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Title: Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
Author: Dony, Coline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, City planning
Description: Better access to parks can increase our level of physical activity. Increasingly aware of this association and its impact on community health; urban leaders started incorporating access to parks as an indicator of quality of life. However, two stu...

Title: DECISION SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY
Author: Pala, Okan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Information science
Description: Protecting critical infrastructure systems, such as electrical power grids, has become a primary concern for many governments and organizations across a variety of stakeholder perspectives. Critical infrastructures involve multi dimensional, highl...

Title: Developing A Plugin In Qgis For Selecting The Location Of A New Manufacturing Plant
Author: Ahmadzadeh Siyahrood, Sanaz
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Information technology, Geographic information systems, Geodesy
Description: With the growth of the technology-driven world, today many designs and analyzes depend on smart software to address different computational concepts. In the meantime, locating and finding a suitable place for establishing a facility is one of them...

Title: Evaluating Foraminifera as a Tool for Recreating Historical Landscapes and Verifying Cartographic Accuracy at Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Author: Di Bari, Sofia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Environmental sciences, Marine biology
Description: The research in this thesis focused on the use of Foraminifera to determine paleo-subenvironments and to quantify changes in the subenvironments through time at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Historical maps were assessed with respect to the subenvi...

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: Impervious Cover Thresholds of the North Carolina Piedmont Fish Assemblage
Author: Webster, Patrick
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Ecology, Natural resources--Management
Description: Researchers have placed emphasis on quantifying and identifying ecological thresholds to study biological responses to urbanization. As watersheds become urbanized, they exhibit a systemic pattern of degradation that disrupts the natural biogeoche...

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: Modeling the Influence of Land Use Developments within the Vicinity of the Link and Network Characteristics on Travel Time
Author: Mane, Ajinkya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Statistics, Geodesy
Description: From the year 2000 to the year 2010, the total population in the United States increased by 12.1%. About ~80% of the total population resides in the urban areas. The growth in the urban population influenced the urban sprawl, congestion, and, subs...

Title: Novel Methodology for Spatial Risk Analysis of Overhead Transmission Lines Subject to Wildfires
Author: de Sousa Berredo, Alessandro Cesar
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Geographic information systems, Geodesy
Description: Wildfires are one of the main threats to overhead power lines worldwide, causing permanent damages and interruptions. Wildfires represent the second leading cause of outages in the Brazilian Interconnected Grid and the fourth leading cause in the ...

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: Spatially Explicit Hyperparameter Optimization for Neural Networks
Author: Zheng, Minrui
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy
Description: Neural networks as a commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear geographic phenomena. Howev...

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 IMPACT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ON HOUSING PRICES AND HOMEOWNERSHIP IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Ludden, Thomas
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, Economics
Description: At the end of the last century, the U.S. housing market was volatile. The average price of housing increased by 50 percent, while the national rate of loans entering foreclosure was 0.3 percent. Across the nation, local housing markets displayed u...