Libertarianism is often considered a more logically consistent and predictable political stance concerning the role and rights of government. The libertarian movement prides itself on consistently adhering to an ideological ...

This paper analyzes the relationship between economic interdependence and international conflict in the post-Cold War period since 1990 through a pooled analysis of time-series cross-sectional data on militarized interstate ...

This paper first details the general academic theory behind leveraged buyouts and then explores the financial deregulation effort undertaken by Congress and the Federal Reserve Board throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The ...

CONTENTS: 1. Faulkner and Holy Writ: The Principle of Inversion 2. Music: Faulkner's “Eroica" 3. Liebestod: Faulkner and The Lessons of Eros 4. Between Truth and Fact: Faulkner’s Symbols of Identity 5. Transition: Faulkner’s ...

For four years, as editor of The Faculty Forum, a campus wide monthly publication at Duke University, I filled empty space in my pages with the following items of scholarly research. To liven the tone, I invented a coeditor ...

Functional fault diagnosis is widely used in board manufacturing to ensure product quality and improve product yield. Advanced machine-learning techniques have recently been advocated for reasoning-based diagnosis; these ...