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Title: A photocatalytic facade for air pollution mitigation
Author: Gil Rivas, Dante
Date Created: 2021, 2021, 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Design, Air quality

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: 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: Bioflavonoid induced oxidative stress as reported by DHE
Author: Sielaty, Rachel Ashby
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Oxidative stress, Bioflavonoids
Description: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a type of hydroxyl ions that are generated during normal metabolism in all cells of the body. Naturally occurring ROS are not known to cause damage at these normal, regulated levels. However, oxidative stress (OS)...

Title: Characterizing the acoustic signature of a quadrotor in hovering flight
Author: Harrison, Jacob
Date Created: 2021
Description: Quadrotors are small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) that generate sound characterized by a unique acoustic signature. In this research, we aim to determine the acoustic signature of a quadrotor and differentiate it from ambient noise in audio sa...

Title: Characterizing the diversity of heat shock proteins in Nematostella vectensis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Author: Alexander, William, Reitzel, Adam M., Truman, Andrew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Heat shock proteins, Biology
Description: Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a highly conserved family of proteins critical to both environmental stress response and cellular function under normal conditions. More specifically HSPs are chaperone proteins that work to refold other misfolded pr...

Title: Civilizing paternalism : Mill, autonomy, and Indian assimilation policies
Author: Lee, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, North America, Assimilation (Sociology), Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Description: John Stuart Mill, a Western philosopher of the Enlightenment period, argues that paternalism is an infringement on an individual’s autonomy. Although Mill argues as such, Western powers have been observed to exercise paternalism by way of imperial...

Title: Claims returned process : using our values to improve the service
Author: Boardman, Erika, Norton, Derek R., Miller, Ryan J.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Library science, Academic libraries, Library circulation and loans
Description: Through collaboration among Collections Maintenance, Circulation, and Technology and Digital Strategies, an online Claims Returned Form was established and has drastically improved the process for claims returned items. Featuring a unique API comp...

Title: Collaborative blogging : a sustainable professional development and networking tool
Author: Truesdale, Angel, Lovas, Nancy, Krstevska, Summer
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Business librarians, Career development, Blogs
Description: Three academic librarians, from three institutions, blog together to share their perspectives on the inspiration and challenges they face as business specialists. Through peer collaboration and reflective blogging they are learning and expanding t...

Title: Comparing high-shear, low-CAPE supercell weather events in the Southeastern United States vs. the Great Plains
Author: Greco, Jasen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Thunderstorms, Severe storms
Description: High-shear, low-CAPE (HSLC) supercells are a phenomenon in which an anomalously high wind shear makes up for a lack of convective available potential energy (CAPE). These events are not very common, but when they do occur they generate high wind s...

Title: Culture of collaborative creation
Author: McAdams, Jeff, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Internet videoconferencing, Academic libraries
Description: An unexpected discovery of the pandemic was a new working style that proved more generative than previous in-person collaboration. Using Zoom to facilitate synchronous coworking sessions on volunteer projects led to fruitful results. People from d...

Title: Digital Humanities Institute 2022 : digital humanities and the environment
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Digital humanities, Education--Environmental aspects, Research--Environmental aspects
Description: The theme of this Institute is “Digital Humanities and the Environment.” From the natural environment to pedagogical environments, this year’s institute will meditate on DH’s impact with its surroundings. What are important considerations for ensu...

Title: Ecological disturbances and recovery : re-imagining accessibility post-pandemic
Author: Walden, Ashlyn C.
Date Created: 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Digital humanities, Web-based instruction, Universal design

Title: Engagement pathways to transfer student success - full paper with statistical details
Author: Moore, Anne Cooper, Croxton, Rebecca A.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: College students--Transfer, Academic libraries--Services to transfer students
Description: This paper is the comprehensive companion to the paper, Engagement Pathways to Transfer Student Success, that was submitted as part of the 2020 ARL Library Assessment Conference Proceedings. Moore, A. C., & Croxton, R. (2021, March). Engagement Pa...

Title: Evaluating the impact of working in an online environment
Author: Richardson, Kara, Ambroise, Sharmily
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Communication
Description: Research has found that peer mentorship can play a valuable role in a student’s personal growth and development. At UNC Charlotte, the Communication Across the Curriculum program trains communication consultants to serve as peer mentors and provid...

Title: Examining the roles of neuroticism and extraversion with social support on depression : potential pathways to enhance mental health
Author: Hopkins, Jasmine, Bennett, Jeanette M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Depression, Mental, Mental health
Description: Background: Depression is a common worldwide illness that affects the quality of life, alters brain structures, and can even lead to suicide. Over the past few decades, the increase in depression and depressive symptoms among college students has ...

Title: Forging the future of a growing institutional repository : leveraging citation databases as a tool for outreach
Author: Lake, Savannah, Regenauer, Steph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Institutional repositories, Open access publishing, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description: Many institutional repositories continue to struggle with low engagement. A combination of factors are often at play, including overburdened faculty, confusion about copyright, lack of awareness, and limited staff resources. Atkins Library at UNC ...

Title: Game design as environmental activism
Author: Brtis, Chelsea
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Video games, Environmental protection, Mass media--Study and teaching, Digital humanities
Description: Video games, like all media, act as a lens into how we as a society perceive our world. Through games we can see the environment being treated as a resource of unlimited consumption, non- reactive to harm, and something to be conquered. Game Desig...

Title: Gentrification, housing costs, & healthcare accessibility
Author: Smithey, Morgan, Banks, Erin, Cao, Nhi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Public health, Housing policy
Description: Rapidly rising home values often accompany gentrification, leading to increased property taxes for homeowners (Ding & Hwang, 2020). Higher property taxes increase the risk of becoming cost-burdened, “in Mecklenburg County, 75% of homeowners earnin...

Title: Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Author: Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
Description: During the Holocaust, mezzo-soprano Hedda Grab-Kernmayer (1899-1990) was one of the most prominent musicians in the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezín). During the earliest days of the ghetto, she organized and starred in various unaccompanied...