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Title: AT THE INTERSECTION OF RELATIVE RISK AVERSION AND EFFECTIVELY MAINTAINED INEQUALITY IN STEM MAJORS: A MULTILEVEL APPROACH
Author: Jamil, Cayce
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minorities and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds in college majors that promote social mobility is problematic. Relative risk aversion theory predicts that disadvantaged students will choose colle...

Title: Abundant Scarcity: How Liberal Democratic Stratification Systems and the Cares Act impacted National School Lunch Program Distribution
Author: Hooke, Brett
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational sociology
Description: The Covid- 19 Pandemic and subsequent economic disruption spurred the federal government to increase the availability of the National School Lunch Program to all eligible students in the United States. Despite the expansion of the National School ...

Title: Addressing the difference in rates of trauma among youth involved with in-home services compared to foster care
Author: Cooper, Jenny
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Childhood trauma has long-term effects on the physical and mental health of its victims. Given that the focus of the public health field is to create the healthiest communities possible, determining interventions to combat the effects of childhood...

Title: Adrastea: A Novel
Author: Lynch, Emma
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Adrastea is a science-fiction novel that follows Adrastea on her journey from the moon to Earth in a misguided quest to find her sister. Set several thousand years in the future, after the Earth has been destroyed by climate change, this is a scie...

Title: Advantages And Disadvantages of Remote Batterer Intervention Programs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Sotiroff, Alexa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Many psychological services that have been historically conducted in-person have made the switch to remote platforms. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated these changes, making virtual settings the norm for many services (Augenstein, 2020)....

Title: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk-Taking Behaviors in College Students: Early Maladaptive Schemas, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation as Possible Mediators.
Author: Dickie, Daniel
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are pervasive problems in the United States today. As many as 85% of adults report experiencing at least one adverse childhood experience (Crandall et al., 2020), and experiencing just one ACE significantly inc...

Title: Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Author: Mayfield, Hannah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student writing. The project begins with an analysis of participatory fandom; specific...

Title: Age-Related Differences in Cognitive Control: An ERP Study of Internally Directed Attention
Author: Nelson, Monica
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Attention and working memory are two cognitive abilities that have been the target of research to determine whether they are independent (Baddeley, 2003) or related constructs (Kiyonaga & Egner, 2013). Modifying traditional attention tasks to inco...

Title: Ambient Discrimination and Observer Task Performance
Author: Harrington, Nicole
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Organizational sociology
Description: Research shows that being a target of workplace incivility is related to negative outcomes for both the individual and the organization. According to the theory of selective incivility, stigmatized groups such as women or people of color experienc...

Title: Amelia's Blog
Author: Santiago, Jennifer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Amelia once deeply appreciated the online community that had formed around the blog of the charismatic writer called Rei Locke. When Amelia learned that Rei Locke had been lying about her life and inventing her accomplishments all along, she felt ...

Title: American Atheism: An Analysis of Eighteenth-Century Stigma Borne by Twenty-First Century Citizens
Author: Lee, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion
Description: This paper analyzes the stigma that surrounds atheists in twenty-first century America, and shows that assumed moral shortcomings of atheists have remained mostly unchanged over the course of America’s history. By outlining the development of a Ch...

Title: American Daydreams: A Collection
Author: Winfrey, Russell
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature
Description: These four stories are very much a reaction to our current political moment, where mounting complexities in the world are met with untenable simplicity and hostile tribalism. The protagonists in "Miss Future Expat" and "Beans in Peru" are able to ...

Title: An Examination of Judicial and Legislative Documents on Indigenous Tribute and Indigenous Strategies used in Negotiations in the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, 1782-1820
Author: Harnach, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This study shows the importance of indigenous communities by analyzing judicial and legislative documents involving indigenous tribute and indigenous strategies used in negotiations in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, during the late colonial p...

Title: An Examination of Skip-Level Meetings and their Relationship with Job Embeddedness
Author: Zebroski, Micaela
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: A growing body of research documents the importance of studying job embeddedness in order to predict turnover, or conversely, why employees stay at their jobs. However, little is known about how meetings—one of the most time-consuming practices at...

Title: An Examination of the Criminalization of Mental Illness in North Carolina State Prisons
Author: Small, David
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Purpose: The deinstitutionalization of mental health and the failure of community-based care has resulted in more individuals with mental illnesses receiving treatment in the criminal justice system than in the mental health system. This is referr...

Title: An Examination of the Criminalization of Mental Illness in North Carolina State Prisons
Author: Small, David
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Purpose: The deinstitutionalization of mental health and the failure of community-based care has resulted in more individuals with mental illnesses receiving treatment in the criminal justice system than in the mental health system. This is referr...

Title: An Exploratory Case Study of Signage at Beijing Daxing and Denver International Airports
Author: Berry, Noah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Communication of technical information, Linguistics
Description: This thesis presents an analysis of signage inside two international airports, public linguistic spaces that should be accessible to both global visitors as well as disabled populations. International airports and their multimodal signage present ...

Title: An Investigation into Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Signaling Theory
Author: Stock, George
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Transformational leadership is arguably one of the most popular forms of leadership. However, despite the abundance of conducted studies on it, knowledge of specific transformational leadership behaviors is hindered by the conflation of follower p...

Title: An Undeveloped Picture Comes Into Focus: The Role of Women in Irish Nationalism, Suffrage, and The Easter Rising
Author: Lowenstein, Teresa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, Women's studies, Sex role
Description: This thesis draws attention to the role of women in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the suffrage movement, Irish nationalism, and the Easter Rising. It contributes to historiography with the inclusion of new inf...

Title: An examination of the moderating role of gendered racial identity centrality in the relationship between gendered racism and depression
Author: Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaime
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Black women experience both racism and sexism, and these experiences have been found to be related to psychological distress and impairment. While research has pointed to the independent negative effects of racism and sexism on mental health, ther...