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Title: Breaking down barriers for student parents and caregivers with family friendly library spaces
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper, Sprague, Lindsey
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, College student parents
Description: In 2016, J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte opened a reservable study room specifically for student parents and caregivers. Student parents comprise 25.6% of the total student population and this study room c...

Title: Breaking the data value-privacy paradox in mobile mental health systems through user-centered privacy protection : a web-based survey study
Author: Zhang, Dongsong, Lim, Jaewan, Zhou, Lina, Dahl, Alicia A.
Subjects--Topical: Mobile apps, Mental health, Privacy
Description: Background: Mobile mental health systems (MMHS) have been increasingly developed and deployed in support of monitoring, management, and intervention with regard to patients with mental disorders. However, many of these systems rely on patient data...

Title: Brief report : synthetic cannabinoid use among military personnel
Author: Stogner, John, Santangelo, Orion, Baldwin, Julie Marie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Soldiers, Marijuana
Description: Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) may function as a marijuana alternative for soldiers subject to frequent drug screens, yet no study has interviewed past military users of SCs. While members of the military experimented with SCs, habitual use of SCs w...

Title: Bring your own born-digital (BYOBD) ingesting digital media when you don't have a budget
Author: Cline, Tyler
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Floppy disks
Description: When tackling born-digital records on older media, it is often necessary to utilize period hardware for transfer. This hardware is often obsolete and cannot be sourced through large centralized procurement processes at some Universities. Sometimes...

Title: Broccoli fluorets : split aptamers as a user-friendly fluorescent toolkit for dynamic RNA nanotechnology
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: RNA aptamers selected to bind fluorophores and activate their fluorescence offer a simple and modular way to visualize native RNAs in cells. Split aptamers which are inactive until the halves are brought within close proximity can become useful fo...

Title: Building a brand and telling a story in perpetual crisis : launching a sustainable archives marketing strategy
Author: Cline, Tyler, Marcusse, Molly E.
Subjects--Topical: Marketing, Archives, Education, Higher, Mass media--Social aspects, Social media
Description: The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming began serious efforts to launch a marketing strategy in 2016, just as the University was hard-hit by a significant funding deficit. The marketing committee was tasked with modernizing and l...

Title: Building blocks of infusion inclusion study guide
Author: Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning, Diversity in higher education, Education, Higher
Description: The Building Blocks of Infusion Inclusion Study Guide is a tool for course development in order to provide faculty, instructors, and professors in higher education a way to improve their curriculum by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI...

Title: CO2-plant effects do not account for the gap between dryness indices and projected dryness impacts in CMIP6 or CMIP5
Author: Scheff, Jacob, Mankin, Justin S., Coats, Sloan, Liu, Haibo
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: Recent studies have found that terrestrial dryness indices like the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), and Aridity Index calculated from future climate model projections are mostly neg...

Title: COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
Subjects--Topical: Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
Description: This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...

Title: Calculating ensemble averaged descriptions of protein rigidity without sampling
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Gonzalez, Luis C., Wang, Hui, Livesay, Dennis R.
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Proteins
Description: Previous works have demonstrated that protein rigidity is related to thermodynamic stability, especially under conditions that favor formation of native structure. Mechanical network rigidity properties of a single conformation are efficiently cal...

Title: Can we chat privately? : how information seeking anxiety increases privacy concerns with live chat
Author: Moore, Jon, Sanders, Bridgette T., Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2023, 2023, 2023
Subjects--Topical: Reference services (Libraries), Data privacy, Library anxiety

Title: Care in management : a review and justification of an organizational value
Author: Arnold, Denis G., Ross, Roxanne L.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Business ethics, Professional ethics
Description: Care has increasingly been promoted as an element of successful management practice. However, an ethic of care is a normative theory that was initially developed in reference to intimate relationships, and it is unclear if it is an appropriate nor...

Title: Cell cycle arrest in G2/M phase enhances replication of interferon-sensitive cytoplasmic RNA viruses via inhibition of antiviral gene expression
Author: Grdzelishvili, Valery, Bressy, Christian, Droby, Gaith N., Maldonado, Bryant D., Steuerwald, Nury
Subjects--Topical: Cancer, Viruses
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) (a rhabdovirus) and its variant VSV-ΔM51 are widely used model systems to study mechanisms of virus-host interactions. Here, we investigated how the cell cycle affects replication of these viruses using an array of...

Title: Cell-specific cis-natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in the sperm and the pollen vegetative cells of Arabidopsis thaliana
Author: Loraine, Ann, Qin, Peng, McCormick, Sheila
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Pollen
Description: Background: cis-NATs (cis-natural antisense transcripts ) are transcribed from opposite strands of adjacent genes and have been shown to regulate gene expression by generating small RNAs from the overlapping region. cis-NATs are important for plan...

Title: Cellular bioreactivity of micro- and nano-plastic particles in oysters
Author: Gaspar, Tamara R., Chi, Richard J., Parrow, Matthew W., Ringwood, Amy H.
Subjects--Topical: Plastics, Nanoparticles
Description: The global usage of plastics has increased dramatically over the last several decades. Polystyrene (PS) is the fourth most common plastic material produced annually due to its many versatile applications. Consequently, there has been a coinciding ...

Title: Change in lipofectamine carrier as a tool to fine-tune immunostimulation of nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Newton, Hannah S., Xu, Jie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) require a carrier to allow for their intracellular delivery to immune cells. Cytokine production, specifically type I and III interferons, allows for reliable monitoring of the carrier effect on NANP immunostimul...

Title: Changes in Lysozyme flexibility upon mutation are frequent, large and long-ranged
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Verma, Deeptak, Livesay, Dennis R.
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Statistics
Description: We investigate changes in human c-type lysozyme flexibility upon mutation via a Distance Constraint Model, which gives a statistical mechanical treatment of network rigidity. Specifically, two dynamical metrics are tracked. Changes in flexibility ...

Title: Changing of the genomic pattern of Salmonella enteritidis strains isolated in Brazil over a 48 year-period revealed by whole genome SNP analyses
Author: Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Salmonella
Description: Salmonella Enteritidis became the main serovar isolated from gastroenteritis cases in Brazil after the 90's. In this study we used whole genome sequence analysis to determine the phylogenetic relationships among a collection of strains isolated in...

Title: Changing “I” : autoethnography and the reflexive self
Author: Merriweather, Lisa
Subjects--Topical: Mentoring in education, Education, Higher
Description: So much to learn, how will I ever learn it all? As a newly appointed assistant professor, this was a popular refrain. Writing a course syllabus, managing time in the classroom space, acquiring new vocabulary to include words such as faculty govern...

Title: Characterization of cationic bolaamphiphile vesicles for sirna delivery into tumors and brain
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Kim, Taejin, Gupta, Kshitij
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are potential therapeutic substances due to their gene silencing capability as exemplified by the recent approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the first siRNA therapeutic agent (patisiran). Howeve...