Tourism -- Connecticut; Group identity -- Connecticut
The attraction of the vernacular : an examination of tourism's contribution to place image and vernacular region identification in Connecticut / Susan J. Winslow
Land use -- Connecticut -- New London County; Tourism -- Connecticut -- New London County
This thesis explores the differences between land use commissioner and resident attitudes toward tourism in a region that has experienced a shift in employment from one primarily dependent on manufacturing, to more diverse service sector...
The male sterility and histoincompatibility mutation (mshi) is an autosomal recessive mutation that produces apparently pleiotropic effects in mice. Mice homozygous for mshi manifest two distinct phenotypes. In both male and female mice, the...
Choctaw Indians -- Government relations -- History; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- History; Federal-Indian trust relationship
Charles Wilkinson asserts that the Supreme Court has responded to contemporary Native American pleas for justice by attempting to incorporate Indian understanding of past commitments into reinterpretations of old laws. The new accommodation appears...
Railroads -- Connecticut -- Commuting traffic -- Planning; Geographic information systems -- Connecticut
After more than half a century of decline, commuter rail transportation in the United States has been experiencing a revival. This study examines a region in central Connecticut to determine the best locations for a new commuter rail line. Even...
Drug traffic -- Colombia; Guerrilla warfare -- Colombia; Colombia -- Social conditions
During the 1980's, Latin America was one of the major concerns of the U.S. foreign policy. Countries like Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Colombia had unstable governments and civil war created a clear and present danger to the national security of the...
The recessive male sterility and histoincompatibility mutation (mshi) in the mouse generates pleiotropic effects on graft transplantation and male reproduction. Previous analysis of backcross mice using a large set of microsatellite markers has...
Orphans -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Children of AIDS patients -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
The AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa has many social, economic, and political effects on the region. I argue that the most devastating effect of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is the increase in orphaned children, commonly called AIDS orphans. An...
Rats lacking normal hairy coats were discovered several years ago among our colony of hairy albino rats. The trait was found to be controlled by a recessive allele of a gene we designated shorn (shn), which mapped to distal end of rat chromosome 7....
Paraíba is one of nine states of the Northeast of Brazil. The Northeast is regarded as Brazil’s birthplace, where millions of African captives were shipped by the Portuguese. It is considered one of the poorest areas in Brazil. Yet, in 1985...
Cyprus -- Politics and government -- 1960-2004; Cyprus -- Politics and government -- 2004-; Cyprus -- History -- Cyprus Crisis, 1974-; Cyprus -- Social conditions -- 1960-; Cyprus, Northern
In 1974, the island of Cyprus underwent a drastic geographical change that separated, by force, the population of the island. Though not uneventful, the island's history has shown that for centuries, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots lived together....
Concern about youth access to tobacco products has prompted a number of communities to initiate actions to limit such access. The present study examines the relationship between the level of community mobilization and local "buy rates" through the...
Although many researchers have compared herpetofaunal assemblages over large geographical regions, comparisons on a microgeographic scale have been scarce. Thus, the goal of this study was to compare species diversity of Eleutherodactylus on a...
Kosovo’s long history with unrealistic legal arrangements has contributed to its unstable political and social environments. From the Yugoslav era Constitutions to the most recent international policy implementation, Kosovo’s legal basis has...
Supported Living Arrangements (SLAs) are residential programs designed to facilitate the integration of developmentally disabled individuals into the community. Clients of these programs live in independent apartments and receive approximately...
American literature -- 20th century -- Women authors; Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
The purpose of this investigation is to discuss and delineate common issues and themes which are apparent in contemporary Latina literature of the United States. I have witnessed, by way of reading and comparing the works of various...
Flamenco is a passion, an art, an identity and a culture. Its development over the centuries is complex, its legend unforgettable. This research will inform both the aficionado and the non-aficionado of flamenco's three components (songs, dance and...
On September 13, 1993, the leaders of two rival nationalist groups, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the lawn of the White House, symbolizing the birth of the Oslo Peace Process. For the first time since Israel’s establishment,...
The Rocky Hill anticline is a broad open fold in Triassic strata transverse to the
Eastern Border Fault of the Connecticut Valley of Southern New England, and is
crisscrossed by a complex pattern of faults and other brittle fractures. This study...
Democracy--Morocco; Islam and politics--Morocco; Morocco--Politics and government--21st century
In most Arabs and Muslims countries, the 1990`s witnessed a vibrant movement by individuals and groups that advocate through non-government organizations (NGO) good governance, transparency and the rule of law. NGOs can be defined as non-civilians...
