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Title: An Examination of the Impact of Urbanization on Stream Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Author: ROUX, ANTHONY
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Entomology
Description: The "Urban Stream Syndrome" is a term that refers to a group of predictable negative impacts to stream ecosystems due to the alteration of the natural hydrologic regime that is associated with urbanization. These negative impacts include increases...

Title: Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
Author: Dony, Coline
Date Created: 2016
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: Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
Author: Dony, Coline
Date Created: 2016
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: 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: COMPETING RATIONALITIES: CAPITAL, POWER, GENTRIFICATION AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Howarth, Thomas
Date Created: 2019
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: 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: Labor market outcomes of recent U.S. college graduates in the STEM disciplines: Impacts of college location.
Author: Lysenko, Tetiana
Date Created: 2017
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: Labor market outcomes of recent U.S. college graduates in the STEM disciplines: Impacts of college location.
Author: Lysenko, Tetiana
Date Created: 2017
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: 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: QUANTIFYING LIGHT RAIL’S EFFECT ON INTRAURBAN DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMUTING PATTERNS
Author: Khabazi, Maryam
Date Created: 2019
Description: This dissertation consists of two consecutive parts. The first part examines the impact of light rail transit (LRT) investment on the type of jobs (i.e., industrial and wage composition) in neighborhoods adjacent to rail transit stations using Cha...

Title: QUANTIFYING LIGHT RAIL’S EFFECT ON INTRAURBAN DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMUTING PATTERNS
Author: Khabazi, Maryam
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Geography, Economics
Description: This dissertation consists of two consecutive parts. The first part examines the impact of light rail transit (LRT) investment on the type of jobs (i.e., industrial and wage composition) in neighborhoods adjacent to rail transit stations using Cha...

Title: SUBPRIME CHARLOTTE: TRAJECTORIES OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE IN A GLOBALIZING NEW SOUTH CITY
Author: Morrell, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2018
Description: This dissertation is a mixed-methods exploration of neighborhood change in Charlotte, North Carolina focused specifically on the impact of mortgage lending patterns leading up to the Great Recession of 2008 as well neoliberal policies and discours...

Title: SUBPRIME CHARLOTTE: TRAJECTORIES OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE IN A GLOBALIZING NEW SOUTH CITY
Author: Morrell, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: This dissertation is a mixed-methods exploration of neighborhood change in Charlotte, North Carolina focused specifically on the impact of mortgage lending patterns leading up to the Great Recession of 2008 as well neoliberal policies and discours...

Title: Spatially Explicit Hyperparameter Optimization for Neural Networks
Author: Zheng, Minrui
Date Created: 2020
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: 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: THE ROLE OF URBAN GREEN ROOFS AS INVERTEBRATE HABITAT
Author: Merritt, Danielle
Date Created: 2017
Description: Developed countries witnessed an 80% expansion of urban land use between 1990 and 2015. This is leading to degradation of ecosystems and habitats, resulting in a general loss of biodiversity in urban areas. I investigated the habitat potential of ...

Title: THE ROLE OF URBAN GREEN ROOFS AS INVERTEBRATE HABITAT
Author: Merritt, Danielle
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability, Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: Developed countries witnessed an 80% expansion of urban land use between 1990 and 2015. This is leading to degradation of ecosystems and habitats, resulting in a general loss of biodiversity in urban areas. I investigated the habitat potential of ...