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Recent Submissions
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Mozaffarian, Ladan; 0000-0002-3296-4483 (2023-08-14)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: Innovation is one of the most critical determinants of future success for cities. Urban policymakers and planners have developed a great interest in ...
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Sakalker, Amruta A; 0000-0003-4038-6828 (2023-05-30)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/16/2025** ABSTRACT: Riparian lands, the interface between terrestrial and water ecologies, play a critical role in keeping urban ecosystems healthy. However, rapidly ...
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Flake, Jason D; 0000-0001-9380-4080 (2019-04-24)
Bureaucrats routinely engage in discretionary decision-making that results in the distribution of values for society. Scholars across various domains are challenged with reconciling the ostensibly contradictory values of ...
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Green, Brandie; 0000-0001-7653-4752 (2018-08-17)
The primary purpose of this study was to assess the resources that are available to women in underserved communities to detect and treat postpartum depression. Postpartum depression continues to be a major public health ...
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Fernandez, Sandra Patricia; 0000-0001-5369-039X (2018-12-05)
There is sufficient evidence to suggest that parent involvement increases student success. Connecting the home to the school can offer a bridge that will lead to academic success for students. Parent involvement can lead ...
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Baqai, Aabiya Noman (2018-05-09)
During the past two decades, gentrification has been defined as a form of urban renewal where suburban dwellers have opted to return to the inner cities, attracting new investments, property development, and higher housing ...
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Cartwright, Victoria; 0000-0002-7563-170X (2017-08-21)
The goal of this dissertation is to uncover how policy entrepreneurs use narratives to influence policy change. Prior studies have attributed scientific evidence to policy change and neglected narratives as an attributing ...
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Jones, Zoranna (2017-03-20)
Minority business entrepreneurship, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), provides multiple opportunities for innovation, job creation, high earning potential for underrepresented ...
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Cole, Veronica
This research examines how stakeholders involved with the Dallas County Truancy Court measure and define the success of truancy reduction programs. Previous studies have failed to include the perceptions of all of these ...
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Blumberg, Clifford Smith; 0000-0002-5958-6101 (2016-12-20)
The game of golf has a tumultuous history that includes long bouts with classism, racism and sexism. From its arrival to the United States more than 200 years ago, golf has found itself as a barometer for democracy. The ...
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Cartwright, Gregory Dale; 0000-0003-2231-3326 (2016-05-10)
After considerable research, it was determined that a research gap exists that examines the overall impact of school choice concerning magnet and traditional high schools. The timing is especially critical in Texas with ...
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Dieth, Edmund Warren
Current literature suggests that networks impact the diffusion of innovations. This dissertation seeks to uncover the reasons behind diffusion patterns of locally developed applications (LDAs) across the United States ...
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Merk, Amy Elizabeth (Public Administration, 2014-12)
Nonprofit organizations have experienced continued revenue growth despite a decrease in government funding, increase in competition among organizations, and greater accountability to both public and private funders. ...
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Wish, Brian E. (Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-12)
This research seeks to discern the latent motivational factors that prompt individuals to join the Air Force Reserve. It is hypothesized that the decision to affiliate has a large non-economic component; this study also ...
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Rodriguez, Brittany Michelle (Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-09-17)
There is sufficient evidence to suggest that inmates who participate in prerelease programs are less likely to recidivate once released from prison than those who do not participate in these programs. Research shows that ...
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Owino, Julius Awuor (Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-03-12)
Over the past few decades, governments have developed performance measurement systems with the objective of improving the quality and effectiveness of services delivered to the public. However, there is scant information ...
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Godbey, Helen Kay (Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-03-10)
The first generation of women city managers in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century have one thing in common: all were initially mentored and promoted by men. Like survivors of a Texas tornado that huddle in the ...
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Dena, Mercy K. (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, ...
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Goodwin, Kenneth Clifford (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, ...
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Lewis, Rebecca J. (Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)
Institutional diversity is a long-held value in U.S. higher education with origins dating back 300 years to pre-Revolutionary colonial colleges. Institutional diversity is still valued today, but Institutional theory ...
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