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The Fall Of American Soft Diplomacy In Ethiopia: A Victim Of Its Own Success, Assefa Mehretu

International Journal of African Development

Ethiopia’s soft diplomatic history with the United States goes back to the dawn of the twentieth century when King Menelik in 1905 responded favorably to the overtures by the United States for official relations between the two countries when Ethiopia was the only independent country in Africa. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the benchmarks of a successful engagement that had lasted for over seventy years only to suffer reversals from critical events both internal and external. A brief historical analysis will be rendered to highlight the role of the United States in the modernization of Ethiopia and …

Maternal Education, Linkages And Child Nutrition In The Long And Short-Run: Evidence From The Ethiopia Demographic And Health Surveys, Ambel Alemayehu Azeze, Wei-Chiao Huang

International Journal of African Development

We used the 2000 and 2005 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys to analyze the effect of maternal education and its pathways on chronic (long-run) and acute (short-run) malnutrition inEthiopia. The pathways examined in this study are socioeconomic status, maternal health-seeking behavior, maternal knowledge of health and family planning and reproductive behavior. We find that maternal education works through all except health-seeking behavior. We also find that maternal education and its pathways are more relevant and robust in explaining chronic than acute malnutrition. Socioeconomic status is the most important factor linking maternal education and child nutritional status. Although girls’ education is …

International Journal Of African Development, Vol. 1, Issue 2

International Journal of African Development

Complete issue of International Journal of African Development, Volume 1, Issue 2.

American Joyce: Representations Of The United States In Dubliners, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses, And Finnegans Wake, Briana Casali

Open Access Dissertations

This project is the first comprehensive study of James Joyce’s literary and personal relationship with the United States. With a foothold in both American and Irish fields of literary criticism, it explores a critical gap in Joyce studies that demonstrates a timely, long-standing need for scholars of literature to reconcile the quintessential "Irishness" of one of the twentieth century’s most dynamic and famous authors with the hundreds of allusions to America throughout his canon and to also examine the unflagging personal impact that the laws, culture and customs, politics, history, religion, and people of the United States had on his …

Clemson Commencement Program, August 2014, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Writing About Writing: African Women's Epistolary Narratives, Suzanne Marie Ondrus

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the following six Anglophone and Francophone African diasporic novels: So Long a Letter (Une si longue lettre) by Mariama Bâ (Senegalese), Juletane by Myriam Warner-Vieyra (fifty-year resident of Senegal, originally from Guadeloupe), Imagine This by Sade Adeniran (Nigerian living in the U.K.), Going Solo and To a Young Woman by Hope Keshubi (Ugandan), and Zenzele: A Letter for my Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire (Zimbabwean living in the U.S.). This dissertation argues that the detailed characterization of the writing narrators cultivates intimacy, making these works worthy of serious literary consideration. Starting from book reviews’ emotional …

Risk And Resilience In An Urban School: How A Psychosocial Intervention Promotes The Educational Resilience Of Latino Youth, Kip Van Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

According to the Pew Hispanic Forum, the dropout rates for Latino youth (15%) are higher than all other youth in the United States (White youth = 8%; Black youth = 12%). Many Latino youth have difficulty identifying with the school environment due to a lack of cultural connection to the context. Youth Program (YP) program is a peer-led, school-based program driven by the theoretical foundations of Positive Youth Development and Self-Determination theory and is distinguished by its emphasis on building social and academic skills that ease the transition into high school for ninth grade students. The current study examines the …

The Sovereign Citizen Movement: Strain, Conflict, And The American Dream, Jessica Leann Middleton

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine factors that may influence Sovereign Citizen Movement (SCM) activity in the United States from 2000 through 2010. Data is collected from all English language newspapers on the LexisNexis database, and incidents were coded and mapped spatially using ArcMap, a geographical mapping software. Using a state level analysis (N=51), incident frequencies are examined using OLS regression analysis of socioeconomic information, percent minority, African American and Hispanic, population, murder rate, percent manufacturing employment, and state hate group frequencies . The study found two significant indicators of SCM incidents, hate groups and percentage minority group …

Summer Commencement: August 8, 2014, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement program from August 8, 2014.

