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Analyzing the relationship between urbanization, food supply and demand, and irrigation requirements in Jordan
(2018)
The landscape surrounding urban areas is often used as farmland. With the observed expansion of urban areas over the last decades and a projected continuation of this trend, our objective was to analyze how urbanization ...
Healthy Institutions: Technocracy, Democracy, and Legitimacy in EU GMO Regulation
(2018-12)
As a result of several food and chemical-related public health scares as well as strong activism by environmental organization such as Greenpeace, longstanding majorities of European Union (EU) citizens support restrictions ...
Gender, Partisanship, and Women's Issues in Congressional Communication
(2018)
Despite much scholarly attention to women’s issues and women’s representation in recent decades, the definition of a women’s issue is not settled either in political science or public opinion. In this project, I present a ...
The Dissonance between Democracy's Promise and Its Gendered Reality
(2018-12-14)
In international development discourse and political science literature, there appears to be consensus that democratic governance contributes to gender equality. As a result, democracy and women’s rights are often articulated ...
CARBONACEOUS NANOSIZED SURFACTANT CARRIERS AND OIL-INDUCED VISCOELASTIC FLUID FOR POTENTIAL EOR APPLICATIONS
(2018-05-11)
This dissertation aims to advance the conventional tertiary oil recovery method, surfactant flooding process. Via injecting a finite slug of surfactant-only or mixture of surfactant/polymer solution into reservoir, surfactants ...
The Effects of a Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse on Central and Peripheral Fatigue Following High and Low Intensity Fatiguing Exercise
(2018-05-11)
Fatigue is the primary cause of the decline in performance during exercise. A carbohydrate (CHO) mouth rinse has been shown to have a beneficial effect during long duration, aerobic exercise. However, the effects of a CHO ...
TIME COURSE OF CHANGE IN CRITICAL TORQUE AND IMPULSE ABOVE CRITICAL TORQUE FOLLOWING EXERCISE-INDUCED MUSCLE DAMAGE
(2018-05-11)
Exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) is a result of high-force eccentric contractions and can lead to significant alterations in the structure and function of skeletal muscles. Critical torque (CT) and the impulse above ...
Secure Decentralized Decisions in Consolidated Hospital Systems: Intelligent Agents and Blockchain
(2018)
Shared decision making has become a very important solution in order to build a consolidated healthcare system. While there is some research in the healthcare literature discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the ...
Navigating Screens: Libraries as Community Hubs for Teaching Positive Screen Media Practices
(2018)
Most children are spending increasing amounts of time each day using a wide range of digital media (e.g. smartphones, iPads, and laptops). However, parents and other caregivers are often unequipped to play the roles of ...
Warning Intelligence in Nuclear Crisis Management: Avoiding Catastrophic Miscalculation
(2018-07-23)
Despite efforts to reduce nuclear weapons proliferation and the general norm against nuclear weapons use which has survived since 1945, the threat of nuclear war between the United States and Russia continues. The United ...