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Title: FROM OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION TO OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION: A CONGRUENCE PERSPECTIVE OF OPPORTUNITY BELIEF FORMATION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Entrepreneurship
Description: Beliefs about the existence and attractiveness of opportunities underpin entrepreneurial action. Belief formation is broken into two distinct phases. Third-person opportunity beliefs (i.e., an opportunity for someone) form as a result of the oppor...

Title: FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
Author: McGee, Marquis
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...

Title: Recommender Systems in Social Networking Sites
Author: Li, Huayu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social networking sites have experienced an explosion in both the number of users and the amount of shared information in recent years. Thanks to the positioning function in mobile devices, e.g., GPS, location-based social networks (LBSNs) become ...

Title: Design Considerations for Intermittently Connected Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Rajib, Md Majharul Islam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequ...

Title: Planning for coastal resilience: the intersection of theory and practice
Author: Griffith, Adam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Geomorphology
Description: In the face of accelerating sea-level rise, people continue to live near anddevelop the coast. In the United States, we have chosen adaptation andprotection, via coastal defenses, over retreat from the coast despite theunsustainable nature of effo...

Title: Processing and properties of materials with or without adiabatic shear susceptibility
Author: Chen, Xiaoxue
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: In this dissertation, two topic areas related to adiabatic shear banding (ASB) phenomenon were studied. Body centered cubic (BCC) metals and alloys may exhibit ASB under uniaxial high strain rate compression if the grain size is refined into the u...

Title: Real-Time Control and Optimal Plant Design for Renewable Energy Systems Using Bayesian Optimization
Author: Baheri, Ali
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Computer science
Description: The overarching objective of this research is to use machine learning tools to address the design and real-time control of active systems, focusing specifically by tethered airborne wind energy and ocean current energy systems. In both application...

Title: ROBUST GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST BASED ON PENALIZATION
Author: Zhang, Meijiao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: The Least absolute deviation combined with the Least absolute shrinkage andselection operator (LAD-LASSO) estimator can do regression shrinkage and selectionand is also resistant to outliers or heavy-tailed errors which is proposed in Wang etal. (...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

Title: Notch Serves as a Molecular Brake on Myogenesis, Protein Synthesis, and Growth in Skeletal Muscle
Author: Huot, Joshua
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Kinesiology
Description: Aging can be accompanied by aggressive loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) and is a primary prognosticator for the reduced capacity of the elderly to accomplish basic activities of daily living. Several mechanisms within skeletal muscle lead to devel...

Title: Proto-Institutionalization as a Complex Socio-Technical Process: The Emergence of Diversity Practices in Computer Science Education
Author: Davis, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
Description: Extant scholarship in organizational science explains the conditions under which organizational actors adopt established institutional practices. Organizational scientists have been less successful in explaining the origins of institutional practi...

Title: RETENTION OF THE AMORPHOUS STATE OF TREHALOSE AT HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY USING ORGANIC SALT ADDITIVES: A MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING
Author: Ziaei, Shima
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Pharmacy--Research, Bioengineering
Description: The glassy or amorphous solid state of trehalose has been utilized in the food and pharmaceutical industry to immobilize and stabilize sensitive molecules and it is increasingly being explored for the preservation of biologics. Retention of the gl...

Title: Powerline Communications Through Series Connected Switched Mode Power Converters to Be Used in Solar Microinverters
Author: Evans, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern photovoltaic converters and energy storage modules are shifting to a cascaded or distributed module-level inverters to reduce the required voltage output of each module and thereby optimizing production costs. The switch to an AC-stacked ar...

Title: Principal Efficacy of Alternative Secondary and Traditional Secondary Principals
Author: Snyder, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Serving in North Carolina’s public alternative secondary schools can be a challenge for principals. Self-efficacy is the perceived judgment that one has the ability to execute a course of action to bring about a desired result. Using Albert Bander...

Title: Period-n Bifurcations in Milling
Author: Honeycutt, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Period-n bifurcations in milling operations are studied in this dissertation. Period-n bifurcations represent a special type of unstable dynamic behavior because they have a response period that is an integer multiple (n) of the forcing period. Th...

Title: QUANTITATIVE FALL RISK ASSESSMENT WITH WEARABLE SENSORS
Author: Xu, Zheng
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomechanics
Description: Falling has become one of the leading causes to both fatal and non-fatal injuries among the elder adults and patients with dysfunctional mobility. The following consequence of a fall will be that the fear of falling can reduce the daily activities...

Title: ARTIFICIAL FINANCIAL MARKET: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF TRADERS CHARACTERISTICS ON EMERGENT MARKET PHENOMENA
Author: Kamyab Hessary, Yasaman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Financial markets play a critical role in today's societies and are extremely important to the general health and efficiency of an economy. Solid understanding of the behavior of financial markets can benefit investors, governing organizations and...

Title: An Examination of the Impact of Student Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status on School Counselors' Decisions to Place Students in Alternative Learning Programs
Author: Dameron, Merry
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling
Description: The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model (ASCA, 2012) and ASCA Ethical Standards (ASCA, 2016) highlight the relationship between school counseling, advocacy, and social justice. It is the school counselor’s duty to address i...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: An Examination of Predictive Factors of Self-Efficacy among Supervisors who Conduct Cross-Racial Supervision: Social Influence, Racial Identity Attitudes, and Gender Self-Confidence
Author: Summers, LaTonya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Social sciences
Description: The counseling profession has become diverse and it is not uncommon for a person of color to be included in the supervisory dyad. Therefore, counselor supervisors are required to become competent in supervising people who are racially different fr...