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Essays on corporate law and economics
(2019-02-14)This dissertation focuses on how certain changes in the legal and institutional environment for publicly traded corporations in the United States have impacted shareholder wealth and firm performance. The first chapter ... -
Why belonging matters for college students’ academic engagement : antecedents and consequences of sense of classroom belonging
(2019-02-12)The purpose of this dissertation project was to explore the mechanisms through which sense of belonging affects academic engagement—behavioral, emotional, and cognitive—over time in varying college classroom situations. ... -
New syntheses in organofluorine chemistry
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Evaluation of stimuli along a hierarchy under additive and geometric progressive-ratio schedules
(2019-02-12)This study was primarily intended as a comparative investigation of the difference between participants' responses to a task under two progressive-ratio schedules (i.e., geometric and additive). Furthermore, the study ... -
Real time computed tomographic reconstruction
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Master's thesis recital (piano)
(2019-04-12)Moment musical, D. 780, op. 94, no. 4 / Franz Schubert -- Piano sonata no. 30 in E major, op. 109 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Four mazurkas, op. 33 ; Sonata in B minor, op. 58 / Frédéric Chopin. -
Doctoral thesis recital (piano)
(2019-04-12)Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs : op. 20 / Béla Bartók -- Piano sonata no. 30 in E major, op. 109 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Piano sonata in B minor, S. 178 / Franz Liszt. -
Master's thesis recital (clarinet)
(2019-04-11)Sonata for clarinet and piano / Francis Poulenc -- Trio suite for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. III., Sarabande / Nöel-Gallon --Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 120 no. 1 in F minor / Johannes Brahms -- Fantasy on themes ... -
Bringing modular concurrency control to the next level
(2019-02-14)Database users face a tension between ease-of-programming and high performance: ACID transactions can greatly simplify the programming effort of database applications by providing four useful properties—atomicity, consistency, ... -
Ultimate attainment of tense/aspectual contrasts in L2 Spanish
(2007-12-22)This paper considers the difficulty of L1 English speakers in learning the Spanish past tense/aspectual contrasts and addresses the question of their ultimate attainment of the same. The concepts of tense/aspect are defined ... -
Electron transport in doped semiconductor nanocrystals
(2019-02-11)Electron transport through semiconductor nanocrystal (NC) systems is almost entirely understood by analogs to bulk science. The physics governing electron transport within NCs is entirely analogous to bulk semiconductors ... -
Do analysts improve on managers’ voluntary ETR forecasts?
(2019-02-11)This study examines whether analysts improve on managers’ voluntary annual effective tax rate (ETR) forecasts. Although managers frequently issue voluntary ETR forecasts, we know little about how analysts use this information. ... -
Doctoral thesis recital (collaborative piano)
(2019-04-21)“Madamigella Valery” from La Traviata / Giuseppe Verdi (with Lee Hyun Song, soprano, and Taehwan Kim, baritone) -- Sonata no. 3 for violin and piano in C minor, op. 45 / Edvard Grieg (with Hoigum Park, violin) -- Sonata ... -
Doctoral thesis recital (bassoon) chamber
(2019-04-18)Fantasy etudes for bassoon and percussion / Verne Reynolds (with Cindy Willis, percussion) -- Trio for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon / Heitor Villa-Lobos (with Amanda Talley, oboe, and Tim Yung, clarinet) -- Der todte Fagott ... -
The two membranes problem for fully nonlinear local and nonlocal operators
(2019-02-11)We study the Two Membranes Problem for fully nonlinear operators both in the local (second order) and nonlocal setting. The problem arises when studying a “bid an ask” model in mathematical finance where some asset has a ... -
A data-driven methodology for prioritizing traffic signal retiming operations
Signal retiming is one of the chief responsibilities of municipal transportation agencies and is an important means for reducing congestion and improving transportation quality and reliability. Many agencies conduct signal ...
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