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A GIS-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF WETLAND CLASSIFICATION
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Author
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Deng, Jing
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Geography
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Description
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Wetlands play a critical role in our natural environment, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion and flooding, and protecting biodiversity. To better protect wetland systems, a comprehensive knowledge of their spatial distribution is...
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Analysis of tanking in the National Football League
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Author
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Nance, William
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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Sports economics literature has recently explored the idea that there is an incentive to intentionally lose games in some professional sports leagues. This process is known as "tanking" and is largely related to a league’s amateur draft policies. ...
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Clean Power Plan, Dirty Politics: An Examination of State Reactions to Climate Regulation
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Author
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Withrow, Matthew
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Power resources
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Description
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While carbon emissions are widely believed to be contributing to climate change, the U.S. has done little to limit the massive amounts of carbon being introduced into the atmosphere by electricity producing power plants. The Clean Power Plan (CPP)...
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Determinants of Yankee Bond Pricing
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Author
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Lyon, Jeffrey
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance, Economics
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Description
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Yankee bonds provide a unique arena to analyze corporate debt issuance due to the fact issuers from a variety of countries are selling bonds within the same market. Previous studies use Yankee bonds to analyze the impact of differing levels of inv...
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EXCHANGE RATE, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FDI: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
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Author
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Wu, Linxi
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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In this paper we investigate the dynamic relationships among international trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate of China. The analysis is based on a vector auto-regression (VAR) model using historical data. The empirical res...
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Jensen-Shannon Divergence: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
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Author
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Stewart, Ann
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics
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Description
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Jensen-Shannon divergence is one reasonable solution to the problem of measuring the level of difference or "distance'" between two probability distributions on a multinomial population. If one of the distributions is assumed to be known a priori,...
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THE IMPACT OF STRESS TESTING ON THE SYSTEMIC RISK OF BANK HOLDING COMPANIES
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Author
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Konstantopoulos, Theodoros
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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The impact of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 on the global banking system raised concerns regarding the capital adequacy of banks. While the banks were already conducting internal stress tests before the financial crisis that was not enough to ...
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
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Author
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Li, Xinxin
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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The first paper ("Human Capital and Investment Policy") investigates the interaction between investment policies and human capital cost. Employees may demand a higher pay to compensate for the potential job loss due to their firm's high investment...
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Three Essays in Housing
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Author
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Brunson, Sean
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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This dissertation addresses the potential mismeasurement of home price indices and its implications on mortgage default research during the recession and examines the potential drivers of the housing affordability issue since the recession. The fi...
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User Centric Policy Management
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Author
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Cheek, Gorrell
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology
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Description
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Internet use, in general, and online social networking sites, in particular, are experiencing tremendous growth with hundreds of millions of active users. As a result, there is a tremendous amount of privacy information and content online. Protect...
