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Understanding Multi-Social Media Platform Use In An Earthquake, Tonmona Tonny Roy Jan 2018

Understanding Multi-Social Media Platform Use In An Earthquake, Tonmona Tonny Roy

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Chronic Illness And Health Care Utilization Among Low-Income Preschoolers, Morgan Prunty Jan 2018

Chronic Illness And Health Care Utilization Among Low-Income Preschoolers, Morgan Prunty

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A Study Of Epithelial Cl- Secretion In The Murine Distal Colon, Trey S Rottgen Jan 2018

A Study Of Epithelial Cl- Secretion In The Murine Distal Colon, Trey S Rottgen

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Wildlife Economics The Significance Of Economic Impacts Of Wildlife Associated Activities, Caleb Anthony Stair Jan 2018

Wildlife Economics The Significance Of Economic Impacts Of Wildlife Associated Activities, Caleb Anthony Stair

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It Takes A Village: Collaborative Social Justice Through Choral Musicking, Natalie Shaffer Jan 2018

It Takes A Village: Collaborative Social Justice Through Choral Musicking, Natalie Shaffer

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Staying Original: A Case Study For Film Composers Working With Temp Tracks, Kyle Maurits Simpson Jan 2018

Staying Original: A Case Study For Film Composers Working With Temp Tracks, Kyle Maurits Simpson

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Two Essays On The Role Of Uncertainty In Financial Markets, Raluca Stan Jan 2018

Two Essays On The Role Of Uncertainty In Financial Markets, Raluca Stan

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Ugv-To-Uav Cooperative Ranging For Robust Navigation In Gnss-Challenged Environments, Victor O Sivaneri Jan 2018

Ugv-To-Uav Cooperative Ranging For Robust Navigation In Gnss-Challenged Environments, Victor O Sivaneri

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Characterizing The Pore Structure Of The Marcellus Shale, Liaosha Song Jan 2018

Characterizing The Pore Structure Of The Marcellus Shale, Liaosha Song

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No abstract provided.


Examining The Co-Occurrence Of Engagement And Self-Referencing In The Context Of Narrative Persuasion, Julia K Weiss Jan 2018

Examining The Co-Occurrence Of Engagement And Self-Referencing In The Context Of Narrative Persuasion, Julia K Weiss

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Analysis Of Membrane Transporter Systems Expressed During Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation In The Model Legume Medicago Truncatula, Christina Laureen Wyman Jan 2018

Analysis Of Membrane Transporter Systems Expressed During Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation In The Model Legume Medicago Truncatula, Christina Laureen Wyman

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Three-Dimensional Multispecies Distribution Functions In A Plasma Boundary With An Oblique Magnetic Field, Derek S Thompson Jan 2018

Three-Dimensional Multispecies Distribution Functions In A Plasma Boundary With An Oblique Magnetic Field, Derek S Thompson

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No abstract provided.


Modeling The Relationship Between Identity And Self-Efficacy In Intercollegiate Studentathletes: An Exploratory Study, Aaron Goodson Jan 2018

Modeling The Relationship Between Identity And Self-Efficacy In Intercollegiate Studentathletes: An Exploratory Study, Aaron Goodson

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No abstract provided.


Gaining Consensus On Implementation, Sustainability, And Benefits Of School Garden Programming In Washington, D.C., Hannah J Kipfer Jan 2018

Gaining Consensus On Implementation, Sustainability, And Benefits Of School Garden Programming In Washington, D.C., Hannah J Kipfer

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Structural Prediction And Theoretical Characterization Of Bi-Sb Binaries: Spin-Orbit Coupling E↵Ects, Sobhit Kumar Singh Jan 2018

Structural Prediction And Theoretical Characterization Of Bi-Sb Binaries: Spin-Orbit Coupling E↵Ects, Sobhit Kumar Singh

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No abstract provided.


Respiratory Flow Characterization Of Workers In Healthcare Environment, Jintuo Zhu Jan 2018

Respiratory Flow Characterization Of Workers In Healthcare Environment, Jintuo Zhu

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No abstract provided.


Changes In Best Management Practices Monitoring And Enforcement And Their Impact On Forestry In West Virginia, William Mccormick Jan 2018

Changes In Best Management Practices Monitoring And Enforcement And Their Impact On Forestry In West Virginia, William Mccormick

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No abstract provided.


Exploration Of A Smart Glasses Teleconference System For Virtual Instructional Coaching, Kristina Zaccaria Jan 2018

Exploration Of A Smart Glasses Teleconference System For Virtual Instructional Coaching, Kristina Zaccaria

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No abstract provided.


