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Esperanza Rising, Alyssa Hurst Mar 2022

Esperanza Rising, Alyssa Hurst

Children's Book and Media Review

Esperanza has lived her whole life on a beautiful farm in Mexico with her wealthy family. However, when a tragedy strikes her family, they flee to a Mexican farm camp in California, right in the middle of the Great Depression. Esperanza learns what it means to work hard, struggle financially, and be discriminated against. Even while surrounded by endless crops, the people in the farm camp are starving and sick. When again Esperanza and her family’s lives are threatened, Esperanza must rise above her circumstances and fight.

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Fast Enough, Amanda Morgan Mar 2022

Fast Enough, Amanda Morgan

Children's Book and Media Review

Have you ever been told you weren’t good enough? Bessie Stringfield sure was, but that never stopped her! This book tells the story of young Bessie Stringfield learning to ride a bike. All the boys at school said she couldn’t do it and she’d never be faster than them. Bessie dreams that she rides her bike so fast she can glide over water and shoot into space. The next day, Bessie takes her bike to where the boys are racing to show them what she can do.

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Dress Like A Girl, Cynthia Phillips Mar 2022

Dress Like A Girl, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

People will tell you to “dress like a girl,” but what do they mean? This book follows a group of girls through their playtime as they dress up and act out their imaginative play. The narrative and illustrations weave a scene of exploring careers. From being bakers to astronauts, police officers to jungle animals, the advice is to make sure your look is complete from head to toe. Express yourself as a unique individual.

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After The River The Sun, Phyllis Rosen Mar 2022

After The River The Sun, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

Eckhart Lyon is sent to live with his Uncle Al after his parents drown in a car accident. Required to help out on Uncle Al’s orchard, the only thing Eckhart has left of his parents is a violin that was a gift from his mother. His uncle has no sympathy, but Eckhart finds friendship when he meets a girl named Eva, who has a vivid imagination and who loves everything about King Arthur and his knights. Gradually Eckhart learns to have hope and courage. But when Uncle Al tries to force Eckhart to choose between staying on the farm keeping …

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Bravo: Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios, Rudy Palencia Mar 2022

Bravo: Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios, Rudy Palencia

Children's Book and Media Review

Multiple Spanish poems explore different Hispanic cultures. Each individual tells their story in poetry and details the lives they had in their home country. The poems describe the history of many Hispanic cultures and focus on the importance of families. They convey the message to the readers that there is always hope when you work hard and believe in yourself. The poems celebrate the individuals whose accomplishments contributed to the thriving Hispanic cultures and communities that live on today.

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Bears Don't Eat Egg Sandwiches, Jamie Greenwood Mar 2022

Bears Don't Eat Egg Sandwiches, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

Jack, who loves egg sandwiches, is just sitting down for lunch when he hears a knock at the door. He opens it to reveal a bear, who is also hungry. Jack offers him an egg sandwich, but the bear thinks Jack is more appetizing. Naively, Jack sits on the dinner plate. But then, realizing what the bear’s intentions are, he tells the bear he will probably taste like egg sandwiches. The bear, who does not eat egg sandwiches, promptly spits Jack out, and the pair enjoy a cheese sandwich instead.

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Animal Babies Like To Play, Jazmin Gomez Mar 2022

Animal Babies Like To Play, Jazmin Gomez

Children's Book and Media Review

Join twenty-six babies on a day full of play. Each baby is dressed as a different animal, and they enjoy a variety of activities. Whether it’s books, blocks, ice cream, or pie, there is always something fun to fill the day. The baby animals creatively play together or on their own. However, yak baby has spent his time looking for his friend. Nobody has seen zebra baby, but he finally comes out and joins the others in the end.

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Ana & Andrew: Day At The Museum, Amanda Morgan Mar 2022

Ana & Andrew: Day At The Museum, Amanda Morgan

Children's Book and Media Review

Ana and Andrew receive a surprise visit from their grandma. While she is visiting, the family takes an exciting trip to the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. There they learn about the amazing things their ancestors did. They get to see pictures and artifacts and even listen to music and read recipes. At the end of the tour, the family discusses their favorite parts of the museum. They are all very proud of their African American heritage.

