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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Most studies of family structure and child outcomes conclude that stepchildren fare little better than children in single-parent families, and substantially worse than children in intact families. Is this because adults ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper shows that the WTO's Article XXIV increases the likelihood of free trade, but may worsen world welfare when free trade is not reached and customs unions (CUs) form. We consider a model of many countries. Article ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines inter-generational persistence in child labor by developing a dynamic model and exploring its implications empirically in Brazil. We begin by building a simple overlapping generations model of the ...
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(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2019-06-18)
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyA long-standing debate is whether awareness is dissociable from attention. Previous work in support of a dissociation between stimulus-driven attention and awareness has used spatial-cueing paradigms. A critical review of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)A positive Lyapunov exponent is one practical definition of chaos. We develop a formal test for chaos in a noisy system based on the consistent standard errors of the nonparametric Lyapunov exponent estimators. When our ...
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(2016-08-18)Department: PsychologyA long-standing debate is whether awareness is dissociable from attention. Previous work in support of a dissociation between stimulus-driven attention and awareness has used spatial-cueing paradigms. A critical review of ...
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(2004-07-26)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study explores the reasoning that emerged among eight high school juniors and seniors as they participated in a classroom teaching experiment addressing stochastic conceptions of sampling and statistical inference. ...
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(Michigan Law Review, 2005)In this paper, we review Pay Without Performance by Professors Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried. The book develops and summarizes the leading critiques of current executive compensation practices in the U.S., and offers a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)This study assessed implicit and explicit attitudes toward people who stutter. Twenty-four typically-fluent college-aged participants completed an Implicit Association Test, a measure of implicit attitudes, to assess the ...
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(Brillhttp://www.brill.nl/vt, 1976)"This paper will proceed as follows: it will establish a plausible translation for Isa. lxvi 3-4a, discuss a Mari letter, ARM II : 37, and allude to other Near Eastern documentation in order to focus on an unusual practice ...
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(University of California at Davis Law Review, 2012)This article asks whether Muslims whose religious beliefs prevent investment in their employers’ private pension plans have a right to religious accommodation. This is a real issue for a growing part of the population whose ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Traditionally, a society's literacy has been measured by the 'literacy rate' or the percent of the adult population that is literate. The present paper maintains that the distribution on literates across households also ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: ChemistryMalaria is a disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum which kills 1-2.7 million people per year. Parasite resistance to widely available anti-malarial treatments such as Chloriquine is spreading rapidly, and ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: SpanishIn the Spanish Caribbean and its diaspora, the cultural consequences of “not belonging” predominate works by Cuban authors Zoé Valdés and Oscar Hijuelos, Dominican authors Junot Díaz and Loida Maritza Pérez, and Puerto ...
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(2011-12-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringI reduced the reaction volume in microfabricated suspended-membrane titration calorimeters to nanoliter droplets and improved the sensitivities to below a nanowatt with time constants of around 100ms. The device performance ...
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(Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019-04-19)Oxidative modifications of cysteine residues are an important component in signaling pathways, enzymatic regulation, and redox homeostasis. Current direct and indirect methods detect specific modifications and a general ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2009-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2014-04-11)
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(Villanova Law Review, 2010)This article analyzes mutual fund voting data from 2003-2008, the first five proxy seasons for which this data is available, and seeks to identify the extent to which mutual funds vote consistently with the voting ...