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The Aesthetic Experiences Of Public School Teachers: A Study Of The Physical Environment Of Schools Through The Lens Of The Organizational Aesthetics Framework
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-07-22)
Related in part to the study of organizational culture, organizational aesthetics is concerned more with that level of culture that is represented through the symbols and artifacts found within an organization. Artifacts, ...
The Children Of Mexican Immigrants In U.s.public Schools: Exploring Their Parents' And Teachers' Perception And Knowledge Gaps
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)
The influx of Mexican immigrants has posed enormous challenges to the nation's public school systems where migration is rapidly increasing. The high Hispanic dropout rate points to a failure in educating Latinos and has ...
Public Budgeting With A Gender Lens: Fulton County, Georgia And San Francisco, California
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-07-22)
Public budgeting with a gender lens, also known as gender budgeting [GB], evaluates policies for their effects on men and women to promote gender equity. This research assesses GB in Fulton County, Georgia and San Francisco, ...
Developers' Perceptions Of Opportunities & Obstacles To Building New Urbanist Communities In DFW
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)
The recent housing crash has done great damage to the American economy and has affected millions of households. Pre-crash, New Urbanist Communities became more popular to build, yet sprawl development remains the norm. ...
The Nonprofit Sector's Involvement In Prisoner Reentry : A Mixed Methods Analysis
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-07-22)
The 1990's were plagued with crime and high recidivism rates, and the State of Texas responded by embarking upon the largest expansion of a criminal justice system in its history. Having served their sentences, record ...
The Impact Of Institutional Support Networks: A Case Study Of A Small Texas Public School District
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-07-22)
This thesis project focuses on a small independent school district in Texas that serves a high-poverty population yet excels at graduating economically disadvantaged students. Using the concepts of cultural and social ...
Human Trafficking: The Perceptions of Students Towards The Underground Sex Trafficking Network
(Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2013-03-20)
The purpose of this study is to measure the perception, while controlling for race and ethnicity, towards human trafficking in 2012. Specifically, the perceptions of both undergraduate and graduate criminology and criminal ...
Anion Detection In The Positive Ion Mode Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry By Use Of Cationic Ion Pairing Agents: Behavior And Applications
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2013-07-22)
Anion detection and quantitation has long been of great interest to many scientific areas of research in academic and industrial settings. Their importance extends to areas such as water and environmental analysis, biological ...
Application Of Scanning Correlation Spectroscopy Techniques To Quantify DNA Double Strand Break Repair Kinetics In The Living Cell After Exposure To γ-rays And Radiomimetic Chemicals
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-03-20)
The kinetics of most proteins involved in DNA damage sensing, signaling and repair following ionizing radiation exposure cannot be quantified by current live cell fluorescence microscopy methods. This is because most of ...
Identifying The Barriers To Collaboration Between Transportation Planning And Public Health Using The Network Model
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)
Transportation Planning and Public Health worked closely together a century ago but drifted apart over the decades. Today, both groups face enormous challenges. Transportation planning needs to replace aging infrastructures ...