Metropolitan University Steering Group - 4th Meeting, August 7th, 2014, Emma Gelsinger

Maine's Metropolitan University

DRAFT - USM: New Time, New Direction - 1st Report of the Metropolitan University Steering Group

Designing Constructed Wetlands For Water Purification In Tanzania, Danielle Mcneely, Michael Sheehan, John Lumkes

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

In Tanzania half of households have unsafe drinking water (Nkonya, 2010) and many diseases arise from poor water quality, including meningitis, hepatitis A and E, and salmonella (Kusiluka et al., 2004). One cost-effective way of cleaning water is by passing it through a wetland. This research is focused on simplifying the process of horizontal subsurface flow wetland construction for the villagers of Endallah. The outcome is an Excel tool that standardizes methodology for building wetlands that can then be applied to Endallah. Rainfall data from the Arusha region of Tanzania was used to make a rainfall estimation grid. From this …

Historic Districts And The Imagined Community: A Study Of The Impact Of The Old Georgetown Act, Timothy F. Brown

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Intelligent And Adaptive Façade System: The Impact Of Intelligent And Adaptive Façade On The Performance And Energy Efficiency Of Buildings, Mohanned Al Thobaiti

Open Access Theses

The integration of nature and technology always represents a rich combination of developed and innovative elements to serve the environment. Building performance depends not only on the operation of individual elements in the building but also on how they behave as integrated systems to satisfy the user demands. In architecture, usually projects are consist of different stages of design process, and several factors need to be considered among this cycle, such as climate, building shape, comfort levels, materials and systems, occupant health and security. Therefore, advanced technologies became a significant discourse that caught the interest of many professional fields. The …

2014 August 6 -- Agenda And Attachments

Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Geomorphic Assessment Of South Creek Between National And Campbell Avenue, Springfield, Missouri, Robert T. Pavlowsky, Marc R. Owen

OEWRI Technical Reports

Olsson Associates (OA) contracted the Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute (OEWRI) at Missouri State University to complete a geomorphic study of the main stem of South Creek in Springfield, Missouri. The study involves the collection and interpretation of channel topography (channel profile and section surveys) and boundary conditions (bed and bank substrate) to support the planning and design phases for a channel improvement and restoration project along South Creek between Campbell Avenue and Kansas Expressway. This report will describe the data collected and interpret the data in the form of recommendations regarding the geomorphological context of the stream.

The …

What Enables Size-Selective Trophy Hunting Of Wildlife?, Chris T. Darimont, K. Rosie Child

Big-Game and Trophy Hunting Collection

Although rarely considered predators, wildlife hunters can function as important ecological and evolutionary agents. In part, their influence relates to targeting of large reproductive adults within prey populations. Despite known impacts of sizeselective harvests, however, we know little about what enables hunters to kill these older, rarer, and presumably more wary individuals. In other mammalian predators, predatory performance varies with knowledge and physical condition, which accumulates and declines, respectively, with age. Moreover, some species evolved camouflage as a physical trait to aid in predatory performance. In this work, we tested whether knowledge-based faculty (use of a hunting guide with accumulated …

It's Complicated: The Role Of Facebook In Romantic Relationships Concerning Relational Certainty, Attachment, And Self-Esteem, Jenna Rae Tucker

Dissertations and Theses

Facebook is among the top used websites in the world, and research has shown that Facebook use is related to individual personality characteristics such as well-being and self-esteem. This study builds on previous research, expanding to investigate attachment-related anxiety and avoidance and relational certainty. The current study examined relationships between Facebook use (both general and for surveillance) and relational certainty, attachment-related anxiety and avoidance, and self-esteem in undergraduate students (N = 261). Online methods were used for data collection, and individuals with their relationship displayed on Facebook reported more relational certainty; however, the more time they spent on the site, …

An Analysis Of Vegetation Recovery Following Dam Removal At Hemlock Recreation Site, Washington, Greer Stewart Ramsey

Dissertations and Theses

Dam removals are becoming increasingly common as dams reach their life expectancy and face costly upgrades associated with relicensing. Though removal is often viewed as a success in terms of ecological restoration, it also represents a major disturbance to an area. Previous research has shown that native species do not survive as well at these disturbed sites, and invasive species often dominate. This study examines the vegetation response in the drained reservoir area after the removal of Hemlock Dam on Trout Creek, a tributary to the Wind River in southern Washington. Transects were established and quadrats were sampled to determine …

Unpacking Educational Inequality In The Northern Territory, Sven Silburn, J Mckenzie, S Guthridge, L Li, S Q. Li

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

Concurrent Session Block 3

Vision 2020: An Analysis Of Policy Implementation And Agrarian Change In Rural Rwanda, Sterling Recker

Dissertations

In 2000, President Paul Kagame introduced a plan to alleviate poverty as well as to maintain political control over the policy process through a decentralized bureaucracy. Since adoption of Vision 2020 in 2000, Rwanda has been reforming its rural sector to commercialize agriculture, reduce pressures on land, and move the country into middle income status by the year 2020. In order to achieve the goals outlined in Vision 2020, the Government of Rwanda (GoR) adopted a policy of administrative decentralization in 2001 to facilitate the transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture. I am addressing two related questions: 1) How has …

Differentiating Development From Impairment: Using A Multidimensional Linguistic Lens., Catherine J. Crowley

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

From the moment the first edition came out in 2004, Dual Language Development & Disorders filled a void in the literature and became an essential text in many undergraduate and graduate courses across the country. For many TESOL, bilingual education, general education, and special education teacher education programs and speech-language pathology and psychology programs Dual Language Development & Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism & Second Language Learning by Johanne Paradis,

