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- Title
- "And the North Carolina MORONS LIVED | HAPPILY EVER AFTER": The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
- Author
- Wilds, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- Following World War II, eugenics became associated with Nazis abuses, leading many States to end their eugenics programs. North Carolina was a rare exception to this trend. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized over 7,600 people, the ma...
- Title
- "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
- Author
- Kane, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history
- Description
- NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...
- 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
- "Downright Roguish Practices of Ignorant and Unworthy Men": The North Carolina Regulator Rebellion, 1768-1771
- Author
- Croot, Mitchell
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From 1768 to 1771 in North Carolina, backcountry farmers in Orange, Rowan, and Anson Counties stood defiant against their local officials and the colonial government. Calling themselves Regulators for their desire to regulate the government’s auth...
- Title
- "No.. like you don't get it": The functionality of conflict speech and the construction of the young adult feminist identity on Tumblr
- Author
- Cosper, Caitlin
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Linguistics
- Description
- As social media grew in popularity, online discourse became a more frequent focus of study because it represented an entirely new form of communication. While technological innovations led to easier and more accessible communication on a global sc...
- Title
- "The Burthen Now Upon Our Hands": The Treatment of British Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781
- Author
- Grover, Thomas
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history, History
- Description
- Casualties represent the human element destroyed by war. As such, historians use their numbers to describe the scale or aftermath of a given conflict in terms of dead and wounded. Yet, there exists a third group of casualties often not included in...
- Title
- 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
- Author
- Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Artificial intelligence
- Description
- Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...
- Title
- 'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
- Author
- Brown, Savannah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...
- Title
- A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
- Author
- Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
- Description
- In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...
- Title
- A HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIED WASHOVER DEPOSITS FROM FOLLY ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY
- Author
- Zurawski, Lance
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentology
- Description
- A 40-meter transect consisting of eight equally spaced 2.44-m vibracores was taken across a marginal-marine salt marsh behind North Folly Island, a barrier island located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Analysis of storm signatures from this...
- 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 MODIFIED SELF-INTERFERENCE BASED INCOHERENT DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING SYSTEM
- Author
- Mishra, Abhinav
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Optics
- Description
- A Fresnel-type self-interference based incoherent digital holographic system that can measure the intensity and direction of incoming light field is proposed. This system is composed primarily of a convex lens as an objective, a linear polarizer, ...
- Title
- A NOVEL WEIGHTED AVERAGE CURRENT CONTROL METHOD WITH EMBEDDED ACTIVE DAMPING FOR GRID TIED INVERTERS WITH LCL FILTER
- Author
- Chanda, Arunodai
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Various kind of filters have been used to interconnect PWM inverters to the utility grid. Among those filters, LCL filter is widely used for many applications because it can reduce more harmonics of an injected grid current, as compared to other f...
- 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 Recurrent Neural Network Based Patch Recommender for Linux Kernel Bugs
- Author
- Bableshwar, Anusha
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer engineering
- Description
- Software bugs result in a variety of issues including system crashes, loss of system performance, incorrect output and security vulnerabilities. In this thesis, we explore the design of a patch recommender system for the Linux kernel. Software too...
- Title
- A SCALABLE LSTM BASED APPROACH FOR MULTI-PEDESTRIAN TRACKING IN SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
- Author
- Kulkarni, Pratik
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer engineering
- Description
- There has been an ever growing interest in leveraging state of the art deep learning techniques for tracking objects in video frames. Such works primarily focus on using appearance based models which prove not to be effective in modelling the beha...
- Title
- A Scalable deep learning framework for autonomous road asset classification
- Author
- Nouri Gooshki, Sadegh
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Artificial intelligence
- Description
- The focus of this thesis is on automation in road asset inspection using deep neural networks. Even though some progress has been made in automation of data collection and condition assessment, the amount of manual operation and the cost of road i...
- 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
- A WATER-SOLUBLE COBALT SULFIDE SUPERATOM FOR FLOW BATTERY APPLICATIONS AND CRYSTALLINE FRAMEWORK SYNTHESIS
- Author
- Freeman, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry
- Description
- Metal sulfide clusters are attractive components for flow batteries owing to the abundance of their constituent atoms and their tunable size, solubility, and redox properties. We prepared an atomically precise cobalt sulfide cluster, Co6S8(PTA)6•4...