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The upper mantle transition zone contains key information about Earth-scale convection processes. Seismic discontinuities in the transition zone, such as the 410-and 660-km discontinuities, are expected to react to thermal ...

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A switching DC-DC converter is proposed that uses a Sigma-Delta Modulator (SDM) in place of the usual Pulse Width Modulator (PWM). One type of control method, voltage mode control used for switching regulators involves ...

Paradoxes are contradictory phenomena that appear illogical. They juxtapose opposing forces together into a whole equation. The key to understanding how the polar extremes relate lies in the hidden linkage that binds them. ...

This research is about women running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Specifically, within the time period 1982 to 1998,1 examine female performances in House elections to retest Wilma Rule's (1981) thesis that a ...

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In this paper, I examine Immanuel Kant’s response to David Hume’s problem of induction. I pay particular attention to Kant’s main writings on causation: the Second Analogy in The Critique of Pure Reason and the Introduction ...

This dissertation examines the impact of CEO turnover on bondholder’s wealth. Using publicly traded corporate bond data for the period from 1973 to 2000, I find that CEO turnover events are generally value decreasing to ...