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Dance, Precarity & Covid-19 in Two Global Art Cities
(2021)During time in isolation and quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, professional dancers have had little interaction with their careers amidst the global health crisis. While technological innovations have been creatively ... -
Data Mining For Knowledge-Based Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
(2018)Statistical approaches to landslide susceptibility mapping can be an effective tool for determining areas of high risk, but have also had problems with portability, reliability, stability, and impracticality as they often ... -
Data-Mining Social Media for Spatiotemporal Patterns of Negative Opinion
(2013)Given that political and natural events cause unrest in social media, the research of this thesis serves to address the following question: Using census demographics and the geographic signature of social media content, ... -
Dead Zones, Weed Nests, and Manure Mishaps: How Gardeners Cultivate Collective Place in Eagle Heights Community Gardens
(2011)The garden plots of Eagle Heights Community Gardens stretch for eight acres up a hillside on the west side of the University of Wisconsin at Madison's campus. Individual gardeners shape much of the space in this allotment-style ... -
Decontaminating Memory: Governmentality, Networks and Relational Enactment Through Policy Development at the Badger Army Ammunitions Plant, Wisconsin
(2011)In 1997, the US Army announced that the Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAP) in Sauk County, Wisconsin would be decommissioned, marking the end of the site?s complicated history and sparking extensive debate over proposed ... -
Designing an Experience: Maps and Signs at the Archaeological Site of Troy
(2016-06-29)Here, I discuss ways of enhancing the visitor experience at the archaeological site of ancient Troy near Çanakkale, Turkey, by redesigning the current maps and signage. Maps and signage are essential for visitors to ... -
Detecting Change in Urban Areas at Continental Scales with MODIS Data
(2014)Urbanization is one of the most important components of global environmental change, yet most of what we know about urban areas is at the local scale. Remote sensing of urban expansion across large areas provides information ... -
Detection and Exploration of Individual Semantic Trajectories Using Social Media Data
(2018)Individual travel trajectories collected from social media platforms (i.e., digital footprints) are often aggregated using methods such as the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) and varying ... -
Detection of Peri-urban and Agricultural Expansion 1990-2015 in Pakse, Laos, Using Dense Time Stacks of Landsat Imagery
(2016)Built-up areas in Southeast Asia have been expanding rapidly in the export-oriented economies of Vietnam, China, and Thailand, but less attention has been paid to cities in more rural nations such as Laos. The Laotian ... -
Determining Key Factors in the Decision-Making Process for Madison?s LEED Certified Landscape
(2011)This paper will address the distribution of the number of LEED certified buildings in comparing the commercial, civic, and residential buildings in the greater Madison area with a focus on gaining an understanding of the ... -
Developing a dynamic Huff model for business analysis using location big data
(2020)The Huff model has been widely used in location-based business analysis for delineating a trade area containing potential customers to a store. Calibrating the Huff model and its extensions requires empirical location visit ... -
Developing Community in the Garden: the Spatial Relationships of Socialization in the Sheboygan Community Garden
(2012)This study seeks to understand how the spatial dimensions of the garden relate to the social interactions in the Sheboygan Community Garden (SCG). Social interactions are the building blocks for community development in ... -
Dialectology in the UW-Madison Community
(2017)In this study, we researched phonetic and lexical variation across geography, incorporating knowledge of history, demography, and sociolinguistics. We used surveys and audio recordings in attempt to identify patterns in ... -
Differences in Tillage Intensity Near Oregon, Wisconsin
(2010-12-17)A group of four undergraduate Geography students at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison looked into agricultural practices and tillage intensity in the Oregon, Wisconsin area. First, they were curious as to specifically ... -
Displaced Persons' Camp Siting and Conflict Prediction in the Sahel
(2018-05-06)Within the biogeographic region of the Sahel, approximately 4.9 million people are forcibly displaced as a result of environmental degradation, poverty and insecurity associated with terrorism and criminal organizations. ... -
The Distance Between Them: The Economic Geography of Students in Wisconsin
(2011)Urban economics is an extensive field with innumerable externalities that affect consumer spending. College communities create dynamic seasonal changes in demands and varying populations, offering a unique opportunity for ... -
Divided Digitally: Literacy in the 21st Century
(2013-12)Socioeconomic inequalities receive much attention in academic literature, but scholars are just beginning to grasp what may amount to one of the most significant disparities of the 21st century: that of technological ... -
Do Seed Traits Mediate Plant Community Changes in Wisconsin's Unburned Prairies?
(2016-05)Historically, both natural and human-induced fires have played a key role in North American prairies, providing a disturbance regime that grassland systems are adapted to. With human activity fragmenting these prairies at ... -
Does Urban Sprawl Spread Like Manure?
(2009-12)Manure is spread evenly over agricultural lands to benefit the production of crops, resources, and food to the surrounding inhabitants. Does the spread of urban development benefit the neighboring agricultural lands in the ... -
Driving the Budget: the Politics of Bus Transportation in Madison Wisconsin
(2012-12)Public transportation, beneficial to citizens directly and indirectly, is dictated by the political sphere, localized budgets, and urban demographics. This study seeks to isolate the characteristics of who is riding the ...