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Creating A Gis Database For Nursing Home Evacuation Planning In Virginia Beach, Virginia, Randall S. Dawson
Creating A Gis Database For Nursing Home Evacuation Planning In Virginia Beach, Virginia, Randall S. Dawson
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The focus of this project is planning for the evacuation of the nursing homes of the city of Virginia Beach, VA in response to a hurricane risk. The population of nursing homes, hospitals and assisted living communities need special assistance when evacuating an area, requiring medications, equipment, and specialized transportation. Previous studies for Virginia Beach have provided generalizations for the population as a whole yet have provided very little data for specific communities such as nursing homes. A GIS database is created for nursing home establishments including road networks, bridges and tunnels, elevation, estimated facility population, and recently modeled storm …
College Students' Perceptions Of Dialects, Leigh Smitley
College Students' Perceptions Of Dialects, Leigh Smitley
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The purpose of this investigation was to determine college students' perceptions of their own dialects and 4 specific dialects common to the English language. To determine this, the investigator developed a 3-part survey (Appendices H, I, J). On Part I, respondents completed identifying information. On Part II, they rated 9 general Likert Scale items related to dialect. On Part III, they completed the same semantic differential scale for speakers who represented 4 different dialects: Appalachian-American, Eastern-American, General-American, and African-American. There were 2 speakers for each dialect, i.e., 1 male and 1 female.;On Part I, respondents who completed a 3-part survey …
Teacher Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of The Social Studies Teacher Training Program At Tabouk Teachers' College In Saudi Arabia, Awad Hamad Alhwiti
Teacher Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of The Social Studies Teacher Training Program At Tabouk Teachers' College In Saudi Arabia, Awad Hamad Alhwiti
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The purpose of the study was to examine and evaluate the effectiveness of the social studies teacher training program in Tabouk Teachers' College in Saudi Arabia. This research addressed six questions concerning teacher perceptions regarding the effectiveness of the teacher preparation programs in Tabouk Teachers' College. These questions examined teacher perceptions of the effectiveness of preparation they received for teaching in schools in Saudi Arabia. This study included teachers who completed student teaching and who graduated with a major in social studies. The 40-item instrument used to gather data included demographics, internship, instructor effectiveness, curriculum, teaching skills, classroom management, and …
Marine Paleoecology Of The Eads Mill Member, Hinton Formation, Upper Mississippian, West Virginia And Virginia, Timothy Vance
Marine Paleoecology Of The Eads Mill Member, Hinton Formation, Upper Mississippian, West Virginia And Virginia, Timothy Vance
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During the Late Mississippian, the Eads Mill Member of the upper Hinton Formation was formed during the last marine transgression before deposition of the Princeton Sandstone. Five outcrops extending northward from southwest Virginia into southern West Virginia were sampled, and constituent fossil genera were identified in the lab. Seven guilds were recognized and similar taxa were grouped together based on their morphology and life habits. Binary presence/absence data were compiled for all guilds at each sampled unit, and processed using four multivariate techniques in order to identify any underlying paleoecological signal. All techniques yielded a strong trend in the data …
Marine Paleoecology Of The Fivemile Member Of The Hinton Formation, Upper Mississippian, West Virginia And Virginia, Thomas R. Cawthern
Marine Paleoecology Of The Fivemile Member Of The Hinton Formation, Upper Mississippian, West Virginia And Virginia, Thomas R. Cawthern
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The Fivemile and Eads Mill members of the upper part of the Hinton Formation are two significant marine zones that occur within the Mauch Chunk Group in southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia.;Multivariate analyses of binary fossil data for the Fivemile Member were performed in order to determine any underlying paleoecologic signals. Analyses of the data sets indicate that this member is dominated by a euryhaline fauna in four of the five locations studied. Euryhaline fauna characteristic of the Fivemile Member include the brachiopod Lingula, the bivalves Modiolus and Septimyalina, and ostracods. The geographic distribution and richness of these dominant …
Integrating Participatory Gis And Political Ecology To Study Flood Vulnerability In The Limpopo Province Of South Africa, Nthaduleni S. Nethengwe
Integrating Participatory Gis And Political Ecology To Study Flood Vulnerability In The Limpopo Province Of South Africa, Nthaduleni S. Nethengwe
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This dissertation research examines differential flood vulnerability in the Thulamela municipality of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The study employs a triangulation of methods within a Participatory GIS methodology. Political ecology is the conceptual framework. The main premise of this research is that household flood vulnerability is socially constructed in that it is mediated by locally contingent political, socio-economic and environmental factors. As a result, conventional solutions that focus mainly on the physical event are ineffective and costly because they ignore local knowledge about flood hazards and flood coping mechanisms that have been disrupted or destroyed. The study integrates …
