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10 Years of Cap and Trade: A Comprehensive Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
(2018-04)The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was the first greenhouse gas-focused cap-and-trade program in the United States. Encompassing nine states in the northeast region of the country, the program covers carbon dioxide ... -
Abortion in the United States - Protecting and Expanding Access
(2019-12)Access to abortion in the United States is becoming increasingly determined by the state legislatures. Restrictive abortion laws at the state level that impose onerous requirements on providers and restrict women and girls’ ... -
Academic-Corporate Relations at a Research University: Options for Engagement Practices and Organization
(2017)Universities engage with corporations to pursue their missions in research, teaching, and public service. In recent years, corporations have evolved their expectations for university relations from primarily philanthropic ... -
Adaptive Renewables: Energy at the Mitigation-Adaptation Nexus
(2020-12)As the clean energy transition accelerates, the challenges of climate impacts are being seen worldwide. Because energy is a leading source of carbon emissions, renewable power production offers a tremendous opportunity ... -
Adaptive Reuse of the National Housing Act: Conversions of Commercial Properties to Multifamily Residences
(2020-12)The lack of affordable housing has been a problem in the United States back to the 19th century. However, the gap between median home price versus median household income widened substantially in the period from 1975 to ... -
Addressing Poverty Through Technical Training
(2019-12)In the United States, the Millennial Generation has experienced economic instability and struggled to obtain financial security. An analysis of the current situation revealed that this generation has struggled to find ... -
Addressing Russia's Energy Dominance in Europe
(2020-05)Russia is one of the largest producers of energy in the world, especially when it comes to the production of natural gas. Because of its close proximity to Europe, it has always been a reliable supplier of natural gas and ... -
Addressing the Increase of Gun Violence Related Deaths in the United States and How to Reduce Them
(2021-05)Several Americans lose their lives to gun violence every year. Gun-violence-related death rates have been increasing annually. In 2020, gun violence deaths significantly increased due to the insecurities surrounding the ... -
Addressing the Medicare Appeals Backlog
(2017)When a Medicare provider is denied payment for a Medicare claim, the provider can appeal the decision to a five-level appeals system. However, the backlog of appeals at the third level of appeal is so large that statutory ... -
Addressing the State of Ohio's Medicaid Eligibility Error Rates through Blockchain Technology
(2021-05)The State of Ohio’s (State’s) Medicaid program serves more than 3.1 million Ohioans. Despite more than a billion dollars in technology investments, the State eligibility determination processes continue to incorrectly ... -
Addressing Unequal Funding Practices in the United States Public Education System
(2019-05)There are large disparities in public education funding among states and within states. These disparities are caused by a lack of equitable funding formulas, no alignment or accountability for funding formulas used by ... -
Affordable Housing in Washington, DC: The Impact of Short-Term Rentals and Possible Solutions
(2017-11)On January 21, 2017, Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, Ward 5, introduced B22-0092, a bill to impose new regulations on short-terming housing rentals—i.e. Airbnb and others—in order to protect affordable housing supply in the ... -
Affordable, High-Quality Child Care for All
(2016-04-29)The first years of a child’s life are a vital period of rapid cognitive, social and emotional development. For working families, high quality early child care is a necessity that provides young children with support that ... -
Algorithmic Discrimination in the U.S. Justice System: A Quantitative Assessment of Racial and Gender Bias Encoded in the Data Analytics Model of the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)
(2017-04)The fourth-generation risk-need assessment instruments such as Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) have opened the opportunities for the use of big data analytics to assist judicial ... -
Amendment of Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution
(2016-04-20)China has suffered severe haze problem since 2013. The study shows that about 350,000 to 500,000 Chinese people die prematurely due to haze weather each year. 4,400 people are killed by haze weather every day and 1,600,000 ... -
American Trust: Confidence in the Ability of the United States Government to Successfully Respond to Acts of Cyberterrorism
(2018-04)Determining the impact of cyberterrorism – a relatively recent construct – on individuals’ trust in the United States government is an area of study lacking longitudinal research. Existing studies provide only topical ... -
Analysis and Comparison of the Scope, Impacts, and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change as Major Crises in the United States
(2020-12)The COVID-19 pandemic has become the global crisis of 2020 and the focal point of much public attention. Climate change is the ongoing crisis of the industrial and post-industrial ages. The United States and the rest of ... -
An Analysis of Academic Research Administration Central Office Structures
(2017-12)The purpose of this Capstone Project was to assess academic research office structures. A descriptive and qualitative research method was used in the process of conducting a literature review and the analysis of survey ... -
Analysis of Asymmetric Interactions between Nonnative Brown Trout, Salmo trutta, and Native Brook Char, Salvenlinus fontinalis, as a Mechanism of Habitat Fragmentation in the Gunpowder River Watershed of Central Maryland
(2018-12)Brook char, Salvelinus fontinalis, is the only salmonid that is native to the Mid-Atlantic and South Eastern United States. Within the state of Maryland, it is estimated that brook char have been expatriated from over 60% ... -
An Analysis of D.C. Statehood and S. 51: Navigating Pathways for Achieving Autonomy, Equity, and Representation for D.C. Residents
(2021-05)D.C. residents contribute significantly to the American economy, maintain the same civic responsibilities that other American citizens have, and outnumber residents in states with votes in both the Senate and the House of ...