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Title: 2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
Author: Lambert, Richard, Bottoms, Bryndle, Taylor, Bruce
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Description: This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom School Partners’ Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools© program in Charlotte, NC that took place during the summer of 2019. The evaluation was a collaboration between the Center for ...

Title: 2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
Author: Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Davis, Tiffany, Krumbine, Tracie, Ornat, 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 comparison of transgenic and wild type soybean seeds : analysis of transcriptome profiles using RNA-Seq
Author: Loraine, Ann, Lambirth, Kevin C., Whaley, Adam M., Piller, Kenneth J.
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Biotechnology
Description: Background: Soybean (Glycine max) has been bred for thousands of years to produce seeds rich in protein for human and animal consumption, making them an appealing bioreactor for producing valuable recombinant proteins at high levels. However, the ...

Title: A comparison of web-based and paper-based course evaluations at UNC Charlotte
Author: Lambert, Richard, Hartshorne, Richard, Algozzine, Bob, McAlpin, Valorie
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Education, Higher
Description: Based on extant research, UNC Charlotte should consider the adoption of a university-wide, web-based course evaluation system for both formative and summative evaluations: Ratings Similarity: Web and paper results show students very favorable towa...

Title: A high-efficiency low-wearing hybrid voltage regulator for utility applications
Author: Zhao, Tiefu, Wang, Yafeng
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Voltage regulators, Electric power distribution
Description: Step voltage regulator (SVR) has been utilized in power distribution systems for decades as the voltage regulation device. Due to the increasing integration of distributed energy resources, the conventional SVR is severely challenged by the modern...

Title: A novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
Author: Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
Description: Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...

Title: A psychometric assessment of a network social capital scale among sexual minority men and gender minority individuals
Author: Zarwell, Meagan, Walsh, Jennifer L., Quinn, Katherine G., Kaniuka, Andrea, Patton, Alexandra, Robinson, William T., Cramer, Robert J. (Robert Joseph)
Subjects--Topical: Social capital (Sociology)--Research--Methodology, Social networks, Queer studies
Description: Background Social capital, the potential for individuals to access resources through group memberships, is linked to a constellation of health outcomes. We modified a previously evaluated Constructed Family Social Capital Scale for gay, bisexual a...

Title: A review and analysis of school climate measures for school counseling professionals
Author: Algozzine, Bob, Olsen, Jacob, Preston, Angela, Cusumano, Dale
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Education--Environmental aspects
Description: Most professionals agree that shared beliefs, values, and attitudes that frame interactions and set standards for behavior are important to the success of the staff and students in America’s schools. Researchers have documented that student achiev...

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: Accelerated Math evaluation report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Algozzine, Bob
Subjects--Topical: Students--Rating of, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: Progress monitoring has been defined as “a practice that helps teachers use student performance data to continually evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching and make more informed instructional decisions” (Safer and Fleischman, 2005, p. 81). I...

Title: Accounting for residential propagule pressure improves prediction of urban plant invasion
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Davis, Amy J. S., Singh, Kunwar K., Meentemeyer, Ross K.
Subjects--Topical: Invasive plants, Urban forestry
Description: Plant invasions substantially impact the ecosystem services provided by forests in urbanizing regions. Knowing where invasion risk is greatest helps target early detection and eradication efforts, but developing an accurate predictive model of inv...

Title: Acquired chemoresistance can lead to increased resistance of pancreatic cancer cells to oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus
Author: Grdzelishvili, Valery, Goad, Dakota, Bressy, Christian, Holbrook, Molly
Subjects--Topical: Vesicular stomatitis, Cancer, Viruses
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a promising oncolytic virus (OV) against different malignancies, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Our previous studies have demonstrated that VSV-based OVs are effective against the majority of...

Title: Ajuga turkestanica increases Notch and Wnt signaling in aged skeletal muscle
Author: Arthur, Susan, Howden, Reuben, Zwetsloot, Kevin, Shanely, Andrew
Subjects--Topical: Musculoskeletal system, Cells
Description: Abstract. – BACKGROUND: The declining myogenic potential of aged skeletal muscle is multifactorial. Insufficient satellite cell activity is one factor in this process. Notch andWnt signaling are involved in various biological processes including o...

Title: An all optical approach for comprehensive in-operando analysis of radiative and nonradiative recombination processes in GaAs double heterostructures
Author: Zhang, Y. (Yong), 1960-, Zhang, Fan, Castaneda, Jose, Gfroerer, Timothy, Friedman, Daniel, Zhang, Yong-Hang, Wanlass, Mark W.
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Photoluminescence
Description: We demonstrate an all optical approach that can surprisingly offer the possibility of yielding much more information than one would expect, pertinent to the carrier recombination dynamics via both radiative and nonradiative processes when only one...

Title: An examination of Twitter data to identify risky sexual practices among youth and young adults in Botswana
Author: Cornelius, Judith, Kennedy, Anna, Wesslan, Ryan
Subjects--Topical: Twitter (Firm), Sex, Youth
Description: Botswana has the third highest rate of HIV infection, as well as one of the highest mobile phone density rates in the world. The rate of mobile cell phone adoption has increased three-fold over the past 10 years. Due to HIV infection rates, youth ...

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: Analysis of pollen-specific alternative splicing in Arabidopsis thaliana via semi-quantitative PCR
Author: Loraine, Ann, Estrada, April, Freese, Nowlan H., Blakley, Ivory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Pollen, Nucleic acids
Description: Alternative splicing enables a single gene to produce multiple mRNA isoforms by varying splice site selection. In animals, alternative splicing of mRNA isoforms between cell types is widespread and supports cellular differentiation. In plants, at ...

Title: Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources : the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future
Author: Loraine, Ann, Doherty, Colleen, Friesner, Joanna, Gregory, Brian
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Arabidopsis thaliana
Description: Effective research, education, and outreach efforts by the Arabidopsis thaliana community, as well as other scientific communities that depend on Arabidopsis resources, depend vitally on easily available and publicly-shared resources. These resour...

Title: Artivism, virtual workshops, and the pandemic
Author: Bennett, Adreonna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Social justice, Photography, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Academic libraries, Internet videoconferencing
Description: I was hired as a Community Engagement Archivist in the Special Collections and University Archives unit at J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte in June 2019. Not only was this my first full time library job but it wa...

Title: Assessing guaranteed minimum income benefits and rationality of exercising reset options in variable annuities
Author: Ocejo Monge, Adriana, Jones, Riley F.
Subjects--Topical: Variable annuities, Risk (Insurance)
Description: A variable annuity is an equity-linked financial product typically offered by insurance companies. The policyholder makes an upfront payment to the insurance company and, in return, the insurer is required to make a series of payments starting at ...