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Title: Genetic architecture of early vigor traits in wild soybean
Author: Song, Bao-Hua, Kofsky, Janice, Zhang, Hengyou
Subjects--Topical: Genetics, Genomics, Soybean
Description: A worldwide food shortage has been projected as a result of the current increase in global population and climate change. In order to provide sufficient food to feed more people, we must develop crops that can produce higher yields. Plant early vi...

Title: Genomic alterations and abnormal expression of APE2 in multiple cancers
Author: Yan, Shan, Jensen, Katherine A., Shi, Xinghua
Subjects--Topical: Cancer--Genetic aspects, DNA repair
Description: Although APE2 plays essential roles in base excision repair and ATR-Chk1 DNA damage response (DDR) pathways, it remains unknown how the APE2 gene is altered in the human genome and whether APE2 is differentially expressed in cancer patients. Here,...

Title: High fat rodent models of type 2 diabetes : from rodent to human
Author: Stott Bond, Nicole L., Marino, Joseph S.
Subjects--Topical: Non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Metabolism
Description: Poor dietary habits contribute to increased incidences of obesity and related co-morbidities, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). The biological, genetic, and pathological implications of T2D, are commonly investigated using animal models induced by a ...

Title: Image dilution using Harris corner detection and geometric kernels
Author: James, Aiden, Li, Xingjie Helen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Sparse matrices, Matrices
Description: Image files contain large amounts of data. An image is essentially a matrix of values, often represented as RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha) arrays. A large three dimensional matrix with a height and width likely in the hundreds can take long for a ...

Title: Impact of electrical topology, capacity factor and line length on economic performance of offshore wind investments
Author: Cali, Umit, Kucuksari, Sadik, Erdogan, Nuh
Subjects--Topical: Offshore wind power plants, Electric network topology, Wind power--Economic aspects
Description: In this study, an economic performance assessment of offshore wind investments is investigated through electrical topology, capacity factor and line length. First, annual energy yield production and electrical system losses for AC and DC offshore ...

Title: Implementation of FAST in two digital repositories : breaking silos, unifying subject practices
Author: Nicholson, Joseph, Lake, Savannah
Subjects--Topical: FAST subject headings, Metadata, Academic libraries
Description: This study traces evolving approaches to the use of the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) in digital repositories at Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where changes in staffing, the launch of an insti...

Title: Implications and preventions of cyberbullying and social exclusion in social media : systematic review
Author: Ademiluyi, Adesoji, Li, Chuqin, Park, Albert
Subjects--Topical: Social media, Mental health, Cyberbullying
Description: Background: The growth of social networking has created a paradigm in which many forms of personal communication are being replaced by internet communication technologies, such as social media. This has led to social issues, such as cyberbullying....

Title: In fighting common threats, people’s deep commitment to taking collective action matters : examples from China’s COVID‑19 battle and her other combats
Author: Palko, Hannah Catherine, Xiang, Wei-Ning
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: China, Owen Lattimore, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: In fighting against common threats to human survival and well-being, be they from natural disaster or human conflict, people’s commitment to taking collective action matters and can make a huge or even decisive difference. Throughout human history...

Title: In vivo architecture of the telomerase RNA catalytic core in Trypanosoma brucei
Author: Chakrabarti, Kausik, Dey, Abishek, Klotz, Kaitlin, Davis, Justin, Monroy-Eklund, Anais, Saha, Arpita, Li, Bibo, Laederach, Alain
Subjects--Topical: RNA, Nucleoproteins
Description: Telomerase is a unique ribonucleoprotein (RNP) reverse transcriptase that utilizes its cognate RNA molecule as a template for telomere DNA repeat synthesis. Telomerase contains the reverse transcriptase protein, TERT and the template RNA, TR, as i...

Title: Inflammation–nature’s way to efficiently respond to all types of challenges : implications for understanding and managing "the epidemic" of chronic diseases
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Reeves, Glenn, Billman, George E., Sturmberg, Joachim P.
Subjects--Topical: Stress (Psychology)--Health aspects, Clinical medicine, Inflammation, Psychoneuroimmunology, Chronic diseases, Complex adaptive systems
Description: Siloed or singular system approach to disease management is common practice, developing out of traditional medical school education. Textbooks of medicine describe a huge number of discrete diseases, usually in a systematic fashion following headi...

