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- Title
- “You Good, Bruh?” An Exploration of the Influence of Race and Masculinity on Millennial Black Men’s Decisions to Seek Mental Health Treatment
- Author
- Cofield, Demetrius
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- In recent years there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of mental illness among millennials. However, there is still a significantly lower rate of Black millennials, specifically Black men, utilizing mental health services compared...
- Title
- “To Push or Not to Push?”; Exploring Lived Experiences of Former Women Track and Field Student-athletes Who Trained and Competed Through Pain and Injury.
- Author
- Erega, Arna
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- Athletes are aware that with involvement in the sport they are exposed to the risk of getting injured. Suffering an injury can be one of the most stressful experiences in a student-athlete’s athletic career and can cause a series of psychological,...
- Title
- “THEIR LIVES ARE SO MUCH BIGGER OUTSIDE OF MY LITTLE CLASSROOM:” ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH MULTILINGUAL STUDENT ADVOCACY DURING MANDATED SCHOOL CLOSURES
- Author
- Pazzula Jimenez, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way education transpired for teachers and learners worldwide. Widespread virtual learning brought deeper academic and social inequities among K-12 diverse learners to light. Multilingual learners an...
- Title
- “Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
- Author
- Norwood, Jessica
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...
- Title
- “Seeing it in Action is More Beneficial Than Learning About it in School”: A Multi-Case of Clinical Experiences and Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
- Author
- Schmidt, Leslie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- This multiple case study explored the characteristics of clinical experiences that support preservice teachers' understandings of culturally responsive literacy in elementary classrooms. In particular, this study focused on capturing the voices an...
- Title
- “Re-membering” History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education
- Author
- Teasdell, Annette
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- ABSTRACTANNETTE TEASDELL. "Re-membering" History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education. (Under the direction of DR. GREG WIGGAN) Excellence in education is based on a ...
- Title
- “It sometimes heals, but it sometimes hurts”; Exploring the issues facing first-generation and immigrant staff caring for immigrant youth in an after-school program
- Author
- Cronin, Claire
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Counseling psychology, Early childhood education
- Description
- Coming from countries across the world, immigrants have chosen to start a new life in the United States, and become part of the fabric that makes up American society. Today, immigrant children face a unique set of challenges and hardships includin...
- Title
- “In the contradiction lies the hope”: White student affairs administrators’ understanding of whiteness
- Author
- Forester, Rachael
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- Among white people, there is a pervasive mentality that color-evasiveness (Bonilla-Silva, 2003) is an ideal approach to racial equity, meaning many white student affairs professionals may equate refusing to see race as synonymous with being anti-r...
- Title
- “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
- Author
- Austin, Lauren
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Public health, Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...
- Title
- “16 Weeks is a Lot of Time to be Away”: A Contemporary Examination of Maternity Leave Perceptions and Experiences
- Author
- Chandler , Allison
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Sociology, Management
- Description
- In recent decades, women’s presence in the workplace has increased from only a quarter of total American workers, to nearly half of all American workers (U.S. Department of Labor, 2020). With an increasing number of women in the labor force, organ...
- Title
- study of optoelectronic properties of thin film solar cell materials Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 using multiple correlative spatially-resolved spectroscopy techniques
- Author
- Chen, Qiong
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Containing only earth abundant and environmental friendly elements, quaternary compounds Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) are considered as promising absorber materials for thin film solar cells. The best record efficiency for this type of ...
- Title
- Your Work-Family Conflict (WFC) Is Hard on Me Too: Employee Reactions to Coworker WFC
- Author
- Toth, Allison
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management
- Description
- Researchers working in the work-family conflict (WFC) literature have a long history of focusing on how conflict between the work and family domains influences employees and their experiences inside and outside of work (Eby et al., 2005). However,...
- Title
- Your Library Ain't Like Mine: Perceptions of Quality School Library Programming From Library Professionals
- Author
- Creech, Tracy
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Library science
- Description
- There are few instances in which school library professionals are able to give input as to what constitutes a quality school library media program. This study seeks to determine if there are key differences in perceptions of school library program...
- Title
- Writhe-like Invariants of Alternating Links
- Author
- Pham, Van
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics
- Description
- This dissertation introduces new invariants for a large class of links in knot theory, called alternating links. It also analyzes the strength of these invariants, that we call writhe-like invariants, in comparison with a few general link invarian...
- Title
- World Assumptions, Posttraumatic Growth, and Contributing Factors in a Population of New Nurses
- Author
- Jesse, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology
- Description
- This multi-site study assessed newly licensed, newly hired nurses to determine whether their professional experiences contribute to the development of posttraumatic growth (PTG) and well-being. Also, how world assumptions, coping, social support, ...
- Title
- Workplace Accommodations and People with Disabilities: The Dilemmatic Communicative Process of Requesting Access Technology
- Author
- Makkawy, Amin
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Communication
- Description
- This study consists of a qualitative investigation of how people with visual impairments manage access to technology at the workplace. By the use of Applied Thematic Data Analysis (Guest, MacQueen, & Namey, 2012), results of a questionnaire distri...
- Title
- Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Transfer Experience
- Author
- Slane, Lauren
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- As the entry point into higher education for over half of the bachelor’s degree earners, (Trapani & Hale, 2019), community colleges are positioned to have a positive impact of bringing a more diverse student group into science, technology, enginee...
- Title
- Wireless Power Transfer for Railway Applications
- Author
- Xu, Xiwen
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- The United States trains have the highest energy demands in rail transport in the world. More than 90% of the trains are powered by diesel, which aggressively impacts climate change. Thus, railway system electrification is a trend to reduce the sp...
- Title
- Why nations succeed? Distribution and reach of the state power
- Author
- Cekic, Nejra
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Political science, Economics
- Description
- What explains the difference in the performance of the world’s nations? Why do some succeed, and others fail? I argue that the primary determinants of development are two dimensions of a country’s institutional setting. The purpose of this study i...
- Title
- Why Waste? Local Factors And Recycling Outcomes: A Case Study Of North Carolina Counties
- Author
- Fernandes, Titiksha
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Environmental management, Public administration
- Description
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that in 2015 only 67.8million tons or about 26% of the total waste generated was recycled, while the waste generated continued to rise. It is clear from the numbers above that the success of ...