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- Title
- A 360° View of Psychiatric Boarding in the Emergency Department
- Author
- Veri, Shelby
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- This dissertation utilizes a three article approach to examine the current status of psychiatric boarding in the emergency department (ED). The number of ED visits for mental health concerns in the United States has been increasing for the past se...
- Title
- A Breadcrumb Network for Assisting with Autonomous Robot Localization
- Author
- Grabowsky, David
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Localization and communication are critical components for functioning autonomous robots. The infrastructure required or these operations commonly includes global positioning system (GPS) and easily recognizable and re-identifiable landmarks. Howe...
- Title
- A Cold Pot Does Not Boil: A Case Study Of The Virginia Beach City Municipal Center Shooting To Understand Disgruntled Employee Violence
- Author
- Bynum, Karly
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology
- Description
- The phenomenon of the violent disgruntled employee is a symptom of increasing mass violence in the U.S. Previous literature on mass violence in the workplace is mostly based on the individual psychologization of attackers. This case study is a rea...
- Title
- A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
- Author
- Alansari, Amir
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...
- Title
- A Critical, Empirical, and Reflexive Investigation of the Promise of Democratization in the Making Phenomenon
- Author
- Okerlund, Johanna
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- Many endeavors in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) align themselves with the promise of the democratization of technology production, a promise that has yet to be fulfilled due to gaps in access and underlying power dynamics. HCI has ...
- Title
- A Dynamic Approach to Optimizing Interventions and Mitigating Contagion Impacts in Financial Networks
- Author
- Farthing, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics, Finance, Economics
- Description
- While modern financial networks are so large, complex, and dynamic that the interactions between their members are impossible to model in their entirety, mathematical models with some simplifying assumptions allow for effective study of network dy...
- Title
- A Legal Analysis of the Effects of Morse V. Frederick on Student Speech in K-12 Education
- Author
- Moree, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, School management and organization
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Morse v. Frederick on student speech in K-12 public schools. Cases meeting the research criteria were selected from federal court districts. Those cases were briefed and analyzed. The resul...
- Title
- A Multiple Case Study on the Lived Experiences of Five Upper Elementary School Teachers Who Transitioned from Traditional Grading Practices to Standards-Based Grading Practices
- Author
- Frazier, Meghan
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Through a qualitative multiple case study, the researcher’s goal in conducting this study was to investigate and understand the experiences of five upper elementary teachers in grades three through five who transitioned from traditional grading pr...
- Title
- A Phenomenological Content Analysis of Siblings' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems
- Author
- Aucoin, Rose
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology
- Description
- ABSTRACTROSE M. AUCOIN. A Phenomenological Research Study of Peoples' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems. (Under the direction of DR. TARYNE M. MINGO) Research indicates that substance use of a family member ...
- Title
- A Phenomenological Study of African American College Students' Recovery Experiences In A Collegiate Recovery Program
- Author
- Huggins, Marie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- This study examined the experiences of recovery among African American college students participating in collegiate recovery programs (CRPs). A phenomenological qualitative approach was utilized to collect and analyze data. The purpose of this stu...
- Title
- A Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Breaking Down Volatile Organic Compounds to Improve Health and Productivity of Occupants
- Author
- Bapat, Ketki Prashant
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Architecture
- Description
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the pollutants that impact indoor air quality, leading to many adverse health effects such as Asthma, and other breathing issues. Most of the VOCs are harmful and carcinogenic, usually emitted by indoor...
- Title
- A Pilot Study of Gastro-Intestinal Parasites in Two U.S. Captive Free-Ranging Lemur Populations
- Author
- Corbett II, Philip
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Physical anthropology, Zoology, Parasitology
- Description
- A comparative gastrointestinal parasite study was conducted looking at different lemur species and their parasite prevalence and diversity at two Association of Zoo & Aquarium accredited facilities, the Duke Lemur Center and Lemur Conservation Fou...
- Title
- A TARGETED APPROACH TO PROVIDE WEATHER GUIDANCE FOR GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS BASED ON ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE AND PERSONAL WEATHER MINIMUMS
- Author
- Dennstaedt, Scott
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Meteorology, Atmospheric science
- Description
- Over the last two decades, general aviation pilots in the United States, especially those who fly light fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, have portrayed high rates of vulnerability to weather-related accidents. This high vulnerability rate is i...
- Title
- A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
- Author
- Kincaid, Nicki
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Reading
- Description
- This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...
- Title
- A path dependent quantum approximate optimization algorithm optimized by pairwise correlation of angles
- Author
- Daniel, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Physics
- Description
- Given the current promise of quantum computing to increase the efficiency of optimization algorithms, it is important to utilize these quantum algorithms for useful applications. The quantum approximate optimization algorithm was recently develope...
- Title
- AI Based Realistic Multi-Hop Wireless Simulation
- Author
- pothuneedi, tagore
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- Wireless multi-hop networks and software-defined networking (SDN) are emerging technologies in wireless communications for deploying cost-efficient programmable network backbones. However, the physical testbeds do not provide scalable environments...
- Title
- APE2 is a Critical Regulator of the DNA Damage Response to Maintain Genome Integrity in Mammalian Cells
- Author
- HOSSAIN, MD AKRAM
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Biology, Cytology
- Description
- The maintenance of genome integrity and fidelity is essential for the proper function and survival of all organisms. Recent studies have revealed that APE2 is required for the activation of an ATR-Chk1 DNA damage response (DDR) pathway in response...
- Title
- Abusive Supervision and Subordinate Characteristics: A Relative Importance Analysis
- Author
- Durham, Brooks
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
- Description
- Abusive supervision is defined as the sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behaviors, excluding physical contact by a supervisor or leader. Abusive supervision is pervasive in the workplace and has many pernicious consequences, rangin...
- Title
- Access Control Design and Implementation for Direct Memory Access Attack
- Author
- Hughes, Marcus
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- With technology advancements and becoming prevalent in everyday lives, the need for robust and comprehensive security measures is growing. To defend against brute force type of attacks, encryption algorithms have been used to keep user information...
- Title
- Active Cyber Defense Planning and Orchestration
- Author
- Islam, Md Mazharul
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- The overwhelming number of recent data breaches reported that hundreds of terabytes of highly sensitive information, including national, financial, and personal, have been stolen from different organizations, indicating a clear asymmetric disadvan...