This work addresses questions about why the United States did not get involved in intervention efforts during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. To answer this, the work will analyze the history of Rwanda leading up to and through the genocide and changes in American policy towards Afri…
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Due to nutrition transition, the prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing significantly worldwide especially in affluent developing countries such as Kuwait. Obesity is associated with adverse chronic health conditions and financial burdens which provides an incentive for p…
This study proposes that Iraq's democracy and stability turmoil since 2003 can be well elucidated by concentrating on the link between internal and external challenges that military intervention has introduced in the country. The source of that link is the emerging external secu…
Military intervention forces use a variety of techniques to achieve success in counterinsurgency operations. One technique recently put into more widespread practice by military units in Iraq and Afghanistan is key leader engagement. Key leader engagements are meetings that memb…
This thesis project illustrates the way developments in the 1990s almost resulted in a complete revamp of the humanitarian system, if only the new ideas of military humanitarianism established during the post-Cold War period had not fallen short because of some major deficiencie…
Millions of villagers in Bangladesh drink water which exceeds the Bangladesh arsenic (As) standard of 50 micrograms per liter. Exposure to elevated levels of inorganic As (As) is associated with cancers of the skin, bladder, and lung, developmental effects, cardiovascular diseas…
On December 26, 2004, a catastrophic tsunami struck the Indian Ocean just off the coast of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This thesis will explore land tenure reform as an international intervention in Aceh, Indonesia, located on the island of Sumatra. Using a comparative ana…
This comparative study examines the various forms of British intervention in Egypt and Iraq during World War II, and the nature of Britain's informal empire in the Middle East. The focus is on the British Embassies which served as the local point of contact between Britain and t…
Road traffic injuries (RTIs) have reached epidemic proportions worldwide and will become the third leading cause of all Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost by the year 2020 unless prompt intervention is carried out. To address this growing burden, an intervention using v…
Problem. The impact of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), with its emphasis on preemptive military force, is a matter of considerable debate. This dissertation uses a time series intervention approach to evaluate the extent to which the onset of the GWOT (beginning with the inv…
The qualitative research approach and life story interview method was used to describe the significant live events of five adults who experienced domestic violence during their childhood and adolescence. The participants were three women and two men who ranged between 23 to 61 y…
Since the end of the Cold War, violent ethnic conflict has coincided with an increase in the number of failed or collapsed states and the emergence of more muscular and intrusive forms of external intervention by the United Nations. This dissertation explores the relationship be…
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a new instrument, the Medical Intermediate Concept Measure of Ethical Reasoning (Hereafter the MD-ICM), designed to help educators assess the ethical reasoning of medical students in Thailand. Following earlier methods for develo…
This dissertation examines regime interventions, those military interventions explicitly directed at regime change in a target state. I look at all regime interventions occurring between 1815 and 2001 and argue that these interventions are best understood as directed at broad re…
In response to its failure to meet state mandated proficiency standards in reading and mathematics over the past three years, a rural, Title I high school (LS) in South Carolina purchased and implemented the commercially available literacy program READ 180 (R180) for the 2008-20…
Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub for outsourcing software for th…
When do states experience coup d’états? Previous studies of military intervention have analyzed various social conditions that have been assessed as determinants of coup behavior. Relationships between select social conditions and coup behavior are often determined by how a vari…
Vitamin A deficiency continues to be a public health problem in many countries. Several carotenoids, such as α- and β-carotene and β-cryptoxanthin found in plants, are capable of forming vitamin A in humans. Pro-vitamin A carotenoid-rich foods are an important and often sole sou…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by specific symptoms, including (a) hypervigilance, (b) avoidance, and (c) recurring and intrusive dreams. PTSD has long been approached as a purely psychological issue with distinct behavioral symptom…