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Title: 2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
Author: Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Davis, Tiffany, Krumbine, Tracie, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Perry, Crystal
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, College students, Black, Anti-racism
Description: 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...

Title: A chromosome-level genome assembly of the highly heterozygous sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ reveals adaptation in the regulatory regions of stress response genes
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Smith, Edward, Davidson, Phillip L.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sea urchins, Echinodermata
Description: 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 ...

Title: A new obligate CXCL4-CXCL12 heterodimer for studying chemokine heterodimer activities and mechanisms
Author: Nesmelova, Irina, Ngyuen, Khanh T.P., Dreau, Didier, Volkman, Brian
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Chemokines, Proteins
Description: 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...

Title: A novel approach to characterize state-level food environment and predict obesity rate using social media data : correlational study
Author: Ge, Yaorong, Li, Chuqin, Jordan, Alexis
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Obesity, Machine learning
Description: Community obesity outcomes can reflect the food environment to which the community belongs. Recent studies have suggested that the local food environment can be measured by the degree of food accessibility, and survey data are normally used to cal...

Title: A statewide assessment of North Carolina nurse practitioner’s knowledge of and attitudes toward suicide awareness and prevention : protocol for a statewide mixed methods study
Author: Whitaker-Brown, Charlene, Cornelius, Judith, Smoot, Jaleesa, Khadka, Anjala
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Suicide--Prevention, Nurse practitioners
Description: Suicide is a major public health problem, which affects people of all ages and ethnicities. Despite being preventable, the rates of suicide have steadily climbed (more than a third) over the past 2 decades.

Title: A subterminal growth zone at arm tip likely underlies life-long indeterminate growth in brittle stars
Author: Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert, Kofsky, Janice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: Background Echinoderms are a phylum of marine invertebrates with close phylogenetic relationships to chordates. Many members of the phylum Echinodermata are capable of extensive post-traumatic regeneration and life-long indeterminate growth. Diffe...

Title: A text messaging-enhanced intervention for African American patients with heart failure, depression, and anxiety (TXT COPE-HF) : protocol for a pilot feasibility study
Author: Whitaker-Brown, Charlene, Cornelius, Judith, Smoot, Jaleesa, Smith, Olivia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Heart failure, African Americans
Description: African Americans have a higher incidence rate of heart failure (HF) and an earlier age of HF onset compared to those of other racial and ethnic groups. Scientific literature suggests that by 2030, African Americans will have a 30% increased preva...

Title: Alluring translations after the Spanish-American War : a case study of the Puerto-Rico Eagle
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey)
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Translating and interpreting, Newspapers
Description: This article presents a case study of a Spanish-language newspaper, The Puerto-Rico Eagle, published in Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War in order to identify the various ways in which the practice of translation manifests and to what end...

Title: Alternative grading strategies for an anti-Black institution of higher learning
Author: Stevens, Lawrence, Paquette, Elisabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Grading and marking (Students), Education, Higher, Anti-racism
Description: Racist grading practices and policies in higher education have existed to perpetuate white supremacy and privilege while at a disservice to minority students. Minority students in higher education often face discrimination for being of a lower soc...

Title: An epidemiologic analysis of associations between county-level per capita income, unemployment rate, and COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States
Author: Gao, Jingjing, Guo, Yuqi, Kaniuka, Andrea, Sims, Omar T.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine associations between per capita income, unemployment rates, and COVID-19 vaccination rates at the county-level across the United States (U.S.), as well as to identify the interaction effects be...

Title: An exploratory study of digital inequities and work in the redevelopment of a southeastern American city
Author: Crocker, Tianca, Whitlow, Clysha, Cooper, Haley, Patrick, Claire, Padilla, Avangelyne, Jammal, Mia, Ince, Rebecca
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Labor market, Labor market--Social aspects, Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social--Economic aspects
Description: Nearly 6 million workers support the multi-billion-dollar digital economy as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. labor market. Middle-skill jobs in the digital economy sector that pay higher wages and do not require a bachelor’s degree ...

Title: Artificial immune cell, AI-cell, a new tool to predict interferon production by peripheral blood monocytes in response to nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Nucleic acid nanoparticles, or NANPs, rationally designed to communicate with the human immune system, can offer innovative therapeutic strategies to overcome the limitations of traditional nucleic acid therapies. Each set of NANPs is unique in th...

Title: Assessing the impact of curriculum on open and transparent research practices
Author: Markant, Doug, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Open scholarship, Education, Higher
Description: Over the past decade, in response to the so-called “replication crisis”, psychology researchers have begun adopting practices that promote openness and transparency. Currently, these emerging best practices are not consistently represented in the ...

Title: Associations between COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures and human mobility : longitudinal evidence from 86 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Social distancing (Public health), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Recognizing an urgent need to understand the dynamics of the pandemic's severity, this longitudinal study is conducted to explore the evolution of complex relationships between the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures, and social distancing patter...

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: Auditory processing difficulties influence on perceptual learning
Author: Fiallo, Katherine M., Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Auditory perception, Perceptual learning
Description: Understanding spoken speech is a complex process that comes to most people easily, yet past research demonstrates that some people face difficulties with auditory processing. Listeners adjust to variations in speech by integrating auditory, visual...

Title: Beyond the PCA : a comprehensive review of dimension reduction techniques
Author: Kenjale, Tanmay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Dimension reduction (Statistics), Regression analysis
Description: Regression analysis is a key tool in modeling the relationship between predictor variables and the conditional mean of the response variable. However, as the number of predictors increases, existing estimation methods become challenging. Dimension...

Title: Biomotors, viral assembly, and RNA nanobiotechnology : current achievements and future directions
Author: Robland, Lewis, Beasock, Damian, Afonin, Kirill A., Schlick, Tamar
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Viruses, Nanotechnology
Description: The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...

Title: Biomotors, viral assembly, and rna nanobiotechnology: current achievements and future directions
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Rolband, Lewis
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...

Title: Building blocks of infusion inclusion study guide
Author: Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning, Diversity in higher education, Education, Higher
Description: The Building Blocks of Infusion Inclusion Study Guide is a tool for course development in order to provide faculty, instructors, and professors in higher education a way to improve their curriculum by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI...