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Multi-Objective GIS Analysis for Avoided Conversion Carbon Credits and Biodiversity Conservation
(2019-12-06)This project develops a unique methodology in identifying individual tax parcels in North Carolina as possible locations for generating avoided conversion carbon offset credits, as well as including co-benefits such as ecological ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics and Entrepreneurship
(2019)This dissertation is comprised of three chapters in macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, and heterogeneous agent models. In the first chapter, I answer two main questions --- What are the empirical facts regarding entrepreneurial ... -
Harnessing the Reactivity of Sulfamate Esters and Sulfamides to Enable Position-Selective C-H Halogenation Processes
(2019)Synthetic technologies that enable transformation of typically inert carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds into diverse functional groups have streamlined access to complex molecules. These processes, defined as C–H functionalization ... -
The Modernization of Honor in Eighteenth-Century Political Theory
(2019)In this dissertation, I investigate the efforts in eighteenth-century political theory to modernize the sense of honor. Contrary to the belief that influential thinkers of this century—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, ... -
Using CRISPR/Cas9 Screens to Define Organizing Principles that Govern Drug Sensitivity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
(2020)In 2019, the cornerstone of the clinical management of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is chemotherapy. In fact, for the majority of patients diagnosed with AML, their best chance at achieving complete remission is a regimen ... -
Forecasted Afrotropical Forest Responses to Climate Change Diverge from Neotropical Predictions with Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Storage
(2019)Understanding how tropical forests respond to changes in the abiotic environment and human disturbance is critical for preserving biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and maintaining ecosystem services in the coming ... -
Using Life Course Perspective in Making Health Care Decisions in Later life among older Korean Immigrants
(2019)As life expectancy continues to increase in the coming years, the promotion of quality of life in older adults, especially at the end of their lives, grows in importance. Thus, many studies have begun to focus on end of ... -
Identifying Neural, Genetic, and Behavioral Correlates of the p Factor
(2019)Accumulating mental health research encourages a shift in focus towards transdiagnostic dimensional features that are shared across categorical disorders. In support of this shift, recent studies have identified a general ... -
To Eat or Not to Eat: An Investigation of Meal Skipping on Cognitive Functioning
(2018)Inadequate nutrition has been shown to adversely impact brain development and cognitive functioning (Pollitt, Lewis, Garza, & Shulman, 1983). Unhealthy eating practices are frequently formed in college-aged samples; individuals ... -
Development and Piloting of an Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use and Improve Family Engagement Among Fathers in Kenya
(2020)Problem drinking accounts for 9.6% of disability-adjusted life years worldwide, and disproportionally affects men with disabling physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences. These can lead to a cascade of negative ... -
The Role of Cognitive Deficits in Vulnerability to Depression and Anxiety: An Individual Differences and Neuroimaging Approach
(2019)Mood and anxiety disorders are heterogenous disorders that display complex symptom presentations. While cognitive deficits have been demonstrated in meta-analyses of currently depressed individuals (Snyder, 2013), a number ... -
Do sex differences affect behavioral thermoregulatory strategies in lemur species?
(2013)Thermoregulation is the ability for an animal to maintain its internal body temperature. Due to the high costs of regulating temperature physiologically, behavioral thermoregulation is more energy efficient. While previous ... -
Retrospective analysis of the embayment in the Rachel Carson Estuarine Research Reserve from 1998 to current
(2019-08-16)The Rachel Carson Estuarine Research Reserve in Beaufort, NC has been a highly monitored and researched area due to its proximity to the Duke Marine Lab, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Beaufort Lab, and ... -
The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Health Care Access, Utilization, and Health
(2017-12-06)Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 32 states expanded Medicaid coverage to include adults with household incomes up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level. Today, Medicaid remains a subject of intense state and federal budgetary ... -
Fake News as a Threat to the Democratic Media Environment: Past Conditions of Media Regulation and Their Contemporary Applicability to New Media in the United States of America and South Korea
(2018-12)This study uses a comparative case study policy analysis to evaluate whether the media regulation standards the governments of the United States of America and South Korea used in the past apply to fake news on social media ... -
Model Illegal Alien: How Undocumented Asian Americans “Deserve” Citizenship
(2019-04-15)This thesis explores how DACA and the model minority stereotype affect self and public perceptions of undocumented Asian American immigrants. An undocumented Asian American immigrant was interviewed in depth about their ... -
The Company You Keep: The Relationship between Friendship Qualities and Mental Health among Undergraduates
(2019-04)Prior research has shown that stress and mental illnesses increase during college years. Strong social support may contribute to better mental health while weak social support may exacerbate mental illnesses. Because college ... -
Stories for Success: Culturally-Driven Maternal Influences on Children’s Language Development
(2019-04)Maternal speech holds a pivotal role in infant language development. Mothers differ cross-culturally in terms of responding to infant inquiries for information, providing word labels, and incorporating emotional talk into ... -
Poisson Percolation on the Square Lattice
(2019-04-01)In this paper, we examine two versions of inhomogeneous percolation on the 2D lattice, which we will refer to as non-oriented and oriented percolation, and describe the limiting shape of the component containing the origin ... -
When the Day Closes Itself: A Collection of Poems and an Essay
(2019-04-22)This paper is a creative work that explores the relationship between psychological healing and the writing of poetry. Primarily creative, the paper presents poetry written in a variety of contemporary styles, from French ...
