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Title: Assessing the impact of curriculum on open and transparent research practices
Author: Markant, Doug, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Open scholarship, Education, Higher
Description: Over the past decade, in response to the so-called “replication crisis”, psychology researchers have begun adopting practices that promote openness and transparency. Currently, these emerging best practices are not consistently represented in the ...

Title: Assessment of library instruction for freshmen engineering students
Author: McAdams, Jeff, Croxton, Rebecca A.
Subjects--Topical: Engineering students, Library orientation
Description: This study seeks to assess the impact of the current information literacy instruction program offered by the engineering librarian on freshmen engineering students’ abilities to critically evaluate and select credible and meaningful resources in t...

Title: Associations between hospital quality outcomes and Medicare spending per beneficiary in the USA
Author: Gunn, Laura, Cook, Karyn, Perry, I’sis, Hoke, Christy, Smith, Dana, Peterson, Leanne, Martin, John, Korvink, Michael, Foster, Brent
Subjects--Topical: Medicare, Hospital care
Description: The cost of healthcare in the United States has increased over time. However, patient health outcomes have not trended with spending. There is a need to better comprehend the association between healthcare costs in the United States and hospital q...

Title: Associations between perceived value of exclusive breastfeeding among pregnant women in the United States and exclusive breastfeeding to three and six months postpartum : a prospective study
Author: Racine, Elizabeth, Nnebe-Agumadu, Uche Henrietta, Laditka, Sarah B., Coffman, Maren
Subjects--Topical: Infants--Nutrition, Breastfeeding
Description: Background: Successful breastfeeding often starts with prenatally established intention. Yet, few mothers with the intention to exclusively breastfeed achieve their intended breastfeeding duration goal. This study examined the degree to which havi...

Title: Atkins Library open access publishing whitepaper
Author: Blankemeyer, Bethany, Siler, Elizabeth, Lampkowski, Christin, McAdams, Jeff, Dickson, Kate, Croxton, Rebecca A., Ornat, Natalie
Subjects--Topical: Open access publishing, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description: Written by the Open Access & Scholarly Communications Committee at Atkins Library, the Open Access Publishing whitepaper defines OA publishing, describes ways the university supports OA publishing, and outlines a framework for future progress in t...

Title: Beyond assumptions : using design thinking to build better library employee training
Author: Bess, Marc
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Employees--Training of, Academic libraries
Description: Design thinking is a flexible problem solving process that can be used in a variety of settings. While design thinking may be traditionally associated with fields such as product development, it is increasingly being used as an innovative approach...

Title: Braving our blind spots : using a virtual book discussion group to continue conversations on implicit bias in libraries
Author: Harris, Ryan, Jones, Shannon, Bartley, Kelsa, DeSantis, Melissa, Jason, Don, Rios, Dede
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Diversity in higher education, Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Description: Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the workforce in libraries throughout the United States has been a strategic priority for years, yet statistically the homogeneous nature of library staffs remains the same. Statistics from the America...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 the cytokinin-responsive transcriptome in rice
Author: Loraine, Ann, Raines, Tracy, Blakley, Ivory, Kieber, Joseph J.
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Cytokinins
Description: Background: Cytokinin activates transcriptional cascades important for development and the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Most of what is known regarding cytokinin-regulated gene expression comes from studies of the dicotyledonous plant...

Title: Childhood ADHD, going beyond the brain : a meta-analysis on peripheral physiological markers of the heart and the gut
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Payen, Ameante, Chen, Michelle J., Carter, T. Grace, Kilmer, Ryan P.
Subjects--Topical: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Children
Description: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed in children. Questions regarding its increased diagnostic rates and pharmacological treatments in developing children have led to a more holis...

Title: Client/provider relationship: Library as client and art students as provider
Author: Rinalducci, Jenna
Subjects--Topical: Art, Correspondence schools and courses, Arts, Teaching, Academic libraries, Mural painting and decoration
Description: What started as a discussion about how to bring more art into the library developed into a valuable collaboration with faculty and students that brought murals into the architecture library. The arts and architecture librarian reached out to one o...

Title: Closed-form solution for a cantilevered sectorial plate subjected to a tip concentrated force
Author: Smelser, Ronald E., Christy, Carl W., Weggel, David C.
Subjects--Topical: Bending moment, Plates (Engineering)--Mathematical models
Description: A closed-form solution is presented for a cantilevered sectorial plate subjected to a tip concentrated force. Since the particular solution for this problem was not found in the literature, it is derived here. Deflections from the total solution (...