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D.R.O.N.E.S.: Designing Real-World Outcomes for North Carolina Education in STEM
(2019-04-22)There is a recent impetus for curriculum that enhances skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the K-12 school system. Analysis of STEM curriculum in the US has noted gaps in national test scores ... -
Daily activities and their relationship with positive mental health for orphaned and separated children caregiver
(2019)There are many orphaned and separated children (OSC) in the world and caregivers play a crucial role in caring for, supervising, and educating them. However, caregiving work is stressful and overwhelming, which sometimes ... -
Daily House Price Indexes: Volatility Dynamics and Longer-Run Predictions
(2014)This dissertation presents the construction procedure of “high-frequency” daily measure of changes in housing valuations, and analyzes its return dynamics, as well as investigates its relationship to capital ... -
Damming Uncertainty: Creating Accurate and Resilient Models for Inflow Forecasting
(2022-04-22)On the border between Paraguay and southern Brazil lies the Itaipu Binacional Dam, the world’s second largest hydroelectric dam. Both countries contributed to the construction of the dam, which began in 1971. The dam started ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Dangerous Jokes and the Power of Tolerance
(2011-04-27)A fieldwork study of Duke University aims to show how identity functions in an environment whose ideal is perfect tolerance and the experience of students who want to practice their religion as a college student, touching ... -
Darfur, Conflict and Climate Change
(2008-04-25)The issue of climate change poses to be one of the most pressing challenges facing community of nation states in the 21st century. While both developed and developing nations will feel the far-reaching impacts of climate ... -
Dark Holler
(2014)This dissertation is in two parts: a music composition titled "Dark Holler" for large chamber ensemble; and an article on how Cape Breton traditional fiddlers manipulate tempo in performance.1. Dark HollerDark Holler is ... -
Data and Adaptive Management: The Critical Role of Quality Data in the Successful Application of Adaptive Management on the Valles Caldera National Preserve
(2011-03-15)Since 2002 the Valles Caldera Trust has invested in the acquisition of “quality” data or, data collected by experts or under the supervision of experts; using specific, repeatable, protocol; and maintained with integrity ... -
Data Collection, Dissemination, and Security in Vehicular Ad Hoc Network
(2015)With fast-decreasing cost of electronic devices and the increasing use of mobile phones, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are emerging as a popular form of mobile ad hoc networks. VANETs are useful for supporting many ... -
Data Driven Style Transfer for Remote Sensing Applications
(2022)Recent recognition models for remote sensing data (e.g., infrared cameras) are based upon machine learning models such as deep neural networks (DNNs) and typically require large quantities of labeled training data. However, ... -
Data Intelligence For Improved Water Resource Management
(2016-04-29)Technological enhancements have decreased the cost of data collection, increased our ability to share data, and expanded our insights concluded from data. These modern abilities, commonly described as big data, are rapidly ... -
Data Management: A Key to Effective Conservation
(2021-04-29)The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale experiences multiple sources of stress that have been shown to have negative impacts on the health of the species. While the scientific understanding of impacts of individual ... -
Data Management: It's Fundamental
(2022-04-21)This master’s project leverages process improvement methodologies to build a case for developing standardized and streamlined data systems for analyzing the environmental impacts of the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP). As ... -
Data to Decision in a Dynamic Ocean: Robust Species Distribution Models and Spatial Decision Frameworks
(2016)Human use of the oceans is increasingly in conflict with conservation of endangered species. Methods for managing the spatial and temporal placement of industries such as military, fishing, transportation and offshore energy, ... -
Data Transfer between Meshes for Large Deformation Frictional Contact Problems
(2013)In the finite element simulation of problems with contact there arisesthe need to change the mesh and continue the simulation on a new mesh.This is encountered when the mesh has to be changed because the original mesh experiences ... -
Data-driven Analysis of Heavy Quark Transport in Ultra-relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions
(2019)Heavy flavor observables provide valuable information on the properties of the hot and dense Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.Previous study has made significant progress regarding ... -
Data-Driven Analysis of Zebra Finch Song Copying and Learning
(2021)Children learn crucial skills like speech by imitating the behavior of skilled adults. Similarly, juvenile zebra finches learn to sing by learning to imitate adults. This song learning process enables laboratory study of ... -
Data-driven investigations of disgust
(2019)Disgust features prominently in many facets of human life, from dining etiquette to spider phobia to genocide. For some applications, such as public health campaigns, it might be desirable to know how to increase disgust, ... -
Data-Driven Learning Models with Applications to Retail Operations
(2018)Data-driven approaches to decision-making under uncertainty is at the center of many operational problems. These are problems in which there is an element of uncertainty (e.g., customer demand) that needs to be estimated ...
