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Title: A Cold Pot Does Not Boil: A Case Study Of The Virginia Beach City Municipal Center Shooting To Understand Disgruntled Employee Violence
Author: Bynum, Karly
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational sociology
Description: The phenomenon of the violent disgruntled employee is a symptom of increasing mass violence in the U.S. Previous literature on mass violence in the workplace is mostly based on the individual psychologization of attackers. This case study is a rea...

Title: A Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Breaking Down Volatile Organic Compounds to Improve Health and Productivity of Occupants
Author: Bapat, Ketki Prashant
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture
Description: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the pollutants that impact indoor air quality, leading to many adverse health effects such as Asthma, and other breathing issues. Most of the VOCs are harmful and carcinogenic, usually emitted by indoor...

Title: A Pilot Study of Gastro-Intestinal Parasites in Two U.S. Captive Free-Ranging Lemur Populations
Author: Corbett II, Philip
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physical anthropology, Zoology, Parasitology
Description: A comparative gastrointestinal parasite study was conducted looking at different lemur species and their parasite prevalence and diversity at two Association of Zoo & Aquarium accredited facilities, the Duke Lemur Center and Lemur Conservation Fou...

Title: A path dependent quantum approximate optimization algorithm optimized by pairwise correlation of angles
Author: Daniel, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Given the current promise of quantum computing to increase the efficiency of optimization algorithms, it is important to utilize these quantum algorithms for useful applications. The quantum approximate optimization algorithm was recently develope...

Title: AI Based Realistic Multi-Hop Wireless Simulation
Author: pothuneedi, tagore
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Wireless multi-hop networks and software-defined networking (SDN) are emerging technologies in wireless communications for deploying cost-efficient programmable network backbones. However, the physical testbeds do not provide scalable environments...

Title: Access Control Design and Implementation for Direct Memory Access Attack
Author: Hughes, Marcus
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With technology advancements and becoming prevalent in everyday lives, the need for robust and comprehensive security measures is growing. To defend against brute force type of attacks, encryption algorithms have been used to keep user information...

Title: Aerodynamic Stability Analysis of Quadcopters Subject to Unsteady Wind Conditions
Author: Slingluff, Mason
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics
Description: The quadcopter has become an increasingly utilized tool in the military and aerospace fields over the last several years. For quadcopters to be used in surveillance, search and rescue and even delivery applications, the quadcopter must be able to ...

Title: Aerodynamics of UAV Ground Effect Interactions
Author: Timms, William
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics
Description: With the advent of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) becoming more prevalent for military and commercial applications, gaining a better understanding of their aerodynamic characteristics is critical. No matter the application, each operatio...

Title: And the Categories Are: Sexual “Realness”, Individualism, and the Paradox of Categories in Ball Culture
Author: Grey, Gabrielle
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sex, History
Description: Ball culture has been a Black/Latinx gay subculture overlooked by historians. Ball culture served as a safe space for young gay Black/Latinx men and trans-people to express themselves. The competition categories held an equally significant role in...

Title: Anomaly Detection for Manufacturing Applications Using Convolutional Autoencoders
Author: Zouar, Nourelislam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: ABSTRACTNOURELISLAM ZOUAR. ANOMALY DETECTION FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS USING CONVOLUTIONAL AUTOENCODERS. (Under the direction of DR. MIN SHIN) Anomaly Detection in manufacturing environments is increasingly gaining popularity among companies ...

Title: Application of Local Transmission Line Modelled Metasurfaces and Comparison to Huygens-Fresnel Principle Modelled Metasurfaces
Author: Trusnovic, Matthew
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Metasurfaces have many applications, from beam steering effects to polarization control. There are two main theories that are used in the creation of modern metasurfaces, one based on the Huygens-Fresnel Principle and one based on Local Transmissi...

Title: Audiovisual Translation of Fictional Languages: Dubbing Klingon into Spanish in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Author: Perez-Padilla, Rita
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics, Translations, Motion pictures
Description: This thesis investigates the audiovisual translation of fictional languages in multilingual film franchises using Spanish dubbing of the invented Klingon language in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a case study. This invented language appears th...

Title: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Along a Predetermined Vector
Author: Pfeifer, Elijah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: Search and Rescue (SaR) operations rely on civilian volunteers to provide mandatory manpower when covering large areas of land. These SaR operations are typically conducted in remote environments where conditions can be hazardous and GPS signal in...

Title: Black Doulas and The Quest For Empowerment in the Black Woman's Birthing Experience
Author: Mattison, Sydney
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Obstetrics, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Doula care has proven to be an effective approach to reducing adverse birthing outcomes among women. However, less is known about doula care and birthing outcomes concerning specifically Black women. This qualitative study focused on the narrative...

Title: Black Lives Matter and Black Power
Author: Fraser, Daviana
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...

Title: Bohmian Trajectories of Interacting Particles Trapped in a Two-dimensional Harmonic Well
Author: Keithly, Gregory
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Bohmian mechanics is an alternate formalism of quantum mechanics that posits a particle is always existent, and furthermore there is a separate entity describing a wave-like disturbance in space and time, governed by the Schrodinger equation, that...

Title: Canvas of a Community: The Visual Rhetoric of Black Liberation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Manning Jr., Mark
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Public art, such as graffiti, street art and murals are powerful vessels of ontological expression that allow nuanced and contextual ideas to be communicated to and about the communities that they exist within. Charlotte (NC) has emerged as a wort...

Title: Characterization of Highly Efficient Delivery Models for Eye Care Services in Veteran Affairs
Author: Kilambi, Sruthi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Veterans Affairs (VA) provides eye care and vision treatment to all eligible veterans to help improve eye and vision health. Over the past years, timely access to eye care has become a challenge with the increase in its demand. Therefore, it is im...

Title: Christian Sun Worship and Theurgy in Late Antique Rome
Author: Sells, Justin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: In Late Antique Rome the worship of the sun penetrated into Christian belief and practice. This is usually explained in terms of a type of syncretism, where the sun god in Roman religion during this time (often seen as being at the apex of the pan...

Title: Coaching in Early Intervention: Practitioners' Perceptions of the Training and Implementation Process
Author: Faryadi, Lisa
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: Recommended and best practices support the use of coaching strategies in promoting child and family outcomes in Early Intervention (EI) programs. However, practitioners have found it challenging to shift to a coaching approach with families, and t...