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Title: A 360° View of Psychiatric Boarding in the Emergency Department
Author: Veri, Shelby
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mental health
Description: This dissertation utilizes a three article approach to examine the current status of psychiatric boarding in the emergency department (ED). The number of ED visits for mental health concerns in the United States has been increasing for the past se...

Title: A Breadcrumb Network for Assisting with Autonomous Robot Localization
Author: Grabowsky, David
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Localization and communication are critical components for functioning autonomous robots. The infrastructure required or these operations commonly includes global positioning system (GPS) and easily recognizable and re-identifiable landmarks. Howe...

Title: A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
Author: Alansari, Amir
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...

Title: A Critical, Empirical, and Reflexive Investigation of the Promise of Democratization in the Making Phenomenon
Author: Okerlund, Johanna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Many endeavors in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) align themselves with the promise of the democratization of technology production, a promise that has yet to be fulfilled due to gaps in access and underlying power dynamics. HCI has ...

Title: A Dynamic Approach to Optimizing Interventions and Mitigating Contagion Impacts in Financial Networks
Author: Farthing, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Finance, Economics
Description: While modern financial networks are so large, complex, and dynamic that the interactions between their members are impossible to model in their entirety, mathematical models with some simplifying assumptions allow for effective study of network dy...

Title: A Phenomenological Content Analysis of Siblings' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems
Author: Aucoin, Rose
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: ABSTRACTROSE M. AUCOIN. A Phenomenological Research Study of Peoples' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems. (Under the direction of DR. TARYNE M. MINGO) Research indicates that substance use of a family member ...

Title: A TARGETED APPROACH TO PROVIDE WEATHER GUIDANCE FOR GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS BASED ON ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE AND PERSONAL WEATHER MINIMUMS
Author: Dennstaedt, Scott
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: Over the last two decades, general aviation pilots in the United States, especially those who fly light fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, have portrayed high rates of vulnerability to weather-related accidents. This high vulnerability rate is i...

Title: A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Author: Kincaid, Nicki
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Reading
Description: This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...

Title: APE2 is a Critical Regulator of the DNA Damage Response to Maintain Genome Integrity in Mammalian Cells
Author: HOSSAIN, MD AKRAM
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology, Cytology
Description: The maintenance of genome integrity and fidelity is essential for the proper function and survival of all organisms. Recent studies have revealed that APE2 is required for the activation of an ATR-Chk1 DNA damage response (DDR) pathway in response...

Title: Active Cyber Defense Planning and Orchestration
Author: Islam, Md Mazharul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The overwhelming number of recent data breaches reported that hundreds of terabytes of highly sensitive information, including national, financial, and personal, have been stolen from different organizations, indicating a clear asymmetric disadvan...

Title: Adolescent Response to Parental Traumatic Brain Injury and Ambiguous Loss
Author: Leach, William
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Parental traumatic brain injury (TBI-P) and the effect it has on adolescents living in the home has been mostly avoided in the current literature. Even more rare in the literature is the idea of ambiguous loss, coined by Boss (1991). An ambiguous ...

Title: Advanced Control Approaches For Renewable Energy Integration To Improve Overall Stability And Reliability Of Power Grid
Author: Nair, Anuprabha Ravindran
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Renewable energy-based electric power generation is receiving more attention due to the increasing power demand and environmental concerns. The interconnection of these distributed resources to the grid is based on the grid code standards to ensur...

Title: African American Males' Perceptions on Teacher Responsiveness to Cultural Diversity
Author: Reddig, Kim
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: The overrepresentation of African American males at risk for academic challenges and special education services, disciplinary actions, dropout rates, and incarceration is an alarming trend in the United States that has been ongoing for over 40 yea...

Title: An Athlete's Humble Beginnings: A Place-Based Narrative in Need of Repair
Author: Lash, Barbara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Sports play a unique role in American culture and act as sources of entertainment and community identity. Events that include sports are also a microcosm of society that simultaneously reflects and guides cultural and racial differences that are i...

Title: An Examination of Family and Health Risks and Services on Permanency Outcomes for Multisystem Youth
Author: Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaimelee
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Multisystem youth, or youth involved with the juvenile court and child welfare systems, are a high-need population about which research is still-emerging. These youth tend to experience considerable adversity and risk across domains (e.g., health ...

Title: An Integrative Algorithm/Architecture Co-Design Of Deep Spatial and Temporal Separable Convolutional Neural Networks
Author: Baharani, Mohammadreza
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: In this dissertation, I present my researches on the co-design of algorithms and architectures for deep spatial and temporal separable convolutional neural networks and their applications. As a first step, I will present Deep RACE as an applicatio...

Title: An Integrative Approach to Identify and Assess Streams Susceptible to Antibiotic Discharges
Author: Kamanmalek, Sara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
Description: Occurrences of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance have been reported in various environmental settings, posing a global concern due to associated human and ecological risks. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to develop a holistic a...

Title: An Optimization Study of a Customized Kinetic Façade System Using Regression Model
Author: IM, OKKYUN
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Building
Description: There has been a considerable interest in the development and installation of the building facade system using a dynamic motion which is called a kinetic facade system. Since the kinetic facade system can respond to the change of the external weat...

Title: Approaches for Power Grid Management and Ancillary Services with DC-AC Micro-grids Comprising of PV Farm and Hybrid Energy Storage System
Author: Joshi, Aniket
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The emergence of the concept of DC grids comes from the fact that there is an increasing number of power grid components that naturally operate with DC power. The combined trend of DC sources and loads in power grids is an important player in the ...

Title: Arny: An Interaction Model Based On Emotional Feedback For An AI_Based Co-creative Design System
Author: Abdellahi, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Information technology, Computer science
Description: Co-creative collaboration is a creative collaboration of two or more agents working together on a shared creative product. Effective co-creative collaboration is a combination of interactions and contributions of the task collaborators. In human-h...