Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(W. Blackwood and T. Cadell., 1825)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)In November 2006, the authors collected data on blazars PKS 0537-441, PKS 0447-439, and PKS 0208-5121 from the Cerra Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. All three blazars are tested for microvariability, first ...
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(J. Hodges and J. Osborn, 1749)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This paper establishes that the bootstrap provides asymptotic refinements for the generalized method of moments estimator of overidentified linear models when autocorrelation structures of moment functions are unknown. ...
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(2015-04-23)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Empirical researchers commonly use instrumental variable (IV) assumptions to identify treatment effects. However, the credibility of these assumptions are often questionable. This paper considers what can be learned when ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)This paper explores the perpetuation of isolated labor markets in Texas border towns caused by Texas' relationship to and use of the Bracero Program, a temporary guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico. ...
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(2020)The authors of this essay (David Furbish, Douglas Jerolmack and Rachel Glade) offer an updated view of the state of affairs in the brickyard described in B. K. Forscher’s popular 1963 allegorical letter to Science, “Chaos ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)Piracy in the Caribbean can be segmented into five distinct overlapping eras, which this paper will examine: the French Corsairs, 1500-1559 the Elizabethans, 1558-1603 the Dutch Sea Rovers, 1570-1648 the Buccaneers ...
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(Garland Pub., 1823)
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(Garland Pub., 1824-07)
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(Garland Pub., 1807-10)
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(Garland Pub., 1813-12)
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) offers an account of the Mandate of Palestine strikingly divergent from the rest of British society. Through their ideology, the CPGB constructed a narrative of Palestinian issues ...
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Bsian (2015-04-23)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)For this study, I have chosen to concentrate on three historical novels from the nineteenth-century that are set in the medieval period: Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott; Maid Marian, a reworking of the Robin Hood legend by Thomas ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper, prepared for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, provides an overview of the economic issues arising in business-to-business (B2B) online commerce. Just as the industrial revolution mechanized firms' manufacturing ...
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(McGill University. Comparative Literature Program, 1988)
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(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1805-08-06)