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Title: Preoperative Education and The Reduction of Parental Anxiety
Author: Bernardo, Sherry
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine, Health services administration
Description: Background: One of the most frequently reported emotions in children in the setting of surgery or a medical procedure is anxiety. Currently, many interventions are used to assist with the perioperative reduction in anxiety for both parent and chil...

Title: Creating Automated Virtual Humans
Author: Sakpal, Raghavi
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Virtual Humans (VHs) are highly efficient and effective task oriented tools for various social and collaborative environments. VHs have the ability to replicate human like verbal (speech) and non-verbal (gestures, facial expressions) interactive b...

Title: Performing Arts Education and the Academic Identity Development of African American Male High School Students
Author: Walton, Calvin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning, Art--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: AbstractThis study examined the effects of performing arts participation on the academic achievement of African American male high school students. The study investigated how engagement in school-based performing arts influenced the academic ident...

Title: Periostin and TGFBI in Breast Cancer Progression
Author: Phelps, Michelle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Cytology
Description: Dynamic interactions between cancer cells, supportive stromal cells, the extracellular matrix (ECM), and the immune system are critical to breast cancer progression. Periostin is an ECM protein correlated to poor outcomes in breast cancer. Periost...

Title: Pleiotropic effects on the transcriptome and genome of transgenic soybeans resulting from transgene integration and expression in seed tissue
Author: Lambirth, Kevin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology, Bioinformatics
Description: The seeds of the common soybean (Glycine max) produce and store large amounts of protein, making them an appealing bioreactor for producing valuable recombinant proteins at high levels. However, the effects of accumulating recombinant protein at h...

Title: PRESSURE CONTROL METHODS FOR A PRESSURIZED COOLING SYSTEM WITH REPETITIVE CYCLES OF TRANSIENT DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR
Author: Smith, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: Pressurizer (PZR) behavior in typical pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plants is well understood. Pressure control is relatively straightforward for a typical PWR, since the larger fluid system normally operates in a very steady state...

Title: Quantitative style investing, portfolio optimization, and factor models
Author: Dickson Jr., Robert
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation consists of three related chapters in the field of empirical asset pricing. Broadly speaking the chapters investigate issues related to active portfolio management, stock-picking, portfolio optimization, and asset pricing model p...

Title: DYNAMIC RANGE ENHANCMENT IN DIGITAL FRINGE PROJECTION AND LASER INTERFEROMETRY
Author: Babaie, Gelareh
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Meteorology
Description: GELAREH BABAIE. Dynamic range enhancement in digital fringe projection and laser interferometry. (Under the direction of DR. FARAMARZ FARAHI)Optical metrology is the science and technology concerning measurements with light. Surface texture and 3D...

Title: Displacement Scale Based on Speckles
Author: Farsad, Mahsa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: Speckle patterns are complex intensity distributions, which occur when an optically rough surface is illuminated with a coherent light. The speckle phenomenon was known to be troublesome when the laser was first introduced, but later it was discov...

Title: Development of a Survival Based Framework for Bridge Deterioration Modeling with Large-scale Application to the North Carolina Bridge Management System
Author: Goyal, Raka
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: This dissertation presents the development and implementation of a comprehensive automated software framework for probabilistic bridge deterioration modeling that takes into account the time dependent nature of deterioration as well as the impact ...

Title: A CASE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN LARGE, TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS
Author: Szymanska, Izabela
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: The current body of research suggests that the relative importance of business objectives and family objectives changes over time in family firms (Miller et al., 2011). As family firms age, company management tends to provide more resources for th...

Title: Controlled growth and property measurement of one-dimensional oxide nanostructures for energy applications
Author: Sheng, Tao
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit rich structures and useful properties, and could be used in applications of solar energy harvesting (e.g., photoelectrochemistry, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics) and energy saving (e.g., electrochromism an...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Scarcity
Author: De Sousa, Maysa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This dissertation aimed to develop a comprehensive model of scarcity. While socioeconomic factors partially explain these disparities, the traditional indicators used in most of the literature fail to fully capture the relationship between SES and...

Title: CONCEPT IMAGE OF SLOPE: UNDERSTANDING MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE THROUGH TASK BASED INTERVIEWS
Author: Hoffman, Timothy
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The mathematical concept of slope has traditionally been a critical topic in the high school mathematics curriculum. However, current educational trends in the United States introduce this concept in middle school. This trend shifted the responsib...

Title: CONTINUUM ROBOT MANIPULATION
Author: Li, Jinglin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Unlike conventional robotic manipulators, continuum manipulators are inspired by invertebrate structures found in nature, such as octopus arms and elephant trunks. The shape of a continuum manipulator can continuously deform via changing the contr...

Title: A MULTI-PHYSICS STUDY ON GAS DIFFUSION AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN CEMENT MATERIAL WITH CO2 SORPTION
Author: Wang, Peng
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Emission control and storage of carbon dioxide (CO¬2) from fossil fuel combustion is an emerging and frontier research area to counter likely global climate changes. Although the carbon dioxide separation techniques are quite mature, there is stil...

Title: A MACHINING STABILITY MODEL WITH PROCESS DAMPING FOR HARD-TO-MACHINE MATERIALS
Author: Tyler, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: A substantial fraction of current machining research is directed towards increased productivity. A fundamental limitation is unstable vibration, or chatter, during cutting. Stability lobe diagrams, which relate the allowable chip width to spindle ...

Title: Automated formal analytics for smart grid security and resiliency
Author: Rahman, Mohammad
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Sports administration
Description: Smart grid is the modernization of the legacy electric power system in which cyber computing and communications are integrated with the physical world of power systems. A smart grid provides efficient and cost-effective management of the grid by a...

Title: Associations between food choice values of parental guardians, socioeconomic status, home food availability, and child dietary intake
Author: Lyerly, Jordan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Previous research has found that food choice values (FCVs), socioeconomic status (SES), and home food availability (HFA) are associated with child dietary intake. However, the relationships between these variables have been poorly studied. Therefo...

Title: Afrocentricity for all: A case study examining the self-healing power of alternative curricula as a mediating tool of inclusion
Author: Watson, Marcia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Curriculum planning, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Student achievement and school reform are some of the most pervasive topics in public school discourse. However, the curriculum is one area that remains virtually unchanged across U.S. schools. The efflorescence of federal legislative policies, su...