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Configurations of a southern place: a postcolonial, southern urban inquiry into place-making in Norwood, Johannesburg.
(2023-05-12)
Place theory in geography has largely been a northern scholarly endeavor. Yet there is much to learn about place-making in global south cities. Southern urban scholars argue that understanding cities of and from the vantage ...
Avoiding freezer burn: Before, during, and after of a hiring freeze
(2022-05-05)
Hiring freezes are a common strategy that organizations pursue during times of fiscal austerity to conserve funds. While a freeze does impact an organization, the impact is certainly less than a layoff would be. Hiring ...
Rural Studio and the Front Porch Initiative: The Opportunities and Challenges of Place-Based Research
(2022)
Harnessing the applied student research developed through design-build projects at Auburn University Rural Studio, the Front Porch Initiative aims to develop a scalable, sustainable, and resilient process for delivering ...
Study of hot carrier dynamics and relaxation in metal halide perovskites
(2023-05)
Metal halide perovskites are a promising class of solution-based semiconductors
with significant potential for optoelectronic devices, including hot carrier solar cells
that are proposed to achieve higher efficiency than ...
Drought mildly reduces plant dominance in a temperate prairie ecosystem across years
(2020-06-01)
1. Shifts in dominance and species reordering can occur in response to global change. However, it is not clear how altered precipitation and disturbance regimes interact to affect species composition and dominance.
2. We ...
Joining Up with the Union: California's Place in the Nation and the Meaning of Military Service in the Civil War
(2020-05-08)
Prior to the start of the Civil War, California had been a state for less than a dozen years and was populated by a diverse group of people from around globe, many of whom had been lured to the state by the call of gold. ...
A Tale of Two Pandemics and the Shortcomings of International Law: Examining gender-based violence in Bolivia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by scrutinizing international laws’ limitations in mitigating human rights abuses during periods of crisis
(2021-05)
International law was established as a part of the international relations sphere to prevent mass atrocity from ever occurring again in the way that it had throughout World War I and World War II. With the passage of time, ...
Wildfire risk along the wildland-urban interface in Oklahoma in relation to encroaching eastern redcedar
(2022-12-16)
Across the United States, the number of wildfires has been increasing, but this can especially be felt in the Great Plains, where some of the most drastic increases in wildfire frequency and size have occurred. While ...
A global optimization framework for stochastic integrated refinery planning with nonlinear unit models under demand and price uncertainties
(2020-09-11)
The refining industry is facing increased volatility in the global market such as lower economic margins. In this situation, refinery production planning becomes a substantial tool to utilize all potentials to extend the ...
Design and fabrication of a 3D printed hybrid implant for temporomandibular joint regeneration
(2021)
Patients suffering from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders have difficulties
performing trivial activities such as chewing, yawning, and even laughing. In severe cases, the
pain is unbearable and clinical care is ...