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Identity Crises and Cultural Adaptation of Chinese Graduate Students at a Large University in Northwestern New York
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of Chinese internationalgraduate students from mainland China, with a purpose to investigate whether theyexperience identity crises due to cultural differences as ...
ESSAYS ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND LABOR ISSUES
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
A number of countries implementing a defined benefit pay-as-you-go (DB PAYG) social security have faced difficulties in maintaining the fiscal sustainability of their social security fund as they encounter demographic ...
Essays on Retirement, Self-employment, and Business Entry
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
The first chapter determines the causal effect of choosing self-employment over wage-employment on the timing of older workers' retirement. Older workers have the highest self-employment rate among all age groups. This ...
Detecting Mapping Spaces and Spaces with Complexity One
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
In this thesis we will prove two main results regarding a space A following from information about mapping spaces out of a space A. We show if A is a finite CW-complex such that algebraic theories detect mapping spaces out ...
Agency and Learning English as an L2: An L2 Learner’s Language Socialization in a Preschool Classroom
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Agency is regarded as the fundamental construct in second language (L2) learning. Despite the importance, agency has not been fully investigated in children’s L2 learning. Moreover, there are predominant dichotomous views ...
Enabling Full-Scale Soil-Structure Interaction Modeling through Analysis of a Geotechnical Laminar Box and Real-time Dynamic Hybrid Simulation
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Soil-structure interaction is broadly assumed to be beneficial, with the incorporation of a flexible soil resulting in period-lengthening of the soil-foundation-superstructure system. However, this a high-level product and ...
EVALUATION OF SITE RESPONSE, WITH APPLICATION TO NUCLEAR STRUCTURES
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Nuclear power plants (NPPs) and other safety-related nuclear facilities offer unique design challenges not encountered with commercial infrastructure. One such challenge is the characterization of the effects of soil-structure ...
Fundamental Study of Free Volume Characteristics on Membrane H2/CO2 separation
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
As one of the basic chemicals and green energy sources, hydrogen (H2) is mainly produced from fossil fuels via steam reforming or gasification with carbon dioxide (CO2) as a byproduct. The CO2 must be removed for the H2 ...
An Application of Sociometer Theory to Online Social Exclusion and Reduced Intelligent Thought
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Research suggests that individuals suffer decrements in their complex cognitive processing abilities when exposed to social exclusion signals resulting from limited resources left-over after engaging in affect-regulation. ...
DATA-DRIVEN FIRE RISK MANAGEMENT: SPATIO-TEMPORAL PREDICTION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION MODELS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Fire incidents, especially structure/building fires, are a highly common phenomenon. Structure fire incidents as impactful as the recent Notre Dame Cathedral fire of France may be rare, however, there are millions of fire ...