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Manet-festations of Berthe Morisot as Femme Fatale
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Not Your Average Woman -Alphonse Mucha's Large Format Posters of Sarah Bernhardt
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Outside the Frame: Goddesses and Empty Space in the Work of Nancy Spero
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Governing climate engineering: A proposal for immediate governance of solar radiation management
No full textPublished in: Sustainability 2019, 11(14), 3954.Solar radiation management (SRM) technologies would reflect a small amount of incoming
solar radiation back into space before the radiation can warm the planet. Although SRM may emerge
as a useful component of a global response to climate change, there is also good reason for caution.
In June 2017, the Academic Working Group on Climate Engineering Governance released a policy
report, “Governing Solar Radiation Management”, which developed a set of objectives to govern SRM
in the near-term future: (1) keep mitigation and adaptation first; (2) thoroughly and transparently
evaluate risks, burdens, and benefits; (3) enable responsible knowledge creation; and (4) ensure robust
governance before any consideration of deployment. To advance the governance objectives identified
above, the working group developed twelve recommendations, grouped into three clusters: (1) create
politically legitimate deliberative bodies; (2) leverage existing institutions; and (3) make research
transparent and accountable. This communication discusses the rationale behind each cluster and
elaborates on a subset of the recommendations from each cluster
Stimulus control of cocaine self-administration
No full textPublished in: J Exp Anal Behav. 2003 Jan, 79(1), 111–135.Environmental stimuli that set the occasion wherein drugs are acquired can "trigger" drug-related behavior. Investigating the stimulus control of drug self-administration in laboratory animals should help us better understand this aspect of human drug abuse. Stimulus control of cocaine self-administration was generated here for the first time using multiple and chained schedules with short, frequently-alternating components--like those typically used to study food-maintained responding. The procedures and results are presented along with case histories to illustrate the strategies used to produce this stimulus control. All these multicomponent schedules contained variable-interval (VI) components as well as differential-reinforcement-of-other-behavior (DRO) or extinction components. Schedule parameters and unit dose were adjusted for each rat to produce stable, moderate rates in VI components, with minimal postreinforcement (infusion) pausing, and response cessation in extinction and DRO components. Whole-body drug levels on terminal baselines calculated retrospectively revealed that all rats maintained fairly stable drug levels (mean, 2.3 to 3.4 mg/kg) and molar rates of intake (approximately 6.0 mg/kg/hr). Within this range, no relation between local VI response rates and drug level was found. The stimulus control revealed in cumulative records was indistinguishable from that achieved with food under these schedules, suggesting that common mechanisms may underlie the control of cocaine- and food-maintained behavior
Emerging Consciousness: A Critical Examination of Approaches to Caravaggio's Decapitation Paintings
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
2019-06 Precautionary Savings and Shock-Coping Behaviors: The Effects of Promoting Mobile Bank Savings on Transactional Sex in Kenya
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2019-06. 62 pages.For the vulnerable, even small shocks can have significant short- and long-term impacts. Beneficial shock-coping mechanisms are not widely available in sub-Saharan Africa. We test whether individual precautionary savings can reduce a shock-coping behavior common in SSA that has negative spillovers: transactional sex. Among a set of vulnerable women, we randomly assigned an intervention that promoted savings in a mobile banking account labeled for goals and emergency expenses. We find that the intervention led to an increase in total mobile savings, reductions in transactional sex as a risk-coping response, and a decrease in symptoms of sexually transmitted infections. Changes are sustained in the medium-term
2009-06 Does the WTO Matter? A Non-parametric view
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2009-06. 12 pages.In this study, developing countries and least developed countries are put into two groups: those that
are members of the World Trade Organization and those that are not. The distribution of trade,
foreign direct investment, and patenting is compared between the two groups. In most cases, no
statistically significant differences in distribution could be found between members and non-
members of the WTO
2016-02 WHY HAS LABOR DEMAND GUARANTEED EMPLOYMENT?
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2016-02. 23 pages.Unemployment has almost always been traumatic for its victims. In earlier times, it
threatened extreme privation, if not starvation. Still today, it dramatically decreases its victims’
standard of living, human capital, social standing, and self-respect. It is associated with poorer
health, suicide, and family dissolution. Unemployment also entails considerable costs to society
such as lost output, increased crime, decayed neighborhoods, and when extreme, political unrest.
Why, then, is it tolerated? Why, especially, have workers and their advocates not demanded that
employment be guaranteed to all? This article explores why what has always been foremost to
workers’ interests – security of employment – has not remained one of labor’s foremost
demands. It finds that the reasons have been complex and varied over time, including degrading
work houses, workers’ focus on alternatives to capitalism, the fact that unemployment typically
is suffered by a small portion of the workforce, the local character of most worker demands, the
eventual provision of safety nets, and most importantly, the dominance of ideology that blames
workers for their unemployment or holds that full employment is impossible to attain