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International Balance of Payments Adjustment Under the Gold Standard
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Imperial Germany and the Politics of the International Gold Standard, 1834-1879
Thesis abstract redacted (under embargo).
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Gold Standard or Case-by-Case: Which Method Is Best for the Nonproliferation Regime?
… at the time of the nuclear contract. The gold standard policy method is a similar negotiation, with the additional caveat that the partnering country must give up its right to obtaining and creating indigenous nuclear fuel with these sensitive nuclear technologies. The advocates of the …
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The Rise Of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing As The Gold Standard In Psychology, 1940-55
… aim to disentangle how, and why, NHST became the gold standard of psychological statistics during this time.
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The Risks and Returns of Not Being on the Gold Standard: The Spanish Experience, 1880-1913
Therefore, the findings indicate that Spain pursued a low-risk, low-return policy path that allowed the country to maintain constant growth trend. This stability represented the low-risk side of the policy. The low-return, however, was the trade off in terms of the lower growth rate Spain …
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Zimbabwe dollarisation: short term gift, long term curse - reintroducing the Zimbabwe dollar using the gold standard
Historical analysis suggests that in the short to medium term, dollarization as a monetary policy measure, post a period of high inflation, reduces economic volatility, stabilises the inflation of goods and services, and restores economic predictability. However, in fully dollarized economics (as …
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Acute Cardiovascular Response and Perception of Effort Between the Super Slow and Gold Standard Resistance Training Protocols
… protocol (SS) and compare those measures to the "Gold Standard" slow resistance training protocol (GS). The elbow flexion and knee extension exercise were incorporated for this investigation. The subjects completed three separate testing sessions. Session 1 consisted of obtaining a 1 repetition …
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Evaluating Poverty Alleviation: Essays on Microfinance, Energy Access and Limits to the Gold Standard in Empirical Economics
In my dissertation, I combine topical contributions on microfinance and energy access, two prevalent poverty alleviation policies, with methodological contributions on how empirical economics research can contribute to effective policymaking. Chapter 1 reviews the existing experimental evidence on …
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Validation of a novel 2D motion analysis system to the gold standard in 3D motion analysis for calculation of sagittal plane kinematics
… based 2D motion analysis system (VOHM) to the 3D gold-standard. Ten participants (5 male, 5 female, mean age 23.3 ± SD2.8 years) with no history of gait disorders volunteered for this study. Participants were asked to walk at a self-selected speed until a minimum of 5 clean trials had been …
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How can I implement gold standard project based learning to engage and motivate mixed ability first class children in the writing process?
… Dias et al., 2017; Boss and Larmer, 2018). and Gold Standard Project-Based Learning (PBL), (Larmer et al. 2015) with first class students. PBL is very popular in the United States of America, however it is not as popular in England and Ireland. This study aims to investigate whether PBL can help …
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Evaluation of diagnostic advances in musculoskeletal tuberculosis; the automated xpert MTB/RIF assay
… TB and for rifampicin resistance against a gold standard of culture or histology. Site of disease, HIV status, and age of patients, and accuracy in spinal compared to extraspinal TB were investigated as secondary objectives. The overarching hypothesis was that Xpert is more accurate and …
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Validation of Criteria Used to Predict Warfarin Dosing Decisions
… between fingerstick (POC) devices and the standard laboratory, however these studies rely on mathematical formulas as criteria for clinical evaluations, i.e. clinical evaluation vs. precision and bias. Fourteen such criteria were found in the literature. There exists little consistency …
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Peer consistency evaluation in human computation
… using outputs of other workers without using gold standard answers. Despite its popularity, the reliability of peer consistency evaluation has never been systematically tested to show how it can be used as a general evaluation method in human computation systems. We present experimental …
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IMU-Integrated 'Smart' Knee Brace Validation Using Optoelectronic Motion Capture During Treadmill Walking
Optoelectronic motion capture systems are the gold standard for collecting kinematic data. However, these systems are expensive, occupy a large volume of space, and require training to operate. Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are small, portable devices that measure linear acceleration, angular …
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The Prevalence of Religious Service Attendance in America: A Review and Meta-Analysis
… services. Yet, recent research has called this “gold standard” into question, citing three sources of bias in these estimates: (a) ambiguous item wording, (b) an ambiguously specified time frame; and (c) data collection methods that lend themselves to socially desirable responding. Several lines …
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