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Title: Collaborative blogging : a sustainable professional development and networking tool
Author: Truesdale, Angel, Lovas, Nancy, Krstevska, Summer
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Business librarians, Career development, Blogs
Description: Three academic librarians, from three institutions, blog together to share their perspectives on the inspiration and challenges they face as business specialists. Through peer collaboration and reflective blogging they are learning and expanding t...

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: Commonality of functional annotation : a method for prioritization of candidate genes from genome-wide linkage studies
Author: Loraine, Ann, Shriner, Daniel, Baye, Tesfaye M., Padilla, Miguel A.
Date Created: 2008
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Alzheimer's disease
Description: Linkage studies of complex traits frequently yield multiple linkage regions covering hundreds of genes. Testing each candidate gene from every region is prohibitively expensive and computational methods that simplify this process would benefit gen...

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: Comparing stress between elementary teachers in the United States and Germany
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ullrich, Annette, Christopher J. McCarthy
Subjects--Topical: Elementary school teachers, Burn out (Psychology)
Description: Transactional models of stress posit that perceptions of both resources and demands determine whether stress will be experienced. To test this model cross-nationally, previous research examining the relationship of elementary teachers‟ experience,...

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: Consistency analysis of redundant probe sets on Affymetrix three-prime expression arrays and applications to differential mRNA processing
Author: Loraine, Ann, Cui, Xiangqin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Nucleic acids
Description: Affymetrix three-prime expression microarrays contain thousands of redundant probe sets that interrogate different regions of the same gene. Differential expression analysis methods rarely consider probe redundancy, which can lead to inaccurate in...

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...

Title: Culturally appropriate peer-led behavior support program for African Americans with type 2 diabetes
Author: Okoro, Florence, Veri, Shelby, Davis, Valencia
Subjects--Topical: Non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Medical care
Description: Current literature poorly defines the specific ways trained peer supporter influences health care behaviors. This study attempts to identify the key defining features of a culturally appropriate peer support program for African Americans with type...

Title: Culture of collaborative creation
Author: McAdams, Jeff, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Internet videoconferencing, Academic libraries
Description: An unexpected discovery of the pandemic was a new working style that proved more generative than previous in-person collaboration. Using Zoom to facilitate synchronous coworking sessions on volunteer projects led to fruitful results. People from d...

Title: Current perspectives of telomerase structure and function in eukaryotes with emerging views on telomerase in human parasites
Author: Chakrabarti, Kausik, Dey, Abhishek
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Evolution (Biology)
Description: Replicative capacity of a cell is strongly correlated with telomere length regulation. Aberrant lengthening or reduction in the length of telomeres can lead to health anomalies, such as cancer or premature aging. Telomerase is a master regulator f...

Title: Cytosolic DNA sensors and CNS responses to viral pathogens
Author: Marriott, Ian, Jeffries, Austin
Subjects--Topical: DNA, Virus diseases
Description: Viral central nervous system (CNS) infections can lead to life threatening encephalitis and long-term neurological deficits in survivors. Resident CNS cell types, such as astrocytes and microglia, are known to produce key inflammatory and antivira...

Title: Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Hohl, Alexander, Desjardins, Michael R., Lan, Yu
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China. The virus may cause novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in symptomatic in- dividuals. Since December of 2019, there have...

Title: Decomposing dynamical couplings in mutated scFv antibody fragments into stabilizing and destabilizing effects
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Ramaprasad, Azhagiya Singam Ettayapuram, Uddin, Shahid, Casas-Finet, Jose
Subjects--Topical: Amino acid sequence, Immunoglobulins
Description: Conformational fluctuations within scFv antibodies are characterized by a novel perturbation-response decomposition of molecular dynamics trajectories. Both perturbation and response profiles are stratified into stabilizing and destabilizing condi...

Title: Decoupling behavioral and transcriptional responses to color in an eyeless cnidarian
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Leach, Whitney
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Circadian rhythms
Description: Background Animals have specific molecular, physiological, and behavioral responses to light that are influenced by wavelength and intensity. Predictable environmental changes – predominantly solar and lunar cycles – drive endogenous daily oscilla...

Title: Differences in teacher background and school structure by racial/ethnic congruence between teachers and students
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: This investigation is a subset of a larger study (Fitchett et al., 2020; Lambert et al., 2020; McCarthy et al., 2020) of the relationship between a teacher’s racial / ethnic congruence with the students in their school and occupational stress. Pri...

Title: Differences in teacher background and school structure by racial/ethnic congruence between teachers and students
Author: Lambert, Richard, Fitchett, Paul
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Differences in personal characteristics, professional qualifications, and contextual factors for congruent and incongruent Black, Hispanic, and White teachers were investigated using data from the National Teacher and Principal Survey (nteachers=2...