Occupational segregation by gender continues with a significant underrepresentation of women in the skilled trades industry. There is a significant workforce shortage in the skilled trades industry locally, regionally, and...
Tema:
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, Skilled labor, Women employees, Employee retention y Equality
The purpose of this disquisition is to improve the persistence of African American women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) gateway courses at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) through the...
Tema:
African American women college students -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Academic achievement -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Technology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Engineering -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Case studies y North Carolina Central University
Indigenous storytelling, a transactional communication between narrators and audiences, is expressed through the narratives of Traditional Ecological Knowledge or TEK (Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000). These stories of Indigenous...
Palabra clave:
ecological literacy, narrative inquiry, outdoor environment, place-based education, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians y Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Tema:
Place-based education, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Storytelling, Oral tradition y Human ecology
Research on life history evolution in birds has revealed both direct and indirect effects of predation. Increased levels of nest predation favor reproductive behaviors that reduce the threat of predators on offspring or allow...
Tema:
Carolina chickadee -- Effect of predation on -- North Carolina, Western, House wren -- Predators of -- Ecology -- North Carolina, Western, Carolina chickadee -- Behavior -- North Carolina, Western y Carolina chickadee -- Ecology -- North Carolina, Western
The effects of stress in both academic and social settings are well established. However, the effects of stress on cognitive functioning are less so. This study explored the relation between life event stress and cognitive...
Palabra clave:
life event stress, mind wandering y working memory
Tema:
Stress (Psychology), Life change events y Short-term memory
The present study was conducted to examine whether individual variables (e.g., sexist beliefs, gender-conforming attitudes, and attitudes toward sexuality) can be combined to predict Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA) and Bystander...
Palabra clave:
Bystander Intervention, prevention, rape, Rape Myth Acceptance, sexual assault y Sexual Assault Prevention
Tema:
Rape -- Prevention, Bystander effect, Sexism, Sex role, Sex crimes -- United States -- Prevention, College students -- Crimes against -- United States y Campus violence -- United States -- Prevention
The purpose of this study was to further investigate if 360-degree-degree nature videos can produce similar positive mental health outcomes associated with real-life nature environments. Specifically, this study measured...
Tema:
Awe -- Mental health, Nature -- Inspiration -- Mental health, Nature films y Virtual reality -- Mental health -- Treatment
The need for educators to have reliable professional development on refining their online teaching skills became evident during the Coronavirus pandemic. Student learning should be engaging in both in-person and online...
Tema:
Teachers -- Training of, Public schools, Equality, Web-based instruction y COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Environmentally cued polymorphisms are excellent models for studying the origins of phenotypicplasticity. Facultative paedomorphosis in salamanders is a form of discrete phenotypic plasticity in whichaquatic larvae respond to...
Palabra clave:
Ambystoma talpoideum, best of a bad lot, geographic variation, interspecific competition, phenotypic plasticity y polyphenism
Tema:
Salamanders -- Morphogenesis -- North Carolina, Western, Neoteny, Morphology -- Environmental aspects, Salamanders -- Life cycles -- North Carolina, Western y Ambystoma -- North Carolina, Western
Individuals in leadership roles in the military are in unique and complex positions to make the most ethical decisions to protect the mission and fellow soldiers on deployments. These difficult decisions may negatively impact...
Tema:
Behavioral medicine -- Evaluation, Stigma (Social psychology) y Mental health
