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Title: First 3 effectiveness report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
Subjects--Topical: First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology, First year teachers--Supervision of
Description: First 3 is a support program for beginning teachers, who are in their first three years in the teaching career, and undergraduate students. The program completed its third year, and this report summarizes the findings from the reports of 2012, 201...

Title: Forest loss is significantly higher near clustered small dams than single large dams per megawatt of hydroelectricity installed in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Chen, Gang, Nickerson, Samuel, Fearnside, Philip M., Allan, Craig J., Hu, Tongxi, Carvalho, Luis, Zhao, Kaiguang
Subjects--Topical: Forests and forestry, Deforestation, Hydroelectric power plants, Dams, Remote sensing
Description: Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon is a prevalent form of development, but dams have widespread and long-term environmental impacts that include deforestation in the areas surrounding the dams. Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are often perceived as...

Title: Forging the future of a growing institutional repository : leveraging citation databases as a tool for outreach
Author: Lake, Savannah, Regenauer, Steph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Institutional repositories, Open access publishing, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description: Many institutional repositories continue to struggle with low engagement. A combination of factors are often at play, including overburdened faculty, confusion about copyright, lack of awareness, and limited staff resources. Atkins Library at UNC ...

Title: From STM to nanomemory : a transfer of technology feasibility study
Author: Miller, Jimmie A.
Subjects--Topical: Computer software, Mathematics, Computer science
Description: Recent years have seen exponential increase in memory capacity for computer data storage. Increased bit density has been produced by decreasing feature sizes in microelectronic fabrication. As minimum microelectronic feature sizes are realized, ne...

Title: From matriculation to graduation : alignment of library data with university metrics to quantify library value
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Subjects--Topical: Libraries and students, Academic libraries, Longitudinal studies, Prediction of scholastic success
Description: To determine which engagement factors contribute to student success at a large, public, research university in the southeast, the university library, along with representatives from Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and other academic and support...

Title: GSI treatment preserves protein synthesis in C2C12 myotubes
Author: Arthur, Susan, Huot, Joshua, Marino, Joseph S., Thompson, Brian, McMullen, Charlotte
Subjects--Topical: Muscle proteins, Cells
Description: It has been demonstrated that inhibiting Notch signaling through γ-secretase inhibitor (GSI) treatment increases myogenesis, AKT/mTOR signaling, and muscle protein synthesis (MPS) in C2C12 myotubes. The purpose of this study was to determine if GS...

Title: Game design as environmental activism
Author: Brtis, Chelsea
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Video games, Environmental protection, Mass media--Study and teaching, Digital humanities
Description: Video games, like all media, act as a lens into how we as a society perceive our world. Through games we can see the environment being treated as a resource of unlimited consumption, non- reactive to harm, and something to be conquered. Game Desig...

Title: Game design as environmental activism
Author: Brtis, Chelsea
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Video games, Environmental protection, Mass media--Study and teaching, Digital humanities

Title: Game design as environmental activism
Author: Brtis, Chelsea
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Video games, Environmental protection, Mass media--Study and teaching, Digital humanities
Description: Video games, like all media, act as a lens into how we as a society perceive our world. Through games we can see the environment being treated as a resource of unlimited consumption, non- reactive to harm, and something to be conquered. Game Desig...

Title: Genetic architecture of early vigor traits in wild soybean
Author: Song, Bao-Hua, Kofsky, Janice, Zhang, Hengyou
Subjects--Topical: Genetics, Genomics, Soybean
Description: A worldwide food shortage has been projected as a result of the current increase in global population and climate change. In order to provide sufficient food to feed more people, we must develop crops that can produce higher yields. Plant early vi...

Title: Genome-scale cluster analysis of replicated microarrays using shrinkage correlation coefficient
Author: Loraine, Ann, Yao, Jianchao, Chang, Chunqi, Roux, Stanley J.
Date Created: 2008
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Bioinformatics
Description: Background: Currently, clustering with some form of correlation coefficient as the gene similarity metric has become a popular method for profiling genomic data. The Pearson correlation coefficient and the standard deviation (SD)-weighted correlat...

Title: Genomic alterations and abnormal expression of APE2 in multiple cancers
Author: Yan, Shan, Jensen, Katherine A., Shi, Xinghua
Subjects--Topical: Cancer--Genetic aspects, DNA repair
Description: Although APE2 plays essential roles in base excision repair and ATR-Chk1 DNA damage response (DDR) pathways, it remains unknown how the APE2 gene is altered in the human genome and whether APE2 is differentially expressed in cancer patients. Here,...

Title: Genoviz Software Development Kit : Java tool kit for building genomics visualization applications
Author: Loraine, Ann, Helt, Gregg A., Nicol, John W., Erwin, Ed
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Software
Description: Background: Visualization software can expose previously undiscovered patterns in genomic data and advance biological science. Results: The Genoviz Software Development Kit (SDK) is an open source, Java-based framework designed for rapid assembly ...

Title: Growth norms for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Educational evaluation
Description: The Technical Manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (Lambert, Kim, Taylor, and McGee, 2010) contains norm tables for both raw and scale scores for each developmental domain that are based on a cross-sectional research design in...

Title: Guidelines for preparing a research article in APA style-redux
Author: Algozzine, Bob, Spooner, Fred, Lo, Ya-yu, Kemp-Inman, Amy
Subjects--Topical: American Psychological Association, Report writing
Description: In this article, we review key considerations for preparing a manuscript for submission to a journal that uses guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). We describe features of primary sections of a ...

Title: Hall House evaluation study final project
Author: Lambert, Richard, Britt, Heather
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Temporary housing
Description: Hall House, a Charlotte Housing Authority property, was established to provide safe, transitional housing for 100 families of homeless children in Charlotte, NC from December 16, 2008 to June 30, 2009 at 426 N. Tryon St. Hall House was a collabora...

Title: Impact of electrical topology, capacity factor and line length on economic performance of offshore wind investments
Author: Cali, Umit, Kucuksari, Sadik, Erdogan, Nuh
Subjects--Topical: Offshore wind power plants, Electric network topology, Wind power--Economic aspects
Description: In this study, an economic performance assessment of offshore wind investments is investigated through electrical topology, capacity factor and line length. First, annual energy yield production and electrical system losses for AC and DC offshore ...

Title: Implementation of FAST in two digital repositories : breaking silos, unifying subject practices
Author: Nicholson, Joseph, Lake, Savannah
Subjects--Topical: FAST subject headings, Metadata, Academic libraries
Description: This study traces evolving approaches to the use of the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) in digital repositories at Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where changes in staffing, the launch of an insti...

Title: In vivo architecture of the telomerase RNA catalytic core in Trypanosoma brucei
Author: Chakrabarti, Kausik, Dey, Abishek, Klotz, Kaitlin, Davis, Justin, Monroy-Eklund, Anais, Saha, Arpita, Li, Bibo, Laederach, Alain
Subjects--Topical: RNA, Nucleoproteins
Description: Telomerase is a unique ribonucleoprotein (RNP) reverse transcriptase that utilizes its cognate RNA molecule as a template for telomere DNA repeat synthesis. Telomerase contains the reverse transcriptase protein, TERT and the template RNA, TR, as i...

Title: In-person, remote, or hybrid? Planning a conference that works for all
Author: Binder, Amanda, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Career development, Internet videoconferencing, Academic libraries
Description: In April 2022, Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte hosted the Digital Humanities Institute, a conference that brings together digital humanities enthusiasts from across the state of North Carolina to discuss digital pedagogy, digital research methods,...