Surface And Subsurface Fault And Fracture Systems With Associated Natural Gas Production In The Lower Mississippian And Upper Devonian, Price Formation, Southern West Virginia, S. Reed Johnson
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Production from natural gas deposits is often enhanced by fault and fracture systems associated with reservoirs. This study presents analyses of fault and fracture systems within the Mississippian Price Formation in Southern West Virginia using subsurface well data and fracture data from surface analogs. The Price was analyzed at outcrops near the Allegheny Structural Front and in the Allegheny Plateau. Subsurface data analyses included mapping and modeling of the Price, fault delineation, cross section construction, and fractured zone identification. Production data was used to assess the potential for fractures and faults to enhance gas production. Fracture densities from outcrop were …
Petrologic Study Of The Murrysville Sandstone In Southwestern Pennsylvania, Melissa L. Sager
Petrologic Study Of The Murrysville Sandstone In Southwestern Pennsylvania, Melissa L. Sager
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Pennsylvania's Murrysville sandstone has been a proven gas producer since 1859 and a gas storage field since 1951. Using 49 side-wall cores from a gas well drilled in Westmoreland County, depositional environment and diagenesis are examined. In thin section, 5 microfacies are recognized. The lower two-thirds of the Murrysville is equivalent to the Cussewago of northwestern Pennsylvania and is interpreted as fluvial deltaic. The upper third is equivalent to the Berea of Ohio and is interpreted as being a marine transitional stream deposit.;Compaction was not extensive due to low amounts of ductile grains, rigid grain stability and matrix occupying space …
Indian Warfare, Household Competency, And The Settlement Of The Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 To 1794, John M. Boback
Indian Warfare, Household Competency, And The Settlement Of The Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 To 1794, John M. Boback
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The thesis of this dissertation is that Indian-related violence and warfare had a profound influence on the duration and nature of the frontier experience of those men and women who settled in the western Virginia backcountry between 1749 and 1794. Recurrent attacks by Shawnees, Delawares, Mingos, and Indians from the Great Lakes region caused such widespread death, destruction, and depopulation that it effectively prolonged the period of austere and difficult living conditions for over forty years. This conclusion contradicts the assertions of some recent scholars who have argued that crude living conditions lasted for only a year or two on …
Perceptions Of Calf Pool Participants Toward West Virginia Calf Pool Organizations, Carrie M. Stemple
Perceptions Of Calf Pool Participants Toward West Virginia Calf Pool Organizations, Carrie M. Stemple
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The purpose of this study was to determine perceptions of West Virginia calf pool producers with their local organization. This study was a descriptive survey research conducted with West Virginia calf pool producers who participated in a calf pool in 2005 and/or 2006. The majority of participants in the study reported that they were satisfied with the calf pool organizations, and would continue to participate. Over half reported that they planned to increase their production within five years in order to market more calves through the calf pool. The average calf pool producer in West Virginia is over 50 years …
Perceptions Of The Environment For Physical Activity: Perspectives From Community Residents And Policy Officials., John R. Geer
Perceptions Of The Environment For Physical Activity: Perspectives From Community Residents And Policy Officials., John R. Geer
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Adult residents (n = 184) of two counties in West Virginia completed a survey assessing perceptions of their physical and social environments, and self-reported physical activity (PA). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine of these participants who met CDC PA recommendations, and with 10 individuals involved in public policy regarding perceptions of their communities for PA and issues related to PA barriers. Active residents were more likely to use community facilities than inactive residents (p < .001). In addition, active residents reported significantly higher self-efficacy for meeting PA recommendations than inactive residents (p < .001). Overall, participants with high self-efficacy were eight times more likely to meet recommended levels of PA. Residents’ environmental barriers to PA included lack of accessibility to facilities, lack of community walkability, and safety and traffic issues. Personal barriers to PA were also commonly cited by residents, including being too busy/having competing demands and poor attitude/motivation. Residents cited the use of exercise partners or groups as being important for increasing physical activity. Policy officials cited similar environmental and personal barriers, but often placed responsibility for overcoming those barriers on the residents within their communities.
