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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: Beyond assumptions : using design thinking to build better library employee training
Author: Bess, Marc
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Employees--Training of, Academic libraries
Description: 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...

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: Supporting professional development and work-life balance : a new approach to conferences
Author: Binder, Amanda, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Career development, Congresses and conventions, Videoconferencing
Description: Conferences are critical to professional development, serving as spaces for connection and learning. The pandemic challenged the status quo of conferences and the types of meaning that can be generated online versus in person. One library navigate...

Title: Rethinking resources : personalizing open access outreach by discipline
Author: Lake, Savannah, McCreery, Brigid
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Open access publishing, Academic libraries
Description: Open access scholarship can increase the impact of researchers’ work. However, open access policies, funding, and procedures can prove difficult to understand, and authors may face conflicting and ambiguous messages when navigating the publishing ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Using wireless pedometers to measure children's’ physical activity : how reliable is the Fitbit Zip?
Author: Byker, Erik Jon, Xu, Tingting, Gonzales, Monica R.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Children, Pedometers
Description: Wearable technologies, like wireless pedometers, are promising ways to get children moving through physical activity and kinesthetic learning. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability of wireless pedometers in measuring elementa...

Title: Leveraging lateral leadership : strategy, communication, motivation
Author: Moore, Anne Cooper, Croxton, Rebecca A., Saines, Sherri
Subjects--Topical: Lateral thinking, Organizational effectiveness, Educational leadership
Description: 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...

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: 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: 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: 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: Claims returned process : using our values to improve the service
Author: Boardman, Erika, Norton, Derek R., Miller, Ryan J.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Library science, Academic libraries, Library circulation and loans
Description: 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...

Title: “Why so serious?” : antisocial trolling behavior and its relationship with everyday psychopathy and sadism
Author: Siegel, AJ, Peach, Hannah D.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Online trolling, Antisocial personality disorders
Description: Trolling is an antisocial form of online communication in which users, known as trolls, initiate negative and taunting interactions to disrupt digital communication. While trolling is a common online practice ranging from innocent to potentially d...