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More House Than They Could Afford: The Cumulative Civic Implications of Housing Markets and Policies
(2013-04-11)
Cold hard facts, statistics and data are woven with personal narratives from public housing tenants and former homeowners. Both the author and her research subjects present a historical and personally intimate framework ...
Utility Maximization Function and Optimum Wage-Investment Split in a Labor Managed Firm
(2013-01-29)
This paper presents a theoretical model showing how a labor managed firm (LMF) would determine the optimum trade-off between salary levels and investment decisions with the maximization of total utility of its workers as ...
The strays of Moscow: and other stories
(2013-05-01)
"We Hid Books in Bags of Sugar": South African Histories in Opposition
(2013-05-05)
In this thesis on teacher resistance to apartheid in South Africa, I argue that teaching against the prescribed curriculum constituted a form of subversion to the National Party-led government. Students, teachers and parents ...
Testing the occurrence of forward hyper-translocation during the promoter escape transition
(2013-05-01)
The macromolecular process of RNA transcription is composed of three
phases, initiation, elongation and termination. At many promoters, RNA
polymerase (RNAP) repetitively aborts short RNAs 2 to 15 nucleotides (nts) ...
The Effects of Different Reimbursement Policies on Physicians’ Decisions
(2013-05-05)
In the healthcare industry, physicians have advantages in collecting information about the revenue and the effectiveness of every prospective treatment. Moreover, physicians are reimbursed by three basic methods: base ...
Does Height Matter? The Effects of Take-off Elevation on Forelimb Movements during Jumping and Landing in Cane Toads
(2013-05-04)
Past research has shown the significance of the musculoskeletal system in enabling deceleration during certain actions, including landing from a step, hop or jump. For instance, in toads, landing forces increase with hop ...
Embodied communication: visually representing movement
(2013-05-01)
This thesis examines the kinetic energy of the human body and its artistic
response to materiality through an art making process. By examining my
movements through materiality, my sculptural work reveals a shared ...
Shattered epochs: a design of imagined realities
(2013-05-01)
This paper describes my senior thesis body of work, done in the Art Studio
Department. It defines the overall goal of my screenprints, through my
philosophies on time and space relationships. The paper also provides
background ...