Browsing by Subject "policy"
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A Decade On: Systematic Review of ClinicalTrials.gov Infectious Disease Trials, 2007-2017.
(Open forum infectious diseases, 2019-06)Background:Registration of interventional trials of Food and Drug Administration-regulated drug and biological products and devices became a legal requirement in 2007; the vast majority of these trials are registered in ... -
A Policy Analysis of No Hit Zones: What are barriers to No Hit Zone implementation?
(2018-12-05)No Hit Zones (NHZs) represent a new policy to prevent corporal punishment and to ensure healthy environments for children and their families. NHZs designate spaces where no hitting of any kind is tolerated and serve as an ... -
A Watershed Protection Audit of Development Policy in Raleigh, North Carolina
(2008-04-22)The city of Raleigh, North Carolina, is growing by leaps and bounds. In July 2007, it became the 50th largest city in the country, and city planners estimate that the population of Raleigh may grow more than 70 percent by ... -
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 ... -
Analysis of Global Sea Level Rise Impact and Adaptation Risk Assessments
(2011-04-28)Global sea levels currently are rising and will continue to rise far into the future. This rise engenders significant risks to life and the environment, as it creates negative physical, economic, and societal impacts across ... -
Annual Trends in Plastics Policy: A Brief
(2022-02-23)In 2020, the Plastics Policy Inventory and accompanying report, 20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem, were published, providing a baseline for the trends in government responses to the ... -
Commercializing Kelp: Marketing and Growth Strategies for the Crop of the Future
(2022-04-22)Domestic kelp as a cultivated crop and as a consumer good in the US faces a variety of hurdles as it scales to meet the demands of the US market. Atlantic Sea Farms (ASF) has led the way in establishing kelp in the US and ... -
Commercializing Kelp: Marketing and Growth Strategies for the Crop of the Future
(2022-04-22)Domestic kelp as a cultivated crop and as a consumer good in the US faces a variety of hurdles as it scales to meet the demands of the US market. Atlantic Sea Farms (ASF) has led the way in establishing kelp in the US and ... -
Cookstove Interventions in Developing Countries: Designing Tools for Effective Program Evaluation
(2011-05-02)Approximately half of the world’s population depends on biomass and coal as fuel for household energy. Burning these fuels in traditional cookstoves creates detrimental social, health, and environmental impacts that can ... -
Dire Straits: The American Canadian Dispute Over the Northwest Passage and a Policy Recommendation to Improve Arctic Security
(2014-12-11)Global climate change is thawing the Arctic, opening once impassable northern waterways and presenting new challenges for Canada and the United States as maritime traffic in the region increases. A longstanding legal dispute ... -
Economic Structure and Performance
(1986)This festschrift, featuring 26 papers by 36 authors, is a fitting tribute to Hollis Chenery who, for over three decades, has been one of the luminaries of development economics. Most of the issues he brought into focus, ... -
Essays on Population, Environment and Development
(2018)Ecological factors and the policy environment are central constraints on population well-being. This dissertation emphasizes the role of shocks to help understand the nature of such constraints, and explores the relationship ... -
Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Domestic Policy Portfolios for Emissions Abatement in the Electricity Sector
(2009-04-24)Increased scientific certainty about anthropogenic climate change coupled with the Obama administration taking office has the United States poised to enact legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Studies have suggested ... -
Examining the Crack Epidemic and Subsequent Drug Policy through Identifying Trends in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment for Crack Use/Abuse: 1995-2005
(Journal of Equity in Health, 2014-02)Disparities in the crack/cocaine discourse have changed drastically since its inception over 30 years ago. Since the late 1980s, research examining this particular abuse has become more complex as both nationally and globally ... -
Finding Opportunities for Pre-Compliance Species Conservation in North Carolina
(2013-04-25)Pre-compliance conservation involves landowners working cooperatively with conservation managers to conserve imperiled yet unprotected species. This strategy has the potential to conserve many species by bypassing a long ... -
Finding Opportunities for Pre-Compliance Species Conservation in North Carolina
(2013-04-25)POLICY QUESTION: Which pre-compliance conservation strategies have the greatest potential to conserve multiple unprotected species in North Carolina? BACKGROUND: Pre-compliance conservation involves landowners working ... -
Fixing the Form: Improving Individualized Education Programs in North Carolina
(2013-04-17)Executive Summary Policy Problem: Special education services for children in North Carolina schools are highly dependent upon the development of individualized education programs, or IEPs. In fact, without an IEP in ... -
Impact of Racial Resentment on Public Opinion of Voter ID Laws
(2017-05-04)Voter identification laws in the United States are a controversial and often misunderstood issue. Previous research has found that public opinion of voter identification laws is influenced by views of race and racial framing. ... -
Improving the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers in Rural Rwanda
(2016-04-25)The objective of this paper is to improve the quality of rural education in Rwanda. It examines a single issue in this sector, that of problems with recruiting and retaining skilled teachers. Rural life is hard in a variety ...
