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Title: 2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
Description: Freedom School Partners is a six-week, literacy-rich, summer program that has served the Charlotte area since 2004. What began as a group of 100 scholars in one site, is now more than 400 scholars and includes twelve sites (www.freedomschoolpartne...

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: Adiabatic shear band formation in metallic glasses
Author: Kulkarni, Shank S.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Metallic glasses, Deformations (Mechanics)
Description: Metallic glasses (MGs) are widely used in many applications due to their unique and attractive properties such as high strength, high elastic limit and good corrosion resistance. Experiments have shown that deformation in MGs is governed by either...

Title: An epidemiologic analysis of associations between county-level per capita income, unemployment rate, and COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States
Author: Gao, Jingjing, Guo, Yuqi, Kaniuka, Andrea, Sims, Omar T.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine associations between per capita income, unemployment rates, and COVID-19 vaccination rates at the county-level across the United States (U.S.), as well as to identify the interaction effects be...

Title: An observational analysis quantifying the distance of supercell-boundary interactions in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen, Davenport, Casey
Subjects--Topical: Severe storms, Tornadoes
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have hypothesized that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low...

Title: Association of sleep attitudes with sleep hygiene, duration, and quality : a survey exploration of the moderating effect of age, gender, race, and perceived socioeconomic status
Author: Ruggiero, Aria, Peach, Hannah D., Gaultney, Jane F.
Subjects--Topical: Sleep, Public health
Description: Objectives: Sleep health is becoming more widely accepted as a possible preventative strategy against chronic disease and negative psychosocial outcomes. It is important to understand whether attitudes towards sleep vary by demographic characteris...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Charlotte's Hidden Valley : the lived experience
Author: Lash, Barbara Pinson
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Documentary films, North Carolina--Charlotte, Community development
Description: Presented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's - Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP) in partnership with Hidden Valley residents, and directed and produced by PhD Barbara Pinson Lash: The Hidden Valley Neighborhood has seen man...

Title: Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data
Author: Desjardins, Michael R., Whiteman, Ari, Eskildsen, Gilberto
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Virus diseases--Prevention, Tropical medicine
Description: Long term surveillance of vectors and arboviruses is an integral aspect of disease prevention and control systems in countries affected by increasing risk. Yet, little effort has been made to adjust space-time risk estimation by integrating diseas...

Title: Dysregulation of AKT3 along with a small panel of mRNAs stratifies high-grade serous ovarian cancer from both normal epithelia and benign tumor tissues
Author: Yeganeh, Pourya Naderi, Richardson, Christine, Mostafavi, M. Taghi, Bahrani-Mostafavi, Zahra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Cancer, Ovaries--Cancer
Description: Screening methods of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer (HGSOC) lack specificity and sensitivity, partly due to benign tumors producing false-positive findings. We utilized a differential expression analysis pipeline on malignant tumor (MT) and norm...

Title: Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
Author: Halman, Justin, Khisamutdinov, Emil F., Afonin, Kirill A., Satterwhite, Emily, Roark, Brandon, Chandler, Morgan, Ivanina, Anna, Viard, Mathias, Bindewald, Eckart, Kasprzak, Wojciech K., Panigaj, Martin, Bui, My N., Lu, Jacob S., Miller, Johann, Shapiro, Bruce A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina A.
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Nanotechnology
Description: We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...

Title: Gender differences affecting the relationship between sleep attitudes, sleep behaviors and sleep outcomes
Author: Zendels, Philip, Ruggiero, Aria, Gaultney, Jane F.
Subjects--Topical: Sleep, Health attitudes
Description: Research has found that discrepancies exist in many health-related behaviors, leading to discrepancies in health outcomes, between men and women. Among these, women tend to have more positive attitudes towards sleep and better sleep hygiene practi...

Title: High fat rodent models of type 2 diabetes : from rodent to human
Author: Stott Bond, Nicole L., Marino, Joseph S.
Subjects--Topical: Non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Metabolism
Description: Poor dietary habits contribute to increased incidences of obesity and related co-morbidities, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). The biological, genetic, and pathological implications of T2D, are commonly investigated using animal models induced by a ...

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: Population genomic analyses of the sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ across an extreme environmental gradient
Author: Ketchum, Remi, Smith, Edward, DeBiasse, Melissa B., Vaughan, Grace, McParland, Dain, Leach, Whitney, Al-Mansoori, Noura, Ryan, Joseph F., Burt, John A., Reitzel, Adam M.
Subjects--Topical: Sea urchins, Extreme environments, Marine biology
Description: Extreme environmental gradients represent excellent study systems to better understand the variables that mediate patterns of genomic variation between populations. They also allow for more accurate predictions of how future environmental change m...

Title: Predictive maintenance optimization framework for pavement management
Author: Kumar, Amit, Shoghli, Omidreza
Subjects--Topical: Combinatorial optimization, Pavements--Maintenance and repair
Description: The preservation of highway infrastructure is essential for maintaining its capacity, safety, and efficiency for commerce and defense. Pavements are among the most important elements of highway systems that deteriorate over time. Hence, the goal o...

Title: Sleep attitudes as a predictor of sleep outcomes : a secondary data analysis
Author: Ruggiero, Aria, Peach, Hannah D., Zendels, Philip, Gaultney, Jane F.
Subjects--Topical: Sleep, Health attitudes
Description: Objectives: Attitudes have been widely studied as predictors of a number of social and health behaviors. However, attitudes predicting sleep outcomes have only recently been examined, despite sleep being conceptualized as an important health behav...

Title: Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding arthropod-borne viruses in Panama
Author: Whiteman, Ari, Mejia, A., Hernandez, I., Loaiza, J.R.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Arboviruses, Health risk assessment
Description: We sought to identify if socioeconomic and demographic factors play a role in resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in order to inform effective management procedures for disease prevention in Panama, a...

Title: Supporting preservice mathematics teachers’ culturally responsive teaching : a focus on teaching for social justice
Author: Register, Jordan, Fernandes, Anthony (Anthony M. A.), Pugalee, David K.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Social justice, Lesson planning
Description: This paper reports on how 10 middle and high school preservice teachers (PSTs) designed a social justice focused lesson using the culturally responsive mathematics teaching (CRMT) tool. Results from our analysis indicate that most of the PSTs were...

Title: Symbiotic life of echinoderm larvae
Author: Carrier, Tyler J., Reitzel, Adam M.
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Symbiosis, Life sciences, Marine biology
Description: Echinoderms larvae have served as a fundamental system for understanding development and life history evolution over much of the last century. In the last few decades, our understanding of echinoderm larvae has expanded to the microbiota that they...