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Title: Statistical measures to quantify similarity between molecular dynamics simulation trajectories
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Farmer, Jenny, Kanwal, Fareeha, Nikulsin, Nikita
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Molecular dynamics, Statistics
Description: Molecular dynamics simulation is commonly employed to explore protein dynamics. Despite the disparate timescales between functional mechanisms and molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories, functional differences are often inferred from differences in ...

Title: Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Data mining, Statistics
Description: Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...

Title: Self-care management strategies used by Black women who self-report consistent adherence to antihypertensive medication
Author: Abel, Willie M., Joyner, Jessica S, Cornelius, Judith B, Greer, Danice B
Date Created: 2017
Description: Background: Black women in the USA have the highest prevalence rate of hypertension (HTN) contributing to a higher risk of organ damage and death. Research has focused primarily on poorly controlled HTN, negative belief systems, and nonadherence f...

Title: Salt tolerance response revealed by RNA-Seq in a diploid halophytic wild relative of sweet potato
Author: Loraine, Ann, Luo, Yan, Reid, Robert, Song, Bao-Hua
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Crop improvement
Description: Crop wild relatives harbor exotic and novel genetic resources, which hold great potential for crop improvement. Ipomoea imperati is a wild diploid relative of sweet potato with the capability of high salinity tolerance. We compared the transcripto...

Title: JED: a Java essential dynamics program for comparative analysis of protein trajectories
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Ramaprasad, Azhagiya Singam Ettayapuram, David, Charles C.
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Proteins
Description: Background: Essential Dynamics (ED) is a common application of principal component analysis (PCA) to extract biologically relevant motions from atomic trajectories of proteins. Covariance and correlation based PCA are two common approaches to dete...

Title: Origin of the animal circadian clock : diurnal and light-entrained gene expression in the sponge amphimedon queenslandica
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Jindrich, Katia, Roper, Kathrein E.
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Evolution (Biology), Biology
Description: The circadian clock is a molecular network that coordinates organismal behavior and physiology with daily environmental changes in the day-night cycle. In eumetazoans (bilaterians + cnidarians), this network appears to be largely conserved, yet di...

Title: Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin, Chandler, Morgan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...

Title: Students' pathway to success : a faculty guide
Author: Top 40 Academy
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Universities and colleges--Study and teaching, Education--Study and teaching (Higher)
Description: Welcome to Students' Pathway to Success: A Faculty Guide, our collection about ways to make teaching a more positive, productive and enjoyable experience. Written collaboratively by the Top 40 Academy, a faculty professional learning community at ...

Title: Prospect for success : a campus guide for developing success, inquiry, and cultural awareness in first year students
Author: Taylor, Bruce
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Undergraduates, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Commission on Colleges
Description: Prospect for Success: A Campus Guide for Developing Success, Inquiry and Cultural Awareness in First Year Students was developed and written by faculty and staff involved in the Prospect for Success program at UNC Charlotte. The Prospect for Succe...

Title: Incivility and dysfunction in the library workplace : perceptions and feedback from the field
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Henry, Jo, Eshleman, Joe, Moniz, Richard
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Libraries, Work environment
Description: Issues associated with lack of civility, less than ideal functionality, and employees that may not self-reflect as much they should are all challenges in the modern workplace and libraries are no exception. The purpose of this study was to determi...

Title: Thermodynamic analysis of ORC and its application for waste heat recovery
Author: Javanshir, Alireza, Sarunac, Nenad, Razzaghpanah, Zahra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Heat recovery, Sustainability
Description: The analysis and optimization of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) used as a bottoming cycle in the Brayton/ORC and steam Rankine/ORC combined cycle configurations is the main focus of this study. The results show that CO2 and air are the best workin...

Title: Dysregulation of AKT3 along with a small panel of mRNAs stratifies high-grade serous ovarian cancer from both normal epithelia and benign tumor tissues
Author: Yeganeh, Pourya Naderi, Richardson, Christine, Mostafavi, M. Taghi, Bahrani-Mostafavi, Zahra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Cancer, Ovaries--Cancer
Description: Screening methods of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer (HGSOC) lack specificity and sensitivity, partly due to benign tumors producing false-positive findings. We utilized a differential expression analysis pipeline on malignant tumor (MT) and norm...

Title: Achieving one-planet living through transitions in social practice : a case study of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Author: Boyer, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development--Research, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: The per capita resource consumption for inhabitants of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR) is less than ten percent of the average American in most major categories, approximating “one planet” living in a nation that contributes disproportionately to g...

Title: American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Evolution, Philosophy
Description: This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...

Title: Structural identification using a nonlinear constraint satisfaction processor with interval arithmetic and contractor programming
Author: Whelan, Matthew, Kernicky, Timothy, Al-Shaer, Ehab, Rauf, Usman
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Structural health monitoring, Vibration--Data processing
Description: Structural identification through finite element model updating has gained increased importance as an applied experimental technique for performance-based structural assessment and health monitoring. However, practical challenges associated with c...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SOLID-LIQUID PHASE CHANGE IN VIBRATED GRANULAR MEDIA AND COMPARISON WITH THEORETICALLY PREDICTED PHASE CHANGE IN HARD SPHERE SYSTEMS
Author: Gaur, Kapil
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Statistical physics
Description: Hard sphere systems, for years, have been studied through computer simulations. In the 1950s the work on modern computing was on the rise and computers were being researched for use in every field. Statistical Mechanics was no alien to this and th...

Title: Rebalance and Reallocation Behavior Patterns Within Retirement Plans
Author: Graham, Quentin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: I evaluate the determinants that influence the likelihood that an individual rebalances the amounts held in their retirement plan or reallocate the investments they use for future contributions. I do this by analyzing quarterly administrative reco...

Title: Current state of practice for condition assessment methods and the facility condition index as a measure
Author: Karanja, Pauline
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Buildings deteriorate for various reasons which include age, overcapacity, and lack of planning and preventative maintenance. Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs) are used to measure this deterioration with the aim of collecting data to determine...

Title: Design Analysis of Tesla Turbine
Author: Kausik, Galab
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This thesis discusses the "Design Analysis of the Tesla Turbine" or so called "Flat Disc Turbine" using "Compressed Air" as the working fluid. Nikola Tesla invented the turbine in 1906 and received the patent in 1913. Using the word "Turbine", it ...

Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...