Browsing by Subject "South Carolina"
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An Assessment of Renewable Portfolio Standards and Potential for Expansion in the Southeastern United States
(2012-04-20)We currently face a tremendous challenge to transition away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels as our primary energy source to more sustainable and cleaner options, including renewable energy. A Renewable Portfolio Standard ... -
Denouncing White Privilege and Re-examining Marginality: Productions and Consequences of Difference between Travelers and non-Travelers in North Augusta, SC
(2013-04-24)Can a group of affluent whites be considered marginal? This ethnographic study seeks to explore that question through the thoughtful consideration of the position of a group of Irish Travelers in a mid-size southern town. ... -
Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care?
(J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2013-01)BACKGROUND: In rebalancing from nursing homes (NHs), states are increasing access of NH-certified dually eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) patients to community waiver programs and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ... -
Exploring Hospice Live Discharges in the Carolinas
(2021)High and variable rates of patients leaving hospice before death have increasingly caught the attention of health services researchers. Found to be associated with poorer patient outcomes and higher medical expenditures, ... -
Five-year survival in a Program of All-inclusive Care for Elderly compared with alternative institutional and home- and community-based care.
(J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2010-07)BACKGROUND: Community-based services are preferred to institutional care for people requiring long-term care (LTC). States are increasing their Medicaid waiver programs, although Program of All-Inclusive Care For Elderly ... -
Refining Slavery, Defining Freedom: Slavery and Slave Governance in South Carolina, 1670-1747
(2012)This dissertation examines the changing concepts and experiences of slavery and freedom in South Carolina from its founding in 1670 through 1747, a period during which the legal status of "slave" became solidified in law. ... -
Statewide Longitudinal Progression of the Whole-Patient Measure of Safety in South Carolina.
(Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality, 2018-09)Meaningful improvement in patient safety encompasses a vast number of quality metrics, but a single measure to represent the overall level of safety is challenging to produce. Recently, Perla et al. established the Whole-Person ... -
Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development.
(Global change biology, 2015-02)Reforestation of formerly cultivated land is widely understood to accumulate above- and belowground detrital organic matter pools, including soil organic matter. However, during 40 years of study of reforestation in the ... -
Testing the Rusted Chain: Cherokees, Carolinians, and the War for the American Southeast, 1756-1763
(2011)In 1760, when British victory was all but assured and hostilities in the northeastern colonies of North America came to an end, the future of the southeastern colonies was not nearly so clear. British authorities in the ... -
Uncle Sam on the Family Farm: Farm Policy and the Business of Southern Agriculture, 1933-1965
(2013)This dissertation examines federal farm policy between 1933 and 1965 and its implementation in North and South Carolina. It argues that restricted economic democracy in the Farm State - the full array of agriculture ...
