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Title: Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums
Author: Piatak, Jaclyn, Olivares, Alexandra, Mohr, Zachary
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Art museums, Social integration
Description: While art should be for everyone, public institutions like museums are not always inclusive to all members of society. Arts participation varies by sociodemographic characteristics despite the numerous benefits of the arts. To date, much of the re...

Title: Aretino Jesuited : an English translation of the Sette Salmi in seventeenth-century Douai
Author: Keener, Andrew S.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: European literature--Renaissance, Renaissance
Description: This article offers the first focused analysis of John Hawkins's 1635 English rendering of Pietro Aretino's Parafrasi sopra i sette salmi della penitenza di David, situating the translation within its Catholic and translingual context. Nearly a ce...

Title: Artificial immune cell, AI-cell, a new tool to predict interferon production by peripheral blood monocytes in response to nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Nucleic acid nanoparticles, or NANPs, rationally designed to communicate with the human immune system, can offer innovative therapeutic strategies to overcome the limitations of traditional nucleic acid therapies. Each set of NANPs is unique in th...

Title: Artivism, virtual workshops, and the pandemic
Author: Bennett, Adreonna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Social justice, Photography, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Academic libraries, Internet videoconferencing
Description: I was hired as a Community Engagement Archivist in the Special Collections and University Archives unit at J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte in June 2019. Not only was this my first full time library job but it wa...

Title: Assessing guaranteed minimum income benefits and rationality of exercising reset options in variable annuities
Author: Ocejo Monge, Adriana, Jones, Riley F.
Subjects--Topical: Variable annuities, Risk (Insurance)
Description: A variable annuity is an equity-linked financial product typically offered by insurance companies. The policyholder makes an upfront payment to the insurance company and, in return, the insurer is required to make a series of payments starting at ...

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: 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: 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: 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: Authorship agreement
Author: Rasmussen, Lisa M., Holladay-Sandidge, Holly D., Demeter, Elise, Banks, George C., McBride, Andrew
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Authorship, Academic writing
Description: Authorship on a paper, presentation, or other scholarly work indicates a substantial contribution to a project and accountability for the results. Authorship decisions often affect reputations and careers, and they can be a source of tension, even...

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 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: 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: 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: 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...