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Quantifying Changes in Retail Electricity Rates Resulting from a Microgrid Deployment
(2017-12)
Understanding how a proposed microgrid would affect customers is critical to deciding whether to deploy such a system and this paper seeks to assess how a microgrid deployment would affect retail electricity rates for ...
Using 2012 State Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Annual Payroll Data to Understand United States Sector Emissions
(2017-12)
The completion of this paper is an excellent summation of my time in the EPC program. I came into the program hoping to compliment my work at the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which revolves around the implementation of a federal ...
Responsiveness to Citizen Input: Topic Model Analysis of Public Comments to the San Francisco Police Commission
(2017-12)
Police commissions are uniquely positioned to funnel critical issues raised by citizens to police departments, thereby increasing accountability and potentially improving police/community relations. However, no empirical ...
Identifying Intentionally Duplicative Public Comments Submitted to Proposed Federal Rules
(2017-12)
Since the public commenting process for proposed federal regulations became primarily web-based, the number of rules receiving extremely high comment volumes has increased substantially; raising concerns about whether ...
Developing Policy for Beneficial Use of Waste Heat Energy for Low-Carbon Impact Thermal Desalination
(2017-12)
This study proposes that policy—supported by innovative technologies in desalination and cogeneration—can be used as a mechanism to facilitate thermal desalination for the relief of water stress without the burden of ...
An Improved Index for Measuring Precinct-Level Political Ideology in California
(2017-12)
Despite California’s reputation as a solidly liberal state, there exist deep
regional and neighborhood-level divisions in political ideology among voters.
Factor analysis has been used in previous research to formulate ...
Characteristics of Oil and Gas Pipeline Accidents Caused by Climate Change Intensified Hurricanes
(2017-12)
Scientist now believe with more confidence that human activities contribute substantially to the observed upward trend in hurricane activity. An occasional casualty of hurricanes is energy infrastructure like hazardous ...
Less Traditional, Less Success: The Negative Effect of Nontraditional Students on Community College Graduation Rates
(2017-12)
Community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates and 60% of community college students are independent for financial aid purposes. Independent students, with a number of nontraditional traits, are increasing as high ...
The Infrastructure of Research Administration at the RAND Corporation: A Case Study of The Social and Economic Policy Units
(2017-08)
In 2014, the Social and Economic Policy Units (or research units) at the RAND Corporation went through centralization which created new job titles and new job descriptions for research administrators, allowed research units ...
Affordable Housing in Washington, DC: The Impact of Short-Term Rentals and Possible Solutions
(2017-11)
On January 21, 2017, Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, Ward 5, introduced B22-0092, a bill to impose new regulations on short-terming housing rentals—i.e. Airbnb and others—in order to protect affordable housing supply in the ...