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- Title
- Leveraging Social Media to Better Understand People's Obesity Related Behaviors
- Author
- Li, Chuqin
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- With the worldwide prevalence of obesity doubling over the past 30 years across a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic groups, the obesity epidemic is a major public health challenge today. Excessive food consumption and lack of exercise ar...
- Title
- Modeling the Effects of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems on Driver Behavior
- Author
- Gouribhatla, Raghuveer
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- About 38,000 fatalities are reported every year in the United States and traffic crashes (referred to as crashes) are the leading cause of deaths among people up to 54 years. Additionally, economic loss due to crashes is estimated equal to $380 mi...
- Title
- Does ‘Working After Work’ Affect Teachers’ Confidence? Examining Teacher Efficacy in a Professional Development Program
- Author
- Gartlan, Scott
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational evaluation, Teachers--Training of
- Description
- This study examined the relationship between teacher efficacy and professional development among in-service K-12 teachers. A content-rich teacher professional development program was analyzed over the course of two years using a sequential explana...
- Title
- Doula Care in California during COVID-19: The Impacts of Social Distancing on a High-Touch Helping Profession.
- Author
- Lisenbee, Jodie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Birth doula care was uniquely impacted by hospital visitor restriction policies enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Doulas were classified as "non-essential" personnel and thus generally excluded from providing in-hospital childbirth sup...
- Title
- Dynamic and Conditionally Activated Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
- Author
- Chandler, Morgan
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience
- Description
- Programmed interactions of nucleic acids—including DNA and RNA—orchestrate genetic expression and downstream cellular processes at every level. The structures of nucleic acids rely on their sequences, which include traditional Watson-Crick base pa...
- Title
- EFFECT OF BIOCERAMIC FUNCTIONAL GROUPS ON DRUG BINDING AND RELEASE KINETICS
- Author
- Trujillo, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Engineering, Biomedical engineering
- Description
- Bioceramics have been studied extensively as drug delivery systems (DDS). Those studies have aimed to tailor the drug binding and release kinetics to successfully treat infections and other diseases. This research suggests that the drug binding an...
- Title
- EFFECT OF CADMIUM AND SEASONALITY ON CRITICAL TEMPERATURES OF AEROBIC METABOLISM IN EASTERN OYSTERS, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791
- Author
- Bagwe, Rita
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology
- Description
- Cadmium (Cd) and elevated temperatures are common stressors in estuarine and coastal environments affecting intertidal mollusks such as oysters. Cd and elevated temperature can raise the metabolic demands of oysters due to the increase cost of det...
- Title
- Durability, Indirect Bankruptcy Costs, and Capital Structure
- Author
- Shah, Dhara
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance, Economics
- Description
- I contribute to the literature by formally modeling the indirect bankruptcy costs for a firm that sells durable goods. Consumers concerned about warranties or future product services penalize the distressed firm by putting off purchases or leaving...
- Title
- EARLY INTERVENTION PROVIDERS’ EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
- Author
- Stimpson, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Early childhood education
- Description
- The term natural environment has been a key component in the implementation of Part C early intervention, formerly known as Part H, since its inception in 1986; however, as Part C was reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004, a clear definition of n...
- Title
- EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA IN PRIMARY CARE
- Author
- Banks, Philwyna
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing
- Description
- ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Multiple myeloma is the second most prevalent hematological malignancy worldwide and the most common hematologic malignancy affecting the African American population. Multiple factors contribute to these marked disparities in t...
- Title
- EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MAINTAIN ABSTINENCE FROM MOOD ALTERING SUBSTANCES USING SELF-DIRECTED, COGNITIVE-BASED RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUPS
- Author
- Kitzinger, Robert
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology
- Description
- ABSTRACTROBERT HENRY KITZINGER, JR. Experiences of individuals who maintain abstinence from mood altering substances using self-directed, cognitive-based recovery support groups. (Under the direction of DR. PAMELA S. LASSITER) The purpose of this ...
- Title
- EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION AMONG SECONDARY EDUCATORS TOWARD A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
- Author
- Mitchell, Karen
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Curriculum planning
- Description
- KAREN SMITH MITCHELL. Expanding the conversation among secondary educators toward a shared understanding of student engagement (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE) To describe how high school administrators and teachers perceive student enga...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT WAKE STRUCTURES AND DYNAMIC COUPLING OF TANDEM LIFTING BODIES IN A HYDRODYNAMIC CHANNEL
- Author
- Hellman, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Two experimental studies are carried out on interacting tandem bodies in incompressible, turbulent flow and the design of a hydrodynamic water channel in which the studies are conducted is discussed. The water channel has a 1 m^2 test section, and...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING MASS TRANSPORT AND CRYOPRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES
- Author
- Karthik Kumar, Balasubramanian
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
- Description
- A bioreactor is a large-scale engineered in vitro device that maintains a 3D arrangement of functioning cells for use in various bioengineering applications. The current work is focused on heat and mass transfer issues related to the bioreactor's ...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM CHLORIDE DEICING AND ANTI-ICING SOLUTIONS ON EXPOSED, COATED, AND REINFORCING STEEL IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES
- Author
- Diep, Thanh-tu
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering
- Description
- In North Carolina, winter roadway maintenance strategies vary across the state, with some areas using brine for anti-icing pre-treatment, some using granular salts for deicing, and some using a mix of granular salts with traction enhancing materia...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF ONCOLYTIC VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUSES IN CANCER CELLS
- Author
- Seegers, Sara
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Virology, Biology
- Description
- Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) based oncolytic viruses are promising agents against various cancers. We have shown that pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines exhibit great diversity in susceptibility and permissibility to VSV. Here,...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTS IN TEXT SUMMARIZATION USING DEEP LEARNING
- Author
- Bulusu, Sai Amrit
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Information science
- Description
- Deep Learning has been the go-to tool for text summarization in the recent times.Traditional deep learning research focuses on performing abstractive text summarizationwithout considering the user’s interests to personalize the summaries.This prob...
- Title
- EXPANDING THE BOUNDS OF AUTHORITY BY APPROPRIATING GROUP MEMBERS’ TIME
- Author
- Rejtig, Michael
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- Actors in a position of authority can acquire legitimacy beyond the normative order when the appropriation of subordinate’s time is found valid by group members. A randomized laboratory experiment consisting a peer condition and authority conditio...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SOLID-LIQUID PHASE CHANGE IN VIBRATED GRANULAR MEDIA AND COMPARISON WITH THEORETICALLY PREDICTED PHASE CHANGE IN HARD SPHERE SYSTEMS
- Author
- Gaur, Kapil
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Fluid mechanics, Statistical physics
- Description
- Hard sphere systems, for years, have been studied through computer simulations. In the 1950s the work on modern computing was on the rise and computers were being researched for use in every field. Statistical Mechanics was no alien to this and th...
- Title
- FULL-SCALE TESTING AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF A MULTISTORY MASONRY STRUCTURE SUBJECTED TO INTERNAL BLAST LOADING
- Author
- Zapata, Brian
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Physics, Civil engineering
- Description
- As military and diplomatic representatives of the United States are deployed throughout the world, they must frequently make use of local, existing facilities; it is inevitable that some of these will be load bearing unreinforced masonry (URM) str...