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Title: #RatchetQueerTeacher: Social, Emotional Well-being and Liberation Through Mindfulness and Hip Hop Thearapy
Author: Wheatley, Torie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Queer studies
Description: There is a growing mental health concern among Black Ratchet queer womxn in educational and criminal justice realms and the Covid-19 pandemic has left the educational climate in a state of high stress and anxiety. Consequently, Black Womxn in educ...

Title: A Holistic Approach to Securing Memory Error Vulnerabilities in IoT Firmware
Author: Obaidat, Islam
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A staggering number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices harbor intrinsic security vulnerabilities within their firmware. Memory errors especially predominate as a potent category among these vulnerabilities. Memory errors not only permit remote at...

Title: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF EXPERIENCES OF TRAUMA-TRAINED K-12 TEACHERS PRACTICING TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE APPROACHES WITHIN THEIR CLASSROOMS
Author: McCasey, Christine
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Educational psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Trauma-informed care (TIC) has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies in various contexts for nearly four decades. Thus, TIC practices have been shown to reduce educators' stress (Jaycox et al., 2019), increase teacher awareness of student...

Title: A Public Policy Approach to Status Interventions and Unintended Consequences.
Author: Jamil, Cayce
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Social structure, Government policy
Description: This dissertation examines whether there are unintended consequences that emerge from status interventions in task groups in relation to cohesion and solidarity. Past theorists have argued that inconsistent status structures produce weaker levels ...

Title: A QUALITATIVE MULTIPLE CASE STUDY EXPLORING HIGH-PERFORMING TEACHER AGENCY AND REFORM OF “LOW-PERFORMING” SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Kessler, William
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education and state
Description: Since the early 1980s, American educational reformers tried to improve schools through standards, high-stakes tests, and punishments for those schools that failed to meet the mark. In North Carolina, many schools with diverse populations and low s...

Title: A Qualitative Interview-based Study of the Lived Experiences of North Carolina Community College Students Who Report Food Insecurity
Author: Stafford, Nanci
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Adult education, Education, Higher
Description: AbstractA Qualitative Interview-Based Study of the Lived Experiences of North Carolina Community College Students Who Report Food Insecurity (Under the direction of Dr. Alan Mabe)This study represents North Carolina community college student exper...

Title: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study Exploring How the Lives of High School Male Students Enrolled in an Alternative Education Program Mediate Their Reading and Writing Inside The English Classroom
Author: Gates, Lily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Secondary, Reading, Education
Description: Historically, male students have been known to score lower than their female counterparts in reading and writing on standardized measures of academic success. While scholars, teachers, and even policymakers have attempted to explain and mitigate t...

Title: A Secure SoC Platform For Security Assessments In FPGASs
Author: Nicholas, Geraldine Shirley
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With the rapid increase in connected devices and SoC design architecture being usedin diverse platforms, they become potential targets to gain unauthorized access for data and privacy invasion. Therefore, heterogeneous SoC architecture raises secu...

Title: A Spatial Evaluation of Housing and Supportive Service Locations for the Formerly Homeless: The Case of Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Butta, Faith
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: The lack of affordable housing and homelessness continues to be a serious public policy issue. Even though homelessness has been decreasing nationally, major cities have seen increases late in the last decade. The purpose of this study was to lear...

Title: Additive Manufacturing of 3D Printed SiC Composites: Strengthening and Densification through Surface Modification and Use of Mineral Binders
Author: Chandrasekaran, Sujithra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Materials science, Mechanical engineering
Description: Manufacturing of dense SiC composites counts mainly on the thermal oxidation of the carbide into silica. The irregularity of the silica layer and its limited thickness weaken the bond between particles and diminish the good thermo-mechanical prope...

Title: Additive manufacturing of PVDF-TrFE piezoelectric and pyroelectric sensors
Author: Marandi, Rafi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Additive manufacturing, specifically Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) method, has emerged as a promising technique for rapid prototyping. Using FDM, complex geometries can be created using precise layer by layer deposition of material. Among the ad...

Title: Advanced Metasurface Design and Integration for Electromagnetic Systems
Author: Hecht, Kristy
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: In the realm of metamaterials and electromagnetic engineering, a metasurface is a two-dimensional array of subwavelength-scale structures meticulously engineered to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Unlike conventional bulky optical elements, meta...

Title: Advancing Green Stormwater Infrastructure Through Understanding the Influences of Social Factors
Author: Qi, Jingyi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is a nature-inspired engineering solution to stormwater management that has gained increasing attention over the last two decades. While the technical evidence supporting the efficacy and efficiency of GSI is ...

Title: Advancing Highway Safety: Embedded-Edge AI for Real-Time Applications
Author: Katariya, Vinit Amrutlal
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Transportation
Description: This dissertation presents the systematic design and development of datasets, algorithms, and an AI pipeline specifically curated for real-time trajectory prediction and anomaly detection in highway environments. These innovations are meticulously...

Title: Advancing Safety in Roadway Work Zones with Worker-Centred Augmented Reality: Assessing the Feasibility, Usability, And Effectiveness Of AR-Enabled Warning Systems
Author: Sabeti, Sepehr
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Computer science
Description: In recent years, there has been a concerning increase in serious injuries and fatalities within highway work zones, deviating from a previously declining trend. While innovative technologies offer potential for improving safety, the specific needs...

Title: An Autoethnography: Culturally Responsive School Leadership Through the Conscientized Critical Lens of an African American Male School Administrator
Author: Foster, Jeffrey
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Although significant research has been conducted on opportunity gaps between White and racially minoritized students, the percentage of minority students has reached 53% of the United States K-12 public schools (NCES, 2022). While the percentage o...

Title: An Educational-Based Approach to Prevent Corneal Abrasions at a Community Hospital
Author: Frowine, Megan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Education, Surgery
Description: Corneal abrasions (CA) are one of the most common anesthesia-related adverse events. There is limited evidence about the effect of virtual education on providers’ knowledge regarding CA prevention. The purpose of this project was to assess if a we...

Title: An Exploration of Comparability Issues in Educational Research: Scale Linking, Equating, and Propensity Score Weighting
Author: Wu, Tong
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
Description: This three-article dissertation aims to address three methodological challenges to ensure comparability in educational research, including scale linking, test equating, and propensity score (PS) weighting. The first study intends to improve test s...

Title: An Exploratory Study of Barriers and Supports Faced By Women Superintendents
Author: Shaw, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The significance of this study was to give an active voice to the experiences of women superintendents. By giving voice to the lived experiences of women superintendents, the study sought to further understand the phenomenon of women dominating th...

Title: An Integrated Hybrid Thermal Dynamics Model and Energy Aware Optimization Framework for Grid-Interactive Residential Building Management
Author: Ariwoola, Raheem
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This dissertation focuses on developing an integrated hybrid model for studying the thermal dynamic operations of passive buildings considering active power management. For this, the following methodology is designed. First, the hybrid model,inclu...