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(North Carolina Law Review, 2011)No force has put more pressure on the legal system than is likely to be exerted as climate change begins to disrupt the settled expectations of humans. Demands on the legal system will be intense and long-term, but is the ...
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(Vanderbilt University Special Collections, 2014-10-21)
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(Clinical Law Review, 2021)This article explores the role that a generalist externship seminar can play in teaching law students about the legal profession - lawyers, the institutions in which they practice, and the markets for their services. After ...
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Generality as an Interaction between Recombinative Generalization and Derived Relational Responding (2024-03-25)Department: Special EducationRecommendations for achieving generalized instructional outcomes often overlook the capacity for generative learning. We sought to demonstrate how decontextualized and logically organized instruction would lead to derived ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This article considers the ranking of profiles of opportunity sets on the basis of their equality. A version of the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle that is appropriate for the measurement of opportunity inequality is ...
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(2018-04-11)Department: PsychologyA non-repeated items (NRI) design is an experimental design in which items are not repeated across the levels of an experimental condition. When binary outcomes are collected, a generalized linear mixed-effect model (GLMM) ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(2013-11-22)Department: NeuroscienceAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed childhood neuropsychiatric disorder. More than twenty years of genetic, behavioral, and pharmacological research support the hypothesis that ...
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(2021-07-08)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines discussions of male bodies and male embodiment in early modern medical, pharmacological, and medico-legal texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Premodern medical texts described and ...
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(2018-10-19)Department: Biological SciencesRecent advances in sequencing technology have greatly decreased the cost and increased the availability of genomic data. Armed with this rich base of information, it has become feasible to pursue the study of complex ...
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(2013-04-19)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyNinjurins are a conserved family of transmembrane proteins that increase expression in response to injury and stress. There are few in vivo studies of Ninjurin, and little is known about Ninjurin function. In this thesis ...
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(2013-06-04)Department: BiochemistryThis dissertation focuses on the biochemical and genetic characterization of the protein-protein interaction in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae between the cytosolic translation initiation guanine nucleotide ...
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(2013-03-29)Department: NeuroscienceIn the brain, serotonin (5-hydroxtryptamine, 5-HT) is synthesized in the raphe nucleus. Raphe serotonergic projections modulate neurotransmissions throughout the brain influencing mood and behavior. The serotonin transporter ...
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(2023-05-04)Department: Biological SciencesFragile X syndrome (FXS) is an inherited intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders. Most FXS patients have a total loss of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP) resulting from the epigenetic silence of ...
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(2005-03-09)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsAutism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in language and social interaction, and patterns of repetitive and stereotyped behaviors, interests and activities. Evidence indicates that autism ...
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(2019-02-13)Department: PharmacologyDopamine (DA) signaling plays an important role in the central nervous system by regulating a variety of functions including attention, motivation, reward, movement and courtship. Alterations in DA signaling have been ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(2008-04-10)Department: ReligionThis dissertation elaborates and evaluates the proprieties of genetic counseling as they are accounted for in three models: 1) the teaching model 2) the psychotherapeutic model and 3) the responsibilist model. The ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: Biological SciencesABSTRACT Synapse formation is driven by precisely orchestrated intercellular communication between presynaptic and postsynaptic cells. Signals traverse a complex extracellular environment, where glycans attached to ...
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(2013-04-22)Department: NeuroscienceSKF83959 is a high affinity dopamine D1 receptor agonist that has been reported to preferentially activate D1 receptors coupled to G(alpha)q. This pathway results in phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, intracellular calcium ...