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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: 'A Mother Specific Disorder For a Mother Specific Crime': Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Burgess, Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From the early nineteenth century, the British medical community worked to redefine and reassert their professional space within society. During this process, medical men developed specific areas of focus and began to develop these into specialize...

Title: A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
Author: Berberich, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology
Description: Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...

Title: A Cut-Cell Based Ghost Fluid Method for Multi-Component Compressible Flows
Author: Liu, Chen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics
Description: Multi-material compressible flows are observed in several applications of practical relevance including combustion, cavitation and shock lithotripsy. To solve such flows numerically with improved efficiency and accuracy, the use of the Ghost Fluid...

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 Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
Author: Stevens, Megan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History, Modern, History
Description: In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, ...

Title: A STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS MAJOR INTRINSIC PROTEINS
Author: Taylor, Jonathon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Cytology, Evolutionary developmental biology
Description: There is currently a major gap in understanding the physiological processes of tissue grade animals from early diverging phyla, particularly within the context of the molecular mechanisms in response to osmotic variation. A key protein family esse...

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 finite element approach for analysis of damping properties of polymer composites.
Author: Shukla, Satyam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Mechanical vibrations are a part of several industrial equipment,machinery, systems and vehicles being used in our day to day life. Damping of such unwanted vibrations have been of utmost importance for several industrial operations.Polymer compos...

Title: ACTIVTY AND MOBILITY DURING THE TERMINAL ARCHAIC PERIOD IN THE EASTERN ANDES: A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Author: Shults, Ashley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The Archaic Period in the Andes is characterized as a time of increasing social complexity. Unfortunately, these mobile foraging groups have been understudied in the Eastern Andes, especially in Bolivia. This bioarchaeological analysis uses an emb...

Title: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURABLE METASURFACES FOR RF APPLICATION
Author: Hecht, Kristy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: Materials found in nature exhibit behaviors with certain properties such as mass density, permeability, and permittivity. Unfortunately, there are limitations and restrictions to the behaviors of these materials that can be overcome with the use o...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURED LIGHT SCANNER CALIBRATION DEGRADATION
Author: Turnbull, Robert
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: ROBERT DAVID TURNBULL. An Investigation of Structured Light Scanner Calibration Degradation (Under the direction of DR. ED MORSE)Structured light scanning is a measurement technique using two images taken at a well-known angle to each other. Using...

Title: ANALYSIS OF NEGATIVE-SEQUENCE DIRECTIONAL ELEMENT FOR TYPE-IV WIND POWER PLANTS UNDER VARIOUS CONTROL METHODOLOGIES
Author: MUTHA, SATHISH KUMAR
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Negative-sequence directional element operation depends on the magnitude and thephase angle of the negative-sequence current with respect to negative-sequence voltage.The directional element’s operation and simplicity of settings lies in the repre...

Title: ANALYSIS ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA BEFORE AND AFTER THE OPENING OF THE CHARLOTTE BOBCATS ARENA
Author: Lopez, Benito
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: BENITO LOPEZ. Analysis on employment in the Charlotte metro area before and after the opening of the Charlotte Bobcats Arena. (Under the direction ofDR. CRAIG DEPKEN II)This paper uses nonfarm employment data from the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, N...

Title: ANALYZING THE EFFECT OF DEBT ON HORIZONTAL EDUCATION-OCCUPATION MISMATCH
Author: Carpenter, Rebekah
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This study investigates the relationship between educational loan debt and horizontal education-occupation mismatch, or the extent to which an individual works in an occupation unrelated to their degree field. Research has documented rising levels...

Title: ASSESSING COMPARATIVE FUNCTIONS FOR THE BZIP TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFE2 IN NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS
Author: Clegg, Devin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: The bZIP gene superfamily is a family of transcription factors that have gone through multiple duplication events within bilaterians, specifically in vertebrates. This has led to multiple paralogs in each bZIP family while early diverging phyla ha...

Title: An Investigation into Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Signaling Theory
Author: Stock, George
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Transformational leadership is arguably one of the most popular forms of leadership. However, despite the abundance of conducted studies on it, knowledge of specific transformational leadership behaviors is hindered by the conflation of follower p...

Title: Analysis of a Low Enriched Uranium Centrifugal Gas Core Reactor
Author: Leer, Darrin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Physics, Radiation, Nuclear physics
Description: With the new NASA directive of returning to the Moon in 2024 as a stepping stone to missions to Mars and beyond, there is a renewed interest in developing nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) to reduce trip times. This thesis will focus on the analysis o...

Title: Analytics for Fault Detection and Energy Management in Large Retail Portfolios
Author: Raju, Suhas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Mathematics, Artificial intelligence
Description: Energy managers responsible for large real-estate portfolios typically review Energy Star scores and Energy Use Intensity (EUI) to determine which facilities to target for retrofit or audit. In the case of a large portfolio of small retail facilit...