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Innovation, collaboration, and outsourcing: An exploratory study of the U.S. biopharmaceutical sector
(2007)
This dissertation examines the role of external collaboration and outsourcing in the innovation performance of U.S firms in the biopharmaceutical industry. Particular attention is given to the small and medium-sized (SME) ...
A concept mapping study of the impact of mobilization and deployment on United States Army reservists
(2007)
This exploratory study utilized an innovative methodology, concept mapping, to examine the impact of mobilization and deployment on Army Reservists during Operation Iraqi Freedom . Free-response methodology identified 103 ...
Cultural distance and distress: Understanding the international graduate student experience
(2007)
International students are increasingly integrated into diverse college cultural landscapes across the United States. Insofar as the cultural distance between the United States and home cultures predicts the adjustment ...
Mass incarceration in America: A social problem
(2007)
This Research project examines the phenomenon called mass incarceration, and attempts to answer the question, is mass incarceration a social problem? In other words, has mass incarceration been socially constructed? The ...
"A song along the keyboard": Popular music and literature in postwar American culture
(2007)
This dissertation draws together the history of recording technologies with theoretical discussions of art, music, and celebrity culture, and pairs these with literary explorations of music from the postwar era. Framed by ...
Inflammatory biomarkers and subclinical atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: The Breakfast with a Buddy Biomarkers of Lupus Study
(2007)
African-American women are at high risk for Systemic lupus erythematosus. Women with lupus are five to eight times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than women in the general population. Inflammation is suspected ...
Body politics of the Asian American woman: From Orientalist stereotype to the hybrid body of Yong Soon Min
(2007)
In this master's thesis, my analysis focuses on the representations of Asian and Asian American women as revealed through American visual texts, historical documents, and artwork. In the first part of the thesis, I examine ...
Evaluation of the Erie County Family Treatment Court
(2007)
Family Treatment Courts (FTC) are programs that were created to deal with parents who have a substance abuse problem and are involved with the child welfare system due to having an indicated neglect case. In recent years, ...
Beyond race: Examining the cultural identity of multiracial individuals
(2007)
With increasing levels of racial integration the number of mixed-race people in the US will continue to grow (Root, 1992). Mixed-race individuals defy conventional monocultural and monoracial paradigms of understanding ...
Explaining the age gap in voter turnout in the United States
(2007)
There is an age gap in voter turnout. Young people are less likely to vote than those who are older. This research seeks to answer the questions: What are the main explanations for the age gap in turnout? And, how much ...