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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...