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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"United States Federal Government"”.
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The United States Federal Government and the Making of Modern Futures Markets, 1920-1936
… innovations brought about in 1926 by US federal government coercion of the grain futures trading industry in collusion with industry leaders. The Great Depression gave birth to the 1936 Commodity Exchange Act. This Act was based on research done by the government and/or with …
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Presidential Executive Orders and Energy Conservation In the United States Federal Government: An Analysis of Conservation Methodologies In A Department of Defense Naval Hospital
… threat of global climate change, several U.S. government policies are directed towards increasing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy. Two recent presidential directives, Executive Order 13423 and Executive Order 13514 address Federal environmental and energy performance and require …
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Transparency in the Government Communication Process: The Perspective of Government Communicators
… the communication processes of agencies of the United States Federal Government, as guided by principles of stakeholder management, models of public relations, and a model for government agency communication. These theories and models all suggest that increased openness in organizations will …
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Evaluating Network Analysis and Agent Based Modeling for Investigating the Stability of Commercial Air Carrier Schedules
<p>For a number of years, the United States Federal Government has been formulating the Next Generation Air Transportation System plans for National Airspace System improvement. These improvements attempt to address air transportation holistically, but often address individual improvements in one …
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Peace Corps culture and the language of violence: A Feminist discursive analysis
… service organization and an agency of the United States Federal Government. Like all American governmental institutions, Peace Corps has an institutional culture with a heteropatriarchal, settler colonial legacy. In recent years, this has manifested in Peace Corps’ mishandling of cases of …
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Rights-based evaluation of government responses to a given 'natural' disaster : Katrina as case study
… framework into two main questions: How does the United States federal government situate itself it terms of taking responsibility for displaced persons to return to their home? How are international laws and customary norms socially constructed around rights and return? This paper takes as a case …
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Getting People to Wish What They Need: How the United States Government Used Public Relations Strategies to Communicate Food Policy During World War II, 1941-1945
This thesis examines how the United States federal government used public relations to improve the diets of everyday Americans during World War II. The government invested in several years of research, led by Margaret Mead, to understand the competing forces that influence dietary habits, choice, …
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A Typology of Homegrown Terrorists
… the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda members against the United States, counterterrorism has become a top priority for policymakers and academic researchers. A critical aspect of this mandate is the prevention and intervention of future terrorist attacks by U.S.-based jihadist and Salafist extremists. …
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The Postal Service Pension System and alternative methods for providing long-term financial welfare to retirees
The United States Postal Service continues to face difficult financial conditions, due primarily to electronic diversion of mail volume. The largest component of the Postal Service's cost structure is labor, with retirement benefits representing a significant portion of those costs. This thesis …
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Modeling Solutions for Prevention of Medicare Insolvency for the Baby Boomer Generation (Born 1946 - 1964)
<p>Medicare, a United States social insurance program operated by the United States federal government, began operating in a deficit in the year 2010. More funding was expended than revenue received for medical care, creating significant shortfalls for the Medicare Trust Fund. This study examined …
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The Map Is Not the Territory: Indigenous Climate Sovereignty in the Age of Apocalypse
… forms of politics that connect rural Indigenous governments to colonial centres of power in the United States Federal government. In that sense, the research presented here is as much a political ethnography as it is an environmental one. The conclusions presented in this thesis are fourfold. 1) …
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Multi-criteria lifecycle evaluation of transportation fuels derived from biomass gasification
… industry has been a major policy thrust of the United States federal government in the first decade of the 21st century. Cellulosic biofuels have been identified as the primary candidate for meeting long term sustainability and energy security goals. In this thesis potential cellulosic biofuels …
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Intelligence Outcomes: Assessing the 1975-1976 Intelligence Oversight Reforms
… era of divided political control in the United States federal government. Agency theory and oversight theory have served as principal lenses for the design and evaluation of congressional oversight functions. For the purpose of this study, oversight is politically-guided and …
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"TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE:" INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RURAL RELIEF CLIENTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS DURING THE EMERGENCY RELIEF PERIOD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1933 TO 1935
… unemployment and subsistence poverty while the federal government's New Deal attempted to address the problems of poverty. But the rural poor were affected by a kind of chronic poverty that would prove more difficult to address with government-run relief efforts. Because traditional methods of …
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You Can’t Have Black Power without Green Power:The Black Economic Union
… to improve Black communities throughout the United States during a period of great political and economic strife; actions which brought criticism from the Black community and scrutiny from the United States federal government.
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Urban planning and the scientific uncertainties of sea level rise
… 'Rebuild by Design' competition launched by the United States federal government, were found to use different sea level rise thresholds in their approaches. Such observed variation in projects' sea level rise preparedness mirrored the uncertainty in the climate models themselves and led to using …
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The History of the Investment Tax Credit
… allows them to reduce their tax obligation. Federal and state governments grant tax credits in areas such as employment and the environment. An investment tax credit (ITC) allows businesses and individuals to reduce their tax obligation when they venture into new businesses and developments. …
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The Democratic Kaleidoscope in the United States: Vanquishing Structural Racism in the U.S. Federal Government
… relationship between democracy and race in the United States federal government. To analyze this problem, I rely on archival research from the 1967-8 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (commonly known as the Kerner Commission, after chairperson Governor Otto Kerner) to examine how …
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Defamation, the right to freedom of expression and libel reform in the UK: A comparative analysis of legal regulation and jurisprudence in the UK, the United States of America, Germany, and the European Court of Human Rights
… served to prompt various actors including the United States Federal Government, the European Parliament and the UK Government itself, to call for reform. This culminated in Parliament’s ambitious attempt to fundamentally transform libel law in the UK: the Defamation Act, 2013 (‘the Act’). More …
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A Study of the Effects of Parental Involvement on the Success of Students on a High-Stakes Examination
The United States federal government, through the No Child Left Behind Act, is holding schools accountable for students' proficiency on academic standards. However, standards-based curriculum and instruction, along with school-based support and remediation programs, are not enough to help 100 …
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