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Globalizing Social Finance: How Social Impact Bonds And Social Impact Performance Guarantees Can Scale Development, Deborah Burand

Articles

While the SIB structure is still in its infancy, there is momentum building to globalize this social finance innovation so that it can help scale development goals around the world. Taking the SIB global is not a simple matter, however. This article explores several of the more challenging issues that are likely to arise in applying a SIB or elements of the SIB structure to social problems and development goals in developing countries. The article begins with a summary review of the goals and structures used in the two earliest SIBs. It then discusses key challenges and opportunities that SIBs …

Robust Multivariate Regression, Hasthika S. Rupasinghe Arachchige Don

Research Papers

A robust multivariate linear regression estimator can be obtained by replacing the least squares estimator with the robust hbreg estimator. Then the robust multivariate linear regression estimator is asymptotically equivalent to the classical multivariate linear regression estimator since the probability that the robust estimator is equal to the classical estimator goes to one in probability as the sample size n tends to infinity for a large class of iid zero mean error distributions. This paper discusses the robust estimator and some tests using the robust estimator that are asymptotically equivalent to those using the classical estimator.

The Effects Of Focus Of Attention On Visual Skill Performance In A Patient Poulation, Leah Reynolds

Research Papers

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Sustainability Initiatives In The Workplace And Employee Productivity, Megan R. Nollman

Research Papers

Sustainability in the workplace has the potential to affect many aspects of an organization, including employee productivity. Sustainable designers, such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) professionals, claim that sustainability has numerous positive impacts in the workplace. These impacts include fewer employee sick days, increased building occupant satisfaction, and increased employee productivity. Researchers that have studied this claim have found that in many cases, sustainable initiatives and buildings have had a slight to profound positive effects on occupant satisfaction, attendance, and productivity. Lower levels of satisfaction for lighting and acoustics are common, though, because many sustainable workplaces use …

A Review And Research Suggestions For Empirical Approaches To Evaluating Reinforcing Effects Of Peer Attention Vs. Teacher Attention In The General Education Classroom, Shelley J. Green

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Behavior management in the general education classroom can be difficult at times for educators. Attention is one reinforcer of children's behavior in the classroom and the child's behavior may be maintained by teacher attention or peer attention. If attentions is implemented appropriately, peer or teacher attention may prove to be an effective reinforcer in maintaining appropriate behaviors in the classroom. Teacher attention is commonly used to maintain student performance (Broussard & Northup, 1997). Educators may not know which is more reinforcing to the typical student in the general education classroom - teacher attention or peer attention. However, evaluating the effectiveness …

Long Run Employment And Income Growth: A By Sector Analysis, Christopher Hooks

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Given today’s economic conditions it is becoming more essential to gain a better understanding of long run economic development in the US. This paper seeks to find economic sectors that show a significant impact on employment and income growth. This was done by estimating the elasticities for individual sectors (Manufacturing, Trade, Information, Business Services and Finance, Health and Education, and Other) and using a growth accounting approach to determine the contributions of labor for each. Over the sample period years (2001-11) it was found that business services and finance had the highest contribution to labor growth with an average annual …

United States Defense Spending 2001-2010: A Trend Analysis, Tyler Allen

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The Influence Of The Individual Mandate Provision Of The Affordable Care Act On Uninsured Patiends And Nonprofit Hospitals In Southern Illinois, Jeralynn C. Musgrave

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Models And Theories Of Addiction And The Rehabilitation Counselor, Nora J. See

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U.S. Public Pension Funding And State Growth Effects, Eric D. Lenz

Research Papers

AN ABSTRACT OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT OF

ERIC D LENZ, for the MASTER OF SCIENCE degree in ECONOMICS at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

TITLE: U.S. Public Pension Funding and State Growth Effects

MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. SCOTT GILBERT

Does U.S. state pension funding affect real GDP growth rates? Do states that witness higher GDP growth also have better funded pensions? Can one expect less GDP growth when state pensions are poorly funded? My study took the funding ratio of state pension plans, the asset-to-liability ratio, and compared it with real state GDP levels. The methods I used consisted of time series …

