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(American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2011)This paper provides evidence of the relation between the risk of sexual harassment and wages. While one approach to detecting the effect on wages of sexual harassment would be to estimate wage equations controlling for ...
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(2017-03-24)Department: PsychologyDo speakers adjust their expectations of a conversational partner when said partner is inattentive, and if so, how are their utterances to the inattentive partner modulated? Here we test the hypothesis that speakers only ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: GermanCOMPETING GERMANIES: THE FREIE DEUTSCHE BUEHNE AND THE DEUTSCHES THEATER IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, 1938-1965 ROBERT VINCENT KELZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor Meike G. Werner Based on extensive archival ...
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(2018-12-12)Department: HistoryThe establishment of Liberia as a nation in 1847 was one of the first opportunities for black Americans to rule themselves. This dissertation studies how African American emigrants worked to become a national people and ...
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(2022-12)Every Child Oregon is an initiative of The Contingent, a non-profit which collaborates with government agencies, faith communities, and business partners to aid children and families impacted by foster care. Often in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-07)How does the need to signal quality through price affect equilibrium pricing and profits, when a firm faces a similarly-situated rival? In this paper, we provide a model of non-cooperative signaling by two firms that compete ...
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(2014-07-21)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores the roles Gold Coast Africans played in the various challenges to Dutch and English monopoly in the Atlantic slave trade from 1621 to 1720. Using a close reading and corroboration of archaic ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over standards and taxes, the developing country may have a 'second mover advantage.' A key feature of standards is that, unlike public goods ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Political ScienceDespite growing interest in traditional leaders in Africa, studies have paid little attention to political competition and its role in service delivery and accountability for the unelected leaders. This dissertation focuses ...
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(2008-04-14)Department: Computer ScienceThe prevailing paradigm in the regime of resource-constrained embedded devices is event-driven programming. An event-driven application consists of a small runtime and a set of event handlers that execute in response to ...
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(Santa Clara Journal of International Law, 2010)The Rome Statute nowhere defines the term "complementarity, " but the plain text of Article 1 compels the conclusion that the International Criminal Court was intended to supplement the foundation of domestic punishment ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2003-03-20)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2003-05-02)
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(Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905)
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(Minnesota Law Review Headnotes, 2021)In Evidentiary Irony and the Incomplete Rule of Completeness, Professors Daniel Capra and Liesa Richter comprehensively catalog the many shortcomings in current Federal Rule of Evidence 106 and craft a compelling reform ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: PhysicsThis work explores the complex plasmonic phenomena generated by Archimedean nanospirals. Arrays of gold nanospirals are fabricated with varying arm spacings and arm widths, as well as winding numbers ranging from 2 to 4π, ...
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(2009-09-21)Department: ReligionThis study employs qualitative methods to describe black South African women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS in two Pentecostal church communities. It analyzes beliefs and practices, connecting gender roles and divine healing ...
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(2013-10-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which preschool teachers use complex syntax in their verbal interactions with preschool children. Of interest was whether the amount of complex syntax preschool teachers ...
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(2021-06-08)Department: MathematicsWhile close connections between recursively bounded $\mathrm{DNR}$ sequences and complex sequences have been well-documented, explicit bounds on growth rates in these results has not been possible due to the nature of ...