Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Automatic control: the vertebral column of dogfish sharks behaves as a continuously variable transmission with smoothly shifting functions

Publication Date
2016-July-07
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During swimming in dogfish sharks, Squalus acanthias, both the intervertebral joints and the vertebral centra undergo significant strain. To investigate this system, unique among vertebrates, we cyclically bent isolated segments of 10 vertebrae and nine joints….

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The effect of union coverage on workers’ economic security and resilience to shocks

Publication Date
2022-May-02
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Labor unions have been widely documented as powerful institutions for workers
seeking better compensation and working conditions in their employment. However, there has been relatively little research on whether the benefits that come with
union coverage can displace the need...

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The income redistribution impact of financing higher education in Pakistan

Publication Date
1989-November-01
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This study examines the income redistributional consequences of the public financing of higher education in Pakistan. The results show that the tax incidence and the subsidy to higher education entail a redistribution from the middle and upper to the lower...

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