A massive transition of land ownership is currently underway in the U.S. as an increasing proportion of farmers near retirement age with no successor in place. The question of who will replace them has come to the fore as policy makers and food justice activists alike contemplat…
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Labor unions are a controversial and relatively little understood species of organization. While empirical research on the effects of unions on various labor market outcomes proliferated in the 1970s and 80s, theoretical understanding of the behavior of unions remains at its ear…
The South American Monsoon System (SAMS) is characterized by a well-defined wet and dry season, which is connected to the reversal of anomalous low-level winds east of the Andes. Driven by local and remote processes, the intensity and duration of the SAMS can vary considerably f…
Colleges’ and universities’ prominent, high-risk nature places them among the most at-risk targets for cyberattacks worldwide. While effective solutions exist to detect suspicious activities and block them promptly, cyberattacks continue to increase. This study addresses cyberat…
Quotatives, or the strategies we employ to introduce quotes, have been a subject of ample interest in English linguistics for nearly three decades. In Spanish linguistics, however, the study of quotation has focused primarily on linguistic distributions of conventional quotative…
While musicians have been performing with electronics for nearly a century, there still exists very little performable repertoire for electronicists. In fact, the notion of the electronicist as a performative role in contemporary classical music is still not necessarily widely a…
In the last few decades, international investment law (IIL) has emerged as one of the most distinct legal frameworks for promoting and protecting foreign investment. However, evidence of linkages between foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth and IIL in developing coun…
The growing increase in the size and scope of offshore wind farms motivates the need for industry to have access to mathematical tools that reduce costs by efficiently performing daily operations and maintenance activities. Key offshore activities require the transportation of t…
Bu çalışmanın amacı enflasyon, ekonomik büyüme ve istihdam arasındaki ilişkiyi Türkiye, Brezilya ve Güney Kore örneklerini kullanarak açıklamaktır. Brezilya ve Türkiye yabancı yatırım ve yurtdışından gelen sıcak para ile büyüyen iki ülkedir. Bu ülkelerin enflasyon trendleri birb…
This thesis is concerned with the design of data visualisations of digitised museum, archive and library collections, in timelines. As cultural institutions digitise their collections—converting texts, objects, and artworks to electronic records—the volume of cultural data avail…
Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites (PICS) are one of the most popular methods for in-flight vicarious radiometric calibration of Earth remote sensing satellites. The fundamental question of PICS temporal stability has not been adequately addressed. However, the main purpose of t…
Since their discovery, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have garnered the attention of many, as related news and access to genetic testing became more available to the public. Considering the public’s increasing awareness of breast cancer and access to BRCA genetic testing, individuals…
The supply chain has become very essential to run any business nowadays. Throughout the history of business, the professionals have been trying always to find out the best practice, and as long as the business concept is evolved over time, the practice, methodologies and techniq…
People who inject drugs (PWID) is a heterogeneous and hard-to-reach group due to legal implications, stigma and discrimination. PWID are vulnerable to various poor health outcomes including HIV and hepatitis due to ongoing injection and sexual risk behaviours, various forms of a…
In the United States, the Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act mandates that all federally fished species must have catch limits, which can be challenging for data-limited species. One approach is to assess and manage a group of species with similar life history characteristics,…
This thesis project explicates the proliferation of “authentic” goods in urban millennial consumer culture. Whether a product makes appeals to its historicity, uses labels such as “Ethically Sourced” and “Fair Trade,” or advertises with cinema verité aesthetics, the production o…
Understanding how individuals learn in faith-based learning contexts has been an understudied domain in Learning Sciences research. In this dissertation, I situated the church and online faith spaces as learning environments using Community of Practice frameworks. This study obs…
Charleston, South Carolina is a city valued for its history and culture, but rising ocean levels have caused fears for its safety. Ensemble Empirical Modal Decomposition (EEMD) is a process through which data may be broken from its original, layered state into the major componen…
What is the logic of political survival in revolutionary situations? This study expands on selectorate theory by seeking how ideological goals inform allocation decisions in revolutionary situations. Using the case of Mohammad Mosaddeq in Iran, I analyze the logic of political s…