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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 ...
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(Florida State University Law Review, 2000)Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer's study, "The Government Litigant Advantage," sheds important light on how the Solicitor General's litigation behavior may impact the Supreme Court's decision making agenda and outcomes for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)Stress can impair one’s ability to effectively problem solve and think critically. This study tested the extent to which trait mindfulness moderated the relation between stress and executive control (EC). Participants ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white defendants. Why? Implicit bias is one possibility. Researchers, using a well-known measure called the implicit ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to assess whether understanding relational terminology (i.e., more, less, and fewer) mediates the effects of intervention on difference word problems. Second-grade teachers who volunteered to ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: Latin American StudiesUsing various forms of ethnographic methods including interviews, site visits, and participant observation, I examine how Afro-Brazilian entrepreneurs resist anti-blackness through their products, labor, and a process I ...
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(2008-04-28)Department: SociologyWhile music has long been studied sociologically, musicians themselves have tended to avoid scrutiny. Those sociologists who have studied musicians have tended to focus on their embodiment of genre ideals, or their work ...
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(Christian Century Foundation, 1998-02-24)
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(Christian Century, 1988)
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(2005-06-01)Department: EconomicsThis study contributes to the scarce empirical literature on dollarization by investigating the short and long-run effects of dollarization on the dynamics of prices at the macro and the micro level. This study also presents ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: BiochemistryReplication Protein A (RPA) is the primary eukaryotic ssDNA binding protein utilized in preventing secondary structure formation and re-annealing of unwound DNA strands, thereby controlling access to DNA templates in diverse ...
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(2006-06-05)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis dissertation proposes a novel approach, applicable in the design-time analysis and verification of computer-based systems. The proposed approach, platform modeling, constructs analysis models capturing the system's ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-09)Each year, thousands of abused Hispanic immigrant women struggle to balance their personal safety with competing goals such as family unity, financial security, and cultural loyalty. While domestic violence poses difficulties ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. ...