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“Women work particularly well in community organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women’s Club, 1939-1940
(2022-01-16)From 1939-1941, the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration conducted a nationwide educational campaign to share the benefits of electricity with rural Americans, known as the “Electric Farm Equipment Show.” A key part ... -
Improving the Sales Training Program in the Mexican Notebook Company “Cuadernos Estrella”
(2022-01-07)The purpose of this research is to devise a new learning strategy to train the sales workforce of the Mexican notebook company “Cuadernos Estrella.” The goal of the Human Resources (HR) department of the company is to standardize ... -
Efficiency analysis for performance evaluation of electric distribution companies
(International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 2022-01-01)In power systems, the electricity distribution sector requires proper regulation to guarantee power supply security, electricity tariffs modicity and universal service to customers. Generally, electric utilities operate ... -
A literacy-based approach to learning visualization with R’s ggplot2 package
(2022)This recipe describes the process for delivering a 2-hour workshop on visualization in R using ggplot2. The workshop is designed to promote literacy around ggplot2 and data visualization creation. Over the course of the ... -
Class Size and Student Performance in a Team-Based Learning Course
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Prediction of Bitcoin prices using Twitter Data and Natural Language Processing
(2021-12-16)The influence of social media platforms like Twitter had long been perceived as a bellwether of Bitcoin Prices. This paper aims to investigate if the tweets can be modeled using two different approaches, namely, the Naïve ... -
Sickness and the social brain: How the immune system regulates behavior across species.
(Brain, behavior and evolution, 2021-12-15)Many instances of sickness critically involve the immune system. The immune system talks to the brain in a bi-directional loop. This discourse affords the immune system immense control, such that it can influence behavior ... -
ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge Forest Inventory and Carbon Stock Analysis
(2021-12-08)The ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is 11,815 acres of critical wildlife habitat in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region. The Refuge contains a mosaic of forest types, including upland pine and hardwood, bottomland ... -
Evaluating the Efficacy of iNaturalist & BioBlitzes as Biological Inventory Tools for Landscape Management
(2021-12-08)Well-informed landscape management decisions rely on accurate data of species presence which is often a resource-intensive and time-consuming effort to collect. Due to limited resources, Duke Forest Management Team has been ... -
Drone Use in Forestry 2021
(2021-12-08)In the last 20 years, advancements in technology, such as remote sensing, have facilitated improvements in forest management. The utilization of one remote sensing tool, in particular, an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone), ... -
Vulnerability to cavitation and response of canopy conductance to root cavitation in five southeastern US pine species
(2021-12-08)Although the Southeastern United States generally receives considerable precipitation and total precipitation has slightly increased, the region has experienced recent recurrent droughts and is anticipated to encounter more ... -
Analysis of aboveground carbon for indigenous communities in Oaxaca, MX
(2021-12-08)Managing forests for carbon is a productive and sustainable way to provide conservation and economic and ecological value. Oaxaca, the most biologically diverse state in Mexico, located in the southwestern region of the ... -
Carbon Gain and Allocation in Five Shade Intolerant Pinus Species
(2021-12-08)Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine), Pinus echinata (shortleaf pine), Pinus taeda (loblolly pine), Pinus elliottii (slash pine), and Pinus palustris (longleaf pine) are five of the most dominant shade-intolerant pine species ... -
A CASE STUDY ON BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES AT W.E. HUNT RECREATION CENTER, TOWN OF HOLLY SPRINGS
(2021-12-04)The Town of Holly Springs, located in Wake County of North Carolina, is interested in improving energy efficiency in municipal operations and facilities to offset increasing energy consumption and utility costs that are ... -
The Academic Impacts on College STEM Achievement of High-Rigor Secondary Courses
(2021-12-03)One of the most common ways that students can prepare themselves for rigorous and competitive STEM careers is by taking high-rigor STEM courses in high school, most likely through advanced placement (AP), international ... -
The Politics of Affirmative Action in North Carolina's Higher Education
(2021-12-03)Race-based affirmative action has been under threat for the past several decades since its rise during the middle of the 20th century. As several Supreme Court cases have upheld and rebuked certain elements of race-conscious ... -
Predicting outcomes after intradetrusor onabotulinumtoxina for non-neurogenic urgency incontinence in women.
(Neurourology and urodynamics, 2021-12-02)<h4>Aims</h4>Develop models to predict outcomes after intradetrusor injection of 100 or 200 units of onabotulinumtoxinA in women with non-neurogenic urgency urinary incontinence (UUI).<h4>Methods</h4>Models were developed ... -
Deep learning classification of COVID-19 in chest radiographs: performance and influence of supplemental training
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A mathematical framework to quantitatively balance clinical and radiation risk in Computed Tomography
(2021-12-01)Purpose: Risk in medical imaging is a combination of radiation risk and clinical risk, which is largely driven by the effective diagnosis. While radiation risk has traditionally been the main focus of Computed Tomography ...
