Browsing Faculty Works, School of Public and International Affairs by Title
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Recognizing and Confronting State Subjectivity in Asylum Adjudications
(York University, 2015)United States law charges America’s asylum officers with providing humanitarian protection for refugees while simultaneously securing the nation from external threats. This mandate requires that asylum officers balance ... -
Rooting Out Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: The Politics of House Committee Investigations, 1947 to 2004
(2013-01-01)Scholars have long bemoaned congressional disinterest in oversight. We explain varied congressional attention tooversight by advancing the contingent oversight theory. We show how the structure of congressional committees,partisan ... -
Testing the Use of Crowdsourced Information: Case Study of Bike-Share Infrastructure Planning in Cincinnati, Ohio
(Cogitatio Press, 2017-09-20)Considering the power of web-based tools for crowdsourcing, planning organizations are increasingly using these technologies to gather ideas and preferences from the public. These technologies often generate substantial, ... -
To zone or not to zone? Comparing European and American Land-use Regulation
(PNDonline II, 2010)This paper compares German and American approaches to land-use regulation. Conclusions are derived from a review of regulatory documents and expert interviews conducted in the German city of Stuttgart. The analysis shows ... -
Transdisciplinary Knowledge Producing Teams: Toward a Complex Systems Perspective
(Informing Science Institute, 2018-06-30)Aim/Purpose Transdisciplinarity is considered as a framework for understanding knowledge producing teams (KPTs). Features of transdisciplinary knowledge producing teams (TDKPTs) are provided using a complex adaptive systems ... -
A ubiquitous method for street scale spatial data collection and analysis in challenging urban environments: mapping health risks using spatial video in Haiti
(2013-04-15)Background Fine-scale and longitudinal geospatial analysis of health risks in challenging urban areas is often limited by the lack of other spatial layers even if case data are available. Underlying population counts, ... -
Universal Basic Income and Inclusive Capitalism: Consequences for Sustainability
(MDPI, 2019-08-19)Over the past forty years, income growth for the middle and lower classes has stagnated, while the economy (and with it, economic inequality) has grown significantly. Early automation, the decline of labor unions, changes ... -
Using Climate Forecasts across a State’s Emergency Management Network
(Asce, 2016-04-19)This paper examines the application by emergency managers in rural areas of forecasts of El Niño and other seasonal climate events to (1) improve the understanding of how diffuse networks can help overcome the obstacles ... -
Validation of high throughput sequencing and microbial forensics applications
(2014-07-30)High throughput sequencing (HTS) generates large amounts of high quality sequence data for microbial genomics. The value of HTS for microbial forensics is the speed at which evidence can be collected and the power to ... -
Virginia Tech Food Access and Security Study
(Virginia Tech, 2019-10-30)There is growing evidence to suggest that a substantial number of college and university students in the United States grapple with food insecurity during their studies. One of the most comprehensive surveys on this issue ... -
Who Will Benefit from ESOPs?
(Cornell University ILR School, 1985)[Excerpt] In the past decade, the number of worker-owned firms or ESOPs (Employee Stock Ownership Plans) has been growing geometrically. The national law granting tax incentives to ESOPs was passed in 1975, and since then ...
