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Goebbels' Georgics
(Dept. of Classical Languages, St. Louis University, 2000) -
Going beyond Conflict: Secular Feminists, Islamists, and Gender Policy Reform
(2013-03-08)Today, most Muslim-majority countries must contend with two realities: Islamists’ increasing access to political participation on the one hand and domestic and international pressures for women’s rights on the other. This ... -
Going Over the Cliff: MOOC Dropout Behavior at Chapter Transition
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-01-02)Participants’ engagement in massive online open courses (MOOCs) is highly irregular and self-directed. It is well known in the field of television media that substantial parts of the audience tend to drop out at major ... -
Going Political: Labor, Institutions and Democratic Unrest in North Africa
(2016-08-24)Since the industrial revolution first united workers and politics, union activism has been a key driver of not only economic progress but also of political change. Where unions have engaged in significant political ... -
Going retro: Transposable elements, embryonic stem cells, and the mammalian placenta
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) -
Gold Standard Myths: Observations on the Experimental Turn in Quantitative Criminology
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2010) -
Gold(I)-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions for the Synthesis of Diverse Small Molecules Using the Build/Couple/Pair Strategy
(American Chemical Society, 2009)The build/couple/pair strategy has yielded small molecules with stereochemical and skeletal diversity by using short reaction sequences. Subsequent screening has shown that these compounds can achieve biological tasks ... -
Gold-Hyperdoped Germanium with Room-Temperature Sub-Band-Gap Optoelectronic Response
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Golden Calves: The Role of Dance in Opera
(Oxford University Press, 2006) -
Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting
(MIT Press, 1997)Hyperbolic discount functions induce dynamically inconsistent preferences, implying a motive for consumers to constrain their own future choices. This paper analyzes the decisions of a hyperbolic consumer who has access ... -
Golgi Localization and Functional Expression of Human Uridine Diphosphatase
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1998) -
Good advice costs nothing and it's worth the price: incentive compatible recommendation mechanisms for exploring unknown options
(2014-07-22)Recommender systems are valuable to their users to the extent that they have unique information about which options are best. One way that such a system can gain this knowledge is by recommending that a user explore an ... -
Good Clean Fun: Modernizing Toy Sanitation
(2022-06-03)Rapid spread of viral infections via contaminated surfaces is pervasive in crowded indoor places such as schools, day care centers, nursing homes, and hospitals [1]. Children under five suffer twice as many illnesses a ... -
Good Codons, Bad Transcript: Large Reductions in Gene Expression and Fitness Arising from Synonymous Mutations in a Key Enzyme
(Oxford University Press, 2012)Biased codon usage in protein-coding genes is pervasive, whereby amino acids are largely encoded by a specific subset of possible codons. Within individual genes, codon bias is stronger at evolutionarily conserved residues, ... -
Good Fooling: Modality and Linguistic Action in Shakespeare's Comedies
(2013-02-08)This dissertation examines the role of modal verbs and rhetoric in the creation of Shakespeare's comic action. I argue that by focusing on the characters' uses of language in these plays, we can recover a sense of subjectivity ... -
Good News for Value Stocks: Further Evidence on Market Efficiency
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1997)This paper examines the hypothesis that the superior return to so-called value stocks is the result of expectational errors made by investors. We study stock price reactions around earnings announcements for value and ... -
Good Practices For University Open-Access Policies (2013)
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The Good, the Bad and the Cunning: How Networks Make or Break Cooperation
(2012-07-19)Groups often find themselves in a position to self-govern: sometimes a formal governing apparatus is weak or nonexistent; sometimes the legal system is underdeveloped, heavily back-logged or inapplicable; and sometimes ... -
Good-Bye Lenin (Or Not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences
(American Economic Association, 2007)Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosity of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. This paper tests whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. ... -
Goodness and Desire
(Oxford University Press, 2010)