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A novel sampling method to measure socioeconomic drivers of Aedes albopictus distribution in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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...
An epidemiologic analysis of associations between county-level per capita income, unemployment rate, and COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States
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...
An observational analysis quantifying the distance of supercell-boundary interactions in the Great Plains
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...
Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
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...
Charlotte's Hidden Valley : the lived experience
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...
Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data
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...
Impact of short-term air pollution on respiratory infections : a time-series analysis of COVID-19 cases in California during the 2020 wildfire season
Title
Impact of short-term air pollution on respiratory infections : a time-series analysis of COVID-19 cases in California during the 2020 wildfire season
Author
Ademu, Lilian, Gao, Jingjing, Thompson, Onah Peter, Ademu, Lawrence Anebi
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
COVID-19 (Disease), Environmental health
Description
The 2020 California wildfire season coincided with the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many counties in California, with impacts on air quality. We quantitatively analyzed the short-term effect of air pollution on COVID-19 transmission usi...
In fighting common threats, people’s deep commitment to taking collective action matters : examples from China’s COVID‑19 battle and her other combats
Title
In fighting common threats, people’s deep commitment to taking collective action matters : examples from China’s COVID‑19 battle and her other combats
Author
Palko, Hannah Catherine, Xiang, Wei-Ning
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
China, Owen Lattimore, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description
In fighting against common threats to human survival and well-being, be they from natural disaster or human conflict, people’s commitment to taking collective action matters and can make a huge or even decisive difference. Throughout human history...
Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding arthropod-borne viruses in Panama
Title
Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding arthropod-borne viruses in Panama
Author
Whiteman, Ari, Mejia, A., Hernandez, I., Loaiza, J.R.
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Arboviruses, Health risk assessment
Description
We sought to identify if socioeconomic and demographic factors play a role in resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in order to inform effective management procedures for disease prevention in Panama, a...
The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
Title
The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
Author
Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Tang, Wenwu, Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical
Urbanization, Forest birds
Description
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...
The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
Title
The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
Author
Tayouga, Sarah J., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical
Sustainable buildings, Social ecology
Description
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, ...
The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
Title
The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
Author
Paton, Grant D., Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical
Urbanization, Forest birds
Description
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...