Thesis (Junior)--Middlebury College, 2005. / Bibliography: p. 35-41.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-441). Also available on the Internet (access restricted).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2003. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-441).

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Thesis advisor: Richard McGowan / Vermont had 13.9 overdose deaths per 100,000 people in 2014, almost 2.5 times less than New Hampshire in the same year (Rudd 2016). Much of this has been attributed to the framework Vermont has in place for treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), specifically the “Hub and Spoke” model of treatment. This model has been highly praised due to the continuity of care waivered spoke physicians are able to provide, and the overall success the program has had in reducing overdoses and addiction as a whole, typically through the “gold standard” of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). “The Doorway” as the hub and spoke system is called in New Hampshire, is realistically a referral framework that links people seeking treatment with OUD to a provider, which is very different from the structure in Vermont. Vermont is predicted to spend about $85 million of Medicaid money on treatment for people with OUD in 2019 (Table 1). Meanwhile, New Hampshire, a state with over double the population, is projected to spend $52 million in 2019 (Table 2). This is likely due to differences in Medicaid payment structure and MAT-waivered physician availability; Vermont has a larger rate of MAT providers per 10000 population of 2.71 compared to 2.05 in New Hampshire. New Hampshire Medicaid reimburses behavioral health providers poorly, providing an indexed reimbursement rate of 0.83 in comparison to 1.11 in Vermont (Kaiser Family Foundation 2019). To initiate change and create a treatment utilization rate equivalent to Vermont, it is estimated New Hampshire would have to spend $133 million to $150 million in 2019, which is not possible given the taxation structure in place. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2019. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 142-149. / by Anthony Dominique Nassau Mallows. / M.C.P.

Conventional and radical approaches alike to the anthropological study of social change and economic development have fallaciously attempted to examine complex and mutable underlying social and historical processes by means of abstract theoretical structures. Through a critical focus on the contemporary marxian debate over modes of production, a new and potentially more fruitful direction for economic anthropology and development studies is proposed here in the form of an hypothesis concerning imperialism. / Imperialism is hypothesized to constitute such a complex and mutable process inseverably bound to that of capitalist development throughout the latter's history. Attempting in a gradually maturing manner to accumulate capital by any possible means, metropolitan ruling classes have persistently been forced to intervene in and distort local processes of class struggle and transformation in other social formations. But continuously changing processes of so-called economic "underdevelopment" must therefore necessarily have been imposed on peripheral areas of metropolitan nations and regions just as they have on colonies and neo-colonies of the Third World. / An initial test of this hypothesis is thus afforded by the "domestic" case of the northern New England state of Vermont in the USA before 1870. Particular emphasis is placed on the crucial period of rapid U.S. capitalist development after 1830, as an incipient process of proletarianization was distorted and delayed in rural hinterland Vermont well beyond such processes taking place on the nearby northeastern seaboard. The initiation of peripheral capitalist development in Vermont is analyzed in terms of the substitution for native-born free peasants of an ethnically distinct, "super-exploited" immigrant proletariat in a few rural export enclaves, as the former direct producers began emigrating permanently instead to the established industrial cities on the seaboard. Vermont's changing relative economic "underdevelopment" within New England and within the USA as a whole from 1870 through the 1970's is discussed in a summary chapter. / The initial confirmation in the Vermont case of this hypothesis concerning imperialism and capitalist development suggests it must be seriously considered in cases of contemporary economic "underdevelopment" elsewhere.

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Microstructures and quartz crystallographic fabrics of conglomerate lenses from the Tyson Formation, which composes the basal portion of the authochthonous Paleozoic cover sequence in central Vermont, were analyzed to investigate the complex deformational history associated with a polydefonned area. Microstructural observations and crystallographic fabric techniques were used for kinematic analysis, and to relate the development of microstructures and lattice preferred orientations to the local and regional structural settings. Additionally, the study compares the development of microstructures and lattice preferred orientations, and investigates strain heterogeneity that develops within deformed conglomerate. Recrystallization textures within quartz-rich pebbles suggest dynamic recrystallization via subgrain rotation and grain boundary migration. Dynamically recrystallized quartz grains have a grain shape preferred orientation, which is parallel to a series of intracrystalline strain features including undulatory extinction, deformation bands, and subgrains. These features are believed to be a manifestation of shearing along a conjugate set of intracrystalline shear planes that appear as deformation lamellae (Brace, 1955). Plastic deformation along these shear planes has developed a grain shape preferred orientation that forms at high angles (45° to 60°) to the foliation plane, rather than parallel to the XY plane of the incremental strain ellipsoid. Although the Tyson Formation contains more than one tectonic fabric, lattice preferred orientations within quartz-rich domains appear to have formed in response to the second Taconian deformational event of Stanley and Ratcliffe (1985). The crystallographic fabrics show considerable variation on many scales. The distribution of the fabrics relative to local structures show no consistent or predictable relationship. Fabric variation between the matrix and pebbles is believed to be a manifestation of strain heterogeneity. Shear strain within the matrix is accommodated by grain boundary sliding, therefore only coaxial portions of the strain are recorded by the matrix quartz lattice preferred orientation. Furthermore, strain partitioning, and possibly the lack of extensive recrystallization, has precluded the development of strong lattice preferred orientations in the matrix. Within quartz pebbles, conflicting kinematic indicators, microstructures, and c-axis fabrics indicate strain path partitioning due to rheological variability within a flowing rock mass, which deformed under predominantly coaxial conditions. The asymmetric crystal fabrics in this study are approximately 50% top-to-the- west and 50% top-to-the-east. Additionally, porphyroclasts and mica fish locally suggest either non-coaxial or coaxial deformation, as well as conflicting shear senses. Deformation probably occurred within the constrictional field, and was locally accommodated by shearing. Kinematic indicators such as mica fish, asymmetric porphyroclast tails, and c-axis fabrics suggest that partitioning occurred not only between pebbles, but within individual pebbles as well. / Master of Science