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Principal experiences of succession
(2015-05)
This multiple case study explored the experiences of school principals and the usefulness of Peters' (2011) succession planning model. Ten purposefully selected principals from varying grade levels were interviewed; none ...
Sparse signal recovery and detection utilizing side information
(2017-10)
In this dissertation, we investigate the signal recovery and detection task for compressive sensing and wireless spectrum sensing. First, we investigate the compressive sensing task for the difference frames of videos. ...
Three essays on market power in the U.S. cattle procurement market
(2011-05)
This study consists of three essays. The first essay tests the causality between captive supply and cash market price in the U.S. cattle procurement market. Three causality tests, the Granger test, the Sims test, and the ...
Improved IPTV channel change times through multicast caching of pre-selected channels
(2014-12)
IPTV has grown in recent years to an estimated 100 million users worldwide. IPTV uses IGMP processes to stream an individual channel to a user until the next channel change when the current channel is stopped and the new ...
Qualitative study of faculty perceptions of the strengths and challenges of academic advising at small, Christian universities
(2015-05)
As student retention, persistence, and degree completion became "hot topics" in higher education, research on the influence from academic advising models and practices emerged. However, there is little research on faculty ...
Visual masking in natural scenes: Database, models, and an application to perceptual image coding
(2015-05)
Studies of visual masking have provided a wide range of important insights into the processes involved in visual coding. However, very few of these studies have employed natural scenes as masks, and little is known on how ...
Avatar skin(s): An autoethnographic journey to my place of education
(2016-07)
This autoethnography presents the avatar as a liberating learning platform for those who live on the edges of hegemonic and heteronormative society. I call this platform "avatar as place of education." I illustrate how my ...
Relationship of caregiver demand and parent distress in juvenile rheumatic disease: The mediating effect of parent attitude toward illness
(2013-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The current study examined the association between parent illness attitudes, caregiver demand, and parental distress in a sample of parents of youth with Juvenile Rheumatic Diseases (JRDs, n = ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
(2015-12)
In the first chapter, the hypothesis that workers are fully compensated in wages for differences in cost of living is tested for four groups of workers with different levels of educational attainment for the years of 2000, ...
Effect of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 concentration gradients on monocyte migration in a three-dimensional in vitro vascular tissue model
(2015-07)
The initiation of atherosclerosis is marked by the accumulation of lipid substances in the subendothelial layer of major arteries, followed by adhesion and transmigration of monocytes to the extracellular matrix (ECM). ...