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A Case Study of the Strategic Staffing Initiative Used In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
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Author
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March, Kendra
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational leadership
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Description
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Accountability standards challenge schools to provide quality education for all students and to ensure that all students are on grade level by the end of the school year. If schools fall short of this challenge failing to make at least one year of...
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A Grounded Theory Study of Posttraumatic Growth and Wisdom in a Sample of Oncology Nurses
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Author
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Vishnevsky, Tanya
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Medical sciences, Oncology
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Description
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This study utilized a grounded theory approach to examine the degree to which oncology nurses report posttraumatic growth (PTG) and wisdom as a result of caring for patients. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 oncology nurses; interviews...
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A Random Hierarchical Laplacian
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Author
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Ray, Elijah
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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The Hierarchical Laplacian, proposed in Dyson's theory of one-dimensional ferromagnetic phase transitions, has a discrete spectrum with each isolated eigenvalue having infinite multiplicity. As a result, the integrated density of states is piecewi...
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A Study of the Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement
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Author
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Crawford, Jamal
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational leadership, Education and state, Educational sociology
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Description
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No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, was the signature education legislation of the George W. Bush administration. NCLB was but the latest evolution of at least two pre...
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A numerical study of tillage tool wear during plowing of sandy soil
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Author
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GOEL, GAURAV
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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Wear of tillage tools during tilling operations leads to increase in power requirements, frequent downtimes for tool replacement, loss of production and an increase in the equipment and operational costs. A large number of variables - such as the ...
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A study of surface modification effect of hemp fibers on the bulk material properties of hemp-poly (lactic acid) composites: thermal stability, mechanical, therm0-mechanical and biodegradability
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Author
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Oza, Shubhashini
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering, Sustainability, Environmental engineering
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Description
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Biocomposites made with, natural fiber and bio-based polymers, have many advantages over their synthetic counterparts including low cost, low density, high strength and biodegradability. However, some biocomposites can present problems due to high...
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ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUIT NETWORKS
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Author
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Khan, Muhammad Safeer
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Sound
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Description
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Analysis of acoustic signal propagation in conduit networks has been an important area of research in acoustics. One major aspect of analyzing conduit networks as acoustic channels is that a propagating signal suffers frequency dependent attenuati...
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An Examination of the Credit Rating Industry
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Author
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Schorno, Patrick
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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Starting in the early 2000s, after the accounting scandals involving Enron and WorldCom and continuing throughout the subsequent structured finance debacle of 2008, credit rating agencies have been criticized for the inaccuracy of their ratings. A...
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An evaluation of an intervention for HPV risk reduction among college-aged women
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Author
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Sweeney, Jocelyn
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Health education
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Description
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The goal of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a group intervention in reducing risk in relation to human papillomavirus (HPV) among sexually active, college-aged women. Using a randomized design, the current study examined the effectiv...
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Asymptotic Normality of Entropy Estimators
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Author
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Zhang, Xing
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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Shannon's entropy plays a central role in many fields of mathematics. In the first chapter, we present a sufficient condition for the asymptotic normality of the plug-in estimator of Shannon's entropy defined on a countable alphabet. The sufficien...
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BORON CARBIDE NANOWIRES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
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Author
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Guan, Zhe
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science
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Description
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Bulk boron carbide has been widely used in ballistic armored vest and the property characterization has been heavily focused on mechanical properties. Even though boron carbides have also been projected as a promising class of high temperature the...
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Best Practices for Building Hardware Designs for Living Computational Science Applications
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Author
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Pottathuparambil, Robin
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
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Description
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Scientific computing or Computational science, is a field of study where engineers and scientists use computer simulations to solve equations that model the physical world. In some cases, these equations come from the first principles of physics. ...
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Binary Edwards Curves in Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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Author
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Enos, Graham
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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Edwards curves are a new normal form for elliptic curves that exhibit some cryptographically desirable properties and advantages over the typical Weierstrass form. Because the group law on an Edwards curve (normal, twisted, or binary) is c...
