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Title: A mixed-methods analysis of social-ecological feedbacks between urbanization and forest persistence
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Urban forestry
Description: We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests ...

Title: A novel sampling method to measure socioeconomic drivers of Aedes albopictus distribution in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Whiteman, Ari, Delmelle, Eric, Rapp, Tyler, Chen, Shi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Public health
Description: Climate change, urbanization, and globalization have facilitated the spread of Aedes mosquitoes into regions that were previously unsuitable, causing an increased threat of arbovirus transmission on a global scale. While numerous studies have addr...

Title: Accounting for residential propagule pressure improves prediction of urban plant invasion
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Davis, Amy J. S., Singh, Kunwar K., Meentemeyer, Ross K.
Subjects--Topical: Invasive plants, Urban forestry
Description: 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...

Title: Achieving one-planet living through transitions in social practice : a case study of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Author: Boyer, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development--Research, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: The per capita resource consumption for inhabitants of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR) is less than ten percent of the average American in most major categories, approximating “one planet” living in a nation that contributes disproportionately to g...

Title: An epidemiologic analysis of associations between county-level per capita income, unemployment rate, and COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States
Author: Gao, Jingjing, Guo, Yuqi, Kaniuka, Andrea, Sims, Omar T.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine associations between per capita income, unemployment rates, and COVID-19 vaccination rates at the county-level across the United States (U.S.), as well as to identify the interaction effects be...

Title: An exploratory study of digital inequities and work in the redevelopment of a southeastern American city
Author: Crocker, Tianca, Whitlow, Clysha, Cooper, Haley, Patrick, Claire, Padilla, Avangelyne, Jammal, Mia, Ince, Rebecca
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Labor market, Labor market--Social aspects, Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social--Economic aspects
Description: 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 ...

Title: An observational analysis quantifying the distance of supercell-boundary interactions in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen, Davenport, Casey
Subjects--Topical: Severe storms, Tornadoes
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have hypothesized that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low...

Title: Associations between COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures and human mobility : longitudinal evidence from 86 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Social distancing (Public health), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Recognizing an urgent need to understand the dynamics of the pandemic's severity, this longitudinal study is conducted to explore the evolution of complex relationships between the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures, and social distancing patter...

Title: Boosting computational effectiveness in big spatial flow data analysis with intelligent data reduction
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Data reduction, Statistics
Description: One of the enduring issues of spatial origin-destination (OD) flow data analysis is the computational inefficiency or even the impossibility to handle large datasets. Despite the recent advancements in high performance computing (HPC) and the read...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: CO2-plant effects do not account for the gap between dryness indices and projected dryness impacts in CMIP6 or CMIP5
Author: Scheff, Jacob, Mankin, Justin S., Coats, Sloan, Liu, Haibo
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: 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...

Title: COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
Subjects--Topical: Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
Description: 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...

Title: Charlotte's Hidden Valley : the lived experience
Author: Lash, Barbara Pinson
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Documentary films, North Carolina--Charlotte, Community development
Description: Presented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's - Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP) in partnership with Hidden Valley residents, and directed and produced by PhD Barbara Pinson Lash: The Hidden Valley Neighborhood has seen man...

Title: Comparing high-shear, low-CAPE supercell weather events in the Southeastern United States vs. the Great Plains
Author: Greco, Jasen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Thunderstorms, Severe storms
Description: High-shear, low-CAPE (HSLC) supercells are a phenomenon in which an anomalously high wind shear makes up for a lack of convective available potential energy (CAPE). These events are not very common, but when they do occur they generate high wind s...

Title: Crisis for the university student : changing student housing and growing cost burden
Author: Wood, Connor, Schuch, Johanna Claire
Subjects--Topical: Student housing, Housing--Costs, Education, Higher
Description: College cost burden and student debt are among the most pressing discussions in contemporary US society. This conversation has largely been focused on changes in tuition and fees. While this is important, over 60% of the college cost at four-year ...

Title: Critical impact of vegetation physiology on thecontinental hydrologic cycle in response toincreasing CO2
Author: Scheff, Jacob
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydro-logic cycle is of utmost importance for a range of applications rang-ing from ecological services to human life and activities. A typical perspective is that hydrologic change is driv...

Title: Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Hohl, Alexander, Desjardins, Michael R., Lan, Yu
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: 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...

Title: Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
Description: 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...

Title: Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data
Author: Desjardins, Michael R., Whiteman, Ari, Eskildsen, Gilberto
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Virus diseases--Prevention, Tropical medicine
Description: Long term surveillance of vectors and arboviruses is an integral aspect of disease prevention and control systems in countries affected by increasing risk. Yet, little effort has been made to adjust space-time risk estimation by integrating diseas...

Title: Diverging trends in US summer dewpoint since 1948
Author: Scheff, Jacob, Burroughs, James Cody
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: 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...