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Title: K-12 Principals' Perceptions of State and Local Wellness Policies
Author: Jefferies, Shelton
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education and state, School management and organization
Description: ABSTRACTSHELTON L. JEFFERIES. K-12 principals' perceptions of state and local wellness policies. (Under the direction of DR. J. ALLEN QUEEN)The prevalence of obesity and a high probability of an increased medical and financial toll have prompted l...

Title: LABORATORY EVALUATION OF THE UNCONFINED COMPRESSION STRENGTH OF POLYMERIC FIBER REINFORCED SOILS
Author: Kral, Robert
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Soil science, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Geosynthetic fiber reinforced soil can be used to remediate weak, near-surface soils. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact that the geofibers had on the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of various soil types. To distinguish t...

Title: LOWERING THE BARRIER TO DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF PARTICIPATORY SENSING APPLICATIONS
Author: Heggen, Scott
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Participatory sensing has the potential to support human-driven sensing and data collection at an unprecedented scale. In this emerging class of software systems, participants use an application on their mobile phone to collect digital samples of ...

Title: Landscape change and human-environment interactions: implications for natural resource management in urbanizing areas
Author: Dorning, Monica
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Worldwide changes in land use and land cover alter the spatial distributions of natural resources and ecosystem functions. Here I examined the pattern and process of landscape change in the Charlotte, North Carolina metropolitan region, to underst...

Title: Long Term Determinants of Income: Early Career Choices and Their Effect on Future Income
Author: Dickerson, Brian
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The purpose of this thesis was to examine how early career decisions by young adults can affect their long term career outcomes, specifically income twenty years in the future. Previous research dedicated to this area looked at short-term effects....

Title: MODELING CRASH RISK AT RAIL-HIGHWAY AT GRADE CROSSINGS
Author: Sharma, Soumya
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)'s Web Based Accident Prediction System (WBAPS) is used by federal, state and local agencies to get a preliminary idea on safety at a rail-highway grade crossing. It is an interactive and user friendly tool...

Title: MODELING OF DRUG RELEASE KINETICS FROM POROUS CERAMIC DISKS
Author: Joshi, Apurva
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The use of biomaterials as drug delivery systems (DDS) eliminates the adverse side effects of systemic drug administration. Silica-based bioceramics have been widely studied as DDS and demonstrated a unique ability for controlled drug release loca...

Title: Me, Myself, and Depression: Identity Construction and Depression
Author: Thomas, Rachael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Mental health
Description: In this narrative autoethnography, I write about and analyze my experiences with depression in order to understand how my identity is socially constructed within that context. Through thematic analysis, I use Goffman's (1963) identity theory as a ...

Title: Meal Patterns, Binge Eating, and BMI Among Latinas
Author: Thomas, Colleen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology, Area studies
Description: The underrepresentation of ethnically diverse women in the binge eating literature contributes to the false assumption that eating disorders are less prevalent among these women. This thesis represents the first known study examining a sample of e...

Title: Meeting the Literacy Needs of English Language Learners: A Case Study of the Responsiveness of District and School Reform Efforts in a North Carolina School District
Author: Sims, Timothy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: In response to increased focus on English Language Learners (ELLs), districts and schools have attempted to impact the academic performance of this group by engaging in improvement processes intended to increase achievement. The purpose of this st...

Title: Memory Efficiency Implications on Sparse Matrix Operations
Author: Jain, Shweta
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Sparse Matrices are very large matrices with very few nonzero elements and operations on sparse matrices are central to many numerical and graph algorithms. The fundamental bottleneck in these operations is the usage of specialized storage formats...

Title: Model development and system optimization to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants
Author: KIM, DONGWOOK
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: As greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction has drawn considerable attention, various methods have been established to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In order to establish a design and operational strat...

Title: Modeling the Thermal Characteristics of Masonry Mortar Containing Recycled Materials
Author: Laney, Morgan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: As the building industry in the United States rapidly expands, the reuse of recycled demolition waste aggregates is becoming increasingly more important. Currently, the building industry is the largest consumer of natural resources. The constant u...

Title: Municipal agricultural service delivery in the Philippines: Three empirical essays.
Author: Lapitan, Aileen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Agriculture--Economic aspects
Description: This dissertation examines three aspects of municipal agricultural service delivery in the Philippines. The first essay investigates the effect of rural constituency share, fiscal factors, and provincial government performance on the municipal gov...

Title: ON THE USE OF SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS TO MODEL ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Author: Avachat, Chinmay
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Modeling machining processes with conventional finite element methods (FEM) is challenging due to the severe deformations that occur during machining, complex frictional conditions that exist between the cutting tool and the workpiece, and the pos...

Title: OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF INHOMOGENEITIES IN BLUE-EMITTING INGAN/GAN MQWS
Author: Li, Cheng
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The growth of blue-emitting InGaN/GaN MQWs, the system setup of a low temperature PL/EL/IV system for temperature dependent PL/EL/IV spectroscopy, and the system setup of a CLSM with nanometer-scale spectrum measurement and TRPL measurement abilit...

Title: On Improvisation, Learning, and Literacy
Author: Welsh, Ryan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education--Philosophy
Description: Previously, improvisation has served as a term for describing a quality of the action taking place in classrooms between teachers and students. This project begins to theorize a way of understanding embodied literacies and scenes of learning throu...

Title: On the Determinants of Leveraged Buyout activity: A comparison between developed and developing economies
Author: Reddy, Nischala
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: I study Leveraged buyouts (LBOs) internationally over the period 1980-2012. Returns on LBOs are on average higher for developed markets. However, returns of LBOs during high economic growth periods are high for developing nations relative to devel...

Title: PARTICIPATORY SENSING: DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF INCENTIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING INCENTIVE DESIGN GUIDELINES
Author: Omokaro, Osarieme
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Participatory sensing, in which volunteers use the sensors on their smartphones to capture and transmit digital samples of the surrounding environment, shows promise for large-scale data collection. Recently, researchers have begun to explore the ...

Title: PEDIATRIC INPATIENT NURSES' KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTIONS OF CHILD MALTREATMENT
Author: Lavigne, Jenifer
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Although they are in a unique position to identify potential cases of child maltreatment, to date, no studies have specifically examined inpatient nurses' ability to identify factors important in determining abuse and neglect. This study addressed...