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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)Stress can impair one’s ability to effectively problem solve and think critically. This study tested the extent to which trait mindfulness moderated the relation between stress and executive control (EC). Participants ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white defendants. Why? Implicit bias is one possibility. Researchers, using a well-known measure called the implicit ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to assess whether understanding relational terminology (i.e., more, less, and fewer) mediates the effects of intervention on difference word problems. Second-grade teachers who volunteered to ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: Latin American StudiesUsing various forms of ethnographic methods including interviews, site visits, and participant observation, I examine how Afro-Brazilian entrepreneurs resist anti-blackness through their products, labor, and a process I ...
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(2008-04-28)Department: SociologyWhile music has long been studied sociologically, musicians themselves have tended to avoid scrutiny. Those sociologists who have studied musicians have tended to focus on their embodiment of genre ideals, or their work ...
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(Christian Century Foundation, 1998-02-24)
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(Christian Century, 1988)
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(2005-06-01)Department: EconomicsThis study contributes to the scarce empirical literature on dollarization by investigating the short and long-run effects of dollarization on the dynamics of prices at the macro and the micro level. This study also presents ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: BiochemistryReplication Protein A (RPA) is the primary eukaryotic ssDNA binding protein utilized in preventing secondary structure formation and re-annealing of unwound DNA strands, thereby controlling access to DNA templates in diverse ...
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(2006-06-05)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis dissertation proposes a novel approach, applicable in the design-time analysis and verification of computer-based systems. The proposed approach, platform modeling, constructs analysis models capturing the system's ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-09)Each year, thousands of abused Hispanic immigrant women struggle to balance their personal safety with competing goals such as family unity, financial security, and cultural loyalty. While domestic violence poses difficulties ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. ...
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(2014-10-10)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Dominant and Context-Specific Control of Endodermal Organ Allocation by Ptf1a Spencer Gaffney Willet Dissertation under the direction of Professor Christopher V.E. Wright The timing and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)A necessary and sufficient condition for dominant strategy implementability when preferences are quasilinear is that, for any individual i and any choice of the types of the other individuals, all k-cycles in i's allocation ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, 2013)Forget hard cases: "bad" cases make bad law. DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Bauman, which never should have been filed in a California federal court, has the potential to make very bad law. It is a paradigmatic example of egregious ...
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(2022-05-13)The intersection of gender and Blackness as it pertains to transgender identity has long been a contested site. The ontologies and epistemologies of Black trans individuals have complicated and interrogated the gender ...
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Don't make the same mistake twice: Examining the relationship between memory for errors and learning (2018-06-27)Department: PsychologyCommitting errors is a common part of the learning process, and current evidence suggests that committing errors can be beneficial for learning, at least for adults. Further, recent evidence in the adult cognition literature ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2010-01-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-08-25)