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(2012-07-17)Department: ManagementThis dissertation proposes that responses to concessions in negotiation depend not just on the size of concessions, but on the specific type of concessions that are made. Some concessions focus on giving items that are ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)Gravity model explanations of trade volumes frequently include dummy variables to account for the commonality of language among trading partners. In this paper we use a data set for the number of people in a country who ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2005)Nearly every treatment of scientific evidence begins with a faithful comparison between the Frye and Daubert standards. Since 1993, jurists and legal scholars have spiritedly debated which standard is preferable and whether ...
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(2013-12-03)Department: SociologyThe stress process model has become a prominent framework for understanding social variations in mental health. Though previous studies find compelling evidence that this model adequately explains variations in mental ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesResearch has shown that districts with market power engage in higher bureaucratic spending and spend more per pupil than do districts in competitive markets. With the democratic engagement mandate in the Every Student ...
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(2020-03-25)Department: NeuroscienceThis study uses subjects’ electroencephalogram (EEG) and behavior to test an assumption underlying the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), the rules that determine what evidence juries hear, and an assumption in most cognitive ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-12-11)
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(2020-12)Student discourse for a sense of belonging or care within positive, effective student-teacher relationships involves the concept of "like" or "being liked" by teachers. There has been considerable literature on a sense of ...
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(2006-05-04)Department: Economic DevelopmentInternational remittances are an increasingly discussed topic for development economists; however, economists disagree about the motivations for remittance-sending. Additionally, there is divergence among economists about ...
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(University of Chicago Law Review, 2009)Private equity has reaped large rewards in recent years. We claim that one major reason for this success is due to the corporate governance advantages of private equity over the public corporation. We argue that the ...
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(Regulation, 2012)Product liability law is intended to create an environment that fosters safer products. However, this law often has adverse consequences. Some of the problems stem from the inherent nature of product risk decisions and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average ...
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(Maganetic Resonance in Medicine, 2020-09)Purpose Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) is an MRI technique sensitive to the presence of low-concentration solute protons exchanging with water. However, magnetization transfer (MT) effects also arise when ...
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(Columbia Law Review, 2006)The PSLRA's lead plaintiff provision was adopted in order to encourage large shareholders with claims in a securities fraud class action to step forward to become the class' representative. Congress' expectation was that ...
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(Florida State University Law Review, 2000)Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer's study, "The Government Litigant Advantage," sheds important light on how the Solicitor General's litigation behavior may impact the Supreme Court's decision making agenda and outcomes for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)Stress can impair one’s ability to effectively problem solve and think critically. This study tested the extent to which trait mindfulness moderated the relation between stress and executive control (EC). Participants ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white defendants. Why? Implicit bias is one possibility. Researchers, using a well-known measure called the implicit ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to assess whether understanding relational terminology (i.e., more, less, and fewer) mediates the effects of intervention on difference word problems. Second-grade teachers who volunteered to ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: Latin American StudiesUsing various forms of ethnographic methods including interviews, site visits, and participant observation, I examine how Afro-Brazilian entrepreneurs resist anti-blackness through their products, labor, and a process I ...