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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 ... -
"Misiones": Social Programs of the Bolivarian Revolutionary Government of Venezuela as a Development Model for Alleviating Poverty
Hugo Chavez's social programs, including education, land reform, and other projects more commonly referred to as “misiones”, are some of the most progressive aspects of his government. . . . Not only do the misiones provide ... -
The Missing Gender Frame: The Unspoken Tension Around Sexual Violence Crimes in The International Criminal Justice System
In the subsequent pages, I will explore the phenomenon of sexual and gendered violence during war. When I began this venture, I set out to answer the question, "What is it about sexual violence crimes that makes them ... -
Missing Mom: The (Re-)Assessment of Gender and Motherhood in Richard Wright's Black Boy, Toni Morrison's Sula and Jazz, and Audre Lorde's Zami
This paper will examine the dynamics of mother-child relationships within African American literature and the ways in which children internalize socially constructed gender roles within not just a male-dominated society, ... -
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Utility and the Just Allocation of Health Care Resources
The current American health care system is plagued by three main factors: out of control spending, allocation inequalities and profound scarcity. For example, the United States spend above 14% of its GDP on health care as ... -
The Misuse of Altruism: An Ethical Analysis of Volunteer Tourism
In the following paper, I have limited my study to a theoretical and ethical analysis of the volunteer tourist business model. The aim of the paper is to study the effectiveness of the volunteer tourist industry against ... -
Mitigating the Rural Brain Drain: A Redesign of Dual Enrollment
Students in rural high schools are routinely underperforming when compared to urban and suburban students. Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to simultaneously earn postsecondary credit, has been ... -
Mnesthe Across the Mediterranean (thesis)
Dura has preserved-and archaeology has unearthed-the largest concentration of mnesthe graffiti, a simple yet distinctive type of inscription found throughout the ancient Mediterranean. . . . Since more than 45% of the ...