The United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) highlighted in 2008 the existence of nearly 1.5 quadrillion British Thermal Units (“QBtu”, or “quads”) of harvestable waste heat from eight key domestic industries. The key ...
<p>This dissertation presents a quantitative study on the relationship between financial intermediation and the macroeconomy of the United States. It consists of two major chapters, with the first chapter studying adverse ...
This dissertation consists of three related chapters that study financial market volatility,
jumps and the economic factors behind them. Each of the chapters analyzes a
different aspect of this problem.
The first chapter ...
Colombia’s dry forest ecosystem has been greatly reduced and few patches are
left hosting the endemic and endangered Cotton Top Tamarin. The objective of
this Master’s project is to analyze the financial feasibility of ...
The state of New Jersey has one of the more progressive solar energy policies in the nation and is currently second in the United States for total installed capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. This paper ...
Food deserts, or “areas that lack access to affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk, and other foods that make up the full range of a healthy diet” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010), ...
With each Census in the United States, the number of citizens who identify with multiple racial or cultural categories has slowly elevated. Nevertheless, this nation still lacks a language with which to identify such ...
<p>Caregivers of individuals with dementia describe a wide spectrum of caregiving experiences, ranging from very negative to very positive. Previous literature acknowledges these differing experiences, but how and why they ...
POLICY QUESTION:
Which pre-compliance conservation strategies have the greatest potential to conserve multiple unprotected species in North Carolina?
BACKGROUND:
Pre-compliance conservation involves landowners working ...
Pre-compliance conservation involves landowners working cooperatively with conservation managers to conserve imperiled yet unprotected species. This strategy has the potential to conserve many species by bypassing a long ...
The goal of this report, which was commissioned by Kristel Dorion of EnergetixClimate, is to identify present and future opportunities in the U.S. climate change consulting industry. Additionally, this paper endeavors to ...
<p>This dissertation describes the first study of three-body photodisintegration of polarized 3He (γ3He → npp) with a circularly polarized photon beam.</p>
<p>This measurement was carried out at the High ...
Policies surrounding government expenditures and revenues are often concerned with the size of the national public debt and whether it is sustainable or not. In this paper, the recent fiscal trends of 14 OECD nations are ...
<p>This dissertation explores the history of industrial fisheries in the Humboldt Current marine ecosystem where workers, scientists, and entrepreneurs transformed Peru and Chile into two of the top five fishing nations ...
The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention) and its Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) provide a unique ...
Executive Summary
Policy Problem: Special education services for children in North Carolina schools are highly dependent upon the development of individualized education programs, or IEPs. In fact, without an IEP in ...
<p>Flow in a hopper is both a fertile testing ground for understanding fundamental granular flow rheology and industrially highly relevant. Despite increasing research efforts in this area, a comprehensive physical theory ...
<p>This thesis focuses on the fluctuation in the switching current $I_s$ of superconducting Al nanowires. We discovered that the maximum current which nanowires can support is limited by a single phase slip at low temperature. ...
<p>High shear stresses and shear rates in left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) make endothelialization of the LVAD difficult and likely contribute to cleavage of large von Willebrand factor multimers and resulting ...