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Title: What information matters? Using policy capturing to understand legal and psychological decisions about civil competency
Author: Quickel, Emalee
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Law
Description: Civil competency, or one's ability to manage one's own affairs, is an under-researched legal construct that impacts individuals, families and communities. The legal decisions surrounding civil competency seek to balance one's autonomy and safety, ...

Title: War in the Shadows: IRA Intimidation and Assassination, 1919-1921
Author: Cannady, Michael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: This work addresses a gap in the historiography of the Irish revolution: the use of intimidation and assassination by the IRA. Although some studies have focused on whether IRA assassinations were justified, little scholarship exists about their e...

Title: WAVEGUIDE, PHOTODETECTOR, AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS OF MICROSPHERICAL PHOTONICS
Author: Allen, Kenneth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Physics
Description: Dielectric microspheres with diameters (D) on the order of several wavelengths of light have attracted increasing attention from the photonics community due to their ability to produce extraordinarily tightly focused beams termed "photonic nanojet...

Title: Visibility of Two-Wheeled Motorists Approaching Left Turning Vehicles Under Nighttime Conditions
Author: Spivey, Heath
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering
Description: The number of fatal crashes on United States roadways has declined substantially since 2002, yet the number of fatalities involving two-wheeled motorists has consistently increased over the same period. Examining incidents involving a two-wheel mo...

Title: Using audience-centric design and community feedback to manage complex privacy settings
Author: Watson, Jason
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Today, technology is enabling people to share information on an unprecedented scale. Although much of this information is intended to be shared with a large group of people or even the public, some disclosure is intended for smaller audiences-a su...

Title: Understanding and overcoming limitations of vesicular stomatitis virus as an oncolytic agent against pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Author: Hastie, Eric
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Virology, Biology
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus. Lack of preexisting immunity against VSV, inherent oncotropism, and genetic malleability make VSV a widely used platform for vaccine, oncolytic, and gene ther...

Title: Topology-aware approach for the emergence of social norms in multiagent systems
Author: Hasan, Mohammad
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Social norms facilitate agent coordination and conflict resolution without explicit communication. Norms generally involve restrictions on a set of actions or behaviors of agents to a particular strategy and can significantly reduce the cost of co...

Title: Three Essays in Corporate Finance
Author: Chen, Jun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: The economy and market have dramatically developed over the past decades. The corporations try to survive and urge to grow in such erratic circumstance. Two key dimensions are involved in winning a game of the law of the jungle: the management of ...

Title: The effects of urban renewal on African Americans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the case of the Brooklyn neighborhood: 1960-1974.
Author: Hijazi, Khalid
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The federal urban renewal program, which was created as part of the Housing Act of 1949, was designed to provide cities with money to rehabilitate their infrastructure by replacing old decaying buildings and blighted inner city areas. Almost in ev...

Title: The Influence of Culture and Acculturation on Binge Eating Disorder in Latina Women
Author: Vela, Alyssa
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The goal of this study was to gain an improved understanding of binge eating disorder (BED) in Latina women by creating a rich description of their symptoms and related experiences, while also considering the influence of culture and acculturation...

Title: The Fighter Mafia: Vietnam, The Fighter Jet, and the Future of the Air Force
Author: Hubard, Thomas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: This thesis examines the role of fighter pilots and their shared culture in the United States Air Force. This thesis argues that as a result of the Vietnam War, fighter pilots fought back against the traditional power structures of the Air Force t...

Title: The Evalution of Chemical Wear on Single Crystal Diamond Tools while Diamond Turning a Binary Cu-Ni Alloy System
Author: Browy, Eric
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
Description: The current work describes the evaluation of chemical wear on diamond tools while diamond turning copper nickel alloys of varying composition. The primary goal of my project is to quantify the chemical wear of single crystal diamond tools while di...

Title: The Effects of Inlet Temperature and Turbulence Characteristics on the Flow Development Inside a Gas Turbine Exhaust Diffuser
Author: Bomela, Christian
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Power resources
Description: The overall industrial gas turbine efficiency is known to be influenced by the pressurerecovery in the exhaust system. The design and, subsequently, the performanceof an industrial gas turbine exhaust diffuser largely depend on its inflow conditio...

Title: The Development Of A Comparative Appraisal Of Perceived Resources And Demands For Clergy
Author: Jackson-Jordan, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Adult education
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop the Comparative Appraisal of perceived Resources and Demands for Clergy (CARD-C), which is used for appraising perceived stress for clergy persons. An appraisal-based definition of stress was derived from t...

Title: The Black College Experience: What Does it Mean to African American Teens? A Descriptive Case Study Investigating Student Perceptions and its Influence on College Choice and HBCU Student Enrollment
Author: Scott, Lakia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to represent a great legacy in the history of education for African Americans; however, these institutions are faced with contemporary challenges that include: declining Black enrollmen...

Title: The Association between Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration: Results from the 2007-2009 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
Author: Krupakar, Sangamithra
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Hypertensive disorders are the most commonly reported medical disorder among pregnant women, and an important cause of adverse birth outcomes as well as maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. One important step to reduce these adverse eff...

Title: Teacher Evaluation of Resources Designed for Teaching Mathematics to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Author: Lee, Angel
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: ABSTRACTANGEL HORD LEE. Teacher evaluation of resources designed for teaching mathematics to students with significant cognitive disabilities. (Under the direction of DR. DIANE BROWDER)Educators of students with significant cognitive disabilities ...

Title: Tea culture and the British Empire, 1600-1900
Author: Ashby, Brittany
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: At the end of the fifteenth century, the consumption of tea remained predominantly in the East, and only a few wealthy western aristocrats knew of the tea plant. Only one hundred years later, tea sparked the interests of many nations and consumpti...

Title: TOPIC MODELS FOR TAGGED TEXT
Author: Ma, Zhiqiang
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Our world has been experiencing a dramatic and continually increasing growth of digital textual information. This phenomenon raises challenges in analyzing, understanding, organizing, and summarizing these large bodies of textual information. A la...

Title: THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENT EDDY CURRENT MODELING
Author: Paul, Subhra
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Maglev transportation using electrodynamic wheels is a promising new technology aimed at providing a low cost, high-speed and environmental friendly mode of transportation. In this technology, Halbach permanent magnet rotors, termed electrodynamic...