The Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms

Based on data from the Kauffman Firm Survey, examines the funding sources of firms in their first year of operations. Highlights start-ups' reliance on external debt financing such as bank loans and credit cards, regardless of their credit scores

Patterns of Financing: A Comparison Between White- and African-American Young Firms

Based on Kauffman Firm Survey data, examines differences in start-up and follow-on capital injections into and capital use by firms with African-American and white owners. Explores how access to capital affects the racial gap in new business formation

Whose ‘Nature’ is it in? The Navajo Generating Station and the Politics of Nature, Space and Colonialism in Northern Arizona

Page, Arizona is home to the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant that provides the power for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) and other consumers of electricity in the Southwest. Though the plant is not owned by the Navajo (Diné) tribe, the Navajo “subsidize” the plant with reservation coal, water, and labor, externalizing the costs of the generating station’s production processes onto Navajo lands and bodies. This thesis attempts to trace the historical-geographic genesis of the plant, situating it within broader contexts of power dynamics in Northern Arizona that govern the spatialities of the coal industry via the production of nature, the construction of wilderness, and the colonization of the Diné. According to one Diné activist, the coal industry has made the Diné economically dependent on their own cultural destruction (Rowe 2013). I point to the role of United States Federal policy and resource management sectors such as the Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service in the creation of this condition of resource dependency, the siting of the NGS on Navajo lands just a few miles outside of Page, and ultimately the internal colonization of the Diné. How did Page, Arizona (writ- large) come to be the site of the state’s largest and dirtiest coal-fired plant, the Navajo Generating Station, and what does this illustrate about the relationship between nature, space, and colonialism

A scaling normalization method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data

A novel and empirical method for normalization of RNA-seq data is presente

From RNA-seq reads to differential expression results

Many methods and tools are available for preprocessing high-throughput RNA sequencing data and detecting differential expression

WISER: Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable

This brief provides an overview of Case Western Reserve University\u27s Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable, including student evaluation and national metrics about women in STEMhttps://commons.case.edu/mathercenter-briefs/1000/thumbnail.jp

WSLDI: Women Staff Leadership Development Institute

This brief reviews the Case Western Reserve University Women Staff Leadership Development Institute, including participant evaluation data and national experiences of women staff in higher education.https://commons.case.edu/mathercenter-briefs/1001/thumbnail.jp

Test Results for a Non-toxic, Dual Thrust Reaction Control Engine

A non-toxic, dual thrust reaction control engine (RCE) was successfully tested over a broad range of operating conditions at the Aerojet Sacramento facility. The RCE utilized LOX/Ethanol propellants; and was tested in steady state and pulsing modes at 25-lbf thrust (vernier) and at 870-lbf thrust (primary). Steady state vernier tests vaned chamber pressure (Pc) from 0.78 to 5.96 psia, and mixture ratio (MR) from 0.73 to 1.82, while primary steady state tests vaned Pc from 103 to 179 psia and MR from 1.33 to 1.76. Pulsing tests explored EPW from 0.080 to 10 seconds and DC from 5 to 50 percent at both thrust levels. Vernier testing accumulated a total of 6,670 seconds of firing time, and 7,215 pulses, and primary testing accumulated a total of 2,060 seconds of firing time and 3,646 pulses