Vice And Race: Segregation In Kansas Cattle Towns, Rachel M. Wolters

Research Papers

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Most Effective Treatment Modules For Increasing Expressive Language In Children With Down Syndrome, Lacee R. Murphy

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"The Magna Carta Of Free Enterprise" Really?" , Daniel A. Crane

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In U.S. v. Topco Associates, Inc., Justice Thurgood Marshall announced that "[a] ntitrust laws in general, and the Sherman Act in particular, are the Magna Carta of free enterprise.", In The Antitrust Constitution, Thomas Nachbar takes seriously the idea that federal antitrust laws serve a constitutional function. He argues that, contrary to common assumptions, the antitrust laws cannot be understood merely as a form of economic utilitarianism. Rather, they serve the additional purpose of preventing "regulatory harm," the assertion of law-like control over the conduct of others outside the sphere of one's own property interests.

A Rejoinder To Professor Schauer's Commentary, Yale Kamisar

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It is quite a treat to have Professor Frederick Schauer comment on my Miranda article.1 Professor Schauer is a renowned authority on freedom of speech and the author of many thoughtful, probing articles in other areas as well, especially jurisprudence. I am pleased that in large measure, Schauer, too, laments the erosion of Miranda in the last four-and-a-half decades2 and that he, too, was unhappy with the pre-Miranda due process/“totality of circumstances”/“voluntariness” test.3 I also like what Schauer had to say about “prophylactic rules,” a term that has sometimes been used to disparage the Miranda rules.4 As Schauer observes, the …

The Difference A Justice May Make: Remarks At The Symposium For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Suzanne Baer

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First, I will briefly summarize the state of the art of equality law in Germany today. A distinct dimension of this story from a European Union member state is that we are not just theorizing postnational constitutionalism these days, but that we live it already, since law is not anymore isolated as national but needs to be seen in the context of transnational migration and multinational regimes. Second, I turn to a key feature and key challenge in and to equality law today. It is what I have called the triangle of fundamental rights, referring to the three most prominent …

Seven Strategies For Enabling Student Success In The First-Year Music Theory Sequence, Melissa Hoag

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy E-Journal 2013-2017

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Report To The Presidents Of Church Of Christ Affiliated Colleges And Universities, Trace S. Hebert

Annual Reports to the Presidents of Church of Christ Affiliated Colleges and Universities

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Backlog 2013, Lipscomb University

Backlogs and Other Yearbooks

The 2013 Backlog yearbook of Lipscomb University.

Surrogate Mothers: An Exploration Of The Empirical And The Normative, Lina Peng

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Queering International Human Rights: Lgbt Access To Domestic Violence Remedies, Natalie E. Serra

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Commission On Lawyer Assistance Programs Panel On Best Practices Engaging Law Schools, David Jaffe, Larry Dubin, Amy Timmer, Tish Vincent

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Losing Sight Of The Forest For The Trees: The Supreme Court's Misapplication Of Sixth Amendment Strickland Analysis In Missouri V. Frye And Lafler V. Cooper, Sean Michael Fitzgerald

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The “Federal Law Of Marriage”: Deference, Deviation, And Doma, W. Burlette Carter

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The Forgotten Remedy: A Legal And Theoretical Defense Of Intermediate Scrutiny For Gender-Based Affirmative Action Programs, Ajmel Quereshi

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Re-Problematizing Anger In Domestic Violence Advocacy, Deborah Cantrell

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Transgressions Of Inequality: The Struggle Finding Legal Protections Against Wrongful Employment Termination On The Basis Of The Transgender Identity, Anton Marino

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Situating Staley: Investigating The Constitutionality Of Forcibly Medicating A Texas Death Row Inmate To Render Him Competent For Execution, Megan A. Rusciano

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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"To A Hammer Everything Looks Like A Nail": The Supreme Court's . Misapplication Of The Vindication Of Rights Doctrine, Rebecca Wolf

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The Sky Didn’T Fall: The Meaning And Legal Effects Of The North Carolina Marriage Amendment, E. Gregory Wallace

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Reframing The Work-Family Conflict Debate By Rejecting The Ideal Parent Norm, Jennifer H. Sperling

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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