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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 ... -
Passive Cooling Potential of a Suite of Retrofits for Older Los Angeles Housing with Significance for Policy
(2019-12)Four retrofits to older housing are examined: cool roofs, window overhangs, window films and shade trees. The potential of these measures to lower the temperature inside homes in Los Angeles is evaluated through literature ... -
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 ... -
The People Versus Conventional Energy: The Transition to Come
(2019-12)The past decade has seen growth in the spread of knowledge throughout the world about the dangers of climate change. The majority of the scientific community is in agreement that humans due to burning of fossil fuels have ... -
Perceived Discrimination and Racial Health Disparities: The Association of Race, Health Care Coverage and General Health on Perception of Discrimination
(2017-08)Prior research acknowledges that racial health disparities are a challenge faced in public health. While the association between race, discrimination and health outcomes has been evaluated, this study explored perceived ... -
Persistent Identifiers: Weighing the Benefits of In-house Systems Versus External Registries
(2015)Cultural heritage institutions are struggling with how they will manage their digital assets for long-term visibility, accessibility, and preservation. To date, being able to share digital content and associated metadata ... -
Phytoplankton responses to localized climate patterns in the Potomac River tributary of the Chesapeake Bay
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Pilot Study: Effects of Human Presence on Guanaco Spatial Ecology
(2020-05)The guanaco, or Lama guanicoe, plays an important role in maintaining Patagonian ecosystems: it is a main food source for apex and meso predators and its movement and grazing patterns preserve vegetation and insect ... -
The Policy and Public Management Residency Program: A Proposal to Restore Staffing Capacity in the U.S. House, CBO, CRS, and GAO
(2019-05)There is robust consensus among political scientists, congressional observers, and in Congress that the First Branch’s internal staffing capacity is at historic, dangerous lows. This paper addresses staffing capacity in ... -
A Policy Proposal of Establishing Official Rural Pension Institutions in China
(2020-12)The aging population has become one of the significant social problems around the world. China has reached the national standard of the aging population in 2000. More and more older people need supports from the country. ... -
A Policy Proposal of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Projection Center
(2020-05)With a series of important administrative plans and instructions, such as such as the Outline Development Plan of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Guangdong Province Three-year Action Plan on The Development ... -
A Policy Proposal to Increase Trust Between the Parties Entrenched in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2018-04)After decades of conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian issue has still found no resolution. This proposal argues that a significant impediment to a resolution is a lack of trust; a lack of trust between Palestinians and their ... -
A Policy Proposal to Reduce Nitrogen and Phosphorus Levels in the Chesapeake Bay
(2019-05)The State of Maryland has been steadfast in their commitment to the health and recovery of the Chesapeake Bay. Environmental policy has been a large part of Maryland’s political agenda and development for many years, with ... -
A Policy Proposal to Solve the Healthcare Coverage and Cost Conundrum
(2019-05)The U.S. is an outlier among similarly wealthy countries on two important healthcare metrics: coverage and cost. Despite progress made by the Affordable Care Act, nearly 30 million Americans remain uninsured, translating ... -
Policy Recommendations to Protect and Grow the Community Banking Sector
(2016-04-20)The banking industry has contracted from over 18,000 institutions in the 1980s to just over six thousand banks today. Since 98 percent of banks have fewer than $10 billion in assets the overwhelming majority of industry ... -
Potential Marine Renewable Energy Research and Development Opportunities at Pacific Marine Energy Center
(2017-12)This capstone project is closely aligned with the professional goals of the author as an engineer within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technology Office (WPTO). The WPTO has two primary branches, conventional ... -
Pre-Award Research Administration Infrastructure: Current Practices and Future Directions
(2017-08)Competition for federal research funding is increasing as federal funds allotted for research lag behind the growing demand. Reducing administrative burdens on research faculty would allow more time for faculty to conduct ... -
Predicting Locations of Emerging Hate Groups in Maryland Utilizing Social Identity Theory
(2020-12)In this analysis, principles behind Social Identity Theory were utilized as a basis to determine whether or not the demographic factors of income and racial diversity can predict where a hate group will likely emerge. This ...