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- Why did political independence not lead to economic autonomy and sustained development which were confidently predicted by many development economists and nationalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Africa will not make sustainable progress in building democratic systems and fostering economic development until the continent acquires coherent, legitimate, and effective states....
- Keyword:
- africa, economic autonomy, and governance
- Creator:
- Joseph, Richard
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Creator:
- Stein, Sarah
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/27/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Priscilla Jane Thompson
- Creator:
- McCoy, Sara Jane
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Louis Imogen Guiney
- Creator:
- Kim, Daniel
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- A review of the literature demonstrates that being anonymous by wearing a mask has been hypothesized to create many psychological effects, but mainly deindividuation. Numerous distinct explanations have been suggested as to why that effect has come about. Using an ethnographical approach and open-ended interviews, this study investigates through two...
- Keyword:
- COVID-19, Social Psychology , Deindividuation, and Mask
- Creator:
- Hazem Albassam
- Owner:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-5-15
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- While many sources have pointed to oil wealth, a British postcolonial legacy, and a developmental state as the foundation for the incredible economic rise of Nigeria in recent decades, I question the validity of those existing schools of thought and present a cultural explanation. The Nigerian people and their cultural...
- Keyword:
- communication
- Creator:
- William B. Altabef
- Contributor:
- Dilip Gaonkar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- The aviation industry is set to see another significant leap in new technology, namely electric aircraft. As of the time of this research, both 9-seat and 19-seat aircraft would be ready to be launched by air service providers under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program. While electric aircraft manufacturers are...
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- Electric aircraft, SCASD, aviation batteries, and EAS
- Subject:
- Essential Air Service (Program : U.S.)
- Creator:
- Smith, Kenneth, Li, Dongyang , Lu, Chien-tsung, and Guzek, Joshua
- Owner:
- Dongyang Li
- Publisher:
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST)
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/13/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-03-06
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- Research Paper
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- Cite this article: Shen, J., McFarland, A.G., Blaustein, R.A. et al. An improved workflow for accurate and robust healthcare environmental surveillance using metagenomics. Microbiome 10, 206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x and Background: Effective surveillance of microbial communities in the healthcare environment is increasingly important in infection prevention. Metagenomics-based techniques are promising due to their untargeted nature but are currently challenged by several limitations: (1) they are not powerful enough to extract valid signals out of the background noise for low-biomass samples,...
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- Quantification, Quantitative metagenomics, Low biomass, Viability, Machine learning, Environmental surveillance, Sequencing depth prediction, and Infection prevention
- Subject:
- Metagenomics, Quantitative research, Nosocomial infections--Prevention, Machine learning, and Environmental monitoring
- Creator:
- K. Allison Perry-Dow, Jiaxian Shen, Vincent B. Young, Ryan A. Blaustein, Mary K. Hayden, Alexander G. McFarland, Anahid A. Moghadam, Laura J. Rose, and Erica M. Hartmann
- Contributor:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (funding agency)
- Owner:
- Jiaxian SHEN
- Publisher:
- Microbiome
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x, PMCID PMC9716758, and PMID 36457108
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- On February 22, 2022, I gave a talk hosted by the African Studies Program of Georgetown University. Two days later, Russian battalions were sent across Ukraine’s borders by President Vladimir Putin. In real time, viewers around the world have seen immense distress unleashed on innocent citizens. In Africa, distress has...
- Keyword:
- africa and governance
- Creator:
- Joseph, Richard
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual reality (VR) have attracted growing attention within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in recent years. Integration of BIM and VR technology can develop workflow efficiency through enhanced common understanding and prepare students in architecture and engineering programs to become leaders of the...
- Keyword:
- building information modeling, performance assessment, AEC education, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Joseph C. Huang, Sepehr Alizadehsalehi, and Ahmad Hadavi
- Owner:
- Ahmad Hadavi
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/12/2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI: 10.3390/app11073225
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- Keyword:
- Social Determinants of Health and Ophthalmology
- Creator:
- Dustin French
- Owner:
- Andrew Wang
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2020
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2020
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1007/s40123-019-00220-1
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- This Handbook provides resources that help explain and contextualize the intersecting crises that destabilized Mali in 2012-2013. These crises included a rebellion by Tuareg separatists, a coup by junior officers, and violence carried out by Muslim militants. In addition to an overview of the crisis, the Handbook contains historical timelines,...
- Keyword:
- mali, crisis, and buffett
- Creator:
- Alexander Thurston and Andrew Lebovich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 13-001
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- Description:
- In order to understand the role of international courts (ICs) in the international legal system, this chapter examines 25 permanent international courts by analyzing four roles that states have delegated to courts: enforcement, administrative review, constitutional review, and dispute settlement. The chapter finds that ICs can become not only agents...
