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Price reform of the food and agricultural markets in China: 1978-1993.
(1997)
This work examines price reforms in both food and agricultural markets within China from 1978 to 1993. This work then found that pragmatic economic reforms in agriculture generally became successful in that they raised the ...
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)
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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 ...
Technology and the change in workforce skill: An examination of United States labor markets, 1950-1990.
(1997)
In the second half of the dissertation I examine the relationship between changes in skill and alternative measures of technology. The findings of the regression analysis indicate that there is generally a positive ...
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 ...
Observations on the empirical capital asset pricing model in estimating a public utility's cost of equity capital.
(1998)
The literature of the Capital Asset Pricing Model describes a fundamental bias in its empirical application. The most notable problem is that the Empirical Capital Asset Pricing Model produces betas which overestimate the ...