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    • Viscusi, W. Kip (N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, 1994)
      Although the design of risk regulations has not yet attained what might be termed the economist's ideal of maximizing the difference between benefits and costs, substantial progress has been made in the design of regulatory ...
    • Shan, Lin (2007-04-14)
      Department: Mathematics
      An elliptic differential operator D on a compact manifold M is a Fredholm operator. The only topological invariant for a Fredholm operator is the Fredholm index [Dou72], which is defined to be dim(kerD) − dim(cokerD). ...
    • Awes-Freeman, Jennifer Cecelia (2016-04-08)
      Department: Religion
      The images and theologies of the Trinity during the transition from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages have remained largely unstudied as a phenomenon. In this regard, the Creation folio of the sixth-century Ashburnham ...
    • Brandes, Jan Lewis (2019-05-14)
      Objective To determine the effect of erenumab, a human anti-calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor monoclonal antibody, in patients with chronic migraine and medication overuse. Methods In this double-blind, ...
    • Traughber, Wilma; Harness, Glen (Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-03-27)
    • Cheng, Edward K. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
      Jay Tidmarsh offers an intriguing new test for drawing the allimportant line between procedure and substance for purposes of Erie. The Tidmarsh test is attractively simple, yet seemingly reaches the right result in separating ...
    • Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Vanderbilt University, 2009-06-03)
    • Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Special Collections and University Archives (Vanderbilt University, 2009-06-03)
    • Lackney, Lisa; 0000-0001-6227-4646 (2020-08-18)
      Department: History
      Ero-guro-nansensu, from the English words ero for “eroticism,” guro for “grotesque,” and nansensu for “nonsense” was a Japanese mass culture movement that encompassed literature, popular magazines, cinema, and criticism. ...
    • Armour, Ellen T., 1959- (Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1998)
    • Asensio-Sierra, Isabel (2006-04-07)
      Department: Comparative Literature
      Throughout the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, literature written by Latin American women underwent a uniquely enriching narrative renovation. A preference for the theme of the erotic drove this process, and provided the ...
    • Bryant Prince, Courtney Alma (2018-04-10)
      Department: Religion
      Black women’s bodies are experienced as a moral dilemma due to the markers of the race and sex that render them as demonized other. Such formulations sanction America’s social hierarchies, animate violence and neglect of ...
    • Liang, Bin (2010-08-16)
      Department: Civil Engineering
      Multiple sources of errors and uncertainty arise in mechanics computational models and contribute to the error and uncertainty in the final model prediction. This research develops a systematic error quantification methodology ...
    • Wang, Xiaowen (2019-03-28)
      Department: Electrical Engineering
      Timing analysis and timing closure are critical for digital circuit design. Traditional designs based on the worst-case delay to set timing constraints. However, a circuit could have dramatically different internal activity ...
    • Malone, Amelia Schneider (2014-06-13)
      Department: Special Education
      The study had four purposes: (a) to describe fraction ordering errors among 227 at-risk 4th-grade students; (b) to examine performance differences among 3 cohorts; (c) to determine whether errors differed by problem type; ...
    • Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (The University of Memphis Law Review, 2008)
      In the Spring 2008 issue of the Tennessee Law Review, I wrote an essay questioning whether Tennessee's merit system for selecting appellate judges - the Tennessee Plan - satisfies the requirements of the Tennessee Constitution. ...
    • Escapes 
      Marshall, Samantha; 0009-0006-6771-0658 (2023-07-14)
      Department: Creative Writing
      This thesis tells the story of its principle character's return to his hometown in the aftermath of his father's health crisis. It has been two years since Tristan visited his family in Central Florida, and his return ...
    • Chen, Wei (Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-04-03)
      The ESL Capstone Portfolio demonstrates my understanding of teaching English as second language during my two-year English Language Learners Program (the ELL Program) at Vanderbilt University. I believe that communicative ...
    • Mora, David S. (2013-11-27)
      Department: French
      This dissertation investigates the relationship between language and space in the work of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and in the work of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). The methodology ...
    • Abrego, Perla (2011-12-10)
      Department: Spanish and Portuguese
      This dissertation traces contemporary theories perceiving the border as an abstract concept mostly defined by migration and crossing processes between Mexico and the United States. My purpose is to decentralize and ...