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Remote Sensing Tree Physiology
(2021-08-17)Transpiration, or plant water loss, is a critical component of water balance and flux for terrestrial systems worldwide, yet uncertainty in large-scale estimates create significant challenges for water resource forecasting ... -
Transports of imagination: poetry and the rehabilitation of experience, 1830–1860
(2021-08)This dissertation examines how poets of the German late romantic and restoration periods between 1830 and 1860 disrupt the systematizing drive of technological, cultural, and industrial advancements during the nineteenth ... -
Fatal Automobile Crashes in North Carolina: A Historical and Present-Day Portrait of Grief
(2021-07-26)Between 1899 and 2018, nearly 3.8 million people were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes on roadways in the United States. An average of 100 people died in wrecks every day in the country in 2018. There are names and ... -
Making and Unmaking of Guiyu: The Global Center of E-waste
(2021-06-01)As the industry of electronic devices rapidly develops, the disposal and recycling of e-waste become an issue at stake. Despite the constant effort of both governments and Non-Governmental Organization, exportation to developing ... -
MINING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ASSESS PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF WATER QUALITY
(2021-05-29)Social media provides potentially new sources of information for the detection and management of undesirable water quality events such as harmful algae blooms (HABs) in surface waters. Current methods for identifying HAB ... -
What Would Expand Utility-Led Community Solar in the Southeastern US?
(2021-05-28)Community solar (CS) expands access to the benefits of solar energy by overcoming many of the challenges associated with residential solar ownership. Installing rooftop solar is not an option for an estimated 77 percent ... -
ASSESSING POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) IN PRODUCE AND DRINKING WATER IN CHATHAM COUNTY, NC
(2021-05-25)Diet constitutes a major human exposure pathway for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) due to the contamination of drinking water supplies, and their use in food packaging, and accumulation in the food web. Significant ... -
Providing Mental Health Access to Unauthorized Children and Citizen-Children of Unauthorized Parents in Durham Area Schools
(2021-05-14)World Relief Durham (WRD) is in the process of creating an intervention program that would support the effort to provide mental health access to unauthorized Hispanic children/youth, and citizen-children of unauthorized ... -
Pursuit of Faith: “Navigating Ethics and Self-Referential Documentary”
(2021-05-07)This Master’s Project sets out to explore the history of my Irish Catholic, French Canadian, family; using archive materials from my grandmother (super 8mm home films, scanned photographs) and more recent interviews between ... -
Communicating Intelligence to Decision Makers
(2021-05-05)Mid-career intelligence analysts selected to brief senior individuals outside their organizations face a daunting task. The skillset and training that make them strong intelligence analysts are markedly different than those ... -
Variation and Disparities in Exclusionary Discipline Rates in North Carolina Elementary Schools
(2021-05-03)This project reinforces prior research demonstrating inequitable suspension rates in North Carolina public elementary schools. Using school-level data from publicly available sources, I found most elementary schools use ... -
The Prevalence of School Resource Officers in North Carolina's Public Schools
(2021-05-03)No one knows how many of North Carolina’s public schools have school resource officers (SROs) assigned to them or the impact their presence has on students. For the last decade, policymakers have expanded funding and support ... -
Evaluating the Impact of the GDPR’s Data Subject Rights on Businesses
(2021-05-03)In 2018, the European Union passed data governance legislation known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The US lacks an equivalent policy, but many experts agree that the passage of a comprehensive privacy ... -
Durham Tech Mobile Health Lab: Strategies and Recommendations for Enhancing the Delivery of Mobile Care Services in Durham and Orange Counties
(2021-05-03)In 2020, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina awarded Durham Technical Community College a $1 million grant to launch a new mobile health lab. The program will deliver cross-disciplinary health education and outreach ... -
Benefits of improved cookstoves: Evidence from MTF surveys in Nepal
(2021-05-01)Clean cooking energy has become the focus of many governments, researchers, and nonprofits, especially in low-income developing countries. However, 43% of the global population, approximately three billion people are still ... -
Beyond a Place to Live in DC: Preserving the Remainder of "Chocolate City"
(2021-05-01)Once known as “Chocolate City” for its prosperous Black residents, businesses, and communities, Washington, D.C. today is in many ways a contrasting image. The City continues to lose its Black residents and remaining majority ... -
Speaking of Stress: Predictors and Consequences of Stress Mindset in College Students
(2021-05)This paper focuses on the relevance of stress mindsets to college students. Stress mindsets describe the intuitive beliefs that people hold about the nature of stress as either enhancing or debilitating. In two studies, ... -
Investment Principles and Opportunities for the North Carolina Clean Energy Fund
(2021-05)This report outlines investment principles for the North Carolina Clean Energy Fund (NCCEF) and evaluates the extent to which selected investment opportunities align with these principles. NCCEF is a not-for-profit financial ... -
Time to Shine? Evaluating the Economic Feasibility of Energy Storage Retrofits
(2021-04-30)The threat of climate change looming ever closer has spurred the public and private sectors into action. In many states, legislators have implemented that mandate solar carve outs in order to accelerate the transition to ... -
Population Genomics of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Northwest Atlantic
(2021-04-30)Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are widely accepted as belonging to one of two ecotypes: offshore or inshore. These ecotypes exhibit remarkable differences in ecology, morphology, and genetic diversity. However, ...
