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- Title
- EXPERIMENTS IN TEXT SUMMARIZATION USING DEEP LEARNING
- Author
- Bulusu, Sai Amrit
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Information science
- Description
- Deep Learning has been the go-to tool for text summarization in the recent times.Traditional deep learning research focuses on performing abstractive text summarizationwithout considering the user’s interests to personalize the summaries.This prob...
- 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
- FUNCTIONALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL COORDINATION COMPLEXES FOR USE IN SUPERCAPACITORS
- Author
- Zuczek, Justin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Power resources
- Description
- As society begins to move away from fossil fuel consumption and the harmful effects they entail, renewable energy sources have been studied extensively over the past decades. One obstacle with renewable energy is the ability to cheaply store it du...
- 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
- Distributed Renewable Energy Technologies:Design and Development of Scalable Transmission Systems
- Author
- Menon, Shruti Mohandas
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Renewable forms of energy are being intensively pursued and investigated in systems connected to the grid as well as in standalone applications. The global energy generation is expected to grow 2.7 times by the year 2035. Today, renewable energy r...
- 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
- Performance Evaluation of Tracer Particles for Particle Image Velocimetry Using a Scaled Rolling Road-Tire Setup in a Wind Tunnel
- Author
- Narayan, Nithin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics
- Description
- The ultimate goal of the present work is to evaluate the ability to produce highlyresolved particle image velocimetry (PIV) flow images of tracer particles dispersedin a wind tunnel with a scaled rolling road-tire setup. The particle type, size, a...
- 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
- Pre-restoration baseflow dissolved nutrient dynamics in an urban forested headwater system, Charlotte NC
- Author
- Wickliff, Ella
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
- Description
- Headwaters provide ecosystem services for humans such as clean water, recreational opportunities, nutrient removal, and biodiversity. Baseline stream nutrient and TSS concentrations and loadings are valuable water quality characteristics to quanti...
- 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...