Energy efficient technologies are a major tool for reducing electricity usage as well as
greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, serious market barriers impede the diffusion of these
solutions. Many utilities offer ...
Efforts to diversify electric generation technology and fuel sources have received increased attention from state and federal policy makers. To what end and at what cost electric generation diversity should be pursued has ...
<p>Malaria remains one of the world's most significant global health challenges. Claiming nearly a million lives each year in Africa alone, this continent bears an especially large part of the malaria disease burden, and ...
To examine general population trends of large whales in South Georgia waters, two opportunistic data sets of large whale sightings from 1991-2010 around South Georgia were analyzed: the South Georgia Museum log of whale ...
Participatory approaches to watershed management have been touted as more effective
than traditional command-and-control approaches, yet evaluations of their success have
been limited. This master’s project develops a ...
<p>Purpose: Pre-treatment IMRT and VMAT QA techniques are often commissioned without knowledge of their sensitivity to clinically relevant delivery errors. The purpose of this work is to develop a method to quantify the ...
Child diarrhea is one of the primary causes of infant death in the world. It affects poor populations in developing countries who do not have access to clean water or sanitation. Due to the limited resources that can be ...
Increased scientific certainty about anthropogenic climate change coupled with the Obama administration taking office has the United States poised to enact legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Studies have ...
The ethanol industry has experienced explosive growth in the past several years due to concerns about oil dependence and climate change. However, sentiment has begun to shift against corn ethanol due to increasing food ...
In the last century, the electric power market has been transformed to be more competitive around U.S. Several states have deregulated the industry and expect lower energy prices and higher social benefits to result. ...
“Small wind” is defined as wind-powered electric generators with rated capacities of 100 kilowatts (kW) or less. Compared with utility-scale wind systems, small wind enjoys many economic and social advantages including ...
Marine reserves, in which exploitation of marine organisms and other human activities are restricted or prohibited, can be valuable tools for marine conservation and fisheries management. No-take marine reserves support ...
<p>Humans are more carnivorous than other hominoids. It has been hypothesized that, during the evolution of this increased carnivory, hominins transitioned through a scavenging niche made viable by certain carnivoran taxa ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the evidence-based practice movement and its implications for the realm of public health. The paper first described the evidence-based practice movement and examined its pros and ...
This paper looks at 187 countries from 1960-2004 and explores the economic indicators of the onset and the severity of civil conflicts, where civil conflicts are described as small clashes that result in 25 or more battle ...
Recurring energy and economic crises promote legislation and government action focused on the development of domestic energy sources to alleviate foreign dependency and create jobs for a rising percentage of unemployed ...
States developed Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs) in the mid 1990s to promote the
redevelopment of contaminated properties within state boundaries. Employing a variety of
mechanisms and incentives to help overcome ...
USAID Forward has spurred development assistance implementers to consider how USAID’s new priorities will impact international non-governmental organizations (INGOs)’ monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices. The purpose ...
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, our client for this masters project, is evaluating how best to transition from a primarily single-species management approach to an integrated multi-species management paradigm. ...
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, our client for this masters project, is evaluating how best to transition from a primarily single-species management approach to an integrated multi-species management paradigm. ...