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Fergal And The Bad Temper, Jessica Mellor Mar 2022

Fergal And The Bad Temper, Jessica Mellor

Children's Book and Media Review

Fergal is a nice dragon, but when someone tell him what to do, he gets very, very angry. Coming down for dinner when he wants to keep playing and eating his vegetables when he wants dessert all make him snort fire. Fergal’s anger gets him in all kinds of trouble, and there are always consequences. After all of Fergal’s friends have had enough, mom swoops in to give some tips for him to control his temper. Fergal now begins to recognize how all the other animals have their own way to calm down and that there is a better way …

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Danny And The Dinosaur Mind Their Manners, Jessica Mellor Mar 2022

Danny And The Dinosaur Mind Their Manners, Jessica Mellor

Children's Book and Media Review

Danny and the dinosaur see the sign on the museum that reads “meet the king,” and the two decide to brush up on their manners if a real king is coming to visit the museum. They work on chewing with their mouths closed, opening the door for others, and waiting in line patiently for the drinking fountain. Together they prepare to meet the king that is coming (although he might not be what they expected).

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Enemy Pie, Jessica Reynolds Mar 2022

Enemy Pie, Jessica Reynolds

Children's Book and Media Review

A boy makes an enemy list with one name: Jeremy Ross. It’s been the perfect summer for the boy—until Jeremy moves into the neighborhood and makes fun of him. Luckily, the boy’s Dad knows about enemies and makes an enemy pie for his son to give to Jeremy. To make the pie work, the boy has to spend a day playing with Jeremy. While they play, the boy even lets Jeremy into his tree house. By the end of the day, the boy is no longer sure he wants to give the enemy pie to Jeremy.

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Photo-Induced Drug Release From Polymeric Micelles And Liposomes: Phototriggering Mechanisms In Drug Delivery Systems, Najla M. Salkho, Nahid S. Awad, William G. Pitt, Ghaleb A. Husseini Mar 2022

Photo-Induced Drug Release From Polymeric Micelles And Liposomes: Phototriggering Mechanisms In Drug Delivery Systems, Najla M. Salkho, Nahid S. Awad, William G. Pitt, Ghaleb A. Husseini

Faculty Publications

Chemotherapeutic drugs are highly effective in treating cancer. However, the side effects associated with this treatment lower the quality of life of cancer patients. Smart nanocarriers are able to encapsulate these drugs to deliver them to tumors while reducing their contact with the healthy cells and the subsequent side effects. Upon reaching their target, the release of the encapsulated drugs should be carefully controlled to achieve therapeutic levels at the required time. Light is one of the promising triggering mechanisms used as external stimuli to trigger drug release from the light-responsive nanocarriers. Photo-induced drug release can be achieved at a …

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Towards Trojan Detection From A Raw Bitstream, Corey Ryan Simpson Mar 2022

Towards Trojan Detection From A Raw Bitstream, Corey Ryan Simpson

Theses and Dissertations

Many avenues exist to insert malicious circuitry into an FPGA designs, including compromised CAD tools, overwriting bitstream files, and post-deployment attacks. The proprietary nature of the Xilinx bitstreams precludes the ability to validate an implemented design. This thesis introduces the BitRec and IPRec projects in an effort to support trojan detection tools. BitRec provides a novel approach to mapping of the Xilinx bitstream format into FPGA features in order to recreate the original design's netlist. BitRec supports the 7 Series, UltraScale and UltraScale+ architectures. IPRec then provides a novel approach to recognizing parameterizable IP within a flattened netlist in an …

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Differential Responses Of Native Fishes In Two Headwater Tributaries Of The Gila River Following Severe Wildfires, Crosby Hedden, David L. Propst, Keith B. Gido, Skyler C. Hedden, James E. Whitney Mar 2022

Differential Responses Of Native Fishes In Two Headwater Tributaries Of The Gila River Following Severe Wildfires, Crosby Hedden, David L. Propst, Keith B. Gido, Skyler C. Hedden, James E. Whitney

Western North American Naturalist

High-severity wildfires are becoming increasingly common across the American Southwest, and knowledge of how these fires affect native organisms is essential for their conservation. We evaluated changes in fish densities and habitat over 7 and 23 years in 2 tributaries of the Gila River, New Mexico, that experienced large wildfires. The Miller Fire affected Little Creek in 2011 and was followed by moderate monsoonal flooding. The Silver Fire affected Black Canyon in 2013 and was followed by a large monsoonal flood. These 2 headwater streams responded differently to wildfire. Influx of sediments reduced stream depth by 59% and increased fine …

