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Leveraging Parameter and Resource Naming Conventions to Improve Test Suite Adherence to Persistent State Conditions (thesis)
With the prevalence of web applications increasing daily in various aspects of modern life, the need for cost-effective, efficient, and thorough web application testing is now greater than ever. One approach to web application ... -
Lexical Disambiguation in Machine Translation with Latent Semantic Analysis
This paper examines a possible solution to the problem of disambiguating polysemous nouns in machine translation. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) , a statistical method of finding and representing word sense, is used to ... -
The Liberation of Sex: Liberation Theology as Defense for FBO-Distributed Comprehensive Sex Education and Contraceptives in Honduras
Poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is highly correlated with poverty and is a form of social injustice. As one of the poorest countries in the world, Honduras particularly struggles with promoting SRH among its ... -
Life and the Ruins: Exploring New Archeological Interpretations of Megalithic Monuments as Places of Life and Death in the British and Irish Neolithic Age (thesis)
In this paper, I examine four stone monuments in Britain and Ireland: Stonehenge in Wessex, England, Avebury in Wessex, England, Maes Howe in Orkney, Scotland, and Newgrange, in County Meath, Ireland. Stonehenge and Avebury ... -
Linear Algebraic Methods in Data Science and Neural Networks (thesis)
This thesis is about some of the methods and concepts of linear algebra that are particularly helpful for data analysis. After a brief review of some linear algebra concepts in chapter 1, the second chapter of the thesis ... -
The Lines That Define Us: Racial Residential Segregation and Health Disparities for African Americans
This capstone explored the mechanisms underlying the relationship between racial residential segregation and health disparities for African Americans. This relationship was examined through the analysis of how racial ... -
Linguistic Perspectives on HIV/AIDS Metaphors and Discourses in America
There is no doubt that aspirations to change the way people talk or even think about a subject come with a set of challenges and questions related to feasibility of implementation. This paper is by no means designed to ... -
Linking Poverty to Health Outcomes: Alcohol Abuse in Chronically Poor Rural Areas
In this paper, I will examine the impact of alcohol abuse among the poor in rural areas, using personal experiences from a summer in Phillips County, Arkansas as an illustrative case for how society should view the effects ... -
A Literary Approach to the Philosophy of Philanthropy
This capstone is a philosophical and literary exploration of the motivations behind philanthropy in the context of Robert Goodin's philosophy on the matter. It is not intended as an empirical rejection of the institution; ... -
Living with the Mess: The Tyranny of Philosophy and Democratic Chaos (thesis)
The human experience and democratic politics are characterized by an inevitable and inherent mess that is impossible to completely or finally resolve. Yet we think such a thing is possible and attempt to achieve this through ... -
A Local Habitation and a Name: C. S. Lewis and the Language of Christian Apologetics
C.S. Lewis is a source of intrigue for many twentieth century readers. His audience consists of Christian lay-persons, students of English literature, scholars, clergy, and others. For many of us, C.S. Lewis' popularity ... -
Local Law Enforcement within a Collapsing Mental Health System: A Qualitative Analysis on Crisis Intervention Team Programs in Virginia (thesis)
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model is a globally recognized and implemented jail diversion program that improves local law enforcement response to individuals with mental illness or substance use disorder (MISUD). ... -
"Look what I can do!" : Ameliorating the Effects of Poverty with Preschool Education
Previous studies have documented the positive effects of early education in highrisk children. A screening measure was created to determine if there were any significant differences between the performance of scholarship ... -
Looking to the Developing World for Anti-Poverty Strategies: The Conditional Cash Transfer Plan in New York City
Mayor Bloomberg's decision to appropriate an anti-poverty strategy from the developing world demonstrates his administration's clear determination to attack the dual problems of youth disconnection and poverty in an ... -
Looking Toward Food Sovereignty: Assessing the Roadblocks to Reintroducing Traditional Agriculture to the Tohono O'odham Food System
"In a very real sense, the destruction of the traditional food system is killing the Tohono O'odham" (Fazzino 2008). Among a tribe of Native Americans living in southern Arizona, a public health crisis has been unfolding ... -
Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Art Nouveau Lamps
This paper will address the life of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the context of two products made at his glass studio on Corona Island, New York, around 1900: the Hanging-head Dragonfly lamp, and the Spider-web lamp. First, a ... -
Louis Marshall, M. D.: His Administration as President of Washington College
Louis Marshall was not a great educator, and probably deserved his obscurity. As an unrepentant individualist he is an interesting study. As a representative of personalized education, which was becoming unfashionable in ... -
Low Income Women and Barriers to Breastfeeding
This paper explores why breastfeeding is such an important issue for disadvantaged women, the actions that should be taken to encourage low-income mothers to breastfeed, and how to support and protect the mothers who do ... -
Low-Cost Techniques for Assessing the Quality of Drinking Water from Biosand Filters (thesis)
Over 4 million people worldwide are estimated to benefit from the biosand filter (BSF), an inexpensive point-of-use (POU) water treatment technology designed to remove turbidity, bacterial contamination, and parasites. The ... -
Low-Income Autistic Children in the Pediatric Hospital: Best Care Practices to Enhance Capabilities
The current research study utilizes a novel approach to disability rights, the Capabilities Approach to Disability, to formulate a moral argument for implementation of best care practices catered toward low-income children ...