Browsing by Subject "Development"
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Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World.
(J Youth Adolesc, 2017-10-19)Epidemiological data indicate that risk behaviors are among the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality worldwide. Consistent with this, laboratory-based studies of age differences in risk behavior allude to ... -
All in the Same Boat: Fighting for Capital in Gadsden, Alabama, 1900-Present
(2020)Following World War II, in the estimate of the Congress of IndustrialOrganizations (CIO), one out of every six people in the city of Gadsden, Alabamabelonged to the union, making it the “best organized CIO city in the US.” ... -
An Integrated Approach to Coastal Zone Management of Abu Dhabi Western Region
(2008-12-05)The emirate of Abu Dhabi is currently undergoing unprecedented economic development. This development is allowing new opportunities for growth in the private and industrial sectors while attracting tourists and leading to ... -
Artisanal Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone: Social Impacts, Environmental Awareness, and Opportunities for Change
(2014-12-07)More than a decade after a violent, diamond-fueled civil war, Sierra Leone ranks 183 out of 187 countries on the 2014 UNDP Human Development Index; and UNEP warns that their lack of appropriate natural resource-linked governance ... -
Assessment of Smallholder Training Programs in Food Sector Climate Strategies
(2022-04-21)The future outcomes of climate change, the food sector, and supplier land management are codependent. The food sector is responsible for 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions—predominantly due to land use practices—while ... -
Biological and Physical Factors Affecting the Natural History and Evolution of Encapsulated Development
(2016)The evolution of reproductive strategies involves a complex calculus of costs and benefits to both parents and offspring. Many marine animals produce embryos packaged in tough egg capsules or gelatinous egg masses attached ... -
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins Signal through Smad1/5/8 to induce MET, Smad2 to Specify the Dorsoventral Axis and Smad3 to Facilitate Invasion.
(2013)The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathways have important roles in embryonic development and homeostasis. BMPs have been shown to pattern the dorsoventral axis in zebrafish (<italic>Danio rerio</italic>) early ... -
Brewing Development: Multinational Alcohol Companies, the Neo-Concessionary State, and the Politics of Industrialization in Ethiopia
(2019)This dissertation examines the politics of industry and industrialization in Ethiopia. I analyze how multinational alcohol companies and the Ethiopian state are brewing development, meaning spurring the creation of industrial ... -
Death and the Construction of an Astrocyte Network
(2019)Naturally-occurring cell death is a fundamental developmental mechanism for regulating cell numbers and sculpting developing organs. This is particularly true in the central nervous system, where large numbers of neurons ... -
Development and Evolution of the Membracid Pronotum
(2023)A major goal of biological studies is to understand how complex forms develop and evolve. Each form is the result of molecular developmental patterning, growth, and the accumulation of changes in these processes from internal ... -
Dietary Choline, Inflammation, and Neuroprotection Across the Lifespan
(2020)The cholinergic system is intricately linked with hippocampal memory. As well, choline is anti-inflammatory in the brain and periphery (Terrando et al., 2011; Rivera et al., 1998). However, few have analyzed the anti-inflammatory ... -
Does Price Have a Payoff? A Comparison of the Traditional NGO Model With the Micro-Consignment Model
(2012-04-15)Various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have sought to alleviate the problem of limited access to clean drinking water in Guatemalan villages by providing them with water filters. While traditional NGOs donate filters ... -
Encounters with Conservation and Development in Suriname: How Indigenous Peoples Are Trying to Make Things 'Right' through Scalar Politics, Identity Framing, and Hybrid Governance Arrangements
(2009)This dissertation research explored how indigenous peoples have responded to increasing conservation and development pressures in Suriname using two case study communities. One, in West Suriname, faced a proposed protected ... -
Energy & Development (Global Energy Access Network Case Studies)
(2017-06-20)The present volume represents the culmination of one of the Global Energy Access Network's central initiatives in our inaugural 2016-17 year. We observed that many of our student members had previously worked in areas of ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013)The essays in applied microeconomics contained within this dissertation examine prices in the developing economy contexts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Prices, observed and unobserved, are determined by and incentivize ... -
Estrogen’s Impact on the Specialized Transcriptome, Brain, and Vocal Learning Behavior of a Sexually Dimorphic Songbird
(2020)The song system of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is highly sexually dimorphic, where only males develop the neural structures necessary to learn and produce learned vocalizations in adulthood. During early development, ... -
Exploring the role for mGluR5 in regulating striatal medium spiny neuron development
(2016)The striatum is a key brain region for learning and producing movement. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms in the early postnatal period that regulate how medium spiny neurons (MSNs), the predominant cell type ... -
Foreign Aid Allocation and Impact: A Sub-National Analysis of Malawi
(2013-04-15)This project estimates the first sub-national model of foreign aid allocation and impact. Newly geocoded aid project data from Malawi is used in combination with multiple rounds of living standards data to predict the allocation ... -
From Crisis to Restoration: Technical Intellectuals and the Politics of Italy's Post-war Development
(2021)Development has been studied as a project pursued by imperialist nations to strengthen the social and economic order of empire and to curb communism. It was deployed just as frequently, however, in sovereign spaces. This ... -
Function and Molecular Biology of the MEGF10 Cell Surface Protein in Retinal Neurons and Glia
(2019)In the central nervous system, billions of neurons interconnect with precision to form morphologically complex and functionally diverse neural circuits. The stereotypical fashion by which neurons assemble suggests ...