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Confronting Barriers To Human-Robot Cooperation: Balancing Efficiency And Risk In Machine Behavior, Tim Whiting Mar 2022

Confronting Barriers To Human-Robot Cooperation: Balancing Efficiency And Risk In Machine Behavior, Tim Whiting

Theses and Dissertations

In strategically rich settings in which machines and people do not fully share the same preferences, machines must learn to cooperate and compromise with people to establish mutually successful relationships. However, designing machines that effectively cooperate with people in these settings is difficult due to a variety of technical and psychological challenges. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a series of user studies in which we investigated human-human, robot-robot, and human-robot cooperation in a simple, yet strategically rich, resource-sharing scenario called the Block Dilemma, a game in which players must balance fairness, efficiency, and risk. While both human-human and …

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Livestock Depredation By Jaguars Associated With Dry-Season Core-Use Areas In A Northeastern Mexico Agrolandscape, Adrián Silva-Caballero, Louis C. Bender, Octavio C. Rosas-Rosas Mar 2022

Livestock Depredation By Jaguars Associated With Dry-Season Core-Use Areas In A Northeastern Mexico Agrolandscape, Adrián Silva-Caballero, Louis C. Bender, Octavio C. Rosas-Rosas

Western North American Naturalist

Predation by jaguars (Panthera onca) on livestock can foster human intolerance and drive human–jaguar conflicts. Understanding distributional patterns that characterize depredation can help guide strategies to ameliorate these interactions, which is important because human conflicts are the main threat to the endangered jaguar in Mexico. We used clusters of satellite telemetry locations to evaluate spatial patterns of jaguars and jaguar predation/scavenging sites of livestock and wild ungulates in the Sierra del Abra-Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve (RBSAT) and surrounding agrolandscape of northeastern Mexico, where livestock composed 66% of the biomass of jaguar diets. Distribution of livestock sites was significantly associated …

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Climate Variation Influences Flowering Time Overlap In A Pair Of Hybridizing Montane Plants, Kelly A. Carscadden, Daniel F. Doak, Nancy C. Emery Mar 2022

Climate Variation Influences Flowering Time Overlap In A Pair Of Hybridizing Montane Plants, Kelly A. Carscadden, Daniel F. Doak, Nancy C. Emery

Western North American Naturalist

Flowering time is sensitive to climatic conditions and has been a frequent focus of climate change research, yet the implications of phenological shifts for hybridization within plant communities have seldom been explored. Reproductive overlap between interfertile species is a key requirement for the production of hybrid (interspecies) offspring, and climate change may influence the opportunities for hybrid production through changes to species’ flowering time, duration, and overlap with other species. To test how climate variation influences flowering overlap between hybridizing species, we analyzed 45 years of flowering phenology data on 2 common plants in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado that …

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Observations Of Greater Sage-Grouse At A Solar Energy Facility In Wyoming, Michael B. Gerringer, Kurt T. Smith, Karl L. Kosciuch Mar 2022

Observations Of Greater Sage-Grouse At A Solar Energy Facility In Wyoming, Michael B. Gerringer, Kurt T. Smith, Karl L. Kosciuch

Western North American Naturalist

Photovoltaic, utility-scale solar energy (PV USSE) development is expected to expand in the United States over the next decade and has the potential to impact wildlife through direct mortality and habitat loss. However, the current understanding of wildlife responses, including responses of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse), to solar energy development is limited, resulting in uncertainty about potential impacts associated with development and operation. During bird and bat carcass searches at a PV USSE facility in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, we opportunistically observed sage-grouse foraging and loafing inside the facility. We recorded 19 groups of live sage-grouse, representing …

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Exploring The Inferiority Model In Adlerian Psychotherapy, Rachel Bradley Mar 2022

Exploring The Inferiority Model In Adlerian Psychotherapy, Rachel Bradley

Student Works

Alfred Adler once afflicted with inferiority due to organ inferiority, became the founding father of Individual/Adlerian psychology. Adlerian psychotherapy spans numerous contemporary theories in psychology. Adlerian psychotherapy is a holistic, phenomenological, optimistic and socially entrenched theory, on how everyone interprets themselves and others within the society they live (Maniacci & Sackett-Maniacci, 2019). An overview will be provided of where one of Adler’s most important assumptions, inferiority, fits within the Adlerian theory. Given such, the negative responses to inferiority: inferiority complex and superiority complex will be discussed, followed by socially useful type of inferiority. After that, inferiority as a specific element …

