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Harris, Cheryl A. "U.S. intelligence." [Norfolk, Va.] : Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2006. http://doclib.jfsc.ndu.edu/2006Harris.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy)--Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2006.
"April 14, 2006." Electronic version of original print document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-70).

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Hossain, Mohammad Delwar. "FRAMING THE LIBERATION WAR OF BANGLADESH IN THE U.S. AND U.K. MEDIA: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES (LONDON)." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/313.

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MOHAMMAD DELWAR HOSSAIN, for the Master of Arts degree in Media Theory & Research, presented on May 7, 2010 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: FRAMING THE LIBERATION WAR OF BANGLADESH IN THE U.S. AND U.K. MEDIA: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES (LONDON) MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Uche Onyebadi This study examined the framing of the liberation war of Bangladesh in the New York Times and the Times (London). To comprehensively look at the framing, the tones and sources of news in the newspapers have also been studied. The results suggest that both newspapers used three frames most frequently: military-conflict frame, prognostic frame and human interest frame. The findings also show that both newspapers published news stories with more neutral tone than positive and negative tones. The New York Times and the Times (London) relied mostly on official sources as the primary sources in publishing news. The present study is not only the first research on the framing of the liberation war of Bangladesh by the international print media but also a systematic research on the area. Therefore, this study is expected to open up ways of understanding the role of the international print media, especially in the U.S. and U.K., about the war. This study is also a major contribution in the field of framing research and more broadly in understanding how newspapers frame wars in their reports.

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Merritt, Emily S. "Britain’s nuclear deterrent force and the U.S.-U.K. special relationship." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/42685.

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Britain established in 1940 the first national nuclear weapons program in the world, and this gave Britain credibility in participating in the U.S.-led Manhattan Project during World War II. Despite the interruption in U.S.-U.K. nuclear cooperation in 1946-1958 owing to the McMahon Act, since 1958 the United States and the United Kingdom have worked closely in the nuclear domain. Indeed, since the 1962 Nassau Summit, the United States has sold submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and support systems to the United Kingdom. In 1980 and 1982, London chose to modernize its nuclear deterrent with Trident SLBMs. The British made a similar decision in 2006, and it may be reconfirmed in 2016 with legislation to construct a new fleet of Trident nuclear ballistic missile submarines. Britain has been motivated to remain a nuclear weapons state in order to protect its own national security interests and to contribute to the security of its NATO allies in an unpredictable international security environment.

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Kim, Jinah. "U.S. racial imaginaries." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3221813.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).

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Bhagat, Rahul N. "Indo-U.S Relations." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625468.

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Corey, Joab N. "Three essays on resources, institutions, and development across U.S. states." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10133.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 101 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101).

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Oh, Soonkun. "The U.S. strategic flexibility policy prospects for the U.S.-ROK alliance." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/06Dec%5FOh.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006.
Thesis Advisor(s): Edward A. Olsen, Christopher P. Twomey. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-119.) Also available in print.

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Cohn, Laurie G. (Laurie Gail). "Foreign-owned U.S. banks in the U.S. real estate lending market." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65202.

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Shi, Wei. "Insider trading in mergers and acquisitions in U.K., U.S., and China." Thesis, University of Bath, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.642024.

