The bi-directional relationships within the personal and contextual environments of adolescents are critical to the development of adolescents and their transition into adulthood. Opportunities for youth to participate in and provide leadership in meaningful programs, gain life skills, and interact with adults in sustained relationships are key features leading to...
Many people around the world suffer from a mental illness, and too few receive the help they need. Mental illness is especially prevalent among the homeless. Homelessness is represented in all ages, ethnicities, and genders, and is especially represented among first world countries such as the United States and Spain....
This thesis uses a hedonic price model to estimate the value of water for irrigation in Deschutes County, Oregon. The analysis uses a dataset comprising information on 2,274 agricultural parcels across the County. Uniquely, the analysis successfully utilizes assessor-determined real market values in the place of actual land sales. A...
Diffusion processes in networks are common models for many domains, including species colonization, information/idea cascade, disease propagation and fire spreading. In diffusion networks, a diffusion event occurs when a behavior spreads from one node to the other following a probabilistic model, where the behavior could be species, an idea, a...
Purpose: This study attempted to identify skills needed in agriculture for rural youth in Honduras, and to develop an appropriate agricultural education curriculum at the Common Cycle of General Culture (lower Middle School level) of the current educational system. Methods and Procedures: Core competencies were identified by collecting information from...
A lack of data concerning tungsten-based medical shields, specifically unit dose transport pigs, may lead to unnecessary exposure to medical personnel. Available research comparing lead to sintered tungsten shows that tungsten is approximately 1.5 - 10.0 times more effective as a radiation shield. However, this research lacks high-energy vs. low-energy...
Rice has been an important integral part of the economy of
Thailand or centuries. Not only is rice the staple diet of the people
but it also provides the major part of export earnings as well. Since
economic development is stressed in Thailand, a demand study of
rice is appropriate,...
Power can be defined as the ability to influence the processes, decisions, and outcomes of an activity in favor of the will of a strong actor and its allies. Strategic actions in situations where there is asymmetric power can change the result of decisions. In this research, I will examine...
Most statistical surveys and data collection studies encounter missing data. A common solution to this problem is to discard observations with missing data while reporting the percentage of missing observations in different output tables. Imputation is a tool used to fill in the missing values. This dissertation introduces the missing...