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Title: Influence of lightweight aggregate concrete materials on building energy performance
Author: Cavalline, Tara L., Gallegos, Jorge, Castrodale, Reid W., Freeman, Charles
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture and energy conservation, Buildings--Energy conservation
Description: Due to their porous nature, lightweight aggregates have been shown to exhibit thermal properties that are advantageous when used in building materials such as lightweight concrete, grout, mortar, and concrete masonry units. Limited data exist on t...

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: Kids these days won't answer the phone : generations in context
Author: Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Conflict of generations
Description: Presented at Diversity Day at UNC Charlotte, February 28, 2019 This poster aims to reduce generational stereotypes through considering other factors such as age, the economy, technology and events and how to situation yourself within a diverse ran...

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: Many rice genes are differentially spliced between roots and shoots but cytokinin has minimal effect on splicing
Author: Loraine, Ann, Freese, Nowlan H., Estrada, April, Blakley, Ivory
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression
Description: Alternatively spliced genes produce multiple spliced isoforms, called transcript variants. In differential alternative splicing, transcript variant abundance differs across sample types. Differential alternative splicing is common in animal system...

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...

Title: Millennials will one day be eighty: generations in humor and context
Author: Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Conflict of generations, Sociology, Humor, Library science
Description: Presented at the IDEAL Conference in Columbus, Ohio. August 2019. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Libraries and Archives Most generational workshops make an honest attempt at trying to understand unique experiences through divers...

Title: Mobile phone, social media usage, and perceptions of delivering a social media safer sex intervention for adolescents : results from two countries
Author: Cornelius, Judith, Whitaker-Brown, Charlene, Neely, Tamara, Kennedy, Anna, Okoro, Florence
Subjects--Topical: Social media, Cell phones, Teenagers
Description: Purpose: Rates of sexually transmitted infections among adolescents remain high in the United States and Botswana. Mobile phone density rates in Botswana exceed those of the United States. Yet, in both countries, safer sex information continues to...

Title: Modeling Plasmodium falciparum diagnostic test sensitivity using machine learning with histidine-rich protein 2 variants
Author: Ford, Colby, Janies, Daniel, Alemayehu, Gezahegn, Lo, Eugenia, Blackburn, Kayla, Lopez, Karen, Dieng, Cheikh Cambel, Golassa, Lemu
Subjects--Topical: Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum
Description: Malaria, predominantly caused by Plasmodium falciparum, poses one of largest and most durable health threats in the world. Previously, simplistic regression-based models have been created to characterize malaria rapid diagnostic test performance, ...

Title: Modeling coding intensity of procedures in a U.S. population-based hip/knee arthroplasty inpatient cohort adjusting for patient- and facility-level characteristics
Author: Gunn, Laura, Rios, Nancy, Oldiges, Paige, Lizano, Marcela, Martin, John, Korvink, Michael, Doucet Wadford, Danielle S., Quick, David L.
Subjects--Topical: Arthroplasty, Diagnosis, Medical care
Description: Variations in procedure coding intensity, defined as excess coding of procedures versus industry (instead of clinical) standards, can result in differentials in quality of care for patients and have additional implications for facilities and payor...

Title: Multiple-stage structure transformation of organic-inorganic hybrid Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3
Author: Zhang, Y. (Yong), 1960-, Chen, Qiong, Kim, Hui-Seon, Liu, Yucheng, Yang, Mengjin, Yue, Naili, Ren, Gang, Zhu, Kai, Lu, Shengzhong, Park, Nam-Gyu
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Perovskite
Description: By performing spatially resolved Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy with varying excitation wavelength, density, and data acquisition parameters, we achieve a unified understanding towards the spectroscopy signatures of the organic-inorganic...

Title: Neighborhood disadvantage and the sales of unhealthy products : alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy snack food
Author: Wallace, Lauren A., Paul, Rajib, Gholizadeh, Shafie, Zadrozny, Wlodek, Webster, Caitlan, Mayfield, Melanie, Racine, Elizabeth
Subjects--Topical: Chronic diseases, Neighborhoods--Economic aspects
Description: Background: Individuals may use unhealthy coping mechanisms such as alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy snack consumption. The purpose of this study was to assess how neighborhood disadvantage is associated with sales of alcohol, tobacco, and unhealth...

Title: New perspectives on SNARE function in the yeast minimal endomembrane system
Author: Chi, Richard J., Grissom, James H., Segarra, Veronica A.
Subjects--Topical: Endocytosis, Cells
Description: Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the best model organisms for the study of endocytic membrane trafficking. While studies in mammalian cells have characterized the temporal and morphological features of the endocytic pathway, studies in budding y...

Title: Notch inhibition via GSI treatment elevates protein synthesis in C2C12 myotubes
Author: Arthur, Susan, Huot, Joshua, Marino, Joseph S., Turner, Michael
Subjects--Topical: Proteins--Synthesis, Muscle proteins
Description: The role of Notch signaling is widely studied in skeletal muscle regeneration but little is known about its influences on muscle protein synthesis (MPS). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Notch signaling is involved in the regul...