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Title: “Protoplasm feels": the role of physiology in Charles Sanders Peirce's evolutionary metaphysics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy, Metaphysics
Description: This essay is an attempt to explain why Charles Sanders Peirce’s evolutionary metaphysics would not have seemed strange to its original 1890s audience. Building on the pioneering work of Andrew Reynolds, I will excavate the scientific context of P...

Title: “Making peace” with bodies and sexual selves : changes during COVID-19 among adults in the United States
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Basinger, Erin, Montanaro, Erika
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Body image
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the physical and mental health of many and has necessitated widespread societal shifts, including changes to work and family activities. These changes have impacted individuals’ identity, including the...

Title: “Just because I have a medical degree does not mean I have the answers” : using CBPR to enhance patient‐centered care within a primary care setting
Author: Siegal, Rachel, Case, Andrew, Nance, Andrew, Johnson, Atalaya
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Medical care, Patient-centered health care
Description: Patient-centered care (PCC) is a health care delivery model that is considered a means to reduce inequities in the healthcare system, specifically through its prioritization of patient voice and preference in treatment planning. Yet, there are doc...

Title: “It just feels right” : perceptions of the effects of community connectedness among trans individuals
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Barker, Jordan, Lace, Tatim, Gunn, Laura
Subjects--Topical: Transgender people, Mental health
Description: Trans individuals (e.g. trans men and women, non-binary, gender fluid) are at higher risk for mental health concerns, in part due to marginalization. Previous work has documented the effects of social support and community engagement on health out...

Title: Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
Author: Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Zika virus
Description: Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...

Title: Z-DNA binding protein 1 mediates necroptotic and apoptotic cell death pathways in murine astrocytes following herpes simplex virus-1 infection
Author: Marriott, Ian, Jeffries, Austin M., Suptela, Alexander J.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Herpes simplex virus, DNA
Description: The mechanisms by which glia respond to viral central nervous system (CNS) pathogens are now becoming apparent with the demonstration that microglia and astrocytes express an array of pattern recognition receptors that include intracellular RNA an...

Title: Your phrases matter : third waves in research approaches and new contexts for formulaic language
Author: Davis, Boyd H., Troutman-Jordan, Meredith, Maclagan, Margaret
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psycholinguistics, Dementia
Description: This study reports on new contexts in which formulaic language has been used in the years since 2013 when the last synthesis was carried out. The background presents an old but still useful definition and lists themes under which research was arra...

Title: Work disability in the United States, 1968–2015 : Prevalence, duration, recovery, and trends
Author: Laditka, James, Laditka, Sarah B.
Subjects--Topical: People with disabilities, Labor supply
Description: The United States workforce is aging. At the same time more people have chronic conditions, for longer periods. Given these trends the importance of work disability, physical or nervous problems that limit a person’s type or amount of work, is inc...

Title: Why hasn’t the gifted label caught up with science?
Author: Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Jolly, Jennifer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gifted children--Education, Special education
Description: The development of both special education and gifted education as fields of study were closely tied to the origins of intelligence testing in the early 20th century. While special education’s terminology has become more nuanced and circumspect ove...

Title: Why do the global warming responses of land-surface models and climatic dryness metrics disagree?
Author: Scheff, Jacob, Coats, Sloan, Lague, Marysa M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: Abstract: Earth System Models’ complex land components simulate a patchwork of increases and decreases in surface water availability when driven by projected future climate changes. Yet, commonly-used simple theories for surface water availability...

Title: Whole genome sequencing of Plasmodium vivax isolates reveals frequent sequence and structural polymorphisms in erythrocyte binding genes
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Ford, Anthony, Kepple, Daniel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Plasmodium vivax malaria is much less common in Africa than the rest of the world because the parasite relies primarily on the Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor (DARC) to invade human erythrocytes, and the majority of Africans are Duffy negative. R...

Title: Who shapes the law? Gender and racial bias in judicial citations
Author: Szmer, John, Moyer, Laura P., Haire, Susan B., Christensen, Robert K.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Procedure (Law)
Description: In this letter, we assess whether the contributions of judges from underrepresented groups are undervalued or overlooked, thereby reducing these judges’ influence on legal policy. Drawing on an original dataset of discretionary citations to over 2...

Title: Who put the "secular" in "secular state"?
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 1999
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Secularism
Description: In this essay I hope to add an anthropological voice to the conversation about political Islam, one which seeks its context not in relation to some underdefined “non-political” or “traditional” or “pure” Islam, whatever those might look like, but ...

Title: Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?
Author: Douglas, James W., Mohr, Zachary, Raudla, Ringa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Public administration, European Economic Community countries
Description: A key question of public sector innovation (PSI) scholarship is: which factors influence innovation? This paper focuses on managerial practices as drivers of PSI and addresses two research questions. First, how have the main types of managerial re...

Title: Vultures in the southeastern United States ingest more plastic in landscapes with more developed landcover
Author: Partridge, Hannah, Barnett, Sophie, Amodeo, Joseph, Snyder, Jacob
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Vultures, Plastics
Description: Plastics are found in ecosystems worldwide and can have widespread impacts on organisms and the environment. Cathartid vultures, including the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), have adapted to urbanized envi...

Title: Visualizing a small academic collection using only excel and tableau public : a case study of an anthropology collection
Author: Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information visualization, Library science, Anthropology, Electronic data processing, Visualization--Data processing
Description: Presented at the American Libraries Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC June 2019. Taking on new collection as a subject librarian can be a daunting task. The collection is large and unfamiliar, and you have to immediately start purcha...

Title: Violence and the rhetoric of images
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Egypt, Terrorism, Photography, Semiotics
Description: This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized...

Title: Victory tax: a holistic income tax system
Author: Jacobs, Donald J.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Income tax, Tax deductions
Description: How can an income tax system be designed to exploit human nature and a free market to create a poverty free society, while balancing budgets without disproportional tax burdens? Such a tax system, with universal character, is deduced from the foll...

Title: Vibration-based damage detection with uncertainty quantification by structural identification using nonlinear constraint satisfaction with interval arithmetic
Author: Whelan, Matthew, Kernicky, Timothy, Al-Shaer, Ehab
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Structural health monitoring, Vibration--Data processing
Description: Structural identification has received increased attention over recent years for performance-based structural assessment and health monitoring. Recently, an approach for formulating the finite element model updating problem as a constraint satisfa...

Title: Venomix : a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
Author: Janies, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Macrander, Jason
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: The advent of next-generation sequencing has resulted in transcriptome-based approaches to investigate functionally significant biological components in a variety of non-model organism. This has resulted in the area of venomics: a rapidly growing ...