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Title: EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM CHLORIDE DEICING AND ANTI-ICING SOLUTIONS ON EXPOSED, COATED, AND REINFORCING STEEL IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES
Author: Diep, Thanh-tu
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: In North Carolina, winter roadway maintenance strategies vary across the state, with some areas using brine for anti-icing pre-treatment, some using granular salts for deicing, and some using a mix of granular salts with traction enhancing materia...

Title: EXPLORING THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S NEOCONSERVATIVE PUBLIC POLICIES INFLUENCE ON AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES' EDUCATIONAL AND LIFE OUTCOMES
Author: Yowell, Alexis
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education and state
Description: This study examined the influences of President Ronald Reagan's administration's neoconservative public policies and color-blind strategy on the educational and life outcomes of African American males who attended high school between 1981 and 1989...

Title: Effects of Schema-based Instruction Delivered through Computer-based Video Instruction on Mathematical Word Problem Solving of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Moderate Intellectual Disability
Author: Saunders, Alicia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: The Common Core State Standards initiative calls for all students to be college and career ready with 21st century skills by high school graduation, yet the question remains how to prepare students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and moderate...

Title: Effects of Systematic Instruction on Listening Comprehension of Science e-Texts for Students with Moderate Intellectual Disability
Author: Wood, Alyson
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: A multiple probe across participants design was used to examine the effects of systematic instruction (constant time delay and a system of least prompts) on both generating and answering questions about science e-texts for students with moderate i...

Title: Effects of hydrocephalus on hospital use, associated costs, and access to care among children with spina bifida
Author: Radcliff, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration
Description: Objectives: This study examined hospital resource use, timeliness of surgical repair of spina bifida (SB), and geographical access to hospital care for infants and children with SB. Methods: This was a retrospective, statewide, population-based st...

Title: Elucidation of miRNAs in Avena sativa
Author: Sheridan, Jaime
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Agriculture
Description: Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs with post-transcriptional gene regulation responsibilities. In plants, miRNAs regulate development of leaves, roots, shoots, and flowers through targeting families of transcription factors a...

Title: Employing Agency: Multiple Perspectives of Material Conditions, Power, and Literacy in a First Year Writing Program
Author: Rand, Meaghan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Rhetoric
Description: The purpose of this study is to examine how first year writing teachers' histories and experiences affect teacher agency negotiation in their classrooms. Five qualitative case studies of first year writing instructors are used to discuss the impac...

Title: Evaluating Kubernetes at the Edge for Fault Tolerant Multi Camera Computer Vision Applications
Author: Heckmann, Owen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The rise of AI powered computer vision algorithms offers the possibility of intelligent data processing, and decision making based on streaming data from video cameras. Applications such as Smart Cities could potentially use these video cameras fo...

Title: Evaluation of Multiple Feedstocks for Codigestion
Author: Chouinard, Tracy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Environmental engineering
Description: In the U.S., a move toward the use of anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies for solid waste management has been slow. However, recently, a number of factors have coalesced to renew interest in AD because of its potential to produce renewable energ...

Title: Exploring Latino Healthcare Service Provision in a Pre-emerging Immigrant gateway state
Author: Dixon, James
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: As Latinos continue to grow in population and impact, both nationwide and in the U.S. South, so too must the appropriate and equitable provision of services. Healthcare service provision is particularly important to Latinos as research shows they ...

Title: FACTORS INFLUENCING BLACK FEMALE TEACHERS' JOB SATISFACTION AND INTENTION TO REMAIN IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM: A MIXED METHODS ANALYSIS
Author: Farinde, Abiola
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, current retention trends indicate a Black teacher shortage. Research shows that Black teachers' retention rates are often lower than White teachers'. In examining retention, job satisfaction has been ...

Title: FEASIBILITY OF ELECTRIC FIELD SENSOR FOR EXTERNAL BALLISTICS ANALYSIS
Author: Benfield, Christopher
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: Accurately modeling the flight path to resemble the actual flight dynamics of a given projectile enables a shooter to engage targets at distances that extend into the transonic and subsonic flight regions. This requires the collection of velocity ...

Title: FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF VORTEX MACHINING PROBES
Author: Vaidya, Mandar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Vortex machining is a unique localized material removal process in which footprints of several nanometer in depth are obtained. It employs a resonating quartz tuning fork and a fiber attached on its upper tine. When submerged in a layer of slurry,...

Title: FLEXIBLE PLANNING METHODS AND PROCEDURES WITH FLEXIBILITY REQUIREMENTS PROFILE
Author: Demirel, Edil
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research
Description: Uncertainties in supply and/or demand combined with rolling horizon planning necessitate flexibility in a dynamic production planning process. In rolling horizon planning, production plans are revised when new information becomes available after t...

Title: Factors Associated with Posttraumatic Growth Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Rumination and Self-Disclosure.
Author: Lindstrom, Cassie
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: The current study examined posttraumatic growth (PTG), the experience of positive change following a traumatic event, in a sample of traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors. The focus was on the role of rumination and self-disclosure about trauma i...

Title: Factors Related to the College-Going Self-Efficacy of Middle School Students
Author: Harden, Dia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Middle school education, Multicultural education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between middle school students' college-going self-efficacy and their race, college generational status, academic self-concept, and perceived college-going culture. The respondents were 162...

Title: Factors Related to the Use of Play Therapy Among Elementary School Counselors
Author: Van Horne, Jill
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Early childhood education, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine variables that are related to elementary school counselors' use of play therapy in the elementary school setting. The specific variables explored were age, years of experience, workshop hours, graduate cour...

Title: Finite element modeling and simulation of occupant responses in highway crashes
Author: Li, Ning
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics
Description: Roadside barrier systems play an important role in reducing the number of fatalities and the severity of injuries in highway crashes. After decades of work by researchers and engineers, roadside barriers have been improved and are generally effect...

Title: First Year Residential Tradtional-aged College Students' First Semester Experience and it's impact on Social Identity
Author: Douglas, Niesha
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACTNIESHA CHARISSE DOUGLAS. First year residential traditional aged college students' first semester experience and its impact on their social identity. (Under the direction of DR. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The needs of our society are not met whe...

Title: Game Theoretic Approaches for Channel Selection, Power Control and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Darak, Natwar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work proposes a game theoretic framework for managing the radio resources of wireless sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We consider data collecting sensor networks that are typical of environmental monitoring applications, whic...