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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
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(Vanderbilt University. Divinity School, 1986-03-10)Eminent scholars gathered to reminisce about their formative years and to talk about how the field of ancient Near Eastern studies has evolved in their own lifetimes.
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(Vanderbilt University. Divinity School, 1990-03-25)Commemoration of the Centenary of Benno Landsberger (1890-1968), a scholar who made a seminal contribution to Assyriology and to the reconstruction of Mesopotamian history and culture. He was born in Austrian Silesia, ...
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(2019-08-20)Department: History9/11 and the wars which followed have called historians of both the United States and the Middle East to seek the origins of America’s relationship with the Islamic world. The prevailing historiographic consensus presents ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-03-08)
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(2011-04-14)Department: EconomicsBetween 1933 and 1970, over 1 million units of public housing were built with federal funds and operated by local public housing agencies. New building was subsequently curtailed as many came to believe that public housing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Blair School of Music, 2009-12-04)
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(2020-10-19)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the cultural work of American Studies programs in the United States and the ways in which it shifted from the 1930s, when these programs became first established in the academy, to the 1990s, ...
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Americanizing Mexican Drug Enforcement: The War on Drugs in Mexican Politics and Society, 1964-1982 (2018-07-10)Department: HistoryThis dissertation tells the story of how U.S. drug control became externalized, and supply countries such as Mexico came to be seen as the cause for the U.S. drug problem. Rather than focusing on U.S. drug policy discourses ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2009-08-05)
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(Texas Law Review, 2011)Power to interpret the Sherman Act, and thus power to make broad changes to antitrust policy, is currently vested in the Supreme Court. But reevaluation of existing competition rules requires economic evidence, which the ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: ChemistryThe cancer treatment regimen known as AC chemotherapy is one of the oldest and most commonly used regimens. Consisting of a combination of Adriamycin (Doxorubicin) and Cyclophosphamide, it has long been understood that the ...
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(Molecules, 2022-12-09)Although 3-aminopropyl functionalized magnesium phyllosilicate nanoparticles (hereafter aminoclay nanoparticles, ACNs) are well-known nanomaterials employed as drug carriers, their effects on immune cells remain unclear. ...
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(2023-05)West Coast Preparatory School has developed a reputation for academic, athletic, and artistic excellence within a supportive, caring community. Advisory at this independent school for grades 7-12 is noteworthy because it ...
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(2009-02-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Membrane Transporter BiologyThe norepinephrine transporter (NET) clears norepinephrine (NE) from the synapse after vesicular release. NET is a target of the psychostimulant amphetamine (AMPH). We have recently shown that AMPH alters trafficking of ...
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(2011-08-17)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyPopulations of amphibians around the world have experienced devastating declines in the last few decades. A newly emerging fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, has been implicated as one cause of these declines. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-06-26)
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(2022-11-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe cochlear implant (CI) is a widely successful neural prosthetic device and is the preferred method of treatment for severe to profound hearing loss. CIs use an array of electrodes surgically implanted in the cochlea to ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMuch of the energy consumed by the world’s industrial sectors is lost as waste heat. Concurrently, manufacturing facilities also require vast, valuable quantities of compressed air, air that is most often produced from ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: Special EducationPromoting positive relationships among young children is an important step towards improving their long-term social and academic outcomes. Children who have low rates of interactions with peers, who are identified as ...