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Title: Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
Author: Abdullah, Malak
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social media is growing as a communication medium where people can express online their feelings and opinions on a variety of topics in ways they rarely do in person. Detecting sentiments and emotions in texts have gained a considerable amount of ...

Title: FOCUSING, IMAGING AND RESONACE PROPERTIES OF MICROPHOTONICS STRUCTURES AND DEVICES
Author: Abolmaali, Farzaneh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Structures and devices built using microspherical building blocks attract significant attention in recent years due to an extraordinary high-quality factor (Q>106) of whispering gallery modes in dielectric microspheres and due to their ability to ...

Title: FREE BODIES IN UNSTEADY VISCOUS FLOWS AND SIMPLE MECHANICAL ANALOGS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND UNDERACTUATED CONTROL
Author: Abrajan Guerrero, Rodrigo
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Robotics
Description: In this dissertation we study the interactions between free bodies and unsteady viscous flows, with particular interest in locomotion and in particle transport in streaming flows.For self-propelling bodies, we present systems with two different me...

Title: A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Author: Abuella, Mohamed
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...

Title: Integrated Active and Reactive Power Management of Power Distribution System Considering Distributed Energy Storage and PV Farms
Author: Ahmed, Muhammad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern electric distribution system with distributed Photo-Voltaic (PV) farms and energy storage units have been facing technical challenges due to the difficulty in managing them collectively. This dissertation presents new solutions for energy m...

Title: SPATIAL AND SITING ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE BIOMASS BASELOAD POWER GENERATION FOR NIGERIA
Author: Akinde, Adedolapo
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Environmental management
Description: A new dawn in Nigeria’s power generation landscape requires renewable energy development. Episodic power supply, and too frequent outages characterizes the centralized power grid in Nigeria, thus frustrating efforts towards economic development. T...

Title: SECURING MOBILE HYBRID APPLICATIONS THROUGH CONFIGURATIONS - FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
Author: AlJarrah, Abeer
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Mobile hybrid apps have the potential to dominate the mobile and IoTs apps market. Cross-platform or hybrid apps are providing a promising development choice that appeals to a great body of developers. This development approach \wraps" standard we...

Title: Reduction of Readmissions to Hospitals Based on Actionable Knowledge Discovery and Personalization
Author: Al-Mardini, Mamoun
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Healthcare spending has been increasing in the last few decades. One of the main reasons for this increase is hospital readmissions, which is defined as a rehospitalization of a patient after being discharged from a hospital within a short period ...

Title: Parent preferences on disability language regarding their preschool-aged child with special needs
Author: Alpaugh, Lindsay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of the study was to examine the disability language preference of parents with a child with special needs who is between the ages of three and five. Specific research questions included: What form of disability language do parents choo...

Title: Formal Techniques for Cyber Resilience: Modeling, Synthesis, and Verification
Author: Alsaleh, Mohammed Noraden
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: As cyber vulnerability and complexity increases, cyber attacks become highly sophisticated and inevitable. Therefore, cyber resilience is necessary to make cyber capable of misleading attackers in reaching their goals, resisting their progress, an...

Title: DATA-DRIVEN DIAGNOSTICS OF ISSUES RELATED TO POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS USING PMU MEASUREMENT
Author: Arefi, Mahmoodreza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work investigates the use of data driven techniques to diagnose issues related to power system dynamics. The source behind the data are simulated Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) measurements. First, this study examines the application of Weight...

Title: “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
Author: Austin, Lauren
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Public health, Government policy
Description: This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...

Title: Hierarchical Control Strategies for Spatiotemporally Varying Systems with Application to Airborne Wind Energy
Author: Bafandeh, Alireza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Wind energy represents a leading renewable resource for the production of clean and sustainable electricity for on- and off-grid networks. Nevertheless, tower and foundation costs, which typically represent about 30 percent of the total installati...

Title: Real-Time Control and Optimal Plant Design for Renewable Energy Systems Using Bayesian Optimization
Author: Baheri, Ali
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Computer science
Description: The overarching objective of this research is to use machine learning tools to address the design and real-time control of active systems, focusing specifically by tethered airborne wind energy and ocean current energy systems. In both application...

Title: THE COLORS OF PRESTIGE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FORMS, DECORATIONS, AND USES OF INCA STONE VESSELS
Author: Banikazemi, Cyrus
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The ethnohistoric and archaeological record provides ample evidence of the ideological significance of metals and pigments in the pre-Columbian Andean world. This study explores the use of these materials in the complex decorative techniques utili...

Title: Social Capital and Access to Higher Education: Barriers to Higher Education for African-American Women in the Rural South
Author: Barber, Stacey
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The researcher conducted a qualitative interview study that identified barriers to higher education experienced by African-American women living in the rural South. The research questions were (1) What is the role of social capital in the accessib...

Title: Developing a Palliative Care Screening Process in the Intensive Care Unit
Author: Barker, Sarah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: Goals of care in the intensive care setting often involve futile approaches for those suffering with serious chronic illness. Among the number of chronically ill patients who die in intensive care, only a minority receive palliative ca...

Title: ADVERTISING THE OLD NORTH STATE: 1945-1955
Author: Barnes, Emma
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The Division of State Advertising was created during the midst of the Great Depression to help bring revenue into North Carolina. During the 1940s, the Division expanded, creating and publishing pamphlets, brochures and articles appealing to touri...

Title: Affect Control Theory and Gendered Occupations
Author: Barry, Leanne
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: Gender is widely considered to be a major contributing factor in workplace inequality. This is largely due to the gendering of occupations by labelling certain jobs as more appropriate for one gender than the other. In this paper, I examine gender...

Title: The Relationship between School Built Environment and Student Achievement in Pakistan
Author: Begum, Nahida
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Education and state
Description: Schools in Pakistan face many challenges, ranging from lack of qualified teachers to insufficient teaching resources. Another obstacle is the low quality of school built environment. Some important built environment factors include an available wa...