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Popular participation in Cochabamba, Bolivia as an ameliorative policy treatment affecting public education.
(2005)
Popular Participation is a public policy characterized by decentralization and devolution of responsibility and resources for a wide range of public services, including public education, from the national to the municipal ...
The Co-Production of Technoscience and Social Science in Green Revolution Mexico, 1956-1979
(2018)
In 1943 the Rockefeller Foundation, nominally in partnership with the Mexican government, initiated its Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP). Over the subsequent decades, a complex network of worldwide inter-governmental/NGO ...
Investigation of ligand misdirection using the kinetic element effect and the kinetic enthalpy effect.
(2000)
Metal complexes were synthesized with the atropisomeric dabp. X-ray crystal structures were solved for [Ru(bipy)2(dabp)]2+ and [(eta6-C6H6)Ru(dabp)(Cl)]+. Only one diastereomer was observed for [Ru(bipy)2(dabp)] 2+ in the ...
THEORY, DESIGN, AND SIMULATION OF LINA: A PATH FORWARD FOR QCA-TYPE NANOELECTRONICS
(2012)
The past 50 years have seen exponential advances in digital integrated circuit technologies which has facilitated an explosion of uses and functionality. Although this rate (generally referred to as "Moore's Law") cannot ...
From the Mundane to the Profound: Developing a Political Model of Weather Information Processing and Climate Change Beliefs
(2019-08)
This dissertation examines the relationships between the mundane, our daily habits of weather information collection, and the profound, our beliefs about climate change and relevant policy solutions. Climate change is a ...
Optimizing Lidar Scanning Strategies for Wind Energy Turbulence Measurements
(2015-05-08)
Turbulence has a significant effect on wind farm power production and turbine reliability. Since remote sensing devices, such as lidars, are commonly used in wind energy studies, the accurate measurement of turbulence with ...
A study of female commanders in the United States Army: Culture, command and the women who lead.
(2003)
Organizational changes occurred at the individual level through the development of personal relationships. Organizational changes were manifested in several ways. Organizational changes occurred through personal interaction ...
A RIVER OF CONTINUITY, TRIBUTARIES OF CHANGE: THE CHICKASAWS AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, 1735-1795
(2015-12)
This project examines the relationships between the Chickasaw Indians and the Mississippi River between 1735 and 1795. Chickasaws imagined, managed, and manipulated the river in a number of ways. For them, the Mississippi ...
Alterations to faculty compensation structures at midwest medical schools.
(2001)
Despite an almost equal number of positive and negative outcomes reported as a result of the plans' implementation, the majority of the faculty respondents were accepting of the revised plan, and reported its implementation ...
WIRELESS OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER DESIGN, LINK ANALISYS AND ALIGNMENT CONTROL FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION
(2013)
Pointing, acquisition and tracking of a free-space optical node in a mobile network experiencing misalignment due to adverse factors including vibration, motion and atmospheric turbulence requires a different approach than ...