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631	How News Media Influences Readers’ Attitudes Toward the United States: A case study of Global Times and People’s Daily reporting Kursinskis, Jacob Andrew 20 December 2018 (has links) No description available. Asian Studies International Relations Global Times Peoples Daily News media Attitudes toward the United States US-China Relations
632	Nominace soudců Nejvyššího soudu USA jako prvek systému brzd a rovnovah / Nomination of the US Supreme Court Justices as a part of the system of checks and balances Bielawski, Adam January 2021 (has links) The topic of this thesis is nomination of justices of the Supreme Court, the highest federal court in the United States. The Constitution gives the power to appoint new federal justices to the president, with "advice and consent" of the Senate. This clause is based on one of the primary constitutional principles used in the United States - the system of checks and balances. The first part describes the general aspects of all nominations, from court vacancies to the final vote on Senate floor. The primary roles of the president and the Senate are defined. Focus is also set on the evolution of the nomination process throughout the history, as well as the criteria for selecting new justices, who shape the constitutional development of one of the oldest functioning democracies. The structure of the first part is then applied for a description of the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump in 2018. The course of this nomination was strongly affected by sexual assault accusations against the nominee and fierce partisan battles that resulted in the closest confirmation vote in history. The final part applies quantitative research methods to discover the influence of partisan difference between the president and the Senate majority on the...
633	THE FDA’S 510(k) APPROVAL PROCESS AND THE SAFETY OF MEDICAL DEVICES Collins, Anne Whitney January 2023 (has links) Innovation fuels American business. Commonly, innovation is judged as good. Yet, many of the new medical devices that come on the U.S. market every year are later deemed unsafe. Regulation is distorted in that 98% of medical devices are never evaluated in human trials before being introduced to the marketplace. Instead, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a new medical device through a designated 501(k) process, based upon the identification of a predicate or substantially equivalent (SE) device. This is an investigation of the tension between product innovation, government regulation, and public safety in the American healthcare industry. It is a research project in two parts. The first draws upon established methodologies and utilizes the FDA’s 501(k) database to provide an illustrated example of the sequence and dependency between generations of implanted surgical mesh devices. The analysis reveals that the 501(k) approval process reliance on predicate devices facilitates medical device innovation that is problematic in several aspects, including patient safety. To further examine medical device innovation and patient safety, the second study develops a proof-of-concept exercise to evaluate data on recorded adverse events (AEs) found in the FDA’s Total Product Lifecyle (TPLC) database for surgical mesh products. The adverse events were mapped to the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine’s (AAAM’s) Abbreviate Injury Scale (AIS), following precedents found in the medico-legal literature and military injury biomechanics standards. This approach forges a path forward to determine the relative frequency and severity of adverse events of a specific medical device, compared to that of the overall FDA product category. These two research projects combine to contribute to the understanding of safety of the FDA’s approval process and by extension the medical device industry’s innovation practices. / Business Administration/Accounting Business administration Health care management Innovation Medical device industry Patient safety Regulation US Food & Drug Administration
634	Escalation in Eastern Europe : An Analysis of the Variables That Led to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Bugys, Paulius January 2023 (has links) This essay aims to find a link between NATO policy in Europe from 2014-2022 to Russia’sdecision to invade Ukraine in February 2022. A process tracing methodology is used in conjunction with an offensive realist framework to demonstrate NATO’s role in influencing Russian defense policy. The investigation finds US global hegemony dictates NATOambitions, leading the Alliance to adopt aggressive policy in Eastern Europe. In turn, Russia identifies NATO as a threat in its military doctrine and proceeds to strengthen its defensive capabilities. Putin outlines Russia’s need for a buffer zone between it and NATO, a prime target for such a place being Ukraine. A failure by both parties to accommodate each others interests leaves Russia with a convincing rationale to seek military force in securing a more favorable defensive position. NATO US Russia Offensive Realism Balance of Power Military War Process Tracing Mearsheimer Foreign Policy. Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap
635	Miljödrivet berättande och karaktärsperspektiv : En komparativ analys av The Last of Us Part I och Part II / Environmental storytelling and character perspective : A comparative analysis of The Last of US Part I and Part II Parneryd Lundberg, Rebecca January 2023 (has links) Denna analys jämför det miljödrivna berättandet i The Last of Us Part I (2013) med The Last of Us Part II (2020) genom att titta på hur spelarkaraktärerna Joel och Ellie i respektive spel reagerar på spelmiljön. Texten baseras främst på Jenkins (2004), Wilhelmsson (2007) och Fernandez-Varas (2011) forskning inom environmental storytelling men även andra texter förekommer. I analysen observeras skillnader mellan hur Joel och Ellie reagerar på miljön, några anledningar som ligger till grund samt hur detta påverkar spelarens perspektiv. Både spelarkaraktärernas och spelarens kulturella perspektiv analyseras. Spelutvecklare konstateras kunna dra nytta av denna analys genom att den kan hjälpa till att arbeta med miljödrivet berättande. Framtida arbete skulle kunna se ut på en rad olika sätt, det skulle kunna vara att analysen utvidgar mängden spelkonversationer som analyseras, spelare skulle kunna intervjuas samt andra spel skulle kunna analyseras. environmental storytelling komparativ analys indexical storytelling perspektiv The Last of Us Media and Communications Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap Computer Sciences Datavetenskap (datalogi)
