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- Title
- “We’re Not ‘Baby Daddies’ We Are Fathers. Dads.”: Nonresidential Fathers’ Online Stigma Management
- Author
- Schambach, Emma
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- Family and stigma communication research have barely scratched the surface of the dynamic and diverse arrangements of stigma in the family context. Though some research has investigated the stigma surrounding nontraditional family structures (e.g....
- Title
- “To Push or Not to Push?”; Exploring Lived Experiences of Former Women Track and Field Student-athletes Who Trained and Competed Through Pain and Injury.
- Author
- Erega, Arna
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- Athletes are aware that with involvement in the sport they are exposed to the risk of getting injured. Suffering an injury can be one of the most stressful experiences in a student-athlete’s athletic career and can cause a series of psychological,...
- Title
- “Seeing it in Action is More Beneficial Than Learning About it in School”: A Multi-Case of Clinical Experiences and Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
- Author
- Schmidt, Leslie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- This multiple case study explored the characteristics of clinical experiences that support preservice teachers' understandings of culturally responsive literacy in elementary classrooms. In particular, this study focused on capturing the voices an...
- Title
- “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
- Author
- Winch, Debora
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...
- Title
- “Re-membering” History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education
- Author
- Teasdell, Annette
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- ABSTRACTANNETTE TEASDELL. "Re-membering" History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education. (Under the direction of DR. GREG WIGGAN) Excellence in education is based on a ...
- Title
- “It sometimes heals, but it sometimes hurts”; Exploring the issues facing first-generation and immigrant staff caring for immigrant youth in an after-school program
- Author
- Cronin, Claire
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Counseling psychology, Early childhood education
- Description
- Coming from countries across the world, immigrants have chosen to start a new life in the United States, and become part of the fabric that makes up American society. Today, immigrant children face a unique set of challenges and hardships includin...
- Title
- “It Make Me Feel Like I’m Beneath Them”: Experiences of Stigma Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity
- Author
- Uri, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Sociology, Environmental health
- Description
- Food insecurity represents one of the most prevalent and severe problems facing modern United States (U.S.) society, with the proportion of households affected surging to approximately 23% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several food safety ne...
- Title
- “16 Weeks is a Lot of Time to be Away”: A Contemporary Examination of Maternity Leave Perceptions and Experiences
- Author
- Chandler , Allison
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Sociology, Management
- Description
- In recent decades, women’s presence in the workplace has increased from only a quarter of total American workers, to nearly half of all American workers (U.S. Department of Labor, 2020). With an increasing number of women in the labor force, organ...
- Title
- Your Work-Family Conflict (WFC) Is Hard on Me Too: Employee Reactions to Coworker WFC
- Author
- Toth, Allison
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management
- Description
- Researchers working in the work-family conflict (WFC) literature have a long history of focusing on how conflict between the work and family domains influences employees and their experiences inside and outside of work (Eby et al., 2005). However,...
- Title
- Woodward, Watson, and White Supremacy: Examining Race in the Histories of Thomas E. Watson, 1899-1912
- Author
- Tandy, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History, American literature
- Description
- This study asked if there was evidence of Thomas E. Watson’s (1856-1922) shifting racial views in the histories he published between 1899 and 1912. Watson is famous for his integrated populist campaigns of the early to mid-1890s, and infamous for ...
- Title
- Witch Hunt: Persecution of "The Other" in Representations of Witches and Witchcraft in British and U.S. American Literature
- Author
- Schaefle, Jacquelyn
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, Sex role
- Description
- Though it has been established that the concept of the witch is primarily used to demonize strong women whose strength derives from their deviation from the patriarchal norm, I argue the witch’s significance in literature and social development go...
- Title
- Why Waste? Local Factors And Recycling Outcomes: A Case Study Of North Carolina Counties
- Author
- Fernandes, Titiksha
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Environmental management, Public administration
- Description
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that in 2015 only 67.8million tons or about 26% of the total waste generated was recycled, while the waste generated continued to rise. It is clear from the numbers above that the success of ...
- Title
- Why Some Stay When So Many Leave: A Phenomenological Study on Why Teachers Remain in Low-Income, High-Minority Schools
- Author
- Hovis, Michael
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- School management and organization
- Description
- Tens of thousands of teachers in the United States leave their schools to work in other occupations or other schools each year. This has earned the teaching profession the reputation of being a "revolving door," with a large number of qualified te...
- Title
- What is in my Patient's Pantry? Addressing Food Insecurity in Primary Care: a Quality Improvement Project
- Author
- Koontz, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing
- Description
- Food insecurity (FI) has negative health effects throughout the lifespan, yet there is a disconnect between national recognition of FI as a health issue and FI screening in the clinical setting. The purpose of this project was to determine if an e...
- Title
- Vulnerability Assessment and Policy Enforcement for Hybrid Mobile Applications
- Author
- Mohanty, Abhinav
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Information technology
- Description
- Hybrid mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular for building cross-platform mobile applications, where the core business code of apps is written using web technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript (JS), and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This tec...
- Title
- Volume Microenvironment Self-Consistent Constraint Theory Applied to Protein Stability Prediction
- Author
- Johannessen, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Biophysics, Physics
- Description
- Controlling thermodynamic stability is a challenge in protein engineering. Engineering a protein by introducing mutations into its sequence to increase efficacy can destabilize the protein thermodynamically, preventing it from functioning in its i...
- Title
- Visual Analytics Approaches to Exploring Multivariate Time Series Data
- Author
- Feng, Tinghao
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- Time-oriented data analysis has attracted the attention of researchers for decades, across many research domains, including but not limited to medical records, business, science, engineering, biographies, history, planning, and project management....
- Title
- Victory tax: a holistic income tax system
- Author
- Jacobs, Donald J.
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Income tax, Tax deductions
- Description
- How can an income tax system be designed to exploit human nature and a free market to create a poverty free society, while balancing budgets without disproportional tax burdens? Such a tax system, with universal character, is deduced from the foll...
- Title
- Vehicle Velocity Trajectory Optimization in Non-deterministic Environments
- Author
- Borek, John
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Automobiles--Design and construction
- Description
- Optimally modulating a vehicle's speed profile through highway, urban, and suburban environments can result in pronounced fuel savings, particularly with heavy-duty vehicles. However, existing strategies for speed profile optimization traditionall...
- Title
- VPS501, A NOVEL SNX-BAR PROTEIN INVOLVED IN AUTOPHAGY
- Author
- goyal, Shreya
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Biochemistry, Cytology, Molecular biology
- Description
- ABSTRACTCareful control of intracellular signaling pathways plays an important role in a cell’s ability to maintain stable internal conditions in the face of an ever-changing extracellular environment. This is particularly true as it relates to th...