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“Women work particularly well in community organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women’s Club, 1939-1940
(2022-01-16)From 1939-1941, the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration conducted a nationwide educational campaign to share the benefits of electricity with rural Americans, known as the “Electric Farm Equipment Show.” A key part ... -
A literacy-based approach to learning visualization with R’s ggplot2 package
(2022)This recipe describes the process for delivering a 2-hour workshop on visualization in R using ggplot2. The workshop is designed to promote literacy around ggplot2 and data visualization creation. Over the course of the ... -
Mycoplasma-related endobacteria within Mortierellomycotina fungi: diversity, distribution and functional insights into their lifestyle.
(The ISME journal, 2018-06)Bacterial interactions with animals and plants have been examined for over a century; by contrast, the study of bacterial-fungal interactions has received less attention. Bacteria interact with fungi in diverse ways, and ... -
Harvesting Microalgae for Food and Energy Products
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CONSTAX2: Improved taxonomic classification of environmental DNA markers.
(Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2021-05-07)<h4>Summary</h4>CONSTAX - the CONSensus TAXonomy classifier - was developed for accurate and reproducible taxonomic annotation of fungal rDNA amplicon sequences and is based upon a consensus approach of RDP, SINTAX, and ... -
Introduction
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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 ... -
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 ... -
In Vitro Differentiation of Tumor- Associated Macrophages from Monocyte Precursors with Modi<ed Melanoma-Conditioned Medium.
(2021)Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are one of most important components of the tumor microenvironment. Although many assays have been developed to differentiate monocytes into macrophages (Mϕ) for studying the biology of ... -
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 ... -
The Impacts of Carbon Pricing on Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from the Regional Carbon Market Pilots in China
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Environmental and economic effects of China's carbon market pilots: Empirical evidence based on a DID model
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021-01-10)This paper investigates whether the China ETS policy has achieved carbon emission reduction at the expense of economic development. Moreover, we are interested in unmasking the role of the institutional factors adopted by ... -
The environmental and economic effects of the carbon emissions trading scheme in China: The role of alternative allowance allocation
(Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2021-10-01)This paper examines the impact of China's carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) on carbon emissions reduction and economic performance with a focus on the role of alternative allowance allocation. Using the industry-by-province ... -
The effectiveness of China's regional carbon market pilots in reducing firm emissions.
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021-12)China has implemented an emission trading system (ETS) to reduce its ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining rapid economic growth. With low carbon prices and infrequent allowance trading, whether China's ...
