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Title: A BROKEN HEART: THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC OPEN HEART SURGERY ON PARENTS' WELLBEING AND PARENTING
Author: McWhorter, Linda
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: According to the pediatric medical traumatic stress model, pediatric medicalexperiences can create posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in pediatric patients and intheir parents and siblings. While the impact of traumatic medical experiences has b...

Title: A Child Life Perspective: The Role of Technology in Preoperative Preparation and Distraction
Author: Osborne, Courtney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Reduction of stress and anxiety for hospitalized children has been studied for years. Certified child life specialists take on the role of providing interventions to support and facilitate coping for hospitalized children. Preoperative preparation...

Title: A Lifestyle Intervention for Women with Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes and Disordered Eating
Author: Vela, Alyssa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Rates of type 2 (T2) diabetes continue to rise in the United States and around the world, with growth to epidemic proportions largely attributed to health behaviors such as poor diet, overeating, and lack of physical activity. T2 diabetes manageme...

Title: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCT OF ACCULTURATION, ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, AND COUNSELOR SELF-EFFICACY AMONG FOREIGN BORN COUNSELING STUDENTS
Author: Interiano-Shiverdecker, Claudia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine how cultural practices, cultural values, cultural identification, and acculturative stress related to counselor self-efficacy among foreign-born counseling students. A total of 93 foreign-born students curr...

Title: A Non-Invasive Wideband Isolated Current Sensor for High Frequency Power Electronics Applications
Author: Nibir, Shahriar Jalal
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With the introduction of new generation of wide-bandgap (WBG) power devices, the size and volume of the modern power electronic converters are getting significantly miniaturized. For effective control of power converters maintaining high efficienc...

Title: A Novel Framework for Integrating Legacy Vehicles into an Intelligent Transportation System
Author: Rhoades, Benjamin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The last few years have seen rapid advancements in deploying semi and fully-autonomous vehicles into the mass market. Several car manufactures and technology companies have spent years developing these vehicles with aspirations to mass produce the...

Title: A Novel Principal and Independent Component Analysis Preprocessing Technique for Neural Network Classification of Electroencephalography Signals for Brain Computer Interface Development
Author: Major, Tyler
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The field of brain computer interfaces (BCI) is growing rapidly. Innovations that help benefit disabled persons is the overall goal of the research, currently. Every brain computer interface consists of three basic parts: a sensing device, signal ...

Title: A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Author: Abuella, Mohamed
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...

Title: A Qualitative Interview-Based Study of the Experiences of Community College Disability Services Providers
Author: Nichols, Jennifer
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Disability studies
Description: The purpose of this study is to explore and capture the experiences of disability services providers (DSP) within the community college setting as it relates to facilitating and coordinating accommodations for students with disabilities, collabora...

Title: A Quantitative Analysis of Per Pupil Expenditures on Instruction and Academic Outcomes in Michigan Public Schools
Author: Bryant, Amber
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This research quantitatively explores the relationship between per pupil expenditures on instruction and academic outcomes on Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) in Michigan state public schools. This study particularly focuses ...

Title: A SINGLE-PIXEL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM FOR CANCER MARGIN DETECTION
Author: Peller, Joseph
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: We have developed a hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system based on a single pixel camera design to detect differences in tissue properties based on the optical reflectance and autofluorescence spectra of the tissue. The long-term goal of this project...

Title: A new strategy to infer circularity applied to four new complete frog mitogenomes
Author: Machado, Denis Jacob, Janies, Daniel, Brouwer, Cory, Grant, Taran
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Amphibians, Bioinformatics
Description: 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...

Title: A novel sampling method to measure socioeconomic drivers of Aedes albopictus distribution in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Whiteman, Ari, Delmelle, Eric, Rapp, Tyler, Chen, Shi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Public health
Description: 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...

Title: ACCELERATING THE DETECTION OF SPACE-TIME PATTERNS UNDER NON-STATIONARY BACKGROUND POPULATION
Author: Hohl, Alexander
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: The advancement of technology has enabled us to collect increasing quantities of spatial and spatiotemporal data at rapidly increasing rate through sensor systems, automated geocoding abilities and social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitt...

Title: ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT CALCULATION OF SINGULAR ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS IN CHARGE-DIELECTRIC SPHERICAL AND JANUS PARTICLE SYSTEMS
Author: Retz, Caylah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Mathematics, Physics
Description: We introduce an efficient and accurate boundary element method for computing the electrostatic potential in closely-packed dielectric spheres and Janus particles. Close physical proximity occurs in modeling molecular ion interactions or colloidal ...

Title: ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES FOR IMPROVING THE DISPATCHABILITY AND OPERATIONAL STABILITY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEM
Author: Bhattarai, Rojan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: This dissertation presents a measurement based adaptive control framework for renewableenergy resources (RER) in order to improve the dispatch-ability and operationalstability of renewable energy integrated bulk power grid. The proposed techniquei...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TORQUE CAPABILITIES OF HIGH GEAR RATIO MAGNETIC GEARBOXES
Author: Li, Kang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Early childhood education, Electromagnetism
Description: Mechanical gears can be as small as those in traditional mechanical watches or as large as those in mechanical marine turbines. They can be seen in almost all transportation tools, for example, bicycles, cars, trains and airplanes. Though they hav...

Title: ANESTHESIA CARE TEAM TYPE AND HOSPITAL CHARACTERISTICS: ARE INCREASED LEVELS OF SUPERVISION ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT ACUITIES AND OUTCOMES?
Author: Hewer, Ian
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Anesthesia care in the United States is provided by a number of different practice models, that could involve nurses, physician’s assistants, and physicians working in teams or alone. Much of the variation in care models evolved over time based on...

Title: APE2 promotes DNA damage response pathway from a single-strand break
Author: Yan, Shan, Lin, Yunfeng, Bai, Liping, Cupello, Steven
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Cancer--Research, DNA
Description: As the most common type of DNA damage, DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs) are primarily repaired by the SSB repair mechanism. If not repaired properly or promptly, unrepaired SSBs lead to genome stability and have been implicated in cancer and neurod...

Title: ARTIFICIAL FINANCIAL MARKET: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF TRADERS CHARACTERISTICS ON EMERGENT MARKET PHENOMENA
Author: Kamyab Hessary, Yasaman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Financial markets play a critical role in today's societies and are extremely important to the general health and efficiency of an economy. Solid understanding of the behavior of financial markets can benefit investors, governing organizations and...