Redevelopment has the ability to revise a community’s concept of nature as well as its historical narrative. This thesis explores these revisions in one particular case study by focusing on the current redevelopment occurring ...
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 ...
Ocean noise is particularly problematic for marine wildlife in the Northern hemisphere.
One source of anthropogenic noise currently impacting cetaceans in particular is military
sonar. As a result, environmental NGOs ...
This thesis looks into Howard University’s 1971 and 1974 NCAA soccer championships under the leadership of Coach Lincoln Phillips in a sport traditionally not popular among Historically Black Colleges and Universities ...
This case study identifies college outcomes data transparency and accountability beliefs held by policy-makers, higher education associations, advocacy groups, think tanks, and other actors in the federal higher education ...
This thesis describes the ways in which organizational culture and sub-cultures inform
how individuals work across the fragmented terrain of higher education. Through a
qualitative case study at George Mason University ...
Within the U.S., about 64% of mothers with children younger than six have been reported to participate in the labor force (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018; Parker, 2015). Women have also made progress within the education ...
Neighborhood disadvantage and crime have been found to be predictive of poorer academic outcomes. Children in disadvantaged neighborhoods and those with high crime levels have been found to perform worse academically than ...
There has been mounting interest in the social sciences about the importance of multiple
ecological contexts such as family, child-care settings, and neighborhoods that influence
developmental outcomes in children. While ...
Room-sharing marketplace Airbnb is disrupting the short-term rental market and leisure travel industry by providing a platform to connect accommodation producers (Hosts) and consumers (Guests). Airbnb is growing rapidly ...
This thesis is a collection of poems, most often narrative-driven. While exploring concepts of identity, sexuality, religion, love, and familial complexity, these poems investigate the “tenderness of pain” (a description ...
Dendrite morphogenesis represents a critical process in the establishment, maintenance and modulation of neural connectivity that is the basis of a functional
nervous system. Dendrites, as the primary sites of synaptic ...
An examination of the historical development of institutions of higher education
in the United States shows that there has been a clear increase in the perpetuation of
neoliberal ideologies and practices. The ideology ...
Many variables coalesce to create a professional organization and professionalism in general. Two primary variables responsible in forming a professional organization are is the perceived abstract nature of intellectual ...
Many variables coalesce to create a professional organization and professionalism in general. Two primary variables responsible in forming a professional organization are is the perceived abstract nature of intellectual ...
This thesis is a memoir about family, birds and the act of birdwatching, motherhood and the ever changing struggles of anxiety. It outlines the story of teenagers having the narrator and the impacts that birth has on the ...
Influenza A Virus (IAV) is remarkably adept at surviving in human populations. IAV thrives even among populations with wide spread access to vaccines and anti-viral drugs, and continues to be a major cause of morbidity and ...
In the past two decades, the interest in network analysis has expanded rapidly. Most network analysis methods start from observed network topology. However, network structure is not directly observed in many fields, ...
Around terabytes of unstructured electronic data are generated every day from twitter networks, scientific collaborations, organizational emails, telephone calls and websites. Ex- cessive communications in communication ...
This dissertation studies macroeconomic phenomena as emergent outcomes of interactions between microeconomic agents through a production network. The first chapter reformulates Schumpeter’s theory of macroeconomic turbulence. ...