Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(PLOS ONE, 2014-03-03)The study of biodiversity spans many disciplines and includes data pertaining to species distributions and abundances, genetic sequences, trait measurements, and ecological niches, complemented by information on collection ...
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(Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1982-11)Among the many replacements offered for Freud's much critizied metapsychology, those based on linguistics are especially popular. But are they adequate to the task? Peterfreund (1971), Ricoeur (1970), Schafer (1976), and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)This survey of the modeling of pretrial settlement bargaining organizes current main themes and recent developments. The basic concepts used are outlined as core models and then several variations on these core models are ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)Diamond and Mirrlees have shown that public sector shadow prices should be set equal to the private producer prices in some circumstances even if taxes are not optimal when the public production technology is convex and ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005)A generation ago, many Shakespearean scholars simply accepted the versions of the play that they were provided with by editors. So long as the label was right (Arden, Oxford, Cambridge, Penguin, Riverside, Pelican) the ...
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(University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dept. of English, 1992)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)James Buchanan (Economica, 1966) has argued that Alfred Marshall's theory of jointly-supplied goods can be extended to analyze the allocation of impure public goods. This article introduces a way of modelling sharing ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)The evaluation of social risk equity for alternative probability distributions over the potential sets of fatalities is analyzed axiomatically. Fishburn and Straffin [Equity considerations in public risks valuation, ...
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(University of California Press, 1995)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Fifty years ago the JPE published Simon Rottenberg's "The Baseball Players' Labor Market", the first professional journal article in sports economics. In this retrospective we review some of his insights and analyses with ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)We demonstrate the acceleration obtained from using GPU/CPU hybrid clusters and supercomputers for N-body simulations of gravity based in part on the author's new code development. Validation tests are shown for ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)Time Dependent Density Functional Theory is used to probe the structure of matter. Coulomb explosion of small hydrocarbons driven by strong laser pulses and electron holography of molecules are studied in a theoretical ...
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(Vanderbilt Universityhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2009-04)Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This paper develops a North-South trade model in which the South produces food and the North produces both food and a high-tech good. Food production is undertaken by unskilled workers while the high-tech product is made ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-12-17)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)The elapsed time taken to earn a Ph.D. in economics is analyzed with data from 618 1996-97 Ph.D.s. A duration model indicates that students supported by fellowships, and those holding a prior masters degree finish faster. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)We examine the impact of a desire for social approval on education and occupation choice and model the endogenous determination of perceptions that influence such approval. In a two-sector overlapping generations framework, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)We examine the phenomenon of "pockets of teenage illegitimacy" in a model of social approval, where attitudes to such illegitimacy are endogenously determined at a local community level. Both a woman's actual well-being ...