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Does Teacher Multicultural Training Matter? Evidence from the U.S. Scores on Pisa 2015
(2018-10)The racial and ethnic achievement gap in the USA ranges from about 3 to 5 years of schooling. Existing research about diversity in education has focused on studying the effect of matching students with teachers of the same ... -
Analysis of Solar Power as Single Source of Electricity for Middle East and North Africa Countries
(2018-04)The power sector is living a revolution. The cost of clean technologies is declining faster than expected and deployment targets are being achieved with relative easiness. However, as of today, to think of an entire renewable ... -
Evaluating the Usage of Museum Digitized Collections
(2017-12)Driven by perceived value, resources often are allocated to the digitization of museum collections. But what evidence supports this value? Calls for proof of digitized collections value may be met by data derived from a ... -
Leveraging Digital Content: How Institutions in Balboa Park are Balancing Accessibility and Monetizing their Digitized Collections
(2018-04)Museums have taken many different approaches in increasing revenue, including capitalizing on their digital assets. This paper analyzes how nine organizations in the Balboa Park museum complex in San Diego, California have ... -
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 ... -
Carbon Neutral Food Menu for Restaurants
(2018-04)An individual’s carbon footprint consists of all the greenhouse gases from the meals produced as they wind their way through the food system. Shrinking this individual carbon footprint can help improve environmental and ... -
Kelp Forests: Native Species Recovery
(2018-04)Kelp forest populations in Southern California have been in decline since the 1950s. Since these ecosystems serve important functions for coastal management as well as ecological health of the surrounding marine life, this ... -
Climate Action Beyond Government: How Business Can Drive Action Through Value Chain Based Goals and Cooperative Initiatives
(2018-04)The purpose of this research is to provide recommendations for improved corporate climate action strategies, based on trends in the successful setting and achievement of emissions reduction goals in the business sector of ... -
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas: Coal Plants vs. Marked Conditions
(2018-04)Coal-fired power plant retirements are important to understand as energy systems and energy markets evolve. Three base-load coal-fired power plants that were operational within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas ... -
The Utility's Transformation to a Smart City Platform Provider
(2018-05)The concept of Smart Cities is pervasive when contemplating emerging energy trends and opportunities. And increasingly, large cities and municipalities are moving forward with sustainability objectives which are decidedly ... -
Utility-Scale Fixed-Tilt PV vs. Single-Axis Tracker PV: Nems Projections to 2050
(2018-04)The main purpose of this National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) project was to investigate the cost and performance tradeoffs of utility-scale solar PV through modeling variations in fixed-tilt and single-axis tracker ... -
Evaluation of State Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Incentive Programs: What Drives Vehicle Uptake?
(2018-04)This objective of this paper was to identify common program components of state-level financial purchase incentives for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are most closely linked with “success,” which is determined by ... -
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 ... -
Do Millennials See Climate Change as More Than Just a Meme?
(2018-04)This paper compares the climate change public opinion of Millennials—born between the years 1981 and 2000—to those of other generations (Generation X, Baby Boomers, the Silent Generation). Recent social and political ... -
Electricity Transmission and the State Utility Commission Approcal Process- What's Taking So Long?
(2018-04)Electricity transmission lines connecting widely dispersed renewable energy resources and other electricity generators to load centers are a vital piece of the electric grid of the future. Building transmission infrastructure ... -
Can Climate Change Increase the Likelihood of State Fragility?
(2018-04)It was concluded that climate change can influence the fragility of a country. The existing academic literature has found that it can be as nuanced as the displacement of people due to drought, flooding, storms, forest ... -
"What Gets Measured Gets Done": A Solar Energy Project Analysis for Reforming the Public Land Project Approval Process
(2018-04)The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mandates federal agencies to consider any “significant” impact on the environment a major energy or infrastructure project will have on public lands before proceeding with ... -
Examining Uncertainty in Reserves Estimation for Oil and Natural Gas Wells Completed with Hydraulic Fracturing
(2018-04)The recent innovations in horizontal drilling technology, paired with hydraulic fracturing (HF), have opened up vast reserves of petroleum across the world, particularly the United States. This recent surge in oil and gas ... -
Progressive collapse triggered by fire induced column loss: Detrimental effect of thermal forces
In progressive collapse analysis, event-independent column loss is commonly used as a design scenario. Yet this scenario does not account for the fire-induced thermal forces that develop in case of a fire. The thermal ... -
Do Media Companies Drive Bias? Using Sentiment Analysis to Measure Media Bias in Newspaper Tweets
(2018-04)As natural language processing tools are advancing in their use to study corpuses, it is important to harness these tools to study media content for potential media bias. Existing studies have attempted to measure political ...