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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Trade-Off Between Outreach and Efficiency in Microfinance Institutions
(2015)
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) aim to increase the standard of living in poor communities through small-scale lending. Because many people lack collateral in these impoverished areas, obtaining loans from banks is difficult ...
The Family Resiliency Index: Examining a New Measure of Family Resiliency and its Relationship with Child Outcomes After Stress
(2015-05)
Family resiliency is the extent to which the relationships between family members has adaptive characteristics that facilitate an individual’s, dyad’s, or system’s ability to cope with stressful life situations. Current ...
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 ...
Using Paleosols to Reconstruct the Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate of a Late Pleistocene Archaeological Site in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
(2015)
Since its formation >400,000 years ago Lake Victoria has expanded and
contracted in response to climate change, but little data are available prior to the
Last Glacial Maximum during an important interval in human evolution ...
Translating Tolkien: "The Lord of the Rings" Films as an Imitation, Interpretation, and Emulation of Tolkien's Work
(2015)
Often, film adaptations of literature are glibly dismissed as being subpar to the book on which they were based. Movies and books, however, are inherently different forms of media. Utilizing terms found in the old but ...