Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) is a Bunyavirus known to cause severe disease in livestock. Its zoonotic capability makes it a serious threat as it has become endemic in many parts of the world. While primarily spread through ...
My thesis is a selection of actions, objects, and texts made as a response to my experience of pregnancy, giving birth, and caring for my daughter. The actions themselves were time-based performance pieces derived from ...
This dissertation examines resource utilization and new firm formation in relation to broadband Internet in the U.S. Data envelopment analysis was used to assess the utilization of broadband Internet. Analyses at the state ...
This dissertation is designed to illustrate the meanings, beliefs and norms that underlie the attitudes and behaviors of civil society regarding the building of peace in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. This research is based ...
This thesis presents twenty-eight poems written during my time as an M.F.A. candidate at George Mason University. The three principle subjects are subjectivity, art, and translation. The order of presentation follows roughly ...
This thesis discusses a small, tribal museum located on the Rosebud Reservation in South
Dakota. The Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum is owned and operated by the St. Francis
Mission, a religious mission run by the Jesuit ...
Co-location involves the intentional siting together of public facilities. Co-location
of public facilities is becoming an increasingly common practice, particularly for
its perceived benefits of resource savings, increased ...
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become a versatile data source for many applications including building detection. Previously, manual photogrammetric methods were needed to accurately digitize building footprints, ...
In the aftermath of a civil war or genocide, some non-governmental organizations (NGOs), peace educators, post-conflict development practitioners, and governments believe in the healing power of providing all school-age ...
This dissertation explores the ways that instructors at a community college perceive instructor-student rapport in online and face-to-face classes. While instructor-student rapport has been shown to play an important role ...
"Built By the People Themselves" tracks African American community development as the processes of suburbanization and segregation shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in the northern Virginia county of Arlington ...
This thesis examines the history and prevalence of the destruction of cultural property during armed conflict and analyzes the way media frames are used to make sense of and define that destruction. The thesis uses Robert ...
Closed-loop fire control systems greatly increase a weapon system's ability to success-
fully engage a target by measuring the trajectories of its outgoing projectiles. This has
been demonstrated with both line-of-sight ...
This thesis explores how Latino (particularly Salvadoran), Korean, and Vietnamese
immigrant entrepreneurs are affected by the political and bureaucratic environment of
Northern Virginia. The Northern Virginia experience ...
This thesis explores techniques and theoretical bounds on efficiently encodable low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for correcting single and multiple bursts of erasures and/or errors. The approach is to construct good ...
Before this thesis, there did not exist much scholarship on jam bands, and none of
it from the point of view of participants. This oral history explains the history and cultural
context behind jam bands and details the ...
This thesis responds critically to Butler's anti-realist theory of gender, in which she claims
to overturn the distinction between "sex" and "gender," and argues that "sex" is itself partly
formed and shaped by its ...
This article employs theory and case-study methodology to examine variations on
approaches to childcare that best enable women to join the non-domestic labor force.
Employing women’s non-domestic labor is crucial to ...
This thesis considers subjects of exemplary women and female homosociality in the sixteenth-century matronage and networks of Isabella d’Este, marchesa of Mantua, and Eleonora di Toledo, duchess of Florence. Themes of ...
This thesis examines how white middle-class women in the North and South shaped the
wartime experiences of their families during the American Civil War through the material
objects they created. By taking feminine material ...