Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is an approach for building computer models of social situations where computer agents interact with each other within a computer-generated environment. The agents have limited information and ...
In this project, a framework reviewing the multiple applications of an evaluation tool for
assessing personality is presented. The process used by this evaluation would not only
target the personality of an individual, ...
Narratives are verbal accounts of an event—fictional or real—that follow a temporal sequence of clauses (Justice, Bowles, Pence, & Gosse, 2010; McCabe, 1997; Schick & Melzi, 2010). Narratives represent an interaction of ...
Over 400 Veterans Treatments Courts (VTCs) have been implemented in the U.S. in the past 10 years (Flatley, Clark, Rosenthal, & Blue-Howells, 2017). During this time controversies surrounding VTCs have emerged (Yerramsetti, ...
This thesis explores the ways in which nationalism is expressed through cuisine and
ethnic restaurants in today’s increasingly globalized world. It examines in depth the
relationship between nationalism and globalization, ...
This thesis is a collection of essays that portray my experiences with becoming changing nationalities, becoming a citizen of America and relinquishing my Indian citizenship. Beginning with the process of applying for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
In our day-to-day interactions, we use our own motor representations to understand the
actions of those around us. How we relate to others is an important part of life.
Understanding motor representations can help us to ...
This study examined the effect of drinking water enhancement with specific metal
ions, which are commonly found in the brain, and the impact on an animal model of
Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Mice with the amyloid precursor ...
An imbalance of metals in the brain have shown to influence Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) neuropathology and behavioral deficits both in mice and humans. Previous studies have shown that excess zinc supplementation exacerbates ...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) share many common pathological features and sustaining a TBI may increase the likelihood of developing AD later in life. Mild traumatic brain injuries are the ...
This thesis is a poetry collection structured like a field guide to edible wild plants of the author’s backyard, growing up in rural Maine. Included here are poems written and named after plants the author has eaten or had ...