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Title: Joint power control and routing for rechargeable wireless sensor networks
Author: Nasipuri, Asis, Pal, Amitangshu
Date Created: 2016
Description: Wireless sensor networks (WSN) that are powered by energy harvested from the environment, also known as rechargeable WSNs, typically experience wide variations of energy availability across the network. Such variations can cause frequent node outa...

Title: Tourism and sustainability in the evaluation of World Heritage Sites, 1980–2010
Author: Schmutz, Vaughn, Elliott, Michael A.
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: World Heritage areas, Sustainable tourism
Description: At present, there are myriad concerns about tourism and sustainability at cultural and natural world heritage sites. Based on an analysis of 811 evaluations written between 1980 and 2010 by two official advisory bodies to the World Heritage Commit...

Title: High Order H(div) Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for MHD Equations
Author: Wu, Jian
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: In this dissertation, we investigate the divergence-free discontinuous Galerkin method using the $\mathcal{H}$(\textbf{div}) basis, to solve the nonlinear ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. This is a novel approach to ensure the divergenc...

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: Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
Author: Duscha, Melissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Public administration
Description: This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost savings. This is contrary to widely accepted business practices and market theo...

Title: JUST LET HER EAT THE DARN COOKIES: TO WHAT EXTENT WILL EDUCATION ABOUT THE NATURE AND CONSEQUENCES OF ADVANCED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCE A PERSONS END-OF-CARE CHOICES
Author: Speer, Mary
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Medicine, Health education, Ethics
Description: ABSTRACTMARY JOAN MIDGLEY SPEER, Just Let Her Eat the Darn Cookies: To what extent will education about the nature and consequences of advanced medical technology influence a person’s end-of-life care choices? (Under the direction of DR. LISA MERR...

Title: FACULTY ADVISORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE IMPACT OF AN ACADEMIC ADVISING QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PLAN ON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Author: Stewart, Makena
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Adult education
Description: Student success initiatives identify comprehensive academic advising as a key strategy in promoting student retention while also ushering in cultural change within an organization. A qualitative intrinsic case study was conducted to examine the im...

Title: EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF SELF-COMPASSION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY ON BURNOUT AND ENGAGEMENT AMONG ANIMAL SHELTER STAFF: A MODERATOR ANALYSIS OF THE JOB DEMANDS-RESOURCES FRAMEWORK AND A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED FIELD TRIAL OF A BRIEF SELF-GUIDED ONLINE INTERVENTION
Author: Fiery, Mallory
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Compassion fatigue is a serious concern among individuals in the helping professions, including animal welfare. Current interventions for compassion fatigue are time-consuming, expensive, and not well understood. Similarly, the role of personal re...

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: The impact of nurses’ professionalism from an innovative peer review committee
Author: Goble, Patricia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: Peer review is a vital process through which nurses provide feedback to their peers in real time to advance their professional practice. The purpose of this scholarly project was to determine the impact of implementing an innovative pe...

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: Frequency-Dependent Electric Power Line Modeling for Steady State Harmonic Analysis
Author: Poudel, Bikash
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: The modern electric power system is experiencing an increased level of harmonic frequency components because of the growing use of power electronic devices, such as converters, and nonlinear loads, such as rectifier-end loads. Electric power line ...

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS TOOLS PROVIDING INSIGHTS INTO TENNIS MATCHES
Author: Polk, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In this dissertation, I present a series of visual analytics tools designed to provide insights into tennis matches for the purpose of player improvement. These include analytic tools that can be divided into two basic categories: non-spatial-base...

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: EXPLORING THE PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ON HOW DIVERSITY TRAINING HAS IMPACTED THEIR UPWARD MOBILITY INTO SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Author: Crews, William
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sex role
Description: ABSTRACTWILLIAM E. CREWS. Exploring the perceptions of African American women on how diversity training has impacted their upward mobility into senior leadership. (Under the direction of Dr. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The purpose of the present study wa...

Title: THREE ESSAYS ON CAPITAL INSURANCE AND TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKS
Author: Ivanov, Katerina
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Banks and banking
Description: This research study presents an insurance framework of the bank capital by introducinga new type of capital, namely, an insurance capital. A bank pays the insurancecapital to an entity which injects a pre-determined payout of capital during the pe...

Title: Effects of modified schema-based instruction on real-world algebra problem solving of students with autism spectrum disorder and moderate intellectual disability
Author: Root, Jenny
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The current study evaluated the effects of modified schema-based instruction (SBI) on the algebra problem solving skills of three middle school students with autism spectrum disorder and moderate intellectual disability (ASD/ID). Participants lear...

Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Montessori Reading and Math Instruction for Third Grade African American Students in Urban Elementary Schools
Author: Brown, Katherine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: Improving academic achievement for students of color has long been the subject of debate among advocates of education reform (Anyon, 2013; Breitborde & Swiniarski, 2006; Payne, 2008). Some scholars have advocated for the Montessori method as an al...

Title: Measuring the Effects of Chart Embellishments to Better Understand our Perception of Charts
Author: Skau, Drew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: News organizations, non-profits, and even government agencies use information graphics to advertise and communicate their messages. Data visualizations are used heavily in these graphics, but they also often incorporate unusual design elements to ...

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...