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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 ...
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 ...
Making design work: Sustainability, Product Design and Social Equity
(Kluwer, 2001)
This paper discusses the relationship between the product designer, sustainability and the creation of good quality work within the manufacturing sector. When the principles of sustainability are applied to the nature of ...
The Application Of Bio-inspiration To Human-centered Product Design
(WIT Press, 2014)
Biologically inspired design is an emerging practice based on the premise that nature holds a vast library of strategies, processes and technologies that can lead to innovative, sustainable solutions to human problems. ...
The De Mestral Project: Using Macro Photo-journaling To Stimulate Interest In Bio-inspired Design And Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics Disciplines
(WIT Press, 2017)
Bio-inspired design (BID) and its many variants (biomimetics, biomimicry etc.) continues to be a promising innovation methodology in which practitioners from industry and academia search nature’s evolutionary diversity for ...
In-State Tuition Policies for Undocumented Youth
(Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 2010)
This paper is an investigation into why U.S. states have enacted, banned, or continued with the status quo regarding in-state tuition policies for unauthorized youth. Using data from multiple government and nonprofit ...
The Impact of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Access to Accommodations in Postsecondary Education
(Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, 2015)
In this paper, the author argues that even though individuals who grew up in poverty may experience more severe impairment associated with the behavioral characteristics of autism, they are less likely to receive a psychiatric ...
Inequality: Underrepresentation of African American Males in U.S. Higher Education
(Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2015-08-01)
Although the percentage of Blacks earning college degrees has nearly doubled over the past 20 years, Blacks earn only 10% of college degrees, 12% of graduate degrees, and 7% of doctoral degrees (U.S. Census Bureau, 2013). ...
Undocumented Students in Higher Education: A Case Study Exploring Street-Level Bureaucracy in Academic Advising
(Virginia Commonwealth University, 2017)
Academic advisors are uniquely positioned to support the persistence and graduation of students, especially undocumented students. Therefore, this research examined perspectives and behaviors of advisors concerning their ...
Beyond Higher Education: The Need for African Americans to Be "Knowledge Producers"
(The Modern American, 2005)
Despite the relative triumphs towards equality in education, the search for culprits who promulgate standards of inequality is not difficult to ascertain. Aside from the deluge of litigation mounting challenges to the ...