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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05-31)This paper presents a discussion of service learning, its benefits and struggles, its place amongst students in urban schools, and how to transition the common practice of service learning in high school to elementary ...
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(2017-08-04)Department: Political ScienceScholars argue that institutions in democracies constrain leaders and prevent violent conflict. However, many democracies specify rules of governance in times of emergency that divert substantial power to the head of state. ...
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(2017-04-01)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation examines how teachers learn to implement translingual pedagogy in a language arts classroom. I analyze data from a five-week professional development study in which three middle school teachers learned ...
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(2011-04-08)Department: ReligionThis dissertation focuses on essays from forty-eight college students in which each student answers the question: What has been your biggest “a-ha moment” in college? I argue that a rich, thick, and complex set of lenses ...
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(Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy, 2011)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic ...
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(2015-04-30)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe cervical vestibular myogenic potential (cVEMP) is a sound-evoked sonomotor response that can be recorded from the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscles in the neck. There is general agreement that the cVEMP provides ...
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(2021-11-19)Department: Political ScienceIn a time of increasingly fragile democracies and an increase in human mobility, the political attitudes and behaviors of migrants as citizens has become an important component to our understanding of emerging democracies, ...
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(Christian Century, 2010)
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)Creating high-brightness electron beams, which have many practical applications, is done with cathodes in regions with large electric field by field emission. The brightness is high when the current is high and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-09-23)
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(2005-08-13)Department: PsychologyPrevious research suggests that neutral infants have more advanced expressive language abilities, compared to more emotionally expressive infants . Bloom (1993) hypothesized that infants who express more non-neutral affect ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)Although the emotion of fear has been central to traditional conceptualizations of the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, recent research suggests that the emotion of disgust may also play an important role ...
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(2010-04-10)Department: PsychologyThe current study analyzes the relationship between executive functioning, emotion regulation, and patterns of coping strategies in older adolescents and young adults. Results from this study indicate that although there ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009)In Gonzales v. Carhart the Supreme Court invoked post-abortion regret to justify a ban on a particular abortion procedure. The Court was proudly folk-psychological, representing its observations about women's emotional ...
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(American Criminal Law Review, 2006)Adjudicative competence, more commonly referred to as competence to stand trial, is a highly under-theorized area of law. Though it is well established that, to be competent, a criminal defendant must have a "rational" as ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesPurpose: The purpose of this study was to empirically assess whether preschool-age CWS’s emotional diathesis (vulnerability), emotional stress, and their interaction are associated with these children’s stuttered disfluencies ...
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(2008-04-04)Department: PsychologyChildhood cancer is a source of stress for children who are diagnosed and their families. These children and their parents have been shown to have higher levels of emotional distress than the general population. Parent-child ...
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(2009-07-10)Department: PhilosophyThis project examines the role that emotions can and should play in morality and moral theory. A philosophical study of emotion inevitably leads to an discussion of the evaluation of emotion, which is a topic covered both ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Previous studies of individuals performing public speech tasks have not included a broad array of speech conditions or employed psychophysiological measures of a broad range of emotional states. In this study, we asked one ...