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Title: "Plucking Roses from a Cabbage Patch": Class Dynamics in Progressive Era Louisville as understood through the Contested Relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice
Author: Hardman, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: American literature, History
Description: In 1901, Alice Hegan Rice, a wealthy socialite reformer, published the novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch which dealt her experiences working with the poor. By the end of 1902 her novel had become a national phenomenon and finished the decade a...

Title: "Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
Author: Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
Description: In this study, current research on writing self-efficacy—"confidence that one can perform successfully in a particular domain" (Bruning 25)—and data from a local survey of first-year college students, or freshmen, is used to examine dispositions t...

Title: 3D Printing of Metamaterials with Conductive Elements
Author: Tuttle, Geoffrey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: To fulfill their engineered purpose, resonant metamaterials require arrays of complex three-dimensional geometries composed of non-conductive dielectrics and highly conductive materials. In order to create these geometries, 3D printers must be abl...

Title: A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
Author: Rice, Lance
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Multi-object tracking in video has the potential for broad applicability, from analyzing division-of-labor within biological networks such as insects, to surveillance and traffic monitoring. Despite any potential the field of multiple object track...

Title: A Focus On The Style Of Bone Harpoons In The Early Holocene: An Analysis Of Bone Harpoons From Koobi Fora, Kenya.
Author: Hovis, Ashley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: While undergoing archaeological fieldwork in Ileret, Kenya, two Early Holocene (10,000-6,000 BP) sites are found containing bone harpoons. The purpose of this study is to examine the style of Early Holocene bone harpoons to see if people of East L...

Title: A Multi Criteria Decision Framework for “smart” Product Introduction in Bearing Industry that uses Internet Of Things
Author: Eferdinger, Markus
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Management
Description: The digitalization changes products in almost every industry. Therefore, it is not surprising, that companies face challenges due to these new technological changes caused by Internet of Things (IoT). Especially for large corporations it could hav...

Title: A RELATIONAL EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS
Author: Medaugh, Melissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: Social networks provide entrepreneurs with a cost-effective way to acquire resources from people they know personally. In the current research, I develop and test a relational model of resource acquisition, which demonstrates the predictive role o...

Title: A STUDY OF PARAMETERS INFLUENCING THE VEHICLE WHEEL ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENTS.
Author: Patel, Harsh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research effort includes hundreds of passenger vehicle wheel alignment measurements and a design of experiments that works to capture the various factorsinfluencing wheel alignment measurements. Of the many things that influence theaccuracy a...

Title: A comparative analysis of pro-anorexia versus pro-recovery Instagram images through the lenses of objectified body consciousness and positive body image conceptual frameworks
Author: Jafari, Nadia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Mental health, Clinical psychology
Description: Instagram (IG) is a social media application that allows users to upload personal images in a public forum by including a searchable link (e.g. hashtag) along with a posted image. An IG community devoted to a pro-recovery (i.e., #anarecovery) pers...

Title: A comparison of two analytical milling stability analyses with time-domain simulation
Author: Landge, Saurabh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: In the previous three decades, technologies involved in machine tools and machiningoperations have experienced remarkable changes. Despite these advances, unstablecutting conditions, referred to as chatter, remains an obstacle to high material rem...

Title: A framework for the use of wearables to enable study of stress
Author: Kanchinadam, Teja Simha
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Stress is a common condition that has major health impacts. Even though short-term stress helps people to react to danger immediately, chronic stress has larger health impacts such as early aging, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression. In...

Title: A study of operational variable influencing wheel balancing measurements
Author: Nabar, Aneesh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Mathematics
Description: The aim of this research is to analyze various operational parameters that may affect the wheel balancing measurement. Therefore, wheel balancing measurements were taken iteratively on different low profile wheel/tire assemblies for different cond...

Title: ALTERNATE ENGINE PARAMETERS FOR MODELING OIL QUALITY
Author: Trammel, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Oil changes in equipment is one of the most common preventative maintenance (PM) practices performed in fleet management. In addition to being a frequent cost item, the opportunity to optimize intervals could provide significant PM cost savings to...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER BASELINE (CBL) CALCULATION ON PEAK TIME REBATE PROGRAM
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: In this thesis, the impact of customer baseline (CBL) accuracy on the Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program is investigated. In a hypothetical case, PTR is offered to the residential customers and its economic performance is evaluated with respect to the...

Title: Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Author: Mayfield, Hannah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student writing. The project begins with an analysis of participatory fandom; specific...

Title: An Experimental and Computational Study of the Effect of Bioceramic Porosity on Drug Release Kinetics
Author: Upadhyay, Rahul
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Porous bioceramics have been explored for drug delivery applications. The goal is to design a material that can provide controlled release of therapeutic doses of the drug for a duration long enough to cause complete healing. For drug carriers, th...

Title: An approach for demand response at residential level using integrated dynamic consumer end elasticity model
Author: Patel, Shyamal
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Economics
Description: Reducing the difference between on peak and off peak demand has long been recognized by utilities as an effective way of cutting the cost of producing electricity. Moreover, having prior knowledge about dynamic electricity rates gives the consumer...

Title: Analysis of public health information from social media
Author: Thalambedu Kumaresan, Madhav Narayan
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Social networking sites have become an integral part of daily life in the modern world. They can serve as an important, dynamic data source providing collective intelligence and awareness of health related issues. Analysis of huge volumes of unstr...

Title: Analysis of tanking in the National Football League
Author: Nance, William
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Sports economics literature has recently explored the idea that there is an incentive to intentionally lose games in some professional sports leagues. This process is known as "tanking" and is largely related to a league’s amateur draft policies. ...

Title: Apocalyptic Mother: Revelations of a World Turned Upside Down in The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: Bruce, Julie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: The Book of Margery Kempe is a fifteenth-century memoir that recounts the transformation of an English prophet or mystic from a "sinful wretch" to a vessel for the "Holy Ghost." She interprets this change in her life as one from abundance and fert...