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Title: A CASE STUDY OF AN EFFECTIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ALGEBRA I TEACHER
Author: Linton, Patricia
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education
Description: ABSTRACTPATRICIA LORRAINE CURTIS LINTON. A case study of an effective middle school Algebra I teacher. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID K. PUGALEE)Using a qualitative case study approach, the research was an exploration of the perceptions of midd...

Title: Model development and system optimization to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants
Author: KIM, DONGWOOK
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: As greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction has drawn considerable attention, various methods have been established to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In order to establish a design and operational strat...

Title: Modeling Bicycle-Vehicle Crash Frequency on Urban Roads
Author: Mukoko, Kanya
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, City planning
Description: Bicyclists and motorists make mistakes that contribute to traffic crashes involving bicyclists on urban roads. The likelihood of a bicyclist being severely injured or killed daily in traffic crashes is creating fear, anxiety, and becoming a potent...

Title: MODELING, ANALYSIS, AND CONTROL OF A RADIAL ELECTRODYNAMIC WHEEL VEHICLE AND ANALYSIS OF AN AXIAL ELECTRODYNAMIC WHEEL
Author: Wright, Jason
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Maglev, the concept of using magnetic forces to levitate a vehicle above a guideway for frictionless motion, has received renewed interest as of late due to several high profile projects, including the proposed next-generation transit system Hyper...

Title: LIFE CYCLE COST OPTIMIZATION OF A SOLAR COMBISYSTEM IN NEPAL
Author: Thapa, Bishan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Nepal has a huge potential for solar energy utilization to meet the growing energy demand. Solar thermal systems have been used in Nepal since the 1960s. In the past two decades, much work was done with a focus on improving design, fabrication, an...

Title: Modeling the Thermal Characteristics of Masonry Mortar Containing Recycled Materials
Author: Laney, Morgan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: As the building industry in the United States rapidly expands, the reuse of recycled demolition waste aggregates is becoming increasingly more important. Currently, the building industry is the largest consumer of natural resources. The constant u...

Title: Statistical Machine Learning based Modeling Framework for Design Space Exploration and Run-time Cross-stack Energy Optimization for Many-core Processors
Author: Zhang, Changshu
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The complexity of many-core processors continues to grow as a larger number of heterogeneous cores are integrated on a single chip. Such systems-on-chip contains computing structures ranging from complex out-of-order cores, simple in-order cores, ...

Title: USING COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS (CSIA) AND FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING TO QUANTIFY THE MASS CONTRIBUTION OF COMINGLED CHLORINATED ETHENE PLUMES
Author: Shiflet, Jason
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Hydrology, Environmental geology, Geochemistry
Description: Chlorinated solvents are present in soil and groundwater at thousands of sites across the United States. Resolving the remedial and fiscal responsibility of multiple potentially responsible parties at sites containing comingled chlorinated ethene ...

Title: Science of Multiphysics Behavior of Si/C Composite Active Particles in Anodes
Author: Gao, Xiang
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The rapidly growing demands on energy storage technologies over the last decade have imposed further requirements for the high energy/power density, safety, and durability of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Si/C composite materials have attracted en...

Title: THE EFFECT OF TARGET SECONDARY STRUCTURE ON MICROARRAY DATA QUALITY
Author: Ratushna, Vladyslava
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: DNA microarrays have become an invaluable high throughput biotechnology method, which allows a parallel investigation of thousands of cellular events in a single experiment. The principle behind the technology is very simple: fluorescently labeled...

Title: Characterization of microtopography and its impact on carbon dynamics in coastal wetlands using close-range remote sensing
Author: Shukla, Tarini
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Remote sensing, Environmental sciences, Biogeochemistry
Description: The spatial heterogeneity of microtopography where variation in elevation is less than a meter plays a significant role in ecological, hydrological, and biogeochemical processes. The microtopography can be categorized into microtopographic feature...

Title: The Exploration of BIM and Visual Data for Owner Benefits
Author: Mallard, Jesse
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Operations research
Description: ABSTRACTJESSE M. MALLARD. Exploration of how Building Information Modeling (BIM) and visual data is used within the Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry currently to assist in closing the knowledge gaps between Owners and Desi...

Title: Using Downscaled Climate Model Output to Examine Climate Change in North Carolina
Author: Robinson, Andrew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Atmospheric science
Description: Climate change is a pressing issue people in North Carolina are already facing, and recent decades in North Carolina have exhibited a warming trend at the higher end of projected values. Due to North Carolina’s diverse geography, climate is expect...

Title: Combatting Ceiling Effects: Modeling High-Ability Student Growth Using Multilevel Tobit Regression
Author: Hujar, Julia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Gifted children--Education, Statistics
Description: Pressures associated with accountability testing have resulted in a narrowing of both the curriculum and pedagogy that does not meet the needs of high ability learners. This study proposed that either a different measurement (an above-level comput...

Title: Essays on quantitative modeling financial
Author: Zhang, Hao
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation explores the application of quantitative modeling to analyze the features of different financial assets. This study investigates the dynamics of financial assets using advanced mathematical, statistical approaches, and Machine Le...

Title: Designing Hierarchical Infrastructure-based Traffic Control Frameworks for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Traffic Networks
Author: Karimi Shahri, Pouria
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research aims to develop, enhance, and validate infrastructure-based hierarchical control framework designs for improving the mobility of large-scale heterogeneous traffic networks. This research defines heterogeneity as a multi-vehicle traff...