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- Title
- Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
- Author
- Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communicable diseases, Zika virus
- Description
- Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...
- Title
- Workplace Accommodations and People with Disabilities: The Dilemmatic Communicative Process of Requesting Access Technology
- Author
- Makkawy, Amin
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Communication
- Description
- This study consists of a qualitative investigation of how people with visual impairments manage access to technology at the workplace. By the use of Applied Thematic Data Analysis (Guest, MacQueen, & Namey, 2012), results of a questionnaire distri...
- Title
- Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
- Author
- Duscha, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Political science, Public administration
- Description
- This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost savings. This is contrary to widely accepted business practices and market theo...
- Title
- VISUAL ANALYTICS TOOLS PROVIDING INSIGHTS INTO TENNIS MATCHES
- Author
- Polk, Thomas
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- In this dissertation, I present a series of visual analytics tools designed to provide insights into tennis matches for the purpose of player improvement. These include analytic tools that can be divided into two basic categories: non-spatial-base...
- Title
- VIGNETTES OF SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK MALE STUDENTS AT A STEM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
- Author
- Adams, Tempestt
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Ensuring students graduate high school ready to enter college or the workforce has become a prime focus within secondary education. High school graduates are often ill-prepared for college-level work and often have to register for remedial courses...
- Title
- VARIABILITY IN PREOPERATIVE EMERGENCY UTILIZATIONS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INITIAL PRIMARY PACEMAKER INSERTION
- Author
- Roy, Debosree
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical sciences, Health services administration, Surgery
- Description
- Implantable pacemaker insertions are recommended for treating bradycardia, heart block, or both by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as healthcare policy groups, such as the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Associ...
- Title
- Utilizing smart inverter capabilities for management of high penetration renewable distributed generation integration in active distribution networks
- Author
- Chamana, Manohar
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- With a strong indication of high renewable distributed generation (DG) penetration increase in the near future, distribution system operators (DSOs) are burdened with challenges to manage their operation while also trying to solve the power qualit...
- Title
- Using formal methods towards improving cloud IaaS environments
- Author
- Al-Haj, Saeed
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- Cloud computing has become a prominent technology with the potential for tremendously positive effects on the future of computer networks and services. However, as the resources are shared in cloud environments, cloud security is a major concern. ...
- Title
- Using Nematostella vectensis to study the interactions between genome, epigenome, and bacteria in a changing environment
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Fraune, Sebastian, Foret, Sylvain
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- The phenotype of an animal cannot be explained entirely by its genes. It is now clear that factors other than the genome contribute to the ecology and evolution of animals. Two fundamentally important factors are the associated microbiota and epig...
- Title
- Understanding the Impact of Racism and Sexism on the Development of the Professional Identity of African American Women Principals
- Author
- Brown, Chrystal
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of racism and sexism in the development of the professional identity of African American women principals in public K-12 schools. African American women experience the principalship differently...
- Title
- USING COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS (CSIA) AND FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING TO QUANTIFY THE MASS CONTRIBUTION OF COMINGLED CHLORINATED ETHENE PLUMES
- Author
- Shiflet, Jason
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Hydrology, Environmental geology, Geochemistry
- Description
- Chlorinated solvents are present in soil and groundwater at thousands of sites across the United States. Resolving the remedial and fiscal responsibility of multiple potentially responsible parties at sites containing comingled chlorinated ethene ...
- Title
- UNDERSTANDING GENOME-WIDE GENE REGULATION IN PROKARYOTES USING OMICS DATA
- Author
- Seyedi Tabari, Seyed Ehsan
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Bioinformatics, Information science, Biometry
- Description
- Gene annotation is a critical step for understanding functions of genomes and host organisms. However, accurately annotating thousands of sequenced genomes can be a challenging task. Further, although gene transcriptional regulation is crucial for...
- Title
- Transient stability enhancement of modern power grid using predictive wide-area monitoring and control
- Author
- Yousefian, Reza
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Power resources, Artificial intelligence
- Description
- This dissertation presents a real-time Wide-Area Control (WAC) designed based on artificial intelligence for large scale modern power systems transient stability enhancement. The WAC using the measurements available from Phasor Measurement Units (...
- Title
- Tracing origins of the Salmonella bareilly strain causing a food-borne outbreak in the United States
- Author
- Janies, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communicable diseases, Salmonella
- Description
- Background. Using a novel combination of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analysis and geographic metadata, we traced the origins of Salmonella Bareilly isolates collected in 2012 during a widespread food-borne outbreak in the United States associate...
- Title
- Towards The Dry Preservation of Feline Sperm: The Effect Of Dehydration On DNA, Centrosomal Function, And Embryo Development
- Author
- Patrick, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology
- Description
- The current gold standard for gamete preservation is cryogenic storage. Dry preservation is an attractive alternative, eliminating the need for refrigeration, reducing storage maintenance costs, and providing logistical flexibility for shipping. T...
- Title
- Tourism and sustainability in the evaluation of World Heritage Sites, 1980–2010
- Author
- Schmutz, Vaughn, Elliott, Michael A.
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- World Heritage areas, Sustainable tourism
- Description
- At present, there are myriad concerns about tourism and sustainability at cultural and natural world heritage sites. Based on an analysis of 811 evaluations written between 1980 and 2010 by two official advisory bodies to the World Heritage Commit...
- Title
- Topologic connection between 2-D layered structures and 3-D diamond structures for conventional semiconductors
- Author
- Zhang, Y. (Yong), 1960-, Wang, Jianwei
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Density functionals, Two-dimensional materials
- Description
- When coming to identify new 2D materials, our intuition would suggest us to look from layered instead of 3D materials. However, since graphite can be hypothetically derived from diamond by stretching it along its [111] axis, many 3D materials can ...
- Title
- Time Domain Simulation with Applications in Compliant Workpiece Milling
- Author
- Rubeo, Mark
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- High performance application fields, such as the defense, power, and aerospace industries, benefit from the enhanced product quality and reduced cost associated with machining thin-walled, metallic structures over traditional fabrication and assem...
- Title
- Three essays on economic growth and environmental quality in China
- Author
- Yang, Hualiu
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Public administration
- Description
- This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the relationship between economic development and environmental quality in China. The first essay investigates how the distribution of gross domestic product (GDP) between the g...
- Title
- Three Essays on Bond Returns and the Cost of Debt
- Author
- Li, Sailu
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance, Accounting
- Description
- The three essays in this dissertation are focused on the same general research topic: returns to bondholders and the cost of debt. Each of the three essays should be treated as a stand-alone paper. The first essay is on the bond returns to debthol...