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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.

  • 1565 results in Vassar Scholarship

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 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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The Web Weaved by Culture: Telehealth in Native America

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2014-January-01
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Telehealth, with its focus of addressing healthcare at a distance and being cost efficient, has been suggested to be a good fit in Native American communities. However, very little study has been done bridging the two; even less has been...

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Theater and Social Change: How Small-town U.S. Theaters Reproduce and Resist Inequality

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2014-January-01
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This thesis interrogates the social function of small-town theater in the United States. Through a series of interviews with theater artists working at regional and local theaters in the northeast United States, I demonstrate theater's capacity to both reproduce and...

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