Fire suppression in forest ecosystems has changed fire regimes and modified woody plant composition, structure, and function throughout the US. Specific effects on the herbaceous plant communities are largely unknown. My study...
Keyword:
fire seasonality, herbaceous plants, and southern Appalachians
Subject:
Herbaceous plants -- Effect of fires on -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.), Fire ecology -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.), Prescribed burning -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.), and Fire ecology -- Appalachian Region, Southern
The detrimental effects of dropping out of high school are well established in the literature. Programs specifically designed to address the needs of at-risk high school are a targeted intervention to lower the dropout rate....
Keyword:
Alternative Education, Dropout, High School, Interventions, and Non-Traditional
Subject:
Dropouts -- Prevention -- Case studies, Pressly school (Statesville, N.C.). -- High School Success Classroom, and High school dropouts -- Case studies
Through an examination of the religious ideology of Holland Nimmons McTyeire as evidenced in his sermons, editorials, and other writings, this thesis sheds light on the relationship between religion and the New South creed....
Keyword:
Holland Nimmons McTyeire, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, New South Creed, and Vanderbilt University
Subject:
McTyeire, Holland Nimmons, 1824-1889 -- Influence, McTyeire, Holland Nimmons, 1824-1889 -- Religion, Methodist Episcopal Church -- History, and Southern States -- Religious life and customs
In North Carolina (NC) there are a total of 58 community colleges, each of which provides a unique approach to handling support for adjunct faculty. The NC Community College System provided a good setting to explore how one...
Keyword:
Adjunct Faculty, Administrative support, Evaluation, Hiring, Orienation, and Professional development
Subject:
Community college teachers -- Recruiting -- North Carolina, Community college teachers -- Training of -- North Carolina, Community college teachers -- Rating of -- North Carolina, College teachers, Part-time -- Recruiting -- North Carolina, College teachers, Part-time -- Training of -- North Carolina, College teachers, Part-time -- Rating of -- North Carolina, and North Carolina Community College System
This creative thesis comprises the first three chapters of Holding Her Own, a novel whichexplores the career of a young warrant officer who trains on the AH-64 Apache helicopter twoyears after the United States Army lifts the...
Keyword:
Apache, aviation, combat, military, PTSD, and women
Subject:
Women helicopter pilots -- Fiction, United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Fiction, and Pregnancy, Unwanted -- Fiction
Panthertown is a high-elevation valley in the Nantahala National Forest, and is one of few sites in western North Carolina with natural wetlands. Radiocarbon dating of multiple cores at a Panthertown valley wetland shows...
Keyword:
Blue Ridge Mountains, ecology, environmental history, Holocene, paleoecology, and palynology
Subject:
Panthertown Valley (N.C.) -- Environmental conditions, -- History, Paleoecology -- Blue Ridge Mountains -- Holocene, and Palynology -- Blue Ridge Mountains -- Holocene
On the surface, “Holy Lands” seems to be simply a collection of poetry examining the relationship between people and the land. The poems’ subjects all revolve around family or nature. However, within these poems, two narratives...
Keyword:
family, land, poetry, and southern
Subject:
Eden -- Poetry, Family farms -- Poetry, and Families -- Poetry
This study looked at differences in homework experiences (i.e., stress, problems, difficulty, and parental involvement) of fourth and fifth grades based on sex and diagnosis of learning disability. The differences in primary...
Keyword:
Elementary, Homework, Learning Disabilities, and Stress
Subject:
Homework -- Psychological aspects, Learning disabled children -- Education (Elementary), Sex differences in education, and Education, Elementary -- Parent participation
Background: This quality improvement project was implemented to meet the needs of aesthetic patients and providers by providing automated education before the patient comes in for treatment. Objectives: To create an automated...
Keyword:
aesthetic medicine, aesthetic patient education, automated education, cosmetic injectables, cosmetic patient learning, and minimally invasive aesthetic medicine
Subject:
Surgery, Plastic, Surgery, Elective, Patient education, and Web-based instruction
Pheromones play a pivotal role in salamander reproductive behavior. Males deliver internally made pheromones from their mental gland to females during courtship interactions in the family Plethodontidae. These courtship...
Keyword:
animal behavior, plethodontid, reproductive isolating mechanism, salamanders, and sexual selection
