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Title: A Constellation of Economic Possibilities: Latinx Food-Based Diverse Collaborative Economies as Catalysts for More Sustainable Economic Futures
Author: Tornabene, Sara
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Area studies, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Diverse and alternative forms of economies have recently gained increased attention for their potential to transform conceptually and empirically the mainstream economic system. Around the world, scholars have documented the emergence and impact o...

Title: A GIS-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF WETLAND CLASSIFICATION
Author: Deng, Jing
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Wetlands play a critical role in our natural environment, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion and flooding, and protecting biodiversity. To better protect wetland systems, a comprehensive knowledge of their spatial distribution is...

Title: A Web-based Geographic Framework to Detect and Visualize Space-time Clusters of Infectious Diseases
Author: Lan, Yu
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Infectious diseases pose a significant threat to public health worldwide as evidenced by the recent coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite significant human losses, the advent of web-accessed, map-based "data dashboards" that can monitor di...

Title: A comprehensive geospatial knowledge discovery framework for spatial association rule mining
Author: Dao, Thi Hong Diep
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Continuous advances in modern data collection techniques help spatial scientists gain access to massive and high-resolution spatial and spatio-temporal data. Thus there is an urgent need to develop effective and efficient methods seeking to find u...

Title: A mixed-methods approach for vector-borne disease surveillance in Colombia
Author: Desjardins, Michael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Epidemiology
Description: Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) affect more than 1 billion people a year worldwide, cause over 1 million deaths, and result in hundreds of billions of dollars in societal costs. Dengue fever (DENF), chikungunya (CHIK), and Zika are three emerging VBD...

Title: ACCELERATING THE DETECTION OF SPACE-TIME PATTERNS UNDER NON-STATIONARY BACKGROUND POPULATION
Author: Hohl, Alexander
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: The advancement of technology has enabled us to collect increasing quantities of spatial and spatiotemporal data at rapidly increasing rate through sensor systems, automated geocoding abilities and social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitt...

Title: An Athlete's Humble Beginnings: A Place-Based Narrative in Need of Repair
Author: Lash, Barbara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Sports play a unique role in American culture and act as sources of entertainment and community identity. Events that include sports are also a microcosm of society that simultaneously reflects and guides cultural and racial differences that are i...

Title: COMPETING RATIONALITIES: CAPITAL, POWER, GENTRIFICATION AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Howarth, Thomas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: This dissertation sought to understand uses of power embedded in gentrification processes that threaten affordable housing. Rather than an abstract force acting on its own volition, gentrification is driven by dominant powerholders who employ stra...

Title: DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MATERIAL CONSUMPTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
Author: Venkitasubramanian, Kailas
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Government policy
Description: This dissertation theoretically and empirically investigates how material consumption affects human happiness and life satisfaction in the urbanized societies around the world. In recent literature, happiness and life satisfaction is encapsulated ...

Title: Demystifying the Charlotte Way: Towards an Understanding of Collective Action for Education in the Queen City.
Author: Owens, Cache
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Education and state
Description: This qualitative grounded theory study sought to understand how different stakeholders collaborate to improve schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. 52 diverse individuals participated in this study. A new hybrid approach of collective action, refe...

Title: Distance friction and spatial interaction dynamics of international freight transportation
Author: Jung, Paul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Transportation
Description: The modern economy runs with heavy reliance on the free flow of goods across the international logistic and supply chain. Advances in international freight transportation systems supported by intermodal integration, freight containerization, hub-a...

Title: Exploring Latino Healthcare Service Provision in a Pre-emerging Immigrant gateway state
Author: Dixon, James
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: As Latinos continue to grow in population and impact, both nationwide and in the U.S. South, so too must the appropriate and equitable provision of services. Healthcare service provision is particularly important to Latinos as research shows they ...

Title: Frontiers in invasive species distribution modeling (iSDM): Assessing effects of absence data, dispersal constraints, stage of invasion and spatial dependence
Author: Vaclavik, Tomas
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Ecology, Physical geography
Description: Successful management of biological invasions depends heavily on our ability to predict their geographic ranges and potential habitats. Species distribution modeling (SDM) provides a methodological framework to predict spatial distributions of org...

Title: Gentrification in Charlotte: A Complex Tale of Urban Redevelopment Across Geographic Scales
Author: Yonto, Daniel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Gentrification research almost exclusively focuses on traditional postindustrial cities. Despite a growing number of scholars emphasizing the importance of understanding gentrification outside of traditional urban areas, its presence and modalitie...

Title: Hyperlink Network System and Image of Global Cities: Webpages and Their Contents
Author: Son, Jae Soen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: A distinctive trend of globalization research is a conceptual expansion that mirrors the penetration of globalization in various aspects of life. The World Wide Web has become the ultimate platform to create and disseminate information in this era...

Title: Impacts of urbanization and landscape change on native plant diversity and the distribution of exotic forest invaders
Author: Davis, Amy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: This dissertation addresses three questions focused on enhancing our understanding of the impacts of urbanization and land cover change on patterns of native biodiversity, the distribution of exotic plant species in forests, and the resistance of ...

Title: Incorporating Multilevel Geocoding and Spatial Modeling Techniques to Predict the Risk of Water Contamination Found in Private Wells Across Gaston County, North Carolina
Author: Owusu, Claudio
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Water is an important basic need for human survival. Many Americans obtain water from public water systems, however, about 45 million Americans use private wells for drinking water. When water is contaminated, it becomes unsafe for consumption and...

Title: KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES AND METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN EXAMINATION OF THE COMPUTER SERVICE INDUSTRY
Author: Kozar, Jonathan
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: As the United States economy shifted away from manufacturing industry dominance in the 1970's, business service industries grew in size and complexity to become the dominant driver of knowledge-based metropolitan economies. Knowledge-based modern ...

Title: LARGE-SCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELING OF URBAN GROWTH WITH CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE: A SURROGATE-BASED APPROACH
Author: Feng, Wenpeng
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Spatiotemporal simulations can provide critical insights to understand the underlying mechanisms of complex geographic phenomena. Therefore, spatiotemporal simulations play a vitally important role in solving the global geographic problems such as...

Title: Labor market outcomes of recent U.S. college graduates in the STEM disciplines: Impacts of college location.
Author: Lysenko, Tetiana
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Education, Higher
Description: This research explores the relationship between place and the career experiences of STEM-educated recent college graduates in the U.S. over the 2000-2010 decade. Specifically, it seeks to understand how these graduates’ early career outcomes (earn...