Digital Commons Network^™

Center For Geospatial Studies Newsletter. 2016 No.10 (October), Minnesota State University Moorhead, Center For Geospatial Studies

Geospatial Center Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Abq Free Press, August 10, 2016, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, May 4, 2016, The Lumberjack Staff

2016

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

Center For Geospatial Studies Newsletter. 2016 No.9 (April), Minnesota State University Moorhead, Center For Geospatial Studies

Geospatial Center Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Optimizing Allocation Of U.S. Humanitarian Civic Assistance Projects In Support Of Developing Foreign Democracy, Christopher E. Wittman

Theses and Dissertations

Humanitarian projects in foreign countries are funded by the U.S. government to foster peace, prosperity, and the spread of democratic ideals around the globe. The type and scope of projects are restricted by current doctrine and funding regulations. Specifically in 2014, USAF personnel supported medical and educational construction projects/programs in the country of Belize. Within Belize, medical and educational projects were funded under the Humanitarian and Civic Assistance (HCA) program through the NEW HORIZONS exercise. Fiscal constraints, including shrinking budgets due to sequestration, have placed greater emphasis in the responsible distribution of resources and foreign assistance. The purpose of this …

Center For Geospatial Studies Newsletter. 2016 No.8 (February), Minnesota State University Moorhead, Center For Geospatial Studies

Geospatial Center Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Residential Proximity To Manufacturing Facilities And Risk Of Thyroid Cancer, Nathan Kloczko

Public Health Theses

In the past two decades, thyroid cancer incidence has increased at a rate faster than any other malignancy. Environmental contamination has been a suspected risk factor in this trend. One potential source of environmental exposures is pollution from industrial manufacturing facilities. We investigated whether proximity to industrial facilities was associated with an increased risk of thyroid cancer in an exploratory analysis within an existing population-based case-control study in Connecticut using a novel data resource.

Complete residential histories of 408 thyroid cancer cases and 470 controls were collected and geocoded. Manufacturing facility addresses were gathered from a novel source of publicly …

Data Analytics On Consumer Behavior In Omni-Channel Retail Banking, Card And Payment Services, Geng Dan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Innovations in financial services have created challenges for banks that Information Systems (IS) research can address. My interests involve transaction cost theory, substitution and complementarity theory, and consumer informedness theory to understand consumer behavior and firm performance in the omni-channel world of digital banking. At a high level, my research inquiry asks: How can financial institutions take advantage of the deep insights that data analytics and management science modeling create on consumer behavior and channel management decision-making? And how can changes in payments and services in retail banking be understood in spatial and temporal terms? I am working on three …