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$Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research$

Title: Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research
Author: Eppes, Martha Cary, Berberich, Samantha, Keanini, Russell, Moser, Faye, Morovati, Mehdi, Porson, Steven, Rasmussen, Monica
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Rocks--Fracture, Earth sciences
Description: Rock fractures are a key contributor to a broad array of Earth surface processes due to their direct control on rock strength as well as rock porosity and permeability. However, to date, there has been no standardization for the quantification of ...

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: Lateral leadership in action
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper, Saines, Sherri
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Lateral thinking
Description: Lateral leaders influence, persuade, and elicit constructive contributions from others at all levels of an organization. In this paper, the authors build off their 2021 Brick & Click Conference Proceedings paper and weave in their own perspectives...

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...

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...