Search results | J. Murrey Atkins Library

Title: “THEIR LIVES ARE SO MUCH BIGGER OUTSIDE OF MY LITTLE CLASSROOM:” ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH MULTILINGUAL STUDENT ADVOCACY DURING MANDATED SCHOOL CLOSURES
Author: Pazzula Jimenez, Michelle
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way education transpired for teachers and learners worldwide. Widespread virtual learning brought deeper academic and social inequities among K-12 diverse learners to light. Multilingual learners an...

Title: “Not Negroes Nor Slaves But Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade.
Author: Cullinan, Brian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines the role of free people of color in the colonial Indian trade in England’s southern American colonies, primarily Virginia and the Carolinas, from the1640s to that trade’s decline in the colonial southeast by the early 1770s. F...

Title: “Canary in the Coal Mine”: The Relationship Between the United States and Chinese Mexicans, 1882-1933
Author: Telljohann, Paul
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: When the Chinese Exclusion Act barred most Chinese immigrants from entering the United States, many opted to instead settle within northern Mexico. Despite the harsh environment, Chinese migrants successfully adapted to their new homeland, where t...

Title: Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Transfer Experience
Author: Slane, Lauren
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: As the entry point into higher education for over half of the bachelor’s degree earners, (Trapani & Hale, 2019), community colleges are positioned to have a positive impact of bringing a more diverse student group into science, technology, enginee...

Title: Where are all of the Black Women? The underrepresentation and experiences of Black women in intercollegiate athletic leadership
Author: Stone, Cynthia
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Sports administration
Description: Higher education leadership demographics contrast sharply with formulaic narratives of college campuses filled with gender and racial diversity, especially in intercollegiate athletics. Black women occupy only 2% of athletic director positions at ...

Title: When do Effect Sizes Actually Capture Effects? A Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Amari, Paul
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Effect size benchmarks are used as guidelines for conducting power analysis and Bayesian analysis, guiding theory, interpreting practical significance, and reviewing scientific progress. However, effect size estimates that are correlational direct...

Title: What's in a Name? Exploring Language Ideologies Through the Names of the Spanish Langauge
Author: Burke, Jennifer
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Language and languages, Linguistics
Description: This thesis embarks on an exploration of language ideology, centering its investigation on the debate surrounding the nomenclature of the Spanish language as "castellano" or "español." It explores the concept of language ideologies by exploring th...

Title: WHEN LIFE DEALS ACES: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACES) AND REPRODUCTIVE, PRENATAL, AND PERINATAL HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG WOMEN
Author: Gill, Tasha
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Epidemiology
Description: Nearly 65% of adults report experiencing at least one adverse childhood experience (ACEs). Women are more likely to report experiencing 4 or more ACEs. While the association between ACEs and adverse physical and mental health outcomes in adulthood...

Title: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? STAR AND NON-STAR PERFORMERS WHO PURSUE EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING AT A PRIVATE RESEARCH 1 INSTITUTION
Author: Wynn, Denise
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: This dissertation analyzes performance distribution, the financial impact of star performers, and how the researcher's discipline moderates the relationship between individual performance and the value of external funding at a private R1 instituti...

Title: Variable Shearing Holography
Author: Shanmugam, Prithiviraj
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: From the perspective of manufacturing, it is not always ideal to use conventional methods of surface and optical metrology. Many optical metrology systems like interferometry use a stable temperature-controlled environment in a laboratory setting ...

Title: Using Tools to Support Productive Mathematical Discussions: A Multiple Case Study
Author: Bacak, Julie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Education, Elementary, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: Facilitating productive mathematical discussions is considered a core practice of mathematics education. The complexity of this teaching practice presents the need for pedagogical tools to provide structure for preservice teachers (PST) developing...

Title: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Health Service Utilization With Low-Income Patients in a Free Clinic
Author: Tang, Tri
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Low-income individuals encounter significant personal, social, economic, and political obstacles to adequate health care. Transportation challenges, communication barriers, and a lack of trust in treatment, cooccurring with medical and financial i...

Title: Urban Heat Islands and Cooling Strategies: A Comprehensive Assessment Of Charlotte, NC and National Comparisons
Author: Westendorff, Veronica
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Landscape architecture
Description: The increasing threats posed by climate change and urbanization have elevated the importance of addressing Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, a critical concern impacting cities across the United States. This dissertation comprises three articles...

Title: Urban Form and Air Quality: A Fine-Scale Look at 22 Major U.S. Cities
Author: Blomquist, Evan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Remote sensing, City planning
Description: Common pollutants present in cities, such as nitrogen dioxide (NO2), can cause a variety of adverse human health outcomes. Urban form (e.g., land cover and its spatial patterns) is a crucial factor contributing to air quality. There have been effo...

Title: Urban Dynamics: Longitudinal Causal Relationships And Future Time Series Forecasting
Author: Hatami, Faizeh
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: City planning
Description: Studying urban dynamics is essential given the ever-increasing changes in urban areas with all its ensuing consequences, whether negative or positive. It is of paramount importance to take into account the temporal dimension of urban dynamics when...

Title: Upstream Factors: The Association Between County Intergenerational Deprivation, State Income Inequality, State Minimum Wage and Hypertension Among Young Adults
Author: Mbugua, Anne
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Epidemiology, Public health
Description: While hypertension is largely preventable, its rates have been increasing in young adults. Hypertension is associated with substantial costs to the US health care system and therefore a public health burden. In recent times, there has been a shift...

Title: Understanding the Impact of Digital Marketing Capabilities and Female-owner Behaviors on the Performance of Entrepreneurially Oriented Firms in the Digital Economy
Author: Johnson-Deberry, Darlene
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Sex role
Description: Entrepreneurial enterprises take risks, innovate, and remain proactive in seeking business opportunities. For the past 30 years, entrepreneurial orientation theory has been the basis of exploring organizational behavior and has proven to be a reli...

Title: Understanding the Experience: Latinx Transfer Students From the Appalachian Region
Author: Street Elton, Porscha
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher--Administration
Description: Latinx students already constitute the largest minority group of students graduating from the United States secondary school systems and projections show the Latinx population continuing to increase between now and 2036 (WICHE, 2020). Both in the ...

Title: Understanding the Effectiveness of De-escalation Techniques: A Mixed Methods Approach
Author: Schaffer, Noah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Criminology
Description: Violence de-escalation has received significant attention in recent years; however, little research has been conducted to assess the effectiveness of the topic’s associated techniques. The current study surveyed over 56 officers in the Concord (NC...

Title: Understanding The Role of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Chemoresistance and Intertumoral Heterogeneity on Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-based Oncolytic Therapy
Author: Goad, Dakota
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Virology, Biomedical engineering
Description: Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that are now being increasingly harnessed as therapeutics for human diseases. Investigating different cellular factors and processes that affect viral infection allows us to improve the efficacy of viru...