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SIGNALING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
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Author
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Abberger, Claire
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Industrial management
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Description
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This study addresses gaps in the recruitment literature by drawing on signaling theory to explore how Fortune 500 firms (n = 91) signal CSR initiatives to attract applicants. A mixed-methods design incorporating topic modeling and qualitative inte...
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NONPROPAGATING EXCITATIONS IN 2-D
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Author
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Abney, Ray
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Physics
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Description
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Nonpropagating excitations have been studied in 1-D and in 3-D, but not so much in 2-D. So, this thesis concerns 2-D nonpropagating excitations. In particular, we construct nonpropagating excitations confined to an annulus under a time-independent...
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Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
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Author
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Amezquita, Joseph
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
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Description
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An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...
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Discrete Element Simulations of Powder Spreading in Additive Manufacturing
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Author
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Amrapurkar, Parth
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Physics
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Description
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Powder spreading plays a critical role in the quality of parts produced with selective laser sintering (SLS). Some of the important parameters that influence the quality of the powder bed are the powder particle size and distribution, blade speed,...
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Title
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HAS THE SHRIMPING INDUSTRY BOUNCED BACK SINCE DEEPWATER HORIZON?
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Author
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BROWNSTEIN, JONATHAN
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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Nearly fifteen months after the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill of April 20, 2010, later characterized as one of the largest accidental oil spills in United States history, BP submitted findings showing that the Gulf economy reached pre-spill act...
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Visual sonar: Estimating depth using sound waves and neuromorphic cameras
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Author
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Bagepalli, Abhijith
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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This thesis proposes a novel method to recover depth of scene objects using an acoustic source and a calibrated neuromorphic camera or event camera sensor. The proposed system is a non-contact, monocular depth estimation method that observes subtl...
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NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Author
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Baisley, Richard
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revea...
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DO DYNAMIC ALLOSTERIC EFFECTS OCCUR IN IGG4 ANTIBODIES?
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Author
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Baker, Lonnie
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics, Biophysics
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Description
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Antibodies are large, multi-chain proteins which play a critical roll in the func-tioning of vertebrate immune systems. Immune effector cells which are responsiblefor the destruction of foreign antigens do not randomly target molecules but rely on...
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Guidance for Use of Construction and Industrial Waste By-products in Concrete
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Author
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Bansal, Akshay
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering
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Description
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This thesis presents a study to synthesize the published literature regarding the use of construction and industrial waste by-product as cement or aggregate in concrete, and aims to incorporate this knowledge along with findings of an agency and i...
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Treatment of Algal Toxins in Drinking Water with UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes
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Author
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Barancheshme, Fateme
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
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Description
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The occurrence of algal blooms and the possibility of production of algal toxins and contamination of drinking water resources have become a significant concern worldwide. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are currently known as one of the most ...
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Title
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Long Concavity of the Power Partition Function
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Author
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Benfield, Brennan
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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The main result of this paper is to prove the log concavity of a particular restricted partition Pk(n) that enumerates the partitions of a positive integer into perfect kth powers. Further investigation utilizing MATHEMATICA software yields numeri...
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Title
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A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
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Author
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Berberich, Samantha
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Geomorphology
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Description
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Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...