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Title: Does ‘Working After Work’ Affect Teachers’ Confidence? Examining Teacher Efficacy in a Professional Development Program
Author: Gartlan, Scott
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Teachers--Training of
Description: This study examined the relationship between teacher efficacy and professional development among in-service K-12 teachers. A content-rich teacher professional development program was analyzed over the course of two years using a sequential explana...

Title: EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA IN PRIMARY CARE
Author: Banks, Philwyna
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Multiple myeloma is the second most prevalent hematological malignancy worldwide and the most common hematologic malignancy affecting the African American population. Multiple factors contribute to these marked disparities in t...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF ONCOLYTIC VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUSES IN CANCER CELLS
Author: Seegers, Sara
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Virology, Biology
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) based oncolytic viruses are promising agents against various cancers. We have shown that pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines exhibit great diversity in susceptibility and permissibility to VSV. Here,...

Title: Predictive Energy Function Based Power System Transient Stability Assessment and Improvement
Author: SAHAMI, AMIRREZA
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Transient stability assessment and improvement are critical for power grid operation. It deals with the assessment of transient behavior of the power grid (especially the generators) when subjected to large disturbances. State-of-the-art approache...

Title: Predictive Maintenance Optimization Framework For Pavement Management
Author: Kumar, Amit
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The development of a progressive modern highway system is essential for the enhancement of the road capacity, safety, efficiency, commerce, and national defences of a country. These highway systems consist of various integrated individual asset co...

Title: Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
Author: Culletto, Gordon
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
Description: President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...

Title: REAL-TIME EDGE ANALYTIC USING LSTM-TRACKING
Author: Mohan, Shrey
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Tracking objects or specifically pedestrians implies that we correctly detect and re-identify(re-id) them throughout the video stream. To accomplish this we need to run these algorithms on every frame of the video which is difficult in real-time a...

Title: Posttraumatic Growth and Suicide in Veterans: The Impact of Mental Health Stigma and Interpersonal Needs
Author: Blevins, Cara
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Over the past 20 years, suicide rates within the US military have increased at unprecedented rates. According to Joiner’s (2005) Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS), perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness are direct r...

Title: Population Dynamics with Immigration
Author: Han, Dan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: The paper contains the complete analysis of the Galton-Watson models with immigration, including the processes in the random environment, stationary or nonstationary ones. We also study the branching random walk on Zd with immigration and prove th...

Title: Raising Little Russians: Language Socialization and Language Shift in an Urban Kyrgyz Family
Author: McDermott, Ashley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Sociolinguistics, Language and languages
Description: In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Russian prevails as the lingua franca despite efforts by policymakers and language activists to promote the Kyrgyz language. This study uses language socialization as a lens to investigate language shift in the city by analy...

Title: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF LATENCY UNDER MEMORY PRESSURE IN THE LINUX KERNEL FOR EDGE COMPUTING
Author: Koralahalli Channabasappa, Smita
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The Edge computing paradigm seeks to bring Cloud-like compute capabilities close to the Edge of the network, next to where the data is generated, so as to minimize the data communication latency. Edge applications such as autonomous driving, surve...

Title: PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND FOR PATIENTS WITH SELECT DISEASES USING SPECIALTY MEDICATIONS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION TO TOTAL HEALTHCARE COSTS
Author: Rozario, Nigel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Economics, Pharmacy--Research
Description: Specialty medications are medications that require special manufacturing and distribution processes and usually for the treatment of rare diseases and conditions. As a result of the low volume of use and high overhead associated with manufacturing...

Title: Puerto Rico Grid Resilience Assessment Using Binomial Analysis Following Hurricane Maria Considering Storm Effects
Author: Ng, Yenki
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Hurricane Maria was proven to be a very devastating storm in recent history. Ranked as the third costliest storm in the United States, Maria accumulated up to $90 billion in damages and accounted for at least 3,000 deaths. These deaths were primar...

Title: REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, POPULATION GROWTH AND LOCAL SPENDING IN U.S. MICROPOLITAN AREAS, 2002-2014
Author: McShane, Chuck
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Economics, Demography
Description: The following dissertation adds to the literature on income convergence and population growth in the United States. It also expands knowledge on the relatively underexplored geography – the American micropolitan area. The study identifies determin...

Title: RED FLUORESCENCE IN BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN – GOLD COMPLEXES
Author: Dixon, Jacob
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: Bovine serum albumin (BSA)-gold (Au) complexes have been studied in great detail due to their unique red fluorescent (λem = 640 nm) properties, since being initially described by Xie et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 888-889) as a Au25 nanoclus...

Title: Personalized Summarization with Shared Attention and Concept Spaces
Author: Mehedint, Mihai
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The information available to users is overwhelming in today’s world. Therefore, it is essential to filter and convey only the essential information in a personalized fashion. We explored the automatic summarization of text as a means to address th...

Title: QUALITY ASSURANCE AND RELIABILITY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TEACHER EVALUATION PROCESS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
Author: Taylor, Heather
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Training of
Description: The North Carolina (NC) Teacher Evaluation Process (TEP) is used to evaluate Pre-K – 12th grade teachers. Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) who have obtained Birth - Kindergarten licensure are unique in that they work with children with and without...

Title: QUANTIFYING LIGHT RAIL’S EFFECT ON INTRAURBAN DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMUTING PATTERNS
Author: Khabazi, Maryam
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Geography, Economics
Description: This dissertation consists of two consecutive parts. The first part examines the impact of light rail transit (LRT) investment on the type of jobs (i.e., industrial and wage composition) in neighborhoods adjacent to rail transit stations using Cha...

Title: DESIGN AND CONTROL OF SOLAR PANEL COMPANION INVERTERS FOR PANEL LEVEL POWER EXTRACTION
Author: Sahu, Prasanth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Solar Panel Companion Inverters (SPCIs) have been proposed as H-bridge inverters embedded with a PV module. These inverters employ a unique methodology that converts the conventional DC voltage output of a solar panel to switched quasi-square wave...

Title: DYNAMIC ENERGY DISTRIBUTION IN SMART GRIDS ENABLED BY INTERNET OF THINGS SENSORS AND HYBRID TELECOM NETWORKS
Author: Bikmetov, Ravil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Power resources, Operations research
Description: ABSTRACTRAVIL BIKMETOV. Dynamic Energy Distribution in Smart Grids Enabled by Internet of Things Sensors and Hybrid Telecom Networks. (Under the direction of DR. YASIN RAJA)Ability to manage energy consumption and generation is a major feature of ...