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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Title
- QUANTITATIVE FALL RISK ASSESSMENT WITH WEARABLE SENSORS
- Author
- Xu, Zheng
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Biomechanics
- Description
- Falling has become one of the leading causes to both fatal and non-fatal injuries among the elder adults and patients with dysfunctional mobility. The following consequence of a fall will be that the fear of falling can reduce the daily activities...
- Title
- ARTIFICIAL FINANCIAL MARKET: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF TRADERS CHARACTERISTICS ON EMERGENT MARKET PHENOMENA
- Author
- Kamyab Hessary, Yasaman
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Information technology
- Description
- Financial markets play a critical role in today's societies and are extremely important to the general health and efficiency of an economy. Solid understanding of the behavior of financial markets can benefit investors, governing organizations and...
- Title
- An Examination of the Impact of Student Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status on School Counselors' Decisions to Place Students in Alternative Learning Programs
- Author
- Dameron, Merry
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational counseling
- Description
- The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model (ASCA, 2012) and ASCA Ethical Standards (ASCA, 2016) highlight the relationship between school counseling, advocacy, and social justice. It is the school counselor’s duty to address i...
- Title
- An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
- Author
- Smith, Delphia
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading
- Description
- Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...
- Title
- An Examination of Predictive Factors of Self-Efficacy among Supervisors who Conduct Cross-Racial Supervision: Social Influence, Racial Identity Attitudes, and Gender Self-Confidence
- Author
- Summers, LaTonya
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Social sciences
- Description
- The counseling profession has become diverse and it is not uncommon for a person of color to be included in the supervisory dyad. Therefore, counselor supervisors are required to become competent in supervising people who are racially different fr...
- Title
- Development of a preventive mental health intervention tailored for first-generation college students
- Author
- Burgess, Charles
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- To close the achievement gap between first and continuing generation students, several interventions that specifically target first-generation students have been designed and delivered in a variety of settings. These interventions are typically in...
- Title
- Contributions of Documentation Status, Spiritual Coping, and Acculturation on the Stress Level of Adult Hispanic Immigrants
- Author
- Benitez, Elba
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Mental health
- Description
- ABSTRACTELBA CAROLINA BENITEZ. Contributions of Documentation Status, Spiritual Coping, and Acculturation on the Stress Level of Adult Hispanic Immigrants(Under the direction of DR. PHYLLIS POST)Nearly 35% of the more than 55 million Hispanics who...