Examining The Process Of Shared Use Through Community-School Partnerships, Brooke C Towner Jan 2018

Examining The Process Of Shared Use Through Community-School Partnerships, Brooke C Towner

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No abstract provided.


Design And Development Of Test Rigs To Experimentally Investigate Flow Loss And Heat Transfer In A Stirling Engine Heater Head, Pawan K. Yadav Jan 2018

Design And Development Of Test Rigs To Experimentally Investigate Flow Loss And Heat Transfer In A Stirling Engine Heater Head, Pawan K. Yadav

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The Stirling engines are attractive alternative for combined heat and power (CHP) systems, especially for high efficiency power generation using different heat sources. The hot side heat exchanger or heater head (HH) is one of the indispensable components of Stirling engines which transfers the heat from outside of the system into the working fluid. For development of a low cost, highly efficient and reliable CHP system, a novel HH has been designed and additively manufactured from Inconel 625. For the investigation of flow loss and heat transfer through this Stirling engine heater head, two benchtop test rigs were designed, developed, …


Rethinking Interaction: Identity And Agency In The Performance Of “Interactive” Electronic Music, Jacob A. Kopcienski Jan 2018

Rethinking Interaction: Identity And Agency In The Performance Of “Interactive” Electronic Music, Jacob A. Kopcienski

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This document investigates interaction between human performers and various interactive technologies in the performance of interactive electronic and computer music. Specifically, it observes how the identity and agency of the interactive technology is experienced and perceived by the human performer. First, a close examination of George Lewis’ creation of and performance with his own historic interactive electronic and computer works reveals his disposition of interaction as improvisation. This disposition is contextualized within then contemporary social and political issues related to African American experimental musicians as well as an emerging culture of electronic and computer musicians concerned with interactivity. Second, an …


Blockchain For Trustful Collaborations Between Immigrants, Citizens And Governments, Chun-Wei Chiang Jan 2018

Blockchain For Trustful Collaborations Between Immigrants, Citizens And Governments, Chun-Wei Chiang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Immigrants usually are pro-social towards their hometowns and try to improve them. However, the lack of trust in their government can drive immigrants to work individually. As a result, their pro-social activities are usually limited in impact and scope. Although blockchain technology have the potential to solve the trust issue, people are not familiar with the technology and they have no idea why it is trustworthy. Previous research showed that the adopting user interface properly can increase people's trust in technology. This paper studies the interface factors that ease collaborations between immigrants and their home governments. We specifically focus on …


Salvaging The Style Of Frei Aber Einsam In The Music Of Brahms: Proposing A Historically Informed Performance Practice For The Three Sonatas For Violin And Piano Of Johannes Brahms, Opp. 78, 100, And 108, Phillip Alexander Ducreay Jan 2018

Salvaging The Style Of Frei Aber Einsam In The Music Of Brahms: Proposing A Historically Informed Performance Practice For The Three Sonatas For Violin And Piano Of Johannes Brahms, Opp. 78, 100, And 108, Phillip Alexander Ducreay

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis explores scholarship relevant to assembling a historically informed performance practice of Brahms’s three Violin Sonatas, Opp. 78, 100, and 108 in the nineteenth-century Germanic violin tradition of which, Joseph Joachim was its greatest proponent. This inquiry, which primarily examines surviving evidence of Joachim, his pedagogical ilk, and the circle of Brahms, engages with a variety of 19th and early 20th century Germanic musical and textual evidence, including nineteenth-century musical editions, correspondence and other archival materials, and early recorded performances to propose a historically informed style. In presenting this historiography of materials relevant to forming a historically informed interpretation …


Effects Of Humor Use By Brands And Their Parody Accounts On Twitter, Nick Eckman Jan 2018

Effects Of Humor Use By Brands And Their Parody Accounts On Twitter, Nick Eckman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examines the impact of humor use by brands and brand parody accounts on Twitter. Specifically, this research investigates how the type of humorous message and the message source influence perceptions of the brand, behavioral intentions toward the brand, and perceived parasocial interaction with the brand. It also examines the relationship between gender and perceptions of humor. Accordingly, this study uses a 2 (humor: wordplay vs. disparagement) x 2 (source: brand account vs. parody account) between-subjects online experiment to answer these questions. Key results suggest that parody Twitter accounts, particularly those using disparagement-style humor, may be advantageous to the …


Optimizing Indoor Location Based Tracking Through Proper Filter Selection And Wireless Sensor Network Design, Matthew R. Bergman Jan 2018

