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Title: Comparing the Tornado Environments Among East Coast and Gulf Coast Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
Author: Toadvine, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Tornadoes spawned by the landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a non-trivial threat tolife and property. Previous research efforts have developed TC-tornado climatologies and have noted differences between East coast and Gulf coast landfalls, b...

Title: Computational Studies of the Effect of Moisture on Powder Bed Quality in Metal Additive Manufacturing
Author: Chakraborty, Arghajit
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Metal additive manufacturing techniques such as SLM, and DMLS, based on the powder bed fusion (PBF) process, rely on a high-quality powder bed to minimize the formation of defects in the manufactured part. Various parameters like blade velocity, t...

Title: Computational analysis of power loss reduction in BIPV systems considering partial shadow conditions
Author: Hosseiniirani, Seyedehhamideh
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability
Description: Implementing PV panels as a source of clean energy for the building sector is growing worldwide. Currently, PV materials are widely installed on building roofs; however, with more population and urban area growth, the rooftop of high-rise building...

Title: Constitutive Modeling and Dynamic Impact Analysis of Bighorn Sheep Horn
Author: Li, Zheng
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) is known for its giant spiral horns that can sustain impact loading at a speed up to 5.5 m/s during ramming without causing severe damage or head concussion. The bighorn sheep horn is composed of a keratin-based bio...

Title: Correlates, Predictors, and Consequences of Family Weight Talk among School-Aged Children
Author: Gadaire, Cecily
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Parents play a key role in the establishment of health habits among children, and as many as 60% of parents report talking regularly with their child about health and weight (Lydecker et al., 2018). This health and weight related discourse, known ...

Title: Counselor Posttraumatic Growth Linked to Harmful Clinical Supervision
Author: White, Tristin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: Clinical supervision is the primary method to educate and train professional counselors (Baltrinic & Wachter Morris, 2020). While clinical supervision tends to be positive and constructive, harmful clinical supervision occurs. As defined by Ellis ...

Title: Cross-Sectional and Time Series Analysis of Crime Rate Across North Carolina
Author: Johnson, Isabella
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: Unemployment rate reached an astronomical high in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The media began reporting on increasing crime rates due to the unemployment rate rising. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that over 81,000 drug overdo...

Title: Customer Success and the Transformation of Customer Relationships
Author: Raines, MiKayla
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Marketing
Description: The construct of "customer satisfaction" has been used for several decades in marketing to achieve outcomes such as customer loyalty, word-of-mouth communication, resistance to competition, and customer equity. Recent research, however, has indica...

Title: Data-driven control and optimal management of electric distribution grid with high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) based on spectral clustering
Author: Patel, Shyamal
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Motivated by the government's clean energy targets, the penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is increasing. These DERs interconnections bring the added generation and storage capacity at the distribution level. Also, with the increasi...

Title: Dating the Teacher of Righteousness and the Floruit of his Movement: An Evaluation of Methods (1952-2010)
Author: Rumfelt, Trina
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Judaism--Study and teaching
Description: The Dead Sea Scrolls are Hebrew and Aramaic texts representing more than 800 manuscripts. Found between 1947 - 1956 in 11 caves near an ancient Qumran archaeological site, they consist of copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls h...

Title: Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC
Author: Yankech, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sedimentology
Description: MATTHEW ROBERT YANKECH. Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DIEMER). Near Lilesville, North Carolina, on the western margin of the Fall Zone, there occur up...

Title: Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress During a Pandemic: An Understanding of the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on a University Community
Author: Bello-Ogunu, Faustina
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Mental health, Education, Higher
Description: COVID-19 is a viral infectious disease that first occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and by March 2020, it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Mental health – especially as it relates to physical distancing, loneliness...

Title: Design and Evaluation of a Direct Drive Dual Axis Counter Rotating Hydrokinetic Darrieus Turbine System
Author: Crooks, John
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The proposed work aims to design and develop a novel direct drive parallel stream counter-rotating Darrieus turbine system capable of producing power at low velocities (less than 2.0 m/s) for scientific and industrial applications along an interco...

Title: Detection and Classification of Defects in Metal Parts Using ATOS Professional 2019
Author: Gorman, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: When inspecting a manufactured part to determine whether it falls within tolerance, it is often important to distinguish the difference between a defect and geometric variation. A part that exbibits excessive geometric variation will fail to meet ...

Title: Development of Silica Based Nanoparticles for Multimodal Therapeutic Delivery
Author: Vadarevu, Hemapriyadarshini
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Chronic diseases like cancer are characterized by complex interactions between multiple pathways leading to treatment resistance and invasiveness. Repeated cycles of cytotoxic monotherapies are susceptible to drug resistance induced by the upregul...

Title: Did They Belong: A Preliminary Study on Strontium Isotopic Analysis of the Guangala Culture Located at Salango, Ecuador
Author: Cruz, Zindy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology, Geochemistry
Description: Due to advancements in technology, questions once thought of as unanswerable concerning migration and mobility have become possible to address. Strontium isotopic analysis has begun to bring about a change in how bioarchaeologists apply migration ...

Title: Dissecting The Salivary Gland: Epithelial-Centered Dysfunction in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Author: Noll, Braxton
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology
Description: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disease of exocrine tissues causing dry mouth and eyes, mainly affecting women. A culmination of etiologic events leads to the loss of epithelial homeostasis resulting in the MMP9-mediated destruct...

Title: Doctoral Students' Stress and Coping Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
Author: Elton, Kira
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The coronavirus pandemic had a profound change to daily life. While the pandemic could be considered a stressful event within its own right, graduate school is also known to induce stress; this stress occurs due to time constraints, financial stra...

Title: Download cost of cache-aided private updating with unknown prefetching
Author: Herren, Bryttany
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: We consider the problem of privately updating a message out of $K$ messages from $N$ replicated and non-colluding databases. In this problem, a user has an outdated version of the message $\hat{W}_\theta$ of length $L$ bits that differ from the cu...

Title: Dry Preservation of Germinal Vesicles: Development of a New Formulation to Preserve DNA Integrity Under Adverse Environmental Conditions
Author: Orozco Cabral, Joseph
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Bioengineering
Description: Advances in the cryopreservation of genetic material has revolutionized human reproductive medicine and animal conservation efforts. Despite many successes, oocytes have been more challenging to cryopreserve than sperm. Their large size makes it d...