Browsing by Author "Werner, Cynthia"
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Choi, In Huck (2012-07-16)Is the biggest tideland reclamation project in the world (the STRP) sustainable? Since 1991, the STRP which aims at converting mudflats into 401 km2 farmland and industrial complex has been carried out in the southwestern ...
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Johnson, James Brent (2013-05-31)This study considers the market of potatoes in Amazonas, Peru from an informal production sector to a more formal retail-marketing sector. I consider and challenge current understandings that attempt to model formal/informal ...
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James, Jeremy Wayne (2009-05-15)Following Emancipation, many African Americans came to view military service as a crucial step toward the greater acceptance of blacks into American society and, potentially, toward complete citizenship. Military service ...
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Choi, In Huck (2009-06-02)In this thesis, a list of aspects or characteristics of sustainable development awareness in a society was made from a literature review of the history of sustainable development, theories and practices on sustainable ...
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Werner, Cynthia (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009)The apparent revival of non-consensual bride abduction in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is somewhat surprising seventy years after the Soviet state banned the practice and introduced sweeping legislation to emancipate women. ...
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Ueda (Maruyama), Naho (2010-07-14)In the era of advanced communication and transportation technology, immigrants and their descendents can be reunited with their ancestral land from where they or their forebears once were displaced. Visiting the ancestral ...
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Dangott, Jessica (2014-04-17)For young Jews in North America, the discovery of Jewish identity—sometimes colloquially referred to as “Jewishness”—can often be confusing, exhausting, and even surprising. Many Jewish youth in America first become ...
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Werner, Cynthia; Barcus, Holly R.; Brede, Namara (Central Asian Survey, 2013)Throughout Central Asia, the end of communism has been marked by a significant change in the management and influence of local mosques. In many rural areas, small underground mosques operated by informally trained, elderly ...
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Zhu, Haiying (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)More than a decade ago American fast food entered the Chinese market. Since then the number of fast food and organized chain restaurants in China has multiplied. Chinese consumers, especially those who live in large urban ...
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Ford, Bonny Marie (2018-07-26)The population structure of Central Asia and the effects of population history on that structure have not been well studied. To address this gap, 4,169 mtDNA control region sequences from Central Asia and the surrounding ...
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Cho, Hao-Yu (2019-07-23)Seeking cheap and submissive labor is a trend for transnational enterprises in the globalization era. As a robust economic body, Taiwan-based multinational enterprises follow the pattern and rearrange its business globally. ...
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Barcus, Holly; Werner, Cynthia (2015-06-05)Accompanying the dissolution of the USSR and the formation of new nation states in the 1990s, nearly half of Mongolian Kazakhs migrated from their adopted home of Mongolia to the imagined homeland of Kazakhstan. By 2000, ...
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Redmore, Lauren Elizabeth (2020-03-23)Negative interactions between humans and elephants are a concern in places where they cohabitate. Elephants threaten the lives and livelihoods of individual people, and people are an existential threat to the survival of ...
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Barcus, Holly; Werner, Cynthia (Asian Ethnicity, 2010)The Kazakhs are the largest minority group in Mongolia, a relatively homogenous country dominated by Khalkha Mongols. Since 1991, Mongolia has transitioned politically and economically and witnessed significant changes ...
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Zarestky, Jill (2014-06-24)This study investigated the educational programs of an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) operating in a developing region. The purpose of this study was to examine the exchange between an international NGO ...
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Kenzhegaranova, Madina (2009-05-15)The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first was to explore, describe and define the emerging construct of Human Resource Development (HRD) in the Republic of Kazakhstan (RKZ). The second was to examine specific ...
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Imam, Zeba (2011-02-22)Secular nationalism, India?s official ideology and the basis for its secular Constitution, is being challenged by the rising religious nationalist discourses. This has resulted in an ongoing struggle between the secular ...
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Dennis, Katherine Anne (2016-12-07)Deforestation and forest fragmentation continue unabated in many parts of the world. Scholars point to the expansion of the agricultural frontier as a driver of forest and biodiversity loss. Government agencies and ...
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Werner, Cynthia; Emmelhainz, Celia; Barcus, Holly (Europe-Asia Studies, 2017-12)This article explores issues of citizenship and belonging associated with post-Soviet Kazakhstan's repatriation programme. Beginning in 1991, Kazakhstan financed the resettlement of over 944,000 diasporic Kazakhs from ...
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Dhanju, Richa (2012-02-14)This dissertation focuses on the nature of governance of the urban poor and examines the 'behind the scene' politics as well as the 'side effects' of a recent good governance project designed to serve six million poor ...