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  1. The application of the calculus of variations to the optimization of flight trajectories

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    Description: A Master's Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the George Washington University in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering; February 1964. This is a scan of the original print copy. Excerpt...
    Author: Land, Walker Haden
    Keyword: Calculus of Variations, Engineering , Flight trajectories, and Applied science
    Degree: M.S.
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  2. Unmanned Undersea Vehicles: The Navy's New Platforms Need a Tailored Environmental Law Framework

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    Description: Unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) should be treated as an independent category of vessels during the assessment of various environmental law issues of testing and training in United States waters. Because UUVs are distinct from other types of surface and submarine vessels in many ways, analysis...
    Author: Hoy, Cara Addison
    GW Unit: Law
    Degree: LL.M.
    Advisor: Paddock, LeRoy
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  3. LESSONS LEARNED (?): GRANTING REFUGEE STATUS TO THOSE OPPOSING MILITARY SERVICE IN THE AGE OF NEO-MILITARIZATION

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    Description: The current age of neo-militarization requires a re-assessment of the UNHCR standards concerning the treatment of conscientious objection because they do not adequately address the problems faced by conscientious objectors. Ambiguities surrounding the nature of the “right” to conscientious...
    Author: Cicek, Duygu
    GW Unit: Law
    Degree: LL.M.
    Advisor: Steinhardt, Ralph G
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  4. Army command leadership -- industrial management leadership : doctrine compared

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    Description: Thesis submitted to the College of General Studies in 1966. This is a scan of the original print copy. Excerpt from the introduction: In an age when the word "management" seems to have permeated the Army's language and life. The differences between industrial management leadership and Army...
    Author: Vessey, John William
    Keyword: Industrial management, United States Army, Leadership, and Army command leadership
    Degree: M.S.
    Committee Member(s): Richard A. Barrett
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  5. Written Resistance: How the Middle Class in French Syria and Lebanon Utilized Petitions to fight for better Conditions inside the Mandate-Era Classroom

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    Description: This thesis utilizes petitions written to the League of Nations’ Permanent Mandate Commission to explore the educational conditions facing the mostly Sunni middle class in mandate-era Syria and Lebanon. Petitions addressing education paint a picture of limited educational opportunities and...
    Author: Charles, Dominic
    Keyword: Syria, mandate, resistance, petitions, Lebanon, and education
    GW Unit: History
    Degree: M.A.
    Advisor: Khoury, Dina
    Committee Member(s): Robinson, Shira
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  6. Working Out Race, Class and Gender: A Study of Barriers to Gym Memberships in Baltimore City

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    Description: Using narrative data derived from field notes and interviews with black women living in Baltimore city, this study explains how the city’s spatial layout, and black women’ s socioeconomic status, time allocation and body image impede them from securing gym memberships. Black women are the largest...
    Author: Epps, JaQuon
    Keyword: Black Women, Baltimore City, Exclusion, Dispariy, Fitness, and Intersectionality
    GW Unit: Sociology
    Degree: M.A.
    Advisor: Ken, Ivy and Jones, Antwan
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  7. A Muslim Sage of the Twentieth Century: 'Allāmah Sayyid Muḥmmad Ḥusain Ṭabāṭabāᵓī

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    Description: Not needed for MA
    Author: Hassani, Rayhana
    Keyword: Philosophy, Shī'a, 'Irfān, Gnosis, Quran, and Ṭabāṭabāᵓī
    GW Unit: Islamic Studies
    Degree: M.A.
    Advisor: Faghfoory, Muhammad
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  8. RECONNECT- is an Exhibition Design Proposal about the Effect of Social Media and Strategies to Deal with The Information Revolution Mindfully Through an Interactive Experience.

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    Description: RECONNECT is a proposal to create awareness of the power and mindful use of social media through the medium of an exhibition. The exhibition will take place in the Newseum in Washington, D.C., an ideal venue in which to hold an interactive exhibition that explores the relationship between social...
    Author: Al Khedair, Sarah
    Keyword: Exhibition and Design
    GW Unit: Exhibition Design
    Degree: M.A.
    Advisor: Brennan, Barbara
    Committee Member(s): Crellin, Naomi and Briggs, Nigel
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  9. Exploring the Relationships of Social and Environmental Determinants of Health and Emergency Department Visit Categories

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    Description: Limited knowledge exists about the relationship that specific social determinant of health (SDH) factors have with ED visits and ED visit categories. Following the PRSIMA and AMSTAR guidelines, the first aim of this research project was to conduct a systematic literature review to determine what...
    Author: Freeman, William Joseph
    Keyword: Social Determinants of Health, Health Care, Emergency Medicine, Environmental Determinants of Health, and Health Services Research
    GW Unit: Health Policy
    Degree: Dr.P.H.
    Advisor: Pines, Jesse M and McCarthy, Melissa
    Committee Member(s): Cleary, Sean D
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation

  10. Inter and Intraspecific Differences in Neural Investment in Social and Solitary Sweat Bees

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    Description: The social brain hypothesis predicts that the cognitive demands that accompany the evolution of social behavior will be met with corresponding changes in neural investment. In Chapter 1, we use a bee species that has lost social behavior to test for an accompanying loss in neural investment...
    Author: Pahlke, Sarah
    Keyword: Insect neurobiology, Halictidae, and Social brain hypothesis
    GW Unit: Biological Sciences
    Degree: M.S.
    Advisor: Smith, Adam
    Committee Member(s): Powell, Scott and Lill, John
    Resource Type: Thesis or Dissertation