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Title: ESIDE: The integration of secure programming education into the IDE
Author: Whitney, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Securing the world's technological resources has become one of the largest challenges of modern day. From healthcare to national security, power grids to public safety, the world is reliant on computer systems and their ability to perform in a saf...

Title: EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF PAVEMENT DISTRESS AND PERFORMANCE MODELS FOR A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING AUTOMATED ASPHALT CONDITION DATA
Author: James, Steven
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: Since 2011, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has implemented an automated data collection process for their Pavement Management System (PMS). This study was conducted to update NCDOT’s PMS with the availability of new automa...

Title: EXPLORABILITY, SATISFICING, AND SATISFACTION IN PARAMETER SPACES
Author: Gonzalez, Alberto
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Many modern software applications have a fairly large set of variables that allow for the dynamic change of content. While a large parameter space provides users with fine-grained control over the content they are creating, even the best designed ...

Title: Educational Leadership Coaches' Development of Domain Specific Expertise: A Phenomenological Study
Author: Lewis, Janice
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational evaluation, School management and organization
Description: Districts and schools having high poverty and low achievement experience the highest rates of administrator turnover. A recent paradigm shift promotes "coaching" as a supportive and focused intervention that might move the district and/or school f...

Title: Effects of Child-Centered Play Therapy on Social Skills, Academic Achievement, and Self-Concept of Children with Learning Disabilities: A Single Case Design
Author: Hall, Jennifer
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Educational counseling
Description: A multiple baseline design across participants was used to examine the effects of child-centered play therapy (CCPT) on the social skills, academic achievement, and self-concept of third grade students who were identified with a specific learning ...

Title: Effects of Peer-Delivered Fluency Instruction on the Oral Reading Fluency of High School Students with Mild Disabilities
Author: Hitt, Sara Beth
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Reading
Description: Given the many challenges at the high school level to incorporate intensive fluency and comprehension interventions into high school courses, there remains a need for more extensive research on reading interventions, as well as the method of imple...

Title: Effects of Weathering on Performance of Intumescent Coatings for Structure Fire Protection in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Author: Bahrani, Babak
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Polymers, Materials science, Wood
Description: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of weathering on the performance of intumescent fire-retardant coatings on wooden products. The weathering effects included primary (solar irradiation, moisture, and temperature) and secon...

Title: Effects of a 4-Week Graston Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Technique in Intercollegiate Athletes with Chronic Ankle Instability
Author: Jordan, Jeffrey
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology
Description: Context: Chronic Ankle Instability is a condition that has continued to be a problem in athletes. Additional rehabilitation protocols are still being evaluated to alleviate reoccurring ankle sprains. Graston Technique is an instrument-assisted sof...

Title: Effects of symptom perception interventions on trigger identification and quality of life in children with asthma
Author: Harver, Andrew, Janssens, Thomas
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Asthma, Asthma in children
Description: Background. Management of individual triggers is suboptimal in practice. In this project, we investigated the impact of symptom perception interventions on asthma trigger identification and self-reported asthma quality of life. Methods. Children w...

Title: Electromagnetic and vibration energy harvesting utilizing a piezoelectric device
Author: Vo, Misa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: The main goal of this research is to design an energy harvesting device that produces enough power to supply a voltage sensor deployed on a power line. Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material is one of the promising methods of powering the ...

Title: Empirical Methods in an Open Domain Question Answering System
Author: Gallagher, Sean
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Answering questions effectively involves a complex interconnected set of linguistic and statistical analysis tools, which can be difficult to investigate and evaluate on their own. To evaluate any one of them, I developed two composable, recursive...

Title: Energy loss due to traffic congestion
Author: Gouribhatla, Raghuveer Prasad
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering
Description: Traffic congestion is a problem related not only to traffic characteristics but also to several other factors which are of growing concern to the society. Traffic delays lead to increased fuel consumption and there by increased energy loss. This r...

Title: Engine Oil Analysis on the North Carolina Department of Transportation Fleet
Author: Beal, Cody
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Preventative maintenance is a key component in maintaining fleet quality. Engine oil provides thermal management, wear protection, and corrosion resistance functions that optimize engine performance and life. Engine oil quality degrades through th...

Title: Engineering Characterization of Tire Derived Aggregate for Geotechnical Applications
Author: Garcia-Theran, Mauricio
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: According to the Rubber Manufacture Association about 230.7 million scrap tires are generated in the United States every year. Reduction of scrap tire disposal, through recycling and reutilization, has become an important environmental priority. I...

Title: Environmental impacts of rapid urbanization: Non-point source pollution in Lingang New City, Shanghai, China
Author: Meng, Xuchu
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning
Description: Lingang New City is a new urbanization project in Shanghai, China. It is planned and designed artistically with emphasis on water protection given lake view is the highlight of the landscape. However, water quality degrades soon after the urban de...

Title: Evaluating Accuracy and Robustness Impacts of Power User Attacks on Collaborative Recommender Systems
Author: Seminario, Carlos
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Information science
Description: Online systems present users with a vast amount of information and product/service offerings. In order to deal with this type of information overload, many top online websites use recommender systems to provide users with a more personalized, and ...

Title: Evaluating Foraminifera as a Tool for Recreating Historical Landscapes and Verifying Cartographic Accuracy at Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Author: Di Bari, Sofia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Environmental sciences, Marine biology
Description: The research in this thesis focused on the use of Foraminifera to determine paleo-subenvironments and to quantify changes in the subenvironments through time at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Historical maps were assessed with respect to the subenvi...

Title: Examining the factor structure of two subscales of the Independent Living Scales (ILS) in a clinical sample and a college sample.
Author: Johnson, Ashley
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: This study examined the factor structure of the Independent Living Scales in two subscales of the measure, Managing Money (MM) and Health and Safety (HS), that have been recommended as most valid for predicting competency adjudications (Quickel & ...

Title: Exploring Folk and Traditional Medicine Practices and Self-Care Among Mexican-Americans with Diabetes
Author: Villanueva, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) is high among minority populations. In the United States, approximately 1 in 10 Hispanic individuals face this burden. A subgroup of these Hispanic individuals, Mexican-Americans, is disproportionately affected...

Title: Exploring exciton and trap state recombination dynamics in cadmium sulfide quantum dots
Author: Woodall, Danielle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: Colloidal semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LEDs because of their high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields and photostability. In order to improve device efficiencies, we mu...