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    • Hoekstra, Mark; Sloan, CarlyWill (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-04-30)
      What role does race have in cases of police use of force? This issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes the paper by Rex B. Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and Graduate Student Fellow CarlyWill Sloan, which examines how ...
    • Hoekstra, Mark; Sloan, CarlyWill (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-03-10)
      While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult. This is in part because of selection, and in part because researchers often observe only interactions ...
    • Naveira, Emily N. (2017-04-25)
      This study aims to expand upon research that examined the ethics of the Tuskegee experiment and how knowledge of that study affected African-American’s willingness to participate in research (Shavers, Lynch, & Burmeister, ...
    • Puller, Steven; Luco, Fernando; Hortacsu, Ali; Zhu, Dongni (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-05-01)
      Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimensions:structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...
    • Puller, Steven L.; Luco, Fernando; Hortacsu, Ali; Zhu, Dongni (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-04-01)
      Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimension--structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...
    • Jansen, Dennis W.; Kim, Sei-Wan; Kim, Young-Min; Lu, Yanxin (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-07-05)
      In this paper, the authors investigate how the old generation income structure affects aggregate equity purchases, using Flows of Funds Accounts and Survey of Consumer Finances. Results suggest that the risk aversion that ...
    • Howard, Carolee L. (1998)
      A large gender difference exists in the percentage of male and female students enrolled in architecture schools. Roughly one-third of architecture students are females while about half of the student population at large ...
    • Rose, Cynthia Lynn (Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
      This paper studies the implications of the endowment effect on the Coase Theorem. The endowment effect places a sharp bend or kink in the traditional indifference curve. Applying this result to the traditional two-party ...
    • Zhang, Yuhan; Chong, Xuezhou
      Nowadays, as the two largest economies in the world, China and US economic relations have expanded substantially over the past decades. China is the US's second-largest merchandise trading partner, third-largest export ...
    • Say, Pablo A (2021-05-03)
      Security continues to be an important topic as more businesses and individuals entrust software with sensitive information. One of the most important areas for security is that of the operating system and hardware of any ...
    • Boothe, Courtney R. (2010-07-14)
      Researchers have conducted numerous studies examining the effects of one?s home life on future success; however, only a small portion of that research covers the specific effects that negative home environments can have ...
    • Levinson, Benjamin Joseph
      User reviews are a widespread across the Internet as an indicator of the quality of a product. However, review systems can be vulnerable to attack. Malicious parties can manipulate the ratings of items by soliciting fake ...
    • Lawton, Quinton A (2018-04-26)
      A prominent area of current study is how tropical cyclone (TC) behavior will respond to future changes in global climate. One way to complement this research is by analyzing TC characteristics in simulations of past climates. ...
    • Wang, Austin Christiansen (2014-09-19)
      Establishing genome assemblies is important for comparative and population studies that examine genetic diversity. This is especially vital for threatened animal species. The hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), ...
    • Kim, Lora Christine
      In this paper, I analyze how drag queen Trixie Mattel utilizes fantasy themes to push the limits of drag performance based on overlapping performative principles of art, comedy, gender, and popular culture. I explore the ...
    • Jones, Tracey Fashawn (1993)
      Previous research confirms that some form of intervention is needed in urban schools to decrease the rising drop-out rate as well as teenage pregnancy rate and juvenile crime rate. This project can introduce intervention ...
    • Meer, Jonathan; Kahn, Lisa; Clemens, Jeffrey (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-09-21)
      In the United States, politicians and the public alike have again sounded the call to raise the federal minimum wage, citing unlivable earnings and high consumer prices due to rising inflation, but would an increase actually ...
    • Shimotsu, Grace Ellen (1979)
      The bile salts, which are naturally occurring steroidal surfactants, aid in the digestion, emulsification, and absorption of dietary lipids and the transport of drugs across the intestinal wall. Drug-bile salt interactions ...
    • Abbasher, Fatin; Al-Baker, Seham Khalid; Fattouh, Mohamed; Mansour, Ryan Sami
      Centrifugal compressors take in large volumes of gases, some of which are toxic and extremely dangerous. To contain these gases and avoid any leakages from taking place, dry gas seals are utilized. Dry gas seals need to ...
    • Kaur, Jaspreet (2011-08-04)
      The incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis (UC), is on the rise. UC is modeled in rodents by the consumption of dextran sodium sulfate (DSS). Quantitative real-time polymerase chain ...