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(2017-04-10)Department: Community Research and ActionAttending and graduating from college has become an essential tool for social mobility over the last several decades. However, despite efforts to expand opportunities to increase college access for all students, there is ...
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(2006)
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(2015-11-25)Department: SociologyIn the summer of 2010, students of the University of Puerto Rico occupied 11 campuses of the island-wide system for 62 days in protest of austerity measures by newly elected Governor Luis Fortuño. Over time, the occupation ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-10-30)
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(Vanderbilt Medical Center, 2010-06-01)
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(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019-07-23)Evidence for perceptual periodicity emerges from studies showing periodic fluctuations in visual perception and decision making that are accompanied by neural oscillations in brain activity. We have uncovered signs of ...
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(2012-04-04)Department: PhysicsWe have observed two erupting, pre-main sequence stars, V1647 Ori and EX Lupi, with the Chandra X-ray Observatory during their 2008 optical eruptions. Our intensive X-ray monitoring of these objects affords the opportunity ...
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(International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 2022-12-27)As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other outbreaks, such as SARS and Ebola, bats are recognized as a critical species for mediating zoonotic infectious disease spillover events. While there is a growing concern ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2010-12-17)
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2011-03-09)
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(Evolution and Human Behavior, 2012)The endowment effect is the seemingly irrationally tendency to immediately value a possessed item more than the opportunity to acquire the identical item when one does not already possess it. The phenomenon has broad legal ...
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(Vanderbilt UniversityJean and Alexander Heard Library, 2010-07-08)
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(2021-08-09)The Rural Schools Association of New York State represents the interests of small and rural districts and aims to bring attention, awareness, and advocacy to rural education. This project provided RSANY with the research ...
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(Jurimetrics, 2001)The place of the rational actor model in the analysis of individual and social behavior relevant to law remains unresolved. In recent years, scholars have sought frameworks to explain: a) disjunctions between seemingly ...
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(2004-04-07)Department: Political ScienceThis study examines the “traditional/modern” paradigm advocated by scholars in the study of the Presidency in American Politics. This distinction advises a separation of presidential history into two categories on the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(North Carolina Law Review, 1997)For contemporary biologists, behavior - like physical form - evolves. Although evolutionary processes do not dictate behavior in any inflexible sense, they nonetheless contribute significantly to the prevalence of various ...
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(2014-09-26)Department: Biological SciencesWolbachia pipientis is an obligate intracellular bacterium of increasing importance in understanding the tripartite interactions between viruses, bacteria, and eukaryotes, as well as having applications in modern medicine ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(2019-09-25)Department: Biological SciencesSong is a key aspect of oscine songbird behavior. Males that do not sing a species-typical song are unlikely to attract mates. Interestingly, young songbirds must listen to other conspecific males to learn an appropriate ...