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The Rebirth of a Medieval Pilgrimage Route: A Study of the Modern-day Via Francigena Pilgrims
(2018-08-03)Today, the long-neglected Via Francigena, a 1,180-mile medieval pilgrimage route between Canterbury, England, and Rome, is attracting an increasing number of 21st-century visitors. Between the 4th and 16th centuries, sttreams ... -
On Latinx Poetics: Black Feminist Interventions with the Latinx "X"
(2018-05)The term "Latinx" has proliferated in the last ten years for several reasons. Some view the term as a gender inclusive alternative to Latino and Latina; others see the term as an anti-essentialist tool that highlights thhe ... -
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Obeying an Evolving Cultural Value: Influences of Filial Piety and Acculturation on Asian-Americans
(2018-07-24)Elder care is a concern for adult children with aging parents in Asia, America or practically anywhere else in the world. Yet, it is a particularly acute issue for members of the Asian-American community due, in no smalll ... -
A Journey Chronicling Memories of Grief and Loss
(2018-04-18)Abstract Storytelling is a natural and necessary human behavior. Stories connect us to our past, our present, and, most importantly, to each other. They tease our imaginations and stir our emotions. Certain stories arre ... -
Milton and Giovanni Diodati
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Semantic Term “Blurring” and Stochastic “Barcoding” for Improved Unsupervised Text Classification
(2018-04)The abundance of text data being produced in the modern age makes it increasingly important to intuitively group, categorize, or classify text data by theme for efficient retrieval and search. Yet, the high dimensionalitty ... -
The Economic Value of a Biomass Harvesting Program: A Non-Market Valuation Study Design
(2018-06-20)The purpose of this paper is to address the following policy question posed by the United Nations Development Programme in Lebanon: How can the United Nations Development Programme in Lebanon assess the total economicc ... -
Sister competition and birth order effects among marriage-aged girls: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Bangladesh
(2018-04)Early marriage before the age of 18 is prevalent among adolescent girls in Bangladesh, but the timing of marriage is not uniform across daughters within a household, with some sisters marrying earlier than others. Using ... -
Microbe Farmers: How Fermentation Artisans are Bringing Peace to the War on Microbes
(2018-03)In the nineteenth century the French scientist Louis Pasteur proved that the proliferation of certain microorganisms in a host body causes most diseases. His “germ theory” catalyzed twentieth century antimicrobial attituudes, ... -
Employer Perspectives on Former Offenders: An Analysis of How a Criminal Record Impacts the Hiring Decisions of Durham-Based Employers
(2018-04-20)How does a criminal record affect the hiring decisions of Durham-based employers? What, if any, services or incentives might increase the likelihood of these employers hiring former offenders? Roughly 700 individuals retturn ... -
Immigrant Children Despair: The Central American Minors Program (CAM) as the U.S. Response to the Humanitarian Crisis of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
(2018-04-03)As the daughter of a migrant, I no doubt know what it means to leave my home country behind. In this experience underlies my passion for a topic that sadly for many is better to be avoided. The unprecedented surge of ... -
Global Kodak: The Instamatic, Family Values, and Kodak’s Marketing Strategy, 1950- 1970
(2018-04-13)Kodak’s name and its familiar yellow logo has remained one of the most well-known brands in the photography throughout history. Since the company’s founding, one of its main goals was to make photography easier and more ... -
Caught in Between: The Japanese “Men of High Purpose” of the Nineteenth Century and Their Ambiguous Position Between Assassin and Terrorist.
(2018-06-11)For a long time, the mid-nineteenth century Japanese shishi, or “men of high purpose,” have been considered terrorists for their violent campaign under the banner “revere the emperor, expel the barbarians.” As a result oof ... -
New Agricultural Gospel: Protestant Agricultural Missions in China in the Early Twentieth Century
(2018-03-26)Agricultural mission was a mission taken by Protestant missionaries to improve people livelihood and, at the same time, to preach the Gospel, typically through applying modern science to the improvement of farming.Thiss ... -
A Comparison of Values around Cruise Tax in Iceland and Alaska
Cruise ships pose many environmental harms: they emit more black carbon and CO₂ per passenger-mile than any other vehicle, discharge untreated sewage and wastewater into the open ocean, carry large quantities of heavy fuuel ... -
Barriers to Opioid Addiction Treatment
(2018-06-03)This Master’s Project explores if barriers to creating and managing opioid treatment programs and office-based opioid treatment programs in literature are accurately reflected in reality. The research question of this Maaster’s ... -
Challenges Around Improving Learning Outcomes through Mother Tongue Language of Instruction Policy in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-04-20)How should the Education Division of the Bureau for Africa Office of Sustainability (AFR/SD/ED) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) adapt its approach to supporting mother tongue language off ...