Optimizing Indoor Location Based Tracking Through Proper Filter Selection And Wireless Sensor Network Design, Matthew R. Bergman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Indoor positioning system (IPS) is a topic that is coming up more and more for various reasons, such as allowing companies to track important objects using radio frequency identification (RFID) and employees with Bluetooth devices inside a facility. Geofencing is one of the biggest topics with IPS and is meant to limit access to a network in specified areas. Devices that incorporate indoor tracking are not initially precise when objects and employees are on the move. This movement requires devices to have a reliable filter for noise and package lose. For this paper, the comparison between extended Kalman filters and …


Hydrogeology And Water Management In The Arkwright Underground Coal Mine, Pittsburgh Seam, Northern West Virginia, Bryant D. Mountjoy Jan 2018

Hydrogeology And Water Management In The Arkwright Underground Coal Mine, Pittsburgh Seam, Northern West Virginia, Bryant D. Mountjoy

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Arkwright #1 is a closed underground mine in the Pittsburgh coal seam near Morgantown, West Virginia USA. Arkwright shares perimeter boundaries/barriers with three other closed Pittsburgh seam mines (Osage #3, Jordan #93, Federal #1) and is partially overlain by flooded Sewickley seam mines, 25 m above it. This mine is significant primarily because it manages and treats water diverted from nearly 20 other closed mines over a 600 square kilometer area. This study examines water levels, pump records, and mine maps to describe the hydrogeology of Arkwright Mine. After closure in 1995, Arkwright and the adjacent northern Osage mines began …


I Am The Walrus; A Character Study, Joseph Bussey Jan 2018

I Am The Walrus; A Character Study, Joseph Bussey

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this thesis is to chronicle and reflect upon the steps and tools used in creating the role of Chebutykin in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. To effectively complete this task there are a few necessary benchmarks to cover including character analysis, the rehearsal process, and the performance of the role itself. Character analysis will be explored using Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's, The Viewpoints Book. The rehearsal process will discuss not only the way we rehearsed, but also the tools required to effectively personalize and prepare for performance. Finally, the result will reflect what the process provided the …


Effects Of Pre-Breeding Management On Ewe Lamb Fertility, Sarah Nancy Carr Jan 2018

Effects Of Pre-Breeding Management On Ewe Lamb Fertility, Sarah Nancy Carr

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Ewe lambs comprise 30% of the breeding flock; however, fertility is 20-30% lower than that of an adult ewe. Lower fertility has been correlated with lower ADG, liveweight, and body composition prior to breeding and research suggests that it can be improved with proper nutritional management. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of pre-breeding management practices on ewe lamb fertility.;In replicate 1, 313 Dorset X Texel (DT) and 74 Katahdin (KT) ewe lambs were assigned to a high (0.68 kg/head/day) or low (0.23 kg/head/day) grain supplementation for two months prior to breeding. Liveweights were recorded bi-weekly …


Ex-Vivo Model For Muscle Exposure To Tumor Cell Conditioned Media, Ikttesh K. Chahal Jan 2018

Ex-Vivo Model For Muscle Exposure To Tumor Cell Conditioned Media, Ikttesh K. Chahal

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Cancer-induced cachexia is a severe condition resulting in muscle wasting, muscle dysfunction, and an overall increased morbidity and mortality. The cachectic condition is often attributed to altered metabolism, aberrant activation of signaling pathways, and changes in the microenvironment of the skeletal muscle (SKM) through exposure to various host-derived and tumor-derived paracrine factors, delivered through the blood circulation. Previous data from our lab has shown that an increased signaling of Interleukin-15 (IL-15) results in enhanced oxidative capacity, promotion of a more oxidative phenotype and attenuation of muscle fatigue. This effect of IL-15 has yet to be characterized in a cancer-induced model …


Focus On The Child: Preventing The Intergenerational Transmission Of Eating Disorders And Dieting Behavior, Elizabeth Claydon Jan 2018

Focus On The Child: Preventing The Intergenerational Transmission Of Eating Disorders And Dieting Behavior, Elizabeth Claydon

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

PURPOSE: There is a paucity of research exploring individuals' recall of parental dieting behavior, engagement in "fat talk", or criticism of weight or eating behavior in childhood. This dearth of literature exists in both community samples and in clinical populations of eating disorder patients. There is also limited information on women with a history of eating disorders and their pregnancy experience or anticipation of their pregnancy experience. This dissertation focuses on the aforementioned areas in order to develop the research literature further to understand whether parental feedback (such as parental comments or parental dieting) is associated with health outcomes such …