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(2011-04-14)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation is a philosophical feminist account of the relationship between subjectivity and oppressive discourse. Feminists have rightly pointed out that philosophical accounts of the universal or neutral subject ...
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(Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2003-03)
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(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2016)This Essay explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in FERC .v. EPSA for state regulation of customer energy resource initiatives, such as net metering policies for rooftop solar and energy storage ...
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(2008-12-05)Department: PhysicsCanonical gravity in real Ashtekar--Barbero variables is generalized by extending Holst's original vacuum analysis to allow for both fermionic and bosonic matter. For fermions, the effects of emerging torsion on parity ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-03-20)
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(2008-12-30)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyTransport of nucleic acids and proteins between the nucleus and cytoplasm occurs exclusively through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), large transport channels embedded in the nuclear envelope. Molecules larger than ~40kDa ...
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(2013-03-29)Department: Biological SciencesParapineal precursors arise from the medially located pineal complex anlage and migrate to the left side of the brain. Published data implicates Fgf8a in the migration of parapineal cells away from the midline of the pineal ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: MathematicsWe extend Lawvere-Pitts prop-categories (aka. hyperdoctrines) to develop a general framework for providing "algebraic'' semantics for nonclassical first-order logics. This framework includes a natural notion of substitution, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-28)
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(2011-04-18)Department: Computer ScienceThis work presents new methods and algorithms concerning fiducial-based registration in the presence of anisotropic fiducial localization error (FLE). Since the introduction of image-guided surgery about twenty years ago, ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 2021)It is often said that judges act as fiduciaries for the absent class members in class action litigation. If we take this seriously, how then should judges award fees to the lawyers who represent these class members? The ...
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(2021-03-26)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation explores the role of beliefs in behavior using field and lab experiments. The first paper establishes a methodological framework for measuring beliefs (first-order) and beliefs about beliefs (second-order) ...
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(2009-12-09)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis research is focused on the synthesis of CNTs using thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at atmospheric pressure with Pd, Ni, and Co as catalysts, and characterization of the CNTs for field emission applications. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1996-04-12)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper establishes a growth model where firms and residents in polluted areas bargain cooperatively to settle environmental concerns. While economic development affects the extent of the negotiation outcomes, the ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyA comprehensive review of the state of food security in the United States with a specific focus on the communities in Nashville, Tennessee is presented in this thesis. Food insecurity is proposed as a mechanism by which ...
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(2013-07-15)Department: SpanishThis dissertation uses theoretical models of cultural studies to examine social factors that contribute to the development of the novel in early modern Spain and beyond. Documents from the conquest of the Americas provide ...