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Policy Proposals and Pinky Promises: Framing Print Media Coverage of Female Presidential Candidates
(2021-12)On the stage of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hillary Clinton made history on July 26, 2016. For the first time, a major political party nominated a female candidate for President. “If there are any ... -
Carbon Price Pass-Through in the Chinese Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons from Korea and the European Union
(2021-12)On July 16, 2021, the Chinese Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) opened trading. Covering more than 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide, the ETS accounts for 40% of China’s national carbon emissions and is the largest carbon market ... -
Improving the Sales Training Program in the Mexican Notebook Company “Cuadernos Estrella”
(2022-01-07)The purpose of this research is to devise a new learning strategy to train the sales workforce of the Mexican notebook company “Cuadernos Estrella.” The goal of the Human Resources (HR) department of the company is to standardize ... -
The Effect of Social Isolation on Adolescents During COVID-19
(2021-04)My initial hypothesis was that adolescents may carry into adulthood the potential residual effects of social isolation on behavioral changes. To draw a holistic picture of the situation at hand, I went on a quest through ... -
Opportunity Zones: Potential Economic and Community Impacts in Durham and Johnston Counties, North Carolina
(2021-11-19)The 2017 Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a provision for creating "Opportunity Zones" to spur investment in disadvantaged communities. The Act provided that funds invested in these zones (plus an additional amount ... -
The Politics of Affirmative Action in North Carolina's Higher Education
(2021-12-03)Race-based affirmative action has been under threat for the past several decades since its rise during the middle of the 20th century. As several Supreme Court cases have upheld and rebuked certain elements of race-conscious ... -
At Home or On Campus? How Duke Students Decide Where to Register to Vote
(2021-12)Before they ever step into the voting booth, eligible Duke students must first decide whether to register at their permanent home address or their Duke address in North Carolina. 84 Duke students were surveyed to assess ... -
Evaluating the Efficacy of iNaturalist & BioBlitzes as Biological Inventory Tools for Landscape Management
(2021-12-08)Well-informed landscape management decisions rely on accurate data of species presence which is often a resource-intensive and time-consuming effort to collect. Due to limited resources, Duke Forest Management Team has been ... -
Drone Use in Forestry 2021
(2021-12-08)In the last 20 years, advancements in technology, such as remote sensing, have facilitated improvements in forest management. The utilization of one remote sensing tool, in particular, an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone), ... -
Vulnerability to cavitation and response of canopy conductance to root cavitation in five southeastern US pine species
(2021-12-08)Although the Southeastern United States generally receives considerable precipitation and total precipitation has slightly increased, the region has experienced recent recurrent droughts and is anticipated to encounter more ... -
Carbon Gain and Allocation in Five Shade Intolerant Pinus Species
(2021-12-08)Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine), Pinus echinata (shortleaf pine), Pinus taeda (loblolly pine), Pinus elliottii (slash pine), and Pinus palustris (longleaf pine) are five of the most dominant shade-intolerant pine species ... -
Analysis of aboveground carbon for indigenous communities in Oaxaca, MX
(2021-12-08)Managing forests for carbon is a productive and sustainable way to provide conservation and economic and ecological value. Oaxaca, the most biologically diverse state in Mexico, located in the southwestern region of the ... -
ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge Forest Inventory and Carbon Stock Analysis
(2021-12-08)The ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is 11,815 acres of critical wildlife habitat in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region. The Refuge contains a mosaic of forest types, including upland pine and hardwood, bottomland ... -
A CASE STUDY ON BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES AT W.E. HUNT RECREATION CENTER, TOWN OF HOLLY SPRINGS
(2021-12-04)The Town of Holly Springs, located in Wake County of North Carolina, is interested in improving energy efficiency in municipal operations and facilities to offset increasing energy consumption and utility costs that are ... -
The Academic Impacts on College STEM Achievement of High-Rigor Secondary Courses
(2021-12-03)One of the most common ways that students can prepare themselves for rigorous and competitive STEM careers is by taking high-rigor STEM courses in high school, most likely through advanced placement (AP), international ... -
Are Refugees and Immigrants Different? Gauging the Correlation Between Refugee Status and Economic and Educational Success
(2015-12-15)Little previous research has analyzed the long-term economic and educational trajectories of refugee and immigrant arrivals in the U.S. Studies have found that refugees outperform immigrants in long-term earnings and economic ... -
LOW DOSE CT ENHANCEMENT USING DEEP LEARNING METHOD
(2021)Purpose:Deep learning has been widely applied in traditional medical imaging tasks like segmentation and registration. Some fundamental CNN based deep learning methods have shown great potential in low dose CT (LDCT) enhancement. ... -
Photo-Enabled Synthesis of Carbon–Nitrogen and Remote Carbon–Carbon Bonds
(2021)Recent advances in photo-driven reactions have dramatically expanded thescope of transformations no longer exclusively dependent on thermal energy to drive cross-coupling activity of transition metal catalysts. Of these ... -
A Deep-Learning-based Multi-segment VMAT Plan Generation Algorithm from Patient Anatomy for Prostate Simultaneous Integrated Boost (SIB) Cases
(2021)Introduction: Several studies have realized fluence-map-prediction-based DL IMRT planning algorithms. However, DL-based VMAT planning remains unsolved. A main difficult in DL-based VMAT planning is how to generate leaf sequences ... -
Models To Derive the Resonant Frequency of a Liquid in a Rectangular Tank With a Curved Bottom
(2021)This thesis investigates the resonant frequency of a partially-filled rectangular tank of water with a curved bottom that is subject to a horizontal harmonic excitation. The primary goal was to find a model that can accurately ...
