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Showing 1 to 20 of 40127 for “"Applied"”.
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Applied Thermoelectric Solutions
Applied Thermoelectric Solutions (ATS) is a Nevada based company created to utilize thermoelectric devices in advancing and aiding automotive power systems in the effort to reduce oil dependencies and harmful emissions. Amidst economic and global crisis, the need for renewable energy is an ever …
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Applied Bayesian Networks
<p>A Bayesian Network is a stochastic graphical model that can be used to maintain and propagate conditional probability tables among its nodes. Here, we use a Bayesian Network to model results from a numerical riverine model. We develop an discretization optimization algorithm that improves …
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Creatively Applied Writing
Corporate communication and journalism.
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Applied stochastic eigen-analysis
… enumerated in closed form. The method is applied to predict the deterioration in the quality of the sample eigenvectors of large algebraic empirical covariance matrices due to sample size constraints.
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Existing literature demonstrates that peer age plays a crucial role in shaping student outcomes in elementary school. In the first chapter, I build on this literature by highlighting that differences in developmental rates between boys and girls likely lead to varying theoretical effects of peer …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
This dissertation has three chapters. In the first two chapters, I have studied the left-behind children issue in China. According to the latest statistics (2018 Ministry of Civil Affairs), there are 69.7 million children who are separated from their migrant worker parents and are receiving …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… consists of three chapters and covers topics in applied microeconomics broadly defined as health and labor. The precise topics are varied, with their unifying thread being that they are all related to marginalized or at-risk communities. The first chapter estimates the impact of Daylight Saving …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… as econometrics. Four of the essays are in the applied theory, while one is in the empirical tradition of applied economics. The first essay is concerned with the phenomenon of invormation avoidance. Several studies suggest that consumers do not always value more information about the product, …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
This dissertation broadly focuses on the role government should play in providing and financing education. The first chapter estimates the economic incidence of need-based student aid, one tool intended to ameliorate credit constraints in the market for higher education. The second chapter examines …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. The first chapter looks at whether the Social Security claiming behavior of husbands respond to the presence of Social Security spouse and survivor benefits paid to wives based on his earnings record. I separately estimate the …
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Essays on Applied Macroeconomics
Since its establishment in 1999, the Euro Area (EA) has experienced a series of economic shocks, including the global financial crisis in 2008, the sovereign debt crisis in 2012, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and, most recently, the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. In response, the ECB has expanded its …
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Master of Applied Epidemiology
This thesis examines four public health topics conducted at the Health Statistics and Informatics Branch, Department of Health in Darwin, Northern Territory (NT). The projects explored key health issues and services delivered across the Northern Territory (NT), with particular focus on primary …
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Master of Applied Epidemiology
This thesis examines four public health topics conducted at the Health Statistics and Informatics Branch, Department of Health in Darwin, Northern Territory (NT). The projects explored key health issues and services delivered across the Northern Territory (NT), with particular focus on primary …
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Essays on applied econometrics
… consists of three independent essays on applied econometrics. The first chapter extends the model averaging estimator (Hansen, 2007) to the time series scenario. To this end, I propose a Mallows model averaging autocorrelation corrected (MAC) estimator, in which the tapered estimator …
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Essays on Applied Economics
This is a compilation of three applied economic analyses. In the first analysis, college choice for a sample of students from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 who have expressed a desire to attend college is analyzed using a multinomial logit framework. For this select sample of …
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Essays in applied econometrics
This dissertation is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, I study the effects of texting and handheld cell phone bans on the traffic crash fatalities in the United States. In the second chapter, I analyze the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Value-at-Risk of the companies with …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
This dissertation is composed of two parts. In the first, I study a recent extension of the maternity leave mandate for public sector employees. In the second, I focus on the gender differential in housework hours and its evolution in the 2001-2009 period. For the maternity leave part, …
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