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- Title
- "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
- Author
- Strong, Kellan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
- Title
- 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
- Author
- Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Artificial intelligence
- Description
- Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...
- Title
- A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
- Author
- Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
- Description
- In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...
- Title
- A HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIED WASHOVER DEPOSITS FROM FOLLY ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY
- Author
- Zurawski, Lance
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentology
- Description
- A 40-meter transect consisting of eight equally spaced 2.44-m vibracores was taken across a marginal-marine salt marsh behind North Folly Island, a barrier island located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Analysis of storm signatures from this...
- Title
- A Legal Analysis of Students' First Amendment Rights in K-12 Public Education as it Relates to Internet Speech
- Author
- Erdie, Julia
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- Adolescents are rarely without a cellphone and typically have unfettered access to social media sites where they post their status or comment on their friends’ posts. When said communication is used to bully or threaten others, it brings on challe...
- Title
- A Legal Analysis of the Involvement of School Resource Officers in Searches and Seizures in K-12 Public Schools
- Author
- Wells, Richard
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Education and state, School management and organization
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to develop a set of court-based guiding principles for the integration of school resource officers in searches and seizures in K-12 public schools. This purpose was achieved by applying Standard Legal Analysis methodo...
- Title
- A MODIFIED SELF-INTERFERENCE BASED INCOHERENT DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING SYSTEM
- Author
- Mishra, Abhinav
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Optics
- Description
- A Fresnel-type self-interference based incoherent digital holographic system that can measure the intensity and direction of incoming light field is proposed. This system is composed primarily of a convex lens as an objective, a linear polarizer, ...
- Title
- A Numerical Study of Inhomogeneous Variable-Density Turbulence in Planar and Convergent Geometries.
- Author
- Djibrilla Boureima, Ismael
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- ISMAEL DJIBRILLA BOUREIMA. A Numerical Study of Inhomogeneous Variable-Density Turbulence in Planar and Convergent Geometries. (Under the direction of DR. PRAVEEN RAMAPRABHU)Hydrodynamic instabilities govern the growth of perturbations at the inte...
- Title
- A Recurrent Neural Network Based Patch Recommender for Linux Kernel Bugs
- Author
- Bableshwar, Anusha
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer engineering
- Description
- Software bugs result in a variety of issues including system crashes, loss of system performance, incorrect output and security vulnerabilities. In this thesis, we explore the design of a patch recommender system for the Linux kernel. Software too...
- Title
- A SCALABLE LSTM BASED APPROACH FOR MULTI-PEDESTRIAN TRACKING IN SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
- Author
- Kulkarni, Pratik
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer engineering
- Description
- There has been an ever growing interest in leveraging state of the art deep learning techniques for tracking objects in video frames. Such works primarily focus on using appearance based models which prove not to be effective in modelling the beha...
- Title
- A Scalable deep learning framework for autonomous road asset classification
- Author
- Nouri Gooshki, Sadegh
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Artificial intelligence
- Description
- The focus of this thesis is on automation in road asset inspection using deep neural networks. Even though some progress has been made in automation of data collection and condition assessment, the amount of manual operation and the cost of road i...
- Title
- A Study on Soil-Structure Interaction of Axially Loaded Sheet Piles
- Author
- Sylvain, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Sheet piles are geotechnical structural elements often used in canals and rivers for soil retention and scour protection. Short span bridge abutment design in North Carolina and the U.S., for locations near bodies of water, typically uses sheet pi...
- Title
- A WATER-SOLUBLE COBALT SULFIDE SUPERATOM FOR FLOW BATTERY APPLICATIONS AND CRYSTALLINE FRAMEWORK SYNTHESIS
- Author
- Freeman, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry
- Description
- Metal sulfide clusters are attractive components for flow batteries owing to the abundance of their constituent atoms and their tunable size, solubility, and redox properties. We prepared an atomically precise cobalt sulfide cluster, Co6S8(PTA)6•4...
- Title
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES: DO THEY PERFORM BETTER ON STANDARDIZED READING AND MATHEMATICS TESTS IN TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OR NON-TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS?
- Author
- Anderson, Sony
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- African-American males continue to slip through the cracks of the Education System in America. McSpadden McNeil et al. (2008) report that district officials continue to focus on school scores as if they are the only way to assess student progress....
- Title
- ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES
- Author
- Solomon, Corliss
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health
- Description
- The problem of heavy alcohol consumption is now a woman’s issue but there is limited data on the prevalence of and factors associated with heavy alcohol consumption among women living in the United States. Three manuscripts were developed to study...
- Title
- AN EVALUATION OF CLINICIAN KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-EFFICACY PRE/POST EDUCATION IN PERISTOMAL MANAGEMENT
- Author
- Saunders, Kimberly
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Education, Higher
- Description
- ABSTRACTKIMBERLY SAUNDERS. An evaluation of clinician knowledge and self-efficacy pre/post education in peristomal management. (Under the direction of DR. KATHLEEN JORDAN)PurposeThe primary purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of an edu...
- Title
- AN EXPLORATION INTO TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS AND OPERATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH LEARNERS
- Author
- Lenis-Sucerquia, Elkin
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- ABSTRACTAn exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners.It has been established that language is at the heart of teachi...
- Title
- ASSESSING PASSENGER CAR/VEHICLE EQUIVALENT TRAVEL TIME OF A TRUCK
- Author
- Jain, Ravina
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- Freight transportation is an indicator of the regional economy. In the United States, transportation by trucks accounted for 63.8% of total freight during the year 2015. The demand for freight transportation is increasing from time to time. It is ...
- Title
- ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SCHOOL BUS TRAFFIC USING MODELING SOFTWARE AND AUTOMATED TRAFFIC SIGNAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES
- Author
- Dumitru, Andrei
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Transportation, Computer engineering
- Description
- Some of the least studied vehicle types in the urban and suburban traffic environment are school buses. Their dynamic deficiencies, as well as the two additional rules that govern their functionality versus other vehicles (no right-turn-on-red and...
- Title
- Adiabatic shear band formation in metallic glasses
- Author
- Kulkarni, Shank S.
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Metallic glasses, Deformations (Mechanics)
- Description
- Metallic glasses (MGs) are widely used in many applications due to their unique and attractive properties such as high strength, high elastic limit and good corrosion resistance. Experiments have shown that deformation in MGs is governed by either...