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Title: INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENCE IN GRANULAR FLOW
Author: Abdelrahman, Mohamed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Engineering
Description: Granular flow poses interesting questions in terms of both theoretical and applied mechanics. The increased utilization of vibrational finishing processes in the manufacturing of high precision components has resulted in an increased need to under...

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: TEMPERATURE MODELING AND CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR HIGH VOLTAGE UNDERGROUND CABLES
Author: Akumawah Nche, Ansovinus
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The use of underground cables in transmission and distribution of electric energy is growing. The most commonly installed is the cross-linked polyethylene known as XLPE as an insulator. The XLPE insulation has excellent dielectric properties. Howe...

Title: Immigrant Educational Achievement: The Roles of Bilingualism Expectations and Generation
Author: Al-Taher, Eman
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: In this study, I focus on three varying perspectives to understand the assimilation process of immigrants and how it affects their academic achievement. I draw from Classical Assimilation Theory, Segmented Assimilation Theory and the Immigrant Par...

Title: PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE AND STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS AMONGST AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSISTERS IN A BUSINESS PROGRAM AT A PREDOMINANTLY-WHITE INSTITUTION
Author: Allen, Monica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher
Description: While representation of African American students in freshmen enrollment has improved, degree attainment of African Americans and other minority groups continue to lag behind the White and Asian American populations. Compounding the issue of lower...

Title: Full metal jacket: The effect of combat exposure on emotion processing within working memory.
Author: Alverio, Tabitha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is experienced by approximately 10 to 20% of service members and veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. To mitigate the effects of trauma experience on service members and their families, it is impor...

Title: HAVE HOMEOWNERSHIP RATES TRANSITIONED SINCE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS? EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES DATA.
Author: Amrelle, Kevin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Since 1989, significant mortgage finance innovation and federal policies with the intent of increasing homeownership participation particularly amongst minorities were implemented until the 2007 recession. This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Fi...

Title: Transforming Early Childhood Education Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Author: Ardrey, Tameka
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education
Description: Low-income African American children have been identified among the majority of children without access to high-quality early education (Barnett, Carolan & Johns, 2013). Consequently, they lack the necessary skills to successfully navigate the sch...

Title: THE IMPACT OF THE BREXIT REFERENDUM ON VARIOUS WORLD STOCK MARKETS
Author: Arora, Jasleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The event study methodology is employed to analyze the impact of the British decisionto leave the European Union on various stock market indexes, namely Australia -ALL ORDINARIES; Canada - S&P TSX Composite Index; India - BSE Sensex; NewZealand - ...

Title: Factors Associated with Delayed Complementary Feeding in India
Author: Bably, Morium
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Appropriate timing of complementary feeding is demonstrably beneficial and important for children’s physical and mental health. In developing countries, delayed complementary feeding is one of the risk factors for underweight and malnutrition amon...

Title: NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF RETROFIT DESIGNS OF CABLE MEDIAN BARRIERS USING RECLAIMED TIRES
Author: Badar, Amey
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This thesis presents a research attempt at finding out a viable retrofit system design for cable median barriers using reclaimed tires. Finite element analysis was used to conduct simulations in order to evaluate the performance of retrofit barrie...

Title: CONSEQUENCES ON LABOR MARKET AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ACROSS RACES AND GENDERS FROM GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL DURING A RECESSION
Author: Baddouh, Priscila
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This study investigates the effects of graduating high school during a recession on real wages, educational attainment, and probability of being in five professional occupation fields, most of them high wage occupation fields. I use data from the ...

Title: A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
Author: Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...

Title: Characterizing Latencies of Edge Video Streaming
Author: Balhaj, Mohamed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The use of video streaming has been growing rapidly in the recent years and has beenutilized in various applications. Many of these applications are latency sensitive, butthe latency requirements varies largely from one application to another. The...

Title: ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS WITH MINDFUL INTERACTIONS: IMPACT OF PARENT EDUCATION ON PERCEPTIONS OF SELF-AWARENESS AND MINDFUL PARENTING PRACTICES
Author: Barrett, Amanda
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: ABSTRACTAMANDA LOUISE BARRETT. Establishing connections with mindful interactions: Impact of parent education on perceptions of self-awareness and mindful parenting practices. (Under direction of DR. CYNTHIA BAUGHAN) This study examined the impact...

Title: Explaining Fertility Intentions Among Non-Assimilated Hispanic Immigrant Women Living in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Reinforced by Social Identity?
Author: Barros de Redard, Maria
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Social sciences, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Research on the assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States isabundant; however, fewer studies have examined the effect of assimilation on Hispanicimmigrant women and childbirth. Prior research has documented that the fertility rateam...

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: PARALLEL COMPUTING FOR MARKOV CHAINS WITH ISLANDS AND PORTS
Author: Basnet, Amod
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: We present recursive algorithms to calculate invariant distributions and fundamental matrices of Markov chains specified by the "Islands & Ports'" (IP) model. The state space of the IP model can be partitioned into "islands'" and "ports". An islan...

Title: An examination of the moderating role of gendered racial identity centrality in the relationship between gendered racism and depression
Author: Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaime
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Black women experience both racism and sexism, and these experiences have been found to be related to psychological distress and impairment. While research has pointed to the independent negative effects of racism and sexism on mental health, ther...

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...