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Alternative grading strategies for an anti-Black institution of higher learning
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Author
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Stevens, Lawrence, Paquette, Elisabeth
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Grading and marking (Students), Education, Higher, Anti-racism
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Description
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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...
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Beyond assumptions : using design thinking to build better library employee training
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Author
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Bess, Marc
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Employees--Training of, Academic libraries
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Description
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Design thinking is a flexible problem solving process that can be used in a variety of settings. While design thinking may be traditionally associated with fields such as product development, it is increasingly being used as an innovative approach...
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Beyond the PCA : a comprehensive review of dimension reduction techniques
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Author
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Kenjale, Tanmay
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Dimension reduction (Statistics), Regression analysis
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Description
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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...
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Characterizing the acoustic signature of a quadrotor in hovering flight
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Author
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Harrison, Jacob
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Date Created
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2021
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Description
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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...
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Claims returned process : using our values to improve the service
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Author
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Boardman, Erika, Norton, Derek R., Miller, Ryan J.
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Library science, Academic libraries, Library circulation and loans
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Description
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Through collaboration among Collections Maintenance, Circulation, and Technology and Digital Strategies, an online Claims Returned Form was established and has drastically improved the process for claims returned items. Featuring a unique API comp...
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Classifying EEG data to detect and forecast mistakes
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Author
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Jover, Miguel, Lee, Minwoo, Poole, Ben
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Robots--Error detection and recovery, Convolutions (Mathematics)--Data processing, Time-series analysis--Computer programs
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Description
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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...
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Collaborative blogging : a sustainable professional development and networking tool
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Author
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Truesdale, Angel, Lovas, Nancy, Krstevska, Summer
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Business librarians, Career development, Blogs
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Description
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Three academic librarians, from three institutions, blog together to share their perspectives on the inspiration and challenges they face as business specialists. Through peer collaboration and reflective blogging they are learning and expanding t...
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Comparing volunteer data before and after the COVID-19 pandemic
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Author
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Stevens, Lawrence, Piatak, Jaclyn
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Volunteers
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Description
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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 ...
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Empowered insight : navigating an informed approach to news and information consumption
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Author
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Murugan, Meenu, Obied, Jana
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Date Created
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2024
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Subjects--Topical
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Media literacy, Information literacy
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Description
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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 ...
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Gentrification, housing costs, & healthcare accessibility
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Author
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Smithey, Morgan, Banks, Erin, Cao, Nhi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Gentrification, Public health, Housing policy
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Description
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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...
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Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
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Author
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Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
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Description
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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...
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In search of a predictive model for aflatoxin insurance claims based on temperature data
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Author
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German-Jimenez, Fausto, Terejanu, Gabriel
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Machine learning, Statistics, Agriculture
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Description
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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....
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Legacy ETDs with legacy problems : changing ETD workflows to improve discoverability
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Author
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Nicholson, Joseph, Lake, Savannah
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Electronic dissertations, Academic libraries, Metadata
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Description
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Atkins Library receives ETD metadata records from ProQuest, delivered in Proquest’s XML standard. This metadata includes student-supplied keywords and controlled terms from ProQuest’s own subject vocabulary—but no terms from the FAST subject vocab...
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Leveraging lateral leadership : strategy, communication, motivation
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Author
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Moore, Anne Cooper, Croxton, Rebecca A., Saines, Sherri
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Subjects--Topical
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Lateral thinking, Organizational effectiveness, Educational leadership
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Description
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Lateral leaders, those who lead but are not the bosses, influence, persuade, and elicit constructive contributions from others at all levels of an organization. Being a lateral leader doesn't mean you can take over and issue orders. In fact, to re...
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Libraries : spaces to experience and reflect on digital games
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Author
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Sorrell, Melanie, Bahamon, Julio Cesar, Price, Bob
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Computer science--Study and teaching (Higher), University cooperation, Computer games
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Description
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In 2016, a partnership between the J. Murrey Atkins Library and the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte launched a gaming lab to support the educational needs of computer science students in the Artif...