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Title: “MY BABY COULD LIVE THE BEST LIFE”: FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICES FOLLOWING A PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF DOWN SYNDROME
Author: Martin, Zachary
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Early childhood education
Description: Screenings and diagnostic tests provide individuals the opportunity to receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. Post-diagnosis, families are presented with opportunities for services and supports ...

Title: “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
Author: Austin, Lauren
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Public health, Government policy
Description: This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...

Title: Your Library Ain't Like Mine: Perceptions of Quality School Library Programming From Library Professionals
Author: Creech, Tracy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Library science
Description: There are few instances in which school library professionals are able to give input as to what constitutes a quality school library media program. This study seeks to determine if there are key differences in perceptions of school library program...

Title: Why does no one in my books look like me? Tobe and ongoing questions about race, representation, and identity
Author: Stokes, Quesinberry Ashli
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Black people--Race identity, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description: Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in rural North Carolina. The book was written by a white woman, Stella Sharpe Gentry, and illustrated by...

Title: WORK AND NONWORK DOMAINS OF SHIFT WORK EMPLOYEES: A BOUNDARY THEORY PERSPECTIVE
Author: Speights, Sabrina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management
Description: The concept of "flexibility" in the workplace has gained growing interest of scholars and organizational leaders as a solution for conflict between work and nonwork domains. The examination and implications of flexibility, however, have tended to ...

Title: WEIGHT FACTOR DETERMINATION AND FUND ALLOCATION OF PAVEMENTS BY COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Author: Patil, Chaitali Ramakant
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the most efficient and ideal weight factors by performing the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) using the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Pavement Management System (PMS) and using the idea...

Title: WALKING TO METRICALLY CUED MUSIC: HOW IT AFFECTS GAIT AND BALANCE IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS
Author: Grant, Darryl
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology, Gerontology
Description: Introduction: Gait impairments are a major cause of falls in older adult populations, associated with decreased functional capacity and increased morbidity. Recent studies have reported using rhythmic auditory stimuli to positively influence motor...

Title: Vortices in coherent and partially coherent optical beams
Author: Stahl, Charlotte
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Vortices in optical beams have been the subject of extensive study since their status as a generic feature of light was established. They have found extensive use in optical trapping systems, astronomy, microscopy and are being investigated for fr...

Title: Vietnamese American College Students’ Racial/Ethnic Identity Development and Campus Engagement Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
Author: Nguyen, Nhu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Area studies
Description: Prior studies on student engagement in U.S. higher education focused mainly on the experiences of Black and White students (Meyer, 2014). Southeast Asian American students also face challenges regarding engagement on campus. Due to the influence o...

Title: Vibration-based damage detection with uncertainty quantification by structural identification using nonlinear constraint satisfaction with interval arithmetic
Author: Whelan, Matthew, Kernicky, Timothy, Al-Shaer, Ehab
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Structural health monitoring, Vibration--Data processing
Description: Structural identification has received increased attention over recent years for performance-based structural assessment and health monitoring. Recently, an approach for formulating the finite element model updating problem as a constraint satisfa...

Title: Venomix : a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
Author: Janies, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Macrander, Jason
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: The advent of next-generation sequencing has resulted in transcriptome-based approaches to investigate functionally significant biological components in a variety of non-model organism. This has resulted in the area of venomics: a rapidly growing ...

Title: Vascular Function in Patients With Chronic Ankle Instability and Healthy Adults
Author: Bruce, Casey
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Physiology, Neurosciences
Description: CASEY BRUCE. Vascular function in patients with chronic ankle instability and healthy adults. (Under the direction of DR. ABBEY THOMAS FENWICK)Introduction: Patients with CAI display impaired sensorimotor output and deficits in afferent/sensory pr...

Title: Using Topological Data Analysis for Text Classification
Author: Doshi, Pratik
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: I show that by applying discourse features derived through topological data analysis(TDA), namely homological persistence, we can improve classification results on thetask of movie genre detection, including identification of overlapping movie gen...

Title: Understanding Salt Adaptation in Sand Beans (Strophostyles helvola)
Author: Zuelsdorf, Christine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Soil salinity is one of the major environmental factors causing crop yield loss worldwide. Different plants develop diverse salinity tolerance mechanisms to manage such a detrimental abiotic stress. The sand bean (Strophostyles helvola), a wild re...

Title: USING THE MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES OF LEARNER-GENERATED DRAWING AND PEER DISCUSSION TO RETAIN TERMINOLOGY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SECONDARY EDUCATION SCIENCE CLASSROOMS
Author: Kasay, Theresa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Reading, Science--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare and evaluate two types of vocabulary interventions using grade 9 physics vocabulary terms using two lists of 10 words. A quasi-experimental crossover research design was used to compare the two...

Title: UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING FIRE-THROUGH DIELECTRIC CONTACTS ON HIGHLY EFFICIENT SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Author: Unsur, Veysel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Photovoltaic is a quick and efficient way of responding to the scarcity of fossil fuels and increasing environmental pollution. For the last two decades, photovoltaic technology has been the fastest growing industry among the renewable energy sour...

Title: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Author: Hartley, A. J. (Andrew James), Freidline, Noel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Plays (Shakespeare, William), Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William), Comedy plays
Description: Twelfth Night director: Andrew Hartley. Twelfth Night music director/composer: Noel Freidline. Contributors: Hessy Sanders (dramaturg), Christopher Berry (voice and speech coach), Allison Amidei (costume design), Gordon Olsen (lighting and scenic ...

Title: Treating type 2 diabetes using shared medical appointments: Patient satisfaction and perspectives
Author: Milling, Sandra
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In the U.S., more than 30 million people are living with diabetes. Given the scope of the problem, it is necessary to identify effective, lower cost alternatives to individual medical appointments for diabetes care. Shared medical appointments (SM...

Title: Tracking a serial killer : integrating phylogenetic relationships, epidemiology, and geography for two invasive meningococcal disease outbreaks
Author: Janies, Daniel, Galac, Madeline R., Kilianski, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Background While overall rates of meningococcal disease have been declining in the United States for the past several decades, New York City (NYC) has experienced two serogroup C meningococcal disease outbreaks in 2005-2006 and in 2010-2013. The o...

Title: Towards Prediction of Emerging Technologies
Author: Thombare, Shalaka
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: Predictive Analytics is an advanced branch of data analytics that deals with making future predictions that matter to the industry\cite{6}.It has wide applications in the areas of health care, fraud detection, market analysis, cross-sell. Predicti...