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This thesis focuses on the the study of insider trading based on three main economic regions- the U.K, the U.S and China. This is a key aspect of corporate governance and one where the regulatory systems differ substantially in the three countries analysed. Four filters have been developed in helping the regulatory authority detect the existence of insider trading. The first filter is to analyse the Average Abnormal Return (AR) and the Cumulative Average Abnormal Return (CAAR). If there are no unusual price movements prior to the announcement date, one would expect both the AR and CAAR to fluctuate randomly about zero. However, if there is leakage of, and trading on, inside information just prior to the announcement date, this should show up in the form of positive daily average residuals as t approaches 0 and a corresponding build up in CAAR. Dummy variables are also included in the first filter. This filter captures unusual stock price run-ups on a series of days but may miss the ones on single days. As a result, more filters are developed. The second filter is the news search. Hirshleifer (1971) and Fama and Laffer (1971) found that those who possess privileged information have an inventive to take market positions on the basis of their information and then announce their information publicly. I consider two situations in this thesis-firstly, the public news released before the problematic day and secondly, the public news released after the problematic day. The investigation of outliers is used as the third filter in this thesis. The residuals which are 3.5 or 4 times greater than the standard deviation are considered as the outliers. I developed my fourth filter of detecting insider trading based on the Abnormal Turnover (AT). Apart from the four-filter approach, a day 0 AR hypothesis is also developed as a main contribution of this thesis. The day 0 abnormal return hypothesis suggests that on day 0, the day the merger is announced, there will be a substantial abnormal return for the targets due to the substantial trade volume in the stock market. But with the existence of insider dealing, the abnormal return may be partially absorbed prior to the announcement date and as a result, on day 0, the abnormal return will be expected to be lower than in the normal situation. In other words, the firms which are suspected of insider dealing activities may have a comparatively lower average abnormal return on day 0 than the firms which are not. In the conclusion we examine the implications for both corporate governance and also the regulatory regime. We do indeed find widespread evidence for insider trading and this is a matter of concern-After utilizing the three data samples of the U.K, the U.S and China, we can be fairly confident that relatively few of the clean firms will be anything other than clean. Not all of the suspected firms will be ‘guilty of insider trading’, but there is substantial reason to suppose that they should be examined in further detail to identify the nature of the trading which occurred.

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Servello, Christopher S. "U.S. National Missile Defense and its effect on U.S.-Russian Arms Control." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA379610.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Thesis advisor(s): Tsypkin, Mikhail. "June 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-94). Also available online.

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Trentin, Claudia <1987&gt. "Japan-U.S. Security Relations: The issue of U.S. military bases in Okinawa." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2607.

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Leath, Susan Elizabeth Chet Guy. "East is East and West is West Philadelphia newspaper coverage of the East-West divide in early America /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5153.

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Ziepfel, Chad. "The U.S. Tobacco Program." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111688572.

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Siničáková, Veronika. "2008 U.S. Presidential Elections." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10016.

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The aim of my thesis is to analyze the process of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election and identify the factors that had the biggest influence on the election results. The paper is divided into three chapters. The first chapter describes the rules for electing the U.S. president, the second chapter focuses on issues and the third on other factors that decided the election. My thesis is thus a study of how the U.S. president was elected in 2008 and of the issues currently most discussed in the American society.

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Zhang, Xibin. "U.S. Housing Market Volatility." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/517.

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The first chapter considers the determinants of U.S. housing market volatility. With volatility defined as the sample variance of home value monthly returns during a given quarter, a model of volatility from equilibrium in the housing market is derived. Supply and demand effects on housing return volatility for the U.S. as a whole and for a panel of 16 cities are tested, during the period 1985:1-2009:4. There are some statistically significant links between volatility and fundamentals, but significance generally plummets when fundamentals are allowed to be endogenous. These results are consistent with time plots, which show no clear historical link between housing return volatility and basic market factors. This enigma may be due to data limitations and/or short-run disequilibrium in home prices. In Chapter 2, GARCH(1,1) model family are utilized to describe dynamics of U.S. national and metropolitan housing market volatilities ranging from the first month of 1985 to the last month of 2009. ARCH effects of housing return exist in U.S. national and 15 MSA markets. Housing return volatility positively influences housing return in some MSAs and negatively in some other MSAs. Only in Detroit does housing return negatively affect volatility, which makes Detroit is the only market with a two-way effect (return and volatility). A couple of MSAs show leverage effects. Almost all selected markets present long memory of volatility. All the conditional volatilities estimated by GARCH(1,1) model are much bigger than unconditional ones in selected MSAs except U.S. national market. Even though component GARCH(1,1) model generally does the best job in forecasting U.S. housing market volatility compared to other members of GARCH(1,1) model family, the forecasting accuracy is far from being satisfied. The last chapter discusses the housing return volatility spillovers across U.S. metropolitan markets. House return volatilities in 15 MSAs ranging from the first month of 1985 to the last month of 2009 are estimated by the standard GARCH(1,1) model. The results of the vector error correction model and the vector autoregressive models show that there are unidirectional and bidirectional housing return volatility spillover effects among not only contiguous MSAs but also noncontiguous MSAs. More volatility spillovers happen among the MSAs that share the same economic characters. The long-run housing return volatility convergence exists in U.S. market.

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Rebelo, Anita Flanders. "U.S. avant-garde literature." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106189.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1982.
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Huang, Jingjing. "The determinants of corporate hedging for U.S. and U.K. non-financial firms." Thesis, Aston University, 2016. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/30067/.

