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Title: Duke and Reynolds: Urban and Regional Development Through Business, Politics, and Philanthropy
Author: Dancy, Brianna
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The Industrial Revolution witnessed an increase in wealthy entrepreneurs who were also philanthropists. During this era, James Buchanan (Buck) Duke and Richard Joshua (R.J.) Reynolds led the tobacco production industry in North Carolina. These ind...

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: 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: REAL WOMEN AND REAL BEAUTY: ASSESSING THE INTERNAL COMPARISON PROCESSES AND TARGET IMAGES IN BODY-IMAGE SELF-DISCREPANCIES
Author: Taylor, Jessica
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The main purpose of the study was to assess if levels of state body shame and state appearance anxiety differ across two body-comparison conditions when controlling for baseline differences in weighted trait appearance self-discrepancy and BMI. Pa...

Title: RACE, RESEGREGATION AND THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPLELINE IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY
Author: Graham, Joseph
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This thesis explores the relationship between out of school suspensions and court-involvement for youth in Mecklenburg County. Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the concept of implicit bias serve to inform this examination, interpretation, and analys...

Title: Reclaiming the Unredeemed: Irredentism and the National Schism in Greece's First World War
Author: Kinley, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Military history, Area studies
Description: Greece’s role in the First World War, although short, was characterized by political and social tumult that tore the small country in half, splitting it into two political camps both with their own public supporters. This divide is known as the Na...

Title: Posttraumatic growth and career calling in undergraduates
Author: Riffle, Olivia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: As emerging adults, college students are beginning to craft a life narrative that provides purpose and direction, part of which is the identification and pursuit of a meaningful career. It may even include a calling, a sense of being summoned to a...

Title: Potential Barriers to Women's Leadership Self-efficacy
Author: Robinson, Aspen
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Psychology
Description: Many organizations are employing women at a higher rate than seen in previous years, yet women are still underrepresented in leadership roles. In this paper, I examine factors that may influence an individual’s perceived capabilities of being a le...

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: PUNISHMENTS, PRISONERS, & PRAGS: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MALE PRISONER RAPE ON HBO’S OZ
Author: Burns, Myasia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: This analysis examines the symbolic rape narratives of Oz and the cultural contexts in which they exist. It confronts visual images of male rape within the show to uncover considerations of masculinity, sexuality, and gender identification in a pr...

Title: Pedro II and Getulio Vargas: National Leaders, Words, and Sociopolitical Change in Brazil during the Paraguayan War and World War II
Author: Ortiz, Nicholas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The speeches given by Pedro Segundo and Getulio Vargas during wartime not only reveals their orientation of leadership but in turn provides something else. These discourses gives one a unique window into not only how these leaders chose to perceiv...

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: QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF A COLLEGE STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH GROUP
Author: Larson, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: College students experience mental health problems (MHPs) at high rates, presenting challenges to students, families, and campus officials. As one response, student mental health groups – often student-led campus chapters of national organizations...

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...