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The Early Life Environment and Adult Cognitive and Mental Health
(2023)Many diverse adult diseases, from diabetes to dementia, are increasingly viewed as arising, in part, from early life environmental influences. The so-called Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) research paradigm ... -
The Political Determinants of Corruption
(2023)Political factors play a big role in influencing the ebbs and flows of corruption. The literature seems unanimously in agreement that, even in places where corruption is entrenched and systemic, the political calculations ... -
Legacy Pb contamination in the soils of three Durham city parks: Do secondary forest organic horizons effectively blanket Pb in city park soils contaminated by historic waste incineration?
(2022-12-16)Lead (Pb) has historically been used in many products such as gasoline, paint, batteries, ceramics, pipes and plumbing, solders, and cosmetics, and Pb contamination from these materials and their waste streams is widespread ... -
RURAL GABONESE USES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURAL RESOURCES AND ANIMALS
(2022-12-16)Human relationships and perceptions of nature and wildlife differ greatly across the modern world. These relationships are dependent on a variety of complex factors and conditions such as daily use, proximity, culture, ... -
Magic school bus, deploy! Cleaner air and cost savings in North Carolina with electric school buses.
(2022-12-16)The purpose of this project is to evaluate ways to assist the deployment of electric school buses (ESB) across the state on behalf of the client, the North Carolina Clean Energy Fund (NCCEF). In part one of this report, ... -
Supporting Underserved Landowners in the Southeast with Conservation and Economic Goals
(2022-12-16)African American and other “historically underserved” landowners, as defined in the 2008 Farm Bill, have experienced unprecedented rates of agricultural and forest land loss due in large part to discrimination by the United ... -
CLIMATE IN THE PULPIT: EFFECTIVENESS OF SERMONS TO INFLUENCE ATTITUDES ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND CREATION CARE
(2022-12-16)As moral messengers and trusted institutions, houses of worship can be effective messengers on climate change and “creation care.” The sermon provides a uniquely impactful place for an intervention into the educational life ... -
Impacts of Genetic Variation and Silvicultural Treatments on Loblolly Pine Water Use
(2022-12-15)Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is of high ecological and economical value in the U.S. for its abundance and rapid growth. P. taeda has adapted to a wide range of sites, exhibiting considerable plasticity in its physiology and ... -
Viability and improvement of constructive wildlife corridors in tropical forests, proposing a new method for evaluating corridors geospatially using MaxEnt
(2022-12-14)Habitat corridor ecology remains a new and developing field in wildlife and forest management. Little is known about how corridors statistically work or how they should be established and monitored. Stuart Pimm and his non-profit ... -
A Site Prioritization for Shortleaf Pine Restoration in Duke Forest
(2022-12-10)Historically, shortleaf pine forests spanned some 70-80 million acres in the U.S. Since then, the species has declined dramatically—today, only 6 million acres of shortleaf-dominated forests remain, roughly 10 percent of ... -
Potential Biodiversity and Climate Benefits of Voluntary Carbon Market Tree-Planting Projects
(2022-08-05)This research explored the potential for voluntary carbon markets to benefit forest biodiversity and climate change by directing funding to tree-planting projects. This research topic is important because voluntary carbon ... -
A Perfect Storm: The Effect of Natural Disasters on Child Health
(2022-08-01)Typhoons have destructive effects on child health, particularly by increasing the risk of waterborne disease, a leading source of illness and one of the foremost causes of death in children under age 5. To quantify this ... -
The Mystery of Christ in You: Christology, Anthropology, and Participation in Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley
(2022-08)The subject of Christological approaches to theological anthropology has been a renewed area of study for biblical and theological scholarship in recent years. While Marc Cortez (Wheaton College) has been leading much of ... -
Preparing for Widowhood - While Your Husband is Still Living
(2022-07-11)Research on widowhood challenges has suggested that married women, with unhealthy husbands, should consider preparing in advance for widowhood. However, many women might have an easier transition into widowhood ... -
Heterogeneity in Mortgage Refinancing
(2022-06-22)Many households who would benefit from and are eligible to refinance their mortgages fail to do so. A recent literature has demonstrated a significant degree of heterogeneity in the propensity to refinance across various ... -
Vulnerabilidad de lenguas en Durham, NC: un análisis geolingüístico y socioeconómico
(2022-06-12)In the context of linguistic rights, I present a series of cartographic observations about the growing diversity of languages in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. This work’s purposes are to identify vulnerable populations ... -
Prescribed Fire: Balancing Public Health and Land Management Goals
(2022-05-22)Fire is a critical component of many natural disturbance regimes in the southeastern United States; however, a century of fire suppression policies has disrupted many such regimes and severely degraded ecosystems throughout ... -
Ensuring sustainability in Hawaii’s offshore aquaculture industry: Environmental, economic, and social considerations for future development
(2022-05-15)Offshore aquaculture, also known as open-ocean fish farming, is an emerging industry in the United States. Hawaii, home to the nation’s only active commercial open-ocean fish farm, has received increased interest and attention ... -
Exploring Relationships with Food, Body, and Exercise at an Elite University: Determinants of Patterns of Disordered Eating
(2022-05-15)Diet culture, or the pervasive and far-reaching societal norms that emphasize thinness and control over one’s diet and exercise, tends to become even more pervasive during transition periods, such as when one leaves home ... -
I Knew Home When I Saw it: Mapping RaMell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening
(2022-05-06)This project consists of two parts: 1) an initial, written analysis of Hale County This Morning, This Evening, a 2018 documentary of my home county (Hale County, Alabama) by filmmaker (and former public school coach) RaMell ...