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A Comparison Of Square-Wave Voltammetry Models To Determine The Number Of Electrons Exchanged In Metal Deposition, Ranon Fuller, Tyler Williams, Mark H. Schvaneveldt, Devin Rappleye Mar 2022

A Comparison Of Square-Wave Voltammetry Models To Determine The Number Of Electrons Exchanged In Metal Deposition, Ranon Fuller, Tyler Williams, Mark H. Schvaneveldt, Devin Rappleye

Faculty Publications

A comparison of square-wave voltammetry models for calculating the number of electrons exchanged in a metal deposition reaction. Experiments were conducted for silver deposition on platinum in an aqueous HNO3 solution and for nickel and lanthanum deposition on platinum in molten LiCl. Diffusion coefficients for Ni2+ and La3+ in LiCl at 700oC are calculated. Accuracy of soluble-soluble models versus a soluble-insoluble model is discussed. A simple method for determining the number of electrons exchanged under the constraint of well-compensated ohmic drop is proposed and evaluated.

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Rosal De María By Soror Maria Do Céu: A Pedagogical Edition And Literary Analysis, Bailey Willden Mar 2022

Rosal De María By Soror Maria Do Céu: A Pedagogical Edition And Literary Analysis, Bailey Willden

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Soror Maria do Céu’s Rosal de María, second of the five plays published in her work Triunfo do Rosario, is an exemplary work of early modern convent drama because the didactic, allegorical purposes of the play interact with rich symbolism and mastery of the literary conventions of the day. Written to perform as part of the celebrations for the Feast of the Rosary, Rosal de Maria fulfills the same purpose of the Rosary itself, leading worshipers in their contemplation on the life of Christ. She creates a living Rosary on the stage by employing elements like floral imagery, transferred classicism …

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Gender-Related Language Trends In Online Written News: Comparative Corpus Analysis Of Prescribed Vs. Actual Usage, Brooke James Mar 2022

Gender-Related Language Trends In Online Written News: Comparative Corpus Analysis Of Prescribed Vs. Actual Usage, Brooke James

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Contrary to traditional thought in linguistics and editing, recent studies using corpus-based evidence suggest that historical English usage patterns influenced prescriptive usage manuals’ guidelines more than the other way around. To investigate the modern relationship between English language prescriptions and usage, this study focuses on the wide-reaching genre of written online news and the topic of gender-fair language. It compares changes regarding gender-specific language in the Associated Press’s stylebooks to actual usage trends as documented in the News on the Web (NOW) corpus. Results from NOW show -man title variants as the dominant form in the early 2010s, consistent AP …

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The Effect Of Economic Shocks On Religious Freedom Violations: Evidence From Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, And Sudan, Rachel Miner Mar 2022

The Effect Of Economic Shocks On Religious Freedom Violations: Evidence From Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, And Sudan, Rachel Miner

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, global religious freedom violations are on the rise, especially against religious minorities, as government leaders have used the pandemic as a mechanism to increase oppression (USCIRF 2021). The first week of February 2022, the international community recognized the one-year mark since the Myanmar government launched a coup and genocide campaign against Rohingya Muslims (Paddock 2022). As the Winter Olympics unfolds on the world stage, there is increased attention surrounding the nearly two million Uighur Muslims currently held in concentration camps in China (Abbas 2022). And even with growing headline reports, uncertainty surrounding how …

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The Investment Gap: An Exploration Of Why So Few Women Study Finance At Brigham Young University, Elizabeth Anne Pearson Mar 2022

The Investment Gap: An Exploration Of Why So Few Women Study Finance At Brigham Young University, Elizabeth Anne Pearson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis explores the root cause of the systemic underrepresentation of women in the finance industry by investigating why so few women choose to study finance in college. It looks in depth at why there is a low percentage of women that graduate in finance from Brigham Young University each year by analyzing the survey responses of women in business majors across the Marriott School. The thesis discusses three areas of solutions for greater mentorship, transparency, and exposure that can be implemented through five actionable steps to help shift the dynamic of representation. While I do not aim to make …

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“I—I Can’T Talk About Things”: The Tragedy Of Post-Wwii Civilian Masculinity In Agatha Christie’S Taken At The Flood, Rebekah Olsen Mar 2022

