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Title: A Delphi-Based Investigation on Principal Preparedness for Managing School Finance
Author: Christian, Arthur
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Management, Education--Finance
Description: Background. Research on principal preparedness for managing school finance is limited. Grounded in theory, principal preparation programs are wifout practical exercises for leadership readiness on budgets and finance. On its face, this topic is he...

Title: A LOAD-BASED TEMPERATURE PREDICTION MODEL FOR ANOMALY DETECTION
Author: Sobhani, Masoud
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Electric load forecasting, as a basic requirement for the decision-making in power utilities, has been improved in various aspects in the past decades. Many factors may affect the accuracy of the load forecasts, such as data quality, goodness of t...

Title: A STUDY OF SOCIAL FACTORS IN ACTIVITY-BASED ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOM CORRELATED TO STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE
Author: Ravikumar, Ranjith Kumar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Social behaviors of students play a significant role in the classroom atmosphere and also the way it impacts students’ learning interests. In addition, socially acceptable behaviors are generally preferred by students in group-based classes. But o...

Title: A discrete element approach to predicting the uniaxial compressive response of plain concrete
Author: Tannu, Nakul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Discrete element method (DEM) has become the method of choice for modeling the mechanical response of materials with granular structure. The method consists of representing the material as a collection of particles that interact with each other by...

Title: A finite element approach for calculating the wave attenuation characteristics of epoxy polymer matrix composites
Author: Ghag, Pratik Prashant
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The macroscopic properties of a polymer composite are significantly affected by the properties of the inclusions, size, shape, and distribution. Finite element (FE) modeling provides a viable approach for investigating the effects of the inclusion...

Title: AN APPROACH TO CONDITION MONITORING AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF INDUCTION MACHINES USING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Author: Suter, Forrest
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: One of the great difficulties associated with monitoring the condition of an electric motor is that the user must typically possess some degree of expertise to distinguish between a normal operating condition and a potential failure. The typical a...

Title: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NORWEGIAN HOUSE PRICES
Author: Oeding Amundstad, Kjetil
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This study estimates an econometric model to explain changes in Norwegian house prices. This is useful as it expands the understanding of how and why Norwegian house prices move as they do. The study utilizes Statistics Norway’s house prices Index...

Title: ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF A NOVEL AC-AC BUCK BOOST BASED DYNAMIC VOLTAGE REGULATOR
Author: Shah, Nakul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: NAKUL SHAH. Analysis, design and experimental verification of a novel ac-ac buckboost based dynamic voltage regulator. (Under the direction of DR. MADHAVMANJREKAR)This thesis investigates a unique direct ac-ac converter based topology that can beu...

Title: ANATOMY OF SELECT FLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN THE MAUCH CHUNK GROUP, SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA, USA
Author: McCreary, Alan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Environmental geology
Description: The Mauch Chunk Group has been interpreted as a product of multiple transgressions and regressions (Miller and Eriksson, 2000; Beuthin and Blake, 2004). An outcrop containing the upper Hinton Formation and Princeton Formation, the middle two forma...

Title: ANCESTRAL COMPLEXITY AND LINEAGE SPECIFIC EXPANSIONS OF THE ANIMAL BZIP INTERACTOME
Author: Kane, Eric
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary developmental biology
Description: Protein-protein interactions are central to the regulation and function of transcription factors in time- and cell-specific regulation of the genome. Increases in interactome complexity may serve as a mechanistic driver for evolutionary novelty. T...

Title: Achieving one-planet living through transitions in social practice : a case study of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Author: Boyer, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development--Research, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: The per capita resource consumption for inhabitants of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR) is less than ten percent of the average American in most major categories, approximating “one planet” living in a nation that contributes disproportionately to g...

Title: American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Evolution, Philosophy
Description: This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...

Title: An observational analysis on the distance to supercell-boundary interaction in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have confirmed that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low-le...

Title: Anatomy of a protest: Activism, people, social media and urban space
Author: Karduni, Alireza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Social sciences--Research, Architecture
Description: The black lives matter movement has risen in response to social injustices in the African-American community in the United States, specifically concerned with police shootings and brutality. Similar to many modern movements in the age of informati...

Title: Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Regarding Sun Safety in Female Collegiate Athletes
Author: McGuffin, Katherine
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: BACKGROUND: Across the United States, there is a rising incidence of melanoma in the adolescent and young adult population. Collegiate athletes are at an increased risk of skin cancer due to prolonged, frequent exposure to ultra-violet radiation.O...

Title: Assessing the impact of the nocturnal transition on the lifetime and evolution of supercell thunderstorms in the Great Plains.
Author: Gropp, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Predicting the evolution of supercell thunderstorms during and after the eveningtransition is a known challenge due to an incomplete understanding of how they evolve inresponse to associated environmental changes. As the low-level environment cool...

Title: BIOMEDICAL QUESTION ANSWERING
Author: Bhandwaldar, Abhishek
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A Biomedical Question Answering system allows biomedical experts to use unstructured knowledge in a more effective way. Our system can index vast majority of biomedical articles and can do information retrieval to find most relevant articles to an...

Title: CHARACTERISTICS AND SKILLS OF SUSTAINED LEADERS OF SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Leahy, Maria
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: ABSTRACTMARIA MARSELLA LEAHY. Characteristics and skills of sustained leaders of successful public charter school in North Carolina. (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE)Effective school leadership is fundamental to a school’s success and ult...

Title: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLACEMENT: HOW EMERGING POLICY AND PRACTICE RELATE TO SUCCESS AND PERSISTENCE
Author: Helget, Donna
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether the method of course placement for the first attempted English and mathematics courses was independent of the student demographic variables of gender, race/ethnicity, and Pell Grant eli...

Title: COMPENSATION OF FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS BY INVERSE RCSA
Author: Satyanarayana, Harsha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The stability lobe diagram is a graphical device used to select stable cutting conditions in machining. The generation of the stability lobe diagram requires the tool-holder-spindle-machine frequency response function (FRF). Therefore, the accurac...