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- Title
- A new strategy to infer circularity applied to four new complete frog mitogenomes
- Author
- Machado, Denis Jacob, Janies, Daniel, Brouwer, Cory, Grant, Taran
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Genomics, Amphibians, Bioinformatics
- Description
- We applied a novel strategy to infer sequence circularity and complete assembly of four mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of the frog families Bufonidae (Melanophryniscus moreirae), Dendrobatidae (Hyloxalus subpunctatus and Phyllobates terribili...
- Title
- A novel sampling method to measure socioeconomic drivers of Aedes albopictus distribution in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Author
- Whiteman, Ari, Delmelle, Eric, Rapp, Tyler, Chen, Shi
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Public health
- Description
- Climate change, urbanization, and globalization have facilitated the spread of Aedes mosquitoes into regions that were previously unsuitable, causing an increased threat of arbovirus transmission on a global scale. While numerous studies have addr...
- Title
- APE2 promotes DNA damage response pathway from a single-strand break
- Author
- Yan, Shan, Lin, Yunfeng, Bai, Liping, Cupello, Steven
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Cancer--Research, DNA
- Description
- As the most common type of DNA damage, DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs) are primarily repaired by the SSB repair mechanism. If not repaired properly or promptly, unrepaired SSBs lead to genome stability and have been implicated in cancer and neurod...
- Title
- Broccoli fluorets : split aptamers as a user-friendly fluorescent toolkit for dynamic RNA nanotechnology
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- RNA aptamers selected to bind fluorophores and activate their fluorescence offer a simple and modular way to visualize native RNAs in cells. Split aptamers which are inactive until the halves are brought within close proximity can become useful fo...
- Title
- Cell-specific cis-natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in the sperm and the pollen vegetative cells of Arabidopsis thaliana
- Author
- Loraine, Ann, Qin, Peng, McCormick, Sheila
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Pollen
- Description
- Background: cis-NATs (cis-natural antisense transcripts ) are transcribed from opposite strands of adjacent genes and have been shown to regulate gene expression by generating small RNAs from the overlapping region. cis-NATs are important for plan...
- Title
- Changing of the genomic pattern of Salmonella enteritidis strains isolated in Brazil over a 48 year-period revealed by whole genome SNP analyses
- Author
- Janies, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Genomics, Salmonella
- Description
- Salmonella Enteritidis became the main serovar isolated from gastroenteritis cases in Brazil after the 90's. In this study we used whole genome sequence analysis to determine the phylogenetic relationships among a collection of strains isolated in...
- Title
- Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Carrier, Tyler J.
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Evolution (Biology), Biology
- Description
- Morphological plasticity is a genotype-by-environment interaction that enables organisms to increase fitness across varying environments. Symbioses with diverse microbiota may aid in acclimating to this variation, but whether the associated bacter...
- Title
- Critical impact of vegetation physiology on thecontinental hydrologic cycle in response toincreasing CO2
- Author
- Scheff, Jacob
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Climatic changes, Earth sciences
- Description
- Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydro-logic cycle is of utmost importance for a range of applications rang-ing from ecological services to human life and activities. A typical perspective is that hydrologic change is driv...
- Title
- Current perspectives of telomerase structure and function in eukaryotes with emerging views on telomerase in human parasites
- Author
- Chakrabarti, Kausik, Dey, Abhishek
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Evolution (Biology)
- Description
- Replicative capacity of a cell is strongly correlated with telomere length regulation. Aberrant lengthening or reduction in the length of telomeres can lead to health anomalies, such as cancer or premature aging. Telomerase is a master regulator f...
- Title
- DNA extraction method plays a significant role when defining bacterial community composition in the marine invertebrate Echinometra mathaei
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Carrier, Tyler J.
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Bacteria, Biology
- Description
- The microbial assemblages of marine organisms play fundamental biological roles in their eukaryotic hosts. Studies aimed at characterizing this diversity have increased over the last decade and with the availability of high-throughput sequencing, ...
- Title
- Dynamic behaviour of core-shell structured Si nanoparticles during lithiation/delithiation cycling at dynamic loadings
- Author
- Xu, Jun, Gao, Xiang, Yuan, Chunhao
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials--Dynamic testing, Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Dynamic behaviours of the core-shell structured (CSS) Si nanoparticles during electrochemical cycling were modelled. A core-shell-structured model that contained Si nanoparticles wrapped with amorphous carbon (a-C) was established. The system was ...
- Title
- First detection of Anopheles stephensi Liston, 1901 (Diptera: culicidae) in Ethiopia using molecular and morphological approaches
- Author
- Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Communicable diseases, Malaria
- Description
- Malaria is a major public health concern in Ethiopia. With the increase in malaria cases in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, understanding the distribution and identifying the species of malaria vectors is vital to public health. Here we report the ...
- Title
- High throughput nonparametric probability density estimation
- Author
- Jacobs, Donald J., Farmer, Jenny
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Statistics, Probabilities
- Description
- In high throughput applications, such as those found in bioinformatics and finance, it is important to determine accurate probability distribution functions despite only minimal information about data characteristics, and without using human subje...
- Title
- Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
- Author
- Janies, Daniel, Rush, Nathaniel, Witter, Zachary, Williams, John
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Genomics, Biology
- Description
- Scorpions have evolved a variety of toxins with a plethora of biological targets, but characterizing their evolution has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of scorpion relationships grounded in modern, genome-scale...
- Title
- Micelle-assisted strategy for the direct synthesis of large-sized mesoporous platinum catalysts by vapor infiltration of a reducing agent
- Author
- Xu, Jun, Li, Yunqi, Liu, Yuwei, Yamauchi, Yusuke
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Metals, Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Stable polymeric micelles have been demonstrated to serve as suitable templates for creating mesoporous metals. Herein, we report the utilization of a core-shell-corona type triblock copolymer of poly(styrene-b-2-vinylpyridine-b-ethylene oxide) an...
- Title
- Miss Bonnie's Nurses : the first fifty years of nursing at UNC Charlotte
- Author
- Newman, Ann Mabe, Haney, Harton Dona
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Nurses, Nursing schools--Alumni and alumnae
- Description
- Miss Bonnie’s Nurses: The First Fifty Years of Nursing at UNC Charlotte traces the history of the school to its position today as the premier choice for providing the highest quality of nursing education with a commitment to community engagement i...
- Title
- Postproduction focus groups in dance: a case study and protocol
- Author
- Huskey, Sybil, Latulipe, Celine
- Date Created
- 2018
- Description
- This case study looks at the use of focus groups as a reflective pedagogical tool in a collaborative project at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The study involved the DanceDraw project, a collaboration between choreographers and com...
- Title
- Process mapping for assessment and collaboration in libraries
- Author
- Ornat Bitting, Natalie
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Academic libraries, Reengineering (Management)
- Description
- Commonly used in the business world, process mapping is the practice of gathering information on a specific workflow and diagramming it visually, usually in the form of a flowchart. This visual can than be analyzed for process improvement. Besides...
- Title
- Propagation properties of Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams in turbulence
- Author
- Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Physics, Optics
- Description
- We study the propagation properties (intensity, degree of coherence and scintillation) of a new class of beams in a turbulent atmosphere, which are called Hermite non-uniformly correlated (HNUC) beams. The results show that the beams not only have...
- Title
- Rectangular Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams and its propagation properties
- Author
- Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi, Cai, Yangjian
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Physics, Optics
- Description
- We introduce a new class of non-uniformly correlated beams that are called rectangular Hermite non-uniformly correlated (RHNUC) beams, which possess rectangular symmetry in their degree of coherence. It is shown that, in free space and in turbulen...