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- Title
- "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
- Author
- Strong, Kellan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
- Title
- "Showing up every day": A grounded theory of military veterans' resolution of trauma
- Author
- Riffle, Olivia
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical sciences, Clinical psychology
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to conduct an explication of the construct of resolution in the context of posttraumatic growth, or positive psychological and life changes resulting from the struggle with a highly stressful or traumatic experience. ...
- Title
- "Si IGBT and SiC MOSFET” Hybrid Switch for Voltage Source Converters
- Author
- Liu, Haichen
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- The SiC devices have been a strong competitor than the conventional Si devices due to the superior characteristics of high operating voltage, low forward voltage, fast switching speed, and high operating temperature. However, the maturity of SiC t...
- Title
- #RatchetQueerTeacher: Social, Emotional Well-being and Liberation Through Mindfulness and Hip Hop Thearapy
- Author
- Wheatley, Torie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Queer studies
- Description
- There is a growing mental health concern among Black Ratchet queer womxn in educational and criminal justice realms and the Covid-19 pandemic has left the educational climate in a state of high stress and anxiety. Consequently, Black Womxn in educ...
- Title
- (RE)-AUTHORING THE STUDENT: AN EXPLORATION INTO FIGURED WORLDS, IDENTITY FORMATION, GENRE, PUBLICS, AND HOW POWER RELATIONS IMPACT CHILDREN'S WRITING
- Author
- Iannone, Anthony
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Language arts
- Description
- As digital media makes its way into elementary school classrooms, urban school culture moves slowly to join in. The move to integrate new technologies into schools is both enabled and constrained by factors such as the need for students and teache...
- Title
- A 360° View of Psychiatric Boarding in the Emergency Department
- Author
- Veri, Shelby
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- This dissertation utilizes a three article approach to examine the current status of psychiatric boarding in the emergency department (ED). The number of ED visits for mental health concerns in the United States has been increasing for the past se...
- Title
- A BROKEN HEART: THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC OPEN HEART SURGERY ON PARENTS' WELLBEING AND PARENTING
- Author
- McWhorter, Linda
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- According to the pediatric medical traumatic stress model, pediatric medicalexperiences can create posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in pediatric patients and intheir parents and siblings. While the impact of traumatic medical experiences has b...
- Title
- A Breadcrumb Network for Assisting with Autonomous Robot Localization
- Author
- Grabowsky, David
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Localization and communication are critical components for functioning autonomous robots. The infrastructure required or these operations commonly includes global positioning system (GPS) and easily recognizable and re-identifiable landmarks. Howe...
- Title
- A Brief Glimpse of Blue: Examining the Participation and Political Effects of 21st-Century Election Reform in North Carolina
- Author
- Holder, John
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Political science
- Description
- This study examines registration, voting and election results in the presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. During this period, North Carolina introduced a series of election reforms which were designed to increase political participation by ma...
- Title
- A CASE STUDY OF AN EFFECTIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ALGEBRA I TEACHER
- Author
- Linton, Patricia
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education
- Description
- ABSTRACTPATRICIA LORRAINE CURTIS LINTON. A case study of an effective middle school Algebra I teacher. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID K. PUGALEE)Using a qualitative case study approach, the research was an exploration of the perceptions of midd...
- Title
- A CASE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN LARGE, TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS
- Author
- Szymanska, Izabela
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- The current body of research suggests that the relative importance of business objectives and family objectives changes over time in family firms (Miller et al., 2011). As family firms age, company management tends to provide more resources for th...
- Title
- A COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS ACCESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS: ANYCAST ROUTING & SIMULATION TOOLS
- Author
- Sharif, Kashif
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop network architectures. We propose and analyze two communication frameworks for...
- Title
- A COMPUTATIONAL SPECTRAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE AND ITS APPLICATION IN FORM METROLOGY
- Author
- Habibi, Nasim
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- Many existing systems for three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement require mechanical moving parts that limit the measurement speed. A non-contact optical system that does not requires any moving parts can, in principle, increase the speed of meas...
- Title
- A CONVERTIBLE-BOND-PRICING METHOD BASED ON BOND PRICES ON MARKETS
- Author
- Shi, Qiang
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics
- Description
- ABSTRACTQIANG SHI. A convertible-bond-pricing method based on bond prices on markets.(Under the direction of DR. YOU-LAN ZHU)This thesis is devoted to evaluating two-factor convertible bonds. Different zero-coupon bond curves are inputted when eva...
- Title
- A CULTURALLY ADAPTED INTERVENTION TO TREAT BINGE EATING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH BINGE EATING
- Author
- Scott, Tamara
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Binge eating (BE), a specific type of overeating, is characterized by a pattern of consuming unusually large amounts of food in a discrete period of time combined with a sense of loss of control. Although research suggests similar rates of binge e...
- Title
- A Case Study Examination of Male Former Youth Offenders' School Reentry Challenges and Factors Enabling Their Academic Success
- Author
- Glover, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Youth offenders often struggle to successfully return to their communities and schools after release from confinement. The reasons for this struggle are well documented, as is the fact that school engagement and success (before and after confineme...
- Title
- A Case Study of Hispanic Middle School Students In An ESL Classroom: Discourses In Academic Reading Instruction
- Author
- Andrews, Horace
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month ...
- Title
- A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
- Author
- Alansari, Amir
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...
- Title
- A Constellation of Economic Possibilities: Latinx Food-Based Diverse Collaborative Economies as Catalysts for More Sustainable Economic Futures
- Author
- Tornabene, Sara
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Area studies, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Diverse and alternative forms of economies have recently gained increased attention for their potential to transform conceptually and empirically the mainstream economic system. Around the world, scholars have documented the emergence and impact o...
- Title
- A Contactless Non-Intrusive Approach for Machine Learning-Based Personalized Thermal Comfort Prediction
- Author
- Ashrafi, Roshanak
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Sustainability, Building
- Description
- Indoor thermal environmental conditions play a significant role in protecting occupants’ well-being. In this regard, schedule-based and predefined environmental control is one of the main reasons for the current discomfort and dissatisfaction with...