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Count MENA: Clarifying the Impact of U.S. Hate Crimes on the Middle Eastern & North African Community
(2021-12)Frequent racial, ethnic, and/or religious miscategorization of Arabs, Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA), Muslims, and Sikhs has downstream impacts in general census reporting and hate crime statistics, among other ... -
Rodnovery and the Russian Language: Linking Ancient Religion with the Evolution of East Slavic Languages
(2021-05)The origin, formation, and evolution of language has been an ongoing topic since the beginning of linguistics itself. This research aims to demonstrate and explain the relationship between the Slavic Native Faith, Rodnovery, ... -
How Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Far-Right Populist Sentiment in the United States: An Empirical Analysis
(2021-05)Current literature identifies wide-ranging predictors for populist and conspiratorial sentiment like nativism, economic inequality, social isolation, and other mental health issues. This paper presents an empirical analysis ... -
A Study of Recreational Boating Public Interventions, Regulations and Accidents Utilizing Federal and State Data
(2020-05)Existing research on public regulation for recreational boating focuses on the use of personal flotation devices or drunkenness while boating. This study takes a different approach by evaluating a combination of public ... -
Measuring Chronic Food Insecurity with Food Bank User Data: Implications for Gender Disparities in Chronic Health
(2020-12)Food insecurity is a key social determinant of health and an important risk factor in numerous health conditions. Evidence indicates that food insecurity impacts men and women differently with women experiencing higher ... -
The Cause of Economic Freedom - A Model of Prosperity
(2020-08)Economic freedom in the form of open markets and minimal government intervention has been demonstrated in numerous studies to be the most effective approach for achieving wealth and prosperity around the world. This paper ... -
The Great Chasm: China's Defense Strategy and United States Public Opinion
(2020-08)China represents one of the most pressing modern threats to the United States’ national security. This threat is best characterized by the opacity of China’s defense strategy, increasing uncertainty surrounding its intentions. ... -
The Surprising Interactive Effect of Race and High Poverty on Food Insecurity
(2020-08)Existing research has identified multiple factors contributing to food insecurity in the United States – notably, among others, race and poverty. However, it is unknown how these factors interact to create variations in ... -
Does Healthcare Availability Impact the Veteran Suicide Rate?
(2020-05)Past research on a recent veteran suicide spike phenomenon has focused on Post-9/11 combat veterans suffering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. This ... -
Climate Change Policy Adoption in US States: A Cluster Analysis
(2020-05)While the United States steps back from taking action on climate change at the federal level, many are looking to the states for leadership. Existing literature examining enactment of climate legislation in the United ... -
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 ... -
Managing For Results: How Higher Municipal Credit Ratings Increase Data Driven Management in Cities
(2020-05)Data driven management is a powerful tool to help cities better address the needs of their residents. The current study examines the relationship between cities use of data as a management tool and municipal credit ratings, ... -
Opioid Industry Meal Payments and Associated Physician Prescibing
(2018-12)An extensive literature demonstrates a relationship between promotional activity towards physicians from drug manufacturers and subsequent prescribing of marketed products. A similar association has been demonstrated in ... -
Compact Growth and Smart City Development: The Unsustainability of Urban Sprawl
(2019-12)As cities become more populated, are municipal governments struggling to manage the influx of demand in the realm of power usage and city resources regarding critical infrastructure and energy management? Contemporary ... -
Child Pornography Crimes as Reported to Law Enforcement Agencies
(2019-12)Past studies have shown that child pornography is associated with multiple, violent offenses. This article presents a current picture of child pornography incidents as reported to law enforcement agencies. The analysis ... -
Quantifying Preventive Maintenance Efficacy: A Baltimore City Use Case
(2019-04)Existing preventive maintenance efficacy research heavily focuses on quantifying system degradation in deterministic, probabilistic, and policy-based models, yet in a data centric age they inadequately address data ... -
Smoke and Mirrors: The Unintended Public Safety Effects of Marijuana Legalization
(2019-08)Existing research on the indirect societal impacts of marijuana legalization is piecemeal and tends to under-emphasize the strains placed on the public safety apparatus as a result of increased access and availability to ... -
Equivalency Analysis of State-Level Air Pollution Emissions Estimates from an Integrated Assessment Model: GCAM-USA
(2019-08)The use of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) has expanded from their primary application, global climate assessment, to examine broader environmental trends such as air pollution emissions, including those at sub-national ... -
Uncertain Development: Chicago's Economic Incentives Slowly Decrease Homicides
(2019-08)Chicago’s homicide rates remain elevated, with many interventions focused on improving neighborhood conditions. This research examines economic causes from the social disorganization theory model, which posits that a ... -
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 ...
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