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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.

  • 1569 results in Vassar Scholarship

The Strategy of Explanations

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2015-January-01
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To better understand the strategic aspects of human decision-making, we conduct a power-to-take game in which takers are required to send messages explaining their actions to receivers. We vary the types and timing of information takers have available to them...

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The supply of labor to full-time and part-time nursing

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1995-May-01
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A model incorporating a discrete full-time/part-time/do not work labor choice and decomposing labor supply into its full-time and part-time components was used to examine the increase in labor supplied by nurses (the increase per nurse on average) over the 1977-88...

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The Under-Earth Glossary

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2025-April-30
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Under-earth exists to be a teaching resource, to feed the revolutionary, radical,
more-than-political consciousness. Concerned with the inner life of the word and the
possibilities it can offer us, the under-earth glossary uses language as material to
establish fertile ground...

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The United States Education System and Intergenerational Income Mobility

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2015-January-01
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This study intends to determine some of the avenues through which parent income affects child income and if the public education system has the potential to increase income mobility and equalize economic opportunity. I find that the income elasticity between...

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The value of certainty in intellectual property rights: stock market reactions to patent litigation

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2005-November-15
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Using a sample of patents litigated between 1977 and 1997, I estimate stock market reactions to patent litigation decisions and to patent grants. I find that the resolution of uncertainty over validity and infringement is worth as much to the...

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The Voice: Humanity's Unique Medium

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2024-April-19
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This thesis is an exploration and analysis of the human voice in the context of our current technological landscape. Through technologies such as music-based vocal pitch correction (AutoTune, Melodyne), and vocal synthesis (VOCALOID, SynthesizerV, Emvoice) the voice is seen as...

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