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Title
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Accounting for residential propagule pressure improves prediction of urban plant invasion
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Davis, Amy J. S., Singh, Kunwar K., Meentemeyer, Ross K.
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Subjects--Topical
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Invasive plants, Urban forestry
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Description
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Plant invasions substantially impact the ecosystem services provided by forests in urbanizing regions. Knowing where invasion risk is greatest helps target early detection and eradication efforts, but developing an accurate predictive model of inv...
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An exploratory study of digital inequities and work in the redevelopment of a southeastern American city
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Author
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Crocker, Tianca, Whitlow, Clysha, Cooper, Haley, Patrick, Claire, Padilla, Avangelyne, Jammal, Mia, Ince, Rebecca
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Labor market, Labor market--Social aspects, Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social--Economic aspects
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Description
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Nearly 6 million workers support the multi-billion-dollar digital economy as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. labor market. Middle-skill jobs in the digital economy sector that pay higher wages and do not require a bachelor’s degree ...
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CO2-plant effects do not account for the gap between dryness indices and projected dryness impacts in CMIP6 or CMIP5
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Author
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Scheff, Jacob, Mankin, Justin S., Coats, Sloan, Liu, Haibo
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Climatic changes, Earth sciences
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Description
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Recent studies have found that terrestrial dryness indices like the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), and Aridity Index calculated from future climate model projections are mostly neg...
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COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
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Description
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This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...
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Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States
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Author
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Delmelle, Eric, Hohl, Alexander, Desjardins, Michael R., Lan, Yu
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
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Description
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China. The virus may cause novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in symptomatic in- dividuals. Since December of 2019, there have...
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Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
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Description
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In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land...
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Title
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Diverging trends in US summer dewpoint since 1948
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Author
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Scheff, Jacob, Burroughs, James Cody
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Climatic changes, Earth sciences
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Description
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Increases in summer humidity are a basic threat to human survival, because the body cannot shed heat by sweating if absolute humidity is too high. However, climate change trends and patterns of extreme humidity have been much less studied than tho...
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Do socioeconomic factors drive Aedes mosquito vectors and their arboviral diseases? A systematic review of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika virus
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Author
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Delmelle, Eric, Whiteman, Ari, Loaiza, Jose R., Yee, Donald A., Poh, Karen C., Watkins, Alexandria S., Lucas, Keira J., Rapp, Tyler J., Kline, Lillie, Ahmed, Ayman, Chen, Shi, Oguzie, Judith Uche
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Subjects--Topical
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Arbovirus infections, Virus diseases--Transmission
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Description
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As the threat of arboviral diseases continues to escalate worldwide, the question of, “What types of human communities are at the greatest risk of infection?” persists as a key gap in the existing knowledge of arboviral diseases transmission dynam...
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Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...
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Five approaches to social sustainability and an integrated way forward
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Author
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Boyer, Robert, Peterson, Nicole, Caldwell, Kevin, Arora, Poonam
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sustainable development, Sustainable development--Social aspects
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Description
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Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic, environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship, however, the meaning and appropriate application of the ‘social pillar’ continu...
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Forest loss is significantly higher near clustered small dams than single large dams per megawatt of hydroelectricity installed in the Brazilian Amazon
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Author
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Chen, Gang, Nickerson, Samuel, Fearnside, Philip M., Allan, Craig J., Hu, Tongxi, Carvalho, Luis, Zhao, Kaiguang
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Subjects--Topical
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Forests and forestry, Deforestation, Hydroelectric power plants, Dams, Remote sensing
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Description
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Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon is a prevalent form of development, but dams have widespread and long-term environmental impacts that include deforestation in the areas surrounding the dams. Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are often perceived as...
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Title
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Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Data mining, Statistics
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Description
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Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...