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- "WHY SIT YE HERE AND DIE" THE ABOLITIONIST RHETORIC OF MARIA W. STEWART, SOJOURNER TRUTH, AND FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER
- ENGLISH
- This thesis highlights the contributions to the abolitionist movement of three extremely courageous African American Women
- Theses and Dissertations
- ESSENTIAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS, POST SECONDARY
- Computer Technology
- Graphic designers today need to possess a wide variety of skill sets in order to adequately perform their duties. The skill sets include areas of study in Art, Design, Computer Technology, and Print Technology. My goal is to find what learning...
- Theses and Dissertations
- The Influence of Tropical Cyclone Size on its Intensification
- tropical cyclones
- This study investigates the tropical cyclones of the past two decades (1990-2010) and the correlation, if any, between their size and their ability to undergo rapid intensification (RI). Results show that rapidly intensifying storms do show...
- Theses and Dissertations
- THE EFFECTS OF POLYPHENOL RICH PEANUT SKIN DIETS ON WEIGHT GAIN, LIPID PROFILE, AND BLOOD CHEMISTRY IN RATS
- POLYPHENOL
- The objectives of this study were to (1) evaluate the overall impact of peanut skin consumption on the growth of young lab rats; (2) investigate the effects of peanut skin consumption on blood plasma cholesterol profile in laboratory rats; and (3)...
- Theses and Dissertations
- GROWTH MECHANISM OF TITANIUM NITRIDE NANOWIRES AND THEIR PHYSICAL, STRUCTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
- TITANIUM NITRIDE NANOWIRES
- In this work, titanium nitride nanowires have been grown on a magnesium oxide substrate using a pulsed laser deposition technique. The selection of titanium nitride as a material of interest has been made due to its stellar properties of high...
- Theses and Dissertations
- DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A MULTIMEDIA INTENSIVE WEB-BASED EXERCISE MOTIVATION TOOL
- WEB-BASED EXERCISE MOTIVATION TOOL
- This project was implemented using state-of-art rich internet application (RIA) technology. Popular RIA technologies that are optimized for creating multimedia-intensive applications are Flash by Adobe and Silverlight by Microsoft. In using...
- Theses and Dissertations
- ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF COTTON FARMS: A CASE STUDY FROM TORBALI, TURKEY
- COTTON FARMS
- This study explores technical, allocative and economic efficiency levels of cotton farms in the Torbali region of Izmir, Turkey by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The mean technical, allocative and economic efficiencies were measured to be...
- Theses and Dissertations
- APPLICATION OF KALMAN FILTER WITH TIME CORRELATED MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN SUBSURFACE CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT MODELING
- TRANSPORT MODELING
- Contaminant transport modeling of a conservative solute in the subsurface is investigated by applying a Kalman filter (KF) with time correlated measurement errors. The usual method or assumption often employed is white Gaussian errors, but...
- Theses and Dissertations
- MULTI-ROBOT AUCTION BASED COORDINATION
- ENGINEERING
- This dissertation studied the coordination problem for a Task Initiator (TI) with multiple ground stations (GSs). Each GS has a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that frequently collected data from a set of unattended ground sensors (UGSs)...
- Theses and Dissertations
- THE ROLE OF SCHOOL, TEACHER, AND STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS IN THE ACQUISITION OF COMPUTER SKILLS
- Instructional Technology
- The purpose of this study is to examine the role of school, teacher and student characteristics on student acquisition of computer skills. The theory of affordance is used to provide a theoretical framework for explaining how 1) school...
- Theses and Dissertations
- DEVELOPMENT OF THEORETICAL MODELING AND AN OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEMFOR PHOTODETECTORS IN THE 8-12 ΜM WAVELENGTH REGION
- Electrical Engineering
- A theoretical study was done for calculating the energy band structure of the semiconductor materials using the Kronig-Penney model. This model can predict the results of optical characterizations and act as a guide for the growth parameters to...
- Theses and Dissertations
- DEVELOPMENT OF THERMAL MANAGEMENT SCHEMES FOR HIGH HEAT FLUX APPLICATIONS USING TWO-PHASE SPRAY COOLING TECHNIQUES
- THERMAL MANAGEMENT
- Energy conversion devices produce large heat loads during operation and therefore efficient thermal management schemes for their optimal operation are needed. The goal of this work is to develop thermal management methods for high heat flux...
- Theses and Dissertations
- ULTRA-LOW POWER WAKE UP RECEIVER FOR MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE TRANSCEIVER
- Electrical Engineering
- This thesis explores the specific requirements and challenges for the design of a dedicated wake-up receiver for medical implant communication services equipped with a novel “uncertain-IF” architecture combined with a high – Q filtering MEMS...
- Theses and Dissertations
- TUNABLE LUMINESCENCE AND WHITE LIGHT EMISSION OF LANTHANIDE-DOPED CAWO4 AND CASIO3 PHOSPHORS PREPARED BY PECHINI AND TRADITIONAL SOL-GEL METHODS
- Energy
- This study reports the synthesis, characterization, and photoluminescence properties of a calcium tungstate/molybdate (CaWO4/MoO4) system, and the synthetic attempts of an agrellite (NaCa2Si4O10F) system. The objective is to modify the...
- Theses and Dissertations
- NETWORK SURVIVABILITY ANALYSIS: COARSE-GRAINING AND GRAPH-THEORETIC STRATEGIES
- Engineering
- In this dissertation, the interplay between geographic information about the network and the principal properties and structure of the underlying graph are used to quantify the structural and functional survivability of the network. This work...
- Theses and Dissertations
- SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED CROSS-LINKED POLY (4-VINYLPYRIDINE) FOR THE RECOGNITION AND CONCENTRATIONDETERMINATION OF BILIRUBIN IN SOLUTION
- Bioengineering
- In this work molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) film for the recognition of bilirubin was synthesized and studied using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM). The MIP was coated on the QCM crystals and analyzed using QCM. 4-vinylpyridine was used...
- Theses and Dissertations
- MENTORING AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOOL IN PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM
- Leadership Studies
- This study seeks to understand how the next generation of mid-level and senior-level community college leaders will be trained and developed and how mentoring can be used as a vehicle to prepare and support underrepresented groups, particularly...
- Theses and Dissertations
- SOIL AND WATER REMEDIATION USING CONTROLLED RELEASE POLYMER
- ENGINEERING
- Water and soil treatment for the eradication of pathogens are important today and will forever be of importance in the future. It has been noted that poor water quality poses major threat to human health and is responsible for the deaths of 1.8...
- Theses and Dissertations
- MODELING AND OPTIMAL MITIGATION OF IMPULSIVE LOWFREQUENCY
- Electrical Engineering
- In this dissertation, an anti-propagation approach involving the use of corrugated surfaces or sinusoidally shaped berms to suppress outdoor noise was proposed.
- Theses and Dissertations
- ORGANIC DUST-MEDIATED LUNG INFLAMMATION: A MOUSE MODEL
- ANIMAL HEALTH SCIENCE
- The hypothesis of this thesis was that SCF organic dust influences airway inflammation by modulating inflammatory cells and by increasing plasma protein levels in lung exudates, in vivo. In order to evaluate the hypothesis, mice were exposed to...
- Theses and Dissertations