Browsing ETD -- Doctoral Dissertations by Title
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Waging War: Filling the Gap in Just War Theory
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-07-10)1. Statement of the Problem. Just war theory’s account of jus in bello is deficient. Michael Walzer, the prime representative of the prevailing view in the United States, restricts jus in bello to combat, war-fighting, ... -
WAKE WORD DETECTION AND ITS APPLICATIONS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-07-13)Always-on spoken language interfaces, e.g. personal digital assistants, rely on a wake word to start processing spoken input. Novel methods are proposed to train a wake word detection system from partially labeled training ... -
Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism
(Johns Hopkins University, 2013-10-18)This dissertation examines the venerated status of certain practices in the history of American environmentalism, particularly wilderness walking, traditional farming, and the scientific field work of naturalists. These ... -
'Watch What We Do': The Politics and Possibilities of Black Women's Athletics, 1910-1970
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-01-26)“Watch What We Do”: The Politics and Possibilities of Black Women’s Athletics, 1910-1970 analyzes the ideological and institutional development of amateur and professional sports for black women in the United States before ... -
Wearable activity monitors for assessing outcomes in cancer clinical trials
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-07-27)Technology plays a significant role in improving outcome measurement and advancing healthcare across many disciplines. Recent technological advances in wearable devices, such as activity monitors, have created new opportunities ... -
Weather-Related Natural Hazards in a Changing Climate: Enhanced Understanding of Risk Through Systems Analysis
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-29)Weather-related natural hazards cause significant property damage and loss of life in the U.S. and globally. A better understanding of these risks can lead to more informed decision-making regarding risk management and ... -
Weyl formula for Schrödinger operators with critically singular potentials
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-06-02)We record the joint work done by the author and Christopher Sogge on generalizing the classical Weyl formulae to Schrödinger operators involving singular potentials. In a similar vein, we also record a subsequent work ... -
What do African Citizens of Different Income Levels think of Chinese Investment? 2015-2019 A study of three countries in Africa
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2022-01-06)This study focused on determining the relationship between occupation, education and perception on Chinese investment in Kenya, Senegal and Nigeria. It used a combination of qualitative and quantitative research to ... -
“What You Hide Also Hides You” Mental Health Screening, Risk Factors, and Service Use Among a Population of Somali Women in the US
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-01-02)i. Background Like other refugees, Somalis have increased mental health risk due to pre- and post-migratory trauma and stress. Additionally, researchers hypothesize that female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), a nearly ... -
What's in a Game? Examining Academic Achievement and Engagement Outcomes of Baltimore Urban Debate League Participants
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-03-29)The following dissertation research contributes to the understanding of whether participation in extracurricular debate influences the academic trajectories of urban youth and is organized as three separate but related ... -
What's Math Good For, What Can I Do With It, and Why Do I Even Care?
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-09-01)Understanding mathematics proficiency requires looking beyond what students are able to do (and even how what they can do relates to the classroom context) to consider how the classroom context gives meaning to the ways ... -
Whats cooking? A mixed methods analysis of cooking perceptions, practices and the implications for food policy
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-03-09)Substantial changes in the food system over the past century have dramatically altered the way Americans eat. As food preparation habits have shifted toward an emphasis on speed and convenience, Americans have come to rely ... -
When and Why Do Men Obey During a Civil War? A Study of Organizations Competing for Control in Afghan Communities
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-11-17)During civil wars, organizations compete to control the behavior of populations, to determine the goals their societies will pursue and how they will be governed. But, very little is known about why they succeed or ... -
When Bad Policy Is Good Politics: The Political Economy of Macroprudential Regulation
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-12-15)This dissertation examines the political economy of macroprudential policy through the lens of restrictions on foreign-currency borrowing. Governments have available a variety of tools with which to mitigate the effects ... -
Where Science Meets the Sea: Research Vessels and the Construction of Knowledge in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-27)This dissertation focuses on the ocean-going research vessel as the fundamental technology of marine scientific investigation by examining a series of ships from Great Britain, Monaco, Germany, and the United States, all ... -
Which Strings Attached? Toward an Ethics Framework for Selecting Conditionalities in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-07-31)Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) present a promising new strategy for promoting the uptake of healthy behaviors, particularly for populations that face economic obstacles to these practices. CCTs provide cash ... -
Whiteness on Credit: Migration, Race, and Social Capital in France and the Caribbean, 1763-1791
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-02-17)Historians of Old Regime Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution often use the term petits blancs as a catch-all for colonial whites excluded from the plantation-owning elite. The so-called petits blancs are characterized ... -
“WHO CAN I BE THE BEST PARENT TO?” AN ANALYSIS OF US RACE RELATIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-03-19)This research is a contemporary study of race relations in the United States (U.S.). The presence of international interracial adoptions reveals white Americans openness to crossing racial boundaries when forming their ... -
WHO DELIVERS? EXPLAINING LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS PROVISION IN MOZAMBIQUE AND SOUTH AFRICA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-04-24)The question motivating this dissertation is: what explains variation in service delivery levels across local government units in non-metropolitan areas of South Africa and Mozambique? To address this question, I used an ... -
WHOLE BLOOD ASSAY ANALYSIS OF IMMUNOSTIMULATORY CONSTITUENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICULATE MATTER
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-02-02)The respiratory system is continuously exposed to particulate matter (PM) through the inhalation of polluted air. The composition of this PM includes an array of hazardous constituents derived from anthropogenic (e.g. – ...