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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Wake County"”.
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Isovolumetric Weathering of Granite in Wake County, North Carolina
Saprolite, formed by chemical weathering of rocks near the earth's surface, holds water, serves as a parent material of soils, and is a medium for waste disposal. Saprolite formation consumes CO₂ and may stabilize atmospheric CO₂ levels. This dissertation examined the influence of joint orientation …
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Relation of Well Yields to Fracture Patterns and Lineaments in the Rolesville Batholith, Wake County, North Carolina
In Wake County over 140,000 county residents (about 25% of the population) rely on groundwater resources for drinking and other everyday uses. The increasing population of the county is causing an increase in demand for water resources. As surface water supplies for the county reach maximum …
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Illuminating Individual-Level Sources of Crime for African Americans and Whites: An Examination of Four Theories
… African American and White adults who live in Wake County, North Carolina, several answers to these questions are suggested. Concerning the "racial gap" issue, this study finds no significant differences in offending between African Americans and Whites. Concerning the "racial generality" …
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Industry Technology Roadmapping of Nonwoven Medical Textiles
This research is a collaboration between Wake County Economic Development, NCSU Economic Development, and the College of Textiles. The overall purpose of this research is to examine the process by which an Industry Technology Roadmap (ITR) is developed, to start the development of an elementary …
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Connecting children to nature: integrating technology into nature programs and incorporating environmental education into an urban after-school program
… from a sample of residents (n = 282) from Wake County, North Carolina and a subset of that sample that subsequently participated in focus groups and a pilot program about box turtle tracking using radio telemetry. Results indicated that interest in nature and nature programs incorporating …
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Essays on the economics of education
… paper uses data on all middle school students in Wake County, NC from 1999-2006 to identify the causal effect of daily start times on academic performance. Using variation in start times within schools over time, the effect is a two percentile point gain in math test scores and a one and a half …