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- Title
- A CULTURALLY ADAPTED INTERVENTION TO TREAT BINGE EATING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH BINGE EATING
- Author
- Scott, Tamara
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Binge eating (BE), a specific type of overeating, is characterized by a pattern of consuming unusually large amounts of food in a discrete period of time combined with a sense of loss of control. Although research suggests similar rates of binge e...
- Title
- A Case Study Examination of Male Former Youth Offenders' School Reentry Challenges and Factors Enabling Their Academic Success
- Author
- Glover, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Youth offenders often struggle to successfully return to their communities and schools after release from confinement. The reasons for this struggle are well documented, as is the fact that school engagement and success (before and after confineme...
- Title
- A Comparison of Developmental Mathematics Sequences at a North Carolina Community College Using a Markov Chain Model
- Author
- Peeler, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation
- Description
- This study compares students at a North Carolina community college taking a course-based developmental mathematics sequence to students taking a new, module-based emporium method developmental mathematics sequence using a Markov chain model to com...
- Title
- A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF CYBERBULLYING WITH SEXTING CASES
- Author
- Ayers, Dana
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Law
- Description
- The misuse of social media and technology is an emerging threat to adolescents. The court systems are being forced to address the legality and fine line of social media use and the First Amendment rights of those involved. This research study is a...
- Title
- A Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
- Author
- Najaf, Pooya
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning
- Description
- The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...
- Title
- A Post-modern Teacher Educator: A Phenomenological Study of Teacher Educators with Significant Experiences in High-Needs, High-Minority Urban Schools
- Author
- Robinson, Derrick
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Teachers--Training of, Education
- Description
- Four decades of university-based teacher education reform has failed to yield favorable outcomes in teacher effectiveness in P-12 schools. A rising tide of reform and criticism from governmental agencies and neo-liberal reformers has resulted in o...
- Title
- A framework for user-centric privacy management in smartphones regarding Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
- Author
- Bello-Ogunu, Emmanuel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Information technology
- Description
- Businesses and organizations such as retail stores, airports, and hospitals have begun to leverage the recent advances in localization technology to provide quality location-based services to their customers. Beacons are one example of this techno...
- Title
- A market for vice: The foundations of corporate strategic irresponsibility
- Author
- Stewart, Oscar
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Sociology, Ethics
- Description
- Organizational scholarship has assumed that corporate irresponsibility (CI) is largely detrimental to firm financial performance. Alternatively, CI may sometimes work in firms’ favor, though at the expense of stakeholders. Exploring this reality, ...
- Title
- A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
- Author
- LaPorte, Thomas
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
- Description
- Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...
- Title
- ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURE BASED-PREDICTION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES
- Author
- Farrel, Alvin
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Biology, Bioinformatics
- Description
- Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through binding to specific target DNA sites. Accurate annotation of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) at genome scale represents an essential step toward our understanding of gene regu...
- Title
- An Examination of Factors that Relate to School Counselors Knowledge and Skills of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
- Author
- Olsen, Jacob
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational counseling, Education
- Description
- Structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the factors that relate to school counselors’ knowledge and skills of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). A sample of 4,066 practicing school counselors who are members of the American School Couns...
- Title
- An Exploration of Factors Impacting Professional Identity Among Master’s Level Counseling Students
- Author
- McMullen, James
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational counseling, Counseling psychology, Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between program track, clinical experience, and supervisory relationship of counselors-in-training and their professional identity defined as counseling philosophy, beliefs about the profe...
- Title
- An analysis of administrative spending across education organizational forms
- Author
- Prieto, Tatia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, School management and organization
- Description
- This study compared administrative expenditures among 542 traditional school districts and 258 charter schools in Michigan, exploring whether one organizational model might better minimize administrative spending. A non-experimental correlational ...
- Title
- Analysis of semiparametric regression models for the cumulative incidence functions under the two-phase sampling designs.
- Author
- Lee, Unkyung
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Statistics, Mathematics
- Description
- Competing risks often arise where more than one event compete with each other for a subject. The cumulative incidence function is a proper summary quantity for analyzing competing risks data. In epidemiologic cohort studies, case-cohort study desi...
- Title
- Appropriate Measures of Effectiveness: Teacher Evaluations and Value-Added Measures in North Carolina
- Author
- Covington, Azure
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education and state
- Description
- The increased use of value-added measures is a result of policymakers viewing traditional measures of teacher effectiveness as obsolete and unrelated to student achievement. Additionally, literature lacks substantial findings examining the relatio...
- Title
- Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
- Author
- Dony, Coline
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Geodesy, City planning
- Description
- Better access to parks can increase our level of physical activity. Increasingly aware of this association and its impact on community health; urban leaders started incorporating access to parks as an indicator of quality of life. However, two stu...
- Title
- CHARACTERIZING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING (NGS) PLATFORMS FOR MULTIPLEXED BIOSENSING AND APTAMER DISCOVERY: G-QUADRUPLEX APTAMERS AS A CASE STUDY
- Author
- Patil, Sushant
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry
- Description
- Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules forming unique three dimensional structures that can bind to their targets (generally proteins or metabolites or other nucleic acids) with high specificity and affinity. Screening for aptamers requ...
- Title
- Can posttraumatic growth protect the mental and physical health of prostate cancer survivors?
- Author
- Addington, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Oncology
- Description
- Due to high incidence and survival rates of prostate cancer, mental and physical health outcomes of prostate cancer survivors are important public health issues. Some men with prostate cancer experience positive psychological changes known as post...
- Title
- Characterization of Individual Straight and Kinked Boron Carbide Nanowires
- Author
- Cui, Zhiguang
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
- Description
- Boron carbides represent a class of ceramic materials with p-type semiconductor natures, complex structures and a wide homogeneous range of carbon compositions. Bulk boron carbides have long been projected as promising high temperature thermoelect...
- Title
- Characterization of the cytokinin-responsive transcriptome in rice
- Author
- Loraine, Ann, Raines, Tracy, Blakley, Ivory, Kieber, Joseph J.
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Cytokinins
- Description
- Background: Cytokinin activates transcriptional cascades important for development and the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Most of what is known regarding cytokinin-regulated gene expression comes from studies of the dicotyledonous plant...