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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
