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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: 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: 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: Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Author: Dobbs, Olivia, Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Nineteenth century, Women in education
Description: During the late nineteenth century, British women received better education, especially at the university level. In particular, the University of Cambridge opened two women’s colleges, Girton College in 1869 and Newnham College in 1871. The establ...

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: Challenges and opportunities for heritage language learners in interpreting courses in the U.S. context
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey), Gasca-Jiménez, Laura
Subjects--Topical: Language and languages, Translating and interpreting, Heritage language speakers
Description: Recent studies indicate that heritage language speakers have professional opportunities in translation and interpreting (e.g., Carreira, 2014a) because of their unique linguistic and cultural background. In addition, heritage language speakers’ un...

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 (...

Title: Combining oncolytic virotherapy with p53 tumor suppressor gene therapy
Author: Grdzelishvili, Valery, Bressy, Christian, Hastie, Eric Lawrence
Subjects--Topical: Cancer, Gene therapy
Description: Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy utilizes replication-competent viruses to kill cancer cells, leaving non-malignant cells unharmed. With the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved OV, dozens of clinical trials ongoing, and an abundance of tr...

Title: Community and the built environment : the physical and social consequences of gentrification in Charlotte’s Lockwood
Author: Frederick, Quinton, Peterson, Nicole
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Community development, Oral history, North Carolina--Charlotte
Description: This project examined the interactions between community relationships and physical space in Charlotte’s Lockwood neighborhood. Property values in Lockwood are growing at one of the fastest rates in the country and show no signs of stopping. This ...

Title: Comparative phylogenetic studies on Schistosoma japonicum and its snail intermediate host Oncomelania hupensis : origins, dispersal and coevolution
Author: Attwood, Stephen W., Ibaraki, Motomu, Saitoh, Yasuhide, Janies, Daniel
Subjects--Topical: Parasites, Coevolution, Public health
Description: Schistosoma japonicum causes major public health problems in China and the Philippines; this parasite, which is transmitted by freshwater snails of the species Oncomelania hupen- sis, causes the disease intestinal schistosomiasis in humans and cat...

Title: Computational assessment of magnetic nanoparticle targeting efficiency in a simplified Circle of Willis arterial model
Author: Hewlin, Rodward L., Jr., Tindall, Joseph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Cardiovascular system--Diseases, Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Treatment
Description: This paper presents the methodology and computational results of simulated medical drug targeting (MDT) via induced magnetism intended for administering intravenous patient-specific doses of therapeutic agents in a Circle of Willis (CoW) model. Th...

Title: Computational design analysis of a hydrokinetic horizontal parallel stream direct drive counter-rotating Darrieus turbine system : a phase one design analysis study
Author: Hewlin, Rodward L., Jr., Crooks, John M., Williams, Wesley
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computational fluid dynamics, Renewable energy sources
Description: This paper introduces a phase one computational design analysis study of a hydrokinetic horizontal parallel stream direct-drive (no gear box) counter-rotating Darrieus turbine system. This system consists of two Darrieus rotors that are arranged i...

Title: Continuous flow separation of red blood cells and platelets in a y-microfluidic channel device with saw-tooth profile electrodes via low voltage dielectrophoresis
Author: Hewlin, Rodward L., Jr., Edwards, Maegan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Cell separation, Dielectrophoresis
Description: Cell counting and sorting is a vital step in the purification process within the area of biomedical research. It has been widely reported and accepted that the use of hydrodynamic focusing in conjunction with the application of a dielectrophoretic...

Title: Contrastive learning‑based pretraining improves representation and transferability of diabetic retinopathy classification models
Author: Alam, Minhaj Nur, Yamashita, Rikiya, Ramesh, Vignav, Prabhune, Tejas, Lim, Jennifer I., Chan, R. V. P., Hallak, Joelle, Leng, Theodore, Rubin, Daniel
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Diabetic retinopathy, Diabetes
Description: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of vision impairment in diabetic patients worldwide. Due to its prevalence, early clinical diagnosis is essential to improve treatment management of DR patients. Despite recent demonstration of successful...

Title: Conversations that matter : engaging library employees in DEI and cultural humility reflection
Author: Lampkowski, Christin, Truesdale, Angel, Looby, Kimberly, Moore, Abby
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Multiculturalism, Cultural competence, Career development
Description: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs Subcommittee of the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Committee at the Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) formed in 2019 and created a series of DEI-theme...

Title: County-level socioeconomic status adjustment of acute myocardial infarction mortality hospital performance measure in the U.S.
Author: Gunn, Laura, Daley, Sean, Kajendrakumar, Bakthameera, Nandhakumar, Samyuktha, Personett, Christine, Sholes, Michael, Thapa, Swornim, Xue, Chen, Korvink, Michael
Subjects--Topical: Myocardial infarction, Hospital care
Description: The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) Hospital Compare (HC) data provides a collection of risk-adjusted hospital performance metrics intended to allow comparison of hospital-provided care. However, CMS does not adjust for so...

Title: Creating an online scientific art exhibit formatted for people with a visual impairment
Author: Sorrell, Melanie, Norton, Derek R., McAdams, Jeff, Winterling, Rachael, Dipple, Kathleen
Subjects--Topical: People with visual disabilities, Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities, Academic libraries
Description: An online exhibit accessible by people with a visual impairment was created to accompany a university library’s physical exhibit of microscopic images generated by researchers on campus as “scientific art.” This online exhibit consisted of a Web p...