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Showing 1 to 20 of 139 for “"United States (U.S.)"”.
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Improving the Retention of United States (U.S.) Government Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Employees
<p>The U.S. government workforce has been consistently shrinking since a peak in the 1990s. At the same time, the need for technologically-savvy government workers has dramatically risen in this same period. This divergence in the demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) …
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A Naturalistic Inquiry of Nigerian Immigrant Nursing Students’ Experiences in United States (U.S.) Baccalaureate Nursing Programs
Nigerian immigrant nursing students have been identified in the literature as having difficulty in making a transition to the teaching methods used in nursing programs in the U.S. Among the problems they experience are understanding the vocabulary and terminology of the Western culture. Previous …
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Forgetting the American Family: How the Family and Medical Leave Act is Insufficient and What Can Be Done to Improve It
… In addition, federal policy is compared with states that currently have a more generous paid leave program. In the interest of the effect this issue has on American global competitiveness, United States (U.S.) policy will be examined in reference to peer nations. This analytical approach aims …
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THE PRC’S SHADOW IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
… economic footprint into the Western Hemisphere, United States (U.S.) leaders must move with caution when evaluating how the People’s Republic of China (PRC’s) presence could be harmless or dangerous towards the U.S.’s own perception by their Latin American neighbors. This thesis evaluates the …
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Analysis of investment prospects for Chinese private equity firms in the U.S. market
… prospects for such firms to invest in the United States (U.S.), the world's best-established PE market. It analyzes the demand of Chinese PE firms to make global investments, competitiveness of these firms, and the feasibility of investing in the U.S. market. This thesis focuses on …
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Enhancing Cyberspace Monitoring in the United States Aviation Industry: A Multi-Layered Approach for Addressing Emerging Threats
… project examined the cyberspace domain in the United States (U.S.) aviation industry from many different angles. The research involved learning about the U.S. aviation cyberspace environment, the landscape of cyber threats, new technologies like 5G and smart airports, cybersecurity frameworks …
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The U.S. - Colombia free trade agreement - A historical placement of the FTA
… a pending free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States (U.S.) and Colombia in U.S. Congress. The FTA aims to promote regional economic prosperity. This FTA should be redone as it will not achieve either of these goals. The FTA will cause an increase in drug production, violence, and …
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Improving Palliative Care Consult Volume Through an Educational Initiative with Hospitalists [paper]
… (CAPC) reported that 12 million people in the United States (U.S.) were currently living with a chronic or life-limiting illness. This number is expected to increase to 63 million by 2035 (Morrison & Meier, 2019). Palliative care is a subspecialty of medicine that focuses on physical, …
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Albanian-American relations: The past and the future
… of these relations such as the role of the United States (U.S.) in the preservation of Albania's territorial sovereignty right after the First World War, the decisive support of the United States for the democratization processes in Albania, as well as the dynamics of American-Albanian …
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Mental Health Experiences within the Hmong American LGBTQ Community: A Qualitative Research Project
… six participants live in diverse regions of the United States (U.S.) and range in age from 18 to 40 years. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted via phone. Participants were asked to share stories of the struggles they have encountered as sexual minorities in their communities, and …
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Examining Nurses' Moral Distress, Acts of Moral Courage, and Influence of Ethical Climate in Caring for COVID-19 Patients During the Pandemic
The problem of interest was the nurses in the United States (U.S.) and their moral actions taken in the care of COVID-19 patients. Since March 2020, the U.S. has recorded over 103 million COVID-19 cases and over 1.1 million COVID-19 deaths (CDC, 2023). Healthcare workers comprised nearly 1.2 …
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A retrospective analysis of nerve function impairment in Hansen's disease cases in the United States National Hansen's Disease Programs
… was treated. The prevalence of NFI in the United States (U.S.) HD population is 35.9%. At the conclusion of treatment, 10.6% of the patients improved, 9.61% became worse and 79.8% remained unchanged. The investigator proposed a more sensitive grading system to detect earlier changes in …
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Monitoring and Assessment of Military Installation Land Condition under Training Disturbance using Remote Sensing
… hectares of land (> 5,500 training sites) in the United States (U.S.). These training activities directly and indirectly degrade the land. Land degradation can impede continuous military training. In order to sustain long term training missions and Army combat readiness, the environmental …
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2014 Ebola newspaper coverage : through the lens of Orientalism
This study is a critical discourse analysis of United States (U.S.) newspaper coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and its representation of West Africa in relation to the West. The study sought to determine whether the coverage reflected the theory of Orientalism, as defined by Palestinian-American …
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Examining psychological distress in parents of children with food allergies and asthma during the COVID-19 pandemic
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (U.S.) was anticipated to have a tremendous impact on mental health, leading to heightened anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The current study examined the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in parents of children with …
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Resettlement Challenges for Refugees in the United States
… challenges that refugees encounter in the United States (U.S.). It utilized a qualitative research design with semi-structured interviews with three refugee families from different countries of origin: Afghanistan, Burma, and Iraq. The interviews were analyzed through a system of coding and …
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A sequential exploratory mixed methods study of Carnegie libraries and the library profession, 1900-1910
… it possible for thousands of communities in the United States (U.S) to build free public libraries. Contemporary scholarship in library and information science (LIS) that deals with Carnegie's philanthropy tends to place emphasis on generalized historical ideals associated with the construction …
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The policy consequences of Garcetti v. Ceballos for personnel management in public schools
Arthur Goldberg, former United States Secretary of Labor and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, once said, the concept of management rights is simply “a recognition of the fact that somebody must be the boss. . . . People can't be wandering around at loose ends, each deciding …
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Venture Capital and Human Capital Patterns in Dual Use Hardware Startups in the United States and United Kingdom
With the prospect of a near peer competitor, the United States (U.S.) government has started to reevaluate its strategy on how to best integrate technology into the government. Part of this reevaluation has included shifting their technology strategy from large private sector defense behemoths to …
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Narrative Characteristics in Refugee Discourse: An Analysis of American Public Opinion on Afghan Refugee Crisis After the Taliban Takeover
The United States (U.S.) military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 was met with turmoil as Taliban regained control of most of the country, including Kabul. These events have affected many and were widely discussed on social media, especially in the U.S. In this work, we focus on Twitter …
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