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Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Title
Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Author
Dobbs, Olivia, Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Sex role, Nineteenth century, Women in education
Description
During the late nineteenth century, British women received better education, especially at the university level. In particular, the University of Cambridge opened two women’s colleges, Girton College in 1869 and Newnham College in 1871. The establ...
Auditory processing difficulties influence on perceptual learning
Title
Auditory processing difficulties influence on perceptual learning
Author
Fiallo, Katherine M., Galati, Alexia
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Auditory perception, Perceptual learning
Description
Understanding spoken speech is a complex process that comes to most people easily, yet past research demonstrates that some people face difficulties with auditory processing. Listeners adjust to variations in speech by integrating auditory, visual...
Beyond the knowledge economy : social circus as an intersectional avenue to global aesthetics and universal ethics
Title
Beyond the knowledge economy : social circus as an intersectional avenue to global aesthetics and universal ethics
Author
Rogden, Krysta, Alterowitz, Gretchen
Subjects--Topical
Art in education, Intersectionality (Sociology)
Description
While the Western world is a post-colonial society that attempts to guarantee an equal opportunity for success to all, objectives to uphold inclusion efforts in the primary education system often undermine the complexities of cultural histories an...
Comparing volunteer data before and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Title
Comparing volunteer data before and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Author
Stevens, Lawrence, Piatak, Jaclyn
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Volunteers
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic affected volunteer management and nonprofit organizations nationwide. In this study, I will examine volunteering before and after the pandemic to offer several solutions to manage the growing need for volunteers better. This ...
Civilizing paternalism : Mill, autonomy, and Indian assimilation policies
Title
Civilizing paternalism : Mill, autonomy, and Indian assimilation policies
Author
Lee, Christina
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Indigenous peoples, North America, Assimilation (Sociology), Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Description
John Stuart Mill, a Western philosopher of the Enlightenment period, argues that paternalism is an infringement on an individual’s autonomy. Although Mill argues as such, Western powers have been observed to exercise paternalism by way of imperial...
Mohawk Industries Inc. comprehensive analysis honors case
Title
Mohawk Industries Inc. comprehensive analysis honors case
Author
Beale, Zach
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Business enterprises, Manufacturing industries
Description
This comprehensive analysis of Mohawk Industries Inc. provides a detailed overview of the company, including its history, mission, and values. The report analyzes the flooring industry in which Mohawk operates, including market size, growth prospe...
Commercializing craft : Native American artistry at residential schools within the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century
Title
Commercializing craft : Native American artistry at residential schools within the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century
Author
Schutt, Jaden
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Indigenous peoples, Off-reservation boarding schools, Indigenous arts
Description
My thesis specifically focused on federally instructed and federally implemented Native American art at residential boarding schools from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Specifically, I analyzed the evolution of the Native art cu...
Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) as a lens of participatory learning and exposure to environmental racism in the United States
Title
Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) as a lens of participatory learning and exposure to environmental racism in the United States
Author
Alabi, Mora, Fotiushang, Nikol
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Alternate reality games, Environmental racism
Description
Contemporary educational models emphasize educators employ tools to increase engagement and collaborative thinking in student learning. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) have recently been found to have great potential for language immersion and cult...
The politics of pollution in America's most vulnerable communities
Title
The politics of pollution in America's most vulnerable communities
Author
Clark, Caylea
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Pollution, Poverty
Description
Throughout the history of the United States, corporate facility polluters have been targeting low socioeconomic status and high minority communities across the country. This has been displayed through countless studies including this thesis and ac...
Windows and mirrors : a content analysis of diversity in the Common Core Text Exemplars
Title
Windows and mirrors : a content analysis of diversity in the Common Core Text Exemplars
Author
Romney, Kelsey M.
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Children's literature, Multiculturalism
Description
As diversity in the United States student population increases, children’s literature should be reflective of that growing diversity. A descriptive content analysis was conducted to analyze the gender and racial diversity of the main characters/pe...