- Keyword:
- international courts and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-002
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- This paper explores the link between the public policy and the survival strategies of a hybrid political regime. Using the case of higher education in Russia, I show how the Russian state elites use the policy tools widespread in Western democracies to achieve domestic political goals. Introduction of quasi-market mechanisms...
- Keyword:
- global trends, buffett, and reforms
- Creator:
- Natalia Forrat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-001
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- The central thesis of the paper is that authoritarian cases have systematically been excluded from welfare state theories despite the existing empirical research on authoritarian welfare provisions. This theoretical gap has limited the instruments available for comparative welfare state research. As a result, such research has attended to the democratic...
- Keyword:
- marginalized, authoritarian, and buffett
- Creator:
- Natalia Forrat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-005
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- This article presents preliminary, selected findings from a larger study of students experiences in international education. The paper focus on those findings that are related to student understand ing of citizenship identity during the mobility experience. Specifically, it draws on interviews and surveys collected in Germany from 387 students participating...
- Keyword:
- erasmus and buffett
- Creator:
- Bernhard Streitwieser
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- Canada's aboriginal peoples are one of the constituencies most affected by the oil sands boom that has swept across northeastern Alberta in western Canada since the mid-1990s. This paper considers the reaction of these First Nations to exploiting the oil sands. It argues that the conventional view of the First...
- Keyword:
- sands, buffett, and aboriginal
- Creator:
- Ian Urquhart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-005
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- Delegation to ICs has increased rapidly since 1990, leading to a proliferation of international courts with a fundamentally different design. There are now 20 active ICs, plus eight more ICs that exist mostly on paper. "New style" international courts have compulsory jurisdiction, and often they have access for non-state actors...
- Keyword:
- international courts and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-001
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- From peacekeeping to telecommunication standards, the number, level of detail, and subject matter of international agreements have grown exponentially in recent decades. What are the consequences of the sheer complexity of international governance today? This symposium suggests a new framework to understand this proliferation of international accords: "international regime complexity."...
- Keyword:
- Buffett and International
- Creator:
- Christina Davis, Alexander Betts, Stephanie Hofmann, Laurence Hefner, Daniel Drezner, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Karen Alter,, and Judith Kelley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 07-003
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- Description:
- This working paper surveys Islamic organizations, movements, and ideologies in Nigeria, roughly identifying them along the lines of Islamic traditionalism, Sufi orders (turuq lit. pathways), Salafi/Wahhabi revivalism2 modernist and insurgent Islam(ism), trado-Islamic and Christo-Islamic syncretism and deviant “Islamic” cultism. Previous academic studies of Nigerian Islam were often limited to the...
- Keyword:
- islamic, nigeria, movements, and pas
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Ibrahim Haruna Hassan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This paper examines participation in the public economy among two groups of African women, the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria and the Baganda of central Uganda, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis considers many kinds of economic activity other than growing food for one’s own family, including independent income-generating...
- Keyword:
- pas, context, and cultural valuation
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Marjorie K. McIntosh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The completion of this study could not have been possible without the invaluable support of several individuals. This work is a revised version of my first year research paper, and as such, I would first like to thank Timothy Breen and my colleagues in the E-70 seminar for their thoughtful...
- Keyword:
- colonial, politics, and pas
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Neil Kodesh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2000
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- PAS Working Paper No. 8** (2000) Vols. 1- 2, Vol. 3
- Keyword:
- pas
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- David W. Bade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2021
- Date Created:
- 2000
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The primer addresses interdisciplinary work on two levels. It outlines and exemplifies anthropological modes of thinking, and how those can be applied to numbers through the capacities of the Epi Info program. At a more practical level it uses particular material to guide the reader through setup and analysis. Section...
- Keyword:
- anthropology and pas
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Jane I. Guyer, Caroline Bledsoe, Shobha Shagle, and Kuate Defo Barthelemy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 1999
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Patients with psychosis experience deficits in multisensory integration (MSI), or the communication between different sensory modalities, such as sound and sight. One way to assess multisensory integrations is by utilizing voice-pitch tasks in which participants hear the pitch of their own voice artificially altered by a computer. When healthy individuals...
- Keyword:
- biomarker, vulnerability, sensorimotor integration, schizophrenia, and NCP
- Creator:
- Amy Lieberman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Previous research has shown that bodily gesture aids in learning words and is useful for musical expression. However, no studies to date have examined the use of gesture in learning words and music together. The original impetus for the present study was observing students with cognitive disabilities learn musical songs,...
- Keyword:
- iconic gesture, immediate recall, song, lyrics, and memory
- Creator:
- Keishel Xinzhen Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Physiological linkage (i.e., the covariation of moment-to-moment physiology between individuals) is thought to play an important role in relationship functioning. The present study examined physiological linkage across interbeat interval (IBI) and skin conductance levels (SCL) in a sample of married spouses (N=106) during both a pleasant and a conflict conversation...
