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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: Studies on the relationships between oligonucleotide probe properties and hybridization signal intensities
Author: Gharaibeh, Raad
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Statistics, Bioinformatics
Description: Microarray technology is a commonly used tool in biomedical research for assessing global gene expression, surveying DNA sequence variations, and studying alternative gene splicing. Given the wide range of applications of this technology, comprehe...

Title: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author: Graham, David
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Education, Secondary, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Research investigating the impact of factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, racial socialization, and academic self-concept on the academic achievement of African American high school students has been of interest to scholars for decades. P...

Title: Comparing Effects of Two Grouping Conditions to Teach Algebraic Problem-Solving to Students with Mild Disabilities in Inclusive Settings
Author: Harris, Amber
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Mathematics
Description: This study compared two grouping conditions (Direct Instruction vs. an instructional package containing Direct Instruction, Peer Assisted Learning Strategies, and self-monitoring) on 6th and 7th grade special education students' abilities to solve...

Title: Information Technology and Criminal Investigations: Does IT Matter?
Author: Hekim, Hakan
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Political science
Description: As an important police activity, criminal investigation heavily relies on recovery, analysis and interpretation of information. Since information technologies facilitate creation, storage, retrieval, process and dissemination of information, polic...

Title: How Is the Value of Real Estate Affected by the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Process?
Author: Hiebert, Thomas
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Business
Description: This study examines the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process as it relates to real estate prices in the communities surrounding the bases marked for closure and realignment. I examine the history of the BRAC process, d...

Title: A MESHLESS METHOD WITH ENRICHED BASIS FUNCTIONS FOR SINGULARITY PROBLEMS
Author: Hong, Won-Tak
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Mathematics
Description: For the last several decades, the Finite Element Method (FEM) has been a powerful tool in solving challenging science and engineering problems, especially when solution domains have complex geometry. However the mesh refinements and construction o...

Title: The Effects of Explicit Self-regulated Learning Strategy Instruction on Mathematics Achievement
Author: Jenkins, Janet
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
Description: Self-regulated learning includes the use of a set of strategies for planning, monitoring, and self-evaluating students' efforts toward reaching specific learning goals. This study examined the extent to which explicit self-regulated learning strat...

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: Assured Information Sharing for Ad-hoc Collaboration
Author: Jin, Jing
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Information technology
Description: Collaborative information sharing tends to be highly dynamic and often ad hoc among organizations. The dynamic natures and sharing patterns in ad-hoc collaboration impose a need for a comprehensive and flexible approach to reflecting and coping wi...

Title: DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM-only AND DISCRETE SINE TRANSFORM-only WINDOWED UPDATE ALGORITHMS FOR SHIFTING DATA WITH HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION
Author: KARWAL, VIKRAM
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Discrete Sine Transform (DST) are widely used in image and data compression applications. To process the DCT or DST of a signal a portion of length N is extracted by windowing. By shifting the window point by po...

Title: EFFECT OF PROVIDERS' PROCEDURAL VOLUME COMPLEXITY ON IN-HOSPITAL COMPLICATIONS AND LENGTH OF STAY FOR GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY
Author: Kamble, Shital
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences
Description: Obesity and morbid obesity represent one of the major public health problems in the United States (U.S.) that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population. Gastric bypass (GB) is a complex operation, performed in a high-risk morbidly ...

Title: The impact of police agency size on crime clearance rates
Author: Kennedy, William
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Public administration
Description: The impact of police agency size on the ability of those agencies to deliver necessary police services is a question critical to many policy makers as they attempt to determine the best and most efficient manner to provide police services to their...

Title: Test uncertainty ratio (TUR) and test uncertainty
Author: Khanam, Samira
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Measurement uncertainty is a natural parameter that can be used to characterize any measure¬ment process. Continually increasing demands of higher and higher dimensional accuracy in manufactured components places similar demands on the field of di...

Title: The role of the dopaminergic system in the regulation of physical activity in mice
Author: Knab, Amy
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Genetics, Physiology
Description: Physical activity (PA) is important to human health, and the genetic and biological regulating factors of physical activity are only beginning to be understood. The dopamine (DA) system has been shown to regulate motivation, and locomotor behavior...

Title: Effects of Tier 1 Enhancement Training on Teachers' Instructional Unit Accuracy
Author: Kretlow, Allison
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary
Description: Early intervention models such as Response to Intervention have shown promise in reducing risk of academic failure (Bursuck et al., 2005; Foorman, Fletcher, Francis, & Schatschneider, 1998). General education teachers assume primary responsibility...

Title: Cluster Requiem and the Rise of Cumulative Growth Theory
Author: Kunkle, Gary
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Public administration
Description: Industry cluster theory has been the predominant model guiding economic development policy throughout the world for nearly two decades. As appealing as the cluster approach has been to regional scientists and policy makers it suffers from a number...

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: The Association of Structural and Process Factors with Medication Errors for Residents Entering a Nursing Home
Author: Lane, Sandi
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Public health, Health services administration
Description: Objective: The purpose of the study is to elucidate the relationships and inter-relatedness of specific structure, process, and outcome elements contributing to harmful medication errors for the vulnerable people who reside in nursing homes by exp...