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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"US government"”.
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US Government Outsourcing, the Private Military Industry, and Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Case Study in Conflict Contracting
… private military and security companies (PMSC), using United States Government (USG) outsourcing during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as a case study to investigate how PMSCs influence interstate conflicts. Cost savings are a primary justification for outsourcing. Government sources also suggest …
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The US Government-Sponsored Graduate-Level Exchange Programs: The Goals of the Major Stakeholders and the Students' Academic Interests
… instances sponsored and administered by national governments, is an effective tool in governmental foreign policies. The shift of focus in governmental policies towards the political rather than educational purposes of educational international exchange could lead for lack of attention paid to the …
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Policing the Dark Web: The double-edged sword of anonymity online
… subset of the Internet that can only be accessed using special software such as the Tor browser. The Dark Web is often linked with illicit activities, such as the trading of narcotics and firearms and, is a haven for criminal organizations and child abusers. The Federal Bureau of Investigation …
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The addition of a US Rare Earth Element (REE) supply-demand model improves the characterization and scope of the United States Department of Energy's effort to forecast US REE Supply and Demand
This paper presents the development of a new US Rare Earth Element (REE) Supply-Demand Model for the explicit forecast of US REE supply and demand in the 2010 to 2025 time period. In the 2010 Department of Energy (DOE) Critical Material Strategy (CMS) report, the DOE created a DOE REE Supply- …
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A Data Science Approach to Extracting Insights About Cities and Zones Using Open Government Data
… we introduce a system that utilizes open government data and machine learning algorithms to extract meaningful insights about cities and zones in the United States. It is estimated that 4% of the world’s population occupies the United States of America. Remarkably, the US is considered the …
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Three Essays on Fiscal Policy
… on country risk for five advanced economies; the US, the UK, Canada and Singapore for 1984:M1-2014:M12 and Germany for 1990:M9-2014:M12 time periods. To do so, I follow a two stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, a CAPM is used to estimate time-variant country betas which are used as a …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… theological framework to interpret the ethics of US foreign policy. They rendered the book of Revelation’s symbol of a “lamblike” beast that behaves like a “dragon” as a prophetic indictment against the United States for professing to champion civil and religious liberty while carrying out an …
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The fraudulent family: humanitarianism, security, and kinship in refugee resettlement from Kenya
… refugees, and with United Nations, NGO (non-governmental organization) and government officials in Nairobi, Kenya (22 months) and Columbus, Ohio (5 months), the dissertation is an ethnography of refugee resettlement processes. Moving between refugee communities and the patchwork of …
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Analysis of hotel guest room supply
… employees at a destination are estimated from US government data (1980 Census of the Population and County Business Patterns). The hotel employee estimates are used to determine the expected number of hotel guest rooms for a destination location. These estimates were also applied to a third …
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Domestic Violence and Women: A Critical Analysis of US Help & Support Websites and Traditional News Media Representation
… paper critically examines the ways in which US government organizations that provide help for domestic violence victims and traditional news media, specifically <em>The New York Times</em>, communicate the various factors of domestic violence and its victims. The author provides a focused …
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Cyberwar: The ISIL Threat & Resiliency in Operational Technology
This paper illustrates observations of ISIL cyber power, from digital information operations and intelligence, to operational security and desired future capabilities. Also examines open-source material and reporting on US cyber operations against ISIL and leadership statements from the DoD and …
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Violence and American Statebuilding, 1860-1895
… communities—have established and maintained US government power at the local, state, and national level. This dissertation’s three case studies correct that tendency. They explore how American statebuilders deployed, sanctioned, or turned a blind eye toward private actors conducting violence …
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Architecture and method for providing priority charging for government authorized emergency electrical vehicles (AEEV)
The US government predicts more than 1 million electric vehicles (EVs), on U.S. roadways by 2015, and these numbers will increase exponentially in the future. However, the power grid cannot furnish the charging for numerous EVs at a given time mainly because of its energy production capabilities, …
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U.S.-Austrian Relations in the Pre-Anschluss Period: FDR'S Unwillingness for War
… the United States' decision not to come to Austria's aid prior to and during the Anschluss of 12 March 1938. The uniqueness of this work is the two-front evaluation of both the internal/domestic affairs of the United States and the foreign policy of the US Government vis-à-vis Hitler's …
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The connectivity doctrine: A critique of techo-utopian discourse, liberal governmentality, and the colonization of cyberspace
<p>This thesis critically assesses the US’s “International Strategy for Cyberspace,” its policies concerning Internet freedom, and its corollary promotion of global connectivity via Information and Communication Technology. I argue that the Internet freedom discourse constitutes a form of epistemic …
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The D-Day Landings in First-Person Shooters (1999-2005): A Case Study in Cultural Imperialism and the Americanisation of Popular History
… of history preferred by the United States government; how they are presented; and how they compare to the cinematic depictions that preceded them. Through their predominance in the industry at the time, the US held great power in consistently representing their version of history, thus …
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Contracting for disaster reconstruction
… in rethinking strategies to provide interim housing for large populations of survivors. One of FEMA's most complicated challenges has been forecasting and securing the large number of skilled contractors required to complete the multitude of assessments, reconstruction projects, and rebuilding …
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Towards a theory of trust in libraries and democracy
… Life Project released a report that stated that US citizens trusted libraries and librarians more than other public institutions. This dissertation seeks to understand the role that trust plays in US democracy through the lens of public libraries. My research focuses on the concept of trust in …
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Modeling Information Precursors for Event Forecasting
This dissertation is focused on the design and evaluation of machine learning algorithms for modeling information precursors for use in event modeling and forecasting. Given an online stream of information (e.g., news articles, social media postings), how can we model and understand how events …
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United States Detention Policy in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Operations: 2001 to 2011
… in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the use of Guantanamo Bay as a key node in detention operations between 2001 and 2011, when the US was engaged in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations against various transnational and radical religious extremists. The purpose of this …
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