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Title: "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
Author: Kane, Nicholas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Military history
Description: 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 ...

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: "In His Country's Service:" Irish Catholic Military Participation in the First World War
Author: Glynn, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines how Irish Catholic and nationalist military participation in the Great War reflected colonial tensions between Ireland and Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Whereas prior scholars have tended to examine Irish Catho...

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: "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Author: Ervin, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

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: "¡Dios no Muere!": The Cristo Rey Monument and Church-State Relations in Revolutionary Guanajuato, 1914- 1950.
Author: Catton, John
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, History--Religious aspects
Description: This thesis examines the role of the Catholic ideology of Cristo Rey during the Cristero Conflict, which lasted from 1926 to 1929. This conflict was an armed rebellion led by militant Catholics who opposed the Mexican government's enforcement of a...

Title: 'A Mother Specific Disorder For a Mother Specific Crime': Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Burgess, Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From the early nineteenth century, the British medical community worked to redefine and reassert their professional space within society. During this process, medical men developed specific areas of focus and began to develop these into specialize...

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: 'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
Author: Brown, Savannah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...

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...