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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: 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: 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: Classifying EEG data to detect and forecast mistakes
Author: Jover, Miguel, Lee, Minwoo, Poole, Ben
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Robots--Error detection and recovery, Convolutions (Mathematics)--Data processing, Time-series analysis--Computer programs
Description: To match the increasing demand for interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and science, many strive to find the most efficient and accurate method to interact with AI models. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) allow for direct comm...

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: Comparing volunteer data before and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Author: Stevens, Lawrence, Piatak, Jaclyn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Volunteers
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic affected volunteer management and nonprofit organizations nationwide. In this study, I will examine volunteering before and after the pandemic to offer several solutions to manage the growing need for volunteers better. This ...

Title: Empowered insight : navigating an informed approach to news and information consumption
Author: Murugan, Meenu, Obied, Jana
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Information literacy
Description: Providing an overview of six fundamental subsections of media literacy, this poster offers a thorough introduction to media literacy. It highlights how crucial it is to consume news and information with discernment by encouraging critical thought ...

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: 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: In search of a predictive model for aflatoxin insurance claims based on temperature data
Author: German-Jimenez, Fausto, Terejanu, Gabriel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Machine learning, Statistics, Agriculture
Description: Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic product of mold that affects thousands of corn-producing farms in the United States every year, so being able to predict when a county will have compromising aflatoxin levels could be beneficial for insurance companies....

Title: Modeling of ssDNA binding protein structures
Author: Jariwala, Maanav, Guo, Jun-tao
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: DNA, Protein binding
Description: Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding proteins are crucial for biological processes including replication, transcription, and genomic integrity. We can better comprehend the function of the proteins and their interactions with ssDNA with structures ...

Title: Natural phenomena edition
Author: Voigt, Suzanne, Rodrigez, Dominique, Turner, Zoe
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Artificial intelligence, Photography
Description: In the 21st century, it has become increasingly challenging to recognize which images are “real” vs. those that have been created using AI. Experts have estimated that by 2025, over 90% of online content will be created by AI, leading Congress to ...

Title: Not credible until proven credible
Author: Manley, Mariah
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Internet literacy
Description: My presentation is an overview of what makes a source credible and what causes it to lose its purpose or credibility. It addresses Authority, Purpose, and Currency while also explaining how this helps individuals find credibility. My poster also t...

Title: Pay by position
Author: Jackson, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Pay equity, Gender identity in the workplace, Sexism
Description: This community-engaged project is in partnership with the League of Women Voters Charlotte Mecklenburg Chapter. The purpose of the project is to compile data to inform a corporate scorecard on the important metrics of the gender equity gap. With t...

Title: Practices in elementary schools to reduce racial stereotypes that impact students’ academic performance
Author: Park, Goeun Grace
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Racism in education, Racism
Description: Racial stereotypes in schools negatively influence students’ academic success. There are a variety of methods that can reduce racial stereotypes that influence students’ academic performance and help students who are in groups that face racial ste...

Title: Quantifying reproductive behavior in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Author: Alexander, William, Justin, Hannah, Reitzel, Adam M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Cnidaria, Biology, Developmental biology, Marine biology, Sea anemones
Description: The Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Nv) exists widely in coastal estuarine environments across North America. Nv has become a popular cnidarian model organism with a growing number of applications, including evolutionary developmental ...

Title: Revenge pornography : an examination of state statute inconsistencies
Author: Schutt, Jaden, Coston, Charisse Tia Maria, 1958-
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Image-based sexual abuse, Statutes--U.S. states
Description: Revenge Pornography is an umbrella term used to encompass the crime of distributing nonconsensual sexualized images of an individual. This crime became highly popularized during the latter half of the twentieth century and has continued to plague ...

Title: Second line to front line
Author: Cagle, Lily, Skillen, Joseph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Jazz, Tuba music
Description: From the early 1960’s to the 1970’s/80’s, there was a period of innovation, experimentation, and musical growth for tubists. The tuba, a bass voice, in music has held the bass foundational role in musical literature ranging from the romantic perio...