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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
- “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
- Author
- Austin, Lauren
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Public health, Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...
- 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
- Your Library Ain't Like Mine: Perceptions of Quality School Library Programming From Library Professionals
- Author
- Creech, Tracy
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Library science
- Description
- There are few instances in which school library professionals are able to give input as to what constitutes a quality school library media program. This study seeks to determine if there are key differences in perceptions of school library program...
- 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
- WORK AND NONWORK DOMAINS OF SHIFT WORK EMPLOYEES: A BOUNDARY THEORY PERSPECTIVE
- Author
- Speights, Sabrina
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management
- Description
- The concept of "flexibility" in the workplace has gained growing interest of scholars and organizational leaders as a solution for conflict between work and nonwork domains. The examination and implications of flexibility, however, have tended to ...
- 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
- Vortices in coherent and partially coherent optical beams
- Author
- Stahl, Charlotte
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- Vortices in optical beams have been the subject of extensive study since their status as a generic feature of light was established. They have found extensive use in optical trapping systems, astronomy, microscopy and are being investigated for fr...
- 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...