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Title: "Everyone Wants Their Bifröst": Analyzing Heathen Practice and Radicalization Risks for the U.S. Military
Author: Konzen, Riley
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Criminology, Military art and science, Religion
Description: The Capitol riot of January 6, 2021 functioned as a national watershed moment, generatingfar-reaching aftershocks across American society. While hypotheses abound proposing various catalysts, it has spurred a robust conversation regarding domestic...

Title: "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
Author: Mesibov, Sally
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
Description: SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...

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: "I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
Author: Humphries, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Literature, History--Religious aspects
Description: For my paper I will look at contemporary communities built on violence, looking specifically at how the philosophy of Georges Bataille may allow for these groups to be interpreted in the context of sacrifice. Though I will look at some issues rela...

Title: "No.. like you don't get it": The functionality of conflict speech and the construction of the young adult feminist identity on Tumblr
Author: Cosper, Caitlin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: As social media grew in popularity, online discourse became a more frequent focus of study because it represented an entirely new form of communication. While technological innovations led to easier and more accessible communication on a global sc...

Title: "Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
Author: Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
Description: In this study, current research on writing self-efficacy—"confidence that one can perform successfully in a particular domain" (Bruning 25)—and data from a local survey of first-year college students, or freshmen, is used to examine dispositions t...

Title: 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
Author: Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...

Title: 2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
Author: Lambert, Richard, Bottoms, Bryndle, Taylor, Bruce
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Description: This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom School Partners’ Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools© program in Charlotte, NC that took place during the summer of 2019. The evaluation was a collaboration between the Center for ...

Title: 2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
Description: Freedom School Partners is a six-week, literacy-rich, summer program that has served the Charlotte area since 2004. What began as a group of 100 scholars in one site, is now more than 400 scholars and includes twelve sites (www.freedomschoolpartne...

Title: 2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
Author: Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Davis, Tiffany, Krumbine, Tracie, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Perry, Crystal
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, College students, Black, Anti-racism
Description: This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of Black students at UNC Charlotte related to the spaces, services, and resources of Atkins Library. The research team for this study was comprised o...

Title: 2023 report on the experiences of neurodivergent students at Atkins Library
Author: Moore, Jon, Barbour, Triston
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Neurodiversity
Description: This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of students at UNC Charlotte who identify as neurodivergent and/or as having a disorder related to mental health or function, specifically as they re...

Title: 3D Printing of Metamaterials with Conductive Elements
Author: Tuttle, Geoffrey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: To fulfill their engineered purpose, resonant metamaterials require arrays of complex three-dimensional geometries composed of non-conductive dielectrics and highly conductive materials. In order to create these geometries, 3D printers must be abl...

Title: 8 reasons researchers should use the GetFTR browser extension
Author: Boardman, Erika
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description: What is the problem we’re trying to solve? Researchers are not always able to easily make use of the resources their institution has made available to them. When presented with a plethora of links in a discovery tool, researchers may inadvertently...

Title: A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
Author: Rice, Lance
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Multi-object tracking in video has the potential for broad applicability, from analyzing division-of-labor within biological networks such as insects, to surveillance and traffic monitoring. Despite any potential the field of multiple object track...

Title: A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
Author: Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...

Title: A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Author: Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
Description: In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...

Title: A Case Study of Diversity in North Carolina Architecture Programs
Author: Roberts, Isaiah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Educational evaluation, Education
Description: The enrollment rate of black students in architecture has remained stagnant for the last decade and decreased over the past two and a half decades. In 2020, of the 26,977 total students enrolled in accredited structural architecture programs, only...

Title: A Child Life Perspective: The Role of Technology in Preoperative Preparation and Distraction
Author: Osborne, Courtney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Reduction of stress and anxiety for hospitalized children has been studied for years. Certified child life specialists take on the role of providing interventions to support and facilitate coping for hospitalized children. Preoperative preparation...

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 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...