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Local Food Production and Institutional Purchasing: Assessing Producer Consumer Relationships at Duke University
(2011-04-29)Green purchasing policies are one aspect of campus sustainability that has been receiving increasingly more interest at Duke University in the past three years. Concurrently, locally supported food systems have been ... -
Local Government Recycling Program Attributes Associated with Recyclable Material Recovery
(2009-04-23)This study was designed to describe the relationship between specific local government solid waste and recycling program attributes and recyclable material recovery. The characteristics of solid waste and recycling programs ... -
Local Motion And Local Accuracy In Protein Backbone
(2006-09)Proteins are chemically simple molecules, being unbranched polymers of uncomplicated organic compounds. Nonetheless, they fold up into a dazzling variety of complex and beautiful configurations with a dizzying array of ... -
Local Perceptions, Traditional Cultural and Religious Beliefs and Practices on Umbilical Cord Care in Tharu Community of Nepal: A cross sectional study
(2017)Globally, neonatal sepsis accounts for 15% of neonatal death, and nearly half (48%) of neonatal deaths in Nepal. Interventions such as Chlorhexidine (CHX) gel for umbilical cord care have been widely implemented in Nepal ... -
Local Real-Time Forecasting of Ozone Exposure using Temperature Data
(2017-05-08)Rigorous and prompt assessment of ambient ozone exposure is important for inform- ing the public about ozone levels that may lead to adverse health effects. In this paper, we make use of hierarchical modeling to forecast ... -
Local Wetland Protection in the Hudson Valley
(2010-04-29)A 2001 US Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act by eliminating federal authority over isolated wetlands has shifted the burden for regulating wetlands to states and local governments. ... -
Locales and Mechanisms of TrkB Activation Within Hippocampus
(2014)Understanding the mechanisms of limbic epileptogenesis in cellular and molecular terms may provide novel therapeutic targets for its prevention. The neurotrophin receptor tropomyosin-related kinase B (TrkB) is thought to ... -
Localization of Dynamic Acoustic Sources with a Maneuverable Array
(2010)This thesis addresses the problem of source localization and time-varying spatial spectrum estimation with maneuverable arrays. Two applications, each having different environmental assumptions and array geometries, are ... -
Localized Correlation Analysis and Genetic Association with Cardiovascular Disease
(2010)Variations in gene expression are potential risk factors for atherosclerosis, which is one of the most common forms of cardiovascular disease. We performed a localized Pearson correlation test in 372 individuals from seven ... -
Localized DNA Computation
(2017)Recently, solution-based systems for DNA computation have demonstrated the enormous potential of DNA nanosystems to do computation at the molecular-scale. These use DNA strands to encode values and use DNA hybridization ... -
Location Choice and the Value of Spatially Delineated Amenities
(2008-04-25)In the first chapter of this dissertation, I outline a hedonic equilibrium model that explicitly controls for moving costs and forward-looking behavior. Hedonic equilibrium models allow researchers to recover willingness ... -
Location-Aware Protocols for Energy-Efficient Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2009)Advances in the miniaturization of microelectromechanical components have led to battery powered and inexpensive sensor nodes, which can be networked in an ad hoc manner to perform distributed sensing and information ... -
Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta Caretta) Interactions in Pelagic Longline Swordfish Fisheries: A Comparison of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Transitions Zones
(2008-04-23)While many factors have contributed to the decline of worldwide sea turtle populations, longline fishing, in particular, has received a significant amount of attention in the past decade. However, there are still many ... -
Lois Mailou Jones, Diasporic Art Practice, and Africa in the 20th Century
(2013)This dissertation, Loïs Mailou Jones, Diasporic Art Practice, and Africa in the 20th Century, investigates the evolving dialogue between twentieth-century African-American artists and Africa--its objects, peoples, diasporas, ... -
The Long History of Policing Black Durham
(2016-05-05)This is a story that I have had unique access to as a concerned community member and student. While I could have focused on one specific moment, this thesis surveys a variety of key periods throughout Durham’s past in ... -
The Long History of Policing Black Durham
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Long-term changes in community composition and exotic species invasion in a restored wetland in North Carolina
(2012-04-26)Wetland systems are highly productive and provide an estimated $33 trillion per year in ecosystem services. However, wetland ecosystems are one of the most anthropogenically altered natural systems in the United States, ... -
Long-Term Contracts and Predicting Performance in MLB
(2017-06-02)In this paper, I examine whether MLB teams are capable of using players’ past performance data to sufficiently estimate future production. The study is motivated by the recent trend by which teams have increasingly signed ... -
The Longest Transference: Self-Consolation and Politics in Latin Philosophical Literature
(2014)This dissertation identifies Cicero's <italic>Consolatio</italic>, Seneca's <italic>Ad Polybium de consolatione</italic>, and Boethius' <italic>De consolatione Philosophiae</italic> as self-consolations, in which these ... -
Longitudinal analysis of historical seabird bycatch data in the North Pacific
(2018-04-26)Historical ecology is used by researchers to help understand how past interactions between people and their environment have shaped contemporary conditions. Though recent science has responded to the many management ...
