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Financial contributions to global surgery: an analysis of 160 international charitable organizations
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)Background: The non-profit and volunteer sector has made notable contributions to delivering surgical services in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). As an estimated 55 % of surgical care delivered in some LMICs is ... -
Financial Crash, Commodity Prices, and Global Imbalances
(Brookings Institution, 2008)The current financial crisis has its origins in global asset scarcity, which led to large capital flows toward the United States and to the creation of asset bubbles that eventually burst. In its first phase the crash ... -
Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes, and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s
(Elsevier, 2002)We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995–96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and ... -
Financial Development and the Instability of Open Economies
(Elsevier, 2004)This paper introduces a framework for analyzing the role of financial factors as a source of instability in small open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic open economy model with a tradeable good produced with capital ... -
Financial Flow Variables and the Short-Run Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates
(University of Chicago Press, 1977)Because transactions costs are smaller for allocating new cash flows than for reallocating existing asset holdings, financial flow variables are important determinants of investors' short-run asset demands. The demand-for-bonds ... -
Financial Incentives in Health Care Reform: Evaluating Payment Reform in Accountable Care Organizations and Competitive Bidding in Medicare
(2013-02-25)Amidst mounting federal debt, slowing the growth of health care spending is one of the nation’s top domestic priorities. This dissertation evaluates three current policy ideas: (1) global payment within an accountable care ... -
Financial Markets’ Behavior Around Episodes of Large Changes in the Fiscal Stance
(Elsevier, 2009)Using a panel of OECD countries from 1960 to 2002, this paper shows that interest rates, particularly those of long-term government bonds, decrease when countries’ fiscal position improves and increase around periods of ... -
Financing entrepreneurship by risk capital - evidence revisited
(Inderscience Publishers, 2017)This paper summarises the large body of literature dedicated to risk capital within entrepreneurship. This work attempts to advance this field of research and identifies crucial research prospects by examining and evaluating ... -
Financing for climate change
(Elsevier BV, 2012)This paper argues that the 2009 pledge of $100 billion in 2020 by rich countries for mitigation and adaptation should not be used for mitigation by commercial firms in developing countries, since that would artificially ... -
Finding and building algebraic structures in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces for quantum computation and quantum information
(2023-05-08)In this dissertation, we investigate algebraic structures in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, as concerns quantum computation and quantum information, as well as these structures' applications to lattices. On the quantum ... -
Finding Better Methods for Manufacturing High-Stress Systems: An Investigation in Guitar Making
(2015-06-26)Laminated composites have been integrated into the structural framework of some folding robots in order to simplify the fabrication technique of those robots. The laminates are useful building blocks particularly because ... -
Finding Cis-Regulatory Regions in Long Noncoding RNA Loci
(2018-04-18)We currently understand very little about how the genome functions. Up to 80% of the genome is transcribed, but much of biology focuses on the ~1-5% that codes for proteins. This narrow focus leaves many newly cataloged ... -
Finding core-collapse supernovae from the epoch of reionization behind cluster lenses
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Current surveys are underway to utilize gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters with Einstein radii > 35 arcsec in the search for the highest redshift galaxies. Associated supernovae from the epoch of reionization would ... -
Finding Group Interactions in Social Clutter
(2013)We consider the problem of finding distinctive social interactions involving groups of agents embedded in larger social gatherings. Given a pre-defined gallery of short exemplar interaction videos, and a long input video ... -
Finding Large Selmer Rank via an Arithmetic Theory of Local Constants
(Princeton University, 2007)We obtain lower bounds for Selmer ranks of elliptic curves over dihedral extensions of number fields. Suppose \(K∕k\) is a quadratic extension of number fields, \(E\) is an elliptic curve defined over k,and p is an odd ... -
Finding long chains in kidney exchange using the traveling salesman problem
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015)There are currently more than 100,000 patients on the waiting list in the United States for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. To address this shortage, kidney exchange programs allow patients with living incompatible ... -
Finding Low-Energy Conformations of Lattice Protein Models by Quantum Annealing
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)Lattice protein folding models are a cornerstone of computational biophysics. Although these models are a coarse grained representation, they provide useful insight into the energy landscape of natural proteins. Finding ... -
Finding Meaning in Error Terms
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Finding Nash and Earning Cash: Applications of Iterated Dominance to Reporting GPAs on Resumes
(2016-06-30)This paper attempts to determine the extent to which job applicants round their grade point averages ("GPAs") on their resumes in a way that is a best response to the strategy of a rational employer. It begins by proving ...