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(2019-01-15)Department: Civil EngineeringWith the ability to shorten production times, while simultaneously minimizing material waste, additive manufacturing technologies and techniques, including 3D printing, have emerged with the potential to revolutionize the ...
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(2018-07-10)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyViral nonstructural proteins, which are not packaged into virions, are essential for the replication of most viruses. Reovirus, a nonenveloped, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus, encodes three nonstructural proteins that ...
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(2018-08-22)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyViral encephalitis is a serious and life-threatening inflammation of the central nervous system (CNS). However, mechanisms of viral neuroinvasion and disease pathogenesis in the CNS are often poorly understood. Mammalian ...
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(2020-08-25)Department: MathematicsThe calculation of fundamental group of II1 factors is one of the most important problems in the theory of von Neumann algebras. Motivated by his study of II1 factors arising from i.c.c. property (T) groups, A. Connes ...
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(2008-12-30)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis thesis evaluates the fundamental understanding of electroosmotic flow in a heterogeneous converging-diverging circular microchannel. Three converging-diverging circular microchannels were modeled and the Poisson-Boltzmann ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: Biological SciencesDeep genome sequencing of the fungal kingdom, an ancient and diverse eukaryotic lineage, has shed light on the dynamics of genome evolution. For example, these studies have underscored the importance of evolution by gene ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-17)
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(Florida State University Law Review, 2005)In contrast to the Supreme Court, which typically reverses the cases it hears, the United States Courts of Appeals almost always affirm the cases that they hear. We set out to explore this affirmance effect on the U.S. ...
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(2022-08)The United States has experienced dramatic gains over the last 70 years with the number of women entering the labor workforce. Despite these gains, women continue to earn less than men in similar roles, hold fewer leadership ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-01-24)
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2010)Independent agencies have long been viewed as different from executive-branch agencies because the President lacks authority to fire their leaders for political reasons, such as failure to follow administration policy. In ...
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(Harvard Law Review Forum, 2021)For a brief moment in the fall of 2020, structural reform of the Supreme Court seemed like a tangible possibility. After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September, some prominent Democratic politicians and ...
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(Georgetown Law Journal, 2018)The federal common law of foreign relations has been in decline for decades. The field was built in part on the claim that customary international law is federal common law and in part on the claim that federal judges ...
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(2023-05)As a start-up business based in New York, GoCoach leverages its proprietary coaching model to provide talent development solutions to its clients. As the organization transitioned from its initial start-up phase, the ...
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(Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2019-09)Descriptions of resources, like the genome assemblies reported in Microbiology Resource Announcements, are often frozen at their time of publication, yet they will need to be interpreted in the midst of continually evolving ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-04-01)
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(2010-04-10)Department: PharmacologyGABA functions as the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. In hippocampus, GABA serves multiple roles during development and throughout adulthood, which include: 1) orchestrate synapse maturation ...
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(2020-07-23)Department: NeuroscienceA lack of animal models representing adequately epilepsy syndromes has hindered advancing treatment for patients. Epileptic encephalopathies are a severe subset of epilepsies associated with a high probability of impaired ...