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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: 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...

Title: Using campaign communications to analyze civility in ranked choice voting elections
Author: Kropf, Martha
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Preferential ballot, Sentiment analysis
Description: Theory suggests that ranked choice voting (RCV) may create a more civil campaign environment. As voters must rank candidates, the candidates have an incentive to work with each other more collaboratively. This study uses text analysis software (LI...

Title: Using Narrative Advising Theory in Interpreting the Roles of Advisors and Guides in African American Young Adult Literature
Author: Kelley, Gina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Education, Higher, African literature
Description: Telling stories has been a popular method of how humans connect interactively and serve a purpose to educate, entertain, influence, warn, and illustrate. In African-American young adult (YA) literature, there are guides that dish out valuable advi...