636	Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction / Att bygga in problem? : Grindsamhällen i berättelser om klimat- och miljökatastrofer Walsh, Ryan Nicholas January 2023 (has links) The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. This thesis combines recent urban studies scholarship with ecocritical theory to analyse the gated communities present in Octavia E. Butler’s novels, The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, Neil Blomkamp’s film, Elysium, and Naughty Dog’s video games, The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Part II. Comparative analysis of the motif in each primary narrative reveals how disaster exacerbates the security and segregation this mode of settlement makes possible, resulting in a pronounced Othering of outsiders to these communities. This essay concludes that the boundaries of these speculative gated communities come to symbolise the borders Global North, which rhetorically and physically exclude the migrant Other. As most of the gated communities in these narratives experience catastrophe and collapse at the hands of those they refuse to accept, the texts appear to warn us to expect similar results unless issues of climate justice are not addressed by the Global North today. / Grindsamhället (eng. gated community) är ett vanligt förekommande motiv i berättelser om klimat- och miljökatastrofer. Den här uppsatsen undersöker motivet i tre medietyper för att diskutera hur grindsamhället som samhällsform porträtteras i postapokalyptiskt spekulativ fiktion, och hur det ses svara på klimat- och miljö- krisernas hot och konsekvenser. Uppsatsen kombinerar ekokritisk teori med modern forskning inom urbana studier för att analysera grindsamhällen som förekommer i romanerna The Parable of the Sower och The Parable of the Talents av Octavia E. Butler, Neil Blomkamps film Elysium och Naughty Dogs datorspel The Last of Us och The Last of Us: Part II. Komparativ analys av motivet i de primära berättelserna ger vid handen hur katastrofer förvärrar den säkerhet och segregation som samhälls- formen möjliggör, vilket resulterar i en uttalad syn på personer utanför samhällena som Andra. Uppsatsen slår fast att gränserna för de spekulativa grindsamhällena sym- boliserar gränserna mellan det globala nord och syd, vilket retoriskt och fysiskt ute- stänger migranter från syd och konstruerar dem som Andra. Eftersom de flesta grindsamhällen i berättelserna drabbas av katastrof och kollaps på grund av de människor som man vägrar släppa in tycks texterna varna oss för att vi kan förvänta oss något liknande om den globala norden inte ser till att hantera frågor om klimaträttvisa idag. Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Talents Naughty Dog The Last of Us The Last of Us: Part II Neil Blomkamp Elysium ecocriticism post-apocalypse critical dystopia climate change criticism gated community urban studies agency the Other video game studies ergodic literature. Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Talents Naughty Dog The Last of Us The Last of Us: Part II Neil Blomkamp Elysium ekokritik postapokalyps kritisk dystopi klimatfiktion grindsamhällen urbana studier agens det Andra spelforskning ergodisk litteratur. Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
637	Paměť narativu 'Lost Cause' a bílý nacionalismus na americkém Jihu, případová studie: Liga Jihu / The Memory of the Lost Cause and White Southern Nationalism: Case Study of the League of the South Radová, Hana January 2022 (has links) Following the end of the Civil War, the revisionist myth of the Lost Cause spread over the South as an apologist narrative for white hegemony and slavery, which protected the former Confederate states from the devastating effects of their loss. Pro-Confederate organizations lobbied to replace real history with this collective memory of the South through education and memorialization. This national myth then served as a legitimization of white Southern nationalism that sought to restore white hegemony of the antebellum racial order. The white nationalist organization League of the South, whose goal is the second secession of the Southern states, embraces and manifests the ideology of the Lost Cause in its textual and audiovisual discourse and use of iconography. This discourse anchors their separatist intentions in the context of postwar collective memory, and aids the organization in the legitimization of their actions on the basis of revisionist history. The League derives its identity from this collective memory as the self-established white Southern ethnicity of Anglo-Celtic origin and the descendants of Founding Fathers as well as Confederate leaders. In doing so, the League identifies itself as the organization of true heirs of America stigmatized by the external aggression of the federal...
638	Využití dichotomie My versus Oni v předvolebních projevech Joe Bidena a Donalda Trumpa z roku 2020 / Utilization of the Us versus Them Dichotomy in 2020 Campaign Speeches of Joe Biden and Donald Trump Pýcha, Jaroslav January 2021 (has links) This thesis aims to analyze the camping speeches of the two major candidates running for President of the Unites States in the 2020 general election and to inspect the ways in which both the candidates utilize the Us versus Them dichotomy. In doing so, the thesis provides a critique of the texts produced by the candidates and seeks to unveil their ideological motivation. As categorizing entities has a profound effect on the audience and their perception of reality, the goal is not only to unveil what entities the candidates discuss, but also to determine how they classify these entities. In addition, the strategies used by both the candidates to achieve entity evaluation are compared in order to contrast their rhetorical styles. The theoretical part of the thesis overviews concepts related to the construction of group identities and other ways of reproducing ideology in discourse. Furthermore, Hasan's approach to text analysis, which is employed in the analytical part, is introduced. A brief biography of both the candidates and a description of the US presidential election system are included as well. The analytical part is composed of Critical Discourse Analyses of selected topical segments from campaign speeches of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Special focus is dedicated to the strategies the...
639	Women of Ill Fame: Discourses of Prostitution and the American Dream in California, 1850 - 1890 Fitzpatrick, Angela C. 26 July 2013 (has links) No description available. Gender Studies History Womens Studies American Studies Prostitution California US West 19th century San Francisco Sacramento Gold Rush
640	Model-Based Clustering of Covid-19 in US Counties Olayemi, Ismail Adigun 22 September 2021 (has links) No description available. Statistics Applied Mathematics Public Health COVID-19 Algebra Statistics Public Health Policy Making Model-Based Clustering US Counties

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