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Education and women's life outcomes: Empirical investigation based on evidence from Taiwan
(2011)
Women's education has been increasing at a faster pace than men's education over the past decades around the world. Especially, female's enrollment rate at the tertiary level has been growing much more rapidly than male's. ...
Class, gender, and philanthropy in the New York Society of Decorative Art, 1877-1902
(2011)
The New York Society of Decorative Art (1877–1902) was founded in the years following the American Civil War to assist women in need by offering art needlework and other handicraft classes in the hopes that this education ...
Legacies of an imaginary people: The Phaeacians after Homer
(2011)
This dissertation studies the Phaeacians' appearances throughout Greek and Roman literature outside of their famous appearance in Books 9-12 of the Odyssey in order to determine the ways that they were used and understood ...
Allegories of exile: The alienated self in Shakespeare, Webster, Crashaw, and Milton
(2011)
"Allegories of Exile" examines various poetic representations of characters and communities forced to negotiate their identity once confronted with the threat of exile – be it social, economic, political, or in some cases ...
Dar el-Odaba: Afro-Asian Writers Remapping Blackness and Afro-Arab Identities
(2011)
Inspired by the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement's declaration of anti-colonial political and economic unity, the Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers was formed during the 1958 Conference for Afro-Asian Writers ...
Predicting lane utilization and merge behavior at signalized intersections with auxiliary lanes: A Buffalo, New York, study
(2011)
Auxiliary through lanes (ATLs) are often used to increase the capacity at signalized intersections. The effectiveness of these lanes is a direct function of the level of their utilization by motorists, which tends to be ...
The diplomacy of display: Art and international cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s
(2011)
This dissertation deals with the interplay of politics and culture in the 1920s and 1930s. By focusing on a series of international exhibitions of art that were staged at the London Royal Academy between 1927 and 1936, ...
Is media framing of coverage of prescription drug abuse a reflection of cultural diffusion?
(2011)
Abuse, or off-label use, of prescription opioids is the fastest-growing drug problem facing America. Medical professionals, public health professionals, and the media are prone to framing the problem as epidemic. Such ...
Low Cost Solution-Based Solar Cells
(2011)
There has been extensive research on reducing the cost of fabricating solar cells. Recently, due to the high fabrication cost of Silicon (Si) based solar cells, solution-based solar cells are receiving significant attention ...
The ontology of the state for geopolitical theory and the semantic web
(2011)
Michael Mann (1997 [1984], p. 60) wrote, "The state is undeniably a messy concept," but in the years since he made this observation, little seems to have been done to clean it up. This dissertation seeks to use ontology-based ...