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Integrating Medicare and Medicaid Healthcare Delivery and Reimbursement Policies for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: A Cost-Efficiency Analysis of Managed Care

Zhang, Kan (2012-04-16)

This paper examines the role of Managed Care in reducing inefficiencies in the provision of healthcare for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible patients, and more generally, for elderly Medicare-only beneficiaries. The dataset ...
Integrating Turks in Germany

Karcher, Albert (2010-05-10)

This paper is divided into three parts. The first section of the paper investigates the signs as well as the underlying causes for Turks’ separation from “native” German society by looking at a number of studies and articles. ...
Internet Gambling Regulation in the United States: A Policy Comparison

Miller, Craig (2010-12)

This thesis compares two competing alternatives for internet gambling regulation in the United States: prohibition as dictated by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (the status quo), and legalization ...
Intertwining Narratives: The Copts and their Muslim Relations

Simon, Andrew (2010-10-04)

Coptic-Muslim relations are often portrayed in black-and-white binaries. The Copts are the oppressed minority, whereas the Muslims are the aggressive majority; the Copts are practitioners of a subservient faith, while the ...
An Investigation into the Interdependency of the Volatility of Technology Stocks

Lamba, Zoravar (2009-04)

This paper examines the contemporaneous and dynamic relationships between the volatilities of the technology stocks in the S&P 100 index. Factor analysis and heterogeneous autoregressive regressions are used to examine ...
IPO Timing Determinants

Blum, Rachel (2011-04-18)

Despite the extensive amount of IPO literature, many unknowns still exists about the inner workings of the IPO process. This paper seeks to extend upon the literature to first confirm whether the IPO market is an appropriate ...
The Iranian Hostage Crisis: A War of Words, not Worlds

Simon, Andrew (2008-10-20)

U.S. media presented the Iranian hostage crisis as a decisive attack against America and therefore the American people. Initially, the media discussed only factual information on the crisis and referred to the players ...
The Island of Moss and Snow

Simenauer, Julia (2012-11-07)

This poetic project was inspired by extensive research of the John Zeigler Papers, a collection of letters between John Zeigler and Edwin Peacock, two gay men serving in the U.S. military during World War II. The ...
Is Public Expenditure on Primary Education Effective? Evidence from Districts Across India

Iyer, Tara (2009)

Against the background of international commitment to the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) for the universalization of primary education, this paper investigates the effectiveness of public spending on primary education ...
Is the Blind Side Tackle Worth It?: An Analysis of the Salary Allocation of the NFL Offensive Line

Froelich, Kelly (2013-05-03)

The importance of the left tackle position in comparison to the other offensive line positions in the National Football League (NFL) has been widely debated amongst sports commentators, as the left tackle is traditionally ...
“Is there somebody who’s willing to hold their hand at the edge?” - Bringing the Patient to the Center of Physician-Patient Communication and Decision-Making on Bone Marrow Transplantation

Chhabra, Karan (2011-04-04)

Medicine is beginning to appreciate the value of “patient-centeredness”—healthcare attentive to the unique characteristics, needs, and values of each patient—and a wide body of evidence shows that physician-patient dynamics ...
Jump Robustness of Realized Beta and Disentanglement of Jump Beta

Sun, Hao (2012-04-17)

This paper constructs jump-robust estimators for the beta in Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in order to test the robustness of the recently developed Realized Beta in the presence of large discontinuous movements, or ...
Killing Iraq: A look at agency and power in relation to the U.S. mainstream media

Ighile, Osagie (2009-05-01)
Knowledge in the Service of Whose Society? The Ethics and Social Responsibility of Higher Education Institutions within the Realms of Civic Engagement and Labor Policies

Marshall, Shadee' (2010-05-07)

In this thesis I explore the ways in which social responsibility and ethics are defined within institutions of higher education. I question whether the ethics that universities portray through their civic engagement endeavors ...
Lattice point methods for combinatorial games

Guo, Alan (2011-05-11)

We encode arbitrary finite impartial combinatorial games in terms of lattice points in rational convex polyhedra. Encodings provided by these lattice games can be made particularly efficient for octal games, which we ...
Leveraging the American Dream: Explaining the Shift Towards Mortgage Debt since the 1970’s

Montupet, James; Melnick, James (2009-04-15)

We show that the determinants of mortgage borrowing and other forms of consumer credit differ: borrowers tend to consider asset holdings when taking out a mortgage, but focus on short-term economic expectations when borrowing ...
Liberty and Terror

Clain, David (2009-12-04)

For decades, and in particular since the attacks of September 11, 2001, political scientists and policymakers have sought to understand the causes of terrorism. The policy rationale is clear: if we can identify the correlates ...
A Life of One's Own: Women's Education and Economic Empowerment in Kenya

Cannon, Aislynn (2011-05-04)
Límites y Linderos: Una interpretación decolonial de los conflictos territoriales en la Región Norte de Esmeraldas durante los finales del siglo XIX.

Leon, Evan Michael (2013-05-10)

This thesis examines the interactions between Anglo-American mining companies and Afro Ecuadorian communities in the northern region of Esmeraldas province, Ecuador during the late nineteenth century. Specifically in these ...
Lingue Potenziali: Il dibattito sulla questione della lingua in Italia

Mehr, Amir Chireh (2012-05-07)

This thesis analyses la questione della lingua in Italy, from its 13th century beginnings to present-day debates on language. The first section establishes the once dubious idea of the Italian language, through an examination ...