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The Civil Crisis In Liberia: An American Response, Veronica Nmoma

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Sources Of Future Conflicts In The Horn: Water Management And Interstate Relations Among Egypt, Sudan, And Ethiopia, Nurudeen B. Akinyemi

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Procedural Consensus, Governmental Performance And Democratic Prospects In Sierra Leone, Jimmy D. Kandeh

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Decentralization, Local Government, And Primary Health Care In Nigeria: An Analytical Study, Dele Olowu, James S. Wunsch

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Remote Teaching During A Pandemic, Jennifer B. Sample

The Journal of Advancing Education Practice

No abstract provided.

Retracted: Data Envelopment Analysis Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis And Bootstrap Confidence Intervals, Fahad F. Alqahtani

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Evaluating company growth potential has moved away from traditional financial focused ratios and ratios analysis that has origins in the early twentieth-century economics. However, these conventional methods might not be accurate in measuring such efficient factors as this combined proposed framework of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and improved mathematical models do. The present research focuses on the prospect of growth of companies through evaluating the performance of 40 DMUs in terms of efficiency DEA and MMTs. DEA is used to determine the efficient DMUs while SFA underline the factors such as investment on research and development, effective marketing strategies and …

Book Reviews, Tonyesima Furro, John N. Oriji, Cheryl Hendricks, Abdullahi Aden, Matthew J. Costello

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Nigeria’S Ethnic Politics And Revenue Allocation: The Case Of Oil-Producing Areas, Tonyesima Furro

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Key Issues Affecting Health Care Delivery Systems In Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, Alemu Mammo

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

A Review Of The Demographic Transition In Kenya: Policy Implications Of The Demand For Family Planning, Sheila B. Barlow

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Non-Project Assistance For Health Policy Reform: An Analysis Of The Case Of The Republic Of Niger, M. Mahmud Khan, Robert Magnani, Nancy B. Mock

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Ethno-Regionalism In Zaire: Roots, Manifestations And Meaning, John F. Clark

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

Volume 11 Full Text, Bjur Staff

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

Realistik Heaven, Alexa H. Senan

Theses and Dissertations

“Realistik Heaven” processes the traumas, forced transformations and the cannibalization of womanhood and culture as a result of colonization. Inspired by Oswald de Andrade’s Cannibalist Manifesto, Senan writes to evoke the literal meaning of Andrade’s description of the cannibalization of culture and having to become someone new cannibalizing themselves while still longing for the remains of the past.

Clod & Pebble, Ian Myers

Theses and Dissertations

What does Painting— its act, like a search; or material— have to do with truth? Probably nothing. Or what does it matter, or why ask? To Paint is to dig— deep! wide! to excavate! but in a busy park, and— now, look! you’ve ruined the softball game. Using the material conventions of early Christian icon painting— rabbit-skin gesso, viscous egg medium suspending ground pigments— the layers of my paintings accumulate like sediment. The surface is dredged, scraped back, leaving striations like stone and refined in search of light; space; revelation! or, piled high again, over and over.

Ontological Exhaustion And Metabolic Affect, Katelyn Reece Farstad

Theses and Dissertations

Ontological Exhaustion and Metabolic Affect explores the artistic practice of Katelyn Reece Farstad through the logic, physiology, and spiritual symbolism of the housefly. This body of work draws from personal experience with neurological trauma, mapping how perception fractures, reorients, and reforms in the wake of psychic rupture. The housefly—erratic, hyper-attuned, maligned—becomes both method and metaphor. Its larval state mirrors the latency of neuroplastic healing; its compound vision reflects perceptual multiplicity; its obsessive return to sites of decay parallels the recursive nature of memory and loss.

Working across sculpture and painting, I metabolize found objects and sensory residues into forms that …

Stitch Theory, Brittany Adeline Adama King

Theses and Dissertations

This paper weaves personal history together using “stitched” citational text, supporting the concept that an archive can function as support, as worn; as garment.

