Background The Northern Territory has the highest rates of kidney disease in Australia with Aboriginal people from remote areas suffering the heaviest burden. Despite this, dialysis services are largely centralised in urban areas requiring many people to relocate for treatment. …
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Currently, very little is known about the nature, scope, and quality of college-in-prison programs. Particularly given the reinstatement of Pell grants for incarcerated college students in December 2020—after a 26-year long ban—it is timely and urgent to center these issues and …
In this dissertation, I use novel methodologies that incorporate machine learning into causal policy evaluation such as double robust machine learning to study some key issues in Productivity and Finance. In the first chapter, I evaluate the impacts of European public subsidies …
Executive functioning (EF) refers to a set of cognitive abilities mediated by the prefrontal cortex, which provide the ability to motivate, initialise, plan, inhibit and mentalise, especially during goal-directed behaviour. EF has been conceptualised into five subdomains for ass…
English is the most widely spoken language in the world, and many higher education institutes (HEIs) in the global South have prioritised English language education (ELE). In Colombia, the context of this study, English has become the de facto foreign language in Colombian highe…
This dissertation in the field of curriculum history and theory examines two curricula that promote Jewish peoplehood.
The goal of Universal Basic Education (UBE) launched by the federal republic of Nigeria in 1999 for the purpose of Education for All by the year 2015 is in doubt. A large body of literature has identified the challenges to its successful realization, namely: poor funding, infras…
The Partnership Framework agreement between the United States Government and the Government of Nigeria in 2010 commits Nigeria to provide at least 50% of its HIV/AIDS funding by 2015. This study is aimed at identifying possible policy directions that the National Agency for the …
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for approximately 50% of the world's gross domestic product. However, these economic agents suffer from inadequate access to liquid funds to finance their operations. The liquidity gap has led to early bankruptcy and liquidation,…
As entrepreneurial funding supports the growth of entrepreneurial firms, it can be viewed as the fuel that enhances the creation, development, and growth of new technologies, industries, and markets. However, investing in entrepreneurial firms is highly risky. For example, Ventu…
The purpose of this study is to examine the Leaving Certificate Applied programme (LCA) as it is lived out and experienced today and to investigate whether or not these experiences continue to marry with the original aims of the programme. The Leaving Certificate Applied Program…
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the global financial system and caused great turmoil. Facing unprecedented risks in the markets, people have increasing needs to find a safe haven for their investments. Given that the nature of this crisis is a combination of multiple pr…
This study examined the participatory development practice of international Northern NGOs in the context of the area governed by the Palestinian Authority. It was conducted in two phases. The first contained a two-round Delphi study to solicit the definitions and conceptualizati…
Teachers' strikes, dilapidated school structures, lack of available learning tools for teachers and students, and high student dropout rates were common during Nigeria's years of military rule from 1966 to 1998. The purpose of this study was to understand the reasoning behind th…
"Addressing this serious and growing problem, Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking explains the urgent need to maintain both the originality and freedom of expression that is so vital to our economic growth and scientific development. Citing global trends and attitudes that …