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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: Windows and mirrors : a content analysis of diversity in the Common Core Text Exemplars
Author: Romney, Kelsey M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Multiculturalism
Description: As diversity in the United States student population increases, children’s literature should be reflective of that growing diversity. A descriptive content analysis was conducted to analyze the gender and racial diversity of the main characters/pe...

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: What makes an assessment professional proficient? Examining and updating Proficiencies for Assessment Librarians and Coordinators through the lens of social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Scoulas, Jung Mi, Oakleaf, Megan, Salvador, Je
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Libraries--Evaluation
Description: Higher education is calling for increased accountability in an evolving climate in which social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (SJEDI) must be a cornerstone of our work. Campus administrators have responded by assigning assessment dutie...

Title: Visualizing alignment in joint attention
Author: Jackson, Daniel, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Eye tracking, Psychology, Joint attention
Description: Success in joint tasks requires shared understanding and coordination between team members. Some studies suggest that, in motor tasks, various coordination patterns (including alignment and complimentary) can support achieving shared goals (Wallot...

Title: Ultrafast laser ablation, intrinsic threshold, and nanopatterning of monolayer molybdenum disulfide
Author: Her, Tsing-Hua, Solomon, Joel M., Ahmad, Sabeeh Irfan, Dave, Arpit
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanostructured materials, Two-dimensional materials
Description: Laser direct writing is an attractive method for patterning 2D materials without contamination. Literature shows that the ultrafast ablation threshold of graphene across substrates varies by an order of magnitude. Some attribute it to the thermal ...

Title: Twinkle twinkle brittle star : the draft genome of Ophioderma brevispinum (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) as a resource for regeneration research
Author: Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert, Kofsky, Janice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: Background Echinoderms are established models in experimental and developmental biology, however genomic resources are still lacking for many species. Here, we present the draft genome of Ophioderma brevispinum, an emerging model organism in the f...

Title: The role of access type and age group in the breadth of use of patient portals : observational study
Author: Ndabu, Theophile, Agrawal, Lavlin, Sharman, Raj
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Medical records--Data processing, Medical care
Description: Background: Health care delivery and patient satisfaction are improved when patients engage with their medical information through patient portals. Despite their wide availability and multiple functionalities, patient portals and their functionali...

Title: The impact of educational reforms on Russian women from 1850-1900 : obtaining a higher education with the help of socialism
Author: Litchfield, Amber
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Nihilism, Women's rights, Women in education, Russia
Description: Restrictive governments breed revolutionaries, history has shown this much. Nineteenth-century Imperial Russia is marked by a time of reforms and liberations. The tsars' Alexander I, Nicholas I, and Alexander II mismanaged the reforms during this ...

Title: Teachers’ and principals’ perspectives of leadership : a search for within-school alignment
Author: Gabriel, Tara
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational change
Description: Many school administrators struggle to find a reliably efficient and effective way of stabilizing academic reform implementation within educational institutions. Questionnaire responses were collected from two administrators and six teachers acros...

Title: Teacher perspectives on social justice practices in English language arts (ELA)
Author: Gabriel, Tara, Coffey, Heather, Barnes, Meghan, Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Critical pedagogy, Social justice and education, Culturally relevant pedagogy
Description: Research indicates a need for middle and secondary teachers to become knowledgeable about how to teach for social justice. This study aims to better understand current challenges, strategies, and perspectives of English critical pedagogy through t...

Title: Supporting preservice mathematics teachers’ culturally responsive teaching : a focus on teaching for social justice
Author: Register, Jordan, Fernandes, Anthony (Anthony M. A.), Pugalee, David K.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Social justice, Lesson planning
Description: This paper reports on how 10 middle and high school preservice teachers (PSTs) designed a social justice focused lesson using the culturally responsive mathematics teaching (CRMT) tool. Results from our analysis indicate that most of the PSTs were...

Title: Submicroscopic infection and G6PD deficiency in malaria patients
Author: Witherspoon, Logan, Witherspoon, Logan, Kepple, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Abagero, Beka
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Malaria, Public health
Description: Plasmodium vivax malaria is a neglected tropical disease, despite being more geographically widespread than any other form of malaria. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is a cytosolic enzyme with a vital role for the integrity and functioni...

Title: Students’ writing success at the University of North Carolina Charlotte : the effects of advanced placement exemptions
Author: Mitchell, Angela
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Advanced placement test series, Education, Higher

Title: Students, in the academic library, with a white noise machine
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Lampkowski, Christin, Patterson, Olivia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Self-care, Health, Collection development (Libraries)
Description: Conference poster presented at 2022 Metrolina Library Association Conference, outlining the creation of a self-care collection at Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte. Sections include: tips for creating your self-care collection; collection policies; pu...

Title: Structure and composition define immunorecognition of nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A.
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Immune system, Interferon, Nucleic acids

Title: Spatiotemporal evaluation of the built environment's impact on commuting duration
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Commuting, Residential mobility
Description: Upward trends in commuting duration and distance due to urban sprawl in the United States have raised concerns about the ensuing environmental, social and economic problems. Various urban planning approaches have been developed, hypothesizing that...

Title: South Asian dance intersections, vol. 1, no. 1
Author: Sethi, Arshiya, Sarkar, Kaustavi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Arts, South Asian, Dance
Description: South Asian Dance Intersections is a progressive, scholarly, blind peer-reviewed, and digitally available open-access journal which seeks to publish a unique blend of original high-quality research in scholarly, choreographic, contemporary, commun...

Title: Separating features from functionality : a computational analysis of vaccination apps
Author: Shaw, George, Nadkarni, Devaki, Phann, Eric, Sielaty, Rachel Ashby
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mobile apps, Public health
Description: Some latest estimates show that approximately 95% of Americans own a smartphone with numerous functions such as SMS text messaging, the ability to take high-resolution pictures, and mobile software apps. Mobile health apps focusing on vaccination ...