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Culture and Institutions
(American Economic Association, 2015)A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its ... -
Culture and Interdiscursivity in Korean Fricative Voice Gestures
(Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing), 2011)This paper explores the cultural significance of a type of audible gesture in Korean speech that I call the Fricative Voice Gesture (FVG). I distinguish between two forms of this gesture: the reactive FVG, which serves as ... -
Culture Matters: The Ties that Bind U.S.-Japan Relations
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Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Japanese Army, 1860-1931
(2015-05-14)Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for following their superiors to certain death. Their enemies in the Pacific War perceived their obedience as blind, and derided them as “cattle”. Yet the Japanese Army was arguably ... -
A Culture of Objects: Italy's Quest for Modernity (1878-1922)
(2013-02-21)This study focuses on Italy's transition to industrial modernity (in the years from the end of the Risorgimento to the rise of Fascism) from the perspective of some of its iconic objects: wristwatches, bicycles, cigarettes, ... -
Culture of Remembrance in Late Chosŏn Korea: Bringing an Unknown War Hero Back into History
(George Mason University, 2010)Numerous scholarly works have been produced on “memory projects” as the culture and politics of nation-states in the modern world. Yet remaking of the past is not the monopoly of modernity. This paper investigates the ... -
Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations
(SAGE Publications, 2011)This article examines the interplay of culture, cognition, and social networks in organizations with norms that emphasize cross-boundary collaboration. In such settings, social desirability concerns can induce a disparity ... -
Cultures of authority in the long twelfth century
(University of Illinois Press, 2009)Ancient and medieval usages of the Latin noun auctoritas display an intrac tability that induced one lexicographer not fifty years ago to warn bluntly against trying even to translate it: The word auctoritas belongs to ... -
Cum privilegio: Licensing of the Press Act of 1662
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Cumulative Dynamics and Strategic Assessment: U.S. Military Decision Making in Iraq, Vietnam, and the American Indian Wars
(2013-09-18)This dissertation examines why military decision makers struggle to evaluate their policies and why they often stick to unsuccessful strategies for so long. The core argument is that strategic assessment involves genuine ... -
Cumulative effect of multi-exposures on complex traits and diseases: derivation and applications of the polyexposure risk score
(2022-05-12)Human diseases and traits are influenced by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Genetic risk scores, which reflect the aggregate genetic predisposition from many markers across the genome, are being developed ... -
Cumulative neutrino background from quasar-driven outflows
(IOP Publishing, 2016-12-06)Quasar-driven outflows naturally account for the missing component of the extragalactic γ-ray background through neutral pion production in interactions between protons accelerated by the forward outflow shock and interstellar ... -
The Cumulative Semantic Cost Does Not Reflect Lexical Selection By Competition
(Elsevier, 2010)The cumulative semantic cost describes a phenomenon in which picture naming latencies increase monotonically with each additional within-category item that is named in a sequence of pictures. Here we test whether the ... -
Curculio Curculis lupus: biology, behavior and morphology of immatures of the cannibal weevil Anchylorhynchus eriospathae G. G. Bondar, 1943
(PeerJ, 2014-03-31)Weevils are one of the largest groups of living organisms, with more than 60,000 species feeding mostly on plants. With only one exception, their described larvae are typical plant-feeders, with mouthparts adapted to chewing ... -
Curieux, curieusement, curiosité
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Curiosity Killed the Cat, but Makes Crowdwork Better
(2016)Crowdsourcing systems are designed to elicit help from humans to accomplish tasks that are still difficult for computers. How to motivate workers to stay longer and/or perform better in crowdsourcing systems is a critical ... -
The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2005)James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate ... -
Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-through
(American Economic Association, 2010)In the open economy macro literature with nominal rigidities, the currency in which goods are priced has important implications for optimal monetary and exchange rate policy and for exchange rate pass-through. We show, ... -
Currency Crises and Monetary Policy in an Economy with Credit Constraints
(Elsevier, 2001)This paper presents a simple model of currency crises which is driven by the interplay between the credit constraints of private domestic firms and the existence of nominal price rigidities. The possibility of multiple ... -
Currency Unions
(MIT Press, 2002)Common currencies affect trading costs and, thereby, the amounts of trade, output, and consumption. From the perspective of monetary policy, the adoption of another country's currency trades off the benefits of commitment ...