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Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction Using Artificial Neural Network
(2015)
Financial distress is a condition where a company has difficulty paying off its financial obligations to its creditors. Failing to relieve financial distress can lead to bankruptcy, which is very costly to the firm’s ...
A War of Freedoms: Addressing Modern American Rights Talk
(2015)
Modern American rights claims spring from a wide array of historical, legal, and metaphysical sources, but these different sources often lead to radically different ideas about which rights are most important. This confusion ...
Water, Power, and Gender: Interrogating Development in the Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
(2015-05)
Urban migratory trends represent one of the most significant challenges for modern international development. For, in the context of weak state capacity, urban migrants often funnel directly into slums—densely populated ...
The Effects of Vancomycin on the Structure of Cell Wall Peptidoglycan of vanB-type Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
(2015-03-30)
Enterococcus faecalis is a leading cause of nosocomial infections, and the clinical emergence of vancomycin-resistant E. faecalis (VRE) makes studying this bacterium increasingly urgent. This study investigates a vanB-type ...
Discovering Jyothi: How Changing the Way Disability Legislation is Enforced can Improve the Lives of Children with Disabilities in India
(2015)
By 2025 India will overtake China as the country with the largest population in the world. The World Bank in 2007 noted that the prevalence of disability in India could be as high as 80-‐90 million individuals by that ...
The Presentation of Mosquitocidal Protein Toxin for Delivery in Yeast-Based Stations
(2015)
Throughout history, humans have been plagued by vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever, malaria, and yellow fever. These particular diseases are spread by mosquitoes, and they cause severe losses to human growth and ...
Retrospective Analysis on Differential Effects of Treatment Strategy on Outcome and Survival on Malignant Glioblastoma Multiforme Patients
(2015-04-26)
Malignant glioblastoma multiforme, or glioma, is one of the most frequent central nervous system tumors in adults, with a dismal prognosis despite aggressive treatment. With median survival less than a year, a multimodal ...
Liberalism and Christianity
(2015-05)
What is the relationship between liberalism and Christianity? In this thesis, I analyze this question from both a historical and philosophical perspective. Historically, liberalism owes something to Christianity, as liberal ...
Assessing the Impact of a School Garden on the Attitudes of Children Towards Agriculture in Rural Western Kenya
(2015)
A school garden was established at the Bethlehem Home Academy by the Straw to Bread non-profit organization in rural western Kenya in 2012. This school serves very poor and often malnourished children from the Luo tribe ...
A Cross-sectional Study of the Relative Associations of Nutrition and Water Quality with Child Body Size in a Rural Kenyan Community
(2015-04-30)
An adequate, diverse, and nutritious diet is critical to early development. Due to a number of factors, however, access to quality food sources is limited for much of the developing world. This research study investigates ...