Title: Influence of cationic meso-substituted porphyrins on the antimicrobial photodynamic efficacy and cell membrane interaction in Escherichia coli
Author: Vivero-Escoto, Juan, Hurst, Alexandra N., Scarbrough, Beth, Troutman, Jerry M.
Subjects--Topical: Escherichia coli, Gram-negative bacteria
Description: Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) is a non-antibiotic option for the treatment of infectious diseases. Although Gram-positive bacteria have been shown to be highly susceptible to PDI, the inactivation of Gram-negative bacteria has been more challeng...

Title: Introduction to the special issue on social sustainability : integration, context, and governance
Author: Peterson, Nicole
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability, Environmental policy, Political participation
Description: New research and practice in sustainability proposes an integrated concept whereby “social issues” are indistinguishable and inseparable from economic or environmental issues and vice versa. These approaches are based in experiences with real plac...

Title: Islam and the politics of enchantment
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Secularism, Education
Description: The North American public sphere is suffused with claims and counterclaims about the relationship between Islam and violence. Schools and publishers have responded with training programs for teachers and curriculum units for students introducing t...

Title: Joint power control and routing for rechargeable wireless sensor networks
Author: Nasipuri, Asis, Pal, Amitangshu
Date Created: 2016
Description: Wireless sensor networks (WSN) that are powered by energy harvested from the environment, also known as rechargeable WSNs, typically experience wide variations of energy availability across the network. Such variations can cause frequent node outa...

Title: Leadership alignment : teachers’ and administrators’ perspectives within two schools
Author: Gabriel, Tara, Medina, Adriana L.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: School management and organization, Educational leadership
Description: Many school administrators struggle to find a reliably efficient and effective way of stabilizing academic reform implementation within educational institutions. Questionnaire responses were collected from two administrators and six teachers acros...

Title: Life-cycle cost optimization of a solar combisystem for residential buildings in Nepal
Author: Wang, Weimin, Thapa, Bishan, Williams, Wesley
Subjects--Topical: Solar thermal energy, Dwellings, Nepal, Buildings--Environmental engineering
Description: Current solar thermal systems used in Nepal are mostly for domestic hot water heating. Meanwhile, there is a growing need for space heating. A solar heating system can be configured to provide heat for both space heating and domestic hot water, le...

Title: Low-dose metformin as a monotherapy does not reduce non-small-cell lung cancer tumor burden in mice
Author: Marino, Joseph S., Stott Bond, Nicole L., Dréau, Didier, Marriott, Ian, Bennett, Jeanette M., Turner, Michael J., Arthur, Susan
Subjects--Topical: Lungs--Cancer, Musculoskeletal system
Description: Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) makes up 80–85% of lung cancer diagnoses. Lung cancer patients undergo surgical procedures, chemotherapy, and/or radiation. Chemotherapy and radiation can induce deleterious systemic side effects, particularly wi...

Title: Machine learning of spatial data
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Nikparvar, Behnam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Machine learning, Geospatial data
Description: Properties of spatially explicit data are often ignored or inadequately handled in machine learning for spatial domains of application. At the same time, resources that would identify these properties and investigate their influence and methods to...

Title: Meditation, personality, and workplace stress
Author: Waters, Andrew, Shanock, Linda
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Job stress, Meditation
Description: The prevalence of stress occurs across various levels of the workplace can affect employees at any level of an organization. This study explored the role of meditation frequency on stress reduction in the workplace. Previous research emphasizes th...

Title: Mesoporous silica nanoparticles loaded with cisplatin and phthalocyanine for combination chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy in vitro
Author: Vivero-Escoto, Juan, Elnagheeb, Maram
Subjects--Topical: Chemotherapy, Cancer
Description: Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have been synthesized and loaded with both aluminum chloride phthalocyanine (AlClPc) and cisplatin as combinatorial therapeutics for treating cancer. The structural and photophysical properties of the MSN mat...