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Workplace Basic: The Competencies Employers Want
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020)
Workers need more than just their educational credentials to qualify for jobs that pay well, keep those jobs, secure promotions, and boost their earnings on the job. Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want reveals ...
Utraque Unum 13:1 (2020/2021)
(Georgetown University. Tocqueville Forum for Political Understanding, 2020)
Addressing Thoracic Cancers: Biomarker and Pre-Clinical Drug Discovery in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Thymic Carcinoma
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Thoracic cancer is a term that encompasses numerous malignancies within the thoracic cavity; the term includes malignancies such as lung cancers and thymic epithelial tumors. Lung cancers are the leading cause of cancer ...
Characterization and Analysis of Novel Antimalarial Drug Targets: Plasmodium falciparum Phosphatidylinositol Kinases
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is the first-line treatment recommended for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum infections by the World Health Organization (WHO). ACTs are composed of an artemisinin (ART) drug ...
The Eastern Question, Great Game, and Modern Hot Wars: Policy Lessons and Statecraft Implications for US Relations with Russia, Turkey, and Iran in the 21st Century
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study provides additional context for unacknowledged but sustained Russian and Iranian hot wars against the United States that unfolded and became normalized in the 2010s. It examines key events through four constructs: ...
Humanizing Fiscal Costs: Creating the Incentives for Criminal Justice Reform and Reducing Recidivism
(Georgetown University, 2020)
HUMANIZING FISCAL COSTS: CREATING THE INCENTIVES FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM AND REDUCING RECIDIVISM
"Fighting the Enemy with Fists and Daggers": The Chinese Communist Party’s Counterterrorism Policy in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under Xi Jinping, 2012-2019
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation examines Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s ethno-religious policy in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Successfully countering the so-called “three evil forces” of ...
Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Narratological Study of Maqtal
(Georgetown University, 2020)
How can a story like Maqtal (account of martyrdom) of Imam Husayn be told be in Virtual Reality (VR)? The reason why this is a meaningful question is that the notion of telepresence, by which VR is theoretically defined, ...
Beyond Blight in Baltimore: Investing in Failed Housing Markets
(2020)
This paper asks why blight continues to plague Baltimore and what can be done about it. Despite decades of innovative strategies to combat vacant property, legacy industrial cities like Baltimore have not managed to ...
The Persistence of Redlining: Evaluating the Spatial Legacy of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s Residential Security Maps in Virginian Cities
(2020)
Virginia is a state with deep patterns of housing segregation and discrimination. These
patterns were created through historic policies and have been perpetuated to this day. By
combining US Census data with geographical ...