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The Social, Medical, and Economic Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Community Violence
Community violence refers to violent crime that occurs outside of a person's home in their neighborhood. It has major consequences for children growing up in high crime areas that extend far beyond what happens to a ...
The Myth of the Melting Pot: An Economic Analysis of Immigration Policy in the U.S.
My capstone examines the topic of Latino immigration through an economic analysis of immigration reform in the United States. As my main case study, I evaluate Proposition 187 from 1994 in California. I then look at three ...
Exporting U.S. Goods and Services in a Down Economy: Not Just Tilting at Windmills
It is time to recognize that there is a great deal of Latin American influence in the United States and as such, the business practices and needs of both regions overlap. By analyzing Latin American economies and cultures, ...
Feedback and Pushback: Stakeholder Input and Other Influential Factors in the FASB's Adoption of ASC 606- Revenue from Contracts with Customers (thesis)
In 2002, the FASB took on a joint project with the IASB to create a single, comprehensive standard for revenue recognition. ASC 606 replaced the earnings-based model of recognition that, in practice, could lead to inconsistent, ...
Apples and Autonomy: Improving Nutrition Education to Maximize Fair Equality of Opportunity
Recent increases in children's food autonomy present both a problem and a promise for school nutrition education programs: greater food autonomy makes these programs all the more important, but how can we improve their ...
Troubled Wake Behind a Pretty Boat: The Aftermath of Gideon v. Wainwright
The arguments for ensuring that all people, regardless of income level, receive effective assistance of counsel bear tremendous moral weight. The Supreme Court of the United State recognized as much in its historic ruling ...
Approaches to Environmental Justice: Best Practices in Community Organizing and Collaboration
This paper examines specific cases, conducted on three documented instances of environmental injustice to explore the ways in which communities organized to promote environmental equity. The first case deals with environmental ...
Recession Severity and Lagging Employment (thesis)
This paper uses the Current Population Survey to examine the differential experiences of demographic groups following the Great Recession. Geographic variation in recession severity is used to asses the effect of recession ...
The Lambda Property and Isometries for Higher Order Schreier Spaces (thesis)
For each n in N, let Sn be the Schreier set of order n and XSn be the corresponding Schreier space of order n. In their 1989 paper "The lambda-property in Schreier space S and the Lorentz space d(a, 1)," Th. Shura and D. ...
Robot Socrates: Contradiction Identification with Minimum Questioning (thesis)
I develop a concept of computer-assisted Socratic dialogue, aimed to enable productive and efficient argumentation. The goal is a framework for argumentation that is as rigorous as a formal debate, yet as convenient as an ...