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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Levine"”.
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Three Essays in Macroeconometrics
… nite mixture models to extract information from Levine 's (2002) cross-country database and reconsider the relationship between nancial structure and long-run economic growth. Our methods, based on statistical similarities and multi-dimensional structures, al- low for parameter heterogeneity …
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Financial intermediation and economic performance in Zimbabwe
… with potential to inform debate. The works of Levine (1997, 1998) LaPorta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny (1997, 1998, 2000), Beck, Levine and Loayza (2000), Kane (1981, 1983, 2000) Jensen and Meckling (1976) and Stiglitz (1989) give considerable prominence to governance and …
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Fluctuations and mixing for planar random growth
… and boundary fluctuations are found by Jerison, Levine and Sheffield (2014) to arise in a different growth model, namely Internal Diffusion Limited Aggregation (IDLA). According to this discrete model, the aggregation process defines a Markov Chain on the infinite space of IDLA configurations, …
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Witt Rings and Algebraic Knot Concordance
… rather than the topological setting.In 1969, Levine classified higher dimensional analogues of concordance and provided great insight into the classical version mentioned above. His scheme allows tools developed in the purely algebraic setting of the theory of symmetric bilinear forms …
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Asymptotic behavior of the solutions to a family of PDE's arising from the chemotaxis equations of Keller and Segal
… analyze the global case and those of Halverson, Levine, and Renclawowicz [Siam J. Appl. Math., 65 (2004), pp. 336--360; 66 (2005), pp. 361--364] to analyze the finite time blowup case. Some numerical results are provided to back up the analysis. Some questions and directions for future study are …
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The schoolwide implementation of Schools Attuned, a professional development program dedicated to meeting the needs of diverse learners
… Attuned, based on 30 years of work by Dr. Mel Levine, had offered new methods for recognizing, understanding, and managing students with differences in learning. Parkview Elementary School in Westville, New Jersey adopted the Schools Attuned program in order to fulfill the expectations that …
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Mathematical modelling of autophagy pathway.
… diseases [Cuervo, 2004; Kondo et al., 2005; Levine, 2007; Pan et al., 2008]. Autophagy is the pathway for degradation of redundant or faulty cell components. This important mechanism occurs in all eukaryotic cells as a part of cell’s everyday activities and plays an important role in cell …
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Sage Illusionists: A Historical Study Using Illusionists as a Reflection of Mass Entertainment, Popular Culture, anf Change During the Late Nineteenth Century
… race, and gender. Historians, like Lawrence Levine, have produced a number of historical studies in regards to performance art, mass entertainment, and the historical implications represented in entertainment. Previous studies of magicians during the time period have been primarily …
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Growth Breaks: A Qualitative Study of Exceptional Growth
… and different econometric modeling techniques. Levine and Renelt’s (1992) findings of fragility in cross-country growth regressions are validated. Updating and using a different econometric modeling technique finds investment to be robust for economic growth. This dissertation also builds off of …
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Factors affecting the activation of predictive inferences
… material is present (Klin, Guzaman, & Levine, 1999b). The experiments in this dissertation were designed to explore both how and why distracting material influences the availability of predictive inferences.</p><p>Participants were presented with passages containing either a neutral …
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Modeling Diversity Management Practices in Corporate Ethics: The Spillover Effect
… Bezrukova, Ely, Jackson, Joshi, Jehn, Leonard, Levine, & Thomas, 2003; Murphy, 2001). This study seeks to contribute to knowledge in these two areas by assessing whether diversity’s contributions to firm performance are maximized through its effects on the firm’s ethical processes. Using data …
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(Strongly) zero-dimensional ordered spaces
… [1957], and was later investigated by Levine [1969]. The theory of transitive quasi-uniform spaces is treated in [Fletcher and Lindgren 1972], [Brummer 1984] and [Kiinzi 1990, 1992a, 1992b,1993]; a convenient presentation for our purpose is to be found in [Fletcher and Lindgren 1982]. …
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Theoretical and Empirical Contributions to Monetary Policy Analysis
… state. Using a two-stage approach developed by Levine, McAdam, and Pearlman (2007), I show that in the presence of backward looking firms, the central planner improves social welfare when it allows for a steady state rate of inflation marginally above zero. In the second chapter, I estimate a …
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Episodic Detail Production and Semantic Coherence in Down Syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome: Longitudinal Findings from Expressive Language Sampling
… the Autobiographical Interview (AI) framework (Levine et al., 2002), and narrative coherence was assessed using Semantic Distance (SemDis), a computational measure of conceptual relatedness (Beaty & Johnson, 2021). Multilevel models evaluated whether diagnostic group, expressive language, …
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Financial development and economic growth: evidence from Lesotho, 1981 - 2022
… the endogenous growth model proposed by King and Levine (1993). The study utilizes the This research explores the significant impact of financial development on Lesotho's economic growth over the period 1981–2022, employing a methodology inspired by the endogenous growth model proposed by King and …
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The mythical speech of Janine Antoni
… three postmodern female artists: Sherrie Levine (b. 1947), Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) and Marina Abramovic (b. 1946). This approach establishes historical precedents of feminist art of the 20th century and attempts to reveal the various ways in which the semiological system of myth is able to …
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The Effects of Exposure to Images of the Male Muscular Ideal on Body Image and Muscularity Concerns in Men
… body-image and mood state post-exposure (Groesz, Levine & Mumen, 2002). The present study employed images of competitive bodybuilders and average men shown to men who worked out regularly (n=33) and men who did not (n=32). Measures of mood state (Profile of Mood States; McNair, Lorr & Droppleman, …
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Role of cortisol in social and memory impairments in individuals with velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS)
… in related populations (Corbett, Schupp, Levine, & Mendoza, 2009). This study investigated the role that cortisol has on the social and cognitive impairments observed in children with VCFS. To this end, 11 children with confirmed VCFS were assessed for baseline cortisol levels and received …
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Small businesses and job creation in South Africa
… (Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, and Ross Levine, 2003: 2; Beck et al. 2003: 1). Empirically there are ample success stories emanating from China, Pakistan, Brazil just to mention a few, showing a fairly similar trajectory of increased economic participation by small businesses resulting in …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… scholars such as Gillian Beer and George Levine have established ties between developments in the natural sciences and the scope of the nineteenth-century novel, there has not been a sustained effort to attend to the narrative structures of the primary texts that most influenced …
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