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Title: Using campaign communications to analyze civility in ranked choice voting elections
Author: Kropf, Martha
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Preferential ballot, Sentiment analysis
Description: Theory suggests that ranked choice voting (RCV) may create a more civil campaign environment. As voters must rank candidates, the candidates have an incentive to work with each other more collaboratively. This study uses text analysis software (LI...

Title: Understanding the Complexities of Advising Transfer Students in an Institution-Driven System
Author: Holliday-Millard, Paul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher, Educational leadership
Description: Nationally, while the majority of community college students indicate a desire to transfer to a four-year college or university, many of them fail to do so (Horn & Skomsvold, 2011; Hossler et al., 2012; Jenkins & Fink, 2015; Shapiro et al., 2013)....

Title: Understanding and identifying risk factors for individuals experiencing negative psychological outcomes following social media use: A statistical analysis among women without a history of an eating disorder.
Author: Hayes, Marie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: As the use of social media for accessing health information becomes increasingly more nuanced and commonplace, as does our understanding of the impacts on users. Using social media to access health information has increased in popularity, and rese...

Title: Understanding and Designing for Sharing and Privacy in Wearable Fitness Platforms
Author: Alqhatani, Abdulmajeed
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Commercial wearable devices that collect health and fitness data are widely used. These devices sense and collect a variety of personal data, which can be shared by users with other people and with third parties. Yet, the collection of personal da...

Title: Understanding and Designing for Sharing and Privacy in Wearable Fitness Platforms
Author: Alqhatani, Abdulmajeed
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Commercial wearable devices that collect health and fitness data are widely used. These devices sense and collect a variety of personal data, which can be shared by users with other people and with third parties. Yet, the collection of personal da...

Title: Understanding Chaperone interactions in disease
Author: Nitika
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Cytology
Description: The correct folding of proteins after synthesis and stress-promoted denaturation is critical for cell viability in all organisms. The Hsp70 molecular chaperone is a key player in proteostasis, deciding which proteins are foldable and which are too...

Title: Underground Circles and Clandestine Romance: Queer Resistance under the Third Reich
Author: Roberson, Keira
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Queer studies, History
Description: This study proposes a framework through which to examine queer resistance and oppositional behaviors under oppression and persecution, such as the Nazi regime. Under the Weimar Republic, queer circles coalesced into communities that developed a de...

Title: Two
Author: Nicolau, Nathan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Howl, the studious college student, and Ella, the free-spirited art school dropout, are one and the same. Both have troubled pasts they want to let go of but do not know how to. On any other day, they would have never met despite both living in Ch...

Title: Travel Time Forecasting on a Freeway Corridor: a Dynamic Information Fusion Model based on the Machine Learning Approaches
Author: Qiu, Bo
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
Description: Metropolitan areas suffer from frequent road traffic congestion not only during peak hours but also during off-peak periods. Currently, the increasing availability of vehicle probe data has made the real-time travel time prediction a reality. The ...

Title: Towards ai-empowered wireless networks: from edge to core
Author: janakaraj, prabhu
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Wireless multi-hop networks have been widely exploited for deploying cost-efficient network backbones including wireless community mesh networks, high-speed urban networks, global wireless internet infrastructure, battlefield networks, and public ...

Title: Towards Ending the HIV Epidemic One County at a Time an Evaluation Framework for Subcounty-level Usage of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for Exposing Disparities and Guiding Targeted Interventions
Author: Satyanarayana, Sagar
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biometry, Epidemiology, Statistics
Description: About 1.1 million Americans were living with HIV in 2019 with the total lifetime cost to treat a single person with an HIV infection estimated to be around $501,000. Huge disparities in new HIV incidences exist between different geographic and dem...

Title: Towards Adapting Cognitive Architectures for Knowledgeable & Personalized Dialogue Systems
Author: Santhanam, Sashank
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: State-of-the-art conversational agents have advanced significantly in conjunction with the use of large transformer-based language models. However, even with these rapid advancements, the current generation of conversational agents suffers from th...

Title: Timely updating with intermittent energy and data for multiple sources over erasure channels
Author: Daniel, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source’s data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a time, ...

Title: Through the Lens of Social Movement Impact Theory in Latin America. Measuring Social Entrepreneurial Intention: Utilizing Socio-Political Activism and Entrepreneurial Passion as Moderated by Opportunity Recognition and Gender
Author: Darden, Bryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management, Social sciences--Research, Entrepreneurship
Description: Many studies have used the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain social entrepreneurial intention; however, limited empirical research has focused on the effects that socio-political activism, theory of social movements, and social movement impact...

Title: Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies
Author: Villatoro Godoy, Karla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: KARLA NATALIA VILLATORO GODOY. Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID C. MAUER) In the first chapter ("Brand Equity and Corporate Debt Structure"), we develop measures of brand equity based on firms’ portfo...

Title: This Generation Will Not Pass Away Before All These Things Take Place
Author: Cataldo, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History, Religion, Theology
Description: This study examines the apocalyptic expectation of Jesus’ imminent return from heaven in the early Jesus movement, and how Matthew and Mark respond to its failure by recasting it as fulfilled. Jesus’ return from heaven, also known as the Parousia,...

Title: Thermo-Fluid and Mechanical Design and Optimization Of An Advanced Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger For Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycles
Author: Khalesi, Javad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: A supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton power cycle is considered as one of the promising energy conversion systems for a number of applications such as advanced nuclear reactors, advanced fossil, and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants du...

Title: The recognition of and reactions to nucleic acid nanoparticles by human immune cells
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Bila, Dominika, Panigaj, Martin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: The relatively straightforward methods of designing and assembling various functional nucleic acids into nanoparticles offer advantages for applications in diverse diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. However, due to the novelty of this approach...

Title: The local and landscape features associated with roost attendance and nesting success in urban black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) populations.
Author: Partridge, Hannah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Ecology
Description: Land cover changes that result from increasing urbanization alter habitat type, structure, and resource availability on local and global scales. Vultures provide important ecosystem services including disease management and nutrient cycling, makin...

Title: The in-vivo Evolution of Burkholderia multivorans in a Cystic Fibrosis patient
Author: Harrison, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Description: ABSTRACT Burkholderia multivorans is an opportunistic pathogen that poses a health risk to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The use of broad-range antibiotics to combat chronic bacterial lung infections has led to the evolution of antibiotic-re...