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Design Rules for Complex Emulsion Targets in Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation of Polymer Thin Films
(2021)Polymer thin films used in many modern technologies, such as light emitting diodes, solar cells, flexible electronics, and sensors, are fabricated in numerous ways. Of these methods, solution-based processing techniques ... -
Unpacking the Evidence on Human-Wildlife Conflict Interventions: The Case for Realist Synthesis
(2020-11-22)Mitigating human-wildlife conflict often involves complex interventions acting in or on large, often messy, and even more complex social and ecological systems. The effectiveness of such interventions depends fundamentally ... -
The Barriers Facing the Adoption of Compostable Biopolymers in the Canadian Food and Beverage Industry
(2020-11-22)The food and beverage industry in Canada, generates large volumes of single-use plastic waste as a result of its packaging materials. Utilizing compostable bioplastics in food and beverage packaging can provide an improved ... -
Algebraic Data Structure for Decomposing Multipersistence Modules
(2020-11-12)Single-parameter persistent homology techniques in topological data analysis have seen increasing usage in recent years. These techniques have found particular success because of the existence of a complete, discrete, efficiently ... -
Using urban food system governance to drive healthy food procurement for cities in low- and middle-income countries: Case studies on Addis Ababa Students Feeding Agency and Pune Sassoon General Hospital Meal Programme
(2020-06-30)This project provides recommendations for how the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) can assist urban governments and stakeholders to implement institutional healthy food procurement in low- and middle-income ... -
Increasing the Disability Vote
(2020-06-25)The disability vote is the overlooked and forgotten vote. To help my organization increase the disability vote, I conducted a series of interviews with people from various disability rights and voting advocacy organizations. ... -
Impact of Workplace Health Centers on Health Care Spending and Utilization Among Plant Workers in California’s Central Valley
(2020-06)Employers are becoming more active in strategies to reduce health care spending while maintaining or improving health outcomes for employees. Workplace wellness programs (WWPs) are popular, but the research is mixed on their ... -
Precarity in German Policy: The Vulnerabilities of Refugees and Asylees from Discrimination to Human Trafficking
(2020-05-31)To create a safer, more inclusive environment for refugees and asylees, it is incumbent upon Germany’s federal government and community-based organizations to build effective, well-informed policy and strengthen Germany’s ... -
From Co-Production to Broken Relationship: Agencies, Idols, and Fans in the Making of K-pop
(2020-05-28)In this thesis, I argue that idols, talent agencies, and fans in K-pop constitute a triangle where idols and agencies, agencies and fans, idols and fans each has a double-directional relationship. I look into the relationship ... -
Building Better Communities: Why Do Community Foundations Engage in Advocacy?
(2020-05-27)Executive Summary Community foundations are public charities that serve a specific location or geography. They are distinct from private foundations and therefore, have different legal protections and rights, including ... -
Analysis of Electric Utility EV Proposals
(2020-05-23)The project analyzes a sample of Electric Vehicle program proposals put forth by electric utilities across the U.S. for developing and installing electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. The project looks at each of ... -
Energy Access as a Driver of Gender Equality: What is the Evidence?
(2020-05-22)Executive Summary Introduction Policy Problem. Worldwide, 2.7 billion people rely on traditional fuels such as wood, charcoal, agricultural residue, and animal dung for their cooking and heating needs (Mulugetta et ... -
Voluntary Contribution to public goods: Evidence from herdsmen’s contribution preference to ecological protection in Nature Reserves in China
(2020-05-10)The growing number of livestock has become a new threat to the ecological environment and wildlife in China’s biodiversity hotspots, especially for panda habitats. As China has announced the establishment of a giant panda ... -
Negative Campaigning in the Digital Age: Comparing Cost-Benefit Structures Across Parties, Issues and Communication Channels
(2020-05-10)Research on negative campaigning in multiparty systems has outlined several potential costs and benefits of “going negative.” However, most of these cost-benefit structures relate to contextual factors and party characteristics, ... -
Just Transition in China: How Did Chinese SOEs Avoid the Massive Unemployment While Reducing Coal Capacity (2015-2020)?
(2020-05-09)The transition from fossil fuel to a low carbon economy is the main way to mitigate climate change. However, this will also inevitably impact the workers in the fossil fuel industry and their communities. This study focused ... -
The Spherical Manifold Realization Problem
(2020-05-09)The Lickorish-Wallace theorem states that any closed, orientable, connected 3-manifold can be obtained by integral Dehn surgery on a link in S^3. The spherical manifold realization problem asks which spherical manifolds ... -
How Do Chinese Grassroots NGOs Fight Local Pollution? An Organizational Perspective
(2020-05-06)In recent years, the Chinese government started to encourage more stakeholders to participate in the environmental protection field. However, little information told us what role grassroots non-governmental organizations ... -
A Realist Synthesis of Community Consent in Mining: The Enabling Environment for Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Latin America
(2020-05-03)Policy Question The policy problem this analysis seeks to understand is the context (otherwise known as the enabling environment) of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples impacted by mining in ... -
Queering Oocytes: Laboratory, Body, Cell
(2020-05-01)Recent advances in stem cell technology enable new possibilities for biological reproduction among same-sex couples and transgender people who have undergone medical or surgical transition. Despite this promise of revolutionary ...
