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(2014-04-09)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy of Christian ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: ChemistryAflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a carcinogenic mycotoxin produced by the common agricultural contaminant A. flavus, has been implicated in the high rates of hepatocellular carcinoma observed in some developing countries. Upon ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)Past research has shown that depressive symptoms and race/ethnicity separately impact parenting behaviors, although the latter is often confounded with other contextual variables. This study examined the association of ...
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(2011-04-13)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis study provides information about the socialization experiences of African American college students within historically Black and predominantly White institutional contexts. Drawing on Weidman’s (1989) conceptual ...
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(Black Theology, 2016)
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(Genome Biology, 2019-04-26)BackgroundAfrica is the origin of modern humans within the past 300 thousand years. To infer the complex demographic history of African populations and adaptation to diverse environments, we sequenced the genomes of 92 ...
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(2007-12-27)Department: ChemistryThree constructs of African Swine Fever Virus DNA polymerase X (pol X) were expressed and purified. Buffers containing sodium acetate, sodium cacodylate or 0.5 M NaCl provided good solubility for the enzyme at micromolar ...
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(2020-08-22)Department: Creative WritingStriking The Match: Transitioning From Stasis to Agency
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1992-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-04-17)
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(2013-07-17)Department: EnglishOctavia Butler’s Kindred and Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring are African diasporic texts that trouble the boundaries of nation, home, time, and genre, as they are traditionally defined. This thesis argues that ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1990)When organizing this Symposium on the topic of "Law, Literature, and Social Change," we asked whether current trends in literature and in literary, social, and legal theory actually could play a role in bringing about ...
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(2010-08-16)Department: EnglishMuch recent historically-focused scholarship has revealed the ways in which the deviant criminality in the work of Edgar Allan Poe can be read as ideologically conservative. This criticism is understandably concerned with ...
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(Constitutional Commentary, 2000)Congress should repeal 28 U.S.C. § 1332 in its entirety, abolishing diversity jurisdiction altogether.
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(Yale Law Journal, 2015)Courts often hold that antidiscrimination law protects “immutable” characteristics, like sex and race. In a series of recent cases, gay rights advocates have persuaded courts to expand the concept of immutability to include ...
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(2013-07-16)Department: EnglishScholarly responses to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s 1611 city comedy, The Roaring Girl, usually attend to the play’s captivating depictions of gender anxiety, female eroticism, vocal power, and material consumption. ...
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(Oxford University Press, 1979)Many students of religion suggest that wholeness or the attainment of an integrated self is an especially valuable goal whose attainment marks a moment of religious insight. Theoreticians like Jung, Allport, and Maslow ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-08-05)Yeast are an important eukaryotic model system in the study of aging. Replicative age in budding yeast can be quantitatively determined by visualizing chitanous bud scars. The dynamics of the process of growth and division ...
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(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)Abstract-The results of a national survey of smoking risks and smoking behavior are analyzed. Smoking risk perceptions follow the expected patterns given age differences in risk information acquired and differences in ...