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Evaluation of the e-vapor market across Erie and Niagara counties, NY
(2014)
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) commonly referred to as e-cigarettes, e-cigs and e-vapor products were initially promoted and sold online, and in traditional tobacco retail outlets, but have quickly expanded ...
Finding spaces to integrate and persist: A study of African-American male graduates of predominantly White institutions
(2014)
This qualitative study uses narratives to explore the extent to which Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO) membership made a difference in the social integration, leading to the persistence, of twenty-six African-American ...
"What good would a college degree do for these women?:" The politics and paradox of teaching higher education in women's prisons
(2014)
The instructors I interviewed for this study are pioneers in a revitalization of prison education during a period in which it has suffered one of its greatest setbacks - the government pulling out of the prison education ...
Extending the document: American poetry and the cultural politics of Depression documentary
(2014)
The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: first, it contributes to a revisionist cultural history of documentary as prolonging, rather than departing from, earlier modernisms. It does so by claiming that documentary, ...
Land cover type and stayers in US counties
(2014)
Although internal migration in the US has been declining since the 1980s, the reasons for Americans' increasing rootedness remain lesser studied than those accounting for the country's still-high mobility rates. Likewise, ...
At the intersection of global development, national policies, and women: Analyzing gender policy distribution in Tanzania
(2014)
As the 2015 deadline to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) rapidly approaches, many countries, including Tanzania, face uncertainty as to whether they will successfully fulfill each Goal and its ...
Let's make a neoliberal deal (or not): Local elites and downtown redevelopment in Rochester, New York
(2014)
Since its onset as a dominant political and economic philosophy in the 1970s, the main components of neoliberalism--individualism, a market-first orientation, strong property rights, privatization, and small government--continue ...
"Otro cortes que los sujetase": Espacios de poder y negociacion en el "teatro augusto" novohispano (1660-1692)
(2014)
In this thesis we study the strategies applied by Novo-Hispanic elites, or " teatro augusto, " to create spaces of negotiation and maintain the order in the New Spain. We study three key moments in the last years of the ...
Modeling and Simulating the Network Behavior of Agencies during Disaster Relief Operations
(2014)
The objective of this dissertation is to advance the study of disaster response and recovery (generally, disaster relief) by providing insight and tools to agencies that work in disaster relief. In disaster relief, resources ...
Appearance and acceptance: Toward a sociology of familial responses to gender transition
(2014)
This dissertation provides an analysis of transgender individuals' accounts of their experiences with family acceptance and rejection. Based on interviews with 25 transwomen and 25 transmen, I find that family members are ...