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Title: A CASE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS OF A NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Author: Harris, Letitia
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: As the United States struggles with issues regarding the rapidly increasing immigrant population, so do public schools struggle with providing the youth of this non-English speaking population a quality education. Because of the requirements and s...

Title: A COMPARATIVE EXPLORATION OF CULTURE CHANGE IN NURSING HOMES: THE RESIDENTS' PERSPECTIVE
Author: Murray, Louise
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Gerontology
Description: The need to provide an environment that ensures both quality care and quality of life for residents of nursing homes has long been recognized. The culture change movement in nursing homes emphasizes both principles. This mixed-methodology research...

Title: A Case Study of Hispanic Middle School Students In An ESL Classroom: Discourses In Academic Reading Instruction
Author: Andrews, Horace
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month ...

Title: A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS
Author: Lutz, Cheryl
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational technology
Description: CHERYL LEE LUTZ. A study of the effect of Interactive Whiteboards on student achievement and Teacher Instructional Methods. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN GRETES) Students today are digital natives. They grow up immersed in technology long befor...

Title: A Study of the Attitudes of University of North Carolina Education Faculty Toward the Use of Computer-Based Simulation in Pre-service Teacher Education Methods Courses
Author: Englebert, Mary
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Teachers--Training of, Educational technology
Description: ABSTRACTMARY F. ENGLEBERT: A study of the attitudes of University of North Carolina education faculty toward the use of computer-based simulation in pre-service teacher education methods courses. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN GRETES) The use of...

Title: ALPINE AND SUBALPINE LANDSCAPE RESPONSE TO POST-GLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS: A COMPARISON OF NEW LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS
Author: Johnson, Bradley
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Paleoclimatology
Description: Post-glacial interactions between climate, landscapes, and soils remain poorly understood, especially in alpine and sub-alpine areas. Here, I aim to increase understanding of the dynamic interactions between climate, landscape evolution, and soil ...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYEES' DECISIONS TO USE ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR NON-WORK PURPOSES
Author: Campbell, Stephen
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: Internet access in the workplace has become ubiquitous in many organizations. Often, employees need this access to perform their duties. However, many studies report a large percentage of employees use their work Internet access for non-work-relat...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SUCCESS OF ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES
Author: Foreman, Brian
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Organizational sociology
Description: ABSTRACTBRIAN KEITH FOREMAN. An investigation of the success of organizations involved in community engagement initiatives. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID M. DUNAWAY)Organizations seeking to invest human and financial resources in community-bui...

Title: AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF INTELLIGENT TUTORING CAPABILITIES VIA EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING
Author: Stamper, John
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Educational technology
Description: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that adapt to an individual student's needs have shown significant improvement in achievement over non-adaptive instruction. This improvement occurs due to the individualized instruction and feedback that an ITS...

Title: An Exploration of the Diffusion Dynamics of Open Source Software (OSS): An Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach
Author: Zaffar, Muhammad
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business, Information science
Description: Despite the rising popularity of Open Source Software (OSS), there is limited understanding of the factors that affect the diffusion of OSS at the organizational level. Review of the literature suggests that previous empirical and analytical studi...

Title: Behavioral Modeling of Zinc-Oxide, Thin-Film, Field-Effect Transistors and the Design of Pixel Driver, Analog Amplifier, and Low-Noise RF Amplifier Circuits
Author: Calder, Leroy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Zinc-oxide (ZnO) is of great interest due to transparent properties, high breakdown voltages, and low cost. Behavioral modeling is presented in this dissertation to model ZnO thin-film field-effect transistor (FET) drain current versus gate-source...

Title: Braid Indices in a Class of Closed Braids
Author: Hinson, Kenneth
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: A long-standing problem in knot theory concerns the additivity of crossing numbers of links under the connected sum operation. It is conjectured that if L₁ and L₂ are links, then Cr(L₁#L₂)=Cr(L₁)+Cr(L₂), but so far this has been proved only for ce...

Title: CHARACTERIZATION OF ENGINEERED SURFACES
Author: Verma, Ritwik
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: In the recent years there has been an increasing interest in manufacturing products where surface topography plays a functional role. These surfaces are called engineered surfaces and are used in a variety of industries like semi conductor, data s...

Title: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS
Author: Carmichael, Theodore
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Social structure, Cytology
Description: Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These thres...

Title: Complex photonic crystals for broadband "all-angle" self-collimation
Author: Chuang, Yi-Chen
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Self-collimation is a dispersion property of many photonic crystals (PCs), in which light beam can propagate free of divergence in the PCs. While self-collimation is a desired property for applications related to wave guiding and light collection,...

Title: DIGITAL PIRACY: AN ASSESSMENT OF CONSUMER PIRACY RISK AND OPTIMAL SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION STRATEGIES
Author: Jeong, Bong
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Digital piracy and the emergence of new distribution channels have changed the dynamics of supply chain coordination and created many interesting problems. There has been increased attention to understanding the phenomenon of consumer piracy behav...

Title: DRUG CONTROL POLICIES: THE CASES OF COLOMBIA AND THE UNITED STATES
Author: Bottia, Martha
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Criminology
Description: The consumption, production and trafficking of illicit drugs is one of the major problems facing nearly all societies today. Unfortunately, illicit drugs have the ability to disintegrate persons, families and, in some extreme cases, entire societi...

Title: Disentangling the Complex Racial Disparities in Health among Adult Beneficiaries under Medicaid Managed Care: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Author: Sun, Chengxiu
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Health services administration, Public health--Study and teaching
Description: There are few studies of the important issue of racial and ethnic disparities in Medicaid managed care settings. This study addresses this deficiency using data collected by telephone interviews from a randomly stratified sample of adults who were...

Title: EFFECTS OF A MULTIMEDIA GOAL-SETTING INTERVENTION ON STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF-DETERMINED LEARNING MODEL OF INSTRUCTION AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR
Author: Mazzotti, Valerie
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: Preadolescence is a critical time in the life of children because during this time individuals experience increased social pressure and make decisions that lead to lasting peer relationships (Farmer et al., 2008). Students at-risk for, or with, em...

Title: Effective Data Parallel Computing on Multicore Processors
Author: Byun, Jong-Ho
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The rise of chip multiprocessing or the integration of multiple general purpose processing cores on a single chip (multicores), has impacted all computing platforms including high performance, servers, desktops, mobile, and embedded processors. Pr...