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Title: What are the differences between effective and ineffective charter schools?
Author: Stone, Cedric
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation
Description: ABSTRACTThis purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the North Carolina charter schools. The variables were chosen based on the researcher's inference from literature reviews discussing common factors from qualitative charter...

Title: Understanding the Structure of Information Visualization Through Visual Metaphors
Author: Ziemkiewicz, Caroline
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: Information visualization is an increasingly widespread way to present and analyze complex data, but there is much we still do not know about how people understand visually presented information. Every visualization contains certain assumptions ab...

Title: Understanding deliberate self-harm among college women: Applying feminist theory to the affect regulation model
Author: Hypes, Annada
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: This study examined potential contributors to self-harm behavior (DSH) among college women aged 18-25 years (N = 447). A model explaining DSH lifetime history among young women was tested, bridging feminist thought with the affect regulation model...

Title: UNDERSTANDING EXECUTIVE TURNOVER: EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC CHANGES
Author: Gordon, Heather
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: Previous studies examining the predictors of turnover have focused on lower-level employees rather than executives in the upper-ranks of the organization. The few studies that have examined executive turnover have failed to differentiate turnover ...

Title: The role of the sex steroids in regulation of physical activity levels in mice
Author: Bowen, Robert
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology, Physiology
Description: Low physical activity (PA) levels are associated with many chronic diseases and place a massive burden on the health care system. The extrinsic environment has been suggested to regulate activity levels, but an increasing prevalence of physical in...

Title: The effect of multiple interventions on freshman college student engagement and retention
Author: Lehmuller, Peter
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: College student retention has been widely studied in the past twenty five years, and institutions have developed numerous interventions aimed at improving student retention and persistence-to-degree. A number of theories have been promulgated to e...

Title: The Impact of Parental Involvement on the Literacy Achievement of Low-Income Pre-Kindergarten Students
Author: Williams, LaWanda
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The focus of this correlational study was to determine whether and to what degree a statistical relationship exists between parental involvement and literacy achievement for pre-kindergarten students from poverty-stricken backgrounds. Secondarily,...

Title: The Effects of Peer-Mediated Embedded Instruction on Inclusive Inquiry Science for Students with Severe Intellectual Disabilities
Author: Jimenez, Bree
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: There is a growing emphasis on meeting the diverse educational needs of all students which has drawn attention towards inclusive education. The number of students with severe disabilities receiving instruction in inclusive education settings has s...

Title: The Comparative Effects of Function-based Versus Nonfunction-based Interventions on the Social Behavior of African American Students
Author: Mustian, April
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: Disproportionality has been a persistent problem in special education for decades. Despite mandates outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004), African American students continue to be disproportionately r...

Title: THREE ESSAYS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, RISK AND CROSS LISTING
Author: Zhang, Xinde
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Business
Description: In Chapter 1, we set up an equilibrium model which emphasizes cost of corporate governance. The model indicates that better corporate governance increases the likelihood of dispersed corporate ownership structure. In Chapter 2, we use a sample of ...

Title: THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SPECTRALLY HYPERVISCOUS MODELS OF TURBULENT FLOW
Author: Xiao, Chang
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: Computing turbulent flow is very difficult but forms the basis for computational experiments in Meteorology and Oceanography. To overcome the difficulty and complexity in turbulence computation, a spectrally hyperviscous version of Navier-Stokes e...

Title: THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE: A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE
Author: Niu, Yuan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Supply chain management has become an increasingly important management tool to help organizations improve their business operations. Although information and communication technologies have been used extensively in supply chains, there is a lack ...

Title: THE EFFECT OF TARGET SECONDARY STRUCTURE ON MICROARRAY DATA QUALITY
Author: Ratushna, Vladyslava
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: DNA microarrays have become an invaluable high throughput biotechnology method, which allows a parallel investigation of thousands of cellular events in a single experiment. The principle behind the technology is very simple: fluorescently labeled...

Title: THE EFFECT OF MENTORING AND EXTENDED LEARNING PROGRAM ON NORTH CAROLINA END-OF-COURSE TESTS
Author: Gibbs, Portia
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Education, Secondary
Description: ABSTRACTPORTIA GIBBS-ROSEBORO. The effect of a mentoring and extended learning program on North Carolina end-of-course Tests. (Under the direction of DR. COREY LOCK)The purpose of this research study was to determine if effective interventions in ...

Title: TERRESTRIAL LIDAR-BASED BRIDGE EVALUATION
Author: Liu, Wanqiu
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Considering the over half million bridges in the US state highway system, more than 70% of which were built before 1935, it is of little wonder that bridge maintenance and management is facing severe challenges and the significant funding scarcity...

Title: T-algebras and Efimov's problem
Author: Pichardo Mendoza, Roberto
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: We study the topological properties of minimally generated algebras (as introduced by Koppelberg) and, particularly, the subclass of T-algebras (a notion due to Koszmider) and its connection with Efimov's problem.We show that the class of T-algebr...

Title: Social support and health outcomes among individuals living with HIV in the Deep South
Author: LeGrand, Sara
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Public health, Social sciences--Research
Description: ABSTRACTSARA HAYES LEGRAND. Social support and health outcomes among individuals living with HIV in the Deep South. (Under the direction of DR. TERESA L. SCHEID) Study Purposes: The purposes of this study were: 1) to provide a more comprehensive d...

Title: Sexual Dimorphism in Sepsis Susceptibility: Effects of Reproductive Hormones on Pattern Recognition Receptor Expression
Author: Rettew, Jennifer
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Cytology
Description: Sex-based differences in innate immune responses to bacterial infection are evident in human patients and animal models of disease. Females are less susceptible to the development of bacterial infections and subsequent bacteremia and/or sepsis whi...

Title: SYSTEMATIC POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
Author: Xu, Wenjuan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Determining whether a given policy meets a site's high-level security goals has been a challenging task, due to the low-level nature and complexity of the policy language, various security requirements and the multiple policy violation patterns. I...

Title: START: Supporting, Training, And Retaining Teachers
Author: Davis II, James
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The literature on teacher retention is abundant, yet the focus on new teachers themselves is limited. This research study provides a detailed description of what beginning teachers reported made them want to stay at one middle school with a 100% t...