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The Impact of Environmental Disamenities on Property Values: Evaluating the Municipal Fringe
(2018-05-18)This paper analyzes the municipal fringe of cities in Eastern North Carolina between 2006-2016, and how the values of individual properties on the outskirts can fluctuate after they are incorporated within a city. A large ... -
Confronting the Imperial Narrative: Counter-Narratives from Iraqi and Syrian Refugees in Jordan
(2018-05-22)This thesis explores how individual refugees respond to imposed narratives about their communities. Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan (n=40) were interviewed during the summer of 2018. Each interviewee’s response ... -
State of Discipline: A Snapshot of Discipline Allocation in North Carolina Public Schools
(2018-01)This report provides a detailed picture of the state of discipline allocation in North Carolina public and, to an extent, charter schools up until the 2016-2017 school year. It specifically examines suspensions, expulsions, ... -
A Novel Treatment for Glioblastoma: Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Natural Bio-Factories for Exosomes Carrying miR-124a
(2017-05)There is currently no effective treatment for glioblastoma, the most common andmost deadly primary adult brain tumor. MicroRNAs (miRs), important post-transcriptionalregulators, represent a new class of anti-glioma agents. ... -
Long-Term Toxicity and Uptake of Silver Nanomaterials to Relevant Plant Species
(2018-04-23)Over the past decade, the use of silver nanomaterials has grown significantly, predominantly due to the favorable properties that they can impart upon new and existing products (e.g. effects include antimicrobial, optical, ... -
A Música Tropicália: Três Histórias, Um Movimento
(2018-04-20)Tropicália é o nome do movimento cultural influenciado pela cultura popular e de massa e pela cultura de vanguarda que se tornou proeminente no Brasil no final da década de 1960. Durante este período, um grupo de músicos, ... -
Search for New Resonance X->W Gamma and Standard Model W Gamma Production Using Deep Learning Techniques
(2018-05-10)The Standard Model is by far the most encompassing physics theory. With the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Standard Model has performed extremely well when confronted with experimental data. However, the theory ... -
Evidence of self-domestication in wild coyotes?
(2017-12-01)While the evolution of cognition is still poorly understood, the self-domestication hypothesis proposes that psychology can evolve due to natural selection on temperament that leads to expanded developmental windows and ... -
The Work of Being Worked (For): Intimacy, Knowledge, and Emotional Labor in the Works of Henry James
(2018-03)Henry James’s novels operate within a vibrant social economy, as “the working and the worked were in London, as one might explain, the parties to every relation” (The Wings of the Dove 201). James’s later works illustrate ... -
Exploiting Semantic Word Relationships for Improved Unsupervised Academic Document Classification
(2018-04-24)In our thesis work, we investigate on unsupervised theme-based categorization or classification of documents in a large corpus, where the documents are represented in a high-dimensional feature space. Unsupervised ... -
What Fosters Innovation? A CrossSectional Panel Approach to Assessing the Impact of Cross Border Investment and Globalization on Patenting Across Global Economies
(2018-04-18)This study considers the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on innovation in high income, uppermiddle income and lowermiddle income countries. Innovation matters because it is a critical factor for economic growth. ... -
If You Build It, Perhaps Too Many People will Come: How Night Games Disrupted Wrigleyville , with lacking coverage from the Chicago Tribune
(2015-12)In 1988, the Chicago Cubs became the last team in Major League Baseball to install lights at their baseball stadium. That meant the team could play games at night, which was a popular idea among its fans. But Wrigley Field ... -
Cumulative Early Childhood Adversity and Later Antisocial Behavior: The Potential Mediating Role of Neurocognitive Functioning
(2018-04-09)Unfortunately, early childhood adversity is extremely common in the United States. Twenty-six percent of children will have experienced a traumatic event by the age of 4. It is clear from previous research in the field ... -
Entrepreneurial Attractiveness: Amazon, Google, and the Search for Innovative Hot Spots
(2018-04-18)Recent economic literature suggests that entrepreneurship in technological fields can spur economic growth, making it a popular topic for city development officials. Yet, this increasingly popular phenomenon is met by many ... -
Shukhi-ye Zesht o Tekrāri: Performing Blackness in Iranian Entertainment
(2018-04-18)There persists a lack of consistent critical engagement with issues of race, particularly Blackness, in Iranian spaces, despite the continuous presence of “race” in the Iranian experience. As such engagements with Blackness ... -
Incentives to Quit in Men’s Professional Tennis: An Empirical Test of Tournament Theory
(2018-04-18)This paper studies the influence of incentives on quitting behaviors in professional men’s tennis tournaments and offers broader implications to pay structures in the labor market. Precedent literature established that ... -
Syllabic Heirlooms
(2017-12)Syllabic Heirlooms is a collection steeped in lyricism, myth and Southwestern idiom as it explores inherited speech, feminine self-possession and the journey from love to liberation. An abbreviated version of the collection ... -
Fluorescence-Based Methods for the Elucidation of RNA: Small Molecule Interactions
(2018-04-22)Although noncoding RNAs are recognized as important cellular regulators that may be misregulated in diseases, methods to investigate RNA secondary structure recognition have been limited. To help establish guiding principles ... -
More Popular Than Jesus: The Prophetic Messages of Bob Dylan and The Beatles
(2018-03-31)The Beatles and Bob Dylan can be found in every music genre, from hip hop to country. Because their influence is everywhere, albeit indirectly at times, no person in western society is unaffected by their words, lives, ... -
The Toll of Commuting: The Effects of Commute Time on Well-Being
(2018-04-18)When deciding on housing location, people theoretically optimize for the best location given their commute time, housing cost, income, as well as other factors. Stutzer and Frey (2008) suggest that this is not true in some ...
