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Title: “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
Author: Austin, Lauren
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Public health, Government policy
Description: This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...

Title: Your Library Ain't Like Mine: Perceptions of Quality School Library Programming From Library Professionals
Author: Creech, Tracy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Library science
Description: There are few instances in which school library professionals are able to give input as to what constitutes a quality school library media program. This study seeks to determine if there are key differences in perceptions of school library program...

Title: WORK AND NONWORK DOMAINS OF SHIFT WORK EMPLOYEES: A BOUNDARY THEORY PERSPECTIVE
Author: Speights, Sabrina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management
Description: The concept of "flexibility" in the workplace has gained growing interest of scholars and organizational leaders as a solution for conflict between work and nonwork domains. The examination and implications of flexibility, however, have tended to ...

Title: Vortices in coherent and partially coherent optical beams
Author: Stahl, Charlotte
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Vortices in optical beams have been the subject of extensive study since their status as a generic feature of light was established. They have found extensive use in optical trapping systems, astronomy, microscopy and are being investigated for fr...

Title: Vietnamese American College Students’ Racial/Ethnic Identity Development and Campus Engagement Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
Author: Nguyen, Nhu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Area studies
Description: Prior studies on student engagement in U.S. higher education focused mainly on the experiences of Black and White students (Meyer, 2014). Southeast Asian American students also face challenges regarding engagement on campus. Due to the influence o...

Title: USING THE MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES OF LEARNER-GENERATED DRAWING AND PEER DISCUSSION TO RETAIN TERMINOLOGY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SECONDARY EDUCATION SCIENCE CLASSROOMS
Author: Kasay, Theresa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Reading, Science--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare and evaluate two types of vocabulary interventions using grade 9 physics vocabulary terms using two lists of 10 words. A quasi-experimental crossover research design was used to compare the two...

Title: UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING FIRE-THROUGH DIELECTRIC CONTACTS ON HIGHLY EFFICIENT SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Author: Unsur, Veysel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Photovoltaic is a quick and efficient way of responding to the scarcity of fossil fuels and increasing environmental pollution. For the last two decades, photovoltaic technology has been the fastest growing industry among the renewable energy sour...

Title: Treating type 2 diabetes using shared medical appointments: Patient satisfaction and perspectives
Author: Milling, Sandra
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In the U.S., more than 30 million people are living with diabetes. Given the scope of the problem, it is necessary to identify effective, lower cost alternatives to individual medical appointments for diabetes care. Shared medical appointments (SM...

Title: Three essays in Asset Pricing under Model Uncertainty
Author: Jiang, Julia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation consists of three essays on asset pricing under model uncertainty. The first essay examines how aversion to uncertainty about the information transfer across firms affects asset prices in an equilibrium. I show that a firm's stoc...

Title: Three Essays in Corporate Finance
Author: Li, Xinxin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: The first paper ("Human Capital and Investment Policy") investigates the interaction between investment policies and human capital cost. Employees may demand a higher pay to compensate for the potential job loss due to their firm's high investment...

Title: The Semantics of Diet and Health: Knowledge Based Discovery Through Data Integration, Text Mining, and Network Analysis
Author: Linchangco, Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Consumption of fruits and vegetables has been linked to a reduced risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, but the molecular mechanisms supporting these connections remain largely unknown. A wealth of association data linking components of a pla...

Title: The Relationship between School Built Environment and Student Achievement in Pakistan
Author: Begum, Nahida
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Education and state
Description: Schools in Pakistan face many challenges, ranging from lack of qualified teachers to insufficient teaching resources. Another obstacle is the low quality of school built environment. Some important built environment factors include an available wa...

Title: The Middle Segment of the Society and Socioeconomic Polarization: A Multidimensional Approach Applied to Colombia
Author: QUINONES, MAURICIO
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Area studies
Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the relevance for Colombia of analyzing the middle segment of the society – as the core concept – and socioeconomic polarization due to its linkage with the middle segment of the society, with a m...

Title: The Generalized Effects of UPGRADE Your Performance on Employment Soft Skills of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Study of Generalization
Author: Clark, Kelly
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Teachers--Training of, Disability studies
Description: This was the third study investigating the effects of UPGRADE Your Performance on soft skills (e.g., attitude, cooperation, reliability, productivity, on-task behavior, quality of work, and teamwork) of students with disabilities. UPGRADE Your Per...

Title: TONYA E. FARROW-CHESTNUT. Defining Multimorbidity Space: Structural characteristics, spatial variation of inpatient multimorbidity networks (IMN), and coronary heart disease.
Author: Farrow-Chestnut, Tonya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Government policy
Description: Adults in the United States suffer from two or more chronic conditions at the same time (i.e. multimorbidity). Multiple chronic illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, dramatically shorten life expectancy and present the i...

Title: THREE ESSAYS IN CORPORATE SHARE REPURCHASES
Author: Teague, Charles
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Stock repurchasing
Description: In a series of three related essays, my dissertation examines several unresolved issues in the corporate finance literature relating to the firm’s use of share repurchases. These include the mitigating effects of creditor-manager alignment on incr...

Title: THE ROLE OF OXYGEN ON THE IN VITRO AND IN SITU ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE VIBRIO SPECIES
Author: Phippen, Britney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology
Description: Hypoxia is an emerging concern in coastal ecosystems worldwide, and the number of areas experiencing hypoxia has increased exponentially in recent years. It is most prevalent in summer months when elevated temperatures lead to increased oxygen con...

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUBSTANCE USE PROBLEMS, FAMILY COMMUNICATION, FORGIVENESS, AND MALE CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
Author: Branscome, Roderick
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Families--Study and teaching, Sex
Description: Boys who were sexually abused in childhood are three times as likely to report substance use problems that are associated with poor mental and physical health as well as academic, vocational, and interpersonal difficulties. A review of literature ...

Title: THE IMPACT OF SENSE OF BELONGING INTERVENTIONS ON SOCIAL INTEGRATION AT A SMALL, PRIVATE INSTITUTION
Author: Perrell, Amber
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Higher education institutions continue to struggle with encouraging retention for first-year students. Prior research has shown that establishing social integration during the first-year of college is a crucial component of a successful transition...

Title: THE EFFECTS OF BLENDED LEARNING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, INTERACTION LEVELS, AND ONLINE READINESS SKILLS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM
Author: Rinehardt-Cline, Michelle
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational technology
Description: ABSTRACTMICHELLE RINEHARDT-CLINE THE EFFECTS OF BLENDED LEARNING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, INTERACTION LEVELS, AND ONLINE READINESS SKILLS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM (Under the direction of DR. JIM BIRD) The purpose of this experime...