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Title: A framework for user-centric privacy management in smartphones regarding Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
Author: Bello-Ogunu, Emmanuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Businesses and organizations such as retail stores, airports, and hospitals have begun to leverage the recent advances in localization technology to provide quality location-based services to their customers. Beacons are one example of this techno...

Title: A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
Author: LaPorte, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...

Title: A Post-modern Teacher Educator: A Phenomenological Study of Teacher Educators with Significant Experiences in High-Needs, High-Minority Urban Schools
Author: Robinson, Derrick
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Education
Description: Four decades of university-based teacher education reform has failed to yield favorable outcomes in teacher effectiveness in P-12 schools. A rising tide of reform and criticism from governmental agencies and neo-liberal reformers has resulted in o...

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: 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: An Examination of Factors that Relate to School Counselors Knowledge and Skills of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Author: Olsen, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Education
Description: Structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the factors that relate to school counselors’ knowledge and skills of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). A sample of 4,066 practicing school counselors who are members of the American School Couns...

Title: An analysis of administrative spending across education organizational forms
Author: Prieto, Tatia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: This study compared administrative expenditures among 542 traditional school districts and 258 charter schools in Michigan, exploring whether one organizational model might better minimize administrative spending. A non-experimental correlational ...

Title: Characterization of Individual Straight and Kinked Boron Carbide Nanowires
Author: Cui, Zhiguang
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: Boron carbides represent a class of ceramic materials with p-type semiconductor natures, complex structures and a wide homogeneous range of carbon compositions. Bulk boron carbides have long been projected as promising high temperature thermoelect...

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: NONPARAMETRIC PREDICTIVE REGRESSION
Author: Yu, Xintian
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Finance, Economics
Description: In ﬁnancial time series nonlinear eﬀects and time-varying eﬀects are observed. In this dissertation we propose a predictive regression model with time varying coeﬃcients and functional coeﬃcients. It allows for nonstationary predictors. We establi...

Title: Optical performance of random anti-reflection structured surfaces (rARSS) on spherical lenses
Author: Taylor, Courtney
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Random anti-reflection structured surfaces (rARSS) have been reported to improve transmittance of optical-grade fused silica planar substrates to values greater than 99%. These textures are fabricated directly on the substrates using reactive-ion/...

Title: Modeling the effects of involvement and attitudes on energy industry pursuit intentions: A systems analysis of the university-industry environment
Author: Gross, Jordan
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Psychology, Industrial, System theory
Description: The energy industry’s struggle to attract and retain qualified employees continues to threaten the nation’s economy, global competitiveness, and national security. Given the nationwide skills and labor shortage in the energy industry, this study w...

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: North Carolina free clinics: Effective primary care provider for the uninsured
Author: Hutchison, Jenny
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration
Description: Although the United States has recently made progress in reducing the number of uninsured in the country as a result of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, millions will continue to be unable to access insurance, ...

Title: Parenting Stress Among Sexual Minority Parents: Gender, Race, Custody Status, Timing of Coming Out, and Level of Outness
Author: Martin, Ann
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Queer studies, Families--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parenting stress among sexual minority parents and their gender, race, legal custody status, timing of coming out relative to becoming a parent, and level of outness. A total of 833...

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: 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: THREE ESSAYS ON CAPITAL INSURANCE AND TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKS
Author: Ivanov, Katerina
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Banks and banking
Description: This research study presents an insurance framework of the bank capital by introducinga new type of capital, namely, an insurance capital. A bank pays the insurancecapital to an entity which injects a pre-determined payout of capital during the pe...

Title: Socio-spatial Geographies of Hispanic Immigrant Youth Accessing the Urban Labor Market
Author: Schuch, Johanna
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This study combines interviews, questionnaires, journaling, mental mapping, and a participatory action research (PAR) project to examine the lived experiences of Hispanic immigrant youth as they navigate the labor market. Research questions addres...

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...