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Title: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stress, Coping, and Retention among Novice Teachers
Author: Fisher, Molly
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: There are many factors that lead to stress and burnout of teachers that ultimately result in up to half of teachers leaving the profession before their sixth year of experience. This study is a mixed-method approach to the problem that began with ...

Title: SURFACE PLASMON EFFECTS IN NANO-OPTICS: SUPER-RESOLVED OPTICAL READOUT AND COHERENCE CONVERSION
Author: Gan, Choon How
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Surface plasmon effects in nano-optical systems are investigated through rigorous numerical simulations and analytical modeling. Several strategies to achieve superresolution in plasmon-assisted optical readout systems are proposed, and simulation...

Title: SEVERAL STATISTICAL RESULTS UNDER MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION WITH INFINITE CATEGORIES
Author: Zhou, Jun
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: This dissertation discusses several statistical results under multinomial distribution with infinite categories. Firstly, the discussion focuses on Simpson's diversity index and Turing's formula. We established an unbiased estimate for the newly p...

Title: Role of Nonmuscle Myosin II in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation
Author: Moore, Cathy
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology
Description: The hepatic stellate cell (HSC) plays a pivotal role in the development of hepatic fibrosis. Regulation of liver microcirculation is a complex system where blood flow is under systemic and sinusoidal control. Upon a fibrogenic stimulus, quiescent ...

Title: Risk Minimizing Portfolio Optimization and Hedging with Conditional Value-at-Risk
Author: Li, Jing
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: This thesis looks at the problem of finding the optimal investment strategy of a self-financing portfolio in a dynamic complete market setting so that the risk measured by Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) is minimized under the condition that the ...

Title: Regulation of Myosin IIIa Motor/Kinase Activity
Author: Moore, Judy
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry, Neurosciences, Cytology
Description: Myosin IIIa, a motor protein that localizes to actin-rich regions of photoreceptors and to stereocilia of inner ear hair cells, is associated with the hearing process in vertebrates and with phototransduction for invertebrates. It contains a large...

Title: RANK-L expression in Staphylococcus aureus- induced osteomyelitis, therapeutic intervention using nanotechnology and use of UV-killed bacteria as an osteoconductive coating for biomaterials.
Author: Somayaji, Shankari
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology
Description: Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for approximately 80% of all cases of human osteomyelitis. RANK-L is an essential signal produced by osteoblasts and is required for full osteoclastic differentiation. PGE₂ - induced...

Title: Professional Development Relationships for Counselor Educators: the Relationship between Ethnic Identity, Advocacy, Empowerment and Cultural Empathy on Faculty Mentoring Alliances
Author: Rorrer, Audrey
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Educational leadership, Psychology, Industrial
Description: ABSTRACTMentoring programs are viewed as effective recruiting and retention tools that orient faculty members into the professoriate and provide opportunities to integrate cultural diversity into university ideology. However, empirical research ab...

Title: Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
Author: Courtney, Jennifer
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Language arts, Rhetoric
Description: Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...

Title: POLYPHONIC MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASED ON MULTI-LABEL CASCADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Author: Jiang, Wenxin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Interactive multimedia
Description: Recognition and separation of sounds played by various instruments is very useful in labeling audio files with semantic information. This is a non-trivial task requiring sound analysis, but the results can aid automatic indexing and browsing music...

Title: Optimal purchasing strategy for bandwidth: A buyer's perspective
Author: Vergara, Frances
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Business
Description: In today's burgeoning business environments, data frenetically pulses through massive interconnected networks as firms create, compile, and disseminate vast amounts of information. Organizations need to acquire the bandwidth that allows them to ef...

Title: Navigating the Epistemological Rocky Waters of Mathematics Education: An Instrumental Multiple Case Study
Author: Schinck, Amélie
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Teachers--Training of, Curriculum planning
Description: The various beliefs about mathematics and its role in society led to differing beliefs about what it means to learn mathematics and how best to teach it. Mathematics education research and organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of ...

Title: NORTH CAROLINA CHARTER SCHOOLS: SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS' PERCEPTIONSOF COMPETITION IN K-12 EDUCATION
Author: Parker, Ami
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, Public administration
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore traditional public school administrators' perceptions of competition in North Carolina public education after the implementation of charter school legislation. Surveys of traditional public school administr...

Title: Modeling the durability of structural components in aerospace and medical industries
Author: Shaik, Sameer
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents applications of the finite element method in studying the durability of components used in aerospace (composites) and medical (hip implants) industries. In the first part of the dissertation the response of a fiber-reinf...

Title: Modeling the Creep behavior of Torsional Springs
Author: Ramesh, Ajith
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTAJITH RAMESH: Modeling the creep behavior of torsional springs This dissertation presents a detailed model of the `overall' behavior of Torsional springs. Torsional springs (also called `Clock' springs) are a kind of spiral springs which a...

Title: MICROSTRUCTURAL MODELING DURING MULTI-PASS ROLLING OF A NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOY
Author: Subramanian, Kannan
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: Microstructure present at the end of rolling and cooling operations controls the product properties. Therefore, control of grain size is an important characteristic in any hot-working. The narrow temperature range for hot working of Alloy 718 make...

Title: Local Public Sector Allocation of Scarce Emergency Assets: An Evaluation of the Fire Service
Author: Boyd, Jr., Robert
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Political science, Public administration
Description: The methodology utilized by public sector managers to allocate scarce resources determines the level, efficiency, and effectiveness of service delivery. These decisions are influenced by a myriad of factors, not the least of which is the ideal goa...

Title: Level based sampling techniques for energy conservation in large scale wireless sensor networks
Author: Alasti, Hadi
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Industrial engineering
Description: As the size and node density of wireless sensor networks (WSN) increase, the energy conservation problem becomes more critical and the conventional methods become inadequate. This dissertation addresses two different problems in large scale WSNs w...

Title: Investigation of the Relationships Among Online Community College Students' Characteristics and Instructional Delivery Model Preferences
Author: Lander, Maria
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Educational technology
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between age, gender, program of study, and number of online courses previously taken and instructional delivery preferences related to students' control of their own learning, interaction,...

Title: Intracellular pattern recognition receptors underlie inflammatory responses of glial cells to central nervous system pathogens
Author: Sterka, David
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Cytology
Description: There is growing appreciation that the resident glial cells of the CNS, in particular microglia and astrocytes, are important participants in the generation of inflammation during brain infection. However, the mechanisms by which these cell types ...