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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...