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Title
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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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Title
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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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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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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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Title
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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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Title
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Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data
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Author
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Desjardins, Michael R., Whiteman, Ari, Eskildsen, Gilberto
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Virus diseases--Prevention, Tropical medicine
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research
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Author
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Eppes, Martha Cary, Berberich, Samantha, Keanini, Russell, Moser, Faye, Morovati, Mehdi, Porson, Steven, Rasmussen, Monica
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Date Created
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2024
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Subjects--Topical
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Rocks--Fracture, Earth sciences
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Description
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Rock fractures are a key contributor to a broad array of Earth surface processes due to their direct control on rock strength as well as rock porosity and permeability. However, to date, there has been no standardization for the quantification of ...
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The role of skills in Islamic financial innovation : evidence from Bahrain and Malaysia
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Author
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Poon, Jessie, Chow, Yew Wah, Ewers, Michael, Ramli, Razli
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Subjects--Topical
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Financial institutions, Finance (Islamic law)
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Description
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A body of work has emerged that examines human capital from the perspective of skills to better understand the types of expertise that influence innovation. The relationship between skill and financial innovation, however, is poorly understood in ...
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The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
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Author
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Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Tang, Wenwu, Gagne, Sara A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Urbanization, Forest birds
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Description
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Urbanization modifies landscape structure in three major ways that impact avian diversity in remnant habitat: habitat amount is reduced and habitat configuration and matrix quality are altered. The relative effects of these three components of lan...
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The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
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Author
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Tayouga, Sarah J., Gagne, Sara A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Sustainable buildings, Social ecology
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Description
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Green infrastructure is defined as any type of infrastructure that has the purpose of lessening the burden of development on the environment and/or has the aim of providing ecosystem services, such as runoff management, air temperature reduction, ...
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The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
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Author
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Paton, Grant D., Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Gagne, Sara A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Urbanization, Forest birds
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Description
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As humans continue moving to urban areas, there is a growing need to understand the effects of urban intensification on native wildlife populations. Forest species in remnant habitat are particularly vulnerable to urban intensification, but the me...
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An epidemiologic analysis of associations between county-level per capita income, unemployment rate, and COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States
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Author
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Gao, Jingjing, Guo, Yuqi, Kaniuka, Andrea, Sims, Omar T.
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Charlotte's Hidden Valley : the lived experience
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Author
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Lash, Barbara Pinson
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Documentary films, North Carolina--Charlotte, Community development
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Description
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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...