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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: Association between the Affordable Care Act and emergency department visits for psychiatric disease
Author: Huet, Yvette, Asgharian, Afsaneh, Neese, Jane B., Thomas, M. Lori
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (United States), Mental health services
Description: Emergency department (ED) utilization for psychiatric disease is increasing, and a lack of health insurance has been identified as a potential cause of preventable or avoidable ED use. Through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more uninsured individu...

Title: Association of sleep attitudes with sleep hygiene, duration, and quality : a survey exploration of the moderating effect of age, gender, race, and perceived socioeconomic status
Author: Ruggiero, Aria, Peach, Hannah D., Gaultney, Jane F.
Subjects--Topical: Sleep, Public health
Description: Objectives: Sleep health is becoming more widely accepted as a possible preventative strategy against chronic disease and negative psychosocial outcomes. It is important to understand whether attitudes towards sleep vary by demographic characteris...

Title: Associations between COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures and human mobility : longitudinal evidence from 86 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Social distancing (Public health), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Recognizing an urgent need to understand the dynamics of the pandemic's severity, this longitudinal study is conducted to explore the evolution of complex relationships between the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures, and social distancing patter...

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: Associations between public fear of COVID-19 and number of COVID-19 vaccinations : a county-level longitudinal analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Guo, Yuqi, Gao, Jingjing
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: A large number of COVID-19 infections and deaths and the ensuing socioeconomic problems created widespread public fear around COVID-19. Fear around COVID-19 greatly influences people's attitudes towards receiving the COVID-19 vaccines. The purpose...

Title: Atkins Library open access publishing whitepaper
Author: Blankemeyer, Bethany, Siler, Elizabeth, Lampkowski, Christin, McAdams, Jeff, Dickson, Kate, Croxton, Rebecca A., Ornat Bitting, 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: Auditory processing difficulties influence on perceptual learning
Author: Fiallo, Katherine M., Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Auditory perception, Perceptual learning
Description: Understanding spoken speech is a complex process that comes to most people easily, yet past research demonstrates that some people face difficulties with auditory processing. Listeners adjust to variations in speech by integrating auditory, visual...

Title: Ball lens-assisted cellphone imaging with submicron resolution
Author: Jin, Boya, Jean, Amstrong R., Maslov, Alexey V., Astratov, Vasily N.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Microscopes, Optical instruments
Description: One of the most significant developments in life sciences—the discovery of bacteria and protists—was accomplished by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in the 17th century using a single ball lens microscope. It is shown that the full potential of single lens...

Title: Best probability density function for random sampled data
Author: Jacobs, Donald J.
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Probabilities
Description: The maximum entropy method is a theoretically sound approach to construct an analytical form for the probability density function (pdf) given a sample of random events. In practice, numerical methods employed to determine the appropriate Lagrange ...

Title: Beyond the knowledge economy : social circus as an intersectional avenue to global aesthetics and universal ethics
Author: Rogden, Krysta, Alterowitz, Gretchen
Subjects--Topical: Art in education, Intersectionality (Sociology)
Description: While the Western world is a post-colonial society that attempts to guarantee an equal opportunity for success to all, objectives to uphold inclusion efforts in the primary education system often undermine the complexities of cultural histories an...

Title: Bioinspired golden spiral shapes on crushing protection behaviors of tubular structures
Author: Xu, Jun, Sherman, John, Zhang, Wen, Waheed, Hamza
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Materials, Engineering design
Description: Advanced structure design for energy absorption is a long-lasting pursuit due to its fascinating scientific merit in mechanics and important engineering application. Curves, a type of mathematical variation in geometry, are widely adopted in the b...

Title: Biomotors, viral assembly, and RNA nanobiotechnology : current achievements and future directions
Author: Robland, Lewis, Beasock, Damian, Afonin, Kirill A., Schlick, Tamar
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Viruses, Nanotechnology
Description: The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...

Title: Biomotors, viral assembly, and rna nanobiotechnology: current achievements and future directions
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Rolband, Lewis
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...

Title: Biopsychosocial contexts influence adult cognitive functioning concurrently and longitudinally
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Payen, Ameante, Bateman, James R., Persin, Michael J.
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Cognition--Age factors, Aging
Description: Background: Cognitive aging is a complex process that impacts human behavior. Identifying the factors that preserve cognitive functioning is a public health priority, given that 20% of the US population will be at least 65 years old in the next de...

Title: Boosting computational effectiveness in big spatial flow data analysis with intelligent data reduction
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Data reduction, Statistics
Description: One of the enduring issues of spatial origin-destination (OD) flow data analysis is the computational inefficiency or even the impossibility to handle large datasets. Despite the recent advancements in high performance computing (HPC) and the read...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Break to build : isothermal assembly of nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) via enzymatic degradation
Author: Beasock, Damian, Ha, Anh, Halman, Justin, Afonin, Kirill A.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Genetics, Peptides
Description: The intrinsic properties of RNA and DNA biopolymers emphasized by engineered nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) offer accelerated development of next-generation therapies. The rational design of NANPs facilitates programmable architectures intende...

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...