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Closed-end fund discounts and interest rates: positive covariance in US data after 1985

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2005-September-01
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Previous papers find no relationship between interest rates and the discounts of US closed-end funds before 1985. This is taken as evidence against management fees being a cause of discounts because a negative relationship is expected: if interest rates rise...

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Coalition for Abolition: Strategic Alliances and Antiprison Activism in California's Central Valley

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2013-January-01
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There are currently over 3 million people locked behind bars in United States prisons, jails, and detention centers. In this era of mass incarceration, prison abolitionists envision a world entirely without prisons. The politics of abolition are complex, and the...

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Coalition Power in Epistemic Transition Systems

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2017-January-01
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The paper proposes a bimodal logic that describes an interplay between coalition strategies and distributed knowledge. Unlike the existing literature, the paper assumes that a strategy must be not only executable but also verifiable. That is, the strategy of a...

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Cody, Gabrielle | Oral History: April 26, 2013

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2013-04-26
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Currently professor, Performance Studies. Studied Performance Studies in college. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."

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Cody, Gabrielle H. | Interview commentary

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May 20, 2013
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Cody, Gabrielle H. | Interview transcript

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May 20, 2013
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Coffin, Gertrude (Burleigh). Scrapbook, 1896-1901

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Coffin, Gertrude (Burleigh). Scrapbook, 1896-1901
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1896-1901
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Col. Timothy Pickering - The Six Nations, 1791 Apr 17: . .

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1791-04-17
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Col. Timothy Pickering | to Jasper Parrish, 1790 Oct 30: . .

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1790-10-30
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Col. Timothy Pickering | to Jasper Parrish, 1791 Apr 18

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1791-04-18
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Col. Timothy Pickering | to Jasper Parrish, 1791 May 9

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1791-05-09
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Col. Timothy Pickering | to Jasper Parrish, 1792 Apr 29

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1792-04-29
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Cole, Elizabeth (Curtis) — to Mattie, June 15, 1870

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15 June 1870
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Cole, Elizabeth (Curtis). Letter, 1870

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1 letter, dated June 15 1870, from Cole (VC 1870) to her friend "Mattie." Cole invites Mattie to Class Day at Vassar College and instructs her on how to meet Cole and find a seat. She also encloses an invitation to the Class Day exercises on June 21st, 1870. The letter and invitation are stamped

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College-aged women on Instagram: an analysis of gender and social media

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2017-January-01
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Through an analysis of gender and image theory as well as data gathered through survey, coding and interviews, I sought to explore how twenty-first century women both perform femininity through social media and challenge gendered stereotypes while doing so. I...

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