sources in the horizontal plane using differences in the interaural arrival time and intensity level of the signal (ITD and ILD, respectively). Because these two cues are the primary ...