Since the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, violence against women has frequently appeared in the media as one of the gravest consequences due to insecure living situations in settlement camps. This, however, is not newly ...
This thesis is a comparative analysis and discussion on affirmative action for blacks in Ecuador and Brazil. I use history to understand the different approaches to and the different arguments for and against affirmative ...
Town-gown relations define political and social taglines in today’s communities.
The multifaceted dynamics of such a relationship involving two entities with (oftentimes)
differing priorities and loyalties cannot be ...
Recently many researchers have labored to put the linguistic body back together. Historically, linguistic study has focused on the sounds produced by the mouth, but more recently work has emphasized the importance of body ...
The Durham Center is the public agency in Durham County responsible for connecting
persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with the services that they need. In
February of 2008 the Durham Center began to perform ...
This paper applies several jump detection tests to intraday stock price data sampled at various
frequencies. It finds that the choice of sampling frequency has an effect on both the amount
of jumps detected by these tests, ...
Town-gown relations have a very large impact on the student experience at Duke University. The overall college experience is not based solely on academics, but also on the social and cultural outlets that a university can ...
I examine the differences between Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans with respect to parental beliefs, parenting behaviors, and college academic achievement. The results suggest that 1) there is a strong causal effect ...
After the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2010, the effectiveness of global financial regulation, as
promoted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has been questioned. Conventional
minimum capital requirements ...
This paper presents a theoretical model of decision-making by professionals within the same field. The decision-makers consider reputation effects that result both from their relative actions and from the absolute outcomes. ...
This research project examined the views of Latina mothers living in Durham, North Carolina on four major ethical dilemmas surrounding HPV vaccine distribution: mandating the vaccine for school entry, vaccinating males as ...
This thesis looks at the problem of sustaining human rights in a world of sovereign states. What does it mean for the global human rights movement that the predominant form of political organization in the world is the ...
The aim of this project is twofold: to explore the ideology apparent in children’s literature and to examine the generic features that may be found in canonical fiction when compared with non-canonical fiction. Colonial ...
This paper examines the impact of various macroeconomic and real estate specific surprises on M&A transactions involving Real Estate Investment Trusts. The 2008 financial crisis drastically affected merger & acquisition ...
The United States Postal Service is a government agency created with the foundation of the United States of America. Today, the Internet has become its biggest competition, taking significant revenue away from the Postal ...
This paper analyzes the impact of increasing fuel prices on public transit ridership in
the United States. Using regional gasoline prices and transit ridership and supply figures
from 218 US cities from 2002 to 2008, I ...
This paper investigates how changes in measures of sector and market variance affect equity variance by examining forecasts of equity variance over 1, 5, and 22 day time horizons. These forecasts were generated using ...
This paper explores the metrics used by FCC and others for evaluating competition between wireless telecom carriers. It focuses on the impact of wireless spectrum quality on the results of FCC spectrum auctions and the ...
New mathematical models are presented for analysis of fluorescence recovery
after photobleaching (FRAP) data to account for the conical geometry of photobleaching,
for spatial variations in binding of fluorescent molecules, ...