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Empirical studies show that the use of derivative instruments has been increasing during the last decade, making it an important part of the firm’s overall risk management profile. Financial theory suggests that risk management decisions only matter when markets are imperfect. The standard view is that firms will benefit from hedging, because hedging reduces the variability of the costs of financial distress, agency costs, and the expected tax liabilities. This thesis attempts to provide evidence on these hypotheses. This study investigates the determinants of corporate hedging by using a comprehensive dataset of US and UK non-financial firms. The two countries are of particular research interest since they have almost similar legal system for the conduct of business and their market-based financial systems and equity markets are well developed with good investor protection. The study focuses on the decision of whether or not non-financial firms from both countries benefit from corporate hedging during the period 2002-2011. The study is motivated by the idea of whether or not the hedging policies of non-financial firms depend on the financial characteristics of those firms and the strength of their corporate governance. Indeed, our empirical results show that corporate hedging decision is closely associated with firms’ financial characteristics and the strength of their corporate governance. In particular, firms are more like to engage in hedging if they have high expected tax liabilities, high expected cost of financial distress, and high expected agency costs. Firms choose to hedge to reduce the variability of cash flows in order to protect growth opportunities. More interestingly, US firms provide stronger evidence in support of for corporate hedging when the overinvestment problem exists, while UK firms provide stronger evidence for the underinvestment problem. Hedgers tended to be high-rated firms and larger firms which have a cost advantage in hedging due to economies of scale. This finding provides an explanation of why the small firms, which have more volatile cash flows, higher costs of bankruptcy, more growth opportunities, tend not to engage in hedging. We believe that this is very informative as it suggests the costs of hedging and market price dynamics alter the optimal hedging policies of those firms. Hedging is more costly for small firms; so they have different hedging policies and respond differently to hedging. We also find that the board structure influence hedging decisions and a large board tend to be negatively associated with corporate hedging. The tendency to hedge increases as the number of non-executives grows. In addition, firms with strong corporate governance tend to hedge to reduce the variability of cash flows and the costs of financial distress. These results have theoretical and practical implications.

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McDonald, Brendan. "Skilled Immigration to the U.S.: Policies for Sustained U.S. Research and Development Leadership." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/404.

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This thesis examines the current trends in skilled immigration to the U.S.: who is coming, why, and what are they doing here? The current competitive environment for attracting these skilled workers among competitor nations like Australia and Canada is assessed, and possibilities for reform that enable the U.S. to attract the right talent, minimize costs to domestic workers, and maintain dominance in international research and development are explored.

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Pritchett, Anthony J. "U.S. economic assistance to Colombia: a model for U.S. economic assistance to Mexico?" Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/38997.

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Strong, effective, economic assistance programs are a crucial part of U.S. foreign policy. They are a primary instrument for advancing U.S. national interests, enhancing global stability, expanding economic opportunities, and promoting American democratic values. From 2004 through 2010, the United States donated more than $16 billion in economic assistance to countries in the Western Hemisphere. Some ask why the United States spends so much money abroad on humanitarian programs and infrastructure investments in developing states. To address this question, this thesis looks at Colombia and Mexico, both of which are of crucial strategic importance to the United States. Under Plan Colombia (20002006), U.S. economic assistance and staunch political will enabled Colombia to improve from 14th (2005) to 57th (2013) on the Failed State Index scale. As a result, Colombia has also emerged as a stronger U.S. partner in the Western Hemisphere. The Colombian experience was historically specific, but lessons can be extracted for Mexico, even though its history and relationship with Washington is very different. In particular, the recent Merida Initiative (Plan Mexico; 2008present) can benefit immensely from being carefully evaluated in light of the earlier success of Plan Colombia.

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Stach, Lisa Ann 1962, and Lisa Ann 1962 Stach. "Inversion for source parameters of moderate-size earthquakes in the western U.S. using regional waveforms." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625910.

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Joerger, Melanie Jean. "Mortality in the United States’ border regions : a closer look at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/23467.

