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Title: Frequency-Dependent Electric Power Line Modeling for Steady State Harmonic Analysis
Author: Poudel, Bikash
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: The modern electric power system is experiencing an increased level of harmonic frequency components because of the growing use of power electronic devices, such as converters, and nonlinear loads, such as rectifier-end loads. Electric power line ...

Title: IMPLEMENTATION AND HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF DQ-CONTROL ON A GRID-TIED SINGLE PHASE INVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS IN A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
Author: Bisht, Robin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The electrical utilities are very much concerned about the power quality due to the presence of nonlinear loads in their power distribution systems. The non-linear residential loads cause harmonics in the residential distribution systems. To mitig...

Title: GAS PRICES, CLIMATE, AND THE POWERBALL JACKPOT: IMPACTS ON U.S. CONVENIENCE STORE NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES
Author: McNeill, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This paper examines the effects that gasoline prices, climatic conditions, and the Powerball jackpot size have on weekly scanned-data results of NA beverage sales (unit and dollar sales) at U.S. convenience stores from 2010-2016:Q1. The results in...

Title: Habermas, The Religious Side of a Postmetaphysical Thinker
Author: Molina, Luciano
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Political science, Religion, Philosophy
Description: The goal of this paper is to show Jürgen Habermas’s recent work on religion as a well-intended effort to deal with religious conflicts in the world that yet presents two serious and related flaws: on one hand, Habermas claims his ideas on religion...

Title: Modeling the Crash Injury Severity in Work Zone Areas on Freeways
Author: Miatudila, Sr., Alain
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
Description: The rising frequency of crashes in work zones on American freeways is a growing issue inherently linked to the degrading state of our transportation infrastructure. As travel demand increases and our infrastructure continues to age and wear out, w...

Title: LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX: YOUNG ADULT DATING RELATIONSHIPS AND DEPRESSION AS RELATED TO PARENTAL RELATIONAL FACTORS
Author: Camp, Courtney
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Recent research has shown that adolescents who engage in sexual intercourse exhibit more depressive symptoms, including suicidal ideation and intent, than do adolescents who do not engage in sexual intercourse. Research has also shown that individ...

Title: Mixed-reality squad-coordination platform
Author: Mahfoud, Elias
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Coordination and situation awareness are amongst the most important aspects of collaborative emergency response for firefighters, police, military soldiers, and so forth. Generally, command centers are in charge of managing a team, typically using...

Title: Loss of Skeletal Muscle PKC Theta Protects Against The Pathogenesis of Insulin Resistance
Author: Peck, Bailey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Medical sciences
Description: Skeletal muscle is a primary regulator of glucose homeostasis, accounting for the majority of post-prandial glucose disposal. However states of skeletal muscle insulin-resistance result in severely attenuated glucose uptake and consequently hyperg...

Title: Microaggressions in Team Based Learning Groups
Author: Winstead, Tremaine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This study examines the effects of microaggressions on the performance and the perceptions of students in team based learning groups (TBL). Microaggressions, which are widely studied in psychology, communicate negative messages to members of margi...

Title: Mechanical and Physical Characterization of Recycled PET Bales for Use as Lightweight Fill Material
Author: Garbini, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Waste generation rates are increasing so there is a need to determine alternative methods of dealing with waste to accommodate a sustainable future. Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic represents a large portion of the domestic waste generate...

Title: Income volatility and county size: a study of North Carolina county population size and per capita personal income volatility
Author: Carman, Allison
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This investigates the relationship between North Carolina counties and patterns in per capita personal income volatility over various samples ranging from 1969 to 2014. The overarching hypothesis is that people in smaller counties experience incre...

Title: Incentivizing Farmland and Investments: Expanding on an Evaluation of Portfolio Performance When Incorporating Agricultural Investments
Author: Morrill, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Agriculture--Economic aspects
Description: ABSTRACTMATTHEW MORRILL. Incentivizing farmland investments: expanding on an evaluation of portfolio performance when incorporating agricultural investments. (Under the direction of DR. CRAIG DEPKEN)Farmland investments have shown to have remarkab...

Title: LIMIT THEOREMS FOR ONE CLASS OF ERGODIC MARKOV CHAINS
Author: Turhan, Nezihe
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: The goal of this dissertation is to develop some classical limit theorems for the additive functionals of the homogeneous Markov chains in the special class of the so-called, Loop Markov Chains. The additive functionals of the Markov chains have t...

Title: LIMIT THEOREMS FOR RANDOM EXPONENTIAL SUMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO INSURANCE AND THE RANDOM ENERGY MODEL
Author: Erturk, Huseyin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics
Description: In this dissertation, we are mainly concerned with the sum of random exponentials. Here, the random variables are independent and identically distributed. Another distinctive assumption is the number of variables in this sum is a function of the c...

Title: Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
Author: Blattenberger, Philip
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
Description: For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...

Title: Latent Class Analysis of Serial Murderers
Author: Luc, Emily
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Criminology
Description: Scholars and law enforcement agencies have been analyzing criminals’ behavioral and psychological characteristics for decades in order to create profiles, which can be used by authorities to guide serial murder investigations and help apprehend su...

Title: MUSCLE STRENGTHENING ACTIVITIES AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH SELF-RATED HEALTH AMONG DIABETIC PERSONS IN NORTH CAROLINA: AN EXAMINATION OF 2013 BRFSS DATA
Author: Scarola, Greg
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between meeting muscle strengthening activity (MSAs) guidelines among individuals with diabetes and meeting the guidelines association on self-rated health among adults in North Carolina. METHODS: Self-rated ...

Title: Improving Outcomes for Families Involved in Child Protective Services Through an Enhanced Understanding of Residential Mobility's Impact on Caregiver-Child Relationships
Author: Johnson, Virginia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Reducing residential mobility among families involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) has the potential to alleviate some of the negative consequences associated with child maltreatment by reducing families’ stress and minimizing disruptions in...

Title: Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
Author: Lovato, Laura
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
Description: The impact of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention, treatment, and the well-being of people living with HIV (PLWH) is well established within the existing literature. HIV-related stigma experiences are compounded by intersections of identity, in t...

Title: Interfacial instabilities in reacting flows
Author: Attal, Nitesh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Fluid instabilities, particularly interfacial instabilities, have proven to be a powerful mechanism in driving and sustaining combustion processes in several devices of practical interest. Modern combustors are in fact designed to exploit the mixi...