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Arctic Ocean planktonic foraminifera during MIS 5: Understanding Arctic Amplification of climate change from the palaeoclimatological record
(2020-05)This palaeoclimatological study of the Arctic examines two sediment cores from the Arctic Ocean for planktonic foraminifera from the interglacial Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5). MIS 5 is of particular importance as it was ... -
Biometric Identification Systems for Welfare Distributions: A Case Study of Aadhaar
(2020-05)Personal identification is now an essential prerequisite for development in the modern world. Providing proper identification documents improves access to both public and private services for citizens and helps governments ... -
Climate Adaptation in Emerging Urban Africa: Assessing Equity in the ‘Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient’ UN Action
(2021-05)Climate change has increasingly threatened sustainable urban development in sub-Saharan Africa, aggravating socioeconomic inequities in chronically under-resourced and overstrained cities. Global institutions and networks, ... -
COVID-19 in Rural Arizona: How Politics and Perceptions Ruin Policy
(2022-05-21)The COVID-19 response across the United States was characterized by fragmentation in how various states, counties, and cities approached COVID-19 policymaking and response. While much research has focused on the approaches ... -
Creating Place: Business, Community Development, and Neighborhood Identity In Shaw/U Street and Anacostia
(2019-05)A sense of place means a neighborhood has a particular feel to it, a particular image. Determining what this sense of place should be involves the concurrent collaboration and conflict between stakeholders in local ... -
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Indonesia: Identifying Provincial Trends and Clusters of High Disease Incidence Within A Vast Tropical Archipelago
(2020-05)Anthropogenic processes have a profound impact on environmental health, and by extension, on human health. This thesis uses the sporadic emergence of dengue fever (DF) to explore how ecological transformation influences ... -
Developing Controls on Cyber-Surveillance Exports: Civil Society’s Role in Formulating Norms for Cyber Technologies
(2018-05)Defining norms — appropriate standards of behavior — for the rapidly evolving landscape of information communications technologies (ICTs) is a seemingly impossible challenge for the international community. But norms for ... -
Digital Development: An Interpretive Policy Analysis of Privacy and Social Inclusion in World Bank Technology Projects
(2020-05)Despite the growing priority to leverage information and communications technology as a tool of development (ICT4D), governments and multilateral institutions have yet to arrive at a global consensus on adequate digital ... -
The effect of ionizing radiation on organics using MOMA-analog LDI-MS
(2022-05-21)The Rosalind Franklin rover on the ExoMars mission is tasked with addressing the question of whether ancient life has existed on Mars. One of the instruments onboard the rover is the Mars Organic Molecule Analyser (MOMA), ... -
Expanding Conceptions of Water Security and Health: A Case Study in Anacostia, D.C.
(2019-05)Water security is traditionally conceptualized as an issue of access to a regular supply of drinking water of good quality, only affecting health when communities lack an improved water source or proper sanitation facilities. ... -
From the Age of Industry to the Age of Information: Rethinking Monopoly in the Data-Driven Present
(2022-05-21)The Age of Industry and the Age of Information both engender defining moments in history, each described by an overarching narrative of transformation in the US economy, technology, government, and society. Central to both ... -
Gender as a Weapon of War and a Tool of Peacebuilding: The Case of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence during the Colombian Conflict and the 2016 Peace Process
(2023-05-21)During periods of large-scale conflict and war, forms of gender-based violence are often weaponized and perceived as an appropriate means of interpersonal control. The Colombian conflict between the Republic of Colombia, ... -
Governance And Social Entrepreneurship In India And Uganda: A Comparative Analysis
(2019-05)In recent decades, social innovation and social entrepreneurship have risen to the forefront of both international and national consciousness. Promulgated by academics, but more strongly in mainstream writings, social ... -
Icebreakers as a Tool for American Power Projection in the Alaskan Arctic
(2021-05)The Arctic environment is changing. In the era of great-power competition, China, Russia, the United States, and others are expanding their capabilities to operate in the Alaskan Arctic. Key among the tools used to do this ... -
Insurance and its value: Ghana’s health system both before and in the 20 years since the establishment of the National Health Insurance Scheme
(2023-05-21)Insurance as a social good has a long history of improving equity in otherwise inequitable societies, however they are not without their own risks and shortcomings. In 2005, Ghana implemented the National Health Insurance ... -
"It Doesn't Matter What I Think": Perceptions and Experiences of COVID-19 in Rural Northern California
(2021-05)Much remains unknown about how COVID-19 has been interpreted in rural America. This knowledge gap is increasingly problematic as cases in rural areas have proliferated, overwhelming local health systems. For this reason, ... -
The Localization Tide: An Assessment of Power & Money Dynamics among Community-Based Organization in Nakivale Refugee Settlement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022-05-21)The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally shifted the humanitarian landscape. Like never before, health workers from higher-income countries have been weighing the risks of contracting the virus abroad, where health care is ... -
Place, Power, and Access: Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Residents of Wards 7 and 8
(2022-05-21)Vaccines have played an essential role in curbing case and mortality rates due to SARS-CoV-2 in the United Sates. Still, many communities display high rates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy or refusal, ultimately limiting ... -
Planning for the Next Seven Generations: Centering Indigenous Perspectives in Climate Planning in the Eastern United States
(2022-05-21)Anthropogenic climate change poses unique threats to the highly populated coastal region of the eastern United States, including sea level rise, increased precipitation, species migration, and heat stress. Indigenous peoples ... -
Realizing Health During Crisis: Case Studies of European Austerity
(2021-05)This thesis utilizes a framework of state obligations toward progressive realizations of health by realizing how social, political, and economic influence the population's health in four European countries. My primary ...
