Browsing by Subject "China"
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(2017-03-06)The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2010, announced an unprecedented shift in the U.S. nuclear policy away from state-based threats to nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism ...
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(2009-04)With the fastest growing economy in the world, China questions the viability of their economically oriented country under increasing international pressures to strengthen environmental regulations. Understanding public ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2006)In China, a new-style groundwater heat pump emerged in 2000. In this system, the production well and the injection well is integrated into one well, which is divided into three parts by clapboards: a low pressure (production) ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-02-01)This paper examines the relationship between changes in the minimum wage and firms’ export behavior in China using detailed firm-level data of medium and large manufacturing enterprises between 1998 and 2007. We find ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)In the literature researchers don't agree whether news content in China in an era of media commercialization still functions to promote the dominant ideology of the ruling Communist Party. The thesis is a theoretical ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-12-01)At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-05-01)
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This thesis explores incidence rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among minority group teenagers in the United States and among adults aged 20-34 in the U.S. and in China. The focus is on trends and patterns ...
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(2014-07-31)Climate change has imposed significant challenges on global dryland systems. In this dissertation, Inner Mongolia, a typical dryland system in the world’s largest developing county, China, was selected as an example to ...
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(2015-06-22)China has experienced substantial land cover changes for hundreds of years, such as deforestation, agricultural expansion, and urbanization. These land cover changes can modify the physical and thermodynamic characteristics ...
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(2011-04-30)This thesis examines why the Yi people of Liangshan – who call themselves Nuosu – in southwest China have been reviving their identity since the end of Mao‟s Cultural Revolution. Ultimately, I conclude that internal pressure, ...
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Government-sponsored sources of information are the main source of news for many Chinese citizens due to the strict government control of news and information. In a democratic country such as The Netherlands, there are ...
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(2015-11-23)This dissertation investigates the contribution of migration and urbanization to China’s demographic dynamics. Migration in China from the rural to the urban areas has increased substantially over the last thirty years. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)My dissertation examines political participation in non-democratic countries. Specifically, it looks into China's urban political participation in the past decade and examines how Chinese urban citizens are mobilized to ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-05-01)
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(2017-03-03)The Chinese health care system has suffered from severe tension between patients and doctors during the past decade. Violence towards health care providers has become a familiar occurrence in China. Faced with the increasing ...