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Wage Effect of Adverse Health Indicators
(2011-05)In the employment market many factors can contribute to and detract from not only an individual's success in finding and maintaining employment but also advancement and wage. The purpose of this research is to assess the ... -
Wage Penalties in Majority-Female Occupations
(2010-04)Some economic researchers have concluded that labor market discrimination against women in the U.S. has been declining since the 1970s. However, Dr. Schaffer's previous research suggested otherwise. Our research, using a ... -
Wages and the Influence of Job Characteristics
(2019-05)One of the most well-trafficked areas in labor economics is the identification and measurement of the determinants of wages. Economists and non-economists alike are both interested in why some jobs pay higher wages than ... -
Wallis Simpson: A Typical Cinderella Story?
(2012-12-13)Mrs. Wallis Simpson led an entertaining, adventurous, and scandalous life. This girl from Baltimore traveled the world, fell in love over and over again, and climbed to the top of one of the most prestigious social circles ... -
"Wally, Walt and What's-His-Name" : Command Module Pilots of the Apollo Program
(2009-07-14)Often considered to be akin to fourth place in the Olympics, the role of Command Module Pilots in the Apollo program of maintaining lunar orbit while the other two astronauts landed and explored the lunar surface, is more ... -
War and Peace : Relationships between Hmong and Chinese
(2013-05)The purpose of this study was to learn about the relationship between the Hmong and the Chinese. Specifically, the relationship between the Han and Hmong and use of the term Miao. -
"War Is Hell!" : a Look at Modern Total Warfare
(2009-07-20)This paper examines modern strategy at the general officer level in the context of modern total warfare. This analysis attempts to prove that General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea campaign influenced grand ... -
“War Is Old Men Talking and Young Men Dying:” The Story of Dennis Lee Klimpke
(2017-08-09)This paper focuses on the letters sent and received by a solider fighting in Vietnam. Dennis Lee Klimpke, a 20-year-old from the small town of Colby, Wisconsin, reported for induction on August 7, 1967, at 1:45 pm. He was ... -
Waste Disposal Behaviors of University Students : Measuring the Impact of Intervention Efforts
(2018-04)Keeping recyclables and compostables out of the landfill is a major step toward nurturing a sustainably-minded community. This research focused on collecting data for student and faculty waste-disposal habits. Using ... -
Watching Life and Death at a Cellular Level
(2017-04-07)The purpose of this study was to show that the poorly-tolerated antifungal drug Amphotericin B (AmB) causes collateral damage in human cells in part by depolarizing (short-circuiting) mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell. -
Watching Your Drink: How the Use of Preventative Measures Relates to the Consequences of Drinking.
(2009-04)The purpose of this study is to analyze practices and attitudes towards alcohol use among University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students. The objectives of this project include determining why students drink, identifying ... -
Water in Hydrothermal Feldspar
(2015-04)Feldspar is the most common mineral in the Earth's crust, and although water is present in only trace amounts (~ hundreds of ppm), this quantity is sufficient to make crustal feldspar one of, if not the, largest reservoir ... -
Water Privatization as a Social Problem : How is the Problem of Water Privatization Socially Constructed?
(2015-04)We investigated water privatization as a social problem from the social constructionist perspective. Much research has been done on the economic and social effects of water privatization, but little has been done to explain ... -
Water Quality Concerns Among Rural Indigenous Communities in Ecuador
(2018-04)According to the Pan American Health Association, Ecuador has one of the highest rates of disease associated with poor drinking water in Latin America. This is especially acute among indigenous rural communities where ... -
Water Speciation Around Vesicles within Obsidian Fragments from Mono Craters, CA : Testing the 'Bubble Geobarometer'
(2013-05)Obsidian glasses preserve textural evidence that multiple cycles of fragmentation and annealing occurred within magmatic conduits prior to eruption. The nature and timescales of these processes are poorly understood. ... -
Water Speciation in Anatolian Obsidian : Quenched Magmatic Water vs. Low Temperature Hydration
(2009-07-22)Supervolcano eruptions represent some of the most dramatic events in the geologic history of our planet. They form as a result of volatile exsolution from a viscous silica-rich melt structure. As water is the dominant ... -
Waveland, Mississippi, November 1964: Death of SNCC, Birth of Radicalism
(2008-06-25)The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced Snick) was a nonviolent direct action organization that participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. After the Freedom Summer, where hundreds of ... -
“We are not making a Black Beer, but a Peoples Beer”: “Black Capitalism” and the Struggles of Black Entrepreneurship
(2018-12-19)During Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, he included a plank in his platform with the “Black Capitalism” Initiative. It was meant to promote black entrepreneurship and give the black community an opportunity for ... -
We the Citizens : Citizen Participation to Address Poverty
(2018-04)Democracy means the rule and voice of the people. The Clear Vision Eau Claire (CVEC) Poverty Summit was meant to offer community members a mechanism of inclusion in the democratic process. From October 2016 to April ...