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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 Data-Analytic Approach Towards Increasing Donor Heart Utilization in the United States
Author: Satyanarayana, Sagar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biometry
Description: Heart transplantation is the best option available to treat end-stage Heart Failure (HF). There is a shortage of donor hearts in the United States even with the steady increase in the number of donors. One likely reason is the decreasing transplan...

Title: A Discrete Element Study of the Uniaxial Compressive Response of Plain Concrete using the JCFPM Constitutive Model
Author: Joshi, Anay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The standard bonded-particle models available in many discrete element method (DEM) codes are known to predict unrealistically low values for the ratio of ultimate compressive strength (UCS) to tensile strength (UTS) for concrete. To correct this,...

Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR CONDITION ASSESSMENT AND ASSET MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR THE MARINE (FERRY) INDUSTRY
Author: Raja, Daxil
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Marine engineering
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Ferry Service (NCFS) Division is responsible for extensive infrastructure which includes numerous assets. As with any organization with an extensive list of assets, it ...

Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR LONG TERM ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN USING ASSET PRIORITY INDEX AND CONDITION INDEX FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA FERRY SYSTEM
Author: Subramanian, Balagee
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Management, Transportation
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Ferry System combined have many assets in place. This thesis primarily concerns the North Carolina Ferry System (NCFS). The NCFS has a sizable number of assets and a lo...

Title: A HYBRID SWITCH BASED ARCLESS VOLTAGE REGULATOR
Author: Xu, Xiwen
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: 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...

Title: A PALEOECOLOGICAL STUDY OF URBAN ABANDONMENT DURING EARLY BRONZE IV IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT
Author: Porson, Steven
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Archaeology, Paleoecology
Description: 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...

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 Statistical Method of Fog Forecasting in North Carolina
Author: Pettee, Warren
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: 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...

Title: A Survey of Network Modeling
Author: Wells, Unique
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: A methodology to account for seasonal population shifts in North Carolina
Author: Thakur, Reetika
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: 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...

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: ACOUSTIC EMISSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF TWO NATURAL GRANITE BOULDERS: SEMI-ARID VS. TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT
Author: Ching, Suzanne
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geology
Description: The role of insolation as an instigator for crack initiation in rock is still a continuously perplexing topic. An immense amount of data has been collected on the influence of insolation on cracking – however, ongoing questions arise regarding the...

Title: AN ANALYSIS OF EXPLOITATION IN WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Author: Greer, Tiffany
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: 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...

Title: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORNER KICK NUMBERS AND FOOTBALL OUTCOMES
Author: Ashimolowo, Toyosi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Regression analysis
Description: Corner kicks are arguably important during match play, but questions remain about the impact of corner kicks on match outcomes. This study analyzes the relevance of corner kicks numbers and their importance to match outcomes, then compares this re...

Title: ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL, COMBINED AND 2-STEP VARIATION IN INDUCTION SYSTEM OF AN IC ENGINE TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND FUEL EFFICIENCY
Author: SAWANT, PAURAS
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Naturally aspirated internal combustion (IC) engines with conventional intake assembly are tuned only over a narrow speed range to produce an induction boost by capitalizing the pressure waves arising in the intake manifold. In this research, inta...

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: AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED GROUND-AERIAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR AREAS WITH AN UNDERDEVELOPED SECURITY INFRASTRUSTURE
Author: Padgett, Steven
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Events held in areas without a well-developed security infrastructure, such as the Tour de France and temporary military bases, can be difficult to secure and survey. In these situations, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) can prove useful to get sur...

Title: Active and reactive power compensator using wide band gap semiconductors for voltage support in low voltage networks
Author: Belchandan, Rakesh Kumar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: RAKESH KUMAR BELCHANDAN. Active and reactive power compensator using wide band gap semiconductors for voltage support in low voltage networks. (Under the direction of DR. MADHAV MANJREKAR)The purpose of this research is to develop and demonstrate ...