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The objective of this thesis is to explore the mortality trends in the United States’ border regions. Using the Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database, we examine overall mortality from 1999-2019 through the calculation of standardized mortality ratios for the border region versus the non-border areas. We analyse sub-populations of the border by state, ethnicity, and cause of death, and we use varying combinations of confounders in our standardization including age, gender, and cause of death. The findings confirm significant differences between the border and non-border regions, with opposite results at each border. When accounting for all confounders, the border region at the Mexican border (SMR = 0.958) has lower mortality than the non- border region (SMR = 1.011), and at the Canada border, the border region (SMR = 1.033) has higher mortality than the non-border region (SMR = 0.985). In this manner, the county of residence and proximity to the border could be a useful contributor to mortality estimations.
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Lim, Hee-Jea. "Korea is really matter to U.S.? : The Relationship about USFK and ROK-U.S. alliance." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Centrum för studier av politik, kommunikation och medier (CPKM), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17774.

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Alliance means rather they share the same enemy than their good friends. This paper provides the view about this issue in Korea, especially the United States Forces Korea (USFK). It tries to analyze the relationship between USFK and the United States of America. Are South Korea and USA good alliance? It is supported by two minor research question which aim to find out the reason how USFK’s reductions gone through in past 50 years and how the history of U.S. foreign policy got changed especially in South Korea. This paper used one case study with specific time line and events to provide the basic understand of USFK reductions within the framework of conflicts between U.S. administration and South Korea ministration.

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Caronan, Faye Christine. "Making history from U.S. colonial amnesia Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican poetic genealogies /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3259634.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 11, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196).

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Ackleson, Jason MacGregor. "Narrating identity and territoriality : the cases of the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borderlands." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1615/.

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Analysing the processes and relationships of political territoriality and collective identity in the American borderlands, this thesis examines the narrative and material dimensions of policies increasingly favouring securitised border 'control'. This 'reterritorialisation' contrasts markedly with concurrent moves to increase economic integration under the North American Free Trade Agreement and with long patterns of transnational socio-cultural interaction, emblematic of larger relational, transnational 'mobilities' fostered by globalisation. Through a historical and transdisciplinary survey, borders are examined as representations and socio-political constructs: a unique, contingent, political cartography connected to a precise, early modern notion of space and identity. Borders are in a continual process of being reproduced through both material means and supportive state-produced 'texts' or narratives. The analysis is part of a larger project in International Relations: the development of the 'identities/borders/orders' heuristic triad, designed to narrow and produce new theoretical and empirical insights by coupling three key concepts and exploring the co-constitutive relationships. Focussing on the identity-border link within the triad, the first case study analyses 'Operation Hold the Line' and related events in the securitisation of the southern borderlands against undocumented migration. The second case study provides an account of major official documentation and public debate framing current developments on the northern border, including a reading of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Border policy is understood as an example of reflexive territoriality, suggesting continual, ever speedier revision, monitoring, and reproduction of a state's constructed strategy responding to control defined 'risks', such as migration. These regulations are fed and actualised by new information flows and technologies, as the state's attempt to 'control' its borders by making them political realities of difference with particular material and normative outcomes. Here, the politics of representation involves an image of border 'security' which effects the socio-spatialisation of collective identity, specifically the reinforcement of difference and a secure nationalism narrative. The securitisation also reflects a modern understanding of knowledge as regulation and order.

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Bagamery, Jack. "A Hypothetical Universal U.S. Sports Betting Market: Modeling the U.S. Market Using Australian Panels." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106759.

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In the United States, gambling on sports is a widespread and popular activity. Yet, the extent of that popularity is largely unknown because the practice is illegal, with the exception of a handful of states. To determine the scale of this market, I construct a series panel regression models that explain the size of the legal sports betting market in Australia using continuous macroeconomic and behavioral variables in addition to dummy variables signaling regulatory shifts. Using the relationships between these variables and sports betting expenditure, I will estimate the size of the United States market on a state-by-state basis. After sizing the U.S. market, I will briefly discuss the key finding of the synergistic relationship between sports betting and Internet as well as the inevitable tradeoffs between the economic benefits and consequences of legalization
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: Economics
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Chang, Yao. "Framing China how U.S. media reported eight U.S. state visits by top Chinese leaders /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Quail, Christine M. "The political economy of U.S. multiutilities : the U.S. electric power industry and communication services /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136441.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-206). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Daggett, Chelsea. "U.K. youth television: moral panic and the process of U.S. adaptation in Skins." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12081.

