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2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Bottoms, Bryndle, Taylor, Bruce
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
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Description
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This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom School Partners’ Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools© program in Charlotte, NC that took place during the summer of 2019. The evaluation was a collaboration between the Center for ...
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2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Author
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Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
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Description
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Freedom School Partners is a six-week, literacy-rich, summer program that has served the Charlotte area since 2004. What began as a group of 100 scholars in one site, is now more than 400 scholars and includes twelve sites (www.freedomschoolpartne...
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2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
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Author
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Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Davis, Tiffany, Krumbine, Tracie, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Perry, Crystal
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, College students, Black, Anti-racism
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Description
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This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of Black students at UNC Charlotte related to the spaces, services, and resources of Atkins Library. The research team for this study was comprised o...
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2023 report on the experiences of neurodivergent students at Atkins Library
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Author
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Moore, Jon, Barbour, Triston
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Neurodiversity
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Description
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This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of students at UNC Charlotte who identify as neurodivergent and/or as having a disorder related to mental health or function, specifically as they re...
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8 reasons researchers should use the GetFTR browser extension
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Author
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Boardman, Erika
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Communication in learning and scholarship
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Description
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What is the problem we’re trying to solve? Researchers are not always able to easily make use of the resources their institution has made available to them. When presented with a plethora of links in a discovery tool, researchers may inadvertently...
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A chromosome-level genome assembly of the highly heterozygous sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ reveals adaptation in the regulatory regions of stress response genes
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Author
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Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Smith, Edward, Davidson, Phillip L.
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Sea urchins, Echinodermata
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Description
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Echinometra is the most widespread genus of sea urchin and has been the focus of a wide range of studies in ecology, speciation, and reproduction. However, available genetic data for this genus are generally limited to a few select loci. Here, we ...
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A comparison of transgenic and wild type soybean seeds : analysis of transcriptome profiles using RNA-Seq
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Author
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Loraine, Ann, Lambirth, Kevin C., Whaley, Adam M., Piller, Kenneth J.
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Gene expression, Biotechnology
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Description
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Background: Soybean (Glycine max) has been bred for thousands of years to produce seeds rich in protein for human and animal consumption, making them an appealing bioreactor for producing valuable recombinant proteins at high levels. However, the ...
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A comparison of web-based and paper-based course evaluations at UNC Charlotte
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Hartshorne, Richard, Algozzine, Bob, McAlpin, Valorie
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Education, Higher
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Description
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Based on extant research, UNC Charlotte should consider the adoption of a university-wide, web-based course evaluation system for both formative and summative evaluations: Ratings Similarity: Web and paper results show students very favorable towa...
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A high-efficiency low-wearing hybrid voltage regulator for utility applications
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Author
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Zhao, Tiefu, Wang, Yafeng
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Voltage regulators, Electric power distribution
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Description
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Step voltage regulator (SVR) has been utilized in power distribution systems for decades as the voltage regulation device. Due to the increasing integration of distributed energy resources, the conventional SVR is severely challenged by the modern...
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A model for integrating strategic planning and competence-based curriculum design in establishing a public health programme : the UNC Charlotte experience
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Author
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Harver, Andrew, Thompson, Michael E., Eure, Marquis
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health--Study and teaching, Strategic planning, Curriculum planning
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Description
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Introduction: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a doctoral/research-intensive university, is the largest institution of higher education in the Charlotte region. The university currently offers 18 doctoral, 62 master's and 90 baccalau...
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A new obligate CXCL4-CXCL12 heterodimer for studying chemokine heterodimer activities and mechanisms
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Author
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Nesmelova, Irina, Ngyuen, Khanh T.P., Dreau, Didier, Volkman, Brian
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Chemokines, Proteins
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Description
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Chemokines form a family of proteins with critical roles in many biological processes in health and disease conditions, including cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases, infections, and cancer. Many chemokines engage in heterophilic interactions to f...
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A new strategy to infer circularity applied to four new complete frog mitogenomes
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, Janies, Daniel, Brouwer, Cory, Grant, Taran
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Amphibians, Bioinformatics
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Description
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We applied a novel strategy to infer sequence circularity and complete assembly of four mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of the frog families Bufonidae (Melanophryniscus moreirae), Dendrobatidae (Hyloxalus subpunctatus and Phyllobates terribili...
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A novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
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Author
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Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
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Description
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Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...
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A novel sampling method to measure socioeconomic drivers of Aedes albopictus distribution in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Author
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Whiteman, Ari, Delmelle, Eric, Rapp, Tyler, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Public health
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Description
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Climate change, urbanization, and globalization have facilitated the spread of Aedes mosquitoes into regions that were previously unsuitable, causing an increased threat of arbovirus transmission on a global scale. While numerous studies have addr...
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A partial posterior p value test for multilevel mediation
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Author
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Cox, Kyle, Kelcey, Benjamin
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Mathematics
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Description
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A variety of inferential tests are available for single and multilevel mediation but most come with notable limitations that balance tradeoffs between power and Type I error. We extend the partial posterior p value method (p3 method) to test multi...
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A psychometric assessment of a network social capital scale among sexual minority men and gender minority individuals
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Author
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Zarwell, Meagan, Walsh, Jennifer L., Quinn, Katherine G., Kaniuka, Andrea, Patton, Alexandra, Robinson, William T., Cramer, Robert J. (Robert Joseph)
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Subjects--Topical
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Social capital (Sociology)--Research--Methodology, Social networks, Queer studies
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Description
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Background Social capital, the potential for individuals to access resources through group memberships, is linked to a constellation of health outcomes. We modified a previously evaluated Constructed Family Social Capital Scale for gay, bisexual a...
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A review and analysis of school climate measures for school counseling professionals
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Author
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Algozzine, Bob, Olsen, Jacob, Preston, Angela, Cusumano, Dale
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Education--Environmental aspects
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Description
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Most professionals agree that shared beliefs, values, and attitudes that frame interactions and set standards for behavior are important to the success of the staff and students in America’s schools. Researchers have documented that student achiev...