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Combatant Composition and Peace Durability: A Historical and Empirical Dive into Rebel Group Fragmentation as a Determinant of Conflict Relapse
Nearly all regions of the world have observed repeated cycles of violence involving anti-state militias and domestic or international terrorist groups since the end of World War II. A 2020 UN Human Rights Office report on ... -
Combating Malaria: The Potential of mHealth
In order to combat malaria effectively, we must utilize a broad range of proven preventative and therapeutic treatments. Mobile health – commonly abbreviated as mHealth – hosts the potential to more effectively connect ... -
The Comic and the Sacred in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (thesis)
This paper is motivated in response to Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly's exposition of David Foster Wallace in their book All Things Shining. In refuting their claims that Wallace's canon does not harbor the resources ... -
Community Collaboration
The purposes of this community-based research project is to evaluate needs of low-income residents of Lexington not met by the local community and to unveil opportunities that exist for further community collaboration ... -
Community Economic Development Movements in Rural Ghana Using Agricultural Technologies to Alleviate Poverty
The first section of this paper outlines Ghana's rich economic, political, and social history, paying special attention to social capital, an informal institution that largely determines the effectiveness of CD implementation. ... -
Community Empowerment: Mural Arts Philadelphia's Community Muralism Process and Product
This paper examines community muralism as an instance of community empowerment, specifically through a case study of Philadelphia's mural program. The program is called Mural Arts Philadelphia (MAP) and was founded in 1984 ... -
Community Health Centers: A Vital and Stable Provider of Health Services to the Poor and Underserved
Following an overview of community health centers, including more information about patients served, costs, and services provided, this study will examine the benefits of and threats to the community health center system, ... -
Complexity, Regressivity, and Income Disparity: Self-defeating Aspects of the Earned Income Tax Credit
Unfortunately, the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit] has failed to live up to its promise. The complexity inherent in the current version of the Credit has, to a certain extent, actually decreased true progressivity in ... -
A Composition Recital
Raquelle Headley has been studying music since the age of four when she began taking piano lessons, so it is no surprise that she continued her studies here at W&L. Before arriving in Lexington, Raquelle studied with Valerie ... -
Compressing Operators to Obtain Single-Point Numerical Ranges
We are all familiar with vector spaces and their basic properties. We understand linear operators, dot products, and maybe even norms. What the reader may not be as familiar with, however, is the concept of numerical range. ... -
Compressions of Linear Operators Yielding a Single Point Numerical Range
This thesis will focus on finding subspaces M such that the compression of T to M, denoted TM, has a single point numerical range. . . . The motivation for finding such subspaces lies in a theorem from quantum coding ... -
Computational Models of Spider Activity Patterns Integrated with Behavioral Experiments Hypothesize Adaptive Benefits of the Circadian Clock (thesis)
The purpose of this study is to combine behavioral and computational analyses to describe the circadian systems of C. turbinata and P. tepidariorum in order to hypothesize adaptive benefits of the observed behaviors. In ... -
Concert Guild, Marinus Ensemble
(Washington and Lee University. Department of Music., 2015-01)