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Title: Examining the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs : a study using PRISMA methods
Author: Eident, Canaan, Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Gilson, Cindy M., Byker, Erik Jon
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gifted children--Education, Educational equalization
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs in the United States’ school system. To complete this study, we used a modified version of the Preferred Reporting Items fo...

Title: Gentrification, housing costs, & healthcare accessibility
Author: Smithey, Morgan, Banks, Erin, Cao, Nhi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Public health, Housing policy
Description: Rapidly rising home values often accompany gentrification, leading to increased property taxes for homeowners (Ding & Hwang, 2020). Higher property taxes increase the risk of becoming cost-burdened, “in Mecklenburg County, 75% of homeowners earnin...

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...

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 ...

Title: Implications and preventions of cyberbullying and social exclusion in social media : systematic review
Author: Ademiluyi, Adesoji, Li, Chuqin, Park, Albert
Subjects--Topical: Social media, Mental health, Cyberbullying
Description: Background: The growth of social networking has created a paradigm in which many forms of personal communication are being replaced by internet communication technologies, such as social media. This has led to social issues, such as cyberbullying....

Title: In search of a predictive model for aflatoxin insurance claims based on temperature data
Author: German-Jimenez, Fausto, Terejanu, Gabriel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Machine learning, Statistics, Agriculture
Description: Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic product of mold that affects thousands of corn-producing farms in the United States every year, so being able to predict when a county will have compromising aflatoxin levels could be beneficial for insurance companies....

Title: Incels and The Red Pill : preventing the growth of online misogyny
Author: Starr, Evie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Misogyny, Incels
Description: In an increasingly digital world, the problem of radicalization and online extremism has become more relevant than ever before. One such example is the networked misogyny of the manosphere and its associated subgroups. One of these groups is made ...

Title: La casa de las flores : a case study of Queer Mexican representation in millennial telenovelas
Author: Eric Phann
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Television soap operas, Queer studies
Description: Telenovelas are a TV genre unique to Latin America and are often colloquially referred to as "Spanish soap operas'' since, like US soap operas, they feature a storyline that evolves from episode to episode and airs every weekday. A key difference,...

Title: Leadership alignment : teachers’ and administrators’ perspectives within two schools
Author: Gabriel, Tara, Medina, Adriana L.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: School management and organization, Educational leadership
Description: Many school administrators struggle to find a reliably efficient and effective way of stabilizing academic reform implementation within educational institutions. Questionnaire responses were collected from two administrators and six teachers acros...

Title: Meditation, personality, and workplace stress
Author: Waters, Andrew, Shanock, Linda
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Job stress, Meditation
Description: The prevalence of stress occurs across various levels of the workplace can affect employees at any level of an organization. This study explored the role of meditation frequency on stress reduction in the workplace. Previous research emphasizes th...

Title: Modeling of ssDNA binding protein structures
Author: Jariwala, Maanav, Guo, Jun-tao
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: DNA, Protein binding
Description: Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding proteins are crucial for biological processes including replication, transcription, and genomic integrity. We can better comprehend the function of the proteins and their interactions with ssDNA with structures ...

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...

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...

Title: Molecular mechanisms underlying glial inflammatory responses to Neisseria meningitidis
Author: Davis, Erin
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meningitis, Immune response

Title: Natural phenomena edition
Author: Voigt, Suzanne, Rodrigez, Dominique, Turner, Zoe
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Artificial intelligence, Photography
Description: In the 21st century, it has become increasingly challenging to recognize which images are “real” vs. those that have been created using AI. Experts have estimated that by 2025, over 90% of online content will be created by AI, leading Congress to ...

Title: Not credible until proven credible
Author: Manley, Mariah
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Internet literacy
Description: My presentation is an overview of what makes a source credible and what causes it to lose its purpose or credibility. It addresses Authority, Purpose, and Currency while also explaining how this helps individuals find credibility. My poster also t...

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...

Title: Practice what they preach? : how pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy in culturally relevant teaching practices aligns with their perceptions of diversity
Author: Frayman, Faith, Gilson, Cindy M., Glass, Tehia Starker, FitzPatrick, Erin
Subjects--Topical: Culturally relevant pedagogy, Self-efficacy, Teachers
Description: In this qualitative content analysis, we addressed the following research questions: (a) How do pre-service teachers perceive their self-efficacy in creating and enacting culturally relevant curriculum and a culturally inclusive classroom environm...

Title: Practices in elementary schools to reduce racial stereotypes that impact students’ academic performance
Author: Park, Goeun Grace
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Racism in education, Racism
Description: Racial stereotypes in schools negatively influence students’ academic success. There are a variety of methods that can reduce racial stereotypes that influence students’ academic performance and help students who are in groups that face racial ste...

Title: Quantifying reproductive behavior in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Author: Alexander, William, Justin, Hannah, Reitzel, Adam M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Cnidaria, Biology, Developmental biology, Marine biology, Sea anemones
Description: The Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Nv) exists widely in coastal estuarine environments across North America. Nv has become a popular cnidarian model organism with a growing number of applications, including evolutionary developmental ...