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Citizens of the Market: New Forms of International Migration and their Consequences for People, Parties and Political Systems
(2014-02-25)How does high-mobility migration affect politics in the migrants' countries of origin? This dissertation examines the socio-political effects of intra-EU migrations using quantitative and qualitative data from Romania and ... -
Citizenship; Freedom; Status
(University of Chicago Press, 1991) -
City Services for a Smarter Boston: Constituent Driven Intelligence through BOS:311
(2022-06-03)This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of BOS:311, the non-emergency city services program for the City of Boston. The study situates BOS:311 within the context of the Smart City, a budding object of scholarly inquiry ... -
A City within a City: Community Development and the Struggle over Harlem, 1961-2001
(2013-07-05)This dissertation examines the idea of community development in the last four decades of the twentieth century through the example of the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and, in doing so, explains the broader ... -
CitySense: A Vision for an Urban-Scale Wireless Networking Testbed
(2007)In this paper, we present the vision for an open, urban-scale wireless networking testbed, called CitySense, with the goal of supporting the development and evaluation of novel wireless systems that span an entire city. ... -
Civic Knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni's De militia (ca. 1420)
(2011-12-20)Leonardo Bruni's aim in the De militia (ca. 1420) was to co-opt the most glamorous of medieval ideals, the ideal of chivalry, and to reinterpret it in terms of Greco-Roman ideals of military service. In so doing he aimed ... -
Civil Rights in International Law: Compliance with Aspects of the "International Bill of Rights"
(Indiana University Press, 2009)International law has developed what many might consider a constitutional understanding of individual civil rights that individuals can claim vis-a-vis their own governments. This paper discusses the development of aspects ... -
Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)By the time Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many employers had created maternity leave programs. Analysts argue that they did so in response to the feminization of the workforce. This study charts ... -
Civil Society and the State: The Interplay between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation
(2009)In a cross-section of countries, state regulation of labor markets is strongly negatively correlated with the quality of labor relations. In this paper, we argue that these facts reflect different ways to regulate labor ... -
Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)This article develops a conceptual framework on civil society that shifts the dominant focus on individuals to collective action events— civic and protest alike—that bring people together in public to realize a common ... -
The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying
(Southern Historical Association/JSTOR, 2001) -
Civil Wars, from Beginning … to End?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015) -
The Civilizing Project in Medieval Korea: Neo-Classicism, Nativism, and Figurations of Power
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the adoption and maturing of a neoclassical form of Confucianism in medieval Korea (875-1545) in relation to the long and complex roads to building a centralizing aristocratic order. In the tenth ... -
The Civilizing Sea: The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870
(2016-09-13)This dissertation examines the religious, diplomatic, legal, and intellectual history of French imperialism in Italy, Egypt, and Algeria between the 1789 French Revolution and the beginning of the French Third Republic in ... -
Civitas: Toward a Secure Voting System
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2008)Civitas is the first electronic voting system that is coercion-resistant, universally and voter verifiable, and suitable for remote voting. This paper describes the design and implementation of Civitas. Assurance is ... -
Claiming Human Dignity
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the ... -
The Claims of Animals and the Needs of Strangers: Two Cases of Imperfect Right
(Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, 2018)This paper argues for a conception of the natural rights of non-human animals grounded in Kant’s explanation of the foundation of human rights. The rights in question are rights that are in the first instance held against ... -
Clarification of Peziza fimeti with notes on P. varia collections on dung
(Mycotaxon, Ltd., 2013)The smooth-spored species inhabiting dung, mainly of the Peziza fimeti group, were studied morphologically and through ITS sequence comparison. The results established that Peziza varia is also able to fruit on dung, ... -
Clarify: Software for Interpretng and Presenting Statistical Results
(American Statistical Association, 2003) -
Clarifying Psychological Risk Factors for Self-Injury and Suicidal Behaviors: Clinical Applications of Behavioral Measures
(2015-05-19)Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors are life-threatening, prevalent, and challenging clinical outcomes to predict. This dissertation explores the use of behavioral measures to improve prediction of nonsuicidal self-injury ...