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Title: Gaze-Following, Social Monitoring, and Joint Attention in the Great Apes: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Communication and Potential Implications for Cognition
Author: Downing, Danay
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Animal behavior, Physical anthropology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Previous experimental studies indicate that gaze-following is a reliable indicator of advanced cognitive capacity in social primates. Group-living primates, in particular, must navigate complex social relationships among group members and other co...

Title: Geotechnical Controls on Organo-Silane Modification of Soils and Coal Combustion Fly Ash
Author: Keatts, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Organo-silane (OS) surface modification works by chemically altering the surface of silica based materials and rendering them hydrophobic (waterproof). Limited research is present in the literature addressing the use of OS modified soils as an inf...

Title: Green's Function-Stochastic Approach To Solving Linear, Nonlinear And Nonhomogeneous Evolution Transport Problems
Author: Nortey, Thomas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
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Title: HOT SPOTS IN THE CITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND THE DEMAND FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY SERVICES
Author: Wodicka, Reid
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Urban forestry
Description: There is a common understanding among members of local government emergency services professionals that some neighborhoods require a substantially larger amount of services than others. This phenomenon is primarily driven, it is believed, by the c...

Title: HYDROGEN POWER FOR LIGHT RAIL OPERATION: OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY AND PRACTICAL APPLICABILITY
Author: Washing, Edward
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, City planning, Renewable energy sources
Description: As urban areas continue to grow and become denser, transit will be vital in the success and progress of metropolitans. Light rail, particularly in the United States, has become a popular mode of transportation that efficiently and reliably moves p...

Title: Health Legacy Foundations and the Pursuit of Charitable Healthcare
Author: Niggel, Sabrina
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Social sciences--Research, Medical sciences
Description: Endowed with proceeds from transactions involving nonprofit healthcare assets, health legacy foundations (HLFs) embody tremendous potential to improve health and healthcare in communities across the nation. This dissertation represents the culmina...

Title: Hierarchical Learning of Discriminative Features and Classifiers for Large-scale Visual Recognition
Author: Zhou, Ning
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Enabling computers to recognize objects present in images has been a long standing but tremendously challenging problem in the field of computer vision for decades. Beyond the difficulties resulting from huge appearance variations, large-scale vis...

Title: High Fidelity Measurement of Bioelectrical Signals
Author: Mclain, Michael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Medical sciences, Biomedical engineering
Description: Previous research regarding the acquisition and electrical characterization of bioelectrical signals of both noninvasive “ oriundis in vivo ” , generally associated with electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography (E...

Title: Hyperlink Network System and Image of Global Cities: Webpages and Their Contents
Author: Son, Jae Soen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: A distinctive trend of globalization research is a conceptual expansion that mirrors the penetration of globalization in various aspects of life. The World Wide Web has become the ultimate platform to create and disseminate information in this era...

Title: IMAGE CHARGE SOLVATION MODEL (ICSM) FOR SIMULATING BIOMOLECULES AND KCSA ION-CHANNELS
Author: Baker, Katherine
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: We present an order N method for calculating electrostatic interactions that has been integrated into the molecular dynamics portion of the TINKER Molecular Modeling package. This method, termed the Image-Charge Solvation Model (ICSM), and introdu...

Title: IMPACT OF TWO-SESSION MODEL OF CHILD PARENT RELATIONSHIP TRAINING ON PARENTS OF CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD
Author: Moore, Sarah
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology, Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a Two-session Child Parent Relationship Training on parental perception of children's problem behaviors; parental acceptance of child; parental stress; and parental attitudes, knowledge and ski...

Title: IN SEARCH OF GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATIONAL INCLUSION: AN EXPANDED APPROACH
Author: Berka, Gregory
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Organizational inclusion research, which includes assessing how employees experience a sense of feeling included or excluded in their work group, is a young and developing research area. Feelings of inclusion can be based on both formal policies a...

Title: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF NEWLY DESCRIBED CYTOSOLIC PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS IN PROTECTIVE HOST RESPONSES TO NEUROTROPIC VIRUSES
Author: Crill, Emma
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Immunology, Virology
Description: The importance of the effector functions performed by glial cells, the resident cells of the CNS possessing immune functions, in abrogating potentially fatal neurotropic viral infections have only recently begun to gain appreciation. These effecto...

Title: Impacts of urbanization and landscape change on native plant diversity and the distribution of exotic forest invaders
Author: Davis, Amy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: This dissertation addresses three questions focused on enhancing our understanding of the impacts of urbanization and land cover change on patterns of native biodiversity, the distribution of exotic plant species in forests, and the resistance of ...

Title: Institutional Factors in Health Disparities
Author: Hampton, Cicily
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to address institutional factors that may be the root cause of health disparities. Misdirected resources may help to explain why health disparities have actually increased as targeted interventions aimed at thei...

Title: Instructional Relationships and Predictors for Eighth Grade Student Academic Achievement as Measured by the North Carolina End of Grade Comprehensive Reading Scores to the Number of the Visual Arts Classes Completed During Middle Score
Author: Newnam, Michelle
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Art--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of the researcher was to test for any significant relationships existing among the physical number of visual arts courses completed by 8th grade students during the middle school years to the actual academic performance as measured by ...

Title: Integration of the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots with Robotics Middleware
Author: Harris, Adam
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Robotic simulators have long been used to test code and designs before any actual hardware is tested to ensure safety and efficiency. Many current robotics simulators are either closed source (calling into question the fidelity of their simulation...

Title: Into the Figured Worlds of First Grade Teachers: Perceptions and Enactments of Instructional Grouping and Differentiation for English Learners in New South Classroom Contexts
Author: Plaisance, Michelle
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Reading, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: The seven-month participatory qualitative inquiry (Emerson, Fretz, & Shaw, 2011) explored how a first grade team in a metro Charlotte elementary school perceived and enacted instructional grouping and differentiation for English Learners within a ...

Title: Investigation of distribution system meshed configuration to increase maximum allowable penetration of distributed generation
Author: Davoudi, Masoud
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Electrical distribution systems have been traditionally planned and operated in a radial manner, allowing uni-directional flow of power from substation to customers. In recent years, environmental and societal concerns have prompted an increased u...

Title: Investigation on enhanced Power Flow Controllers (ePFC)
Author: Vaddiraj, Alekhya
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Series Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices have been employed to increase power transfer capability of transmission networks and to provide direct control of power flow over designated transmission routes. However, high costs and reli...