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Title: Hierarchical decentralized optimal control and reconfiguration of networked microgrids in the power distribution system
Author: Ingalalli, Aravind
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Advancements in information and communication technology, decentralized digital economic structures, and data-driven learning-based technology have transformed distribution networks as a system of systems in recent decades. With the rapid integrat...

Title: Integrated Facade Simulator: Dynamic Tool to Study The Impact of Solar Radiation on Human Facade Interaction
Author: Hosseinzadeh Zarrabi, Amir
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Scandinavian literature
Description: Today, people are spending more than 90% of their time indoors, that has a great influence on their well-being and visual and thermal satisfaction. In addition, the building sector, as a major urban infrastructure, consumes about 40% of global pro...

Title: Caught in the Middle: Middle School Principals' Perceptions of Traditional And Standards-based Grading Practices
Author: Nash, Susann
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The goal of this qualitative study was to understand middle school principals’ perceptions of leading a transition from traditional grading to standards-based grading (SBG). Using a multiple case study approach six middle school principals who wor...

Title: Exploring the Effects of a Daily Audio-Guided Mindfulness Intervention for Teachers
Author: Parsons, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Teachers are experiencing high levels of stress resulting in higher attrition rates that are impacting student achievement and placing considerable burdens on schools. The practice of mindfulness in the classroom may be a way to help teachers cope...

Title: The Effectiveness of Charismatic Signaling by Gender: A Prospective Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: While charismatic leadership tactics (CLTs) have been validated across a variety of settings and shown to improve leader evaluations and cause follower behaviors, the role gender may play in charismatic leadership has been understudied. The presen...

Title: Gender Diversity, Conflict, and Psychological Safety in Teams: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination
Author: Redler, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Sociology, Management
Description: Teamwork is common in daily work life, and it is likely that, when working within teams, conflict may occur. Conflict negatively affects a team’s psychological safety – the feeling of safety and willingness to share one’s ideas and take risks whil...

Title: The Relationship Between Self-Verification and Emotion Regulation
Author: Glass, Shaina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Self-verification is a form of confirmation bias in which people seek feedback that is consistent with existing self-views, and which is believed to be a factor in the persistence of affective disorders. While prior research shows that cognitive b...

Title: Does Fit Matter? An Investigation of Employee-Supervisor Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation Fit on Innovative Work Behavior Within Established Organizations
Author: Piwowar, Theresa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management
Description: Within established organizations, employee innovative behavior is vital for the long-term survival of firms. Employee individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) represents tendencies by an individual toward innovativeness, proactiveness, and ris...

Title: Exploring Sense of Belonging Among First-Generation College, Second-Generation Immigrant Students
Author: Brais, Sayde
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Educational leadership, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of four-year university and college students identifying as first-generation in college (FGC) and second-generation immigrant (SGI) in the United States., with a focus on a sense of be...

Title: The Politicization of The 1619 Project—The Necessity for Transformative Curricula in Social Studies
Author: Rochester, Antoinette
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: In August 2019, The New York Times published what was said to be a "controversial" journalistic take on African American and American history. Written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, an awardee of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Genius Award, and her f...

Title: Reconceptualizing Community Violence Research: Redefining Safety Using Place-Based Methodologies and Enhancing Cross-Sector Data Sharing Models to Inform Community Violence Intervention Efforts in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Siegal, Rachel
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Community violence occurs primarily in public settings, frequently involves high-risk behaviors such as firearm use, and is often geographically concentrated as a result of racial and economic segregation enforced through policy and practice. Comm...

Title: Enhanced Thermal Imaging a Novel Imaging Technique for Monitoring Re-Perfusion Post-Operatively
Author: McGinnis, Cobey
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Biomedical engineering, Physics
Description: We are developing a real-time infrared imaging technique, Enhanced Thermal Imaging(ETI), that can detect blood vessels embedded in tissue and assess tissue perfusion. ETI is a combination of standard thermal imaging (8 - 10 μm) and selective heati...

Title: Brand Wonder
Author: Lee, Michael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Marketing, Industrial management
Description: Affect is a critical construct in marketing, particularly within the area of branding. Despite the extensive body of research on affect in marketing, there appears to be a substantial and surprising gap in the literature as it relates to one type ...

Title: "In His Country's Service:" Irish Catholic Military Participation in the First World War
Author: Glynn, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines how Irish Catholic and nationalist military participation in the Great War reflected colonial tensions between Ireland and Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Whereas prior scholars have tended to examine Irish Catho...

Title: Effect of Stroke Volume Variation Monitoring on Acute Kidney Injury after Robotic Enhanced Recovery Protocol Surgery
Author: Hile, Lloren
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medical sciences
Description: ABSTRACTLLOREN MCKENZIE HILE. Effect of Stroke Volume Variation Monitoring on Acute Kidney Injury after Robotic Enhanced Recovery Protocol Surgery. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID LANGFORD) Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most common com...

Title: Sexual Violence and Title IX: An Examination of the Nature and Outcomes of Title IX Sexual Violence Complainants
Author: Coates Quezada, Constance
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Sexual violence on college campuses is a salient threat to the health and well-being of students in higher education. Title IX legislation was developed to address and help reduce sex-based discrimination, including incidences of sexual violence, ...

Title: The Impact of Technology Use and Acceptance on Healthcare Outcomes and Performance for Patient Encounters and Visits: An extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2)
Author: Atem, Magbor
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Technology Usage has become an important topic because of disruptions in the healthcare space in recent years. Long wait times and service delivery times, reduced patient engagement and interaction on care plans, lack of access to just-in-time hea...

Title: Urban Dynamics: Longitudinal Causal Relationships And Future Time Series Forecasting
Author: Hatami, Faizeh
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: City planning
Description: Studying urban dynamics is essential given the ever-increasing changes in urban areas with all its ensuing consequences, whether negative or positive. It is of paramount importance to take into account the temporal dimension of urban dynamics when...

Title: Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing and Return Predictability
Author: Lu, Yueliang
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation contains three essays on empirical asset pricing. The first essay presents the first evidence on how macro trends affect equity risk premium, going beyond the literature that rely on only the most recent values. We show that macr...

Title: Understanding The Effects of Decision-Making Logics on Small Business Relative Profitability
Author: Click, Nathan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Entrepreneurship
Description: This study examines the decision-making logics of 220 small and micro-entrepreneurial businesses throughout the United States and presents a model for a better understanding of the impact of decision-making approaches on relative profitability thr...