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Title: A Brief Glimpse of Blue: Examining the Participation and Political Effects of 21st-Century Election Reform in North Carolina
Author: Holder, John
Date Created: 2013
Description: This study examines registration, voting and election results in the presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. During this period, North Carolina introduced a series of election reforms which were designed to increase political participation by ma...

Title: A Brief Glimpse of Blue: Examining the Participation and Political Effects of 21st-Century Election Reform in North Carolina
Author: Holder, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science
Description: This study examines registration, voting and election results in the presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. During this period, North Carolina introduced a series of election reforms which were designed to increase political participation by ma...

Title: A Case Study of the Strategic Staffing Initiative Used In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Author: March, Kendra
Date Created: 2013
Description: Accountability standards challenge schools to provide quality education for all students and to ensure that all students are on grade level by the end of the school year. If schools fall short of this challenge failing to make at least one year of...

Title: A Case Study of the Strategic Staffing Initiative Used In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Author: March, Kendra
Date Created: 2013
Description: Accountability standards challenge schools to provide quality education for all students and to ensure that all students are on grade level by the end of the school year. If schools fall short of this challenge failing to make at least one year of...

Title: A Case Study of the Strategic Staffing Initiative Used In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Author: March, Kendra
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Accountability standards challenge schools to provide quality education for all students and to ensure that all students are on grade level by the end of the school year. If schools fall short of this challenge failing to make at least one year of...

Title: A GENERAL THERMAL THICKNESS MODEL AND A HEATING RATE RELATED IGNITION CRITERION FOR COMBUSTIBLE SOLIDS
Author: Tian, Ning
Date Created: 2013
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the ignition behavior of combustible solid materials in fire. Three key tasks were conducted for it: (1) a new theoretical temperature profile prediction model, referred as General Thermal Thickness...

Title: A GENERAL THERMAL THICKNESS MODEL AND A HEATING RATE RELATED IGNITION CRITERION FOR COMBUSTIBLE SOLIDS
Author: Tian, Ning
Date Created: 2013
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the ignition behavior of combustible solid materials in fire. Three key tasks were conducted for it: (1) a new theoretical temperature profile prediction model, referred as General Thermal Thickness...

Title: A GENERAL THERMAL THICKNESS MODEL AND A HEATING RATE RELATED IGNITION CRITERION FOR COMBUSTIBLE SOLIDS
Author: Tian, Ning
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the ignition behavior of combustible solid materials in fire. Three key tasks were conducted for it: (1) a new theoretical temperature profile prediction model, referred as General Thermal Thickness...

Title: A Grounded Theory Study of Posttraumatic Growth and Wisdom in a Sample of Oncology Nurses
Author: Vishnevsky, Tanya
Date Created: 2013
Description: This study utilized a grounded theory approach to examine the degree to which oncology nurses report posttraumatic growth (PTG) and wisdom as a result of caring for patients. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 oncology nurses; interviews...

Title: A Grounded Theory Study of Posttraumatic Growth and Wisdom in a Sample of Oncology Nurses
Author: Vishnevsky, Tanya
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences, Oncology
Description: This study utilized a grounded theory approach to examine the degree to which oncology nurses report posttraumatic growth (PTG) and wisdom as a result of caring for patients. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 oncology nurses; interviews...

Title: A Phenomenological Study: The Lived Experience of Teen Mothers Who Graduated From High School and Attended or Completed College
Author: Stroble, Christine
Date Created: 2013
Description: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to (1) explore the lived experience of teen mothers who graduated from high school and attended or completed college and (2) discover the school factors that contributed to their academic ...

Title: A Phenomenological Study: The Lived Experience of Teen Mothers Who Graduated From High School and Attended or Completed College
Author: Stroble, Christine
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to (1) explore the lived experience of teen mothers who graduated from high school and attended or completed college and (2) discover the school factors that contributed to their academic ...

Title: A Random Hierarchical Laplacian
Author: Ray, Elijah
Date Created: 2013
Description: The Hierarchical Laplacian, proposed in Dyson's theory of one-dimensional ferromagnetic phase transitions, has a discrete spectrum with each isolated eigenvalue having infinite multiplicity. As a result, the integrated density of states is piecewi...

Title: A Random Hierarchical Laplacian
Author: Ray, Elijah
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: The Hierarchical Laplacian, proposed in Dyson's theory of one-dimensional ferromagnetic phase transitions, has a discrete spectrum with each isolated eigenvalue having infinite multiplicity. As a result, the integrated density of states is piecewi...

Title: A Study of the Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement
Author: Crawford, Jamal
Date Created: 2013
Description: No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, was the signature education legislation of the George W. Bush administration. NCLB was but the latest evolution of at least two pre...

Title: A Study of the Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement
Author: Crawford, Jamal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, was the signature education legislation of the George W. Bush administration. NCLB was but the latest evolution of at least two pre...

Title: A comprehensive geospatial knowledge discovery framework for spatial association rule mining
Author: Dao, Thi Hong Diep
Date Created: 2013
Description: Continuous advances in modern data collection techniques help spatial scientists gain access to massive and high-resolution spatial and spatio-temporal data. Thus there is an urgent need to develop effective and efficient methods seeking to find u...

Title: A comprehensive geospatial knowledge discovery framework for spatial association rule mining
Author: Dao, Thi Hong Diep
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Continuous advances in modern data collection techniques help spatial scientists gain access to massive and high-resolution spatial and spatio-temporal data. Thus there is an urgent need to develop effective and efficient methods seeking to find u...

Title: A numerical study of tillage tool wear during plowing of sandy soil
Author: GOEL, GAURAV
Date Created: 2013
Description: Wear of tillage tools during tilling operations leads to increase in power requirements, frequent downtimes for tool replacement, loss of production and an increase in the equipment and operational costs. A large number of variables - such as the ...

Title: A numerical study of tillage tool wear during plowing of sandy soil
Author: GOEL, GAURAV
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Wear of tillage tools during tilling operations leads to increase in power requirements, frequent downtimes for tool replacement, loss of production and an increase in the equipment and operational costs. A large number of variables - such as the ...