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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"neighborhood effect"”.
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Examining the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) in people’s exposure to mobility-dependent environmental factors: A spatiotemporal modeling approach
The neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) is a major methodological problem that might affect the accuracy of assessments of individual exposure to mobility-dependent environmental factors, such as air/noise pollution, traffic congestion, green/blue spaces, healthy food environments, ethnic …
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Essays on Neighborhood Transition and Housing Markets
This dissertation presents new evidence on neighborhood transition and its impact on housing markets using a novel micro-level dataset on housing transactions. It focuses on three issues: the neighborhood effect, housing discrimination, and stable integration. The first essay examines the …
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Empirical Studies of Human Capital Formation: The Role of Family, Sibling, and Neighborhood
… These two types of transfer are sibling effect and neighborhood effect on children's education. Chapter 1 discusses the sibling effect on children's education, "Household Models and Formations of Human Capital with Sibling Effect in Iran." The neighborhood effect on children's education …
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Stress-induced remodeling of the caenorhabditis elegans dauer
… the goal of my dissertation is to identify effectors of IL2 dendritic morphology and determine how branching is differentially regulated between IL2 and FLP neurons. In Chapter 2, I describe the neuronal architecture of the FLPs, identify a neighborhood effect on IL2 and FLP dendrites, and …
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Economic incentives for adoption of alternative crops in the rainfed US
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Three Essays Analyzing the Impact of Community and Neighborhood Factors on Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Uganda
… understanding of the impact of the community and neighborhood in preventing violence against women, and how women who have been displaced from their communities may be at increased risk of violence. This three-paper dissertation utilized secondary data sources from two studies of IPV against women …
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Multi-Platform Molecular Data Integration and Disease Outcome Analysis
… reflects the biological downstream regulatory effect of the genomic variants on the mRNA expression levels of the target genes. Fast and efficient optimization principles like the coordinate descent and majorization-minimization are adopted in the inference process of the coefficients of the …