Baker Institute Publications
Recent Submissions
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Living with Houston Flooding
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The Influence of Complications on the Costs of Complex Cancer Surgery
(2013)It is widely known that outcomes after cancer surgery vary widely, depending on interactions between patient, tumor, neoadjuvant therapy, and provider factors. Within this complex milieu, the influence of complications on the cost of surgical oncology care remains unknown. The authors examined rates of Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) occurrence for 6 ... -
Is Chinese Foreign Policy Targeting Sub-Saharan Africa?
(2011)It is no secret that China's economy has been growing and developing at a rapid rate for many years. Energy is a critical element in this expansion and oil is an important source of energy. Many observers feel that to feed its need for energy, China has particularly targeted Sub-Saharan Africa. And to be sure, there have been a number of deals between ... -
Boko Haram: A Prognosis
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Rehabilitiation of Radicals
(2010-10)In the past 10 years, the rehabilitation of Muslim radicals has become a pressing issue. Great numbers of radicals have passed in and out of various incarcerating institutions and are returned to their societies where they frequently rejoin radical groups, sometimes more radicalized and technically proficient than they were prior to their incarceration. ... -
Managing the U.S.-Mexico Border Problem
(2007-08-17)Although legislation for migration reform and an international guest worker program has been effectively tabled for the remainder of the Bush administration, work continues on projects to more effectively monitor the U.S.-Mexico border. A key federal program in this effort is the Department of Homeland Security’s adoption of military surveillance ... -
Innovation by Policy: A Study of the Electronic Passport
(2007-05)The author argues that the congressional mandate to create a biometrically enabled, electronic passport put political goals ahead of the technically feasible. Congress wrote into law a directive to create an advanced computer imaging technology—that did not, and likely still does not, exist—by producing legislation demanding an electronic passport ... -
Wiretapping, Surveillance and the Internet
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Nuclear Nonproliferation: Policy Implications
(2007-11-02) -
The International Oil Companies
(2007-11)