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Produced Water Spills Related to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in North Dakota
(2017-04-28)Beginning in 2007 unconventional oil production increased dramatically in the region of North Dakota overlying the Bakken shale formation. Since, the North Dakota Department of Health has reported more than 4,000 accidental ... -
Product Market Competition and Real Earnings Management to Meet or Beat Earnings Targets
(2015)Earnings management could be motivated by either managerial opportunism or efficient contracting. To discriminate between these motivations, I use a measure of product market competition that analytical research predicts ... -
Product Portfolio and Brand Extension Effects of Innovation: A Diversification Perspective on Innovation's Ability to Achieve New Value
(2010)Organizational researchers have long considered innovation a critical activity. While insightful regarding the nature of the innovation process and the rewards and risk associated with innovation, prior work has neglected ... -
Product Sustainability at REI
(2016-04-29)Most of the merchandise sold at REI, a premier outdoor gear store, comes from non-private label brands. The Co-op owns four brands: REI, REI Co-op, evrgrn, and Novara. However, REI’s roughly 1,500 non-private brands present ... -
Profits and Poverty: The Impact of Profit Status on the Microfinance Industry
(2013-04-15)Microfinance is the practice of providing small, collateral free loans to the poor. While the microfinance industry was initially comprised of predominantly non-profit institutions, a shift towards for-profits has emerged. ... -
Program Evaluation of BRAC Uganda’s Community Health Sensitization Program
(2012-04-20)BRAC Uganda provided mentors in 12 adolescent groups with megaphones and short health sensitization announcements as part of a community health sensitization program. BRAC instructed mentors to make daily announcements ... -
A Program Evaluation of Connecticut Project Learning Tree Educator Workshops
(2012-04-27)Project Learning Tree (PLT) is a national environmental education curriculum designed to help formal and informal educators integrate environmental education across disciplines and within the context of state curriculum ... -
Program Evaluation of the Denver Police HALO Camera Surveillance System: A Geospatial Statistical Analysis of Crime
(2012-04-17)The Denver Police Department has recently implemented a new high-tech surveillance program to prevent crime throughout the city. The High Activity Location Observation (HALO) cameras are an improvement over traditional ... -
Programmable Assembly of Elastin-like Polypeptides Within Droplet Microenvironments
(2017)Disordered proteins lack a defined secondary and higher order structure, possess a large number of biological functions, and are prevalent throughout nature. One important property of certain disordered proteins in biology ... -
Programming Molecular Devices using Nucleic Acid Hairpins
(2016)Nucleic Acid hairpins have been a subject of study for the last four decades. They are composed of single strand that is hybridized to itself, and the central section forming an unhybridized loop. In nature, they stabilize ... -
A Progress Evaluation of National Geographic’s Geotourism Program
(2012-04-25)National Geographic’s Geotourism Program is a sustainable tourism initiative designed to ease the negative impacts of mass tourism through a branding opportunity and grassroots structure that empowers local stakeholders ... -
A Progress Evaluation of National Geographic's Geotourism Program
(2012-04-27)National Geographic’s Geotourism Program is a sustainable tourism initiative designed to ease the negative impacts of mass tourism through a branding opportunity and grassroots structure that empowers local stakeholders ... -
A Progress Evaluation of National Geographic's Geotourism Program
(2012-04-26)In response to the deleterious effects of traditional mass tourism, National Geographic launched a Geotourism Program in 1997 in an effort to sustain or enhance the geographical character of a place – its environment, ... -
A Progress Evaluation of National Geographic's Geotourism Program
(2012-04-26)National Geographic’s Geotourism Program is a sustainable tourism initiative designed to ease the negative impacts of mass tourism through a branding opportunity and grassroots structure that empowers local stakeholders ... -
Progress in Quantitative MRI and Hyperpolarization NMR Research
(2017)Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) is a non-invasive imaging modality and it does not use ionizing radiation. What is more, MRI provides numerous flexible contrast parameters. Thus, MRI is outstanding in many aspects than ... -
Progressive Knowledge Modeling for Pelvic IMRT/VMAT Treatment Planning
(2014)AbstractIntensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) and Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) have become effective tools for treating cancer with radiation. Designing a high quality IMRT/VMAT treatment plan is time ... -
Project Evaluation of Sustainable Upland Hardwood Management in the U.S. South with the Monetization of Carbon
(2011-04-29)Many studies have demonstrated that working pine forests can be cost-effectively managed to enhance carbon sequestration under various, mostly hypothetical compensation frameworks but none have assessed the creditable ... -
Projected Average Summer Air Temperature Increases and the Implications for Philadelphia's Surface Drinking Water Supply
(2014-12-05)Water managers are faced with numerous uncertainties that need to be addressed in the development of long-term planning initiatives and large-scale investment decisions. One of the primary and perhaps most far-reaching of ... -
PROJECTING ANTHROPOGENIC METHANE EMISSIONS AND POTENTIAL REDUCTION STRATEGIES OF SIX SOURCES IN SIX NATIONS
(2007-05)Methane concentrations in our atmosphere have more than doubled since pre-industrial times. Although the rate of change of global concentrations has recently slowed, studies predict that this stabilization will be ... -
Projecting the Impacts of a Coerced Abstinence Probation Modification Program in North Carolina
(2012-04-21)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY POLICY QUESTION (Page 7) The objective of this paper is to examine whether or not the North Carolina Department of Corrections should adopt a coerced abstinence model of probation modification ...