Essays In Trade, Foreign Aid And Investment. Essay 1: Motivation For Bilateral Aid Allocation: Altruism Or Trade Benefits. Essay 2: Does Institutional Quality Matter For Investment And Capital Mobility? Evidence From Sub -Saharan Africa. Essay 3: Do Donors Care About Declining Trade Revenue From Liberalization? An Analysis Of Aid Allocation. (With Subhayu Bandyopadhyay)., Javed Younas
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Essay 1: Motivation for bilateral aid allocation: Altruism or trade benefits. This paper argues that bilateral aid from developed OECD countries is disproportionately allocated to recipient nations who have a greater tendency to import goods in which donor nations have a comparative advantage in production. The estimates indicate that a substantially larger amount of aid per capita is provided to recipients who import capital goods, while imports by other category groups have no significant effects. Given that developed donor nations are major producers and exporters of capital goods, this result at least partially supports their trade benefits motive. On the …
Predictive Vegetation Models: A Comparison Of Model Combination Approaches., Benjamin F. Gilmer Iv
Predictive Vegetation Models: A Comparison Of Model Combination Approaches., Benjamin F. Gilmer Iv
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The distribution of plants and animals in space and time has long been a focus of many biogeographical and ecological studies. The various approaches for modeling species distributions are rooted in the quantification of the species-environment relationship, where bioclimatic variables are used to explain the distribution of species and communities. Predictive modeling of species distribution has become a widespread tool in the areas of conservation biology, climate change research, land-use/land-cover change assessment, and biodiversity estimates. Although many statistical methods are now available, previous model comparison studies have found little difference in prediction accuracy when models were compared using the same …
International Public Relations At Top 50 Global Brands: A Converged Or Diverged Approach?, Pitchpatu Waiyachote
International Public Relations At Top 50 Global Brands: A Converged Or Diverged Approach?, Pitchpatu Waiyachote
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This study was motivated by limited information about an approach that the top 50 global brand companies apply to their public relations strategies in areas considered to be smaller developing markets in Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Malaysia. Along with World Wide Web technology and a concept of globalization, the Internet brings information to targeted publics faster than ever before. Therefore, a purpose of this study was to examine which approach, convergence or divergence, the top 50 global brand companies commonly took to communicate with their target audiences in these two countries through their local web sites. An answer to …
Ngos As Agents Of Historical Change: A Comparative Study Of Violence Against Women In Argentina And Brazil., Nicolette M. Wilhide
Ngos As Agents Of Historical Change: A Comparative Study Of Violence Against Women In Argentina And Brazil., Nicolette M. Wilhide
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This study examined the issue of violence against women in Latin America as it is addressed by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the region. A comparison was done with NGOs that work with violence against women in Argentina and Brazil from the 1990’s to the present day to establish if the efforts of these groups have had a positive impact given recent statistical increases. Historical background was given on the nature and severity of violence against women in these two nations. International and national conferences as well as domestic changes in legislation were examined in comparison to the historical trajectory of …
Setting The World On Fire: Washington, Those He Led, And Virginia On The Threshold Of World War, 1753-1754., Christian E. Fearer
Setting The World On Fire: Washington, Those He Led, And Virginia On The Threshold Of World War, 1753-1754., Christian E. Fearer
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In 1754, George Washington and nearly three hundred of his fellow Virginians marched deep into the Allegheny Mountains and into a geographical tinderbox. These men, together a reflection of their society, carried the responsibility and burden of an empire on their shoulders. Together they would experience incredible hardships, privations, and hazards. “Setting the World on Fire” explores the story of young George Washington, the men he commanded, and the colony of Virginia on the threshold of a global, imperial war between Britain and France. This thesis attempts to add new depth to our understanding of the opening campaign of the …
