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(Harvard Business Law Review, 2020)Black & Gilson (1998) argue that an IPO-welcoming stock market stimulates venture deals by enabling VCs to give founders a valuable "call option on control." We study 18,000 startups to investigate the value of this option. ...
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(2006-02-28)Department: PsychologyExisting research demonstrates that peer relationships are an important part of children's social contexts, with different types of peer interactions related to different benefits and risks as children develop. However, ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2003-10-08)
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-13)What is the role of giving an adult steroids to prevent stridor or reintubation following extubation. This epidose looks at the data.
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(Oxford University Presshttp://www.oup.com/us/, 1991)Closed-ended questions dominate most interview schedules. Yet the almost exclusive use of this form did not arise because open-ended questions, its major competitor, proved to be weak indicators of public opinion. Instead, ...
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(Journal of Law and Economics, 2019)An estimated ten million American households borrow on payday loans each year. Despite the prevalence of these loans, little is known about the effects of access to this form of short-term, high-cost credit. We match ...
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(MDPI: Religions, 2017-07-27)Although numerous studies have shown that discrimination contributes to poorer mental health, the precise mechanisms underlying this association are not well understood. In this paper, we consider the possibility that ...
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(Journal of Political Economy, 1990)This paper uses a national survey of 3,119 individuals to examine the effect of lung cancer risk perceptions on smoking activity. Both smokers and nonsmokers greatly overestimate the lung cancer risk of cigarette smoking, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-02-01)The results of the CORTICUS trial are discussed.
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)We introduce the real exchange rate volatility curve as a useful device to understand the relationship between price stickiness and the fluctuations in Law of One Price deviations. In the presence of both nominal and real ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)In many locales, the average price of existing home sales is used as an of indicator home prices. This information is then used to establish the value of the property for tax purposes. A simple example is presented here ...
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(2021-12)Leadership in James Madison University College of Education (JMUCOE) and the Ole School Alumni Group feel that the college does not have as many faculty members of color as they would like. The root cause of this problem ...
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(2010-11-30)Department: Biological SciencesDNA polymerase ¦Á-primase (pol-prim) plays a central role in eukaryotic DNA replication, initiating synthesis on both the leading and lagging strand DNA templates. Pol-prim consists of a primase heterodimer that synthesizes ...
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(2012-12-14)Department: Community Research and ActionThis dissertation explores three broad questions related to data, theory, and policy on medical migration from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to the United States. How many SSA-born and SSA-trained physicians are currently ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyInternational migration of highly-skilled persons, commonly referred to as "brain drain", has long plagued the Global South. The phenomenon of brain drain has devastated the healthcare infrastructure of many source countries, ...
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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 ...