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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 Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
Author: Najaf, Pooya
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, City planning
Description: The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...

Title: A Multilevel Analysis of Black Male Secondary School Student Discipline and Achievement in Relation to Violence Exposure
Author: Garo, Laurie
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Mental health
Description: This study examined school outcomes for Black male secondary school students in relation to neighborhood violence, focusing on Disproportionality in out of school suspension and below-proficiency achievement on selected standardized tests. Grounde...

Title: Applying Travel Time Reliability Measures in Identifying and Ranking Freeway Bottlenecks at the Network Level
Author: Gong, Linfeng
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The continuing growth of traffic congestion on U.S. roadways has become an increasing concern for both travelers and transportation agencies. According to the Texas Transportation Institute’s estimate, the total financial cost of congestion in the...

Title: Effects of hydrocephalus on hospital use, associated costs, and access to care among children with spina bifida
Author: Radcliff, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration
Description: Objectives: This study examined hospital resource use, timeliness of surgical repair of spina bifida (SB), and geographical access to hospital care for infants and children with SB. Methods: This was a retrospective, statewide, population-based st...

Title: FLEXIBLE PLANNING METHODS AND PROCEDURES WITH FLEXIBILITY REQUIREMENTS PROFILE
Author: Demirel, Edil
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research
Description: Uncertainties in supply and/or demand combined with rolling horizon planning necessitate flexibility in a dynamic production planning process. In rolling horizon planning, production plans are revised when new information becomes available after t...

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: 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: Modeling Bicycle-Vehicle Crash Frequency on Urban Roads
Author: Mukoko, Kanya
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, City planning
Description: Bicyclists and motorists make mistakes that contribute to traffic crashes involving bicyclists on urban roads. The likelihood of a bicyclist being severely injured or killed daily in traffic crashes is creating fear, anxiety, and becoming a potent...

Title: Optimization of Building Envelope Design for Daylighting and Thermal Performance
Author: Futrell, Benjamin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, System theory, Building
Description: Buildings account for 40% of US energy usage. A building’s energy usage is largely determined by decisions made during its design. Such decisions relate to the form and orientation of the building, the materials used, and location of windows. A bi...

Title: Rush Hour-Related Road Crashes: Assessing the Social and Environmental Determinants of Fatal and Non-Fatal Road Crash Events
Author: Adeyemi, Oluwaseun
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Road crashes remain a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The rush-hour period represents the time with the highest human and vehicular road densities. This dissertation aims to assess, during the rush and non-rush hour periods, the envi...

Title: SCALABLE, SITUATIONALLY AWARE VISUAL ANALYTICS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Eaglin, Todd
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: There is a need to understand large and complex datasets to provide better situa- tional awareness in-order to make timely well-informed actionable decisions in critical environments. These types of environments include emergency evacuations for l...

Title: Social Media Use in Public Health and Policy Study
Author: Gao, Jingjing
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public health
Description: The Internet plays a significant role in health information searching, sharing, and emotional support. Chapter 1 explores the complementary and substitutive value of online health information from diseases, especially chronic diseases, health insu...

Title: Spatiotemporal Modeling of Disease Spread Through Micromobility Systems
Author: nikparvar, behnam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geographic information systems, Geodesy, Geography, Epidemiology
Description: New modes of public transportation such as micromobility are rapidly growing in urban areas. Bike sharing and e-scooter sharing, for example, have been advanced to solve the first/last mile problem, providing quick access to bus stops and train st...

Title: Spatiotemporal Prediction Modeling of Dengue Fever in Colombia, South America Based on Temperature and Precipitation
Author: Sirbaugh, Megan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Meteorology, Epidemiology
Description: Dengue fever is a prominent mosquito-borne viral disease in the tropics that is estimated to infect as many as 400 million people per year. Dengue is endemic to Colombia, South America and it is crucial to be able to predict when outbreaks may occ...

Title: Stochastic and fuzzy flexible aggregate production planning to manage plan stability
Author: Torabzadeh, Setareh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Operations research
Description: Aggregate production planning generally deals with configuration of an aggregate plan in advance of 6 to 18 periods (e.g. months) to give the organizations an idea about the amount of invested money, utilized capacity, required inventory and any o...

Title: The endangered red wolf (Canis rufus): spatial ecology of a critically imperiled species in a human-dominated landscape
Author: Karlin, Melissa
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Wildlife conservation, Wildlife management
Description: The purpose of this dissertation research was to analyze the ecology of thereintroduced red wolf (Canis rufus) population on the Albemarle Peninsula, NC and determine variables such as intraspecific interactions among red wolves, and how the speci...

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS TOOLS PROVIDING INSIGHTS INTO TENNIS MATCHES
Author: Polk, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In this dissertation, I present a series of visual analytics tools designed to provide insights into tennis matches for the purpose of player improvement. These include analytic tools that can be divided into two basic categories: non-spatial-base...