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(2022-05-16)Department: BiochemistryImmune co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory receptors play a critical role in the maintenance of immune homeostasis. These checkpoint proteins have been proven to be effective targets in a cancer setting where constitutive ...
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(Canadian Journal of Law & Technology, 2003)The collective management of copyright in Canada was conceived as a solution to alleviate the problem of inefficiency of individual rights management. Creators could not license, collect and enforce copyright efficiently ...
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(American Economic Association, 1983)The existence of a negative relationship between the regulatory burden and capital investments, and consequently productivity,is not controversial. A conventional model of this type is developed in Section I. If, however, ...
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(2022-05-26)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityFrom a teacher’s perspective, teacher learning happens through a complex web of learning experiences. However, research on teacher professional development (PD) typically focuses on the direct influence of single activities ...
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(University of Chicago Law Review, 2000)This Article uses an often-overlooked component of prospect theory to develop a positive theory of frivolous or low-probability litigation. The proposed Frivolous Framing Theory posits that the decision frame in frivolous ...
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(2009-07-17)Department: EnglishIn the early 1900s Ernest J. Bellocq photographed anonymous, mostly mixed-race prostitutes in the legalized vice district of Storyville in New Orleans. In Bellocq’s Ophelia, Natasha Trethewey creates a narrative that seeks ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2011)This is a response to William W. Bratton & Michael L. Wachter, The Political Economy of Fraud on the Market, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 69 (2011). Bratton and Wachter argue that fraud-on-the-market class actions (FOTM) should be ...
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(2009-04-22)Department: Community Research and ActionEvery week in America thousands of children who are at risk of suffering abuse and/or neglect are removed from the homes of their caregivers and placed into their state’s foster care system. The individuals responsible ...
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(2013-07-31)Department: Special EducationPurpose. Black history as represented in social studies textbooks often lacks depth demanded by historians and authenticity required for cultural relevance to African American students. However, important Black historical ...
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(2010-07-16)Department: EconomicsThrough a unique collection of compositional (e.g. balance sheets and note discounts) and environmental (e.g. bond portfolio values and passenger travel costs) data for most of the antebellum banks, this dissertation ...
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(2003-02-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe Vanderbilt University Free Electron Laser (FEL) is a tunable source of pulsed infrared radiation with pulse characteristics unlike those of most laser systems. A primary objective of the research presented in this ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis, we study rigid von Neumann algebras from the framework of Voiculescu’s free probability. A rigid von Neumann algebra or a Property (T) von Neumann algebra generalizes the well known notion of Property (T) ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2008-02-22)
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(Columbia Law Review, 2018)The 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive in recent memory, but it produced a surprising bipartisan consensus. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders all agreed that U.S. trade agreements should ...
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(2015-04-09)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation I examine the relationships between freedom and slavery through the intersections of food and agriculture. Qualified in various ways, contemporary research across disciplines supports the view that, ...
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(2010-09-06)Department: PhilosophyThe core commitment of liberalism is that individual liberty is in some sense primary. There is, however, much disagreement over the concept of liberty itself. In this dissertation, I attempt to determine which conception ...
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(2009-06-24)Department: Community Research and ActionProstitution, drug addiction, and their surrounding issues have long been topics of political, theoretical, and practical import. Furthermore, they offer a particularly insightful lens through which to interrogate concepts ...