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    Middle Voice in Northern Moldavian Hungarian 

    Hartenstein, Anne Marie (2013-07-24)
    Based on 160 hours of recording collected in the villages of Săbăoani, and Pildeşti, Romania, the present research attempts to describe the middle voice system of Northern Moldavian Hungarian (NMH), an endangered language ...
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    Inhibitory control mechanisms and their role in task switching: A multi-methodological approach 

    Allen, Corinne (2013-05-13)
    Executive control allows us to ignore distraction and switch between tasks in a flexible, yet organized fashion. While a hallmark of controlled behavior, distinctions among executive control processes are not thoroughly ...
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    The Generalizability of Knowledge as Measured by a Single-Response Situational Judgment Test Across Domains 

    Martin, Michelle P. (2011)
    The current investigation examined the consistency of two different types of procedural knowledge as measured by a single-response Situational Judgment Test (SJT) across three different professions, including those of a ...
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    Dynamic Treatments of Heterogeneity 

    Dinh, Trang (2014-04-23)
    In this thesis we are interested in how unobserved heterogeneity of agents affects the predictions from several different classical dynamic models that are widely used in economics. First, we capture heterogeneity in ...
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    The Electoral Strategy of Legislative Politics: Balancing Party and Member Reputation in Japan and Taiwan 

    Matsuo, Akitaka (2012-09-05)
    This thesis explores how political parties coordinate competing objectives, such as winning elections and influencing public policy with demands from their legislators whose interests lie principally in re-election and ...
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    A Usability and Real World Perspective on Accessible Voting 

    Piner, Gillian E. (2012)
    The HAVA (Help America Vote Act) mandated that all polling places provide privacy and independence to voters. DREs (Direct-Recording Electronic voting systems) have been assumed to be the solution to providing accessible ...
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    Authoritatively Democratic: The Functioning of Elections in Botswana's Dominant Party System 

    Burchard, Stephanie Marie (2012)
    Since 1991, multiparty elections have been held in almost every country in sub-Saharan Africa. These elections, however, have returned the same "dominant" political parties to office time and again. While dominant party ...
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    Transitivity and Intonation: A Preliminary Account of Transitive Lowering 

    Katten, David Andrew (2011)
    Are subjects produced differently based on the transitivity of the clause they are embedded in? Based on data from a narrative reading experiment, it is shown that transitive subjects are produced with a lower f0 than ...
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    Can't get it out of my head: The role of gender in the relations between ruminative styles, negative affect, and stress behaviors 

    Raley, Amber Brooke (2010)
    Rumination is a common mental experience that has received relatively little attention with respect to its precise dimensionality. The current research identifies seven such dimensions in the newly developed Survey of ...
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    Transfer of the Testing Effect: Just How Powerful Is It? 

    Avci, Gunes (2011)
    Researchers have repeatedly showed that when students take a test on the studied materials, their retention of information increases on later exams. The memory gain produced by tests is called the testing effect. The testing ...
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