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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...

Title: Novel biomarkers of resistance of pancreatic cancer cells to oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus
Author: Grdzelishvili, Valery, Hastie, Eric Lawrence, Cataldi, Marcela, Moerdyk-Schauwecker, Megan J., Felt, Sebastien A., Steuerwald, Nury
Subjects--Topical: Cancer, Viruses
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) based recombinant viruses (such as VSV-ΔM51) are effective oncolytic viruses (OVs) against a majority of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines. However, some PDAC cell lines are highly resistant to VSV...

Title: Online mindfulness intervention for inflammatory bowel disease : adherence and efficacy
Author: Johnson, Susan K., Forbes, Leila
Subjects--Topical: Inflammatory bowel diseases, Mindfulness (Psychology)
Description: The impact of stress and other psychological variables on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) prognosis, treatment response, and functional level is well-established; however, typical IBD treatment focuses on the physiological pathology of the diseas...

Title: Optimizing recruitment for qualitative research : a comparison of social media, emails, and offline methods
Author: Gallicano, Tiffany, Sledzieski, Nana, Shaikh, Samira, Levens, Sara
Subjects--Topical: Qualitative research, Social media
Description: Participant recruitment through social media platforms has been suggested as an effective method for sampling from specific populations; however, recent online recruitment attempts have been met with varying levels of success. In the current study...

Title: Perceptions of resilience and coping among gender-diverse individuals using photography
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Schoebel, Victoria, Vercruysse, Chloe
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transgender people, Resilience (Personality trait)
Description: Gender-diverse individuals (those whose gender and/or sex differ from societal expectations, such as trans or genderqueer) face stigma and discrimination, which can translate into negative health outcomes. Resilience describes the process of overc...

Title: Planning and coordinating an exhibit of photomicrographic art by science faculty and students in an academic library
Author: Sorrell, Melanie, Joseph, Kenya, Norton, Derek R., Reichard, Sharon, McAdams, Jeff
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Exhibitions, Universities and colleges--Faculty
Description: In 2015, the J. Murrey Atkins Library recruited faculty, staff, alumni, and students to submit digital images of photomicrographic art, which were printed and placed on exhibit in the library’s main lobby. Visualizing Science: Microscopic Images f...

Title: Population genomic analyses of the sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ across an extreme environmental gradient
Author: Ketchum, Remi, Smith, Edward, DeBiasse, Melissa B., Vaughan, Grace, McParland, Dain, Leach, Whitney, Al-Mansoori, Noura, Ryan, Joseph F., Burt, John A., Reitzel, Adam M.
Subjects--Topical: Sea urchins, Extreme environments, Marine biology
Description: Extreme environmental gradients represent excellent study systems to better understand the variables that mediate patterns of genomic variation between populations. They also allow for more accurate predictions of how future environmental change m...

Title: Postproduction focus groups in dance: a case study and protocol
Author: Huskey, Sybil, Latulipe, Celine
Date Created: 2018
Description: This case study looks at the use of focus groups as a reflective pedagogical tool in a collaborative project at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The study involved the DanceDraw project, a collaboration between choreographers and com...

Title: Power characteristics of planar index-antiguided waveguide lasers with transverse mode competition
Author: Her, Tsing-Hua, Wang, Chaofan, Liu, Yuanye, Casperson, Lee W.
Subjects--Topical: Lasers, Lasers--Resonators
Description: We report comprehensive analysis of output characteristics of homogeneously broadened index-antiguided slab lasers with transverse mode competition. Robust single fundamental mode operation is achieved when the distributive modal loss due to index...

Title: Practice what they preach? : how pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy in culturally relevant teaching practices aligns with their perceptions of diversity
Author: Frayman, Faith, Gilson, Cindy M., Glass, Tehia Starker, FitzPatrick, Erin
Subjects--Topical: Culturally relevant pedagogy, Self-efficacy, Teachers
Description: In this qualitative content analysis, we addressed the following research questions: (a) How do pre-service teachers perceive their self-efficacy in creating and enacting culturally relevant curriculum and a culturally inclusive classroom environm...

Title: Predicting lightning-related outages in power distribution systems : a statistical approach
Author: Chowdhury, Badrul, Doostan, Milad
Subjects--Topical: Machine learning, Electric power distribution--Communication systems, Lightning
Description: This paper presents a novel data-driven approach for predicting lightning-related outages that occur in power distribution systems on a daily basis. In order to develop an approach that is able to successfully fulfill this objective, there are two...

Title: Process mapping as an academic library tool : five steps to improve your workflow
Author: Ornat, Natalie, Moorefield, Renee K.
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Reengineering (Management)
Description: The academic library is a complex organization whose staff executes numerous processes each day to deliver materials and services in a timely manner to patrons. A process where tasks, information, or documents are passed from one participant to th...

Title: Psychological distress is more common in some occupations and increases with job tenure : a thirty-seven year panel study in the United States
Author: Laditka, Sarah B., Laditka, James, Arif, Ahmed A., Adeyemi, Oluwaseun J.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, Job stress
Description: Background Workers in certain occupations may have elevated risks of psychological distress. However, research is limited. For example, researchers often measure distress that may have existed before occupational exposures. We studied occupations ...

Title: Quantifying library engagement : aligning library, institutional, and student success data
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries
Description: To determine which engagement factors correlate with student success at a large, public, research university in the southeastern United States, the university library, along with representatives from Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and other ac...