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Setting Intentions: Considering Racial Justice Implications of Facial Recognition Technology
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Sociological research has produced an array of literature on racial justice and systems of power. However, there is minimal research on its relationship with emerging technologies. This thesis brings attention to facial ...
Effects of Voter Registration Purging in Georgia During the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), which mandated Federal oversight of election administration for counties with histories of voter suppression. One ...
Management of Public Policies in the Area of National Defense: The Case of the National Defense's First Planning Cycle within the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Argentina, 2007-2012
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This work studied the first National Defense Planning Cycle (NDPC, being CPDN its acronym in Spanish from Ciclo de Planeamiento de la Defensa Nacional) 2007-2012 in the field of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of the ...
Boomtown Challenges: The Case of Rincón de los Sauces, Neuquén
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Natural resource boomtowns are communities that experience rapid demographic growth due to their proximity to natural resource-based projects and that confront a well-established series of challenges that strain local ...
Has the U.S. Department of Education's Enforcement of Civil Rights Changed with the Trump Administration?
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This project asks whether and how the transition of presidential administrations in January 2017 has affected enforcement of civil rights protections by the U.S. Department of Education (Ed). Drawing on nearly ten years ...
The Gender Wage Gap in Indonesia
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In Indonesia, much like most other countries, there is an earnings disparity between men and women. There are numerous demographic and other factors that influence the gender wage gap. I examine whether controlling for ...
The Civil Society Roots of BJP's Majoritarian Nationalism
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program, 2020)
Chinese Foreign Policy and U.S.-China Relations
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program, 2020)
Systems Metabolomics for Biomarker Discovery
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Metabolomics is defined as a quantitative analysis method applied to the metabolome in a biological sample. As the most downstream of biological systems, the metabolome has been referred to as the link between genotype and ...
Accelerated Asymmetric Reaction Screening and Sensing of Biomolecules Using Small Molecular Probes
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Chiroptical sensing has recently gained interest as a rapid technique for screening asymmetric reactions and quantification of important biomolecules. In this thesis an array of probes and chiroptical sensing strategies ...