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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 Legal Analysis of the Effects of Morse V. Frederick on Student Speech in K-12 Education
Author: Moree, Joseph
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Morse v. Frederick on student speech in K-12 public schools. Cases meeting the research criteria were selected from federal court districts. Those cases were briefed and analyzed. The resul...

Title: A Multiple Case Study on the Lived Experiences of Five Upper Elementary School Teachers Who Transitioned from Traditional Grading Practices to Standards-Based Grading Practices
Author: Frazier, Meghan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Through a qualitative multiple case study, the researcher’s goal in conducting this study was to investigate and understand the experiences of five upper elementary teachers in grades three through five who transitioned from traditional grading pr...

Title: A Phenomenological Study of African American College Students' Recovery Experiences In A Collegiate Recovery Program
Author: Huggins, Marie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This study examined the experiences of recovery among African American college students participating in collegiate recovery programs (CRPs). A phenomenological qualitative approach was utilized to collect and analyze data. The purpose of this stu...

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 novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
Author: Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
Description: Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...

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: A photocatalytic facade for air pollution mitigation
Author: Gil Rivas, Dante
Date Created: 2021, 2021, 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Design, Air quality

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: Abusive Supervision and Subordinate Characteristics: A Relative Importance Analysis
Author: Durham, Brooks
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
Description: Abusive supervision is defined as the sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behaviors, excluding physical contact by a supervisor or leader. Abusive supervision is pervasive in the workplace and has many pernicious consequences, rangin...

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: Advance Care Planning: A Nursing Educational Intervention
Author: Pointer, Shannon
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: It is so rewarding to help someone to achieve their desires for their health care. The feeling of helping to empower others to know the choices that they have available to them while they can make those choices is profound. It is also gratifying t...

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: Artivism, virtual workshops, and the pandemic
Author: Bennett, Adreonna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Social justice, Photography, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Academic libraries, Internet videoconferencing
Description: I was hired as a Community Engagement Archivist in the Special Collections and University Archives unit at J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte in June 2019. Not only was this my first full time library job but it wa...

Title: Assessment of Burnout With Implementation of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention in Palliative Care Clinicians
Author: Snyder, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: While work in palliative and hospice care can be a rewarding experience in helping those suffering with complicated and terminal illnesses, it can also expose those involved to significant work stress, potentially leading to burnout. P...