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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 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: 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: Legacy ETDs with legacy problems : changing ETD workflows to improve discoverability
Author: Nicholson, Joseph, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electronic dissertations, Academic libraries, Metadata
Description: 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...

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: 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: Present and future proficiency : updating the ACRL assessment proficiencies to reflect current and coming realities
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Oakleaf, Megan, Scoulas, Jung Mi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Libraries--Evaluation
Description: Session presenters who are leading an ACRL task force to update the 2017 ACRL Proficiencies for Assessment Librarians and Coordinators (https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/assessment_proficiencies) invite conference attendees to engage in active co...

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: Students, in the academic library, with a white noise machine
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Lampkowski, Christin, Patterson, Olivia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Self-care, Health, Collection development (Libraries)
Description: Conference poster presented at 2022 Metrolina Library Association Conference, outlining the creation of a self-care collection at Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte. Sections include: tips for creating your self-care collection; collection policies; pu...

Title: Teacher perspectives on social justice practices in English language arts (ELA)
Author: Gabriel, Tara, Coffey, Heather, Barnes, Meghan, Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Critical pedagogy, Social justice and education, Culturally relevant pedagogy
Description: Research indicates a need for middle and secondary teachers to become knowledgeable about how to teach for social justice. This study aims to better understand current challenges, strategies, and perspectives of English critical pedagogy through t...

Title: Teachers’ and principals’ perspectives of leadership : a search for within-school alignment
Author: Gabriel, Tara
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational change
Description: Many school administrators struggle to find a reliably efficient and effective way of stabilizing academic reform implementation within educational institutions. Questionnaire responses were collected from two administrators and six teachers acros...

Title: Visualizing alignment in joint attention
Author: Jackson, Daniel, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Eye tracking, Psychology, Joint attention
Description: Success in joint tasks requires shared understanding and coordination between team members. Some studies suggest that, in motor tasks, various coordination patterns (including alignment and complimentary) can support achieving shared goals (Wallot...