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Title: A photocatalytic facade for air pollution mitigation
Author: Gil Rivas, Dante
Date Created: 2021, 2021, 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Design, Air quality

Title: Alternative grading strategies for an anti-Black institution of higher learning
Author: Stevens, Lawrence, Paquette, Elisabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Grading and marking (Students), Education, Higher, Anti-racism
Description: Racist grading practices and policies in higher education have existed to perpetuate white supremacy and privilege while at a disservice to minority students. Minority students in higher education often face discrimination for being of a lower soc...

Title: Auditory processing difficulties influence on perceptual learning
Author: Fiallo, Katherine M., Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Auditory perception, Perceptual learning
Description: Understanding spoken speech is a complex process that comes to most people easily, yet past research demonstrates that some people face difficulties with auditory processing. Listeners adjust to variations in speech by integrating auditory, visual...

Title: Beyond the PCA : a comprehensive review of dimension reduction techniques
Author: Kenjale, Tanmay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Dimension reduction (Statistics), Regression analysis
Description: Regression analysis is a key tool in modeling the relationship between predictor variables and the conditional mean of the response variable. However, as the number of predictors increases, existing estimation methods become challenging. Dimension...

Title: Beyond the knowledge economy : social circus as an intersectional avenue to global aesthetics and universal ethics
Author: Rogden, Krysta, Alterowitz, Gretchen
Subjects--Topical: Art in education, Intersectionality (Sociology)
Description: While the Western world is a post-colonial society that attempts to guarantee an equal opportunity for success to all, objectives to uphold inclusion efforts in the primary education system often undermine the complexities of cultural histories an...

Title: Bioflavonoid induced oxidative stress as reported by DHE
Author: Sielaty, Rachel Ashby
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Oxidative stress, Bioflavonoids
Description: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a type of hydroxyl ions that are generated during normal metabolism in all cells of the body. Naturally occurring ROS are not known to cause damage at these normal, regulated levels. However, oxidative stress (OS)...

Title: Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Author: Dobbs, Olivia, Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Nineteenth century, Women in education
Description: During the late nineteenth century, British women received better education, especially at the university level. In particular, the University of Cambridge opened two women’s colleges, Girton College in 1869 and Newnham College in 1871. The establ...

Title: Characterizing the acoustic signature of a quadrotor in hovering flight
Author: Harrison, Jacob
Date Created: 2021
Description: Quadrotors are small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) that generate sound characterized by a unique acoustic signature. In this research, we aim to determine the acoustic signature of a quadrotor and differentiate it from ambient noise in audio sa...

Title: Characterizing the diversity of heat shock proteins in Nematostella vectensis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Author: Alexander, William, Reitzel, Adam M., Truman, Andrew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Heat shock proteins, Biology
Description: Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a highly conserved family of proteins critical to both environmental stress response and cellular function under normal conditions. More specifically HSPs are chaperone proteins that work to refold other misfolded pr...

Title: Civilizing paternalism : Mill, autonomy, and Indian assimilation policies
Author: Lee, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, North America, Assimilation (Sociology), Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Description: John Stuart Mill, a Western philosopher of the Enlightenment period, argues that paternalism is an infringement on an individual’s autonomy. Although Mill argues as such, Western powers have been observed to exercise paternalism by way of imperial...

Title: Community and the built environment : the physical and social consequences of gentrification in Charlotte’s Lockwood
Author: Frederick, Quinton, Peterson, Nicole
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Community development, Oral history, North Carolina--Charlotte
Description: This project examined the interactions between community relationships and physical space in Charlotte’s Lockwood neighborhood. Property values in Lockwood are growing at one of the fastest rates in the country and show no signs of stopping. This ...

Title: Comparing high-shear, low-CAPE supercell weather events in the Southeastern United States vs. the Great Plains
Author: Greco, Jasen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Thunderstorms, Severe storms
Description: High-shear, low-CAPE (HSLC) supercells are a phenomenon in which an anomalously high wind shear makes up for a lack of convective available potential energy (CAPE). These events are not very common, but when they do occur they generate high wind s...

Title: Crisis for the university student : changing student housing and growing cost burden
Author: Wood, Connor, Schuch, Johanna Claire
Subjects--Topical: Student housing, Housing--Costs, Education, Higher
Description: College cost burden and student debt are among the most pressing discussions in contemporary US society. This conversation has largely been focused on changes in tuition and fees. While this is important, over 60% of the college cost at four-year ...

Title: Evaluating the impact of working in an online environment
Author: Richardson, Kara, Ambroise, Sharmily
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Communication
Description: Research has found that peer mentorship can play a valuable role in a student’s personal growth and development. At UNC Charlotte, the Communication Across the Curriculum program trains communication consultants to serve as peer mentors and provid...

Title: Examining the roles of neuroticism and extraversion with social support on depression : potential pathways to enhance mental health
Author: Hopkins, Jasmine, Bennett, Jeanette M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Depression, Mental, Mental health
Description: Background: Depression is a common worldwide illness that affects the quality of life, alters brain structures, and can even lead to suicide. Over the past few decades, the increase in depression and depressive symptoms among college students has ...

Title: Examining the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs : a study using PRISMA methods
Author: Eident, Canaan, Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Gilson, Cindy M., Byker, Erik Jon
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gifted children--Education, Educational equalization
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs in the United States’ school system. To complete this study, we used a modified version of the Preferred Reporting Items fo...

Title: Gentrification, housing costs, & healthcare accessibility
Author: Smithey, Morgan, Banks, Erin, Cao, Nhi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Public health, Housing policy
Description: Rapidly rising home values often accompany gentrification, leading to increased property taxes for homeowners (Ding & Hwang, 2020). Higher property taxes increase the risk of becoming cost-burdened, “in Mecklenburg County, 75% of homeowners earnin...

Title: Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Author: Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
Description: During the Holocaust, mezzo-soprano Hedda Grab-Kernmayer (1899-1990) was one of the most prominent musicians in the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezín). During the earliest days of the ghetto, she organized and starred in various unaccompanied...

Title: Image dilution using Harris corner detection and geometric kernels
Author: James, Aiden, Li, Xingjie Helen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Sparse matrices, Matrices
Description: Image files contain large amounts of data. An image is essentially a matrix of values, often represented as RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha) arrays. A large three dimensional matrix with a height and width likely in the hundreds can take long for a ...

Title: Implications and preventions of cyberbullying and social exclusion in social media : systematic review
Author: Ademiluyi, Adesoji, Li, Chuqin, Park, Albert
Subjects--Topical: Social media, Mental health, Cyberbullying
Description: Background: The growth of social networking has created a paradigm in which many forms of personal communication are being replaced by internet communication technologies, such as social media. This has led to social issues, such as cyberbullying....