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This thesis aims to establish how high school librarians in Scotland and America can become effective evidence-based decision-makers. Initial data collection consisted of written questionnaires to elicit background data from librarians on the extent of their evidence-based pract…

This thesis concerns the struggles over the production of the truth of state violence in Turkey in the three decades following the infamous 1980 military coup. Specifically, it focuses on cases of torture and enforced disappearance, two forms of violence which the state not only…

Vilcabamba was the site of the final stronghold of the Inca resistance for nearly forty years from 1537 until 1572. Though it has often been thought of as an isolated region during this period, interactions between the Inca and Spanish play an important part in its history. This…

This study presents an interpretive approach to Cormac McCarthy’s early works—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God—which seeks to account for the deterioration of traditional community values and the accompanying degradation of the individual that occurs over the cou…

21 years into the 21st Century, we have witnessed everything from booming global economies to apocalyptic pandemics that can threaten to wipe out the entire world. Everything changed albeit one thing – disputes. For as long as there are humans, there will be disputes. In order t…

This dissertation is comprised of three essays. Chapter 1 is about a house titling program, called Khaya Lam, in South Africa. Despite it being legal in South Africa to acquire a title deed to a government-issued home, roughly 20 million South Africans do not hold title to their…

This dissertation consists of three essays: “The Effect of Women's Access to Free Health Care on Breastfeeding Practices: Evidence from Armenia” examines how women's decisions regarding breastfeeding respond to increased maternal access to medical care. Specifically, I examine t…

Stalin’s repression of Ukrainian Yiddish writers and intellectuals is the least studied dimension of the anti-Semitic campaigns of his final years. This dissertation explores the activity of Ukrainian Jewish intellectuals, the process of their repression and fabrication of cases…

This dissertation studies the circumstances under which explicit norms of evidentiary admissibility were adopted in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Roman-canon procedure. I demonstrate that norms of admissibility arose in two areas: the law of positions and the law of witnesses.…