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- Title
- EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
- Author
- Abankwa, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance, Industrial management, Economics
- Description
- The dissertation consists of three related topics: FX market-wide liquidity measure and individual currency-pair liquidity co-movements, FX liquidity risk and carry trade returns, and the forward premium puzzle in foreign exchange markets. This is...
- Title
- VIGNETTES OF SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK MALE STUDENTS AT A STEM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
- Author
- Adams, Tempestt
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Ensuring students graduate high school ready to enter college or the workforce has become a prime focus within secondary education. High school graduates are often ill-prepared for college-level work and often have to register for remedial courses...
- 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
- Using formal methods towards improving cloud IaaS environments
- Author
- Al-Haj, Saeed
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- Cloud computing has become a prominent technology with the potential for tremendously positive effects on the future of computer networks and services. However, as the resources are shared in cloud environments, cloud security is a major concern. ...
- Title
- Comparative Analysis for Reuse & Disposal of Concrete Residuals from Hydrodemolition, Diamond Grinding, & Diamond Grooving Operations
- Author
- Albergo, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Large quantities of concrete residual slurries, solids, and liquids are currently being produced from hydrodemolition, diamond grinding, and diamond grooving operations within North Carolina. North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and...
- Title
- Intrusion Detection and Deterrence for Critical Infrastructures
- Author
- Ali, Muhammad
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Information technology
- Description
- Critical infrastructures are the systems and networks that are so vital that their unavailability would have a major impact on national security, economy, safety, or any combination thereof. Examples of critical infrastructure are power systems, f...
- Title
- The Catholic Church and the Free Womb Law in Recife, PE, Brazil: An Analysis of Its Social Development, 1870-1878
- Author
- Andrade Diniz de Araujo, Maria Paula
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- This research examines the role of the Catholic Church in the Brazilian Northeastern city of Recife with the advent of the Free Womb Law, in 1871. It delves into the complex dynamics of the Church and the children the law affected. That way, this ...
- Title
- Reconfiguration of distribution network with distributed energy resources for enhancing resilience
- Author
- Arora, Mohit
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Industrial engineering, Operations research
- Description
- Enhancing the resiliency of the electric grid is a major challenge facing the electric regulatory bodies. Beyond the traditional approaches of improving the resiliency such as vegetation management, damage assessment and communication technology, ...
- Title
- Interfacial instabilities in reacting flows
- Author
- Attal, Nitesh
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Fluid instabilities, particularly interfacial instabilities, have proven to be a powerful mechanism in driving and sustaining combustion processes in several devices of practical interest. Modern combustors are in fact designed to exploit the mixi...
- 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
- Experimental Evaluation of Low-Cost, Portable, and Rapid Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Timber Distribution Poles
- Author
- Barber, Erica
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Power line workers have long been required to climb timber utility poles to perform maintenance. Although routine pole inspection and maintenance programs are in place to optimize asset management and reduce the risk posed to workers, such work co...
- 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
- 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
- Understanding the influence of tellurium oxide in the front silver paste on the homogenous high sheet resistance emitter
- Author
- Bezawada, Naga Sai Nirupama
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Renewable energy sources
- Description
- To reduce the cost of solar electricity requires highly efficient solar cells. However, the manufacturing of high efficiency solar cells does not match up with the cost. The higher the efficiency, the higher the cost. Thus, the high throughput tec...
- Title
- IMPLEMENTATION AND HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF DQ-CONTROL ON A GRID-TIED SINGLE PHASE INVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS IN A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
- Author
- Bisht, Robin
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- The electrical utilities are very much concerned about the power quality due to the presence of nonlinear loads in their power distribution systems. The non-linear residential loads cause harmonics in the residential distribution systems. To mitig...
- Title
- Determination and Evaluation of Inputs for Portland Cement Concrete Pavement to Support Local Calibration of MEPDG for North Carolina
- Author
- Blanchard, Edward
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Civil engineering
- Description
- The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) is a state-of-the-practice tool that is used for the analysis and design of pavements, using mechanical and statistical models that have been developed over the past several decades for the p...
- Title
- Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
- Author
- Blattenberger, Philip
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
- Description
- For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...
- Title
- POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AND BIOMARKERS OF CHRONIC STRESS AMONG COMBAT VETERANS OF OPERATIONS ENDURING AND IRAQI FREEDOM
- Author
- Blevins, Cara
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a significant public health problem, representing the leading cause of death in U.S. military combat Veterans. Following deployment, combat Veterans are at an increased risk for CVD due to chronic in-theater expos...
- 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
- Unnecessary Roughness: Viral Video, Circulation, and Proof in the Ray Rice Case
- Author
- Booker, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Mass media
- Description
- The National Football League (NFL) is no stranger to criticism regarding their players and violence against women. One of the more publicized cases transpired following surveillance videos that surfaced 7 months apart from each other; the first de...