Image Theses and Dissertations Examining a Model of Scholarship for Social Justice The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of international scholarship programs for social justice â a case study of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP), the first model of scholarships for social justice. The capability approach advanced by Amartya Sen is selected to conceptualize the measurement of the impacts. This study attempts to propose an alternative approach, which allows scholarship sponsors to see scholarship impact on the matter of peopleâs capabilities, rather than economic growth. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Teachers Matter: Traditional and Non-traditional Teacher Quality Measures in India AbstractIn this age of educational globalization, much focus is on teacher quality as a factor to improve education quality worldwide. In India, teacher quality is blamed for the poor performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009. Policymakers are, therefore, looking at teacher quality as a measure to improve student performance. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Birthplace or Meeting Place? An Analysis of Muslim Student Radicalization in American Universities View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Cultural Competence: A Content Analysis of a Public Health Curriculum for a Community Health Training Program in Haiti Foreign public health practitioners, medical doctors, and humanitarian workers, are often the providers of global health interventions. As a result, there are cultural challenges that arise when outsiders provide health education for individuals from distinctly different sociocultural realities. This study, guided by the principles of "cultural competence," examined a community health worker training program in Haiti, led by non-Haitian trainers. The training program provided public health information to 126 Haitian participants. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations A temperature-dependent model for an AlInAs/GaInAs heterojunction bipolar transistor View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations An electrochemical capacitance-voltage technique for the determination of pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor material parameters View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations A Global-Local Paradox: The Influence of International Schools on Egyptian Students This study seeks to understand the influence of global-local connections in the context of international schools in Egypt. Specifically, how does the international and local orientation of elite, international schools in Egypt influence Egyptian students' orientations towards the self, others, and the broader society? Quantitative subquestions explored include: What is the orientation of elite, international schools in Egypt? What global and local inputs have the greatest significant influence on this process? View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Quantitative scanning microwave microscopy of a biological cell The electromagnetic properties of a live biological system are extremely important to many medical applications. While information about electromagnetic properties of tissues are available in the literature, little or no data are available for a single cell or subcellular structures. Microwave biological/cell detection has been demonstrated to be useful and promising in many medical applications due to its internal properties such as non-invasive, fast and label-free. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Labor Market Outcomes for College Graduates with an Associate Degree This research investigates the contribution of community colleges to U.S. college graduates' salary and participation in the labor market. Using a quantitative approach to a human capital framework, this study investigates annual salary and employment rate differences between only bachelor's degree holders and both an associate's and a bachelor's degree holders. Labor market expectations have led to increasing attention on community-college and four-year college graduates throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations International Accreditation and the Standards of US Regional Accrediting Agencies In addition to accrediting American colleges and universities that enroll over 20 million students a year, the US regional accrediting agencies also accredit international institutions. Existing research on international accreditation has not previously investigated the impact that international activity might have on the standards used by US regional accreditors. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Effects of injection current density and active layer doping and thickness on the spectral emission properties of high-speed 1.3 um InGaAsP surface emitting light emitting diodes View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The effect of N layer doping level on the forward voltage of AlGaAs double-heterostructure light emitting diodes View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Dielectric Spectroscopy of Biological Samples For the first time, the impedance spectrum of live Jurkat T-lymphocytes human cells was characterized in a single sweep spanning six decades of frequency from 9 kHz to 9 GHz. The ultrawide bandwidth bridged the traditional impedance spectroscopy at kilohertz to megahertz frequencies with the recently developed microwave dielectric spectroscopy, which can probe the cell interior without being hindered by the cell membrane. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Teacher Quality Discourse and the Institutionalization of Educational Reforms: Social Capital and Teacher Self-Efficacy Across 31 Countries A teacher quality discourse has emerged, disseminated globally by a network of international organizations. Reform efforts, therefore, have become institutionalized in the global sphere, making it increasingly likely that educational systems adopt similar models to improve the quality of their teaching force. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Factors in Immigrant Higher Education Attainment Among Income Groups in the United States This research investigated the attainment of bachelor degrees by students from different immigrant generational backgrounds and income levels in the United States through the additional family capital variables of student educational expectations, parental educational attainment, and two-parent households. As the nation continues to mature, gaps in higher education attainment between income groups continue to expand. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Development of a 1[mu]m GaAs metal-semiconductor field effect transistor fabrication process View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations CMOS Closed-loop Control of MEMS Varactors A closed-loop capacitance sensing and control mix-mode circuit with a dedicated sensor electrode and a proportional-integral controller was designed for MEMS varactors. The control was based on tuning the bias magnitude of the MEMS varactor according to t View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Secondary Social Studies Curriculum in Post-Genocide Rwanda as Mediated by UNESCO and Post-Holocaust Education in Germany This research examines the interaction between international governmental organizations (IGOs) and national governments around the development of secondary social studies curriculum in post-genocide contexts, with a special focus on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) involvement with secondary social studies curriculum development in Rwanda. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The Effects of Collective Efficacy and Teacher Collaboration on Student Achievement: A cross-national analysis using TIMSS 2015 AbstractThe need for high-quality teachers has led to increased attempts to evaluate the effects of professional development on teachers' skills and their students' improvement. A growing body of research indicates that the current model of professional d View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Wafer-scale Fabrication and Characterization of Recessed-channel PtSe2 MOSFETs with Low Contact Resistance and Improved Gate Control For the first time, wafer-scale fabrication of PtSe2 MOSFETs was demonstrated by photolithography. The on PtSe2 is grown by thermally assisted conversion (TAC) of Pt films under Se vapor at 400 °C. Taking advantage of the unique property of PtSe2 to transition from semiconductor to semimetal as its thickness increases beyond a few monolayers, channel recess was adapted for improving gate control while keeping the contact resistance as low as 0.008 Ω∙cm. The wafer-scale fabrication resulted in uniform device characteristics so that average vs. best results were reported, as well as RF vs. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Invisibility and Binarism: How International School Policy Reinforces Educational Inequity for Gender and Sexual Minority Students Worldwide Studies of gender and sexual minority (GSM) students' experiences in American schools have revealed social stigma and resulting mental health disparities, including suicidality, when compared with their heterosexual, cisgender peers. Further, protective factors, such as inclusive school policies, have been shown to alleviate this risk disparity. GSM students attending United States Department of State-supported schools overseas, however, remain unrepresented in the research. Little evidence has been published about the conditions for GSM students in these international schools. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The Effect of Career and University Preparation Resources on Cambodian Students' Post-Secondary Academic and Career Goals and Expectations This study explores the effect that university and career preparation materials and resources in Cambodian upper secondary schools have on students' post-secondary plans, aspirations, and expectations. Globalization, and in the case of Cambodia the integration with transnational organizations like the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), has rapidly increased the speed at which people need to remain technologically connected, and has effectively opened physical and metaphorical boundaries between nations and cultures. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Applications of Scanning Microwave Microscopy on Nanoscale Imaging of Biological Samples and CMOS Interconnects In this work, we systematically studied and introduced both AFM-based and STM-based scanning microwave microscopy. CMOS interconnects, single dried cell and organelles like exosomes have been imaged with scanning microwave microscopy.The scanning microwave microscopy of CMOS interconnect aluminum lines both bare and buried under oxide has been achieved. In both cases, a spatial resolution of 190 +- 70 nm was achieved, which was comparable or better than what had been reported in the literature. View Item