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(University of Illinois Law Review, 2008)The state competition for corporate law has long been studied as a distinct phenomenon. Under the traditional view, corporations are subject to a unique choice-of-law rule, the internal affairs doctrine (IAD). This rule ...
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(2013-07-30)Department: EnglishTaking Gayle Jones’ Corregidora as a metaphor for the nature of the United States' relationship in the present day to its history of slavery, this thesis seeks to enter the existing discourse on continuing racial tension ...
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(2008-02-22)Department: Computer ScienceAmong all magnetic resonance imaging sequences, gradient-echo (GE) echo-planar imaging (EPI) has become the most common technique for the study of dynamic brain function and for other high-speed applications like cardiac ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)Is conformity amongst similar individuals consistent with self-interested behavior? We consider a model of incomplete information in which each player receives a signal, interpreted as an allocation to a role, and can make ...
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(eLife, 2019-09-03)Some oscine songbird species modify their songs throughout their lives ('adult song plasticity' or 'open-ended learning'), while others crystallize their songs around sexual maturity. It remains unknown whether the strength ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-18)Depression is a recurrent and debilitating disorder affecting nearly 340 million people worldwide. The present study examined what differentiates individuals with a history of one or more major depressive episodes (MDEs) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)The purpose of the study was to examine crises that occur in Treatment as Usual. A children's mental health group was examined in order to explore the correlates of a crisis session. N=7267 sessions, N=629 clients, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-08)This study examined the role of coping style in predicting positive and negative affect observed in interactions between children and parents with a history of depression. The anxious and depressive symptoms of the children ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: Special EducationAlthough policy and research support family-school partnerships to increase student achievement, few studies have attempted to determine which variables influence such partnerships. This study relied on a national dataset ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: PsychologyThis study examined guilt in adult siblings of individuals with developmental disabilities. Responses were taken from 1,150 adult siblings, age 18-85, who responded to the Adult Sibling Questionnaire, an online survey ...
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(2009-04-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe processes of tumor growth and treatment response are associated with the upregulation of numerous proteins [1, 2], yet current clinical imaging methods of cancer characterization monitor only gross morphology [3, 4]. ...
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(2009-12-08)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe premise of this work is to understand the contrast variations seen in MRI in light of the proteomic composition of tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now widely used as a primary medical imaging method to ...
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(2012-02-28)Department: Biomedical EngineeringRaman spectroscopy is an extremely sensitive technique that has been used by many research groups to differentiate between normal and abnormal changes in biological samples. Previous results have shown that when Raman ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: PsychologyThe correlation coefficient be can interpreted as the cosine of the angle between centered or standardized variable vectors in subject space. Using this interpretation of the correlation, the space occupied by 3x3 correlation ...
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(2015-11-16)Department: ChemistryColloidal quantum dots (QDs) promise to revolutionize light harvesting for photovoltaics and controlled light emission from devices such as LEDs, lasers, and even nanometer-scale single-QD optical switches and routers. ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: PsychologyEquivalence testing confirms that two parameters are within an acceptable tolerance of each other by rejecting a statistical null hypothesis that the parameters are farther apart than that tolerance. Equivalence testing ...
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(2009-12-14)Department: SociologyFollowing reforms in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, a large environmental movement erupted across the nation. At the time, it was the largest and most powerful critical group in the repressive regime. After the ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: Political ScienceWhat factors lead to the support of female political candidates in the Latin American and Caribbean region? I focus on one part of this broader question by examining the relationship between gender stereotypes and perceptions ...
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(2013-04-01)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation project is concerned with corruption in higher education as a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. In this study, I defined corruption in higher education and developed a conceptual ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)Two aspects of corruption are examined theoretically: its effect on macroeconomic variables, and its determination from the political environment. Corruption is defined in an occupational choice model as the extra fees or ...