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(Anglican Theological Review, 2001)
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(2010-07-29)Department: Computer ScienceDocumentation is essential to every system as it captures knowledge and design intent that are otherwise hidden in the implementation or not available at all. Automatic documentation has been of interest mainly because of ...
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(Cornell Law Reviewhttp://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/, 2012)"Say on pay" gives shareholders an advisory vote on a company's pay practices for its top executives. Beginning in 2011, Dodd-Frank mandated such votes at public companies. The first year of "say on pay" under the new ...
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(2004)
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Does a Loss or a Win Affect Who Tunes In? Political Advantage, Disadvantage, and Media Consumption (2017-06-28)Department: Political ScienceIn this dissertation, I argue that the political environment can meaningfully influence media demand. Studying the determinants of news consumption is critical because these processes affect the knowledge on which democratic ...
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(Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, 2014)Prepared for Florida State’s conference on “Environmental Law without Congress,” this is a sometimes tongue-in-cheek history of the Endangered Species Act, suggesting it is an example of “environmental law deism” given ...
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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 ...