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Title: SIGNALING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
Author: Abberger, Claire
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Industrial management
Description: This study addresses gaps in the recruitment literature by drawing on signaling theory to explore how Fortune 500 firms (n = 91) signal CSR initiatives to attract applicants. A mixed-methods design incorporating topic modeling and qualitative inte...

Title: NONPROPAGATING EXCITATIONS IN 2-D
Author: Abney, Ray
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Nonpropagating excitations have been studied in 1-D and in 3-D, but not so much in 2-D. So, this thesis concerns 2-D nonpropagating excitations. In particular, we construct nonpropagating excitations confined to an annulus under a time-independent...

Title: POST-LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER CONEJOS RIVER BASIN, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, CO, USA.
Author: Aldred, Jennifer
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Geology, Soil science
Description: Soil development combined with sediment storage and erosion in small, upland watersheds are key landscape processes for which assumptions are frequently made but rarely verified in landscape evolution studies. However, processes such as these, act...

Title: THE ROLE OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY AND INFLAMMATION IN DEPRESSION DEVELOPMENT AND SEVERITY A DECADE LATER
Author: Alessi, Maria
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Mental health, Psychobiology
Description: Lower heart rate variability (HRV) and higher inflammation are indices of dysregulated stress physiology associated with current depression (e.g., diagnosis, depressive symptoms) and potentially related to depression development. Given the increas...

Title: Self-Efficacy, Perceived Utility and Supervisor Support’s Relationship with Motivation to Transfer Training
Author: Alexander, Steven
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Workplaces conduct training in their organizations with the goal that employees will generalize that training and transfer the learned skills to their jobs. However, training transfer remains a challenge for many organizations. Since the initial t...

Title: Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
Author: Amezquita, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
Description: An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...

Title: Discrete Element Simulations of Powder Spreading in Additive Manufacturing
Author: Amrapurkar, Parth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Physics
Description: Powder spreading plays a critical role in the quality of parts produced with selective laser sintering (SLS). Some of the important parameters that influence the quality of the powder bed are the powder particle size and distribution, blade speed,...

Title: IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD: THE ROLE OF SUPERNATURAL GUARDIANS AND PARENTAL FIGURES IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Author: Anderson, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Literature
Description: Children’s literature often has the child protagonist face a problem at home, such as large disagreements with parents or even the loss of a loved one. While realistic novels regularly tackle these concerns, supernatural novels are forced to use m...

Title: Association Between the Affordable Care Act and Emergency Department Admission by Psychiatric Patients
Author: Asgharian, Afsaneh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Mental health
Description: AbstractThis was a cross-sectional study to evaluate the association between the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the emergency department (ED) admission by psychiatric patients, characteristics of psychiatric patients admitted to ED, and the ED visi...

Title: Access to the Baccalaureate: A Multilevel Model of Baccalaureate Completion for Associate in Applied Science Transfers
Author: Atwell, Adam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: This study used multilevel modeling to examine the extent to which student, academic, institutional, and community-level characteristics impact the baccalaureate attainment of students who transferred with the Associate in Applied Science (AAS) de...

Title: HAS THE SHRIMPING INDUSTRY BOUNCED BACK SINCE DEEPWATER HORIZON?
Author: BROWNSTEIN, JONATHAN
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Nearly fifteen months after the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill of April 20, 2010, later characterized as one of the largest accidental oil spills in United States history, BP submitted findings showing that the Gulf economy reached pre-spill act...

Title: Visual sonar: Estimating depth using sound waves and neuromorphic cameras
Author: Bagepalli, Abhijith
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This thesis proposes a novel method to recover depth of scene objects using an acoustic source and a calibrated neuromorphic camera or event camera sensor. The proposed system is a non-contact, monocular depth estimation method that observes subtl...

Title: Characterization of Firebrands Generated from Selected Vegetative Fuels in Wildland Fires
Author: Bahrani, Babak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Statistics
Description: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and Wildland fires cause damages to infrastructure and the environment, resulting in loss of life, property, and an increasing cost of mitigation. Firebrands are known as one of the leading fire spread mechanisms in ...

Title: NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Author: Baisley, Richard
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, History
Description: The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revea...

Title: DO DYNAMIC ALLOSTERIC EFFECTS OCCUR IN IGG4 ANTIBODIES?
Author: Baker, Lonnie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: Antibodies are large, multi-chain proteins which play a critical roll in the func-tioning of vertebrate immune systems. Immune effector cells which are responsiblefor the destruction of foreign antigens do not randomly target molecules but rely on...

Title: Effective Thermal Conductivity of Porous Materials using Maxwell's Methodology and Image-Based Finite Element Approach
Author: Balutkar, Vrushank Deepak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The steady-state thermal response of solid materials is controlled by their thermal conductivity. For porous materials, the local thermal conductivity is difficult to use in the characterization of the overall thermal response and therefore, often...

Title: Guidance for Use of Construction and Industrial Waste By-products in Concrete
Author: Bansal, Akshay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: This thesis presents a study to synthesize the published literature regarding the use of construction and industrial waste by-product as cement or aggregate in concrete, and aims to incorporate this knowledge along with findings of an agency and i...

Title: Treatment of Algal Toxins in Drinking Water with UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes
Author: Barancheshme, Fateme
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: The occurrence of algal blooms and the possibility of production of algal toxins and contamination of drinking water resources have become a significant concern worldwide. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are currently known as one of the most ...

Title: Long Concavity of the Power Partition Function
Author: Benfield, Brennan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: The main result of this paper is to prove the log concavity of a particular restricted partition Pk(n) that enumerates the partitions of a positive integer into perfect kth powers. Further investigation utilizing MATHEMATICA software yields numeri...

Title: A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
Author: Berberich, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology
Description: Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...