There is a presumption in the literature that price or exchange rate uncertainty, or uncertainty in the monetary conditions underlying them, will have a negative effect on investment. Some argue that this negative effect ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is the preeminent art museum in the city of Detroit. The museum is looking to continue to increase its relationship with the community and grow its education program to best match its ...

With a series of technological innovations in cotton cultivation and production, a booming transatlantic cotton economy sprang into life in the early decades of the nineteenth century, an economy that depended on the forced ...

Despite the push in contemporary anthropology to challenge or dispel the “naturalness” of gender associations, Aymara women are emphasizing their embodied relationship to the land within their environmental protest activity ...

An estimated 50% of the electricity in the world is controlled by power semiconductor devices, with silicon carbide power devices superior to silicon power devices due to higher breakdown electric fields, increased thermal ...

The fall of Saddam Hussein created a power vacuum in Iraq, heightened by a deepening sectarian divide. The state of security in Iraq became more complicated as militias emerged spontaneously as means to support the ruling ...

We demonstrate a flexible, tunable scheme for synthesizing multifunctional, ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (USPIOs) and its application to the area of magnetic relaxation switches. USPIO cores (10nm) ...

This is a critical review essay, exploring the thesis advanced by Gregory Sidak and Daniel Spulber in their book Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract (Cambridge University Press 1997). Sidak and Spulber argue ...

The purpose of this study was to extend the literature on word-problem performance by using a crossed random-effects item response model to bring together two lines of research, namely irrelevant information and person ...