Mapping The Gods: A Geographic Analysis Of The Effects Of The Shrine Merger Policy On Japanese Sacred Space., Christopher M. Todd
Mapping The Gods: A Geographic Analysis Of The Effects Of The Shrine Merger Policy On Japanese Sacred Space., Christopher M. Todd
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Sacred space is a critical cultural construction of all religions. It is within this space that people are able to commune with deities and step out of the common, profane world. Japanese Shinto sacred space has undergone many changes throughout its history. One of the largest alterations was the introduction of the Shrine Merger Policy in 1906. Across the nation, thousands of shrines were demolished and merged under governmental authorization. The goal of this study is to map the shrine change from before the policy to after to determine areas of change. An emphasis on centrality from the capital in …
Shoreline Erosion In Deep Creek Lake, Maryland: Patterns, Trends And Economic Implications., Catalin Demian
Shoreline Erosion In Deep Creek Lake, Maryland: Patterns, Trends And Economic Implications., Catalin Demian
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Deep Creek Lake, Maryland was constructed in the 1930s as a reservoir for a hydro-electric project, but it also has been used for recreational purposes. Property ownership is attractive, but lakefront properties in particular are exposed to shoreline erosion. A particular issue is the State of Maryland’s ownership of the shoreline and the buffer strip. While most of shoreline erosion occurs technically on state-owned land, not the lakeshore private property, erosion’s most visible effects are property improvements damage or gradual decrease in the distance between the lake and the property improvement. In order to understand the magnitude of the problem, …
Literary Representations: Reading And Writing Femininity In Eighteenth Century Novels., Jessika L. Thomas
Literary Representations: Reading And Writing Femininity In Eighteenth Century Novels., Jessika L. Thomas
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Fictional depictions of feminine reading and writing practices reveal transformations in expectations of women's roles due to changes in economic, political, social, and familial structures during the eighteenth century. Luce Irigaray's concern with the relationship between cultural influences and individual development offers a new perspective for considering female authors' representations of literary women and femininity. This dissertation utilizes Irigaray's cultural and psychoanalytic critiques of masculine discourse to develop a methodology for analyzing women's reactions, as they are revealed through fictional characters, against prohibitions that limited their engagement in literary activities. Female protagonists challenge social boundaries through their reading and writing …
Participatory Gis Approaches To Environmental Impact Assessment: A Case Study Of The Appalachian Corridor H Transportation Project., Ram Alagan
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This dissertation explores the strengths and weaknesses of Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) approaches to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) with a specific focus on the potential contribution of Geo-visualization (GVIS) in this process. The approach draws heavily on concepts developed under the broad umbrella of GIS and Society and Critical GIS. PGIS recognizes the political economy of GIS in terms of data access, data representation, structural knowledge distortion, and community empowerment as being legitimate and significant issues in the application of GIS in community projects. EIA has been adopted as one of several important environmental practices that seek to engage …
Continuity And Change In The Revolutionary Iran Foreign Policy: The Role Of International And Domestic Political Factors In Shaping The Iranian Foreign Policy, 1979-2006., Ibrahim Mahmoud Alnahas
Continuity And Change In The Revolutionary Iran Foreign Policy: The Role Of International And Domestic Political Factors In Shaping The Iranian Foreign Policy, 1979-2006., Ibrahim Mahmoud Alnahas
