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- Title
- "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
- Author
- Kane, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history
- Description
- NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...
- Title
- "I can, but I can't": Kindergarten teacher perceptions of self-efficacy and agency in their use of formative assessment in the current high-stakes accountability climate
- Author
- Ferrara, Angela
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Early childhood education, Education and state, Ethnology
- Description
- Early childhood formative assessment (FA) is a process by which teachers gather data about their students’ knowledge and skills across the five domains of early childhood development in order to scaffold and support their students’ unique learning...
- Title
- "No.. like you don't get it": The functionality of conflict speech and the construction of the young adult feminist identity on Tumblr
- Author
- Cosper, Caitlin
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Linguistics
- Description
- As social media grew in popularity, online discourse became a more frequent focus of study because it represented an entirely new form of communication. While technological innovations led to easier and more accessible communication on a global sc...
- Title
- "Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
- Author
- Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- In this study, current research on writing self-efficacy—"confidence that one can perform successfully in a particular domain" (Bruning 25)—and data from a local survey of first-year college students, or freshmen, is used to examine dispositions t...
- Title
- A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
- Author
- Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...
- Title
- A Case Study of Diversity in North Carolina Architecture Programs
- Author
- Roberts, Isaiah
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Architecture, Educational evaluation, Education
- Description
- The enrollment rate of black students in architecture has remained stagnant for the last decade and decreased over the past two and a half decades. In 2020, of the 26,977 total students enrolled in accredited structural architecture programs, only...
- 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 Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan
- Author
- Hines, Mikayla
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Archaeology
- Description
- ABSTRACTMIKAYLA HINES. Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan(Under the Direction of Dr. Steven Falconer) The aim of this thesis is to uncover the social relationship between two Canaanite societie...
- Title
- A Dream of Burning
- Author
- DeMeglio, Austin
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Creative writing
- Description
- A Dream of Burning takes place in a not-so-distant future of an alternate Earth. The story focuses on a young woman by the name of Iris Ode and her found family. The story starts three years after a great storm caused tragedy. After the storm, Iri...
- Title
- A Focus On The Style Of Bone Harpoons In The Early Holocene: An Analysis Of Bone Harpoons From Koobi Fora, Kenya.
- Author
- Hovis, Ashley
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Archaeology
- Description
- While undergoing archaeological fieldwork in Ileret, Kenya, two Early Holocene (10,000-6,000 BP) sites are found containing bone harpoons. The purpose of this study is to examine the style of Early Holocene bone harpoons to see if people of East L...
- Title
- A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENERAL COGNITIVE ABILITY AND FERTILITY
- Author
- Heeney, Michael
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Empirical studies of the relationship between general cognitive ability and fertility span nearly a century. Reported effects generated through previous studies vary widely, and are believed to reflect differences in: 1) sample characteristics (e....
- Title
- A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW OF DISCRETE EMOTIONS AND WORK BEHAVIORS IN ORGANIZATIONS
- Author
- Williams, Courtney
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior
- Description
- The study of affect in the workplace is a flourishing domain of research in the organizational sciences since the affective revolution started in the 1980s (Barsade, Brief, & Spataro, 2003). Following calls for more research specifically with disc...
- Title
- A Meta-Analysis of HPWS and Organizational Commitment: Examining National Culture as a Moderator
- Author
- Long, Wendy
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Enhancing organizational commitment remains a critical issue for organizations worldwide. In extant literature, the relationship between high-performance work system (HPWS) and organizational commitment (OC) remains inconclusive. First, this paper...
- 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 Qualitative Investigation of Factors Contributing to Women Majoring in Computer Science
- Author
- Wong, Alexandria
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Computer science
- Description
- This study investigates factors that influence young women’s decision to major in computer science (CS). While there is a rapid increase of scientific advances being made in the United States and the importance of scientific fields for societal, e...
- Title
- A RELATIONAL EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS
- Author
- Medaugh, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship
- Description
- Social networks provide entrepreneurs with a cost-effective way to acquire resources from people they know personally. In the current research, I develop and test a relational model of resource acquisition, which demonstrates the predictive role o...
- Title
- A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
- Author
- Sweitzer, Mackenzie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Social structure, Archaeology, Area studies
- Description
- When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...
- Title
- A chosen challenge: Growth following short-term cross-cultural travel
- Author
- Gilbert, Valerie
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Using the Posttraumatic Growth model (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) as a framework, the current investigation aims to determine whether growth following short-term cross-cultural travel is achieved through the same cognitive pathway as trauma; that is...
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- A comparative analysis of pro-anorexia versus pro-recovery Instagram images through the lenses of objectified body consciousness and positive body image conceptual frameworks
- Author
- Jafari, Nadia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Mental health, Clinical psychology
- Description
- Instagram (IG) is a social media application that allows users to upload personal images in a public forum by including a searchable link (e.g. hashtag) along with a posted image. An IG community devoted to a pro-recovery (i.e., #anarecovery) pers...
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- A paleopathological and mortuary analysis of Guangala burials from Salango, Ecuador (100 BCE- 800 CE)
- Author
- Bythell, Abigail
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Physical anthropology, Archaeology
- Description
- There are still many questions that need to be answered about the lives of the pre-Hispanic peoples of the southwest Ecuador. In particular, there are few archaeological studies that focus on the socio-cultural complexity and belief systems of the...