Browsing by Subject "development"
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A comparative analysis of egg provisioning using mass spectrometry during rapid life history evolution in sea urchins.
(Evolution & development, 2019-05-17)A dramatic life history switch that has evolved numerous times in marine invertebrates is the transition from planktotrophic (feeding) to lecithotrophic (nonfeeding) larval development-an evolutionary tradeoff with many ... -
A Smartphone App With a Digital Care Pathway for Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery: Development and Feasibility Study.
(JMIR perioperative medicine, 2020-10-16)<h4>Background</h4>There is a great unmet clinical need to provide patients undergoing spinal surgery and their caregivers with ongoing, high-quality care before and after surgery in an efficiency-focused health ... -
Assessing the current and future status of aquatic and hydrologic ecosystem services in the French Broad River Basin
(2017-04-28)Ecosystem services are the benefits that people receive from nature, and are an increasingly important component in conservation planning. Many of these ecosystem services are threatened, however, by land use change and ... -
Childcare Choices and Early Cognitive Development
(2013)This study uses the data from the National Institute for Children Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to evaluate features of wage and childcare price changes that are associated with positive ... -
Decision-making Across Development: The Impact of Ambiguity and Social Context
(2017)Public health data show that many everyday reckless behaviors reach a developmental peak in adolescence, with adolescents engaging in more reckless behaviors than both children and adults. In contrast, most studies ... -
Deconstructing Institutional Narratives and Building Institutional Alternatives: The Legacy of Ivan Illich and the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) (1961-1976)
(2023-04-20)This thesis examines the combined theories and histories of humanist radical thinker Ivan Illich and the alternative educational institution, the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC), founded in 1967 in Cuernavaca, ... -
Development and Land Use Impacts on Marine Ecosystems in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI)
(2017-04-25)Anthropogenic and natural stressors have long been a source of concern as they relate to water quality and marine ecosystem health, particularly in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). Although many studies have been ... -
Developmental Regulation in Response to Nutritional Status in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2019)Developmental physiology is very sensitive to nutrient availability. For instance, in the nematode C. elegans, newly hatched L1-stage larvae require food to initiate postembryonic development. Despite the essential role ... -
Domestic Content Requirements and India’s Solar Mission
(2013-04-26)Domestic content requirements are widely-used policies that require a specified proportion of a good to be produced within a certain jurisdiction. Applied to solar cells and modules procured through India's national solar ... -
Economic Models and Magical Realism: An interdisciplinary approach to development through a concurrent analysis of 1960’s-70’s Latin American Structuralism and One Hundred Years of Solitude
(2017-05-10)This history of thought paper analyzes how a literary perspective could be useful in thinking about economic development by studying the political economy of 1960s-70s Latin America. It explores how themes in García Márquez's ... -
Economic Structure and Performance
(1986)This festschrift, featuring 26 papers by 36 authors, is a fitting tribute to Hollis Chenery who, for over three decades, has been one of the luminaries of development economics. Most of the issues he brought into focus, ... -
Effect of Grandparent-grandchild Interaction on Socio-emotional and Cognitive Outcomes of Adolescent Grandchildren in Sri Lanka
(2015)Background: The role of grandparents has changed in response to social, economic and demographic factors, which may operate both in favour of or against the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren. The ... -
Effects of National Development and Conservation Strategies on Rural Livelihoods Around Makokou, Gabon
(2017-04-28)Balancing development and conservation is a struggle that all countries face, but is especially difficult in tropical, developing nations. Development activities in these nations often rely on extractive industries to diversify ... -
Effects of prolonged mitosis on neural stem cells in vivo during development
(2020)Microcephaly patients are born with a brain size >3 standard deviations below normal and have mild to severe cognitive deficits. 12 microcephaly-linked genes identified in human genetics studies encode microtubule/centr... -
Endocrine and Neurobehavioral Effects from Flame Retardant Exposure in Early and Juvenile Life Stages of Zebrafish
(2015)Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of flame retardant chemicals that were added to furniture foam, electronics, plastics, and some textiles to reduce their flammability. While PBDEs have been phased out ... -
Essays in Health, Education and Development
(2012)This dissertation encompasses three essays that examine the extent to which parental loss and social programs affect the health, education and time allocation of children in developing countries. The first chapter asks ... -
Essays on Population, Environment and Development
(2018)Ecological factors and the policy environment are central constraints on population well-being. This dissertation emphasizes the role of shocks to help understand the nature of such constraints, and explores the relationship ... -
ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION IN COLOMBIA
(2022)Between 2015 and 2019, approximately 1.8 million Venezuelans fled into neighboring Colombia, increasing Colombia’s population by almost 4%. In this dissertation, I study the effects of this large and unprecedented migration ... -
Essays on the Political Economy of City Status
(2022)This dissertation studies the political economy of city status and its historical role in promoting development. The status of a city was a set of political institutions that altered the governance of towns it was bestowed ... -
Fool’s Gold: An Examination of Liberalization and Extractive Mining and in Ghana
(2018-04)This thesis assesses the spatial distribution of mines in Ghana and its effect on residents in nearby communities. Large-scale mines are largely concentrated in the country’s “Golden Triangle,” a gold-rich area in southwest ...
