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Title: FROM OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION TO OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION: A CONGRUENCE PERSPECTIVE OF OPPORTUNITY BELIEF FORMATION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Entrepreneurship
Description: Beliefs about the existence and attractiveness of opportunities underpin entrepreneurial action. Belief formation is broken into two distinct phases. Third-person opportunity beliefs (i.e., an opportunity for someone) form as a result of the oppor...

Title: Predictors of Mobile Dating Application Use Among College Students
Author: Griffin, Meredith
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Emerging adulthood is the transitional developmental stage from the late teens through the early twenties when individuals explore possibilities, particularly in the domains of love, work, and identity (Arnett, 2000). This study focuses on emergin...

Title: Recommender Systems in Social Networking Sites
Author: Li, Huayu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social networking sites have experienced an explosion in both the number of users and the amount of shared information in recent years. Thanks to the positioning function in mobile devices, e.g., GPS, location-based social networks (LBSNs) become ...

Title: Design Considerations for Intermittently Connected Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Rajib, Md Majharul Islam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequ...

Title: Planning for coastal resilience: the intersection of theory and practice
Author: Griffith, Adam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Geomorphology
Description: In the face of accelerating sea-level rise, people continue to live near anddevelop the coast. In the United States, we have chosen adaptation andprotection, via coastal defenses, over retreat from the coast despite theunsustainable nature of effo...

Title: Processing and properties of materials with or without adiabatic shear susceptibility
Author: Chen, Xiaoxue
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: In this dissertation, two topic areas related to adiabatic shear banding (ASB) phenomenon were studied. Body centered cubic (BCC) metals and alloys may exhibit ASB under uniaxial high strain rate compression if the grain size is refined into the u...

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: Poor-Branded Women
Author: Goodnight, Melissa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
Description: MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...

Title: ROBUST GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST BASED ON PENALIZATION
Author: Zhang, Meijiao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: The Least absolute deviation combined with the Least absolute shrinkage andselection operator (LAD-LASSO) estimator can do regression shrinkage and selectionand is also resistant to outliers or heavy-tailed errors which is proposed in Wang etal. (...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

Title: Notch Serves as a Molecular Brake on Myogenesis, Protein Synthesis, and Growth in Skeletal Muscle
Author: Huot, Joshua
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Kinesiology
Description: Aging can be accompanied by aggressive loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) and is a primary prognosticator for the reduced capacity of the elderly to accomplish basic activities of daily living. Several mechanisms within skeletal muscle lead to devel...

Title: PUT WHAT(?) IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT: A METHODICAL APPROACH TO THE SMOKING CULTURE OF A NINETEENTH CENTURY PLANTATION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Author: Bubp, Rebecca
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Holly Bend, a prolific and successful late 18th and early 19th century plantation owned by the Davidson family in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has seen multiple excavations and research projects over the past several years. In this project, ...

Title: Proto-Institutionalization as a Complex Socio-Technical Process: The Emergence of Diversity Practices in Computer Science Education
Author: Davis, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
Description: Extant scholarship in organizational science explains the conditions under which organizational actors adopt established institutional practices. Organizational scientists have been less successful in explaining the origins of institutional practi...

Title: RETENTION OF THE AMORPHOUS STATE OF TREHALOSE AT HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY USING ORGANIC SALT ADDITIVES: A MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING
Author: Ziaei, Shima
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Pharmacy--Research, Bioengineering
Description: The glassy or amorphous solid state of trehalose has been utilized in the food and pharmaceutical industry to immobilize and stabilize sensitive molecules and it is increasingly being explored for the preservation of biologics. Retention of the gl...

Title: Powerline Communications Through Series Connected Switched Mode Power Converters to Be Used in Solar Microinverters
Author: Evans, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern photovoltaic converters and energy storage modules are shifting to a cascaded or distributed module-level inverters to reduce the required voltage output of each module and thereby optimizing production costs. The switch to an AC-stacked ar...

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: Principal Efficacy of Alternative Secondary and Traditional Secondary Principals
Author: Snyder, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Serving in North Carolina’s public alternative secondary schools can be a challenge for principals. Self-efficacy is the perceived judgment that one has the ability to execute a course of action to bring about a desired result. Using Albert Bander...

Title: REDUCING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE
Author: Salge, Martina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Despite protection form federal legislation, employees with disabilities continue to be discriminated against in the workplace. This study examined the effects of an education and contact intervention on participants’ knowledge about disabilities,...

Title: RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
Author: Winful, Olawunmi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Area studies, History
Description: Finding a way to successfully interpret African diversity is important in accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species. By collecting high quality DNA, genealogical, and demographic data on a large cross section of African and...

Title: Period-n Bifurcations in Milling
Author: Honeycutt, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Period-n bifurcations in milling operations are studied in this dissertation. Period-n bifurcations represent a special type of unstable dynamic behavior because they have a response period that is an integer multiple (n) of the forcing period. Th...