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The U.S. Recognition of Vichy, France
<p>This paper is a study of the United States' relations with France in 1940, with emphasis on the period from May to December. My primary purpose is to determine whether circumstances and events justified the United States in its controversial policy of recognition of the Pétain regime at Vichy. …
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Explaining the U.S Failure in Afghanistan
<p>This thesis offers a comprehensive analysis of the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan spanning multiple administrations from Obama to Biden, contextualizing it within broader shifts in American interventionism since the Cold War. An examination of the Obama, Trump, and Biden eras, …
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The U.S. Forest Service : business as usual
<p>There are two prevailing views today about our forests and natural resources. Both views are considered the "right" view, each position comprising a set of values by which we make decisions and choices about using our natural resources. The "dominant world view," is anthropocentric and …
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Career Dynamics in the U.S. Civil Service
… and deployed among employees inside one of the largest internal labor markets in the United States: the federal civil service. Each chapter lays out the theoretical background behind career- and capabilities-based processes, discusses the application to the federal employment context, and …
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Investigating the U.S. Army's Human Dimension Strategy
In 2015, the U.S. Army developed a vision to "win in a complex world" called the Army Human Dimension Strategy (AHDS). The AHDS elevates the importance of optimizing individuals and teams as a hedge against the future world challenges (2015). While the AHDS applies to all "warfighting" functions, …
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The U.S. lodging industry : an econometric analysis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Mobile-Payments in the U.S. and China
… method that uses mobile terminals as a medium. The United States, the world’s most financially advanced country, has lagged far behind China in mobile payment innovation. The reasons for this phenomenon have not been well explained in past studies. This thesis examines and deeply analyzes the …
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Change leadership in the U.S. Coast Guard
The ability to lead productive change is becoming increasingly necessary and important to organizations. Across the spectrum of private businesses, non-governmental organizations and the public sector, organizations are expected to adapt quickly to rapidly changing market and environmental …
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Social Capital and the U.S. Coffee Consumer
What consciousness (awareness) do Northern Fair Trade coffee consumers have of Southern coffee producers and how do networks and social capital among consumers and Fair Trade promoters shape this consciousness? This study sought to answer these questions, based on a data analysis of semi-structured …
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Wife abuse among Indians in the U.S.
The purpose of my study is to contribute to our understanding of the complex ways in which race/ethnicity, class, gender and legal status intersect to shape the experiences of wife abuse among women. In this study, I analyze the experiences of one group of abused women -- Indian women in the U.S. I …
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Public Involvement in the U.S. Forest Service
This dissertation examines how the U.S. Forest Service implements and uses public involvement during the agency's planning processes as mandated by the National Environmental Policy Act. Focused from the perspective of the agency personnel leading the process, this study is informed by both …
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Document-Based Politicization of the U.S. Military: A Textual Analysis of the U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual (FM 3-24)
The politicization of military forces is not a development of the 21st century. Throughout history, armies have taken on roles traditionally relegated to non-military entities and accepted the notion that the actions of even the most junior members of their force may have substantial political …
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Immigration Discourses in the U.S. and in Japan
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate how systems of racial inequality and dominance produced at macro-institutional level discourses are reproduced and/or challenged in micro-interpersonal everyday discourses regarding immigration/foreign workers in the U.S. and in Japan. To …
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Integrated Sustainability Assessment Framework for the U.S. Transportation
<p>This dissertation aims to investigate the sustainability impacts of alternative vehicle technologies and develop comprehensive sustainability assessment frameworks to analyze potential impacts of these vehicles in the U.S. In order to assess sustainability impact of vehicle alternatives, …
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The U.S. - U.S.S.R. Nuclear Balance: Present and Future
<p>The purpose of this paper will be to arrive at some sort of understanding about the real importance of nuclear weapons in the hands of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., something which has not been done heretofore in as skilled a fashion as is possible. There are a number of reasons for this, some of …
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Immigration and Wages in the U.S. Labor Market
While the economic effects of immigration have recently become topics of debate in the public arena, the debate is a long-standing one in the economics literature. The labor market effects of immigration have long been of interest to economists. Whereas theory predicts large negative effects on the …
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Employee Engagement in the U.S. Army Cyber Command
The U.S. Army Cyber Command has been receiving poor employee engagement reviews for the last four years. This fact spurred the purpose of this qualitative case study, to explore ways employee engagement can be improved. Qualitative data analysis and synthesis was conducted through triangulating …
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Reenactments: Embodied Encounters with the U.S. Southern Past
… 2015 and 2019, U.S. Americans began attending to the lingering divisions, memorials, and legacies of the Civil War with a renewed sense of urgency. What is it about this moment in our politics and culture that draws our attention back to the Civil War and the post- Reconstruction South? These …
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Food insecurity in the U.S.: measurement and evaluation
… (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 HAMANN-THESIS-2016.pdf: 528046 bytes, checksum: d1c64ea59a518f143cdae9cc2b6fb3f1 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 03be4223a65fa643affb897899560821 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-30
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Chinese undergraduate students' experience studying in the U.S.
This research explored the experiences of Chinese undergraduate students studying in the United States. With the recent soaring number of Chinese undergraduate students at U.S. campuses as well as a lack of previous research on this population, it is important to understand this group of students …
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