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Title: "I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
Author: Humphries, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Literature, History--Religious aspects
Description: For my paper I will look at contemporary communities built on violence, looking specifically at how the philosophy of Georges Bataille may allow for these groups to be interpreted in the context of sacrifice. Though I will look at some issues rela...

Title: A Comparison Of Academic Advising Experiences And Satisfaction Of African American Males and Other Students At A Predominately White Institution
Author: Means, Billie
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Educational psychology
Description: Of all college students, four percent are African American males of which one third graduate within six years. The status of African-American males in higher education serves as an impetus for research to investigate their collegiate experiences a...

Title: A Comparison of Administrators' and Teachers' Perceptions of National Technology Standards
Author: Wilkins, Patricia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The need for teachers and administrators to select and use appropriate and effective technologies to support instruction is critical for the academic and social success of students. The purpose of the study was to document and compare administrato...

Title: A Cultural Wealth Perspective on Success and Persistence in Engineering for Black and Latino Students: Exploring Interactions with Faculty and Other Institutional Agents
Author: Foxx, Krystal
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Education
Description: Using Yosso's (2005) community cultural wealth (CCW) framework, this qualitative case study (conducted through a federally-funded grant) explored the experiences of eight Black and Latino successful engineering students at a Southeastern universit...

Title: A LEGISLATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
Author: Griffin, Richard
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education and state, Education--Finance
Description: The North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS) experienced a decline in its funded ratio from 112% in 2002 to 94% in 2011 and an increase in its unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities over the same period. The change i...

Title: A METHODOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE AND DISTRESS MODELS FOR A PMS USING AUTOMATED DATA
Author: Dye, Michael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Automated pavement data collection technologies have gained momentum due to the fact that the automated data have more detail, greater quantity, better quality, and better repeatability. A systematic method of developing performance and distress m...

Title: A mixed-methods analysis of social-ecological feedbacks between urbanization and forest persistence
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Urban forestry
Description: We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests ...

Title: ADAPTIVE DUTY CYCLING FOR RECHARGEABLE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author: Nimkar, Sayali
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTSAYALI SHRIRANG NIMKAR. Adaptive duty cycling for rechargeable wireless sensor networks. (Under the direction of DR. ASIS NASIPURI) The proposed research addresses development of an adaptive duty cycling scheme to extend the lifetime of wi...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF SINGLE-SEX CLASSROOMS ON SELF-ESTEEM IN MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS
Author: Hart, Laura
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Sex role, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Overall, research on the effectiveness of single-gender education is inconclusive. However, research does indicate that some benefits beyond academic achievement may be possible. This is particularly true for middle-school girls, who often struggl...

Title: APPRAISAL OF CRANE SAFETY PREPAREDNESS FOLLOWING THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA) CRANE RULES
Author: Boafo, Francis
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: This research investigates the impact of the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Crane and Derrick Regulations 29CFR 1926 Subpart CC on the frequencies of the causes of crane related accidents and fatalities. The old and new c...

Title: Academic self-efficacy among students enrolled in developmental education: The role of social modeling
Author: DeAngelis, Kristin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational psychology, Adult education, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Students in developmental education face three types of barriers: institutional, situational, and affective. Current interventions focus on addressing institutional barriers; however, continuing low success and retention rates indicate a need for ...

Title: Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) switches in motor drives
Author: O'Connor, Paul
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: ABSTRACTPAUL RICHARD VALENTINE O'CONNOR. Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) in Motor Drives. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT W. COX) There has been a proliferation in the use of power electronic drives in applications such as sh...

Title: Black Women Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators of Persistence and Degree Completion in a Predominately White University
Author: Howell, Cathy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: This study explored the experiences of persistence and degree completion for Black women at a Predominately White Institution (PWI). The conceptual framework used to ground the research was Black Feminist Thought (BFT). The participants were 12 Bl...

Title: COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND FALLS IN THE OLDER ADULT POPULATION: INCIDENCE AND OUTCOMES IN A LEVEL ONE TRAUMA CENTER
Author: Churchill, Christine
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Gerontology
Description: Cognitive impairment has been found to be associated with an increased risk of falls among older adults. The aim of this study was to compare in-hospital outcomes such as time-to-surgery, complications, length of stay, intensive care utilization, ...

Title: CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR SOLAR PANEL COMPANION INVERTERS
Author: Sahu, Prasanth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This thesis investigates a unique methodology that converts the conventional dc voltage output of a photovoltaic solar panel to switched quasi-square wave voltages with variable pulse width, which when aggregated realize a superior quality multile...

Title: CORE TEMPERATURE AWARE THREAD SCHEDULING IN HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURE
Author: Jadhav, Pratik
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Along with the evolution of heterogeneous multi-core architectures, advanced thread scheduling algorithms for maximizing system efficiency are needed. As power density increases with technology, core temperature variations can cause bottlenecks in...

Title: CRONBACH'S COEFFICIENT AS A PERFORMANCE MEASURE TO ASSESS LINK-LEVEL RELIABILITY
Author: Puvvala, Ravi Kiran
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Travel time reliability is commonly used in reference to the level of consistency in transportation service for a trip, corridor, mode or route in terms of its travel time. Typically, reliability is viewed by motorists in relation to their past ex...

Title: Cache-Aware Implementation of Compressed Sensing Reconstruction using Walsh-Hadamard Transform on a Multicore Architecture
Author: Ramgopal, Aneesh
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The recent development of the compressed sensing (CS) theory has given rise to several algorithms being proposed for signal acquisition and reconstruction. Implementing these algorithms are computationally demanding and pose several challenges for...

Title: Civic learning in online courses: The experience of emerging adults at the community college
Author: Ritter, Gary Paul
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Civic learning is an important part of the mission of higher learning. The community college is a unique and integral part of the system of higher education in the United States. Digital technology has increased the options for students to take cl...

Title: Comparative evaluation of link travel time from different technologies and sources
Author: Pinnamaneni, Rahul Chowdary
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation--Planning
Description: Accurate travel time information is required to efficiently plan and effectively manage transportation network. Technologies and data sources such as Bluetooth detectors and INRIX offer the potential to continuously collect the data and use it for...