By measuring the extent to which improved economic relations between China and Taiwan has led to improved political relations, this project uses the case of cross-Strait relations to test the idea that economic interdependence ...
The WHO estimates that 40% of the world’s population is at risk of getting dengue. Despite its high economic costs, dengue is often neglected in the face of more severe diseases. This paper aims to understand the effect ...
The Great Migration caused massive demographic changes in Northeastern and Midwestern cities as African Americans moved from the South to the North. These changes led to economic discrimination and segregation within ...
Exchange rates are a very important factor for businesses that operate internationally,
especially when franchises are in international competition for the same talent pool. As
an international league, this paper seeks ...
With 55.5% of the nation’s high school students participating in athletics, it is valuable for educators to understand how athletics affect students’ educational aspirations. Educational aspirations are the strong desires ...
In previous centuries imaginations were ignited by scientific advancement. Inspired by astronomical developments, probed to questioning by the discovery of new worlds, and excited by technological advances that asserted ...
The evolution of the Argentine tango is examined, demonstrating the importance of fragmentation and international influences on its creation and endurance as a national symbol for Argentine identity. It looks at the ...
The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 provided the impetus for domestic U.S. airlines to establish hub-and-spoke networks to improve profitability and stem financial losses. This study seeks to determine if a significant ...
While the Dominican healthcare system has recently been lauded by USAID for strides in more efficient patient care, the day-to-day experiences of patients, doctors and other healthcare providers in a small community in San ...
The detective fiction of Poe, Gaboriau, and Conan Doyle is best understood in relation to an earlier genre, the crime story, with the figure of the detective representing the descendant and the continuation of the criminals ...
Background Past studies have typically focused on the effect of health insurance on primary health care for children, but few have assessed the effect the type of health insurance coverage has on primary care. This research ...
Un des plus grands écrivains du 19ème siècle, Honoré de Balzac écrit son chef d’œuvre La Comédie humaine entre 1829 et 1850. La Comédie humaine dépeint la vie quotidienne à Paris et en province pendant la Restauration, ...
This paper explores the ethical mandates of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) and then studies the recent performance of IBF on the positive level. The ethical section is divided into four parts: (1) promotion of trade and ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the evidence-based practice movement and its implications for the realm of public health. The paper first described the evidence-based practice movement and examined its pros and ...
This paper looks at 187 countries from 1960-2004 and explores the economic indicators of the onset and the severity of civil conflicts, where civil conflicts are described as small clashes that result in 25 or more battle ...
We examine a host-pathogen model in which three types of species exist: empty sites, healthy hosts, and infected hosts. In this model six different transitions can occur: empty sites can be colonized by healthy hosts, ...
Isaiah Berlin has observed, “there is something surprising about the sheer number of interpretations of Machiavelli’s political opinions.” For Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), religion and politics were intimately connected ...
This study aims to explain the variance in premiums, or the price paid for a target firm’s equity above its market value, in mergers and acquisitions with natural gas and electric target firms from 1990-2012, a period ...