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U.K. youth television increasingly gains popularity in the U.S. as international format sales and online viewing increases. Both U.S. and U.K. youth television are produced in an environment o f moral panic over youth. Y outh programs in the U.K. address the moral panic of"Broken Britain" and create an alternative narrative about youth. This liberating aspect of U.K. youth programs is migrating to the U.S. in the form of shows like Skins and Misfits. The original versions of these programs are very popular, and when these programs are adapted, they remain popular but lose their unique stylistic qualities and their alternative political messages about youth. This thesis examines how the process of international adaptation homogenizes U.K. youth television, making it acceptable to censorship groups in the U.S. This process affects the quality of U.S. adaptations of U.K. youth television by removing the liberating stylistic and subcultural aspects of the original program that allow U.K. youth television to address and combat moral panic over youth. Ultimately, although U.S. youth audiences would benefit from alternative narratives to that of moral panic, until U.S. producers find a way to translate the innovative stylistic and subcultural aspects of U.K. youth programs, adaptations of U.K. youth programs will not be able to provide this alternative. Incorporating generic tropes and broadcasting on cable networks may allow these adaptations to fulfill their potential as sources of alternative narratives about youth.

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Brightwell, David Aaron. "Essays on U.S. energy markets." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2928.

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Howard, Lawrence D. "Multimedia on U.S. Navy networks." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA306135.

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Sharov, Yevhen P. "U.S. strategic approaches to Ukraine." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA379537.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Thesis advisor(s): Yost, David; Giraldo, Jeanne. "June 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83). Also available online.

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Lenefonte, Joanna. "A case for U.S. soil." Connect to resource, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45375.

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Arias, William Dal Selcuk. "Hispanics in the U.S. military." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Sep%5FArias_Dal.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Business Administration and M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.
Thesis Advisor(s): Stephen L. Mehay, Elda Pema. "September 2006." M.S. in Business Administration awarded to William Arias, September 2006. M.S. in Management awarded to Selcuk Dal, September 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-120). Also available in print.

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Liu, Xin. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-117709.

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Evans, Brian Goldbarth Albert Howell Christopher. "U.S. presidents and other animals." Diss., A link to full text of this thesis in SOAR, 2007. http://soar.wichita.edu/dspace/handle/10057/1130.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English.
"May 2007." Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 21, 2007). Thesis advisers: Albert Goldbarth, Christopher Howell.

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Thompson, Laura Jean. "U.S. maritime security sustainability challenges." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5539.

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The U.S. maritime domain includes vast resources and enables transportation of goods and services across the globe. Similar to all critical infrastructures and key resources, the maritime domain can be exploited to cause harm to people and disrupt economic stability. The President's National Strategy for Maritime Security and the U.S. maritime security framework is designed to deter, prevent and respond to a broad range of threats and exploitations. The U.S. maritime security system has evolved over the past decade and faces significant challenges including severe budget reductions, gaps between national guidance and specific roles and responsibilities assigned to federal agencies, and lack of interoperability among disparate logistic, training processes and operational command centers within the Homeland Security (DHS). Within the DHS, the United States Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection execute the preponderance of maritime security missions. They struggle with aging air and marine assets and continuous interoperability challenges. The longterm solution includes a new alignment of air and marine resources and capabilities under one agency within the department, which will increase efficiency and reduce duplication of effort and costs, while maintaining a sustainable and layered maritime security posture in support of the President's strategy.

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Holland, Andrew J. "Metric implementation in U.S. construction." Thesis, Gainesville, Florida : University of Florida, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26631.

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Throughout the history of industrialization, people have been trying to develop a single system of measurement with a worldwide acceptance. Since its inception two centuries ago, the metric system has been gaining ground over the traditional "inch pound" system. Today, the United States remains as the sole user of the "inch pound" system of measurements. The pressure for unification into the metric system has been mounting. With the emergence of the "global economy," non metric products are becoming increasingly unacceptable in the world markets. Individual industries, societies and organizations in the United States have, however, been making steps to adopt metric for some time. Congress, understanding the need for adoption of the metric system in trade and commerce, has taken steps to introduce metric system into the commercial market of the United States. Federal agencies are now required to use the metric system in governmental related programs including procurements, grants, and other business related activities. However, no nationwide mandate for metric that includes the private sector has been established. This report contains background information on the development of metric to date, status of metric conversion in the federal government, current metric activities of professional and industry groups, planning for the metric change by the private sector, technical implications in the construction industries, metric building products and services, as well as a general explanation of the key aspects of metrication for the construction industry in the United States

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Hill, Joshua L. "U.S. Special Forces: culture warriors." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/44580.