“I—I Can’T Talk About Things”: The Tragedy Of Post-Wwii Civilian Masculinity In Agatha Christie’S Taken At The Flood, Rebekah Olsen

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis examines the ways in which Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood serves to illustrate the fragility and ultimate destabilization of masculinity immediately following WWII. Christie illustrates this break by comparing two men, David Hunter and Rowley Cloade who represent types of men in Britain’s postwar landscape. Throughout the text, David Hunter is framed as a dangerous and dreadful young man, serving as a representation of post-war fears about demobbed soldiers attacking young women. However, the story really revolves around the civilian trauma that Rowley Cloade has sustained through his wartime role as a farmer, which comes from repression …

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Variability In Variables: An Analysis Of Variable Use In A Middle School Mathematics Textbook, Annalisa G. Lavin Mar 2022

Variability In Variables: An Analysis Of Variable Use In A Middle School Mathematics Textbook, Annalisa G. Lavin

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Variables are an important part of mathematics as they allow mathematicians to generalize and more easily express mathematical ideas, however research has shown that students struggle with understanding variables. One way to study variable use is to classify variables into different types based on how they are used. This study uses variable types to investigate variable usage in a middle school mathematics textbook. This study identified 9 variable types and 3 algebraic processes that variable types are tied to. This analysis also found evidence of a growing complexity in variable use, starting with sophisticated variable use in grade 6 and …

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The Effect Of Mobile Voting Units On Voter Turnout: An Ada County, Idaho Case Study, Tayzlie T. Haack, Tayzlie Tripple Haack Mar 2022

The Effect Of Mobile Voting Units On Voter Turnout: An Ada County, Idaho Case Study, Tayzlie T. Haack, Tayzlie Tripple Haack

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Counties across the United States are struggling to find solutions that decrease the costs of voting while increasing voter turnout across varying demographics. In particular, because of transportation and information costs, voting is costly for low-income citizens. Ada County, Idaho attempted to mitigate these costs through introducing a mobile voting unit. This mobile voting unit is used during early voting periods and targets precincts that do not have a permanent voting location. Using voter registration data from 2006 to 2020, I attempt to identify a treatment effect of the mobile voting unit on voter turnout in general elections. My paper …

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Implementing A High-Performance Quantum Computing Emulator, Reece Robertson Mar 2022

Implementing A High-Performance Quantum Computing Emulator, Reece Robertson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

We implement a quantum computing emulator after the manner described by Häner et al. with the goal of temporal and spatial savings. The emulator is compared to the Intel Quantum Simulator to verify speedup and spatial savings over the simulator method. We also implement Shor's algorithm in the emulator and use it to solve a nontrivial factoring problem. This demonstrates that the emulator makes quantum computing more accessible on at least two accounts: it allows users to solve nontrivial problems quickly and it provides those looking to enter quantum computing with an accessible place to start. Finally, we outline future …

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The Protective Potential Of Family Relationship Strength As It Relates To Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviors In Ace-Exposed Adolescents And Emerging Adults, Collin Wright Mar 2022

The Protective Potential Of Family Relationship Strength As It Relates To Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviors In Ace-Exposed Adolescents And Emerging Adults, Collin Wright

Student Works

Introduction: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are known to cause higher incidences of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors (STBs) in young people. Family Relationship Strength (FRS) is a known protective factor against STBs. However, there is little research on the protective nature of FRS once ACEs have been experienced by a young person. The aim of our analysis is to examine whether the strong protective nature of FRS holds true even in ACE-exposed youth. Methods: A sample of 139 patients at the Brigham Young University Comprehensive Clinic (aged 12-25) was obtained from the BYU Marriage and Family Therapy Practice Research Network. Linear …

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Motives For Repression Of Chinese Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative Case Study Of Xinjiang And Tibet, Haley Grizzell Mar 2022

Motives For Repression Of Chinese Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative Case Study Of Xinjiang And Tibet, Haley Grizzell

Undergraduate Honors Theses

While Xinjiang suffers genocide and Tibet has experienced human rights abuses for years from the Communist Party of China (CPC), government abuses in Xinjiang are far more severe, even though the regions represent similar (low) levels of separatist, terrorist violence. To understand this variation in the CPC’s treatment of its western ethnic minorities, I theorize that the actions in Xinjiang must be tied to regime survival, which in China is tied to performance. The CPC’s performance has been lacking in providing power for its urban population, which makes up its most important base of legitimacy. According to my theory, educated, …

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