A photocatalytic facade for air pollution mitigation
Title
A photocatalytic facade for air pollution mitigation
Author
Gil Rivas, Dante
Date Created
2021, 2021, 2021
Subjects--Topical
Architecture, Design, Air quality
Submicroscopic infection and G6PD deficiency in malaria patients
Title
Submicroscopic infection and G6PD deficiency in malaria patients
Author
Witherspoon, Logan, Witherspoon, Logan, Kepple, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Abagero, Beka
Date Created
2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical
Malaria, Public health
Description
Plasmodium vivax malaria is a neglected tropical disease, despite being more geographically widespread than any other form of malaria. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is a cytosolic enzyme with a vital role for the integrity and functioni...
Task goals constrain interpersonal coordination : evidence from the alignment of speech in dialogues
Title
Task goals constrain interpersonal coordination : evidence from the alignment of speech in dialogues
Author
Sulkunte, Niyathi
Date Created
2021, 2021, 2021
Subjects--Topical
Cognitive psychology, Cognitive styles
Alternative grading strategies for an anti-Black institution of higher learning
Title
Alternative grading strategies for an anti-Black institution of higher learning
Author
Stevens, Lawrence, Paquette, Elisabeth
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Grading and marking (Students), Education, Higher, Anti-racism
Description
Racist grading practices and policies in higher education have existed to perpetuate white supremacy and privilege while at a disservice to minority students. Minority students in higher education often face discrimination for being of a lower soc...
Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Title
Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Author
Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
Description
During the Holocaust, mezzo-soprano Hedda Grab-Kernmayer (1899-1990) was one of the most prominent musicians in the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezín). During the earliest days of the ghetto, she organized and starred in various unaccompanied...
Image dilution using Harris corner detection and geometric kernels
Title
Image dilution using Harris corner detection and geometric kernels
Author
James, Aiden, Li, Xingjie Helen
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Sparse matrices, Matrices
Description
Image files contain large amounts of data. An image is essentially a matrix of values, often represented as RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha) arrays. A large three dimensional matrix with a height and width likely in the hundreds can take long for a ...
Beyond the PCA : a comprehensive review of dimension reduction techniques
Title
Beyond the PCA : a comprehensive review of dimension reduction techniques
Author
Kenjale, Tanmay
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Statistics, Dimension reduction (Statistics), Regression analysis
Description
Regression analysis is a key tool in modeling the relationship between predictor variables and the conditional mean of the response variable. However, as the number of predictors increases, existing estimation methods become challenging. Dimension...
ModuleLog : module based approach to anomaly detection in parallel file system logs
Title
ModuleLog : module based approach to anomaly detection in parallel file system logs
Author
Egersdoerfer, Chris, Dai, Dong, Zhang, Di
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Computer networks, Anomaly detection (Computer security), Computer science
Description
With the increasing prevalence of Parallel File Systems (PFSes) in the context of vast and complex server networks, the importance of accurate anomaly detection on runtime logs of parallel file systems is increasing. But as it currently stands, ma...
Pay by position
Title
Pay by position
Author
Jackson, Daniel
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Pay equity, Gender identity in the workplace, Sexism
Description
This community-engaged project is in partnership with the League of Women Voters Charlotte Mecklenburg Chapter. The purpose of the project is to compile data to inform a corporate scorecard on the important metrics of the gender equity gap. With t...
Comparing high-shear, low-CAPE supercell weather events in the Southeastern United States vs. the Great Plains
Title
Comparing high-shear, low-CAPE supercell weather events in the Southeastern United States vs. the Great Plains
Author
Greco, Jasen
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Thunderstorms, Severe storms
Description
High-shear, low-CAPE (HSLC) supercells are a phenomenon in which an anomalously high wind shear makes up for a lack of convective available potential energy (CAPE). These events are not very common, but when they do occur they generate high wind s...