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“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
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Author
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Warlick, Tommy
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. "What’s Past is Prologue": North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH) Between late 1865 and early 1867, after the South’s failure to preserve slavery through armed conflict, lawmak...
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“Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
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Author
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Norwood, Jessica
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
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Description
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Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...
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Why nations succeed? Distribution and reach of the state power
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Author
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Cekic, Nejra
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Political science, Economics
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Description
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What explains the difference in the performance of the world’s nations? Why do some succeed, and others fail? I argue that the primary determinants of development are two dimensions of a country’s institutional setting. The purpose of this study i...
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When Should We Meet? Exploring the Scheduling Cadences of Workplace Meetings
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Author
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Kreamer, Liana
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Psychology
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Description
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Meetings are a significant part of employees’ workdays, with executives spending a majority of their time leading and attending the events. While literature has explored many facets of workplace meetings, current research has yet to consider their...
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WHO I AM IN STEM: BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN, A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT, AND A STEM MAJOR
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Author
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Dounebaine, Yolanda
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Science--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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This qualitative research study utilized the stories of ten African American community college STEM transfer students to explore STEM identity formation, the role race played in this identity formation, the educational experiences that influenced ...
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Visual sonar: Estimating depth using sound waves and neuromorphic cameras
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Author
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Bagepalli, Abhijith
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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This thesis proposes a novel method to recover depth of scene objects using an acoustic source and a calibrated neuromorphic camera or event camera sensor. The proposed system is a non-contact, monocular depth estimation method that observes subtl...
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Unsupervised Learning for Critical Event Detection using Historical PMU Data
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Author
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Joshi, Dhawal
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Power resources
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Description
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A recent increment in power load and the fast reconciliation of sustainable power sources into the power grid requires an improvement in situational awareness. Furthermore, with this increase in power load, the aging grid infrastructure is under s...
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USE OF GANG MEMBER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS TO DETECT VIOLENT CRIME
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Author
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Fowler, Sherry
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Criminology
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Description
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Many large cities in the U.S. have a problem with violent crime, some of which is committed by gang affiliates. Those individuals use social media platforms like Twitter to express messages of loss and aggression, which can grow in volume and diss...
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USE OF BUS-LEVEL ELECTRICAL SIGNALS FOR IMPROVING POWER PLANT OPERATIONS
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Author
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Parikh, Prayag
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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Power plant owners and operators are leveraging advancements in sensor technology and data science to deploy monitoring systems that can potentially improve reliability, increase flexibility, and reduce maintenance costs. In many cases, however, p...
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Treatment of Algal Toxins in Drinking Water with UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes
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Author
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Barancheshme, Fateme
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
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Description
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The occurrence of algal blooms and the possibility of production of algal toxins and contamination of drinking water resources have become a significant concern worldwide. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are currently known as one of the most ...
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Toward understanding protein-DNA interactions
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Author
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Lin, Maoxuan
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Biology, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry
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Description
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Knowledge of protein-DNA interactions has important implications in understandingbiological activities and developing therapeutic drugs. Two types of protein-DNAinteractions exist: (1) interactions between double-stranded DNA-binding proteins(DSBs...