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- Title
- Preventing 30-Day Rehospitalization Among Elderly Patients Through A Collaborative Transition of Care Program Between Acute and Primary Care
- Author
- Wingate, Katie
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Medicine, Gerontology
- Description
- There is a disconnect between acute and primary care when transitioning elderly patients from the hospital to the community, often leading to insufficient primary care follow-up and increased rehospitalization. The purpose of this pilot study was ...
- Title
- Policy and Parity: How gender equality and reproductive technologies influence the innovation and diffusion of marriage equality policies.
- Author
- Berlan, Meika
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- My research examines the adoption and diffusion of marriage equality policies in states across the US. I analyze how gender equality and reproductive technology reshape norms around marriage and family to foster the broad support of same sex marri...
- Title
- Path Integral Methods Using Feynman-Kac Formula and Reflecting Brownian Motions for Neumann and Robin Problems
- Author
- Zhou, Yijing
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics
- Description
- In this dissertation, we propose numerical methods for computing the boundary local time of reflecting Brownian motion (RBM) in 3d and its use in the probabilistic representation of the solution of the Laplace equation with the Neumann and Robin b...
- Title
- Privacy Preservation in Mobile Computing and Networking: Accessing, Sharing and Broadcasting
- Author
- Bo, Cheng
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- The ever increasing proliferation of mobile devices has led to unprecedented concern on privacy infringement, and various security threat and privacy leakage emerged from the water in the last few years. Although the rich functionality has allowed...
- Title
- Probabilistic Electric Load Forecasting
- Author
- XIE, JINGRUI
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources
- Description
- Traditionally, utilities have been conservative regarding the infrastructure upgrade. This makes electric load forecasts critical for guiding electric utilities’ operation, planning, and maintenance decision-making. For a long while, utilities hav...
- Title
- REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF RENEWABLE TRANSPORTATION FUELS – PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
- Author
- Liu, Xiaoshuai
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources, Environmental economics, Human ecology--Study and teaching
- Description
- The transportation sector contributes more than a quarter of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable fuels can be a key solution to mitigate GHG emissions from the transportation sector. Particularly, we have foc...
- Title
- REGULATION OF ACTOMYOSIN ATPASE
- Author
- Ge, Jinghua
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Physics, Biophysics
- Description
- Myosin is a molecular motor that converts chemical energy to mechanical energy, thus generating force and movement in muscles and cells. Myosin interacts with two ligands, ATP (fuel) and actin filaments (motor’s tracks). Actomyosin interaction is ...
- 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
- Digital Mirror: An Examination of Social Media’s Influence on Late Adolescent Black Females’ Global and Academic Self-Concept
- Author
- Williams, Nakeshia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The broad socialization of new media has the ability to cultivate the values, beliefs, interests, and personality characteristics of Black females. Specifically, new media’s digital platform of social media offers individuals immediate access to v...
- 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
- Control of wind integrated power grid using voltage controllability and vulnerability detection
- Author
- Maharjan, Rabindra
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Engineering, Renewable energy sources
- Description
- Modern power grids are the largest and most complex engineered systems. Integration of distributed resources like wind farms and economic constraints push power grids to operate close to their limits. Due to this, power system is subject to variou...
- 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
- 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
- Conceptualizing Value: African American Mothers' Perspectives on School-Community Partnership, Parental Involvement, and Faith
- Author
- Cuthbertson, Shanitria
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education and state
- Description
- Over 30 years of research on parental and community engagement in schools highlight the positive impact of school-family-community partnerships on academic achievement, social and cultural enrichment, and overall school climate (Blank, Jacobson, &...
- Title
- Comparative analysis of Nitrosococcus genomes; isolation, physiological and genomic characterization of the new ammonia-oxidizing species Nitrosococcus wardiae, strain D1FHST; and molecular studies towards a better understanding of ammonia-dependent chemolithotrophy
- Author
- Wang, Lin
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Biology, Genetics
- Description
- Obligate aerobic chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidzing bacteria (AOB) derive energy and reductant needed for growth solely from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite thereby facilitating the process of nitritation. A strain of an ammonia-oxidizing ...
- Title
- Communities of Purpose
- Author
- Stukes, Felesia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Information technology
- Description
- Communities of Purpose are commonly known to enact their purposes through social movements, grassroots efforts, semi-formal groups, and through organizations in the voluntary sector. They carry out charitable missions and goals and are often commi...
- 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...
- 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 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 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...