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Title: A virtual pebble game to ensemble average graph rigidity
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Gonzalez, Luis C., Wang, Hui, Livesay, Dennis R.
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Probabilities, Proteins
Description: Background: The body-bar Pebble Game (PG) algorithm is commonly used to calculate network rigidity properties in proteins and polymeric materials. To account for fluctuating interactions such as hydrogen bonds, an ensemble of constraint topologies...

Title: APE2 promotes DNA damage response pathway from a single-strand break
Author: Yan, Shan, Lin, Yunfeng, Bai, Liping, Cupello, Steven
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Cancer--Research, DNA
Description: As the most common type of DNA damage, DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs) are primarily repaired by the SSB repair mechanism. If not repaired properly or promptly, unrepaired SSBs lead to genome stability and have been implicated in cancer and neurod...

Title: Accelerated Math evaluation report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Algozzine, Bob
Subjects--Topical: Students--Rating of, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: Progress monitoring has been defined as “a practice that helps teachers use student performance data to continually evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching and make more informed instructional decisions” (Safer and Fleischman, 2005, p. 81). I...

Title: Accounting for residential propagule pressure improves prediction of urban plant invasion
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Davis, Amy J. S., Singh, Kunwar K., Meentemeyer, Ross K.
Subjects--Topical: Invasive plants, Urban forestry
Description: Plant invasions substantially impact the ecosystem services provided by forests in urbanizing regions. Knowing where invasion risk is greatest helps target early detection and eradication efforts, but developing an accurate predictive model of inv...

Title: Acculturation, Hispanic ethnicity, and trust : verifying and explaining racial/ethnic differences in trust in health providers in North Carolina Medicaid
Author: Smith, Galen H., Hampton, Cicily, Tripp, Hollie L., Brandon, William P.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Medicaid, Cultural competence
Description: Three North Carolina Medicaid surveys conducted from 2000 to 2012 reported increasing numbers of Hispanic children enrolled in Medicaid and much lower trust in providers expressed by their adult caregiver respondents compared with responses for no...

Title: Achieving one-planet living through transitions in social practice : a case study of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Author: Boyer, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development--Research, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: The per capita resource consumption for inhabitants of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR) is less than ten percent of the average American in most major categories, approximating “one planet” living in a nation that contributes disproportionately to g...

Title: Acquired chemoresistance can lead to increased resistance of pancreatic cancer cells to oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus
Author: Grdzelishvili, Valery, Goad, Dakota, Bressy, Christian, Holbrook, Molly
Subjects--Topical: Vesicular stomatitis, Cancer, Viruses
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a promising oncolytic virus (OV) against different malignancies, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Our previous studies have demonstrated that VSV-based OVs are effective against the majority of...

Title: Active Notch signaling is required for arm regeneration in a brittle star
Author: Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: Cell signaling pathways play key roles in coordinating cellular events in development. The Notch signaling pathway is highly conserved across all multicellular animals and is known to coordinate a multitude of diverse cellular events, including pr...

Title: Addressing media literacy in K-12 classrooms
Author: Ramsey, L. Heather
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Education, Elementary, Education, Secondary
Description: A study of K-12 core content area teachers’ experiences teaching digital citizenship found that 80% (n=9) addressed topics of media literacy in their classrooms. The study looked at how teachers integrated media literacy topics into instruction, a...

Title: Ajuga turkestanica increases Notch and Wnt signaling in aged skeletal muscle
Author: Arthur, Susan, Howden, Reuben, Zwetsloot, Kevin, Shanely, Andrew
Subjects--Topical: Musculoskeletal system, Cells
Description: Abstract. – BACKGROUND: The declining myogenic potential of aged skeletal muscle is multifactorial. Insufficient satellite cell activity is one factor in this process. Notch andWnt signaling are involved in various biological processes including o...

