Cancer is a multi-faceted disease that may involve many different tissues of various origins. Environmental factors have been identified as agents of concern for carcinogenesis, but there is little known about the molecular ...
Caged Bird and Out of the Furnace Smelling Like Smoke is a cross genre fiction novel that begins in a hospital room with disturbing revelations recounted by one of the novel’s primary characters, Little Bird Wruck Giron. ...
Combinatorial Commutative Algebra is a popular subject for investigation and for application.
It has various types of benefits widely acknowledged in some other branches of
Mathematics and other Sciences. One of those ...
This dissertation addresses how we conceive of conflict from an opportunity cost perspective. Traditionally, economics posits the opportunity cost of choice as taking place in the context of tradeoffs between certain ...
The purpose of this study was to quantitatively explore the relationship between
calibration and achievement goals to attack performance in male, collegiate volleyball
players. Three primary exploratory research questions ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to discover what drives Islamic insurgent organizations in Africa and the Middle East to provide social services to local populations. The research found that a group’s strategic objectives ...
This dissertation explores the complex social phenomena of students at US colleges and universities creating high growth firms and investigates the role, if any, played by the campus during the firm formation process. This ...
Over one million juveniles are arrested in the United States each year (including 65,000 who are under the age of 12), and the law in most states allows juveniles to be treated the same as adults during police interrogations ...
Self-interest is a very strong emotion. It has undoubtedly affected the actions of human beings for thousands of years and it continues to do so in numerous ways and in specific contexts. This paper examines self-interest ...
The recent formation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation represents an attempt by the government to create a bureaucracy that claims to be aware of and to have corrected the major problems often cited by critics of ...
Human trafficking is a global issue and a grave violation of human rights. This thesis
sets out to investigate how successful Canada has been up to date in combating the crime.
Canada’s main developments in anti-trafficking ...
The fuel industry has been under significant pressures due to economic and environmental concerns. Finding cleaner and safer alternative fuel source was put in high demand. Biodiesel has been the most favorable source in ...
Cap-and-trade is the predominant regulatory framework for limiting limit greenhouse gas emissions. The US sulfur dioxide (SO2) market (under which compliance began in 1995 to combat acid rain) was the first modern cap-and-trade ...
This research investigates the embodied energy associated with water use. A geographic information system (GIS) was tested using data from Loudoun County, Virginia. The objective of this study is to estimate the embodied ...
This thesis analyzes modern penal practices and their effects on prisoners to argue that the harm that prison necessarily produces is both ontological and political, and that the relation between these two existential ...
With high rates of incapacitation in the United States, policies and procedures are a major aid in managing day-to-day prison operations. However, organizational research notes that policy and practice implementation often ...
This qualitative case study was conducted in order to better understand how grassroots efforts and campus culture influenced the decision to reverse the closing of Sweet Briar College in 2015. This study allowed for an ...
This case study explores the effects of an intervention lesson plan using the explicit method of critical thinking instruction. It has been shown that the explicit method of critical thinking instruction yields better ...
This dissertation investigates the relationship between the application of proportionality employed in the December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009 Israeli military intervention known as Operation Cast Lead, carried out in ...
In 2001, the Department of Defense launched an effort to transform, or radically change, the U.S. military to remain ahead of would-be adversaries and fully execute the 2002 National Security Strategy. Its primary vehicle ...