Browsing Advanced Academic Programs by Title
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Identifying Factors that Affect Political Feasibility of Climate and Energy-Related Policies
(2020-12)Climate change is an urgent problem. Due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the average planet is warming at an alarming rate, causing large-scale changes to ecosystems humans depend on. Additionally, since what ... -
Identifying Intentionally Duplicative Public Comments Submitted to Proposed Federal Rules
(2017-12)Since the public commenting process for proposed federal regulations became primarily web-based, the number of rules receiving extremely high comment volumes has increased substantially; raising concerns about whether ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the US Shale Industry: An (Expert) Review
(2020-12)The US shale industry turned the world-wide energy landscape upside down in less than a decade and put the US (back) atop the global energy hierarchy. At the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic shocked the global ... -
The Impact of the Internet on Social Capital: Broadband Access and Influences on Voting Turnout
(2019-08)The existing scholarship into the study of social capital in the United States and elsewhere has sought to apply standards and methods to measure civic participation in diverse groups of people. Critics of Robert Putnam’s ... -
Impacts of Climate Change on Utility Vegetation Management in Florida
(2019-12)With the ever-growing concerns about climate change and its impacts, it was time to take a look at what kind of role it might play on the number of vegetation caused outages across the state of Florida. Vegetation falling ... -
Implementation of a Shared Services Model within Research Administration: A Hybrid Research Delivery Model of Pre- and Post-Award Administration
(2020-12)As budgets have tightened and regulatory requirements have grown more complex, universities are increasingly evaluating new service delivery models to help manage costs and improve overall service and compliance. A shared ... -
The Implementation of the Research Business Administrator at a Large Healthcare Organization: A Programmatic Evaluation of the Department of Research and Evaluation Units
(2019-12)In 2017, two divisions within the Department of Research and Evaluation, at a large Healthcare Organization, underwent a decentralization which resulted in the creation and implementation of a new role, the Research Business ... -
The Implications of Shortening Early Voting Periods: A Case Study from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
(2016-05-05)Early voting is a widely available convenience voting option, yet research into exactly who casts a ballot early has produced mixed results. Researchers have simultaneously shown that early voters are wealthier and whiter ... -
An Improved Index for Measuring Precinct-Level Political Ideology in California
(2017-12)Despite California’s reputation as a solidly liberal state, there exist deep regional and neighborhood-level divisions in political ideology among voters. Factor analysis has been used in previous research to formulate ... -
Improvement of Phase I Clinical Trial Informed Consent Document Readability
(2018-05)When seeking the consent of a patient to participate in a clinical trial, the Informed Consent Document (ICD) is a substantial part of the informed consent process to review and discuss significant aspects of research with ... -
Improving Community College Graduation Rates by Identifying Predictors that Matter
(2020-05)Hundreds of thousands of students across the country begin their postsecondary education at community colleges each year, but less than half graduate. The goal of this research was to identify key predictors of credential ... -
Improving Data Analytics and Customer Relations in Nonprofits
(2018-12)Recent reports regarding newly implemented tax policy and a changing generational landscape point to the growing uncertainty facing fundraising in the nonprofit sector. Compounding this uncertainty is the unfortunate ... -
Improving the Enabling Environments for Ecosystem-Based Coastal Restoration and Protection Through the Use of Ecological Modeling: Case Studies from the Mississippi River Delta and the Coastal Netherlands
(2016-12)The Coastal Netherlands and U.S. Mississippi River Delta in Coastal Louisiana share a unique feature: both areas are low-lying river deltas, threatened by some of the highest land subsidence and eustatic sea-level rise ... -
Improving Urban Transportation through the European Experience: The Case of Brasilia, Brazil
(Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, 2010-01-12) -
Incorporating land use into ecosystem based fisheries management: a case study using Alosines in non-tidal tributaries to the Bush River, Upper Chesapeake Bay
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Increasing Access to Affordable Housing by Expanding the Housing Choice Voucher Program
(2019-05)Providing decent and affordable housing for all Americans has been a major national policy area since the enactment of New Deal legislation in the 1930s and the formation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ... -
Increasing Effectiveness and Value within Research Administration: Prioritization and Enterprise Level Project Selection through a Lean Six Sigma Lens
(2020-12)Given the complexity in which research administration functions, process related inefficiencies, waste and defects are a familiar operational challenge. Lean Six Sigma provides a framework to deconstruct processes, identify ... -
Increasing the Oversight Role in the Usage of Public Funds in Kenya
(2016-04-29)The Corruption levels in Kenya are so pervasive, that the country’s president in 2016 referred to it as a national threat. From poor revenue recording, to unlawfully incurred expenditure and even funds that cannot be ... -
Increasing the Rates of Employment Among People with Disabilities in the United States
(2017-11)There is a problem of low absolute and relative employment rate among individuals with disabilities in the United States, with a secondary problem of the state vocational rehabilitation programs that are meant to help ... -
Independent Graduate Project in Environmental Sciences and Policy
(Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, 2011)