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To what extent has been continuity and change in the revolutionary Iran foreign policy since 1979? This question is examining the Iranian foreign policy over the last twenty-seven-year by using two major theories in the fields of International relations and comparative foreign policy explanations. While the systemic theory, represented by neorealism theory in this research, argues that international system drives states foreign policies, domestic and statist explanations argue that domestic political factors play major role in driving and shaping states foreign behaviors. My research will use these different approaches to study the Islamic Republic foreign policy under different leaderships – …
Mapping Of Hydrogeology Of Underground Mines In The Upper Freeport Coal Seam, Northern Appalachian Basin, West Virginia-Pennsylvania-Maryland., Jane E. Thies
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The mining hydrogeology of the Upper Freeport underground coal mining district, northern WV and western MD, was compiled onto a number of 1:24,000 scale quadrangles. Available underground mine maps were georeferenced and outlines of mine workings digitized using GIS techniques. Geologic information (coal outcrop location and structure contour elevations) was compiled using geostatistical methods. The mine maps were used in conjunction with projected mine discharges to delineate pool locations and flooding patterns. The relatively small number of flooded mines was mapped under the assumption that discharge location and elevation controlled the extent of the flooded mine area. These mapping and …
Mathematics Vocabulary Instruction For Current Non-Proficient Students With And Without Ieps: A Study Of Three Methods Of Instruction., George D. Brown
Mathematics Vocabulary Instruction For Current Non-Proficient Students With And Without Ieps: A Study Of Three Methods Of Instruction., George D. Brown
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The purpose of this experimental study was to determine which of three methods of vocabulary instruction, including the common approach method, a combination of the common approach method and keyword method, and a combination of the common approach method and the keyword/illustration method of instruction was most effective in teaching mathematics vocabulary over the course of two mathematical units. Grade eight students (N=60) from two rural middle schools who scored at the basic level on the 2006 Maryland School Assessment (MSA) in mathematics and reading participated in this experimental study. Students with individualized education plans (n=24) and regular education students …
Mining History: Extracting Qualitative And Quantitative Resources For The Discovery Of Appalachian Cultural Landscapes., Hannah Leigh Cole
Mining History: Extracting Qualitative And Quantitative Resources For The Discovery Of Appalachian Cultural Landscapes., Hannah Leigh Cole
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he most recent trend in historic preservation has led many in the field to pay attention to cultural landscapes as historic resources. Considering buildings, structures, or objects within a given spatial and physical setting, or landscape, endows them with historic significance and context that would be absent if viewed individually. While this is somewhat of an expansive approach to the built environment, this trend in historic landscape interpretation still does not account for all types of resources that one finds in the field. A fragmentary landscape is a cultural landscape defined by three characteristics: 1) the presence of buildings, structures, …
Religious Dogmatism And Civil Liberties: Literalism, Atheism, And Homosexuality., Kevin R. Hart
Religious Dogmatism And Civil Liberties: Literalism, Atheism, And Homosexuality., Kevin R. Hart
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between religious dogmatism and support for civil liberties of atheists and homosexuals. Utilizing data from the 2002 GSS, the assertions of the theory of religious dogmatism (Jelen & Wilcox 1990) were tested by utilizing three increasing measure of religiosity: religious preference, church attendance, and Biblical perception in predicting support for atheist and homosexual civil liberties. The results support the notion of religious dogmatism as influencing acceptance of nonconformist civil liberties, with Biblical perception being the most potent predictor. Additional findings indicate education as a significant predictor of support for civil …
Glimpses Of Wilsonianism: United States Involvement In Nicaragua During The Coolidge Era., Steven R. Hall
Glimpses Of Wilsonianism: United States Involvement In Nicaragua During The Coolidge Era., Steven R. Hall