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U.S. Army Special Forces (SF) are consistently called upon to work by, with, and through indigenous forces to conduct special warfare. Current SF doctrine reflects an increasing desire for SF operators to be culturally proficient in order to work closely with locals, advise foreign militaries, and build relationships with host-nation counterparts. Despite the doctrinal emphasis on cultural proficiency, SF doctrine offers little concrete direction as to how to become culturally competent, or how to measure levels of cultural proficiency. This thesis aims to provide insights into cultural competency by investigating academic literature surrounding culture, and by looking outside of SF at examples of cross-cultural competency from historic cases: the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II, Military Transition Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the McDonald’s restaurant franchise. By looking at historical examples of military operations and international businesses, SF can gain insight into the best practices and common pitfalls that come from working with foreign cultures. This thesis finds that cultural proficiency can be increased by following the best practices of the McDonald’s Corporation and the OSS, and by placing top-down emphasis on cultural training and normalizing that training at the tactical level.

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Hweta, A. M. "Modelling the U.S. pear industry." Thesis, University of Reading, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354082.

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Dienema, Jason. "NAFTA & U.S. Milk Supply." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2418.

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NAFTA is turning 25 years old and is in desperate need of modernization. The contentious yet game-changing multilateral free trade agreement has had no shortage of political detractors and proponents over the years, but on May 18, 2017 President Donald Trump officially signaled its renegotiation to the U.S. Congress. Agricultural producers from all three countries have greatly benefited from free trade with their North American neighbors, but Canada insists on maintaining their restrictive supply management system and tariff rate quotas on dairy imports. The Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) fear a NAFTA renegotiation could not only threaten their lucrative system but also remove an important check against unfettered subsidization of U.S. dairy producers. The DFC have repeatedly criticized the magnitude of U.S. dairy subsidies, especially during the Farm Bill legislation process every four years, attributing rising milk supply glut and lower global dairy prices to their size. Although subsidies do aid U.S. producers’ bottom line and global competitiveness, they do little to explain efficiency discrepancies between nations or justify Canadian protectionism. Using empirical research and statistical analysis, the validity of these arguments will be tested to better determine the future of dairy production within NAFTA and beyond.

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Mar, Erik Chia-Kong. "Mexico -- space/nation/class -- U.S." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68304.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.
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With the much-commented upon shifts in the global economy and the problematizing of traditional social, economic, cultural, and political relationships, the role of architecture as a "public" practice has fallen under scrutiny. The "privatization of public space", resulting from the overt merging of "public" concerns (typically represented through the State) and "private" interests (in our society, usually defined by groups with significant power over investment decisions) is often taken as symptomatic of a general trend towards the breakdown of democracy itself. Here, however, it is important to differentiate between what can be termed the "public sphere", or the abstract discursive arena where thought is (re)produced and debated, and "public space", or the actual built spaces of personal encounter among strangers. Certainly, since the Enlightenment when the terms first acquired widespread currency, the latter has depended upon some conception of the former.
Eric Chia-Kong Mar.
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Chiba, Takafumi. "U.S.-Japan trade in construction." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44660.

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Yuen, Ainslie Sze Leon. "Intertrade times of U.S. stocks." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614783.

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Al-Eisa, Abdulaziz. "U.S. Saudi relations : interdependence revisited." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1000/.

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Countries live in an age of interdependenoo. Although there are &>me studies conoorned with the U.S.-Saudi relationship, to my knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study that analyses the U.S.-Saudi relationship as it relates to the conoopts of interdependenoo to be written sinoo the Gulf war of 1991. This study particularly examines the level of interdependenoo between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as it affects their relationship. The oil embargo of 1973 marked a turning point in Saudi Arabia's relations with the United States. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has emerged as the most important foreign &>urce of American petroleum requirements. The U.S. for its part has supported Saud Arabia with security assistanoo and anTIS while seeking in return to affect Saudi Arabia's oil production and prioo decisions. For both countries maintenanoo of the supply of oil and anTIS are of vital importance, but each oountry has different priorities. The different positions taken by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia is affected by the fact that Saudi Arabia is the worlds' largest exporter of oil and that the U.S. is the world's largest oil consumer. The connection gave way to a more complex relationship of interdependenoo, involving shared as well as divergent interest and therefore, increased the potential for adversarial bargaining as well as agreement, antagonism as well as cooperation. The plan of this study is to explore whether the cooperation between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in the fields of oil, politics, eoonomics and military developments has increased their interdependence. In addition, this study explores why the relationships between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has moved over time from simple cooperation to oomplexity and how the two oountries have changed in their relative importanoo to each other and what has been the impact of changes in the international system, the Middle East, or within the U.S. and Saudi Arabia on U.S. - Saudi relations.

