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Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Author
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McDaniel, Paul
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Geography, Government policy, Education and state
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Description
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Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...
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Distributed intelligent spectrum management in cognitive radio ad hoc networks
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Author
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Song, Yi
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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The rapid growth of the number of wireless devices has brought an exponential increase in the demand of the radio spectrum. However, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), almost all the radio spectrum for wireless communication...
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Do Refugees Who Become Economically Self-Sufficient Start With Nothing?
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Author
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Scholes, Paul
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Social sciences--Research, Social structure
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Description
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There are more refugees globally now than at any time since WWII. I use Phillimore’s opportunity structures from the refugee studies literature with popular ideas from the sociology of immigration literature like New Assimilation Theory to examine...
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Novel Fiber Optic Tip Designs and Devices For Laser Surgery
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Author
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Hutchens, Thomas
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics
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Description
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Fiber optic delivery of laser energy has been used for years in various types of surgical procedures in the human body. Optical energy provides several benefits over electrical or mechanical surgery, including the ability to selectively target spe...
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PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
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Author
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Parker, Neal
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology, Business
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Description
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This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...
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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EDUCATION, PERSONALITY, CHANGE IN PERSONALITY TRAITS, AND THE USE OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AMONG MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN OVER A 10-YEAR TIME SPAN
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Author
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Berwick, Amy
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Continuing education, Personality, Developmental psychology
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between various levels of education, personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience), personality trait changes over time, and u...
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REGIONAL COUNCILS AND THE INFLUENCE OF STATE LAWS ON REGIONAL GOVERNANCE
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Author
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Whisman, Holly
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Government policy
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Description
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Regional decision-making, in which multiple local governments seek to address concerns that affect communities across jurisdictional boundaries, has been approached by scholars from two opposing viewpoints. Some argue in favor of consolidated regi...
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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF LOW LOSS AND LOW INDEX OPTICAL METAMATERIALS
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Author
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Cox, Princess
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Nanoscience
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Description
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The study of optics has changed over the past 3000 years. We have developed beyond the early lens technologies of quartz and other types of glass materials and new materials are being engineered to enhance the properties of naturally occurring mat...
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An Examination of the Credit Rating Industry
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Author
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Schorno, Patrick
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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Starting in the early 2000s, after the accounting scandals involving Enron and WorldCom and continuing throughout the subsequent structured finance debacle of 2008, credit rating agencies have been criticized for the inaccuracy of their ratings. A...
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BORON CARBIDE NANOWIRES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
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Author
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Guan, Zhe
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science
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Description
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Bulk boron carbide has been widely used in ballistic armored vest and the property characterization has been heavily focused on mechanical properties. Even though boron carbides have also been projected as a promising class of high temperature the...
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CONFIGURATION OF APPLICATION PERMISSIONS WITH CONTEXTUAL ACCESS CONTROL
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Author
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Besmer, Andrew
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology
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Description
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Users are burdened with the task of configuring access control policies on many different application platforms used by mobile devices and social network sites. Many of these platforms employ access control mechanisms to configure application perm...
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Asymptotic Normality of Entropy Estimators
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Author
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Zhang, Xing
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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Shannon's entropy plays a central role in many fields of mathematics. In the first chapter, we present a sufficient condition for the asymptotic normality of the plug-in estimator of Shannon's entropy defined on a countable alphabet. The sufficien...
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A Case Study of the Strategic Staffing Initiative Used In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
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Author
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March, Kendra
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational leadership
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Description
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Accountability standards challenge schools to provide quality education for all students and to ensure that all students are on grade level by the end of the school year. If schools fall short of this challenge failing to make at least one year of...
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ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUIT NETWORKS
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Author
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Khan, Muhammad Safeer
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Sound
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Description
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Analysis of acoustic signal propagation in conduit networks has been an important area of research in acoustics. One major aspect of analyzing conduit networks as acoustic channels is that a propagating signal suffers frequency dependent attenuati...
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A Grounded Theory Study of Posttraumatic Growth and Wisdom in a Sample of Oncology Nurses
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Author
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Vishnevsky, Tanya
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Medical sciences, Oncology
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Description
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This study utilized a grounded theory approach to examine the degree to which oncology nurses report posttraumatic growth (PTG) and wisdom as a result of caring for patients. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 oncology nurses; interviews...
