Mount Fuji has long been one of the most recognizable mountains in the world, its image signifying Japan much in the same way that the Taj Mahal signifies India or the Great Wall signifies China. Fuji became an important ...

The study attempts to provide a historical approach to the role of the environment in security studies. Contemporary security challenges have shown that the narrow definition given to national security is no longer adequate. ...

In response to the extensive work surrounding Standard English (SE), translingualism, and antiracist writing assessment in the field of writing studies, this study shifts the focus from theoretical calls about combatting ...

Documentation of adolescents’ difficulty in comprehending textbooks spans a century. For just as long, researchers have advocated that explicit instruction of reading strategies can help students’ comprehension of text; ...

With every decade that society progresses, majority groups in the United States and internationally hail how much improvement has occurred for inclusion of minority groups into social, political and economic structures. ...

This research examines resistance to forced eviction in two communities in Cambodia, Areng Valley and Boeung Kak Lake. The research asks how mobilization is being generated and sustained in a context which might discourage ...

The arrival of approximately 300,000 thousand Colombian refugees in Ecuador during the last two decades has introduced several changes in the country's economic, political, social and cultural landscape. Displaced by the ...

An Air Force evaluation of Multics, and Ken Thompson’s Turing award lecture (“Reflections on Trusting Trust”), showed that compilers can be subverted to insert malicious Trojan horses into critical software, including ...

Altruistic behaviors can be defined as those actions which are costly to self, beneficial to another, and do not convey a benefit from reputation or reciprocity on the part of the recipient. Behaviors which meet these ...

Flooding is the most frequently occurring natural hazard on Earth; with catastrophic, large scale floods causing immense damage to people, property, and the environment. Over the past 20 years, remote sensing has become ...