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'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
Title
'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
Author
Brown, Savannah
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
History
Description
For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...
(RE)-AUTHORING THE STUDENT: AN EXPLORATION INTO FIGURED WORLDS, IDENTITY FORMATION, GENRE, PUBLICS, AND HOW POWER RELATIONS IMPACT CHILDREN'S WRITING
Title
(RE)-AUTHORING THE STUDENT: AN EXPLORATION INTO FIGURED WORLDS, IDENTITY FORMATION, GENRE, PUBLICS, AND HOW POWER RELATIONS IMPACT CHILDREN'S WRITING
Author
Iannone, Anthony
Date Created
2014
Subjects--Topical
Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Language arts
Description
As digital media makes its way into elementary school classrooms, urban school culture moves slowly to join in. The move to integrate new technologies into schools is both enabled and constrained by factors such as the need for students and teache...
1948 and the Bounding of Thought: Zionist Discourse, The New Historians, and American Jewish Public Intellectuals, 1950-2020
Title
1948 and the Bounding of Thought: Zionist Discourse, The New Historians, and American Jewish Public Intellectuals, 1950-2020
Author
Mefferd, Zebulon
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Political science, History
Description
The following thesis analyzes American Jewish public intellectuals and their use of the Zionist narrative, the New Historian scholarship, or a mixture of the two in their writing. The political leanings of the public intellectuals, authors, schola...
2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
Title
2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
Author
Lambert, Richard, Bottoms, Bryndle, Taylor, Bruce
Subjects--Topical
Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Description
This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom School Partners’ Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools© program in Charlotte, NC that took place during the summer of 2019. The evaluation was a collaboration between the Center for ...
2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
Title
2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author
Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
Subjects--Topical
Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
Description
Freedom School Partners is a six-week, literacy-rich, summer program that has served the Charlotte area since 2004. What began as a group of 100 scholars in one site, is now more than 400 scholars and includes twelve sites (www.freedomschoolpartne...
2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
Title
2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
Author
Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Davis, Tiffany, Krumbine, Tracie, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Perry, Crystal
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Academic libraries, College students, Black, Anti-racism
Description
This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of Black students at UNC Charlotte related to the spaces, services, and resources of Atkins Library. The research team for this study was comprised o...
2023 report on the experiences of neurodivergent students at Atkins Library
Title
2023 report on the experiences of neurodivergent students at Atkins Library
Author
Moore, Jon, Barbour, Triston
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Academic libraries, Neurodiversity
Description
This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of students at UNC Charlotte who identify as neurodivergent and/or as having a disorder related to mental health or function, specifically as they re...
3D Printing of Metamaterials with Conductive Elements
Title
3D Printing of Metamaterials with Conductive Elements
Author
Tuttle, Geoffrey
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Materials science
Description
To fulfill their engineered purpose, resonant metamaterials require arrays of complex three-dimensional geometries composed of non-conductive dielectrics and highly conductive materials. In order to create these geometries, 3D printers must be abl...
8 reasons researchers should use the GetFTR browser extension
Title
8 reasons researchers should use the GetFTR browser extension
Author
Boardman, Erika
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Academic libraries, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description
What is the problem we’re trying to solve? Researchers are not always able to easily make use of the resources their institution has made available to them. When presented with a plethora of links in a discovery tool, researchers may inadvertently...
A 360° View of Psychiatric Boarding in the Emergency Department
Title
A 360° View of Psychiatric Boarding in the Emergency Department
Author
Veri, Shelby
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Mental health
Description
This dissertation utilizes a three article approach to examine the current status of psychiatric boarding in the emergency department (ED). The number of ED visits for mental health concerns in the United States has been increasing for the past se...
A BROKEN HEART: THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC OPEN HEART SURGERY ON PARENTS' WELLBEING AND PARENTING
Title
A BROKEN HEART: THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC OPEN HEART SURGERY ON PARENTS' WELLBEING AND PARENTING
Author
McWhorter, Linda
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Psychology
Description
According to the pediatric medical traumatic stress model, pediatric medicalexperiences can create posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in pediatric patients and intheir parents and siblings. While the impact of traumatic medical experiences has b...
A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
Title
A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
Author
Rice, Lance
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
Multi-object tracking in video has the potential for broad applicability, from analyzing division-of-labor within biological networks such as insects, to surveillance and traffic monitoring. Despite any potential the field of multiple object track...
A Breadcrumb Network for Assisting with Autonomous Robot Localization
Title
A Breadcrumb Network for Assisting with Autonomous Robot Localization
Author
Grabowsky, David
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Electrical engineering
Description
Localization and communication are critical components for functioning autonomous robots. The infrastructure required or these operations commonly includes global positioning system (GPS) and easily recognizable and re-identifiable landmarks. Howe...
A Brief Glimpse of Blue: Examining the Participation and Political Effects of 21st-Century Election Reform in North Carolina
Title
A Brief Glimpse of Blue: Examining the Participation and Political Effects of 21st-Century Election Reform in North Carolina
Author
Holder, John
Date Created
2013
Subjects--Topical
Government policy, Political science
Description
This study examines registration, voting and election results in the presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. During this period, North Carolina introduced a series of election reforms which were designed to increase political participation by ma...
A CASE STUDY OF AN EFFECTIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ALGEBRA I TEACHER
Title
A CASE STUDY OF AN EFFECTIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ALGEBRA I TEACHER
Author
Linton, Patricia
Date Created
2011
Subjects--Topical
Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education
Description
ABSTRACTPATRICIA LORRAINE CURTIS LINTON. A case study of an effective middle school Algebra I teacher. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID K. PUGALEE)Using a qualitative case study approach, the research was an exploration of the perceptions of midd...
A CASE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN LARGE, TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS
Title
A CASE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN LARGE, TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS
Author
Szymanska, Izabela
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
Industrial management
Description
The current body of research suggests that the relative importance of business objectives and family objectives changes over time in family firms (Miller et al., 2011). As family firms age, company management tends to provide more resources for th...
A CASE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS OF A NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Title
A CASE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS OF A NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Author
Harris, Letitia
Date Created
2010
Subjects--Topical
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description
As the United States struggles with issues regarding the rapidly increasing immigrant population, so do public schools struggle with providing the youth of this non-English speaking population a quality education. Because of the requirements and s...
A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
Title
A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
Author
Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...
A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Title
A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Author
Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
Description
In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...
A COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS ACCESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS: ANYCAST ROUTING & SIMULATION TOOLS
Title
A COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS ACCESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS: ANYCAST ROUTING & SIMULATION TOOLS
Author
Sharif, Kashif
Date Created
2012
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop network architectures. We propose and analyze two communication frameworks for...