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Title: Active Notch signaling is required for arm regeneration in a brittle star
Author: Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: Cell signaling pathways play key roles in coordinating cellular events in development. The Notch signaling pathway is highly conserved across all multicellular animals and is known to coordinate a multitude of diverse cellular events, including pr...

Title: An appreciation and discussion of Paul Germain's "The method of virtual power in the mechanics of continuous media I : Second-gradient theory"
Author: Smelser, Ronald, Epstein, Marcelo
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Continuum mechanics, Mechanics
Description: Paul Germain’s 1973 article on the method of virtual power in continuum mechanics has had an enormous impact on the modern development of the discipline. In this article we examine the historical context of the ideas it contains and discuss their ...

Title: Analytical modeling framework for performance degradation of PEM fuel cells during startup-shutdown cycles
Author: Xu, Jun, Yin, Sha, Li, Yunqi, Chen, Xiran
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fuel cells
Description: Startup-shutdown cycling is one of the main factors that contribute to fuel cell deterioration related to high cathode potential. In this study, a coupled model with the carbon corrosion model and agglomerate model of the cathode catalyst layer is...

Title: Boosting computational effectiveness in big spatial flow data analysis with intelligent data reduction
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Data reduction, Statistics
Description: One of the enduring issues of spatial origin-destination (OD) flow data analysis is the computational inefficiency or even the impossibility to handle large datasets. Despite the recent advancements in high performance computing (HPC) and the read...

Title: Characterization of cationic bolaamphiphile vesicles for sirna delivery into tumors and brain
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Kim, Taejin, Gupta, Kshitij
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are potential therapeutic substances due to their gene silencing capability as exemplified by the recent approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the first siRNA therapeutic agent (patisiran). Howeve...

Title: Exosome mediated delivery of functional nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs)
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Ke, Weina
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: RNAi-based technologies have shown biomedical potential; however, safe and efficient delivery of RNA remains a barrier for their broader clinical applications. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) programmed to self-assemble and organize multiple th...

Title: Exploring high-energy and mechanically robust anode materials based on doped graphene for lithium-ion batteries: a first-principles study
Author: Xu, Jun, Chang, Cheng, Yin, Sha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Lithium ion batteries, Mechanical engineering
Description: In this study, the adsorption of Li atoms on various types of doped graphene with substituents, including boron, nitrogen, sulfur and silicon atoms, has been theoretically investigated by first-principles calculations, based on the density functio...

Title: Extending our reach : integrating librarians and library resources into Canvas
Author: Auten, Beth, Croxton, Rebecca A., Tingelstad, Catherine
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Embedded librarians, Academic libraries
Description: A team of librarians developed and implemented a plan to create coordinated library access for all students through the Canvas learning management system. Partnering with campus information technology services, librarians developed a specialized r...

Title: Four challenges associated with current mathematical modeling paradigm of infectious diseases and call for a shift
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Robinson, Patrick, Dulin, Michael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Mathematical models are critical tools to characterize COVID-19 dynamics and take action accordingly. We identified 4 major challenges associated with the current modeling paradigm (SEIR) that hinder the efforts to accurately characterize the emer...

Title: Geographical distribution of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and other regions in the Horn of Africa has raised concerns about its potential impact on malaria transmission. We report here the findings of a surv...

Title: In fighting common threats, people’s deep commitment to taking collective action matters : examples from China’s COVID‑19 battle and her other combats
Author: Palko, Hannah Catherine, Xiang, Wei-Ning
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: China, Owen Lattimore, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: In fighting against common threats to human survival and well-being, be they from natural disaster or human conflict, people’s commitment to taking collective action matters and can make a huge or even decisive difference. Throughout human history...

Title: Insecticide resistance in Anopheles stephensi in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Background The movement of malaria vectors into new areas is a growing concern in the efforts to control malaria. The recent report of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia has raised the necessity to understand the insecticide resistance status...

Title: Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media : a case study of the 2016 US presidential election
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Presidents--Election, Social media
Description: Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structurelessness, quantifiability, and representativeness. Social media dat...

$Partially coherent radially polarized fractional vortex beam$

Title: Partially coherent radially polarized fractional vortex beam
Author: Gbur, Greg, Zeng, Jun, Liang, Chunhao, Cai, Yangjian
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: A new kind of partially coherent vector beam, named a partially coherent radially polarized fractional vortex (PCRPFV) beam, is introduced as a natural extension of the recently introduced scalar partially coherent fractional vortex beams [Zeng et...

Title: Patch dynamics modeling framework from pathogens' perspective : Unified and standardized approach for complicated epidemic systems
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Lo, Eugenia, Dulin, Michael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Mathematical models are powerful tools to investigate, simulate, and evaluate potential interventions for infectious diseases dynamics. Much effort has focused on the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR)-type compartment models. These models consi...

Title: Positionality in public service interpreting research
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey)
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Translating and interpreting, Prejudices
Description: Research on public service interpreting employs a number of methods to examine a range of variables, from specific linguistic and paralinguistic variables to spatial positioning, agency, and ethics. These methods, however, require explicit recogni...

Title: Propagation of radially polarized Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams in a turbulent atmosphere
Author: Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi, Cai, Yangjian, Lin, Rong
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: We study the propagation properties of a recently introduced class of structured beams, radially polarized Hermite non-uniformly correlated (RPHNUC) beams, in a turbulent atmosphere using the extended Huygens-Fresnel integral and investigate how t...

Title: Quantifying library engagement : aligning library, institutional, and student success data
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries
Description: To determine which engagement factors correlate with student success at a large, public, research university in the southeastern United States, the university library, along with representatives from Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and other ac...

Title: Reflections on the registered report process for effect of local norms on racial and ethnic representation in gifted education
Author: Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Peters, Scott J., Rambo-Hernandez, Karen, Plucker, Jonathan A.
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education--Research, Gifted children--Education, Racism in schools
Description: Some education researchers may feel like registered reports (RRs) are a big change, but after our experience, it will be hard for any of us to go back to the old way of doing research. The benefits are too extensive to ignore. Collaborating with r...

Title: Retinoic acid inducible gene-I mediated detection of bacterial nucleic acids in human microglial cells
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Marriott, Ian, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Background Bacterial meningitis and meningoencephalitis are associated with devastating neuroinflammation. We and others have demonstrated the importance of glial cells in the initiation of immune responses to pathogens invading the central nervou...