Title: Alluring translations after the Spanish-American War : a case study of the Puerto-Rico Eagle
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey)
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Translating and interpreting, Newspapers
Description: This article presents a case study of a Spanish-language newspaper, The Puerto-Rico Eagle, published in Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War in order to identify the various ways in which the practice of translation manifests and to what end...

Title: American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Evolution, Philosophy
Description: This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...

Title: An all optical approach for comprehensive in-operando analysis of radiative and nonradiative recombination processes in GaAs double heterostructures
Author: Zhang, Y. (Yong), 1960-, Zhang, Fan, Castaneda, Jose, Gfroerer, Timothy, Friedman, Daniel, Zhang, Yong-Hang, Wanlass, Mark W.
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Photoluminescence
Description: We demonstrate an all optical approach that can surprisingly offer the possibility of yielding much more information than one would expect, pertinent to the carrier recombination dynamics via both radiative and nonradiative processes when only one...

Title: An appreciation and discussion of Paul Germain's "The method of virtual power in the mechanics of continuous media I : Second-gradient theory"
Author: Smelser, Ronald, Epstein, Marcelo
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Continuum mechanics, Mechanics
Description: Paul Germain’s 1973 article on the method of virtual power in continuum mechanics has had an enormous impact on the modern development of the discipline. In this article we examine the historical context of the ideas it contains and discuss their ...

Title: An examination of Twitter data to identify risky sexual practices among youth and young adults in Botswana
Author: Cornelius, Judith, Kennedy, Anna, Wesslan, Ryan
Subjects--Topical: Twitter (Firm), Sex, Youth
Description: Botswana has the third highest rate of HIV infection, as well as one of the highest mobile phone density rates in the world. The rate of mobile cell phone adoption has increased three-fold over the past 10 years. Due to HIV infection rates, youth ...

Title: An exploratory study of digital inequities and work in the redevelopment of a southeastern American city
Author: Crocker, Tianca, Whitlow, Clysha, Cooper, Haley, Patrick, Claire, Padilla, Avangelyne, Jammal, Mia, Ince, Rebecca
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Labor market, Labor market--Social aspects, Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social--Economic aspects
Description: Nearly 6 million workers support the multi-billion-dollar digital economy as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. labor market. Middle-skill jobs in the digital economy sector that pay higher wages and do not require a bachelor’s degree ...

Title: An updated synthesis of and outstanding questions in the olfactory and vomeronasal systems in bats : genetics asks questions only anatomy can answer
Author: Yohe, Laurel R., Krell, Nicholas T.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Bats, Ecology
Description: The extensive diversity observed in bat nasal chemosensory systems has been well-documented at the histological level. Understanding how this diversity evolved and developing hypotheses as to why particular patterns exist require a phylogenetic pe...

Title: Analysis of pollen-specific alternative splicing in Arabidopsis thaliana via semi-quantitative PCR
Author: Loraine, Ann, Estrada, April, Freese, Nowlan H., Blakley, Ivory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Pollen, Nucleic acids
Description: Alternative splicing enables a single gene to produce multiple mRNA isoforms by varying splice site selection. In animals, alternative splicing of mRNA isoforms between cell types is widespread and supports cellular differentiation. In plants, at ...

Title: Analytical modeling framework for performance degradation of PEM fuel cells during startup-shutdown cycles
Author: Xu, Jun, Yin, Sha, Li, Yunqi, Chen, Xiran
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fuel cells
Description: Startup-shutdown cycling is one of the main factors that contribute to fuel cell deterioration related to high cathode potential. In this study, a coupled model with the carbon corrosion model and agglomerate model of the cathode catalyst layer is...

Title: Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources : the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future
Author: Loraine, Ann, Doherty, Colleen, Friesner, Joanna, Gregory, Brian
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Arabidopsis thaliana
Description: Effective research, education, and outreach efforts by the Arabidopsis thaliana community, as well as other scientific communities that depend on Arabidopsis resources, depend vitally on easily available and publicly-shared resources. These resour...