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Commodity Based Sovereign Wealth Funds: An Alternative Path to Economic Development
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Natural
resource
producing
countries
struggle
with
issues
about
how
to
make
use
of
their
natural
resources
properly,
allocate
the
funds
from
these
resources
and
how
to
ensure
continuity
of
th ...
VELOCITY : A NetFlow Based Optimized Geo-IP Lookup Tool
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
It is a challenging task for network administrators to monitor their institution's
network against undesirable behavior. While NetFlow is useful to gather flow-level data
for any Internet connection, its feature is limited ...
Discovery of Peptide and Aptamer Ligands for Targeted Drug Delivery to Hepatic Stellate Cells
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
The objective of this dissertation is to present two approaches to identify Hepatic
Stellate Cells (HSCs) targeting ligands using phage-display library biopanning and
systematic evolution of ligands by exponential ...
A Case Study of Two 21ˢᵗ Century Schools: Are We Preparing Students for the Global World?
(2016)
There is no question that we live in a global society. The ability to compete
successfully in the global marketplace is a fact facing our world today as it never has before.
American education must prepare students ...
Invisible Life in the Academy: Understanding the Workplace Experiences of African American Women Staff in Higher Education
(2016)
The purpose of this qualitative, heuristic study was to explore the experiences of African
American women staff in higher education. Specifically, the emphasis was on staff at
predominantly White institutions (PWIs) ...
Perceived Stress among Public School Music Educators: Stress over Time, Demographic Differences, Common Self-Identified Factors of Stress, and Relationships between Demographic Differences and Emergent Stress Themes
(2016)
Teaching frequently has been identified as a stressful occupation, warranting
numerous studies of teacher burnout, attrition, and stress. Levels of professional burnout
and attrition among educators have been shown ...
A Graph Analytics Framework for Knowledge Discovery
(2016)
In the current data movement, numerous efforts have been made to convert and normalize
a large number of traditionally structured and unstructured data to semi-structured data
(e.g., RDF, OWL). With the increasing number ...
Finding and Mitigating Geographic Vulnerabilities in Mission Critical Multi-Layer Networks
(2016)
In Air Traffic Control (ATC), communications outages may lead to immediate loss
of communications or radar contact with aircraft. In the short term, there may be safety
related issues as important services including power ...