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(Vanderbilt University, 1980)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-24)Given the gravity of recent increasing eating disorder diagnoses, the amount of research dedicated to eating disorders and ethnicity/acculturation is insufficient. This study explores the differences in eating disorder ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-11-19)Current research shows a relationship between age and eating disorder diagnoses but does not fully understand how symptoms manifest at different stages of Life Span Development (LSD). To identify the difference of eating ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-10-12)
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(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2019-09-23)Background-Identification of occult diastolic dysfunction often requires invasive right heart catheterization with provocative maneuvers such as fluid challenge. Non-invasive predictors of occult diastolic dysfunction have ...
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(2015-02-09)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY Echoing Demystified Aspirations: Human Flourishing and the Dialectic of Happiness Patrick Joseph Ahern Dissertation under the direction of Idit Dobbs-Weinstein The question of the possibility or even the ...
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(Garland Pub., 1807-11)
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(2004-03-26)Department: PsychologyThe prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity in the United States is increasing at alarming rates and these rates vary between ethnicities. It was hypothesized that using an ecological model, childhood predictors leading ...
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(2010-12-10)Department: Community Research and ActionEmpirical investigations that examine mortgage default tend to frame studies with theory that emphasizes individual financial factors and minimizes ecological factors, which may influence defaulters' opinions of their homes ...
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(2010-05-10)Department: Biological SciencesEcological speciation is defined as the process by which reproductive isolation arises between populations as a result of ecologically based divergent selection between environments. Selection is ecological when individual ...
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(2006-09-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation employs high-frequency data and techniques to examine various topics in financial markets. Chapter 1 compares forward regression model with eight statistical/practical trading exchange rate models in terms ...
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(2019-07-10)Department: EconomicsStrategic interactions change the outcome and the duration of a trade agreement, but it is hard to estimate their effects. First, countries chose their partners in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) based on other countries’ ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-05)In the 1960s numerous cities in the United States experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. Although social scientists have long studied the causes of the riots, the consequences have received much less attention. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This chapter provides a survey of much of the recent theoretical analysis of products liability. We start by describing an idealized model and providing the specific economic assumptions which underpin it. Later sections ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation uses Python-based programming to retrieve and analyze a sample of approximately 400,000 material contracts that companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission between 2001 and 2013, focusing ...
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(Journal of Labor Economics, 1984)Contests are situations in which an individual's reward depends on his performance relative to others. Students are graded on a curve; the candidate with the most votes gets the political office; the un- derling who performs ...
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(Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996)Almost since the inception of the risk and environmental agencies in the early 1970s, there has been a continuing concern with ensuring that regulations yield societal benefits commensurate with their costs. This recognition ...
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(Texas Law Review, 2016)In the last four decades, the American middle class has been hollowed out, and fears are growing that economic inequality is leading to political inequality. These trends raise a troubling question: Can our constitutional ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)In this article, the optimal interest rate rule generated by Svennson's (1997) dynamic model is used to determine the impact that a number of key structural characteristics have on the downward flexibility of interest rates ...