Browsing by Subject "policy"
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(2020-07-14)Determining appropriate theory to analyze how the aging process impacts prison management has proven difficult. Since there is little extant theory that can posit factors and trends leading to an aging inmate population ...
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(2013-08-06)The research question that I posed for this investigation is how the principles of Foucault’s governmentality can shed light on the political discourse on the achievement gaps (AGs) at the federal level. The AGs have been ...
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(2015-05-12)Agricultural policy affects the agricultural industry in its entirety. It affects everything from the type of food that is grown to how it is processed and distributed. Agricultural policy influencers impact the development ...
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(2009-05-15)Walking can be a safe, healthy, and affordable mode of school transportation. However, most students today do not use walking for their school travel. More research is needed to understand the correlates of walking to or ...
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(2012-02-14)Many scholars believe in order to have democratic legitimacy, females should be represented in governing bodies at all levels. Significant literature on female descriptive representation in the U.S. for women’s policy ...
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(2009-05-15)The purpose of this study was to determine how manatees use Swallow Caye, Drowned Cayes, and Gallows Reef, three distinct habitat types within the Belize Barrier Reef lagoon system near Belize City. Data were collected ...
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(2021-07-28)There are a number of government programs that farmers can access to help mitigate risk on their operations. The U.S. farm safety net, which is comprised of three main pieces, is the centerpiece of farm risk management. ...
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Since the 1980s, wage convergence between men and women has been slow and inconsistent across high-income nations. Moreover, long-established explanations such that of human capital factors more so explain the gender wage ...
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(Columbia University Press, 2020-03)"And Andrea Roberts explains how the Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas, another online mapping tool, serves as a platform for collaborators to collect and store data about Black settlements. But as Roberts asserts, rendering ...
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(2011-08-08)Increased environmental regulatory policy has been put in place by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in response to waterborne oil pollution events. We examine the IMO regulatory response to these incidences. ...
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(2022-02-28)The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the devastating impact infectious diseases can have on human health, social orders, economies, and political systems. Throughout human history, pandemics have remade governments and ...
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(2019-11-13)Since the 1930’s, agricultural policy has played a major role in stabilizing the United States agricultural economy. Agricultural policy is a minor player in terms of overall federal budgetary impact, but the programs ...
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(2015-11-17)In the residential sector managing scarcity requires a shift in patterns of household water use. Voluntary instruments that rely on persuasion and information are some of the most commonly used methods adopted in an effort ...
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In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into effect by former President Barack Obama. The act had the intention of expanding Medicaid and making healthcare more affordable and accessible for Americans by drastically ...
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(2016-04-22)Drawing on classical and contemporary sources in the philosophy of science and education, I argue that a robust understanding of fallibilism is absent from current education policy decisions. An inadequate appreciation of ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-05-17)The Financial Report of the United States Government (FRUSG), released at the end of March, identifies total federal liabilities of $25.4 trillion as of September 30, 2018. The debt held by the public, $15.8 trillion, ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-09-01)Can state and federal policies deter undocumented workers from entering the U.S.? In Working Paper 1604, PERC's Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra, and Sandra Orozco-Aleman, address this timely and critical immigration policy ...
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(2017-01-19)The failure of protective systems can be catastrophic, and has its origin in management. Yet, most engineering works regarding protective systems focus on their physical components. Historically, protective systems have ...
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(2019-08-14)Biodiversity loss continues to be an increasing concern to conservationists, governments, society and policymakers. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) currently serves as the key multilateral environmental agreement ...
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Modern computing systems are placing ever greater pressure on their memory management systems. The current means of managing the page cache in the Linux kernel is a binary ranking standard through which cached pages are ...