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Title: A COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS ACCESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS: ANYCAST ROUTING & SIMULATION TOOLS
Author: Sharif, Kashif
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop network architectures. We propose and analyze two communication frameworks for...

Title: A Framework for the Design and Analysis of Socially Pervasive Games
Author: Powell, Eve
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy
Description: Pervasive games have the potential to create large social impacts on players and non-players alike. However, this can only happen when the game becomes integrated and accepted within a social community - or in other words, is socially adopted in i...

Title: A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness
Author: Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management
Description: Despite years of evidence showing that men are typically considered to be more appropriate and effective in leadership positions than women, a recent debate has emerged over the potential existence of a female leadership advantage in certain conte...

Title: A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
Author: Liu, Pengcheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...

Title: A Semi-Quantitative Schlieren High-Speed Flow Diagnostic: Analysis of High-Pressure-Ratio, Overexpanded Planar Flow in Rocket Nozzles
Author: Thorsett-Hill, Karen
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This work introduces a semi-quantitative schlieren (SQS) method which is used to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze complex, unsteady, compressible flows in a small, planar convergent-divergent nozzle. A basic schlieren system is used to ima...

Title: A Unified Treatment of Derivative Pricing and Forward Decision Problems Within HJM Framework
Author: Zou, Wenhua
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Finance
Description: We study the HJM approach which was originally introduced in the fixed income market by David Heath, Robert Jarrow and Andrew Morton and later was implemented in the case of European option market by Martin Schweizer, Johannes Wissel, Rene Carmona...

Title: ADVANCED CONSIDERATIONS IN LIDAR TECHNOLOGY: APPLICATION ENHANCEMENT, INSPECTION WORKFLOW IMPLEMENTATION AND DATA COLLECTION QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Author: Bian, Haitao
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Bridge inspection is a critical topic in infrastructure management and is facing unprecedented challenges as the public is concerned more about bridge safety after a series of bridge failures. LiDAR based remote sensing is recommended as a way in ...

Title: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PERCEIVED RESOURCES AND DEMANDS OF NORTH CAROLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Author: Helf, James
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: School administrators are faced with an increased number of responsibilities and challenges. In order to effectively create and maintain effective schools, educational leaders must provide principals with the proper tools. The purpose of this stud...

Title: ANALYSIS OF CONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES OF CORE/ SHELL NANOCOMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Author: Moorthy, Gayathri
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Nanoscience
Description: Nanostructures have been explored considerably in recent times to ascertain the unique properties they exhibit in the nanoscale regime as opposed to their bulk counterparts. Their characteristic high surface-to-volume ratio coupled with confinemen...

Title: Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
Author: Yu, Li
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The explosion of large-scale time-varying datasets has created critical challenges for scientists to study and digest. One core problem for visualization is to develop effective approaches that can be used to study various data features and tempor...

Title: Alcohol Use and Mental Health Issues In Fifth-Year College Students
Author: Zuber, Pilar
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of at-risk 5th-year students by assessing the relationships between heavy alcohol use and mental health issues, on academic performance in 5th-year students. This secondary analysis study used the...

Title: An Evaluation of Best Practices in Online Continuing Theological Education
Author: Raybon, Stephen
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Continuing education, Religious education
Description: ABSTRACTSTEPHEN PAUL RAYBON An evaluation of best practices in online continuing theological education (Under the direction of JOHN A. GRETES) The principle purpose of this mixed methods case study was to evaluate the extent to which a wholly onli...

Title: An Evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a Large Urban School District
Author: Rosenbach, Laura
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational evaluation, Education and state
Description: LAURA JULIA ROSENBACH. An evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a large urban school district. (Under the direction of DR. CLAUDIA FLOWERS) This mixed method study examined the impact of a district-wide Strategic Staffing Initiative (SS...

Title: Bioactive ceramic coating on orthopedic implants for enhanced bone tissue integration
Author: Aniket, .
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Biomedical engineering
Description: Tissue integration between bone and orthopedic implant is essential for implant fixation and longevity. An immunological response leads to fibrous encapsulation of metallic implants leading to implant instability and failure. Bioactive ceramics ha...

Title: Bioinformatics and biomolecular tools for biomarker discovery in peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Author: Baciu, Cristina
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Sporadic Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (sALS) is a complex, invariably fatal, disease with a poorly understood cause, despite many studies. Diagnostic biomarkers that precede active symptoms would be an immense help to clinicians, for patient mana...

Title: Branching Processes in Random Trees
Author: Jutmaan, Yanjmaa
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: We study the behavior of branching process in a random environment on trees in the critical, subcritical and supercritical case. We are interested in the case when both the branching and the step transition parameters are random quantities. We pre...

Title: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF IMPURITIES ON THE DUCTILITY OF TANTALUM AND TUNGSTEN BASED ON ATOMISTIC AND FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS
Author: Pan, Zhiliang
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: Tungsten and tantalum are neighbors in the Periodic Table of the Elements and, as refractory metals, both have very high melting points (tungsten: 3422oC, tantalum: 2996oC). However, the ductility of the two metals is quite different especially at...

Title: CONSTITUTIVE MODELING OF ALUMINUM FOAM AND FINITE ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION FOR CRASH SIMULATIONS
Author: Bi, Jing
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: In the past decades metallic foams have been increasingly used as filler materials in crashworthiness applications due to their relatively low cost and high capacity of energy absorption. Due to the destructive nature of crashes, studies on the pe...

Title: Clustering and Recommendation Techniques for Access Control Policy Management
Author: Marouf, Said
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Managing access control policies can be a daunting process, given the frequent policy decisions that need to be made, and the potentially large number of policy rules involved. Policy management includes, but is not limited to: policy optimization...

Title: Constraint-based Generation of Database States for Testing Database Applications
Author: Pan, Kai
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Testing is essential for quality assurance of database applications.To test the quality of database applications, it usually requirestest inputs consisting of both program input values andcorresponding database states. However, producing these tes...