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Do Password Managers Improve Password Hygiene?
(2022-12-24)Password managers purport to increase users' security by improving password hygiene: generating unique random passwords when users create new accounts, replacing users' weak and reused passwords, and determining which sites ... -
Do the Electrons and Ions in X‐Ray Clusters Share the Same Temperature?
(American Astronomical Society, 1997)The virialization shock around an X-ray cluster primarily heats the ions, since they carry most of the kinetic energy of the infalling gas. Subsequently, the ions share their thermal energy with the electrons through Coulomb ... -
Do Trade Partners Matter? Estimating the Impact of Peer Effects on Sectoral Innovation Within Global Value Chains
(2018-06-29)This paper is the first to employ social network analysis and peer-effects theory to investigate how knowledge spillovers occur through Global Value Chains. With data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) and the US ... -
Do Transmission Mechanisms or Social Systems Drive Cultural Dynamics in Socially Structured Populations?
(Elsevier, 2009)Cultural traits spread via multiple mechanisms among individuals within social groups, including via transmission biases that occur when subordinates copy from dominants (prestige transmission), or via common cultural trait ... -
Do treatment manuals undermine youth–therapist alliance in community clinical practice?
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2011)Objective: Some critics of treatment manuals have argued that their use may undermine the quality of the client–therapist alliance. This notion was tested in the context of youth psychotherapy delivered by therapists in ... -
Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?
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Do Young Children Understand Relative Value Comparisons?
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Many forms of judgments, such as those used in economic games or measures of social comparison, require understanding relative value, as well as the more complex ability to make comparisons between relative values. To ... -
Do Yourself a Favor: We Help Our Future Selves for the Same Reasons We Help Others
(2014-06-06)As humans we have a remarkable capacity to sacrifice for the future, and an equally remarkable capacity to shortchange it, leaving our future selves to pay the price. The research in this dissertation suggests that sacrifice ... -
Doctors and Credentials: The Roots of Uncertainty
(The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1984)Since 1870 the course of medical licensing in America has been complicated by a number of forces. Formal licencing and specialty certification have always followed rather than preceeded the trends they were meant to control. ... -
Doctors and the Dangers of Driving
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"The Doctors’ Choice Is America’s Choice”: The Physician in US Cigarette Advertisements, 1930-1953
(American Public Health Association, 2006)In the 1930s and 1940s, smoking became the norm for both men and women in the United States, and a majority of physicians smoked. At the same time, there was rising public anxiety about the health risks of cigarette smoking. ... -
Documenting Decline in U.S. Economic Mobility
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017-04-24)Economists and other social scientists have long studied intergenerational income mobility, but consistent data linking adult incomes of children and their parents at similar ages over many generations have been unavailable, ... -
Dodging the Question: Language, Politics, and the Life of a Kenyan Literary Magazine
(2014-02-25)This dissertation investigates the artistic and linguistic strategies employed by the Kenyan literary magazine Kwani? during a period of intense social and political upheaval. Between the peaceful end of Daniel Arap Moi's ... -
Does a two-element muscle model offer advantages when estimating ankle plantar flexor forces during human cycling?
(Elsevier BV, 2018-02)Traditional Hill-type muscle models, parameterized using high-quality experimental data, are often “too weak” to reproduce the joint torques generated by healthy adults during rapid, high force tasks. This study investigated ... -
Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Outperform Usual Care in Community Clinics? An Initial Effectiveness Test
(Elsevier BV, 2010)Objective: Most tests of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for youth anxiety disorders have shown beneficial effects, but these have been efficacy trials with recruited youths treated by researcher-employed therapists. ... -
Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior?
(American Economic Association, 2004)Explanations of unethical behavior often neglect the role of competition, as opposed to greed, in assuring its spread. Using the examples of child labor, corruption, "excessive" executive pay, corporate earnings manipulation, ... -
Does Evolutionary Psychology Show That Normativity Is Mind-Dependent?
(Oxford Scholarship Online, 2014)Suppose we grant that evolutionary forces have had a profound effect on the contours of our normative judgments and intuitions. Can we conclude anything from this about the correct metaethical theory? This chapter argues ... -
Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges
(American Economic Association, 2014)We use administrative data from five states to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the size of the for-profit higher education sector in the U.S. Our estimates include schools that are not currently eligible to ... -
Does Going Green Pay Dividends? The Impact of Firm Climate-Related Disclosures on Institutional Investor Behavior
(2023-06-30)In the climate finance space, firms and institutional investors are two major groups of players in the drive towards a potentially more sustainable future. As a result, firms are increasingly being pressured by investors ... -
Does Headedness Affect Processing? A New Look at the VO–OV Contrast
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)This paper examines the relationship between headedness and language processing and considers two strategies that potentially ease language comprehension and production. Both strategies allow a language to minimize the ...