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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: “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: “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: 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: 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 ...

Title: Why Some Stay When So Many Leave: A Phenomenological Study on Why Teachers Remain in Low-Income, High-Minority Schools
Author: Hovis, Michael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: School management and organization
Description: Tens of thousands of teachers in the United States leave their schools to work in other occupations or other schools each year. This has earned the teaching profession the reputation of being a "revolving door," with a large number of qualified te...

Title: What is in my Patient's Pantry? Addressing Food Insecurity in Primary Care: a Quality Improvement Project
Author: Koontz, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Food insecurity (FI) has negative health effects throughout the lifespan, yet there is a disconnect between national recognition of FI as a health issue and FI screening in the clinical setting. The purpose of this project was to determine if an e...

Title: Vulnerability Assessment and Policy Enforcement for Hybrid Mobile Applications
Author: Mohanty, Abhinav
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Hybrid mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular for building cross-platform mobile applications, where the core business code of apps is written using web technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript (JS), and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This tec...

Title: Visual Analytics Approaches to Exploring Multivariate Time Series Data
Author: Feng, Tinghao
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Time-oriented data analysis has attracted the attention of researchers for decades, across many research domains, including but not limited to medical records, business, science, engineering, biographies, history, planning, and project management....

Title: Vehicle Velocity Trajectory Optimization in Non-deterministic Environments
Author: Borek, John
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Optimally modulating a vehicle's speed profile through highway, urban, and suburban environments can result in pronounced fuel savings, particularly with heavy-duty vehicles. However, existing strategies for speed profile optimization traditionall...

Title: VPS501, A NOVEL SNX-BAR PROTEIN INVOLVED IN AUTOPHAGY
Author: goyal, Shreya
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry, Cytology, Molecular biology
Description: ABSTRACTCareful control of intracellular signaling pathways plays an important role in a cell’s ability to maintain stable internal conditions in the face of an ever-changing extracellular environment. This is particularly true as it relates to th...

Title: Understanding the Complexities of Advising Transfer Students in an Institution-Driven System
Author: Holliday-Millard, Paul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher, Educational leadership
Description: Nationally, while the majority of community college students indicate a desire to transfer to a four-year college or university, many of them fail to do so (Horn & Skomsvold, 2011; Hossler et al., 2012; Jenkins & Fink, 2015; Shapiro et al., 2013)....

Title: Understanding and identifying risk factors for individuals experiencing negative psychological outcomes following social media use: A statistical analysis among women without a history of an eating disorder.
Author: Hayes, Marie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: As the use of social media for accessing health information becomes increasingly more nuanced and commonplace, as does our understanding of the impacts on users. Using social media to access health information has increased in popularity, and rese...

Title: Understanding and Designing for Sharing and Privacy in Wearable Fitness Platforms
Author: Alqhatani, Abdulmajeed
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Commercial wearable devices that collect health and fitness data are widely used. These devices sense and collect a variety of personal data, which can be shared by users with other people and with third parties. Yet, the collection of personal da...

Title: Understanding and Designing for Sharing and Privacy in Wearable Fitness Platforms
Author: Alqhatani, Abdulmajeed
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Commercial wearable devices that collect health and fitness data are widely used. These devices sense and collect a variety of personal data, which can be shared by users with other people and with third parties. Yet, the collection of personal da...

Title: Understanding Chaperone interactions in disease
Author: Nitika
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Cytology
Description: The correct folding of proteins after synthesis and stress-promoted denaturation is critical for cell viability in all organisms. The Hsp70 molecular chaperone is a key player in proteostasis, deciding which proteins are foldable and which are too...

Title: Travel Time Forecasting on a Freeway Corridor: a Dynamic Information Fusion Model based on the Machine Learning Approaches
Author: Qiu, Bo
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
Description: Metropolitan areas suffer from frequent road traffic congestion not only during peak hours but also during off-peak periods. Currently, the increasing availability of vehicle probe data has made the real-time travel time prediction a reality. The ...

Title: Towards ai-empowered wireless networks: from edge to core
Author: janakaraj, prabhu
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Wireless multi-hop networks have been widely exploited for deploying cost-efficient network backbones including wireless community mesh networks, high-speed urban networks, global wireless internet infrastructure, battlefield networks, and public ...