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"Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
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Author
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Kane, Nicholas
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Military history
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Description
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NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...
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"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
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Author
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Mesibov, Sally
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
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Description
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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...
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"I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
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Author
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Humphries, Matthew
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, History--Religious aspects
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Description
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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...
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"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
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Author
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Ervin, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...
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"Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
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Author
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Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
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Description
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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...
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'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
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Author
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Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Artificial intelligence
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Description
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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...
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2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Bottoms, Bryndle, Taylor, Bruce
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
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Description
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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 ...
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2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Author
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Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
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Description
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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...
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2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
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Author
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Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Davis, Tiffany, Krumbine, Tracie, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Perry, Crystal
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, College students, Black, Anti-racism
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Description
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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...
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2023 report on the experiences of neurodivergent students at Atkins Library
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Author
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Moore, Jon, Barbour, Triston
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Neurodiversity
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Description
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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...
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3D Printing of Metamaterials with Conductive Elements
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Author
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Tuttle, Geoffrey
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science
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Description
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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...
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8 reasons researchers should use the GetFTR browser extension
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Author
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Boardman, Erika
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Communication in learning and scholarship
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Description
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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...
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A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
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Author
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Rice, Lance
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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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...