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Title: “Live by the Spirit:” Institutional Discipline for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767 - 1839
Author: Carpenter, Layne
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Law, History
Description: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, this study demonstrates that institutions of authority—both legal and ecclesias...

Title: study of optoelectronic properties of thin film solar cell materials Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 using multiple correlative spatially-resolved spectroscopy techniques
Author: Chen, Qiong
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Containing only earth abundant and environmental friendly elements, quaternary compounds Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) are considered as promising absorber materials for thin film solar cells. The best record efficiency for this type of ...

Title: YOUTH VOICE AND PERCEIVED CONTROL IN TREATMENT FOR YOUTH IN A SYSTEM OF CARE
Author: Huggins, Sasha
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: Empowering clients in the mental health system is a principle for providing care that has developed in response to the once standard approach in which individuals had little to no voice and choice in their treatment plans and were served in very r...

Title: Writers Accommodate the Primary Audience: A Study of Technical and Legal Writers’ Composition Principles Used for Usability Purposes
Author: Dancisin, Nicole
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Law, Communication of technical information
Description: Kenneth Bruffee argues that for action to commence and for knowledge to be shared and furthered, communication must successfully occur between two or more individuals. Successful communication requires the reader or listener to interpret a message...

Title: Weight and social norms: Predicting palatable food intake in first-year college women
Author: Hardin, Abigail
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Weight gain in first year university students may be of particular concern in the development of lifelong overweight or obesity. Both Social Facilitation Theory and the Norms Matching Approach have been invoked to explain the augmentation of calor...

Title: Weakly Supervised Learning on Image Manifolds
Author: Wu, Hui
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Recent work in image manifold learning has shown the prevalence of unsupervised methods that provide compact representation and perceptually meaningful organization of images in certain types of natural image sets. However, in situations where a d...

Title: Video Collaboratory - Asynchronous Collaboration Around Web-based Videos
Author: Singh, Vikash
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Most Internet users consume video in some form or another. However, despite the huge amount of content available on various video sites, typical interactions with the videos are limited to posting and viewing. Overall, online video artifacts are s...

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS FOR LARGE SCALE ETHNOGRAPHY: EXPLORING COMPUTATIONAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE OCCUPATION AND UTILIZATION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Author: Danilowicz, Steven
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Architecture
Description: Observational data within Post Occupancy Evaluations (POE) has had the problem of being deemed as ‘unreliable’ due to the fact that it is not based on quantifiable, empirical evidence. Even though ethnographic observation is quite effective and ha...

Title: VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF A STEEL TWIN I-GIRDER PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE: STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF PEDESTRIAN EXCITATION MODELS
Author: Moss, Jonathan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Excessive vibration of footbridges caused by pedestrian excitation is an important design consideration that has received increased attention in recent years following serviceability-related failures of several notable pedestrian bridges. Numerous...

Title: Utopic Pessimism: The Messianic Underpinnings of the Antinatalist Polemic
Author: Miller, Joshua
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy and religion
Description: Pessimism in the west was made into a system by Arthur Schopenhauer. It has never been a popular philosophy but provides rich insights into the nature of human desire and the possibility of happiness in a materialistic cosmos. Antinatalism, the id...

Title: Utilizing a multi-faceted approach to improve 6-hour bundle compliance of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock
Author: Gabbard, Erika
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine
Description: Purpose: The purpose of this DNP Scholarly Project was to evaluate the impact of Virtual Critical Care (VCC) and Sepsis Program Coordinators on 6 hour bundle compliance (divided into 3 time frames: first 3 hour, second 3 hour, and total 6 hour) fo...

Title: Using Virtual Fracture Reduction Software To Explore Features For Fracture Severity Prediction.
Author: Tikekar, Rewa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Diagnostic imaging
Description: Current medical treatment for comminuted bone fractures, i.e., traumatic bone fractures that result in many bone fragments, is based upon fracture severity classifications that physicians determine subjectively. Due to the subjectivity in the inte...

Title: Using Occlusion to Track Multiple Objects with Similar Appearance
Author: Fasciano, Thomas
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Visual perception
Description: Multiple object tracking is a fundamental problem within computer vision and has a wide range of applications. Although well studied, it remains a difficult task especially in scenarios which contain many occluding and highly similar appearing obj...

Title: Understanding peer exchange relationships: A social relations analysis of reciprocity perceptions
Author: Thomas, Jane
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Although the majority of social exchange research within the organizational sciences relies on reciprocity as the underlying theoretical mechanism in exchange relationships, reciprocity is rarely studied in its own right. The current research soug...

Title: Understanding gene transcriptional regulation at single cell resolution
Author: Xu, Chen
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: The recent advance of single-cell technologies has provided an unprecedented opportunity to bring new insights into many complex biological phenomena, such as the regulation of cell differentiation in a multi-cellular organism and cell-to-cell var...

Title: Understanding and Development of Cost-Effective Industrial Aluminum Back Surface Field (Al-BSF) Silicon Solar Cells
Author: Chen, Nian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: For the long-term strategy of gradual decarbonization of the world’s energy supply, high penetration of PV electricity is critical in the future world energy landscape. In order to achieve this, solar electricity with competitive cost to fossil fu...

Title: Understanding Older Workers' Decisions to Participate in Voluntary Training Opportunities
Author: Lopina, Erika
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: The current study integrated theories of adult development with theories of training motivation to address two overarching research questions: 1) Does the likelihood of participating in training differ between younger and older workers? and, 2) Ar...

Title: Understanding Latin American politics
Author: Weeks, Gregory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Latin America, Central America, Caribbean Area
Description: This textbook integrates domestic and international factors for understanding Latin American politics. The thematic structure of the book is to utilize three different levels of analysis to explain Latin American politics: international, national,...

Title: Under One Umbrella: Historic Preservation in Havana, Cuba as the Link between Social Services and Economics
Author: Dallmeyer, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Cultural property--Protection
Description: Traditionally, historic preservation focuses on the past, but a major challenge of historic preservation is working with buildings that are still in use. If a building continues to be used, it will continue to evolve. Thus, current daily life and ...

Title: UPDATING AND ENHANCING THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S BRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USER COSTS
Author: Ramsey, Joshua
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Transportation
Description: A Bridge Management System (BMS) can be used for both storage of data and to provide decision making tools for maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MR&R) needs and cost forecasting. The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) BMS...