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Title: Continuous flow separation of red blood cells and platelets in a y-microfluidic channel device with saw-tooth profile electrodes via low voltage dielectrophoresis
Author: Hewlin, Rodward L., Jr., Edwards, Maegan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Cell separation, Dielectrophoresis
Description: Cell counting and sorting is a vital step in the purification process within the area of biomedical research. It has been widely reported and accepted that the use of hydrodynamic focusing in conjunction with the application of a dielectrophoretic...

Title: Contrastive learning‑based pretraining improves representation and transferability of diabetic retinopathy classification models
Author: Alam, Minhaj Nur, Yamashita, Rikiya, Ramesh, Vignav, Prabhune, Tejas, Lim, Jennifer I., Chan, R. V. P., Hallak, Joelle, Leng, Theodore, Rubin, Daniel
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Diabetic retinopathy, Diabetes
Description: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of vision impairment in diabetic patients worldwide. Due to its prevalence, early clinical diagnosis is essential to improve treatment management of DR patients. Despite recent demonstration of successful...

Title: Controlled coherence plasmonic light sources
Author: Gbur, Greg, Smith, Matt
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: Through a computational model, we study the coherence converting capabilities of an array of holes in a surface plasmon-supporting metal plate, with an eye towards the creation of controlled coherence plasmonic light sources. We evaluate how the a...

Title: Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Carrier, Tyler J.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Evolution (Biology), Biology
Description: Morphological plasticity is a genotype-by-environment interaction that enables organisms to increase fitness across varying environments. Symbioses with diverse microbiota may aid in acclimating to this variation, but whether the associated bacter...

Title: Conversations that matter : engaging library employees in DEI and cultural humility reflection
Author: Lampkowski, Christin, Truesdale, Angel, Looby, Kimberly, Moore, Abby
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Multiculturalism, Cultural competence, Career development
Description: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs Subcommittee of the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Committee at the Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) formed in 2019 and created a series of DEI-theme...

Title: County-level socioeconomic status adjustment of acute myocardial infarction mortality hospital performance measure in the U.S.
Author: Gunn, Laura, Daley, Sean, Kajendrakumar, Bakthameera, Nandhakumar, Samyuktha, Personett, Christine, Sholes, Michael, Thapa, Swornim, Xue, Chen, Korvink, Michael
Subjects--Topical: Myocardial infarction, Hospital care
Description: The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) Hospital Compare (HC) data provides a collection of risk-adjusted hospital performance metrics intended to allow comparison of hospital-provided care. However, CMS does not adjust for so...

Title: Creating an online scientific art exhibit formatted for people with a visual impairment
Author: Sorrell, Melanie, Norton, Derek R., McAdams, Jeff, Winterling, Rachael, Dipple, Kathleen
Subjects--Topical: People with visual disabilities, Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities, Academic libraries
Description: An online exhibit accessible by people with a visual impairment was created to accompany a university library’s physical exhibit of microscopic images generated by researchers on campus as “scientific art.” This online exhibit consisted of a Web p...

Title: Creating the executive budget process : what was Congress thinking?
Author: Douglas, James W., Kravchuck, Robert S.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: United States. Congress, United States. Office of Management and Budget
Description: The recent centennial of the 1921 Budget and Accounting Act presents an opportunity to reconsider the importance of the federal executive budget to American political development. Of particular interest is the apparent shift in political authority...

Title: Crisis for the university student : changing student housing and growing cost burden
Author: Wood, Connor, Schuch, Johanna Claire
Subjects--Topical: Student housing, Housing--Costs, Education, Higher
Description: College cost burden and student debt are among the most pressing discussions in contemporary US society. This conversation has largely been focused on changes in tuition and fees. While this is important, over 60% of the college cost at four-year ...

Title: Critical impact of vegetation physiology on thecontinental hydrologic cycle in response toincreasing CO2
Author: Scheff, Jacob
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydro-logic cycle is of utmost importance for a range of applications rang-ing from ecological services to human life and activities. A typical perspective is that hydrologic change is driv...

Title: CuFeO2/Cu photoelectrode modified with SrTiO3 perovskite for efficient hydrogen generation from sanitation water
Author: Abdelazeez, Ahmed A., Rabia, Mohamed, Ahmed, Aya, Ahmed, Ashour M.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Power resources--Research, Perovskite (Mineral)
Description: We prepared a perovskite material, copper-doped strontium titanate (Cu-SrTiO3), using the chemical bath deposition method and cast it on a CuFeO2/Cu photoelectrode to generate hydrogen from sanitation water splitting. This preparation method consi...

Title: Culturally appropriate peer-led behavior support program for African Americans with type 2 diabetes
Author: Okoro, Florence, Veri, Shelby, Davis, Valencia
Subjects--Topical: Non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Medical care
Description: Current literature poorly defines the specific ways trained peer supporter influences health care behaviors. This study attempts to identify the key defining features of a culturally appropriate peer support program for African Americans with type...

Title: Current perspectives of telomerase structure and function in eukaryotes with emerging views on telomerase in human parasites
Author: Chakrabarti, Kausik, Dey, Abhishek
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Evolution (Biology)
Description: Replicative capacity of a cell is strongly correlated with telomere length regulation. Aberrant lengthening or reduction in the length of telomeres can lead to health anomalies, such as cancer or premature aging. Telomerase is a master regulator f...

Title: Cycle of phase, coherence and polarization singularities in Young's three-pinhole experiment
Author: Gbur, Greg, Pang, Xiaoyan, Visser, Taco D.
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: It is now well-established that a variety of singularities can be characterized and observed in optical wavefields. It is also known that these phase singularities, polarization singularities and coherence singularities are physically related, but...

Title: Cytosolic DNA sensors and CNS responses to viral pathogens
Author: Marriott, Ian, Jeffries, Austin
Subjects--Topical: DNA, Virus diseases
Description: Viral central nervous system (CNS) infections can lead to life threatening encephalitis and long-term neurological deficits in survivors. Resident CNS cell types, such as astrocytes and microglia, are known to produce key inflammatory and antivira...

Title: Cytosolic DNA sensors and glial responses to endogenous DNA
Author: Marriott, Ian, Suptela, Alexander J.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, DNA
Description: Genomic instability is a key driving force for the development and progression of many neurodegenerative diseases and central nervous system (CNS) cancers. The initiation of DNA damage responses is a critical step in maintaining genomic integrity ...

Title: DNA extraction method plays a significant role when defining bacterial community composition in the marine invertebrate Echinometra mathaei
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Carrier, Tyler J.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Bacteria, Biology
Description: The microbial assemblages of marine organisms play fundamental biological roles in their eukaryotic hosts. Studies aimed at characterizing this diversity have increased over the last decade and with the availability of high-throughput sequencing, ...

Title: DNA-templated fluorescent silver nanoclusters inhibit bacterial growth while being non-toxic to mammalian cells
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Rolband, Lewis
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Silver has a long history of antibacterial effectiveness. The combination of atomically precise metal nanoclusters with the field of nucleic acid nanotechnology has given rise to DNA-templated silver nanoclusters (DNA-AgNCs) which can be engineere...

Title: Daily cycle in oxygen consumption by the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis Stephenson
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Maas, Amy E., Jones, Ian T.
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Biology
Description: In bilaterian animals, the circadian clock is intimately involved in regulating energetic metabolism. Although cnidarians exhibit diel behavioral rhythms including cycles in locomotor activity, tentacle extension and spawning, daily cycles in cnid...

Title: Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Hohl, Alexander, Desjardins, Michael R., Lan, Yu
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China. The virus may cause novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in symptomatic in- dividuals. Since December of 2019, there have...