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Scaling Up Payment for Watershed Services Programs in the Upper Neuse River Basin: A Feasibility Analysis and Guidance Framework

Reyes, June; Martin, Andrea; Swanson, Kaola (2012-04-27)

The Falls Lake Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its designated use for aquatic life. ...
Scaling Up Payment for Watershed Services Programs In the Upper Neuse River Basin: A Feasibility Analysis and Guidance Framework

Martin, Andrea; Swanson, Kaola (2012-04-27)

The Falls Lake Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its designated use for aquatic life. ...
Scaling Up Payment for Watershed Services Programs in the Upper Neuse River Basin: A Feasibility Analysis and Guidance Framework

Martin, Andrea; Reyes, June; Swanson, Kaola (2012-04-27)

The Falls Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its classified use. To retain its designated ...
School Support for Spanish-Speaking Immigrant Youth: Challenges and Opportunities for the East Durham Children's Initiative

Gordon, Anne Marie (2010-12)

The extraordinary increase in Hispanic immigration to the United States has led to a demographic shift in student enrollment at Durham Public Schools. Schools in the district demonstrate below-average passing rates on ...
Schwarzsein, Weißsein, Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counter-discourses in German Film After 1950

Eley, Michelle René (2012)

This dissertation uses film to explore shifts in conceptions of race, cultural identity, and national belonging in Germany from the 1950s West Germany to contemporary reunified Germany. Through the analysis of several ...
The Science of Senescence: Functional and Structural Factors in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging

Davis, Simon Wilton (2011)

The field of aging research has shifted further and further away from the use of unitary models to explain age-related differences in behavior, in favor of multifactor models that attempt to capture the multifarious set ...
Scoring Evolution and Creationism

Anderson, Scott (2011-12)

From 2002 to 2006, Cobb County, Georgia placed controversial stickers on high school biology textbooks which were critical of evolution. This study uses the differences-in-differences method to analyze what effects the ...
Screening for Cervical Cancer in HIV Positive Kenyan Women: the Role of HPV Genotyping

Dainty, Erin E. (2013)

Problem: Among HIV positive women in Kenya, cervical cancer has the highest incidence of any malignancy. In order to create effective screening strategies for both the primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer ...
Scriblerian Ethics: Encounters in Satiric Metamorphosis

Knight, William (2009)

"Scriblerian Ethics" proposes that the aesthetic and ethical standpoint of the writings of the Scriblerians (Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Oxford, Parnell) can be better understood through an attunement to their orientation ...
Seabird foraging in dynamic oceanographic features

Thorne, Lesley Helen (2010)

Oceanographic features, such as fronts, eddies, and upwellings, provide important foraging areas for marine predators. These areas serve as important "hotspots" of marine life, by aggregating weakly swimming lower and ...
Sea Level Rise Education and Outreach for Coastal North Carolina

Dziuba, Catherine (2011-04-25)

Environmental education and outreach are vital for preparing North Carolina to cope with impending sea level rise and the large number of risks it presents to the state’s coastal communities. The North Carolina Coastal ...
A Sea of Debt: Histories of Commerce and Obligation in the Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1940

Bishara, Fahad Ahmad (2012)

This dissertation is a legal history of debt and economic life in the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. It draws on materials from Bahrain, Muscat, Bombay, Zanzibar and London to examine ...
The Search for New/Unknown Signals

Chen, Yuming Morris (2011)

This dissertation focuses on a very special topic in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in solution: Intermolecular Multiple Quantum Coherences, or iMQCs, which can only be created by intermolecular dipolar ...
Searching for Eastern Old Growth: Modeling Primary Forest in Western North Carolina Using Terrain Attributes and Multispectral Satellite Imagery

Hushaw, Jennifer (2010-12-10)

After centuries of timber harvest and conversion of forest to farmland and development, only small pockets of old growth forest remain in the eastern United States. These remnant portions of older forest have intrinsic ...
Searching for Solutions that Stick: U.S. Media Attention on Climate Change 2007 – 2011

Chistik Hantel, Katya (2012-04-27)

Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, and though cohesive solutions remain elusive, U.S. media attention on climate change is decreasing. This master’s project examines how media ...
Seasonality in Equatorial Cloud Forest Birds

Hardesty, Jessica Lanzl (2008-12-12)

This thesis examines the dynamics of cloud forest bird communities along an altitudinal gradient on the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes. Specifically, I examined the seasonality of breeding, investigated a novel ...
Seasonal Volatility of Corn Futures Prices

Seeley, Caleb (2009)

This paper examines the seasonal patterns evident in the volatility of corn futures prices. It adds to the high-frequency volatility literature by exploring large price discontinuities (jumps), and both the continuous and ...
Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621

Kelley, Shannon Elizabeth (2009)

<bold>Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621 </bold> Current scholarship on months, seasons, and climates in Renaissance aesthetics has developed along the ...
Sea, the Value: Quantifying the value of marine life to divers

White, Lisa (2008-04-23)

Contemporary wildlife conservation is often promoted through market-mechanisms. The logic behind this approach is that wildlife must ‘pay its way’ if it is to be conserved. While this approach can be critiqued from a ...
Sea Turtle Damage and Bycatch in North Carolina's Blue Crab Fishery

Avissar, Naomi (2006)

In North Carolina’s sounds, loggerhead sea turtles are causing significant economic problems for blue crab fishermen by damaging crab pots, stealing bait, and reducing crab catch. This may be causing the fishermen to ...