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Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: A Legal Analysis of Students' First Amendment Rights in K-12 Public Education as it Relates to Internet Speech
Author: Erdie, Julia
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Adolescents are rarely without a cellphone and typically have unfettered access to social media sites where they post their status or comment on their friends’ posts. When said communication is used to bully or threaten others, it brings on challe...

Title: A Legal Analysis of the Involvement of School Resource Officers in Searches and Seizures in K-12 Public Schools
Author: Wells, Richard
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education and state, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop a set of court-based guiding principles for the integration of school resource officers in searches and seizures in K-12 public schools. This purpose was achieved by applying Standard Legal Analysis methodo...

Title: A Numerical Study of Inhomogeneous Variable-Density Turbulence in Planar and Convergent Geometries.
Author: Djibrilla Boureima, Ismael
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: ISMAEL DJIBRILLA BOUREIMA. A Numerical Study of Inhomogeneous Variable-Density Turbulence in Planar and Convergent Geometries. (Under the direction of DR. PRAVEEN RAMAPRABHU)Hydrodynamic instabilities govern the growth of perturbations at the inte...

Title: A Study on Soil-Structure Interaction of Axially Loaded Sheet Piles
Author: Sylvain, Matthew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Sheet piles are geotechnical structural elements often used in canals and rivers for soil retention and scour protection. Short span bridge abutment design in North Carolina and the U.S., for locations near bodies of water, typically uses sheet pi...

Title: AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES: DO THEY PERFORM BETTER ON STANDARDIZED READING AND MATHEMATICS TESTS IN TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OR NON-TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS?
Author: Anderson, Sony
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: African-American males continue to slip through the cracks of the Education System in America. McSpadden McNeil et al. (2008) report that district officials continue to focus on school scores as if they are the only way to assess student progress....

Title: ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES
Author: Solomon, Corliss
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: The problem of heavy alcohol consumption is now a woman’s issue but there is limited data on the prevalence of and factors associated with heavy alcohol consumption among women living in the United States. Three manuscripts were developed to study...

Title: AN EVALUATION OF CLINICIAN KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-EFFICACY PRE/POST EDUCATION IN PERISTOMAL MANAGEMENT
Author: Saunders, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACTKIMBERLY SAUNDERS. An evaluation of clinician knowledge and self-efficacy pre/post education in peristomal management. (Under the direction of DR. KATHLEEN JORDAN)PurposeThe primary purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of an edu...

Title: AN EXPLORATION INTO TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS AND OPERATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH LEARNERS
Author: Lenis-Sucerquia, Elkin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: ABSTRACTAn exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners.It has been established that language is at the heart of teachi...

Title: APPLICATION OF SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION BASED METHODS ON POWER SYSTEM OSCILLATION CHARACTERIZATION AND MITIGATION
Author: Hossain, Sheikh Jakir
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents measurement-based system identification methods that help to improve the reliability and operational stability of modern power systems. One of the important factors in maintaining stability is to know the damping and fre...

Title: Adiabatic shear band formation in metallic glasses
Author: Kulkarni, Shank S.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Metallic glasses, Deformations (Mechanics)
Description: Metallic glasses (MGs) are widely used in many applications due to their unique and attractive properties such as high strength, high elastic limit and good corrosion resistance. Experiments have shown that deformation in MGs is governed by either...

Title: African American Male Former Student Athletes' Perceptions of their Academic Experiences and Faculty Expectations of their Coursework at Predominantly White Institutions
Author: Chaplin III, Nathan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative phenomenological study investigated the academic experience of African American (AA) male student athletes based on the recollected narratives of nine former student athletes who had played sports at a National Collegiate Athletic...

Title: An exploration of the intra- and interpersonal pathways linking interpersonal goals to weight management goal pursuit
Author: Hilaire, Nicole
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Using Pietromonaco and colleagues’ (2013) model as a guiding framework, I designed an empirically testable model that integrates theory and constructs from relationship science, affective science, and health psychology to explore the impact of soc...

Title: Apoptotic T-cell derived microparticles containing sonic hedgehog modulate endothelial cell functions in inflammation via rho kinase pathway
Author: Attal, Neha
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Impaired vascular regulation as a result of endothelial dysfunction is a major determinant of sepsis-associated liver failure. We have previously shown that inhibition of one signaling molecule rho-kinase (ROCK) predominantly restores endothelial ...

Title: Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources : the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future
Author: Loraine, Ann, Doherty, Colleen, Friesner, Joanna, Gregory, Brian
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Arabidopsis thaliana
Description: Effective research, education, and outreach efforts by the Arabidopsis thaliana community, as well as other scientific communities that depend on Arabidopsis resources, depend vitally on easily available and publicly-shared resources. These resour...

Title: Association Between Patient-Level Predictors and Gynecologic Cancer Among Women with Autoimmune Diseases
Author: Bahrani_Mostafavi, Zahra
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Epidemiology, Medical sciences
Description: Cancer and autoimmunity are two major chronic diseases among women. Based on previous studies that cancer and autoimmune diseases (AD) are both the accumulative effect of genetics and environmental exposures, it was imperative to recognize the pro...

Title: BIOFLAVONOIDS GENISTEIN AND QUERCETIN TRIGGER ALTERNATIVE END JOINING PATHWAY OF DNA REPAIR
Author: GHOSH, ANINDITA
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Faithful repair of chromosomal double-strand breaks (DSBs) is crucial to genome stability and normal cell survival and proliferation. During normal metabolic processes and especially following exposure to DNA damaging agents including irradiation,...

Title: Beliefs About Alcohol Among College Students in Fraternities: Effect of a Targeted Education Intervention
Author: Sheeler, Cory
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Alcohol use is a significant problem on college campuses. Greek men in college fraternities consume alcohol in higher quantities and with increased frequency, which can result in negative health outcomes. The purpose of this project was to determi...

Title: Breaking down barriers for student parents and caregivers with family friendly library spaces
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper, Sprague, Lindsey
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, College student parents
Description: In 2016, J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte opened a reservable study room specifically for student parents and caregivers. Student parents comprise 25.6% of the total student population and this study room c...

Title: Bridging the gap between heterogeneous computing and next generation memory architecture using high level synthesis
Author: Rajagopala, Abhilash
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The impact of transistor scaling on FPGAs is changing the role of FPGA from accelerators to a major role as processors. With this rapid development and the ability to implement complex systems on FPGAs, the conventional hardware language design fl...