N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAm)-based, bait-loaded hydrogel particles are successfully used to capture, sequester and protect from enzymatic degradation low abundance, low molecular weight labile proteins in body fluids. In ...

Drug-funded insurgencies in Latin America and more recently in Afghanistan have prompted the use of the term “Narco-State” to describe those countries that have fallen victim to drug cultivation, narco-corruption, ...

Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is an approach for building computer models of social situations where computer agents interact with each other within a computer-generated environment. The agents have limited information and ...

In this project, a framework reviewing the multiple applications of an evaluation tool for assessing personality is presented. The process used by this evaluation would not only target the personality of an individual, ...

This study engaged in a narrative analysis of the 2009-2010 U.S. health care reform controversy from a conflict analysis and resolution perspective grounded in social identity theory. Four sets of artifacts produced during ...

National Security and Human Security are two concepts of the larger field of Security that have been and currently remain at odds with each other. On one hand, National Security seeks to uphold the sovereignty of this ...

This thesis explores the ways in which nationalism is expressed through cuisine and ethnic restaurants in today’s increasingly globalized world. It examines in depth the relationship between nationalism and globalization, ...

This thesis describes ideological commonalities of U.S. Patriot Militias and extreme Nationalism. A perceptible increase of American militia organizations in recent years prompted an intensive research project that ...

The Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services supervisors would like to implement a nature education and outdoor recreation curriculum in their community center’s free after-school program. The need for this ...

There has been a big push to bring children, mainly preschool age children, outdoors so that they can learn the importance of the environment. Many studies have been designed to help understand the significance of nature-based ...