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1-2-3! Catch-up for HPV: A Theoretically Informed Psychosocial Intervention to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake Among Young Adults
(2020-08-07)The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States causing a range of sequelae from genital warts to cancer. In the past 10 years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... -
30-day mortality prediction of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF)
(Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer (IISE) Annual Conference and Expo 2016, 2016-05-21)Abstract not available. -
30-Day Mortality Prediction of Patients With Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
(2016-05-21)The paper builds a prediction model of 30-day mortality risk in patients with CHF. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) was applied to select the significant features. Three data mining techniques, namely, ... -
50/50 Two Way Immersion Program Implementation Perspectives
(2017-12-22)Two-Way Immersion Programs are being implemented by school districts and charter school throughout the United States with increasing frequency. Many of these two-way immersion programs utilize the 50/50 model and districts ... -
A case study of teacher attitudes, belief systems, and behaviors associated with substantive student academic achievement in a charter school serving an economically disadvantaged urban population
(2016-11-09)The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to research teacher attitudes, belief systems, and behaviors associated with academic achievement for students in a charter school serving an economically disadvantaged, ... -
A Comparison of Noncontingent and Synchronous Reinforcement on Task Engagement
(2022-04-29)Synchronous schedules of reinforcement are those in which the onset and offset of a reinforcer are synchronized with the onset and offset of a target behavior. The current study replicated and extended Diaz de Villegas et ... -
A Framework for Improving Performance Testing in Agile Software Development
(2020-11-20)The subdiscipline of software quality assurance concerned with non-functional requirements (NFRs) and hardware metrics is known as performance testing. Conducting effective performance testing is complicated, time consuming, ... -
A Framework for Planetary Resource Classifications to Further Sustainability in Space Exploration Missions
(2020-12-21)The long-term impacts and overall sustainability of space exploration missions in the space environment were often unknown in past space missions. Historically, the space exploration vision of various space-faring agents ... -
A Job Analysis of Financial Coaches & Case Managers: Enhancing Selection, Performance Management, & Identifying Training Opportunities
(2018-05-15)This project studies two positions at a social services agency in the southern region of the U.S. The purpose of the project was to identify the most critical tasks performed by case managers and financial coaches in order ... -
A Mixed-Method Study of the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on U.S. Students’ Educational Attainment
(2021-07-27)In this case study, we implemented a quantitative and sentiment analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education, physical, and mental health of college students in the United States. As students are the ... -
A phenomenological study of doctoral student experiences in an educational leadership doctoral program
(2018-07-27)The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of doctoral students in two higher education doctoral programs in Educational Leadership. This research was conducted to learn the experiences and barriers faced ... -
A qualitative case study examining the factors that contribute to the retention of experienced special education teachers in Texas public schools
(2023-05-05)The special education teacher shortage in the U.S. continues to grow and the implication of this shortage is multifaceted. First and foremost, students that are eligible for special education may not be receiving the ... -
A scalable image/video FPGA processing platform with approximate design
(2018-12-04)This dissertation presents a scalable image/video platform with approximate computing design on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The platform is able to capture images in real time with a low-cost OV7670 camera and ... -
A Sliding Window Based Voting Classifier for Activity Sensor Based User Identification
(2021-04-30)Identification is the core of any authentication protocol design as the purpose of the authentication is to verify the user’s identity. The efficient establishment and verification of identity remain a big challenge. ... -
A Snapshot; Job Attitudes Within the HR Profession
(2019-12-16)The purpose of this project was to analyze job attitudes, specifically in the Human Resources (HR) department, using two samples. Sample 1 is comprised of HR employees in an organization located in Houston, Texas. This ... -
A Study of Texas Community College Property Tax Funding and Selected Student Performance Measures
(2019-04-30)The purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to examine the relationship between Texas community college property tax revenue and student transfer, licensure, and completion. This study reviewed data from the ... -
A Study on the Impact of Kindergarten on the Mathematical Skills of African American Students
(2021-12-06)The specific purpose of this study was to add to the previous research using The Early Childhood Longitudinal Database to examine if there is a difference in the mathematics achievement growth trajectory of African ... -
A Systems Engineering Approach to Staff Scheduling Problems, as Applied to Flight Controller Scheduling at NASA’S Mission Control Center
(2019-05-17)The flight controllers of NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) have become experts at human spaceflight operations over the past six decades. Despite this expertise, flight controllers and their managers are still ... -
Absolute Configuration and Polymorphism of 2-phenylbutyramide and a-methyl -a-phenylsuccinimide
(Crystal Growth & Designs, 2014)Crystal structures of racemic and homochiral forms of 2-phenylbutyramide (1) and 3-methyl-3-phenylpyrrolidine-2,5-dione (2) were investigated in detail by a single crystal X-ray diffraction study. Absolute configurations ... -
Accurate Characterization of Moisture Absorption in Polymeric Materials
(SPE Plastics Research Online, 2017)The importance of using the exact solution of the hindered diffusion model is demonstrated on experimental data from a nanoclay/epoxy composite.