Using Gis To Facilitate Data Driven Decision Making, Jason Glatz

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

This poster presents two methods for using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assist in data driven facilities management, with a primary focus on space planning and use. One method focuses on using GIS to analyze new book additions to the collection and their relationship to existing storage capacity. By treating each shelving range like a street, and each book like an address, the added books can be plotted on the range. This allows for a convenient visual analysis of the spatial growth of new books. GIS is also used to represent the remaining storage capacity of each section within a …

Qualitative Research In Sport Management: Case Study As A Methodological Approach, Alan Morse, Char D. Mcevoy

The Qualitative Report

This paper presents qualitative research in sport management and suggests that case study is an appropriate qualitative methodology for research and practice in sport finance. The purpose of qualitative methodology is presented along with the process of a case study. The intention of this paper, for academicians working in sport management, is twofold. The first aspect is for researchers to consider using qualitative case study methodology in instances where such practice will progress the knowledge and understanding of specific situations while invoking a deeper response to research questions. The second facet of this paper focuses on the framework of case …

Bacterio-Plankton Transformation Of Diazepam And 2-Amino-5-Chlorobenzophenone In River Waters., Alan D. Tappin, J. Paul Loughnane, Alan J. Mccarthy, Mark F. Fitzsimons

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Benzodiazepines are a large class of commonly-prescribed drugs used to treat a variety of clinical disorders. They have been shown to produce ecological effects at environmental concentrations, making understanding their fate in aquatic environments very important. In this study, uptake and biotransformations by riverine bacterio-plankton of the benzodiazepine, diazepam, and 2-amino-5-chlorobenzophenone, ACB (a photo-degradation product of diazepam and several other benzodiazepines), were investigated using batch microcosm incubations. These were conducted using water and bacterio-plankton populations from contrasting river catchments (Tamar and Mersey, UK), both in the presence and absence of a peptide, added as an alternative organic substrate. Incubations lasted …

Nitrate Uptake In Central Illinois Streams: A Comparison Along A Transient Storage Gradient, Kristen Lynn Theesfeld

Theses and Dissertations

Transient storage can be influenced by channel morphology. Anthropogenic activities can alter stream morphology by straightening channels, lining channels, or even restoration of previously altered channels. This study focused on whether relative transient storage (RTS) was related to stream type - modified lined, modified unlined, or natural. The study further sought to determine if a greater RTS is correlated to a decrease in percent nitrate-N.

Eight (8) sites, encompassing three (3) different stream types - modified lines, modified unlined, and natural - were studied. Chloride and nitrate tracers were added to streams, and samples were analyzed for tracer concentrations and …

Data Visualization Tools For The Novice, Meagan Duever, Jonathan Bacon

SIDLIT Conference

Data visualization is the latest trend in presenting data in an enticing, visually pleasing and understandable form. This session will explore several easy to use tools for creating data visualizations based on data you provide.

Book Review: Migrant Women Of Johannesburg: Life In An In-Between City, Mandi Maodzwa-Taruvinga, Chiedza R. M. Taruvinga

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Life in an in-Between City by Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Wits University Press, 2013.

Safety In The Urban Outdoors: Women Negotiating Fear Of Crime In The City Of Kolkata, Piyali Sur

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article examines women’s negotiation of potential risks in public spaces in the urban city of Kolkata. The deliberate focus on the public is to demonstrate that the city has different meanings for women than men in terms of risk so that fear of rape in the city becomes a virtual threat in the lives of women. The fear may not be linked to the actual violence but to the potential for harm that is experienced by individual women. Feminist scholars have pointed out that narratives of crime and violence have always constructed the city as the space of danger …

The Earning Power Of Mothers And Children's Time Allocation In Lao Pdr, Sevinc Rende

Journal of International Women's Studies

In this paper I explore the relationship between a mother’s contribution to household income and her children’s work and school outcomes. Using household data from Lao PDR, I find that as a mother’s share of total household earnings increases, her children shift time away from school and wage work to work under parental control. The findings demonstrate that a mother’s short-term needs and interests may not always align with her children’s long-term interests, and work may become a contested terrain between mothers and children.

Colonial Policies And The Rise Of Transactional Sex In Kenya, Felix M. Muchomba

Journal of International Women's Studies

The literature on the role of policy on prostitution has focused on criminal law, largely ignoring economic and urban policies. This article examines the emergence and development of prostitution in Kibera—an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya—and the role played by government policy. Records show that a rapid growth in prostitution accompanied Kibera’s transition from a military exercise ground to an informal settlement. Drawing on primary and secondary historical sources, this paper argues that colonial government policies of land alienation, taxation, and inequitable urban housing created a social context that promoted the migration of women into Nairobi and into Kibera, …