Browsing by Subject "Policy"
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(2022-07-25)Disasters impact the delivery of infrastructure services and disrupt the normal functioning of communities. A primary goal of recovery is to restore patterns of activity to pre-disaster levels in the shortest time possible ...
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(2014-07-08)U.S. agricultural commodity prices have been volatile in recent years, attributed to many factors, including renewable fuel standard mandates (RFS). While the RFS is legislatively able to be altered, the mandate largely ...
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(2020-04-23)Infrastructure interdependencies have significant impacts on the recovery of community sectors in the post-disaster period. The focus of this research is to identify critical community sectors and to understand how the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The U.S. sheep industry has been declining in size for many years. Many factors have contributed to the decline of the sheep industry including declining consumption of lamb and mutton, the growth in manmade fiber use, ...
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(2017-08-04)The future energy portfolio at the national and subnational levels should consider its impact on water resources and environment. Although energy resources are the main contributors to the national economic growth, these ...
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(2020-06-01)The first chapter shows how physical, morphological, genetic, and market factors affect the price of purebred Nellore sold at auctions in Brazil. We perform a hedonic analysis under a hierarchical model to document that ...
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(2013-09-30)When oil prices rise, politicians often call for improvements in energy efficiency or policies that they hope will make the U.S. more “energy independent.” The argument is that if we consume less oil, domestic supplies ...
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(2015-12-08)The purpose of this study is to hear the voices, life experiences and lobbying practices of four African American educational lobbyists and their role in lobbying for education. There is a void where the voices of African ...
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(2017-03-29)Why do people choose to live where they do? Answers to this simple yet intricate question can provide insight into how important transportation issues are to the housing location choice among other factors and how ...
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(2012-07-16)Representation is an enduring area of research in Political Science. While there has been an extensive amount of research in the area of minority representation, there is substantially less work considering multiple ...
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(2015-12-11)To achieve the goal of the 2014 Farm Bill, many programs (direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, and ACRE) that relied on market trends were replaced with other types of risk management tools. Upland cotton producers ...
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(2020-05-22)As a result of medical and technological advances in the response to HIV/AIDS, in the past five years, the overall number and rate of new HIV diagnoses in the United States has decreased. While this appears to be a success, ...
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(2014-06-02)Changing climatic conditions and shifting global economics have thrust the Arctic into the spotlight for many scientists, academics, and policymakers as well as those in offshore industries, particularly in shipping and ...