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Probing the Physical and Chemical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanorods Using Confocal Raman Spectroscopy
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is a known waveguiding material whose bulk properties have widely been studied using Raman spectroscopy. Confining the material to the nanometer size domain affects the light-matter interaction of the ...
School & Community Revival in Aldine: Investigating Place-based Design and Development in a Periphery Neighborhood of Houston
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Many of Houston's underperforming school districts are located in areas of significant suburban sprawl. The question arises as to whether the underperformance of some suburban schools correlates with the composition of the ...
السياسات البيئية في الشرق الأوسط
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2019-10-14)
يتناول هذا المشروع متعدد التخصصات مجموعة واسعة من المتغيرات السياسية واالقتصادية واالجتماعية والجغرافية.
ُ ويشكل التاريخ ُ البيئي، الحقل ّ المعرفي الناشئ الذي لم يطب ً ق كما يجب على منطقة الشرق األوسط، وسيلة للتحقيق ...
زعامة المؤمنين: السلطات الدينية في الشرق الأوسط المعاصر
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2019-12)
دفعت الثورات العربية وتداعياتها الباحثين إلى إعادة النظر في الدور الذي لعبته مختلف مؤسسات الدولة ومختلف الفاعلين
الاجتماعيين في شتّى أرجاء الشرق الأوسط، وسبرت الدراسات الأخيرة أغوارا جديدةً لمرحلة ما قبل 2011 ، من حيث ...
Theatres of Resistance: Reclaiming Narratives of Agency in Post-Colonial India and Palestine
(2019-04-29)
Within the current international system, post-colonial states construct narratives by imagining their histories and conceptualize what it means to be a state and who belongs within it. They have the political and institutional ...
"We are at a pivot in US Privacy History" : An Interpretive Policy Analysis of the Existing US Federal Privacy Regulatory Framework for Lifestyle & Wellness Wearable Technologies
(2019-05)
In part as a result of numerous devastating data breaches, along with the 2018 passing of comprehensive privacy legislation by both the EU and the US State of California, the US Congress began to discuss whether the federal ...
High-Skill Emigration: Is Willingness to Leave a Country Linked with Its Government Performance?
(Georgetown University, 2019)
High-Skill Emigration, also called “Brain Drain”, is among the most debated migration policy issues. While origin countries lose talent, many destination countries gain highly skilled human capital. Although many studies ...
Romantic Love and Free Marriage in Taiwan under Japanese Rule: Writings from Taiwan Youth, 1920-1921
(Georgetown University, 2019)
One of the remarkable effects of the appointment of Den Kenjirō 田健治郎 (1855-1930) as the first civilian Governor-General of Taiwan in 1919 was the establishment of the first Taiwanese-owned newspapers and journals, which ...
Faith and Development in Focus: Tanzania
(2019-09-15)
Religious forces have shaped nearly every aspect of Tanzanian society over the past centuries, spanning the precolonial era to the present. Today, the vast majority of Tanzanians identify as Christian or Muslim and, when ...
Environmental Performance and Women’s Empowerment: Is the Participation of Women in Decision-Making Associated with Stronger Environmental Policies?
(Georgetown University, 2019)
A small but growing research literature has found positive correlations between the participation of women in political decision-making and the comprehensiveness of the environmental policies in a country. In this thesis, ...