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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
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: "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
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: "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
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: "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
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: "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
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: "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
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: "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
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: '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
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: '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
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 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
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 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...