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Title: PROMOTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH MANAGERS' STRATEGIC USE OF MEETINGS
Author: Allen, Joseph
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Industrial, Business
Description: Employee engagement is a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that researchers suggest is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption in work activities. Employee engagement is heavily marketed by HR consultants and recently rec...

Title: A Case Study of Hispanic Middle School Students In An ESL Classroom: Discourses In Academic Reading Instruction
Author: Andrews, Horace
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month ...

Title: FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION DURING SEISMICALLY EXCITED SLOSHING WITHIN SHALLOW SKIRT SUPPORTED PRESSURE VESSELS
Author: Antaal, Bikramjit
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This dissertation describes the finite element considerations employed in a seismic response spectrum analysis of a skirt supported, liquid containing pressure vessel. Like many axisymmetric cylindrical vessels, the gross seismic response to an in...

Title: S&P 500 Index Reconstitutions: An Analysis of Outstanding Hypotheses
Author: Baran, Lindsay
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business
Description: The market reaction to announcements of S&P 500 index changes shows a sustained price increase for added firms and a short-term price decline for newly removed firms. We explore the outstanding hypotheses regarding liquidity, certification, and in...

Title: Hispanic-Black Achievement Gap: The Educational Schism in South Carolina Middle Schools
Author: Belton, Sr., Montrio
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The academic achievement gap that exists between middle class White and non-White and poor students is well-documented. As policy-makers and educational leaders in South Carolina grapple with the academic achievement gap between White and non-Whit...

Title: DRUG CONTROL POLICIES: THE CASES OF COLOMBIA AND THE UNITED STATES
Author: Bottia, Martha
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Criminology
Description: The consumption, production and trafficking of illicit drugs is one of the major problems facing nearly all societies today. Unfortunately, illicit drugs have the ability to disintegrate persons, families and, in some extreme cases, entire societi...

Title: SCHOOLING CONTEXTS AND ACHIEVEMENT: EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SCHOOL COMPOSITION AND NORTH CAROLINA END OF GRADE READING TEST SCORES OF HISPANIC THIRD GRADERS
Author: Bowden, Kendra
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Educational tests and measurements
Description: Nationally, Hispanic achievement lags behind non-Hispanic peers in reading proficiency scores. The gap in achievement persists through subsequent grade levels for Black, Hispanic, and poor students of all races. Current school environments present...

Title: The role of the sex steroids in regulation of physical activity levels in mice
Author: Bowen, Robert
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology, Physiology
Description: Low physical activity (PA) levels are associated with many chronic diseases and place a massive burden on the health care system. The extrinsic environment has been suggested to regulate activity levels, but an increasing prevalence of physical in...

Title: Probe-Based Visual Analysis of Geospatial Simulations
Author: Butkiewicz, Thomas
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: This work documents the design, development, refinement, and evaluation of probes as an interaction technique for expanding both the usefulness and usability of geospatial visualizations, specifically those of simulations. Existing applications th...

Title: Effective Data Parallel Computing on Multicore Processors
Author: Byun, Jong-Ho
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The rise of chip multiprocessing or the integration of multiple general purpose processing cores on a single chip (multicores), has impacted all computing platforms including high performance, servers, desktops, mobile, and embedded processors. Pr...

Title: Behavioral Modeling of Zinc-Oxide, Thin-Film, Field-Effect Transistors and the Design of Pixel Driver, Analog Amplifier, and Low-Noise RF Amplifier Circuits
Author: Calder, Leroy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Zinc-oxide (ZnO) is of great interest due to transparent properties, high breakdown voltages, and low cost. Behavioral modeling is presented in this dissertation to model ZnO thin-film field-effect transistor (FET) drain current versus gate-source...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYEES' DECISIONS TO USE ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR NON-WORK PURPOSES
Author: Campbell, Stephen
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: Internet access in the workplace has become ubiquitous in many organizations. Often, employees need this access to perform their duties. However, many studies report a large percentage of employees use their work Internet access for non-work-relat...

Title: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS
Author: Carmichael, Theodore
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Social structure, Cytology
Description: Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These thres...

Title: Complex photonic crystals for broadband "all-angle" self-collimation
Author: Chuang, Yi-Chen
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Self-collimation is a dispersion property of many photonic crystals (PCs), in which light beam can propagate free of divergence in the PCs. While self-collimation is a desired property for applications related to wave guiding and light collection,...

Title: Insitu Determination of Residual Soil Shear Strength Parameters Using the Standard Penetration Test with Torque
Author: Cottingham, Marcus
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Residual soils are found throughout the world and often behave differently than transported soils. Residual soils are identified as materials developed from the insitu weathering of rock that has remained in the location of its origin as opposed t...

Title: Exercise-based Cognitive Therapy as a treatment for co-morbid insomnia and depression
Author: Daley, Kristin
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology, Psychophysiology
Description: The present study introduces a new treatment modality for comorbid insomnia and depression that combines cardiovascular exercise and elements of cognitive behavioral treatment: Exercise Based Cognitive Therapy (EBCT). While simultaneously performi...

Title: START: Supporting, Training, And Retaining Teachers
Author: Davis II, James
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The literature on teacher retention is abundant, yet the focus on new teachers themselves is limited. This research study provides a detailed description of what beginning teachers reported made them want to stay at one middle school with a 100% t...

Title: A Study of the Attitudes of University of North Carolina Education Faculty Toward the Use of Computer-Based Simulation in Pre-service Teacher Education Methods Courses
Author: Englebert, Mary
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Teachers--Training of, Educational technology
Description: ABSTRACTMARY F. ENGLEBERT: A study of the attitudes of University of North Carolina education faculty toward the use of computer-based simulation in pre-service teacher education methods courses. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN GRETES) The use of...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SUCCESS OF ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES
Author: Foreman, Brian
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Organizational sociology
Description: ABSTRACTBRIAN KEITH FOREMAN. An investigation of the success of organizations involved in community engagement initiatives. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID M. DUNAWAY)Organizations seeking to invest human and financial resources in community-bui...

Title: Oral Reading Fluency and Maze Measures as Predictors of Performance on North Carolina End-of-Grade Assessment of Reading Comprehension
Author: Galloway, Tara
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary
Description: Current legislation (IDEA, 2004; NCLB, 2001) mandates all students, including students with disabilities, demonstrate progress toward the same standards. However, students continue to struggle with attainment of statewide academic standards as mea...