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Title: ALTERNATE ENGINE PARAMETERS FOR MODELING OIL QUALITY
Author: Trammel, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Oil changes in equipment is one of the most common preventative maintenance (PM) practices performed in fleet management. In addition to being a frequent cost item, the opportunity to optimize intervals could provide significant PM cost savings to...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER BASELINE (CBL) CALCULATION ON PEAK TIME REBATE PROGRAM
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: In this thesis, the impact of customer baseline (CBL) accuracy on the Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program is investigated. In a hypothetical case, PTR is offered to the residential customers and its economic performance is evaluated with respect to the...

Title: Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Author: Mayfield, Hannah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student writing. The project begins with an analysis of participatory fandom; specific...

Title: An Examination of Factors that Relate to School Counselors Knowledge and Skills of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Author: Olsen, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Education
Description: Structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the factors that relate to school counselors’ knowledge and skills of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). A sample of 4,066 practicing school counselors who are members of the American School Couns...

Title: An Experimental and Computational Study of the Effect of Bioceramic Porosity on Drug Release Kinetics
Author: Upadhyay, Rahul
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Porous bioceramics have been explored for drug delivery applications. The goal is to design a material that can provide controlled release of therapeutic doses of the drug for a duration long enough to cause complete healing. For drug carriers, th...

Title: An Exploration of Factors Impacting Professional Identity Among Master’s Level Counseling Students
Author: McMullen, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology, Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between program track, clinical experience, and supervisory relationship of counselors-in-training and their professional identity defined as counseling philosophy, beliefs about the profe...

Title: An approach for demand response at residential level using integrated dynamic consumer end elasticity model
Author: Patel, Shyamal
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Economics
Description: Reducing the difference between on peak and off peak demand has long been recognized by utilities as an effective way of cutting the cost of producing electricity. Moreover, having prior knowledge about dynamic electricity rates gives the consumer...

Title: Analysis of public health information from social media
Author: Thalambedu Kumaresan, Madhav Narayan
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Social networking sites have become an integral part of daily life in the modern world. They can serve as an important, dynamic data source providing collective intelligence and awareness of health related issues. Analysis of huge volumes of unstr...

Title: Analysis of semiparametric regression models for the cumulative incidence functions under the two-phase sampling designs.
Author: Lee, Unkyung
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: Competing risks often arise where more than one event compete with each other for a subject. The cumulative incidence function is a proper summary quantity for analyzing competing risks data. In epidemiologic cohort studies, case-cohort study desi...

Title: Analysis of tanking in the National Football League
Author: Nance, William
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Sports economics literature has recently explored the idea that there is an incentive to intentionally lose games in some professional sports leagues. This process is known as "tanking" and is largely related to a league’s amateur draft policies. ...

Title: Apocalyptic Mother: Revelations of a World Turned Upside Down in The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: Bruce, Julie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: The Book of Margery Kempe is a fifteenth-century memoir that recounts the transformation of an English prophet or mystic from a "sinful wretch" to a vessel for the "Holy Ghost." She interprets this change in her life as one from abundance and fert...

Title: Appropriate Measures of Effectiveness: Teacher Evaluations and Value-Added Measures in North Carolina
Author: Covington, Azure
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: The increased use of value-added measures is a result of policymakers viewing traditional measures of teacher effectiveness as obsolete and unrelated to student achievement. Additionally, literature lacks substantial findings examining the relatio...

Title: Association between Health Literacy and Weight Management Behaviors among Individuals with Hypertension: Data from the Newest Vital Sign
Author: Saad, Aisling
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health education, Nutrition
Description: Health literacy and healthy weight management behaviors are important public health issues, especially among individuals with hypertension. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between health literacy and healthy weight managem...

Title: Association between taking asthma medication and total direct healthcare cost among patients with asthma
Author: Dave, Ira
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Asthma is one of the most common chronic and financially burdensome diseases in the United States. Previous studies have focused on comparing healthcare costs between asthma patients and non-asthma patients. This study is unique as it compares hea...

Title: Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
Author: Dony, Coline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, City planning
Description: Better access to parks can increase our level of physical activity. Increasingly aware of this association and its impact on community health; urban leaders started incorporating access to parks as an indicator of quality of life. However, two stu...

Title: Beyond Religion: Liberation Theology and Theology of the Hammer in El Salvador, A Comparative Analysis
Author: Lopez de Arcia, Gabriela
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: This Master’s thesis presents a comparative analysis of the philosophical principles and actions of Liberation theology, started within the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s, and the Theology of the Hammer, the core of Habitat for Huma...

Title: Bidirectional Scripting and Geometric Manipulation
Author: Rodgers, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Architecture, Design
Description: Working within the bounds of two-dimensional drawing programs and algorithmic design software, this project seeks to improve the accessibility to hidden information that is often obscured in conventional CAD software. Building off of visual progra...

Title: Bis(bipyridyl)silicon(IV) Diols as Potential Dual Hydrogen Bond Donors for Catalysis
Author: Waters, Crystal
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Hydrogen bond donors (HBDs) have been explored as potential catalysts for the 1,4-conjugate addition and Diels-Alder reactions. HBD catalysis, which relies on Brønsted acid catalytic sites, is being explored as an oxygen and moisture stable altern...

Title: Black Bodies That Matter: Corporeality in the Movement for Black Lives
Author: Williams, Ashley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy, Dance
Description: The purpose of this research project is to merge discourses concerning performance studies, dance theory, and the use of bodies in the Movement for Black Lives. Protest descriptions may include demographic information of participants, but they alm...

Title: Brunswick Town Colonoware: A Look at Form and Function
Author: Johnson, Benjamin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: This paper discusses the history of Brunswick Town through an archaeological study of Brunswick Colonoware as it applies to African-American life. By looking at the artifactual record from the original excavations of the town, I was able to determ...