Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

The experience of the United States in the second half of the 20 century has clearly shown that focused and concerted efforts in national basic research and development (R&D) programs can have transformational impacts on a nation, as well as the broader international community. The formation of agencies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation (...

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), sponsored by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), uses large custombuilt Mobile Examination Centers (MECs) to gather confidential data on the residential population of the United States. The data are used to generate national statistics and standards on health and nutrition for the nation. CDC is also ...

Considering the rapid movement of the United States and other countries towards an information society, it is of great importance to provide the masses with access to computer technology and its ever-growing benefits. In many cases, “access” means having the actual technology (computer hardware); other times “access” involves the designing of the computer interface so that the user can effectiv...

This article discusses the concept of social exclusion with an eye to assessing its utility in the study of ethnic and racial group inequality in the modern nation state. A brief review of the literature and some methodological discussion are offered. The article then examines race-based social exclusion in the United States, showing bow race and ethnicity can inhibit the full participation of ...

Schools of engineering throughout the United States are currently experiencing high student attrition rates, which greatly concerns institutions of higher learning and the nation itself due to the significant need for well-qualified and prepared engineers. In response, a large number of studies have been conducted to solve the attrition puzzle. To gain a better understanding of engineering attr...