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Browsing by Subject "North Carolina"
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“100 Dollars and Other Valuable Considerations”
(2022-04-20)Land and homeownership are topics of much debate, concern, and intervention in modern Black political thought. Discussion of Black land loss, while longitudinal in scope, often places the origins of Black land ownership ... -
A Bottom-Up Model of Residential Electricity Demand in North and South Carolina
(2017-04-28)Residential electricity is a significant component of total electricity use in the United States, and the residential market is also a key demographic for energy efficiency (EE) and distributed generation growth. Uncertainty ... -
A community-based intervention increases physical activity and reduces obesity in school-age children in North Carolina.
(Child Obes, 2015-06)BACKGROUND: Community-based interventions are promising approaches to obesity prevention, but few studies have prospectively evaluated them. The aim of this study was to evaluate a natural experiment—a community intervention ... -
A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center.
(PloS one, 2019-01)Scientific study of lemurs, a group of primates found only on Madagascar, is crucial for understanding primate evolution. Unfortunately, lemurs are among the most endangered animals in the world, so there is a strong impetus ... -
A Farm-to-School Program Review and Implementation Guide for North Carolina Public School Parents Case Study: E.K. Powe Elementary School | Durham, North Carolina
(2010-04-29)Farm to School is a phrase used to describe programs that connect locally-grown foods to schools (Farm to School, 2009). The medium that provides this connection varies, but it is typically made through school gardens, ... -
A Guide to Sustainable Development Down East
(2007-05)Coastal North Carolina is facing a crisis. Small towns up and down the coast are facing development pressures, population booms, environmental degradation, and loss of the working waterfront and traditional cultures. The ... -
A Holistic Approach to Reducing Plastic Marine Debris in Coastal North Carolina
(2011-04-29)Affecting waters and coastlines worldwide, plastic marine debris is a pervasive issue that continues to intensify. It threatens wildlife, habitats, and ecosystem functioning, as well as coastal tourism and recreation. This ... -
A MULTICRITERIA FRAMEWORK TO EXTEND THE NORTH CAROLINA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM’S CONSERVATION PLANNING TOOL
(2009-04-23)The protection of natural communities is essential to preserving biodiversity and wildlife habitat across an increasingly developed and fragmented landscape. The North Carolina Natural Heritage Program has produced a scoring ... -
A POLICY-ORIENTED ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE WINTER BLUEFIN TUNA FISHERY IN BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA
(2005)In the mid-1990s, sport fishermen from the Outer Banks of North Carolina stumbled upon a winter population of bluefin tuna in the shallow waters near shore. Each winter since then, fishermen have braved icy waters and frigid ... -
A Review of NOAA's Incidental Take Permit (ITP) Process
(2021-04-28)The Endangered Species Act is considered the world’s most powerful piece of legislation. The purpose of the Act is to protect and recover imperiled species and the ecosystems they depend on. To achieve these goals, U.S. ... -
A Roadmap to the New Rural Electric Cooperative Business Model
(2017-04-27)In North Carolina today, rural electric cooperatives provide electricity to 26% of the state’s population. Conducted for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), this project aims to assess the services that these cooperatives ... -
Accelerated epigenetic age as a biomarker of cardiovascular sensitivity to traffic-related air pollution.
(Aging, 2020-12)<h4>Background</h4>Accelerated epigenetic age has been proposed as a biomarker of increased aging, which may indicate disruptions in cellular and organ system homeostasis and thus contribute to sensitivity to environmental ... -
Adapting to Sea-level Rise: Where North Carolina Stands
(2014-04-21)In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their 4th assessment report which provided indisputable evidence that the world climate is warming, leading to changes in sea-level caused by two factors: melting ... -
Age of first drunkenness and risks for all-cause mortality: A 27-year follow-up from the epidemiologic catchment area study.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2017-07)Early-onset drunkenness is associated with an increased risk of developing an alcohol use disorder (AUD), which predicts excess mortality risk. Here, we estimated mortality risk for drinkers with and without early drunkenness.For ... -
Amygdala volume changes in posttraumatic stress disorder in a large case-controlled veterans group.
(Arch Gen Psychiatry, 2012-11)CONTEXT: Smaller hippocampal volumes are well established in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but the relatively few studies of amygdala volume in PTSD have produced equivocal results. OBJECTIVE: To assess a large cohort ... -
AN ANALYSIS OF TAP WATER QUALITY IN NORTH CAROLINA
(2011-04-27)Drinking water, including water from public water systems and private well systems, are expected to contain some levels of contaminants. This project focuses on the water quality of the Public Water Systems (PWSs) in North ... -
AN EVALUATION OF NEST RELOCATION AS A LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE (Caretta caretta) MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE IN NORTH CAROLINA
(2003)A network of volunteers, under the guidance of the North Carolina Sea Turtle Protection Program, monitors and protects loggerhead nests laid on state beaches. Although volunteers are encouraged to allow nest incubation to ... -
An Examination of PFAS for North Carolina Policymakers and Researchers
(2021-04-30)This Master’s Project aims to explore factors impacting the occurrence, distribution, toxicology and remediation of PFAS – a type of emerging contaminant – in North Carolina’s water. Research methods utilized include a literature ... -
An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC
(2022-04-15)How can interpreting the regional history of the lower Deep River region of North Carolina inform land conservation for future generational use, education, and recreation? I explore the Lower Deep River Region, NC, and its ... -
An Inventory of the Wetlands Impacted by the U.S. Navy's Proposed OLF Site in Gates County, North Carolina
(2009-04-24)The US Navy has proposed construction of an Outlying Landing Field (OLF) for carrier-landing practice, at one of five potential sites in North Carolina and Virginia. The proposed Sandbanks site in Gates County, NC is opposed ...