- Keyword:
- marriage, physiological linkage, and emotional experience
- Subject:
- Psychology and Biology
- Creator:
- In Jung Jang, Claudia M. Haase, Ryan C. Svoboda, and Kuan-Hua Chen
- Contributor:
- Claudia Haase (advisor)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster and Research Paper
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- Description:
- According to Lisjak, Lee, and Gardner (2012), a threat to a brand can elicit the same response as a threat to the self. The current research examined whether people react differently to brand threats as a function of East Asian versus North American culture and as a function of whether...
- Keyword:
- defense, self-brand connection, brand, Culture, identification, and East Asian
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jiaqi Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-06
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Marital emotional functioning is one of the most important predictors of marital outcomes (e.g., marital satisfaction), which in turn has important consequences for wellbeing and health factors for both spouses and their children. Thus far, negative emotions (e.g., anger) have been the central focus in distinguishing dissatisfied from satisfied couples...
- Keyword:
- duchenne smiles, non-duchenne smiles, marriage, and positive emotion
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-04-04
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Plenary Lecture delivered at the Black History Month Symposium at New College, Florida.
- Keyword:
- Ken Saro Wiwa and Nigeria
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-02-18
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This study would not have been possible without the guidance, support, and advice from Clive Bruzas, Eliza Govender, and staff at the Blue Roof Life Space. As my initial advisor, Clive aided in my thought process of formulating a research question based on my personal interests and experience visiting Blue... and What prompts an individual who has had a positive HIV diagnosis to undergo the transition from a limiting life narrative to an empowering life narrative? With HIV positive individuals living longer lives, it is important that individuals are able to integrate the HIV/AIDS identity into their sense of self and...
- Keyword:
- SIT Study Abroad: Durban Community Health and Social Policy, South Africa, and Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Creator:
- Lakshmi Karuparthy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The US continues to experience disproportionately high teen birth, pregnancy, and STD rates compared to other developed nations and the appropriate type of sex education for American adolescents’ has been a constant source of debate. Over the last 13 years, the US federal government has invested over $1.5 billion in...
- Keyword:
- Teen Birth Rate, chicago area undergraduate research symposium, Outstanding Oral Presentation, Sexual Health Education, and Abstinence
- Creator:
- Sarah Permut
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The creation of Reactions allows Facebook users to provide emotional support for members within the social network as well as disclose emotions toward various content. This research study investigated how this one-click tool is appropriated depending on the content of the posts and relational intimacy with the poster and the...
- Keyword:
- communication
- Creator:
- Min Kyong Kim
- Contributor:
- Darren Gergle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/07/2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Cracking is one of the most common concerns cited by owners of structures adjacent to construction or mining blasting. While a large database of case studies documenting the relative insignificance of ground motion induced by responsible blasting compared to weather effects on cracks in nearby structures has been established, the...
- Keyword:
- Autonomous Crack Measurement
- Creator:
- Charles H. Dowding and Jeffrey E. Meissner
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- A unique judicial opportunity allowed measurement of the response of three cracks in residential structure to blasting for underground aggregate mining. Instrumented cracks were located in the interior basement CMU mortar and upstairs dry wall as well as exterior brick work. The dynamic environment was unusual. Even though the blasting...
- Keyword:
- Structural health monitoring and Cracking of concrete
- Creator:
- Mike Waldron, G.F. Revey, and C.H. Dowding
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/05/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This paper describes the technology and methods deployed in the continuous autonomous remote monitoring of cracks in interior and exterior walls of a residence near a limestone quarry. The object is to quantitatively compare crack response to blast-induced ground motion to that induced by diurnal temperature changes, weather fronts, and...
- Keyword:
- Cracking of concrete and Structural health monitoring
- Creator:
- David E. Kosnik
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/05/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-21
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- A Dialogue on Nation-Building took place in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on January 14-16, 2018. I was one of a dozen individuals invited to serve as resource persons for this meeting of over a hundred representatives from the government, civil society, political and faith-based organizations. The aim of the gathering was to...
- Keyword:
- africa and Ethiopia
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-14
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Children are impressionable customers, and the media they consume influences their behaviors and perceptions. Gender stereotypes are highly prevalent in children’s media, which can often lead children to create idealized images of what boys and girls should be. This paper explores advertising in children’s television commercials given changes in our...
- Keyword:
- communication, children’s media , advertising , and gender-targeted commercials
- Creator:
- Meredith Ford
- Contributor:
- Alexis Lauricella
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Gentrification - the process in which higher income (and often younger) households displace lower income residents of a city neighborhood - has been occurring in many urban neighborhoods over the last few decades. This process changes the demographics, and often the essential character, of the neighborhood. As a result, we...
- Keyword:
- Gentrification and Urban transportation
- Creator:
- Emily R. Kushto and Joseph L. Schofer
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2008-01-10
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper