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- Title
- "And the North Carolina MORONS LIVED | HAPPILY EVER AFTER": The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
- Author
- Wilds, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- Following World War II, eugenics became associated with Nazis abuses, leading many States to end their eugenics programs. North Carolina was a rare exception to this trend. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized over 7,600 people, the ma...
- Title
- Doula Care in California during COVID-19: The Impacts of Social Distancing on a High-Touch Helping Profession.
- Author
- Lisenbee, Jodie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Birth doula care was uniquely impacted by hospital visitor restriction policies enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Doulas were classified as "non-essential" personnel and thus generally excluded from providing in-hospital childbirth sup...
- Title
- EFFECT OF BIOCERAMIC FUNCTIONAL GROUPS ON DRUG BINDING AND RELEASE KINETICS
- Author
- Trujillo, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Engineering, Biomedical engineering
- Description
- Bioceramics have been studied extensively as drug delivery systems (DDS). Those studies have aimed to tailor the drug binding and release kinetics to successfully treat infections and other diseases. This research suggests that the drug binding an...
- Title
- Duke and Reynolds: Urban and Regional Development Through Business, Politics, and Philanthropy
- Author
- Dancy, Brianna
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The Industrial Revolution witnessed an increase in wealthy entrepreneurs who were also philanthropists. During this era, James Buchanan (Buck) Duke and Richard Joshua (R.J.) Reynolds led the tobacco production industry in North Carolina. These ind...
- Title
- EARLY INTERVENTION PROVIDERS’ EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
- Author
- Stimpson, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Early childhood education
- Description
- The term natural environment has been a key component in the implementation of Part C early intervention, formerly known as Part H, since its inception in 1986; however, as Part C was reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004, a clear definition of n...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM CHLORIDE DEICING AND ANTI-ICING SOLUTIONS ON EXPOSED, COATED, AND REINFORCING STEEL IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES
- Author
- Diep, Thanh-tu
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering
- Description
- In North Carolina, winter roadway maintenance strategies vary across the state, with some areas using brine for anti-icing pre-treatment, some using granular salts for deicing, and some using a mix of granular salts with traction enhancing materia...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF ONCOLYTIC VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUSES IN CANCER CELLS
- Author
- Seegers, Sara
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Virology, Biology
- Description
- Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) based oncolytic viruses are promising agents against various cancers. We have shown that pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines exhibit great diversity in susceptibility and permissibility to VSV. Here,...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTS IN TEXT SUMMARIZATION USING DEEP LEARNING
- Author
- Bulusu, Sai Amrit
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Information science
- Description
- Deep Learning has been the go-to tool for text summarization in the recent times.Traditional deep learning research focuses on performing abstractive text summarizationwithout considering the user’s interests to personalize the summaries.This prob...
- Title
- EXPANDING THE BOUNDS OF AUTHORITY BY APPROPRIATING GROUP MEMBERS’ TIME
- Author
- Rejtig, Michael
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- Actors in a position of authority can acquire legitimacy beyond the normative order when the appropriation of subordinate’s time is found valid by group members. A randomized laboratory experiment consisting a peer condition and authority conditio...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SOLID-LIQUID PHASE CHANGE IN VIBRATED GRANULAR MEDIA AND COMPARISON WITH THEORETICALLY PREDICTED PHASE CHANGE IN HARD SPHERE SYSTEMS
- Author
- Gaur, Kapil
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Fluid mechanics, Statistical physics
- Description
- Hard sphere systems, for years, have been studied through computer simulations. In the 1950s the work on modern computing was on the rise and computers were being researched for use in every field. Statistical Mechanics was no alien to this and th...
- Title
- FUNDAMENTALS OF MATERIAL REMOVAL IN SILICON CARBIDE FOR FREEFORM OPTICS
- Author
- Shanmugam, Prithiviraj
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- The mechanical and thermal properties offered by Silicon carbide (SiC) make it an ideal material for reflective freeform optics. However, the hardness, brittleness and fracture toughness of the material pose a challenge to manufacturing. The manuf...
- Title
- FUNCTIONALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL COORDINATION COMPLEXES FOR USE IN SUPERCAPACITORS
- Author
- Zuczek, Justin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Power resources
- Description
- As society begins to move away from fossil fuel consumption and the harmful effects they entail, renewable energy sources have been studied extensively over the past decades. One obstacle with renewable energy is the ability to cheaply store it du...
- Title
- FUZZIER CONSTRUCTS IN CONTENT ANALYSIS: RATINGS FROM THE CROWD VS. TRADITIONAL EXPERTS
- Author
- Moffit, Miles
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Psychology
- Description
- The task of rating (or "coding") text data as a component of qualitative content analysis remains a time-consuming process. Advances in crowdsourcing platforms have presented novel opportunities to outsource this work away from the desks of academ...
- Title
- FROM COTTON FIELDS TO COBWEBS: A CASE STUDY OF COMMUNITY AND PRESERVATION IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF BELMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Miller, Allyson
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The oldest mill in Belmont, North Carolina still stands today. Almost one hundred and fifteen years old, the Chronicle Mill has made a legacy for the small town of Belmont, establishing a sense of community and identity for its people. At one time...
- Title
- Predictors of Perceived Scarcity: The Impact of Demographic Factors, Objective Socioeconomic Status, and Subjective Social Status
- Author
- Dillon-Owens, Cody
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Perceived scarcity is a relatively new construct conceptualized to be a subjective indicator of perceived resource availability that captures factors previously unaccounted for by traditional, objective indicators of socioeconomic status (SES). Li...
- Title
- Predictive Maintenance Optimization Framework For Pavement Management
- Author
- Kumar, Amit
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation
- Description
- The development of a progressive modern highway system is essential for the enhancement of the road capacity, safety, efficiency, commerce, and national defences of a country. These highway systems consist of various integrated individual asset co...
- Title
- Predictors of Mobile Dating Application Use Among College Students
- Author
- Griffin, Meredith
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Emerging adulthood is the transitional developmental stage from the late teens through the early twenties when individuals explore possibilities, particularly in the domains of love, work, and identity (Arnett, 2000). This study focuses on emergin...
- Title
- Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
- Author
- Culletto, Gordon
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
- Description
- President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...
- Title
- Preliminary Assessment of Lead Glazed Coarse Earthenware Trade Relationships During Mid-18th and 19th Century North Carolina Piedmont through PXRF Analysis
- Author
- Dyer, Monica
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Archaeology
- Description
- Little documentation exists of the trade occurring in the central North Carolina Piedmont during the 18th and 19th century at wealthy farmstead sites or at surrounding sites of lower economic status. The intent of my research is to gain a greater ...
- Title
- REAL WOMEN AND REAL BEAUTY: ASSESSING THE INTERNAL COMPARISON PROCESSES AND TARGET IMAGES IN BODY-IMAGE SELF-DISCREPANCIES
- Author
- Taylor, Jessica
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- The main purpose of the study was to assess if levels of state body shame and state appearance anxiety differ across two body-comparison conditions when controlling for baseline differences in weighted trait appearance self-discrepancy and BMI. Pa...