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Breastfeeding and Socioeconomic Status An Analysis of Breastfeeding Rates Among Low-SES Mothers
This paper focuses on the implications of the previous data for low-income women and their infants. It provides an overview of the science behind breastfeeding—including the physical and psychological benefits for both ... -
BreezySLAM: A Simple, Efficient, Cross-platform Python Package for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (thesis)
BreezySLAM is a simple, efficient, multiplatform, open-source Python library for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. By using Python C extensions to wrap existing implementations of existing SLAM algorithms, BreezySLAM ... -
Bridging the Gap Between Family and School: After-School Programs for At-Risk Youth
Although the potential benefits of expanded after-school programming should be offered to all children, the focus of this paper will be exclusively on low-income, minority students -- those that face significant structural ... -
A Brighter, Healthier Future for SNAP: How Benefit Restrictions and Administrative Change Can Ensure a more Effective SNAP
SNAP is the largest and most important food program in the Federal Safety Net. Unfortunately, it does not currently meet its dual mandate of reducing food insecurity and improving nutritional outcomes. While it does reduce ... -
Broken Art: The Impact of Nazi Cultural Policy on Art
Every element of the Nazi Third Reich focused on collective strategy and conformity. Hitler reorganized the military, the government, and culture itself to create his new vision of a unified Germanic people. . . . As a ... -
The Broken Trust Doctrine
Most Americans are unaware of the pattern of injustices that the United States government has committed against Native Americans. Native Americans are among some of the poorest in America. The United States Civil Rights ... -
Bugs and Bacteria: A Survey of Water Quality and Ecosystem Health in Rockbridge County (thesis)
The Maury River and its tributaries comprise an understudied system within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed that is affected heavily by human disturbance. Water and sediment nitrate and E. coli concentrations were used in ... -
Building an Ethos of Killing: Comparing and Contrasting the World War II Combat Motivations of German soldiers on the Eastern Front and American Soldiers in the Pacific (thesis)
On the American side, it is traditional to view World War II as a righteous war fought by soldiers inspired by freedom and democracy, as Adams succinctly defines this view in The Best War Ever. However, this conception of ... -
Business Development and the Revitalization of Underdeveloped Local Economies
Predictable historical patterns have allowed poverty and associated social problems to dominate many economically underdeveloped communities. Intervening with prevailing free-market forces can help to reverse the cycle ... -
"...but what to do with the guilt?" Kantian Autonomy, Heideggerian Authenticity, and Human Lacking
Kantian autonomy and Heideggerian authenticity each have a place in a human life. To show this I must show how the two complement each other and how they differ. To show that authenticity does not conflict with autonomy, ...