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The military occupation of Nicaragua was one of the Calvin Coolidge administration’s most unpopular foreign policies. Upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923, Coolidge inherited the White House and a Nicaraguan withdrawal plan set up years earlier. As planned, the United States monitored the Nicaraguan national elections in 1924, and withdrew its occupation force in 1925. When the country collapsed into civil war a few months later, the Coolidge administration ordered the Marines back into Nicaragua to restore order. Coolidge and his Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, argued the occupation was necessary to protect American economic …
Determination Of Diel Chemical Cycle Presence Within Abandoned Coal Mine Drainage Streams In Harrison County, West Virginia., Michael Jay Smilley
Determination Of Diel Chemical Cycle Presence Within Abandoned Coal Mine Drainage Streams In Harrison County, West Virginia., Michael Jay Smilley
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Diel (24-hour) cycling of dissolved ions has been linked to various mechanisms such as fluctuations in temperature and photosynthetically-mediated pH. Yttrium and the rare earth elements (YREE) appear to fluctuate in response to temperature. After selecting a field site based on pH and temperature screening, five sampling events were undertaken: each involved hourly or bihourly sampling with concurrent stage, pH and temperature logging. For all events, YREE increased during the nighttime and decreased during the daytime. Dissolved Fe and Mn exhibited similar trends at one of the two sampled locations. Speciation models suggest that sulfate and carbonate-bound YREE species dominate …
National Heritage Areas: Developing And Specifying A Model Of Interorganizational Domain Development, And, Exploring The Role Of The National Park Service As A Federal Partner., Susan Martin-Williams
National Heritage Areas: Developing And Specifying A Model Of Interorganizational Domain Development, And, Exploring The Role Of The National Park Service As A Federal Partner., Susan Martin-Williams
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The purpose of this qualitative research study (Yin, 2003) was to understand National Heritage Areas (NHA) evolution as interorganizational domains and to explore the role of the National Park Service (NPS) as a NHA federal partner. Information gained from literature reviews of the management sciences and partnership theory led to the development of an a priori model of the evolutionary stages of NHAs? interorganizational domain development. An emergent model was then elaborated and specified using data from case study analysis (Yin) of the developmental histories of five NHAs. Purposeful sampling (Patton, 2002) was used to select five NHAs sites and …
Agglomeration, Spatio-Economic Clustering And Competitive Performance: Methodological Approaches And Empirical Evidence From The U.S., Gashawbeza W. Bekele
Agglomeration, Spatio-Economic Clustering And Competitive Performance: Methodological Approaches And Empirical Evidence From The U.S., Gashawbeza W. Bekele
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The objective of this dissertation is two fold. Firstly, the dissertation tests how well econometric and spatial analysis can be integrated for conducting industrial cluster analysis. Based on input-output and spatial autocorrelation based multivariate techniques, the dissertation develops a methodological approach for detecting spatially and economically linked industries. The dissertation then operationalizes this methodololigcal framework and applies tit to identify clusters in the U.S. at different geographical scales. The dissertation shows that the application of the methodological frameworks provides an objective mechanism to identify economically, and spatially, and spatio-economically related industries. Secondly, the dissertations empirically examines the extent to which …
The Emerging Geographies Of Work And Identity: Exploring Alternative Employment Strategies And Work Subjectivities Of Women With Multiple Sclerosis (Ms)., Kimberly Lynne Cordingly
The Emerging Geographies Of Work And Identity: Exploring Alternative Employment Strategies And Work Subjectivities Of Women With Multiple Sclerosis (Ms)., Kimberly Lynne Cordingly
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system producing a varied range of symptoms affecting physical, cognitive, and sensory functioning. The variability and unpredictability of impairments, their duration and intensity on a day to day basis, and ongoing health impacts present formidable challenges to securing and maintaining employment. Research suggests, despite having recent and extensive work histories, as many as 70-80 percent of individuals with MS are unemployed after diagnosis. For women with MS, the challenge of negotiating paid and non-paid work responsibilities often leads to difficult choices about how to navigate these changing lifeworlds. For …