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Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...

Title: Posttraumatic Growth Among African American Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Roles of Spirituality, Locus of Control, and Self-Concept
Author: Hill, Lisa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Research has suggested that childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can hinder normal cognitive, social and emotional development. Research has also suggested that CSA contributes to higher levels of pathology than other traumatic experiences. Rates of victi...

Title: Process and development of a culturally adapted healthy lifestyle manual for overweight and obese Latina women with binge eating disorder.
Author: Phimphasone, Phoutdavone
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Clinical psychology
Description: Obesity remains one of the greatest public health threats in the 21st century, increasing the risk for many chronic illnesses, including Type 2 diabetes and CVD, with economic costs associated with treatments for obesity reaching $147 billion/year...

Title: DYNAMIC CONVEX OPTIMAL POWER FLOW APPROACHES FOR MODERN POWER GRID
Author: Moghadasi, Seyedmahdi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Non-convexity of Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem in power systems poses difficulties in reaching optimal solutions which can adversely affect the overall solution efficiency, convergence and appropriate scheduling of generators. Dynamic convex OP...

Title: Development of n-ZnO/p-Si single heterojunction solar cell with and without interfacial layer
Author: Hussain, Babar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: The conversion efficiency of conventional silicon (Si) photovoltaic cells has not been improved significantly during last two decades but their cost decreased dramatically during this time. However, the higher price-per-watt of solar cells is stil...

Title: Development of Distress and Performance Models of Composite Pavements for Pavement Management
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Information science
Description: Roadway systems in the United States have become huge assets that need massive resources to maintain and operate. To meet the long-term performance goal, government agencies developed pavement management systems (PMSs) to help them manage roadway ...

Title: CONTROL AND METHODS FOR PV INVERTER MINIATURIZATION
Author: Jafarian, Hamidreza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Analyzing the price of PV generation systems in different market sectors shows that the portion of inverter cost and Balance of System (BoS) are increased due to advent of new PV module technologies and dramatic cost reduction in PV module product...

Title: BULLWHIP EFFECT IN PRICING IN VARYING SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES AND CONTRACTS USING A GAME THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Author: Adnan, Ziaul Haq
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research, Commerce
Description: Bullwhip effect in Pricing (BP) refers to the amplified variability of prices in a supply chain. When the amplification takes place from the upstream (i.e. supplier’s side) towards the downstream (i.e. retail side) of a supply chain, this is refer...

Title: Cognitive Spectrum Access for D2D Communications in Emerging Networks
Author: Liu, Xingya
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Device to device (D2D) Communication is essential in emerging networks, such as Internet of things (IoT). Cognitive radio (CR)-enabled device is a promising technology to address D2D Communications. However, existing work on CR networks suffers fr...

Title: A Multilevel Analysis of Black Male Secondary School Student Discipline and Achievement in Relation to Violence Exposure
Author: Garo, Laurie
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Mental health
Description: This study examined school outcomes for Black male secondary school students in relation to neighborhood violence, focusing on Disproportionality in out of school suspension and below-proficiency achievement on selected standardized tests. Grounde...

Title: A COMPUTATIONAL SPECTRAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE AND ITS APPLICATION IN FORM METROLOGY
Author: Habibi, Nasim
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Many existing systems for three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement require mechanical moving parts that limit the measurement speed. A non-contact optical system that does not requires any moving parts can, in principle, increase the speed of meas...

Title: ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
Author: Basalik, Debra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...

Title: Areal gear metrology with modified flanks
Author: Ni, Kang
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Gears are critical mechanical components in power transmission systems, used across a board spectrum of industries such as automobile, aerospace and renewable energy. Given the advancement of design and manufacture of gears in the past decades, th...

Title: Applying Travel Time Reliability Measures in Identifying and Ranking Freeway Bottlenecks at the Network Level
Author: Gong, Linfeng
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The continuing growth of traffic congestion on U.S. roadways has become an increasing concern for both travelers and transportation agencies. According to the Texas Transportation Institute’s estimate, the total financial cost of congestion in the...

Title: EXISTING BARRIERS TO CARE FOR HIV POSITIVE BLACK MSM LEAVING PRISON
Author: Junious, Eric
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences
Description: This study explored barriers of reintegration among Black men who have sex with other men (MSM) who are living with HIV and have histories with the criminal justice system in the state of South Carolina. This study uncovered barriers accessing HIV...

Title: ENGINEERED WATER REPELLENCY FOR INFILTRATION CONTROL IN COAL FLY ASH
Author: Feyyisa, Jenberu
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: In 2014 approximately 47% of the 190 million short tons of coal combustion product (CCP) was recycled. As a construction material, coal fly ash (CFA) finds considerable use as a partial replacement for Portland cement, as structural fill, and as a...

Title: From Nonradiating Sources to Directionally Invisible Objects
Author: Hurwitz, Elisa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: The goal of this dissertation is to extend the understanding of invisible objects, in particular nonradiating sources and directional nonscattering scatterers. First, variations of null-field nonradiating sources are derived from Maxwell's equatio...

Title: GLYCOGEN ENHANCEMENT AUGMENTS OVERLOAD-INDUCED PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, GROWTH, AND MYOGENESIS IN AGED SKELETAL MUSCLE
Author: Lawrence, Marcus
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Kinesiology, Physiology
Description: ABSTRACTMARCUS MICHAEL LAWRENCE. Glycogen Enhancement Augments Overload-Induced Protein Synthesis, Growth, and Myogenesis in Aged Skeletal Muscle. (Under the direction of DR. SCOTT E. GORDON)Age-related skeletal muscle (SkM) wasting is associated ...

Title: GENEROSITY AT WORK: GENEROUS IDENTITY, ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS
Author: Gur, Shahar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social sciences--Research
Description: Research on prosocial behaviors at the workplace continues to flourish, and generous identity is a variable that has been omitted in previous studies. Generous identity is the extent to which a person defines themselves as generous. The research r...

Title: HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF EJECTA PRODUCTION FROM SHOCKED METALLIC SURFACES
Author: Karkhanis, Varad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Aerospace engineering
Description: The phenomenon of mass ejection into vacuum from a shocked metallic free surfaces can have a deleterious effect on the implosion phase of the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) process. Often, the ejecta take the form of a cloud of particles that a...