Indeed, In A Way, It's Worse., Jani C. Zubkovs

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates walking as both method and metaphor within an artistic practice grounded in photography. Through walking, I engage in a sustained act of seeing — one that resists the speed and consumption-driven logic of late capitalism and opens space for reflection, slowness, and heightened perception. My photographic work focuses on fragments of the built environment, particularly advertisements, signage, and residual human marks, reframing them through strategies of cropping, isolation, and recontextualization. These images question the distinction between original and reproduction, presence and absence, surface and depth. Drawing on thinkers such as Jonathan Crary, Luigi Ghirri, Siegfried Kracauer, and …

Studies About The World, And The Magical Principles Of Our Destructive Dynamics, Vanessa Georjana Sandoval Cuadrado

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis paper arises from an interest in how realities are fictional constructions. In it, I am exploring and questioning the separation between nature and culture, and how bodies are expressions of ecological relations. In this sense, I conceived the end of this world (the main subject of this paper) as an opening to the possibility of other worlds emerging.

Displaced Nostalgia, Nava Derakhshani

Theses and Dissertations

Exploring themes of identity, displacement, gender, and belonging, this paper examines the artist's work and her approach to her art. She covers the many influences that she has access to while unable to visit her ancestral homelands. Acknowledging the translation that comes from this removal, her art is in conversation with other diasporic, exiled, marginalised groups. She makes art with various materials such as clay, shadow, light, and paint, to work on the themes that she is pursuing.

The Function Of Art, Magdalen O. M. Pickering

Theses and Dissertations

With the help of machines and the powers of perception, Magdalen Pickering introduces logic to strange and fantastical subjects. The Function of Art explores a hybrid of techniques in painting, screenprinting, and computer generated imagery as Magdalen attempts to use generative printing to obscure art historical consciousness. The installation crosses into virtual reality; reframing textiles, landscapes, and the gallery space through a metaphysical lens.

E Is For Ephemera, E Rady

Theses and Dissertations

E is for Ephemera contends with an artist's role as a performer - traversing questions of identity, documentation, temporality, authority, power relations and implication of the self in response to systemic forces. Here, performances are treated as zones in which simulated scenarios sometimes offer various potential opportunities to resolve.

4 In 10 Tiktok Users Find Their ‘For You’ Page Extremely Or Very Interesting, Aashish Gadani

Theses and Dissertations

Using video supercuts, sculptural forms, and digital prints on textiles in my work, I explore how images/videos can be used to reflect on cultural and personal trends. In this paper, I discuss how the structure of software recommendation systems combines with ideas of the post-internet image and creates unintended cultural consequences.

The Logic Of Car Accidents And Other Digestive Processes, Rosalie G.L. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

In this essay the author explores the artistic process via an analogy with digestion. The author goes on to explain their work via components of their practice, described as organs.

Fountain, Sadaf Azadehfar

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the intersections of water, power, identity, and architecture through the lens of colonial and postcolonial landscapes, focusing particularly on Persian gardens and fountain sculptures. Drawing on historical, cultural, and symbolic frameworks, the study explores how water systems embody both practical and spiritual roles, positioning water as a force of control, resistance, and regeneration. Central to this work are analyses of arches and garden designs, which serve as architectural metaphors for cosmic harmony, community gathering, and contested space. Through a combination of visual analysis, historical research, and personal artistic practice—including ceramic sculptures and multimedia installations—this thesis traces the …

The Spirit Of Things Sometimes Or Shrew Gazing, Mariel Rolwing Montes

Theses and Dissertations

Mariel Rolwing Montes’ paintings are viewed as though through a portal. Photography and collected objects are negotiated on the canvas through a collage logic, allowing for distortion through memory. In The Spirit of Things Sometimes or Shrew Gazing, Rolwing Montes contextualizes her work around references related to history, imagination, and mysticism.

A Baseline Survey Of Meiofauna From The Paint Rock River, Northern Alabama, Clay Grant Bibby

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

An Archeology Of Looking, Marco G. Dasilva

Theses and Dissertations

Marco DaSilva’s mosaics explore camouflage and syncretism, blending symbols from American culture, Catholic saints, Afro-Brazilian deities and queer spaces. His work examines objects as relics, where identity is hidden and revealed. By integrating simple materials and transforming them into unique compositions, DaSilva creates hybrid objects where all of his worlds intersect, crafting his own mythology.