Albert Einstein is credited with saying that the most important component of education is the development of students' character. While debate exists as to the delivery [...]

One of the responsibilities of the NCDOT is the prioritization of highway bridge replacement projects throughout the North Carolina transportation system. The Priority Ra[...]

LAURA JULIA ROSENBACH. An evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a large urban school district. (Under the direction of DR. CLAUDIA FLOWERS) This mixed method [...]

The goal of this dissertation is to inform clinicians, researchers and policy makers of the potential value of prosthesis intervention for individuals who experience a lo[...]

In this dissertation, we present three new results in the exterior elliptic problems with the variable coefficients that describe the process in inhomogeneous media in th[...]

A new capacity to track the inputs and outcomes of individual students' education production function has spurred a growing number of school districts to attempt to measu[...]

The increased use of value-added measures is a result of policymakers viewing traditional measures of teacher effectiveness as obsolete and unrelated to student achieveme[...]

Information Technology (IT) governance, defined as "the organizational capacity exercised by the Board, executive management and IT management to control the formulation [...]

Machining models are available to predict nearly every aspect of machining processes. In milling, for example, models are available to relate stability, part accuracy (fr[...]

This thesis addresses the challenge of autonomous navigation in partially known environments, focusing on mobile robots equipped with limited sensing capabilities. Path p[...]