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Religious Freedom and State Religion in an Interational Panel
(2005-08-13)This paper explores the determinants and implications of church-state relationships. A theoretical model of a government’s decision to establish, or disestablish, a state church is developed and then tested with data from ... -
Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Plans, and Promoting Progress
(2005-08-13)Monopoly response to buyers who pay fraction c of the product cost is to raise the buyer price for the initial quantity q0 from p0 to 1/c p0, and adjust to a different price and quantity only if profits are thereby raised ... -
Openness, the Sacrifice Ratio, and Inflation: Is there a Puzzle?
(2005-08-13)The standard time-inconsistency-based explanation for the negative correlation between openness and inflation requires an inverse relationship between the sacrifice ratio and openness, but Daniels et al. (forthcoming) ... -
Openness, Central Wage Bargaining, and Inflation
(2005-08-13)This paper develops a model of an open economy containing both sectors in which wages are market-determined and sectors with wage-setting arrangements. A portion of the latter group of sectors coordinate their wages, ... -
Capital Regulation, Heterogeneous Monitoring Costs, and Aggregate Loan Quality
(2005-08-13)This paper develops a banking-sector framework with heterogeneous loan monitoring costs. Banks are exposed to the moral hazard behavior of borrowers and endogenously choose whether to monitor their loans to eliminate this ... -
Within-child Associations between Changes in Family Income and Changes in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems
(2005-08-13)Within-child associations between family income and child externalizing and internalizing problems were examined using longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,132). Variations ... -
High-performance liquid chromatographic methods for quantitative assessment of degradation products and extractives in pretreated lignocellulose.
(Amsterdam : Elsevier B. V.Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society., 2006)Long-term economic, national security, and environmental concerns have motivated research into renewable fuels from lignocellulosic biomass. Among energy alternatives, biomass-derived ethanol represents one of the more ... -
Reading Dreams: An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew
(Perspectives in Religious Studies., 2006)This dissertation seeks to read the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of ... -
Between reality and mystery: food as fact and symbol in plays by Ibsen and Churchill.
(2006)In Henrik Ibsen's and Caryl Churchill's plays, food is both fact and symbol, a reminder of both the shared physicality of the actors and spectators and of an equally powerful human desire for symbolic significance. This ... -
The response of riparian vegetation to PL-566 flood control structures.
(Baylor University, 2006)In this study, the response of riparian trees to increased stream water availability due to hydrologic alteration by PL-566 dams was investigated through three successive studies. To determine site water balance within a ... -
Dynamics of a Dust Crystal with Two Different Size Dust Species
(Advances in Space Research, 2006)A self-consistent 3D model for a complex (dusty) plasma is used to study the effects of multiple-sized dust grains in a dust crystal. In addition to the interparticle forces, which interact through a Yukawa potential, the ... -
Effect of Multi-Sized Dust Distribution on Local Plasma Sheath Potentials
(Advances in Space Research, 2006)This work investigates the modification of a plasma sheath in a complex plasma due to the presence of dust particles with a specified size distribution. A self-consistent model for the plasma sheath is combined with a ... -
Virtues, divine commands, and the debt of creation: towards a Kierkegaardian Christian ethic.
(Southwestern Philosophical Society, 2006-01)Though Kierkegaard's ethic in "Works of Love" frequently has been a target of harsh — and often uncharitable — criticism, a number of recent treatments have sought to defend both its viability and its relevance to the ... -
Evolving a Disjunctive Predator Prey Swarm using PSO: Adapting Swarms with Swarms
(2006-02-15)Swarm Intelligence is the study of "the emergent collective intelligence of groups of simple agents." Recent research has explored the important applications in the field of business, telecommunications, robotics and ... -
Unique fragmentation of pentafluorobenzylic alcohols and the use of modified injection port liners in the gas chromatographic-based screening for catalytic activity.
(2006-02-16)An unprecedented reaction, the base-catalyzed fragmentation of pentafluorobenzylic alcohols, was investigated. Studies on a variety of C6F5-derived alcohols show that a dual reaction pathway occurs in mixed solvent systems ... -
Effects of hind limb unweighting on the expression of physiological markers of muscle atrophy and myofibrillar protein content in the soleus and extensor digitorum longus of Sprague-Dawley rats.
(2006-04-19)The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of hind limb unweighting on the expression of physiological markers of muscle atrophy and myofibrillar protein content in the soleus (SOL) and extensor digitorum ... -
Relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and socio-cultural adjustment of international graduate students and American graduate students.
(2006-04-19)There are many benefits to the presence of international students on American campuses such as increase in diversity and economic contribution (AEC, 2000). However, many international students struggle with adjusting to ... -
Do actors or observers make better eyewitnesses?
(2006-04-19)Researchers studying the reliability of eyewitness testimony have focused mainly on criminal rather than civil cases, specifically those including product identification and liability. With numerous lawsuits against product ... -
The affects of a middle grades teacher education program on preservice teachers choice of teaching strategies and mathematical understanding.
(2006-04-19)This study investigated how mathematical knowledge, mathematics pedagogy, and knowledge of students' understanding in mathematics impacted middle grades preservice mathematics teachers' lesson planning and teaching strategies ... -
The Accelerated Reader program and students' attitude towards reading.
(2006-04-24)This study explores the relationship between the use of the Accelerated Reader Program, a computerized reading management program marketed by Advantage Learning Systems, Inc., and student's attitudes towards reading while ...