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- Title
- Preventing 30-Day Rehospitalization Among Elderly Patients Through A Collaborative Transition of Care Program Between Acute and Primary Care
- Author
- Wingate, Katie
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Medicine, Gerontology
- Description
- There is a disconnect between acute and primary care when transitioning elderly patients from the hospital to the community, often leading to insufficient primary care follow-up and increased rehospitalization. The purpose of this pilot study was ...
- Title
- Common Dietary and Environmental Compounds Promote a Leukemic Translocation in Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Differentiated Cells
- Author
- Vestal, Carol
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Biology, Genetics
- Description
- Maternal exposure to topoisomerase II (topoII) inhibitors that are biochemically similar to the chemotherapeutic drug etoposide may promote infant acute leukemia. Several studies have shown that common dietary bioflavonoids as well as benzene meta...
- Title
- Control of wind integrated power grid using voltage controllability and vulnerability detection
- Author
- Maharjan, Rabindra
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Engineering, Renewable energy sources
- Description
- Modern power grids are the largest and most complex engineered systems. Integration of distributed resources like wind farms and economic constraints push power grids to operate close to their limits. Due to this, power system is subject to variou...
- Title
- Interfacial instabilities in reacting flows
- Author
- Attal, Nitesh
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Fluid instabilities, particularly interfacial instabilities, have proven to be a powerful mechanism in driving and sustaining combustion processes in several devices of practical interest. Modern combustors are in fact designed to exploit the mixi...
- Title
- Improving Outcomes for Families Involved in Child Protective Services Through an Enhanced Understanding of Residential Mobility's Impact on Caregiver-Child Relationships
- Author
- Johnson, Virginia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Reducing residential mobility among families involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) has the potential to alleviate some of the negative consequences associated with child maltreatment by reducing families’ stress and minimizing disruptions in...
- Title
- LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES: LIGHT-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND LIGHT-INDUCED CHANGES IN ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING AND ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Author
- Marmon, Jason
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Electrical engineering, Optics
- Description
- This dissertation explores three related embodiments of light–matter interactions at the micro– and nano–scales, and is focused towards tangible device applications. The first topic provides a fundamentally different transistor or electronic switc...
- Title
- Structural analysis of protein-DNA binding specificity and its application to protein-DNA docking assessment
- Author
- Corona de la Fuente, Rosario
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Bioinformatics
- Description
- DNA-binding proteins are involved in essential biological processes including gene expression, DNA packaging and DNA repair. They bind to DNA target sequences with different degrees of binding specificity, ranging from highly specific to non-speci...
- Title
- Clergy Spouse Well-Being
- Author
- Stamper, Scottie
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- The needs of clergy members and clergy family members present researchers with a unique and complex set of variables. While an ever-increasing body of research related to work-related stress and high rates of chronic disease and depression among c...
- Title
- Hierarchically Structured Recommender System for Improving NPS
- Author
- Kuang, Jieyan
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Information technology
- Description
- Net Promoter System (NPS) is well known as an evaluation measure of the growth engine of big companies in the business area. The ultimate goal of my research is to build an action rules and meta-actions based recommender system for improving NPS s...
- Title
- Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
- Author
- Lovato, Laura
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
- Description
- The impact of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention, treatment, and the well-being of people living with HIV (PLWH) is well established within the existing literature. HIV-related stigma experiences are compounded by intersections of identity, in t...
- Title
- Effects of Singapore Model Method with Explicit Instruction on Math Problem Solving Skills of Students At Risk for or Identified with Learning Disabilities
- Author
- Preston, Angela
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Mathematics--Study and teaching
- Description
- Over the last two decades, students in Singapore consistently scored above students from other nations on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS; Provasnik et al., 2012). In contrast, students in the United States have no...
- Title
- EXPLORING VARIED APPROACHES FOR COUNTERING THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY RISKS OF THIRD-PARTY MOBILE APPLICATIONS
- Author
- Mohsen, Fadi
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Information science
- Description
- Third-party mobile applications have become an essential component of modernecosystems such as Android and iOS. The number of these applications has growntremendously in recent years, for instance, the number of Android applications inthe market i...
- Title
- High-order integral equations for electromagnetic problems in layered media with applications in biology and solar cells
- Author
- Zinser, Brian
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics, Cytology, Electromagnetism
- Description
- We present two distinct mathematical models where high-order integral equations are applied to electromagnetic problems. The first problem is to find the electric potential in and around ion channels and Janus particles. The second problem is to f...
- Title
- Isogeometric collocation method for elasticity problems containing singularities
- Author
- Rattan, Puja
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics
- Description
- Isogeometric analysis (IGA), introduced by Hughes, et al. [2,3], is a mathematical approach that combines Finite Element analysis (FEA) in conjunction with engineering design tools, such as CAD, which allows analysis, testing and redesign of struc...
- Title
- The Community College: Access to Opportunity or Barrier to Success
- Author
- Grubbs, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social structure, Government policy, Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students’ aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involve...
- Title
- CHARACTERIZING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING (NGS) PLATFORMS FOR MULTIPLEXED BIOSENSING AND APTAMER DISCOVERY: G-QUADRUPLEX APTAMERS AS A CASE STUDY
- Author
- Patil, Sushant
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry
- Description
- Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules forming unique three dimensional structures that can bind to their targets (generally proteins or metabolites or other nucleic acids) with high specificity and affinity. Screening for aptamers requ...
- Title
- Partition of unity isogeometric analysis for singularly perturbed problems and fourth order differential equations containing singularities
- Author
- Kim, Sinae
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics
- Description
- The design basis functions in IGA are refined and enhanced by extra enrichment functions and various local refinements with the use of partition of unity (PU) functions with flat-top. These reconditioned and modified basis functions are pushed for...
- Title
- Digital Mirror: An Examination of Social Media’s Influence on Late Adolescent Black Females’ Global and Academic Self-Concept
- Author
- Williams, Nakeshia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The broad socialization of new media has the ability to cultivate the values, beliefs, interests, and personality characteristics of Black females. Specifically, new media’s digital platform of social media offers individuals immediate access to v...
- Title
- Surface-based 3D Object Modeling, Detection, and Pose Estimation in Cluttered Environments for Robotic Manipulation
- Author
- TENG, ZHOU
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- Automatic identification and pose estimation of a target object through robotic perception is necessary for many robotic tasks, such as object manipulation, scene reconstruction and view planning. However, general object recognition and pose estim...
- Title
- A market for vice: The foundations of corporate strategic irresponsibility
- Author
- Stewart, Oscar
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Sociology, Ethics
- Description
- Organizational scholarship has assumed that corporate irresponsibility (CI) is largely detrimental to firm financial performance. Alternatively, CI may sometimes work in firms’ favor, though at the expense of stakeholders. Exploring this reality, ...