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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-03-12)
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(2016-07-24)Department: PsychologyIndividuals with Williams syndrome (WS) are known to be at high risk for anxiety. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been used to treat anxiety in typically developing populations for decades with great success, but ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper is concerned with inflation targeting as a potential monetary policy objective in a developing economy. Using data from Nicaragua, it first studies the extent to which the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could be ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper provides sufficient conditions to ensure nonemptiness of approximate cores of many-player games and symmetry of approximate core payoffs (the equal treatment property). The conditions are: (a) essential ...
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(Vanderbilt University Special Collections, 2014-10-24)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 1988)
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(North Carolina Law Review, 2016)Because representative shareholder litigation has been constrained by numerous legal developments, the corporate governance system has developed new mechanisms as alternative means to address managerial agency costs. We ...
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(University of Illinois Law Review, 2013)In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Citizens United v. FEC that restrictions on corporate political speech were unconstitutional because of the First Amendment rights granted corporations as a result of their status ...
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(Stanford Law Review, 2000)Balancing of risk and cost lies at the heart of standard negligence tests and policy analysis approaches to government regulation. Notwithstanding the desirability of using a benefit-cost approach to assess the merits of ...
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(2014-08-05)Department: HistoryThis essay examines, in the history of American capitalism, the changing relationship between social types, groups and classes to the questions of economic change and the origins of modern America. Historical schools have ...
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(2022-05)This study examined corporate philanthropic support at work colleges. Based on interviews with work college fundraising and administrative staff, we found that a work-study education assists in breaking the cycle of poverty, ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009)Discussion of shareholder voting frequently begins against a background of the democratic expectations and justifications present in decision-making in the public sphere. Directors are assumed to be agents of the shareholders ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2005)For many years academics have debated whether it is better to permit hostile acquirers to use tender offers to gain control over unwilling target companies, or to force them to use corporate elections of boards of directors ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2005)For many years academics have debated whether it is better to permit hostile acquirers to use tender offers to gain control over unwilling target companies, or to force them to use corporate elections of boards of directors ...
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(University of Illinois Law Review, 2008)The state competition for corporate law has long been studied as a distinct phenomenon. Under the traditional view, corporations are subject to a unique choice-of-law rule, the internal affairs doctrine (IAD). This rule ...
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(2013-07-30)Department: EnglishTaking Gayle Jones’ Corregidora as a metaphor for the nature of the United States' relationship in the present day to its history of slavery, this thesis seeks to enter the existing discourse on continuing racial tension ...
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(2008-02-22)Department: Computer ScienceAmong all magnetic resonance imaging sequences, gradient-echo (GE) echo-planar imaging (EPI) has become the most common technique for the study of dynamic brain function and for other high-speed applications like cardiac ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)Is conformity amongst similar individuals consistent with self-interested behavior? We consider a model of incomplete information in which each player receives a signal, interpreted as an allocation to a role, and can make ...
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(eLife, 2019-09-03)Some oscine songbird species modify their songs throughout their lives ('adult song plasticity' or 'open-ended learning'), while others crystallize their songs around sexual maturity. It remains unknown whether the strength ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-18)Depression is a recurrent and debilitating disorder affecting nearly 340 million people worldwide. The present study examined what differentiates individuals with a history of one or more major depressive episodes (MDEs) ...