New Jersey City University

The Economics of Compliance: Measuring Market and Innovation Effects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act's High-Risk Classification System

This dissertation measures the early economic footprint of the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation [EU] 2024/1689), the first comprehensive, risk-tiered statute to impose binding obligations on artificial intelligence systems. The problem it addresses is that...

The Economics of Compliance: Measuring Market and Innovation Effects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act's High-Risk Classification System

This dissertation measures the early economic footprint of the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation [EU] 2024/1689), the first comprehensive, risk-tiered statute to impose binding obligations on artificial intelligence systems. The problem it addresses is that...

Global Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Convergence and Divergence: Comparative Governance Frameworks and Implications for United States Trade and Diplomatic Policy

Artificial intelligence has entered the infrastructure of trade, finance, health, and public administration faster than governments have agreed on how to govern it. The European Union has enacted a comprehensive risk-based statute, the United States relies on executive guidance a...

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Heart Failure Rates (2019–2026)

Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death worldwide when a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, began spreading in late 2019, and the collision of these two forces reshaped population cardiovascular health in ways that are still being measured. This dissertation examined wh...

Scaling the Unsustainable? Technical Architecture, Energy Sustainability, and Scalability Constraints in Multinational AI Data Center Megaprojects

The contemporary expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) rests on a wager that computational scaling laws will keep converting additional compute into additional capability. This dissertation asks whether the physical infrastructure required to sustain that wager is technically...

Scaling the Unsustainable? Technical Architecture, Energy Sustainability, and Scalability Constraints in Multinational AI Data Center Megaprojects

The contemporary expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) rests on a wager that computational scaling laws will keep converting additional compute into additional capability. This dissertation asks whether the physical infrastructure required to sustain that wager is technically...

Doctrinal Alignment Between American Democratic Socialism and Marxist Communism: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Policy Positions and Their Anticipated Political, Economic, and Social Consequences

Public debate increasingly equates American democratic socialism with Marxist communism, yet this equation is rarely subjected to systematic, evidence-based measurement. This dissertation examines the degree to which the documented policy positions of the Democratic Socialists of...

The Establishment of Communist Governments: A Comparative-Historical and Quantitative Analysis of Onset Mechanisms Across the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Global South

This dissertation asks how communist governments were established across roughly thirty polities between 1917 and 1979, and why some of the resulting party-states endured for decades while others collapsed within a generation. Its organizing premise is that “communist takeover” i...

The Establishment of Communist Governments: A Comparative-Historical and Quantitative Analysis of Onset Mechanisms Across the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Global South

This dissertation asks how communist governments were established across roughly thirty polities between 1917 and 1979, and why some of the resulting party-states endured for decades while others collapsed within a generation. Its organizing premise is that “communist takeover” i...