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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) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)The purpose of the study was to examine crises that occur in Treatment as Usual. A children's mental health group was examined in order to explore the correlates of a crisis session. N=7267 sessions, N=629 clients, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-08)This study examined the role of coping style in predicting positive and negative affect observed in interactions between children and parents with a history of depression. The anxious and depressive symptoms of the children ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: Special EducationAlthough policy and research support family-school partnerships to increase student achievement, few studies have attempted to determine which variables influence such partnerships. This study relied on a national dataset ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: PsychologyThis study examined guilt in adult siblings of individuals with developmental disabilities. Responses were taken from 1,150 adult siblings, age 18-85, who responded to the Adult Sibling Questionnaire, an online survey ...
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(2009-04-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe processes of tumor growth and treatment response are associated with the upregulation of numerous proteins [1, 2], yet current clinical imaging methods of cancer characterization monitor only gross morphology [3, 4]. ...
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(2009-12-08)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe premise of this work is to understand the contrast variations seen in MRI in light of the proteomic composition of tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now widely used as a primary medical imaging method to ...