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(2008-04-04)Department: EconomicsMy dissertation empirically addresses some unanswered questions that have motivated much debate among banking practitioners, government lawmakers and economists by investigating two natural experiments provided by regulatory ...
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(2012-06-01)Department: EconomicsThe first chapter of my dissertation makes two main contributions to the econometrics literature on program evaluation. First, we show that under very mild conditions, a policy parameter, the local average treatment effect ...
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(2005-05-06)Department: EconomicsThe unprecedented integration of women into U.S. labor markets was one of the most significant economic and social changes of the Twentieth Century. Indeed, the transformation of legal and economic opportunities for women ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation consists of three papers related to the differences in power {power gap} and policy preferences {alignment gap} between states in the international system. The first paper considers the issue of moral ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation consists of three papers related to the differences in power {power gap} and policy preferences {alignment gap} between states in the international system. The first paper considers the issue of moral ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation consists of three papers related to the differences in power {power gap} and policy preferences {alignment gap} between states in the international system. The first paper considers the issue of moral ...
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(Christian Century, 2012)
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2001)The Court has struggled for well over a century with the issue of who has final authority to define what is a "crime" for purposes of applying procedural protections guaranteed by the Constitution in criminal cases. Just ...
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(Texas Law Review, 2014)Commercial parties commonly resolve their disputes in arbitration rather than courts. In fact, some estimate that as many as 90 percent of international commercial contracts opt for arbitration of future disputes, and ...
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Essential Roles of Convergence and Extension Gastrulation Movements in Zebrafish Somite Development (2007-02-27)Department: Biological SciencesDuring vertebrate gastrulation, massive cell movements shape the basic body plan. Key components of gastrulation are convergence and extension (C&E) movements, which narrow and lengthen the embryonic tissues, respectively. ...
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(Journal of Patient Experience, 2019-06)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-13)Current education practice puts little focus on conflict resolution strategies. This essay argues that, in light of the inevitability of conflict both in the classroom and in our society, teachers must teach students how ...
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(Atmosphere, 2019-07)Household air pollution (HAP) is of public health concern, with 3 billion people worldwide (including >15 million in the US) exposed. HAP from coal use is a human lung carcinogen, yet the epidemiological evidence on ...
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Estimates of the Prevalence of Speech and Motor Speech Disorders in Adolescents with Down syndrome (CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS, 2019-08)Although there is substantial rationale for a motor component in the speech of persons with Down syndrome (DS), there presently are no published estimates of the prevalence of subtypes of motor speech disorders in DS. The ...
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(Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2008)We estimate rates of time preference using a utility-based choice experiment administered to a nationally representative sample of 2,914 respondents. For the full sample, the rate of time preference is very high for ...
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(2020-06-05)Department: BiostatisticsMany scientific questions focus on estimating the correlation between two variables. When the two variables are times to events, one or both of the variables may be censored. For example, when estimating the correlation ...
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(Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 2019-09)Background: Patients with gastrointestinal cancers and brain metastases (BM) represent a unique and heterogeneous population. Our group previously published the Diagnosis-Specific Graded Prognostic Assessment (DS-GPA) for ...
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(Clinincal Epidemiology, 2020)Purpose: Mortality among first-year hemodialysis (HD) patients remains unacceptably high. To address this problem, we estimate the proportions of early HD deaths that are potentially preventable by modifying known risk ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2004)Recently Chen and Fan (2003a) introduced a new class of semiparametric copula-based multivariate dynamic (SCOMDY) models. A SCOMDY model specifies the conditional mean and the conditional variance of a multivariate time ...
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(2022-11-19)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe overarching goal of this dissertation is to improve robotic, minimally invasive surgery with image guidance and advanced sensing techniques. Both of these approaches can provide valuable information to a surgeon to ...