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- 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
- 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
- Effects of External Biofeedback on Biomechanics and Ankle Joint Health in Individuals With Chronic Ankle Instability
- Author
- Torp, Danielle
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Kinesiology
- Description
- Individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI) often demonstrate abnormal biomechanical patterns which may be associated with the onset of posttraumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA). There is a lack of interventions capable of changing gait impairments...
- Title
- Investigating the Determinants of Autonomous Vehicles and Their Potential Impacts on Travel Behaviors and Land Use Distribution
- Author
- Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning, Land use--Planning
- Description
- Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are imminent and they are not in people’s dreams now. Now the burning questions the research community is interested in include how quickly AVs would be implemented for public use, whether people would accept them, and ho...
- 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...
- Title
- MULTISCALAR MODELING OF POLYCENTRIC URBAN-REGIONAL SYSTEMS: ECONOMIC AGGLOMERATION, SCALE DEPENDENCY AND AGENT INTERACTIONS
- Author
- Gong, Zhaoya
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Geodesy, Area studies
- Description
- This dissertation aims to study the causal relationship between the underlying processes of agglomeration economies and the formation of certain spatial structures at both intra- and inter-urban scales within the extent of megaregions. First, on t...
- Title
- NO BOUNDARY FOR SPATIAL INTERACTIONS — EXPLORATORY SPATIAL FLOW DATA ANALYSIS
- Author
- Tao, Ran
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Sex role
- Description
- Spatial interaction (SI) represents meaningful human relations between areas on the Earth’s surface, such as the reciprocal relations and flows of all kinds among industries, markets, regions, cities, or logistics centers. With the widespread adop...
- Title
- Numerical Simulation Based Analysis Of Road Vehicle Aerodynamic Flows
- Author
- Zhang, Chunhui
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
- Description
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is currently viewed as one of the major tools for investigating aerodynamics of road vehicles. In spite of its well-documented limitations in predicting flows involving complex geometries and flow separations, th...
- Title
- Planning for coastal resilience: the intersection of theory and practice
- Author
- Griffith, Adam
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Geography, Geomorphology
- Description
- In the face of accelerating sea-level rise, people continue to live near anddevelop the coast. In the United States, we have chosen adaptation andprotection, via coastal defenses, over retreat from the coast despite theunsustainable nature of effo...
- Title
- REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, POPULATION GROWTH AND LOCAL SPENDING IN U.S. MICROPOLITAN AREAS, 2002-2014
- Author
- McShane, Chuck
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Economics, Demography
- Description
- The following dissertation adds to the literature on income convergence and population growth in the United States. It also expands knowledge on the relatively underexplored geography – the American micropolitan area. The study identifies determin...
- Title
- ROLES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL SPENDING AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
- Author
- Jha, Nandan
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Education and state
- Description
- Equity in school district spending, and equity and productive efficiency in educational outcomes are of paramount importance in the literature on K-12 public education in the US. The research on the effects of school choice (operationalized as int...
- Title
- SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Zhou, Yuhong
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Government policy, Water resources development--Management
- Description
- Water availability has become a more significant economic and policy issue in contemporary America. Although emerging as an attractive tool to water authorities, demand-side water management in urbanized areas is more complicated due to the high c...
- Title
- SPATIAL COMPETITION BASED ON CUSTOMERS' CHOICE HISTORIES: A STUDY OF TRADE FLOWS
- Author
- Kashiha, Mona
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geodesy, Economics, Area studies
- Description
- In a world of differentiated firms, customers with the same observable characteristics reveal different choice behaviors. This research contributes to the modeling of competition in a market characterized by spatially differentiated firms and sign...
- Title
- SPATIAL TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE: CHARLOTTE, NC
- Author
- Delmelle, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Geodesy, City planning
- Description
- Quality of life (QoL) is an encompassing measure of a neighborhood's condition, describing the well-being an individual may expect by residing in a particular place. Over time, some or all of these conditions will change for the better or worse, y...
- Title
- Spatial Patterns of Landside Trade Impedance in Containerized South American Exports
- Author
- Tiller, Kara
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Geodesy, Transportation--Planning
- Description
- Scholars of Latin America's economic trajectory claim that higher domestic transportation costs stand as a significant barrier to trade and economic integration, and are primarily related to the region's inadequate transportation infrastructure. H...
- Title
- THE INFLUENCES OF URBAN FORMS ON RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION: A DEMAND-SIDE FORECASTING METHOD FOR ENERGY SCENARIOS
- Author
- Ali, Amr
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources, Geography, City planning
- Description
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Current trends in energy demand impose increasing stress on the socio-ecological state of developed countries like the U.S. A major challenge lies in how to efficiently manage energy resources in a sustainable way to protect the environment. Vario...