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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 Bitting, 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 chromosome-level genome assembly of the highly heterozygous sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ reveals adaptation in the regulatory regions of stress response genes
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Smith, Edward, Davidson, Phillip L.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sea urchins, Echinodermata
Description: Echinometra is the most widespread genus of sea urchin and has been the focus of a wide range of studies in ecology, speciation, and reproduction. However, available genetic data for this genus are generally limited to a few select loci. Here, we ...

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 mixed-methods analysis of social-ecological feedbacks between urbanization and forest persistence
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Urban forestry
Description: We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests ...

Title: A model for integrating strategic planning and competence-based curriculum design in establishing a public health programme : the UNC Charlotte experience
Author: Harver, Andrew, Thompson, Michael E., Eure, Marquis
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Public health--Study and teaching, Strategic planning, Curriculum planning
Description: Introduction: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a doctoral/research-intensive university, is the largest institution of higher education in the Charlotte region. The university currently offers 18 doctoral, 62 master's and 90 baccalau...

Title: A new obligate CXCL4-CXCL12 heterodimer for studying chemokine heterodimer activities and mechanisms
Author: Nesmelova, Irina, Ngyuen, Khanh T.P., Dreau, Didier, Volkman, Brian
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Chemokines, Proteins
Description: Chemokines form a family of proteins with critical roles in many biological processes in health and disease conditions, including cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases, infections, and cancer. Many chemokines engage in heterophilic interactions to f...

Title: A novel approach to characterize state-level food environment and predict obesity rate using social media data : correlational study
Author: Ge, Yaorong, Li, Chuqin, Jordan, Alexis
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Obesity, Machine learning
Description: Community obesity outcomes can reflect the food environment to which the community belongs. Recent studies have suggested that the local food environment can be measured by the degree of food accessibility, and survey data are normally used to cal...

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: A statewide assessment of North Carolina nurse practitioner’s knowledge of and attitudes toward suicide awareness and prevention : protocol for a statewide mixed methods study
Author: Whitaker-Brown, Charlene, Cornelius, Judith, Smoot, Jaleesa, Khadka, Anjala
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Suicide--Prevention, Nurse practitioners
Description: Suicide is a major public health problem, which affects people of all ages and ethnicities. Despite being preventable, the rates of suicide have steadily climbed (more than a third) over the past 2 decades.

Title: A subterminal growth zone at arm tip likely underlies life-long indeterminate growth in brittle stars
Author: Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert, Kofsky, Janice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: Background Echinoderms are a phylum of marine invertebrates with close phylogenetic relationships to chordates. Many members of the phylum Echinodermata are capable of extensive post-traumatic regeneration and life-long indeterminate growth. Diffe...

Title: A text messaging-enhanced intervention for African American patients with heart failure, depression, and anxiety (TXT COPE-HF) : protocol for a pilot feasibility study
Author: Whitaker-Brown, Charlene, Cornelius, Judith, Smoot, Jaleesa, Smith, Olivia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Heart failure, African Americans
Description: African Americans have a higher incidence rate of heart failure (HF) and an earlier age of HF onset compared to those of other racial and ethnic groups. Scientific literature suggests that by 2030, African Americans will have a 30% increased preva...

Title: A virtual pebble game to ensemble average graph rigidity
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Gonzalez, Luis C., Wang, Hui, Livesay, Dennis R.
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Probabilities, Proteins
Description: Background: The body-bar Pebble Game (PG) algorithm is commonly used to calculate network rigidity properties in proteins and polymeric materials. To account for fluctuating interactions such as hydrogen bonds, an ensemble of constraint topologies...

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: Achieving one-planet living through transitions in social practice : a case study of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Author: Boyer, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development--Research, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: The per capita resource consumption for inhabitants of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR) is less than ten percent of the average American in most major categories, approximating “one planet” living in a nation that contributes disproportionately to g...