The research enterprise increasingly involves multidisciplinary collaboration, sometimes over geographic distance. Technological advances have made these collaborations possible, and the history of past innovations suggests these collaborations are desirable. Yet multidisciplinary projects can carry high coordination costs. This study investigated how collaborations address disciplinary differe...

Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the origin-countr...

Community resilience in the face of natural hazards involves both a community's sensitivity to disaster and its potential bounce back. A failure integrate equity into considerations results unequal recovery disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations, which has long been concern United States. This research investigated aspects related community aftermath Winter Storm Uri Texas led exten...

The soil varies clearly in its chemical and physical characteristics depending on the conditions factors that make up it, such as raw materials (mother rocks), climatic conditions, vegetation, topography, time, etc. because study area is located semi-mountainous region, was formed under semi-dry complex topographical situation, which reflected of Shiwasor-Akhgler Valley Basin.