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Tintoretto's Revision Of Ovid's Metamorphoses
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Orientalist Paintings: Colonialism, Gender and Art
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Modelling the effects of weather and climate on malaria distributions in West Africa
No full textPublished in: Malaria Journal 2014, 13:126.Background: Malaria is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. There is currently conflicting data and
interpretation on how variability in climate factors affects the incidence of malaria. This study presents a hierarchical
Bayesian modelling framework for the analysis of malaria versus climate factors in West Africa.
Methods: The hierarchical Bayesian framework takes into account spatiotemporal dependencies, and in this paper
is applied to annual malaria and climate data from ten West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire,
Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo) during the period 1996-2006.
Results: Results show a statistically significant correspondence between malaria rates and the climate variables
considered. The two most important climate factors are found to be average annual temperature and total annual
precipitation, and they show negative association with malaria incidence.
Conclusions: This modelling framework provides a useful approach for studying the impact of climate variability
on the spread of malaria and may help to resolve some conflicting interpretations in the literature
Do 'soft law' board gender quotas work?: evidence from a natural experiment
No full textPublished in: European Management Journal, Volume 37, Issue 5, October 2019, Pages 611-624.In a new era of “open governance”, in which societal and corporate change is taking place, 15 predominantly European countries, including Spain, enacted board gender quotas to increase the share of women on boards. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of the European Union’s first “soft” quota – the 2007 Spanish Gender Equality Act recommending all large public and private Spanish firms to appoint a target of 40 percent of each gender to serve as board directors by 2015. The Act provides an incentive in that quota compliant firms may receive a preference for the tendering of public contracts. We draw on institutional and resource dependency theories to motivate the first empirical test of a “soft” quota which is distinct from Norway’s “hard law” board gender quota, and more similar to the proposed EU-wide quota. Using a large novel panel of 767 Spanish firms and 2786 firm-year observations from 2005 to 2014, we exploit the Spanish Act as a natural experiment and employ a difference-in-differences model. We find that less than nine percent of targeted firms fully comply with the quota. Firms that depend on public contracts are significantly more likely to increase female representation, although quota compliant firms do not actually benefit from the Act’s potential incentive. The results highlight the Spanish government’s lack of commitment to the quota, and that the quota’s normative obligations did not trigger the adoption of gender-balanced boards
Mondrian and Kandinsky: Two Responses to Theosophy
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Helen McNicoll's 'Pictures of Sunshine' and the Call for a Nationalist School of Painting in post-World War One Canada: A Case Study in the Gendering of Style
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Time in a Medieval Manuscript. Bringing Digital Tools to Bear in Historical Inquiry
No full textA presentation that was delivered in the Twelfth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2020
Exploring Information Silos at the Royal Anthropological Institute: Reviewing Information Architecture, Content, and Search Tool
No full textA poster that was presented in the Twelfth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2020
The Washington City Canal The Story of Greed, Corruption and Self Interest
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
A Woman's Statement: Gender Issues in Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait and Mature Oeuvre
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio