Understanding the diversity and evolution of mating systems in the primate order is a key question in biological anthropology. Mating systems evolve from selection on males and females to maximize reproductive success and are ultimately shaped by natural and sexual selection. Co…
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Many African American males face challenges due to historical and current negative viewpoints of this population. However, urban communities also play a vital role in the obstacles encountered, which impacts this population’s well-being. The purpose of this project was to gain k…
My dissertation consists of two essays that explore important aspects of empirical corporate finance, specifically the importance of political factors and public attention that come in to play in the granting of post-disaster loans. The first paper, “Natural disasters, public at…
Çalışmada “Toplumsal Uyum ve Din: Erzincan Üzümlü’de Yaşayan Ahıskalılar Örneği” ile ele alınmaktadır. Toplumsal uyuma önemli bir katkısı bulunan dinin, toplumun bireyler arasındaki etkisi, Erzincan Üzümlü’ye göç sonrası gelmiş olan Ahıskalılar ve yerli halk arasındaki bütünleşt…
Forest-savanna transitions are often discussed as systems that operate next to each other withdistinct woody species and separated into pyrogenic and non-pyrogenic systems with sharptransition between the two systems. It is often hypothesized that fires cannot enter closed canop…
Urban development is a foundational field which has a direct impact on the quality of life for any individual inhabiting the area of development. Globally, there are many factors that are leveraged to weigh what constitutes just and equitable design, sustainability, and provides…
Between March 1977, and February 2020, there have been 78 instances of ideologically motivated murders and attempted murders in the United States. These instances were characterized as individual-based attacks against other individuals and treated as local crime. However, in eac…
AbstractOpen grazing is a main issue in Nigeria today, as Fulani herdsmen take farms by force with weapons like AK47s, which also affects the farmers of Anambra South Senatorial Zone. Further, there are different views on what open grazing is, which takes focus off its impacts t…
There is a significant lack of research on veterans’ reintegration into civilian life, especially after the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq wars, concerning identity loss and crisis from transition. The purpose of this project, which includes the film Keep Fighting, is …
Bobcats (Lynx rufus) that inhabit tree islands of the Everglades, an expansive wetland in southern Florida. Bobcats are understudied in Florida and wetland ecosystems, and my objective was to identify factors driving their use of tree islands. I hypothesized that tree island siz…
The purpose of this quantitative descriptive research study was to discover the most predominant leadership style, of the five styles being measured (Autocratic/Authoritarian, Bureaucratic, Democratic, Laissez-faire, or Servant-Leader), that was found within the ministry leaders…
The Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a small, federally threatened seabird native to the western coast of North America that ranges from the Aleutians to central California. Murrelets are old-growth forest specialists during the breeding portion of their life histo…
By adopting the Sustainable Development Goals, the global community has tasked itself with the goal of attaining inclusive societies. Arguably, financial inclusion is central to the realization of these noble objectives. It, therefore, underscores the reason it has received cons…
Religion affects politics at multiple levels and demonstrating those influences is vital to understanding religion's entanglement upon politics. This study uses both quantitative and qualitative data to shed light on this relationship. First, it employs using the 2014 U.S. Relig…
Dini gruba mensup bireylerde dini inanç tutum ve davranışlar açısından kuşak farklılaşmasını incelediğimiz alan araştırmamız sırasında ilk olarak içinde bulunduğumuz toplumun tarihsel gelişimine, siyasi geçmişine, ekonomik süreçlerine, kültürel kodlarına ve dini duyarlılıklarına…
Islamic scholars have researched detail the concepts mentioned in verses and hadiths and tried to determine their limits, and these studies have accumulated and helped humanity as a heritage of knowledge. The ongoing studies on these concepts are still up-to-date. Ghazali, who d…
Springsnails and other crenophilic species are often of conservation concern due to endemism, narrow habitat requirements, and susceptibility to habitat degradation. Because there is a distinct lack of natural history information for many of these organisms, management of specie…
Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) occur when members of the same sex within a species are dimorphic for reproductive phenotypes. ARTs typically evolve in response to strong sexual selection and involve alternate ways to gain reproductive success through suites of correlate…
The relationship between African Americans (AA) and mental health (MH) is complex culturally, historically, and spiritually. This dissertation used data from Project Trust, a project partnership between the Ministry at San Francisco Theological Seminary and Northern California K…