Browsing by Subject "Community"
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A Comprehensive Needs Assessment to Identify Priority Program Targets for Mosquito Vector Control and related Diseases in Belmopan, Belize
(2017)This was a mixed-methods study aimed to comprehensively assess factors associated with mosquito control in Belmopan, Belize, in order to better inform stakeholders on the effectiveness of their efforts. A knowledge, attitudes, ... -
An Evaluation of Societal Implications of Environmental Education through the Integration of Indigenous and Westernized Practices in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina
(2014-04-22)Indigenous knowledge is valuable within localized cultures, but it has been historically under-represented in Westernized programs and systems. The knowledge from indigenous cultures offers many valuable practices that could ... -
Assessment of a Regional Community and Conservation Collaborative: The AP3C
(2010-04-29)The Albemarle-Pamlico region of North Carolina has a unique environmental and social history with vast natural resources. In 2006, several conservation and community groups formed the Albemarle-Pamlico Conservation and ... -
Building Church Community in a Digital Age
(2019)This paper examines how individuals’ social interactions are influenced by the media environments they inhabit (Media Ecology) and the consequent impact on the practice of developing community in the local church (Ecclesiology). ... -
Causes and functional consequences of denitrifying bacteria community structure in streams affected to varying degrees by watershed urbanization
(2011)Human welfare depends heavily on ecosystem services like water purification and nutrient cycling. Many of these ecosystem services, in turn, rely on reactions performed by microbes and yet remarkably little is known about ... -
Civic Friendship and Democracy: Past and Present Perspectives
(2015)My dissertation seeks to clarify the stakes of recent calls to increase civic friendship in our communities by initiating a conversation between contemporary and historical theoretical work about the requirements and consequences ... -
Community Bonding: Rebuilding Duke University and Durham, North Carolina to Promote Sexual Autonomy
(2019-12-19)My central question asks how universities can engage with local communities to work towards increased sexual safety on campuses. Specifically, I first argue that universities can improve sexual safety on campuses ... -
Inclusion of the Autism Population in Churches, Schools and Communities
(2021)AbstractThere is a population of individuals classified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This group of people should be included in places of worship, the schools they attend and the communities where they reside. ... -
Inclusion of the Autism Population in Churches, Schools and Communities
(2021)AbstractThere is a population of individuals classified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This group of people should be included in places of worship, the schools they attend and the communities where they reside. ... -
Leadership for Thriving: A Framework to Lead the Business Community to Sustainable Behaviors
(2023-04-25)Climate change is a complex problem whose solution is still far from being on track. Although we have advanced a lot in terms of knowledge and awareness of the problem, we are struggling to transition to sustainable actions. ... -
Mapping a Poorhouse and Pauper Cemetery as Community Engaged Memory Work
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Neighborhood Associations and Social Capital
(Social Forces, 2016)In the United States, the past 50 years have witnessed a remarkable expansion of formal associations in residential neighborhoods, including homeowners associations, condo associations, crime watch groups, tenant associations, ... -
Protecting and Serving: What Actually Matters to Young, Black Men in Durham, North Carolina
(2021)Young Black men in neighborhoods with high levels of poverty and intensive policing have a greater risk of violent death—both at the hands of civilians and police—than any other demographic group in the United States. Yet, ... -
Re-Membering Redemption: Bearing Witness to the Transformation of Suffering
(2012)My subject is the redemption of profound suffering. I begin with the presumption that there is no suffering beyond the redemptive reach of God's grace. Drawing on insights from a number of academic disciplines, as well ... -
Solar Savings as a Step Toward Economic Stability
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The Art of Distances or, A Morality for the Everyday
(2010)The Art of Distances or, a Morality for the Everyday shows how British, French and German writers have dramatized the dilemmas of the ethical life with others in the twentieth century, and taken up the challenge of imagining ... -
The Poetics of Labor: Visions of Work and Community in England, 1730-1890
(2019)The Poetics of Labor argues for a reconsideration of how manual labor functions within poetic texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. As scholarship over the last forty years and onward has demonstrated, ... -
‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827
(2019)“‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827” examines the various ways ordinary people, legal officials, lawmakers, and editors negotiated the ...
