Image Theses and Dissertations Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) Membranes for Cellular Devices Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) membranes can be fabricated with a highly tunable pore structure making them a suitable candidate for cellular hybrid devices with single-molecule selectivity. The objective of this study was to characterize the cellular response of AAO membranes with varying pore sizes to serve as a proof-of-concept for an artificial material/cell synapse system. AAO membranes with pore diameters ranging from 34-117 nm were achieved via anodization at a temperature of -1̊C in a 2.7% oxalic acid electrolyte. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The effect of powder characteristics on the sintering behavior of magnesium-manganese ferrite The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the effect of starting powder characteristics on the sintering behavior of the magnesium-manganese ferrite sheet. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations In College and Undocumented: An Analysis of the Educational Trajectories of Undocumented Students in North Carolina In 2012 implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) allowed for more than 1.5 million undocumented youth to become eligible for work authorization and to qualify for institutional and in some cases, state financial aid (Passel 2012). With these changes, access to higher education became a realistic possibility for undocumented youth all around the United States. Nevertheless, a generation of undocumented students who managed to navigate the college application process and successfully enrolled in institutions of higher education remained. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Moravians at Shecomeco, N.Y. (1740-1746) : a case study of the missionary theory and practice of the Unitas Fratrum by Sigrid Kaesemans. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability of Traveling Waves in Neural Field Models We study the existence, uniqueness, and stability of traveling waves in neural field models under various assumptions on the firing rates and kernels. In the case of Heaviside ring rates, we study unique fronts arising from oscillatory synaptic coupling types. We then use functional analysis to show that Heaviside firing rates can be continuously deformed into smooth, sigmoidal functions and the existence of fronts persists. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations An investigation of the applicability of facilities-location techniques to an electronic engineering problem: the locating of components within electronic equipment to minimize wiring costs This thesis investigated Operations Research developed techniques for the facilities-location problem for application to this electronic engineering problem. One technique stood out as the most promising and it was applied to this problem. The technique chosen was CRAFT developed in 1963. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Rape culture and gender relationships on a traditional, fraternity-dominated campus View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Experiences with and Attitudes toward Interprofessional Teams among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Doctoral Students Utilizing a sample of 214 clinical, counseling, and school psychology doctoral students recruited from APA-accredited programs, the present mixed-methods study examined whether and to what extent demographic variables and interprofessional experiences—both educational and practice oriented—were related to their self-reported attitudes toward interprofessional health care teams (IPTs) as well as their readiness for interprofessional learning. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The identification and evaluation of techniques for solving a class of plant location problems. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations An experimental method for determining the shear plane angle In this thesis an empirical relationship is developed that can be used to predict the shear plane angle for AISI C1020 HRS once the cutting conditions have been selected and without the necessity of conducting a trial cut. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Field performance and evaluation of the corrosion coulometer : View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The presidential election of 1864 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania : continued dominance of the Democratic Party despite fervent Union nationalism and support for the Civil War View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Direct-quench age hardening of copper-indium and copper-beryllium alloys Conventionally, age-hardening is effected by solution-treating at an elevated temperature, quenching down to room temperature, and then reheating to some optimum temperature to allow the precipitation of a second phase. If it were possible to solution-treat and then quench from this temperature directly to the aging bath, and still obtain the some properties as from conventional aging, a simple one-step aging treatment would be practical. This one-step treatment will be referred to as direct-quench age-hardening. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Assessment of the residual strength and repair of dent-damaged offshore platform bracing View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Five heat integration configurations for binary distillation systems View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Big Data Optimization in Machine Learning Modern machine learning practices at the interface of big data, distributed environment and complex learning objectives post great challenges to designing scalable optimization algorithms with theoretical guarantees. This thesis, built on the recent advances in randomized algorithms, concerns development of such methods in practice and the analysis of their theoretical implications in the context of large-scale structured learning problems, such as regularized regression/classification, matrix completion, hierarchical multi-label learning, etc. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations External technology sourcing in the US construction industry View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations A critical study of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno The sociological interpretation of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno is based upon criticism discussed of the social implications of Melville's story. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Development of a 1[mu]m GaAs metal-semiconductor field effect transistor fabrication process View Item