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Title
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"Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
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Author
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Strong, Kellan
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
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"Showing up every day": A grounded theory of military veterans' resolution of trauma
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Author
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Riffle, Olivia
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Medical sciences, Clinical psychology
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to conduct an explication of the construct of resolution in the context of posttraumatic growth, or positive psychological and life changes resulting from the struggle with a highly stressful or traumatic experience. ...
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"Si IGBT and SiC MOSFET” Hybrid Switch for Voltage Source Converters
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Author
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Liu, Haichen
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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The SiC devices have been a strong competitor than the conventional Si devices due to the superior characteristics of high operating voltage, low forward voltage, fast switching speed, and high operating temperature. However, the maturity of SiC 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 360° View of Psychiatric Boarding in the Emergency Department
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Author
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Veri, Shelby
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Mental health
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Description
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This dissertation utilizes a three article approach to examine the current status of psychiatric boarding in the emergency department (ED). The number of ED visits for mental health concerns in the United States has been increasing for the past se...
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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...
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A Breadcrumb Network for Assisting with Autonomous Robot Localization
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Author
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Grabowsky, David
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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Localization and communication are critical components for functioning autonomous robots. The infrastructure required or these operations commonly includes global positioning system (GPS) and easily recognizable and re-identifiable landmarks. Howe...
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A CASE STUDY OF AN EFFECTIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ALGEBRA I TEACHER
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Author
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Linton, Patricia
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education
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Description
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ABSTRACTPATRICIA LORRAINE CURTIS LINTON. A case study of an effective middle school Algebra I teacher. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID K. PUGALEE)Using a qualitative case study approach, the research was an exploration of the perceptions of midd...
