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Title: A CULTURALLY ADAPTED INTERVENTION TO TREAT BINGE EATING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH BINGE EATING
Author: Scott, Tamara
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Binge eating (BE), a specific type of overeating, is characterized by a pattern of consuming unusually large amounts of food in a discrete period of time combined with a sense of loss of control. Although research suggests similar rates of binge e...

Title: A Case Study Examination of Male Former Youth Offenders' School Reentry Challenges and Factors Enabling Their Academic Success
Author: Glover, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Youth offenders often struggle to successfully return to their communities and schools after release from confinement. The reasons for this struggle are well documented, as is the fact that school engagement and success (before and after confineme...

Title: A Comparison of Developmental Mathematics Sequences at a North Carolina Community College Using a Markov Chain Model
Author: Peeler, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation
Description: This study compares students at a North Carolina community college taking a course-based developmental mathematics sequence to students taking a new, module-based emporium method developmental mathematics sequence using a Markov chain model to com...

Title: A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF CYBERBULLYING WITH SEXTING CASES
Author: Ayers, Dana
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Law
Description: The misuse of social media and technology is an emerging threat to adolescents. The court systems are being forced to address the legality and fine line of social media use and the First Amendment rights of those involved. This research study is a...

Title: A Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
Author: Najaf, Pooya
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, City planning
Description: The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...

Title: A Post-modern Teacher Educator: A Phenomenological Study of Teacher Educators with Significant Experiences in High-Needs, High-Minority Urban Schools
Author: Robinson, Derrick
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Education
Description: Four decades of university-based teacher education reform has failed to yield favorable outcomes in teacher effectiveness in P-12 schools. A rising tide of reform and criticism from governmental agencies and neo-liberal reformers has resulted in o...

Title: A framework for user-centric privacy management in smartphones regarding Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
Author: Bello-Ogunu, Emmanuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Businesses and organizations such as retail stores, airports, and hospitals have begun to leverage the recent advances in localization technology to provide quality location-based services to their customers. Beacons are one example of this techno...

Title: A market for vice: The foundations of corporate strategic irresponsibility
Author: Stewart, Oscar
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Management, Sociology, Ethics
Description: Organizational scholarship has assumed that corporate irresponsibility (CI) is largely detrimental to firm financial performance. Alternatively, CI may sometimes work in firms’ favor, though at the expense of stakeholders. Exploring this reality, ...

Title: A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
Author: LaPorte, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...

Title: ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURE BASED-PREDICTION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES
Author: Farrel, Alvin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Biology, Bioinformatics
Description: Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through binding to specific target DNA sites. Accurate annotation of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) at genome scale represents an essential step toward our understanding of gene regu...

Title: An Examination of Factors that Relate to School Counselors Knowledge and Skills of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Author: Olsen, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Education
Description: Structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the factors that relate to school counselors’ knowledge and skills of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). A sample of 4,066 practicing school counselors who are members of the American School Couns...

Title: An Exploration of Factors Impacting Professional Identity Among Master’s Level Counseling Students
Author: McMullen, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology, Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between program track, clinical experience, and supervisory relationship of counselors-in-training and their professional identity defined as counseling philosophy, beliefs about the profe...

Title: Analysis of semiparametric regression models for the cumulative incidence functions under the two-phase sampling designs.
Author: Lee, Unkyung
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: Competing risks often arise where more than one event compete with each other for a subject. The cumulative incidence function is a proper summary quantity for analyzing competing risks data. In epidemiologic cohort studies, case-cohort study desi...

Title: Appropriate Measures of Effectiveness: Teacher Evaluations and Value-Added Measures in North Carolina
Author: Covington, Azure
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: The increased use of value-added measures is a result of policymakers viewing traditional measures of teacher effectiveness as obsolete and unrelated to student achievement. Additionally, literature lacks substantial findings examining the relatio...

Title: Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
Author: Dony, Coline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, City planning
Description: Better access to parks can increase our level of physical activity. Increasingly aware of this association and its impact on community health; urban leaders started incorporating access to parks as an indicator of quality of life. However, two stu...

Title: CHARACTERIZING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING (NGS) PLATFORMS FOR MULTIPLEXED BIOSENSING AND APTAMER DISCOVERY: G-QUADRUPLEX APTAMERS AS A CASE STUDY
Author: Patil, Sushant
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry
Description: Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules forming unique three dimensional structures that can bind to their targets (generally proteins or metabolites or other nucleic acids) with high specificity and affinity. Screening for aptamers requ...

Title: Can posttraumatic growth protect the mental and physical health of prostate cancer survivors?
Author: Addington, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Oncology
Description: Due to high incidence and survival rates of prostate cancer, mental and physical health outcomes of prostate cancer survivors are important public health issues. Some men with prostate cancer experience positive psychological changes known as post...

Title: Characterization of Individual Straight and Kinked Boron Carbide Nanowires
Author: Cui, Zhiguang
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: Boron carbides represent a class of ceramic materials with p-type semiconductor natures, complex structures and a wide homogeneous range of carbon compositions. Bulk boron carbides have long been projected as promising high temperature thermoelect...

Title: Characterization of the cytokinin-responsive transcriptome in rice
Author: Loraine, Ann, Raines, Tracy, Blakley, Ivory, Kieber, Joseph J.
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Cytokinins
Description: Background: Cytokinin activates transcriptional cascades important for development and the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Most of what is known regarding cytokinin-regulated gene expression comes from studies of the dicotyledonous plant...

Title: Clergy Spouse Well-Being
Author: Stamper, Scottie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The needs of clergy members and clergy family members present researchers with a unique and complex set of variables. While an ever-increasing body of research related to work-related stress and high rates of chronic disease and depression among c...