This dissertation encompasses three works on nuclear power plants (NPPs). A theme common to all chapters is the question of why nuclear power has failed to achieve the success envisioned by its proponents, particularly when that success has been achieved at certain times and in …
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The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) introduced the Community Rating System (CRS) to encourage community-level flood mitigation and increase individual-level flood insurance uptake. This study analyzes what factors influence communities to participate in the CRS and condi…
The success of stokvels is driven by a purpose which is beyond money. Purposes differ but the crucial element is that they exist to assist the members to improve their lives. Stokvels play a diverse social, economic and traditional role in black communities. They, in so far as a…
The National Bank of Ethiopia Directive to License and Authorise Interest Free Banking Business, Directive Number SBB/72/2019, allowed a full-fledged interest free banking business for the first time in the history of the country. The Directive prescribed that “all regulatory an…
This study explored the longitudinal effects of adolescent pornography trajectories on risky sexual behavior, as well as predictors of pornography trajectories. Data was taken from Waves V-X of the Flourishing Families Project, which included a sample of 463 families. A zero-inf…
This dissertation analyzes how technological and institutional changes influence economic development. Chapter 1 quantifies the long-term effect of refrigeration on agricultural production. Mechanical refrigeration greatly reduced transportation cost for perishable products but …
Short-term rental (STR) platforms like Airbnb increasingly offer entire homes for most of the year. Mounting evidence in large U.S. cities shows that this places them in competition with long-term housing options. To examine the impact of STRs on smaller, tourism-driven cities, …
Alcohol related harm is one of the major public health and societal concerns in the UK. Per capita alcohol consumption has risen considerably over the last twenty years and binge drinking has increased. Alcohol related harms including crime and social disorder, lost productivity…
Offshore petroleum exploration and production (E&P) activities are faced with both technical and environmental challenges. In spite of these challenges, offshore petroleum E&P are on the increase globally. These operations have not been accident free even with improved technolog…
Background: This research explored regulation and professionalism with respect to the current state of professional practice for hospital pharmacy technicians. Since July 2011 pharmacy technicians must register with the General Pharmaceutical Council in order to practise. An ack…
The scholarship on American tattoo history is characterized by its chronological gaps and lack of varied perspectives or methodological approaches. This research focuses on a Baltimore tattoo business’s history from 1938 to 1980 to shed light on under-researched decades in curre…
Financial solvency regulation of the U.S. insurance industry occurs at the state level, and is led by insurance commissioners. Insurance commissioners wield significant discretion over the regulatory process, but their incentives may be affected by post-term job opportunities ("…
Despite their ubiquitous nature, there is currently a paucity of theorising and research on the drivers of human resource management (HRM) development within the context of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Mainstream HRM models have tended to be biased towards normative…
This dissertation examines the effect of oil wealth on a country's business environment and government policymaking towards firms and entrepreneurs. It begins with a game theoretic approach that derives hypotheses about business environment reforms given the interests of the gov…
In this thesis I argue that the management of Muslim pilgrims and the Haj traffic in Bombay was the result of the localization of an international regime of regulation aimed at controlling Hajis as mobile threats to public health and imperial security. International scientists, …
The non-interest and profit-loss sharing schemes of Islamic finance (IF) are attracting increasing global attention. Despite exposure to the similar opportunities as other Western countries that have adopted the financial business model there is little evidence of Islamic financ…
In Saudi Arabia there is a strong belief among members of the construction profession that the quality of architectural design is in crisis. Continuous legal disputes among construction parties and the lack of creative ideas in design are some symptoms of the design quality prob…
This dissertation consists of three theoretical and empirical essays. In all essays strategic behavior is a key factor. The first essay tries to explain certain pricing behaviors in cellular communication markets using social interactions as a basis for modeling. The second essa…
This dissertation is situated in the context of what knowledge counts in health and tobacco control regulation in Nigeria. The use of critical realism and critical ethnography is to highlight the responses of smokers and public health professionals in Nigeria and identify the co…