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A Method of Estimating by Infrared Spectroscopy the Relative Abundance of Polymeric Components in Complex Polymer Blends
In this Honors Thesis, I describe a method created by Profesor Van Ness and myself which effectively differentiates regions of unique polymer composition within comingled products. My goals are two fold. First, in order ... -
Methods of Place Portrayal in the Music of Charles E. Ives (thesis)
An exploration of several musical techniques employed by Charles Ives in his compositional portrayals dedicated to American locations. Chapter 1: ”Remembrance” and The Pond, Chapter 2: Scherzo: Over the Pavements, ... -
Mexican Agrarian Reform and the United States
Fifty years of agrarian reform has brought many changes to Mexico, but it has by no means solved all her problems. The land was divided and given to the peon. This attack on the latifundia, the large land holding, was ... -
Microarray Analysis of Nonfunctional Ribosomal RNA Decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (thesis)
Nonfunctional ribosomal RNA decay (NRD) is a eukaryotic degradation pathway that targets and eliminates structurally intact but functionally defective ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs). Two separate NRD pathways for 18S and 25S rRNA ... -
Microcredit in the Developed World: Can Microcredit Serve as an Effective Tool of Poverty Alleviation in the United States?
This paper investigates the following topics: An overview of microcredit and microfinance as tools of poverty alleviation -- The impact and execution of microcredit in the less developed world -- The impact and execution ... -
Microentrepreneurs, Microfinance, and Business Training: Cases from Chile
This project will be focusing specifically about the case of Chile and the various organizations aimed to assist entrepreneurs. I aim to use the data and theories of microfinance and small business development to evaluate ... -
Microfacies of the Middle Ordovician New Market limestone in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Two� sections were measured and their microfacies defined macroscopically at two locations in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Nineteen microfacies are defined on the basis of detailed petrographic study of one section. Most ... -
Microfinance in Rural Ghana
This paper will explore microfinance in rural Ghana. First, it will begin with an overview of Ghana's overall approach to poverty reduction followed by an overview of the current poverty situation in Ghana. The next section ... -
Microfinance in the Rockbridge Area? An Exploration of Microfinance's Potential to Fight Poverty in the Washington and Lee Community
Whether or not microfinance could efficiently help the poor of the Rockbridge Area is a complex question that begins with the poor. My paper explores the facet of poor citizens from the perspective of laborers. Not all the ... -
Microstructural and Lattice-Preferred Orientation Analyses of Ductile Shear Zones: Maggia Nappe, Switzerland
Microstructures of 24 samples and quartz lattice-preferred orientations (LPO) of 13 samples from the crystalline Maggia Nappe, Switzerland were measured in order to assess the deformation history, mechanisms, and conditions ... -
Migration and Poverty in the Post-Communist Countries of Europe and Central Asia
Although most research studying the effects of migration on poverty tend to focus on Latin American and Asian emigration, I focus my study entirely on emigration from post-communist countries. Most studies also tend to ... -
The Millennium Development Goals: Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Afghanistan
. . . While the UN claims that the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have been the most successful anti-poverty push in the history, I argue that MDG did not achieve its stated goals, it also did not set effective goals ... -
Mindfulness Intervention in Education: Can We Address Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Deficits of Children in Poverty at School?
This paper investigates the emerging field of mindfulness-based stress reduction for children, examining current programs to assess potential integration into schools serving children from low socioeconomic status families. ... -
The Minimum Wage and Justice
Examining the moral status of the minimum wage and determining whether it is just or unjust should be the foremost issue among individuals concerned with justice. Deontological theories need not endorse the conception of ... -
Misdemeanors, Crime, and Police: Broken Windows and America's Poor
This paper studies broken windows policing theory and its impact on the poor. Broken windows policing, through the collateral consequences of its arrests and convictions, further marginalizes an already marginalized poor ... -
Mise en abyme chez Albert Camus; Narcissisme et Intersexualité dans l'Etranger, La Peste, et La Chute (thesis)
Though one of the most prolifically analysed writers of the 20th century, Albert Camus' fiction is not only remarkably limited in length, but also has also rarely been criticized from a metafictional perspective. Between ...