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Title: Modeling the Effects of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems on Driver Behavior
Author: Gouribhatla, Raghuveer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: About 38,000 fatalities are reported every year in the United States and traffic crashes (referred to as crashes) are the leading cause of deaths among people up to 54 years. Additionally, economic loss due to crashes is estimated equal to $380 mi...

Title: Predictors of Perceived Scarcity: The Impact of Demographic Factors, Objective Socioeconomic Status, and Subjective Social Status
Author: Dillon-Owens, Cody
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Perceived scarcity is a relatively new construct conceptualized to be a subjective indicator of perceived resource availability that captures factors previously unaccounted for by traditional, objective indicators of socioeconomic status (SES). Li...

Title: Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress During a Pandemic: An Understanding of the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on a University Community
Author: Bello-Ogunu, Faustina
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Mental health, Education, Higher
Description: COVID-19 is a viral infectious disease that first occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and by March 2020, it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Mental health – especially as it relates to physical distancing, loneliness...

Title: Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC
Author: Yankech, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sedimentology
Description: MATTHEW ROBERT YANKECH. Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DIEMER). Near Lilesville, North Carolina, on the western margin of the Fall Zone, there occur up...

Title: Project Termination Quality and its Influence on Organizational Learning and Project Management Success
Author: Cardella, Craig
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Project Management activities have become an integral part of almost every organization. Most of the effort on a project tends to occur in the middle of a project with a substantial focus on the planning and execution phases, but with limited emph...

Title: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Neoliberal and Post-neoliberal Bolivia: A Study of Two Films
Author: Flores, Bertha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, Religion
Description: ABSTRACTThe objective of this thesis is to use two films: Marcos Loayza’s Cuestión de fe (1995) and Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s The Devil’s Miner (2005) to analyze their representations of Indigenous religious practices. I focus on two dif...

Title: Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
Author: Marshall, Sylvia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
Description: On December 1, 1955, news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through the city of Montgomery. Though not the first African American to challenge segregated seating on public transportation, Parks' arrest sparked a carefully organized thirteen-month ...

Title: Novel Front Grid Designs and Analyses of High Efficiency Crystalline Solar Cells
Author: Rodriguez, Alan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The efficiency of a solar can be limited by reflection through both the front gridlinesand non-gridline regions. In the later, poor texturing, non-optimum thickness and refractive index of the antireflection coating (ARC), could be responsible, wh...

Title: PV-Battery Series Integration for Residential Solar-Plus-Storage Systems
Author: Kim, Namwon
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Solar-plus-storage systems provide efficient energy yield and management, resilience,and more revenue to residential houses and buildings. In solar-plus-storage systems, power electronics converters are integral components to generate the maximum ...

Title: Perceived Racial Discrimination’s Association With Procedural Justice as Moderated by Organizational Efforts to Support Diversity: A Replication and Extension of Triana & García (2009)
Author: Oshana, Adoril
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Racial-ethnic minorities (i.e., those who do not identify as White alone, not Hispanic or Latinx) compose about 40% of the U.S. population. Social justice initiatives resulted in the government providing protections for such minorities in the work...

Title: Procedural Justice, Face Validity, and Departure from Expectations in Selection Procedures as Antecedents of Anticipated Organizational Support
Author: Roatch, Jackson
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Although perceived organizational support (POS) is a widely studied construct with well-established antecedents and consequences, less is known about how perceptions are formed in the early stages of the individual-organization relationship. Build...

Title: Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors
Author: Green, Courtney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Engineering
Description: COURTNEY SUSANNE GREEN. Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors. (Under the direction of DRS. SANDRA DIKA AND XIAOXIA NEWTON) This correlational study utilize...

Title: Photovoltaic and Concentrated Solar Power Generation and Water Desalination in Arid Desert Regions
Author: Alsarraf, Faisal
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: To evaluate the feasibility of solar power plants for both power generation and water desalination in arid desert locations, A Photovoltaic power plant was compared to a Concentrated Solar Power plant at different design capacities in the selected...

Title: Dissecting The Salivary Gland: Epithelial-Centered Dysfunction in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Author: Noll, Braxton
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology
Description: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disease of exocrine tissues causing dry mouth and eyes, mainly affecting women. A culmination of etiologic events leads to the loss of epithelial homeostasis resulting in the MMP9-mediated destruct...

Title: Short Term Ex-ante Load Forecasting
Author: Li, Yike
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Short-term load forecasting (STLF) is a conventional process at power companies to serve for better decision-making in their daily operations. Weather factors play a key role in STLF. In practice, an online STLF system typically requires the use o...

Title: “You Good, Bruh?” An Exploration of the Influence of Race and Masculinity on Millennial Black Men’s Decisions to Seek Mental Health Treatment
Author: Cofield, Demetrius
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: In recent years there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of mental illness among millennials. However, there is still a significantly lower rate of Black millennials, specifically Black men, utilizing mental health services compared...

Title: The Local Dynamics of Basement Membrane Breaching During Cancer Cell Invasion
Author: Nazari, Shayan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Solid tumor metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Cancer invasion through the confining basement membrane (BM) is the initial step in tumor dissemination and metastasis, and it represents a key diagnostic feature of cancer. ...

Title: Social and Emotional Teaching Practices in Kindergarten through Second Grade Classrooms: A Multiple-Perspective Case Study of K-2 Educators
Author: Meinecke, Ashley
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Early childhood education
Description: ABSTRACTASHLEY MEINECKE. Social and Emotional Teaching Practices in Kindergarten through Second Grade Classrooms: A Multiple-Perspective Case Study of K-2 Educators. (Under the direction of DR. AMY GOOD)Despite recurring arguments over the course ...

Title: An Integrated Circuit With Single Functional Unit Level Integration Of Electronic And Photonic Elements: Design Of The FET - LET Hybrid 6T SRAM And The Elements
Author: Pal, Antardipan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Continuous scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor technology over the past few decades following Moore’s law has led to significant enhancement in the speed and performance of computing architectures. In today’s world...

Title: HIJaX - Human Intent To JavaScript XSS Generator
Author: Frempong, Yaw
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Websites remain popular targets for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Although the prevalence of XSS attacks is on the rise, many developers do not have the cybersecurity expertise to secure their web applications against these attacks. Non-secu...