Browsing Advanced Academic Programs by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Proposal to End Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Drug Crimes and Decriminalize Possession of all Illicit Drugs
(2017-11)This capstone project entitled “Proposal to End Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Drug Crimes and Decriminalize Possession of All Illicit Drugs” explores the societal and economic costs that the current drug policy has on ... -
A Proposal to Protect and Expand Affordable Housing Construction Using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
(2017)Ensuring that every American can afford a safe and decent dwelling is a stated policy goal of the United States federal government. Congress appropriates billions of dollars every year to provide housing vouchers to ... -
Quantifying Changes in Retail Electricity Rates Resulting from a Microgrid Deployment
(2017-12)Understanding how a proposed microgrid would affect customers is critical to deciding whether to deploy such a system and this paper seeks to assess how a microgrid deployment would affect retail electricity rates for ... -
Rapid detection techniques for primary indicators of activated sludge treatment optimization
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(Re)birth And Resurrection - Digitizing Antiquity: Preparing Ancient Egyptian Collections for the Digital World at The Grand Egyptian Museum and The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
(2017)Protector of thousands of years of ancient Egyptian history, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) is home to the greatest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world. Unfortunately, the EMC has not incorporated ... -
Reducing Corruption in the Brazilian Government: Anticorruption Strategies for Brazil
(2018-04)Corruption has plagued the Brazilian government since it was established. Its political, economic, and social costs are a heavy burden that hinders the country’s development. However, short and long-term solutions have ... -
Reducing Incidence of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fleet
(2018-04)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operates a fleet of 16 research and survey ships crewed by a mix of commissioned officers and civilian wage mariners. The shipboard environment presents unique ... -
Reducing the Real Estate Investor Rate in Israel to Increase Available Housing and Fight Socioeconomic Disparity
(2017-12)Since 2008, Israel has experienced a rapidly expanding socioeconomic disparity, weighted by limited competition in the real estate market and a shortage of housing available for purchase. Investors in the real estate market, ... -
Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act
(2016-04-13)The earth continues to get hotter as a result of anthropogenic climate change and adverse effects will increase in frequency and severity for populations and economies across the United States. There is clear scientific ... -
The Relationship Between Renewable Energy Manufacturers and Host Communities
(2018-04)As public opinion increasingly favors renewable energy, we must consider the communities that manufacture and dispose of materials related to renewable energy. The future will always be dependent on people receiving accurate ... -
The Republic of Georgia: Public Opinion about NATO and the Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
(2016-02-02)This paper explores how various socioeconomic measures affect Georgian residents' opinions on joining NATO. These measures include education level, knowledge of the English language, and job satisfaction. Through statistical ...