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Jasper, Scott. "U.S. strategic cyber deterrence options." Thesis, University of Reading, 2018. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/79976/.

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The U.S. government appears incapable of creating an adequate strategy to alter the behavior of the wide variety of malicious actors seeking to inflict harm or damage through cyberspace. This thesis provides a systematic analysis of contemporary deterrence strategies and offers the U.S. the strategic option of active cyber defense designed for continuous cybered conflict. It examines the methods and motivations of the wide array of malicious actors operating in the cyber domain. The thesis explores how the theories of strategy and deterrence underpin the creation of strategic deterrence options and what role deterrence plays with respect to strategies, as a subset, a backup, an element of one or another strategic choice. It looks at what the government and industry are doing to convince malicious actors that their attacks will fail and that risk of consequences exists. The thesis finds that contemporary deterrence strategies of retaliation, denial and entanglement lack the conditions of capability, credibility, and communications that are necessary to change the behavior of malicious actors in cyberspace. This research offers a midrange theory of active cyber defense as a way to compensate for these failings through internal systemic resilience and tailored disruption capacities that both frustrate and punish the wide range of malicious actors regardless of origin or intentions. The thesis shows how active cyber defense is technically capable and legally viable as an alternative strategy in the U.S. to strengthen the deterrence of cyber attacks.

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Wilson, Gregory Arthur. "Labor Substitution in U.S. Manufacturing." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31108.

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This paper presents a translog model designed to estimate the elasticity of substitution between capital, non-production workers, and production workers using U.S. manufacturing data for the period 1988 to 1997. The elasticity of substitution estimates derived from the translog model suggest that production workers and capital are substitutes, as well as non-production and production workers. Although the estimates do not provide conclusive evidence regarding the degree of substitutability between non-production workers and capital, they do indicate that the degree of substitutability between production workers and capital is greater than it is between non-production workers and capital.
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Clark, E. A., Sarah A. Job, Stacey L. Williams, and M. F. Deitz. "PTSD Symptoms and U.S. Veterans." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8050.

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Remse, Christian. "Vodou and the U.S. Counterculture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368710585.

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Keith, Sean Z. "U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward China." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306142049.

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Weeber, Stan C. "Internet and U.S. citizen militias." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2491/.

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Smelser's theory of collective behavior holds that people join radical social movements because they experience strain. Among the most serious strains are anxieties that relate to one's social status and the roles that correspond to it. A social movement arises as a means of coping with these anxieties. Militia presence and activity on the Internet (especially Usenet) is a phenomenon that can be studied within the framework of Smelser's theory. Militia watchers contend that those who join the militias have experienced the kinds of strain to which Smelser refers. A content analysis of Internet traffic of U.S. militias provides a test of the general thesis outlined above. By analyzing Internet sites it is possible to examine whether militiamen have experienced strain, and whether the strain, together with other factors, influence an individual's decision to join the militia. This dissertation was the first sociological study of American militias on the Internet and the first in which militias from all regions of the country was studied. Information was gathered on 171 militiamen who joined 28 militias. A qualitative analysis of militia web sites and Usenet traffic (n=1,189 online documents) yielded answers to seven research questions. Most militiamen studied experienced some form of stress or strain prior to joining the militia. Within this context, three generalized beliefs arose to help explain this stress among those militiamen. Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco (BATF) raids at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas were mentioned most often as movement precipitants. Based on the militiamen studied, the militia movement was Internet-driven, although a number of alternative media played a joint role in movement mobilization. On the basis of the cases studied, increased social control following the Oklahoma City bombing affected the direction of the movement as many militias went underground. Yet, Usenet traffic by and about militiamen rose significantly. Constitutionalism was the primary philosophical orientation of the militias in this dissertation; however, Christian Identity militias were growing in number and visibility.

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