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R & D-based growth models with transitional dynamics: Evidence from OECD countries
(2017)Our study quantifies the impact of research and development (R&D) spending on technological progress, and hence on economic growth following the hypothesis that the second-generation growth theory best describes the data ... -
R&D Incentives For Neglected Diseases - The Impact Of Firm Characteristics On New Product Development
(2011-04-18)Although neglected diseases of developing countries are beginning to receive more attention from companies because of rising interest in corporate social responsibility and government incentive policies, the allocation of ... -
R&D Tax Incentives: How Does The US Compare?
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Rab4 and Rab10 Oppositely Regulate AMPA Receptors Exocytosis and Structural Plasticity in Single Dendritic Spines
(2016)Membrane trafficking in dendritic spines is critical for regulating the number of channels and spine structure during synaptic plasticity. Here I report two small Rab GTPases, Rab4 and Rab10, oppositely regulate AMPA receptors ... -
Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
(2017)Racial economic inequality is a major social concern in the United States. Sociological research on the issue has focused primarily on understanding disparities in the process of earning income and accumulating wealth. Much ... -
Race and Conversion in Late Medieval England
(2009)Despite general consensus among scholars that race in the West is an early modern phenomenon that dates to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, late medieval English texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries expend ... -
Race and Pollution Correlation as Predictor of Environmental Injustice
(2013-04-15)Environmental injustice is a theory that claims distributions of toxic, hazardous and dangerous waste facilities are disproportionately located in low-income communities of color. This paper empirically demonstrates ... -
Race and Space: The Afro-Brazilian Role in the Urban Development of Vila Rica, Minas Gerais (1711-1750)
(2018)This dissertation considers the role of Afro-Brazilians in the urban formation of Vila Rica—a Brazilian mining town in Minas Gerais—from its creation in 1711 to the solidification of its urban form around 1750. During this ... -
Race, Class, Poverty, and Social Capital Inequality in Urban Disasters
(2015)AbstractThis dissertation is a case study of processes of inequality in disaster response in neighborhoods recently devastated by natural disaster. The context is New York City beginning from the immediate aftermath of Superstorm ... -
Race, Power and Economic Extraction in Benton Harbor, MI
(2016)My dissertation investigates twin financial interventions—urban development and emergency management—in a single small town. Once a thriving city drawing blacks as blue-collar workers during the Great Migration, Benton Harbor, ... -
Race-to-the-Top: East and Gulf Coast Ports Prepare for a Post-Panamax World
(2012-04-23)Kurt Nagle, president of the American Association of Port Authorities, and David Matsuda, maritime administrator for the United States Department of Transportation, have both labeled the Panama Canal expansion project as ... -
RacGap50C Is a Novel Negative Regulator of Wnt Signaling
(2008-03-28)The Wingless (Wg)/Wnt signal transduction pathway directs a variety of cell fate decisions in developing animal embryos. Despite the identification of many Wg pathway components to date, it is still not clear how these ... -
Racial Framing and Public Support for Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
(2016-11-08)It is well documented that framing certain race-neutral policies, such as the death penalty, voter ID laws, and three-strikes laws, in terms of race can increase whites’ support for those laws. This study utilized a survey-based ... -
Racial Identity Development: Academic Correlates of Change among African American Adolescents
(2010)This study examined changes in African American adolescents' racial identity content (e.g., connectedness, awareness of racism, and embedded achievement) and academic adjustment (e.g., Academic and disciplinary adjustment, ... -
Radar Space-Time Processing for Range-Folded Spread-Doppler Clutter Mitigation
(2011)Pulsed radars have an ambiguous relationship between range and velocity which is proportional to the pulse repetition frequency (PRF), leading to potential tradeoffs. High PRFs are necessary to avoid velocity aliasing but ... -
Radiation Dose and Diagnostic Accuracy in Pediatric Computed Tomography
(2010)Since its inception in the 1970's, computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized the practice of medicine and evolved into an essential tool for diagnosing numerous diseases not only in adults but also in children. The clinical ... -
Radiation Dose Estimation for Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization
(2015)Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are potentially at risk of radiation-induced health effects from the interventional fluoroscopic X-ray imaging used throughout the clinical procedure. The amount of radiation exposure ... -
Radiation Dose to the Lens of the Eye from Computed Tomography Scans of the Head
(2016)While it is well known that exposure to radiation can result in cataract formation, questions still remain about the presence of a dose threshold in radiation cataractogenesis. Since the exposure history from diagnostic ... -
Radio Frequency Spectroscopy Of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas
(2013)This dissertation presents the first experiments on radio frequency (rf) spectroscopy of a quasi-two dimensional strongly interacting ultracold atomic Fermi gas. A 50-50 mixture of spin-up and spin-down atoms is confined ... -
Radioactivity of Fossil Fuel Waste Products and Associated Environmental Implications
(2018)Extraction of energy resources and energy production can redistribute and concentrate naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), particularly from the uranium (238U t1/2=4.5 x 109 yr) and thorium (232Th t1/2=1.4 x ...
