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Perspectives on Iris, Goddess of sea and sky
(2011)
This master's thesis has three principal objectives: 1) to present the history of Iris, from the end of the Dark Ages through Archaic and Classical Greece, 2) to highlight the iconography and material culture most relevant ...
Sex in the city: Why street workers do what they do and where they do it
(2011)
Many theoretical perspectives on crime focus either on why individuals commit crime or where crime occurs. Absent from several theoretical perspectives that seek to examine why individuals commit crime, however, are the ...
Product diversification of U.S. manufacturing firms: A theoretical and empirical investigation
(2011)
This dissertation consists of two studies. One is about the level of product diversification of multiproduct firms. The other is about the product switching decision of multiproduct firms. Most of the existing studies rely ...
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. ...
Publicity vs. Impact - A Sequential Game with a Non-profit Organization and N Donors
(2011)
Charitable contributions play an important role in serving the society, maintaining civil health and even improving the worldwide relationship of nations. However, the market of charitable contributions is greatly complicated ...
Security externalities, institutional veto-points, and regional integration 1945~2004
(2011)
I revisit the security externality hypothesis of trade, and then attempt to reconfirm it in an entirely different way. One of the most famous theoretical explanations of the relationship between alliance and trade is that ...
Next-generation transportation simulation and modeling tools
(2011)
The purpose of this doctoral study is to advance the state of the art of the simulation and modeling of transportation systems by addressing some of the limitations of state-of-the-practice models such as the inability to ...
Value-at-Risk Models for Hazardous Material Transportation
(2011)
This dissertation develops Value-at-Risk (VaR) risk models for hazardous material (hazmat) transportation and decision support models for single-trip and multiple-trip routing design, traffic assignment with risk equity ...
Nursing home quality: A theoretical and empirical investigation
(2011)
Nursing home quality has been a major public concern to consumers, health care providers, and policy makers for many years. Most previous work in this field has analyzed nursing home quality by using the excess demand ...
Using GIS to implement geographic methods for hospital location: An emergency management case study in the village of Gowanda, N.Y.
(2011)
In post-disaster locations, it is often necessary to re-locate damaged infrastructure to promote more pro-active planning. The Village of Gowanda, New York, experienced a disastrous flood in August 2009. Properties were ...