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South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...
Explicit finite element analysis of web-roller interaction in web process machinery
(2013-05)
A web can be defined as thin material manufactured and processed in continuous flexible strip form. A web is usually supported, guided and propelled by rollers. In order to make it travel through the process machine line, ...
Phenomenological study of individual strategies for rebuilding food production ability in resource poor post-conflict farming communities in Myanmar
(2014-12)
The impact of armed conflict upon small-holder agricultural production has only now begun to be closely studied (Verwimp, 2011). Upland communities in Southeast Asia have not been immune from armed conflict. In post-conflict ...
Fermion masses and mixings, flavor violation, and the Higgs boson mass in supersymmetric unified framework
(2011-07)
In spite of the impressive success of the standard model (SM) in explaining a wide variety of low energy experiments, many fundamental questions remain unanswered. Combining grand unification symmetry and flavor symmetry ...
Model of the food hygiene transfer process
(2013-12)
Analyses of food-borne disease notification throughout the world have confirmed that there is a link between outbreaks and unsafe food handling practices in the foodservice industry. For many years industry has relied on ...
Essays on mispricing of equity securities
(2016-07)
Mispricing of equity securities is an area of research with many implications for academicians, individual investors, money managers, and executives. The first essay in this dissertation explicitly studies the consistency ...
Environmental (natural and anthropogenic) effects on host-parasite (snail-trematode) interactions
(2016-05)
This dissertation explored environmental effects on host-parasite interactions. Chapter 2 was published in Ecotoxicology and assessed the effects of the herbicide atrazine on freshwater snails. The results indicated that ...
Institutional capabilities and entrepreneurial advantage: Bridging the gap between regulatory management and opportunity
(2014-07)
Firms are increasingly using tactics to manipulate their regulatory constraints, while at the same time regulatory environments are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. Although scholars have described many of the ...
Socio-behavioral response of survivors to campus active shooter events
(2015-05)
This research uses available secondary data from two incidents on college campuses to analyze survivor behavior in response to campus-based active shooter events. The study employs a qualitative inductive design using ...
Interference mitigation effects on synthetic aperture radar coherent data products
(2015-07)
Both radio frequency interference from sources external to the synthetic aperture radar system and techniques to mitigate radio frequency interference can degrade the quality of the image products. Often it is the second ...