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Existence of positive solutions to singular right focal boundary value problems.
(Orlando, FL : International Publications., 2005-05)In this dissetation, we seek positive solutions for the n^th order ordinary differential equation, y^(n)=f(x,y), satisfying the right focal boundary conditions, y^(i)(0)=y^(n-2)(p)=y^(n-1)(1)=0, i=0,...,n-3, where p is a ... -
Global Patent Protection: Channels of North & South Welfare Gain
(2005-08-13)Much of the dynamic literature on intellectual property protection (IPP) arrays goods along a segment of the real line, one endpoint of which expands with innovation. A single margin of innovation brings computational ... -
Existence of Equilibriuim in Welfare-enhancing Free Trade Areas
(2005-08-13)Proving the existence of equilibrium having specified properties is often synonymous with proving the result in trade theory. The Grandmont-McFadden proposition that any autarkic allocation can be replaced by a Pareto ... -
Does Consumer Search Matter for Firm Markups?
(2005-08-13)This study investigates the relationship between consumer search costs, inflation, and firm markups in retail trade by employing actual measures of search cost. Consistent with theory, results indicate that markups can be ... -
Do We Really Understand Home Ownership Rates? An International Study
(2005-08-13)This paper attempts to fill two gaps in the homeownership literature identified by Dietz and Haurin (2003): homeownership in less developed countries and the effects of race, ethnicity and income on tenure choice. We use ... -
Religious Pluralism and Religious Adherence in U.S. Counties: Assessing the Reassessment
(2005-08-13)We conduct an empirical test of the relationship between religious pluralism and religious participation in U.S. counties using a fixed-effects panel estimation technique. The empirical technique allows us to control for ... -
Unemployment Duration under Wrongful Discharge Law
(2005-08-13)In the 1970’s and 1980’s, courts in most U.S. states adopted some type of common law wrongful discharge cause of action. The various causes of action for wrongful discharge are generally placed into three categories: public ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...