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Title: “The Name With Which You Ascend to Heaven”: Semiotic and Linguistic Ideology in the Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el
Author: Cornett, Aleah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Linguistics, Judaism--Study and teaching
Description: The Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el may appear much like other midrashic exegetical texts that seem ubiquitous in Rabbinic Judaism. It is, however, different not only because it appears much later and is a part of a larger recontextualization con...

Title: “MY BABY COULD LIVE THE BEST LIFE”: FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICES FOLLOWING A PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF DOWN SYNDROME
Author: Martin, Zachary
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Early childhood education
Description: Screenings and diagnostic tests provide individuals the opportunity to receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. Post-diagnosis, families are presented with opportunities for services and supports ...

Title: “AN ABYSS OF ANARCHY, NIHILISM, AND DESPAIR”: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ANARCHISTS IN BRITAIN
Author: Jutila, Alexander
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Studies on historical representations of anarchists tend to focus on terrorist depictions and how they compare to the actual activities of the anarchist movement. Using British print media, this thesis explores other political, cultural, and socia...

Title: Woke AF: Black Feminism and The Read
Author: Cameron, Shanice
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: The purpose of this study is to analyze how Crissle West and Kid Fury use humor and African American discourse to discuss Black feminism on the weekly comedy podcast, The Read. I argue that West and Fury discuss Black feminism with respect to the ...

Title: Why does no one in my books look like me? Tobe and ongoing questions about race, representation, and identity
Author: Stokes, Quesinberry Ashli
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Black people--Race identity, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description: Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in rural North Carolina. The book was written by a white woman, Stella Sharpe Gentry, and illustrated by...

Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Writer's Identity
Author: Cortez, Jessie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Although it is used by some first-year writing (FYW) instructors to help students improve their writing, the term "writer’s identity" does not have a clear, agreed-upon definition. This study therefore investigates the use of "writer’s identity" i...

Title: WORKING FOR FREEDOM AND WORKING FOR FREE: RECOGNIZING AND RESISTING THE REPRODUCTION OF OPPRESSIVE STRUCTURES IN UNPAID ORGANIZING WORK
Author: Karout, Samantha
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: This ethnographic research is an inquiry into the obstacles that LGBTQ people face in their unpaid organizing work in Charlotte, NC. Field work included participant observation from 2014 to 2018, and 26 semi-structured and unstructured interviews ...

Title: WEIGHT FACTOR DETERMINATION AND FUND ALLOCATION OF PAVEMENTS BY COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Author: Patil, Chaitali Ramakant
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the most efficient and ideal weight factors by performing the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) using the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Pavement Management System (PMS) and using the idea...

Title: WALKING TO METRICALLY CUED MUSIC: HOW IT AFFECTS GAIT AND BALANCE IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS
Author: Grant, Darryl
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology, Gerontology
Description: Introduction: Gait impairments are a major cause of falls in older adult populations, associated with decreased functional capacity and increased morbidity. Recent studies have reported using rhythmic auditory stimuli to positively influence motor...

Title: Vietnamese American College Students’ Racial/Ethnic Identity Development and Campus Engagement Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
Author: Nguyen, Nhu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Area studies
Description: Prior studies on student engagement in U.S. higher education focused mainly on the experiences of Black and White students (Meyer, 2014). Southeast Asian American students also face challenges regarding engagement on campus. Due to the influence o...

Title: Vibration-based damage detection with uncertainty quantification by structural identification using nonlinear constraint satisfaction with interval arithmetic
Author: Whelan, Matthew, Kernicky, Timothy, Al-Shaer, Ehab
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Structural health monitoring, Vibration--Data processing
Description: Structural identification has received increased attention over recent years for performance-based structural assessment and health monitoring. Recently, an approach for formulating the finite element model updating problem as a constraint satisfa...

Title: Venomix : a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
Author: Janies, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Macrander, Jason
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: The advent of next-generation sequencing has resulted in transcriptome-based approaches to investigate functionally significant biological components in a variety of non-model organism. This has resulted in the area of venomics: a rapidly growing ...

Title: Vascular Function in Patients With Chronic Ankle Instability and Healthy Adults
Author: Bruce, Casey
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Physiology, Neurosciences
Description: CASEY BRUCE. Vascular function in patients with chronic ankle instability and healthy adults. (Under the direction of DR. ABBEY THOMAS FENWICK)Introduction: Patients with CAI display impaired sensorimotor output and deficits in afferent/sensory pr...

Title: Using Topological Data Analysis for Text Classification
Author: Doshi, Pratik
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: I show that by applying discourse features derived through topological data analysis(TDA), namely homological persistence, we can improve classification results on thetask of movie genre detection, including identification of overlapping movie gen...

Title: Understanding Salt Adaptation in Sand Beans (Strophostyles helvola)
Author: Zuelsdorf, Christine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Soil salinity is one of the major environmental factors causing crop yield loss worldwide. Different plants develop diverse salinity tolerance mechanisms to manage such a detrimental abiotic stress. The sand bean (Strophostyles helvola), a wild re...

Title: USING THE MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES OF LEARNER-GENERATED DRAWING AND PEER DISCUSSION TO RETAIN TERMINOLOGY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SECONDARY EDUCATION SCIENCE CLASSROOMS
Author: Kasay, Theresa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Reading, Science--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare and evaluate two types of vocabulary interventions using grade 9 physics vocabulary terms using two lists of 10 words. A quasi-experimental crossover research design was used to compare the two...

Title: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Author: Hartley, A. J. (Andrew James), Freidline, Noel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Plays (Shakespeare, William), Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William), Comedy plays
Description: Twelfth Night director: Andrew Hartley. Twelfth Night music director/composer: Noel Freidline. Contributors: Hessy Sanders (dramaturg), Christopher Berry (voice and speech coach), Allison Amidei (costume design), Gordon Olsen (lighting and scenic ...

Title: Tracking a serial killer : integrating phylogenetic relationships, epidemiology, and geography for two invasive meningococcal disease outbreaks
Author: Janies, Daniel, Galac, Madeline R., Kilianski, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Background While overall rates of meningococcal disease have been declining in the United States for the past several decades, New York City (NYC) has experienced two serogroup C meningococcal disease outbreaks in 2005-2006 and in 2010-2013. The o...

Title: Towards Prediction of Emerging Technologies
Author: Thombare, Shalaka
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: Predictive Analytics is an advanced branch of data analytics that deals with making future predictions that matter to the industry\cite{6}.It has wide applications in the areas of health care, fraud detection, market analysis, cross-sell. Predicti...

Title: Toward fixtureless inspection of automotive fenders
Author: Grohol, Corbin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: With nonrigid parts, it is most convenient for designers to specify the desired shape in the design condition; that is, the shape is specified with all loads present that the part will experience in service (gravity, assembly constraints, etc.). T...