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Enhancing Coastal Vulnerability Assessments And Policy Impacts On Socioeconomic And Environmental Equity In Michigan's Great Lakes Communities, Esther N. Acheampong

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Accelerating shoreline erosion, fluctuating lake levels, and climate-induced hazards are transforming the Great Lakes’ freshwater coasts, exposing the limitations of static and inequitable management frameworks. This dissertation investigates how Michigan’s coastal governance systems produce and manage vulnerability along the Lake Michigan shoreline by integrating geospatial modeling, institutional policy analysis, and environmental justice theory. It argues that both physical processes and institutional designs co-determine patterns of exposure, protection, and equity. The research begins by developing a refined Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) tailored for lacustrine environments, applying it to Muskegon County to assess how shoreline change, armoring, and seasonality influence localized risk. …

The Effects Of Physical Boundaries On The Complexity Of Resonance Processes In Finite-Size Dielectric Metasurfaces, Varsha Vijay Kumar

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

This work investigates dramatic effects produced by the presence of physical boundaries of finite-size metasurfaces, composed of identical cylindrical dielectric resonators without broken symmetry, on the complexity of their responses, observed at normal plane wave incidence, when constituent particles can support only dipolar Mie resonances. Owing to their periodicity, metasurfaces are conventionally analysed using their unit cells with periodic boundary conditions, so that their “finiteness” remains largely under-studied, even though all practical systems are finite.  We demonstrate the opportunities to excite in these finite structures extra high-quality resonance modes, quite distinct from the resonant modes in infinite structures and explain …

Conduct Of Formative Assessment Of T.E.E.N.Dig Kabataan! Kalusugan Ay Pahalagahan Project, And Development Of Manual Of Procedures (Mop): Final Report, Zaldy C. Collado, Axell M. Alterado, Czarina Labayo-Prieto, Anjo Benedict Fabellon, Rodolfo T. Anacan Jr.

SDRC Projects

This report presents the findings of an independent formative assessment of the T.E.E.N.Dig Kabataan! Kalusugan ay Pahalagahan Project, an adolescent health initiative of the Department of Health (DOH)–CALABARZON Center for Health Development. The assessment examined the project's relevance, implementation coherence, effectiveness, sustainability, and potential for expansion across the five provinces of CALABARZON. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study combined policy and literature reviews, surveys involving 551 respondents, key informant interviews and focus group discussions with 93 participants, observations of 25 school- and community-based T.E.E.N.Dig Centers, and an analysis of adolescent health screening and referral records from 2023 to 2024.

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