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Title: A CASE STUDY OF AN EFFECTIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ALGEBRA I TEACHER
Author: Linton, Patricia
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education
Description: ABSTRACTPATRICIA LORRAINE CURTIS LINTON. A case study of an effective middle school Algebra I teacher. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID K. PUGALEE)Using a qualitative case study approach, the research was an exploration of the perceptions of midd...

Title: A CONVERTIBLE-BOND-PRICING METHOD BASED ON BOND PRICES ON MARKETS
Author: Shi, Qiang
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: ABSTRACTQIANG SHI. A convertible-bond-pricing method based on bond prices on markets.(Under the direction of DR. YOU-LAN ZHU)This thesis is devoted to evaluating two-factor convertible bonds. Different zero-coupon bond curves are inputted when eva...

Title: A Growth-Based Approach to the Automatic Generation of Navigation Meshes
Author: Hale, David
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Providing an understanding of space in game and simulation environments is one of the major challenges associated with moving artificially intelligent characters through these environments. The usage of some form of navigation mesh has become the ...

Title: A PROCESS TO EVALUATE COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE PACKAGES THAT ESTIMATE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY THROUGH SIMULATION
Author: BEAMAN, JONATHAN
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) can be used to measure a great variety of parts. Essentially, any three-dimensional surface can be evaluated. Characterizing the measurement uncertainty in a way that maintains traceability in accordance with i...

Title: A Sense of Preparation: Perceptions of Alternative Licensure Teacher Candidates
Author: Brigman, Marsha
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of
Description: This study explored alternative licensure teacher candidates' perceptions of preparedness for the classroom based on the principles and standards of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) which serve as a common set ...

Title: A VISUAL ANALYTICS APPROACH TO FEATURE DISCOVERY AND SUBSPACE EXPLORATION IN PROTEIN FLEXIBILITY MATRICES
Author: Barlowe, Scott
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics
Description: The vast amount of information generated by domain scientists makes the transitionfrom data to knowledge difficult and often impedes important discoveries. Forexample, the knowledge gained from protein flexibility data sets can speed advancesin ge...

Title: A Woman in a Man's World: The Political Attitudes of Women and the Role of Representation
Author: Wemlinger, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Sex role
Description: Gender plays an important role in shaping attitudes, constraining roles, and perpetuating values. Historically women have been removed from the public and political environment, not allowed to vote, to freely work, and to attend educational instit...

Title: A comparison of Spanish and English multimedia shared story interventions on the acquisition of English vocabulary for English language learners with an intellectual disability
Author: Rivera, Christopher
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Multicultural education, Education
Description: Literature on the development of literacy skills for students with a moderate to severe intellectual disability is growing; however, little is known about effective literacy practices for Hispanic English language learners with a moderate intellec...

Title: A novel positional sensor for 3D vascular reconstruction
Author: Merritt, John
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Information technology
Description: Abstract Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a device that is surgically inserted into a femoral artery, or vein, to aid in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. Correctly locating the IVUS tip facilitates accurate 3D vascular reconstruction. Re...

Title: A two-stage framework for designing visual analytics systems to augment organizational analytical processes
Author: Wang, Xiaoyu
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A perennially interesting research topic in the field of visual analytics is how to effectively develop systems that support organizational knowledge worker's decision- making and reasoning processes. The primary objective of a visual analytic sys...

Title: A virtual pebble game to emsemble average graph rigidity
Author: Gonzalez, Luis
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics
Description: Previous works have demonstrated that protein rigidity is related to thermodynamic stability, especially under conditions that favor formation of native structure. Mechanical network rigidity properties of a single conformation are efficiently cal...

Title: AN EFFICIENT DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMIZE POWER-EFFICIENT HETEROGENEOUS MANY-CORE MULTI-THREADING EMBEDDED PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
Author: Datta, Kushal
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: By the middle of this decade, uniprocessor architecture performance had hit a roadblock due to a combination of factors, such as excessive power dissipation due to high operating frequencies, growing memory access latencies, diminishing returns on...

Title: ANTECEDENTS OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP:
Author: Carson, Marisa
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial, Social sciences--Research
Description: Robust, positive relationships have been evidenced between transformational leadership and several workplace outcomes; however, less is known about the individual differences that predispose some individuals to engage in transformational leadershi...

Title: ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS OF THE ANDERSON PARABOLIC PROBLEM AND THE MOSER'S TYPE OPTIMAL STOPPING PROBLEM
Author: ZHANG, HAO
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: The central objects of the thesis are the Anderson parabolic problem and the Moser's type optimal stopping problem:(1) In the lattice parabolic Anderson problem, we study the quenched and annealed asymptotics for the solutions of the lattice parab...

Title: Adaptive Network Protocols to Support Queries in Dynamic Networks
Author: LIU, DINGXIANG
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Recent technological advancements have led to the popularity ofmobile devices, which can dynamically form wireless networks.In order to discover and obtain distributed information, queriesare widely used by applications in opportunistically formed...

Title: Advances in Modern Botnet Understanding and the Accurate Enumeration of Infected Hosts
Author: Nunnery, Christopher
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Information science
Description: Botnets remain a potent threat due to evolving modern architectures, inadequate remediation methods, and inaccurate measurement techniques. In response, this research exposes the architectures and operations of two advanced botnets, techniques to ...

Title: An Intergenerational Oral History of African American Students in Edgecombe County, North Carolina from 1930-1980
Author: Mungo, Sequoya
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The literature about the history of African American education must continue to move beyond deficit-centered research and further explore the varied perceptions and experiences of African Americans from their perspectives. Traditional research oft...

Title: Analysis of failure time data with missing and informative auxiliary covariates.
Author: Ghosh, Lipika
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics, Biometry
Description: In this dissertation we use Cox's regression model to failure time data with continuous informative auxiliary variables in the presence of a validation subsample. The work is motivated by a common problem of missing or mismeasured covariates in su...

Title: Architectural and mobility management designs in internet-based infrastructure wireless mesh networks
Author: Zhao, Weiyi
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Communication
Description: Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently emerged to be a cost-effective solution to support large-scale wireless Internet access. They have numerous applications, such as broadband Internet access, building automation, and intelligent transport...

Title: Architecture Estimation from Sparse Images using Grammatical Shape Priors for Cultural Heritage
Author: Sui, Yunfeng
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: The estimation and reconstruction of 3D architectural structures is of great interest in computer vision, as well as cultural heritage. This dissertation proposes a novel approach to solve the difficult problem of estimating architectural structur...