This thesis evaluates how the fat body is constructed in the popularizations of scientific obesity studies. This is accomplished through discourse analysis, including examination of the vocabulary used in describing the ...

Petroleum wealth is the lifeblood of Iraq, with the potential to promote prosperity, or become a curse that destabilizes the country and interrupts its economic and political development. The management and sharing of ...

Integrating and synchronizing the effects of functional components is an important military principle. This is true across all types of military operations. Currently, functional component planning is often separated into ...

A memoristic essay collection that investigates the intangible aspects of economic and social life surrounding a different specific concrete thing, a commodity, each chapter. On an individual level, our pursuit of commodities ...

This thesis is a novel concerning the disappearance of a prominent Atlanta real estate czar during the 2008 financial meltdown. His privileged Classicist stepson, Tyler, embarks on a quest to learn the truth about why this ...

This thesis is a collection of linked essays about motherhood – looking back, and letting go. The essays address the author’s roles as mother, homemaker, wife, daughter, and nurse in taking care of others, and her attempt ...

Location data is among the most sensitive data regarding the privacy of the observed users. To collect location data, mobile phones and other mobile devices constantly track their positions. This work examines the question ...

This thesis is concerned with the ongoing violent conflict between law enforcement officers and Black citizens in the United States. The research explores lyrical messages about law enforcement officers found in mainstream ...

Swarms of autonomous agents, through their decentralized and robust nature, show great promise as a future solution to the myriad missions of business, military, and humanitarian relief. Swarms can be useful purely as a ...

Japan and South Korea have been viewed as sharing a common developmental strategy as developmental states. However, the two countries have shown vastly differing strategies in joining Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT’s). ...