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Crackpots on Parade: The Nether Side of Genius & Transgressive Deconstructions
(2010)For four years, as editor of The Faculty Forum, a campus wide monthly publication at Duke University, I filled empty space in my pages with the following items of scholarly research. To liven the tone, I invented a coeditor ... -
Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: Assessing the Literature since the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
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Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change
(Journal of Institutional Economics, 2011-09-01)Most powerful analytical tools used in the social sciences are well suited for studying static situations. Static and mechanistic analysis, however, is not adequate to understand the changing world in which we live. In order ... -
Creating a Business Plan for Assateague Island National Seashore and The Startup of a Nonprofit Friends Group
(2008-04-25)Assateague Island National Seashore (Seashore) is faced with significant financial challenges. As a management consultant over an eleven week period, I worked with park staff to produce a business plan that clearly outlined ... -
Creating a Community Radiology Division: An Academic Radiology Department's 3-Year Experience.
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Creating a Toolkit for Implementing Blue Carbon Projects
(2016-04-28)Blue Carbon is a relatively new term, used to refer to the biological processes by which carbon is stored in coastal ecosystems. There has been a rapid expansion of the literature about blue carbon, particularly as it relates ... -
CREATING A WATER-EFFICIENT FUTURE FOR NORTH CAROLINA
(2009-04-24)North Carolina has become increasingly vulnerable to drought events in recent years as a result of population growth and the effects of climate change. While many western states began managing for water scarcity decades ... -
Creating Clarity: Ethnic and Sexual Politics of United Kingdom's Human Trafficking Discourse
(2011-05-06)Human trafficking has become a prominent political issue in the United Kingdom since 2001, with all major parties in the country agreeing on the importance of abolishing trafficking. However, the political discourse is riddled ... -
Creating Meaning Through Storytelling at the End of Life
(2017-05-08)This thesis will examine how patients, families, and doctors in the United States create narratives around dying. While this study does not focus extensively on narrative theory, it will explore how different people look ... -
Creatinine- versus cystatin C-based renal function assessment in the Northern Manhattan Study.
(PloS one, 2018-01)BACKGROUND:Accurate glomerular filtration rate estimation informs drug dosing and risk stratification. Body composition heterogeneity influences creatinine production and the precision of creatinine-based estimated glomerular ... -
Creation of Versatile Cloning Platforms for Transgene Expression and Epigenome Editing and Their Application to Pancreatic Islet Biology
(2018)Insulin secreting β-cells within the pancreatic islets of Langerhans are vital to maintaining glycemic control. β-cell functional mass is lost during the progression to both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus, resulting ... -
Creative destruction: Karl kraus and the paradox of satire
(Seminar - A Journal of Germanic Studies, 2013-02-01) -
Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions
(2016)A theology of institutions is dependent upon an imagination sparked by the cross and shaped by the hope of the resurrection. Creative destruction is the institutional process of dying so that new life might flourish for ... -
Creative Impulse in the Modern Age: The Embodiment of Anxiety in the Early Poetry of T. S. Eliot (1910-1917)
(2017-05-04)Through focused analysis of T. S. Eliot’s early poetry (1910-1917), this work investigates whether, and if so, how anxiety may be worthwhile or particularly constructive for poetic production in the modern world. In order ... -
Credible Commitments, Credible Threats, and Environmental Policy
(2010)This dissertation includes three articles. In different ways, each focuses on the way credible threats and credible commitments are used to moderate consumption of environmental and natural resources and commons resources ... -
Credible sales mechanisms and intermediaries
(American Economic Review, 2007-03-01)We consider a seller who faces several buyers and lacks access to an institution to credibly close a sale. If buyers anticipate that the seller may negotiate further, they will prefer to wait before making their best and ... -
Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014-12-02)Credit scores are the most widely used instruments to assess whether or not a person is a financial risk. Credit scoring has been so successful that it has expanded beyond lending and into our everyday lives, even to inform ... -
Crime in Shale Counties: A Panel Data Regression Analysis of the Boom Years
(2016-04-28)Shale gas development in rural America provides both benefits and costs to local communities. Crime is often discussed in literature and media as one of the costs associated with the industry’s presence. Few studies, however, ... -
Crime, Policing, and Social Status: Identifying Elusive Mechanisms Using New Statistical Approaches
(2017)Social class is often discussed in crime and social control research but the influence of class in these contexts is not well understood. Stratification studies have identified effects of socioeconomic status on a diverse ... -
Criminal Injustice: Race, Representative Bureaucracy, and New York City’s Criminal Justice System
(2017)Recently, research concerning the United States Criminal Justice System has been dominated by discussions of mass incarceration and deadly acts of police violence. Although there is conflicting evidence regarding the impact ...
