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Title: Charles Goodsell : a weaver of the tapestry of public administration
Author: Barth, Thomas J.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Public administration, Biographies
Description: Our society has the habit of writing about exemplars after they are no longer with us; this is certainly important and beneficial but misses the opportunity to engage them in a personal reflection on their lives and the contributions/lessons they ...

Title: Chemoenzymatic preparation of a Campylobacter jejuni lipid-linked heptasaccharide on an azide-linked polyisoprenoid
Author: Reid, Amanda J., Erickson, Katelyn M., Hazel, Joseph M., Troutman, Jerry M.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Carbohydrates
Description: Complex poly- and oligosaccharides on the surface of bacteria provide a unique fingerprint to different strains of pathogenic and symbiotic microbes that could be exploited for therapeutics or sensors selective for specific glycans. To discover re...

Title: Childhood ADHD, going beyond the brain : a meta-analysis on peripheral physiological markers of the heart and the gut
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Payen, Ameante, Chen, Michelle J., Carter, T. Grace, Kilmer, Ryan P.
Subjects--Topical: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Children
Description: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed in children. Questions regarding its increased diagnostic rates and pharmacological treatments in developing children have led to a more holis...

Title: Client/provider relationship: Library as client and art students as provider
Author: Rinalducci, Jenna
Subjects--Topical: Art, Correspondence schools and courses, Arts, Teaching, Academic libraries, Mural painting and decoration
Description: What started as a discussion about how to bring more art into the library developed into a valuable collaboration with faculty and students that brought murals into the architecture library. The arts and architecture librarian reached out to one o...

Title: Closed-form solution for a cantilevered sectorial plate subjected to a tip concentrated force
Author: Smelser, Ronald E., Christy, Carl W., Weggel, David C.
Subjects--Topical: Bending moment, Plates (Engineering)--Mathematical models
Description: A closed-form solution is presented for a cantilevered sectorial plate subjected to a tip concentrated force. Since the particular solution for this problem was not found in the literature, it is derived here. Deflections from the total solution (...

Title: Cognitive behavior during consecutive interpreting : describing the notetaking process
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey)
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Translating and interpreting, Note-taking
Description: Digital pen technologies have enabled new forms of interpreting and provided new ways to train interpreting students in consecutive interpreting; however, digital pens also provide an opportunity to collect interpreting process data that can serve...

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: Community and the built environment : the physical and social consequences of gentrification in Charlotte’s Lockwood
Author: Frederick, Quinton, Peterson, Nicole
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Community development, Oral history, North Carolina--Charlotte
Description: This project examined the interactions between community relationships and physical space in Charlotte’s Lockwood neighborhood. Property values in Lockwood are growing at one of the fastest rates in the country and show no signs of stopping. This ...

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: ComparePD : improving protein–DNA complex model comparison with hydrogen bond energy-based metrics
Author: Guo, Jun-tao, Malik, Fareeha Kanwal
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: DNA, Nucleic acids
Description: Computational modeling of protein–DNA complex structures has important implications in biomedical applications such as structure-based, computer aided drug design. A key step in developing methods for accurate modeling of protein–DNA complexes is ...

Title: Comprehensive battery safety risk evaluation : aged cells versus fresh cells upon mechanical abusive triggering
Author: Xu, Jun, Ma, Lin, Gao, Xiang, Jia, Yikai
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Materials, Lithium ion batteries
Description: Despite their wide applications, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been struggling with their safety risks arising from different lifetime stages. Here, the NCMA pouch cell is taken as an example, and the safety of both fresh and aged cells from t...

Title: Comprehensive characterization of the Hsp70 interactome reveals novel client proteins and interactions mediated by posttranslational modifications
Author: Truman, Andrew, Zheng, Bo, Omkar, Siddhi, Takakuwa, Jade E.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Proteins, Molecular biology
Description: Hsp70 interactions are critical for cellular viability and the response to stress. Previous attempts to characterize Hsp70 interactions have been limited by their transient nature and the inability of current technologies to distinguish direct ver...

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: Computer-assisted interpreting technologies and interpreter cognition : a product and process-oriented perspective
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey)
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Translating and interpreting, Translating services
Description: Research on technology-enabled and technology-mediated interpreting to date has taken a largely product-oriented approach to understand the role of technology during interpreting. In response to calls for additional empirical research on the inter...

Title: Conformational entropy of an ideal cross-linking polymer chain
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Vorov, Oleg, Livesay, Dennis R.
Date Created: 2008
Subjects--Topical: Proteins, Entropy
Description: We present a novel analytical method to calculate conformational entropy of ideal cross-linking polymers from the configuration integral by employing a Mayer series expansion. Mayer-functions describing chemical bonds within the chain and for cros...

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: Content and sentiment surveillance (CSI) : A critical component for modeling modern epidemics
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Zhang, Dongsong
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Comprehensive surveillance systems are the key to provide accurate data for effective modeling. Traditional symptom-based case surveillance has been joined with recent genomic, serologic, and environment surveillance to provide more integrated dis...

Title: Contextualizing the experiences of Black pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic : ‘It’s been a lonely ride’
Author: Dahl, Alicia A., Yada, Farida N., Butts, Shanika Jerger, Tolley, Annalise, Hirsch, Sophie, Lalgondar, Priyanka, Wilson, Kala S.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Maternal health services, COVID-19 (Disease), Women, Black
Description: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed the prenatal care experience, specifically regarding medical appointments and social opportunities. It is critical to capture this change through the narratives of pregnant people, parti...