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Increasing the Self-Efficacy and College Graduation Rates of First-Generation, Low-Income Students (2021-12)Prior research illustrates that many of the successful supports provided to FGLI students to increase academic achievement are designed to increase students’ self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and social and cultural ...
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(2021-04-23)This Capstone seeks to address the increasing problem of volunteer retention in Global Brigades. Global Brigades partners with communities in six developing nations around the world to promote local community empowerment. ...
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(Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020-02)The transition to connected and autonomous (or automated) vehicles (CAVs) in the United States is used to explore the role of civil society in the acceleration and deceleration of sociotechnical transitions. This is an ...
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(Montana Law Review, 2015)The federalization of criminal law arguably threatens the states’ traditional police powers. Congress has criminalized myriad activities the states condone (or at least tolerate); it has denied federal criminal defendants ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)The problem of monetary policy delegation is formulated as a two-stage game between the government and the central bank. In the first stage the government chooses the institutional design of the central bank. Monetary and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-05-11)
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 1998)Professor Currie's article [See David P. Currie, "Separating Judicial Power", 61 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 7 (Summer 1998) ] discusses historical attempts to limit judicial independence. I consider the converse: how ...
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(Duke Law Journal, 2007)The Supreme Court's Daubert trilogy places judges in the unenviable position of assessing the reliability of often unfamiliar and complex scientific expert testimony. Over the past decade, scholars have therefore explored ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)The problem of monetary policy delegation is formulated as a two-stage game between the government and the central bank. In the first stage the government chooses the institutional design of the central bank. Monetary and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-05)
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(2018-04-04)Department: SociologyThis dissertation focuses on the classic Durkheimian theme of community within the context of emerging forms of work and shifting employment relations. The data derive from seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork, ...
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(Astronomical Journal, 2023-02-01)We present high-precision radial velocities (RVs) from the HARPS-N spectrograph for HD79210 and HD79211, two M0V members of a gravitationally-bound binary system. We detect a planet candidate with a period of 24.421(-0.0 ...
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(Harvard Law & Policy Review, 1995)I view my task in this Article to be proving that history is indeterminate. The rest of the Articles from this Panel may discuss what to do about the indeterminacy. I would like to put aside the normative questions and a ...
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(2017-04-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAs efforts are made in pre-kindergarten settings to design and model high quality programs, there is a growing need to attend to the aspects of the local context that may influence the ways that teachers and staff make ...
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(2014-03-17)Department: HistoryThis project investigates the impact of the Spanish conquest on the indigenous populations of Espanola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the subsequent rise of an Indian slave trade and diaspora throughout the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1978)
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(2011-12-10)Department: Political ScienceIn my dissertation, I argue that democratic theory harbors a paradox of personhood in which theorists hinge human equality to the concept of personhood, but then invest personhood with a cluster of cognitive requirements ...
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(2006-07-24)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThe purpose of this paper is to challenge current understandings about the nature of community and individual relationships held by development theory. Recently, development theorists have challenged the idea that economic ...
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(2022-06-30)Department: EpidemiologyLong-term health effects following exposures to mixed high- and low-linear energy transfer (LET) ionizing radiation received at low dose-rates are unclear, and uranium processing workers represent a population of relatively ...
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(UCLA Law Review, 2008)The individual and household sector generates roughly 30 to 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is a potential source of prompt and large emissions reductions. Yet the assumption that only extensive government ...