This book-length collection of poems focuses on landscape as an illustration of blurred boundaries between the natural world and the urban, particularly where one impinges on the other. The poems examine human violence, ...

This dissertation analyzes the factors that underlie job satisfaction for police officers who are serving as school resource officers. Assignment of police officers in schools as school resource officers is a practice that ...

The Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) technique is the basis of numerous state-of-the-art energy management schemes proposed for real-time embedded systems. However, recent research has illustrated the alarmingly negative ...

Background: Identity is a major component within any community, but especially so for those experiencing homelessness. With homeless statistics on the rise nationally, cities and towns are being forced to address these ...

This dissertation is an attempt to understand the meta-narratives of justice operating within the Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha, Sahayak Gana (TBMSG), a dalit Buddhist social movement active in Maharashtra, India. The ...

Despite the well-researched benefits of nature exposure for physical and emotional wellbeing, children today spend less time outdoors than in years past. As a result, the green schoolyard movement, which aims to transform ...

In order to improve their applicability as a tool for solving partial differential equations in computational science, we equip kernel-based meshless methods with a number of new capabilities. First, we provide kernel-based ...

This essay is composed of three chapters that contextualize the Keynesian Revolution within trends in history of economic thought and trends in institutional transformations in American public administration.

Considered one of the most popular skate spots in the world, Pulaski Park (formally referred to as Freedom Plaza) has been a beloved place for skateboarders since the late 1980s. Although skaters from around the United ...

Breast cancer progression is thought to be a multi-step process involving a continuum of changes from a normal phenotype through hyperplastic lesions, carcinoma in situ, invasive carcinoma, to metastatic disease. Previously ...