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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: ENGINEERED WATER REPELLENCY FOR INFILTRATION CONTROL IN COAL FLY ASH
Author: Feyyisa, Jenberu
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: In 2014 approximately 47% of the 190 million short tons of coal combustion product (CCP) was recycled. As a construction material, coal fly ash (CFA) finds considerable use as a partial replacement for Portland cement, as structural fill, and as a...

Title: Finite Element Modeling of A Pier-On-Bank Bridge Scour
Author: Chavan, Vidya Subhash
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Scour is a critical condition change for a bridge hydraulic system, especially during storms and subsequent flooding. Caused by swiftly moving water, scours remove sand and soil, creating holes surrounding a bridge pier compromising the integrity ...

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: NEIGHBORHOOD CONDITIONS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author: Zuo, Huifang
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: In the United States, the academic achievement gap between European American and African American students has been identified as one of the major problems related to educational equity. Students’ academic achievement has been largely examined fro...

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: 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: STUDY OF HIGH-SKILL MANUFACTURING IN THE SPACE ECONOMY: UNDERSTANDING THE LOGIC OF NETWORK AND KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION THROUGH ITS CITIES
Author: Shen, Daidai
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: The study of city relations and the concept of network analysis have been a major focus in urban and economic geography for decades. Yet, we are still facing many contemporary research challenges on questions regarding the network structures defin...

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: The relative effects of habitat amount, habitat configuration, and urbanization intensity on forest breeding birds
Author: Shoffner, Alexandra
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Conservation biology
Description: It is clear that urbanization causes changes in landscape structure that adversely affect biodiversity. However, the relative impacts of different components of landscape structure remain unclear. Using the 2006 National Land Cover Database and 20...