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- Title
- "Everyone Wants Their Bifröst": Analyzing Heathen Practice and Radicalization Risks for the U.S. Military
- Author
- Konzen, Riley
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Criminology, Military art and science, Religion
- Description
- The Capitol riot of January 6, 2021 functioned as a national watershed moment, generatingfar-reaching aftershocks across American society. While hypotheses abound proposing various catalysts, it has spurred a robust conversation regarding domestic...
- Title
- "In His Country's Service:" Irish Catholic Military Participation in the First World War
- Author
- Glynn, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This thesis examines how Irish Catholic and nationalist military participation in the Great War reflected colonial tensions between Ireland and Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Whereas prior scholars have tended to examine Irish Catho...
- Title
- "¡Dios no Muere!": The Cristo Rey Monument and Church-State Relations in Revolutionary Guanajuato, 1914- 1950.
- Author
- Catton, John
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History, History--Religious aspects
- Description
- This thesis examines the role of the Catholic ideology of Cristo Rey during the Cristero Conflict, which lasted from 1926 to 1929. This conflict was an armed rebellion led by militant Catholics who opposed the Mexican government's enforcement of a...
- 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 Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan
- Author
- Hines, Mikayla
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Archaeology
- Description
- ABSTRACTMIKAYLA HINES. Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan(Under the Direction of Dr. Steven Falconer) The aim of this thesis is to uncover the social relationship between two Canaanite societie...
- Title
- A Detailed Description of Keldysh's Model of Photoionization
- Author
- Darden, Kenan
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Physics, Optics, Quantum theory
- Description
- Leonid Keldysh’s 1965 paper "Ionization in the Field of a Strong Electromagnetic Wave" contains useful and simple-to-implement equations predicting the rate of photoionization in both atomic gasses and general crystalline solids. Crucially, his re...
- 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
- Adrastea: A Novel
- Author
- Lynch, Emma
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Creative writing
- Description
- Adrastea is a science-fiction novel that follows Adrastea on her journey from the moon to Earth in a misguided quest to find her sister. Set several thousand years in the future, after the Earth has been destroyed by climate change, this is a scie...
- 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...