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Browsing by Subject "adoption"
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Child Valuation in Contemporary China: Abandonment, Institutional Care, and Transnational Adoption
(2020-04-17)In this thesis, I contend that orphaned and relinquished children’s positionality in Chinese society reveals a complex entanglement between changing domestic and international policies and popular Western perceptions of ... -
Policy Opportunities to Increase Cover Crop Adoption on North Carolina Farms
(2012-04-27)Cover cropping is an agricultural practice that produces on-farm benefits while contributing to broader public sustainability goals. However, cover crops have not been widely adopted in the United States, while the barriers ... -
Policy Opportunities to Increase Cover Crop Adoption on North Carolina Farms
(2012-04-27)Cover cropping is an agricultural practice that produces on-farm benefits while contributing to broader public sustainability goals. However, cover crops have not been widely adopted in the United States, while the barriers ... -
Seeing Through the Smoke: Measuring Impacts of Improved Cookstove Interventions on Technology Adoption and Environmental and Health Outcomes
(2015)Traditional cooking using biomass is associated with adverse health consequences, local environmental degradation, and regional climate change. Improved stoves (ICS; liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), biogas, electric, efficient ... -
Sons, Seed, and Children of Promise in Galatians: Discerning the Coherence in Paul's Model of Abrahamic Descent
(2010)The central portion of Paul's letter to the Galatians consists of three main arguments, each of which invokes a different image of Abrahamic descent: sons (3:7) in 3:6-14, seed (3:16, 29) in 3:15-4:11, and children of promise ... -
The Nurture Effect: Like Father, Like Son. What about for an Adopted Child?
(2011-04-18)I investigate the influences of family environment and genes on children’s educational outcomes by working with data on Korean American adoptees and their non-adoptive siblings. I make use of the natural experiment setting ...
