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Title: EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MAINTAIN ABSTINENCE FROM MOOD ALTERING SUBSTANCES USING SELF-DIRECTED, COGNITIVE-BASED RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUPS
Author: Kitzinger, Robert
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: ABSTRACTROBERT HENRY KITZINGER, JR. Experiences of individuals who maintain abstinence from mood altering substances using self-directed, cognitive-based recovery support groups. (Under the direction of DR. PAMELA S. LASSITER) The purpose of this ...

Title: EXPLORATORY VISUALIZATION OF GRAPHS BASED ON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
Author: Liu, Yujie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Communities, also called clusters or modules, are groups of nodes which probably share common properties and/or play similar roles within a graph. They widely exist in real networks such as biological, social, and information networks. Allowing us...

Title: Effects of Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence of Instruction on Solving Equations using Inverse Operations with High School Students with Mild Intellectual Disability
Author: Cease-Cook, Jennifer
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education
Description: This study used a multiple probe across participants design to examine the effects of concrete-representational-abstract sequence of instruction on solving equations using inverse operations with high school students with mild intellectual disabil...

Title: Effects of Multilevel Support on First-Grade Teachers' Use of Research-Based Strategies During Beginning Reading Instruction
Author: Schnorr, Crystalyn
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of multilevel support on first-grade teachers' accurate use of research-based strategies during beginning reading instruction and the extent to which teachers maintained use of these strategies....

Title: Environmental Sustainability of Light Rail Transit in Urban Areas
Author: Sarmiento, Hazel Marie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Sustainability, Transportation--Planning
Description: Light rail transit is considered as an environmentally sustainable transit option based on perceptions of its possible benefits on minimizing air pollution, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This study seeks to determine how light r...

Title: Estimation Of Preference-Based Measures Of Health From Disease-Specific Clinical Outcome Measures For Total Hip And Knee Arthroplasty Patients
Author: Odum, Susan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences
Description: Transfer to utility (TTU) or mapping methodology allows researchers to estimate a health utility from a disease-specific measure and calculate quality adjusted life years for economic evaluations. The purpose of this study was to develop regressio...

Title: Evaluation of Reclaimed Drywall for Soil Amendment and Carbon Sequestration
Author: Besnard, Fabien
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Construction and demolition (C&D) activities produce 170 million tons of waste annually (US EPA 2009), 15% of which are drywall. Drywall from construction activities, virgin material too small to be reused and often disposed in landfills, is estim...

Title: Evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulation in bacteria
Author: Li, Shan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Statistics, Bioinformatics
Description: Although transcription is one of the most important biological functions of cells, our understanding of its regulation is still limited. In this dissertation, we have studied the transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes in three aspects. First, w...

Title: Examining Predictors of Reduction in Drinking Risk Level Among Severe-Risk Trauma Patients Following a Brief Counseling Intervention
Author: Moro, Regina
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Public health, Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to identify potential predictors of alcohol screening and brief intervention outcomes for severe-risk drinkers. Specifically, age, gender, race, blood alcohol level, counseling intervention type, type of injury, hazar...

Title: Exploring The Self Assembly of Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles In Langmuir Films
Author: Giles, Alexander
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: The assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals into close packed films suitable for device engineering is critical to the development of next generation electronic and optoelectronic devices. These nanocrystals have nanometer dimensions and can be pre...

Title: Exploring the Effects of Being a Peer Educator on African American Breast Cancer Survivors
Author: Rouse, Melanie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health education
Description: ABSTRACTMELANIE J. ROUSE. Exploring the effects of being a peer educator on African American breast cancer survivors. (Under the direction of DRS. A. SUZANNE BOYD and DEE BALDWIN)Efforts to reduce breast cancer-related health disparities amongst A...

Title: Exploring the Visualization of Student Behavior in Interactive Learning Environments
Author: Johnson, Matthew
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: My research combines Interactive Learning Environments (ILE), Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Information Visualization (Info-Vis) to inform analysts, educators and researchers about user behavior in software, specifically in CBEs, which include...

Title: Extrapolation of Test Performance for Air-to-Air Rotary Energy Exchangers
Author: Jamal Alhariry, Alaa
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Air-to-air energy exchangers are used in building HVAC systems to transfer energy between the exhaust air and the outdoor air. Because of its potential to reduce the energy consumption for conditioning ventilation air and to downsize the cooling a...

Title: FACTORS SHED BY BREAST TUMOR CELLS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA CONVERTING ENZYME ACTIVITIES, AND THE GENERATION OF PRO-TUMOR MACROPHAGES
Author: Rego, Stephen
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: The role of the tumor microenvironment, especially of tumor associated macrophages (TAMs), in the progression and metastatic spread of breast cancer is well established. TAMs are activated in the breast tumor microenvironment to express primarily ...

Title: FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF, AND EXPERIENCES WITH, AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE STUDENTS AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Author: Jenkins, Shantelle
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Education, Higher, Adult education
Description: Many studies involving African American male students have focused on achievement gaps and student retention models of those attending four-year institutions. However, there are limited investigations of African American male students at the commu...

Title: Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
Author: Parker, Ashley
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand the experiences of African American female undergraduates in STEM. It investigates how familial factors and science identity formation characteristics influence persistence in STEM while considering the d...

Title: Frameworks for Ascribing Meaning: An Examination of Adolescents' Lived Experiences of Illness
Author: Winford, Eboni
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The importance of religion and spirituality (R & S) in adults' experiences of illness is well established. Findings range from lower reported levels of distress following diagnoses of illnesses to adults' use of these existential frameworks to und...

Title: From Recall to Resolve: Supporting the Development of Culturally Responsive Preservice Teachers in a Language Arts Methods Course
Author: Glover, Crystal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Teachers--Training of, Language arts
Description: The need for culturally responsive teachers in an increasingly diverse educational system is paramount. The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice teachers' developing understandings of culturally responsive pedagogy in a language art...

Title: Fungal Treatments for Lignocellulosic Bioconversion
Author: Giles, Richard
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Biology
Description: Four studies were conducted to develop an innovative application of fungal biopulping technologies to improve commercialization of lignocellulosic ethanol biofuel production using sustainable waste products. The first study focused on evaluation a...

Title: GENERALIZED QUASI-LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS FOR VARYING COEFFICIENT QUANTILE REGRESSION MODELS
Author: Wang, Yonggang
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Quantile regression models which can track the relationship of predictive variables and the response variable in specific quantiles are especially useful in applications when extreme quantiles instead of the center of the distribution are interest...