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Title
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A HYBRID SWITCH BASED ARCLESS VOLTAGE REGULATOR
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Author
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Xu, Xiwen
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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The voltage regulator is a mechanism that permits the change in turns ratio or output voltage of a distribution transformer for providing a constant magnitude voltage to the load. The arc occurs under oil in each tap changing operation because one...
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A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENERAL COGNITIVE ABILITY AND FERTILITY
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Author
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Heeney, Michael
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology
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Description
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Empirical studies of the relationship between general cognitive ability and fertility span nearly a century. Reported effects generated through previous studies vary widely, and are believed to reflect differences in: 1) sample characteristics (e....
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A PALEOECOLOGICAL STUDY OF URBAN ABANDONMENT DURING EARLY BRONZE IV IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT
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Author
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Porson, Steven
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Environmental sciences, Archaeology, Paleoecology
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Description
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An archaeobotanical study of plant remains from the Near Eastern archaeological site of Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan ascertains a possible cause for the abandonment of towns during Early Bronze IV. This study assesses the hypothesis that the collapse...
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A Statistical Method of Fog Forecasting in North Carolina
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Author
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Pettee, Warren
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Meteorology
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Description
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The frequency and intensity at which fog occurs impacts the entire transportation infrastructure of the United States: Maritime shipping, aviation, railroads, and highways. The phenomenon is difficult to accurately capture in current numerical sim...
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A Survey of Network Modeling
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Author
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Wells, Unique
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Network modeling is a set of techniques for extracting various patterns of interestfrom graphs. They can be used in many real-life analytic fields, such as sales andmarketing, journal reports, government and law enforcement, social networking site...
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A United Front: The American Relief Administration in Ukraine
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Author
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Hunt, David
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Slavs--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The United States has been involved in humanitarian assistance missions since the late nineteenth century. However, Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration (ARA) was the first organization that combined the abilities of several smaller org...
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A methodology to account for seasonal population shifts in North Carolina
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Author
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Thakur, Reetika
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering
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Description
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REETIKA THAKUR. A methodology to account for seasonal population shifts in North Carolina. (Under the direction of Dr. JOHN HILDRETH AND DR. NICOLE BARCLAY.)Seasonal population has a widespread impact on economic, political and environmental aspec...
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A new strategy to infer circularity applied to four new complete frog mitogenomes
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, Janies, Daniel, Brouwer, Cory, Grant, Taran
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Amphibians, Bioinformatics
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Description
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We applied a novel strategy to infer sequence circularity and complete assembly of four mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of the frog families Bufonidae (Melanophryniscus moreirae), Dendrobatidae (Hyloxalus subpunctatus and Phyllobates terribili...
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A novel sampling method to measure socioeconomic drivers of Aedes albopictus distribution in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Author
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Whiteman, Ari, Delmelle, Eric, Rapp, Tyler, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Public health
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Description
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Climate change, urbanization, and globalization have facilitated the spread of Aedes mosquitoes into regions that were previously unsuitable, causing an increased threat of arbovirus transmission on a global scale. While numerous studies have addr...
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ADVERTISING THE OLD NORTH STATE: 1945-1955
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Author
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Barnes, Emma
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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The Division of State Advertising was created during the midst of the Great Depression to help bring revenue into North Carolina. During the 1940s, the Division expanded, creating and publishing pamphlets, brochures and articles appealing to touri...
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AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
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Author
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Brooks, Temeka
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Recent sociological research considers the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries in a variety of social contexts. In this study, I build on such research by exploring how such boundaries are reproduced and potentially bridged in oste...
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AN ANALYSIS OF EXPLOITATION IN WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
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Author
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Greer, Tiffany
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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This analysis is a review of the marginal revenue product (MRP) of student athletes and how as amateurs this relates to the limited compensation they are permitted to receive. Specifically this paper examines the collegiate women’s basketball prog...