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- Title
- “THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
- Author
- Howell, Randi
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, History
- Description
- Education reform is a continuous cycle. The cyclical nature of American mathematics education reform began in the 1950s, during the height of the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the American government felt education, specifical...
- Title
- you ain't from around here, are you? a biographical study of harry golden and history of his quest for tolerance and justice in the state of north carolina
- Author
- Sullivan, Michael
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- In the summer of 1941, a thirty-nine year old ex-convict from New York City, that just months earlier changed his name from Harry Goldhurst to Harry Golden, stepped off a bus at the main terminal in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Although he ...
- Title
- Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
- Author
- Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communicable diseases, Zika virus
- Description
- Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...
- Title
- Workplace Accommodations and People with Disabilities: The Dilemmatic Communicative Process of Requesting Access Technology
- Author
- Makkawy, Amin
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Communication
- Description
- This study consists of a qualitative investigation of how people with visual impairments manage access to technology at the workplace. By the use of Applied Thematic Data Analysis (Guest, MacQueen, & Namey, 2012), results of a questionnaire distri...
- Title
- Working Memory and Emotion Processing Contributions to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Author
- Cook, Mary
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a "persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development," according to the DSM-5, and i...
- 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
- Visualizing #BostonStrong: Commemorative Implications for a Rhetorical Epithet of Civic Identity
- Author
- Crawford, Emily
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Rhetoric
- Description
- Following a tragic event such as a mass shooting, terrorist attack or natural disaster in the United States, it has become a ritual for audiences to establish particular hashtags pertaining to these events. Subsequent to the Boston Marathon bombin...
- Title
- Variation in Patterns of Allocare In Captive Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas): The Potential Effects of Environment and Kinship in the Development of Novel Behavior
- Author
- Carter, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology, Physical anthropology, Zoology
- Description
- The goal of the this research was to examine the social dynamics among extended matrilines of Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) housed at the North Carolina Zoo (NCZ) in Asheboro, North Carolina, including the putative existence of allocare, def...
- 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
- 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
- VARIABILITY IN PREOPERATIVE EMERGENCY UTILIZATIONS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INITIAL PRIMARY PACEMAKER INSERTION
- Author
- Roy, Debosree
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical sciences, Health services administration, Surgery
- Description
- Implantable pacemaker insertions are recommended for treating bradycardia, heart block, or both by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as healthcare policy groups, such as the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Associ...
- Title
- Utilizing smart inverter capabilities for management of high penetration renewable distributed generation integration in active distribution networks
- Author
- Chamana, Manohar
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- With a strong indication of high renewable distributed generation (DG) penetration increase in the near future, distribution system operators (DSOs) are burdened with challenges to manage their operation while also trying to solve the power qualit...
- 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
- Using Nematostella vectensis to study the interactions between genome, epigenome, and bacteria in a changing environment
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Fraune, Sebastian, Foret, Sylvain
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- The phenotype of an animal cannot be explained entirely by its genes. It is now clear that factors other than the genome contribute to the ecology and evolution of animals. Two fundamentally important factors are the associated microbiota and epig...
- 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...
- 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
- Understanding the Impact of Racism and Sexism on the Development of the Professional Identity of African American Women Principals
- Author
- Brown, Chrystal
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of racism and sexism in the development of the professional identity of African American women principals in public K-12 schools. African American women experience the principalship differently...
- Title
- Understanding and mitigating the light-induced degradation in screen-printed Al-BSF boron-doped Czokralski crystalline silicon solar cells by use of infrared belt furnace rapid thermal processing.
- Author
- Mvutu, Mayangi
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources
- Description
- ABSTRACTMAYANGI MA MVUTU. Understanding and mitigating the light-induced degradation in screen printed Al-BSF Cz-Si solar cell by use of IR-belt furnace Rapid Thermal Processing. (Under the direction of DR. ABASIFREKE EBONG)In this study, Rapid Th...
- Title
- Understanding Power System Frequency
- Author
- Cockerham, Brett
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Frequency of an electrical signal is defined during steady state conditions, although it can be problematic to measure. However, power system frequency can often fluctuate during power swings and other anomalous events. These events can be charact...
- Title
- USING PRE-KINDERGARTEN DATA TO PREDICT STUDENTS’ KINDERGARTEN PERFORMANCE
- Author
- Tynan, Jacqueline
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational evaluation, Psychology
- Description
- As support mounts for the use of pre-kindergarten (pre-k) to promote academic achievement, there is increased need to understand the nature of pre-k’s effects and the key elements of effective pre-k programming. The present study used a short-term...