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PROMOTING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT:MOTIVATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE PARTICIPATIONIN EMERGENCY SERVICE DELIVERY
(2020-08-18)
This dissertation seeks to understand the determinants and motivations of citizens' individual and collective participation in the process of public service delivery through the lens of citizen co-production. While citizen ...
Gumbo Banaha Stories: Louisiana Indigeneities and the Transnational South
(2014-05-09)
Abstract
Post devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana has again become a popular exoticized presence in the American entertainment machine. As a result, scholarly studies have renewed interest in the historic ...
Group Threat in the News: a Comparative Study of the Expression of Group Threat and Media Framing in European Union Immigration News Stories.
(2013-12)
The member nations of the Europe Union (EU) faced a dilemma born of troubling economic times during the years between 2000 and 2012. The political turmoil currently plaguing the continent created an environment rife with ...
EL EROTISMO COMO VARIABLE QUEER EN ESCRITOS DE SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ, MADRE CASTILLO, GERTRUDIS GÓMEZ DE AVELLANEDA, CRISTINA PERI ROSSI Y MAYRA MONTERO
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation uses contemporary queer theory to analyze women's writings from the XVIIth to the XXIst century. Queer theory opens a space for analysis that covers a variety of genres, characters, and topics. Women ...
ADVANCES TOWARD THE UTILIZATION OF CUCURBIT[7]URIL AND SELECTED VIOLOGENS IN MOLECULAR MACHINES AND DEVICES
(2013-10-18)
The study of technology at the molecular level is the perhaps the final frontier in materials science, and is fertile ground for the application of supramolecular chemistry. Cucurbit[7]uril is a particularly unique ...
Order in a Chaotic Subsystem: A Comparative Analysis of Nuclear Facility Siting Using Coalition Opportunity Structures and the Advocacy Coalition Framework
(2013-11)
This dissertation attempts to highlight existing patterns surrounding locally unwanted land uses (LULUs) and explain how institutional features of a country influence the likelihood those LULUs become operational. Focusing ...
National Symbols and Social Change: A Case Study of Poland
(2014-05-09)
This study focuses on national symbols and the communicative role they play in social change as it manifests itself in social movements and revolutions. Symbols in social movements and revolutions play a crucial role in ...
IN SILICO STUDIES OF AMYLOID FORMATION AND AMYLOID STABILITY
(2020-07)
The term “Amyloid” describes the precursor proteins misfolded and aggregated into fibril-like structures that are built by cross β-sheet subunit. The disease caused by depositing amyloid fibril in tissues and organs is ...
Location, Location, Location: What Factors Drive Where U.S.-Based NGOs Go?
(2016-05-13)
This dissertation advances our understanding of how U.S.-based transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs) with international scopes of work navigate decision-making related to country-level location choices. It ...
Exploration of the Other-Race Recognition Deficit
(2015-05)
Existing research regarding the Other-Race Bias (ORB), a phenomenon in which faces of the same race are more accurately recognized than of another race, primarily focuses on when the recognition deficit occurs and not why ...