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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: Exploring feasibility of mHealth to manage hypertension in rural Black older adults : a convergent mixed method study
Author: Abel, Willie M., Greer, B Danice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, Public health
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore perceived ease of use, usability, and the feasibility of using mobile health applications to manage hypertension self-care in rural Black older adults with hypertension.Mobile health applications have the p...

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: Self‐management program and Black women with hypertension : randomized controlled trial substudy
Author: Able, Willie M., Crane, Patricia B., Efird, Jimmy T., Ferdinand, Keith C.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Women, Black, Hypertension
Description: The prevalence of hypertension (HTN) among Black women in the United States has increased over the past 10 years with a decline in levels of HTN awareness, treatment, and control. Higher death rates occur in Black women from HTN-related diseases w...

Title: Associations between public fear of COVID-19 and number of COVID-19 vaccinations : a county-level longitudinal analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Guo, Yuqi, Gao, Jingjing
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: A large number of COVID-19 infections and deaths and the ensuing socioeconomic problems created widespread public fear around COVID-19. Fear around COVID-19 greatly influences people's attitudes towards receiving the COVID-19 vaccines. The purpose...

Title: Impact of short-term air pollution on respiratory infections : a time-series analysis of COVID-19 cases in California during the 2020 wildfire season
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Gao, Jingjing, Thompson, Onah Peter, Ademu, Lawrence Anebi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Environmental health
Description: The 2020 California wildfire season coincided with the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many counties in California, with impacts on air quality. We quantitatively analyzed the short-term effect of air pollution on COVID-19 transmission usi...

Title: The single robot line coverage problem : theory, algorithms, and experiments
Author: Agarwal, Saurav, Akella, Srinivas
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Linear programming, Environmental engineering--Linear programming
Description: Line coverage is the task of servicing a given set of one-dimensional features in an environment. It is important for the inspection of linear infrastructure such as road networks, power lines, and oil and gas pipelines. This paper addresses the s...

Title: Dielectric breakdown and sub–wavelength patterning of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride using femtosecond pulses
Author: Ahmad, Sabeeh Ifran, Dave, Arpit, Sarpong, Emmanuel, Solomon, Joel M.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nanostructured materials, Nanocomposites (Materials)
Description: Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a promising two-dimensional (2D) material for many applications in electronics and photonics. Although its linear and nonlinear optical properties have been extensively studied, the interaction of hBN w...

Title: Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) as a lens of participatory learning and exposure to environmental racism in the United States
Author: Alabi, Mora, Fotiushang, Nikol
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Alternate reality games, Environmental racism
Description: Contemporary educational models emphasize educators employ tools to increase engagement and collaborative thinking in student learning. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) have recently been found to have great potential for language immersion and cult...

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: Public perceptions of castle doctrine and stand your ground cases
Author: Alexander, Apryl, Sower, Emma, Klukoff, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Judicial process, Law--Psychological aspects
Description: Stand your ground (SYG) and castle doctrine (CD) laws are presently growing throughout the United States. The present study aims to better understand public perceptions of SYG and CD cases and demographic factors that influence judicial decision m...

Title: Characterizing the diversity of heat shock proteins in Nematostella vectensis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Author: Alexander, William, Reitzel, Adam M., Truman, Andrew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Heat shock proteins, Biology
Description: Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a highly conserved family of proteins critical to both environmental stress response and cellular function under normal conditions. More specifically HSPs are chaperone proteins that work to refold other misfolded pr...

Title: Quantifying reproductive behavior in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Author: Alexander, William, Justin, Hannah, Reitzel, Adam M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Cnidaria, Biology, Developmental biology, Marine biology, Sea anemones
Description: The Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Nv) exists widely in coastal estuarine environments across North America. Nv has become a popular cnidarian model organism with a growing number of applications, including evolutionary developmental ...

Title: Disproportionality Technical Assistance Tool (DTAT) user's guide
Author: Algozzine, Bob, Wang, Chuang
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Special education
Description: “One of the most complex issues in the field of special education today, disproportionality refers to the ‘overrepresentation’ and ‘under-representation’ of a particular demographic group in special education programs relative to the presence of t...

Title: Early engagement and academic outcomes of first-year students at UNC Charlotte
Author: Dika, Sandra, D'Amico, Mark, Elling, Theodore W., Algozzine, Bob
Subjects--Topical: College freshmen, Education, Higher
Description: Most colleges and universities are interested in increasing student success and implementing strategies to do so (Tinto, 1999). In recent years, this focus and related efforts have also translated to the higher education policy environment (see, e...

Title: What happens after transfer : engagement and success of transfer students at UNC Charlotte
Author: D'Amico, Mark, Dika, Sandra, Elling, Theodore W., Algozzine, Bob
Subjects--Topical: Transfer students, Education, Higher
Description: With the recent emphasis on college completion in institutions, states, and higher education policy environments (see, e.g., Lee et al., 2011; Reyna, 2010; Shapiro et al., 2012), it is important that colleges and universities work to ensure the su...

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: A review and analysis of school climate measures for school counseling professionals
Author: Algozzine, Bob, Olsen, Jacob, Preston, Angela, Cusumano, Dale
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Education--Environmental aspects
Description: 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...

Title: The study of COVID-19 within the state of North Carolina in the United States
Author: Alzate, Cesar, Li, Xingjie Helen
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: Research on COVID-19 was done for North Carolina to assess local governmental policies, to measure COVID-19 growth rate, and to discover what predictors impact COVID-19 spread. Using a Time-Delayed SIR model, removal rates were calculated to compa...

Title: Care in management : a review and justification of an organizational value
Author: Arnold, Denis G., Ross, Roxanne L.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Business ethics, Professional ethics
Description: Care has increasingly been promoted as an element of successful management practice. However, an ethic of care is a normative theory that was initially developed in reference to intimate relationships, and it is unclear if it is an appropriate nor...