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Job Training Programs for Dislocated Workers: The Positive Effects of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
(2016-12)There has been a substantial amount of research the past several decades measuring the effectiveness of federally subsidized Department of Labor (DOL) programs to assist the unemployed. However, there is little to no ... -
Kelp Forests: Native Species Recovery
(2018-04)Kelp forest populations in Southern California have been in decline since the 1950s. Since these ecosystems serve important functions for coastal management as well as ecological health of the surrounding marine life, this ... -
Legal Impediments on Technology Based Evidence in Criminal Investigations
(2017)This capstone project entitled “Legal Impediments on Technology Based Evidence in Criminal Investigations” explores the issue of the legal impediments that currently exist based on outdated laws, which in some cases have ... -
Less Traditional, Less Success: The Negative Effect of Nontraditional Students on Community College Graduation Rates
(2017-12)Community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates and 60% of community college students are independent for financial aid purposes. Independent students, with a number of nontraditional traits, are increasing as high ... -
Leveraging Digital Content: How Institutions in Balboa Park are Balancing Accessibility and Monetizing their Digitized Collections
(2018-04)Museums have taken many different approaches in increasing revenue, including capitalizing on their digital assets. This paper analyzes how nine organizations in the Balboa Park museum complex in San Diego, California have ... -
Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Generation: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States and the European Union and its Implication for Developing Economies Using the Example of China
(2016-12)In this study, it will be examined how these technologies, including coal, natural gas, nuclear, and renewables (wind, hydro, solar, biomass, and geothermal), are currently generating greenhouse gas emissions in the ... -
Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Contracting: A "False Economy" in Complex Federal Information Technology Procurement
(2016-12)The inappropriate use, or overuse, of Lowest Price, Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procurements as a cost savings measure in federal acquisition offices can lead to failed projects if an exceptional solution is ignored in ... -
"Made in Bangladesh": Improving Women's Health and Workplace Rights in the Factories of Multinational Corporations
(2016-04-20)Bangladesh’s garment industry was booming with little consideration for its workers until the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse confirmed global concerns about poor working conditions. Today, more than 3.2 million women workers, ... -
Managing Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Using Environmental Site Design in Baltimore's Westport Community
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Memorandum Recommending Expansion of Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service
(2016-04-19)This capstone is a memorandum for a Maryland Democratic legislator proposing a policy to expand Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service (MARC) weekend train service on MARC’s Camden and Brunswick Lines. The memorandum ... -
Metrics for Determining Staffing Needs in Departmental Research Administration Offices
(2018-05)Departmental research administrators are the link between researchers and the offices of sponsored projects at major universities. They also serve as liaison between the researcher and the agencies that fund their research ... -
Minding the Gap at the Local Level: Differences Between Greenhouse Gas Reductions Needed and Targets Selected, and Between Production- and Consumption-based Inventories
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Minding the Gap At The Local Level: Differences Between Greenhouse Gas Reductions Needed and Targets Selected, and Between Production- and Consumption-Based Inventories
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Morphometric analysis for nonlethal sex determination in brook trout: a new tool for research and management
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Museums and The Cloud
(2017-12)Should museums be utilizing cloud storage for their digital assets? There are several deployment models (public, private, community, hybrid) and service models (software, platform, infrastructure, and backup) all of which ... -
Optimizing the Research Administrative Infrastructure to Support an Increase of Clinical Trials at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
(2018-04)In late 2017, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (WFBMC) created a Clinical Trials Task Force to identify ways of increasing their volume of industry-sponsored clinical trials. Increasing the number of industry-sponsored ... -
Paid Family Leave in the United States
(2016-04-27)This Capstone memorandum gives a background on economic trends in the latter half of the twentieth century to today that have changed the demographics of American families, including the rise of dual earner households and ... -
Paleoecological Evidence of a Pre-Settlement Sedge Wetland in a Piedmont River Valley
(Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, 2012-05)Recent stratigraphic analyses of macrofossil seeds in buried wetlands of the Piedmont of Maryland and southeastern Pennsylvania indicate that these prehistoric wetlands were hydro- climatically stable for several thousand ... -
Payment for Environmental Services: Sustainable Development of Water Resources in Rwanda
(2016-04-19)Rwanda aims to become an environmentally sustainable middle-income country. The problem is how the country will implement projects that alleviate poverty without increasing environmental degradation, or alternately, implement ... -
Penalties and Public Education Campaigns: An Analysis of U.S. States' Policy Efforts to Prevent Cell Phone Related Distracted Driving Fatalities
(2018-05)Existing literature on U.S. states’ policy efforts to prevent cell phone related distracted riving fatalities currently lacks a comprehensive quantitative analysis on the effects of penalty severity and public education ...