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Title: Can posttraumatic growth protect the mental and physical health of prostate cancer survivors?
Author: Addington, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Oncology
Description: Due to high incidence and survival rates of prostate cancer, mental and physical health outcomes of prostate cancer survivors are important public health issues. Some men with prostate cancer experience positive psychological changes known as post...

Title: Intermittency for Branching random walks with heavy tails.
Author: Getan, Asmaa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: iic 2016Asmaa GetanALL RIGHTS RESERVEDiiiABSTRACT Branching Markov process models populations in which each individual in gener-ation n produces some random number of individuals in the next generation, n + 1, according to a certain probability di...

Title: A Comparison of Developmental Mathematics Sequences at a North Carolina Community College Using a Markov Chain Model
Author: Peeler, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation
Description: This study compares students at a North Carolina community college taking a course-based developmental mathematics sequence to students taking a new, module-based emporium method developmental mathematics sequence using a Markov chain model to com...

Title: SHORT TERM LOAD FORECASTING WITH RECENCY EFFECT: MODELS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Liu, Bidong
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: Load forecasting is evolving in a smart grid era from the days before personal computer (PC) and the PC era. Thanks to the wide-spread use of smart meters, more data with high resolution is available than ever before. Meanwhile, with development o...

Title: Towards The Dry Preservation of Feline Sperm: The Effect Of Dehydration On DNA, Centrosomal Function, And Embryo Development
Author: Patrick, Jennifer
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: The current gold standard for gamete preservation is cryogenic storage. Dry preservation is an attractive alternative, eliminating the need for refrigeration, reducing storage maintenance costs, and providing logistical flexibility for shipping. T...

Title: EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
Author: Abankwa, Samuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Industrial management, Economics
Description: The dissertation consists of three related topics: FX market-wide liquidity measure and individual currency-pair liquidity co-movements, FX liquidity risk and carry trade returns, and the forward premium puzzle in foreign exchange markets. This is...

Title: The power of our inner voice: The predictive validity of self-talk
Author: Uhrich, Benjamin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial, Cognitive psychology
Description: Self-talk, or verbalized cognition, has been a focal construct of empirical studies in sports and clinical psychology for decades, but has only recently become of interest to organizational researchers. In the current study, we investigated the re...

Title: DEVELOPING A KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FRAMEWORK IN HIGHWAY PROJECTS USING INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATION CLASS (IFC) EXTENSION
Author: Shen, Zhenhua
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Civil engineering
Description: Highway-project data are being accumulated at a dramatic pace with the advance of information technology; consequently, the need for discovering useful knowledge among the historical data to prevent highway-project construction delay is increasing...

Title: Using formal methods towards improving cloud IaaS environments
Author: Al-Haj, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Cloud computing has become a prominent technology with the potential for tremendously positive effects on the future of computer networks and services. However, as the resources are shared in cloud environments, cloud security is a major concern. ...

Title: FACTORS INFLUENCING COUNSELOR SELF-EFFICACY OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS
Author: Isawi, Dana
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: Since 1975, the United has admitted over three million refugees (U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, 2016). Mental health professionals are called upon to the psychological needs of this unique population. Neve...

Title: A Case Study Examination of Male Former Youth Offenders' School Reentry Challenges and Factors Enabling Their Academic Success
Author: Glover, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Youth offenders often struggle to successfully return to their communities and schools after release from confinement. The reasons for this struggle are well documented, as is the fact that school engagement and success (before and after confineme...

Title: Modeling the Crash Injury Severity in Work Zone Areas on Freeways
Author: Miatudila, Sr., Alain
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
Description: The rising frequency of crashes in work zones on American freeways is a growing issue inherently linked to the degrading state of our transportation infrastructure. As travel demand increases and our infrastructure continues to age and wear out, w...

Title: Structured Interdisciplinary Rounds and Communication on a Geographic Medical Unit: A Pilot Study
Author: Wahab, Holly
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Communication, Medicine
Description: ABSTRACTIntroductionEffective, concise, and consistent communication is essential for safe, quality patient care. However, traditional models of physician rounding can result in gaps and delays in communication between team members involved in the...

Title: A Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
Author: Najaf, Pooya
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, City planning
Description: The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...

Title: Next-Generation Sequencing Based Quantification of Microbial Communities and Gene Pathways
Author: Jones, Roshonda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Humans act as a host to trillions of microorganisms. The collective of these microorganisms is called a host’s microbiota. There is a growing interest in the bacterial composition of the gut microbiome of humans (structure) and the role of the mic...

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: 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: Conceptualizing Value: African American Mothers' Perspectives on School-Community Partnership, Parental Involvement, and Faith
Author: Cuthbertson, Shanitria
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: Over 30 years of research on parental and community engagement in schools highlight the positive impact of school-family-community partnerships on academic achievement, social and cultural enrichment, and overall school climate (Blank, Jacobson, &...

Title: The Underperformance of Gifted Elementary School Students
Author: Chinnis, Kimberly
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Gifted children--Education
Description: There is much concern regarding the underachievement of gifted students. Gifted students have the potential to make outstanding contributions to society. The present study analyzed the perceptions of teachers, principals, and one director of gifte...

Title: VARIABILITY IN PREOPERATIVE EMERGENCY UTILIZATIONS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INITIAL PRIMARY PACEMAKER INSERTION
Author: Roy, Debosree